The Calumet news., 1910-09-01

, trict by record proof, that my oppo-
nent Is mistaken concerning my atti-
tude towards the first of the Employ
er's Liability Bills referred to in his
letter.
Now what about the reference made
TO the other Employers Liability Bill
mentioned In the same paragraph of
| his letter? The tile OF the bill is as
follows; "a bill to prescribe the La
oility OF persons. partnerships. firms.
associations and corporations employ
ing labor, to their employees" To be
accurate | again quote from his COM
munication. He says:
"The other bill was never report
| ed out. II was killed i'm the Com
mittee and i have il from Mr..
Oates, himself that he helped to
kill that bill and he told me just
how he did II. / asked him why
| he did this, and he said in sub
| stance. because l had to look after
the interest of the Mining Com
panies."
Now voters of this District. / have
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taken i'm his reference to the first bill
but now / not only deny having made
| any statements about looking after the
interests of the Mining Companies or
killing this bill, but will show that n
conversation of this kind could not
have been made, because my Commit
tee did NOT KILL THE BILL, but
REPORTED 1T OUT. How can my
| opponent say that this bill was never
reported out and that said l helped
| to kill that bill, when as a matter of
| fact l voted to report IL out of my
Committee and the JOURNAL OF THE
HOUSE SHOWS that it WAS so re-
ported out. The intimation that / ap-
piled a gag TO 1t in my Committee is
unfair and unjust. MY COMMITTEE
REPORTED THE BILL OUT MAY
1sT, 1909. SEE HOUSE JOURNAL,
PAGE 1349. 1t was considered by the
whole House comprising one hundred
members and defeated by a majority OF
the members of the House. If my Com
mittee desired to kill the bill it would
not have been reported out, but as a
matter of fact both bills referred to
| by my opponent, were reported out by
the judiciary Committee and were
considered and disposed of by the
membership OF the House. After the
bill was discussed BEFORE THE EN-
TIRE HOUSE did finally vote against
| ii for the following reasons:
First-When the bill was submitted
to my Committee 1t exempted, those
engaged in agricultural pursuits and
their allied interests. / was against
man injured on "A threshing machine
should not have the same legal rights
as the man injured I'm any other busi-
ness. This exemption was removed
by our Committee and applied to all
employees. See House Journal, Page
1349. In debate Of the whole House
the farmers again Incorporated an
amendment in the bill exempting
themselves. The bill was therefore in
the same condition as when presented
to our Committee. | voted against ex-
empting the farmers from the liability
of the bill. See House Journal, Page
1880. Then n motion was made to
strike out all after the enacting clause.
| voted for this motion, the bill had
been juggled too much for me.
Secondly do not consider an EN-
ployer's Liability law as subserving
the best interests of the workingman.
I believe workingmen injured in the
course of their employment are enti-
tied TO compensation without resorting
to the courts. The delays, the costs
and the Attorney fees, incident to Sc
curing justice under any form of En-
ployer's Liability Law, no matter
whether 1t is new or an old one, is
unjustifiable I'm my opinion and IL
elected as your Representative I will
favor and vote for compensation act,
measure which will entitle every en-
ployee, irrespective Of negligence. to
compensation AMI that such compen-
sation be charged to the cost of pro-
duction. | trust ] have made my po-
sition clear on this point both to the
corporations and the workingmen of
this District
WI LUCAS says Il SlSneu his petl-
ton. That is absolutely true. with
drew from the race and there was no
other candidate In the field My oppo-
nent wants to know why am back in
the field. / will answer that question
frankly and fully. When / signed his
petition 1T was not believed that the
Tonnage Tax would be an important
issue In the next Legislature Suisse
quently IL was conceded by everybody
that II would be. My friends urged that
by virtue of my legislative experience
and acquaintanceship, I owed IL to my
District to make the run. ! told them
II they desired me to enter the race
they must circulate my petition and IL
the people evidenced a desire to return
me would be n candidate. Ny friends
were fair to Mr. Lucas and told OF the |
exact situation but he decided to re-
main in the race. l don't want to say
one unkind word about my opponent |
and / believe IL elected he would do
his very best for this District I |
fought this Tonnage Tax measure In ]
the last House. have had some leg