The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-31
REP. MELTzER'S COMPENSATION
 BILL IN TODAY
Death Damage Limited to $5, 900 and Compensation For
 Injuries, to $50
WOULD RATIFf INCOME TAX


 troduced in the House of Represen- tatives today by Attorney Joshua Melt ger of this city, embodying his ideas on Workingmen's Compensation, an act defining "a masters duty to a servant" and an act ratifying the pro- posed 18th amendment to the Consti- tuition of the United States giving Congress the power to levy and col lect taxes on incomes. |
 The Workingman's Compensation Act goes exl1austively into some de- tails of this idea. It provides that in the case of the death outright of a workingman leaving a widow or next of kin directly dependent upon his earnings, a payment shall be made of 2,OO0 times the .>deceased's average daily earnings, the whole sum In no case to exceed S5.000.
 If the widow or next of kin are not wholly dependant, then the com pensation may be a sum less than S5,O00, according to their needs as de- termined by court appointed for that purpose.
 No employer is liable under MT. Meltzer's act. for an injury which does not incapacitate the employe for period of at least one week from earning full wages at the work in which he was employed.
 Where total or partial incapacity results from injury, a weekly pay ment begins two weeks after the sus- taining of the injury. In cases of to- tai incapacity, the payment is 30 per cent of the employees wages; in less CT cases lesser payments. It is pro vided that in no case shall the pay ments exceed $10 a week, and in no case shall the payments extend over
 af al lc Cn that under this act the total payment for injuries could not exceed $S0. The present remedy of the courts is still open, however.
 MT. Meltzer's bill provides the right of placing liens to secure payments, but does not provide that the State shall guarantee the payments, nor does it provide for a State insurance fund.- as many of the other acts do.
 Mr. Meltzer's two other bills intro duced today are as follows: ff AN ACT DEFINING MASTERS
 DUTY TO SERVANT. Be it Enacted by the Senate and
 House of Representatives in Gen.
 eral Assembly convened:
 1. It shall be the duty of the mas ter to exercise due care to provide for his servant a safe place in which to work, safe appliances and instru- mentalities for his work. and fit and persons for his colaborers; apprise the servant of the danger and instruct him how to avoid it: he shall exercise due care in the appointment or designation of principal. and to appoint as such vice-principal only a fit and competent person.
 The default of a vice-principal in the performance of any duty imposed by law on the master shall be the de- fault of the master. , 2. Section ATOP of the general stat utes is hereby repealed.
 3. This act shall take effect from it's passage.
 Resolution Ratifying the Proposed 18th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Giving Congress the Power to Lay and Collect Taxes on Incomes from Whatever Source Derived.
 Resolved by this Assembly,:
 That whereas the last General As sembly at it's August session. in the year 1909 adopted the Senate Joint Resolution No. 218. which reads as fol- lows: Whereas. The Congress of the United States has proposed to the Legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States an article designat- ed as Article XVI in the words follow ing. to wit:
 ReSOlVeQ. by the senate ana House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assem- bled. (two-thirds of each house con- curing therein). that the following ar ticle is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which when ratified by the Legisla- lures of three-fourths of the several States shall be valid to all intents and purposes as a part of the Constitu- ton:
 Article XVI The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes. from whatever source de- rived. without apportionment among the several States. and without regard to any census or enumeration.
 Resolved. by this Assembly. That the said proposed amendment be and Is hereby referred to the next Gen eral Assembly. and that the same be published with the laws enacted at this session."
 Therefore. be it Resolved by this As- sembly. That the said proposed 16th be and is hereby ratified 1 and be it further |
 Resolved. That notice in due form be given to the Congress of the United | States. now in session at Washing ton. of the ratification by this As sembly of the proposed 18th amend ment to the Constitution of the Limited l States