Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1913-02-14
NEW POLICY IN BILL
ON MINIMUM WAGE
MEASURE BY AsSEMBLYMAN MA
HON BRoADENs SCOPE Or
LAgoR LEGISLATION.
ENDORSED BY ECONOMISTS


Amount But Leaves This to BE Do'e
by State Board After inveshgaaoa
of Individual Case.
Madison. from al ~.
! mer rules laid down in flxlng inihf
! mum wage by. statute, the Dill pre-
sented by Assembfyman Mahon OF
Eland junction lays down new poi-
lev in labor legislation. The INDUS
trial commission is empowered 10 gu
force the law and with certain spe-
cific safeguards to fix the amount VI
living wage.
Following out the lines laid down
in a bill introduced In the assenpi'
two years ago by Assemblyman Ma
hon creating the state industrial
commission. the bill presented by
him brcadens the scope of that act.
While original in plan, the idea con-
tanned in the measure is being en-
dorsed by leading economists. one
paragraph of the bill says
Every wage paid or agreed to De
paid by any employer to any female
| or minor employe except as other
wise provided in section 1729s-2
shall not be less than living wage.
These two sections of the act give
latitude to the measure not APP
preached by any other law, and the
bill does not fix specific amount; 1T
permits this amount to be determined
hx, tel icci
| investigation.
Ask Emergency Health Fund.
An emergency fund of $4,000 for
the suppression OF epidemics and for
the protection of human life in
times of epidemic disease or of dis
aster threatening disease is asked in
bill offered to the legislature. Such
situations regarding public health as
the Black River Falls food created
would have been met by the state
board of health had a fund of this
kind been at its disposal. The bill
will provide that the fund shall be
available ''for the use of the board
III furnishing to the citizens of the
state treatments for the cure of to-
berculosis.
Fifty-Six Died from Fires,
Reports compiled by State Fire
Marshal T, M. Purtell show that
fifty-six Lives were lost in fires in
Wisconsin for the half year ending
Jan. /, 1913. The injured-with
data complete-numbered fifty,
and at the rate based on the United
States reports of Wisconsin fires it
is estimated that about 16S were
probably seriously burned. Eight
were burned from starting or hasten
ing fire with kerosene, and an equal
number received their injuries as a
result Of children playing with
matches. Two hundred and five
fire losses were reported in January,
with damage of $307,525,. and insur-
ance carried of s932,445. Eighty
two fires were caused by defective
heating apparatus and chimneys,
with loss of $101,665. Thirty fires
are classified as unknown, such losses
aggregating $65,37O Twelve were
| caused by fires in adjoining buildings,
such losses reaching $30,160.
Scheme to Cut Trial Costs.
An important measure ready for
Introduction into the senate would
revolutionize the procedure in Grim
inal court cases where the plea Of
insanity is entered as a defense. This
bill has been prepared by the Wis
consin branch of the American Insti-
tute of Criminology and Criminal
Law and provides for the apportion-
ment of board of alienists composed
of practicing physicians, ten to TWEEN
ty in number.
In every criminal action where the
court interposes plea of insanity as
a defense the circuit court and dis.
trict attorney shall be notified ten
days in advance of the commence
ment of the trial. The judge then
appoints three men from the list of
al1enists to examine the accused eand
they shall be the only Witnesses ner-
United to give expert opin.nn evil
dence on the trial of said issue" For
this measure the claim is made that
criminal trials will be shortened hv
this procedure and the court will oh-
tain unbiased information unon
which to make finding. The alien
lists would receive not less than SIS
per day. this to be paid by the
county.
Wo Postmasters Named.