Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-08-06
SPOOR MEASURE
SENT TO M'GOVERN
Several Others Are Messaged by
the Assembly.
oPToMETRY BILL is VETOED
Mothers Pension Act Is Expected &c
Be One Of the Most Popular En-
acted at This Session Of the
Legislature.


saged By the assembly TO the govern
or. Some of the more Important was
the Mason bill, providing for a meth
cd of fixing minimum wage for fe-
males and minors; the Don C. Hall
bill outlining a method for the organi-
cation of cooperative associations; a
bill by Axel Johnson SO that new par
| ties may secure a position upon the
primary election and general election
ballots; and the Hull bill for the es-
Establishment of three county agricul-
tural schools annually.
The governor also received the
| Spoor bill, making the months OF
March and April as a closed season
for frogs, and the Manning home rule
bill.
Claiming that the optometry bill
was defective in it's provisions, Gov
McGovern sent his veto message to
| the legislature. He says that the bill
does not provide fair start-"a prop
er legal foundation upon which flu
ture legislatures may build with
| safety
| Rosa child welfare bill, popularity
! known as the mothers pension act
scores of applications have been re-
eeived at the Office OF the state board
OF control and by Assemblyman Rosa
at Beloit, asking about the method for
obtaining aid. This unusual interest
indicates that the law will be one of
the most popular enacted at this SEES
sion of the legislature, and the board
of control bill will Immediately take
up the proposition of arranging for
complete reports made necessary un-
der the provisions of the law.
The bill provides that the county
superintendent of poor. chairman of
any town. or any relative or friend
OF any child under the age Of four
teen who for any reason is dependent
upon the public for support or whose
parents are unable without aid prop
erly TO maintain, to bring up OF edu-
cate such child may apply by petit
ton to the juvenile court in counties
having such court and in other coun-
ties to county or municipal court for
hl0 IL NuCl GNGi BOSbAOAC ~
prevent the disrupting of homes and
20 grant aid in the homes in prefer
ence to taking the child and sending
him to a public institution. 1t gives
to the judge broad discretion in han
ding children, keeping ever in mind
the best welfare of the child. Aid is
limited to sl2 per month for the first
nd 10 n.
sequent child. II is a local option
proposition as no county is compelled
10 operate under the law unless the
county board shall elect to appropri-
ate the money. AS an incentive for
granting aid the law provides that
the county shall be reimbursed for
one-half the amount so expended.
The law provides for proper super
vision and reports by the state board
OF control and also directs the board
to make n survey OF the whole field
OF outdoor relief. Eighty thousand
dollars is appropriated to carry out
the provisions OF the law.
Gov McGovern has signed the
Whiteside bill providing for an in
vestigation of the state forestry re-
serve. In the meantime no new pur-
chases of forestry lands can be made
until after July /, 1915. A legisla-
tive committee composed of eight
members will investigate the entire
proposition of the feasibility OF ex-
tending the present area of state ier-
estry reserves. The bill was opposed
by the forestry department. II de-
sired to continue purchases within an
area where there was no opposition
in order to block out some of the
present holders.
The marriage laws have been great
| ~ changed at this session of the legis-
Iature. The Richards bill. which has
not yet been signed by the governor,
/ provides that any man making APP
| plication for a license to marry must
! before he can get license present
| certificate of a clean bill of health.
The Chinook marriage bill for
bids cousins marrying after January
| /. 1914 Another measure approved
| by the governor requires the contract
| ing parties to state their legal age;
| that neither of them has been d.
vorced by decree of Wisconsin court
within one year prior to the date of
| application. and that neither is idiotic
/ or epileptic. Another law curtails
| the ground upon which the Judge may
waive the FIVE days time required be-
| tween the granting of a license and
| the marriage ceremony.
! Man Awarded for Loss Of Finger.
! The Wisconsin state industrial COM
mission ordered the Illinois Steel COM
I pany of Milwaukee to pay Bronislaw
| Dalecki, an employee, the sum OF SEAS
as compensation for the loss of his in
/ dex finger and stifening OF the distall
Joint OF his middle finger on the left
hand as the result of an injury receiv-
ed by him on May IS last. while EN-
/ ployed as laborer at the company's
/ plant.
The company did not contest the
claim. paying him sSS1S before the
\ award was made.