Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-03-26
MEASURE HELPS
THE WAGE GARNER
Bill WIN Make .Semi-Monthly
Payments Obligatory.
COMMON DRINKING CUP GOES
Measure IS Passed by Assembly Ban
ishina Alleged Disease Carrier
From Public Plaees-Elhert
Hubbard Delivers Address.

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Acknowledgment of wages semi
monthly is provided for in a bill that
is being drafted by the assembly COM
mittee on labor. of which Assembly
man George w. Bingham of Adams
county is chairman So many meas
ures we're introduced in the assembly
embracing so many phases of the
wage question that it was necessary
for the committee to work out and
offer bill embodying the most i'm
portant idea in each proposed law.
The committee bill, which will be pre-
scented to the house in a few days, pro
vides first that wages shall be paid
Immediately upon the discharge or res
ignation of an employe. This part Of
the measure is of particular impor-
lance to labor camps, where 1t is
claimed that wages have not been
paid when the men were discharged.
1t also guards against the pa nent at
a different place than where tie men
are employed.
Agricultural Employees Excluded.
Another important feature Of TIE
combination bill is that the semi
monthly payment feature does not APP
ply to agricultural employees or to en-
ployers who hire less than three en-
ployes The bill permits employees
making contract for the payment of
wages weekly or daily. The employer
is made liable for damages for failure
to pay the employee at the time sreci-
fed in the law Willful neglect to pay
is made misdemeanor punishable by
fines and penalty for Imprisonment
prescribed in the general act on this
subject. 1t applies to all corporations.
Assemblyman Manning's bill to APP
propriate $500 for the purchase of
badges to be worn by members of the
legislature has been killed by the as
sembly without dissent. The Hurlburt
bill to require all contracts with real
estate men for the sale of land to be
I'm writing was killed,
Holmes Bill Advanced.
Three bills introduced by Assembly
man Holmes of Dane county have
been advanced by the assembly. The
bill providing for an appropriation OF
$4,000 for the training of teachers to
instruct deaf children by the oral
method was passed by the assembly
and now goes to the senate. This
measure will assist in training teach
ers in teaching the oral method of in
struction now in use in the % local
oral deaf schools maintained by the
state. Another Holmes bill prescrib-
ing the details of a state flag, and the
bill for the compensation of convicts
who have served time in prison, but
who have been later found to be limo
cent, was ordered engrossed.
The Viebahn bill, which requires
that every applicant for "a third grade
teachers certificate must have an edu-
cation equivalent to two-year high
school course. was passed by the as
sembly. Estabrook's bill, extending
the punishment for assault with intent
to murder or rob from fifteen to thirty
years. has been advanced to third
reading. The McComb bill banishing
the common drinking cup passed after
a few sarcastic remarks from Assem-
blyman Hansen, who thought it was
too great favor to the manufacturer
of the paper cup.
Hubbard Addresses Legislature.
Gilbert Hubbard of East Aurora, n.
Y, appeared before the assembly on
invitation, and complimented the legis-
iature on the work which Wisconsin
was doing to bring the scEoolhouse
closer TO the people. He paid high
tribute to the laws which have been
enacted in Wisconsin making the
schoolhouses a social center, and said
thai the work along this line being
done by Prof. f. j. Ward of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin would be MEM
orable.
Highway Bill Recalled.
Senator Brownies bill appropriating
s470,000 for the state highway fund,
10 meet the extra demands of the coun-
ties. was recalled from the governor
and passage given to substitute pro-
viding that the amount shall not be
available until it shall be needed for
highway purposes. This action was
taken because, If the money is drawn
now from the original fund, as called
for in the original bill, serious embar-
rassment in meeting current state ex-
penses would ensue.
The Millar bill providing that coun-
ty superintendent shall give an ac-
counting monthly of their work was
killed by the assembly, after 1t had
been engrossed.
The senate has passed the Glenn bill
authorizing cities to build recreation
and amusement halls.