Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-02-19
STATE PROPOSES
TO HELP MOTHERS
Bill win Aid Needy Ones to Care
For Children.
GIVES THEM s12 A MONTH
Elaborate Arrangement is Created 20
Carry Out Purpose Of Measure to
Protect Dependents Through
State and County Agents.


Enthusiastically avoiding the
term mothers pensions" which has
been somewhat tabooed by the farm
ers of the state, bill to accomplish
the same purpose under the name of
proposed statute for NEEDY and neg
lected children" was introduced by
Assemblyman John l.. Schnitxler OF
Depere. The purpose Of the act
is to assist mothers from having
their children taken away and sent
20 q school for dependent chill
dren when the mother is financially
unable to care for them. The state
IS to step in and assist the mother.
State Agent to Supervise.
An elaborate arrangement OF gov
srnmental machinery is created to ac-
complish the purpose. Before August
| the State board of control may ap-
point a state child protection agent
at a salary of $4,000 a year. This
agent supervises the work in the coun-
ties. where the state board appoints
child protection agent, who. acting
with a county child protection commit
tee OF three, superyises the work In
detail. The county agents are TO be
selected from an eligible list furnished
by the state civil service commission
and will receive salary OF from ST.
500 to $1,000 annually, depending upon
the size Of the county.
The duties devolving upon these
various agents, according to the stat
ute, are specific. Monthly records
containing detailed information are
provided for. If upon investigation 1t
is shown that child is in need OF
aid, sum not to exceed So a month
is granted, but not for longer period
than until the first of June succeeding,
when a new application for aid must
be approved by the county child pro-
lection agent
Children Must Attend School.
The children must attend school at
least five days a week. The measure
provides for the cooperation Of benev-
client societies and the bill appropri-
ates $4,000 to carry out the purposes
of the act
Overworked county boards may in
the future enjoy an increase in sal
airy, If In their opinion the people will
approve Of their action. The assem-
bly, has engrossed a bill which permits
county board to fix the salary of an
incoming county board at rate OF
from three to five dollars. The board
cannot increase its own salary.
To Tax Ore Rights.
Practically without opposition, the
assembly has advanced bill for the
taxing of ore rights. The states Of
Minnesota and Michigan have long
taxed these rights, but 1t is subject
that has heretofore escaped attention
in Wisconsin. The conservation COM
mission of the state made an inyesti-
CATION Of this subject during the past
year and recommended that some
method of taxation be adopted The
bill provides for q harvest tax on the
ore when it is mined.
Assemblyman James Dolan OF Grant
county has presented bill that will
check in degree some of the finan-
cial schemes of the state. Under the
present law, before a company can IN
corporate, ut least 20 per cent Of the
capital stock must be subscribed and
paid in. The Dolan bill requires the
payment of so per cent
To Probe "slck" Insurance.
Under the terms of the Minkley bill,
committee of five legislators is to
be appointed to investigate the subject
of sickness insurance and report to
the next legislature. State Senator
Burke has presented a bill which will
drive bogus check f1ends and conf
dence game operators out of the
state. The penalties are stringent
! A compartment In baggage or ex-
press car for the care of the sick is
planned in the Frederick bill now be-
fore the assembly. 1t provides that
after September / every railroad OPP
Grating over fifty miles of track shall
carry proper equipment for caring for
a sick person
The Mahon minimum wage bin in
troduced in the assembly gives the in
dustrial commission power to fix the
minimum wage which an employer
may pay to a minor or female. In the
case of the minor the commission
fixes the wage direct, but upon COM
plant OF a female that an employer is
not paying a living wage the indus
trial commission appoints one person,
the employer two, and the employees
two, to take testimony regarding liv-
Ing conditions. Upon these findings
Of fact the commission bases it's order
fixing the wage.