The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-04-03
NOT EVEN ONE
MEASURE VETOED
Governor Signs Last of Bills
Passed By the General
Assembly

FRANKFORT, KY, March 30
The last one of the ninety-one bills
passed by the General Assembly has
been approved by Governor Nc
Creary. He did not veto a single
measure.
While the State wide prohibition,
Finn railroad bill, corrupt practices
act and anti-pass bill died in the Sen
ate, the Assembly passed a 212 cent
fare bill, an amended county unit bill,
child labor law, wOrkmen's compen-
sation act, five cent road tax, and a
State adoption of text books law,
which stands out as the most prOmi-
nent achievement of the session.
The workmen's compensation act is
probably the most radical legislation
enacted in Kentucky in a generation.
1t is in effect a State insurance propo-
sition, creating fund by assessing
employers, and plaC-lg the fund in the
hands of a commission composed of
the Attorney General, Commissioner
of Agriculture and Insurance Commits
sioner, to be invested and the proc
eeds used in compromising workmen
injured in industrial accidents. While
the assessment is made on classes of
industries based on the payroll it is
limited so that experts estimate the
assessment at 40 per cent. lower
than the best rates offered by liabil-
ity companies.
1t affects every employer of six
people, excepting in domestic service
and agricultural labor, and has been
the subject of more inquiries than any
other measure enacted at the recent
session. The fact that the commits
sion to administer the fund is one
which must necessarily change hands
every four years and mat the one in
augurating the system will drop it in
little more than a year after making a
start is causing some skeptical COM
ment.
The New Jersey scG:e of compensa-
ton is followed in a great measure,
basing the recovery on the earning ca
pacity of the injured person, and linn
iting compensation for total disability
or death to $3.50, and making only
dependents of the person killed the
beneticiaries.
In order that employers may be in
duced to exercise the option of taking
personal damage suits of the defense
OF assumed risk, contributory negli-
gence and the fellow-servant rule of
law. On the other hand, if an en-
ployc, upon notice that his employer
has joined such a plan, refuses to
agree to such award, he is deprived
of the right to base his recovery in
suit on the allegations of the negli-
gence of superior officer or negli-
gence of his employer in furnishing
him an unsafe place to work.
The law goes into operation mkt
year.
The child labor law was repealed
and re-enacted, forbidding the en-
ployment of a child under IA during
the school term, and prohibiting such
child appearing in any public
amusement place on the stage; re-
quiring a permit from the school au-
thorities for a child under 16 to
work during the school term, and to
get such permission the employer
must file a statement, and also file
another when the employment ceases.
Six days, or forty-eight hours, is the
limit for which such a child can be
kept in any one week; the employ
ment between the <Ours OF 6 p. m.
and a. m, is forbidden to boy of
that age; while certain hazardous oc-
equations are enumerated as forbid
den entirely to children under Is. In
cities OF the first ald second class no
one under II years OF age may act as
messenger or delivery boy after 8
o'clock at night, anu gir-j unler' Il
may not work at occupations reQuir-
ing them to stand. Street occupa
cities are forbidden to boys unde. Il
lions in first, second and third CLASS
and girls under Is.