The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-02-21
New Exemption Bill.


cine. has prepared and offerede new
| exemption bill in the upper house. 1t
! wipes out the present flat exemption
! of $50 and provides a scale of exemp-
/ tons ranging from $40 20 $50. The
! Everett measure provides that the
| earnings of any person or persons hay
| ing family dependent upon them shall
| be exempt in execution in amount for
| each month in which such earnings are
| made or earned as follows:
If any person or persons have de-
/ pendent upon him or them one or two
| persons, $40; if three or four persons.
$50, and if five or more persons, $50,
provided said exemption shall not ex-
ceed three times the monthly eXemp-
! ton in all said time"
Labor leaders here say that they in
| tend to fight the measure.
After Ambulance Chasers.
Senator Bray of Oshkosh has offered
bill which provides that if any award
OF the industrial commission is not
! paid at the time when it is due, or if
any part of the compensation is not
| promptly paid, such award OF payment
shall bear interest at the rate of 6 per
| cent per annum until paid
The bill of Senator Schultz of Mil
| waukee, aimed at the ambulance chas-
erS, is attracting considerable atten-
ton. This measure prohibits any law
yer from promising to give or pay an
other sum for having secured his re-
/ Toinnr " OFT
| further provides that any person vio-
lating the provisions of the act shall
be punished by d fine of not to exceed
500 for the first offense, and a second
conviction shall operate to revoke his
license as a practicing attorney. Many
of the members of the legislature from
the cities claim that ambulance chas-
| ing is an evil that this legislature
should check.
Asspmbyman Otto of Milwaukee
has offered bill which would make in
sanity the cause for a divorce.
The senate judiciary committee has
| reported for indefinite postponement in
the upper house the Skogmo joint res
olution for the calling of q state con
stitutiOnal convention.
The senate judiciary committee also
reported unfavorably on two amend
ments 10 the constitution offered by
Senator Arnold. One would raise the
debt limit of the state constitution and
the second would remove that clause
from the constitution prohibiting in
ternal improvements.
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The senate has adopted in new form
Il resolution expressing confidence in
the heads of the national government
in this international crisis. The senate
resolution was offered by Senator
Schultz of Milwaukee as q substitute
for the Nordman resolution. The adOp-
ton of the Schultz resolution means
that the question must go back TO the
house for further action.
The assembly stood by it's guns and
refused to reconsider the vote by which
it incorporated an amendment to the
reyisors bill increasing the salary Of
the legislators from $500 to $1,000.
Slam at University Prom.
The junior promenade, the leading
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the university, has been made the sub
ject of q joint resolution in the lower
house, offered by Assemblyman Pieper.
The resolution characterizes the prom
as Il scene Of splendor, sin which the
charms of the Creators most perfect
creation-the woman-was shown in
its natural state without being dimin-
oh -, cd It,o
less wearing apparel" The resolution
asks that the prom be restaged SO thar
moving pictures may be taken. Il then
provides that every movie show house
in the state shall lie compelled to dis
play these pictures for ten days and
that the money collected for admission
shall be the only support which the
University of Wisconsin shall receive.
The resolution further asks that the
salaries of professors attending the
prom be reduced to $500 annually, ''in
order that these gentlemen may learn
how it is for farmers and labOrers to
be taxed for supporting an institution
like the University of Wisconsin, with
its highball freaks and other social
Stunts NOIIllSNtSd Win tAN III So NC'S ~
living and paraded under the name Of
high ideals"
School Savings Banks.
"A school savings bank" is one of
the unique proposals offered at this
session of the legislature. 1t was rec
commended in the report of State Bank
ing Commissioner A. r. Kuolt, and Il
bill to accomplish the purpose has been
offered in the lower house by Assem-
blyman Frank B. Metcalfe, Milwaukee.
1.-THE states OF California and New York
have institutions of this character.
Civil Service Law Stands.
There will be no changes in the Wis
consin civil service law at this session
of the legislature.
A third bill offered by Assemblyman
Miller is for the licensing of real
estate dealers. 1t provides that Ii
cense be secured from the secretary
of state for the sum of $40; that this
license shall be good for five years
and may be revoked, however, by Il
| Judge of record finding that the real
estate, dealer has fraudulently misrep-
resented land or has judgments flied
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