Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-12

crippled children to and from school
and provide lunches for them.
Providing that students at the uni
versity need not pay nonresident
tuition after living in the state one
year.
Raising minimum salary of rural
school teachers to $45 a month, the
apportionment of state aid to be made
contingent upon the employment OF
at least one teacher at this salary for
eight months each year.
Excepting children between the
ages of and IA living between two
and three miles from school from
compulsory attendance unless trans
portation is provided by the district
Providing for nine months school
in rural districts before state aid is
paid.
New Financial Laws
Amending law relating to loans
made by building and loan assocla-
tions, making it unlawful to make any
loan upon property used for manu-
featuring purposes or upon any the
alter, public hall, church, school build
ing, hotel or garage.
Providing that no building and loan
association shall establish more than
one office, or establish or maintain
branches.
Fixing a penalty of not more than
one year Imprisonment or a fine OF
not more than $1,000, or both, for
drawing a check upon a bank with
the knowledge that there is not suf-
ficient funds on deposit to meet such
check
Election Laws
Providing nomination papers for
candidates, for county of district
superintendent of schools shall be
filed not more than forty nor less
than twenty days before election.
Insurance Laws
Requiring annual reports to in
surance commissioner by companies
doing business in Wisconsin.
Giving insurance commissioner
power to revoke license of foreign
COMPANIES upon information that
company is insolvent.
Giving insurance commissioner
power to revoke license of insolvent
company for all kinds of insurance
written.
Establishing standard fire insurance
policy.
Giving insurance department con-
troll over rates for fire insurance.
provides that companies shall main
tain rating bureau which shall Tx
reasonable and ndn-discrimnatoFy
rates. The insurance commission may
revoke the license of any company
upon proof that discrimination has
been practiced or unreasonable rates
exacted.
Requiring licensing Of life insurance
agents.
Regulating investments of domestic
life insurance companies.
Giving fraternal benefit societies
the right to insure the lives of chill
dren between the ages of two and
eighteen years, for whose support
of such society is responsible.
Laws Affecting Municipalities
Giving cities, however organized,
the right to purchase, construct, lease
or acquire any plant or equipment
necessary for the purpose of securing,
or selling ice to it's
subject to all constitutional
provisions of existing laws. Provid-
ing further, that any city, however or
ganized, may by a three-fourths vote
Of it's common council, establish and
operate depots or plants for the
purchase, sale and supply Of fuel.
Giving cities the right to enact laws
to punish violators of any city ordi- /
nance, providing penalty SHALL not
exceed that imposed by the state for
similar offenses.
Authorizing cities to reimburse |
public officials for expenses incurred /
in defrauding or maintaining their /
positions.
Liquor Regulation
Amending Baker law to provide that |
wherever villages have been incor-
porated since the last national GEN.
sus the census taken in the incor- Il
Doration proceedings shall be used to |
determine the number of saloons.
Giving mayor; chief of police,
trustees Of village, county superin-
tendent of poor, chairman of county
board and district attorney the right |
% post persons to whom Intoxicating
liquors shall not be sold.
Prohibiting persons intoxicated to
enter a railway car, interurban or
street railway car
Prohibiting the sale of intoxicants
On railroad cars or inteFurban or
street railway cars.