Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-06-21
Kills Industrial Bank Bill.


sums 10 poor people.
The fight against the bill was led by
Assemblyman Evjue Of Dane county,
who charged that it was a promotional
scheme and that the operators would
make as high as -33 per cent off the
money loaned to poor people. The bill
was championed by Assemblyman
John Donnelly of Milwaukee, who
claimed that it would benefit the poor
people, who were unable to borrow
money at the present time, except
through loan sharks.
In the assembly final concurrence
was given to the bill providing for the
licensing of manufacturers of soda wa
ter and beverages. This bill was urged
by the state dairy and food commits
sion on the ground that if the estab-
Gshments were not kept in sanitary
condition the license of the manufac-
turer could be revoked.
Wants Pictures Removed.
Senator Henry E. Roethe of Fenni-
more attempted to have the $4,000
art pictures in the senate chamber
Obliterated from the walls. He intro
duced a resolution in the senate de-
claring that the decorations on the
walls are offensive and in high de-
gree inappropriate and in bad taste.
His resolution asked that the capitol
commission be directed to remove the
paintings and restore the walls to
their original unadOrned condition.
The resolution was defeated with only
Senator Roethe voting for it.
The paintings are considered some
of the finest in the capitol and typify
the union of the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans through the completion of the
Panama canal. Several unadorned fig
ures appear in the pictures, and it was
to these that Senator ROethe object
ed. Roethe declared that the pictures
were a shame to the state and asked
the members of the senate tOstand by
him in asking that they be torn from
the walls. Only Senator Roethe sup
ported the resolution when put to
vote.
Refuse to Send Conference Committee.
The assembly the other day refused
to proceed for selection of members
Of a conference committee on the SEN
ate amendment to the bill for the
printing and distribution Of the presi-
dents war message. The amendment
inserted the declaratOry preamble of
the Wilcox joint resolution asserting
in1n NTrbi no
war is waged, and the assembly killed
the amendment.
In the senate Senator Wilcox said
the refusal of a conference was q
| novel procedure, the senate having re-
quested conference; that under joint
| rule it was provided the other house
shall appoint a committee for con-
ference, and the rule was binding on
each house. He moved that the bill
and the record be returned to the
house with request that the joint
rule 2 be examined and that 1t be
complied with or reasons given for not
| doing so. The motion carried. The
lower house has sent the bill back
with the understanding that it did not
| desire a conference.
The assembly passed the Everett bill
providing for reciprocal taxation of
foreign insurance companies, after AS
| semblyman Rosa withdrew an amend
| ment which had held the bill up.
The Arnold home rule resolution
| was sent to a third reading.
The Schultz bill providing for the
regulation Of private detective agen-
| ces in the form wanted by Chief JAMS
| sen was killed by a close vote, after a
substitute amendment by Assembly,
man Schroeder of Milwaukee had
been killed.
Workmen's Compensation.
After months Of hearings, the Wis
consin legislature will consider the bill
| carrying all proposed changes to the
Wisconsin WOrkmen's compensation
| law. Taken as a whole, the present
proposed changes carry an increase in
| the total compensation that would be
paid under the present law by approx
| imately 1914 per cent. The amount
| Of increases provided has been cal
culated by statisticians on the losses
paid during the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1916. During that year en-
plOyers paid out under the Wisconsin
| law $938,774. If all of the provisions
| of the present law are accepted this
| would be increased to $1,057, 900, as
| Stunning the same number Of employees
and the same number of accidents.
| There will be an increase in the num-
Der Of employees, so the actual In
| crease will be somewhat more.
Some Of the changes proposed are:
Removal Of the limitation of 90 days
| for hospital and medical care, leaving
the question to the judgment of the in
dustrial commission. This change Is
calculated to call for an additional
| payment, based on last years expert
ehce Of $1,000, or about per cent in
| crease over the total amount paid.
Provides for the Introduction Of the
| sliding scale instead of the fixed maxi
mum and minimum wage allowances
on which compensation is based.
To allow additional weeks to the
statutory schedule for certain injuries
| for healing period" This change
would increase the total compensation
per cent.
SimpIifies Commission Form Law.
Governor Philip has signed the bill
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