The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-03-14
Effort Being Made to Have State
Drop Insurance.
COMMITTEE TAKES ACTION
Recommends Passage Of Nolan Bill!
Repeating State Fund Law-Meas-
ure viii Come Up Thursday
or Friday of This Week.
BY FRED l.. HOLMES.

bDnd law established by the ISlI SEES
sion of the Wisconsin legislature. An
effort is being made to have the state
OF Wisconsin go out of the life insur-
ance business. The assembly commit
tee on insurance and banking on Tues
day favOrably recommended the Nolan
bill repeating the state life fund law.
ASsemblyman r. M. Hanson, Waupaca
county, and Henry Sievers, Milwau-
kee, dissented from the committee re-
port. The bill will come on the calen-
dar for consideration either Thursday
OF Friday of this week.
The committee recommended for
death the Masakowski bill, which pro-
vides for the appointment Of a state
insurance agent in each county and
three In the city of Milwaukee, who
would receive 10 per cent of the first
premium and fee of So for securing
each new policy holder.
The Wilkinson bill, which was in
troduced with the purpose of exclud-
nag legal publication entirely from
foreign language newspapers, was
amended in the senate Tuesday fore
MOOn so that foreign language publica-
lions will continue to print legal pub
fications, but in the English language
only. The amendment to this effect
was introduced by Senator Wilcox and
when it had been adopted the bill was
engrOssed. "All legal notices must be
printed in the English language, as is
practically the case today" Senator
Bentley of the judiciary committee
said, in explaining the bill. 'These
notices can be printed, however, in
any foreign language paper. This bill
does not now take that right away.
With respect to Milwaukee newspa-
pers this bill will still permit the de-
hnQuent tax lists to be printed in an
English, German and Polish paper, but
the lists must be printed in English"
There will be a reconsideration Of
the Lersche packing plant resolution
ON Thursday.
The big real estate brokers' BILL adj
vOcated by the Wisconsin Real Estate
Dealers association, was presented in
the assembly Tuesday by Assembly
man Hugo Kandutsch of Price county.
II provides for a real estate brokers'
board of three members to be appoint
ed by the governor for one, two and
three years at the beginning, and then
for three years EACH who shall have
the power to license real estate deal
ers and prOmulgate rules and regula-
lions for the conduct of the real estate
business.
The board, which will be self-sus-
tanning from the license fees, will, un-
der the provisions of the bill, maintain
its office in the capitol, but may hold
meetings, hearings or Investigations
at such points in the state as it may
deem advisable. The board is to be
created on or before August 1, 1919,
and no one will be permitted to act as
a real estate broker in the state after
January L, 1920. until he has secured
a license from the state board.
Although the Wisconsin legislature
has been in session but nine weeks the
record of laws enacted so far Is IA.
No measures of statewide Importance
have as yet been passed. Hundreds of
bills are in the legislative hopper and
1t is expected that by the end of March
many laws will have been passed and
approved by the executive.
Laws enacted are as follows:
Chapter 1 gave the joint finance
committee power to spend not to ex-
coed $500 for trained experts in ac-
counting to assist the joint finance
committee of the legislature.
Chapter Appropriation of $4,000
for additional capitol furnishings.
Chapter 3-Appropriating $33,5O0
for the maintenance and operation of
the free library commission.
Chapter Making the Milwaukee
Sentinel the official paper.
Chapter 5-Giving women the right
to vote in presidential elections.
Chapter 6-Appropriating 1850 for
an oil portrait of former Gov. Edward
SchOfield.
Chapter 7-Appropriating to the ex-
ecutive department for the biennial
period not to exceed $4,000 for the
settlement of any and all claims the
state may have against the United
States"
Chapter Skiing the annual APP
preparation Of the secretary of states
department at $4,000 annually.
Chapter 9-Appropriating $4,000
annually to the State Historical society.
Chapter 10-Appropriating $4,000
annually to the state board of health
and $4,000 annually for the proven
ton and control of social diseases.
Chapter 11-Appropriating $97 coo
to the department of engineering and
It's allied functions.
Chapter 12-Appropriating $4,000
annually to the state department of
insurance.
Chapter 13-To allow the filing of
nomination papers for a nonpartisan
office within the county not less thsn
70 days before the election.