Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-06-05
Senate State Affairs Committee
Favors Postponement.
OLD AGE PENSION ACT o. KID
Measure Makes Provision for Persons
Sixty Years Of Age-Wisconsin
National Guard to Be Re-
organized.
BY FRED L. HOLMES.

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The state affairs committee of the SEN
ate has reported for indefinite post
ponement all bills on this subject be-
fore the senate. The measures will
be placed on Wednesdays senate cal
endar for consideration, but the senti-
ment Of the senate indicates that all
of the measures will be defeated by
a decisive vote.
In the lower house two foreign lam
guage bills have already been killed,
that house is not bright. One of the
assembly measures provided that the
teaching of foreign languages below
the high school should be prohibited in
all schools of the state, public, private
and parochial. This measure was
sweeping in it's effect and was opposed
by many of the churches. After it had
been Indefinitely postponed a second
bill was offered which prohibited the
teaching of any foreign language be-
low the high school IN the public
schools of the state. This measure was
also defeated. The indefinite post
pOnement Of these two bills indicated
that the assembly was not in favor of
any legislation On the subject and the
unfavorable report of the state affairs
committee of the senate indicates that
the upper house will take a similar
stand on these measures when they
come up for consideration.
The senate by a unanimous vote
passed joint resolution, offered by
Senator Huber, memOrializing the
president of the United States and
congress to take steps to stop Jewish
massacres in Eastern Europe.
The senate passed a resolution pro-
viding for a joint committee Of five
senators and nine assemblymen to rep
resent the legislature in Milwaukee ON
Red Arrow day, June 6, to welcome
back the Thirty-second division.
Sentiment in favor of the adoption
of a modification of the old pension
plans common in Europe has mani
tested itself in the legislature and the
senate has sent to engrOssment by
vote of II to IA the Zumach bill to ac-
complish this purpose. The bill is not
as radical as some of the old age pen
sion measures which have been intro
duced in former sessions of the legis-
lature. The Zumach bill provides for
home relief for the aged instead of
care in county institutions.
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any person who is at least sixty-fve
years of age and incapacitated from
gainful work by permanent mental or
physical disability and who possesses
the qualifications under the terms of
the law, may receive a pension. The
qualifications are that he must be
citizen of the United States, a resident
in Wisconsin for at least fifteen years
and in the county in which application
is made for at least one year prior to
he is of good moral character and of
temperate and Industrious character;
that he has not been convicted of ha-
bitual drunkenness or vagrancy; that
he has not within a period of ten years
next preceding the time of making ap-
plication been committed to an aims
house or received any form of public
poor relief to the value of more than
$25, and that he has not a1ienated any
property for the purpose Of qualifying
for a pension hereunder, and that he
does not have a clear income of $3.50
per annum, if married, or of more
than 5000 per annum, if single, di
vorced, abandoned or a widow.
Upon receipt of any such application
the county judge shall make such in
vestigation through the old age pen
sion committee, Or otherwise, as he
may determine, and shall certify his
findings and recommendation thereon
to the state board of control, which
said board shall thereupon allow or
disallow the application and fix the
amount of the pension, if allowed.
The state board of control may in
crease or decrease a pension upon
satisfactory proof of such change in
the pensioners circumstances as will
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a pension upon proof of facts which
would disqualify an applicant.
The Wisconsin National Guard will
be reOrganiZed as soon as congress
passes the reorganization bill which is
now pending. The new or reorganized
National Guard will be composed of
approximately 10000 officers and men,
with about 5000 in reserve if the plans
of Adjt Gen. Orlando Holway are car
ried out as anticipated
Adjutapt General Holway is working
ON plan which will not only again
place the Wisconsin National Guard
on it's old standard, when it was rec
ognized as the best in the country, but
will add many new features which will
give it the standing and efficiency of
any army in the world. Within two
weeks he expects to have applications
circulated in every city where the old
National Guard had a, unit and where
the state guard is now in existence,
asking for the establishment of at
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