Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-03-19
Effort Is Being Made to Get Wis
consin Out of the Risk
Business.
WOULD PASS NOLAN MEASURE
Plan Recommending State Insurance
Agent in Each County Is Killed in
the Committee-Real Estate
Bill Presented.

nave TIE state Oh NlSCOHSIH ~ Out- VI
the insurance business. To obtain the
desired relief an attempt is to be
made to repeal the state life fund law
enacted by the legislature of 1911.
The Nolan bill, repeating the state life
fund law has been favorably recon-
mended by the committee on insur-
ance and banking, two members of the
committee dissenting from the report
submitted by the committee.
The committee recommended for
death the MasakowsH bin, which pro-
vides for the appointment of state
insurance agent in each county and
three in the city of Milwaukee, who
would receive 10 per cent of the first
premium and a fee of So for securing
each new policy holder.
The Wilkinson bill, which was in
PRODUCED with the purpose of exclud-
ing legal publication entirely from
foreign language newspapers, was
amended in the senate the past week
so that the foreign language publica-
tiOns will continue to print legal pub
locations, but in the English language
only. The mendment 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, il
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-
linquent tax lists to be printed in an
English German and Polish paper, but
the lists must be printed in English"
The big real estate brokers bill, ad-
vOcated by the Wisconsin Real Estate
Dealers association, was presented in
the assembly this week by Assembly
man Hugo Kandutsch of Price county.
1t 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-
tiOns for the conduct of the real estate
business.
The board, which will be self-suS-
tanning from the license fees, will, I'M
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 l, 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,
1t is provided that the application
for license shall contain the name and
address of the person, firm or corpora
ton seeking the license, the place of
business. the business or occupation
engaged in for the two preceding years
and "such further information as the
board may reasonably require to en-
able it to determine the trustwOrthi-
ness of each applicant"
The license fee will be $50 per year
for the broker and So per year for
each salesman employed by the broker,
who shall be held responsible for the
acts of the salesman.
The bill provides that the board
may revoke the license of any broker
for two years, after a public hearing
on n complaint, if the board deter
mines that the holder of the license:
Made material misstatement in the
application for such license; or has
been guilty of fraud or fraudulent
practices; or has demonstrated I'M
truStworthinesS or incompetency to
act as a real estate broker in such
manner as to safeguard the interests
of the public; or has violated any pro-
vision of sections 1636-226 to 1636231
inclusive.
The action of the board in refusing
to grant license or in revoking a IL
cenSe may be subject to review by
writ of certiorari in the Dane county
circuit court. A fine of from $25 to
$3.50 is provided for failure to comply
with the provisions of the law.