Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-06-03
MORE Cash FOR
INJURED WORKER
Bill Passed by House Increases
Compensation From $14.63
to $3.50 Per Week.
EXPECTED TO WIN IN SENATE
Present Maximum is Based Upon
Wage of 1878 Per Day, Maximum
of Sachtjen Measure Upon
Wage of SIS Per Day.


Madison.-E Employees who meet in
jury in this state will be entitled to an
increase in compensation should the
senate approve of the Sachtjen meas
ure, providing for an increase of IL
per cent. By a vote of Sc to % the bill
was passed by the house few days
ago.
Conference has been held by mem
bers OF the senate and it is believed
that the bill will be passed without
much opposition.
The bill will make the maximum
weekly indemnity which an injured
workman can recover $3.50, instead
of $1463, as at present The present
maximum is based upon the wage OF
1918 per day, the maximum of the
Sachtjen bill upon a wage of So per
day. Injured employees who earn
less than So will be paid compensa-
ton at the rate of 65 per cent of their
wages, but when they earn So per
day or more they get the maximum
indemnity of $3.50 per week.
More than rs per cent of all employ
ees whose cases were settled in 1920
earned more than 1918 per day, but
were compensated as if they earned
only this amount. Under the law as
it stands, consequently, injured work
men have not been drawing 60 per
cent of their wages, as the original
act of 1911 provided, but really less
than 80 per cent. In the hearings up
on the Sachtjen bill, Fred M. Wilcox
of the industrial commission, present
ed figures showing that in proportion
to their actual earnings injured en-
ployees are now receiving less bene-
fits than in 1911, when the compensa-
ton act was passed.
The Sachtjen bin is estimated to-
increase the total benefits under the
compensation act by nearly 10 per
cent. 1t will make the benefits under
the Wisconsin law on a plane with
those paid in other industrial states,
while heretofore New York, Ohio, Cal
ifornia, and even Minnesota and Mich
igan, have had more liberal laws.
When the ingalls, bill for party
convention system was reached, AS
semblyman Ingalls, offered a substi-
tute bill and the matter was laid over.
The substitute provides for party con-
ventions and does not differ in many
details from the original measure.
The house, by a vote of 81 to "a,
killed the Arnold bill giving the mayor
of Milwaukee power to appoint alder
men in cases of vacancies. The French
bill authorizing cities to operate and
maintain public autolAdhile service
was killed. The Matheson compulsory
school attendance bill was laid over.
The question arose when the roll
was called recently on the Miller res
olution memorializing congress not to
repeal the excess profits and surtax
law and not to enact the proposed
sales tax law.
BY a vote of q to 6, the upper house
passed the Nye junior college bin. This
bill would provide for the establish
ment of seven junior colleges through
out the state for the purpose OF giving
courses to correspond to the first two
years at the university.
AN attorney for the prosecution of
fraudulent medical advertisements
Will be done away with and his work
will be handled through the Office of
the attorney general if the assembly.
concurs in the senate bill, passed %.
to 4.
Senator Conant asked for permits
sion to have immediate consideration
Of the committee bill providing for the
removal of all determinations against
women and equal rights
Concurrence was given to appropri-
alton bills for the next two years that
will give the department of agricul-
ture $1,392,OO0 and the department of
engineering S170,315.
All skim milk returned by cream
cries and factories to the farm will
probably be pasteurized in the future
if the senate concurs in the assembly
action on an agricultural committee
bin which has just been sent to en-
grossment in the house. This bill was
defeated in the assembly, but was
reconsidered by a large vote. 1t is
claimed that if these by-products
are pasteurized it will reduce tubercu-,
losis among cattle and hogs. The
claim is made that these diseases are
spread from one farm to another by
using unpasteurized milk from the
creameries after the cream has been
extracted. This bill has the indorse-
ment of State Dairy and Food Com
missioner ]. Q. Emery and Agricultur-
al Commissioner G. P. Norgord.
State Market Bill to Senate.
There will be no further opposition
in the assembly to the state market
commission bill. The bill was given
final passage in the assembly at last
weeks session and now goes to the