Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-06-03
BILL INCREASES
C0MPE NSATIQH
Men Injured While Wor ing viii
Receive More Indemnity.
RAISED FROM SASS TO $3.50
Measure Which Has Already Passed
the House Is Expected to Be APP
proved by Senate -csucurrence
on Appropriation Bills.

on Appropriation SillS.
Madison.-Men who are injured in
employments of Wisconsin win have
the amount of compensation increased
If the senate gives final concurrence to
the Sachtjen bill which is designed to
increase compensation in case of acct
dents by 10 per cent. The bin passed
the house by vote of so to %.
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 $14.63, as at present. The present
maximum is based upon the wage of
1915 per day, the maximum of the
Sachtien bill upon a wage OF So per
day. Injured employees who earn
less than So viii be paid compensa-
ton at the rate OF. 60 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 20 per cent of all employ
ees whose cases We're settled in 1920
earned meee than S3.75 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 so per cent. In the bearings up
on the Sachtjen bill, Fred NJ. Wilcox
of the industrial commission presents
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 bill 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, Cali
fornia, and even Minnesota and Mich
igan, have had more liberal laws.
When the Ingalls, bill for a 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-
yentions and does not differ in many
details from the original measure.
The house, by a vote of g. 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 automobile 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
repeal the excess profits and surIaX
law and nor to enact the proposed
sales tax law.
BY vote Of p to 6, the upper house
passed the Nye Junior college bill. 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
win give the department of agricul-
ture S1,392000 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 10 en-
grossment in the house. This bii was
defeated in the assembly. but was
reconsidered by a large vote. 1t is
claimed that of these by-products
are pasteurized it viii reduce tubercu-
losis among cattle ana hogs The
claim Is made that these diseases are
spread from one farm TO another by
using unpasteurized milk from the
crcameries after the cream has been
extracted. This bin has the indorse-
ment of State Dairy and Food Com
missioner ], Q. Emery and Agriculture
Al Commissioner C. p. Norgord.
Wolves Kill Many Sheep.
How can WiSeonsin's wolves be IL
eensed? This is a question a confer
snce committee Of the legislature must
consider in connection with the dog tax
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