Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-05-27
TEACHERS BILL
BEFORE HOUSE
Retirement Fund Measure Ex-
pected to Pass Lower Branch
of the Legislature.
BOOSTS AMOUNT OF PENSION
surtax on Incomes of Million Year
Proposed in Senate as Amendment
as Substitute Means of Financ-
ing BiIl-Defeated 10 to 10.

Madison.-The teachers retirement
fund bill, from all indications, is in
fair way to receive the approval of
the house. The measure increases the
amount of aid for teachers pensions
when they cease active work.
After two hours of rejecting amend
ments the senate finally engrossed,
passed and Immediately messaged to
the house the Kuckuk- Shogmo bill for
a rehabilitation of the teachers retire
ment fund law Only Senators Roethe,
Severson, Smith and Staudenmayer
voted against the bill on final passage.
Senator Huber offered an amend
ment to make the maximum salary I'M
der which a teacher could come under
the law S30O0 This would exempt
many university and normal school
teachers. Mr.. Huber declared that
with the number of working men that
were now without work in this state
that he could not vote an annuity to
anybody who was earning over $4,000
year. The amendment was killed
% to 8.
A surtax on personal and corpora
ton incomes amounting to a million
year was proposed as an amendment
by Senator Severson as a substitute
means Of financing the measure. The
surtax would run from mills on the
sixth $1,000 to / per cent on the
twelfth $1,000 and on each thousand
over that amount. This amendment
was defeated Is to 10.
Senator Staudenmayer then pro-
posed an amendment providing for the
submission of the bill to the people in
a referendum vote in 1922. Senator
Titus declared that the senate might
as well kill the bill then and there as
to submit it to the people. He claimed
that the people could not understand
the question. This final attempt at
amendment was killed % to 8. The
bill was then engrossed and put on
final passage.
Governor Blaine has vetoed bill
which provides that the depots must
be kept open for 20 minutes prior to
the arrival of a train, but might be
closed at the time of arrival Of speci-
fed trains, by order of the railroad
commission In vetoing this bill the
governor declares that he believes that
it would be against public policy to
give to an administrative body the
right to suspend the policy determined
by the legislature.
eff the amendment to the law" de-
clared Governor Blaine, twas what it
perhaps was intended to be-namely,
that by order Of the railroad commits
sion depots might be permitted to be
closed for the time specified in the
section before the arrival of specified
trains-then it would be within the
power of the commission to determine
a public policy in the absence of a leg
islative rule. and in that respect there
would be a delegation of legislative
power to an administrative body.
'The legislature has determined
that 20 minutes before arrival of
passenger train is a reasonable, time
during which a depot should be kept
open, and until the legislature deter
mines upon general rule respecting
this question, without fixing the actual
time for keeping a depot open. doubt
very much if power can be granted to
1n administrative body to determine
question of public policy, as the rail
road commission can act only within
a prescribed legislative rule.
"The legislature having determined
the public policy in this matter my
view is that an administrative body
ought not to have power to waive or
suspend public policy determined
by the legislature"
Between $4,000 and $4,000 year
can be saved by the state if the auto.
license plates, which are manufac-
tured at the state prison at Waupun,
are sent out directly from Waupun in
stead of first sending them to Madi-
son. according to Warden Towne.
A net profit of $9,977.75 fer the year
1920 has been made on the auto tag
industry at the prison. In 1920 over
100000 pairs of automobile and truck
license plates and 5000 motorcycle
plates were manufactured.
The biennial report of the prison for
the period ending June L. 1920, shows
profits of S47,360.O8. the products be-
ing mostly consumed at the prison.
The shoe factory makes 60 pairs of
shoes a day and supplies all of the
state institutions and nearly all of the
county asylums.
The binder-twine plant shows a net
profit for the fiscal year 1919-2O Of
SS6,629.75.
open Highway to All Lakes.
TeoiSIation affecting fish and oarno