Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-05-26
HOUSE To PASS
| TEACHERS BILL
Measure Increases Pension to Be
Paid Retired instructors.
DEFEAT HUBER AMENDMENT
Senator Attempted to Mako Maximum
Salary Under Which Teacher
Gould Come Under Law $1,000
Killed % to 8.

Madison.-There seems to be every
indication that the house will pass
the teachers retirement fund bill In
creasing the amount of aid to be given
to the teachers of the state as pen
sion upon retirement.
After two hours of rejecting amend
ments the senate finally engrossed,
passed and Immediately messaged to
the house the Kuckuk- Skogmo bill for
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 UNI
der which teacher could come under
the law $1,000 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 a
by Senator Severson as a substitute
means of financing the measure. The
surtax would run from 4 mills on the
sixth $1,000 to l per cent on the
twelfth $1,000 and on each thousand
over that amount. This amendment
was defeated Is to 13.
Senator Staudenmayer then pro-
posed an amendment providing for the
submission Of the bill to the people In
referendum vote In 1922. Senator
Titus declared that the senate might
as well kill the bill then and there as
to submit II to the people. He claimed
that the people could not understand
the question. This final attempt at
amendment was killed 25 to g. The
bin was then engrossed and put on
final passage.
Governor Blaine has vetoed a bin
which provides that the depots must
be kept open for 20 minutes prior to
the arrival of train, but might be
closed at the time of arrival of specl-
fled trains. by order of the railroad
commission. In vetOing this bill the
governor declares that he believes that
II would be against public policy to
give TO an administrative body the
right to suspend the policy determined
by the legislature.
IF the amendment to the law" de-
clared Governor Blaine. "was what II
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 II would be Within the
power of the commission to determine
a public policy In the absence OF leg
islative rule, and In that respect there
would be delegation of Legislative
power to an administrative body.
1.-THE legislature has determined
that 20 minutes before arrival of Il
passenger train is reasonable time
during which Il depot should be kept
mines upon general rule respecting
this question. without fixing the actual
time for keeping depot open. | doubt
very much if power can be granted 10
an administrative body to determine a
question of public policy, ms the rail
road commission can act only Within
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 $1,000 and $4,000 year
can be saved by the state Il 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 tn Madi.
son, according Ia Warden Towne.
A net profit of S9.9TT.T5 for the year
10000 has been made on the auto tag
industry at the prison. In 1920 over
100000 pairs OF automobile anu truck
license plates and 5000 motorcycle
plates were manufactured
The biennial report of the prison for
the period ending June /. 1920. shows
profits OF S47.S66.0s the products be.
Ing mostly consumed at the prison.
The shoe factory makes 20 pairs OF
shoes 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 i9ie-20 of
SS6.029.T5.
Dahl Taxation eili 10 Held Back.
The Dahl taxation bill has been
given hearing by the joint finance
committee. IL Is not expected that