The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-24

deals over here" Kircher shout
ed back, and denied there had
been q deal.
You're the biggest liar in
Michigan" the senator retorted.
Jostled by Brooks az Q crowd
gathered, Kircher stormed:
Don't you shove me. Don't
try to step on me-"
He squared off as Brooks told
him, "Tll step where please"
but nothing happened.
Judge r. Harold Calkins, of
Gaylord, president Of the Pro-
bate Judges association, and
Judge D. ]. Healy, Detroit, with
whom Kircher held frequent
consultation during considera-
ton of the bill in committee.
witnessed the alteration but re-
NAMED silent.
Brooks relented from q threat
to kill house-approved welfare
legislation pending in his COM
mittee in reprisal for Kircher's
act In killing the senate-ap-
proved crippled children bill.
He told reporters: "Kricher is
just a tool Of Mel Mcpherson,
and Mel is making one last DO
litical stand at the expense of
the crippled and afflicted chill
dren Of Michigan" melville B.
MCPHERSON, Of Lowell, chairman
OF the state tax commission, is q
powerful figure in affairs of the
state association of supervisors,
an ally of the Michigan Probate
Judges association
The crippled and afflicted
children bill would designate
county social welfare boards, in
stead Of probate judges, as the
agents to determine which chill
dren were entitled to medical
treatment at state expense:
establish filter" boards to deter
mine the need of youthful pa
tients, and make other changes
described by social agencies as
reforms"
BILLS STRANDED
Stranded in the house commit
tee with it were bills to forbid
disclosure of public relief rec
ords to agencies not properly in
terested in them, which Van
Wagner said was demanded by
the Federal Social Security
Board as a requirement for con-
tinued federal aid because of
complaints that information was
used for political purposes; a bill
allowing the Michigan Children's
Institute to care for youths II to
FL years old, as we'll as younger;
and q general welfare measure
to intesrate divisions Of the state
social welfare deA trtmept, set
up facilities for ref Mobilization of
the needy, legalize state aid sup
port Of single mems shelters and
otherwise revise the law.
Brooks committee released
bills requiring the state to match
counties expenditures for hos
pitalization of INDECENT adults;
another allowing indigents in
Detroit free choice of their ply
stefan, and wrote into the former
provisions of the Confidential
records" measure which the
house committee declined to re-
lease. The senate committee,
however, took some reprisal,
killing bills which sponsors said
would allow the state to protect
itself from obligation to provide
care and other assist
ance to persons who were not
residents of the state.
CHARGE SABOTAGE"
Reps. Michael J. O'Brien and
William G. Buckley, Detroit
Democrats who were minority
of the house commit
tee, fought to save the bills. They
issued q joint statement accusing
Kircher and the Michigan Pro-
bate Judges association of hav-
ing "sabotaged'' the welfare
'They were wiiii:g," Buckley
said, Ito risk Michigan's federal
aid to protect the political power
Of probate judges"
The house labor committee al
lowed last nights deadline to
pass without releasing and ad-
Observation-Disclosures bill to lib
eralize occupational disease COM
laws to include all all
ments arising from work. Rep,
G. Herrick, Republican.
Hubbardston, its chairman, said
the measure was dead.
Other bills left stranded in
at the d e dline
would for bid public officials to
place their names on signs; bar
the Communist party or any
Communist political group from
placing names on their candi-
dates on election ballots; give
Michigan q "cut' in horse race
betting revenues; provide pen
sions for Judges; establish mini
mum wages and maximum hours
Of work; reduce the small loan
interest rate: arm the attorney
general with q "secret police"
force; create flair trade" prac-
ices law regulating private busi-
hess.