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Show WORKMEN'S BILL IS i mm tou Measure Comes Up as Special Spe-cial Order of Business in Senate. Workmen's compensation will be the special order of business In the upper house of the legislature at 10 o'clock this morn ins. The two redrafts of the original orig-inal Olson bill, as recommended by the majority and minority reports of the public affairs committee, were delivered in printed form at the capitol yesterday and will be taken up for reading this morning-. The Colton bill, which went to the public pub-lic affairs committee, has not been heard from since, although some of its provisions pro-visions have been incorporated in the minority mi-nority redraft presented by Senators Dern and Bevan. The majority report proposes a bill very similar to the Ohio law, but some concessions from the original orig-inal Olson bill have been marie. The majority redraft has reduced the benefits from 66 2-3 per cent of the weekly week-ly wage to 60 per cent, and lowered the maximum to 54500. with a waiting period of seven days. The minority report pro- poses benefits of approximately &5 per 1 cent of the weekly wage, with higher , percentages where employees are per- j mitted to participate or pay into a urn- I tual fund, and a ten-day waiting period. , Both bills provide for three kinds of insurance industrial, mutual and casualty cas-ualty and that financially responsible employers may carry their own risks after af-ter satisfy ills' the commission that they are in a position and will do so. The majority ma-jority report, however, is believed by many solons to be so restricted in its terms with reference to the carrying of risks as to practically preclude all forms of insurance except monopolistic or state insurance. "While equally binding, the terms of the bill offered with the minority minor-ity report are believed to offer opportunities oppor-tunities for the use of the various forms of insurance, the supporters of the measure mea-sure believe. I Eah bill carries an appropriation of . $90,000 from the state treasury. Of this amount $r"0,000 is to be used to start the Mate insurance fund and $40,000 will go toward the expenses and salaries of the commission and its employees. It is possibte that only one of the reports, re-ports, or rather one of the redrafted bills, will be read, so short is the time In which to complete the work of the legislature. A spirited contest is expected expect-ed on tlie senate floor this morning as to which bill will be given precedence. Although Al-though only one bill is read, so voluminous volumi-nous Is each that it is questionable if anything more than the third reading of the measure will be accomplished at the forenoon session. Even with the debate limit placed at 10 minutes, it is not expected ex-pected that workmen's compensation will be disposed of in the upper house before some time Tuesday. There will be no night session tonight because the legislators have accepted the invitation of Governor and Mrs. Bamberger Bamber-ger to be their guests at dinner at 7 o'clock this evening at the Newhouse hotel. ho-tel. The workmen's compensation will be disposed of at the earliest possible moment, mo-ment, however, because the revenue problem prob-lem is yet to be solved. If the programme outlined yesterday by the legislative committee com-mittee and the mining men meets with approval It is probable that all other taxation tax-ation measures will be killed immediately immediate-ly and the proposed programme rushed through. v The governor's appointments are yet to be sent to the senate for its sanction and are due to appear any day. It is probable proba-ble that they will not be presented, however, how-ever, before tomorrow. After taxation and appointments, and probably about the last thing of the session, will come the general appropriation, which will ro . vide funds for conducting the stato's al-fairs al-fairs for the ensuing biennium. |