New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-11-18
TIE FIRE UNDERWRITERS.
IscTssING RATES AND COMMISSIONS.

DISCUSSING RATES AND COMMISSIONS
RECOMMENDATIONS OF A SPECIAL CoMnTTrE-
ARRANGING FOR DISTRICT AssOCIATONs-coN-
DITIONs OF MEMBERSHIP.
The annual meeting OF the United FIRE
Underwriters in America was continued yesterday at
IL o'clock After reading Of the minutes, the session
was made an executive one The special order of bust
ness was the discussion OF rates and commissions The
special committee OF appointed on OcoDcr T. ls-i,
to consider subject and report upon It, submitted It's
report with the following recommendation:
That the country lie divided into districts each 81
which the president OF this association shall appoint
committee OF seven, fOur members OF which shall be
residents Of the district for which they are appointed
the committees thus appointed shall, soon after the
adjournment Of hs meeting n practicable. cal In their
respective districts meeting OF al eompanr- iran
SacfiEg business therein, ana when the sad companies
shall have perfected IN each 81 the districts an orgauL
ton charged WIN ihc OF I"c pp!iu' lh'
establishment Of tariffs, with rules for meeting tue COM
petition oil companies not unuhs WIN Sali dSircI OF"
commission (Which commission shall not exceed - per
expenses the said dsiric committees shall then report
ths result Of their lahors 10 the Advisory Committee,
/ and with this action their duties shall end.
! The district committees above provided for
! SHAH prescribe that the membership Of
Of companies and general and special agents charged
with passing upon daily reports; that the membership
shall re personal honor; that bulletin shall DE pub
lishcd ry each district association through which mem
and by designated numbers. Each OF said district
Citations shall immediately upon the combustion Of ITS
! snail notify to their agents to join in organizing local
boards. and all future action Of said district as-Oca-
tions upon rates 10 DE through such local boards.
The committee also recommended the adoption Of the
! following resolution:
Resolred, That whenever the National Board Of Fire
! Underwriters will the control Of the above
named district associations to the extent Of recon mend
| ing minimum tariffs and securing uniformity OF rules
district authority to the extent abOgc given, the mem
bcrs % ths association viii give to said board their fun
! allegiance.
The discussion Of these resolutions developed the fact
that companies outside Of Ncw-York determined 10
bring companies within tbs city under uniform tarh
# possible The former that NcwYOrk companies
are some Of them paying high 30 per cent commits
SION and besides giving rebate sfOr the purpose Of
running outside companies The morning discussion was
| mainly Oh the point whether New-YOrk companies
would form tariff association that there should be
| an agreement a maximum tariff
AT the afternoon session the following substitute Tor
proposed amendment, offered by Mr. Chard Of Chicago
| was adopted:
That in the event OF The passage OF the present
| lutiOns, the members q United Fire Under
writer's will write suffer agents To
write outside of the metropolitan districts risks AZ less
than tariff rates thereon, allow than 10 per
cent commission thereon, rebates, direct or indirect
| or allowances of any kind.
The first part of the resolution the ACCESSIBILITY Of
| dstricting the country then adopted also that
| concerning membership. The rest Of the resolutions
were under discussion when the meeting adjourned until
| 1890 this morning.
dinner was given 10 the delegates to the Convention
OF Fire Underwriters last evening at Delmonicos over
one hundred guests present Speeches were made
by George Hope OF the Connecticut, Thomas j. Jere-
Uiah of the Pacific and Colonel SlOcum, Of the Fire In
suIancc Association OF Saratoga.