The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-04-20

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Answer A yofy strict oho that the pupils
hall not converse Of hsgOclgte with The sef |
wants 4 nntnfofce II with The females, butt |
IA difficult ~ do ~ Will the males, ! could |
lock ~ the servants VI ,hey Yonld submit
~ 10, and could lock up The boys w their
but IN case NJ fire they would
be destroyed, and would he justly abused
for II. The truth Of thc whole matter Is
that ! cannot always prevent, however
dlirent ! may be, servants rom going
astrGy nor Is II my business to try. nor
can always prcYcnt the young men rom
doing wrong, After ! employ O woman
and have proof against her afterwards, J
then discharge her. ] have discharged
several for immoral conduct but not until
had heard the truth about 1t. Other
schools have these accidents to occur; for If
the students are guilty Of immoral conduct,
the superintendent or president Is the last
person to whom they would make report.
| refer to students OF sound mind l am
sorry the affair occurred, but / do not feel
that it was caused from any neglect on my
part.
And all this furore, all this fuss about q
merely private matter after all. Everyone
in the land who knows DR.. Rainey, knows
also that no man could do, can do, does do
more than he to preserve the strict integrity
of what he feels to be his own household, to
discharge efficiently and conscientiously the
duties of the responsible position he holds.
He needs no Justification through these
columns, nor in Austin, nor elsewhere in
deed where known. j. f. Il.
Going Through the Departments-Why
the State Capitol was Not Iusured-Un-
Just Criticisms Amount of Insur-
ance Done in Texas-BenevolsntA ssocia-
ton Claims-Illicit Business-The Insur-
ance Laws not to be Disturbed-The
Statistical Departmental Method that
is IA Failure.
Correspondence of the Herald.
AUSTIN, April FL observe in the Gal
weston News of yesterday, which came tc
hand this morning, a paragraph stating
that it is now in order for the legislature to
enquire why the capitol building and its
contents, burned here last fall, was not in.
sured by the insurance commissioner. The
drift of the editorial brevity appears in the
shape of O serious reflection upon the com
missioner. The reply is clear, it would
seem to me. In the first place, it is
matter of general notoriety that
not one capitol building in the
insurance, nor are any of the public build
ings, as a rule, and for the sound and clear
reason once given by Governor Coke, that
the state is ADLER to carry her own risks
| than are insurance companies, that after
all may collapse at any time, while the
sovereign and perpetual state cannot. In
the second place, officials are expressly
| hxTt I,a Al oi,
| under penalty of a misdemeanor, any such
act, save where duly instructed or eX-
pressed. In the third place, insurance
policies except, in their general clauses, all
money, notes, valuable pictures, promissory
notes. ETC., etc. In the fourth place, a cal
culation will show that the state has actually
saved much money by taking her own risks,
instead of paying premiums for the last
forty years into the Golfers of an insurance
company. Surely the brevity suggestion
was thoughtlessly written and recklessly
worded.
In looking over the records of this
INSURANCE DEPARTMENT,
/ find that the cash receipts Of
last year amount to some $l7,39S
the receipts of 1880. During the first
six months Of the year no fire, marine nor
inland company applied for admission into
The state, while in January and February
of this year no fewer than thirteen fire and
marine companies were admitted. | sum-
Marie as follows for you, for 1881:
Number of fire, marine and inland
Aggregate assets of same, ........., Sl20 $50 0VC
Vaue OF property in Texas insured. 1891 90
Aggregate losses in Texas, .....,..:. 9G5, 2Ot
Aggregate premiums received in -,
The increase ;rcii Of the grand total OF prop
erty in the state that was thus protected
during the past year exceeded that of the
preceding one by $4,000, 600, an increase OF
more than so per cent.
In the life insurance business we have the
following:
No. of Companies. ....,..............,,,,.,
Aggregate fsscts of same ...........S2ll 9is, 573
Total amount of policies in force =. s,327, ass
Total premiums received in Texas. 1907
Total losses incurred in TeXas........ ll0G2l
The increase in assets in round numbers
was, over the.preceding year, about ST.
1000, while the decrease in losses was
some $7,3l7.
Commissioning spaight informed me that
he had a great deal of trouble with all the
various kinds OF
BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATIONS,
such rs religious, matrimonial aid, philan-
thropic, etc, etc, seeking TO do business in
Texas without subiecting themselves to
"the rapacity of our tax laws" and the
scrutiny of state supervision, claiming to be
identical in purposes and methods with the
Knights of Honor Knights of Pythias, the
odd Fellows, etc, and he hopes the legisla-
ture will define the status Of all
as to their liability to tax, etc.
He says that he intends to pay especial
attention to
ILLICIT INSURANCE
OF wildcat, bogus, or unauthorized COM
panies that are underwriting and defying
The laws generally without any warrant
from the state, and 10 the great detriment of
the loyal members Of the insurance frater-
nifty doing legitimate business, which is
indeed the helpful handmade 10 commerce
and prime factor in the complex problem
of civilized progress. In the Galveston fire,
which you viii recollect occurred about
the middle of last January, il came 10 light
that on the stock Of Greenleye, Block a.
Co., dry goods merchants, no fewer than
states had issued policies TO that firm, in
sums OF s., 500 each. Here is smuggling by
the Wholesale, akin 10 illicit whisky distii-
ling, etc., defrnuding the state, and to
the great wrong and loss TO regu-
lar tax-paying, responsible companies.
This Outrage should be squelchedat the ear
lest moment.
In further conference with Mr.. spsight,
be advises me that he does not otherwise
propose TO
q DISTURB THE INSURANCE LAWS
I'm anyway, but viii let everything con-
nected with the department remain in
statu quo. unless his attention be directed
20 some point wherein this great interest of
insurance can be subserved Indeed, ! do
not remember anything in the governors
call for this extra session that would allow
any legislation in such direction.
Our old friend John w. Swindells, IL the
commissioners assistant, and than whom
as be well says NO more competent. pains
taking and diligent person could be
in the
HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL DEPARTMENT,
the commissioner complains that be has
not been enabled 70 properly collect the