The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-02

There lis a very fair prospect now that
the Venable insurance bill, with some
notifications, will be passed. That there
is a demand for some such bill as this
there is no doubt. Whether or not the
people will be able to get good insurance
at less rates IL they are permitted to in
sure in any company they please is a
question that cannot be answered with
any degree of certainty, but they will ap-
prove change in the law.
At present they are confined to the
companies that have complied with the
conditions for doing business in the state,
and they feel that the rates charged
are higher than they should be-
Whether they are mistaken or not is not
the question. If they are mistaken the
only way to convince them that they are is
to let them have a chance to place their
insurance wherever they want to.
There are companies in the Southeast
ern Tariff Association that do not care
apparently whether the $4,000 deposit law
is repealed or not. They believe they can
do as much business without it as with
It.
One thing that has aroused
good deal of feeling against the
tariff association is it's arbitrary
rulings in cases where changes in
lighting and heating buildings are re-
quired in order to comply with new regu-
lations that the association has agreed
upon. For these things the local insurance
Ill.
of the association order them. and, as it
would be a difficult matter to make ex-
ceptions, it often happens that property
holder feels that he has been put to an
unnecessary expense.
1t locks now as If there would soon be
freer insurance. The demand for it is so
strong that the legislature will doubtless
feel justified in granting it.
The democrats in the Georgia legisla-
ture will make mistake if they set up
partisanship as the all-sufficient and only
test for membership in the general as
sembly, Hair splitting and the hagglng
over technicalites is mighty poor bust
ness at any time. There might be some
excuse for such tactics if the democratic
majority was threatened. But there is no
possibility of any such thing. The demo-
Gratis can afford to and should be mag
unanimous. Absolutely fair and impartial
treatment of the populists, even to the
extent of giving them the benefit of any
doubt, would do much toward disarming
their opposition and convincing the luke
warm populist voters that the Democratic
party is disposed to deal fairly with all
of the people.
If the reports in certain New York and
Philadelphia papers are to be relied upon,
the sugar trust bosses are not a happy
family. and an open breach may result
one of these days. 1t is said that Messrs.
Searles, Mathiessen and other of the mag
mates were so obstreperous in their op-
position to the expressed determination of
President Havemeyer to close all of the
refineries that open revolt was imminent
for a time, and they finally forced Mr..
Havemeyer into a compromise whereby
about one-half of the refineries will start
up again to-day. This vigorous and sue
cessful kick on the part of his conferees
throws doubt upon Mr.. Havemeyer's as
sertion that the refneries were to be closed
because they were running at a loss.
The Augusta Herald, speaking of the
prospective congressional race in the
Tenth district next spring, says it "be>
lieves it is to the best commercial inter-
ests of Augusta to secure new candidates
in the new election" That being the
case, what is the matter with Senator
Patrick Walsh?