Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-02-04
/. Among the lawmakers.

| Madison correspondence:
| Speaker Buckstaff will not be able to so
| very far wrong on parliamentary rulings
| .sithout being caught up. On the one
hand he has A. r. Hall, who has seen
more legislative service than any man in
| the Legislature, and on the other SCION
! w. Pierce, who has the distinction OF
| being the oldest man in the House, ana
| both are great parliamentarians. So far
| there have only been one or two oppor-
| tunities for display of parliamentary
| knowledge, but Mr. Pierce has already
demonstrated his ability in that direction.
He has had experience enough to give
him a wide knowledge on the subject, no
| other man in eithe. house having had SO
much legislative experience, except Mr-
Hall.
Insurance Commissioner Fricke is re-
| ceiving many congratulatory letters from
| different parts of the State commencing
| him for the course he has taken in an at
tempt to bring the insurance companies
| to time in the matter of taxation. One or
| two of the members have discovered that
| they can put the insurance commission
er's Office to practical use which the
public generally does not know about. A
Senator incidentally remarked that his
nephew was having hard time collect
ing a claim from an accident insurance
company. The commissioner Immediately
asked him for the particulars and from
what he learned suspected that the COM
pany was putting off payment in the hope
of sooner or later getting money enough
to pay without calling an assessment, as
many companies do. He at once wrote
the company that unless the claim was
paid within certain time its license
would be revoked, and the claim was paid
at once, to the great joy of the Senator
and his nephew.
Dr. Fricke says that he could frequent
ly be of service to people in that way II
they would make their troubles known to
him, but they never come to him except
in desperation, and not very often then
Some time ago poor widow in the north
ern part of the State could not collect
S., 500 from q certain company, and Wh9E.
mortgagor was about to take her littN
home away from her she appealed to tn
commissioner as last resort. He asked
an explanation of the company, then wrote
that the money must be paid by a date
which he fixed, and the widow was de.
lighted to receive her money in short or
der. A more difficult case was where a
company in Wisconsin refused to pay n
claim The commissioner finally notified
it that if the claim was not paid by cers
tain time he would appear IN its home
State, as the insurance officer of the State
of Wisconsin, and apply to the court for
the appointment of a receiver. That
brought the company to time. DIR. Fricke
says that he is ready to give such assist
ance at any time.
An enterprising La Crosse cigar manu-
facturer has enlisted the aid of all the
State officers in the sale of a new brand
OF cigars by putting all their pictures on
the inside of the lid. He presented each
of the State officers with a box and for
day or two cigars have been very plenti-
full around the capitol. Two years ago
manufacturer presented Gov. Upham
with box of cigars which he had orna-
mented with the Governors picture, and
they were so bad that the unfortunate
Governor made lifelong enemy Of every
man to whom he gave one.