The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-27
AFTER INFORMATION.
superintendent of Insurance Church
Adds New Queries.

AQOS N 0W Gu6rleS
Although Webb McNaH has. returned
to his plantation in Smith county,
where he is devOting his time and at
tentiOn to the raising of cattle and
corn, and practicing law and economy
on the side, and his examiners who
were known as road agents." have re-
turned to the peaceful pursuits of life,
the old row is to be fought over again
next year.
superintendent of Insurance Church
has hit upon plan which will smoke
out the big insurance companies and
force them to tell just how much money
McNan and his ''highwaymen" hlched
from them during the late reign of ter
rOr' The plan did not originate with
superintendent Church, as the story
goes, but was conceived by a well
known Topeka insurance lawyer. Be
that as it may, the plan, If 1t works,
viii give Mr.. Church a little better
standing with Governor Stanley's OIL
cial family and may cause the state
house crowd to relent and permit Mr..
Church'S name to go upon the ticket for
Superintendent of insurance next year
The insurance department has been
busy recently sending out to all insur-
ance companies doing business in the
state the annual statement which com
panieS are required by law TO I'LL out
and return to the department, showing
the business of each company for the
year ending December 31st. These
blank statements are furnished by the
state printer, and the statement OF this
year does not differ materially from
those sent out by former superfntend-
ents, except in the added page which
evidently was an after thought, and
which is numbered 80. It was not orig
fnally part of the annual statementfo for
thai document is securely bound. The
plan to make inquiries as to the depre-
datiOns Of Webb McNalPS road
agents was laid before Mr.. Church af-
ter he had sent the main statement to
the printer, and that is the reason the
sheet was not bound into the main
statement.
The following questions are put to
the insurance companies:
/ Has your company ever been ex-
amined by any one with authority from
this department since the organization
of same in 1871?
2 If so, by whom and when?
8. How much time was consumed IN
each examination?
A. state how much was paid by your
company for each examination
s. Has your company ever paid to
this department, through agents or at
torneys, any money except the legal
fees or taxes?
6. If so. to whom, ~vhat amount date
paid? also, state for what purpose?
Mr.. Church in his first query evid-
emily intends to cover wide field, for
he calls for information touching eX1
aminatiOns back to the creation of the
department. If he had turned to the
report of former superintendent Nc
Nall on page "A he would have discover
ed that former Superintendent Wilder
at one time had an even dozen road
agents in the field They were called
examiners then. In his report Nj Nc
Nall said:
I will say in addition, concerning ex-
aminatiOns by the Kansas department,
that they are nothing new. The pace
was first set by that distinguished gen
tleman who formerly presided over this
department for a period of four years.
the Hon. Daniel Webster Wilder. The
records of this office show that in 1887
he appointed as examiners to examine
various insurance companies the Hon.
W c. Webb, Jacob Gewyer, Henry c.
Kellar, Harrison Garrison, r. H. c.
Searle, James Billingslea, A. L. Selig,
Joseph G. Waters, Chas. NJ. Foster, c.
P. Bolmar, F. G. Hentig and F. w.
| Gibson
1t would be real funny if the insur-
ance companies should take Mr.. Church
at his word, go back a few years and
load him up with a whole lot of infOr-
nation that he isn't looking for and
doesn't want.