Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-01
STATE HOUSE.
The Governor and Council to
Require Itemized Bills.
Inspecting Board Of National Guard
to Try SmokeIess Powder, Today.
Men Believe in Law for Markjru
Assessment Certificates.

The Governor and Council in IN,
future viii require that bills rendered
to the State shall be fully itemized and
every detail made clear. 1t will not do
to lump sums together when sending in
DIS a rule of the Council is as fol-
lows:
NO claim demand or account render
ed against the State shall be made the
subject of Council order or report for
payment by the chairman of anv com
mittee of the Council. unless sucb
ciaim, demand or account is fully item
lZed as to dates, amounts and subject
matter thereof.
Municipal officers in rendered bills
FOR the burial of soldiers. for reim-
bursement by the State must itemize
me same viz: For casket, robe, dig
ging grave and services of clereymen
and vouchers must accompany. The
state auditing board very naturally
wished to be certain that the money has
been expended by the municipal Off
GERS and what it is for.
The board of inspection consisting of
Inspector General of Rifle Practice T.
=. harrington, Major William o.
Peterson of the LIST Regiment. and Cap
tam w. a. Paul Of the "a Regiment.
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when they will go to the rifle range
and inspect the samples of smokeless
powder sent Adjutant General Rich
ards, with the intention of having the
Guard of the State try it and adopt it
in its practice
test made by General Richards
and Colonel Harrington. not long ago.
did not result as well as they would
like to have had it. They say there
are OF course many advantages over
the dirty black powder but for the
work on the ranges they believed the
black powder to be far superior to the
smokeless.
Today's tests may overcome some of
these objections, as the officers at that
time We're not certain that their shells
We're properly loaded.
Some of the insurance agents of the
State do not believe there should be
any modification Of the law passed at
tho laSt | apiSIo t1Ir,. r.Uo rIi no tho mn,
! tual and equitable assessment com
panies. 1t will be remembered that
representatives of two companies We're
at the State House. Monday. to con
suit Commissioner carr in regard to
the law that goes into effect, today,
that requires the certificate of assess
| ment, casualty or accident companies
shall be stamped with the information
that the companies are doing bust
ness on the assessment plan.
This law remarked one insurance
man, lis to prevent fraud and the idea
Of having it modified is absurd. 1t is
law and that is all there is to it.
Commissioner Carr will probably tell
them that it is not within his province
to determine anything but that is pro
vided for in the laws made by the last
Legislature.
This law" he continued, us along
the same line as the one that prohibits
putting butterine up in boxes without
a label and allowing people to buy IL
under the impression that it is butter.
If the makers label it butterine it IS
all right. Now some of the insurance
companies wish to sell policies on the
assessment plan and allow the people
to think they are buying something en-
tirely different. The law was passed
for the protection of the public that
does not fully understand insurance.
We do not claim that the companies
| themselves intend to mislead the pup
lie. vet the fact remains that many
people secure the policies and are sur
prised to find that they are assessed
| afterwards
| There are at present only two com
panies in the State that will have to
comply with the law and they are the
Masonic Equitable Association ana
Massachusetts Accident Association.
The Fidelity Mutual Life Association
of Philadelphia, and the Security MI
tuaI Life Insurance Co. of Bingham
ton, n. Y, have applied for admission
~ the state ia do business as legal re-
serve or old line companies.
In regard to the meeting of the mem
hers of the cattle commission in Au-
susta Monday, with the Governor,
Hon +. o. Beal of Bangor, IN an inter