Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-26

THE DEAF SCHOOL WILL REMAIN
All Talk About Removal Ended by the
Action of the House Members To-
day-House Passes Measure for the
Licensing Of Insurance Asents-The
Legislative Grins.
Special to Times-I,epublican.

Des Moines, March 26.-The COM
School today reported supplemental
statement. placing that committee on
record the same as the committee
which went to Iowa City and Ames
in favor of one board of regents for
state educational institutions.
The house today adopted the report
on the deaf school, thus ending all dis
cussion for the removal Of the school.
The house today passed bill! TO IL
cense insurance agents. The senate
today voted down the bill to require
a removal OF children from poor houses
Of the state to the State Orphans
Home at Davenport
The house bin for refunding on
bridge expenses outside OF large cities
was passed today; also a bill to re-
quire loan and trust companies to abide
by the savings oslnks laws.
The special committee having charge
OF the insurance company accusations
against former State Auditor Frank F.
Merriam is holding sessions ana gong
ever the matter with him. Mr. Merriam
made before the committee last even
ing an extended legal argument to
show that he had q right to make the
examinations complained of and that
he had right to charge the fees indi-
Gated He also went over the ground
& ith reference to The various individual
items which 1t ha,, been claimed repre-
sent eNtortionate fees He admitted
charging railroad fare for himself ana
his examiner TO the various places
from Des Moines and return In eacn
case, altho on some of the trips they
made a large number of examinations
and did not pay the railroad fare
up. In regard to such items
as one case where the examination
consisted of merely leaving card un-
der the Office door and presenting
big fee it was always the examiner,
Mr. Beehler, who did it. Mr.. Beehler is
in Chicago and will not come before
the committee for investigation. The
session is so near close that members
az the committee say they will be un-
able to make any satisfactory investi-
cation.
The bill introduced by Representa-
tive Cummings in the house relating to
in Iowa is of first i'm
portance in the state. The bill was
drawn to remedy plain defect in the
statutes of Iowa by which it is possi-
bile for almost any kind of a company
or association to become legally incor-
rorated to do almost any kind of busi-
ness with or without bona fide capi-
tai. 1t provides, in brief, that where
articles of Incorporation are submitted
to the secretary Of state for filing they
shall be submitted to the attorney gen.
eral and before they are filed the at
torney general and the secretary of
state shall both approve them. If there
is any doubt to any clause of the arti-
cles explanations may be demanded.
The attorney generals authority goes
into the question of the character of
the business to be done, as to whether
or not it is contrary 20 public policy.
and into the suf1iciency and the actu-
ality of the capital stock. and every de-
tail of the business. If he approves
then the company may receive a char
ter and do business. The bill Is in ex-
act line with the sentiments expressed
by the various state officers who have
the methods. by which articles of in
are permitted to go on the
state records. There is absolutely no
check now. If the articles conform In
a general way to the statutory re-
uuirements as to form and fee then the
is chart cred. AS result COM
panies that have no honest purpose are
given charters and advertise them
selves as legali2ed by the state and
fully authorized to transact their
business. All they have is a certificate
which means that they have filed their
articles in proper form and paid the
fee. If the new system goes into ef-
feet a charter from the state of Iowa
win mean ething, for it will be IN
some degree a guaranty tnat the busi-
ness to be done is proper and the In
are reasonably able to car
ry out their promises.
The fun purport of the bill introduced
A few days ago for the purpose of
classifying telephone companies ac-
sording to the size of the city and of
classifying users of telephones in ac-
,ordance with the purpose of the use.
md requiring that there snail be uni
9ormdty in the charges for telephone
service as to the different classes, is
lust beginning to dawn on the legisla
-ors 1t is alrea,ly well understood by
he lobbyists and they are looking to the
obbies to get in their work. The bill
would require one company to make the
same low rate all over it's system, that
It makes in any one city, of the same