The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-01
INSURANCE PACT
IS AIMED AT.
BILLS INTRODUCED TO BREAK UP
BOARD AGREEMENTS.
Provision for Revolving the Licenses of
Companies That Enter Into Compacts
Wholesalers Of the Large Cities
Touched Up in a Bill by Tanning Of
olmsted-Bill Raising Pharmacists
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Putnam Of Red Wing and George w.
Thompson of Rice are their authors,
and they differ only in methods of at
tempting to prevent compacts as to
rates and commissions in the state.
The Putnam bill provides that on
complaint of two persons the state in
surance commissioner may take testi-
mony and may revoke the license of
the offending company. An appeal
within twenty days gives either party
the right to have the case tried on it's
merits in the courts. Statements mad1
at the hearing shall not be used against
witnesses in a criminal prosecution.
The Thompson bill requires all insur-
ance companies in the state to file by
May Of each year affidavits that they
have not entered into compact as
to rates during the year. A false state
ment is to be treated as perjury, pun
ishable by 800 to 81 1000 fine, and any
attempt to evade the law by agreeing
on any one person to make the rates
for all or by buying rate books is to
be a violation Of the act. The state
insurance commissioner is given the
right to cancel licenses of companies
who fail to comply with the law.
Hits Wholesalers.
A bill introduced by Edward Fan
ming of Olmsted will cause wholesale
merchants to look up. It provides that
on stocks in cities of more than $4,000
inhabitants the owners shall file with
the assessor a statement of the insur-
ance. The assessment for taxes is not
to be less than the average of the in
surance for the year. A false state
ment is described as perjury, and fail
ure to file the statement makes the
collection of taxes incontestable.
! Three more railroad bills were of.
fered. w. /. Nolan of Hennepin would
make the qualifications of locomotive
engineer three years. actual experience
as a locomotive fireman or one year as
an engineer. Violation by an employee
is made misdemeanor, and the com.
pany employing is punishable by fine
of from 500 to 5000 or sixty to ninety
days imprisonment.
~, Watch Grade Crossings.
DR.. J. A. Gates would put the estab
lishment of grade watchmen, safety de
vices, etc, in villages within the pow
ers Of the state. Railway commission
After public hearing, the railroads
are required to install fagmen or safety
devices within sixty days. ... ..
P. A: Gandrud extends the rule as Il
the raising of rates by railroads only
on the authority of the state railway
commission to all terminal and switch
ing charges. n ."*
Requires College Work. Fl
Radical departure in theh require
merits for state pharmacists license i
proposed. in a bill by w. J.. Stock O
Stearns: 1t reduces the actual expert
ence in drugstore from four to tw
years, but adds; the requirement Of
versity having a department Of phal
macy: The bill is backed by the stat
association. -,
| Cuts Out Patent Paving.
The asphalt trust, it is said, is to b
the beneficiary Of a bill presented b
Edward flaming. It prohibits the us
Of any patented paving, or any prepare
tion in which any patented process Ell
tiers, trom being a used Inv in Paying an
state. Especially in st. Paul, a pater
paving article is the strongest compel
tor that the asphalt people have.
B. s. Bennett, author Of the bill t
limit the hours of shopgirls from 8 an
to 6 pm, is flooding the house with p
| titions in favor Of his bill. Petition
: from the st. Paul Y. w. C. IA, .th
Minnesota state officers, fifty ST. Al
3 ministers, $50 citizens Of St. Paul an
1 500 Minneapolis men and women wei
4 read today.
Requires Reports Of Accidents.
ii The Gandrud bill, providing for II
| fling Of reports of railroad wrecks, wit
the names of the injured, with the sta
railroad commission, was recommends
for passage. It was amended in cor
t mittee, closing the lists so filed to- pu
e lie inspection. It was pointed out tn,