Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-20
WORK ON INSURANCE REPORT
Special Commission Will Close Its Hear
ings in Few Days.
FEW CHANGES EXPECTED IN FIRE LAWS
Attention Being Devoted Largely to
Fraternal, Assessment and Old
Line Companies and
Their Methods.
oFrom stan correspondent.)

From Stan Correspondent
DIES MONIES. Ia, Aug. 19.-(Special.)-
After listening to hundreds of witnesses
and insurance experts from soon after the
legislature adjourned in April to the pres
ent time, the legislative insurance invesu-
cation commission finds itself still far from
the end Of the investigation. 1t may have
to decide to abandon the hearings further
and begin the work of preparing the report
in executive sessions. The law that created
! the commission ordered that the report
| should be filed with the auditor of state by
December 1. The auditor is TO have the re-
port printed and ready for distribution 20
| the members of the legislature by the time
the thirty-second general assembly convenes
the second week in January. In order to
have the report printed in time 1t will be
! necessary for the commission to begin to
| turn in the copy for the state printer long
before the limit Of the time allowed by the
law for filing the complete report. For this
| reason IL is highly probable that before a
great while. probably inside of a week or
two. the commission will go into executive
session and begin the work of preparing It's
| report. 1t seems probable now that there
will be little recommended in the way of
| changes IN the fre insurance laws. some OF
! the fire insurance companies are quite
| anxious for a reinsurance law, a change in
the pro-rating provisions and the repeal of
! the Blanchard anti-compact law besides
some minor changes, but in the opinion of
able lawyers and state officials who have
examined carefully into the matter, the fire
| insurance laws Of the state need little IL
any change. The attention of the commits
| SION almost wholly, It seems now. will be
devoted to the fraternal, assessment and old
| line life insurance laws. 1t is probable that
| the commission on taking up the work
| of preparing the report will first give
| attention to the fraternal insurance
proposition and then take up the assess
ment companies and later the old line life
| companies. There is no indication as to
what the commission will report. other than
the rather free discussions of the members
of the commission with the witnesses that
appear before the commission. and the line
of questions that are asked. The question
| regarding fraternals, Il is expected. will be
one largely of rates OF assessment. With
the old line life insurance companies there
are a large number of questions involving
policy annual distribution of dividends,
| Limitation Of commissions to agents, publ
cation OF expenses, publication Of salaries
|
ment of funds.
Want Grant for President.
Thomas G. orwig one OF tho leaders in
the prohibition party in Iowa, has taken up
the task of advocating the nomination of
General Fred Grant as the prohibition can
didate for president of the United States
! He proposes to launch the boom for Grant
by securing his endorsement by the Iowa
prohibtionists.
Want Land Condemned.
| The Iowa Railroad commission has fixed
| Tuesday, August q, as the date for hear
| ing a petition by the Great Western rail-
way for the condemnation of land at
Dubuque for additional depot and station
| grounds. Petitions have been filed with the
board by the Great Western for the con-
domination of land at Conger Ia. for the
purpose of constructing a bridge over the
/ Middle river and by the Atchison, Topeka
! & Santa Fe for the condemnation of land
along It's right-of-way through the state
sfor a double track.
Cummins Invited to Speak.
| Governor Cummins has received invita-
| lions from the republican state central
| committees of Minnesota, Indiana, Kansas
| South Dakota and Illinois, asking him to
participate in the campaign in those states
| and make several speeches. He has also
received a similar invitation from the con-
| gressional committee of Missouri the in
vitations being accompanied with re-
quest to know how many speeches he can
deliver in the neighboring states. The gov
ernor will probably not be able to reply
to the invitations till he has met with
the state central committee of Iowa, along
with the other candidates. when It will he
4 datarninad what Kind M M on Wi
be conducted in this state and when it
win open. His time will probably prin-
| cipally be devoted to the campaign in this
| state. There is already some informal
discussion among the candidates on the re-
publican ticket in this state to whether
the campaign should open early in Sep
TENDER and be carried through two months
or be opened late In September and be
carried through little more than one month.
There is considerable sentiment for a short
campaign.
English Buys Interest.
State Printer Elect Emory English has,
it is learned. purchased an interest in the
job printing plant of Lewis & Wallace in
this city, the firm to which he has given
the contract to do the state printing be-
ginning January /, 1907 The law requires
that the work of the state printing be done
|
interest In the Mason City Times Herald,
a daily paper. and will continue to act as
its editor. New machinery has been pur-
chased for the Job plant here so as to make
1t suitable for doing the state work
Mrs. N. J. Miller Dead.
Mrs. N. J. Miller, wife of the superin-
tendent of malls of the postofice here, died
} last night Mrs. Miller has held the po-
sition of president OF the Iowa Women s
Christian Temperance union. and for the
last twenty years or more has been a
prominent worker in temperance and char
liable and benevolent work OF various
kinds. She is known the state over She
was a leading and conspicuous worker in
getting the prohibition constitutional
amendment and much or the present pro-
hibition laws
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