Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-06-01

Report on fire insurance.
Dec Mcines.-The annual report o.
State Auditor B. p. Carroll on insur-
ance business other than life done In
the state of Iowa shows that for the
year ending December 81, 1905, there
was almost double the amount Of
losses paid compared with the year
before. The losses paid in 1904 were
1898, 62,247.83 and in 1904 S355,565,-
81. The enormous increase is ex-
planned by the state auditor i'll his
report as being partly due to the big
fire loss in Sioux City in December,
1904, the losses of which were not
paid till January. 1906. The amount
of losses paid by insurance companies
only increased from S2,245,623.71 in
1904 to $4,112,69O.25 in 1905. The fire
insurance risks written in 1905 were
1893 ,662.247.s3 and in 1904 $355,565,
064.33.
In his recommendations Auditor
Carroll strongly urges the enactment
Of uniform policy for fire insurance
companies and calls attention to the
failure of the last Legislature to pass
such bill, though one was before The
I committees on insurance. He recon-
, minds that chapter of the code re-
lating to assessment associations is
too limited in its scope, as there is
no limit to the amount for which
holders of policies can be assessed,
AID further no limit to the expenses
such companies can incur.
The report states that since the
United States supreme court upheld
the oonstitutionality Of the Blanchard
act prohibiting companies combining
to az rates, there has been no COM
/ plants to the auditor OF violations OF
the law.
At the session of the legislature in
1908 law was enacted requiring the
auditors department to make an ex-
animation OF all insurance companies
doing business in the state and having
their home Offices iE the state at least
once every two years. The report
states that owing to the fact that
many of the Iowa companies have
never been examined the work will
not be completed till July this year.
at the end of the two-year period.
The report shows that there are lis
fire insurance companies in the state,
not counting 153 county and ineteen
state mutual companies, which bring
the total to $50. The report shows an
increase in fees paid to the auditors
ONCE OF $54,095.70 in 1905 and $780,
3e9.21 in 1904. In 1905 the companies
paid in taxes to the state $287,90S.92
and In 1904 $267,s26.62.
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Memorial Day Proclamation.
Governor Cummins memorial day
proclamation is as follows:
i "Forty-one years have passed since
the war of the rebellion closed with
an inseparable union and enduring
peace. The lapse Of time serves only
to reveal in their true proportions
the issues involved In the mighty con.
hiet. The passage Of time but In
creases our generation and deepens
our affection for those who fought
the battles and won the victories OF
this uhequalled war.
"The day 10 approaching that long
ago was set aside as sacred to the
memory Of the union soldiers and
sailors who have passed to their re-
ward upon the other shore,
sNow therefore. I. Albert B. Cum.
minis, governor Of the state OF Iowa
do earnestly request all the people Of
the state Of Iowa to look upon Wed
nesday, the s0th; day Of May, az day
to be devoted, In solsmnity, to q me
mortal for the heroic dead ask them
to forsake their ordinary labors end
pleasures, and Join In rendering tri
butte to these valiant souls Whose
courage and patriotism preserved tht
instituttons wA3cA make cifissnship
IN The repuhaic sAs highest homer that
moral man can snt6y. In feoallini
With tander thopsHs and IN loving
speech what thsy did, we viii ns& only
do justice TO their fidelity, but Will
increase eur own"