The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-07-27
BADGER JUSTICE
ADMITS Letters
SUPREME COURT MEMBER ASKED
FOR COMMISSION ON
INSURANCE.
in Absence of Company
Representative He Sought to Sc
cure Agents Allowance for Collec-
ton of Premium on His Policy.

Milwaukee, July 21.-Justice Rou-
jet d. Marshall, of the supreme court
of Wisconsin, is the high court official
referred to in Thursdays proceedings
of the Wisconsin legislative life in
yestigating committee.
The original correspondence was
produced by Mr.. Albright late Fri
day. The letters soliciting the COM
mission for collection, dated Madison,
October 3, 1902, is as follows:
Gentlemen hold policy No. 1884,
009 in your company, on which there
falls due, the 18th day of this month
the annual premium of $671.4O. / am
not at present advised as to whether
| will be obliged to remit to the prin-
cipal office. Not knowing that you
have any agent in this city, and sup
posing that if you have such agent he
has no claims upon you for a percent
age for the collection of my premium,
! suggest that you send my receipt to
the First National bank of Madison,
Wis, with a draft attached for the
$671.40 and instructions to reliver the
receipt upon payment of the draft on
or before the due date of the pre-
MUM, and that in such case you per-
NIT the bank to take the usual agents
commission for the collection, with
permission to pay the same to me.
My policy came from an agent entire
ly outside of my circle of business ac-
nj W
self, why cannot be permitted to
make the payment in the manner sug-
gested, but If there are reasons, of
course you will write me suggesting
where to send the money"
Agent Scores Judge.
The above letter from Justice Mar
shall was referred by the home Office
Of the insurance company to State
Manager Albright, of Wisconsin, who,
in turn, wrote to his superior Office,
on October 16, as follows:
II am to-day in receipt of yours of
the Sd, enclosing a letter from
judge Of the supreme court of Wis
consin, Hon. r. D. Marshall, asking
that you grant him rebate upon his
renewal premium. When a Judge of
the supreme court of this state makes
an appeal for a rebate and does it di-
rect to the home Office, is it not time
that there be some elevation in the
moral conscience of the people in
high places before we can hope for
much change for the better among
the rank and file on the rebate ques-
ton? This gives you an idea of some
of the difficulties we are obliged to
contend with in this state"
Mr.. Albright also wrote to the JUS
tice informing him that rebating was
forbidden by law in Wisconsin.
Nothing to Prevent Payment.
The final answer of Justice Mar
shall was written to Mr. Albright as
follows:
Here is the draft for payment on
my policy. / am not unacquainted
with the law to which you refer. On
reflection you will probably see that
there is nothing in the law to pre-
vent your company from paying to
any bank any collection charges you
see fit. do not take your letter very
seriously. 1t would not be out of
place for your company to establish
an agency outside of Milwaukee.
Send receipt to Madison, Wis.,
II wrote the letters which were
read before the life insurance inves-
tigating commission Thursday" said
Justice r. D. Marshall, over the long
distance telephone from his farm in
Kilbourne, late Friday afternoon.
Il wrote, as the letters will show,
that the company had no local agent
in Madison, that I did not know
where to send the money for the pre-
MUM, and submitted to the general
office of the company the propriety of
allowing me to pay the premium into
the bank and receive the usual
agents collection fee back, suggest
ing that they SO direct the bank if it
seemed proper to them
"They evidently did not deem it
proper and / sent the money in full.
That is all there is to it,
EXPLOSION KILLS FOUR MEN