Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-08-30
lobbyists After Carroll.

eral assembly, mas been endeayorlng
TO organize q fight Of the Insurance.
men against the reelection of Auditor
Of State B. f. Carroll.
| Just how successful he has been Is
not known, but it is known that sew
eral to whom he has gone with his
proposition have turned him down.
This lobbyist, it is claimed, has gone
to Iowa fire insurance and fraternal
life insurance companies in Des
Moines with the proposition that IL
they would join in a fight against Au.
ditor Carroll he would put 100 agents
in the field, which would be one In
each county, to do aggressive politi-
cal work against the state auditor.
The fraternal insurance companies
have seemed an especially fruitful
field to those who would compass
the defeat of Auditor Carroll, because
OF the fact that in the membership or
these fraternals In the state Inere are
about 100000 voters. Whether any OF
these have Joined in the fight and
taken up with the scheme is not
| known, but it Is known that some
have refused to listen 10 II, just as
the fire and old line life men of the
state have In a number of instances
refused to listen.
The thing that seems to have
aroused the enmity of the fire insur-
ance lobby is the attitude Auditor
Carroll has taken against the repeal
of the anti-compact law, the provl-
sions of the law as to prorating or
lou
All Of these laws now on the statute
/ c'oks the insurance lobby would IKE
to see repealed, their heart is set on
1t and q large number of witnesses
have been rushed before the insur-
ance commission to testify in favor
Of their repeal. So far as Is known
the Iowa companies are satisfied with
these laws as they are and are will
ing, at least, that they should remain
unchanged. Fire insurance compan-
les outside the state, however, would
like to see them repealed.
The Blanchard law is the law that
prohibits insurance companies doing
business in Iowa from getting to-
gether and agreeing on rate OF pre-
MUM that shall be charged for in
| surance. 1t Is an antitrust law as
APPLIED to insurance companies and
the state of Iowa has spent q great
deal Of money, successfully, in prose.
cutting a case through the supreme
court of the United States In which
the law was held to be constitutional
and is now In full force and effect In
the state. The law according to those
well informed on insurance matters
has saved the people of Iowa many
thousands OF dollars in the cost of fire
insurance.
1t was through the efforts of the
Insurance companies that an injunc-
ton was secured against Auditor
Carroll to restrain him from enforc-
ing the anti-compact law and the In
surance companies fought desperate
ly through the supreme court in an
endeaVor to keep the injunction from
being dissolved. On the best OF au-
thority the insurance rates increased
from so to 20 per cent during the
time when the auditor was under an
Injunction not to enforce the anti
compact law. Testimony has been,
given during the sessions of the in
surance commission to show that
since the law was held to be consti-
tutional and the injunction against
the state auditor dissolved the rates
have gone down in some instances
from so cents a thousand for one year
to 60 cents a thousand for five years.
At The Rifle Range.
Intense interest marked the shoot
of the Iowa Rifle association. composed
Of members of the Iowa National
! guard. Lieutenant Bowen of Waukon,
Company |, Fifty-third regiment, made
the big score in the shoot for the ALL
son trophy. He won the individual
score shot and is now considered the
crack shot Of the Iowa guard. His
work during the present shoot Is con-
sidered to be almost phenomenal. He
made the mark Of SO in the skrmish
| fire, which Is considered very
| high skirmish run. Twenty-seven
men made scores of about 30 in this
contest. The Allison trophy which he
| secured Is a handsome mounted Indian
statue, valued at SIS. 1t was held
last year by Corporal Finke Of Algona
Corporal Stevens, Mason City. Com,
pany A, Fifty-sixth Iowa, wins the IA
nous Drake trophy by winning out in
the range rapid firing contest His
score was exceptionally good, and be-
cause of 1t defeats Corporal Finke OF
Algona, who held both the Allison and
Drake trophies last year. The Drake
trophy is loving cup valued at $50.
Four Brothers Take Bankruptcy.
Four Bigler brothars, farm laborers
near Hartwick, Poweshiek county,
commenced voluntary bankruptcy
proceedings by filing petitions with
Clerk William c. Macarthur OF United
| States district court here. Their La
bilities amount to $1s4,655 each, and
the assets of none exceed $25. The
! liabilities we're contracted by them
! on notes for cattle while they were
members of the c. G. Bigler G. Sons
Stock Company
Supervisors Choose Des Moines.
Des Moines gets the next meeting
of the Supervisors Association OF
Iowa, the session to open on January
23, 1907. Waterloo, Clinton, and Cres-
ton were applicants for the meeting