Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-01-16

SPEAKER N. E. KENDALL
governor at the last election and this
afternoon will meet jointly to hear
the reading OF the message of Gov
ernor CGmmins.
Tomorrow will be devoted to
routine business and on Thursday Gov
ernor Cummins will be inaugurated
for another term and Lieutenant Gov
ernor Garst will be sworn in. Then
both houses will get down to hard
work, and an effort will be put forth
to make this record breaking ses-
zion in time and work accomplished.
Inaugural to Be Brief.
Much interest is being manifested in
what Governor Cummins will have to
say to the public in his inaugural ad-
dress on Thursday, the third address
of the kind to be delivered by him.
His message. dealing as 1t necessarily
must with affairs of state interest only
and recommendations for the legis-
lators, could be somewhat easily fore
casted, SO far as its salient points are
concerned, but not SO with the inaug-
ural address. There the field of dis.
cussion is unlimited, and it is expect
ed the governor will say some things
which will cause the leaders in other
states to turn their eyes once more
towards Iowa. 1t can safely be pre-
dicted that the governor will not take
backward step on any matter of re-
form he has been advocating in the
past six years. While he accepted the
platform of his party in the last cam
paign, and while that platform was
construed to be opposed to present
tariff revision, it will be remembered
that Governor Cummins definitely de.
clared that he had no word to recall
Of all that he had ever uttered ON that
subject.
1t is probable, also, that big corpor-
atoms will receive some attention at
his hands and that reciprocity will
come in for good share of discussion
in the address. The inaugural adj
dress, 1t Is stated, will be rather brief.
To Reform Insurance.
The insurance problem will occupy
considerable attention from the mem.
bers of the legislature. The commits.
sion appointed by action of the Thirty.
first general assembly to investigate
the companies doing business in Iowa
have completed their work and filed
their report with the auditor of state.
The report puts fairly pleasant pic
ture before the public regarding the
n Or nf {y,c,
in the state. the members of the COM
mission finding but little to criticlse.
They have recommended uniform
standard policies to be written in
Iowa in the future, severe economy in
the management OF companies and
other measures tending to increase
the public confidence in insurance, and
on all things but the question of the
annual dividend, as contrasted with
the deferred dividend. the commission
was unanimous in its report. On that
question two reports have been filed,
one declaring that law should be
adopted permitting nothing but annual
dividend policies to be written in the
state. This recommendation Is signed
by Commissioners Kendall and Jones.
They form minority of the commit
tee. Commissioners Jamison, Bleak
ley and Clary have signed majority
report declaring that the deferred div
idend system has tendency to breed
evils In the business, but asserting
that Iowa companies should not be for
hidden the right to issue such policies,
as they are too weak to compete with
many eastern companies without such
right.
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