Omaha daily bee., 1907-03-03
INSURANCE MEN PROTEST
Object to Auditor Retaining Control Of the
Insurance Department.
sloUA CITY MILITIA RtpRlaANDEO
Attorney General Byers 20 Intervene
in Suit over Land at Cut-on,
Claiming Title in Behalf
of state.
(From a stan Correspondence


DIES MONIES, March 2.--(Special)- "A
petition being signed quite generally by
the insurance representatives is to be pre-
scented to the Legislature soon. asking for
a separate department of insurance and
that this be taken from the Office OF tile
state auditor. While the auditor himself
has advised the legislature to create
separate department OF insurance in his
reports at times, there has been a sort
of tacit agreement among the state OFF,
GERS to shift the duties and give the bank
ing business to the state treasurer and
the municipal accounts to the secretary of
state and thus relieved that the auditor
retain the insurance department.
This arrangement, Il now develops, is
not satisfactory to the insurance COM
panles who, Il is alleged, are dissatisfied
with the thoroughness with which Auditor
Carroll has enforced the Blanchard anti
compact and other insurance laws. They
propose now to make a very vigorous
campaign for the creation Of a separate
insurance department. and the petitions
now being circulated are the beginning Of
the campaign. The petitions are being
circulated for signatures, both to Iowa
companies and to outside companies that
are doing business in Iowa These petit
lions will be presented to the committees
of the legislature soon after 1t reconvenes
next Tuesday.
Reprlma nds sioux City Company.
Adjutant General Thrift has issued
general order in which he reprimands the
officers Of Company l. of the Fifty-sixth
regiment Iowa National Guard at Sioux
City. The reprimand is based on the show
ing made in the report by Major Olmsted
Of the United States army who inspected
the company and reported that names
were certified on the pay roll for drill pay
of persons not members of the company
and further that Sergeant Perry Liddy
while commissioned as an officer of the
company lives eight miles from the drill
hall over In South Dakota and is on the
stan Of the governor Of South Dakota, thus
owing allegiance to two states.
City Treasurer Left.
The report of George e. Pennell of the
municipal accounts department of the state
auditors office on the affairs Of the city of
Oskaloosa state that the accounts of every
office were in excellent shape except that
of the city treasurer, who had not made a
single entry in his books for a year and a
half and left the city on the day the in
vestigation was commenced and remained
port OF Inspector Pennell asks the mayor
OF Oskaloosa to ascertain when the treas
! urer returns whether or not the treasurer
had $12. 709.06 cash on hand December 81,
I 1906. The books of the treasurer are the
| only cause of criticism on the part of the
! inspector. The accounts OF the cities of
| Fairfield and Centerville are reported prac-
! tically without criticism except to say that
| Centerville has far exceeded its legal limit
! Of Indebtedness. Is
Byers to Council Bluffs.
Attorney General Byers went to Council
| Bluffs today to file in the federal court
1 there the petition of intervention Of the
state in the case involving the ownership
| of the land known as the Cutoff" which
was formed by the Missouri river chang
! ing its course. The case is known as that
| of Charles r. Hannah against state officers
of Iowa There are 1000 acres involved
In his petition General Byers will claim
| ownership of the land for the state.
Date of Banquet Changed.
The date Of the Jefferson day banquet
| OF Iowa democrats has been changed ia
| April instead of April q In addition to
Honorable William ]. Bryan there will be
present as guests and principal speakers
Governor Hoke Smith or Georgia and
| Honorable Tom johnson of Ohio
Socialists Consult Lawyer.
Des Moines socialists have consulted
lawyers to ascertain whether or not the
bills they have posted about town are
reasonable and the chief Of police has con.
suited lawyers for the same purpose. The
socialists claim that they have advice that
their printed matter is all right. The bills
pertain to the imprisonment Of the Colorado
miners for the murder of the governor OF
Idaho. Tomorrow they will hold an In.
dignation meeting in this city TO protest
against the Imprisonment.