The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-28
SENSATION
 E SPRUNG Ur sritten Law Is Gods Word. LAWYER WOULD TEACH SUCH Many Reports Read Before Amer
 ican Bar Association. Prevailing Custom which Makes stat insurance Commissioners
 Onices Mere ioIitical Pr.es Is Condemned.
LAWYER WOULD TEACH SUCH

 was sprung at the meeting today of the American Bar Association when Henry s. Dewey, of Boston. introduced a reso- lution containing articles of faith to the effect that the Association teach that every good law Is in harmony with the unwritten law. so-called. that the unwritten law is the Word of God, that the real foundation Of the common law of England, so-called, Is the un- 1 written law, and fhat this unwritten law is the real foundation of all good laws since the beginning of the world. l 1t was indefinitely postponed.
 Too much ''reguiatIon" of the insu- rance companies Of America was con- demned in a report submitted by the Committee on Insurance Law. The program for the meeting today was devoted exclusively to the reading of reports of stand ing and special committees. The l most important of these was the re- port on insurance law which already has been published and widely commented upon throughout the country. Other reports prepared for presentation were , on jurisprudence and law reform, ju- dicial administration and remedial pro- cedure, legal education and adm1s- sions to the bar, commercial law, law reporting and digesting, patent trade uniform State laws.
 Ralph w. Breckenridge, of Omaha. Neb.. today presented the report of the standing committee on insurance. The recommendations were as follows: That this association disproves and condemns the prevailing custom which makes state insurance commissioners St )s political prizes to be distributed as such without regard to fitness or -noW-soge ol the lnsurance business.
 That all companies created under the laws of foreign countries. be required to make deposit in at least one of the States before writing business any, where in the United States.
 "The repeal of the values laws.
 The c1eation h each state of the office of ire marShA1.
 -The enactment of a Federal statute forbidding tho use ct matls tagpersona, ssedbatasags ga-IArf uerslligA oi' .c9ss porakfons conducting any kind of ln- suran4e business in the United states who are not licensed to transact such business by the States wherein such persons or associations are created.
 "The apportionment and contingent distribution of the deferred dividends surpIus on existing life policies of all companies as condition precedent to the tr lsaction of business outside of the home States of the several compa- nieG"
 The first four articles of the resolu- tlons were adopted without discussion. The fifth paragraph brought out a spir- tied contest. The committee's report recommended approval of the following act. which was discussed in connecttion with the fifth article:
 "Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States that the use of the mail service and the postal facilities of the United States be ard the same is hereby for bidden to any and all persons or asso- citations conducting any kind of insur- ance business in thist country, unless every such person or association shall obtain H-ense or permit to conduct It's business from the proper officer of the United States or of the State where such person or association shall ho domiciled provided that this shall not apply to any insurance company cre- ated under the laws of any foreign na- tion that shall comply with any acts of Congress regulating insurance"
 The members fksoring the recom- mendation and the proposed act con- tended that the purpose was to afford protection against the wild cat" insur- ance companies which organize In some States without any intention of doing a legitimate business. The resolution was lost when nut to a vote.
 Congressman Charles B. Littleheld, of Maine, who Is a director of the Equit- able Assurance Society, vigorously op- posed the r tn article. calling for the s'apportionment and contingent distri- button of the deferred dtvtdens surplus on existing life policies of all comIl- niesr as a condition precedent to the transaction of business outside of the home States of the several companies
 He stated that if such law should be enacted by the States and compiled with by i1 companies, there Is not an insurance company in the United States that on the face its statement would not be bankrupt The first paragraph of the resolution was reconsidered and amended so as to re. l as follows:
 That this association dlsapproves and condemns .ae treatment of State in- surance conmissionerships as political prizes to be distributed as such with out regard to fitness or knowledge Of the insurance business"
 Henry D. Estabrook read the report on Judicial administration and remedial procedure
 The report of the standing committee on commercial law was read by George Whitelock. of Maryland.
 The section of patent, trade mark and copyright law held meeting this afternoon. Chairman Robert S.. Taylor of Fort Wayne, Ind, presided and de- lievered an address on the court of pat ent appeals.
 W. R. Vance of the law school or the George Washington University, read a paper on Legal Education in the South" before the department of legal education.
 MT Vance said that many of the Southern schools are not we'll furnish ed with professors and do not require any actual educational basis for ad- mission.