The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-13
SHUKERS HOME.
Assistant Attorney General Inter-
viewed on Political Conditions.

Chas. D. Shukers, assistant attorney
general, is spending his vacation la
Sedan, Chautauqua county, his old
home. Mr.. Shukers while on duty in
his office is one of the hardest men
in the state house from which to get
an interview. He is a worker and
not a talker. But the soothing in
huences of his boyhood home seem to
have incubated the talk germ in his
soul and his local paper is responsible
for the following interesting and
timely discussion of several topics
about which everybody is talking
at this time:
He is telling the governor to go
ahead and try the law first cOntin-
ued the assistant attorney general.
1T has not been proven that the law
really needs fixing, for the only place
where it seems to be weak is where it
provides that state banks shall not
pay more than three per cent inter-
est on time deposits. of course there
is no such restriction on national
banks and it is feared that the ma
tional banks will make capital out of
the fact that they can pay more for
deposits than can the state banks
which are insured in the guaranty
fund. But there is no reason why
the banks of both classes cannot
agree among themselves upon this
point until the next session of the leg
islature and then perhaps there will
be still other features of the law that
will need fixing. For that reason
Mr.. Jackson has advised the governor
not to call special session..
Mr.. Shukers says that Stubs is
making good as governor and pre-
diets a lively contest if the governor
decides to make a fight for Curtis
seat in the senate. THE people of
Kansas are in favor of tariff revision
downward and I predict that every
representative and senator from
Kansas who fails to recognize this
sentiment at home and to act upon
it at Washington will have trouble. |
Unless Mr.. Curtis takes an active
stand with the downward revisionsts
when the bill is submitted to the con- |
ference committee I predict that he |
will hear from things at home. The |
same is true of some of the Kansas |
congressman said Mr.. Shukers.
One of the bills passed by the last |
session of the legislature provides for I
uniform insurance rates. Mr.. Shukers |
was the author of this bill and ex-
planned it at length. exploding many |
of the popular opinions about new
trust being formed by the state on IN
Surance rates. 1.-THE real purpose of !
the bill is not to prevent lower insur-
ance rates at all he said, but rather
to legaliZe the charging of one rate
by all companies. For many years the
insurance companies doing business in
Kansas have used what is known as
the EIdridge rate book. This was
done for economy and for other good
reasons. but it nevertheless was a
doubtful proceeding and perhaps vio-
lated the antitrust law. The COM
panies can have one set of men og
over the state and personally examine
the property and make a rate on it
much cheaper than each individual
could do it. If each COM
pany did not the rates would neces-
sarily be much higher Under the new
law the rates charged by each COM
panv on the same property must be
Identical Some think this gives the
too much latitude but it |
should be remembered that every par
ty feeling aggrieved can go to the