El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-13

the city council TO have fire marsnaI
appointed as soon as possible. alderman
BlumenthaI stating at the meeting that
this would probably be done Thursday
Rates Suspended.
Senator HudSpeth, who returned from
Austin Sunday morning, read the COM
plete order of the fire rating board 10
the insurance companies. ordering them
to suspend the collection Of the new
rates pending the hearing of the rating
board on the 21st and followed this
reading with statement that the gov
ernor had told him that If the 1nsur-
ance companies failed to comply with
this order TO suspend the collection Of
the new rates he would have the at
torney general enjoin them from col
Letting them within 20 minutes, the
attorney general adding that he would
do it in 10 minutes. Governor Camp
bell said to tell the people of FL Paso
that he would not stand for those
rates" senator Hudspeth said, and he
followed this statement with the one
that he would have the attorney gen
eral enjoin the Insurance companies II
they attempted to collect under the
new rates" The state senator also
explained the position of the different
members of the board and said that he
expected relief from this board without
the necessity of having the law re-
pealed. He said Mr.. Wright. who was
in E.l Paso, was a good, square deal
ing man and, Mr.. Handy was for the
people He told Of state insurance COM
missioner Hawkinss position in the
matter He said that Mr.. Hawkins had
firmly declared that the board had no
power to issue such an order and II Il
was done he would revoke the certifi-
Gates Of every company which complied
with the order, or resign. This caused
the governor to make his statement re-
garding the enjoining the different
companies, senator Hudspeth said.
The Mass Meeting.
w E. Anderson acted as chairman
of the mass meeting and c. A Kline as
secretary. The discussion of the insur-
ance situation was general a M lasted
more than two hours. Al Times the
meeting came near changing into
joint debate between some of the local
agents and the men who arc pushing
the campaign against the insurance
companies. H. B. Stevens read list
of figures and made a strong speech in
favor of the new law, showing that
with the policy holders complying with
the provisions Of the law, the rates
would be reduced to where they were
before the new law went into effect
People are more alarmed than hurt
increase for the city is only $4,000
with all this howl" he said, and when
the risks are readjusted we will not
have a d-cent raise. You have let
lot of ignoramuses tell you about it un-
til it is all misunderst TODD" Mr. Stevens
then analysed a number of the rates
before and after the readjustme
showing how reductions were made
He added later that eff it was not for
the fact that FL Paso had bankrupt
water company the key rate could be
reduced 81 cents and If the city did
what it could, the key rate would be
reduced to seven cents
Favor Pushing the Case.
H. d. Slater and others urged that the
protest against the rates should be con-
tinued, as all the concessions that had
been obtained had been done by the
roar which had been raised. The
point was also made that since the new
rates were primarily a direct tax now
in effect the protest should not be
withheld but made at once and in the
strongest possible terms against the
basic schedule The earnestness of the
men was shown at the meeting when
A. Schwartz made the statement that
If the pumping station of the water
plant could not be made to comply
with the requirements by the water
company or the city. then the citizens
would subscribe to fund for putting
it in condition.
J. NJ. Wyatt, receiver for the water
company, who was present, stated that
this would be impossible without an
order from the court.
Speeches were made also by ]. II.
Nations, o. II. Baum, representative w.