Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-04-27
G0VERNORMAYVET0
Omnibus Insurance Bill Has Not
Been Signed by Executive
INSURANCE MEN INTERESTED
Governor Is Holding Up Measure De-
signed to Correct Discrepancies
in the Iowa Insurance Laws.
Objections Not Known.

NeuO the OMNIBUS Dill.
Rumors at the state house are to
the effect that he is not at all sat
isied with the bill as 1t finally pass
ed the Legislature, and that he will
veto 1t rather than let certain pro-
visions, which he considers inimical
to the best interests of the state, be-
come a law.
Governor Carroll is out of the city
and there was no word in his office
to indicate his position.
The state insurance department ad-
mits that the governor is holding up
the bill.
The bill as passed amends about
fifteen sections of the insurance law
so as to wipe out discrepancies.
II is said that there are several
technical errors and the syntax Of
the bill is faulty. 1t may be that
these things are the basis of the
governors objections to the bill.
There are only two new insurance
provisions in the bill. The first pro-
vides that where a company wishes
to insure bonds it can write such in
surance to the extent of 10 per cent
OF its capital stock, and any more in
surance must be re4nsured in some
reliable company. For instance, II
the insurance company wanted to in
sure the Walnut street bridge work
for 100000, it would be necessary to
have capital stock of 100000. II
1t had 100000, it could write $4,000
Of the insurance. The balance of 1t
would have to reinsure in some re-
liable company. The second new fea-
ture is that giving accident assess
ment insurance companies the right
to restock without liquidation. 1t Is
suggested that this provision may be
the cause of Governor CarTS,l's OBJ
jections to the bill.
Insurance men will wait with con-
siderable interest the action OF the
governor as a veto of the bill would
leave many antiquities in the insur-
ance law and continue many contro-
versies now pending over provisions
of the insurance law.
Sons of American Revolution.
Members of the Iowa society of
the Sons of the American Revolution
opened their annual meeting at the
Chamberlain hotel in Des Moines
Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock.
Officers were elected in the after
noon. A banquet in the evening was
featured by the rendition of the
oratorio, THE Ride of Paul Revere"
by the Iowa State College Glee club
Of twenty-five voices. E. M. Went.
worth, POSTMASTER, was introduc-
ed by Sec. f. ID. Hadiey Of Des
Moines. Former Governor Warren
Garst was one Of the. speakers.
Looks Into Mabray Cases.
Attorney General George Cosson
has gone to Council Bluffs to investi-
gate the status of the various Mabray
cases which he saved from being dis
missed last week by entering an APP
pearance in the name of the state.
There are a number of cass which
the county supervisors of Pottawat-
tamie county had ordered dismissed.
The resolution of the board gave the
county attorney power to dismiss all
cases which, in his judgment, would
cost too much to try.
The attorney general entered an
appearance in all the cases and will
not permit them to be wiped off the
calendar without first ascertaining
all about them
Express Hearing April 20.
Attorney General Cosson received
notice from Federal Judge McPher-
son that he will hear the express
rate case on April 25th at Council
Bluffs.
The express companies operating
In Iowa have MADE application to
him for a temporary injunction to
prohibit the rates from becoming eff
fective until the question of their
legality can be tested out.
The rates were to have become ef-
fective March 30th, but the compan-
les secured a restraining order un.
til the question OF a temporary in
junction could be determined.
Or. Huntoon on Board Of Health.
DR.. G. A. Huntoon will represent
this district on the state board of
health for the ensuing. seven years.
DR.. Huntoon has been notified by
Governor B. F. Carroll that he would
make the appointment. The district
has been without a representative
during the past year. The term OF
DR.. A. p. Hanford, Council BLUFFS,
has just ended, and he retired by vir.
tue OF the rotation system observed.
"keep OF the Grass"
keep of the Grass" signs are do
ing duty at the state house grounds.
Ever since the warm weather set
in the pedestrians have been running
across the state house lawn with the
result that over each section of the
lawn are two paths crossing at right
angles.
Custodian Boutin hunted up the sign
boards and now one stands as q
sentinel across each of the paths
which mark the lawn.
The rule against trespassing win
be strictly enforced.
State Examiners to Go Over Books.
Orders were issued by the state
ynunicipaI accounting dapartp,ant Co.
a complete state examination into the
financial condition of the city of Des
Moines.
The examination will be made by
State Municipal Inspector NJ. F. Cox
and w. p. Ellis.
Des Moines is the only city in the
state which receives an annual in
spection by the state municipal &C.
counting department. All the other