Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-05-02
G0vERN0RM AYVETO.
Omnibus Insurance Bill Has Not
Been Signed by Executive
INSURANCE MEN INTERESTED
Governor 10 Holding Up Measure %.
signed to Correct Discrepancies
In the Iowa Insurance Laws.
Objections Not Known.

IN tUe iowa luoueAnCe IoWSs
{, Objections Not Known.
Des Moines. Governor Carroll may
VITO the omnibus bill.
Rumors at the state house are to
the effect that he is not at all sat
isf1ed With the bill as it finally pass
cd the legislature, and that he will
veto 1t ratner than let certain pro-
visions. which he considers inimical
to the best interests of the state. be-
come 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 a. passed amends about
fifteen sections Of the insurance law
70 % to wipe out discrepancies.
II IL 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 tho
governors objections to the bill.
There are only two new insurance
provisions in the bill. The first pro
vides that where q company wishes
to insure bonds 1t can write such in
surance to the extent Of 10 per cent
Of ito capital stock, and any more in
surance must be re-insured 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
It 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 II 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 CarT2!l's oh.
5ections to the bill.
Insurance men will wait with con.
siderable interest the action Of the
governor as 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.
neon. 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. D. Hadley Of Des
Moines:; Former Governor Warren
Garst was one Of the speakers.
Looks Into Mabray Cases.
Attorney General George CossoD
has gone to Council Bluffs to invests.
gate the status of the various Mabray
cases which he saved from being dis.
missed last week by entering an ap
pearance In the name of the state.
There are . number Of cass which
the county supervisors Of Pottawat
tanie 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 IN
appearance in all the cases and will
not permit them to be wiped OF the
calendar without first ascertainins
oil about them.
Express Hearing April %.
Attorney General Cosson received
notice from Federal Judge McPher
son that he will hear the express
rate Gaze on April 25th at Council
Bluffs.
Tho express companies operating
in Iowa have made application to
him for a temporary injunction to
prohibit the rates from becoming eff
fectiye until the question of their
legality can be tested out.
The rates were to have become Of.
fective March 30th, but the compan.
les secured restraining order IN.
til the question of TEMPORARY In.
junction could be determined.
Dr.. 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 representative
during the past year. The term Of
DR.. A. p. Hanford, Council Bluffs
has just ended, and he retired by viz
tue Of the rotation system observed
"kssp on the Grass"
Keep OF the Grass" signs are do
ing duty at the. state house grounds
Ever since the warm weather Sc:
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 a
sentinel across each OF the paths
which mark the lawn.