Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-03-15
INSURANCE CROWD ALMOST aug.
cEEDs IN REPEATING ELAN.
cHARp LAW.
APPEARING BILL
PLACED ON HOUSE CALENDAR
BY Accident Discovery Of Measure Was
Made and Opposition vii! es Organ
ICED - Similar Attempt Made Two
Years Ago by Insurance Comp aniss
Legislative News.
,ocial to Tines-Repnhlican.

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| Des Moines. March 15.-Repeal Of the
Blanchard law Forbid combination
| in insurance matters and agreement as
to rates of insurance in Iowa is con-
city slipped into the house calendar
without anybody knowing anything at
all about it, The bill provides that
The auditor of state is hereby en-
company or association doing business
in this state a general schedule show
ing the rate of premium charged on all
unrated risks. and q written statement
! from an officer Of such company or
association designating what establish
ed tariff or published rate the premium
on all unraced risks were based"
BY mere accident the bill as furnished
the printer contained some errors
which made the meaning not very
clear. but of course this can be
Strengthened out before the bill is
passed. The clause above quoted is
tackled to the end of long bill for
bidding discrimina ton in rates and
rebates. In effect the bill as a whole
would penalize an agent or a company
for failure to do the very things for
hidden by the Blanchard anti-compact
law. and by having the companies file
with the auditor Of state the rate books
+ used they are thus virtually given Of
fetal recognition.
At present these rate books are used
only surrepti.iously and are ostensibly
published only as a matter of infornla-
ton
hn
dar yesterday as committee hill from
the committee on Insurance. In such
rare instances q t,' is placed on the
calendar without a'-y hearing before
committee and is ready - be passed at
once. The committee OF the house on
insurance which stands sponsor for
this bill is a large one composed of the
following: Shankland. Harding. Cum
bingham, Beebe. Cousins. Dewey. john
son, Moore. Perkins. Speer. Brady.
Van Camp, Enger, Hunt. Hutchins,
Brown. Koontz. Fletcher. Gilbert.
(Downey. Linnan. Hamilton, Hazen, Mil
ton. Mccullough.
Two years ago the effort TO secure
repeal of the Blanchard law was made
by attaching q similar clause to a bill
for state fire marshal.
| The insurance companies are very
QSSIOUS IEdC the b1dHCHdIQ Ia" De re-
pealed The effect would be to end the
competition which now prevails and
which did prevail prior to the passage
Of the act. and it would have the inn
mediate effect Of greatly increasing the
revenues Of the insurance companies
doing business in Iowa.
Senator Preudfoot had the prohibi-
tory amendment resolution placed on
the senate calendar some time ago and
made special order for today with
GU: much hope Of securing its passage.
The committee had voted to for
report recomn1 ending indefinite post
ponement. which means defeat of the
meas ure. There are no minority reports
from senate committees; but by
courtesy an adverse report may be
placed on the calendar and the discus
sion of that report gives opportunity
always for presentation Of the merits
of the measure. But IT is only in rare
instances that the senate turns down q
committee report Members of all the
different committees SO much desire
that in matters in which they are in
terested the committee report De
acnuiesced in that they hang together
! in support of almost any committee re-
| port. The prchibitory amendment res
olution this year is in the usual form
: Of an absolute prohibition with the ad-
dtional requirement. that in case it is
/ adopted the legislature will be required
to make laws for its enforcement
| The Whitney bill relating to wife
desertion leaves it discretionary with
the judge of the court to decide wheth-
er the promise of a deserter will be
accepted as ending the matter. In prac
tice it is found that persons arrested
under the wife desertion law escape by
promises when it is within the knowl-
! edge OF the court that they ought not
TO be released 1t passed the house
yesterday.
| The Ripley bill to amend the Peter
son law so as to give the state execu-
| tive council little more latitude in the
matter OF issuance of stock OF corpora
tions. provides that the council may
! take into CONSIDER ton cry values for
which stock may be issued. This means
that under the APPROVAL of the gov
ernor and his associates promotion
stock may be issued in new companies
with this very slight change in the
Peterson law it is believed that it will
be entirely satisfactory TO all legiti-
mate business interests.
| The chairman Of the senate judiciary
committee played a mean trick On
Sammis, Francis and Van Law, each
one the author Of q bill to look after
public utilities. by making them 4
| sub committee to draft q bill. OF
course they will never agree. for each
one has an entirely different plan for
getting at the trouble.