Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-05-23
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MAKING FIGHT FOR FRIENDLY
4 LEolsLAroRs.
ANOTHER scHEME BREWING
70 KILL BLANCHARD LAW
Harding, candidate For Lieutenant
Governor, Heads Fight For Laws
That Will Open Way 70 Make lnsur-
anes Combine Secure --orsatsr
Iowa" Interests Back Of Conspiracy.

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Blanchard anti compact law to prevent
raising insurance rates by agreements
among insurance people, u on the pro-
gram for the next legislature.
Recent vigorous application Of the
penalties of that law for the relief Of
business interests has sharply defined
the issue But the fight to amend. or
nullify or repeal 10 an old one. In fact
in three recent legislative sessions des-
perate efforts were made to secure re-
peal, and in the last one the repre-
sentatives Of insurance interests were
aided by state officials. These efforts
were always started in the house.
Now the fight is to be started In the
senate. and 1t 10 planned that the COM
mittees of that body shall be fixed to
favor the change
The big fight in the last session was
on bill prepared by the house COM
mittee, called an anti discrimination"
bill, prepared by the chairman. Frank
Shankland, and his second in COM
mand, w. F. Harding. This bill pur-
ported to be one to prevent demoraif-
cation of rates by rate cutting and 1t
penalized any agent for writing risk
lower than any other risk similarly To-
Gated.
A Joker in Measuro.
/ After n. had been printed Secretary
OF State Hayward. himself business
man paying. heavy insurance on his
own properties, always careful Of the
business interests of the state. pointed
out that the final clause as below was
Joker or the worst kin6:
1.-THE auditor Of state il hereby en-
powered to secure on demand from
any company or association doing
business In this state a general sched-
ule showing the rate Of premium
charged on all unrated risks. and a
written statement from an officer of
such company or association designat-
ing by what established tariff or pub
lished rate premium on all rates risks
were based"
Mr.. Hayward called to his office a
pointed out that this simply meant
rates" now being furnished to insur-
establishing rates and Furnishing those
Harding Was For u.
The house came to finish on this
bill, house file No. 400, March 30. and
the leading speech in it's support was
made by Representative Harding, who
spoke for an hour in defense of its pro-
visions. On the vote the bill was de.
feated. - to So.
1t was denied. in rather evasive way
on the floor Of the house and elsewhere
that the purpose of the bill was to at
feet the Blanchard law. But it was sup.
ported by both the members from thi.
county and here the insurance com
panies are a powerful factor in politics
and only short time before the ses-
sion Of the legislature the insurance
people announced In one Of their papers
here that they intended to make j
fight on the Blanchard law. Immediate
ly following the defeat of this bill the
Western Underwater Of Chicago. date
April 6, 1911, declared:
."The bill was desired by the Iowa
local agents association. It was also
sought by Iowa insurance companies
who declare that companies Of o'her
states cut rates in an effort to put Iowa
companies, out CT business. The bill
was backed by the insurance depart
ment and was the most importan. in
surance measure before the lcgisia-
ture."
Object 10 Disclosed.
And the same organ Of Zig insnran &c
business also .ss d.:
1.-THE defeat CT the Iowa bill forbid
ding rebates and Determinations in FIRE
insurance last week was not uneSpecr-
ed after the opposition got fair start
The vote was nearly two to one azain.t
the measure, due to the fact that ms
soon as 1t was Sc n that the law would
have acted as virtual repeal OF the
Blanchard arti-compact law. the small
er insurers in the state got busy. Argu-
ments by friends Of the measure to the
effect that the bill would In reality help
the small insurer and do away with
rate cutting were completely disre-
garded."
And the same insurance Journal in
June followi 1g ..oEtained report Of Il
luncheon at Riverside Park, Sioux City
June %, to COW ention of insurance
men, al follows:
Hon w f. Harding, representative
in the Iowa legislature from Sioux City
made splendid s.eech at the luncheon
at Riverside park today. He urged
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