Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-02-05
INSURANCE .vrEsEsrs OF STATE
WOULD Ike r1nAME LIEU.
TENANT GOVERNOR.
ATTEMPTING 70 BRING OUT
LARGE FIELD OF CANDIDATES
Efforts to Land Friendly Man So Far
Without sueesss-ssventh District
Convention Date Put o#-comis.
sioner Of Fraternai Insurance Want.
sd-RaiIroads and Their Passes.
Special to Times Republican.

SpCCldl 10 lfleS. EeDuOI1Can.
Des Moines, Feb. 5.-That the insur-
ance interests of the state will make a
desperate effort to secure control Of
the Office Of gavel wielder for the state
nat next time is becoming apparent.
They are exceptionally strong here and
are at work. Their plan seems to be to
get a big field of candidates and to
muddle it up so that by concentration
on one man they can control.
1t is remembered that their bill, re-
ported from the insurance committee
of which Representative Shankland, of
this city, was chairman, while pretend
ing to forbid rate cutting really made
it a cire for any insurance agent to
disobey orders Of the insurance rate
bureau. 1t was stoutly supported in
the house by Representatives Harding.
O'Connor and others. The insurance
people have not lost hope of encom-
passing the notification of the Blanch-
ard anti-compact law in some way.
The effort of the insurance interests
are just now directed toward getting
out a number of candidates for lieu
tenant governor. Some embarrassment
to both of the men was o~ccasioned the
past week by unwarranted use of the
names Of Secretary Of State Hayward
and Ex-senator Byron w. Newberry,
neither Of whom is a candidate for the
place n neither one has said at any
time he would be q candidate. The
gossip concerning Senator P-cmdfoot
seems to be also without foundation.
The position of presiding officer of
the senate is not very alluring of itself,
but it requires some skill and famil-
iarity with legislative work and pro-
cedure.
Republicans of the Seventh district
decided that they would not call their
convention for a date before that of the
Sixth district standpatters, but will
hold it a week later. There does not
seem to be any demand for Fastening
matters in the state. The attitude Of
the republicans who are loyal to Iowa
is that no n judgment should be
taken at any place, but the situation
should be permitted to work out itself.
The further the matter goes the better
1t will appear for the cause of an Iowa
delegation for an Iowa man.
Another new office is on the program
for the greater Iowa, about which so
much is being written. 1t is to be a
special commissioner OF fraternal in
surance, separating this from the in
surance business of the regular COM
panies. A local insurance journal has
started the campaign and
that it will be pushed vigorously on
the ground that the fraternal business
has become SO large that one man is
needed for that work alone. The last
legislature added one new job in the
insurance department at a salary OF
$4,000 a yeaf.
Reports Of the railroad companies as
to their free pass business for 1911 are
coming in slowly to the state and these
reports are not very satisfactory. There
seems to be entire lack of uniformity,
and much misunderstanding of the law.
The reports also disclose hat railroad
companies interpret the law %variously
as to their rights in issuing free trans
portation.
The Burlington, as usual, reports
that it is issuing free transportation to
some thirty or forty doctors living
along the lines, altho the effort made
to amend the free pass law SO as to al
low doctors to ride free was defeated.
E.. H. Hunter, of this city, is issued a
pass as special attorney" The Bur-
lington reports between 300 and 400
passes issued.
The Milwaukee company reports a
list Of only about twenty, n these are
mostly clergymen.
The Minneapolis and ST. Louis files
a large list but they are all Of am
ployes Of the company.
The Omaha company reports thirty
or forty names of persons receiving
free transportation and this includes
''pensioned engineers"
The i~nterurban railway, Of Des
Moines, files a peculiar list. 1t is made
up almost entirely of church men Of
the Catholic church and sisters Of
mercy-the only company in the state
making a report of this kind.
Only a few of the larger roads of the
state have made their reports for the
past year..