The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-03-29
INSURANCE BILL
LOST IN SHUTTLE
Fight Over Measure Develops
Warm COntrOversy-Party
Lines Stretched
From a Special Correspondent.


LANSING. Mich. March 2S.--For
The lack OF single vote the modihca.
ton OF the Mobile Diii which has been
pushed by Rep. Ashley to regulate the
business OF fraternal Insurance or
CARNATIONS and TO force them To keep
their AFFAIRS In solvent condition
failed 10 pass the house OF representa-
tives Thursday afternoon. Fifty mem
bers voted for il 10 IS against, where
as the approval OF 81 Is necessary 10
the passage OF any bill Ii was tabled
later and stands fair show OF poss-
ing when more are present.
The fight made over the bill in the
committee OF the whole the previous
! day was continued for more than an
hour and in large measure repeated.
7 The diseussieh-beea so hot on the
! specific point as TO whether the bill
called for a given set OF rates that
! the speaker was forced 10 rap for
more impersonal procedure. Rep.
| Bricker, " Ionia. aud Mcbride. OF
Ottawa, contended that IT required the
use OF the National Fraternal Con-
sress rates which Rep. Ashley. OF De
troit. denied
tie tAFldlucu luhl u uAQ Ndll ipi NHV
use OF the National Fraternal Con
gress table OF mortality or its equiv
alent upon which 10 base rates, but
made no other stipulation.
To this Rep. Mcbride answered
with the charge that the form in
which the bill was drawn was merely
a subterfuge TO avoid stating its pro
visions openly Turning directly to
N h. hn
word may not be mentioned. IL does
AK the rates 10 be levied and why DO
you try 10 evade the question:"
1T does not. sir; and am not try
ing TO evade anything" was the EN-
phatic. courreously indignant reply OF
the gentleman from Detroit.
Rep Ashley read many indorse-
ments OF the bill from the heads OF
different fraternal societies and IN
answer to someone's questioning his
statement that opposition 10 1t had
been manufactured read also circu-
lar letter sent out from Grand Rapids
by the order which he claimed was the
only one on record against the pro-
posed regulation. In the letter was
form telegram to be sent by individ-
uals receiving the letter TO their
~
similar to several which had been
read in the discussion of the day be-
fore.
OF Leelanau, both bitterly opposed the
bill
AZ the instigation OF q Democratic
member. namely Rep. Catlin, or
Ingham, the Bull Moose and Repub-
- a. H. ~
loggerheads by speeches by Theodore
Roosevelt and former Governor Had
ley, Of Missouri. IL present plans do
not, miscarry.
Upon the motion OF Rep Catlin.
resolution was adopted to invite the
former president to address the legis-
lAture Monday night, following his
appearance In Detroit.
y Later In the afternoon, Rep. Warner
made a determined fight to have the
action reversed. Colonel Roosevelt. he
said, was coming TO Michigan solely
for a political purpose and that II did
not seem proper to him TO turn the
legislative chamber to such use
"And furthermore. he maintained, Il
was opposed to like suggestion two
years ago before he became q STUN
bling block in national politics and
while he still claimed to be q part
of the Republican party"
YES" answered Rep. Weidenfeller
of Van Buren,. Il have come to the
that. the reason Michigan
went for Roosevelt was because an
effort was made to gag him. / have
no great admlEatioa- for him-as-A
statesman, but this hall does not be-
long to any political party. Let us
have free speech for everybody"
Rep. ]. NJ Mcbride. a Progressive
of Shiawassee, and several others
spoke for non-partizan attitude to-
ward the question. aud the Warner
motion Lost IL to So.
Then Rep. Dunn, Of Sanilac. q Re-