Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1918-01-08
LET Down BARS
ON INSURANCE
TO BE CARRIED
Industrial Accident Board
Decides to Accept All
Forms of Sureties Offered
to It.
Action Blow to State Insur-
ance Monopoly Which
La Dor Representatives
Favored Board Splits on
Issue.

The bars were let down IN the
matter of insurance under the terms OF
the workmen's' compensation by the
industrial accident board Monday aft
ernoon when a majority of that body
voted to permit casualty and recipro-
cal insurance companies to carry risks
for employers to protect their em-
ployes. The action OF the board pro-
hibits the state from having monop-
DIV on compensation insurance and. II
is claimed by labor representatives
permits the very thing which they
fought SO strenuously against during
the last session of the Legislature,
They favored state insurance. CAS-
ualty company representatives declare
that the board could have taken no
other action than it did for they claim
the right under the law to compete
with the state The action of the
board also resulted in the acceptance
of 1000 in liberty bonds presented
by the mine owners as surety they
will carry and pay their own Industrial
risks.
DIVIDES ON ISSUE.
The board stood two to one In ia
vor of allowing all casualty and reel
procal companies to insure under the
compensation act George II. Fisher
chairman OF the board, and H. H.
Barnes of Wallace. formerly In the
employ Of one of the large mining
companies there, voted in favor of the
action taken. f. F. Cation, the labor
representative on the commission and
The only Republican member on 1t,
voted against. Fisher and Cation from
the start were on the opposite side OF
the question. The deciding vote was
left to Barnes. When appointed to
the commission Barnes is said TO
have favored state insurance and was
expected by the administration. 1t Is
claimed, to vote that way.
REQUEST ACTION TAKEN.
When the commission opened its aft
ernoon meeting at about O'Clock
Monday afternoon, a large delegation
of casualty company and mine owner
representatives, together with their at
torneys, appeared and asked to be
heard. This permission was granted
them and they made a strong plea for
definite action on the part of the
board the casualty company represen-
tatives decla ring those employers they
had written policies for had right to
know whether or not their insurance
would be accepted. and the mine OWL
ers asserting that as the law provided
a penalty of 81 each for every man
they employ, they, too. wanted to know
their status and if the liberty bonds
they presented as surety was to be ac-
copied.
HAD RULES PENDING.
After hearing these representatives
the board announced that it would
take the question up Immediately, If
tney would retire. At the morning
session of the board a third set Of
rules and regulations had been pre-
sented to the board as the result of a
sunday conference, but had been
turned over to the attorney generals
department for legal approval. These
rules wer.. drafted by eaton, the labor
representative on the board. and pro-
Nided exclusively for state insurance.
The board did not act on them def
initely when introduced as it was de
clded 1t would first await the legal
construction placed on them by its le-
gal advisor. the attorney general. SO
designated by the compensation law.
DID NOT AWAIT OPINION.
Following the retirement OF the mine
owner and casualty insurance repre- .
sentatives. the commission did not
wait for the attorney generals opin-
lon on the rules that had been sub
mitted at the morning session. Barnes
announced that he had a resolution to
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