Evening star., 1924-03-28
RUDOLPH GUSTS MILLER
IN INSURANCE CODE CASE

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Blanton charged in the House yester-
day that various insurance companies
have paid $3.50 for pushing this bill.
| Representative Blanton says that
| fourteen companies contributed to
| this fund, that $4,000 was for propa-
| ganda in the interests of the pro-
posed new insurance code, that $4,000
was for maintenance of an unofficial
| bureau of information and that S2.-
| 500 was paid by Miller to L. A. Dent
for drafting the insurance bill
Regarding the antecedents of this
| bill Representative Blanton points
out. This present bill now before us.
| II. r. 3689, was introduced in this
. Congress by Mr.. Edmonds on Decem-
ber II. 1928. 1t is an exact copy
| of bill which in November, 1928,
! Baltimore by Kuehn Bros. & Co.
! Qnc.), and for which printing they
| charged him $1,000 for 500 copies.
In view of the fact that Supt.
! Miller paid Mr.. Louis A. Dent $4,000.
| which ne claims was paid for draft
) ing this bill, l respectfully suggest
/ to my colleagues that they compare
! this Fl. r. 36s9 with the bill which
! Senator Pomerene introduced in the
| Senate on July II, 1921, being Senate
that 1t was copied from the Pomerene
| bill.
salary Raise Sought.
In giving the result Of his investiga-
tions to the House, Representative Ban-
| ton says:
I'm the former bill Supt. Miller was
seeking to raise his own salary only
| 81 900. In this bill he seeks TO raise 1t
s1,700. Ard in this bill he seeks to give
himself the following employees in ad-
dition to the ones authorized by the act
of March 4. 1922:
"a deputy superintendent at $4,000
per annum; an actuary at s4,50O per
annum: an examiner at $4,000 per an
mum: a chief statistician at s2.50O per
annum, an assistant statStlclan at
s1,S60 per annum; a license clerk at
81, $50 per annum; a clerk-stenographer
at $500 per annum a stenographer al
| 81 $50 per annum; four clerks at $l,5Oo
per annum-'
"And, in connection with the above, |
will state that l have lately had eyi-
dence satisfactory to Majority. Leader
Longworth and Appropriations sChair-
man Madden to testify before them con-
vincing them that no additional en-
ployes are needed by said department
but that at least one OF those now en-
pioyed could be dispensed win without
injury to the service
"In the former bill Supt Miller
asked that there be allowed him "a
fund for contingent and miscel-
laneous expenses of not less than
81, 600 per annum.' Notice the way
Thus. so long as he spent more than
$4,000 miscellaneously, he would be
complying with the law.
And when. in November. 1928. Supt
Miller had Kuehn Bros. print the 500
copies of his propaganda bill-for
Edmonds bill. II. r. 1853. which he
introduced on December II, 1928,
provide:
THE department shall also be al
lowed a fund for contingent and mis-
cellaneous expenses of not less than
$1,000 per annum.
Limit to Expenditures.
And to prove that Supt. Miller
considered that under such language
he would be authorized to spend any
sum so long that it was not less
than s2,500,' when the committee re-
ported the bill on February &c, 1924.
they limited him to $4,000, for they
provided:
THE department shall also be al
lowed a funds for contingent and
miscellaneous expenses of not less
than $4,000 or more than $4,000 per
annum.
'In my ffty-one years / have never
before Witnessed that language as d
Limitation on expenditures. 1t is usu-
ally framed not more than
"And in his copy sent for his propa-
ganda bill to Kuehn Bros. for print
ing and in the first print of same
| they made for him, where it author
lied him to appoint actuaries and ex-
aminers. without Limitation as to
number. except that whenever .he
deemed il necessary it provided:
That the amount charged for such
compensation shall not exceed SIS
/! per day for an actuary and $2S per
day for an examiner
But before the printing job was
completed he had this language
changed so that in his propaganda
bill (for which kuehn Bros. charged
him $500 for 5000. and also in the
copy he had Mr.. Edmonds introduce
| for him. il appears as follows:
THAT the amount charged for such
! compensation shall be in accordanc ce
| with the rules of the National Con
| vention of Insurance Commissioners
(which means identically the same
thing, because the present rules of
the National Convention of Insurance
Commissioners. in force when this bill
was introduced. provided pay Of SIS
per day for an actuary and $25 per
day for an examiner. But Supt. Mil
Ter thought il wiser to veil the provi-
| sion in language that would not ap-
prise Congress of the fact that he was
! being given authority to appoint an
! unlimited number of actuaries at SIS
per day for an unlimited number OF
| days, and to appoint an unlimited
! number of examiners at S25 per day
| for an unlimited number of days"
| Letters md Documents.
Representative Blanton supplements
his charges with voluminous letters
and othter documentary evidence.
Regarding the 'propaganda" fund
! collected from insurance companies
| Representative Blanton said:
"Supt. Miller admitted that he had
| collected from insurance companies
quite a large fund which he had spent
| since last August trying to get this
! bill passed. When / insisted on his
giving me the names of all such
and how he had spent same, he gave
me the following:
| Statement of special contributions
and diSburseme in connection with
| the legislation now pending for the
! purpose of bettering and stabiliZing
/ the insurance conditions in the Dis
! trict of Columbia by means of a mod
/ ern and adequate code.
| CASH RECEIVED
| Equitable Life Insurance Co. of Wash
oonsFneat.I anf1ea T. Lie insurance Co of wash ''0
peopie'1 nseen Mutual NJ ma Beneft Insurance Co. ~
proyiaens or MshRsiS Rsief Association A. Of wash "
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