Show v THE UNDERWRITERS I r II I I F Union Insurance rien Engage In a Tussle i f t COATES WAS KNOCKED OUTBOARD r LOQL OUT-BOARD YESTERDAY DECIDED DE-CIDED AGAIXST HIS CHANGES S t It Was 1 Very Close Vote and lle S qulrcd the Presidents Aid to Carry the Day For the Advocaten I of IVonintercourse Some Ilcstvy Cattle Shipments to Be Made at S S Once From TJtali Prospects For the Live Stock Industry Are Very Good Flour Will Be Advanced After a somewhat stormy sessionS session-S which lasted for nearly two hours the local Board of Fire Underwriters by I a vote of 9 to 8 yesterday afternoon defeated the resolutions introduced by S l P G Coates at the previous meeting meet-ing which provided for the suspension suspen-sion of the nonintercourse clause of I the governing code Jf the board and j also for other changes relative to the I cutting of rates in the future The vote was a surprise to even the members mem-bers of the board for it was not thought that the resolutions would j develop such strength when the mat titer came to the final scratch Upon fkie adoption of the resolutions the vote was a tie until the president H W Lawrence cast his lot with the friends of the nonintercourso provision provi-sion of the bylaws and the resolutions I went out into the cold The friends of the measure con + end however that j I they will make still another effort to secure its adoption and it is anticipated i antici-pated that at the next meeting of the I i board they will reintroduce the resolu j tions or a set of thj same import and J I T > IQ tifVi niii be on again Unless I ia there should i be some conversions however how-ever i is not likely that their success will be any better then than it was yesterday for the vote was not taken until ifLr every member of the board had received an opportunity of expressing expres-sing himself At any rate however the agents who contend that the enforcement en-forcement of the clause is prejudicial to their interests will make new efforts and endeavor to secure the adoption of their pet measure In the event of their meeting with defeat a second time they may make some sort of a split As has already been outlined by The Herald the friends of the Coates reso Jutioss contended that the enforcement of the nonintercourse was no longer necessary but that on the other hand A i was seriously Interfering with the T business of the smaller agents and also that of the larger in addition to casting suspicion upon the board by reason of the refusal of the members to accept any business already partially par-tially covered by the policy or policies of a nonboard company The claim is made that the property owners look with suspicion upon such actions and contend that they should have the right to select their own companies and not be forced to insure in union companies or none at all in cases where the property can not be entirely taken care of by the nonboarders On the other hand the larger agents and those who were strenuously antapron st to the resolutions held tLat the k cement of the nonintercourse Aise was a just measure of self proton pro-ton and should not b interfered with at this time in view of the condition condi-tion of affairs in insurance circles They also citct1 instances where the i I enforcement of the provisions now objected ob-jected to by certain members of the board had saved to cthe union agents a great amount of business which i would otherwise have gone to the outsiders out-siders These same gentlemen also declared that the adoption of the resolutions reso-lutions would be revolutionary In the extreme and equivalent to the disruption disrup-tion of the local board which was proving such a factor for good in the local incurance world The speeches made < jL which there were several on each side were warm ones and the spokesmen for the contending factions wre very eaitiest in either their denunciation de-nunciation or approval of the nonln i S iercourse clause Captain Donnell n 3W manager of the local board was f an interested listener but took no part I in the debate which was on I all resulted in the killing of the resolutions resolu-tions by the vote stated which in detail de-tail was as follows Ayes Coates Cannon Brothers Sprague Sharp Moore Thomas Diehl Jennings Caine company Windsor Hudson Taylor corporation and Young Brother Broth-er Noes Heber J Grant and company com-pany Anderson medley Rogers Walker vThittemorc Cooke and company com-pany Harris Wilson Ferris and Lawrence This carried the day and left the advocates of suspendon without least with-out foothold for the time being at Fixed the Limit of Cuts is In addition to the provision for the I suspension of the nonintercourse clause the resclutions introduced by Coats contained an official limit to rate cntring This placed the cut on residences at not more than 75 rent r-ent and on business property of not gore than 51 per cent This provision Kes als very hotly opposed and largely contributed to the defeat of the resolutions I I has been stated < that in the event of a second failure several of the agents who favor a suspension will wi secede from the membership of the board The other side hold however that shod such a move ever be made the companies directly interested intereste would take a hand in the matter and mater either force the recalcitrants back into line or forfeit the agencies |