Show II I I SENATORS SPLIT OVER INSURANCE FUND PROBLEM Olson Declares Insurance Lobby Is Fighting All State Compensation The Tho Utah state Senate spent the tho greater part of or yesterday afternoon on workmen's compensation questions but bUl had not ot at the tho close of ot the afternoon afternoon afternoon after after- noon decided a single one of the several several sev sev- eral big questions that arc aro involved Inthe in inthe inthe the bills no now before that bod body Tho The main part of or the afternoon was spent in considering arguments pro and con conI confor confor for a proposal to make the state Insurance insurance ance anco fund Cund exclusive as one sido side calls It or monopolistic as It is known I to the other side It is as ns safe sare to pre predict as it is safo safe to predict anything about a legislature that the vote vole tOda today or whenever it docs does come will vote anything that looks 5 like e a monopoly out of ot the tho bill I Probably with the tho theote vote ote will go the Olson Ol- Ol Ol Olson fI son n bill hili Itself t eH which p proposes an ex- ex I state Rind l Bills Advanced The senators also added a few more bills to the second reading calendar which is now forty eight bills long I and decided to meet beginning tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow tomor tomor- row morning morning- for tor two sessions es dons daily I instead of only one Senator Elizabeth Ha Hayward was appointed appointed ap ap- pointed to read proof on tho the Senate Senata journal for Cor ono one week Senator U U. U T. T I Jones having with somo some grimness announced announced an an- flounced that my In my week Is uJ up The compensation bills headed I. I the calendar Senator Olsons Olson's measure S a U. U 1 13 which haa n tho the majority report from Crom tho the Joint judiciary and public affairs affair's affairs af af- fairs fair's committees had the precedence and it was read In full fulla Culla a task In itself It- It self pelf consuming the best part of oC an l hour our Committee e Report n Read all Then the long committee report was tas read and after that the minority re report report re- re port signed ned b by Senator Chez objecting to the tho state monopoly and to the plan to take tako the awards of oC tho the commission o out t of or the Jurisdiction for review revlow of tho the district court A further minority report signed by Senators Archibald lle Bevan and J. J n Will Ill Knight ht recommends that tho the Parker bill go on the calendar I In place of oC the Olson measure and this bill has tho the next place It Il Is S. S B. B 7 74 a Finally another report unal unsigned ned says says' says that Senator li dward Southwick ick of ot the thu I Joint committee does not sign any re ro- ro roI I port Senator Olson moved movell the tho adoption of ot the tho majority report go so far au as It would make mako tho thu amendments th therein proposed a a. part of or the bill Senator Chez hez moved to amend so as to strike out those parts part of ot the bill which would make the tho Insurance fund exclusive and those parts which would tako aWa away from tho the district courts their present control of ot tho acts of the Industrial commission 4 This amendment to tho the motion was ruled as too general by the chair it It would involve virtually rewriting Olson bill the the t Cb J cnn t monopoly I J Senator hex Chez thereupon amended to J move mo to strike out a R. certain section Ho lIe afterwards afterward changed this motion but the Issue was dearly clearl defined on whether t. t on I w the tho monopoly features aires should be retained or no no i Senator Chez said ald he ho did not b believe bellevo o Jle l In monopoly either cither public or private at except t that to coin money mone I which Is 1 I I the sole right of oC the tho United States State government Ho Ito said there would b be beno no redress at all from Crom a state monopoly monopoly oly 01 and argued that if if as its op opponents say state stale Insurance Is boll superior and cheaper wh why was thenan then there an any need to legislate The state industrial commission said Senator Chez Che has hns not done whal whai It was created for Cor Instead of or providing provid provid- pro providing id ing InS cheaper insurance it has cha charges charged ge the same rates as the stock companies Platform Inform Not ot II JI Heeded C ded Senator Chez said he did not consider consider consider con con- sider himself as bound b by the part party platform which witch declares for Cor exclusive state insurance because he had been beer nominated for Cor the Senate three days day's before borore the tho state convention met that adopted the platform lie He asserted that tho the county platform had indorsed the acts of oC the Legislature of or two years rears ago o and amon among these was the thc present workmen's compensation law Senator Chez said he ho voted for Cor that law Senator Olson replying said that what the senator from rom Weber eber had said merely went to show the superficial view characteristic of many opponents of oC a L state insurance fund Cund including Including- some senators lie He spoke of oC Senator Chez as both conscientious and fearless fear carless car car- less but believed the 10 had not gotten to the bottom of the present question Ho He then went on to give Ji what ho termed a history of oC compensation le legislation legislation leg leg- in Utah and inveighed against st what he the termed the Insurance lobby which he said ald was fighting such legislation legis lelis- lation laUon in el c every state In the union Pinc Ine l Machine It was a powerful fighting machine machne ho lie said and I if It were not for It there would not now be an any such talk of oC monopoly Ho lie declared that an exclusive exclusive ex ex- c state fund is not a monopoly They aro arc here now ho he said re referring referring re- re ferring to the lobby and he gazed gazell around at the galleries which were well filled rUled in anticipation of oC a fight on tho the floor of or the Senate Similar to that over oYer the taxation of oC mines Ho declared that stock companies devote devoto as high as JO 10 per cent of or the premiums to the acquisition ilion of oC business and other costs cost which under a L state plan plait could bo be done and and is done lone in to Ohio for tor I 1 per percent cent Ho lie thought that the tho policyholders policyholders policy policy- holders ou ought ht to get the tho benefit of oC that He lie further declared that I if tho the industrial commission were to low lower lotter r the tho rates on stock com company pan insurance In Utah the more J of or those companies would leave lea while whilo the wildcatters would reap what harvest they could at the expense of or the work- work Ingman lIu Huge c Waste Seen He lie declared that In the lire United States last year ear of oC the premiums had K gone ne to the stock companies and u i their agents as a waste which would w oe be eliminated under stale state insurance II Senator Olson then read at great t length from an Ohio report which dealt with the tile cheapness of oC state In- In in Ho had Just concluded this when ho he suggested ested an adjournment announcing at tho the same time lime that he had a not c completed his talk Senator Introduced a number num- num iw fer ber ot of Li bills bUls F repealing sections I anum-I of or the th laws vs which he the said Id should not bo be on I t the o statute lule book books s being being- contradicted by uy later inter laws and also correcting some f u other r 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