Show DORXIK ADDRESSES TUB AGENTS General Manager of tlici Jfntlonnl Insurance In-surance Company Was Here General Manager Dornin or the National Na-tional Insurance company of Hartford was in the city yesterday on his return from Denver and left for the west on the night train The gentleman devoted the day to a canvass of the insurance situation situa-tion here in Utah and at the daily meet ing the local Board of Underwriters held during the afternoon addressed the mem bers taking occasion to compliment them on the stand taken during the early dis turbances in tho Pacific Insurance union and the continuation of the policy of conservative at the present time While he has never favored the enforcement I enforce-ment of the < nonintercourse clause one of the most powerful weapons of the compact Ulr Dornin stated to the local underwriters that inasmuch as the board had decided to take that means of forcing forc-ing its point he would not make any stand against it upon his return to San Francisco and the councils of the board During the course of his address the gentleman gen-tleman stated that from advices Just received I re-ceived by him from the coast he felt sure in predicting that within a comparatively com-paratively short time Magill of the Home and Phoenix would be in the fold and the other companies now on the outside I might then do their worst for the board would take no further official notice of in em Asa manor or race tile majority of the present members of the Board of Fire Underwriters of the Pacific do not desire to see the Continental and Northwestern North-western enter the compact the speaker continued and the fact that they were making cuts would not cause a riffle on the smooth surface of the boards course I I the The board reports indicated received that at all the of meeting the deeo of cutting of rates has been discontinued and the only reductions now being made t are madp for the purpose of protecting regular business and not with the view I of gouging into the revenues of competitors competi-tors The agents were firm in their do I i termination to make the light extremely J trppical while it lasts and they will take i a hack at every outsiders head which is shown above the carpet During the day the Royal agents had been forced to meet a number of healthy reductions in order to save their business but many of the offers of deep cuts were withdrawn with-drawn by their makers and the indica tions are that there will not be many more days of tins continued uncertainty and slashing The nonintercourse clause is to he most rigidly enforced and the Salt Lake property owners will soon be forced to feel the knife if they do not at once cancel their noncompact policies In case they refuse and are the holders of heavy stocks or the owners of large bud nfvcff hlnflCR Oiev will be forced to Carry the greater portion of the insurance themselves for the nonboard companies will not be able to take caro of the whole risk in hardly any case Time local representatives of the outside companies say they are jusjt as determined determin-ed as the other fellows and do not propose I pro-pose to ba downed by the best of them I |