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Show PRESIDENT URGES A NEW INSURANCE LAW WASHINGTON. Ian. r resident Roosevelt tod.iv sent to t'ongress a tins sice fHVorinK n model Insurance law In the District of Columbia, as recommended recommend-ed hv th Superintendent of Insurance of the district, who suggested an Insurance law for the district upon the lines of the so-called Ames hill, hu" revised so as to Include all the deslraNe features of th" so-called 'uniform hill " The message sa v s "With proper modifications, this hill could he enacted Into a law so compre-r,irsv compre-r,irsv and ,1'iM that It would stand as a model of equity. 1 regret greatlv that there is not National power to deal with this suMect. hut inasmuch as this seems t present to be the case, we should at loast establish a model law In th District Dis-trict of Columbia. "T fee that the Department of Insin ance of the District of Columbia should he a bureau In the Ieparttnent of Commerce Com-merce and Labor. |