Show i I I IOWA'S INSURANCE COMMISSIONER RESIGNS Head of National Convention Conven n- n tion of Commissioners Also Quits Office Another nother Insurance commissioner h has HI resigned hl his post according to news received from Washington yesterday This time It is Commissioner Emory II IL English of Iowa who only in September September Sep Sep- last was elected president of the National Convention of Insurance Commissioners Com Corn missioners succeeding Superintendent Jesse II Il Phillips of or New York Commissioner Commis Commis- hl stoner English on l January ar 15 become co Jr ol ste stel f i head of the New Iowa Bonding O dl and anu Casualty company of Des Moines Homes now being organized at that place with 1 capital stoc stock The Iowa Commissioner Commissioner Commissioner Commis Commis- also resigns as president of f the national body The custom heretofore has been to elect the first vice president as head of the national organization organisation following following following fol fol- fol- fol lowing lowing- the death or resignation of the president but this rule cannot be ad adhered adhered adhered ad- ad hered to for the reason that that official Robert J. J Merrill commissioner of Insurance insurance insurance ance for New Hampshire also resigned a couple of months ago to accept a a. more lucrative position The second vice president is Commissioner Commissioner Commissioner Commis Commis- Michael J. J Clery of Wisconsin and it is believed more than tItan likely that he hew w will 11 be the successor to Commissioner English Utah at one time was honored honored hon hon- ored by the election of its insurance commissioner commissioner com corn missioner to the vice presidency of the national association That was Willard Villard Done in 1913 Had Mr Done continued in office one year longer there is no question question ques ques- tion but he ho would have been elected president At a recent meeting of ot the executive committee of the insurance commissioners commission commission- I ers era Denver was selected as the place for holding the next annual convention in September Salt Lake Lak made a bid for forthe forthe forthe the 1917 meeting at Richmond Va a year ear ago last October and would have won but for the fact that the then Insurance in insurance In- In commissioner John James was unable to assure the executive committee I of his reappointment the following April upon the termination of the term for forI which he was appointed b by Governor I William Spry SprA A rule ruIe of the national j I executive committee which for the last century century flail has had the sa say as to where the annual meeting place shall be is not notto notto to accent accept an Invitation from a city or I I state where there is any likelihood of a change during the tile Interim of the head of or orI I the insurance department the tile one who usually extends the invitation for the the I I holding of the convention o The a association o j I tion ll it is related ra d vh has had ad one or two I II I j experiences along those lines hence the 1 present day rule These conventions atI attract at at- I tract Insurance Interests from all parts I at-I of the United tt and Canada a and a are I het ge gea I said i d I j to have an average v a attendance of j about 50 of the biggest insurance men menI I I I in the country It i is not believed the i West Vest will get another convention after the Denver meeting for a good many manyi I years to come I |