Show AO NO LEGISLATION Con Congressmen Will I Talk But Wont Won't ont Pass Bill BUI Legislative experts at do donot donot donot not look for the tile passage of an Insurance Insurance insurance ance law during this session of f Con Con- gress Statesmen of all sorts and con will talk much about It There will be a great deal of discussion on the floors of both houses Senators and Representatives alike will vie with each other In denunciation of the methods methods methods meth meth- of the Insurance magnates as ex ex- exposed exposed exposed posed in the legislative Investigation which occurred in New York Already divers and sundry lawmakers at both ends of the Capitol have havo submitted remarks re remarks re 4 marks that have stirred their constituents constituents constituents to Increased admiration of the eloquence eloquence and and alertness of or the men whom they have had the wisdom and foresight to send to Congress But in inthe inthe inthe the end nothing will be done that done that is nothing except a heap of or talk No Constitutional Provision The reason of this is that the JudicIary Judiciary Judiciary Judi Judi- ciary Committees both of the Senate and House thus early have about concluded concluded concluded con con- that ethe Constitution of the United States docs does not provide for the I kind of legislation which is recommended recommended recommended mended in the Presidents President's message I t Meanwhile a great deal of wire pull pull wire ing is going on in favor of ot the general I proposition It cannot be asserted that any anyone one of or the numerous bills thus far presented has the approval either of President Ro Roosevelt s velt or S Senator Dryden Dryden Dry Dry- Dry I den though it is presumed that a measure measure measure meas- meas ure embodying their exact views willbe will willbe be submitted within the next few fowl weeks It is known that so anxious are the insurance people for some form of legislation taking away from the States the supervision of insurance companies that they are prepared to spend unlimited money In the work of education but thus far they have not been able to make much headway I Like all aU campaigns of ot education to which Washington has become accustomed accustomed accustomed tomed it is expected that the usual amount of speculation as to the outcome outcome outcome out out- come will be bo Indulged but this will not effect the judgment or the conduct of those members of Congress who have have havethe I Ithe I the final decision of the question through their influence with the Judiciary Judiciary Judici Judici- I ary Committees States Insist on Rights A factor of no Inconsiderable weight lin in the matter is the insistence of or nearly nearly near near- Ily ly all the State governments upon their rights In the premises and as Congress does not seem to care to lend further aid at this juncture to the centralization tion movement which rapidly is-rapidly becoming becoming becom becom- ing an acute issue in State politics it itIs itis itis is regarded as altogether likely that the Federalization of Insurance will at least be held in abeyance for some sometime sometime sometime time yet and is being advocated by Senator Dryden of New Jersey president of one cne of the big life insurance companies as well as as asby by other financial magnates who like Senator Dryden are directly interested in insurance and are presumed presumed pre pre- therefore to know better than anybody else what the exigencies of the situation demand Senator Dryden who studied law in Yale but hut who has las not practiced much in the courts Is of the opinion that there Is nothing in the Constitution either expressed or implied which Congress Congress Con Con- gress should regard as an Inhibition Inhibition-in in inthis this matter But other other members of the Senate Senate- who have practiced law for years declare that in t this is the New Jersey Jersey Jer Jer- sey statesman is in error It is assumed assumed assumed as as- that generally speaking the picked lawyers of both branches of Congress compose the Committee ou Judiciary in each house and Rg It can bo be punitively rs caso now stands the majority of the members of both committees are opposed to the general proposition It is of course possible that a a. bill may be framed bringing the subject within the united powers of the Constitution Constitution Con Con- but none of the measures measures thus far presented meets the objections of most of the experts in in Congress who have been consulted on the matter There is a considerable element in the I House Insisting that the great Chief r Justice Marshall blazed the way for forust just such an emergency as this in his famous amous decision defining in effect interstate inter- inter tate state commerce as intercourse between states to say nothing of f the applicability to this case of another em all-em- bracing decision of his concerning the implIed powers of the Constitution Not Satisfactory to Lawyers But broad as these doctrines are they hey obviously are not satisfactory to the he majority of the lawyers who are members of the two committees on the judIciary As usual the Senate has gone more directly at the subject than has the House louse At the opening of the session Senator Culberson of Texas Introduced a resolution calling up upon n Congress to Investigate the matter thoroughly with the view or of determining the diS diS' point as to the authority of the lawmaking body to deal with the sub sub- subject subject as recommended by President Roosevelt loosevelt This resolution was re- re referred erred to the Judiciary Committee I Two or three days before Congress Congress Congress Con Con- gress adjourned for the holiday recess recess recess re re- re- re cess the Senate Senat committee briefly considered considered considered con con- the proposition presented by dr Mr Culberson and referred his resolution resolution tion ion to a sub committee with instruCtions instructions Instruct to report in as as' as soon as practicable after acter the holiday recess The members rs of this sub-committee sub Spooner Spooner- Knox Bacon and Culberson are of opinion that there here is no warrant in the Constitution for or Congress to assert over insurance the he power which the President Senator I Dryden and apparently all of the Insurance insurance insurance in In- magnates appear to think is inherent in the legislative department |