Show n SUHA I C LEGISLATION If the Insurance bills that have havo been presented b by Senator Benner X Smith shall bo be enacted Into law bytho by tho the pre present ent session of or tho Ito legislature there will be some ad addition to the thc revenues of ot the tho state even oven after the expense ex ox- pense o of tho the department shall o Ia ave been paid For one thing tho the premium tax will be Increased In this state one ono arid antI half a-half per cent Is char charged ed on that item of or the insurance business In Colorado an and in Kans Kansas Kansas Kan Kan- sas s and in most of the lie states slates where helO there is an nn Insurance insurance ance alice commissioner loner the tho premium tax is two per cent and anti andIn andIn In some seine it Is two and a The revenue derived from that Item Stein alone will bring a considerable sum into the thc treasury treasury- There Is a species of unfairness s In Jn insurance com panics protesting a against two per iet cent In iii Utah and payIng pay pay- Ing lug two I per r cent without a n murmur in Sn Colorado This state has been getting about twenty four thousand thousand and antI dollars a year out olt of or tho the Insurance business al although although although al- al though the companies havo have collected In premiums more I than a n. million and amI a halt dollars a year ear and taken talen i it out of ot the tho state S The Thc income from rom the Insurance urance department o of Kan Kan- sos Is moro inUre moro than two hundred thousand dollars a year ear and in Colorado it is nearly nearl two hundred thousand dol lars mrs The Tho proposed mea measures carefully enacted Int Into law ana and judiciously a administered will ivill multiply the Income in income income In- In come from In insurance urance In Utah This is a measure that ought to pass t t i |