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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1907)
n TTTE OMATT.V SUNDAY BEE: "ATWRT 11. 1007. All Summer Merchandise. Close d - Most Wonderful Bargain Prices f( Specif Pearl Butlon Sale Special Sale New Embroideries A big line of Loom End Strips of Embroideries, In serting and Edges in 3 Va to 6 yard strips. On sale Monday in four great lots. Mail orders promptly Jilled a?id sailsaction guaranteed Send for catalogues and samples they're free for the asking 10,000 dozen of Class A Pearl Buttons, actually worth from 5c to 10c dozen, all go on sale Monday at one price 2VaC dozen. 1st lot, worth to 10c a yard. 3rd lot, worth to 25c a yard, t 10 4th lot, full width Corset Cover Embroideries, at 15 35c white Kmbroldered Ftr-lts, i apodal loC at 3H special ..I 15 $1.50 ladies' Hand Pags, spec 2nd lot, worth to 15c a yar t 50 THE RELIABLE STORE. 50c silk Kmbroldered Bells, ial, at 4 ur i Special Rug Bargains It will pay you to buy early, particularly while these very special prices prevail Our New Fall Stock is nearly complete and our prices mean a splendid saving to the pur chaser. Buy now, pay later if you wish. Our new credit system provides for payments to suit your convenience. 17.68 Kumlra Ruga. reversible, ori ental patterns, colors guaranteed, size Sx9. special $5.98 $8.00 Ingrain Art Squares, i : I ra heavy quality, size 8x12, nt. .13.49 flS Tapestry Brussels Hugs, size lx 11, twelve patterns to select fro'Ti, special at 911.79 $1 fin Reversible Smyrna Ruga, size S0xJ, special at 09o $12 Brussels Ruia, size 8-SxlO-f., big assortment of patterns fur seler tlnn, at (8.49 $28.00 Saxony Axmln:itr Hues, size 9x12, fifteen patterns to select from special 930.98 Popular Priced Wash Goods White Goods, Linens and Domestics in our Famous Do mestic Room. The greatest line of bargains ever given in Omaha for Monday. Comfort Prints, yard So American Blue Prints 3Vio 86-Inch Percales So 36-lnch Sllkollno 3V40 15o Batlsto So 16c Ginghams 7ViO 12 He Zephyrs So 12 He Hop. Fancies) 6o 12 Ho Toll lu Nord Ginghams.... 6o 19c double fold Dress Goods. , . .12 '-jo 12 He German Blue lOo 10c bleached Muslin 6j0 8 Ho unbleached Muslin So 75o Sheets BSo 9o Sheets t9o 69c Sheets 39o $1.00 Bedspreads 69o $1.25 Bedspreads , 7 So 81.50 Bedspreads B9o $1.00 bleached Linen B9o 8!io bleached Linen 49o 25c Towels 13V0 Odd Parlor Pieces and Dining Chairs on sale this week, while they last, your choice, Just Half Price. Over 100 odd Dining Chairs, 1 to 3 of a kind, and about 75 odd parlor pieces, in great vari ety of style, including Parlor Rockers, Settees, Arm Chairs, Corner Pieces, etc. ONCE IN A LIFETIME Lawn Furniture Every piece in our complete line must go and will be nffWd at iust factory cost. Take advantage of our per- ------- u , feet credit system in your furniture purchases. It provides for payment to suit your own convenience. FRAUD AND FRAILTY SCORED Corrupt and Incompetoent Insurance Law Administration Condemned. BRECKENRIDGE REPORT READY Denoancfi l.amce Undistributed Divi dend Funds and Recommends H tUtnns In Herniation of Law t.orrrnlua; Insurance. Severe condemnation of large undis tributed dividend funds and an unreserved denunciation of what Is termed "Incom petent or corrupt administration of the unsatisfactory Insurance laws In force In the several states," are features of the report of the committee on Insurance law of the American Bar association which has Just been made public by Ralph W, Ureckenridge, chairman of the committee. The report will be read to the association at Its meeting In Portland, Me. August 20, and will be a special order for considera tion by the association. The report Is lengthy and comprises a detailed discusuion of proposed legislation to Improve the Insurance laws of the dif ferent states. The other members of the committee submitting It are: Hurton Biultli, Atlanta, Oa.; Rodney A. Mercur, Towanda, Pa.; William R. Vance, dean of the law department of George Washington University, Washington, 11. C; Robert Punlap of Chicago, assistant general solicitor of the Santa Fe system. ot to I rge Fedeixl Control. The committee has decided not to urge In this report federal supervision of In surance! companies as it has done In previous reports. Tho reason for the change Is that opposition to federal supervision Jjst at present Is pronounced and the com Biittce decided that It could secure better ment of stale supervision. In brief the report recommends the adoption of a res olution covering the following points: niuinnrnvmi and condemning the prev alent custom which makes state insur ance cutninlssloiuTships political prises to te dlBtrlbuted s such without regard to Illness or knowledge of the insurance biislnrcs. That nil companies created under foreign countries be required to make a deposit In at teast one of the states before trat'saotinji business anywhere In the Lulled Stutes. Tho repeal of the valued policy lsws. . The ireutlon In each state of tho office of fire marshal. The enactment of a federal statue fni blild'iiK I he use of the malls to persona, Sssocltitioiis, copartnerships or corporations, condui t 'ng ony kind of insurance business In tle I'nlted Stutc. who sre not licensed to trarsact s-.icb business by the stale where such peraons. associations, copart nerships or corporations are domiciled, or umh-r whoso Ui any such corporations are created. The spiK'illonn-ent and contingent distri bution of the deferred dividend surplut on existing lit e policies of all c mpanlcs as u condition precedent to llio transaction of business outside of the home stales of tho Several conii allies fcUla covering u'.l these recommendations $1.25 Axmlnster Door Mats, best qual ity, size 18x36, on sale at 980 $2 00 Velvet Rugs, size ;!7x54, extra heavy quality, at 91.39 Bans Wood Curtain Stretchers, on sol Monday 88o 10c Extension Curtain It o.ls, brass finish, 81x54, at So ? ft. Window Shades, best duality water colors, with good rollers, on sale at, each 30o We are sole Omaha agents fur the new Window bade Material BRKN LIN :t won't crack or wrinkle best material ever produced. ) 19e Towels lOo 15c Towels 7V40 12 He Tea:'.el Down 7 Ho 1921 Outing Flannel 6Ho Fruit of the Loom Muslin lOo Lonsdale Muslin 100 Hope Muslin 7iO 9-4 Pepperell bleached Sheeting, 850 9-4 LockwooJ bleached SheetlnK. S6o $1.00 Cotton Blankets 69o $1.25 Cotton Blankets 69o $1.60 Cotton Blankets 79o 81.60 Wool Blankets 680 2.00 Wool Blankets 81.19 $2.50 Home Made Comfortables. S1.98 10c Shaker Flannel ,6V4o Wash Rags lo loc Domes, all linen 3o UHe Dollies, all linen So 16c Dollies, all linen 7Ho znc uonies, an linen loo About 1,000 different great snaps In mis room at sensational low prices BARGAINS AT HALF but the first and third have been drafted and are submitted with the report. Wrath at Mismanagement. The report begins with reference to the popular indignation at the corruption, In competency and extravagance in insurance management disclosed by the recent invis tlgatlons and declares there Is no non discriminating distrust of Insurance cum panics and their management. "There Is no occasion," the report con tinues, "for general distrust of the life in surance companies of America, though It may well be doubted whether all ot tho schemes of life Insurance which enjoy cur rent popularity will bear scrutiny; and It is certain that the sentiment of f raternallsm Is widely prostituted by the dishonest and extravagant managements ot some ot the so-called fraternal orders." After discussing the magnitude of the In surance business In the Cnlted States the report answering the question, "Why In surance breeds corruption?" continues: 'Your commutes have sought from every available source of information about the conditions which create the legal questions related to insurance. Borne of theKe ou s tions present serious problems, not only of law, but of expediency. The Inquiry whv a legitimate and beneftclent Instltutton like Insurance should breed the corruption and dishonesty which havs been disclosed In the last three years Is a natural one. One cause of It Is the system of state super vision In vogue; but back of that. In the opinion of your committee, the responsibility for corruption by company snd state of ficials with respect to life Insurance lies in the "extravagance, manipulation of Invest ments, excessive commissions or riotous desire for bigness," winch was aeveiorea out 'of the failure to apportion frequently and account for. the inunenso surplus ac cumulated through the deferred dividend policy. It Is not Intended to charge that the difficulty Is due to deferred oiv'd -nd Itself, but It Is due to the piling up of the dividends which are not Hpportionca ana not accounted for until the end of the period, and to the treatment and advertise ment of these unanportloned snd unac counted for dividends as assets of the com panies instead of liabilities. Quotes from Wisconsin Report. The report then quotes from the report of the Wisconsin legislative Investigating committee published in Y.ori which cites the case of a Milwaukee man who died six days before tho expiration of the tontine period, his estate thereby losing $17,fio0 In deferred dividends. The report then says: The guarded language of this rlort is worthy of note: The company Is obligated I to distribute such forfeited surplus lo the ! other poUcy holders of the class to which ! the forfeited dividend policy belongs. But i we are Informed that ojienly It Is charged that in many cases this has not beep done; ! that settlements have been made upon an I arbitrary basis, always to the advantage of the Jackpot created by these dejerrel I dividends. And so It is that these Immense smns or money in stgnt nave teen rt-gamt a as spoils by Insurance managers, whoso consciences have been commercialised ac cording to modern standards; by the state Insurance ileositnienta snd their hamrera I on: and worst of all, by a number of state legislatures which, with little knowledge and less scruple, have treated st legitimate, loot these moneys raised by voluntary tsxations to provide against disaster and calamity and which ar a trust fund for thrifty and prudent rlllzens. widows and ornhans of the Culled Sthtes. The Individual hu misappropriates trust funds deserve censure and punishment, but It is Just as dishonest to steal under the protection of law as without It; it is Just as dishonest for the states to lay un holy lands on trust funds, as for an In dividual; and the states commit a monstrous injustice when they seek even to partially maintain themselves by legislative raids upon trust funds; more High Grade VJhite Goods We have on hand about 1,000 pieces of St. Gall Swisses imported direct by ourselves. They are in dot3, stripes, figures, etc., all hand work. In order to reduce the stock quickly they will go at exactly half the marked price. White Knglish Jacqnards: 26c grade lOt 35c grade 12 39c grade J5 60c grade 1 India Llnons 15c grade 8 19c grade 10t 25c grade '. 12 30c grade 15c? Persian - Lawns 15c grade 84 4 19c grade 12 H 25c grade 15 39c grade 10 English Long Cloths 12 He grade 7$ 15c grade 10 19c grade 12 H Charming Styles Actually priced below value of materials for quick clearance. You'll find it impossible to match these values elsewhere. $15.00 and $18.00 Tailor Suits, in fine panamas and English Suitings, plain colors or fancy mixtures, charming bargains,, in Monday's sale at.. 7.95 $20.00 Silk Suits, in the prettiest new shirt waist, styles; come in checks or plaids, with pleated skirt, sale price 8.90 Nobby Wash Suits that sold up to $4.00, on sale Monday at 89c $5.00 and $0.00 "Wash Suits, great assortment of colors and materials, on sale Children's 50c Wash Dresses Great snap Monday, at 15 Children's $1.50 Wash Dresses Choice Monday 49 Extraordinary Sale of Waists A great line of $1.00 Waists, at, choice 29 92.00 and 92.50 Lawn Waists on sale Mon day ; 95 $5.00 and $6.00 Jap Silk and Net Waists splendid assortment, at S3. OS Hayden's the Grealest Jell-O, Jellycon, D'Zerta or Bromangelon, per package TAc 1-lb. cana Assorted Soups 7'io 3-lb. cans Baked Beans 7Hc 1-lb. package Macaroni SVsO Large bottle pure Tomato Catsup or Wor cester Hauce 8VC Peanut Butter, per Jar 'Jo Fancy stuffed or plain Olives, bottle.. 9c 011 or MuHtard Sardines, per can.... 3 Vic 1-lb. pktf. Corn Starch 4c 1-lb. pkif. Cold Water Starch c H-lb. cans Breakfast Cocoa 19c The best Soda Crackers, per lb 6c The best crisp Glnner Snaps, per lb,. . 5c 12 bars best Family Laundry Soap..., 2 5c over It Is the climax of cowardice to com mit extortions In the name of the police power, but most of them are doing It, and thus they commit the Identical offense they condemn and punish In the Individual. People Have Corrective Power. The corrective power, says the committee, Is In the hands of the people who should wake to a sense of their responsibility. The report then takes up the subjert of Insurance supervision to which Is traced the second great cause of the evils Infecting Gossip and Stories About Cleveland at Home. .SIDE from a few of the ex-prest- dent's intimate friends, who are chiefly dignitaries ot the uni- verslty jdrcle. the people of 'iVTr Princeton know very little con cerning the personal affairs of former President Cleveland, reports a correspond ent. They get most of their Information about Mr. Cleveland and his doings from tba metropolitan newspapers, and then guess at the rest. Tho ex-presldent Is a rich man how rich nobody knows. It Is ststed by every body to whom I talked that he Is a millionaire at least, and by some his wealth was estimated as high as $3,000,000. lie he 8 no' holdings In Princeton except his restdenco property, but he has extensive real estate Investments In New York and Buffalo. The principal part of his for tune, however, Is In stocks, lie Is sup posed to havs friends In New York who are In a position to pick Judicious Invest ments and who look after his interests. The ex-presldent Is not In the business of shearing lambs, and he will have noth ing to do with speculative transactions that are the least bit shady, but when ever there Is money to be made by le gitimate Investments In stocks be Is not averse to taking a hand. Mr. Cleveland was a farmer, Just for a little while, but he soon found that farming Is not his long suit. A few years ago he bought a farm of 1(0 acres east of Princeton, thinking that he would keep some cows and get his family supply ot dairy products at first hand. It was a losing proposition from the start. As was to be expected, every body imposed on him. In the first place, not being a good Judge of soil, ho bought a farm that was cold and wet and of small value, although he paid a round pries for It. Mr. Cleveland soon discovered that he could not afford te be a farmer. He sold his farm, and now be Is buying his eggs, butter, and poultry In the open market and saving money. Although the ex-president Is seen very little in Princeton, he is extremely demo cratio In his dress and demeanor when he appears In public. lie relegated his silk hats to everlasting oblivion when he left the White House. In the winter he wears a "slouch" hat, and In the summer he prefers straw headgear. He dresses for comfort and not style. From liad lo Worse. The late panUl g. Laraont was a strong Great Clearing out a great sacrifice. Brussels Net Curtains, worth up to $9, go at, pair. .. .$7.59 Brussels Net Curtains, worth $5, 16, go at, pair $3.98 Novelty Curtains, worth from $1.98 up to $10 pair. They are all the best bargains of fered this season. Zlon City, Cable Net, Cluny and Arabian, worth from $5.75 to $8.60. Bale price, per pair $3.7S Chenille Rope. Portieres, for double doors, from $2.98 up to, each $8.00 in Summer Garments Monday at, choice 1.50 Beautiful Summer Dresses, in lingeries, mulls, Swisses and batistes, trimmed with fine tucks, laces and embroideries, that sold up to $12, choice Monday 2.98 special Pure Food Supply Department in the West The best white or yellow Cornmeal, sack '. 1-lb. pkff. Bryan SmokiiiK Tobacco... The best Tea Slf tings, per lb 1 Fancy B. F. or Sun Dried Japan Tea, pound jer .10o .l.Sc 2 Vic ler .'!5c . 1 uc Choice Santos Coffee, per lb . . . Fancy Maricabo Blend Coffee, lb ...1 Fancy Porto Rico Blend Coffee, lb . . CHEESE AJTD BUTTEB PRICES 7Vio .00 Choice Dairy Butter, per lb Choice Creamery Butter, per lb . . . . Fancy Creamery Butter, per lb .... Fancy Full Cream Cheese, per lb . . Fancy Full Cream Brick Cheese .... Fancy Full Cream Llmburger Cheese .210 ..Zc .260 .1-10 .150 .15o Insurance. The committee declares that In many slates there are capable and ef ficient Insurance commissioners, who are conscientious In the performance of their duties, but declares they are the excep tions. It says: The trouble Is that the state Insurance departments, always keeping In mind the few exceptions, are sinecures. They pro duce ripe, rich political plums generally distributed by the governors of the several slates, sometimes by some other officers. temperance man always says an old friend. Several years before his death he vlsiled relatives In Scotland, and returned with the following yarn: "In a little town In Scotland the grave digger had been Induced to give up his habit of hard drinking and sign yt he pledge. At a public meeting he gave his experience. I never thought to tell ye,' he said, 'that for a whole month I havna touched a drap of onything. I saved enough to buy me a braw oak coffin wl' brass handles and brass nails and If I'm a teetotaler for another month I shall be wantin' It!" Drlng On Your Other Birds." Apropos of something, relates the Cen tury Magazine, Whistler once told a cock fight story so vividly that only a man with a sailor Instinct could tell It as well, mimlo It so keenly, and enjoy It so thoroughly. It was a story of a strange species of tho American cock, pictured to the smallest de tail so beautifully that one forgot that It was a story. Some American sailors were at a cock fight In a seaport town In England, when one of them remarked to the owner of the chamolon: "We have got an American cock on board that can whip any bird here." "Go fetch "lm on," said the champion; "chuck 'lm In and see. If 'e licks one bird we 'ave plenty more to throw In that can lick hany blawsted Hamerlcan bird you can fetch 'ere." "All rlfcht; we'll bring one," said the sail ors. Whi n they got aboard they rigged up an American eagle. After their own man ner they painied, trimmed, spliced und reefed fore and aft, transforming the eaglo to a cock. When ready they went ashore to pit their new American game cock against all Kngland. At the pit the sailors chucked In their cock, which looked around for other sur prises, as he backed close lo the wall. "Now, bring on your birds!" yelled the sailors. A strutting cock was tnrowru Into the pit, and was another surprise to the poor dismantled eagle. He backed up closer to the wall, wondering what would happen next. The cock walked three times majestically around the circle, cuffing at his strange opponent, the eagle, pitiably abashed and bedrabbled, crouching lower and lower, and looking around and above him for an explanation of wrist It all meant, while the crowd were yelling madly for the Knglish fighter. The eagle made himself smaller and smaller, but at last finding that he could get back no further. Drapery Sale all odds and end3 in Draperies at Ruffled Net, Nottingham and Swiss Curtains, suitable for dining- rooms and bedrooms. In all the late designs, go at, pair, $2.50, $1.25, 98c. and 7 Bo Rope and tapestry portieres, for double and single doers, extra heavy tapestry, plain and oriental borders Por tieres worth from $6 to $9 salt) price, $5 and $3.98 Also with heavy fringes at, pair, $2.25, $2.75 up to. .$5.00 Rope Portieres for single doors each, $2.25. $1.25 and....89o 1.00 and $3.00 Wash Skirts on sale, to close at, choice 81.50 Women's Satin Rubber Coats, regular $18 values, sale price $8.90 Lawn Kimonos, good assortment to select from, at 15 92.50 Lawn Wrappers, delightful biVga'n. at, sale price 81.19 Visit our infants' wear department. Many bargains Monday. FKESK TBUITS AND VEQETABI.ES Omaha's Orcatsst Market for the PeoyTa. Fresh Mweet Sugar Corn, per doz 10c Fresh Beets, per bunch la Fresh Currots, per bunch lo Fresh Parsley, per bunch lc Fresh Cucumbers, each .....lc Fresh Onions, per bunch lc Rresh Kadlshes, per bunch lo Fresh Cabbage, per head 2'?0 Fancy Cooking Apples, per peck 3.c Extra fancy large 240 Lemons, that retail for 50u dozen, our price, per dozen, only S0c Extra fancy, medium size, that retail for 80c per dozen, our price, per dozen .. 2". Fresh roasted Peanuts, per quart ...... uc Knowledge of the Insurance business Is the last thing required; the man with a pu" gets the Job. in one of the eastern states, the commissioner Is a practicing physician and Is also the state bank ex aminer. In one of the western states a friendly acquaintance with an Incoming official placed a proof reader from a Job printing office In charge of the Insurance department of that state and that gentle man Is now as compotent as the average commissioner. The reports of the Investigating commit tees In New York and Pennsylvania are Noted People and thinking that something wss expected of him, as the cock dashed at him again he stretched out his long claws and took his opponent by the neck.' Here Whistler ended, with an Imitation by motions of what the eagle did. Ho stretched out his arm, shaped his hand like a claw, which by this time looked like a real one, drew it to his mouth, and with one bite pulled off the head, as he thought an eagle might do. Then he looked blandly about the room, as the eaglo hod done, at the astonished crowd, snd said: "Now. bring on your other birds." 4 Owns Stevenson's Birthday. For some years past the story of how Robert Louis Stevenson "deeded" his birth day to little Annie Ide, daughter of Henry Clay Ida, former governor of the Philip pines, has been told as a rare InBlght Into the beloved author's personality. The recent marriage of this same "little girl" to the famous orator, W. Bourke Cock ran, gives the story renewed interest. Miss Ide's marriage to the congressman Is the result of a love affair that began In the Grand Canyon of Arizona, continued across the Pacific to the Orient and the Philippines, and led Into the Kgyptlan desert. ' Mrs. Cockran has had more than her share of romance and travel, says the Kroadway Magazine. When a small girl she lived In Samoa, Mr. Ide being land commissioner of the Islands. There it was that Robert Ixjuls Stevenson had his home, and ho took a great fancy to the little Annie Ide. One day when she was deploring the fact that her birthday fell on Christmas, he 'offered to present her with bis. which came due on November 13. A formal deed was executed and since that day November 13 has been doubly cele brated. Miss Ide wss married to the famous Tammany orator last year, two days after her "Stevenson's birthday." It was after the celebrated Taft love-making trip to the Philippines lhat the love affair ripened Into a betrothal. Ton Much i'uulit-lty. They sat on the vine embroidered porch, looking at the glorious planet in the south ern sky. ' I supiiose you know, Miss Gladys." said the young professor, hitching his chair nearer, "lhat Mars is nearer to us now than it will be again for a period of fifteen years?'' '.Mercy, no!" she exclaimed. "I didn't know that. Take your arm aaay. Prof. M Goozle, please. I feel as If everybody on Mars was watching usl" Chicago n..K,.- Marvelous Silk Bargains Monday All summer silks must go regardless of cost ami our stock of Illark Silks must be reduced fully one third within the next ten tlays, hence these matchless bargain prices on high grade silks. OlHv, 75c and $t.(H) Silk Suitings, Taffetas, Peau de Cygn.es, lAmla lnes, Mescalines, etc., over 60 pieces to select from, on sale Monday In domestic room 37 Beautiful Dress and WtustlrtK Silks, regular 1.25 a yard val ues, ends of bolts, In lengths from AVt to 25 yards, will be closed Monday at, yard . . . -18 Ten pieces checked Taffeta, all sizes and colors, 36-ln. wide, regular $1.50 value, on sale Mon day, while they last at, choice, Per yard ) 9g High Grade Linen Department . Interesting items for Monday. The largest stock; tho most com. plete assortment; the lowest prices. 72-ln. bleached double satin finish Table Linen, guaranteed all pure Irish Unen, regular $1.50 grade, at, yard 98 68-ln. unbleached and silver bleached German, Irish and Scotch Table linen, extra heavy, worth $1,25 a yard, at, yd. 89 Lunch Cloth -Extra heavy hem stitched satin finish Irish Unen 6-4 and 5-4 sizes, worth up to $4.00 piece, at $2.50 and 82.25 Napkins to match all Unen, 18x18 to 27x27-in., at, dozen, $3.60, $3, $2.60, $2.25 $2 and 81.75 Towels Extra heavy Turkish, bleached and unbleached, large size, regular 35c quality. . .!9 High Grade Wash Goods Dept. Last call for clearing out all Summer Wash Goods. The prices are so ridiculously low that you have to examine them to be convluced. 50c Wahh Goods 10c 50c silk warp wash goods, 39c silk mulls, 50c silk warp zephyrs, 60c Arnold's silk and other goods, worth up to 50c per yard, all to close at, yard 19 30c and 50c Wash Goods at 15c 39c silks, 39c zephyrs, 39c silk wash" fancies, 60c poplins, 50c lines that are broken, all at 15 Big Sale on The city ordinance says that every resident must nave a Garbage Can. 12.50 heavy galvanized Garbage Cans, 16 gallons, Monday $2.00 heavy galvanized Garbage Qans, 12 gallons, Monday Extra heavy, stave sides, water tight, galvanized Garbage Cans, SO gal lons, with cover, orih !.... 8a. 78 8c heavy enameled Chamber J'alls. 12-quart size, enamelel top, only 73o 7Bc large blue and whltt- Sauce Puns or preserving Kettles, Monday only, at 3So pointed to as evidence of the Inefficiency of the Insurance departments of these states. It Is also pointed out that charges by Mr. Vance of the committee published in February, 1906, show that some of the large Insurance companies, though unquestionably solvent, pay as much as t-M.ixX) in annual blackmail to state examiners. This churge it is asserted, has not been denied. Some Hare State Officials. Mr. Ureckenrldge, discussing this part of the report, said the exceptional commis sioners, who were both honest and capable were, among others, Vorhees of Ohio, O'Brien- of Minnesota, Barry of Michigan, Cutting of Massachusetts and the commis sioners of Georgia. He declares no sus picion of corruption attached to the Ne braska insurance Bepsrtment during the Incumbency of Insurance Commissioner Pierce. The committee discredits the recom mendations of the Washington conference of Insurance commissioners declaring that some of the legislation was recommended by a mere majority of a minority of the commissioners In attendance. Some of the legislation asVed by the commissioners Is declared to be hysterical and the commis sioners themselves actuated by a hatred of the Insurance companies and a desire to Increase their own powers without provid ing corresponding checks upon them. The need of sane legislation to correct present evils and to prevent future ones Is pointed out. There is declared to be a need of In surance supervision In order to protect policy holders from fraud. The supervision of Insurance should not entail a financial burden upon the state, but neither should the business of the slate he conducted st a profit; when that occurs either one class of taxpayers Is being robbed at the expense 'if another or some body connected with the state government has a graft. It Is stated that twenty-eight stales In the year 12 received from the Insurance companies exclusive of taxes ovfr 5,o(W,00 more than they expended In the super vision of these companies. This It Is pointed out ultimately leads to an Increase In the cost of Insurance to he policy holders. Matter of Some Alarm. The committee views with alarm ,he tendency In some of the states to require that a large proportion of the reserve value of Insurance written within the state be Invested In the state. This It Is declared would result In costly Investment agencies In each slate ami In so restricting the com panies they could not seek the most desir able Investments. The report points to the action of some of the German Insurance companies In re fusing to pay fire losses after the San Francisco earthquake as evidence that for eign companies should be required to de posit In some one of the (.tales at bast ir.o.'o. The report lays considerable emphasis on the recommendation that deferred dividend surplus funds be distributed annually snd be credited to the policy holders to which they belong. This Is only fair to policy holders and will require the companies to treat their dividend surpluses as a liability and not as so asset and will require them an- Omaha Headquarter for IUat k Silks. The results of Mon day's special prices will more than ever prove tnis assertion true. We offer: s f 1.2.1 Mack Taffetas, 2"-ln. wide, Monday at, yard 89 91. AO Black Taffeta, 3C-ln. wide, Monday at, yard 81.05 $l.RO Rlack l'eau de Sole. 36-ln. wide, Monday 1.19 Water Proof lllnrk Jap Silks 75c value. Just 20 pieces, on sale Monday at 5i) Towels Extra large size Damask and Huck Towels, plain or hem stitched, sold regularly up to 50c piece, at, piece 25 81x90-in. bleached seamless Sheets made from extra fine sheeting, worth 95c piece, at, piece. -G9 4 2x36-ln. Pillow Cases, bleached, made from soft finish muslin, worth 16c piece, at, piece 12 H lied Spreads Full size marsellles and honey comb spreads, all new designs, worth $3.50 piece, at, I'lece 82.00 Bod Spreads Extra heavy, full size honey comb spreads, fringed or plain, worth $2.25 piece, at. Piece 81.49 25c and 35c Wash Goods 12 He Irish , dimities, Custer dimities, organdies du lux, organdies cor reaux, silk tissue and about 15 different lines that sold up to 25c a yard, at 12 10c and 25c Goods at 10c Vd. French cambrics, French batls- yard 10 ties, French organdies, zephyrs, ginghams and other goods that sold up to 25c, all to close at, Garbage Cans 59o galvanized Chamber Palls. Mon day 39o $1.98 extra heavy copper bottom Wash UoIIitb, Monduy 91.39 $1.15 copper bottom Warn Boilers, 69o Closing out Rubber Garden Hone, MrC, 7Ho and 6Ho Lawn Mowers, worth $3.75. Monday at 93.49 ( ' LrtlWIl 11 'J WPIH, WOrUl 0.49, aUOTMIHV at $3.A5 Lawn Mowers, worth 18.5't. Mondsy at 94.95 tsig Biue on Tinware, c, be, i and lo to be more accurate in their public reports with respect to their liabilities. It will also, says the report, remove the tempta tion which arises with tho opportunity to make Improper use of funds not required to be accounted for except upon their own terms. The committee refers to the argu ment used against legislation of thin kind that it would be unconstitutional as Im pairing tho obligation of contracts and states that It does not assent to that view. It does not consider this question Impor tant, however, because so many of the larger companies are abandoning this form of policy. The future of life Insurance will not be seriously Impaired by the de (erred dividend policy, it Is asserted. Word on W lid-Cat Concerns. Discussing wild-cat Insurance companies, the report says: We have advised the association In our preceding reports that the laws of most of the slates are Inadequate for the pro tection of the insured; for a number of them permit the incorporation of Insurance companies on both stock und mutual plans without a cash deposit or Its equivalent. The theory of such laws is that the obliga tions of subscribers for stoek Is a protec tion to the policy holders; but the country Is full of the wrecks of Insolvent com panies whose operations escape the scrutiny of the Insurance departments of their homo states because they transact none of their business therein, and conduct It under the eye of Incompetent or complacent Insurance departments of other slates, only among the Illiterate poor. These tire the companies known as "wildcats;" their business is coti fimtd to the issuance of worthless fire In surance policies thev pay no losses and they conduct It mostly through the United. States malls. The committee , recommends as a cure for this species of Insurance evil federal enactments to prevent the use of the mails by these companies. Laws Productive of Frand. The committee recomiqends the repeal of valued policy lsws such as are In force la nineteen nr. twenty st.ites, requiring the payment of the full amount of the policy In the event of the total destruction of the property insured regardless of the value thereof at the time of destruction. These laws, It Is asserted, are productive of fraud and their ultimate result la the Increase of file insurance rates. In some Instances cited the rate being almost doubled. In- this connection the committee also recommends the enactment of state fire marshal laV providing for file murshala, whose duty ft shall be to Investigate all fires to determine whether or not arson had been committed. It la estimated that one-third of all fires are of incendiary origin. The Ohio law, with some slight modifications, is recom mended. Referring to federal supervision of Insur ance the report rays the majority of the committee, namely, Messrs Dreckenrldge, Smith snd Mercur still remain advocates of this plan of supervision with reference to Interstate companies, but It Is stated that pjuerful Interests arrayed against It will prevent Impartial consideration of the subject and the committee urges the SO ceptance of the recommendation Upon which the committee Is unanimous. The divergent opinions of the committee, it Is stated, are not as to the efficiency of fede'ral supervision, bt ss to the power of the government to rrrnsss