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INSURANCE EXAMINATION. Dr. W. P. Porcher, o? Charleston, Roasts the Companies That Are P Tring to Cut Down Physicians Fees. Editor Daily. Item: For months past the entire press of < the country has teemed reports of the missappropriation of funds by the largest life insurance companies of America, and their consequent failure ^ tfi return the proportionate amount W of surplus or overpay to the policy f holders. Innumerable ^thousands of these policy holders have already signed away any legal claims which they had against the companies and consequently it would be impossible to recover any of the enormous sums jg which have already been diverted into j$P other channels.. The recent ruction of I certain life insurance companies, no? tably the three largest ones, in Tower? ing, the scaJ.S of fees, paid to the med? ical examiners, has awakened the profession to a keen sense of the in? justice to which they have been sub? ?a Jected for so many years, f?j For instance, the fee for examina v rion of $1,000 policies has heretofore been $5,00. This has been re?toced to $3,00. It is very apparent that, the enormous business done by the com pa&ies- could not have been done ? without the aid of the most reputable ?""members, of the medical profession. Yet these very exarniners to whom they are indebted for the faithful per? formance of their duties, are those ' whose compensation they would still further reduce. I can perhaps best lllrstrate this by an example. Sever? al years ago, three applicants .were examined by the writer, each for $50, 000 policies. They were all rejected. The remuneration received, for this was $15,00. I was reliably informed that one of the applicants who was a notorious case of heart disease was ^ afterwards examined by another phy? sician and a $25,000 policy was issued to him. That company probably lost more through that single policy than would have sufficed to pay their en? tire stan! of examiners in one State for one year, or if the original three ^ applicants had been passed they would equalled as much perhaps as all the fees paid to all the. examiners for one year in the whole country. The South Carolina Medical Associa? tion and all the county societies have unanimously agreed to make no com? plete examination for less than $5,00. these companies are consequently ob liged to employ as medical examiners, those men who are not affiliated with the regular medical profession, and -these men are in no manner bound by the restrictions by which the regu? lar profession is held, and <.-onse quentiy are controlled by no laws ex? cept such as they see fit to make for themselves. It would seem that the enormous losses which the ceempanies have sustained in a comparatively brief space of time on account of the loss of confidence by the public, ow? ing to the recent disclosures, would . have impressed upon them the fact that the public are in no humor to tolerate any action which would not bear the strictest investigation. To discharge old and experienced examiners at this time for -new and untried medical outlaws, ought to take away from them the last shred of confidence which the public might have retained. If these insurance companies persist in employing dis? honest methods, reputable practition? ers throughout the country will in? struct their patients which companies are the most reliable, and the others will, of course, be obliged to go out of the-* business. If necessary the aid of the Attorney General will be en? listed to do as he instructs them to. A great pecuniary benefit will' result from all this to the whole South. The sending of many millions to the North every year has simply amounted to an open avowal of our incompetency to properly care for that amount at home and we have certainly had an appalling illustration of their ability to care for it for us. In fact the whole world recoils in horror at the enormity of the robberies which have been nerpetrated in the name of the widows and orphans. Companies are daily being established at horne so that the money may be used to foster home enterprises, and for the benefit of the sick and needy amongst us. The failure to return a proper share of the surplus to so many thousands of risks which are now in force and daily maturing would warrant the State in bringing suit against the companies for proper restriction, and injunctions should be issued to re vent further sale of policies until such restriction is made. The medical profession is amply able to protect themselves and the public from the unscrupulous action of these companies, and all that is needed is to keep the public informed how much they have been and are being defrauded. The companies will then find it to their interest to guar? antee honest returns, and to employ none but the most highly reputable medical examiners and other officers W. Peyre porcher. Charleston, S. C., Juno 19, 1906. *A prompt relief for croup. One j Minute Cough Cure, cuts the phlegm, allays the inflammation-the cough syrup with a reputation. Sold by all druggists. 1 THE OFFICE SEEKERS. i THERE WAS A SMALL ATTEND i ANCE AT THE AIKEN . MEETING. Jenes Says He is the Only Pebble on the Beach-Ansel's Old Story Makes \ 'Em Laugh-Gubernatorial Candi - j dates Make Passes at Each Other. Aiken, S. C., June 27.-Just about I 13 per cent, of the 3,300 voters of j Aiken county attended the campaign ! meeting here today. There %rere j twenty speakers, who consumed four j hours a>nd a half. Candidates Mar ! tin, McLeod, Tribble, Youmans, Jen I nings, Patterson, Tillman and Lump kin were absent. In his preliminary remarks Chair? man 'D.- S. Henderson stated that Aiken county was responsible for in? troducing and securing an act in the general assembly for the purification of primary elections. The last pri? mary in this county had been dis? graceful and he called on the people to prevent this recurrence. Candidate Snllivan declared he no ticed the people -ar3 getting more promises and little better service from the railroad commission just.now than before the campaign started. . Mr. Summersett said he had been working for the railroads a long time and if elected commissioner he would know how to hold them in check and would devote his entire time of ten hours per day to his office. Mr. Cansler of Tirzah provoked merriment by declaring he would keep on running for railroad commissioner until he died. He knew "more Latin and Greek than the whole push put together. Commissioner Wharton declared he had been a good and faithful servant and promised to keep on working for the people. Captain Sellers based has candidacy on honesty, capability and the fact that his section was entitled to repre? sentation on the boari. Mr: Ansel opposed high license as a step toward barrooms and elaborated his idea of county choice between pro? hibition and dispensary. He favored clothing all peace officers with power .to enforce the law. He believed the grand jury would, under this plan, soon discover any dishonesty and check it. By special request he re? peated his clebrated Brother Craw? ford story to the great amusement of the crowd. Mr. Blease stated that he had never changed from his principles with which he had started out sixteen years ago. He is not here upholding corrup? tion or defending any indvidual in the system. He is the only man in the race who is, fighting for the dispen? sary. In support of this he attacked the senatorial records of Manning and Sloan, declaring these showed them to j have fought the dispensary. Discuss- | ing Manping he said the senate jour? nal, 1892, page 574, showed he veted to kill the dispensary, that pages 277 and 294, of 1905 journal, showed he voted against the dispensary and for local option by the State board. The journal of 1904, pages 39S and 299, showed he voted for a bill whose au? thor said he introduced it "for the purpose of killing of the damnable dis? pensary." How can Planning be a friend of the dispensary when two years ago he voted for a Brice bill, which is today being used to destroy j the dispensary? When the Raysor bill came up in the senate Raysor offered I the half-mill saving clause that the friends of the dispensary wanted, and Manning voted with Brice to kill it. Yet tpday he declares he is a dispen? sary* man. He said Sloan was a mem? ber of the Senate in '92 and '93 and the journal shows he did everything in his power' to kill the dispensary. Blease said he put the question to Manning and Sloan, "have either of you ever voted in favor of the dispen? sary or to help make it better law?" The Raysor-Manning bill was never considered in the senate- The dispen? sary people would not accept it and the dispensary committee brought in a substitute bill embodying the ideas of Tillman. Raysor offered an amend? ment that the State board should have power to close any dispensary when? ever it shall be made to appear to their satisfaction that it shall be t\ the good of the community in which it is located. This was worse than the Brice law. He has never moved to reconsider the vote whereby this J amendment was agreed to, but Man- i ning voted against it. He claimed to be the only dispen? sary man in the race who has consist? ently stood to it through thick and thin. He wanted it clearly known that he did not defend corruption, "if there is corruption there turn out those who are corrupt and put in hon- ! est men. I believe the dispensary is i -day conducted properly and that officials, are honest. If heretofore I there were corrunt men in it they ! have been retired. Mr. Brunsen declared it would be t impossible to get the best men to con- j duct the dispensary. His platform was a clean one on which every good j man in the state cnn stand and one on . which no m.an will work ill to his I it. Remember, he said, Brimson has stood for thirty years between .the liquor traffic and the boys of the coun? try. If you use your vote for the pro? tection of women and children it is obliged to have on it: "Joel E. Bran? son." f Mr. Edwards said he came into the canvass to condemn evil and evil-do? ers. He' declared the government of the state is in the hands of weak men. Mr. Jones said he was the man who in private life had done as much as any man in the State to fight liquor. He had appealed to Brice and other leaders to refer the matter to the peo? ple to say whether the dispensary should close or continue and called upon them to lead the fight. Failing in ?ais he took' it up "himself. The Piedmont section had repudiated the dispensary in almost every county. Even Blease, who was popular in the cour.ty, had been told by the people of Newberry, "Cole, we will vote it out,'5 and it was done three to one. He de? clared in Greenville county it is a common joke on Ansel that nobody could tell where he stands; that his ear was always to the ground and that he had been straddling the fence so long that he was bowlegged. He said Blease is the only consist? ent advocate of the dispensary. Bran? son is a theoretical prohibitionist. He had never been heard of in the last two years in any work to vote out the dispensary. .Edwards is a good c:ti2en, but was .-wrapped "up in a fight against railroads. McMahan is a fine man, but his special plea for the state to go into insurance business will not appeal to the people. Man? ning didn't believe in the dispensary, but had accepted it for the power be? hind it. Mr. Jones thought Col. Sloan an elegant gentleman who believes in old barrooms and who was unwilling to antagonize the wonderful influence of whiskey. Mr. Manning was not' here as ?n apologist or defender of wrong cotr.g when he advocates the State dispensa? ry. This, institutioa has done good and no candid man could deny that comparison will show it superior to former conditions. He had absolute? ly nothing to deny or defend. His leg? islative course is a public record and on it he stood. He was gald to be measured thereby in his candidacy. He did not claim to have been an ad? vocate of dispensary in IS92. Every? body would recall that in that year his county endorsed prohibition and in? structed him to vote therefor. He voted for prohibition and had no apol? ogy- to make. In the closing hours of the .session the senate substituted a dispensary bill for this prohibition measure. At this last moment there was no opportunity to discuss the mat? te:.* and understand effects of this sub? stitute, and following his invariable rule to vote for nothing that he did not fully understand he had voted against it. His rule of action then was the same now. What he is striving for is tc promote temperance and sobriety and finally secure a law that will re? move the evils of liquor. Abuses had crept into the dispensary management, but his examination had showed him where changes could be made so as to render it satisfactory. He discuss? ed the method of opening bids as pro? posed under the Raysor-Manning bill, showing it would absolutely prevent collusion with whiskey sellers and the opportunity for graft on the part of' the management.-Columbia Rec? ord. V A Hard Lot * Of troubles to contend with, spring from a torpid liver and blocked bow? els, unless^you awaken them to their proper action with Dr. King's New Life Pills, the most pleasant and most effective cure for constipation. They prevent appendicitis and tone up the system. 25 cents at Sibert's Drug .Store. The Charleston train now comes into the passenger station head on, the new track having been completed and put into service after many :nonths. Tt is a great improvement. Saved His Comrade's Life. * "While returning from the Grand Army Encampment at Washington City, a comrade from Elgin, 111., was taken with cholera morbus and was in a critical condition." says Mr. J. E. Houghland, of Eldon. Iowa. "1 gave him Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and believe saved his life. I have been engaged for ten years in immigration work and con? ducted many parties to the south and west. I always carry this remedy and have used it successfully on many oc? casions."' Sold by all druggists. ALCOLTJ RAILROAD. DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. Effective May 1. lSOti. Read down Read up No. 1. No. 3. No. 2. Mixed Mixed Mixed P. M. P. M. A. M. Lv 200 Lv 7 4:? Lv SOO Alcolu " 205 - 7 50 - 7 4:> McLeod " ~V " 74'-' Harby - 220 " S On - 735 Durant *' :-4:? * >-;" " 7ii> Sardinia I " ~->;' " " "CO New Zion I - 300 - S 45 - 6 55 Beard " 315 " fi 40 Seloc .. 4 00 " 945 - 615 Hudson Ar 4 30 Ar 1015 Ar ? ; ? M > Beulah Mondays. Nb. 2: Wednesdays, Nos 2and3^ I Fridays. No ?: Tuesdays. No. i; Thursdays No. .': Saturdays. Nos. -2 and '). All stations except Beulah and Alcolu are fia? stations <or- all trains. V. ll. ALDERMAN. T. M. J PAPER FROM COTTON STALKS. Organization of a $13,000.000 Com? pany for Producing Paper and De .. natured Alcohol from the Stalks of the Cotton Plant. New York, June 27.-The Cotton Stalks' Products Company has been incorporated in Maine with an au? thorized capital of $15,000,000. Of this $3,000,000 is 7 per cent, preferred stock of a par value of $100 a share, and $12,000,000 common stock of a par value of $20 a share. The com? pany intends to manufacture -paper and denatured alcohol from cotton stack fibre. Experiments have been going on for some time in the making of paper from cotton fibre, and it is said now that a stage has been reach? ed which warrants the organization of the company. Harvey Jordan, presi 'dent of the Southern Cotton Associa? tion, is president of the company; S." F. B. Morse, vice president, and Ar? thur F. Kales, secretary and treasurer. WANTED IN SUMTER. T. T. Scott, who is wanted in Sumter on two charges, namely, larceny of live stock and also of obtaining mon? ey under false pretenses, was arrested yesterday by Officers Kelly and Bur? ton of the rural police force, and lodged in the county jail. The sheriff of Sumter was immediately notified and will send for Scott today. Several days ago. Sheriff Martin re? ceived the warrants from Sheriff W. H Epperson, of Sumter, and also a letter requesting that he arrest Scott if he could be found. The warrants were turned over to Officers Kelly and Burton, and they found Scott at the Navy Yard, and immediately placed him under arrest.-News and Courier. ?Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar is the original laxative cough syrup and combines the qualities necessary to^relieve the cough and purge the system of cold. Contains no opiates. All druggists. Downward Course Fast Being Realized by Sum? ter People. . A little headache at fir&t. Daily increasing till the back is laine and weak. 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