The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-18
|,olNASA lSAN EXAMINER.
osrs TO LOOK At TIE METRO
fBoulnyJTly LIES SECURITIES.

..,.,tiais showing ma the ni,nals
Pre'es,.,.ndeu Of Insurance fann Appoistea
!. That purpose-Tho ompany Has
~ ~, needed what 10 no About ~.
"a, Thornton. at home at l02 East TWEEN
ANA .,rcct. lawyer at 80 Nassau street,
V1na,'isr wherever the picking is good and the
pOW'-., man In seventeen counties when q
h'ns. man Is wanted, has been appointed by
panug Il. u. MCClovc, superintendent of
n BE- for the state Of Illinois, a special OK
ns, y ~ the books and securities of the Metro
a,,.a Iife Insurance Company Of this city.
POM presented his credentials to vicc-Presi-
ANA . T,sr NJ the company yesterday afternoon
~, Madison avenue. and remarked that he was
~. W." ont Of town for n few days and would
....Ir his work rs soon as he returned to town.
rho first intimation that the company had
49,, I, was going to be examined was when Mr..
~ rsceiycd n letter from Superintendent Nc
rt.ro nj 1890 o'clock yesterday morning. The
,,,,r was dated from springfield, ILL.,, on Jan.
20 vhy II wasn't delivered before yesterday
.-,,ry AIR. Fisk doesn't know. He proposes
s0d ont II he can. The letter was n short
I, simply stated that Amasa had been
,..icra,ed to examine the compapy's books
"a ,scurities, and Mr.. McClevo hoped that the
.~,nany would chccrfully pay whatever bill
,n,.a renders for the work he docs.
when Mr.. Fisk read tho letter he was n little
.u,,lcd. What puzzled him was TO know why,
= The superintendent Of Insurance for Illinois
v,nted TO have tho metropolitan insurance
ssnnany examined, no didn't request the Super.
s.,sndent of Insurance of this State, tho Hon.
IlSnis +, Payn. TO name the examiner. Mr..
NJ imagined that this would have been tho
marteous thing to do, inasmuch as at the last
..rnal meeting of insurance supcrintendents
y ali the States, held in philadelphia, a resolu-
Am was passed to the effect that when an in
mined BY the Superintendent Of Insurance Of
..o,her State in which 1t did business, the Su-
v1ntendent Of Insurance OF the State In which
X company had its HON office was to desig.
M Gn account OF that resolution Mr.. Fisk
thought it strange that superintendent Payn
hdn7t been asked to name. the examiner. He
i ready for any number OF eNaminat1ons but
n would have been better pleased had Super
stendent McClevc designated some man known
10 Nm or to other officers Of the company.
II seems that no one in the executive depart
n,nt Of The company knows Amasa. That, Of
noursc,is TO argue themselves unknown, but they
ami help that. None Of them / as ever lived up in
s. Lawrence county, where Amasa was born and
where he was admitted to the bar, and where
m his first case he saved the town OF Hammond
b that county from paying $4,000 OF It's Just
debts at the expense Of the East River Bank of
ts city. which had bought the towns bonds;
nor in Albany, where his ability as a manipu-
IA ta
Nor OF legislators is best known: nor in Wash.
ington, where he practiced law for q time and
mld get the ear OF President Harrison when
senator's and congressman and such couldn't
even get their cards in.
Amasa came to New York in 1886, and this
hs been his home since then. For some time
he was an organization Republican. Then he
vent over to the Committee of Seventy, to see
Shat there was over there. When the Citizens
Union was organized he became q Cit, Just for
he sake OF experiment..
When Vice. President Fisk was asked by a
suy reporter yesterday afternoon whether or
not he would object to Amasa's examination of
he books and securities Of tho company, he
aid:
Il cannot say what we will do. All l can
tell you lie what actually has happened"
Would you object to having the company
Examined by any one Of a dozen business or pro
t~ssional men Of the highest standing in New
York or any other city7'
Not by a jug iull," was the answer. I'VE
mould be delighted beyond measure, and show
them every facility possible for carrying on
their work."