The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-19
'CURD])Y''S SALARY A ll'I
IS NOT CUT DOWN

TTeS1QenL OF LIE Mutudl AtlIe NeA1
Gets $15o,otofo. q Year for
Services.
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New York Herald Special Service. 1,*'r.
New York, Nov. lS.-James B. Dill,
counsel for the Mutual Life, said today
that mistaken impression had got
- abroad to the eff
Mccurdy May Get feet + tn at the
e." $150,000 salary Of
$15O,OOO President Richard
McCurdy had al
Till He Is Ousted ready been re-
:. 80 = duced to $4,000.
Mr.. Dill said that a careful reading
Of the preliminary. report ,,ef the
house-cleaning committee would: show
that the president 81 salary stht ~ :: st91a 0
Curdy's own suggestion, the final neral
committee refused to recommend that
the salary should be cut in half The
committee in it's report said that IT
would not take action to cut salaries
without the authority OF the trustees,
because that might be construed as "
ratification of the past. There will be
the Mutual Life on Nov. 20, at which
it would be possible for the board 10
reduce President McCurdy's salary to
$4,000, in accordance with his own sug-
gestion The only thing to prevent the
adoption of such resolution is the
possibility that pressure may, be
resign. Unless he should resign or be
decapitated, his salary of $l50,000
could continue until the next annual
election in June. AS the present SEN
timent among the members f. the
board is to get. rid tof the ,McCntdXs S,
many changes are expected before then.
Senator Platt today continued his
conference with republican leaders and
announced that he. had received votes
&C. 49, enough in. the
Platt Declares county committee
to elect J. Van
He Can Gust Vechten Olcott, his
candidate 90 7
Odell as Boss chairman, in place
of William Halpin
the representative Of Odell. The
senator is moving with every con
fdence in his success, and it is
understood that there are power
full Influences. behind him which
he has never had supporting
him in his previous fights. The
friends of former Governor Odell, while
predicting victory for him, admitted to-
day that the Platt movement was grow
ing formidable. They do not fear the
outcome, but they realize that there is
more in the Platt fight than the mere
hostility Of the senator and the antago
nism of those elements in the party
which have been continuously against
Odell. Therefore they will not delude
themselves with over-confdence, but
will get to work at once to do battle
with the Platt cohorts.
A lineup Of the district leaders now
would show an undoubted majority. fol
Odell, but in 1.-THE full committee there
will be delegates, who, will not vote AZ
Platt side, so that it is impossible a
this time to forecast the action of thu
full committee. The general impression
among organized republicans, however
is that Ode1l will beeable to hold a ma
jority against" Platt. ! -'2@:|f.s i
According !? to a. statement casually
made by one of the officers of Prince
Louis flagship, The Drake, today, the
undesirable n,en~ofs the Second British
Cruiser squadpon are beingysslet co.
at this port. In other words, the Brit
ish fleet is getting':rid of its undesir
able sailors and letting them go in New
York. This explains the, unusual activ
ordering the seizure of, British tars tha
any Of .Commis
Scum of British sioner Watchiner
rr$ts. inspectors ); ,, m "a.
Fleet yiq>ais come across. an,
avis 20 their detention, g
Deserts at Gotham Ellis Island. !. Th
nzar2r total list of de
serters from the British fleet since
sailed from England numbers more tha
one thousand and more than four hun
dred have not shown up on their re
spective vessels since the squadro
dropped anchor in the Hudson. Fro1
the hags1hdiP dP alone the desertions toda
When they come e, back :.! and su1rer
on the flagship today, " he most; Q
them are told, to get. out and not sho7
up again. ..,.. -.:~ p. ~.
i, It was evident today that Wil1ia1
R. Hearst will. have to depend upo
some other means than a count of tn
:...:.. void and protest
Stumbling Block ed ballots if b
is to make an
for Hearst great headway i
a his c'o It 8
in Election Contest against May o
Mcclellan. As
result Of an examination by Judge Ge
!. ,gerich of sixty five ballots cast in th
first assembly district which had bee
declared by the election boards to b
void or protested by them and: upo
which the attorneys for Mr.. McClella
and Mr.. Hearst could not agree, it We
maintained by, Clarence J. ,Shearn, th
latter's chief counsel, that the Nun
cipal League candidate had made a NJ
gain Of nine votes, Charles, G.. Kn0
chairman of the, TammanY Hall. la
committee, on the other hand, .declart
that the result, shows a gain. of te
votes for Mcclellan. This discrepanc
rests. upon the question whether tt
protested ballots were counted for tt
candidates, as required by law. So Fl
Hearst had gained about one hundre
and fifty votes, lO7 of which we,
found on the tally sheets of the fir
six assembly districts in New Yor
While the Hearst forces assert that M
Clellan s plurality will be reduced t
1900 in New York alone by correctic
in the returns from the tally sheet
they base their main hope ON a recou1
of the ballots in the boxes.
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Nine. Sarah Bernhardt was expects
to reach New York on the French. lin
Touraine this evening and make q, da:
"a for Chicago b
The Divine Sarah the steam ers2: ia
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