New-York tribune., 1905-11-21
70 HEAR PLATT TO-DAY.
DEPOSITION 1T OFFICE.
Questions 4bout Campaign Fands OF
Former Years To Be asked.

The legislative investigating committee VIII
not call Senator Platt to the stand as expected,
as il will be practically impossible for MIN 10 get
up the long flight of steps at the City Hail. ac-
cordingly his testimony viii be taken at MS
office. No. 49 Broadway, to-day.
Re will be asked about Ex-Governor OdeiI s
statement that, save for last year. the senator
collected campaign contributions from corpora
tions If insurance companies figure in the list
he is expected to be asked to give details MT
Hughes, It is expected. will also ask about the
fee of $4,000 paid TO his sons firm by the
Equitable.
II the Senator's testimony takes the line ex-
pected it viii be among the most interesting IN
fits political meaning given in the course OF the
investigation
John A. Nichols who wrote letters to Senator
Depew about our friend from UP the river,
has been subpoenaed Mr.. Nichols has said that
this man was not politician and had nothing
to do with the legislature. in which statement ne
is borne out by Mrs. Nichols, VINO says she lou
knows the friend"
The question of veracity between z. II. Har-
rirnan and Governor Odell and James Hazen
Hyde as to the settlement of the Odell ship
building suit will loom large in the testimony Of
w. C. Gulliver, of Mr.. Hyde's counsel, and Balm
bridge Colby who was counsel for the Mercan-
tile Trust Company. Mr. Colby, it is expected
VIII return to town from business trip this
afternoon or tomorrow. Mr.. Gulliver may be
asked TO testify to-day.
Mr., Hughes intends stick to the Equitable
until he has finished with its officials and
the allied question of political interference with
the company's affairs and subsidiary compa-
MES business Gage E. TarbelI second vice
president. probably Will be recalled to tell about
the agency departments expenses.
he info bu
various Equitable directors to the suits brought
by Attorney General Mayer came up yesterday,
but the cases were adjourned. until Friday, when
Justice Bischof, who is not Equitable policy
holder, VIII have a free day. A committee of
lawyers. John G. Milburn. George W. Wicker
sham and R. S. Ransom. has been appointed by
the defendant directors to canvass all the points
IN the Attorney Generals suits and work out
az propriate lines of defence for the three classes
OF directors-those allied with Hyde according
to the Attorney Generals charges, those not al
lied with Hyde. who because Of stock owner
ship were interested equally in the alleged cor
rupt practices of the board. and those being
sued simply because they We're members of the
directorate.
Mr.. Hughes spent all day preparing for this
mornings session. He has received the follow
ing telegram from Andrew ]. Clunie, who was
Insurance Commissioner in California at the
from the Equitable:
Press accounts yesterdays committee pro-
ceedings Secretary McCurdy swore that three
years my term Office Equitable and other COM
penies each paid my brother $3.50 per month for
my benefit. If such statement made or inti-
mated by innuendo, pronounce absolutely
false / never received any money whatever
f1cm any company directly from any other
person to influence my official action. II within
your committees province and consonant with
its desire 1 viii come TO New-York any day Won
data Of oil o14u
as commissioner. Answer paid.
The Mutual Life's investigating committee
held long session yesterday but no announce
ment was made after the meeting. The date of
the next meeting is uncertain, but the commit
tee probably VIII hold three or four sessions =
week.
\ meeting of the trustees of the Mutual is
scheduled for Tomorrow, at which il is ex-
pected the question of reducing the salary of
Richard A. McCurdy TO 5000 year and cut
ling down the incomes of the other McCurdys
viii be brought up. An important element of
the board it is believed, viii advocate the elm
ination of the McCurdy family from the Mu-
tuals affairs instead of a mere curtail1nent Of
the incomes. Some additional preliminary report
from the Truesdale committee may be made to
fba ord