Arizona republican., 1905-11-10
THE MUTUAL
 LAW HOUSE
Supported Out of Legal
 Expense Fund
The Janitor Was Suspected of Being an Attorney-0ther Incidents of the Insurance Investigation

New York. Nov. s.-The house In AL bany. N. Y. which testimony before th.. insurance investigating committee has heretofore shown was for a number of years maintained by the funds of the Mutual Life Insurance company was again given some attention by Charles E. Hughes, counsel for the committee. when Michael P. Mullaney. the care taker of the house. was called today as a witness.
 MT. Mullaney's testimony was in a great part in corrobOration of the pre- vious testimony that A. c. Fields. while employed as stationery agent of the Mutual. also looked after legislative matters and paid the rent for the AL bany house.
 Today a number of vouchers signed by Mullaney were identified by the wit ness who acknowledged receiving the money for them. Some purported to be for legal services. some for sun- dries and some for travelling expenses. The witness said he was not a lawyer and could not explain why vouchers were made out to that item. J. M- Beck. counsel for the Mutual however. took occasion to remind the counsel that all vouchers for the maintenance of this house. it has been testified. were charE- ed to legal expenses. MT. Hughes said that did not explain why some were for travelling expenses, and some for sun dries
 | Mullaney could not tell what the ! sundries were unless they were sup plies. He had taken trips to New York | to see MT Fields at the lat-er's suE-
 gestion. He did not know how many ] times he had been to New York. He sometimes bought tickets for MT. Fields. Nineteen vouchers were iden- tified by Mulianey. for all of which he admitted he received the money. which aggregated $5.73s. These were paid during March 1900. and July l3. 1905.
 Mullaney said his salary was s.5 month He had never carried any
 money to Albany from New York. and
 had never paid out any money for MT.
 Fields.
 The greater part of the day. wm. Barnes ST.. formerly of Albany. bu-
 now living at Nantucket. Mass. sat in
 the committee room waiting tO be call
 ed. but late in the afternoon he was
 excused for the day. NIT. Barnes fgcr-
 ed in this investigation several weeks ' ago when vouchers for legal services
 bearing his signature were produced.
 together with a letter signed by Wm.
 Barnes, Jr., of Albany. reminding the
 Mutual Life that his fathers 'honOr-
 arium" had not been received. and fur
 ther asking that a check be forwarded
 The Metropolitan Life Insurance
 company figured in the greater part oe
 the days proceedings. John R Hege-
 man, president of the company. who
 was on the stand when the adjourn ment was taken yesterday. was the
 first witness today and the expenses of the company were further gone into. It was brought out that MT. Hegeman's a
 salary is the same as that of John A. Mccall. president of the New York Life, s1OO.OO0. Previous tO 1905. how
 ever. MT. Hegeman received Ss0. .0oo. . The salary of Vice President Haley F'iske is s75.0OO; Geo. Fl. Gaston. sec | ond vice president. receives S37. 500. !. , and Frank O. Ayres. third vice presi- dent receives $16,25O.
 The work of agents in the field and their compensation was taken up with MT. Hegeman. and later James M. Craig. the actuary. was called tO sup ply details as to figures with which MT , Hegeman was not familiar. Later in the day, when MT. Craig had been ex-
 cused. MT. Hegeman was again called 9 and the subject of the cOmpany's se- , curities were taken up. but the inter 0 rogation had hardly begun when ad- ,. journment was ordered