Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-02
WILL NOT ASK
NJ CALL TO RESIGN
DIRECTOR CLAFLIN DENIES
CURRENT REPORT
A. @. Fields, Formerly Employed by
the Mutual, Is Out, but an Effort
VIII Be Made to Get Him
as Witness
BY Assnciaied prnsa.

Go WlhHGh8
BY Associated Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-Andrew C.
Fields, formerly head OF the supply de.
partment of the Mutual life insurance
company, who maintained a house al
Albany during several sessions of the
Legislature, is no longer connected with
that company. Frederick Cromwell
the temporary president of the Mutual
Life insurance company, today an
nounced that w. S. Sullivan, formerly
In the advertising department of the
Mutual, has been appointed head of the
supply department. It is understood
that Mr.. Fields will not return to be
examined by the insurance investigat-
ing committee. Charles J. Smith. head
of the Mutual Life insurance company's
press bureau and who is paid $4,000
yearly, has rendered his resignation to
Mr. Cromwell, but it has not been ac-
cepted. Mr.. Smith testified recently
that he caused reports Of insurance in
vestigation to be paid for in the news
papers at from 81 to So a line. John
G. Mccall, secretary of the New York
Life insurance company and son of
John A. Mccall, the president denied
today the report that he and his father
were to retire from their offices in the
company in January
John Claf1in, a director of the New
York Life insurance company, denied
the report that the directors were about
to ask for the resignation of John A.
Mccall, the president of the company.
That a further effort will be made
by the Mutual Life insurance COM
pany to bring Andrew G. Fields back
to New York to testify before the in
surance investigating committee was
stated in an announcement made today
at the office of the company. The
statement is appended:
while Mr.. Fields has been super
seded in the supply department, his
connection with the company has not
being made to bring him back to New
York to testify is concerned. The ap-
pointment of Mr.. Fields successor Is
temporary, and the permanent appoint
ment will be made only with the con-
Currence of the MutuaPs investigation
committee
Following the resignation of Justice
Rufus w. Peckham, the resignation of
several other Mutual Life trustees are
looked for this month, says the Tri-
bune.
Further drastic recommendations are
expected soon from the Mutual Life's
committee, affecting
conditions thus far untouched by the
committee, but of far-reaching i'm
pOrtance.
jerome Will Not Interfere
1t is considered entirely unlikely
that District Attorney Jerome will i'll
terfere in the affairs of any insurance
company this year. 1t was reported
yesterday that certain trustees of the
Mutual Life, incensed at the attemEt
of certain finapce committeeman N
block the work Of the Truesdale housty
cleaning committee, would ask Mr.. JeSl
rome to lay certain facts before the
grand jury.
Former President McCurdy of the
Mutual Life, it was reported last
night, is considering leaving Morris
town, N. j., for trip south, and may
be able to reappear before the legis-
lat1Ve insurance committee.
Ihe Times today says: "As the re-
suit of the publication of evidence TAX
ell in the Canadian insurance investi.
cation charging that Louis f. PAYNE.
FORMER state superintendent of insur-
ance, received $4,000 from the Mutual
Reserve Life association in connection
with report by his examiners and of
other disclosures before the Armstrong
committee pointing to relations be-
tween the insurance companies and the
state insurance department, the in
VeStlgatlon now on will be extended to
that branch of the state administra-
ton.
This DECISION of the Legislative COM
mlttee and its counsel became known
thls week. That Superintendent of In
Surance Hendricks will be called to the
stand in the next few days is now a
certainty. Employees of his depart
ment will also be called.
Will Extend Investigation
"A possible, if not probable. result
OF this will be to extend the investiga-
tion over into 1906 by renewal of
authority to this committee by the in
coming legislature or by the appoint
ment of new committee, with most
OF its members chosen from the pres
ent.
The committee has had the matter
seriously under consideration for a
week or moreover since, in fact, the
time when it began to appear that all
the companies that have been called
or have requested examination could
not possibly be brought before the
committee by January 1. There still
remains the Prudential of Newark, the |
Aetna of Hartford and half dozen
more of the larger companies to be |
examined, as well as a host OF smaller
ones, and the many fraternal organi-
cations of an insurance character. Sew |
eral much wanted witnesses are alb |
sent