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mailers and cranks, and unfortunately,
members of the legislative body are fire.
quently deaf to reasoning where u nom
voting or corporate interest is at stake
Many movements that would otherwise be
unknown until they became public prop
erty, are learned of and suppressed in adj
vance and are thus more discreety pro-
Vlded against. Prevention is again proved
herelh to be better than cure. Where it
becomes necessary We have often occasion
TO employ the columns of the puolic press
for advocacy of our views; this method
has been found to be very efficacious but
1t has also been found to be very expen-
sive.
l have found in my work that in every
legislative body in the United States there
was as large proportion of honest men
as there is in any body OF men in any
walk of life. Permit me also to state that
In my work / nave not found It so dbl
cult to defeat biackmaiiers. A man who
Is out to blackmail corporate interests is
generally well known and his character
thoroughly understood. These men never
retain influence for any length of time
and l have found that requests to the
honest member of the legislature for help
readily and cheerfully granted
A statement of money received by Mr.
Hamilton shows the total of S72O,5JO for
the years from 1899 to 1895. He calls at
tention to an expense of $500 for re
tanners and newspaper articles" in 1904 and
says a large portion of this expense was
occasioned by an attempt to create public
sentiment throughout the United States
in favor of national supervision of in
surance. Under the same heading, $1,000
is charged for 1905 and the increase was
due, he says, primarily to the troubles
in the Equitable Life Assurance society.
OTers an Indemnity.
Concerning the 1926, 600 charged against
him by the New York Life. Mr.. Hamilton
says:
Il note the amount of $4,000 charged
against me for those accounts and which
has been fully brought out in President
McCalrs explanations to the investigating
committee, and, which appears by his tes-
timony, | was entitled to apply on other
accounts. The dischargng of obligations
accruing in my department in 1904 and 1906
not represented in the stated payments for
these years. my unsettled accounts for re-
tainers, for commissions, for percentages,
and the balance under my special tax ar
rangement all of which accounts are still
open, are to be deducted from this gross
amount. / have, however, no objection ps
an evidence of good faith during my alb
sence, pending such a settlement Of these
accounts, to place in the custody of the
company 100000, which ii may hold, and
which is TO be repaid in whole or In part
as may appear upon such future audit
Mr.. Hamilton sets forth that the tax
measures al, ne defeated by his work have
saved the New York Life Insurance COM
pany over $4,000. In conclusion i'm his
statement, Mr.. Hamilton says that the
injunctiOns of the president of the New
York Life TO me were always unmistak-
ably explicit that my expenditures and my
work were TO be strictly confined within
the limitations of the law of tho land
These instructions have been faithfully
followed to the letter. There has never
been a disbursement made by me of the
company's funds which trespassed upon
the Instructions given me by the presi
dent of this company, and l want it thor
oughly understood that not one dollar of
any moneys ever paid TO me by the New
York Life Insurance company has been
used improperly or for improper purposes
or in way that transgressed either the
statutory law or the moral law
May Have List of POIIcyhoIders
The right to secure full list of names
OF policyholders in the New York life
Insurance company was granted TODAY IN
Clarence II. Venner and nearly 100 other
policyhoiders by Supreme Court Justice
GTeenbaun.
The court denied their request that tba,,
he informed of the face value of each noIic,,
and also denied their petition to insnect
the companys books A writ of man
damus was issued directing President John
A. Mccall as president of the New YORK.
Life to furnish complete list of tina
policy holders
Emory McClintock was elected vice presi.
dent OF the Mutual Life Insurance company
at the meeting OF the board OF trustees
today. Mr.. McClintock is a native of
Pennsylvania. The trustees voted that al
commission agencies be abolished after
January l and that all agents be put on a
salary basis.
Mccall Does Not Know,
\ statement OF legal expenditures other
than those to Hamilton We're produced by
Mr.. Mccall, showing a total for such ex-
penditures Of n,l0Ss go from. 1901 to 1906
Mr.. Mccall said he did not know HamII-
ton had made an accounting of the sos
co which President Mccall has promised
TO pay IL Hamilton does not account for
It. Mr.. Mccall said he did not know
whether the No0.ooo Hhieh Hamilton in ais