New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-24
TO FINISH WITH MUTUAL.
PLANS FOR THIS WEEK.
No Present Intention to Call Mur-
pin, McCarren or OdeU.

The Legislative Insurance Investigating Commits
tee will resume it's session at city Hall this
ing. and in all probability Emory McClintock. the
SS.ooo actusry Of the Mutual Life. will be put
the stand to reply to the questions President Rich
ard A. McCurdy last week declined 10 answer.
+ Chief among these whether the decline in
the size OF dividends to pOlicyhoders in the last
twenty years was the result Of the coiacident In
crease in the salaries Of the executive officers. In
this period the salary Of President McCurdy alons
! Increased from $4,000 to $4,000.
& 1t he's not been decided definitely whether the
committee win sit for the next three days. but in
any case it viii! adjourn election at the close
of this wcok's sessions. and James Hszen Hyde
will take the stand until the sessions are
sumed a.-er election Among the witnesses who
viii testify this week c. c. Haven, Mutual
trustee: Waiter 5. Sullivan, wno has charge OF
the Mutual advertising. and such OF the employees
and proprietors Of Lysander W. Lawrence & Co.
, are i'm reach sUbpeuas.
There well defined runOr yesterday that
Charles +. Murphy. leader OF Tammany aa-1-
would be called by the committee to TESTIFY re-
gardng the affairs of the New-York Dock COM
pany's predecessor. The Brooklyn Wharf and Ware
hose Company, in which the Mutual sunk seVelAl
hundred thousand dollars. Senator Patrick H. NC
Carren so the report went was also TO be sum-
moned Both politicians reported to know OF
AN az, emut to unload the Mutuals dead dog upon
The city II also pointed out by those VINO
told this story that John F. Carroll, when In charge
of Ta-nmany Hall. was receiver for the Brooklyn
pa-ent foundation for investigation 1t can 10
.l,lthoritatfvelv said that up to the present the
calling Of Murphy and McCarren nas not been con-
epated The situation as o eS's Of the sn sroo
Ivn Wharf and Warehouse Company ihcldSilt-
they should ind that this involved the c35lhe y
Murphy and MCCarreD. they WOulu pIoOoeO-ss
nurti Them. bur as yet they have not consluete0
any such action. the same IS true OF repottS tia
Ex-Governor OdcI to be called 70 tesltLs
.eftIa Slits brought connection with the CnitSo
Sts.es ShpbudIrg case against the MS,sIHs-s
Trust Company. one OF the Equitaoles suosididit
II is practically certain however, that a nuT1Osr
of officials of the State Insurance Department VIII
no called 10 appear before the investigating coifi-
mittee The revelations OF last week resaIul,i
witness who was shown TO have risen from Fields a
livery stable the position OF examiner IN tRs
Insurance Department. have created Proiounee4
impression The committee has not heard rom
McCieiIand of Westchester. who is reported TO bs
ON his way East to tell about his share IN thts
NutuaIs Albany House Of Mirth.
The general belief Is that this week VIII De 0ss
70 fnisbinC up the investigation OF the affairs
of the Mutual Life. ". W. Richards, VINO mas
charge of properties taken over on mortgage fore
closure has promised to furnish specific detais re-
estate transaction IN ROcheSlers
Vhich has been the subject of some comment.
Another similar venture in Eimlra VIII De exam
med closely.
terday OF the report that the members Of ths
Senate and Assembly Insurance committees Were
to be called by the committee Senator Alfred r.
Page who is a member Of the Senate committee
said yesterday that he had heard nothing OF call
ATTORNEY General Mayer in the city yesterday
a nd will return to Albany tonight His reply to.
the Merchants Associations demand for fmfneolapef
affairs of the Mutual Life has not yet been madS
and may not be sent for several weeks