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INSURANCE INQUIRY ON
Legislative Committee TO Hold It's
Sessions in New York City.
Quick Reports Arc Promieed-Qoestion
of Attorneys and stenographers
to Be Chosen.

New York City.--Most of the mem
bers of tha Legislative Insurance In
vestigating Committee arrived in town
at night. Assemblyman James I. Rog-
crs, Speaker Nixon and Archie E. BaX-
ter. Clerk of the Assembly, went to
the Hotel Cadillac.
The party was joined later BY sena-
tors William ". Armstrong, the Chaiy-
man, and William J. Tully, Assembly
men Ezra P. Prentice, William w.
Wemple, Robert l.. Cox, Frank John
son, Sergeant-at-Arms Of the. Assem-
bly,. and G.. r. Hotaling, Sergeant-at-
Arms OF the Senate. The party then
went to q theatre. Assemblyman Nc
Keowan and Senator Riordan came
down from Albany by boat, arriving
in this city the next day.
Albany. n. Y.-All the members OF
the insurance investigation committee
were present at the organization oil
the committee at the Capitol.
The session lasted several hours.
Just before adjournment it was agreed
to reassemble in the New York City
office Of the Attorney General at q
William street. 1t was agreed that no
hotel be made the headquarters of the
members of the committee, but that
each one should select the hotel Of his
choice.
Acknowledgement Mayer sat with the
eight committeeman during their de-
liberatio but said that nothing of
any importance was transacted, the
matter of organizing and getting to
work being the only discussion. In
view Of the limited appropriation. the
selection of the principal counsel Will
be difficult. The committeeman oe-
lieved that two or three good lawyers
ought to be secured.
The big insurance companies will
be represented by prominent lawyers"
said Senator Riordan, land our COM
mittee should have all the assistance it
can get. 1 am in favor of employing
the very best lawyers it is possible to
secure"
Several stenographers will be neces-
sary. For the places applications were
received from Burt Sackett, the Senate
: stenographer; George E. Shotwell,
stenoTapher Of the Senate Finance
Committee; Henry Lammert, stelo-
grapher of the Assembly, and George,
w. Henderson, Of the Law Reporting
Company. Incorporated, Of New York.
The official Senate and Assembly
stenographers and Mr.. Shotwell, Sena-
tor Malby's stenographer. had every
thing fixed. rs they believed. to be
named the official stenographers of the
committee.
Their fond dreams we're shattered.
however. when ]. Calvin Mcknight
appeared before the committee in ad-
vocacy of the offer Of the Law Report
ing Company. Mr.. Mcknight. who
spent the day with Chairman Odell at
Saratoga, came to Albany on an early
train and met Mr.. Henderson. When
the committee was ready to talk. up
the consideration of selection CT STEM
ographers letter from the Law Re-
porting Company was read which sent
cold chills up and down the SpineS Of
the committeeman who had pledged
their support TO the legislative steno-
graphers. This corporation asked to
be made the official stenographer CT
the committee, offering to perform the
work for two cents folio for the orig,
inal copy and two cents folio for
each additional copy.