The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-28

terms to cover this. If this was true
or Indiana, il was probably true of
many other states in the Urion. The
New York Life Insurance company,
through my department, retained emf
nent and influential counsel and sue
ceeded by a divided court in defeating
the project. Following out this idea.
developed in Indiana several states.
notably Arkansas. introduced similar
measures, all of which were defeated.
Counsel at Every Capital.
''At the capital of every state we
have either retained representatives Of
the companies or in cooperation with
someone who has retained representa-
tives duly influential. It has been found
advisable as the result of experience TO
avoid as far as possible any exact pub
lie conclusion as to who represents US
The known presence Of a corporation
representative at Legislative halls is the
signal for renewed yOr in the attacks
of bl-ckmailers and cranks, and unfor-
tunately members Of the legislative
bodies are frequently deaf TO reason
ing where a nOn-Voting or corporate
interest is at stake. Prevention is
again proved herein to be better than
cure. Where II becomes necessary we
have often occasion TO emf 10y the col
umns Of the public press for discreet
advocacy of our Views; this method
has been found to be very efticaciOus.
but II has also been found TO be very
expensive.
81 have found IN my work that in
every legislative body in the United
States there was as large a 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 l
have not found il so difficult TO defeat
blackmailers. A man IyhO is out 10
blackmail corporations is generally we'll
known. and his character thoroughly
understood. These len never retain
Influence for any length of time, and
have found that requests to the hon
est members OF the legislature Tor heIp
IN defeating the biackmailers is always
readily and cheerfully granted
Innocent Statement.
A tat sment of money received by
Mr. Hamilton shows the total OF SI2O,-
300 for the years from 1899 TO 1905. de
calls attention TO an expense OF xS3 100
for ''retainers nd newspaper articles
IA 1904, and says a large portion OF
this expense was occasioned by an Ell
fort TO create public sentiment through
out the United States in favor of ma
tionaI supervision OF insurance. I'm
der the same heaGing $97 900 is charged
for 1905 and the increase was due, he
SAYS, primarily to the troubles In the
Equitable Life Assurance society. Con-
cernis the 1926, 900 charged against
him by the New York life, Mr.. Hamil-
ton says:
az note the amount of S235, 900 charged
against me for those accounts, and
which has been fully Erought out in
President MoCalPs explanations to the
investigating committee and which, as
appears by his testimony, 1 was en-
titled to apply on other accounts. the
discharge Of obligation incurred or
s~cruing in my department IN 1904 and
1905 not represented in the stated pay
ment5 for thes- years, my unsettled ac-
counts for retainers, for commissions,
for percentages and the balance under
my special tax arrangement, all or
which accounts are stIll open, are to be
deducted from this gross amount
have, however. no ObjectiCl as an evil
dence of good fai-I during my absence,
pending such a settlement Of these &C
counts. to place in the custody Of the
company 500, 900. which may hold
and which is TO be repaid in whole or
in part, as may appear upon such fu-
ture audit.
Mr.. Hamilton. sets forth that the tax
measures alone defeated by him have
saved the New York Life company
over 81. 800 co., In concluding his state
ment Mr.. Hamilton says that the in
functions of the president Of the New
York Life to me were always unmis-
takably explicit that my expenditures
and my work were TO be strictly con-
fined within the limitations Of the law
of the land. These instructions have
been faithfully followed 70 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 president of this COM
pany, and : want it thoroughly under
stood that not ne dollar Of any money
e--er paid to me by the New York Life
company has been used improperly or
for improper purposes, or in way
that transgressed either the statutory
law or the moral law"
Knew Little About 1t.
4 statement of legal expenditures
other than those to Hamilton were pro-
duced by Mr.. Mccall, showing a total
for such expenditures Of s1,I0S,920 from
1901 to 1905. Mr.. Mccall said he did
not know Hamilton had not made an
accounting OF the $235, eco which Presi-
dent Mccall has promised 10 pay If
Hamilton does not account for il. Mr..
Mccall said he did not know whether
the 800. 900 which Hamilton in his
statement premises 10 place in escrow
was part OF the $685. 600. neither did
he know whether Hamilton had 100000.
Mr.. Mccall said he took a list of
Items from the New York office TO
Hamilton for which he was TO account, |
trusting absolutely 10 Hamilton to eX-
plain all. Mr.. Mccall said Mr.. Hamil-
tan knew OF the transcripts of bank
accounts connecting him with eXpen-
dttures the committee would like to
know about Witness said he insisted
hat the checks or check books be pro-