The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-11
THREE OFFICERS OF THE MUTUAL LIFE ON STAND
PRES. M'CURDY, VICE PRESI- DENTS GRANNIS AND GILL;
 LETTE TESTIFY.

Latter Tells of Contributions to the
 Republican Campaign Fund-sEc-
 Curdy Knew of Them but Was Ig-
 norant of Amounts-Mr. OIyphant,
 Chairman of the Expenditures Com
 mittee, Cannot Tell What the s25,000
 Items Drawn to His order Were For
 Beyond That They Went for Legal
 Expeneses.
 New York, Oct. 1O.-The sessions of the insurance investigating committes were terminated for the week at the adjournment to-day, because of the death of s. Fred Nixon. speaker of the state assembly at his home in Vest field. The committee was holding meeting to consider what action to take in the event of his death, which had been expected all day. when an Associated Press dispatch was received announcing the end.
 Senator Armstrong at once declared there would be no more sessions of the committee until the funeral, and that the committee would probably hold a two days session next week. Ths committee will assemble at the usual hour tomorrow. but will immediately adjourn, the purpose being to have the formal adjournment put upon the rec ords.
 The days testimony did not produce any information of sensational na- ture beyond what had been discounted in testimony of previous witnesses. The feature of the day was the presence as witnesses of three executive officers of the Mutual Life Insurance company. These were President Richard A. Me Curdy, and Vice Presidents Granniss and Gillette.
 While 1t had been hinted last week that some expenditures charged to ls- gal expenses might have been contr- buttons to campaign committees, it was announced definitely by Dr. Gil- lette that the Mutual Life Insurance company contributed $40,O00 to the re- publican national committee last fall, that in 1900 $35, 1000 was contributed, and in 1896 $15000 was given for cam | paign purposes.
 Dr. Gillette testified that he paid these amounts personally in cash, and later in the day MT, McCurdy said that while he knew campai ign con tsas tE a9sI. h9as-. lions had been made he did not know l the amounts
 | He said that no contributions had been made campaign committees be- | fore 1896, and that no contribution to state or municipal campaigns had ever been made in this or any other state. | The contribution of S2,500 to the con- gressional campaign committee, MT. l McCurdy knew nothing about until it came out in the testimony last week.
 An interesting statement was made by Robert Olyphant when he was on the stand early in the day. MT. Oiy- l phant is chairman of the expenditures I committee, and he could not tell what he $25,000 items drawn to his order i were for beyond that they were for l legal expenses. He said the company maintained a confidential fund for ex- penditures for which no voucher was taken and no receipt was received. | These payments were made upon the assurance of an executive officer that they were all right.''
 l Vice President Grannis knew lit- tie about the contributions to sam paign funds, but Justified them on the same ground as did President John A. Mccall of the New York Life, that the
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