The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-11-14
M'CALL TO REPAY MCNEY
 PAID TO ATTY. HAMILTON
SUM OF Ssa5,OO FOR WHICH LAWYER MEYER RENDERED
 ACCOUNT.

If Legislative Attorney for New york
 Life Does Not Return This Amount
 by December s1 the President VIII
 Make it Good HimseIf--McoaII Pre-
 emptoriIy Ordered to Demand HamiI-
 tons Return from Europe-Denies
 That Company is Trying to Keep Him | Out of Country.
 | New York, Nov. 1S.--John A. Mccall. president of the New York Life msur- ance company, was called before the Armstrong committee of insurance in- yestigation today and peremptorily or- dered by the committee to demand the return from Europe to this country of Andrew Hamilton, the lawyer who has had charge of legislative matters for the New York Life. Mr. Mccall was 1 further ordered to demand an account Ing from Hamilton Of the moneys ex- pended by him and of the balance which he owes the New York Life. Mir. Mccall denied that 1t was the policy of his company to have MT. Hamilton re- main abroad until after the investiga. tion had been concluded and said that on the contrary he would very much like to have MT. Hamilton return.
 MT. Mccall, replying to MT. Hughes, counsel for the committee, said he had called the attention of the board of turstees of the company to hts testi- mony before the committee relative to Hamilton and gave MT. Hughes a copy of his statement, which said chat # Hamilton did not return to the New York Life the sum of s235 1000 by De- cenber 81 he would himself pay it to the company. Mr Mccall said MT. Hamilton was either in Paris or Nau- helm. The sum of $285,0D0, 1t has been shown, was paid out by Hamilton with out rendering an account.
 Another interesting line of exaniiia- ton was opened up just before the ad- Journment for the day when John Me G1nness, an employe of the Equitable Life, was called. He produced letter books and memoranda which MT. Hughes read and was in the midst of the reading when adjournment was taken. These were the instructions from former Comptroller Thomas D. Jordan. cf the Equitable life, to A. c. Fields, relative to the killing or assisting the passage Aof every bill introduced into the Legislature that would affect or help the interests of the ins s or any sof Ms officers.
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 sessions are resumed tomorrow.
 Other witnesses to-dav were John R Hegeman, president of the Metropolitan Life, and Vice President Fiske of the same company. who were interrogated along the line of agents salaries, legal expenses of the company, real estate holdings and the methods of acquiring properties and the fact was brought out that the fire insurance firm that places all risks on the properties of the Metropolitan Is composed of w D. Ed- mister and silas B. Butcher, the latter of whom is director of the MetropoN- tan Life.
 The low rate of interest at which MT. Hegeman secured loans and the season of the rebates of this interest that MT. Hegen1an received from the old firm of Vernlilye & Co., was testified to by sew eral members of that firm, which has since gone out of business This firm was the banker of the Metropolitan Life, but since last march the business has been taken over by William A. Reade & Co. MT. Reade was a witness to-day, and said that MT. Hegeman got these loans at afrate below the market rate because MT. Hegeman had been client for a number of years and be- cause of the volume of business he transacted with the firm of Vermilye & Co.