The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-21
LIFE AGENTS
 LEAVE FOR THEIR HONES
CONVENTION OF THREE DAYS
 zDJoURNs WITHoUr DAT.

sAes EEesoent Sasuc .Attcr he~
 fusing an Unanimous Request to Re-
 siga Also Declines an Inyitation of
 the Agents to Address TAem--Em-
 inent Counsel Engaged by the Con-
 tending Factions.
 New York, Apfal 20.-Aftes> First Vice President James H. Hyde of the Equita- ble Life Assurance society had informed a committee of managing agents tfss afternoon that it would be Impossible, because of previous engagements, to address the agents convention which had been in session in this city for three days, the session adjourned with- out day. This committee did not see MT. Hyde. but telephoned to him at his office, and was given the informasiun that the first vice president Of the Equitable was glad to receive the in- vftation. but could not accept: that, however, he would prepare statement and transmit 1t to the committees, covA ering the sitation as he conceived it. This statement, it is understood, wdll be circulated among the agents when 1t Is received,
 The invitation to address the agents followed a call by a cofnmftte ou Mr. Hyde this morning with g. Bque# tAat he resign as an officer of the society This Mir. Hyde declined tn do in. an ada dress fh which he said he would con. sider such an action ''rrwonthy and dts graceful to the memory of my fathers and further that 1t is evident fsuln your extraordinary request, and from the report of the proceedirgs at your meeting, that you have not the Temotest conception of the unfortunRda contro- versy, or the motive behind the strug* gle for the control of the sootety
 In this sams address he promised to write the agents tomorrow in reply ta their demands.
 MT. Hyde's speech had followed ona by Joseph Bowas, of Baltimore, chasr4 man of the agents committee, in which the latter recited that the request fur the resignation was unanimous.
 These were the principal develop- ments of the session of the agents which began at the Hotel Savoy this morning and continued until after o'clock this afternoon. Permanent or ganization was effected and officers chosen. and shortly before ad3ourn. ment it was decided that the committee of seventy-two named yesterday to wait 10 nthe state superintendent of insur ance and upon Governor Higgins f0 urge les lslation favorable to nlutualiz- p Ers tri morrow morning and see Insurance Ssi- perintendent Hendricks at his office there and then return to Albany to meet Governor Higgins Saturday.
 The executive committe eof the EQust- able also met today in President Alex ander's office, but further than the an- Inouncement that the demand for Mr. Hyde's resignation was discussed noths ing was given out.
 The committee of investigation Of which H. c. Prick is chairman was in session in the course of the day ana unanimously agreed to employ former United States Attorney General Knox as counsel. Announcement was made that the investigation would be pur- sued with all possible speed and thor- oughness.
 Tn connection with the legal ends fiji the Equitable tangie, to-day's an- nouncement that Eaihu Root refnairs as one of MT. Hyde,s counsel in spite of stories to the contrary was interest ing. The retention of Joseph H. Choatd as one of the Hyde counsel was also confirmed.
 It was understood tonight that many of the agents were leaving for thefH homes