Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-03-20
HAMILTON
in A RAGE
The Judge Bitterly Denounces Direct
ors Of the New York Life In
surance Company.
CALLS THEM TRAITORS AND OURS
Appears Before Investigating Commit
tee at Albany and Throws
Bomb Shells.

Albany. n. Y, March 17.--Andrew
Hamilton appeared before the lnSur-
ance investigating commttee this at
telEoon. and broke the silence which
he has maintained ever since his name
was first mentioned in connection with
The great sums OF money shown TO
have been paid to him during the past
10 years on account of his legal legis-
lative work for the New York Life
and other insurance companies.
1t would be difficult to eXaggerate
The sensation produced by his uneX
pected appearance and by the speech
which he made, or the intensely dra-
lntitic character of the whole episode.
His face flushed, and his voice tremb-
lirg with passion. his arms appraised
anC his fists clenched. Judge Hamilton
poured forth flood of denunciation
and invective upon the members of
the board of trustees of the New York
Life Insurance Co. several of whom
ere present. designating them ours
anG traitors, and paying especial at
tention to one unnamed whom he de
scribed as the Pecksniff Of three ad-
ministrations. the confident of the,
Iaeers scandal and author of the Beers
Pei siOn-who rotates through one ad
ADMINISTRATION. and another, and thinks
that he is going to be an indspen-
sable member Of yet another
And do YOU think?' he demanded,
"rhat the man VINO held the same re
l&tlons TO Mr.. Beers that I did to Nh.
Mccall could sit for the 10 years
since and not know how the expendi-
lures that We're made We're to be, and
were, disbursed? YET he and others
Ike him sit, not judging me as peers.
but Judging me as jurors talking about
yellow dogs"
A Bitter Attack.
,iUdge Hamilton attack upon the
trustees Of the New York Life was
made only the more dramatic by The
fact that he Immediately followed J. H
Mcintosh general solicitor Of that
company, who had been eulogizing the
members of that board and challeng
ING any man to give reasons why they
templated by the pending legislation
The only name he mentioned was
hat of the late President Mccall, ant
in his reference to him and his recen
hn "a ,,,l-..
He spoke of Mr. Mccall as a victim
rs having been shouldered with III,
biame-''the only one. the dead man
killed, that they drove to his grave
1nd deserted" and declared that tn,
memory of this man had appealed t
nm TO come down here and say
something for him and just a wore
for myself"
He declared unequivocally that ev
cry payment to himself by the New
York Life was made by the knowledge
and approval Of the trustees. and es
pecially OF the finance and auditing
committees. He pointed out that il
there had been anything the matter
with his vouchers for those payments
i was their duty to bring him to bool;
for it-yet. he said. month after month
and year after year, for 10 years, they
passed them "and then, when the
story at last comes OUT, they say:
Well we did not know anything about
i; this is the fellow; this is the man
hat has done it all. When they say
they did not know what was going
on, it aXcites my laughter and deris-
jon.
He declared again and again that
the payments We're proper and legiti
mate and that he had no apology tc
pfake for himself or President Mccall
One of his most interesting state