Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-03-17
>Hami|ton's Statements Will
Not Stop Proceedings.
Iudpe horDbIoWer Denies In
Toto All Of HamIIton's Charges.
lesisIalte Hearings Closed big Flight e.
psetsd h ths Assembly.

New York, March 16.-Andrew Ham,
nton'5 statement before the legislative
investigating committee at Albany yes
terday will not interfere with the suits
which the New York Life Insurance Co.
proposes to bring against him, accord
ing to Augustus G. Paine, a trustee Of
the company and a member Of the
Fowler investigating committee.
Mr.. Paine was for several years
member If the New York LIES audit
ing committee, but resigned about six
years ago. He said today that he did
not see how that committee could be
held responsible for payments to Ham,
ilton, inasmuch as vouchers were al
ways submitted by the comptroller of
the company and the amounts called
for we're always regarded as part or
the colnpany's legitimate expenses
Former Judge William B. Hornblow-
ef last night defended his original ap-
prOval Of the Beers pension plan and
which was assailed by Andrew Hamil-
ton when the latter appeared before the
legislative insurance committee at Al
bany yesterday. In the course of his
remarks in which he declared that his
transactions with the late John A. NC
Call were sanctioned by the trustees
OF the New York Life Insurance Co.,
Mr.. Hamilton took occasion to criticise
the nnthor Of the Beers pension plan to
whom he referred as 1.-THE Pecksniff Of
three administrations who thinks that
he is the Talleyrand of the present one;
the confident of the Beers scandal" He
did not mention any names in this con-
nection.
The matter of the Beers pension was
this: When Beers retired as head or
the company back in the early COS, the
board of trustees voted him pension.
said to have been something like $780,
900 a year. A question as to whether
the pension was legal was referred to
Mr.. Hornblower and other eminent
counsel
After reading Mr.. Hamilton's speech
r. tr.ll last night. Mr.. Hornblower die
rated the following statement:
SO far as Judge Hamilton states or
implies that I disbursed any Legislative
funds during the Beers administration
his statement or implication Is absolute
ly untrue My professional relation to
the Beers administration was entirely
confined to litigation and legal advice.
never even appeared before leSis-
lative committee but once, so as far as
I can recollect and then simply to
make an argument before the insurance
committee in opposition to an impend-
ing bill Not dollar of the company's
morcy ever passed through my hands
for legislative or any other purposes.
so far as Judge Hamilton states or
implies that I was aware Of his dis
bursting moneys for the company or re-
ceiving. moneys not accounted for as
explained by the Fowler committee,
such statements or implications are alb
solutely untrue
IL decline to discuss at the present
time the merits or dement's of the So
called Beers pension plan. 1 was a
member Of the board OF trustees when
1t was adopted and advised and con-
CURED in it. believed it at the time
to be just legal and valid contract.
THAT he has received moneys for So
called real estate account. legislative
matters and other matters for which
ne never accounted. had no
knowledge whatever.
II do not propose to discuss with
Judge Hamilton his offensive epithets.
/ do not feel 1t necessary to defend my
self against mere abuse"