Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-03-16

and his fists clinched, Judge Hamilton
poured forth Il flood of denunciation
and invective upon the members of the
board of trustees of the New York
Life Insurance company. several of
whom We're present, dcnouncing them
as "curS and traitors" and paying es-
pccial attention to one unnamed, whom
he described as the Pecksniff of three
administrations, the confident Of Beers
scandal and author of the Beers pen
sion, who rotateS through one admins
tration and another and thinks that he
is going to be an Indispensable mem
Der of yet another"
He declared again and again that the
payments were proper and legitimate
and that he had no apology to make
for himself or for President Mccall.
one of his most interesting state
ments was that in spite of reports to
the contrary the so called Paris ac-
count was actually reported and ap-
proved by the auditing committee.
In the assembly sat IL group of New
York Life officers-John c. Mccall,
Second Vice President Thomas A.
Buckuer. First Vice President Darwin
+. Kingsley. sOn-in-laW of the late
John A. Mccall: J. II. Mcintosh. gen
eral solicitor of the company, and Ru-
actuary. Several times while speaking
Hamilton pointed derisively at the
New York Life officials.
The trustees of the New York Life
are ours and traitors" Hamilton de-
clared at the very start. Il thank you
for letting me say what | wish regard
ing the New York Life. | shall contine
my remarks to that company. OF 9th
ers | will not speak. 1t is your duty to
remove the trustees of the New York
Life on Nov. 10 arbitrarily.
II stand here and see men who have
in the past applauded my victories. I
have wondered since if their attitude
has not been one of cOunterfeiting hon
cSty.
Il said that | would come to the
front now. Here | am. One of the i'm
portant features of this investigation
has been my transactions, and when
you have heard all the sweet protests
of innocence of how these men drove
the dead man into his grave you will
know why | am here.
when they say they didn't know
what was going Oh it eXcites my laugh
ter.
The Talleyrand of this New York
7 ~. ,1,n;,f.t,A4t to-, could not Off fn,.
thirteen years and not know what was
going on. | never spent Il dollar that
was open to criticism.
There never was an action in my
department but what one and all were
conscious Of what | did.
Il see them here, and l challenge
them to contradict it.
Il went to the New York Life as a
young lawyer. l beat Pecksniff with
all his legions. Then they said they
would give me Il chance. | went
ahead. Wasn't it the duty of the trus-
tees to see that | gave vouchers for my
disbursements? But years passed by,
and there were no objections.
But when the cry came out the in
nocent trustees pointed at me and said,
There is the man to blame
THE trustees should have stopped it.
1t was their duty. They did not do
their duty, and the blame is not mine.
These trustees sat there cashing the
elnoluments that came to them with
the vouchers under their nose. They
approved what was done. and so | was
approved. They We're satisfied with
my rendition of my accounts.
Never a dollar of the New York
Life passed through my hands with
out their knowledge.
"The steel trust fund was a note
tlat l discounted with j. Pierpont Nor
gan d Co. to pay New York Life ex-
penses.
when there was trouble il the New
York Life, when we got word that
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