The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-19
ELECTIONS ROWS.
COMPLAINTS OF "PERNICIOUS
ACTIVITY" FILED.
International P~OIicyhOIders Object To the
New York LIES Prepared Ballots
~-ScruEham Told He Can Apply TO
Criminal Courts for Warrants.

New bOrk IIIes prepared baIlOtS
-~Scrusham Told He Car Apply 10
Criminal Courts for Warrants.
The following telegram was sent from
the manager Of the Internationa Policy
holders Association to State Superintend-
ent of Insurance Otto Kelsey last night;
In connection with fragrant violations by
the New York Life Insurance Company Of
section % Of the insurance law We direct
your attention to section 50 Of the New York
insurance law. Any corporation OF person
violating any provision of the insurance
law. except where such violation constitutes
a felony. shall in addition to any penalty
otherwise prescribed for such violation
he guilty Of a misdemeanor. We request
that you Immediately institute criminal pro-
ceedings against the persons who have rem
dered themselves liable 10 the criminal penal
ties Of the law acting as agen Is of the New
York Life Insurance Company. We will be
pleas ed TO furnish you with the names OF a
number OF these az ents both In this State
and elsewhere, together with evidence OF
their criminal violation OF the law.
G.. r. ~ScRUoHAM. Manager.
This telegram was sent after letters from
policyholders containing ballots they had
received were dumped into the ohice Of
the International Policyholders' Associa-
ton. Agents for the New York Life began
yesterday to SEM out ballots to the policy
holders. A two cent stamp was placed
on the return envelope, the names on the
ticket in opposition to that Of the admins
tration we're scratched out and the holders
policy number was written not only on the
ticket but also on the required form stamped
on the envelope which vas to carry the
ballot back to the comp1ny's office.
NE,aarar GOr,,rhau, GanE HE taIaura-a
after ne conferred with Andrew c.. Gray,
son of Judge Gray Of Delaware.
just what action the Superintendent Of
Insurance will take in the matter Of Manager
Scrugham's telegram is awaited with in
tarest in life insurance circles. There
we're some who suggested to Mr.. Scrugham
and Mr.. Gray that it was not necessary for
them to urn the matter over to Supt. Kelsey,
but that on the evidence they had in hand
they might &C before a City Magistrate
here and demand n warrant for one or more
officers of the New York Life. Mana ger
Scrugham and Mr.. Gray said that they
would first put the matter up to Supt.
Kelsey.
All of these ballots sent out and stamped
we're signed in every instance by an agent.
Manager Scrugham, however, declared
that he had investigated and found that
the post Office letter box, the humble of
which was in large type on the envelope
sent 10 Lne DOlICy1OlItTE, WAY LildJ uSel
for the main Office of the New York Life.
Yesterday was the first day of the cleo
ton for trustees of the New York and Mu-
tual Life by the policyholders, and affairs
in life insurance circles, as far as these two
companies, are concerned, took on a lively
turn. The two deputies sent by Supt.
Kelsey to take up quarters in the main
Offices Of these companies arrived and went
TO work yesterday morning. Isaac Fuld
is the deputy sent to the New York Life
and c. S. Macarthur to the Mutual. Ac-
cording TO the State regulations these two
men are supposed to get every bit Of mail
sent into the companies and to go through
IL and sort out h ballots.
At the office OF the New York Life Deputy
Fuld said that he was receiving all mail
and going through 1t, but Deputy Nc
Arthur at the Mutual admitted that he
was allowing the mpa employees TO
sort out the mail and pick out the ballots
for him. When Manager Scrugham Of the
International ~Poicyholders' Association
and Vice-President Tomkins OF the Mutual
Life P~olicyhOlders' Association heard OF
this they we're quick to send a protest to
Supt. Kelsey asking him to see TO it that
all mail was turned over to his representa-
tive and that the latter only be permitted
to sort out the ballots from the ordinary
correspondence.
ce-President Darwin p. Kingsley Of
the New York Life said yesterday that he
was extending every courtesy to the rep
re~sentative OF the Superintendent Of In
surance and that several employees had
been detailed to open and sort the mail
before the deputy. Mr.. Kingsley reit-
Grated his previous statements that the
company's money wa not being used in
any manner for furthering the cause OF the
administration ticket.
Milo D.. Heron, New York Life agent
for the Park row branch, who was re-
ferred TO by Louis Marshall in a omoplaint
cent to President Orr OF a specific case
wherein one Of these envelopes containing
a ballot with the opposition OF the admin
istratiOn scratched OF and a stamp en-
closed, declared to a U reporter last night
that the literature referred to had been sent
out at his own personal expense.