The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-16
CALLED GU.RS
AND TRAITORS
BY HAMILTON. H'.||.|M
Denunciation Trustees
Of New York Life Gre
ates Sensation.
M'CALL, THEIRvICTIM.
DRIVEN TO GRAVE
Memory Of His Friend Appealed
to Says Something for
Him.
PLEA FOR THE BILL
TO TURN TRUSTEES OUT
Declares That After Approving
All He Did and Going Back
on Mccall and Him They
Should Be Turned
out-Worked on
Legislation.
PLEA FOR THE BILL
TO TURN TRUSTEES OUT.
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ALBANY. n. ", March 15.-Andrew
Hamilton appeared before the insurance
investigating committee this afternoon
and broke the silence which he has main
titined. except for his statement brought
from Paris by John C.. Mccall, ever since
liis name was first mentioned in this
INVESTIGATION in connection with the great
sums or money shown to have been paid
10 MIN during the past ten years on ac-
court OF his legal and legislative work for
the New YORK Life and other insurance
companies.
1t would be difficult to exaggeratc the
sensation produced by his unexpected ap-
pearance and by the speech which he
nade, or the intensely dramatic charac-
ter of the whole episode.
Ills face flushed aud his voice trembling
with passion. his arms upraised and his
fists ciinched. Judge Hamilton poured
forth Il food OF denuncfation and in
xcctive against the members OF the Board
OF Trustees OF the New York Life In
surance Company. several OF whom were
present. designating them as .'curs and
traitors and paying especial attention to
one unnamed. whom he described as the
pecksniff OF three administrations the
eoniidant OF the Beers scandal and au-
thor of the Beers pension-who rotates
through one administration and another.
and thinks that he Is going to be an
Indispensable members of yet another.
The Beers Case.
"And do ypu Think" he demanded,
that the man who held the same rela-
tion to Mr.. Beers that did to Mr..
Mccall could sit for the thirteen years
since and not know how the expendi-
lures that We're made were TO be. and
were, disbursed? Yet he, and such like
him. sit, not Judging me as peers. but
Judging me as conquerors. talkleg about
yellow dogs.
Judge Hamilton's attack upon the
trustees OF the New York Life was made
& all tho more dramatic by the fact that
he Immediately followed j. H. Mcintosh,
general solicitor OF that company who
had been eulosizing tile members of that
board and challenging any man to give
reasons why they should be removed
from Office AZ contemplated by the pend
ing 1cgislation.
Mccall a Victim.
Tho only name lie mentioned was that
of the late President Mccall, in the re-
ference to whom and to whose death
he displayed marked emotion He spoke
4 or Mr.. Mccall. as 4 victim, as having
been shouldered with the blane"the on
ly, one. the dead man, killed, that they
drove to his grave and deserted" and
declared that the memory of this man
had appealed to him to come down here
and say something for him and just a
word for myself" "A
Judge Hamilton. after stating that he
would confnc his remarks entirely to
the New York Life Insurance Company,
said he had high and loyal respect for
the other companies. because ..I have
not yet found amongst them ours and
traitor"
Continuing he said: II address you upon
z and in advocacy of, one bill solely, which
have not read. but the purport of which
apbears in tho papcrs-and + say that it
is your duty to report in favor OF the
measures that will rcnDve the trustees
of the New York life insurance Com
pany upon November 2lst next. arbt-
trarily. si
Which the Counterfeit.
look around this court and L see
s here many members Of that board of
trustees, see amongst them men who
nave sat and listened to tho stories ,Sof
my victories in their behalf, and ap-
piauded and wonder whether It was
.nat lille, !. IN IN oldsmth where it was
Y 3s.countcrfeltnt q ~ e glce, orSwhethcr tho atti-s
" tude that they have since taken hns hee,,,
one F1., ot counterfeitcd honesty. 5s IA
one OF tho features that has been m
important event in tho nyestfrn tions ~
1 your committee, AIR. Chairman Ia i,ncn
4 tho question of my transactions nnI ne
+ my vouchers, and when yo,l have I,enrd
~ the sweet protcstations OF jnnocenca
Il that have come along. and how tl,e o,;I;,
Que was the dead ma,l-killed.b b3tIiaf fhny,S
4 drove into his grave and deserted M,
tho yellow dog, that made an annnni iss' 10
mo toSgcome down here and say soma a.
thing for him. and Just that word FOR;
Y snlysclf--not TINT NC aro asserting sanvs
tlcfcnsc or making any a poloEics 9ol. = IL.
Ing any immunity, but because twhntSIT3
n say is said In support OF tlls measure
which you gcntlemen have proposed. i 4
why, when they shy they did NOT
a know what was going on, 1t excites my
& laughter and derlsion.''s '8
They Knew II All.
n .."In every administration OF a great
i public concern there are many thingas to-
be done which, in the hurried liie OF
\ duty and in the desire for, vi ctory,l can
not always be delayed. But there never
was O line or a sthinE II hat wa s \ done in
tho New York I'll I'd Sin my ntlminstra ton
Il OF my department bit the executive otfi-
Gers, one and all were conscious % what
tho pprnos 10 was, or hat tho obj twas,