New-York tribune., 1906-10-23
nNrERMYER ATTACKS.
.1SS4IL.S NEW YORK LIFE.
Issues Statement That Company Is
"Within Criminal Lao"

rsl TTaterrnyer, the International policv-
.',ssrs committees counsel. in the fret state
=, issued since his return from Europe, de-
80 Yesterday that the present administra.
- n the New York Life had brought itself
,.,, the criminal law: charged the counanv
s,t wholesale 'trickery'' abroad, and said also
- decent men will be able to breathe easier
-,sn few of the leaders in the present insur-
=. confidence game have been safely
,.susa in jail" He says In part:
THE requirement that the lists be open for
,snsctior and copy at the principal agency in
- country has been deliberately made farce
- uuIlity by what looks like preconcerted
design. In 10 instance was q policyholders'
committee given access to the lists an oppor-
,Tnitv 10 reach the policyholders The agents
sed their friends and sub-egents put IN prior
..,nTcstions so that IN some Instances II would
ssTe taken year after the election was over
- copy the lists. Similar tactics we're resorted
N Ia England. France. Germany and Austria
Cr- foreign committees were finally forced to
sst their lists from America In some OF the
eouatries they were found to be so illegfble and
inaccurate TO be worthless Outside OF Eng
land Il is estimated that fully one-helf the
foreign policyhOlders Except friends Of the
agents who could be reached by them but not
ty us) are cisfranchised-
Nr Unternyer says that Superintendent KEEL
,sy ought to be disciplined for the part he has
nlayed" asserting that Mr.. Kelsey was repeat
s1ly appealed 70. but in vain to stop the squan-
s.rng by the present managements Of the
poicyholders' money campaign literature"
h,s only reply being that the committee might
sue TO recover the money after the elections.
The New York Life. Mr.. Untermyer alleges.
With the poncyholders' money. "waged a CON-
test to prevent the copying Of the lists,
which the law expressly charged them TO make
public"
As the outcome, says counsel. the New York
lez s--
from obtaining the lists IN time.
Notwithstanding this. should Mr. Kelsey 30
bis duty" Mr. Unternyer predicts that the
polcyholders viii win IN both companies"
Nr. Untermyer intimates that the relations be-
tween J. P. Morgan s. Co and the steamship in
tsrssts with which Herr wIegand is identified
we're responsible for the detection of the German
gnuittee.
The Mutual Life PolicyhoIders' Association
made public yesterday resolutions passed bv
the executive committee OF the Tennessee policy
holders Of mutual life companies severely crit
csng the Mutual Life for its dismissal Of
Colonel BiEcoe HindLnan, and commencing Col
one Hindmans stand against the agency com
nittee composed OF Henry H Rogers
and four other McCurdy trustees" and urging
polcyholders 10 vote against the administration
ticket Colonel a N. Shook, one of the inter-
national committeeman alleged TO have been
"conscripted" on the administration ticket is
ne chairman Of this Tennessee committee.
Commissioner Barry, OF Michigan has told
Manager Spence at Detroit, that the Mutual
utes charter will be revoked In Michigan il
&. be found that ''policyholders money is being
used 10 boom the administration ticket" Mr.
Bsrry's announcement followed charges made
by Frederick o. Paige. the company's ex-man-
ager al Detroit, that the Mutual Life was pay
ing A ". Leed q monthly salary, with the un-
Outstanding that he was 70 obtain and nav
agents 10 canvass for the administration ticket