The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-21
MkCKAY TACKLES HAMILTON.
ANSWERS JUDGES LATEST BLAST
WITH 4 FLAT DENIAL.
This Bothers Former Legislative Agent,
as Does MIR. BLISS Assertion That He
Never Met Hamilton or Got Campaign
Cash From Him-Judge TO Fight On,

vestigating committee.
II notice" sqid Judge Hamilton, that
Mr.. Clarence Mckay says that he didn't
know that such Il man as Andrew Hamilton
existed until his name was brought out in
the testimony before the Armstrong in
vestigsting committee.
well, Mr.. Mackay is a very fine gentle
man. but | fear he is afflicted with a short
memory. He has undoubtedly forgotten
the circumstances of orr meeting. l was
introduced to him by Mr., Mccall at a time
when the Commercial Cable Company was
negotiating a number of loans, one for
81. 900, 600. Let me see. that was, | think,
in 1905.
II remember having met Mr.. Mackay,
beca Use the president of the New York life
said after he had made the introduction
that he hoped 7 would be able to make a
reduction in my usual fee for passing on
the titles Of loan securities because Mr..
Mackay was a trustee of the company.
81 did as Mr.. Mccall requested. Mr..
Mackay got the benefit Of the reduction,
which. amounted to about 81 900. | am
very much surprised that Mr.. Maokay
doesn't recall the incidents of this intro
duction. The way | remember it, the meet
ing took place right inlMr. McCall's office"
MI. Mackay was hot under the collar
when he read Judge Hamilton's latest
blast. Mr.. Mackay declared that the
Commercial Cable Company had never
borrowed any money from the New York
Life Insurance Company.
"The Commercial Cable Company said
Mr.. Mackay, has not borrowed any money
from anybody for some ten years past
,.J boy no annoo inp tn borrow INV The
loan which Mr.. Hamilton refers to was
not to the Commercial Cable Company,
nor to me, but to a company which owns
the Commercial Cable Building at 20 Broad
street, and | would add that the Commercial
Gable Company has no interest in that
building or company, either directly or
indirectly, except as a tenant for a part
Of it.
Moreover the loan that was made to
that building company was arranged some
time before | became a trustee of the New
York Life Insurance Company, and it had
nothing whatever to do with my becoming
a rustee. In fact, | had nothing whatever
to do with the negotiation Of the loan. 1t
wal an ordinary first mortgage loan.
AS to Mr.. Hamilton's further state
ment that there was a series OF loans
there was but one loan. The property
behind the loan was worth twice the amount
of the loan. The regular rate of interest
AZ per cent, was paid and there was no
graft.
Il again repeat that | have never met
Mr.. Andrew Hamilton and do, not know
him. and any statement to the contrary
is false
Another thing which bothered Judge
Cornelius n. Bliss that he had ever met
Mr.. Hamilton or had given him a receipt
for SIS 900 contributed by the New York
Life, through Hamilton, to the Republican
national committee in 1895.
Il can't understand. said Hamilton,
that voucher. There must be some mis-
lake somewhere. h voucher with Mr..
Bliss signature on it is genuine. Surely
no one would accuse me Of having forged
the voucher. What would / do that for2
should = de e tyn ihe Existence ae ns of the ~ voucher neSs
And as for Mr.. Bliss not knowing me-
whv. it was Mr.. Bliss himself who gave
me the voucher. He handed it over to
me in hia downtown office after the entire
SIS, 900 contribution had been paid"
Hamilton said that the first payment OF
$40, 900 on the contribution was made on
October 1, 1906. The other payments,
amounting to sos 900, were several in num-
her. the last one being made or October 20.
On that date Hamilton says he took all the
him the general blanket voucher for the
SIS, 900 which he has exhibited.
Mr.. Bliss refused yesterday to discuss
either Hamilton's statement or his own
assertion that he had received no campaign
contribution Of SIS, 900 from Hamilton.
Mr.. Bliss was at his downtown offices early
in the day. but later it was said that he
had gone out of town. One reporter who
got in to see Mr.. Bliss put this question
to him:
Have you any commen to make on the
voucher which Mr.. Hamilton says he holds
and which bears what purports to be your
signature
care anything about it, was Mr., Bliss
reported reply.
of State Elihu Root had denied emphatically
that he had ever obtained from Gov. Higgins
a promise that the insurance question would
not be taken up at the extra session last
summer. Hamilton is reported to have
made this charge.
ais hat SOP" said the former legislative
agent, with some surprise. -Of course, |
was not present when Mr.. Root had his
interview with Gov. Higgins"
Hamilton was particular yesterday to
have IL understood that he had not "peached
in the matter Of the S75 600 campaign con-
You will probably remember" said he,
that both Mr.. Mccall and Mr.. Perkins,
| on the stand before the Armstrong COM
| mittee, spoke of the 1895 contribution.
don't want it to appear that I'm telling
things out of school. | wouldn't have told
on MIR. Bliss If the matter hadn't been
brought up before. think that the trustees
who are going to pay back the campaign
| contributions ought to have the most &C
curate possible estimate Of the amount that
has been paid ont. ! intend TO go over my
books and papers carefully and help them
in every way that ! can 1t would be too
bad if any Of the contributions should slip
by unnoticed. These things might Just as
we'll all be cleaned up now while the books
are being overhauled.
II was learned on good authority yester-
day that the contribution of $4,000 to
the Republican national camraign in 1896
wsn't in excess of that dis closed by the
Armstrong committee. George W. Perkins
) testified before the Armstrong committee
that the company contributed about $4,000
in 1904 and that it did the same thing"
in 1900 and 1896 : The general idea has
been that the company contributed $4,000
in 1900 and the same amount in 1895. That.
it was said yesterday, is not true, The
New York Life contributed SS7 500 in 1900
and S75. 900 IN 1895. The officers Of the
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