The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-03-22
JUDGE" HIulH TON At Bay.
Denounces H.. Y. Lie Trustees
Before Legislature.
GUILT is THEIRS, NOT HIS.

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Heated Atiae< on the InsuraDce
~COmpany's Managers They Knew.
He Declares. of Every Dollar He
SPent-Oefends John A. mccall.
Albany, n. Y.-Of all the sensations
developed before the Armstrong Com
mittee, none approached in dramatic
force the sudden and unexpected ap-
pearance in the Assembly chamber of
Judge" Andrew Hamilton. the legisla-
tive agent who handled $1,347 600 of
the New York Life's money.
For months, when the Armstrong In
surance Committee was holding its SEES
sions, efforts to get Hamilton to appear
as a witness were unavailing. He was
claSsed as a fugitive, too cowardly to
come forward and face the inquisition.
With the courage of a bulldog he ap-
peared before the Senate and Assembly
sitting as Committee of the Whole on
reform insurance. legislation, demand
Ing his right to be heard. Officers of
the New York Life tried to disSuade
him. Even John G. Mccall, secretary
of the man whose name Hamilton was
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aside and talked earnestly, almost
pleaded with him, but it was of no
use. Hamilton had made up his mind.
Senator's and As%semblymen filled the
nearest rows of chairs, and back of
them sat the officers and lawyers of
thirty-odd insurance companies. There
were also committees and lawyers rep
resenting policyholders and life inSur-
anc agents, making Il gathering that
filed to the utmost the seating capac-
ity Of the chamber.
To the left of the chamber in the
fourth row of seats sat Il group of New
York Life officers. John G.. Mccall,
secretary Of the company. on the aisle
seat. next TO him Second Vice-Presi-
dent Thomas A. Buckner. then First
Vice-President Darwin Z. Kingsley,
son-in-law of the late John A. Mccall,
next to Mr.. Kinsley sat 7. H. McIn-
toSh. general solicitor of the company.
A few minutes after Hamilton started
speaking Rufus w. Weeks. vice-presi-
dent and chief actuary of the com
pany. entered the chamber and sat i'll
the aisle next TO Mr.. Mccall.
Several times while speaking Hamil-
ton pointed d~erisively at the group of
| New York Life men. HamiltOn's
| SpCGCu ~ Out III COLApNSNI bAG
truth OF charges to be made by Hami,-
ton.
He made n bitter attack on the trEs-
tees of the New York Life Insurance
| Company, declaring that they had
| driven John 4. Mccall to his grave n
asserting that the board knew of every
dollar which he had spent and of the
purposes for which it had been in
trusted to him.
In brief he charged that every pay
ment made to him. ever from the Paris
| office and the S59.310 of steel syndicate
profits diverted from the company to
the legislative agent by ]. T. Morgan
& Co., was reported to the Auditing
Committee. passed upon and thereby
sanctioned by that body.
Hamilton. with an emotion bordering
uDon hysteria. his hands trembling and
his whole body shaking beyond control,
begged the Armstrong Committee to
Dust the whole board of trustees OF tic
New York Life 1T the earliest possible
day.
At no time did he mention any of the
trustees by name. His only personal
reference was to Il "Pecksniff of three
administrations who thinks that he is
to be the Talleyrand of the present
one" IlOSe at the nearing VINO were
familiar with the history of the New
York Life knew that he meant William
+. HOrnblOwer.
The great interest of two billion dol
lars Of life insurance and four hundred
millions Of assets can never be safely
entrusted to the hands Il adminiStra-
ton of Il lot of curs,' vas his closing
brOadSide.
That Hamilton's disclosures must
surely result in suits for recovery
against other trustees of the New York
Life is the common opinion here.
Judge Hamilton's attack upon the
trustees of the New York Life was
made only the more drastic by the fact
that he Immediately followed J. u.
Mcintosh. general solicitor of that COM
pany. who had been eulogizing the
members of that board and challeug-
ing any man to give reasons why they
should be removed from Office, as COLI