The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-03-16

Albany. n. Y. March 15.-Andrew
Hamilton appeared before the msur-
ance investigating committee this at
ternOon and broke the silence which
he has maintained, except for his
statement brought from Paris by John
c. Mccall, ever since his name was
first mentioned in connection with the
great sums of money shown to have
been paid to him during the past ten
years on account of his legal and leg
islative work for the New York Life
and other insurance companies.
Made Great Sensation.
It would be difficult to exaggerate
the sensation produced by his unex-
pected appearance and by the speech
which he made, or the intensely dra-
matte character of the whole episode.
His face flushed and his voice trem-
bling with passion, his arms appraised
and his fists clenched, Judge Hamilton
poured forth a flood of denUnciatiOn
and invective upon the members of
the board of trustees of the New York
Life Insurance company, several of
whom were present. designating them
ours and traitors and paying special
attention to one unnamed, whom he
UtSCf1DtU dS .tUC GSChSAlilt VI three GU
ministrations, the cOnfidant of the
Beers scandal and author of the Beers
pensiOn-who rotates through one adj
ministratiOn and another and thinks
that he is going to be an indiSpenSa-
BILE member of yet another"
Speaking of "YeIIow Dogs"
And do you think" he demanded,
that the man who held the same re-
L.
Mccall could sit for thirteen years
since and not know how the. expendi-
lures that were made were to be and
were disbursed? Yet he and such like
him sit, not judging me as Beers, but
judging me as cOnquerOrs, talking
about yellow dogs"
Judge Hamilton's attack upon the
trustees of the New York Life was
made only the more dramatic by the
fact that he Immediately followed J.
H. Mcintosh. general solicitor of that
company. who had been eulogizing the
members of that board and challenging
any man to give reasons why they
should be removed from Office as con-
templated by the pending Legislation
The only name he mentioned was
that of the late President Mccall, in
the reference to whom and to whose
death he displayed marked emotion.
having been shouldered with the blame
the only one, the dead man, killed.
that they drove to his grave and de-
serted and declared that the memory
of this man had appealed to him, Ito
come down here and say something for
him and just a word for myself
They Ali Knew 1t.
He declared unequivocally that every
l. ~, al
Life was made by the knowledge and
approval of the trustees. especially Of
the finance and auditing committees.
He pointed out that 10 there had been
anything the matter with his vouchers
for these payments it was their duty
to bring him to book for it-yet, he
said, month after month and year after
year, for ten years, they passed them,
land then, when the cry at last came
out. they say: We'll, we did not know
anything about it: this is the fellow:
this is the man that has done it all
When they say they did not know what
was going on, 1t excites my laughter
and derision."
He declared again and again that the
payments were proper and legitimate,
and that he had no apology to make
for himself or for President Mccall.
One of his most interesting state
ments was that. in spite of reports to
the contrary, the sO-called Paris ac-
count" was actually reported and ap-
proved by the auditing committee.
Applause From the Crowd.
The first applause from the big crowd
that quickly filed the great assembly
chamber aS soon as the fact of Judge
Hamilton's presence became known
about the building, broke out with a
roar of laughter after his reference TO
the enthusiasm with which he said his
victories for the New York Life were
received by the officials of the COM
pany.
They would come and pat me on the
back" he said, with a bitter sneer;
these men who would not know me
now; they would come in and pat me
on the back and say: You did it
A storm of applause followed his
scathing reference to the yellow dog"
as a dog of courage and loyalty; but
the ours who stood around this funeral
that has occurred. the ours who knew
of these transactions and shrunk into
their shOes-they are the curs-and that
is the reason that 1 came before you
and say that the great interest Of two
billion dollars of life insurance and
four hundred million dollars of assets
can never be safely entrusted to the
hands and administration Of a lot of
ours
This was the ostensible purpose of
Judge HamiIton's appearance before the
committee-to advocate the pending bill
of the committee which would IegisIate
the present boards of directors out of
office and provide for a complete reor-
ganization in November next.
His Appearance Unexpected.
Judge HamiIton's appearance was total
~ unexpected by the committee and ne
declared before his speech and to friends
before and after that ii was almost so
to himself-that Ii was only at luncheon
today that the impulse seized him to come
before the committee and have his say
in favor of the bill referred to-with
word for President Mccall and for him
self He arrived unannounCed not long
after 4 o'clock sat back in the room
and for a time was recognized only by one
or two newspaper men. The interest was
intense as he passed down the aisle amid
silence
Among those who sat near as he began
his bitter arraignment of the New York
Life trustees were the following men,