The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-27
APPEAL TO PRESIDENT ORR.
lntermyer Asks Him TO Furnish Lists
OF POlicyhOlders.

Samuel Untermyer. counsel to the Inter-
national Polioyholders' Committee, has
made a formal request Of President Alex
Company that he furnish the committee
a list of the c%ompany's policyholders.
After recounting the futile efforts which
representatives of the committee have al
ready made to get the list from the New
York Life mana cement, Mr.. Untermyer
says:
Assuming that on July Is the lists will be
accessible TO our committee and that there
will not be other demands for them, real or
fictitious. it would be impossible to copy
the lists in time for the committee to COM
muntcate with the policyholders and agree
on candidates whose names must be filed
before September IS.
We accordin gly ask that you will permit the
stencils In the possession OF your company
10 be used by the Rapid Addressing Machine
Company or by such other agency as you
may select in preparing for the use Of the
committee a copy OF the lists OF policyholders
deliverable TO the committee on July Is.
Our mmit will OF course pay the legiti-
mate expense OF such a copy and II desired
will make the payment In advance.
l am informed that stencllled copi es of the
lists are being arranged for the use Of general
agents to assist them in canvassing among
Tue pOllCN HOlutTS LOT NOltb III supper OF I1e
ticket that 10 to be nominated by the existing
management. However that may be, it must
be apparent to you that II the pol!cyholders
are not TO be excluded from the opportunity
Of selecting their own management they must
be afforded reasonable facilities for securing
a copy OF the lists.
In view Of the enormou expense or copy
Ing them Independently and of the practical
impossibillty Of doing 80 In time, they are
,nt II lar IN thn ~ fhn a fannIIo Iy ann
Of which copies Of the lists can be speedily
and inexpensively made therefore request
that YOU advise me at your earliest con-
venience whether your company will agree
to allow the stencils to be used for the purpose
indicated.
spoke to Mir. Mcintosh. the solicitor OF
your company, on this subject over the tele-
phone q few days ago. and was amazed at
the arrogant and unJustifabls stand which
he assumed. which has been quite in keeping
with his hostile attitude toward the policy
holders by whom he is paid. from the begi-
ming OF the Armstrong investigation down
to and including his open and persistent
lobbying against the vital features OF the
Armstrong bill. Mr.. Mcintosh actually told
me. in response to my request that he thought
the feature OF the Armstrong bin allowing
the polioyholders to see the lists was a mis-
take. and that his ompany did not purpose
to assist any such undertaking
view OF MIR. Mcintosh the emit ire Investigation
and the reform legislation was "a mistake"
but he policyholders do not quite agree
with that view.
am satisfied that there are some members
OF your board land ! hope You are among
theml who Will not resist the effort that this
committee Is making to AFFORD to the policy
holders the opportunity OF selecting their
own management which the law contemplate,
they should be given, am not yet prepared
10 believe that Messrs. Perkins, Kingsley,
Mcintosh. and Randolph and those members
nf fha old FAninQ who 1u 90. A ~ th.,,
own for making this sort Of q fight reflect
the views OF the entire board.