The Paducah sun., 1906-03-16
A SCATHING REBUKE
FROM HAMILTON
The PrOdigal Sets New York
Financial Circles Afire.
"ielIow Dog" Says They Are Ours
"YelIow Dog" Says They Are Ours
and Drove Mccall TO His
Grave.
USED VERY BITTER INvECTIvE.

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Hamilton appeared before the insur-
ance investigating commission yester-
day afternoon 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 i'm the investiga-
tion 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 legislative
work for the New York Life and oth-
er insurance companies.
II would be difficult to exaggerate
the sensation produced by his unex-
pected appearance and by the speech
which he made, or intensely dramst-
ic character Of the whole episode.
His face flushed and his voice tremb-
ling with passion. his arms upraised
and his fists clinched, Judge Hamil-
ton poured forth flood OF denuncia-
ton and invective upon the members
of the board of trustees of the New
York Life Insurance company, sew
eral of whom were present, designat-
Ing them as "curs and traitors and
payTng especial attention to one un-
named. whom he described as ''the
Pecksniff of three administrations,
confident of the Beers scandal and
author of the Beers peuslon--whO
rotates through one Administrations
and another and thinks that he Is
going to be an indispensable member
OF yet another"
And do YOU think" he demanded
"that the man who held the same re
lation to Beers that did to Mccall
could SIT for thirteen years and NOT
know how expenditures that were
made were to be. and were dtsburs-
ed? Yet. he, and such like him sit,
not judging me as peers but judging
me as conquerors. talking about yei.
low dogs.
The only name he mentioned wal
that of the hate President Mccall in.
reference to whom and to whose
death he displayed marked emotion.
He spoke of Mccall as victim. as
having been shouldered with the
blame. "The only one. the dead
man. killed. that they drove to his
grave and deserted" and declared
that the memory of this man had APP
pclled to him ''to come down here
and say something for him and Just
a word for myself
He declared uncquivocally that
every payment of hinself by the New
York Life was made with the knowl-
edge and approval of the trustees. es-
pecially of the financial and auditing
committees He pointed out that IL
there had been anything the matter
with his vouchers for these payments
II was their duty to bring him to
book for h-yet, he said, month after
month, and year after year for ten
years they passed them land then,
when the cry at last comes out, they
say: 'Wela we did not know anything
about it; this rs the fellow, this is the
man. that has dome It ALL When they
say they did not know what was go
ing on. It excites my laughter and
derision."
He declared again and again that
the payments were proper and legi-
innate and that he had no apology
to make fer himself or for President
Mccall.
The first applause from the great
crowd that filled the assembly cham
ber ans soon as the fact of Judge Ham
ilton'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 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 and
pat me on the back and say, you
did IT,
A storm of applause followed his
scathing reference to the yellow dog.
"as dog of courage and loyalty.
But the ours who stood around this
funeral that has occurred, the ours
knew of these transactapns and
shrunk into thesr shoes, they are the
curs-and that is the reason that ]
come before you and say that the
great interest of two billion dollars
of life insurance and four hundred
milaiou dollars OF assets can never
be safely entrusted 20 the hands and
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