New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-07
HAMILTON GOT Il MILLION.
MYSTERY Surrounds Fast Sums Paid
by Ne7c-YOrk Life.

In the Fowler report, which made to ths
New-York Life Insurance Company on February
s. Judge Hamilton is held responsible for So,S6i
OF this amount the company's bureau Of legislation
and taxation at Albany received sos 81 81, accord
ing to statements John A. Mccall personally re-
funded $4,000. which checked up to the home
office annex account" Hamilton and Mccall were
held jointly responsible for s2l9,500-
Beginning with bill for legal services in 1892 for
s4.0s1 Hamiltons services rapidly increased in
value The next year ii was s1O62O g. and the fol-
lowing year he got a retainer of $4,000 and received
81 So In 1896 he received S099 Is. and the next
year the bureau OF legislation and taxation was es
tablished. His salary thereafter is a matter of
speculation, the only definite knowledge being that
he received checks ranging in amount from $1,000
TO 5000.
From the Fowler report II is estimated that the
New-York Life paid S.s47.3s2 Al TO Hamilton from
1892 10 1901 inclusive In the three years from 1900
TO 1893 the Paris office paid, including $4,000 which
went the Hamilton account, sl44.5OO TO Judge
Hamilton
The Fowler investigators found that the payment
OF S2S5,000 on the home Office annex account
made by order OF President Mccall. This is the
son that he paid back the sum in full One of the
mysterious items disclosed by the Fowler commit
tee a matter of $4,000 which was called ''un-
explained payment TO pay taxes"
On June 6, 1904, check was drawn 10 Hamilton
order for al1l3e o. to pay the company's franchise
tax to the state. Two days later this check was
deposited by Andrew Hamilton in his private ac-
count in an Albany bank. Mr.. Mccall sent check
TO Hamilton two months later for $4,000. In his
memorandum, Mr. Mccall noted that 1.-THE moneys
in the hands of Judge Hamilton will settle our
taxes in full On September %, 1901 Hamilton used
this So and So l3s o. the original Sill 1879 o.
pay the franchise tax of the amount exactly COW
cred by the first check. On this transaction the
Fowler committee reported:
No other conclusion would seem to be permss-
bic than that Hamilton used for his own purposes
$4,000 of the proceeds of the check of June g. 1904
state tax. and committee Is advised that both
Mr. Mccall and Hamilton are under the circum-
stances legally able for the sum.
Another sum which puzzled the Fowler committee
was OF $903s6 d. received by Hamilton in 1906
money collected from assigned claims and never
entered on the books of the New-York Life. This
was said to be in payment for recovering from the
State OF New-York the amount of S272, 7o3 q from
oVerpayment IN taxes
The Fowler report holds both Mr. Mccall and
Hamilton responsible for s14i5 500 which the Paris
Office made and charged to the policy fee account"
1t also recommended that proceedings be instituted
for their repayment or accounting to them.
Between October, 1885, and the month of the
following year, Hamilton gave demand notes to the
Central National Bank for $4,000. On these sums
the report says:
These various notes were held by the Central
National Bank and the New-York Security and
Trust Company or December 81, and the I'M
paid them that day appears TO have been
S5s. 40 80.
These notes were taken up on October l. 1902 by
George W. Perkins at the request of President Nc
Call. the report says. They were paid by direction
of President Mccall out OF the company's share
and trust company had in the United States Steel
Corporation syndicate.