The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-03-20

He Said Was a Victim. Driven to His
Grave and Decentralization
Spoke in Advocacy 'dftthc Bill Which
VIII Remove the Trustees of the
He Defends the Work He Accom-
plished.
Albany, n T., March 15.-Andrew
Hamilton appeared before the insur-
ance investigating committee this af-
ternOon and broke the silence which
ment brought from Paris by John c..
Mccall, ever since his name was first
mentioned in the investigation in con-
nection with the great sums of money
shown to have been paid to him dur
ing the past ten years on account of his
legal and legislative work for the New
York Life and other insurance COM
panies.
1t 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 tremb-
ling with passion, his arms appraised
and bis fists clilched, Judge Hamilton
poured fourth a flood of denunciation
and inyective upon the members of the
BOARD OF trustees Of the New York
Life Insurance company, several of
whom present, designating them
ours and traitors and paying espec-
ial attention to one unnamed, whom
he described as -fhe hpecksniff of three
administrations, the confidant of the
Beers scandal, and author of the Beers
pension-Who rolates through one ad-
m~1nistrataon and another and thinks
that he is going to be an indispensa-
BILE member of yet another"
"And do you Think he demanded
that the man who held the same re-
lation to MI. Beers that l did to Mr..
Mccall could sit"for the thirteen years
since and Bgt know how thu expendi-
lures that were made were to be, and
We're disburBed? Yet he, and such like
him sit, not judging me as peers, but
Judging me as >conquerers, talking
about yellow dogs"
Judge Hamilton's attack upon the
trustees of the New York Life was
made all the more dramatic by the fact
that he immediate Y followed J. II.
Mcintosh, general solicitor of that
company, who had been eulogizing the
nf 4R1f hon JI on1 aho1Inn~
ing any man to give reasons why they
should be removed from Office as con
templated by Tne,p 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.
He spoke of Mr.. Mccall as a victim.
as having been <houldered with the
blame-'that only one, the dead man,
killed, that they drove to his grave and
deserted and declared that the men,
DRY of this man had appealed to him
Ito come down here and say sOmthing
for him and just a word for myself"
Judge Hamilton after stating that
he would conf1ne his remarks entirely
to the New York Life Insurance COM
pany said he had high and loyal re-
spect for the other companies because
81 have not yet found amongst them
curs and traitors"
Continuing he said:
Il address you upon and in advO-
cacy of one bill solely, which l have
not read, but the purport of which ap-
pears in the papers-and l say that it
lis your duty to report in favor Of the
that will remove the trustees
OF the New York Life Insurance COM
many upon November Dist mex arh[
tIarily.
Il look around this our and / see
here many members of that board of
trustees, l see amongst them men who
have sat and listened to the stories of
my victories in their behalf and ap-
plauded, and / wonder whether it was
like that line in Goldsmith. whether it
was .counterfeited glee' or whether the
attitude that they have since taken has
been one of counterfeited honesty.
Zone Of the features that has been
an important event in the inyestiga-
tons of your committee, Mr.. Chair
man, has been the question Of my
transaction, and of my vouchers, and
when you have heard all the sweet
protestations OF innocence that have
come along, and how the only n was
the dead man-killed, that they drove
into his grave and deserted, n b
yellow dog that made an appeal to
me to come down here and say some
thing for him and just that word for
myself-not that wesare asserting any
defense or making any apologies or
asking any immunity, but because
what / say is said in support OF this
measure which you gentlemen have
proposed.