The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-16
Calls Trustees "Curs," and
Says They HOunded M'CaII
TO His Death.
GUILT THEIRS, NOT HIS.
interrupts Albany Hearing to Make
a heated Attack on the
COmpany's Managers,

Not Fit, He Says, to he Entrusted With the
Administrative OF q Great BusInes
They Knew, He Declares, OF Every
Dollar He spent-Why Wait Ten Years
to Cry Fraud7-Admits That He Was .
Lobbyist, and Says Thai thu Trustees
blower as q "PecksnIT OF Three Ad.
minIstrauons'-The yellow Dog' at
Least . Dos or Loyalty-Untermyer
Urges Earlier Date for Elections.
ALBANY, March 15,-Andrew Hamilton
made an unexpected and dramatic appear
ance before the Armstrong insurance COM
mittee and the members of the Legislature
this afternoon.
He made a bitter attack on the trustees
of the New York Life Insurance Company,
calling them ours declaring that they
had driven John A. Mccall to his grave and
asserting that the board knew Of every
dollar which he had spent and of the pur-
poses for which it had been intrusted to
him.
At no time did he mention any Of the
trustees by name. His only personal refer
ence was to a "Pecksnif of three admins
~trations who thinks that he is to be the
Talleyrand Of the present one Those at
the hearing who were familiar with the
history Of the New York Life knew that he
meant William b.. Hornbiower.
This is Mr.. Ham ilton's speech:
Andrew HamlItOn's Speech.
Il wish to thank you for permitting
me to appear at this opportune moment
in following my former associates Of the
New York Life, and I wish to state that
my remarks here will be confined entirely
to the New York Life Insurance Company
and the gentlemen who manage it. For
the other companies l have a high and
loyal respect, because so far as | nave
seen, l nave not yet found among them
ours and traitors. And so l say-and l
address you upon one bill solely, and I
address you in advocacy of that bill, which
l have not read, but the purport Of which
appears in the p~apers-that it is your duty
to report in favor Of the measure that will
remove the trustees Of the New York Life
Insurance Company upon November is
next, arbitrarily.
Il look around the circle and 1 see here
many members OF it, | see among them
men VIII yhave sat and listened to the ~storiesi
of my victories in their behalf and applauded
it, and ] wonder whether it was like the
line in Goldsmiuhzthat it was counter
feited gIee, or whether the attitude that
they have since taken has been one OF
counterfeited honesty.
M'cALL KILLED.
Il have no prepared speech-no set
speech, no typewriter notes to go by,
but at my luncheon to-day, when con-
sidered the hearing that was on, ] said
We'll, there is a duty to be performed hers,
and nave been accused in performing
my duty. but l will come up to the front
now on a certain line and here l am. One
Of the features that has been an important
event in the Investigations Of your COM
mittee, Mr.. Chairman, has been the question
of my transactions and OF my vouchers,
and when you have heard all the sweet
protestations of innocence that have come
along, and how the only bad one was the
dead man, killed, hat they drove into
his grave and deserted, and the yellow
dog'-that made an appeal to me to come
down here and say something for him and
lust a word for myself. Not that we are
asserting any defence or making any apol-
ogies or asking any immunity, but because
what | say is said in support of this measure
which you gentlemen have proposed.
why, when they say they didn't know
what was going on it excites my laughter
and derision. The Pecksnif of three adj
ministrations and who thinks that he is
the Talleyrand of the present one, the con-
fdant of the Beers scandal and author Of
the Beers pension, rotates through one
administration and rotates through another,
and as / say this, he is going to be like Tai
leyrand, an indispensable member Of an
other administr alton; and do you think
that the man who held the same relation to
Mr.. Beers tina l did TO Mr.. Mccall through
his administration could sit for the thirteen
years since and not know what and how
the expenditures that were made were TO
be and were disbursed? Remark that ] say
that when / disbursed my expenditure
moneys not a dollar was disbursed in a way
that could be criticised, and yet he, and such
like him, sit, not judging me as peers, but
Judging ms as conquerors, talking about
yellow dogs
OFFICER KNEW ALL.
Nov, Of course, in every administration
OF a great public concern there are many
things to be done which, in the hurried line
Of duty and in the desire for victory, can-
not always be delayed. But there never
was q line or a thing that was done In the
New York Life in my administration OF my
department but that the executive officers.
one and all, we're conscious of what the pur-
pose was, Of what the object was and what
the expense was, ! say this now. and when
| look around and see their faces before me
l challenge contradiction.
Nov let JUS assume for a moment the
criticism that has been made in regard to the