The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-07
Keeper of yellow Dog Fund
of New York Life Sudden
ly Returns.
MORE EXPOSURES OF
OFFICIALS EXPECTED
Trustees Said to Have Hidden
Behind Mccall May Be
Shown Up.
journal Special Service.

Journal Special Service.
New York, March 7.-Andrew Ham
ilton, who disbursed $1,347,3 of the
"yellow dog funds of the New York
Life in influencing legislation in ways
unexplained, came back to New York
unexpectedly on the steamship Deutsch-
land yesterday. Soon after his arrival
here he went to his home IN Albany.
Hamilton comes here chiefly to face
any criminal charges which may be
lodged against, him and to do every
thing within his power to clear the
name of John A. Mccall.
A few days before he died, and al
most in his last hours of consciousness,
Mr.. Mccall made a statement in which
he reaffrmed his faith in Hamilton s
honesty and integrity and his absolute
dollar of the great, sums placed in his
care for his personal enrichment. This
deathbed declaration of confidence by
'~ the man who had befriended him for
forty years moved Hamilton to cast all
other considerations aside and come
back to this country.
May Lay Secrets Bare.
Hamilton's return is fraught with
many possibilities. If he yields to the
entreaties of the Mccall family and
those men in the New York Life who
are loyal to the memory Of John A.
Mccall and would sacrifice much to
see his name and fame rehabilitated,
Hamilton will make an absolutely full
and complete disclosure of his opera
tons as legislative agent of the New
York Life.
One of the company's officers said
last night that such a disclosure would
do more damage to regulations than all
of the exposures made since the open
ing of the insurance scandal IN Feb
ruary, 1905. This man added:
"Hamilton has been doing his cont
Dental work for the New York Life
for fourteen years, and in that time
handled more than $1,3O0,000. He did
work at one time Or another with every
legislature Of every state in the union
and in Canada. You can wager that
many legislators in.@many sections of
the country will lie awake wondering
how much Hamilton is going tore
veal -. .:..-. . 80. FL II r.. d.
Bitter Feeling Revealed. H..
News of Hamilton's arrival provoked
friends of John A. Mccall and Incl
dentally revealed the most bitter feel
ing against group of trustees of the
company who, it is claimed, shielded
themselves behind Mccall and allowed
him to assume full legal and moral re
sponsibility for the payments to Hamil
ton, tho they had sanctioned all along
the financial relations which existed be
tween the legislative agent and tn
company.
If Hamilton makes a clean breast O.
everything-and the friends of tn
dead man declare he must to save him
self from the charge of perfdiously de
MoTn
of the trustees involved in the ''yellov
dog' scandal will not only be revealed
but the company will get the necessar.
. evidence for suits against them TO
restitution.
Hanilton's Return.
Hamilton boarded the Deutschland a
Genoa on Feb. "a. He did not trave
under his full name, but divided his las
+ name so that it appeared upon tn
/ ships passenger list as H. A. Milton
{ His reason for doing this. he explaine
E to friends, was simply to avoid unplea:
+ ant notoriety and annoyance on SHY
I board.
q When the Deutchsland reached he
B dock yesterday Hamilton left the pie
Il quietly and disappeared. Later he III
!. tilted John, G: Mccall, secretary Of tn
r New York Life and eldest son of job
II A. Mccall, of his arrival. Young M
II Supreme Court Justice Edward p. M
II Call and the two had long conferent
~ in the New York Life building.
IN One of Hamilton S fellow passenge
.& on the Deutschland was George '
81 Dodson, of the editorial staff Of Il
81 Hamilton for years and the two hs
s& many conversations during the voyag
Al The EAGLE prints the following int
4 view with Hamilton, which was granite
III in response to a request for stat
il ment:
It'll What Hamilton Says.
In 'sI have something to say, but n
a.# much. I know practically nothing
#6 to the nature of the Fowler report.
#5 it when I have become familiar with
"What I suppose you want to knt
s{i is why I have returned. Well, L hea
$ something about criminal proceedin
@ and here am. That's all. Certain
it's all I have to say just now. Y
6 can interpret what it means and so c
i the public. sssu
Isl cit signifies that tho my, health is
l from restored, I am ready to accept a
# challenge implied by such proceedin.
EFF GAS to my health, let me add tn
# there is no necessity for any resort
M all that has happened. But IN 7
so fortunate otherwise.
Ell 'eI'm especially unfortunate in t
death of Mr.. Mccall, and I might S
Il almost as much concerning the more
N cent removal of Lyman Short, CHI
Ell counsel of the Mutual, to say nothi
Of the incapacitating of Mr.. Alexand
s. To some who have gone | could ha
81 looked with no misgivings as to WI
they would say or. do.
Il I" AS to what others have said a
done during my absence-and [ mis-
allude to those who live in glass hou
Il will say nothing
"Well, all that you want to say
that you We come back to face a
music that may be played9'
Yes, discordant or otherwise
81 Gave Vouchers, He Said.
In one Of his informal talks on sh
board he declared that he had gi1
vouchers for all of his expenditul
and that these were acceptable to
# Mccall.
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