The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-03-14
ANDY IS To HEAD
LOBBY At ALBANY
KNOWLEDGE ABOUT DlSHONES ST
LEGISLATURES A CLUB TO
THWART REFORM.
TO WHIP MEN IN LINE
Holds Many Secret Conferences Pre-.
pairing to Defeat Armstrong
recommendation as to
insurance.

New York March l3.-" Judge An
drew Hamilton, through whose hands
$2.030,06 passed IN transit from life
insurance companies TO the State
Legislature today came out of his
temporary retirement in Albany and
for several hours aitted about New
York re.esiablishing The connections
broken by his flight to Europe.
There Is now NO doQht rs to why
returned TO 1his country
That be Will have charge Of the fine
aud adroir work Of defeating the legis-
lation recommended by the Armstrong
Committee is fully understood by
those interested ia insurance matters
Il is a daring and andacous move
and an the more likely 10 u uec
ful Qn th4 account. accofdna - %
terpd ID iae way Ql gentlemen clt
ibp tlfl h9aae' In AlbH9.
fiawi.fun was m communication
with representative ~ the barge tom
panies today From a private office
in the New York Life building he
kept the telephone busy arranging
conferences to be held while in the
city and when he returns TO Albany
70 will be with q clear understanding
Of what he is 10 do there.
Hamilton's first visit on arriving IN
this city was 10 the office of John C
Milburn. 81 Wall street Mr. Milburn
is counsel for the Fowler investigating
committee Of the New York Life and
the interview with Hamilton had been
arranged several days in advance.
From the office of Mr. Milburn Ham
ilton raced in an electric cab 10 the
New York Life Building, where he
spent some time with John G. Mccall
secretary and son Of the former prest
dent Later Hamilton visited his old
Offices ON the eleventh floor. now In
charge Of Daniel r. Lynch
Daniel e Lynch is the lawyer in
timatoly Interested with Hamilton and
John A. Mccall who received $4,000
from The New York Life ON q note
bearing the name of r 4. Mccall. now
Justice Of the Supreme Court 10 adj
dition TO his own Lynch and Nc
Call together negotiated notes for $50,
900 bon all. which were later taken up
Joy !. p. Morgan Co. for the New
Yorl, life.
when several questions pertinent 10
Insurance conditions were asked Ham
nton hc smiled lcnicutly and answer
"a with Il frank directncss of denial
that was insurmountable
when have anything 10 say about
these matters II will bee Of such i'm
portance That ! viii see that 10 Is care
fully prepared for publication and viii
then Oct every newspaper have It. at
she same time"
That Hamilton could tlH~ch is
certain. and t,xNl6maiion is TO be.
used as o CLUB to beat many of the
legislators at Albany into line. Men
who might be Inclined. through lack
of insurance money 10 vote for the
Armstrong bills can be- herded into
the opposition simply Boy holding over
them the threat of exposure OF their
past dealings with the insurance
lobby.
There were many uImDrs that An
dy' Fields would also bee called back
io New York within p short lime and
that he would also be uut 10 work IN
Albany stampeding the legislature
Bernard D. Baker OF Baltimore to
iay announced that Dc would accept
temporarily ihe craftsmanship of the.
Mutual poiicy-hOiders' committee. at
Though be wished fHe permanent
elalrmiu-hin to be he'd by Sir Fish
The Bulletin IN delivered n thirts
surround ~ i8sns in Hps Cor LhF
breakfast table.