Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-19
TRUSTEES TO REPAY
New York Life to Get Back
 Campaign Funds.
WILL PUT Si4S,00O IN TREASURY.
Andrew Hamilton and His Wife In- tervfewed-she Said That She Per- suaded Him to Return and
 That He Has More to Tell.


 NEW YORK, March 19. - It has been settled that the trustees of the New York Life Insurance, company who were members of the finance com. mittee during the presidential cam paigns of 1896, 1900 and 1904 and were cognizant of the political contri- buttons made by the New. York Life will reimburse the company to the extent of $14S,000. This is the total of the political contributions made by the company. Each trustee will go into his own pyivate funds to make the pay ment. In all there are fifteen trustees involved, and under the agreement each man will have to contribute a trifie less than S1O,0OO.
 It was originally planned to hold the estate of John A. Mccall responsi- ble for all of the political, rcontEibH, tions aud to bring, legal actions against it to obtain reimbursements. Aban- donment of this plan is involved in the decision reached at the conference.
 | Il. come back and faced the men who have been so loud in their criticism of his work for the insurance company and boastful of what they would do if he got within their reach. I rather think they all heartily wish he had stayed in Europe the rest of his life," said the wife of Andrew Hamilton when interviewed. .s
 Hamilton, it was learned, will be afforded an opportunity tomorrow in this city to tell all he knows of insur- ance corruption when Senator Arm strong and his committee meet their counsel, Charles E. Hughes.
 Mrs. Hamilton would say nothing as to this, but continued:
 Tt is said that persuaded my hus- band to come back to New York to tell the truth and all the truth about his work for the New York Life Insur- ance company. We'll, perhaps I did. At any rate, I am immeasurably hap pier since he made that address in the legislature last Thursday.
 And you may be sure of one thing, too" she added earnestly. MT. Hamil- ton has not yet told all he has to tell. There is much more information to come, and it is all substantiated by writing and figures in his possession.
 When the proper time comes he will speak and clear up everything that seems now so mysterious. And wien he does he will be absolutely cleared of these absurd charges of mis- conduct in handling the legal interests of the insurance company. I know him better than any one else in the world. and know that he has never done a thing that could be questioned"
 Judge" Hamilton last night express ed the opinion that when the bills pro- posed by the Armstrong committee are reported they should contain a pro- vision that no trustee legislated out of office next November. as recommended by the committee. shall be eligible for reelection until full year has elapsed.
 "The propriety of this is obvious .- said Judge" Hamilton. "snd believe a demand for it is coming to head
 'I note that some of these gentlemen in New York say they do not know me. IL certainly seems strange that any man should be in a position to spend very large sums of the money of which they are the legal guardians during a long term of years and yet he totally unknown to them"