The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1906-03-22
JUDGE HAMILTON BITTER
Breaking Silence at Last, Legislative
Agent For the Big Insurance Com
panies Appears Unexpectedly Be-
fore Investigating Committee ana
Pours a Flood of Denunciatioa
Upon Officials WHO Drove NcCal
TO His Grave

to His Grave"
Albany, \. y, Special-Andrew |
Hamilton appeared before the lnsur- |
ance investigating committee. and |
the silence which he has maintained.
except for his statement brought from |
Paris by John c. Mccall, ever since
| his name was first mentioned in the
investigation Ia connection with the
great sums Of money shown to have
been paid him during the past TO
years on account OF his legal and
legislative work fer the New York
Life and other insurance companies.
1t would be difficult to exaggerate
the sensation and by the speech which
he made Or the intensely dramatic
| character of the whole episode. His
| face was flushed and his voice tremb-
| ling with passion, his arms appraised
and his fists clenched. Judge Ham
lion poured forth a flood of denun-
citation and invective upon the mem
| bcrs Of the board Of trustees Of the
! New York Life Insurance Company,
Mating them "curs and traitors,' and
paying special attention to one un-
| named, whom he described as ''the
Peeksniff of three administration, the
conlidant of the Beers scandal and
author Of the Beers position-who ro-
tates through one administration and
another, and thinks that he IS going
to be an indispensable member of yet
anOther.'
RETORTS "YELLOW DOG"
"And dc You Think he demanded,
"that the man who held the same re-
lation to Mr. Beers that | did to Mr..
Mccall could sit for Is years since,
and not know how the expenditures
that were made were to be, and were,
disbursed? Yet he and such like him
sit, not Judging me as peers, but
= Judging me as cOnquerors, talking
about yellow dogs .''
Judge Hamilton's attack upon the
trustees Of the New York Life was
made the more dramatic by the fact
that he Immediately followed j. ii.
: Mcintosh, general solicitor Of that
D, company, who had been eulogizing the
! members Of that board and challeng-
ing any man to give reasons why they
should be removed from Office as con
templated by the pending legislation
The only name he mentioned was that
h Of the late President Mccall, In the
!. reference to whom and to whose deatt
= he displayed marked emotion. Ht
# spoke of Mr.. Mccall as q victim, a;
r having been shouldered with th'
n blame-''th the Only one. the dead man
# killed. that they drove to his grave
n and deserted.' and declared that th
h memory Of this man had appealed t.
:. him ''to come down here and sa,
something for him and just wore
ID for myself
10 Judge Hamilton after stating tha
s. he would contine his remarks entlrel
p to the New York Life Insurance Com
II. pany, said he had high and loyal re
- speck for the other companies becaus
20 ~ have not yet found amongst the1
H. ours and traitors.'
er Continuing he said:
81 address you upon and IN advt
~ { cacy of one bill solely, which l hav
w. not read, but the purport OF which al
ds pears in the papers-and say that
or is your duty to report in favor OF tt
I'd measure that will remove the trustee
M of the New York Life Insurant
he Company upon November 2l next, a
no bitrarily.
ar- ''I look around this court and l ST
~ here many members Of that board
ed trustees. see amongst them men wi
oh have set and listened to the storl
,ed of nv victories in their behalf, az
At applauded, and I wonder whether
all was like that line in Goldsmith, Whet
MT er it was 'counterfeited glee,
os- whether the attitude that they ha
nd since taken has been one OF counte
-ed feited honesty.
the SHOULD BE OUSTED FROM COZ
the PANY.
}av IF. he said. the board did not a
ed. prove his vouchers, ''then the fall
lew to perform their duty. And the II
mt son | came forward now is not
and say, or not to apologize for the
vouchers, but to say this, that thu
men with their responsibilities up
their shoulders and upon mine, tt
have something to account for.
"They may talk about the yell
IN dog but the yellow dog is dog
all courage and of loyalty, but the C
nat who stood around this funeral Il
last has occurred. and the ours who kn
,si- of these transactions and shrink L
-. their shoes-they are the curs-f
: III that is the reason that come to sp'
eH- before YOU and say that the 81
rom interest of two billions OF dollars
ton. life insurance and four hundred l
,rod lions of dollars Of assets can ne
be safely entrusted to the hands
administration of lot OF ours.