New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-01
Tsupplemen;al and Reserved 6s6I

Interests close 10 the board of inspectors esti-
mated that the adjudication Of challenges and the
elimination of duplicates and OF laDsed policy
votes would give a total of 100000 votes to the
administration against 10000 for the international
committee.
It is predicted that the inspectors will rule as
good 10000 Of the l76S4S administration votes
challenged by the international committee. but will
accept only 10000 of the 1856 pro-international
votes which administration watchers challenged.
II Is believed that the board win sustain less
fhsn per cent OF the total challenged votes.
The actual count this week Of the international
committees vote delivered to the inspectors the
day Of the election has disclosed. # IS said. peculiar
methods adopted by the committee its ad-
herents; novel. indeed. that 80 per cent OF the
79ee International votes challenged by administra-
ZION watchers have been challenged the ground
either thai the envelopes addressed to
Richard Olney. at No so Broad street that the
envelopes o. ballots. both. had been altered.
opened previously and resealed. sent open 10 the
Broad street address. and there sealed and on.
The international committees manager declares
f.at the committee had a right TO open mail ad-
ilessed 10 Mr.. olney, chairman. Open it. in
deed, The committee did in a number OF instances
trimming the envelope AZ the side and resealing
Il 50 carefully that in many cases & needs almost
the use OF microscope to show that the envelope
has been tempered with
The administration watchers apparently take the
ground ;hat II this mail private and opened as
such. the use Of rubber stamp 70 print New
York Life Insurance Company across the en-
velope did not convert the contents of the en-
veiopes into ballots reading OF Section % Of the
Insurance law shows that II was the laws inten-
tion that all mail ballots should be addressed TO
the company.
This section goes on 10 say that all envelopes so
received and marked substantially ballot for
directors shall be preserved intact without
opening before delivery TO the inspectors The
section continues:
ANY person not being an inspector. open
veiope shall be guilty Of misdemeanor.
The administration watchers have challenged
many international votes also. on the ground that
enc or more persons have amended ballots and en-
velopes by substitution omission. In green or
blue ink. the ink used IN the annexation and the
handwriting % the annotation alike being appar-
ently distinct from the polcyholders original hand
writing and the ink the polcyholder used IN writ
ing thu original ballot and envelope.
In many instances. according 10 the administra-
ton watchers a poiicyhoder's original signature
has been Initiated" on envelope which. II
might have been thought. would have been de-
fective otherwise. the address has been made per
feet In the same unknown handwriting. etc. the
staccato green blue ink having been used by the
second writer writer's
The international committees manager, in a YER
bal statement which he made yesterday defended
the committees action in opening the Olney mall
and attributed the annotatious 10 circular letter
tNo. = which the committee sent ont 10 policy
holders. and which reads follows:
We IN receipt OF your ballot properly ex-
ecuted. Under the New York law. however, II Is
necessary that this ballot be inclosed IN an en-
Vclope with your and address written there
IN your handwriting We incose an en-
velope for this purpose, addressed the insur-
COMPANY. Please write this envelope. in
the spaces provided On your handwriting your
name, your address and the number OF your policy.
Place this envelope. unsealed. in the second en-
velope, inclosed. marked ballot for Directors"
and addressed 10 me. Kindly mail as soon as
possible. and We will make record OF your ballot
forward 20 the company and see that same is voted
and counted.
sSigned) RICHARD OLNEY, Chairman.