New-York tribune., 1907-03-27
KELSEY POWDER FOUND
MAY SPOIL "SENSATTON." !"
Dauis SAID to Haze Been Counsel for
Insurance Company.
lBy Telegraph to The Tribune. ]

Albany. March 26-Part OF the ammunition
Of the Kelsey defence was discovered to-day,
and the disclosure will probably spoil the
startling revelations which Superintendent
KeIsey's lawyers had promised for Thursday.
when the hearing will be resumed before the
Senate Judiciary Committee. This sensation"
consists OF the fact that Senator Davis. chair
man Of the committee, is one of the group Of
special counsel lawyers. and that as recently
as the middle of February he appeared before
Kelsey as counsel for an insurance company.
In connection with this. which all appears in
the mass Of documents presented at the last
hearing. it is understood that the defence will
try to bring out something OF the kind affecting
Senator Page Senator Page said to-day that
he obtained copy of a ruling from Superin-
tendent Kelsey at the request of his landlord
but did not appear as a lawyer and charged no
fec.
Just how the Kelsey lawyers expect 20 use
this material is not known. but in general they
think 1t will have the effect with the public
of showing that two members OF the Jury have
had business relations with him as Superin-
tendent OF Insurance. This was their purpose
in bringing out the fee Of 800 received by SEN
ator Armstrong as special counsel in relation
TO the standard forms Of policies.
Among the letters on file with the Judiciary
Committee is one 10 Superintendent Kelsey
from officer of the Protective Assurance Com
pany Of Buffalo. in which this sentence ap-
peared:
Il via see Senator Davis and give him an
idea Of Just what there is TO it. and request him
to cali upon you personally. which possibly
might help 10 hurry things through
The company at that time was contemplating
venture in industrial insurance Previously
II had had trouble with It's advertising ltera-
ture. as had many other small companies just
then. When the trouble first began. ex-Attorney
General Cuneen was counsel for the company
but about the end of last year he was replaced
by Senator Davis. and eventually a satisfactory
solution seemed to be reached. After that the
industrial insurance idea occurred 20 the COM
pany. and along with It the idea. apparently
that Nh. Davis could hurry things through"
The especial point in this which will be en-
phasized by Kelsey's lawyers IS that at the
time these negotiations were under way, as
shown by the letters. the Kelsey case was before
the Senate judiciary COMMITTEES. The hurry
things through letter was dated February IL,
and this marked the beginning OF the negotie-
tons to the Industrial scheme.
Senator Page's business with the Insurance
Department was slight He said to-day that on
the request OF his landlord he stopped In one
day 20 Kelsey about a ruling as to the affairs
Of the American Temperance Life Company.
His landlord seemed somewhat In doubt about
the case. and the correspondence had not cleared
up his doubt, Senator Page got the superin-
tendents opinion and copy OF the ruling and
charged no fee
MY only other connection with insurance
business" said he. was after the passage OF the
Armstrong laws last year. Ny opinion was
asked on one point. The Legislature then had
adjourned ] consulted the Attorney General
made my opinion. told my client and took my
fee. That's all there was to that"