The sun., 1910-03-23
REMOVABLE VETO NUMBER q
ODELL KILLED GRADY BELL.
THEN REyEVED IT.

Whsse seat Wns slnH sing Prisoa
-ksnnedy Rcmembers = 0a0.0OO
strske ~ Vears Odd. bua Noe whe Get
CIerk. neRaerea ss9s services IN
safe SO specify. bus Chased 90 Legal.
More light on removabls vetoss when
0dell vas Governor was permitted &C The
end Of the Insurance. hearing yesterday
10 Gleam for q moment only. Speaking of
vetoes an Insurance. Dswspapsr. from
which Mr.. Hotchkias had clipping. had
stated that Gov. OdelI had vetoed ths
Grady reinsurance bill In 1909. and thsn
had withdrawn the veto. thus reversing.
A. 20 the suffering companies. the pro-
cedure with the hill removing ths tax on
reinsurance ressrves. That hin bscams
q lac in 1901. when 5000 of insurance
money went 10 the Republicsn STATE
COMMITTEES and 900 TO Aldridgs. Ths
Grady reinsurance bill is tho present lase,'
which Mr.. Correa SO was -bouehN
through the Isgislature. Witness Elija4
R. Kennedy admitted yesterday that Id
had heard who intsrcsded with odell
for the bill and got the veto Withdrawn.
but a. the man ls dead now Mr. Kennedy
did not want 10 tell the name.
A proposition that Timothy Sullivan
would pull OF q thrsatsnlng Insurance.
Law amsndmsnt for siO.OOO was made In
the Warden's apartments of Sing Sing
pri~On In 1901 or isse to George r. Seward.
president Of the Fidelity and Casualty
Company. according 10 Mr.. Stewards te-si-
mouy yesterday befors supt. Hotchkiss
Mr.. Seward was Formerly American Min
istsr 10 China The offer was made by "a
man named Brown" who was not ths
warden bat Who entertained MIR. Seward
at dinner :h the wardsn's apartmenss.
having invited him by telegraph 20 como
up.
Dead Line Brown was the war den
then. He came from Nswburgh- Big Tim
was an Aassmblyman n shoae DAYS and
says that whoever made such statement
lied. Litels Tim was Big Tins secretary
about that time and was rsputSd 10 be
Engaged In legal studies. He 10 dead
BY tho way. Mr.. Seward wrote for Brown
q tslssEsm 20 bs ssnt to Timothy suIla-
ven" IL read: -AsE. Seward saye you can
30 20 hell" A - who Brown was. Ed
word A. Brown of Msddlstowu. then pur-
rhasaAe agsas Ssr The prison. says Mr.
Seward -must have meant me and h's
Aann lie. and ] never saw Mr.. Seward
4 .eard oI him"
This story came out in tbs morning
session. Late in the afternoon Elijah
r. Kennedy. who u playing an impor-
tant role in ts.s investigation. told Nr
HOtehkias that about fifteen years ago
h had been asked To give up $4,000
90 q stranger. A. usual Mr. Kennedy's
memory went back on him 70 the extent
OF forgetting the name Of anybody con-
nscted with the game As for the date
hs remembered that Irving Burns
OF Westchester was an Assembiyman
at the time and he thought thst Bura5
was then chairman Of the Insurance.
Committee 81 the House Burns VIA
chairman Of the tn xation and R~tranch.
ment Committee m 1885,. which VS. N.
teen years ago
The only persons connected with ths
incident whom Mr. Kennedy could recp.-
lect was an As<emblvmln named -Townr'
or Towns from the western pert Of IN,
State There WAS no such As-smblym "A
in Isss. but whoever M Kennsdy mem
the hill which WA antagon-
istie To the New York Board of Firs
Underwriters. aud later stranger
came around 10 500 Mr. Kennedy ami
on behalf oG Towns or some
N..a ~ 4. A aNN
passed. said the witness The money
vas not paid
Another witness ~ the day was Cor
nsliu- Shufelt Of Chatham. v Y. who
was clerk of the senate Insurance Com
miStse IN 1914 and afterwsrd deputy
clerk Of the senate He was confronted
with number Of letters that passed
between him. Lou Payn and the late
President sheldon Of the Phenix
shufelt was active ~ a Legislative
agent for the fire insurance companies
and complained th-t they didn't -
him. Then they paid him So on socoun-
but not apparently without demanding
an itemizsd statement. which he wros.
would make him liable 70 criminal prose-
cutsou 10 he furnished H. shufslt told
Lou Pnyu this too He didn't remember
Yesterday what be- had meant By IT,
shufslt a. deputy clerk OF the Senate
was In charge Of the sngrossing room
He 10 now supervisor Of tho Federal
ceasn for the Tweaty-nrst Con@rsss
district. Columbia. Dutchsss. Putnam
and 0reene counaiss.
TEE sCL&RvAM sxs6 anSo syoMY.
Mr.. Seward. Who h 70 ysaEs old. oams
70 TIE inquiry. He was talk
InR Insurance. isglslativO matters In 'amn.
srAl whom Nr. Hoeahkiss ashsd hlIp %
lsu of personal sxperiences &C Albany.
IA uase 70 be- bSSRa ~. Seward.
-thme whsn you waneoa % talk strAiNhe
lhaY eaid How muoh h there In it'p
sWhen waa thatl' asked Mr.. HotoA.
kias.
syOuu bS wanting 20 know nAmas
aSKt.' was ths rsply.
Yes. that's tnse what ~ want"
A.. 49,