The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-29
SENATOR B, SARATOGA PARTY
No Use OFFERING $500 TO HEs
CAMPAIGN FUND IN 1900.


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AIbany-"NS nepasnb,s Lawyer Weula
No IT, me wrote. In seetins . Pvsea
on ono Job-Travcaers PAID wen.
Tho name OF Senator Brackste was mems
toned With great frequsncy at the ins
surance bearing yesterday when Sup&.
Hotchluss tried 70 find out from willinna
n. Buckley. legislative agent for soms &C
tbs firs companies ct Albany In ioos and
1904. II Senator Bracket wasn't the psrS'
son referred to in some correspondsnoa,
that was read a. 'our friend Senator ~
the Saratoga party and our sarasoea
friend
Buckley had had little trouble beatinR
Senator Brackett's resolution introduoe4
| in tho session Of Isos calling for the in-'
vestigation Of fire insurance rates In Tho
State. The letters read yesterday oovers4
the session Of 1904 That year Mr. Buck
ley wanted 81 500 from George P. Shsldaa.
president OF the PhsniK and chairman oe
the law and legislative COMMITTEES Of thu
New York Board Of Underwriters. 20 help
the campaign fund Of -our friend In nc
Saratoga district
MIR. sheldon had suggested after tho
1904 session was out Of the way thRe
instead Of going on an they had and
waiting for the Legislators to zee to-
gether il would he good plan to aid things
little in the fall election OF that ysar
in some Of The Senate Districts. Bucklsy
didn't like this plan because. he said.
our friends forget they have been helpea
4 when the crises come He thought 10
was better TO withhold the money unsil
the crisis came. but later. it seems. hs
thought IL advisable TO DO something foe
our friend in the Saratoga district"
sheldon was only able TO send up $500
and Buckley sent this hack because. no
said. Il wouldn't be appreciated.
/ Mr.. Hotchkiss couldn't get Buckley to
admit that our friend Senator b." was
senator Bsackett. who had given him -
much trouble the year before Just who
| this person was Buckley couldn't remam-
| her. though there appeared To be only
one senator b. in Saratoga az the TINA.
The letters read yesterday seemed 70 show
that while Buckley wasn't kept quite a.
busy fixing things for his insuranco
clients up At Albany In I9OG - he was ths
previous year. he sent in q much bigger
bill. charging Mr.. Sheldon and the psopls
associated with him $1,000. The bin
was 90 big that even with sheldon heip-
Ing him make 10 out u kicked M quite
a row. He hadn't even permitted strike
bills to he introduced. Buckley said. in
one letter explaining his bin.
one Of the bills Buckley attended 70
that session was introduced by Louis
Bedell, Odell's AssemblymAn from Orangs.
| II vas adverse to the interests Of some %
the foreign companies and Buckley re-
ported that he had had Il defeated in tho
Senate. An anu-compAct bill Of Assezns
blymAn Nye was also put to sleep. Shels
don apparently heiped Buckley to put
| through the Grady reinsurance hill. which
the other companies represented on Shsl-
don's own committee opposed. Sheldon
even went so far ~ to write to Odell In
favor OF IT,
William Grosmith. general counsel foR
the Travellers Insurance Company oe
| Hartford. testified that his company had
paid Buckley a total Of SCI 100 TO put
through in 1903 a bill to which nearly all
! the other accident companies were ops
posed. tie didn't know what Buckley
had done to help things along Buckley
in one letter suggesting il would be .
good thing for the PrlIssian Lfe Insurancs
Company to give him an annual retainer
Of $40" wrote that the work Wouldns
ne TAKEN up ny any repu'Aoie aver.
typosraphicai "rrOr ne cAieu 'nhs
adg"ct'Ne Yesterday
T. n. brown me one urne purchaAn
agent OF sing SihS i'rison' Fcpcatod %
IN" STAND Yesterday ms oefhAI mat ne nAo
called george T. seward up 10 sing S,ne
way IN 1891 70 prcsen. mat request ior
$1,000 Tor Inn SULLIVAN 10 Hl osn
then IN the LegiS'ature' ou' despite TINS
Mr' seward Aite' takihs soon zoos ~
Brown was morally certain 'hAt ne
was the Brown.
James McIntosh. general counseI for