The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-03-25
INSURANCE LOANSALLDS VOTE NEXT
Buckley Admits Borrowing
$4,000 From Co.'s.
WHILE He WAS STATE OFFICIAL
One of the Loans Was Repaid by
a Check From Edward E. Nc
Call, Now a Supreme
Court Justice.

New York. March 24.-Delving deep
into the records of his predecessors in
office at the fire insurance inquiry,
State superintendent Hotchkiss de
yeloped the record of William II.
tendent, and before he got through he
had found that three years after Mr..
Buckley quit the office to practice law
he had come into the splendid income
of 100000 from insurance companies.
Mr.. Buckley, who admitted that he
was an intimate friend of Senator
Thomas +. Grady, was once a senate
page Then he became a clerk in the
office of the state superintendent of
insurance Then he was the private
secretary to superintendent Pierce
He studied law in Mr.. Pierce's office.
Later-it was some time in 19O1-he
was for a time the third deputy, and
rowed SCI 900 from insurance compa-
nies and became the principal handler
of the so called yellow pup" fund at
Albany.
But it was in 1901 that Mr.. Buckley
became IA full fledged lawyer. Bust
ness came in so fast that in three
years he was making more money than
lawyers who had practiced for fifty
years-business furnished by insur-
ance companies. over which the Office
he had lately left had jurisdiction.
BY 1904, he admitted. when Mr..
Hotchkiss drew his attention to the
records. he was drawing money from
the Munich company. the Rossia, Prus-
sian-which had been given a monop-
oily of certain lines of Insurance by
the Grady bill-the New York Life on
an annual retainer, the Travellers and
the Provident Savings Life.
Buckley was private secretary from
May. 1892, to May. 1896, to Superin
tendent Pierce, and for the five years
following he was third deputy super
intendent of insurance at Albany.
Buckley admitted that In 1900 anC
1901, while he was a deputy in tht
state insurance department. he obtain
ed from the PheniX Fire Insurance
company of Brooklyn loans aggregat
/ ing SOL 900.
These loans were in three amounts
$1,000 on Feb. G, 1900; $4,000 OI
Dec. 10. 1900. and $4,000 OF. Jan, %
1901.
The loans were made to Buckle.
while he was still deputy insuranc
superintendent and before he had al
office adjoining that of Edward e. Nc
| Call, then lawyer, now justice il
the supreme court. Buckley describes
! the then Lawyer Mccall as well as tn
late John A. Mccall, president of tn
| New York Life Insurance company a
/ two of his best friends.
"The books show that on Dec. 81
1900, you were credited with $l3.00
and that the check that paid that $13
900 was inSDrsed by Edward Il. Nc
Call?" asked Superintendent Hotch
kiss.
Yes"
did the then Attorney Mccall loa
you this $13,O00Y"
81 don't recall"
The witness then said that the loan
were for himself and not for Mr.. Nj
Call and that the reason Mr. Mccall
name appeared on the check was tina
he was interested in the Internationi
Banking corporation, some shares q
which had been deposited as securlt
for the loan.
The lawyer also admitted that du
ing the legislative session of 1904 h
received $4,000 from the New Yor
board OF underwriters, $500 from th
Rossia Insurance company OF st. r,
tersburg and $l,T50 from the Munic
Insurance company. In addition, b
got his $1,000 fee from the New Yor
Life.
"You were admitted TO the bar
1901" said the superintendent of II
surance, ''and here In a little less tina
three years you were getting along |
the rate OF $4,000 year. Don't SO
think that was pretty rapid advanc
mentT
you'd think II reasonable enough
you could get IT," answered Buckley