The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-31
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SOUGHT 81 ROBER
Witness in Insurance Inves--
tigtlon Refuses to Give
Out information
BIG Tim" SULLIVAN
AGAIN RETIRED TO
Charge y Babe Soliciting Borne
Ont YsIthfui Lobbyist Paid
$21, - for -Four Months
Work

NEW IoRK. March sl.---At the
IRE insnEs ~ isssatry to-day e. E.
clapp. q ciApp u Company,
New YaFE aSIsiite q the Ffdelity and
cseealty co1 w. = brother in-iaw
INK ms HroN1s NJ was warden OF Sing
ain9 prison IA 1892. s~ore that
Warden Hr0eFn suegested chat he SEQ
l u a.-fiSvw4xsis8 purchasing aEenr
fqf TIN pyiso6. rcgarding Yending leg
ttaaafton atIee1nx his comp4ny.
GIapp could mot 80 and aent George
n. Seward ~ - Brown. Seward has
sworn that "a r.. Brown offered IL
have Big IImss Sullivan NIL the bill
Tor t10.00e and this Brown denied
! - Clapp wa4 called to anbatantiass
the abatement that the interview took
tplace.
John r. Hunger. OF Hartford. vice.
president of the Travellers Insurance
COMPANY. refused to tell who sug-
gested that his company employ VIII
liam Fl. Buckley. the Albany lobbyist.
on the ground that he Intended. 10
respect TIM memory OF the dead. -
He WAS for seventeen years connect
ed with the Prudential Life Insur-
iAnee Company and in 1881 became
EInhnagfng actuary OF the New York
Life, where he remained until 1902.
iathea ha became vice. president of the
Travellers.
Whale with the New York Life.
LunEer said he knew e. u. Mccall
now Supreme court justice as we'll
A the late Andy Hamilton, who
handled the elbow dog fund of
the 1ife Insurance companies. I.unger
lszIao knew Buckley, hut had no un-
derstanding that Mccall. Hamilton
and Buckley had any connection in
dealing with legislative matters.
II do not want TO be dierespectful
to the dead but / shall learn thar
mans name" declared Hotchkiss, "as
intend to know who piAued you ia
communication with such d man as
BUCKLEY You gave out an interview
In Hartford few days ago in which
you called Buckley an honora BILE mar,
and hia dealings with your company
az ssiss isa q &c. Mo-. 81.
right Why do ron refrain from giving
the name OF the man who recon-
mended Buckley to you7" asked
Hotchkiss
Conditions have probably chang
ed since l gave out that statement.
have been reading the papers"
Il will ask you this, was 1t Andy
Hamilton
No"
Bill Is S21 400.
Lunger said after the Fancher biIs
became law the Travellers received
bin from Buckley which stag
gered" the officials. II was so large.
He came to New York and had an
interview with Buckley. endeavorins
TO have him reduce the bill Buckley
refused and on May 20, 1903, 1t was
paid. II was 1.400.
MIR. Hotchkiss showed a letter from.
I.aHseF- Buckley beginning My
dear Buckley" and asked II that diu
not show close intimacy
Well" was the reply. you see
while ! was with the New York Life,
Mr.. Buckley was known to every one
as Buckley or Willie when he came
around the office. He was a protexv
Of President Mccall. now dead"
This answer caused laugh. for at
the time Buckley was an official o.
the State Insurance Department
In all your insurance experience
do you remember time when a great
Insurance corporation had paid an
inexperienced lawyer s2l.49o for four
months work-at the rate OF nearly
$4,000 a Year,
mo"