New-York tribune., 1912-02-25

partment's recommendation and without re-
course TO the dubious practices ~ so-Caied
legislative agents"
II was a Hughes idea, ho sad-th" idea
OF get the facts: then get them published"
Another landmark in the Hotchkiss ad-
mlnistratlon came with the entry of the
Insurance Department into the affairs OF
!, tho lEtna Indemnity COMPANY II was the
Hotchkiss investigation OF this company
which gave the State Banking Department
the tip that Joseph g. Robins activities
ought 20 be Looked into and that trail
leading through the Robin chain to the
Carnegie Trust Company and Tia" cas-" Of
the then CITY Chamberlain, Charles u
Hyde, is still open. awaiting the result Of
Hydes trial
The I:tna Indemnity case came To him on
| a tip, said Mr.. Hotchkiss, tn" other day.
man told him that II his examiners
| would be in the Office Of that company at
a certain specified time they would see
something that would at least call for a
rigid investigation The examiners were
| on hand and found certain forged banking
| records Within a short time they had no
tlfed the State Banking Department, ana
! the two state departments proceeded 10
gcther over the trail opened up 10 them by
Robins questionable moves. Mr. lIotch-
kiss admits freely that some Of IN" moves
he made then TO chcckmate Robins designs
| on money that came under the divisions un-
der the control OF the Insurance Depart
mont were made without waiting for the
DELAYS Of the law but were made solely
unon his own responsibility II vas about
| this time that the Superintendent was be-
ing montIoned as a possible successor 10
cover,or Hughes, and tho chorus went NJ
from poIitIcians upon whose toes he had
| carelessIy trod that they didn't want
damned policeman in the Governor 8 chair
The Hotchkiss idea. however was I" ho al
| 49, i,e, q stop ahead ~ the law. and hr
| found that the law would always 'at'n wy.
| Also. that II he didn't keep that step ahe"h
the slippery customer he had 10 hedi WIN
| would be the step ahead
This same idea Of publicity has been ap-
! pIied nv the Iotchkiss administration I"
| the industrial health and accident insur-
ance business. In that investigation NhI'n
| comes nearer to tho workingman's insur-
sncn than ordinary life insurance, Mr..
| uo,cbkiss went step further, when he
initiated. through the National Convention
| NJ Insurance Commissioners, country
vide investigation Of the general Industrial
| insurance field.
Throughout most Of his term as state
| Superintendent Mr. Hotchkiss has been
! the chairman OF the executive committee
| OF the National Convention OF Insurance
| commissioners. and through that BODY ne
has engineered countrywide movements In
| insurance matters that have amounted
practically TO uniform legal restrictions
| over insurance such as would be possible
| under federal control. In his own state
! this Supcrlntrndent or the reconstruction
| u-riod" uf New York Insurance. has az
complIshed practically complete revision
| ut the insurance laws, b. the slo" process
of separate enactment. The lockers "i
the old insurance laws have hreh wiped
out. and broad legislation has been pat
upon the books which has reconstructed the
Insurance workings after the pursinss oi
| 1895 I'm the life field and of 1910 in the lire
This former Superintendent of New YORK
| States most farreachinE department l. a
, Progressive at heart lie believes In th'
usefulness of political party unity. but ht
I believes even moro in tn" maxim mat ih'
rarity must truly represent tho people.