Show state legislators are given insurance money new york oct 4 john A mcca president of the new york life insurance company testifying before the legislative investigating committee today in a statement on the general legislative isla tive experience of his company said that three quarters of the bills on insurance legislation introduced in the various states were blackmailing bills mr mccall said that the increasing compensation to agents was a temptation tor agents to rebate but mr mccall said under the nylic system the agents contracted not to do so and forfeited benefits of that system if they violated their agreements he then went into a detailed statement of general legislation saying with the beginning of every year I 1 dare say it is the feeling of every executive officer I 1 know it Is of myself that tor the ensuing five or six months of the year we shall be baag bied and harassed to death in every state in the union by introduction of bad bills of every kind sometimes by men of honor who feel that they have a right to amend a law and their motives are all right but mainly the general insurance legislation of this country emanates from people who arc desirous of striking at insurance companies I 1 believe that three out of tour of the insurance bills introduced in tho united states are blackmailing bills tho management of these companies really tremble in the beginning of the year as to what they have to encounter during the first six months of the sear it Is a condition which I 1 think your committee can do much to prevail against it if it will put pass a law similar to the massachusetts law which has been very effective I 1 think that every bill introduced shall bi lodged or reported in the of the secretary of state president john A mccall testified before the committee that the new york lite insurance assessments tor legal services from june 1 1900 to august 31 1905 were of this amount mr mccall said andrew hamilton received in states where mr hamilton looked after legislation mr mccall scald he was expected to deal with the men who could produce the results during the testimony in answer to a question by mr makcen john me call denied that the new york afo ufo insurance company discriminated against american soldiers spanish war it was alleged recently that the now york life insurance company at the outbreak of the war made more liberal terms with spanish policy holders who might serve as soldiers than it did with americans in similar circumstances in reply to a question mr mccall said that the new york life insurance ranco company did not make a reduction in favor of subjects in order to keep its hold oa german business lawyer mckeen said to him it has been alleged that there was a discrimination in lavor of spanish soldiers against amenson soldiers during the late war 1 I can answer that by saying that the new york life did issue a policy to a single spanish soldier during the war |