Show SEEMS STRANGE L i TON es of Company He e Spent Y ast Su Sums ns Say They 4 Do Not Know Him FAVO FAVORS S P ED LAWS NOTED c r LOBBYIST HAS STRONG O OPINIONS INIONS I J 0 Judg An Andrew Andrew drew Hamilton said tonight that he expected d to go to N NewYork wY rk tomorrow to re remain i n two or three days He would not say his intentions qS as to Jisi his visit lt or he would see any member of the Fowler committee which 1 has s been investigatIng Ing the Internal affairs of the New NewYork NewYork York Life Insurance co company pany Friends of Judge Hamilton lere ex cx express press doubt am hisS his going before the committee questioning the propriety of his sUbmitting himself to men whom he has characterized as he did time the New York Life trustees in his speech before the tho legislative committee e l last st week Judge Hamilton tonight expressed the opinion that when the tho bills pro proposed I posed by tIme the Armstrong Armstron committee ommittee are I reported they shou should d cont contain in a pro provision I vision that no trustee legislated out of I office next November r shall shaH be eligible f for r reelection until a full year has elapsed Pointed Remarks Time The propriety of this is obvious saId Judge Hamilton and I believe a demand for it Is coming to a head You know we have adopted from the English common law the precaution that no sheriff sherif can be reelected until untila a term of service has elapsed The theory Is and it applies equally to a trustee of a life Insurance company that the sheriff exercises such an im immense immense mense power that he could always command his reelection So with these trustees They are in a position which would enable them by favoring one and persecuting another to command to secure their reelection if they see fit This shou should d be prevented by making reelection illegal I note that some of these gentlemen il ill New York say the they do not know nie It certainly seems strange that any man should be In a position to spend very large sums of money of which th they y are the legal guardians during a ICIng tenn of years and tind yet be totally unknown own to them |