Show MONEY I AT AI ALBANY FOR MANY YEARS Insurance Bills Were Pushed Through New York Legisla Legislature ture When Cash Was Placed in Hands of Right Eight Persons LATE ANDY HAMILTON RECEIVED D LARGE SHARE State Superintendent Hotch Notch Hotchkiss Hotchkiss kiss toss Digging Deeper Every Day and Many Startling Facts Brought to Surface NAMES OF THE GRAFTERS ev En SOUK March III ii how N II 11 accelerator I of or Insurance legislation anti of hc the late lati keeper of or the life Insurance i yellow dog dOK fund at of former years jean eun worked shoulder houlder t shoulder boulder oiling wheels wheel at nt Albany Alban nas WU na brought broiler lit out today todar at the fire fir insurance Inquiry conducted by b VIIU lIl II state Mute superintendent of Insurance Hamilton tile the I lie showed re eel ed no at less than thun from certain In 1901 Hamilton name nume nUH UN put ou In the tile ree rec record art ord 0 through the tile lew testimony II mo ay of Henry ilce ic president of the tIle can cua Surety Suret company In 1901 Wilcox testified te the fire in n companies caused to be intro introduced in the legislature a u bill to exempt unearned premium reserves from taxa taa taxation tion Mr Wilcox wanted to have tu th 1 casualty ca and surety companies dl dlIn in the exemption and accordingly according I went to Albany He tried to get set Saunter ens toe ter Rain and Assemblyman Lewis ui in but failed Then he lie hunted hunt d dup up Buckley and told him his troubles Buckley he be said told him that Haw Hai Ilton was the one to help him hini Bui huik Buk Bukley k kley ley by telephoned to Hamilton and aid Hamilton agreed to take it up Wilcox left Albany and the amend amendment amendment ment mont went through Um as desired When it was all allover over Hamilton sent a bill for tor 1900 to the American Surety coin puny Did Bid he be tell teU you he had to pay payout out any of ot the loney the th Wa was WaI I i asked ked I Would Not Hint at Bribery I He con conveyed to me mt the suggestion i that he had assumed obligation obligations which i p he could not meet unless 11 full amount were Mere paid i This was wall ae as strong as S Mr fr Wil ox 1 I would put it He thought the th bill tN to t large but as a compromise he said h 1 lie sent Bent three checks to Hamilton aggregating gating 64 Later th National Surey y company i paid aid 2530 30 to Hamilton Satisfied that nothing more mort regard regarding regardIng regarding ing corruption in connection with fira fire Insurance legislation at Albany was Wall to be gotten just now out of William WilliamH H Buckley Buckle legislative agent of or fire in ill insurance Science companies Superintendent or f Insurance Hot indicated his in it intention of ot harking back today to early eary developments in his sensational Ben raid on legislative secrets With the resumption of ot the investigation Hon flea Elijah R H Kennedy tl tI tic e legislate legislative e agent who made the first revelations In Inthe Inthe the inquiry was expected back Lack for further questioning George F Stewards charge that Edward A Brown offered in 1892 1592 In behalf of Senator Big Tim Sullivan to have an insurance bill killed for p was corroborated in some de tie detail tails tail by E K E Clapp formerly of ot the tha Fidelity and company of which Mr Seward Reward is ill president In 1119 there was before the legis legislature legislature lature a bill which would hav restrict restricted ed ad the business bu ines of ot the Fidelity and Casualty company Clapp said it was wa suggested to him that Edward Brown who was wu then purchasing agent at Sing Sing and was wag frequently frequent at Albany Alban v might know of some wa way In which tha th bill 1111 could be defeated detested The witness said he arranged the tha meeting and later heard front from Mr Seward Sew Seward ard that he had rejected Browns pro proposal pr Ir Elijah K R Kennedy K testified during the afternoon session Superintendent Hotchkin wanted to t know It If his memory had grown any netter better as to his bin transactions transaction Kennedy in m T 1901 01 got rot through a bill exempting re reserves eres from taxation at ata ata ata a Cs CSt If f 1311 t to 0 the fire Insurance companies Mr produced a transcript I ran of ot Mr KennedY Kennedys account a with the Nas Nassau Nassan s sau san bank It showed the deposit of from the underwriters board to t Kennedy Kenned in Mat Ma 1901 It being all alt but of the The was waa afterward made up un to lo by bv the late G Oo Gorge rge I P Sli Sheldon who Collected tlc fund funI from the tl companies ft Ti o by which 1 i was wall paid paM to George W tf f Rochester was produced by Mr Hotchkiss and identified Id b by Kennedy Commodore P Vedder r got 2510 2500 0 of ot the 8 H instead ad of ot as ae Kennedy testified last week wee Emmett Rhodes Rhode an Insurance man manof manof manof of Auburn got of the Ken Kenned KennEdy ned nEdy said for Cor arguing with Individual members 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