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Show PERKINS EXPLAINS SHADY TRANSACTION NEW YORK, Nov. 27. Explaining the testimony of lait Friday, when the statement wag made by a witness that $56,720 was paid to Andrew Hamilton, "the legislative Insurance generalissimo," generalissi-mo," by J. P. Morgan & Co., George W. Perkins testified before the insurance Investigation committee that in 1901 J. P. Morgan & Co. paid $56,720 to the Central Cen-tral National bank and the New York Security and Trust Co. This payment was made, he said, upon up-on the request of President McCall of the New York Life to take up loans to Edward McCall and Andrew Hamilton which those Institutions had made at the request of President McCall. |