| Show jo Ba B HILL ANn AND mf f LIfE r Committee of NY N Y State Bar Association As Association Association Investigating Their Relations SEEM TO HAVE BEEN PROPER Ile liras W suit mr Consulted C ti About ilia of Any All Legislation New York May 11 Tho 1 te of tho grievance committee o ot ef t th Naw ea York orl D tided Hato liar Jl association u which which wan wall appointed nt tho request tt of t former Senator David 13 D Hill Hili to In his hili relations an nil counsel to thet the Iho Equitable Ute f Assurance society whether vother his hla appoint appointment t to 10 o r rop report port as to 10 ment n an counsel In rt any lilY way wa was IM Im Int or and whether the compensation ho Ito received from the he company was reasonable or execs ire met hero liero tOllay hoard h arll Mr Ir lull HilI In hl hit hI own behalf took look took tho testimony of or prominent as 1111 to tho thu It ft el Mr Ir Hill Hili In tho the legal profession and si M to the tho reasonableness of his Ills Tear t retainer retailer from the Equitable and adjourned rr VIII a counsel Charles A Collin submitted tho case cane without argument Prot E F W V dean of Cumuli university law school and anil chairman of ot the subcommittee nb announced that a I would bo submitted to the ferl rl v Mice knee committee at tho the earliest possible moment During Durin tho the course of or his bin testimony today tO Il Mr Ir lUll Hill said id idI I t never questioned que that BH nH senator J x had the right to In practise In to the tha courts of ot any state of ot the lime th United States The Tho law makes no provision lolI against It II except that a Il congressman shall aha 11 not practise before the government depart devart ments 1 was aJ employed by hy tho the toto tat attorney general to try tn a n against lAt the lime United States Slates in 1 when I was liras senator and I tried numerous other c cases es while I represented New Now York state In the senate When did the subject of or the able retaining you ou nn nl counsel first firt robe up un asked Mr Ir Ward question questionIng Ing Mr Ir Hill Hili The replied I met James H II Hyde and the tho older Mr tr Alex amler anler In Washington in 1889 I did not we nee ether either eU er of ot them again until I 1 eleeter United States Slates senator In 1892 Mr Ir Hyde Dyde canto to see eee mo too then and stated that ho had hall boon been Informed i that I was wall going to resume the lice practise tise Ibe of law when my time lime was waa not I Il occupied l In III Congress S I told them then that I wa was u It fact as I believed I 1 would spend not nol moro more than halt half my m time In Wash Washington ington The Tho result r Bult of ot the tho interview was Wall that th t I I 1 accepted an offer otter of ot a year to 10 bo ho consulting counsel counselor of tutu tho Equitable Were Vera you ever consulted by the tho company In III relation to matters per Ier pertaining to the Insurance department 1 I never nevet was that hut I can remember At this point Joint Mr Ir naked ank r Were you OU not consulted about tho the enactment of Insurance legislation le No sir never replied Mr Ir Hill HIli HIliM At M th the afternoon former Cloy OV Frank B S slack Black Gen Gun Benjamin F Tracy former Judge John Johll F Dillon Delancey and others othera testified to lInell the thA committee till nil declaring they had known Mr Hill alit many III any yearn year anet that thai the yearly early retainer paid linn hIm by b the f was wasil a at compensation for tor the Iho advice and cowl caun fel eel ho grave gate gal I |
