The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 16, 1905, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, i905. v ‘"HARRIMAN CLAIMS HYDE JUGGLED WITH TRUTH. Harriman, testifying yesterday before the New L. H York legislative committee investigating insurance scandals, flatly denied a mumber of sensational statements made by James H. Hyde. The latter was recalled to the stand and reiterated his charges against Harriman. — . Question of Verac- ity Between Two Witnesses. Odell to Be Sworn in the Insurance [m‘estlgatlon. riman, of the | ell to set- ile Trust the Odell Mereantile t might induce her persons nds of the Company. inter- and Harriman's emed Governor Ode! have been g to pay to get the Gov- t he Odell) would ries by Hug! 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Dr- Graves’ Tooth Powder Co. to be! his counsel of a settlement in in which | — A | CE INQUIRY, DXREA,Y OATH BY THE FORMER i | . +- Harriman ‘also denied having eaid to; should be written by Governor Odell if Hyde, as Hyde had testified, that therc| the suit were settled. e ibility of powerful interests | Harriman said he had told Hyde, when Albany doing harm to the Mercantile | he ed him to become a director of the hipbuild- said an, of the Trust Company because of the ing loss. He also denied having thing to Hyde about the repeal charter of the Mercantile Trust pany, and declared thdt he did not know to repeal that charter. About a year ago, Harriman said, Hyde came to him and asked him use h influence to have him appointed as Em- bassador to France, and that he (Harr man) promised when he saw the Pres dent to speak to him about it. Harriman said that he did so, but did not recom- mend Hyde's appointment MENTIONED IT TO ROOSEVELT. Governor Odell did anything about the appointment. There was no connection, Harriman said, between Governor Odell's claim and nis own action on the Embas- sadorship. Harriman sald he mentioned the sub- ject of the Odell suit to President Roose- { velt, but did not remember whether the President was consulted about it. | Harriman said that early in the Equit- | { able troubles he had defended Hyde from the attacks upon him, but him to favor the adoption of the Frick he (Harriman) would stand by Hyde through thick and thin. He also adyised Hyde, he said, to state that the methods and inexperienced; that he was sorry and hoped to retrfeve himself if he were | given an opportunity. Hyde, the witness said, objected to doing that. Harriman said he might have told Hyde such a committee appointed as the one headed by Frick. He had had never said that the report of the Frick committee would be favorable to | i | that it would be a good thing to have | any offer to buy the Hyde stock, and had told Hyde and Frick that Hyde ought not to sell it. OFFERED TO HELP HYDE. On the day before the report of the Frick committee was presented, Harri- | man said, he told Hyde that he did not think anybody but the Equitable Society or Hyde should own the Hyde shares of | Bquitable stock, and that if Hyde had him hold it, that If he thought it de- sirable to turn it over to the Equitable without any pay for it, Harriman thought others could be Induced to do the same thing. Harriman did made any answer not recall to that that Hyde suggestion. Frick committee, and he said he did not think that committee had any specific in- formation about the relations of Bquitable to the Union Pacific ‘preferred stock syndicate other than the charges made to the committee by James W. Alexander. The committee did not ask him about the facts. In the findings of the Frick committee, Harriman said, he understood that Hyde's membership in | the syndicate was criticized on thé score | that he had committed the Equitable Soy | clety to transactions without the knowl- ! edge of the executive committee. “Do you know whether or not Governor Odell wrote a letter either to the Presi- dent or to the Secretary of State, advocat- ing the appointment of Mr. Hyde as Embassador to France, shortly or imme- diately after the settlement of the suit against the Mercantile Trust Company?” asked Hughes. *J am not sure about that, Mr. Hughes; when you speak of it I believe there was some conversation,” replied Harriman. CRITICIZES THE MANAGEMENT. Harriman said he never heard of any arrangement by which such a Jetter Com- | of any rumor that a bill was Introduced ; Harriman said he did not know whether | had advised | report, and had told him that if he would ! he had pursued were in use when he went | into the society, and that he was young | declared that he | Hyde and that he was not concerned in | any fears on that subject he (Harriman) | would subscribe $500,000 to a fund to help | Harriman did not repeat this talk to the | the | Equitable, that he (Harriman) did not think the method of the management of society was the right one, and that had said that he intended to nan suggested that James J. Hill a director of the society. bing his duties as a director, Har- aid he attended the quarterly meetings and heard the statements of the officers, in which they extolled the conduct of the officers and congratulated them on the prosperity of the society. He had nothing directly to do with the | management of the Equitable. He never looked into the expenses of the soclety until he became a member of the Frick committee. Harriman said he did not have any in- terview with either Ilyde or Governor Odell about the settlement of the Odell claim prior to the adjournment of the Legislature in 1904. Asked what he said to President Roosevelt about the French Embassadorship, Harriman said: { “I simply told him that I had been re- quested (o suggest to him the appoint- mert of Mr. Hyde, and that Mr. Hyde | was located in Paris, and, as I under- stood, had a good position there, and I had done what I had been requested to do.” HYDE HOLDS TO HIS VERSION. Hyde was again recalled after Harri- man and denied that he suggested the settlement of the Odell suit as testified by Harriman. He reaffitmed his testi- mony of yesterday on that point and said he had nothing to add. Assemblyman Rogers asked Hyde if | Odell ever said anything to him or in his | hearing about proceedings_ against the iMer(‘anlile Trust Company other than legal proceedings, and Hyde replied: “No > | R Again, answering Rogers, Hyde said the statement of the attack on the charter came from Harriman subsequent to June, 1904. Hyde admitted that the Legislatyre was not in session. Assemblyman Rogers then asked: “Then I want to ask you how the dan- ger of possible legislation could in the slightest degree have influenced you when there was no Legislature in session?”’ Hyde replied: ‘““There was going to be one in session.” “But,” said ‘Rogers, was going out of office cember.” “People out of office are sometimes more influential than people in office,” re- sponded Hyde. This reply created much laughter, and it was some. minutes before order could be restored. With to-day’s session the examination of both Hyde and Harriman was com- | pleted and the next wieness, who is awaited with much interest, is Odell, who Qas requested that he be examined. HYDE RESUMES TESTIMONY. When Hyde resumed his testimony this morning he ‘asked to correct his testimony of yesterday relative to of- fers for his stock. He said he did re- ceive four offers besides that of Ryan. Two of these came from Harriman and Frick. He was offered $5,000,000 for | his entire holdings and $2,500,000° for | half of them. George Gould also made { such an offer. They were all declined because the witness did not think one man should control the society. Gage E. Tarbell made an offer and said he had a syndicate ready to buy the stock. George W. Young also offered to buy Hyde's stock. These were all verbal offers. The largest price offered was $7,- 0,000 by George W. Young, former “Governor Odell on the 3lst of De- ' 00 ; president of the United States Mort- | gage ana Trust Company. Gould's of- | fer was made first, “That was in the beginning of the row,” said Hyde; "lt‘?)\llt have been | | feller, on December 15, will draw $5,000,000 YEAR'S INCONE - 15:§40,000,000 John D. Rockefeller Must Struggle Along for Twelve Months on This Sum STANDARD OIL PROFITS St |Stock Pays a Total Divi- | dend of Forty Per Cent | to Members of the Trust | ot Spegial Dispateh to The Call, | | NEW YORK, Nov. John D. Rocke- ! as his stare of the dividend declared to- day by the Standard Ol Company. The total dividend will be $10,000,000, and Rockefeller now owns 50 per cent of the | capitai=stock of the company, and 49 per cent of the capital stock of all sub- sidiary companies. | The declaration to-day makes the Standard Oil dividend for the year 1905, 40 per cent, or $40,000,000. Of this Rocke- feller's share is $20,000,000. It is estimated thit his income from his rallway, gas, subsidiary oil companies and other in- vestments will be at least $20,000,000 more, so that his income for the year will not Dbe less than $40,000,000. —_—e—————— OREGON ORDERED BACK FROM THE PHILIPPINES Two Cruisers to Se Sent to the Islands to Take Battleship’s Place. 3 WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.—Orders have been given by the Navy Depart- ment for the return of the battleship Oregon from the Philippines to the United States at an early date. There |is no indication that any battleship will be sent to the Asiatic statfon to | replace the Oregon. .It is stated, how- ever, that two cruisers of the Denver class will be sent to the Philippines later on, The Oregon will bring back to the United States a crew of men whose enlistments are about to expire. —_————————— ARMY AND NAVY ORDERS. WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.—Army or- ders: Captain Kenneth Morton, ord- nance department, will make two visits per month during November, Decem- | ber and January to the California Pow- | der Company at Santa Cruz and to the | Calitornia Powder Company at Hercu- les on official business pertaining to | the inspection of powder, Second Lieutenant Davies R. Gump, Bighteenth Infantry, will report to Brigadier Gen- eral Frederick Funston at San Fran- | cisco for examination. Navy orders: Lieutenant W. W. Bush is granted sick leave for six months. The following cable has been recelved from Rear Admiral Train of the Asi- atic fleet; Commander F. F. Fletcher detached as chief of staff to the com- mander-in-chief of the Asiatic fleet to command the Raleigh; Ensign K. B. Crittenden of the Oregon to the Mo- nadnock; Midshipman E. B. Sherman from the Monadnock to the Raleigh; Midshipman J. H. Newton Jr. from the Oregon to the Monadnock. | - + in the beginning of February. The second offer was. made by Mr. Frick a | few moments before the first boara | meeting in February—$5,000,000 for the | entire holdings, or of $2,500,000 for | half of the holdings.” On March 16, 1901, the Equitable Life Assurance Society bought 2000 | shares of the Lawyers’ Title Insurance and Trust Company at $174 per share, and two days later sold 1100 shares at | the same price to George H. Squire. Hyde said he did not know of the sale, | though he was a'member of the execu- | tive committee, and did not know that | the stock was worth a great deal more |a short time afterward. Hyde sald he | | s0ld to the society on October 13, 194, 288 shares of this stock at 315 and that was the only transaction he had in that stock. The price was the mar- | ket price at that time. | DENIES STOCK TRANSACTIONS. Stocks were bought on Hyde's ac- count from Willlamson and Squire, but Hyde denied that he had bought | from them and said that no one had his power of attorney. He knew brok- ers were picking up this stock, but did not know it was being bought for any of his own committee. Some of the purchases, he said, were made for Thomas D. Jordan, but Hyde knew nothing about it and never had any conversation with Jordan upon it After the change of name from the Am- erican Deposit and Loan Company to the Equitable Trust Company, officers of the Equitable Life Assurance Society werg buying the stock of the Lawyers’ Title Insurance and Trust Company in the name of the American Deposit and Loan Company and taking the profits on the | stock. This was the first Hyde had heard of this transaction. Hyde sald he could not remember that he had ever received any money or divi- | sion of profits from George H. Squire, and it would be difficult to refresh his memory, because his books had been in a most confused state since he left the Equitable Life. He did not know that it was possible for Squire to sell stock to the society without the knowledge of the executive committee, but thought it could have been done by an arrange- ment with the president. Hyde said he was unable to ascertain ‘who had his power of attorney while he abroad, because when he returned the papers were always destroyed. Sen- ator Armstrong asked the witness how, if an obligation purporting to have been made at a time when Hyde was abroad should turn up now, he could determine if it was a legitimate transaction. Hyde replied that it would be difficult. Hyde said Gould sold certain shares of the Mercantile Trust Company at $500, when the Equitable was paying $815, be- cause Gould contributed more business than any other director and this was a special favor. A sale to Harriman on similar terms was made for like rea- scns. = The Equitable Life, Hyde said, own- ing more than one-half of the Mercan- tile Trust Company. made fifty cents on every dollar of profit the Mercantile Trust earned, so that oneshalf of the benefit of the stock sold to Harriman and Gould went to the Equitable, e APPEAL TO THE FARMERS. ATLANTIC CITY. N. J, Nov. 15.— The feature of the opening session of the National Grange this afternoon was the address by Grand Master on Jones, in which he asked for the sup- port of 800,000 farmers, members of the organization, for the curing of in- surance ills by the formation of mu- tual companies, the securing of rea- { sonable railroad rates and legislation {against the r {on country roads. . £ ——— Affects Insurance Business in Japan. VICTORIA, B. C., Nov. 15.—A report received by the Canadian Government from Alex McLean, Canadian Commis- sioner at Yokohama, says the recent agitation of life insurance matters New York has seriously affect Japanese busimess and Canadian companies. . 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Mills, chief of artillery, says that ! for manning the coast defenses of the | United States-a force consisting of 1744 | officers and 41,833 enlisted men is needed. | while the corps has at present only 525 | officers and 13.744 men. He estimates that | the cost of the installation of fire control equipment for coast artillery will be $7,000,000. Following the advice contained In a letter of President Roosevelt to the | Secretary of War dated March 13, 1906, in which the President designated nine specific subjects relative to the engaging and training of the artillery arm of the service, the annual report of General Mills makes the following nine recom- mendations: The separation of the coast and fleld artil- lery; provision for submarine mine defense; an increase for coast artillery for gun defense; the organization of the coast artillefy; ade- quate pay, for technically skilled enlisted men of the coast artillery; an increase of the fleld artlllery; the proper organization of the fleld artillery; examination for promotion of artil- lery officers of all grades; increased plans for target practice by both branches of the artil- ery. General Mills says that of the 126 com- panies of coast artillery, 47 are without captains and 41 without the prescribed two lieutenants. These officers are ab- sent on various duties. 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