X REMOVAL PROCEEDINGS AND COMPLAINTS Superintendent of Insurance Proceedings for the Removal of Otto Kelsey Governor Hughes on January 31, 1907, asked Otto Kelsey, Superintendent of Insurance, to resign his office. Mr. Kelsey on February 12, 1907, made the following reply to this request. STATE OF NEW YORK EXECUTIVE CHAMBER Albany, February 12, 1907 HON. CHARLES E. HUGHES, Governor Executive Chamber, Albany, N. Y.: DEAR SIR. I am unable to comply with your request for my resignation from the office of Superintendent of Insurance for the State of New York. The office was assumed by me May 17, 1906, after appointment by Hon. Frank W. Higgins, then Governor, and confirmation, by the Senate, the vote being unanimous therefor. I have served faithfully through months of overcrowding work and critical conditions arising from the San Francisco conflagration, affecting the branch of fire insurance, and new statutes and changed circumstances resulting from the legislative investigation and report upon the affairs of life insurance. The Department supervision of the elections of directors in domestic life insurance corporations added an immense volume of technical labor to the ordinary routine, and under new laws, preparation was necessary for the extended and complex statistical statements, standard forms, and reports hereafter required from life insurance corporations, and the rulings and interpretation of new provisions regulating the transaction of their business exacted continuous deliberation upon and a decision of questions presented. |