New-York tribune., 1870-04-23
To MR.. ROGERs-FROM A BROTHER.

SIR | notice that Public Administrator Rogers
las taken exception TO your comments his annual
port for 1862 the ground not that you had said too
much or that which not true but that you had not
sad enough. You had not said, 1t seems that out Of
the 2s5 collected from various estates his report
shows that the Of :62G co distributed to the
next Of kin, creditors or persons otherwise entitled
Surely that great oAense against my carpetbagger
brother from New-Jersey. You might have answered
him. however by asking II he did not think that some
body had been guilty OF the sin OF omission. For -
stance why did he not state in his report what part OF
this OIL co distributed among the next Of kin and
what was the amount paid out to creditors persons
otherwise entitled Such Important Items as these are
he certainly should not have umbed together under the
Ambiguous heading amounts distributed among next of
kin, creditors &C. unless he willing to run the risk
Of being charged with having object in covering up
something that would not stand the light. He knows
well do that the general belief Is that the greater
portion II not ALL Of the money accounted for under that
heading has been paid to imaginary creditors connected
with the attaches Of his oceto an accommodating un-
dertaker who charges enormously and allows liberal com
missions IL procOrs and agents and keepers-all en-
poyes OF his oce-for fees and has been disposed OF In
various other ways equally ingenious IT, therefore, he
these things beyond doubt by simply accounting for these
Again. il he has distributed any of this s2 O2 60 among
the next OF ks he wishes to make you believe he has
to the United States Assistant Assessof lie cerainly
Knew That II was his duty, as Public Administrator, TO
was passed by Congress when he was a member from
New-Jersey. Why also, when the Assistant Assessor
made demand on his Office fon these returns did his
proctor and representative, Mr. John NJ Cooney. reply
that the Public Administrator had returns to make
the estates which fell into his hands could barely nav
debts and fees T. These are facts which know and
now that my friend Rogers challenges criticism by con
tadictng newspaper paragraph he Ia bound to explain
why his proctor msrepIesented records of pusc char
aeteri or supposDg him TO have told the truth why he
(MT. ~ misrcpresented himself At the same time LEI
him ccarup Qf he cau) the mystery which hangs over
these Two items TO be found In his model report:
Advertising Report Of l8 ia Te " T. Ner.......s9 ais a
Aives Report ~ 1908 The ddnV rcag Journal 9Dl 20
without saying anything about the marked diierence
between these amounts, II seems To that an olco
which draws from the City Treasury 5000 in salaries re-
turns IL Golfers only s527 and which has nothing
to give of SGlG co Ia the next OF Kin, the sum OF
ssgsg 4ss little tO steep" 10 pay 10 newspapor
for ady cisinC report that l. remarkably only for It's
ambiguity. II orr Grand Sachem, Mr.. Tweed, really
means o practice reform under the Charter ~ hc
,ay. hc does no will dD well 10 try tc edge oil hi scalp
in knife ul On. Htads OF those lu tEc Public Admusrl
tors Ohitr E.iohALD TAMIANI ISGiN.
Ne.U. IO,k. April G. 1870.