The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-31


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| SANBORN AND HIS CONTRACTS.
HIsi TURN HAS coME-coLLECrING TAXEs-
THE MoDUs oPERANDI-THE WILLS OF THE
| DEAD.
| WASHINGTON, March A.-The commit
tee on ways and means this morn
| ing, gave a hearing in the Sanborn con-
tract matter. Sanborn was present, attended
by ex-representative Woodbridge, of
Vermont, as counsel, and stated that he had
two witnesses present who could not re-
main another day in Washington, and re-
quested the committee to first hear them.
The committee then heard John ID. Cough
| lin a member of the New York legislature
who had been formerly assistant assessor of
the internal revenue in the city of New York
and.is now acting under an agreement with
! Sanborn. Coughlin related miputely all the
details of the work of collecting the
I legacy, and succession tax which
was his speciality, and in regard
to which he claimed to be an expert.
IL was be who called on w. w. Phelps
aud made the final collection of about $751;
600 tax on the personal property of john
j. Phelps deceased, and he gave 1T as his be-
lief that the tax never would have been
paid through the regular course, because
: Phelps seemed under the impression that
the law regulating the legal succession tax
! applied to his case, while on the contrary,
the law only applied to the future and not
to the past. He stated that there was no re-
cord kept in the internal revenue depart
: ment of taxes due, only of taxes paid,
ard it was only through the efforts
> of an expert like himself, who by comparing
information derived from the surrogate 5
Office with the record of taxes paid in the
: collectors Office, ascertained where the
delinouents existed, and that such delin-
9 quent taxes could over be received. On
; being questioned as to the personal share i'll
= the sums recorded, he declined to give
! Information, but Woodbridge having
, intimated a Willingness on the part of his
: client TO have the information given, Cough
!, lin said he received from Sanborn two
o and one-half per cent. of the gross amount
collected. He denied that he had impaired
to Sanborn any information acquired as as
sistant assessor and stated that Sanborn had
filed in the district attorneys Office, list of
= PERSONS from whom taxes were to be col
lected before he (Coughlin) had anything to
do with him. Mr.. Foster asked Coughlin if
be had ever been paid trust money? Cough
lin replied that he did. not understand the
9 meaning of the term, but he had never re-
ceived money from any one in settlement of
matters which
HE HAD NOT REPORTED.
In reply to questions by Mr.. Beck, Coughlin
. stated that in March, 1873, some months be-
fore the date of the Sanborn contract, he had
. written to the secretary of the treasury,
proposing to collect delinquent legacy and
2 succession taxes in the county of New York
at commission of 10 per cent, although
the same work was afterward given to San
g born at a commission of so per cent. Mr..
; Beck. Sand you really did all the work in
legacy and succession matters 1''
Coughlin, Eyes," Mr.. Beck. "Sap born
q dip not work up anything in persona
Coughlin, "No. although he had lodged
information before hand" Mr.. Beck, HE
8 had that information, did he not, from
. somebody who had once been in the inter-
: nal revenue Officer" Coughlin. 81 don't
. know whethershe had been or not. p'Mr. Beck,
: "Give us his name" Coughlin. "His name
: is Waddell. / do not know his first name y
lSanbOrn. ''hs name is William Waddell
: He never was in the internal revenue de.
e partment." John t. Bilsterling, of Phila.
I. delphia, was also examined. He states thai
!, having been the special assistant assessor Of
q the legacy and succession taxes in Phlla
:, delphia for nearly two years, and having be-
= come familiar with records in the office O
! The register of wills, be was employed, after
!, leaving that office, by Barrows as an agent o
!, Sanborn to procure infOrmationtas to unpaiC
I legacy and succession, taxes. Information
- he said, was obtained by great deal of hare
labor and without collision OF any kind Oh
degree with any internal revenue or Other
government officers, and without paying
= penny TO any person.
It The freight handlers of the Erie, Pennsyl
y vania Central and New York Central roads
Il struck few days ago for an increase from
n seventeen and half cents to twenty cents
g per hour. These companies refused to &C
u cede, and the strikers refusing to yield ar
y rangements have been made 10 put 500 men
;, at work at the former prices. 1t is said that
n there is S3.0O0,000 worth of freight now
% awaiting transportation at Long Dock, New
n York.
: The case against the Chicago and North
s western railway company tor exorbitanl
9 charges and unjust discrimination in freight
Y charges betw cen Chicago and Freeport, has
e been continued. Among the pleas set forth
b for the continuance is the statement that
the actual cost of the road was So, 300 900 and
q the gross earnings but 81 ,0OOOO0 per annum
; and that after paying the running expenses
If of the road, the earnings would not pay
q over seven per cent. on the investment.
n We sometimes hear of cold men and occa
q sionally meet them. Here is one: Mr.
d Frank Bickford, of Belfast, Maine, has made