The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-06-03

hind Mr. Mazet. moved toward Mr.. Henderson.
Henderson remained seated. but as soon as he
saw the Sergcant-at- Arms approaching he put
his hands In his pocket and pulled out some
h"E mr. 1s bS had
drawn knife, That brought every body In the
to St t" seppHa p
Mr. Henderson and put his hands on the law
y" Finland me. sirl" cried Henderson. at the
same time twisting himself away from the
Cant. Price, cried Mr. Mazet to the Police
Captain who was making his way out. call
upon you as an officer Of the law TO preserve
order and remove Mr.. Henderson from the
All right. Mr. Chairman. but I've only got
~ b Wo as hs
5 1 h! ;S SSs
Mr.. Chairman don't require any assistance
IRON Capt. Price.
HENDERSON MAKES SCENE.
Mr. Mazet repeated the order to remove Hen
derson, and with that Crawford and one deputy
deputy got behind and pushed. The three got
trance, to the bar. where they were met by
Capt Price, who exclaimed; -,
Then. turning to Crawford, he remarked:
Young fellow. you re assuming as much au-
thority us police officer
The Sergcant-at- Arms and his deputies were
too intent upon ejecting Henderson to pay any
attention to Prize, They kept right en- With
forward. Two police officers rushed in from
The corridor and ranged themselves alongsids
things were going. and cried out to the strug
Cling Henders9n: Get up and get out OF this;
"i'li 60 along with YOU" answered Hender-
son, but won be thrown out"
l., After Little more rareynE Price land and his
been restored MIR. Mnart asked everybody who
had seen Mr.. Henderson draw a knife to stand
Chairman of the committee and Mr.. Fallows.
MIR Clarke and Mr. Moss,
corning the Dewey Theatre. Alderman, Elias
Goodman was called to testify t9the fact that he
had offered resolution IN the Board o OF Ader-
cation Of the Ievying Of taxes by the Boord, OF
Tax CommisSioners The tGstim69 Ioy OF Mr.:
OF the hoard Of Aldermen. showed that the
resolution had been referred TO the Finance
and Law committees of the board and had
never been called up.
PROBING THE TAX LEVY AGAIN.
Thomas j. Feitner, President OF the Board Of
Tax Commissioners, was then recalled to the
stand His attention was called to the assess
ment upon several pieces OF property on Broad
way which Appeared to have been made on no
system at ALI For instance the valuation on
the valuation on the st Paul building. adjon
ing it on the north was raised 80, per cent,
this and the best he could do was to say
an'' bank dnss had 9 2a SSS aua@hs
placed upon them than were placed on other
Sndngs Ths s the valuation Of The
tho vaiuatiSn On the other two buildings; i
character closely that Mr. Feitner objected to
answering them on the ground already stated.
Jected to having the whole truth about assess
ments known. even II it did enable citizens.
whose servants the Tax Commissioners are, to
get tho courts to reduce assessments which
had been Improperly made. Mr.. Feitner re-
piled that the, Tax COMMISSIONERS didn't like
When Mr. Feitner took the stand at the after
records recon d Which Mr. Moss had ordered him INTO to
get during the recess, He handed one batch
into into which the city is divided. some sections
had been INCREASED ,s;s more than Others
u-But do you know? Al can't say off,
Mr. Moss asked for tables showing sections
OF the city where the tax rate had been re-
side OF First avenue from lois street to 1O5th
street on the west side Of LenoX avenue. from
l5sth street to 1foth street and il several e9st
creases had been made. hut Mr.; ,Fei,ner had
roll fG Of bsere him hen
tied down To business. and the rest of the after
% he FAX M
much like those OF his colleague. Commits
s:oner sheehy. and threw all the responsibility
for the failure to equaltze taxes on subordi-
mates.
FEITNER HoPELEssIY MIXED UP.
nereass s taxes ' OF H in the s' bor e
ough Of Manhattan was an extraordinary one.
He. wanted 70 know why it was necessary; Mr..
Feitner said It was done To- e1palize things.
but he could Int expl ain how il did so. Then he
said it was done under the law whereupon Mr.
OF law for such an increase. Mr. Feitner be-
came hopeiessly mixed up. and seeing he
quest question 81 Mr.. Moss .s' started ' on new ;S
tack As the deputies seemed to lie
reIronsible for all TIE increases in assessed
tons the deputies had from the Commission
ere. Mr. Fetner produced letter sent to the
deputies by him at the beginning OF the year
in which they were Instructed 10 confer with
each other with 4 view o to e1ualizlng things
Q-You say they were instructed to equalize
things Why didn't they do it? A.-They did
Q.-You call increasing the taxes Of one man
cent. equalizng things? Ain our judgment
%s 4 S Ne ssSS sG%
more. however, for I have plenty of them.
Take the Bowling Green building. In 1893 it
500 Tor ls an Increase of CO.. per cent
lS@ tRHt GTGHding was not c0mb.ets aI
and ha whe the
comes in"
TAI right said Mr. Moss. let's go down
the block a way. The Washington building ut
! Broadway is increased but ! per cent il
Broadway. 92,, per cent; 10 Broadway. -
per cent: l7-l' broadway, 70 81 per cent:
2l27 Broadway. 81 - per cent. How do you
account for these differences on one block p
That's our judgms2 = ,ualization." said
Mr. Feitner
Q.-And il the taxpayer don't like It he can
sue. cant he A-But the, don't sue. They're
satisfied with our work. They realize that we
are doing our duty and doing il we'll
Q.-IiStcn to these increases: 30 Greenwich
| street. 81 per cent; 80 Greenwich street. 49,
| per cent. 81 Greenwich street. 80 All per
cent; 81 Greenwich street. 40 per cent. How
| do you account for these violent departures
| from the 1898 rule? A-You want to under
| stand that this is a new city. Old valuations
| are discarded, We're assessing new city for
| the first time.
| Oft may be new city but the ground is
| the same ground. the people are the same peo-
pie and the values are the same. Isn't that
| true? A.-lou'vo got to reckon new condi-
| tons. Conditions make great changes in value.
| Or course there are conditions II there
were not you wouldn't be on that stand and
wouldn't he here, questioning you. What
want to know il how you can reconcile your
| present figures and your present increases
| with those of lS!N. without declaring the 1893
| figures Illegal? We're tho 1898 assessments
! dishonesty mudci A.-Oh. | wouldn't say