The sun., 1899-06-14

Trust and the Tobacco Trust and lot OF
3oHSye you tried te tax the personal prop
o.-But that comes under the work OF your
ne bs Per
Q-That Is true, but trusts have trustees.
Trustees as personal property. Is 1t notP A.
Q.-.Now. l ask what was the amount OF per-
taxes in 1853? R.1QR. I couldn't rememb ber
9-Now. hIs call Your W' attention tent to the Standard
OIL Trust. Do you know anything about the
value of the Standard Oils personal property
Q.-What have you done to see that the
great trusts are paying their share Of the por-
s3SS sisb taxss tSs Al have ex9pined the returns
Q.-Well. supposine they don't make any re-
trustees from the surrogates q Office. Laugh
:, Mr. Moss.-well. Mr.. Grcll,, now hand you
and I ask that YOU fnd out for me before to.
t6 what %e Sod 5ae
The witness promised to do II.
HOFFMAN OBJECTS.
After recess Assem blyman Hoffman said:
Before we continue this investigation OF
the Tax Department want to call the atten-
ton Of this committee to the fact that there is
now in existence committee authorized by
cial function Of which is the work we are now
doing BY continuing this investigation OF tho
Tax Department we are wasting our time and
usurpinG the powers OF this other committee
l object to 1t and ask the committee to take
some action on my objection"
Mr. Hoffman. we have had n conference with
this 9t her mittePe and have thorough " pp:
members Of that committee do not think that
bnsSspinf Mtb he Hnd Ts
Mr. Moss Moss @ recalled Y Cor HsI"t missoner Grc and
showed him the returns mace by the American
Sugar RenMs ComFbnny I'M The AmST5G"n 5
only, two of the blanks on III" rap"r '.'n t" it
by the Tax Board while the latter h,,! mad" a
what the! Tax Commissioners could do to II
corporation which made no. responses to tho
they had TO do the best they could. and m ak
their own valuation on the corporations prop
erty In tho city.
STANDARD OILS NEW YORK CITY TAXES.
1t Was made ON s8S6o6o eon
oss the on t1s
debtedness 81. .O00, 900. according to its own
sStatement. stat u should have been taxed on So, :
mate to $l,50o,Oo0 by. calling his attention
to United States securities and canal bonds
tlon. but coudn't explain the further reduction
| &c, $4,000 He was becoming badly confused
and said that under the law the Tax Board was
obliged to figure on u basis OF capital and sur
whh o ee .nS ase noSe 5 bs
ment a perfectly proper one. Mr. Moss said
| that he couldn't figure 1t out, but would droI
| 1t for the present.
WON'T TELL IF HE SENT CROKER CHECK.
Henry W. vogel, a. surveyor In the Tax. De.
rsrtment was called and asked II he had not
contributed a check TO the Democratic cam
paign fund last year. He refused to answer on
| the ground that 1t was not q proper question.
| Q.-Didn't you draw check payable to Mr.
| Crokerp A.-Thats an i'm proper question.
| O-lOuF been raised recently.
| 1t not? A.-Yes.
Sheei Tor W $40 to Mr. Mr. GroterY ] W hThats M saM an
| improper question.
| Odd you draw a check to Mr.. Croker In
order to get a raise OF salary? A.-That's moi
proper question.
| Mr.. Mazet-Did you ever draw check pay.
able to Mr.. Croker2 A.-Not for the purpose
| mentioned.
| Croker for any purpose? Ats not proper
| question and won't answer It,
| The witness was ordered to answer by Mr.
| Mazet. but persisted in his refusal. He was
| then excused. and an adjournment was taken
| until this morning.