The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-06-02

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"a at down. Mr.. Sheslry admitted that h,
assessed the, tax valuation for 1893. 1t VA
done honestly and well. He admitted tina
the Increase of taxation for 1899 In tn,
Boroughs Of Manhattan and the Bron1
was ss27, ooo,o Such an increase was
Isl. Michssl O. Murphy, president o.
the department of health. presented pa
Ders showing the increase of salaries in
his Office. Col Murphy said that he
wished to call the attention of the CON-
lnittee to the fact that every department
nf the city governments of New York wa.
clogged because the head Of departments
had to be present AS witnesses to the com.
mittee. Mr.. Moss snid that only one OF
Two bends OF departments were there, that
he had already arranged that they might
be represented by subordinntes. John
examined regarding the purchasing meth.
sds OF his department, and after few
unimportant answers to the questions
lax Commissioners Sheshy was recalled.
Mr.. Moss took him over series of In.
stances where assessments had been In
creased. MIR. Moss intimated that these
had been uniustly assessed, but the wilt
ness maintained that the work had been
done ooivectly and justly. Mr. Moss
1naintAined that the assessment books
were not open to any one to look at, aud
the witness maintained that they were.
Jospeh pilion an employe Of Mr.. Moss
related the circumstances of an attempt
to serve a ssubpoena on Police Captain
Pride this afternoon. just before the police
parade started. He testified that Price
said 70 HRS; GO away from here, or
/ will throw you overheard. you crook"
He mad been unable to serve. the sub
peona. There was no reason why Captain
Price should call him o crook.
"Yon serve that subpoena this after
noon, 2 said MIR. Moss in tone that sig
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Price prove his accusations of yesterday.
Joel Harris. another employs of MIR.
Moss, who was with Wood at "Paresis
HAIL. last night. was then called. He
confirmed all the testimony OF Wood and
related some ef the disgusting habits and
methods OF Nhe habitues Of this resort.
He made dirsct charge against the re-
sort from his Owl personal experience,
alleging tthatt he had been sapproacned
with propositions that cannot be- men
toned In print. Harris testifi ed to the
assault made. upon him by Nelson out
Woods account th Rt the policeman who
saw the assault had said to him Harris J,
You get out Of here damn you"
George B, Hammond, another employs
of Mr.. Moss, also testified to the hide
ons immortality and degeneracy which
prevailed In "Paresis hall" There, wtAs
no difficulty IN getting into the place. A.
memfAg OF the city Vigilance league, ~
mad secretly visited it, and the only ocoal
sion on which he had noticed police act
ion was wherf,, one evening, Capt. Chap
man came in. locked around for several
minutes and then went out.
Assemb1yman Hoffman said that such
place would not exist were 1t not for. the
Raines law, underswhich they were grant
ed liquor licenses.
Mr.. Moss called Mr.. Hoffman's atten.
tioD 20 the fact shat Capt. Chapman had
n HQn 49,
that the Raines law had notlprevented
him from goingsin and seeing whatever
took place.
Tax Commissio, yer Sheehy was recalled
and again subjec ted to an examination
Of various ASSESSING nts on different proper
ties -
Question altar question was asked by
Mr.. Moss in an endeavor to show that
the assessments had not been fairly
placed, but apparently the witness made
no admissions OF Importance.
Thomas T.. Felt per, president of the tax
board then .testihed that among his APP
pointments was Miss Annie @. Moore az
his secretary at $500. Miss Moore, he
acknowledged, was his sister.in-law.
Charles Il. Moore. q trother-in-law OF the
taxes at a salary of 5000. His was civil
service appointments Miss Moore was a
personal appointment. Another personal
appointment WAS thai OF Edwin A. Pow
ell, chief clerk of the borough of Queens.
He became a ,son-in-law to Mr.. Eeitner
after his appointment
Mr.. Moss went into the assessments Of
John ID. Rockefeller. Cornelius Wander
bilt, j, Pierpont Morgan, Russell Sage
and George Gould. In the case of Messrs.
Rockefeller, Sage and Vanderbilt. the
record merely showed that they were as
sessed In 1888 and 1899 after making no APP
psarancs In the case Of Mr.. Morgan 1t was
showned that he was assessed ON 81, 000, 00u
and that he consented to an assessment
of $40o, 600 after stating that he had no
property upon which he could be assessed.
'sDo you mean to say" said Mr.. Moss,
that MIR. Morgan states that he was not
taxable and then volunteered to pay on
500, OO0?''
a.fhat is what mean to say. said Mr..
Feitner.
In the case of George Gould. the record
showed that he was not assessed. Mr.
Moss asked If any effort had been made to
place him on the roll, and Mr.. Feitner
said that not as far as he knew. sgaSu
Mr.. Feitnor admitted that tremendous
amount of injustice resulted from the
personal tax system as it existed at pres
emit. Mr.. Moss through the records, men.
toned a lot of prominent men in this
city, some Of them showing that they
were assessed for comparatively small
amounts and some of them not assessed
at all, many Of the latter were prominent
mem bers Of the Democratic club.
Adjournment was then taken until to-
morrow morring, s Rss 81.
HOW MOSES LIFE WAS SAVED.
New York, June /. An evening paper
prints the following:
Capt. Price today, for the first time,
told the story Of how he saved tina life OF
Frank Moss, at which he limited on the
witness stand in the Mazet inquiry yes
terday:
ut was in the early eighties, !" said
Price, "while Moss was counsel for the
notorious Business Men association in
27th street.
Moss prosecuted an old man so that
het diell. That mans son held Frank
Moss responsible for what he called his
fathers murder, and he started out to
kill Moss. ! stopped him. took a revol-
yer from bis hand and saved Moss's life
The mamie was youth then-is re-
putable business man In this city today. 4
Moss knows this. but II he denies 1t ]
will produce the man, the gun and the