New-York tribune., 1900-04-29
NAMED BY PLATT & QUIGG.
MAKING UP LIST OF APPRAISERS UNDER
INHERITANCE TAX LAW.
COLONEL MORGAN SEES THE SENATOR AND
GOES AWAY APPARENTLY HAPPY
MEN WHO MAG- BE Appointed

Senator Platt conferred with several Repuhli-
can politicians yesterday morning in his office, at
| No. 40 Broadway Colonel Morgan. the State
! Controller went to the Senator's office to gain
! information. He is charged with the duty Of ap-
pointing appraisers Of estates under the Inher-
! itance Tax law in the counties Of New-Yori.
| Kings and Erie. There are five such appraisers
! to be appointed for New-York County, each at a
salary of $4,000, and three appraisers for Kings
| County. Controller Morgan does not need guild
ance as to appraisers TO be appointed for Erie
! County, for he lives in Buffalo but he is a COM
| parative stranger in New-York.
LerueI z. Quigg, president of the Republican
! County Committee, went to Senator PIatt's office
! yesterday to meet Controller Morgan and aid IN
! giving advice to the men to be appointed ap-
/ praisers. Mr.. Quigg was so anxious 10 help the
/ State Controller that he had prepared list OF
names of good and true Republican workers in
New-York County. Senator Platt looked at the
! list and said it was correct. Controller Morgan
put the list in his pocket and went away happy.
It vas reported among the politicians that the
names on Mr.. Quigg's list were those of Charles
! B. Page, the former State Senator; Charles K.
! LexOw. the Republican leader In the XXIId Dis
| trict; Robert Mazet who was chairman of the
/ Mazet Committee and was defea ted for re-elec-
! ton Assemblyman last fall Edward H.
| Healy, the Republican leader in the XXXVth
! District, who is at present drawing a salary Of
! $1,000 assistant appraiser of merchandise
! in the service Of the United States Government,
and Henry J. Coggeshau. jr., a son of State Sen
/ ator Coggeshall. Of Waterville N Y Mr.. Quigg
said later that the report about his list not
! far from the mark
! The politicians heard with some amusement
| that State Senator Elsberg. who introduced the
| bill for the appointment of the appraisers
| thought ne should have been permitted to rec
| onlmend ar least one OF the appointments for
! New-York County. and could not understand
| why a son of State Senator Coggeshau, who is
! not New-York man should be preferred TO a
good Republican Of the XIVth Senate District
| Mr.. Elsberg II was said. wanted the appoint
! uent of ex-Assem bynlan Frank Bulkiey, who
was put out Of the leadership Of the XX17kth
! Assembly District organization by the influence
! of Mr.. Quigg Mr. Elsberg is still young in the
practice of politics, some IF the politicians say,
! and he has vet several tricks to learn.
William H Ten EyCk the Aqueduct Cor1n1is-
| sioner. and Frank Raymond, We're among the
! district leaders who were at Senator Platt .
/ office yesterday morning, and il Is understood
! that they agreed with Mr., Quigg as to the Sc
! lection of men for appraisers. Senator Platt
! was said TO have received from the Brooklyn
! leaders list Of men to be appointed appraisers
! for Kings County. The names mentioned by
the politicians are those Of Charles T Dunnell,
| c. A Barrow. a former Fire Commissioner. and
! Harry Jacquellard, the sergeant-at-arns of the
! State Senate.
/ Colonel John J McCook was a caller at SEN
atOr Platts Office. He has been mentioned as a
! possible candidate for president Of the Republ-
! can County Committee. to succeed Mr.. Quigg,
/ but after leaving the Senator's office he said
/ the presidency of the County Committee had
! not been offered TO him. Senator Platt left the
! where Mrs Platt is said TO be slowly recovering
! from her recent serious illness.