The San Francisco call., 1903-12-30

personally and is devoted to Iabored
explanations of how he came to be
employed by the Supervisors. a de-
fense Of other county officials and an
admission Of his negotiations with the
officials of the Southern Pacific Com
pany for loan" This is the state
ment:
MacMULLAN'S STATEMENT
My employment by the county was
10 ascertain what errors appeared in
the assessment roll whereby the conn
ty was losing the revenue to which If
was entitled. In the event of anv err
rOrs L discovered appeared in tho as-
sessment roll of one year only. or even
TWO years, was to receive no compen-
satlon therefor, and the county was to
get the full benefit Of the revenue col
lected by virtue of the discovery Of
those errors. and only in the event that
/ discovered errors from which the
county had suffered the loss of a reve-
nue. for three years was 1 to receive
any compensation and that comnen-
satlon was to be one-half of the
amount collected on the property thus
discovered. In no event was the ex
pense of my employment to be a bur-
den on the taxpayers heretofore list
ed. In other words, 1 was TO dig I'M
outsiders who had evaded taxation. who
would pay my compensation. and in
ADDITION thereto, a similar amount to
the county or its tax collector.
1 now hold the distinctive position
Of being the only person in the employ
or the State, county or city, who is no
expense to the taxpayer, but find NV
salary in the pockets of outsiders who
are to pay additional thousands. here
tofore lost TO the county, into the pub-
lie treasury. The better 1 fare from
such employment, proportionately
greater was the government to benefit
as on many errors reported 1 was to
receive no compensation under nv con-
tract. If my commissions amounted tn
but $780, the county must necessarily he
greater loser by my employment than
II my commissions amounted to $4,000
In any event, the county was to he a
great gamer by my employment
Immediately following my emplov-
ment L told certain members of the
Board of Supervisors that would
probably make more money on nv CON
tract than they anticipated Super
visor Horner replied. The more YOU
make the better we like it, for the more
the county will make
Supervisor Kelley said: Make every
dollar you can for the county, for Won
are in on it
supervisor Rowe said: See that no
property escapes assessment. as we
want everybody to bear their just pro-
portion of the taxes, and the more vo,,
make the more the county will make
wealthy taxpayer of this county
tells me that he will wager SO 600 IN
$500 that he can secure the signatures
Of 10000 taxpayers in this county to an
Endorsement of the employment of me-
by the Board of Supervisors to expert
the roll, and I take it from the MANY
people who have spoken to me in re-
gard to the matter that the boards
action in this particular is generally in
dorsed and certainly should be bv all
intelligent people.
My sin is that 1 honestly reported
all errors thus far discovered and that
1 failed to cut out from my list the
dereiict corporations so used to favor
able consideration from aspiring off,
cials, and the sin of Assessor Dalton is
that he assessed such reported property
at the value required by law.
IF any statement has been made that
1 have agreed to divide my commits
sions with anybody or that 1 act in
collusicn with any public official, it is
unqualifiedly false.
'As to the matter OF blackmail, there
is simply nothing in it. The railroad
Deonle are trying fo turn q raooop;t;oY,
Of friendly services to me by one of
their officials, which recognition was
made previous to my employment by
the Board of Supervisors, into a case
of blackmail and extortion, when the
favor asked was a loan to be devoted
to an effort to increase the local travel