The New York City Frauds.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 116, 30 January 1872, Page 7

The New York City Frauds.

The Joint Committer of aldermen, super- ; visors, and citizens, appointed to investigate ; the doings of the " Tammany Ring" in New j York, have finished their reports. These re- ! ports are voluminous, and they will be found ! on examination to bo comprehensive and conclusive. Tiiey establish beyond any rea- j sonable doubt in an impartial mind several j most damning facts. They show : j 1. That the debt of the city is practically I 120,000,000d01. 2. That not merely extravagance, but! " fraud and peculations of the grossest cha-1 racter, have been practised in several depart-1 ments," with the knowledge of their heads, j 3. That the debt has been doubled in two ! years, since 1869. 4. That the Mayor is responsible for <:ho continuation of the wholesale robbery of the city. 5. That it costs nearly as much a year' (30,000,000dol.) to run the Government of \ this city as to administer that of the whole nation. 6. That while 3,221,865d01. 62c. were paid : for Armoury repairs, &c, the actual expen- j diture was not more than 202,463d01. In other words, the "Ring" stole, on Armoury j accounts alone, 3,029,402d01. 62c. 7. That immense sums have been paid for I services unperformed, to men unknown in the i offices from which they drew their salaries, j 8. That the Schuyler frauds, by which the bills of one contractor were raised from i 48,000d01. to 463,000d01., were committed i through the connivance of William M. Tweed. The Tribune says :—" More damning facts relating to the great thefts of Tammany are { coming out. An examination by practical workmen discloses more fully the shameful j frauds which everybody knew had been per- \ | petrated in furnishing the new Court House. The famous carpets, which were reputed to I have cost over 350,0G0d01., are found to be j worth, when new, only 12,000d01. There is only IOOjOOOdoI. worth of furniture where the insatiate lugersoll claims to have put in about one million and a half dollars worth ; I and a beggarly 140,000d01. would liberally! pay for the cabinet and carpenter work which j Miller, Ingersoll, and the rest got over a j million for doing. This is swindling on the j largest scale. " Where the millions on millions of City funds have gone to, we may never clearly ascertain. The cash has been divided among many men, but it was raked out of the Treasury by the connivance of Messrs A. Oakey j Hall, Richard B. Connolly, W. M. Tweed, James Watson, and Peter B. Sweeny. In! some form or other, one or all of these men ] certified to the genuineness of the so-called claims against the City, on which the stupen-! dous frauds were committed. On their responsibility the money was disbursed ; who had shares in the stolen cash we can only j guess."