THE NEW YORK CITY FRAUDS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 42, 17 February 1872, Page 4

THE NEW YORK CITY FRAUDS.

The Joint Committee of aldermen, supervisors, and citizens, appointed to investigate the doings of the " Tammany Ring " in New York, have finished their reports. These reports are voluminous, and they will be found on examination to be comprehensive and conclusive. They establish beyond any reasonable doubt in an impartial mind several most damning facts. They show :— 1. Tbat the debt of the city ia practically 120,000,000 dol. 2. That not merely extravagance, but " fraud and peculations of the grossest character, have been practised in several departments," with the knowledge of their heads. . 3. That the debt has been doubled in two years, since 1869. 4. That the Mayor is responsible for the 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 3,221,865 dol. 62c. were paid for Araoury repairs, &c„ the actual expenditure was not more than 202,463 dol. In other words, the "Ring" stole, on Armoury accounts alone, 3,029,402d01. 7. That immense sums have been paid for services unperformed, to men unknown in the offices from which they drew their salaries. 8. That the Schuyler frauds; by which the bills of one contractor were raised from 48,000 dol. to 463,000 dol., were committed 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 frauds which everybody knew had been perpetrated in furnishing the new Court Home. The famous carpets,

which were reputed to have cost over 350,000d01., are found to be worth, when new, only 12.000d01. There is only 100,000dol. worth of furniture where the insatiate Ingersoll claims to have put in about one million and a half dollars worth; and a beggarly 140,000d01. would liberally pay for the cabinet and carpenter work which Milner, Ingersoll, and the rest got over a million for doing. This is swindling on the largest scale.

"Where the millions on millions oi 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, 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 stupendous frauds were committed. On their responsibility the money was disbursed ; who had shares in the stolen cash we can only guess."