New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-19
VOL. XXXI....N" 9.476.
TAMMANY ACCOUNTS
THE RINGS OWN STATEMENT OF Co0-,'
EXPENDITURES.

TILE klNGS OWN ClAAi4"A--'-
,,,,, NM, O,,prpv,soRs AND THE MAYOR pl'
POSED or THE hoNhi' ;., Tho
- 90 tordulent charges against .no
County Treasury have been met by tnG aus o,,d
,ncb charges are the invention Oh ooid n
- ,N1.n;.,tod cloimants. Now they are sS'u
lp.'r -, discharged clerk who ater l"ii,"S
e"""r'1 &c ~ the Controller, sells gnoleu
eq" "'5 -, .bo Controllers books TO hosthe
oN'i"''o Nov tbev are the invention OF a leauer
p r1euocracy, who has presented claim
n,;IIion of dollars, and has not beeh p",o'
VII not fry to decide thus question: we Pieio,
- che official records, and take a sta'eineu' VI
o,d;tnrcs furnished by Iammany neen' helo
tber we have the accounts aitI the ming nae "a
''0" " o, them all the doctoriug they can bear,
aud dressed them in the most ATTRACTIVE RaiO po'-
"',I. II will be seen that they differ from the
occoruts already published. The reasons are as
follows: ~ ...,.
The statements heretofore published purportto be
,rapscripts from the Controllers record of amounts
actually paid The tables which we give to-day
rcpresent the bills audited by the Board Of Super
visoIs and approved by the Mayor. They may have
been paid at once, or paid in subsequent years, OF
they may still be a charge against the Treasury
The accounts which we have copied merely show
that Tammany and the Mayor have passed the ac-
counts
O. The published extracts from the Controller
books show that an enormous share OF the pIuhuer
secured by Ingersol and Garvey was charged by the
Controller to third parties like Bolar and others
who made over their claims to the agents OF the
Ring. The bills were made out by score OF obscure
persons but the payments made to three OF four
Tammany favorites. In the accounts we publish TO-
day. however. will be found the names only of the
original claimants and the enormous amounts paid
70 lngcrsoll. Garvey. Miller. Keyser and others,
represent only what they had the courage TO charge
in their own names
8. There is no good reason for confidence that the
schedule of bills approved Tammany prints It, IS
complete. The Controller has to balance his books,
and therefore may be supposed to set down all his
expenditures in some form or another even though
he must resort to trckery TO explain them. But if
the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors chooses to
omit from the journal all mention of certain heavy
pavmcnts there is nobody TO interfere with him.
With these preliminary warnings we PRINT
the Tammany Confession, begging ouT readers
not to conclude that because the Ring has
ACKNOWLEDGED this much il is not guilty
Of q great deal more. The figures represent
the bills acknowledged by the Supervisors and
the Mayor, and the dates are those Of the Mayors
approval 1t is proper 10 explain that in 1865 when
John T. Hoffman was Mayor, a great many of these
bills were returned TO the Supervisors without
either approval OF objection; but as the Mayor did
not veto them they became by law accepted, Just
as If he had signed them. Mayor Hall has not been
so scTupulOus; we have found no record Of the with
holding of his signature.
INGERSOLL, WATSON, & Co., OF INGERSOLL