Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-11-02
TAMMANY.
Report of the Citizens Commit
tee.
Thieveries Footed IN Figures.

NEW YORK, Oct. %.
The committee of citizens appointed by
| the Board of Supervisors, who have been
engaged many weeks examining frauds in
the city accounts, yesterday submitted a
report as to their labors, giving sum-
mary of figures and facts This report is
the first authentic information onthe sub-
ject that has been furnished The a.,ount
charged to the cost of the new cnr;rt-honse
still unfinished. county courts, Offices.
| their repairs and furniture, is in all S13.-
| 4l6,y32 80. The whole cost of the COM
pleted building could not fairly exceed
S3,000,00C. The immense sum charged
is made up of 1914, FOB 10 directly charged
to the court house building and its ftlrni
ture, $5,2S2,299 10 charged to county
courts offices, nearly all of which are in
the same building, for repairs.and furni
ture. The following items are incfuded :
S641, 800 40 paid for s1s.s16 90 worth of
carpets; $4,000, 1s7 oil paid for sss, 551 30
worth of furniture 1914 $3.50 SIS plid for
S72, 752 worth Of plumbing; 500, 754 -
paid for s e, o50worfh of plastering. The
sum of 81, rs, s12 % was charged for adj
vertising, printing blank books and sta
tionery since the 1st of January, 1869.
The whole account shows that twenty
four millions and quarter were paid as
expenditures for what was really worth
but four millions and three quarters, Civ
ing loss to the city of nineteen millions
and "A half. This is the amount stolen, di-
vidcd among the ring thieves, since Janu-
AIRY, 1869.
THIS REPORT CONCLUDES
the business of the committee. The COM
mittee assert that within two years and
eight monts one half the entire revenues
OF the city and county have been abstract
ed, much more than the entire CITY and
county tax levy. The exhibit thus m2de
creates great sensation among honest tax
payers of this city.
The Citizens Committee, in addition to
what has already been stated, represent
that the debt oftlie city is doubtless every
two years. The condition of the city fl
nances is such as to destroy all confidence
IN the management of the present city OF
metals. The credit of the city has depre-
ciated under their admiration. They ask
that economy he exercised in all depart
ments. They state that in the main they
have accomplished the object of their
SUB COMMITTEES REPORT
The report of the sub committees is
very voluminous. They give, at great
length, statements of fraudulent accounts
of parties implicated in the fraudulent
observation-disclosures which have been
furnished the public fiom time to time
since the frauds were first discovered. I
They report large number of vouchers
others were found mutilatcd and
fraudulently Endorsed. The special Com
mittee on Pay-rolls and Salaries say that
they find degree of waste and extrava
gance unprecedented.
PRINTERS PERQUIsITEs.
The Subcommittee on Printing say the
average prices paid for printing, &C., were !
fully so per cent. in excess of the value of /
the work. During the years 1869, 10 and |
II nearly $2,750,00O were paid to eighty
nine papers. The statement shows that |
there were paid nearly eleven times more |
in 1e69-70 than in lS59-60, while for the !.
county alone the increase has been nearly |
3, 700 per cent.
The committee find that over $33.OOO.-
600 are apparently due on corporation as
sessments, taxes, dc, about much of |
which there is uncertainty on account of
the bad administration of the laws and /
the loose manner in which the books are |
kept.