New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-28
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OFFICIAL JOURNAL or THE UklTeDSTATES
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF NEW ORLEANS
The Times and the Tamnany Ring.
from the Chicago Tribune.

ITlOAhA Ae cSANeeo ASNAS
New YORK, July 24.-The exposure of
the outrageous and unblushing Tammany
frauds by the Times causes much excite
ment here, and is opening the eyes OF even
Durblind people to the extent OF swlndles
by the ring. TO. day it has another revela-
ton of plastering and repairs claiming TO
have been done to the new courthouse by
Andrew Garvey, a notorious member OF the
Tammany ring. The Times says Hall and
Connolly had no hesitation in signing the
warrants for the work supposed to be done
by Garvey.
The same carelessness with reward to
dates shown in these accounts extends
even to the persons in whose names the
checks were supposed to be made out
Thus, on December %, 1860, a check was
drawn for S33,2S3 in favor Of one Phiiip
Donarumma. This was Endorsed by Phlllp
+. Dunmay, probably a name which was
much more appropriate to the transaction
than that of Donarumma. Three days al
terward another check for S33,l29 90 was
made out for DOnarumma, and TINS Tune IL
was indorsed Fillip Dummln.
The confusion in the minds OF Connolly
and Hall with regard to Donarumma or
Rummey, or Dummin, was OF little conse-
ouence. seeing tne checks were Endorsed by
Garvey. so that one may conclude the
money found its way into the hands for
which it was intended. On one day, July
q. 1863, Garvey received for plastering and
reDairs no less than S45, 900 S9-that is to
say, warrants were made out in his name
for that amount. His total receipts, that
same month, from Connolly and Hall were
Sl53.755 IA, not a bad months return for a
plasteTer.
He beat that, however, in May, 1870, when
he was lucky enoug to receive 1891, bl4 %,
all for work lone on the new court house.
He beat that again in the following June,
when his work for a part of two months APP
pears to have been worth S945,7l5 IL. June
being thus pretty well played out, the
signers of the warrants deemed it best to
Jump pack to April, a month which they APP
pear to have thought that they had neg
lected.
They began by paying Garvey for two
days repairs thus: April 9, repairs on coun-
ty buildings, December 20, 1869, S66,llS 81;
April II, repairs on county buildings, De-
cember q, 1869, So ,06S 80; total, Sl33, 1877 20.
A plasterer who can earn Sl33, l87 in two
DAYS, and that in the depth of winter, need
never be poor. Altogether he received in
two years. or some one received in his name,
the sum of $2.S70,464 06. In answer to the
Mayors statement, the Times declares it is
no part OF the business of a newspaper to
prosecute public officers: that 1t is the duty
of the community which is defrauded.
1t adds that it does not believe the Board
of Supervisors, behind which Mayor Hall
attempts to shelter himself, ever saw the
accounts, and if it did, the Mayor and Con-
troller are not bound to pay any accounts
passed by the Supervisors. The effort of
the Mayor to relieve himself and his asso-
ciates from the position in which the Times
has placed them, is a melancholy failure,
and is so acknowledged to be by everybody
not partisan in feeling.