New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-09-01

stances OF MT, CnduHCc} appointment 40
Receiver of the Trust Company That was a
conspiracy to conceal the truth, not to protect
the stockholders and depOsitOrs; it involved
the crime of compromising felony" City
Judge Supreme Court Justice and an Assist
antgDistrict Attorney combined to arrange
that person in the interest of the consplra-
tors should be appointed; ana it was done
after consultation" For month the Re-
ceiver of this bank knew of this crime, knew
the criminal, and received from him part OF
the stolen moneys. Not only that, but he be-
came the medium Of communication between
the thief and the Commissioners of the Sink
ing Fund, who if they did not know before
that their trust had been stolen by city
official, certainly learned 1T when the money
was restored and yet these mon dld not cry
Stop the thief" How much these men knew
previously of the robbery will always remain
matter of suspicion until investigated, and 1t
seems to us that the people OF Brooklyn ought
to care TO know this if their money Is to be
iptrusted longer to the hands of the same
officials.
The Board of City Works is probably the
most corrupt in the whole City OF Brooklyn.
The Commissioners have not the advantages
that Tweed possessed in a complaisant Con-
troller who had been rogue from boy
hood, and hence they have not resorted to
such desperate work as forging vouchers and
altering warrants. But it is notorious that
under both the Water Board and the Board
of City Works Brooklyn is robbed of millions
annually under the guise of contracts. The
whole system pursued there in giving con-
tracts is simply a swindle of the city for pri-
vate profit. Investigation will show this con-
clusively if only honest men make thorough
investigation. Contracts which should be
given to the lowest bidder invariably go to
the Ring contractors at highest prices. All
this needs reformation, and reformation can
come only after thorough examination.
We show conclusively elsewhere how over
three hundred thousand dollars have been
distracted from the Tax Collectors office. 1t is
not merely a deficiency of unpaid taxes, behind
which bald excuse the officials seek to hide J;
but this amount has not gone to the city but
into the pockets of the Ring. Investigation
should begin here at once
A million dollars is unaccOunted for In the
expenditures of the Brooklyn Bridge Company.
1t is here, indeed that the greatest swlndle OF
the Ring is perpetrated. Overhaul the books
of this Company, and it will be found on GER
tain dates which can be named, that since the
agitation began in these columns the BOOKS
have been tempered with, entries have been
changed, and fruitless effort made to conceal
swindles amounting to an immense sum.
Are the people of Brooklyn willing to seize
the opportunity which is now offered them to
rid themselves of their plunderers Chance
has given the key to the corruption OF that
part of the Ring which McCue directs and
which controls the Treasurer's Office and the
Courts the Controller has carried the war at
once into McLaughlin's quarters; the division
of the City Works which Fowler commands
is under suspicion, and figures which expose
the corruption there are in hands which will
shortly make them public; and decentralization
and fear are upon Kingsley and his followers
of the Bridge King. An important election is
approaching; are these issues not to affect 1t
If Reformers mean anything, they should not
suffer this opportunity TO escape them. Now
is their time for action.