New-York tribune., 1876-02-29
TRACING THE TWEED FRA UDS.
GOV. TILDEN,s TESTIMONY.

the attendance OF o large number OF people yesterday
before Judge westbrook, in supreme Court circuit 10
hear the testimony OF Gov Tden tn the Sooooooo SUIT
against Tweed the racing OF the Ring frands Ills
examination In chief was finished and his erosseIau
nation hecun The first business dispose Of the
struck Jurors in the smaller million suit They were
excused TIL next Monday. Gov Tiden on resun'ng the
stand was examined as the tickets Of the EeWfork
Printing Company lie began TO read from meme
rapdum when Mr.. Field interposed an oDJecuoh In
brief preliminary examination the Governor stated tha'
this memorandum, though made by CLERK was CON-
pared directly by himself with the deposit tickets
and all the deductions from them were made by
himself His only memory Of the tickets WIS
from the memorandum. The memorandum con-
tained ID items, aggrt eating S44s,674 40. This
closed the testimony as To the deposit tickets theih
selves The question was as 10 the schedule made
up by Tilden from those deposit tickets 10 snow
what proportions " vanous warrants went TO various
persons This led long discussion In which Mr. Field
objected 10 such line OF examination, on the ground
that in one sense this was mere argument, ana II
brought merely TO ghen the abors OF the court theh
Gov Tilden had not been shown 10 be an accountant
and only an expert could be allowed TO give suen
testimony.
Jadge wcshrook suggested that the case be deferred
till the figures the schedule were proved MI Garter
cred that all the figures proved but two items
and ne was prepared Ia prove those also The ex
animation the Governor was then suspended, while
Mr. Plrkhurst proved nh entry OF deposit OF D.
Garycy Of about SI7,OO Mr.. Cruikshank proved an
entry OF deposit 20 the account OF William NJ Tweed Oh
SlO9.533 81, and A. j. Smith proved an entry OF
sl3o $50 s. deposited by Ingerso Co.. ard the entry
Of checks IngcI soil Go. To Woodward and Others
and OF checks Of Woodward paid out
Mr. Carter then pressed his questions, and offered In
evidence the schedule in order that he might put nc In
the hands each juror TO follow the Governor In s eA
plantations Judge westorook nseryed his decision on
loet made of making and purpose or
the paper explained generally.
Gov Tildcn sta ed that this schedule made no In
part warrants, books In the Controllers Office
the deposit ckcts aud the books Of the Broadway Bank
for the purpose Of showing correspond nces between the
warrants and the deposits made in variou accounts In
the Broadway Bank. The figures under the head
warrants" were all taken from the warrants, though he
compared them with In the Controllers Office and
the other amounts table taken from the debit
cash book and deposit tickets In the Broadway Bank
Under an objection from Mr. Field tho headings were
stricken out by consent and a comment that the Keyser
warrants forged Endorsements and went into the d.
vision made with Tweed also stricken ont.
The Court took a recess after each Juror
furnished with corrected copy Of the schedule and
Gov. Tid, resumed his testimony. The schedule has
been published IL contains the warrants drawn IN favor
OF J. A. Smith, Keyser Il Co., &. ID Bollar Co..
Geo z. Miller. A. Han, Jr., j. McB Davidson,
A. W. Iocsw od J. W. Smith, g. H. Jaoobus, J. o. Fey
all Of which we're deposited 10 the bank accounts OF
either ngerso & Co., A. j. Garyey or T.. A. Woodward
This account does not include the New-Yorh Printing
Ohm any's bills, which added by separate bsti-
mony The warrants this schedule aggregate So7lo-
gI3 9s Ofthcse S3549,329 lS we're deposited by In
gersor sI177,4l3 ~ by GaIvey. ana s9sf.l7l Os so
directly into WoodwaIds account Ingersols ch cis TO
Wo dyard going into the sone account are Sl.sl7-
467 40: Garvey's checks to him are s179,Gl5 20.
making woodwards total deposits out oi the warrants
s3 5sI 254 20. On this total woodward drew checks
amounting 10 1892 s5s 90, aud corresponding dates
the deposit tickets checks deposited of the same
amount, the aeg cgate being S932.s5s 50
Gov Tldeu explained the items under one or twodaes
fully showing how proportion of the deposits OF both
Iu.ersill and Garvey into woodwards ccount lie
then testified that hs examination Of the warrants he
found that there two rules Of percentages ~ To n
errsolls warrants In one ~ about ~ per cent ~ the
warrant. ranging from 400 to 43iio, drawn by
check OF IngersO the same day and passed into T. A.
Woodward's account In the other class 90 per cent
about In the same way passed INTO L. A. Wood
yard's account In Garvey's warrants deposited
by him the percentage passing into Woodwards account
was always about 90 per cent The witness had no
knowledge of any interest account being divided sepa
ratey He had not included all the items the deposit
TIC es his object being And the corresrOndenees be-
tween the warrants and certain items. Deposits other
than warrants and checks Woodward not from Inger
soll Garvey we're not included. All had other deposits
NOT included IN this schedule Even ,odward hsd other
depc 10 tho amount Of - 900 OF his total
deposits of nearly S3.GOO,O00 Twecds deposits
about n per cent OF the amount Of the warrants.
TWEPD's POLITICAL CAREER.
To Mr. Feld-I first knew Mr. Tweed when he was
oppoined Deputy Street Commissioner In 1894 our
lations were never intimate always reserved. Ils p0
htica influence BEGAN when he got control Of the Street
Department He never on th" National Denocriuc
sl,ts Committee He was d Congressman one tenn and
IaE fuI a. Senator
he became man Of great poliea Influence. lie had
large lulowIng continuing tn 1871.
o. During + tine had c the control Of Tammany Hall
A can't liz the date but ne bad control oi u nr time
Occasionally there two Fragments Of the Democratic
party trying TO get control Of TaIninany Han There
was such contest IN The Spring OF ls!l iremember
was press.d by Mr.. Belmont, the Chairman ~ The Ma
tonal Democratic Committee, to attend 10 Of Its
business and letter shownI tis lrtier was presume
by ~ inform him when That Committee met lie
desiring tO appear before IL
Two other letters u Mr.. Tweed. recommending
man for Office produced and the Governor acAnow
eiged that they his, and resumed:
Nr Tweed had from grca influence IN this city;
wish TO explain that did not ask him for nore than
three appointments III all was Chairman the ftato
Cnnitee. ne ana not contr butte much To II he made
morr bills agains, than he contributed this check
$1,000 passed through my hands IN le6s don't re-
dent mink lac did, In 1868 he reputcd 20 bo wen OFF,
don't think 40 rtputed tO Ia Of very large
M This rather specifically IN aid oi Mr. Holman
O. Did Mr.. Tweed claim that he aud sweeDy had
agreed with yOu that each should contrlDute $l5.O00
that campaign. aud that they had pad In fun and you
had A. No, Sir, nothing Tie kind; took part
Ia the contest Of the Od aud l.ang Democracy except
70 make Ia speech before the Committee Ces the
Young Democracy beat the Old until the Old took money
| from the treasury and bought charter;
| tool . million Of dollars, l supposej 1 don't
know where they got IL; I suppose from tae
revenues Of Eew-lork somehow; during tie Summer
and Winter Of 1870, ind S,Gin of 1871, effort
made investigate those frauds; there opport
nifty OF invesngaon; the came men controlled Albany
as here the frauds revealed In the Summer of
1871 the COMMITTEES OF Seventy formed. and
mittee waited the Attorney General his sup
port do understand that the whole control of the
suits devolved ON Mr.. OConor, that he had
control of ALI the Attorney General always had
eIated for some suits, Mr.. Evarts, Mr.. Clinton, and