The Republican journal., 1876-08-31
Gov. Ti1den's Income Tax
From the New York Sun.


The Times asks to be shown |'some good
reason why the man who made the two follow
ing affirmations under oath should not be brand
ed as knave and perjurer.'
son Dee. &c, 1863 Jh. "Is his anSpef to the
Tlden Score to a return, complaint in the Circuit
nder OATH in 7rhjch he Court ofthe United States,
said - IN the suit ofthe ST. Louis,
81 hereby certify that Alton and 1erre Haute
the following is true and Railroad Co. against him
faithful statement Of the self and Others arhach an
gains, profits or income sacel acds plea recently,
Of Samuel J. Tilden of the M Tldeli secore under
city of New York and oath as 1oiloacs
OF New York, whether the defendant, Tilden,
derived from any kind of made charge OF ten
property, rents, interests, thousand dollars against
dividends, salary, or from said second mortgage
any profession, trade EN- bondhoders, and the said
poyment or VOCATION or charges was paid by or
from any other source on behalf Of said second
whatever from 1st day mortgage bondholders on
January to sa 3st ia. day ofthe lh Of October fs62
inclusive, and subject to ant Tilden for part of
an income tax under the his services aforesaid, al
Excise laws of the United so made charge of the
States. Income from all like sum of ten thousand
sources, S1llS. dollars on account OF pro
teSSiOnal services render
ed to the first mortgage
bondholders and the re
ceivers, which was paid
to him by the said Aza-
riail G. tlagg and
which payment appears
under date OF Nov. :, 1s(2,
in statement annexed
TO the first report atore-
said, as having been
ccipted for by the said
filden, con account of
professional services"
We are happy to oblige the Times so easily.
We have merely had to procure and read the
document from which it quotes. Indeed, it
would have been enough to read the earllpr
part of the very sentence which it quotes, Ill
the right hand column, above The whole
sentence will give the Times plenty Of good
p.tSOOSH hruntlipu Gov Tiltlpn
knaNe and peilurer.''
Here is the part of the sentence which the
Times unfortunately skipped
"And they further say, touching the statements
in said bill of complaint 10 the services OF the de-
PENDANT, Samuel j. Hlden, that he had long prior to
and at The time of the commencement of the fore
closure suit in said bill of complaint mentioned, been
the counsel for the second mortgage bondholders, in
whose behalf such suit instituted, and that he
counsel also for the trustees of said second
mortgage bondhoders, and had been from some
Terra Haute Alton & st. Louis Railroad Company
were surrendered, and who were subsequently made
receivers thereof; and was also the counsel Tor said
receivers, and that he also acted as the principal
counsel tor the said first mortgage bondhoders, III
rotation to the foreclosure proceedings herenbefore
mentioned, and other proceedings connected there
with and that such services had CONNIE need prior
to the year 1889, and were rendered, from time to
time, during Il period Of upwards Of three years
thereafter
If the Times in its enthusiasm had thus only
begun few lines earlier in its reading of the
Terra liaute law SUIT paper, from Which 1t
quotes, 1t would not nave contounded years
receipts with years taxable income. Nor
would the Times then have suppressed the fact
that the payment of these $4,000 was on ac-
e unit of professional services rendered during
long series OF years prior to the first IMPOSE
ton OF an income tax, and during part only
Of the first year OF the existence of the income
tax.
Did the learned proprietor OF the Times com
pute, in his own payment of income tax for