Daily Kennebec journal., 1876-08-30

dividends, salary, or from any profession, trade,
employment, or vocation, or from any other source
whatever. from lst day of January, to 3lst day of
December 1862. both days inclusive, and subject TO
an income tax under the Excise laws Of the United
States. Income from all sources 81, 49,"
He paid the tax only upon this comparative
small sum. The year for which he made this
trAing return of his incomed witnessed the success
of his gigantic scheme to capture the Terre Haute,
Alton and St. Louis railroad, and to issue stock to
the amount of hundreds of thousands Of dollars
beyond its liablities-stock of which he has never
yet given an account although it still stands like
a nightmare of debt on the books Of the organiza-
tion. When compelled, after the lapse of so many
years, in which he succec cded in evading the ques-
ton at issue by means of legal techncalities, to
into the United States Court of this district
and account for his scandalous if not criminal
stewardship as trustee of the road, he swore that
he was paid $50 0U0 for his services as such tius-
tees in 1862, the very year in which he stated un-
der oath that hi, income was only $7,llS. Mr..
Tllden's oath on this point appears in his recently
filed answers to the complaint of the unfortunate
stockholders of the Terre Haute, Alton and ST.
Louis railroad company, and reads:
"That for such services the defe fendant Tilden
u
said second mortgage bondholders, and the SAID
charge was paid by or on behalf of said second
mortgage bondholders, on the l7th Of October,
1862 that the defendant
Tden, for part of his services aforesaid, also
made charge of the like sum Of ten thousand
dollars on account of professional services rem
dered to the first mortgage bondholders and the
receivers, which was paid to him by the said SAID
Azariah c. Flagg, and which
payment appears under date of Nov. 7, 1862, in
statement annexed to the first report aforesaid,
having been receipted for by the said Tilden, 'on
account of professional services
Ii the criminal law now operated in case like
this, to convict Mr.. Tilden iCeould perhaps, only
be necessary to present his two atfidavs to jury
The evidence as to his large income in 1862 is
damagiDgly cumulative. He was connected as
counsel and trustee with large number OF rail-
roads that year. He was the legal adviser Of the
Northwestern Railroad, and was also director of
the same. He was also counsel to the Chicago
and Alton road the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and
Chicago road the Cumberland Iron Company and
to other corporations. The Northwestern alone,
it appears, paid him annually fee varying from
$4,000 to SIS 000 and as the other organizations
were as wealthy as the Northwestern Mr.. Tilden's
income from all the corporations could hardly
haye been less than $50, 900 year.
In the same year, Mr.. Tilden was president and
trustee of the New York Balance Dock Company,
which then, according to report filed by him in
the county clerks office on Jan. l, lS53 had q
paid-up capital of $250,0O0. The whole record is
an ugly one for Mr.. Tilden. If reform consists in
cheating the government as well as railroad cor
porations, then he can lay claim to this title. He
has, however, placed himself within reach Of the
law. which NAV be invoked by the proper author
tiles to compel him to pay into court the amount
hewithhelh from the government duriag the war.