, 1877-09-13

Examination Of Tweed Before the
New York Aldermanjc
Committee.
Ridiculous Attention to Records which
Are Supposed to Be Entirely
supposisitious,
speculations Concerning the Absconding
Mayor Of Burlington, Ia,

New YonK. Sept, Pin his examination be-
fore the ALTERNATE Committee to-day, II was
noticeable that Tweed would not give word Of
testimony without consulting The printed min
utes Of tho Board 1T Supervisors. Ifc
WAS aakcd by Mr.. Cole several
times to furnish the namca Of the members
Of tho Supervisors fltng, consisting Ut un1y n
fcw men, hut wanted to sce the records before
answering. THIS fact il interesting In cs,nncc-
tlun With statement made shortly before The
present sfayor VIA eeGtr.l, that the printed
minutes III the Hoarsl of Supervisors from 1865
tu lss) were false and spurious, aud that tie
meetings they prettmletl to record were n1ytb-
cai. ftc Superytsora' warrapt3ior those years
arc trrtutnIy exceedingly rare, not more
than five nr sEr copies betpg in exist
cucc. 1}ilrtrG the examination Mr. Cole
acknowledged Ills inability to ani tho
Twer! regulated Its Testimony by thu printed
volumes. and announced that he could liut give
any evtdcu.e Oh other putnts and c,aisns until
he was enabled to consult printed
be had bten unable to procure. Tweed
acknowledged that hr nrrangcl fur percentage
With lnzcrsoll, Watson s. Co., ~ j. Lowry,
kc5scr y Gu, and T.: y. Bnl'ar, whu was
M'e1 " wa. e ,19e WITT. ,a
with William e. Rogers through The Ring
sSs'i, s &, ':s! wy a ssf 'fsS T.:
aos ssnt eaifd r. ,et Into sns,t,nsn, tt anis $, ,s o.
construction of the Court-Ilousc, who was to
receive tic percentage asltl pay " u Tweed. In
other ca*cs the claslsiant. Ind personally handed
ths amount ot tle. percentage to Tweed, Or
fnalc in noueY. atl checks, and SONIC Of the
checks were still in cxIstrnce. The Most telling
testisnony of W day was with relation to SEN
ator l!Ixby. Tweed said he bought, in 49,,
paying $l5o,UO for It. lie purchased tho half
claim under these circumstance: In. the fall
Of ISL, when VIC were pcrseeused aud driven
from pslla, t9 tost, Sir; l'.xly wig is now Sen
ictt. Of my ooun.el, aud desired Tint
en's. declined having anything to do viii.
y, and told bartlett 20. Shortly after, William
Public Works under me, called on ine a1"i slatc,l
thai 0'1}ren wautcl 10 sell me the whole Or halt
Of that claim, and had better buy II, even II
the money never ea1.e to the direct. | assetl
elass the ciaa.. IL SAID U'iricu toll lin that
ntd prosecuting grcat 1nauy people. wnntel
to " a candidate for tie Assembly in his
to'ntIsn'.] district; The nomination depended
pended upon illin, anu liz sail Il would Be
treat service 10 the, prosecution and
70 Mf; Tltsn, WIG had DEVELOPS,
that he would get Mr. ueorge Barrett, whu
wns thcn counsel for thu Commit tce Ut Seventy,
10 let W on me. hung OF. anl told King
would not hayc anything to do With It. / did
Finally King waited 10 know II would not
Inccl DxGy, the. prcscnt Senator. ! told
him no; that ! ul nut want t, see
asked NC thu sa!ne question, md ! .atd ! ~
confidential relations with mic. The thing hung
along IN That why fo!r snmc ting, anil, after
1ae to meet Bixby It tic MetTopei*
trolueed to tho gentleman. Tho matter
was uscusscl backward and forward, what
Toall I'd b. done, What would be arranged. e.e.
ipe what O'lsFicn would do II purchased half
q hts claim. aud | hnaily consented. gave
hlul s:n,Uo III money and tho remainder in
liz: fetnanao Woui's r. 'l' loass, 'p bat
paid. They amounted In all to sl:D,00U. The
money speak Of was given to Dewey, and the
check, ! think: was clysn to Dewey. VITO n.
called ut Bi1by's office, anu tllcrv paid the
money f. tho prcsenee Of Dlxby, aionhcimcr,
Tno other hslf of the claim va. assigned to
trying to sell half to Connoly, and that WIS OH:
of tho inducements Of buying II, because, II
Connotly bought bali, would get nit money
back. because, whrn he paid himself, lc
would have to pay mo at tie eame time. Blxty
told nu II would buy hnif Of O'BEien's elaits,
| they would get Tl'den to let up on nne and use
their tnhuencu with UarrGtt, whom thuy said
they hsd under their control, to let up IN INC.
Q.-Dtd aIr. T!ltcn let up on yuut
| Al do not think ha did. Ii does not look
as II te did. Thut IL not the only time | have
bccn fooled, and 1t Is not much matter.
Q.-Did Judge Barrett let up on yuuf
| Al thiuk not. He decided against me
everything that ever came up bcfure htnl. 1t
was too late then to remedy whit hail done.
ha4! carried ONT my part Of the programme.
| allyahluge IN thu appointment Of inspectors vi
election, Tweed replied. ~ don't k,lnw that
1 WI ever gaye thcul chRnce. We hal our
men better drilled t1lan to alloy them To do
| that"
| Q.-You 10 not think at that time that pos
| aibly these inspectors VI election who should
bu selected by these six Supervisors might 10
| Al DID not think tanytlling ol It, We did
| not know but that they might takc onc 0f our
| u,cn In tue way We tus,k theisB, and We did not
| pyu1o6c ~ have That dime.
| Tweed carried hItnscll With the bollncsa and
cooluess u other days, and looked to bs in good
health.
THE BURLINGTON MAYOR.
| Epset.H 1ls4xsica IN 7As Tribune.
BURLINGTON, H., Sept. 13-As tho facts nrc
brought to light IN tho case OF tho abseouliug
Mayor aud Assistant Hank Cashier parsont, Il
Is probable that many OF shc ru,nors arc X