Weekly Trinity journal., 1878-06-01

IL hotE asked Gould, lnterrupung.
"Precisely so, answered Norton frank
ly, feeling his way.
"Wsll, how much are you going to get
for voting against the billr"
IL am promised 10000"
"Now, look here" said Gould, leaning
forward and looking straight into tho
others face;
"I'LL GIVE you 900 TO VOTE FOR 1T.
Do you accsptH"
"les; but who's 20 hold the money!"
asked Norton, cautiously, half doubling
thi, Unexpected stroke of good luck.
yourself" replied Gould, raising and
going toward the trunk. IL don't want
you to rely on promises in this thing.
You shall have the money now"
He handed a bundle of bill to Norton,
who deposited them in his pocket, re-
marking as he did SO, "Well, you can
depend on me in this thing"
"Now, about the Others" said Gould;
"suppose you tell Mr.. Genet to como to
my ROOM"
"All right" said Mike. 'Tn SEQ
Harry immediately" With that no left. .
lravery short time Prince Harry WAS
ushered into the apartment OF the Nall
street magnste. Genet knew something
big was up.
Gould opened at once. "Mr. Genet,
how much money are you TO got Tor OPP
posing the Erie bilf"
Twenty thousand dollars" said Go
net, curtly.
Now, | want you TO vote for my bill,'
said the other, "snd IN make it $75,0 900,
and pay you the morey now. IL it bar
gain2"
!, "Its Il bargain" answered Comet, sen-
tentiously. The sum named changed
hands, and the door WAS closed on Senator
No. ..
Tom Creamcr was next invited to visit
Gould. Nearly tho same conversation
, occurred as in the two former cases.
Creamcr said he was TO receive 100000
through Tweed for opposing Erie.
r'll give your S75, 900" said jay, ito
vote for the bill. :"
The offer was too tempting to resist, and
Creamer left considerably richer in pock-
ct and elated in spirit.
Norton aftorward had talk with
Tweed, when ho informed him that ho
coudn t support Vanderbilt"
moi" said Tweed, surprised, "what's
tho matter, NJ ike2"
"Well," replied Norton, slowly, az
can't vote tor him, that's all; and what's
nore don't thinN the others will, either"
Tweed took in tho situation Mt once.
"Pump it cut, Mike. Has anybody
beon seeing your"
Norton thon told him the facts. Tweed
was surprised.
"lIow mitch do you say they got?" no
asked.
"Well, Comets n good speaker; he got
$4,000. And Tom Crcamor, hos II
good speaker, too; he got S75 900. l'ma
d-n poor speaker. or ose I'd got tn
same. As it is only got $780, 600"
Tweed could not reprces lGugh Mt
Norton,s way of stating it. In brief
Gould succeeded so well in his negolia-
TwEED's INFLUENCE ENLisTED
On the Erie side, but that of the whole
Senate. Senators who had received from
Tweed s., 900 to Sl0, 600 to vote for Van
? derbit, were offered four or five times tn {
amount from Gould, and, of course. Gid
not hesitate TO accept. Somo Of them
made quito raise out OF the fight, aud
it is related OF one leading member Of tho
Senate that he accepted heavy bribes from
from both sides, $40, 900 from Vanderbilt
and 800, 900 from Erie, and ran away
from Albany before "A vote was reached.
With the Assembly there was oven
less difficulty than there had been with
the Senate. Gould easily bought over all
men ho wanted, by doubling ard trobling
the amount offered by Tweed. On Tho
lst Of April Glenn caused tremendous
sensation IN the House by declaring that
he had been offered money to vote for tho
Erie bill. He afterward said Aeck
Frear had made the offer. Frear was
member of the Investigating Committee.
Tho affair was Intentionally treated ms
big joke, and smoothed over, in ordor to
deceive the public at the time.
Gould pushed matters forward as rapid
ly as possible, and the result was that the
now bill in tho Erie interest by vote Of
II TO IL. Vanderbilt, seeing this, withdrew
his opposition. 1t then passed the Assem-
bly, by q vote Of l0l TO O., and was signed
by Governor Fenton on the 2lst Of the
same month. IL was generally expected
that trouble would be experienced with
the Governor, but this was not the case.
What inducement, pecuniary or other
wise was employed to secure the guberna-
torial assent was never known.
After this coup d. etat Gould mada
Tweed and Sweeny directors of the Erie
road. Gould afterward was forced to
disgorge $5. .OOO, 900 of the money he had
made in the fight, which was returned to
Vanderbilt. Thus closed one OF the
most striking chapters OF fraud and
bribery that ever took place in Albany.
Afterward, when the Erie road was
thrown into bankruptcy, Sweeny, through
Gould's .fiuencc, was made receiver. lle
filed the position only twsnty-four hours,
and received for his services the remark
able sum of $3SO,0OO.
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A oossIPISG woman went into neigh
boris intent on slander, and exclaimed,