New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-04-18
Mr.. TILDEN AND HIS MEDICINES.


Mr.. TILDEN AND HIS MEDICINES.
HIS PATENT MEDICINES SENT Our BY THE IoN
WITHOUT PAYING THE REVENUE TAX-AN AT
TEMPT TO HUSH THE MATTER Up
Try TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNEl
WAsHINGroN, April 17.-EX-Senator barhuh has
bccp earnestly al work during the past week en-
doo,or,,c to cxtricate Ex-Governor Samuel j. Til
don and the arm of which he is reputed to be
,nouber from their embarrassing complications
with the Internal Revenue Bureau.
Ahout ten DAYS ago information was telegTaphed
IN Washington that large quantities of the lhdch
remedies. manufactured in New-lork CItV' hau
been discovered and seized at various points III IL
Huois because the boxes aud bottles contained 10
revenue stamps, without which 1t was unlawful 10
Mace them on the market. Upon receiving TINS IN
formation the Department tecgraphed to ITS detec-
tive AGENCIES in different sections of the country
and further examination showed that TINS Ohls-
sion to stamp the goods sold by the hfm
was general and widespread. This firm IS reported
TO have sent hundreds of tons OF its medical decoc
tons into every part of the country. The law re-
oujres a cent stamp on every box or bottle which
is to be retailed at the rate of % cents, cents on
one to be sold at 30 cents, and cent stamp on
one which is to be retaed at 81. The cases or
boxes thus far seized in the possession Of the drug
rists at Chicago. st. Louis, NewOroans, Philadel-
nina. Baltimore and Boston were found to have
few stamps on the top layer of smaller boxes or
ubials. while those beneath and out OF sight IN
each package had none.
The nephew of Samuel j. Tllden, who is also a
member of the firm. met Ex-senator Barnum at the
Arlington Hotel early in the morning recently, and
having secured the services of a Republican Con-
FRESHMAN, they together visited Commissioner
Raum. The defence set up by young Mr.. IIlden
was that his firm had purchased and issued SUI
fcent number stamps for all the separate parcels
il had sent out. but that its packing clerk had
stolen them. This explanation Is far from satisfac-
tory to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and
Mr. Tilden has been required to furnish the Depart
ment with the place and date whcTeand when these
stamps were purchased and the amount of each
purchase.
1t has frequently been a subject of remark in the
Internal Revenue Bureau that firm manufac-
turing and placing upon the market such large
quantities Of preparations the Tldens have done
has never procured a special proprietary stamp OF
its own as Is the custom with other dealers in
medicinal specifics whose business is much smaller
This use of ordinary stamps, purchased as postage
stamps may be. of collectors OF internal revenue
and at banks, NAV make II impossible 10 trace up
and verify the claim OF the firm of having actually
paid the tax. At the same time the penalties IN
CURED by the firm are the same whether the
excuse proves to be "a correct or not and no lit
lie trouble Will probably be experienced before the
matter is settled. -
Great pains have been taken by all interested to
prevent the publication of any of the details OF TINS
scandal, and young Mr.. Iiiden during his VISIT to
Washington was careful not to register bis name
at The hotel at which he stopped.
III nav be said here that the Government pro-
poses to prosecute at once to Judgment the snt
against Mr. Tilden based upon his alleged evasion
of his income tax prior TO 1870.