Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1876 — More Testimony About Tilden. [ARTICLE]

More Testimony About Tilden.

. It will be rememberdtt shat the most favorable showing it has been possible to iMWfftp 4 Tilden concerning Ills income tmM. that he paid tax On an, average inednib of f 15,000 a year during thC years the tax, was levied. Yet an- “ ex-Director or the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad” writes to the New York Tilneb]' Allowing ! that in six yews Mr. Tiilden’s warnings and profits frqni hlicondfectian that company alfcrie were not’l&fs than *5174,000, or pearly. double the average income on P aid f* Tbia gentleman’s communication gives tne details of some of thC trUnsactionk. Thus in 1861 and 186 a tyr. Tilden purchased bonds,of the Milwaukee & Horipon Railroad Company, wjyi a View to consolidation witp the Northwestern, which he sold early in 1803 at a profit of $14,500. 1862 he drew Weed and acted as Trustee for the fee would”be $5,000. In* 1863 he drew the papers in a seven per cent. mortgage 1 issued by ttie Northwestern on its rolling stock, purchased with the tlmsaleof tbeh onds, for which* RI4 dstial 'fe>W!is'ss,'ooo.Ttr 1803 bo drtw the. papers and-acted as Trustee for that «kondS) of. the Peninsular Raffload Company, for which he received a cash fee of $5,000. He was also a heavy purchaser of Penkrifiila fetdCk ut twenty-five pqr ;ceni.;iuui at seveqty-flve per cent-,, on wli\cb lie realized a profit by the subeequent estimated all the way from $65,000 to $170,000. And as lie drew all papers sot thd consolida«vioir, his-fecooaid not have been less than $5,000. • J.n 1863 also he drew die papers a professional service,for which his usual fee was $5,000. It.s&*&} M sune year that he managed the consolidation of the Rockford & -Kenosha Railroad with the North westerns ogtofwbioUJK) made some $3,000 Qp then hoMs besides His profes4*r. Tildqf’s Hceipts teom this single corporation tn 1863, and his profits from wknsadtrofis IncoUriectlon therewith, were' than $08,009, thpugh the entire income returned, for that year was only j£k>O't‘sls,ooo, we believfe., . : L 1* i We//pript, Hie communication ia full elsewhere, so that the items may be exam* ined 'in detail. There is one point Ceivad I few of SIO,OOO cash for drawmg the papers for the consolidation of the Galena Union with the Northwestern, but that $36,000 were paid him as his ahare of the profits in a pool of Galena' fHfejt that had fo-on' bought in to bring allout the consolidation. Silbstequeutly it was found thVWas an ertnr, and that Tilhis alleged stealing nt the Harvey con-tract,-in which he had pledgedliis “ sacred honor” to do eomethihg he neVer did. 8o in a single transaction In the year 1864 he re jeivod $36,000, while paying on a total income of something like $15,000. Indeed, it must* be kept in mind that all these Itodrt Ate in connection with a sin-’ gle corporation, and can scarcely include all his professional earnings and other profit*. —Chicago Tribune.