Mr. Tweed is revealing the history of his management of
New York. He states, among other facto, that he repeatedly bought legislative assistance with the money plundered from the City, -and on one occasion carried a Charter Act by an expenditure of ;120,000. The tariff for Senators varied, but when a man was influential, he demanded £10,000 for his vote, and re- ceived. £8,000. The payments were made usually in money, 'which was paid, as a rule, through the editor of the Commercial Advertiser, a Mr. Hastings, who himself received only £5,000. Mr. Hastings denies the charge, as do also the Senators ; but as regards the latter, public opinion appears to be very hostile. It would appear from the conversations, as reported by Tweed, that some of the Senators, poor men from the interior, hardly realised that they were being bribed, but took the money as "gratifica- tions," as Charles Fox called them, Senators declining, in one or two instances, to receive more than their colleagues.
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