"The _present_ pressing needs of legislation can easily be supplied. The muddle about the Aldermen is as easily disposed of as the Mayor, Tweed, and Fields. Luckily, the law point is manifestly against the recently elected Republican Aldermen. We can show how to _give_ them their seats. "Y'rs, "CH. O'CONOR." H. F. TAINTOR[58] TO TILDEN "N. Y., _24th Feby., 1872_. "MY DEAR SIR,--Mr. Palmer, prest. Broadway Bank, gives me permission to attend at his bank only from 3 to 6 o'clock P.M. each day, except Wednesdays. "With this gracious promise on his part I have twice to-day applied to Mr. Green for two or three men to assist me during these three hours, but can get nothing from him. When I asked him to allow me to employ outsiders (after he had informed me that he had no men to furnish me) he refused, stating that if once men were on his hands he couldn't shake them off. "For myself to go there alone each day to examine these old books and papers will be merely child's play, and I am much disappointed at Mr. Green's action. Palmer's concessions amount to but little, and I fear our chances of getting what we desire are but slim. "Permit me respectfully to again call your attention to the necessity of some legislation touching upon this point, whereby some person or persons can have the authority to not only call for the information necessary, but also to incur the expense necessary to a full examination. "As the matter now stands it amounts to nothing. "Respectfully, &c., "H. F. TAINTOR." The following circular from the Grand Jury room gives the names of the parties then under suspicion: "COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS, GRAND JURY ROOM, "NEW YORK, _January 11, 1872_. "_To..._ "_Cashier._ "SIR,--We regret to trouble you again, but from our present researches we find it necessary to extend our inquiries to 1868 and 1869; and, in order to save the inconvenience of calling you before the Grand Jury by a subpoena for the purpose of answering the following interrogatories (in case the Grand Jury should be willing to waive that right), I would thank you to state in a note to me whether an account was kept during those two years with your bank by either of the following persons, and if yes, by which of them, viz.: "James M. Sweeny, Peter B. Sweeny, Hugh Smith, A. Oakey Hall, J. H. Ingersoll, N. Y. Printing Co., A. J. Smith, Conrad Boller, J. McB. Davidson, J. W. Smith, Joel A. Fithian, Wm. M. Tweed, James Watson, R. B. Connolly, C. E. Wilbour, Cornelius Corson, A. D. Barber & Co., J. A. Smith, Geo. S. Miller, A. G. Miller, Mrs. R. B. Connolly. "I will submit your answer, and take the further order of the Grand Jury. "Yours, &c., "LUCIUS S. COMSTOCK, "_Foreman Grand Jury, Court of General Sessions._" CHARLES O'CONOR TO TILDEN "_Feb. 3, 1872._