[ Autographs ] FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Fine content typed D.S. as Governor of New York, 1p. 4to., Albany, Dec. 22, 1932. Only three months before he assumed the Presidency, Roosevelt submits an invoice for expenses incurred while presiding over the corruption hearings which resulted in the resignation of the last Tammany Mayor of New York. James J. Walker. Roosevelt requests the New York City Board of Estimate: "...for the following sums of money, which you are to appropriate to meet the reasonable expenses of conducting before me the hearing of the said charges against Hon. James J. Walker, Mayor ofthe City of New York. That is to say: Compensation allowed and approved by me to Martin Conboy, Esq., as Counsel employed by me in the conduct of the proceedings on the hearing... E25,062.12... Compensation... to George a. Glendon, Jr., Esq., as Official Stenographer at the hearing. In 1931, the state legislature... E15,77645..." Walker's excesses were largely ignored until the Great Depression when his obvious neglect of city services initiated an investigation that uncovered rampant corruption in the city's government. In 1932 Walker was charged with accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars from individuals with business ties to the city, and was called before Governor Roosevelt to answer the charges. Walkerresigned from office in the middle of the hearings, and moved to Europe. Fine condition.