Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-06
Chicago Dispatches.
Astounding RevelntiOns-A Candidate for
Mayor in TrOuble-Thc GrOsvcnor AZ.
mIr, etc.

CHICAGO. Nov. 5.-Astoundinr revelations
are made of the operations of Alderman q. q
T. Holden in the use of the relief funds. As
Holden is president of the city council, and can
didate for mayor on the opposition ticket, add
tional interest is felt in the matter Immediate
~ after the fire relief society was formed OF
which Holden was made treasurer. The compo
sition of this society not being satisfactory Ia
the committees from Cincinnati louisville In.
diauapos, ST. Louis and other cities. NIayor
| Mason dissolved ii aud directed that eyervthinp
should be turned over to the Old relief soclety-
an institution under control of citizens of in
| tegrity, and regularly Incorporated This was
satisfactory to the committees from other cities.
but was not to some of the aldermen. and they
refused to recognize the new Arrangement.
&IhiS unpleasantness was mentioned in these
dispatches at the time. II now transpires thot
Holden, while acting as treasurer. secured M
least $4,000 of the relief funds and considerable
supplies which he refused TO give un when the
requisiton was made by the proper authorities.
Ii is now alleged that this money is usnd NV
Holden to secure his election as MAYOR. and very
damaging evidence is produced TO substontiafe
this charge. Among other things, Holden
caused to be sent to the regular committee a
livery stable bill amounting to $40. Payment
has been refused and the committee piyes mo.
tice that no carriages have been needed in fine
work of relief, 10 what purpose the beneyo.
lence of the country might have been mi. NAV
now be seen from this specimen. The public
may rest assured that the work of relief is nov
in good hands, and this man will be held To n
strict accountability.
The publication here of n letter from Gnvcr,
nor Palmer to Attorney General Bushnell re-
qucSting him to present the facts in REGARD TO
the killing of General Thomas w. Grosycnor 10
the grand Jury of Cook county. has created a
sensation. Very good authorities deny the
right OF the governor to initiate sucb proceed-
ines unless the United Statcs attorney Sbould
rpfttcn tn tIa ii. \
jury. But on the other hand Governor Palmer
is recognized as a LAWYER of ability and moi
likely to make mistake II is CHARGED nv tbe
friends of General Sheridan that Gov Palmer is
unriendly to him. and has taken This onnor,u-
nifty to do him injury. Atauy ratr Cen Shrri
dan seems the least disturbed about the matter
of anybody. Governor Palmer in his letter
reviews the evidence before the corOnpr's inrv
wherein it was shown that Mayor Mason re-.
queSted Lieutenant General sheridan 10 nrn-
serve order in the city; that the latter author
lied Col. L. L. Sherman to raise a regiment of
militia: that several companies were So orran.
lied and acted under the orders issupd nv (,ol
Sherman; and that the vounw man Treat was
acting under such orders when he shot General
Grosyenor, and is guiltless of any leDal offence
Governor Palmer saws in conclusion.
"No one will pretend that tbc mower tn raise
organize and employ troops. or TO call The organ,
lied militia of the states i'm service onnprt.ns Ia
the office of heutenant-nenprol of tbe limited
States nor will it be easy to find defenders for
the opinion, if it should be EXPRESSED. that The
mayor of a city can either exercise or imnart
such IL power to another; and will moi With
you discuss the dangerous and deceptive theory
of necessity or emergency that has hepn 60 oftpn
insisted upon, to Justify acts of lawless usurnn-
ton. 1t is answer enough that the constitution
of the state has not entrusted to mayors ofcities
or to military officers, the delicate dutv of de-.
tcrminng when its forces NAV be called into SER.
| vice or IFS laws he susnpDdni If tbcen coneIn
sions are correct think YOU will perceive that
il is now the duty octhe governor and ottorno',
general and all other officers to see that the laws
are reinforced against all Dnrties concerned in these