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whole amount Of ssnte money. III, ,4eo
Tho money, except tho $120,45B, WAS re.
ceived in install,nents running through tho
ycnrs 1877 and 1873. Tho city Inns had tho
,ssc of tho $CGt, ,13G, City Hall building fund,
md the S1e0, 453 since collected, aggrogating
s784,695, without interest, and not roprc-
sonted by outstanding certificates.
fhu ltelicf and Aid Society, according 10
their several annual roports. received in
money noazly fvo nhllions OF dollars.
Tho city, through Mayor Mason, borrowed
from tho Relief md Aid Society nbous
$4,000, and gave certificates Of indebted
mesa therefor. This WAS nil tho money tl,at
ever was borrowed or received by tho City
Government from Tint source, unlcss Mr..
Cotv1N has got money from tho funds of
that Society, on which point lio is silont.
With the exception of tho ono loau mem
toned during MAsoN's administration, the
city borrowed mono Of tho Relief md Aid
funds, nsd tho State money WINS expended
for tho purposes to which tho State had by
law appropriated it, except tho :sCG4, ,oo0 loft
to tho credit Of tho new Court House build
lug mud tho 3120D0o which Afr. CoLy1N
drew from the State Treasury.
After the fire tho Common Council, during
Mayor MAaoS's administration, roscinded
$1.442, 700 Of tho taxes coming due, and tho
Legislature, for tho relief of tho 1osers by
fire, ordered rebates to DO n,ado Of municipal
taxos on destroyed property, which amounted
to about 33o5,00o, mixing together loss Of
city revenue Of s1,767,0o0. 70 make good
this deficiency necessarily swallowed up m
eqnal amount of tho money received from
tho State. And still tho Acting Mayor don't
know what became Of tho money obtained
from tho State! Nor does he appear to hayo
tho slightest recollection TINT city property
was destroyed or damaged by fro to tho
amount Of mora than threo mud half mill
ions Of dollars, which had to DO rebuilt and
replaced by his predecessor.
When Nlr. CoIv1s says that "out Of this
money!" State MD or Relief funds, F" newspa-
pers wero subsidized" ho states All untruth.
Not newspaper in Chicago received dollar,
--ccrtainly not from tho city, nor by loan or
otherwise from tho Relief and Aid Society.
That GAGE used for his own purposes city
money, over wAat ho has ance refunded. aud
what is in tile suspended banls, and tho So
called interest money, somo $500, 600, is a
notorious fact. Upon these premises the
usurper then intlulgcs in tho statement that
" in tho midst Of this tloating capital III tho
power Of tho late Mayor anl his immediate
friends, NIL of whose operations with thia
money! scan be traced through, Relief and
Aid Committees, speculation in park prop
erty, md bank deposits, tho Ba,no namcs
faithfully appearing from. timo to time when
over tho public demanded to know whnt had
been dono with their money"
This ia:contemptiblo insin,ation, malicious
Justification, and M act OF mean blackgaard-
ism On tho part of the Mayor OF Chicago. So
fur ~ tho allegation il made TINT any part Of
- this money " belonging to tho city or con-
trolcd by tho city, except that takou by
GAGE, was ovor used for "apccula-
ton in park property" or to subsi-
die newspapers, or used in my "opor-
ation" othor thnn purely municipal
ono, ia mondncious It il tho baso insnua-
ton Of proQigato, reckless usurper, trying
to avoid public contempt Gud censurc II ho
means that the funds of tho Relief and Aid
Society wero used for such PURPOSES then he
it guilty Of an equally atrocious libel, nnd
ono that ho has personal knowledge to be
acandalous falHcllood, The people mover de-
mauded what lind been dono with their
money and were refused. A committee OF
CoLv1s's own Council, at the request Of tho
" Communists" investigated tho atfairs of
tho Society, had every facility extended them,
md reported tho facts to tho public. Be-
cause some Of tho mon who had given their
limo and labor to tho great work Of TINT So
cioty participated in tho meeting which do
c!ared CoLv1H an ususper aud requested him to
resign, he aeeks the revenge characteristic Of
the man, of illuminating them BY insinua-
tionB that arc rs malignant as they aro falso.
WHO WEOTE CoLV1N'B LETTER.
Tho importance that hos hitherto attached
to tho historic queations, " Who killed Cock
Robin ?" and HSEho strnck I}1Iry r. .1.1.pusoupn