Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1889-11-09
THE ..HERALD" DENOUNCES THE
FRAUD.
The Lively Democratic Paper Makes II
Hot for Semne and Michcls.

The Lively Democratic Paper Makes II
Hot for Senne and Michcls.
From the Chicago Herald Nov. L.
Henry C. Senne has posed SO long
as the watchdog of the county treasury
that a good many people are beginning
to think that it is high time to call the
watchdog off long enough to see if the
treasury is still there Senne has been
so long in the County Board that ig-
norauce of the Boards rules cannot
iustifably be entered by him when he
is caught letting Mic Michels make
sneak of $500 out of the treasury he is
supposed to be watching. Senne
might as well plead the baby act as
plead ignorance, yet that is just what
he is going to do at to-day's meeting
of the Public Service Committee, when
he will find himself in the urcomforta-
bic position of admitting that lie either
does not know the rules of the County
Board or that he knowingly violated
them. Senne is the man through
whose influence Me Micheis, t8mihit-
tee clerk of the County Board, has been
kept i'll position for years. In this
capacity he has done some work for
County Attorney Bliss in the KEELING
and other doodle cases, being doubly
fit to gather material and prepare the
case, both on account of his connection
with the County Board and being an
attorney. But he receives the bounti-
full salary Of 81 800,
"The bill of Mr.. Michels was brought
in, with several others, Oct 81, and
the official report of the Board pro-
ceedings has the following to say on
the subject:
For services rendered by n. Michels in
Casselman, KEELING, and other cases, $50
"Bonfeld Detective Agency in Keeling
case, S132.3O
$. b. Eisendrath, for services in Keeling
case, $400.
IF. A. Macdonald, witness fees in Keeling
case SO.
However, the County Attorney eyi
IDENTIFY thought that this was right in
line with the 81, 500 official services OF
Mr.. Michels, and when the latter rem
dered bill for $500 for his services in
the doodle cases the County Attor
ney refused to O. X. it, This refusa
was based upon Rule s Of the genera
rules of the County Board:
NO Superintendent Warden, or Other
employe or assistant appointed by the
County Board, or by any officer or ap.
pontee of the Board, shall accept or re-
ceive any fees. emoluments or perquisite,
other than the salary as designated by The
Board
"The bill was passed not only Will
the consent but through the instru
mentality of Senne, who defends tn,
claim on the ground that the work wai
'Aphb OuuoiuC VI VIC ltB ulul llOuIS, ant
is therefore entitled to extra pay
Senne said, when his attention wa
called to this conhiction with the rule
of the Board, that he did not know 0
the existence Of any such rule. He i
now serving his third term as Presi
dent of the Board, and he has been
member so long that he has entirel
forgotten his first experience. If h
really did not know of the existence O
rule S, his qualifications for the posi-
tion which he now seeks again at TIN
hands Of the people would seem to b
very questionable. If he did know TIN
rule he violated it knowingly in press
ing the claim He will have an oppor
tunity to explain his position, if h
can, at to-day'- meeting"