Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1897-06-26

to be affected and heed their requests.
Only the consent of the property owner
can allow the commission to order an
Improvement. Aldermen have nothing
10 say about II.
| Commissioner Mct'ann Is as much OPP
posed to the expanded metal PROPOSE.
ton rs DOwney was. The price made
to the city for laying II II ~ cents a
yard. but even this does not induce the
commissioner to change his mind. He
takes the same ground that Mr.. Dow
ncy did. that In avoiding tle two inches
Of concrete the metal concern simply
adds to its profits without gain to the
taxpayer, AMI that the kind of work to
be done II not desirable for the city.
aside from the question that wherever
expanded metal II selected there can
be no competitive bids. He has told
the contractors so. ana will make no
award of contracts where competition
cannot be had.
| In his opinion the expanded metal
contractors can have no foOtllOld In Chi.
cagO except rs competitive bidders.
ana there are IND competitors.
The Scion II. Case garn!shmcnt bill.
which reduces the amount of wages
exempt from attachment under n judy.
ment will cause further trouble for
Scion II. Case. Its author. and the
sOlOns who made II Into law. While II
IL true the great majority Of the retail
merchants Of the state ar,lcntly favor
ed the measure nnd claimed Il was
necessary to protect them from dead
BEATS" IL II also the fact that labor. or
gnnizel ~ well as unOrgn nlzed. II bit.
tcrly opposed to the law and to those
responsible for II. II II declared by
some OF the labor people to be u singu.
lar fact that the only I'LL In which the
poor man In referred to or considered.
ont Of the grlst that came from the
legislative mill. was one Intended to
make the condition Of his life still
harder.
From present Indications. Il II proba.
BILE that after July the 5000 employees
Of the Board Of Education will be IN.
der the civil service rules. Members
OF the civil service commission have
had under consideration for several
days the matter OF extending the clas.
siticatiOn No us to include nll employees
NJ the school board. The present plan
In to include teachers. office employees.
special Instructors. and school jnnitOrs
in fact. every employee OF the Board
under the merit system.
Within u few days President Kr7lus
will call ~ meeting Of the civil service
commission for the special cOnsidera-
tiOn Of the subject. Several informal
conferences have been held between
members Of the commission. and they
are Of the una ninOus opinion that. uIl-
der the law. all School Board employees
should he Included with other city EN-.
pl0yes and placed under civil service.
The commission will send to the School
Board I'M opinion declaring that its EN-
plOyes will liz under civil service rules
after July !. II objection II made tn
the ruling, ARA ngeMents will be made
to have u test case brought In the Su.
preine Court, 80 that the power OF the
commissioners Jurisdiction over School
Board employees may he determined.
At Washington the rules ana regrla-
lions OF the executive mansion are 30
much char to u political boss" from
Chicago. Recently. while the President
was hastily preparing to depart for
Nashville, u little crowd of Senators.
Congressman and private individuals
assembled In the hall ut the White
House to see him before he left. At
exactly 10 o'clock. In obedience to fixed
rules, Arthur simmons, the cOlOred
messenger. announced that Senators
ana members of Congress would he al
mitted. a few Senators, Congressman
&. W. Stone of Pennsylvania, and two
Congressman from Kentucky stepped
from the crowd, ana with them came
the Chicago man also.
"Are You u member. sirI" Simmons
said to him, rs the men filed In.
"Yes."
what district do you represent, sir!''
illinois; the first district" he replied.
He passed In ana the door was closed
on the rest of the crowd. But Sim
mons was suspicious Of the member
from Illinois. 1t occurred to him that
when the man first arrived he had
given him a card. This was had
break for an astute man to make. The
messenger consulted It ana found that
It read ~. n. Jameson, Chicago" He
then consulted the Congressional direc-
tory ana found that James II. Mann
represented the First Illinois District.
II then goes right In to the Presl-
dents Office" said Simmons. In relating
the story, "and found that little man,