The San Francisco call., 1898-12-11
Hangman's Moses Displayed and Dangled Over Those Who Favor
 the Traction Companies.
Charles T. Yerkes, Chief Representative of the Street Railway Corporation, Boldly Makes Charges
 of BlaCkmailing.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

CHICAGO, Dec. 1o.-The
 sum of $I, 100000 is the o price reported to have been offered by the promoters of the Lyman ordinance to Aldermen # they will pass the measure. Lead CTS are at knives points with each other. One will not trust the other, and a responsible Alder man to hold the cash while busi- ness IS being done has not been selected yet. There IS one leader ..,sao, wears ago. when the city railway ordinance was up, was in trusted with $7o,ooo or $Ioo,- poo, poodle money. He fled with it to Europe. When he returned he was made to disgorge a part of 1t at the pistols point. AL though he cannot be trusted he is taking a very conspicuous part in the fight.
 On the other hand, the little fellows" booked, so 1t IS charged, for $Io,ooo, are jealous of the bigger ones, who are to get SIoo,ooo each. There are said to be four of these, one who IS to get 5,ooo, and another $5o,ooo.
 The newspaper owned by Mir. Yerkes, the Inter Ocean, to-day deliberately charges blackmail on the part of cer- tain newspapers which have persistent ly opposed the ffty-year franchise or ainance, and says:
 Honest Aldermen of the City Coun- cil will stand at their posts of duty. They will not surrender to blackmail- CTS or the blackmailers' following. Not one of these Aldermen-and among them are the best men ever elected to the Chicago City Council-will be cowardly enough to bow to the will of the blackmailing trump of the Harri- son administration.
 ''The traction companies of Chicago are prepared to meet the issue what ever it may be. They ask no favors from the seditious press. They will not cringe before the power of the law less city administration. They will not make terms with sand-baggers, free booters or anarchists Traction or dinances will be passed. They will be passed over Harrison's veto. They will be passed in defiance of trust edi- tors, who froth at the mouth in i'm potent rage because they cannot col lect blood money for silence or theil favor"
 The same paper says: "The con- spiracy of the newspapers against the passage of the ordinance bring then under the rulings of Judge Gary ir the celebrated anarchist cases of 1886.
 The new scheme adopted by the op- ponents of the franchise ordinance went into effect tonight. Friends of the families of those Aldermen known as members of the gang" are calling al the houses of Aldermen and making q personal appeal to their wives. The lives of the alleged boodlers are being made burdens to them in a business anu SOCldl way dnu yOI thinks this latest scheme will cap the climax. Another method of procedure has been to appeal to the principal stockholders in the stock railway com panies and ask them 10 use their in- fuence to prevent further debauchine of the City Council Already one ot the heaviest stockholders in the Chi cago City, or South Side Railway Com pany, has announced that he does not favor the fifty-year franchise. He thinks twenty years long enough Mayor Harrison now counts upon twenty-seven Aldermen to uphold him in the Council, which will be enough to prevent the passage of the amended ordinance, which the joint committee will bring, in over his veto. The joint committee of the Council having the ordinance in hand adjourned rather abruptly late this afternoon, subject to a call of the chairman, and it is pos aible if will not make a report to the