Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-02-11


Geo. w. Linn.
TWENTY SIXTH WARD.
Pat +. Haynes. Jno. &. Cannon.
Albert Hahnc.
TwENTY.SEvENTH WARD.
a. +. kcency.
Matt Conway.
spencer =. Kimhcll.
TWENTY EIGHTH WARD.
Peter NJ. Keenan,. u. W. Alderman.
Frederick Lundin.
Thomas Saylcs.
TWENTY. NINTH WARD.
NJ. NIcIncrncy. VIM. Webb.
J. j. Mccarthy.
THIRTIETH WARD.
Ethan A. Mowrcr. Albert =. Green.
John G. LOTUS. Walter Merchant.
Ernst 1lcichardt. John Hartley.
George Heck. John Berg.
John &. Trcaucr.
THIRTY.FIRsT WARD.
l.. X. Davis. Elliot w. Sproul.
Il. j. Noble.
Henry 1futtcndorf.
THIRTY. SECOND WARD.
John II. Mc1;inn. W. II. pfstcr.
Frank Rcnsford.
THIRTY-T1IIRD WARD.
Martin Wiora. John Dandclion.
\. Il. Bowkcr.
THIRTY.FOURTH WARD.
ID. II. Brunjcs. David W. Grcig.
Napoleon Barsaloux. Kit Gould.
The following. from the Chicago
Chronicle of Wednesday. Aug. 4. 1907,
explains itself:
AT the weekly meeting of the drcc-
tors Of the Board of Trade yesterday
afternoon, the report OF the legislative
committee sent to Springfield TO aid
In stopping the pussage Of the ware
house bill, which was made a law by
the recent Legislature. was adopted.
The report. which consisted Of twenty
typewriter pages, and took nearly an
hour to rcad, teens with hard words
about the legislators Mt Springfield.
$50 disguised were the representa-
tives Of the BOard Of Trade that they
return, they say, thoroughly convinced
that we are not rs nation permitting
and tolerating practices I'm our legisla.
tive bodies that mean the end of all
things American The Board of Trade
men do not hesitate to say In their re.
port that the Legislature at Spring.
field Is disgrace to the State. The
report praises the few honest Repre-.
scntatives. but says the great major.
ity IL hOpclcssly and helplcssly bound
by individual interests and party
, abuses
"'When your committee first reached
Springfield says the report. 1t found
the sentiment of both houses strongly
opposed to the warehouse hill. An Of
fort to bring up the bill April 20 result.
cd In a miserable failure. However,
May ,. l.. y. Goddard, known to repre-
sent the Armour interests, appeared on
the ground. Sentiment changed rapid.
~ rs the result of short interviews he.
tween this person anl various Scna.
tors"
It dcnounccs strongly those members
J who pose before the public as opposing
Yerkcs. In the following words:
"Anothcr hypOcrltical class which
deserves NIL the censurc that an out.
ragged community can bcstow upon
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the Legislature. who pose as being op.
posed TO Ycrkcs and his street car
lines" The reason for this attack IL
found when the report says these men
refused to aid In defeating the ware.
house bill. II then tells the directors
that the Board Of Trade as an Institu.
ton Is dlslikcd ut Springfield.
The report closes by saying" .\nd this
IL free country!'
~6A.
The party that stands by the elevator
trust this winter will be beaten In iii.
nOis In 1000.
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An Investigation into the passage of
the notorious warehouse and gus meas.
ures by the last General Assembly Is
now looked upon as certainty.
| When the books Of 4 number of Chi.
cago corporations are opened 1t will he
discovered that the warehouse bin ma.
terlally increased their expense &C.
count.
Some of the witnesses who will he
called will be somewhat out Of the or
binary, but their connection with the
corruption of the law-making power Of
the State will make their attendance
imperative.