Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-02-11
TORTIONs AND EXPRESSIONS,
WOULD BE A CRIME.
JOHN +. ALTGELD,


JOHN =. ALTGELD.
Governor.
On motion of Senator Crawford. the
of the bill and Of the
veto message was made n special order
for June IL mt II n. m, when action
was again postponed until June IL.
again until June II. when after read
Ing of the journal 1t was then post.
poncd for one hour, then postponed un-
I'll 4 p. H.. when, on motion Of Mr.
Crawford, Il was ordered to lie on the
table.
How the passage Of the measure was
purchased In 1897 Is well known.
In fact the Senators and Represcn.
tatives talk freely of the amount Of
Doodle they received and the way they
got 1t.
They tell freely the names of the men
they got It from ana mix up prominent
lawyers and others In a way that will
bring several Of them 10 trial In San.
canon County before year passes
over. for the iniquity will not be "out.
lawed" for over fourteen months to
come.
1t II a curious fact that the daily
papers which strained themselves
abusing the Aldermen for receiving
"briles' (which were never Offercd) In
connection with the street car Ortll.
nnnces. never have word to sny
against the Gas Trust, which does not
deny that 1t spent $25O,OOO In buying
~ .assage Of the Infamous frontage
Lili fr"'p the Legislature.
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Some Of the members of the FOrtieth
GeDasal Assembly entertain very bitter
feelings toward the Gas Trust.
They have discovered since the nd.
journment Of the Legislature In which
they served that Gas Trust promises
are not wholly to be relied upon.
In other words, the Gas Trust Of
lcials "held out" on the members and
did not put up as much rs was agreed
upon.
1t appears that $43O,OOO was original
~ agreed upon for distribution.
Two hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars was all that was distributed as the
price for the passage OF the frontage
law.
Even this S25O,OOO was not "honcst-
ly" divided.
Three Of the Senators got $4,000
each.
-Four others got $1,000 each.
Some of the others got 81 900 each.
In the House n fiat rate of $3.50 each
for members had been agreed upon.
But three members of the committee
having the bill In charge got 5000
each ana one other committeeman
~, 500.
4 large number of the members got
their promised $3.50, but some others,
some OF whom are now members, We're
jobbed out of everything except few
hundred dollars.
In the poetic language of one of the
victims, 1T was a case of hOld.Out on
the part Of the Main Squeeze In Chi
cagO.'
%eo
The Twenty-fifth Ward Democratic
Club has passed the following resOlu-
ton:
Resolved, That the gas consolidation
legislation passed in 1897 is inimlcal to
public interests and should be repealed
as it forever dcbars the city from Op-
Grating its own gas plant.
The Seventh Ward Democratic Club
has passed q resolution instructing its
Senators and Representatives to vote
for the repeal of the Infamous gas front
age consolidation laws.
The Seventh Ward Republican Club
has passed resolutions calling upon the
Legislature to repeal the infamous gas
consolidation and frontage laws.
The Bryan Democratic Club of the
Ninth ward has demanded the repeal
Of the Infamous gas frontage ge-c0nsOllda.
tlOn bill.
The Republican Municipal Ownership
Club of the Twelfth ward has passed
resolution demanding the repeal of the
gas consolidation bill.
The Jefferson Democratic Club passed
n set of resolutions fayoring municipal
ownership Of gas works and demanding
the repeal of the frontage gas cOnsol-
idatlon law because 1t creates monop-
oily.
&GA
BY bribery the Gas Trust beats the
people out of over one million dollars q
year In taxes.