Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-09-02

claim he hogged the fund put up for the
killing Of bill regulating the Chi.
cagO Stock Yards. The main features Of
this transaction are herewith given as
an Illustration Of the methods by which
the corporations and trusts were taken
care Of In the last Legislature. Early
In the Legislature two bills were intro
duced affecting the interests Of the
stock yards. Ono was put In by Rep.
resentative Henneberry. Of Will COun-
~. the other was presented by Repre-.
sentative white. Of Mason County. The
White bill was the one most feared by
the stock yards people. 1t was sent to
the Committee on Live Stock and
Dairylng. and q fund Of five hundred
dollars a man for most Of the members
Of that committee was put up and
placed In the hands Of the Old.tlme
member for distribution after the bin
was killed.
The bill was killed In the committee,
but the Old-timc member refused to dis.
gorge. He paid eleven members sums
ranging from $50 to $500 each; the
test got nothing. The old-tlmer hog.
ged nil the rest for himself. There IRE
men In Chicago to-day who are ready
to go before the Sangamon grand Jury
and give the facts to that body, as they
have given them to this paper. Arising
out of this transaction IL another story,
nm absolutely true one, the facts Of
which are vouched for and which ID
illustrative Of the Individual energy
occasionally on the part Of Individual
bOOdlers. One Of the many who were
left on the outside by the legislative
ring this time was prominent men,
her Of the House. who was leader In
the FOrtieth General Assembly, and
who was accused with others Of the
gang Of holding out the share OF the
spells which belonged to the small.fry
fellows. This was the reason he was
not allowed into the clique this time.
This member got on to the transac-
ton over the stock yards bill, and after
the deed had been done by the COM
mittcc, he quietly re-lntroduced one OF
the two bills which We're dropped. II
was copy of one Of the old measures
with new title pasted on It.
lie pushed It ahead with amazing
rapidlty. and after he got It to second
reading he was communicated with by
the veteran corporation lawyer, who
worked mt the Chicago end. He was
sent word that he could have $1,000 II
he dropped his bill. This message was
conveyed by u member hailing from a
territory contiguous to Chicago. This
member also brought back the answer
to the Chicago lobbyist, after which he
called up by long distance telephone tha
prominent man who was offered the
$1,000 bribe. A long talk by phone en-
sued, with the result that the prOmi'
nent member went up to Chicago over
the !. g. II. Il. that very night. He met
the old lobbyist and the p0rtly mem
Der who had carried on the negotiation
He got his "wad," returned to the Leg
islature, and his stock yards bill was
never heard Of afterward. The names
OF the parties concerned In this dea
are known to dozens Of angry Cook
County members, who have given them
| to The Eagle, and who stand ready Il
| give them to Sangamon County grand
jury.
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While Bumps Billings bank gets
OF lightly with Its assessment for tax
es, the building associations are heav
lily soaked.
But then the building association
are composed of poor people.
They have no Gas Trust to bacl