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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-01-14
MOVE ron BETTER JUSTICES.

The Civic Federation and the Chi
cago Bar Association jointly will at
tempt 10 secure much needed reforms
In the operation Of Chicago Justice
shops." The Executive Committee Of
the Civic Federation on last Saturday
adopted resolutions for the appoint
ment OF a committee of twelve citizens
10 act in conjunction with the bar as
ISOLATION. The Committee on Amend
ments 20 the laws OF the Bar Associa-
ton about the same time referred the
matter To cx-AttOrney General George
Hunt 10 formulate some plan ana re-
mort back to the committee.
The terms OF twenty-five Justices OF
the peace in Chicago are about 10 cX'
pire. and the selection of their success
Ors rests with the Judges of the Cir
cult and Superior Courts. The weight
OF both organizations will be brought
10 bear on these Judges 10 secure the
recommendation Of men Of good moral
character and legal ability for the po'
sitions.
The resolution adopted by the civic
Federation committee was Introduced
by Newton a. Partridge. 1t follows:
Resolved, That committee OF
twelve representative citizens be APP
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-01-14

grain and sell for less than other trad
ers. To prevent this discrimination the
law prohibiting warehousemen from
dealing In grain was enacted.
Members of the Board Of Trade who
suffered in business from this Illicit
competition commenced legal proceed
lngs to stop the handling of their own
in the interest of every farmer and of
every dealer in grain who did not own
a warehouse. While the suit was pend
ing the Doodle Legislature of 1897
passed an act which apparently author
lied warehousemen to deal In their own
grain.
This was an attempt to legalizc by a
corrupt statute a dishonest system of
business under which rascally discrim-
nations might be practiced everywhere
against farmers and honest dealers in
farm products. 1t belonged to the same
class of bad. corrupt and scandalous
legislation as the Gas Consolidation bill
and similar Doodle measures of the last
Legislature.
In considering the warehouse cases
the Supreme Court refused to reopen
the proceedings for the purpose of ad-
hitting pleadings and hearing argu-
ments relating to the Doodle warehouse
act Of 1897. The Inference Is plain.
The court must have considered that
the act of the Doodle Legislature was
void. as against public policy: In au.
| thorizing vicious Determinations in the
business of buying and selling grain.
1t is unfortunate that the court did
not reopen the case and decide the en-
tire Question-that Of the validity OF
the new act as well as to the illegality
of dealings in grain by warchousemei
under the act of 1871. A full decision
would have settled for all time the
| questions involved.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-01-14
PASS 4 $500 CIGARETTE LiCENSE
LAW!

1t Is high time that the State of iii.
nols interfered with the cigarette bust.
ness In Illinois by imposing an annual
license fee of $500 for the sale Of the
articles.
The action of the City Council Com
mlttee In reducing the local cigarette
license from 800 to 500 per year Il
simply scandalous.
The city has been put to great ex-
pense In testing Its power to tax cigar.
cites In the way Of 800 license. and
the Supreme Court has sustained the
city. The court held that the city Of
Chicago had the right to regulate the
sale of cigarettes. The Eagle under
stands that certain Aldermen claim
that the city Is losing large amount
Of money, as appears from the report
of Dec. ,, inasmuch as all large dealers
have paid their 800 license, and that
the small dealers are selling without
any license whatever; that to further
help the small dealer (whO pays no
license at all at present., to cheat the
city out of lis 500 license fee. the
Council wants to cut this down to $40
f0r all of them, and where the city Is
now receiving from 400 dealers who
have taken out license the sum Of
$4,000 year, the city would only re.
ceive some $4,000 year. This means
a big loss TO the clty's revenue. II the
reasoning of the Council Is correct,
to wit. that they cannot enforce the
collection Of the 800 license, they sure
~ cannot collect the $50 one.
In many of the larger cities OF this
State the local authorities have i'm
posed a license Of 800 for the sale OF
cigarettes, and they collect 1t, too.
Moreover, by regulating the traffic,
they have prevented the sale Of cigar
cites to school children 10 certain
extent-but only to n certain extent.
The American Tobacco Company, as
the trust Is called, In order to &c,
around the local ordinance upon ready
made cigarettes, has placed upon thu
market the tobacco, and with each and
every package Of it they give away q
package OF papers. so that the you'll
can make his own cigarettes.
This should be prohibited by law
and should be embraced in the pro
posed act.
Elsewhere In The Eagle will be founa
the draft OF proposed law.
Either this law or one like 1t should
be passed.
1he people of Illinois demand $500
annual license for the cigarette busl
ness.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-01-14
The VICIOUS WAREHOUSE ACI
OF 1897.

The original warehouse law Of ILL.
nOis provided In sufficiently explicit
terms that the operator OF warehouse,
class A, should receive for storage only
the grain of others, and should not
store nor deal In his own grain through
his own warehouse. II he bought or
stored his own grain ana sold 1t. he had
an advantage which his customers did
not possess. This Is the spirit Of the
law OF 1871 relating to warehouses and
Of Its amendments up to the session Of
the Doodle Legislature Of 1897.
The reasOnableness of this law Is
clearly set forth In the recent opinion
Of Justice Cartwright Of the Supreme
Court In the warehouse cases. He says
that "where one person occupies re-
latlon in which he owes a duty to an
other he shall not place himself In any
position which will expose him to the
temptation of acting contrary to that
duty or bring his interest In conflict
with his duty" II Is human as well as
divine law that no man can serve two
masters. No warehOuseman can serve
MS oNu IHtcItsls anu ~ the suIllc TIME
serve the interests of his customer,
with whom he is In competition as q
trader In grain. Then the court says:
Courts of equity have never allowed
a person occupying such a relation To
undertake the service Of two whose in
terests are in conflict, but forblds such
a course Of dealing, irrespective of his
good faith or his bad faith. If the duty
of the defendants as public warehouse
men stands in opposition to personal
interests, as buyers and dealers In grain
storing the same In their own ware
houses, then the law intcrposes u pre-
ventive check against any temptation
! to act from personal interest by prohib-
lting them from occupying any such po-
stlon."
This was the implication of the law of
1871, which clearly separates the bust
ness of warehouseInan from the
business Of dealer In grain A ware
house Is a public utility the operations
OF which are regulated by law, Its
owner, by buying grain storing 1t in
his own bins without cost to himself
and selling 1t out, can pay more for
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-01-14
PRAISE FOR PRESIDENT CARTER.

Y. II. Carter. who retires from the
presidency Of the Board Of Trade after
one years term, received the cOngratu.
lations ana thanks Of members Of tho
exchange Monday afternoon. His nd.
ministration was praisewOrthy In cv.
cry particular, and II he wished the re.
election there Is no doubt that he would
have been chosen for another term Of
office. But Mr.. Carter positively de.
clined the denomination when It was
offered to him, pleading stress Of other
business. Besides his own business
affairs great deal of his time II taken
up rs trustee Of the Chicago sanitary
district. and II IL also known that Mr..
Carter's friends are prompting him for
higher political offices In the near fu.
tllre.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-01-14
EAGLETS.

One of the best men talked of for the
office of Justice of the Peace on the
North Side IL Mr.. James ii. Collins.
While Mr.. Collins is lifelong ana stall
wart Republican he has the good wish
es of all classes of people ana Of all
men, regardless of politics. His record
as a business man and citizen Is above
reproach. Mr.. Collins. who has been
located in the Chamber of Commerce
Building for years, Is one of the best
known real estate men In the city, and
his knowledge Of law is excelled by
none.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-01-14
nish gas at $1.1O per 1000 feet, in de-
fiance Of law. Its franchise should be
forfeited forthwith.

nish gas at $1.1O per 1000 feet, in de-
fiance of law. Its franchise should be
forfeited forthwith.
Seven hundred and fifty dollars per
vote was the market price of members
of the Illinois House Of Representatives
on the CONSOLIDATION and Frontage
Gas Trust law.
~eA
Do the people like the robbery they
are forced to put up with ut the hands
of the Gas Trust? They have to like 1t.
The Gas Trust paid the Legislature to
pass law forbidding competition.
Corporations and corruption are be.
ginning to be synonymous terms.
The Elevator Trust must 60.
As Judge Waterman says, no man Is
too big for the law to take hold of him.
How about the elevator men who oper.
ated at Springfield In 1907? Are they
going to escape?
Why is not the antitrust law of the
State enforced against the Gas Trust?
~EA
Think Of corporation robbing every
householder Of Chicago and using the
|'publlc streets without a franchise!
~S
One Of the men talked to at Spring.
field by the eminent legal authority
who acted as director general of the
frontage bill at Springfield has made
an affidavit. Next!
1t Is said TINT the majority of the
men who voted for the gus consollda.
ton bill at Springfield only received
$50 each. Cheap enough.
The Chicago Gas Trust, which bought
and paid for the passage Of the imam.
Gus consolidation law In the last Leg.
islature, will try to buy another one
this winter. The one they bought does
not suit them entirely.
~6A
The Gas Trust needs a new bill Mt
Springfield this winter.
~G~
The investigation Of the Gas and
Warehouse Doodle bills will shake up
things In Chicago, and don't you for.
get 1t.
The testimony Of Mr.. Armour and
Mr.. Goddard before the investigating
committee ought to be interesting.
Municipal ownership Of gas plants Is
out Of the question. Ben Billings can
tell why.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-01-14
WORK FOR SAN0AMON COUNTY
GRAND JURY.

Every honest man. whether In or
outside the Legislature. will be glad
that the Sangamon County grand jury
seems determined to make a thorough
investigation Of legislative bOodling.
The honest member has nothing TO
fear and much to gain from an investi-
CATION that really investigates n sub
ject In which every citizen of Illinois
Is Immediately and personally interest.
ed. The SangamOn County grand jury,
therefore. In determining to question
the entire Legislature concerning
warehouse and elevator methods
should receive the support Of every
citizen Interested in honest State gov.
eminent throughout our great com
mOnwealth.
The difficulty about such investiga.
ton Is that the real legislative bOOdlei
Is an adept mt covering his trail and
the recipients Of his bounty IRE noe
likely to be prompt In answering the
| question. Doodle. Doodle, who's 60,
the bOOdle?' The influences. Mt wOrh
cOrruptlng the sources Of State law
and equity are felt. rather than actu
ally observed, by honest citizens. The,
are like the deadly miasma In the air
and only the specialists can trace thu
habitat Of the Doodle bacillus ind re
veal its devious and hidden ways Of
working to the accomplishment Of 1T
end.
The vague and the general are no
capable Of being grasped by CRANE
Jury or any other body. Particular nm,
definite transactions must be looket
for or the entire legislative investiga
ton will be valueless and the forces o.
Doodle remain intrenched more strong
~ than before.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-01-14
PASS THIS RESOLUTION

the tesiesIng rsseiutIen VIII 30
both the Rcpublioan ana Demo
e.atlo Oily oenventlons
Resolved, That our Senators and
Representative In thO General A..
ooSnbly 10, ana they are hereby,
requested 60 insist upon ana - vote
Tor the repeal Of the Infamous gas
0olIdatlon legislation, openly
purchased In the last oon0sal 40.
6onbly Of illinois, and which Imam.
oNso measure subjects our people
60 perpetual robbery and forever
dobass our city from owning light.
Ing plant Of lto oNn.~
This resolution Was pasSed by
both the Republican and Demo-
0vatle County Conventions In 1899.
How much will the corporation law.
yers shell out to cheat the farmers on
the elevator bill?
The party that stands by the elevator
trust this winter will be beaten In iii.
~0A
When the Bar Association learns
that some Of the leading lights Of the
profession have been briblng law-mak-
ers, will 1t secure their disbarment?
~9A
BY all means let US have q legislative
investigating committee. The amount
Of "traclng back" that It can do will
amply repay the time and trouble
caused In bringing Il to life.
The repeal Of the infamous gas front
age laws by the next Legislature will
give us five or six new gas companies,
and with competition the people viii
get their rights.
>6
There should be an investigation OF
the methods of doing business Of the
Auditing Committee of the West Town
Board.
&6A
Hon. William Legner has the back,
Ing OF the great Northwest side In the
fight for the City Treasurership. He Ia
personally honorable, able and clever,
and will I'LL the Office to the great sat
isfaction Of the people.
%6A
Trustfull Billings ought to visit
Springfield himself this winter.
|
| The SangamOn County grand jury
will have its hands full very soon II
as has been claimed, 1t has decided Il
take up the matter of Legislative
bOOdling In the last session, when tn,
Infamous warehouse bill was placed oil
our statute books.
%eA
The Sangamon County grand jury
should do Its duty and investigate the
passage of the warehouse bill. TIL,
honest members of the Legislature caI
facilitate matters, and make the grant
jury's work much easier II they vii
but lend hand In tracing back" ant
thus pave the way to an expose of thu
fellows who have proven themselves
the enemies Of Illinois farmers ant
also the enemies Of good society.
@0A
Brlbing Legislatures, although al
old stOry--instanced the last session O
the warehouse infamy-is also a mon
strOus crime against civilization, an,
the community that cannot scourge tn
offenders Is sunk In slOth and may lOol
for the ruin that its Indifference In
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-01-14

Brlbing Legislatures, although an
old stOry--instanced the last session of
the warehouse infamy-is also a mon
strOus crime against civilization, and
the community that cannot scOurge the
offenders Is sunk In slOth and may look
for the ruin that Its Indifference In.
vites.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-01-14

Do the people like the robbery they
are forced to put up with at the hands
of the Gas Trust? They have to like It.
The Gas Trust paid the Legislature to
pass law forbiddlng competition.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-01-14

The SangamOn County grand jury
will have Its hands full very soon II,
as has been claimed. 1t has decided ia
take up the matter of legislative
bOOdling In the last session, when the
Infamous warehouse bill was placed on
our statute books.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-01-14

Henry NJ. Shabnd In said to have the
backing Of majority of the Judges
for appointment as Justice of the
Peace on the West Side. Mr.. Shabad
IL good lawyer and a most reputable
citizen.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-01-14

Seven hundred and fifty dollars per
vote was the market price of members
Of the Illinois House of Representatives
on the Consolidation and Frontage"
Gas Trust law.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-01-14

~6
II recent revelations. notable In the
passage Of Gas Consolidation and the
notorious ana Infamous Warehouse
Bills. are based Oh the actual condition
Of affairs In the State Legislature It
may well be inquired IL bribery and
other forms Of buying up our State
Senators and Representatives are cpl
demlc and general In Illinois. The In.
formation Obtainable and the current
scandals relative to certain un.Amerl.
can laws placed upon our statute books
by the last General Assembly have
been the means of exciting great alarm
throughout this great Commonwealth.
The statements published should be
enough of an incentive to warrant a
House committee, or the SangamOn
County Grand Jury, In making the
most thorough investigation immetli.
ately. The investigation to be made
should be most vigorously pushed
wherever Indications OF crime may
lead. Honest members cannot afford
to rest until the Bride takers ana BOO,l
lers are placed behind the bars. Cor.
ruptiOn In the Legislature must cease
The entire community Is deeply inter,
ested In the disclosure of every fact
connected with this awful scandal.
%e
Judge Adams A. Goodrich merely
went to Springfield for his health.
49,
Ben Billings ought to be summoned
before the Legislative Investigating
Committee. He Is an interesting talker
%e
The members of the Legislature are
looking forward with pleasure to til,
examination of Ben Billings.
~SA
A special subpoena viii doubtless In
issued for Ben Billings by the Sanga
mon County Grand Jury.
The "Universal Gas Company" oh
tained franchise from the city on the
express stipulation that 1t would
chargeibut 90 cents per thousand fee
for gas. The Universal company Il
NOw owned by the Trust, and Is fur
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-01-14

Mr.. Edwin II. Fish, for years the pop.
ular clerk Of Justice II. II. White, will
he one of the new Justices for the town
of Jefferson.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-04

And now no less than 100000 regular
troops are demanded! In time OF peace
we are to have a standing army, as we
have standing debt-both to compete
with each other in continued increase,
with each a growing burden upon the
people In taxes and enslavement. And
yet we have no less than forty-four
States, with their militia, civil and
police force and the posse comitatus,
to maintain order and enforce the laws
the President being empowered in all
cases of necessity to call on the States
for militia to enforce the laws Of the
United States. and protect its property.
All. in the militia, the citizen Is still
a citizen; but as regular soldier, in a
standing army. he is no longer even q
man. but a mere machine! That ex-
plains why the militia will not do; and
all the States, in fact. surrendered at
Appomattox: and imperial Federalism
triumphing, and only awaiting the men.
the party and the occasion to give it
full effect.
What is the occasion? Foreign war?
Defence against foreign invasion? The
necessity of a force to keep our foreign
dependencies in subsection? Pish! all
were pretexts. The real occasion is the
election of 1900 in which it is necessary
to reinforce Hanna's money barrel with
the rife-barrel. or the Hanna Trust
foresees itself defeated. This Is the
key to all that is now said and done.
or left unsaid and undone by the Hanna
cabal. 1t is bullets against ballots!
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-04
AN UGLY PENSION SHOWING.
1.-The Houston Post

Senator Vest in his attack upon the
present pension rolls came very near
demonstrating that the Pension, Bureau
has been deliberately used as q con-
venient means for distributing politi-
cal Doodle and holding certain States
in the. Republican column.
The Senator made the noteworthy
showing that although the State OF
Illinois furnished $4,000 more troops to
the Union armies than the State of
Indiana. the latter has been receiving
81 100000 more pension money than the
former. The inference is justifiable
that there is fraud in this disparity and
that the chief reason for 1t is partisan
one. Illinois has been for years re-
garded as overwhelmingly Republican
Indiana. on the other hand, has been a
close. often pivotal. State. It does
not require a violent leap of the imagi-
nation to put these facts together and
see party necessities in one State that
were not found in the other.
The distinguished Senator might have
gone further and discovered that not
only political but commercial clamor in
some of the big Northern States has
been at the bottom of the rapid in
crease in the pension rolls. The distri-
button of millions quarterly in such
States as Illinois and Indiana and Ohio
makes lively trade for season and
Is looked forward to by all classes of
citizens as a golden harvest time
Against this combination of political
and commercial sentiment in favor of
wholesale robbery of the Treasury, it is
impossible for any candidate for Con-
gress who would reform the pension
system to stand.
In the meantime the South contri-
putes its millions of revenue under the
tarin and internal revenue system to
the National Treasury annually, with
out receiving back a. tenth of the money
mat is returned to the North. And yet
southern Congressman have obligingly
loaned themselves to the selfish and
partisan interests of the North to plle
blgher and higher the pension burden!
The nation Is grooming under this
Sioo,Uoo,ooo pension list. II is stumb-
ing block to internal Improvement and
the perpetual cause for war taxes. Re-
form, or at least a check on the Increase.
can only come from the South. How
much longer will Southern representa-
tives shamelessly neglect to do their
duty in the premises?
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-04
THEY FAILED TO ADVERTISE.
[PIttsbure Post1

Inc New York Sun in an article on
some of the peculiarties OF Christmas
business says that in New York there
| nave been ten failures reported OF con-
Germs mat made speciality of goods
intended for holiday presents. The
Sun adds: Some Of these concerns
carried large stocks and were entitled
10 the designation big In one or two
instances the stocks were valued at
more than s2500O0. The noticeable
thlng about each Of the collapsed con-
Germs is that 1t did not advertise in the
newspapers. The stores that did adj
veruse were crowded with customers
from the commencement of the holiday
season to the hour of closing, the night
before Christmas They all report the
greatest holiday business in years"
Whlle all this may have been coin
cldence. the Philadelphia Ledger points
out the obvious fact that merchants
VINO regularly inform the public where
the goods and wares wanted by the
vast community of customers are TO be
Iounu in variety excellence and cheap-
ness nave very decided ADVANTAGES
over those who make their business n
coniidential one by neglecting to give
II publicity. To those merchants who
nave ahvthing to sell which is wanted
ioau 10 success as that of advertising
y newspaper which goes into the homes
Oh the buyers and which is read by tens
or hundreds of thousands of people is
the-strongest prop-and stay of the
tradesmen' 1t is as a finger post which
POINTS the way lying between the buyer
ana the seller; directory which every.
one who wants to save time and labor
consults before going to buy the goods
or wares wanted"
Nothing is truer than the statement
or the Ledger that in these days of
eeiegraph and telephones and electric
communication people have not time to
wander through the streets of trade in
search of something that may meet
their wants or fancy. The advertising
columns of the city paper is the direc,
tory they consult. and the advertiser
sells ten nfty or hundred dollars
he spends in letting the people know
where ne does business and what is to
be found on his shelves.