Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-08-19
Mayor Of Chicago.

claim he hogged the fund put up for the
killing Of a 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. One 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
Dalrying, and fund Of five hundred
dollars a man for most Of the members
Of that committee was put up aud
placed In the hands Of the Old.time
member for distribution after the bill
was killed.
The bill was killed In the committee,
but the old-tlme member refused to dis
gorge. He paid eleven members sums
ranging from $50 to $500 each; the
test got nothing. The old.timer hog.
ged all the rest for himself. There are
men In Chicago today who arc ready
to 60 before the SnngamOn grand Jury
and give the facts to that body, as they
have given them to this paper. Arising
out Of this transaction II another story.
ar absolutely true one, the facts Of
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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 a prominent men,
her Of the House. who was leader In
the FOrtleth 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
| mittee, he quietly re-intrOduced one Of
the two bills which were dropped. 1t
was copy OF one of the old measures
wlth'a new title pasted on IT.
He pushed 1t ahead with amazing
| Iapi,lity, and after nc got 1t to second
reading he was communicated with by
the veteran corporation lawyer, who
worked ut the Chicago end. He was
sent word that he could have $1,000 II
he dropped his bill. This message was
conveyed by a member halling from
territory contiguous to Chicago. This
member also brought hack the answer
| to the Chicago lobbyist, after which he
called up by long. distance telephone thu
| prominent man who was offered the
| II, 900 bride. A long talk by phone en-
sued, with the result that the prOmi.
nent member went up to Chicago over
the !. q. Il. Il. that very night. He met
the old lobbyist and the portly men,
Der who had carried on the negotiation.
He got his 'wad," returned to the Leg.
islature. and his stock yards bill was
never heard of afterward. The names
OF the parties concerned In this deal
are known to dozens of angry Cook
County members, who have given them
to The Eagle, and who stand ready to
give them to Sangamon County grand
jury.
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While Bumps" Billings bank gets
on lightly with its assessment for tax
es, the building associations IRE heav-
lily soaked.
But then the building associations
IRE composed Of poor people.
They have no Gas Trust to back
them up.
They have no rich friends.
They must settle.
Here il the way the poor mems
building associations IRE assessed:
Peoples .. ...... -. .$I3I 500
Phoenix. ................., $4,000
Commercial -. ............... 33S,5(
Garden City Equitable ....... $4,000
Citizens 3OS.5OC
North Chicago Mutual ....... 2S65OC
Home 80. .................. 100000
Republic -. 90. ............ 234.OOt