Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-10-28
These Men Will Talk and Can Prove
Everything that They
Testify To.
Outside the Senatorial Syndicate" the Price
Paid Was $500 for Every
Man Bought.

tails of this payment. 1t was dished
out by certain members Of the syndi-
cate. Some of the gentlemen who got
the coin are of convivial habits. They
got drunk the day they got their
graft" and they flashed their rolls in
saloons and other places of refresh
ment: they blabbed and tattled. and
now their repose Is disturbed o. nights.
Two of the men who got paid $1,000
each for voting with the syndicate are
out of town Democrats. They hail from
down the State. Only one of them came
to Chicago to get his coin. lie is a
close friend of the other Democratic
Senator. A sort of Damon and Pythias
affection prevails between the two. He
took his own $500 and also the $1,000
for his colleague, giving his word Of
latter. He did do so. for In this case
the old proyerb that about honor among
a certain class of individuals, held good.
The Damon-like Democratic Senator
fell u prey. however, to his constltu.
tional failing before he left Chicago.
He got drunk. Among other places he
visited was saloon on Adams street
which is run by certain eX-members of
the Chicago police force. 1t is II well.
known resort. Its prOprictors are
known to The Eagle. While In that sa-
loon the out Of town Democratic Sen
ator flashed his roll and boosted that
his wad consisted Of $500. So It did.
He claimed. however. that the entire
sum was his individual rake or for
the session. That was false. Half Of
It belonged to his friend and colleague
from down the country. This drunken
Democratic Senator was finally got out
OF town. but not before his babblings
and tattlings had reached the ears Of
nearly every member of the Cook COun-
ty delegation to the Legislature, In
Guiding the leading members Of the
syndicate. Among these latter condi-
ton bordering on acute hysteria was
produced by the entire business. The
Democratic Senator who grows maud
lin and garrulous In his cups has not
been allowed TO visit Chicago since. It
Is said, however, that he will make an
interesting witness before the Sanga-
mon Grand Jury. The Eagle has the
names of these two Democratic states
men from the country and can give
them to the States Attorney OF that
county whenever he Is ready to take up
the investigation Of the doings of the
Forty-tlrst General Assembly.
This paper would also suggest that
the members Of the Chicago Gas Trust
might make excellent witnesses as to
how the pot Of $4,000 each for the "Out-
slders' In the Senate was made up.
Perhaps the Baxter committee would
like to investigate the matter. The
Eagle can give the committee the
names of the parties concerned In this
incident. 1t can also give the com.
mittee, ii 1t SO desires, the names OF
several REPUBLICAN SENATORS
FROM RURAL DISTRICTS WHO
WERE MEMBERS OF THE OUTEN.
CIRCLE AND WHO POCKETED
THEIR $1,000 EACH FOR TAKING
CARE OF THE CORPORATIONS.
This, however. might prove "incon.
venient" for some of the honorable
members of the Baxter investigating
committee. 1t may be said here, how.
ever. that The Eagle Is not prompted
by any partisan motives in making this
disclosure. 1t is true the six members
who constituted the syndicate are Re.
publicans but this paper has no hest.
tatiOn in stating that In the outer cir
Gle, which. aided the Senatorial syndi-
cate In its nefarlous plans TO kill the
gas frontage and consolidation repeal
bills, the stock yards bill, the ware.
house bill and other useful and much
needed measures, there We're mum
Der of Democrats.
The Senatorial outer circle the mem
bcrs of which We're paid brides of thir,
ty-nlne hundred dollars each for be.
traying the people ana violating their
oaths of office, contained seven Demo.
Gratis. Two of these hailed from Cook
County. The Senate roll calls on every
corporation measure will disclose how
well they acted up to their agreement.
These roll calls, as disclosed by the
Journal, will in themselves corroborate
every statement herein made. II the
committee clerks only preserved their
roll calls, and 1t Is limited that some OF
them have done so, they will give con-
vlncing proof Of how the nefarious
compact was fulfilled in committee.
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At an early stage In the Forty-iirst
General Assembly the Hon. John i,
McGoorty, Of Cook, introduced a bill
providing for municipal ownership OF
public utilities in Chicago. This bill
was SO framed that, should 1t pass and
become a law, It's immediate effect
would be the lighting Of the streets by
the city instead Of by the greedy and
grasping Gas Trust.
simultaneously with the introduction
OF the bill, Mr. AcGoorty gave out an