Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1901-04-20
Money Must Be Raised for the Con.
tractors and the People
Must Pay It.
The Carpet Baggers Who Are Behind the
Scheme Own No Property
At ALL
But the People Who Do Must Pay to Keep
These Favorites in Pin
Money.
tition for writ Of mandamus, holding
that the local courts had Jurisdiction.

tition for a writ of mandamus, holding
that the local courts had Jurisdiction.
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Strong measures are to be adopted
by the city law department against
persistent violators of the city anti.
smoke ordinance. City Prosecutor Tay-
lOr announced that he would ask that
owners Of buildings as well as en-
gineers and stOkers who allow volumes
OF black smoke to escape from chim-
neys be sent to the bridewell IL they
do not pay their fines. He intends that
there shall be no more suspensions Of
fines on the promise Of good behavior.
Another method which may be tried is
the securing Of an Injunction restrain
Ing a firm, or corporation from carry.
Ing on business until the city Is assured
there will be no more violations Of the
law. A levy was made on two dynamos
of the Independent Electric Company,
12G Washington street, to satisfy fines
nggregatlng $500 imposed on the con-
cern for violating the smoke ordinance.
The dynnmos will be sold to meet the
fines, after the legal ten days notice
has expired.
Official notice Of President McKin.
ley's acceptance Of the invitation to
visit Chicago during his summer trip
across the country was received by
Volney w. Foster, chairman Of the
joint committee which extended the
invitation. The Presidents acceptance
was conveyed through this telegram
from his private secretary:
The President Is very much gratified
by your telegram, and accepts with
pleasure the cordial invitation extend.
ed to him for the afternoon and even.
Ing Of June II by the Joint committee
representing the Illinois Manufacture
ers' Association, the National Business
League and the Union League Club.
Personnel Of party will be cOmmuni.
Gated to you later.
GEO. B. CORTELYOU, secy.
Members Of the Joint committee will
meet In the Office Of the National
Business League in the Stock Ex.
change Building to arrange plans for
the Presidents reception. The men,
bers Of the committee are: Alexander
II. Revell, John w. Ella, In Verne w.
NOyes, OF the National Business
League; Jos. II. Strong, Il. A. Bower,
Robert Mather, Of the Union League.
Club; J. Harry selz. James II. Chan
non, John NJ. Gutter, of the Illinois
Manufacturers Association; and Aus
tin A. Burnham, Secretary of the COM
mittee.
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When Mayor Harrison returns to
Chicago he will probably sent a COM
munication to the City Council, call
Ing attention to a suggestion he made
In his annual message, which he con-
sidered at the time would do much to.
ward abolishing the various conflicting
bookkeeping methods In the City Hall.
In his message he recommended that
the City Council should legalize forms
Of doing business SO that every head
Of a new department, or every new
chief clerk, could not advocate and
carry out pet schemes.
III the mayors suggestion Ia carried
out by the Council said Commissioner
McGann, "many Of the objections
raised by the Merchants Club regard.
Ing the city's bookkeeping methods
would be met. The city has suffered
through lack Of legalized forms Of
doing business. In each department
you will find some clerk suggesting
new methods and getting them carried
out, SO that 1t is almost impossible to
make any two sets Of books tally.
The system Is all wrong, and the rem
edy will lie with the Council"
Secretary Lahiff says the Mayor is
expected to return to the city at 4:3O
o'clock Saturday afternoon.
In connection with the charges made
concerning the city's method of keep.
ing books, Alderman Badenoch pro-
poses to revive his ordinance providing
for an auditing department. This
method was buried In a committee
nearly year ago. The Alderman says
he will bring the matter up again and
try to get favorable committee action
on 1t.
Fire Chief Swenie says the Fire De-
partment would be crippled II the al
leys Of Chicago were closed. r. w.
solon, street cleaning superintendent,
suggested last week that the alleys
should be closed because they had been
made repositories Of filth. Mayor Har-
rison, In New York, bewailed the exist
ence of alleys which had to be cleaned,
and admired the system In Gotham.
Chief Swenie says, however, ChicagO's
lots are deeper and the blocks are
longer. He claims that II the alleys
wapo clnsod n xynuId ho tnnoooihIo eo.