Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-05-03

Editor Chicago Eagle:
Kindly state through your CORE.
spontlcucc column whether. under the |
new amendment to the law governing
elections. conventions. etc. the chair.
man of the Central Committee has the
power. ~ of old. to name the presiding
officer of the convention. Yours truly. !
r.. u. =.
U'ndcr the law as It now stands the
chairman of the Central Committee has
authority only to call the convention
to order. The selection of the tenn
porary and permanent presiding officer
Is entirely with the convention. the
chairman of which must he regularly
proposed and seconded and elected by
II full roll call of the convention. This
applies to all convcntiOns-Statc. cOuI.
ty. Congressional. Senatorial and town.
Ed. EaglrJ
TO the Editor:
Dear Slr-ls there not I'M ordinance
regulating traffic Oh the streets Of this
city. whereby It IL provided that all
vehicles must bc certain distance
apart. and that no vehicle shall be
brought to II full stop on any street
crossing! II there ever was such an
ordinance. Will you tell your readers
what has become Of It?
AN EAGLE READER.
Crhcrc is an ordinance now In the
Municipal Code such as our correspond
cnt describes. but It II never enforced.
The Chief Of Police could greatly ne.
cOmmodnte the travelling public and
give vast relief to pedestrians In Iar.
ticular II he would issue an order to
the patrOlmen on the crossings to en-
force that law. Some fifteen years ago
the section of the ordinance prohibiting
vehicles from stopping on street cross.
ings was enforced, hut not since. AMI
an intOlcrablc public nuisance has been
tolerated and encouraged ever since by
the inactivity of the pollce.-l;d. Eaglc.)
Chicago Eagle:
Dear SIr--I notice through the public
press that Alderman John Powers IL
talked Of for the office of State senator
In the next Legislature. believe that
II Mr.. Powers desires this honor the
Cook County Democracy ut Its next
meeting should lnd0rse him for II. Mr..
Powers has rendered great ana valun.
bic service to this organization. both
rs Il member and ns its presiding OH.
Ger, ana take the liberty of suggest
ing, through your paper, that 1t would
be only the part of common gratitude
for the County Democracy to indOrsc
him for the office to which he aspIres
II 1t should be the fact that his ambl.
tlOn lies In that direction.
A MEMBER.
To the Edit0r:
Dear Slr-Now that the papers are
once more full of sensational stun
about jury brlblng ana jury bribcrs, II
may not be out of place to ask why 1t
IL that In all of these investigations
we never hear mentioned the names of
the big tOads In the puddle. Where
bribes are given ana taken, there must
of u surety be some source of supply.
and 1t is II dead certainty that the law.
ycrs who handle crooked eases for cor
pOrations do not pay the bribes out OF
their own pockets. And yet In the face
Of the great ado which we lind period
ically in the press anent jury briblng,
the mysterious conferences between
high public officials, citizens of high
standing, etc, we lind that all the In
Ncstigating, all the prosecuting, all the
rumpus invariably winds mp with some
law firm and some poor insignificant
scallawag of juryman, constable or eN'
convict. Is 1t possible that the law is
only eliicaclous in bringing to condIgn
punishment the offender who Is poor,
and that IL Is powerless as against the
wealthy who are the real purvcyors
of crime?
AN EN-COUNTY CONSTABLE.
Slr-As the City Clerk has annonnc'
cd that the depletion ana elimination
of the police pension fund Is hut Il
question of time, II may not be mop
perfume To ask whether that official
ever makes any returns of the amount
of dog taxes collected every year and
IL so, to whom. Although the police
pension fund Il made up In part Of q
certain percentage of that tax IL Is SAT-
to say that not one policeman in twcn
ty has any idea of the amount col
lected annually. Perhaps the pessi
mistic City Clerk might condescend td
give out the figures at the next meet
ing of the pension board. Nobody mo