Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-28
Churches Take Up the Call For
Great Civic House Cleaning
and Easter Services Adver-
tiSe Mass Meetings,
TWENTY C0UNClLMEN
EXPECTED TO RESIGN
Sweeping CIeao-Up in the Ten
derIoin District Where Mil
lion Dollars a Year in Graft
Has Been Made,



Pittsburg. March 27.--The I4enten
season which ended toda, has been
TOO short a season Of penitence for
Pittsburg and it viii be continued
with promise of even more strartling
confessions Of graft this week.
In many churches today an unus-
ual feature Of the Easter services was
the reading Of the circular letter is
sued by the civic committee Yesterday
urging the members of every congrcg-
ation TO attend huge Indignation
mass meeting TO be held some day
this week rhe sermons, too. were
designed 10 arouse public condemna-
tion Of such practices rs have been
revealed. Lessor cleanliness
were drawn by s.
II having been pretty tnoroughiy
established according to District At
tOrney Blakely, that 10 least S102.-
800 was used in influencing legisla-
tion the source Of the money ana the
dispensers Of II are to be the focus of
the grand jurN's attention tomorrow
morning
A considerable portion Of the big
hribe fund is charged to certain banks
that sought to get cilS depusiis. They
sucert'ieu, but It is the desire of the
grand jury, as pronounced in its re-
aeposit ordinance be rcscindcd ana
the banks. IL found guilty be de-
prived OF the use OF the city money
II is known that some representatives.
on the banks arc to be called tomor-
row TO testify. The six banks that
have been named By the grand iure
as involved IN the scandal are the
Columbia National, the German Na-
tional OF Pittsburg, the Farmers Na-
tional Deposit bank and the Second
National The German National Bank
of Allegheny, and the Workingman
Savings & Trust company
The directorate of he Farmers
National has announced that ii win
comply with the district attorneys
call Tor Information ana the Second
National has prepared certified
statement which Ia to be presented 10
the grand jury tomorrow The other
banks have taken no action
It was still unearned tonight
whether Charles Stewart yesterday in
his talk Win District Attorney Blake
ley told all that he is believed TO know
about the men higher up
Stewart is a former select council
man who was declared BY the grand
jury in It's pressHtment Saturday to
have been the man 20 whom $4,000
Of bride tainted money was given at
the Hotel Imperial in New York.
The city councils meet tomorrow
evening. Twenty of the present mem-
bers Of the councils are under indict-
ment inconnection with the graft cases.
It is expected thar some win protest
their innocence but the majority are
expected 10 hand IN designations quite
as meeklN as they confessed last
week.
While the big show continues there !
is a lively side teautre i'm crusade |
against all varieties Of graft and |
wrong doing in Pittsburg. Disorder |
~ houses are being closed up ana 4,
every night lately has seen a round |
up of women in the Tenderloin dis
trct
At meeting Of citizens in the Fort |
Pitt hotel. at which a committee was |
formed TO further the mass meeting |
PLAN it was openly charged that the |
graft collected in the red light district |
amounted 10 a million dollars a year.
John F Klein. whose confession
and exposure of others, has netted
such a scandal. has been muzzled and