Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1911-12-09

err an appropriation for an increase Of
10 per cent in the pay Of fremen and /,
policemen cannot be made In the
budget for 1912.
Referred to the Finance Commit
tee resolution directing that com.
mittee to consider what method Of
financing the subway and outer har.
Dor is the best for the city.
Maclay Hoyne. first assistant Cor.
| poratiOn Counsel. has announced his
| candidacy for the Democratic nomina-
ton for States Attorney. Mr.. Hoyne
is well known to the Democratic
voters and enjoys widespread popu.
larity throughout the county.
william A. Doyle has gained by his
grand record as lawyer and citi.
zen the highest esteem Of the people
OF Chicago.
d. X. O'Brien. the well.known insur.
ance man. would make splendid
member Of the Board Of Assessors.
Alderman James r. Buckley Of the
men In the city council. He IL an
energetic. able and wide.awake pub.
lie Official.
Congressman Lynden Evans Of the
Ninth District, Is planning to intro
duce In the House Of Representative
a bill to supplement measure intro.
duced by him and now pending for .
recodiication OF the pension laws. In
the first bill Mr.. Evans provides for
abolition Of the possibility Of fraud
and for the granting OF merited pen.
sion benefits. The second bill will ask
retired pay for volunteer officers Of
the civil war according to the length
of service. Besides making the pen.
sion laws more uniform, II is declared
that the pending bill will save the
government an immense amount OF
pensions annually. An annual expen.
diture Of about $45.000.0OO will be re-
quired by the proposed pay for vol.
unteer officers, II It Is passed by Con.
gress. 1t Ia a compromise between
the Sherwood dollar.a.day and other
pending pension bills. Mr.. Evans
pending bill provides for the appoint
ment OF commission to recodify the
pension laws and will come before
Congress with the approval Of some
OF the Democratic House.
John J. Geraghty, the well.known
badge and button manufacturer, would
make splendid member Of the San.
itary Board.
Albert J. Hopkins gained by his
able and fearless record in the United
States Senate the confidence and ad.
miration of the people OF Illinois and
he will be their choice next year for
the Republican nomination for Vice
President.
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Alderman Fred A. Britten, who now
resides In the new Twenty-frst Ward
is being doomed by hts friends for the
Republican nomination for Congress
in the Ninth District, as well as can
didate for reelection to the City
Council to fill the vacancy caused by
the election of Alderman Charles NJ
Foell to the Superior Court bench.
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q William Brown. Jr., well-knowr
member of the Chicago bar and can
didate a few years ago for Judge o.
the Superior Court, is being urged
: by his friends to run for the Demo
: cratic nomination for Alderman In
4 the Twenty.first Ward.
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Woodrow Wilson headquarters fol
Illinois and the middle west have beer
5 opened in room 923, First National
Bank building, by the Woodrow vii
g son club. Frank H. Jones Is chair
= man and William Brown treasurer.
The Thirty-third Ward Progressive
Republican club has been organized
; with A. C. Bass president. ]. F. Fisher
4 first vice president, and Claude Dalen
berg secretary.
. The Thirty.fourth Ward Progressive
. Republican club was organized with
: these officers: President, Robert F.
Kolb secretary, Joseph H. McElrOy
, treasurer, d. T.. McCracken.
r The subcommittee Of the Special
: Parks Commission appointed to In
vestigate irregularities In the books
D of the commission, held meeting
u Monday Afternoon. An apparent short