The Detroit times., 1912-07-30
SCHOOL BOARD TO
Be INCLUDED IF
GRAND JURY PROBES
Aid. Schultz Will Ask Council
To Request Prosecutor To
Make General Cleanup
SCHREITER RETURNS TO
DESK IN CITY HALL
Some of Accused Aldermen At
tend Committee Meeting On
Another Railway Deal

The Board Of Education, for years
hot-bed OF graft rumors, will be in
Guided in the municipal Doodle probe
II grand jury is called pursuant to
a resolution TO be introduced in the
council, Tuesday night, by Aid. Her
man Schultz. OF the Seventeenth
ward. The boards actions on certain
propositions have long been viewed
with suspicion. Ii is understood that
the original plan for probe of NUM-
Cipa! graft by the Burns detectives
| included the Board OF Education, but
| Burns found IL inconvenient 70 send
sufficient number of his best opera
tives here to take up that phase of
the question, while Operative Bren-
non was probing graft In the council.
Ii was only for that reason that the
INSPECTORS escaped the same kind or
espionage and trap that was set for
the council.
The resolution to be introduced In
the council Tuesday night, by Aid.
Schultz will ask Prosecutor Shepherd
and the circuit court TO call grand
jury 10 make sweeping inquiry into
the graft scandal, going as far as
necessary to expose graft in any OF
the city departments. He will also
introduce a resolution to keep every
one OF the floor of the council during
sessions except city officials and
newspar ermen.
Would Bar Lobbyists.
My object in introducing this reso-
I,,Nt IL 10 lnhh 20 nH
floor OF the council" said Schultz.
It's a fright the way agents for COR
poratlcns have surrounded the alder
men during council sessions. There
has oeen pulling and hauling by
these lobbyists right before the coun.
ell | introduced0 a resolution TO this
same eject AprK Is, 1911, but Il was
referred to me committee on rules
and nothing ever came OF IL. IL II
had been passed, some things might
not have happened.
II believe the people generally
want d grand jury to probe the re-
ports of graft in the city government.
II Is Tue them and Ii Is due the honest
aldermen that those guilty of violat-
ing their trusts be exposed and that
the city hall and all other city de-
partinents be cleansed OF suspicion.
was suspicious OF what was going
on II the Wabash deal wedis ago,
but / did not want 10 voice my sus-
piClons to too many people, for fear
that the dishonest officials would be
put on their guard"
Mayor Thompson refused TO give
out for publication the council roll
call on which Schreiter wrote after
the names OF 30 aldermen. the sums
he said were necessary TO purchase
these aldermen He has photo.
graphic copy, while Operative Bren-
ION has the original copy. The mayor
refused 10 make the list public, stat
ing that IL would hurt innocent alder
men,, although the detectives state
that certain aldermen got away be
cause the trap had 10 be sprung pre-
maturely IL Is known that the name
VI AID John Harpfer, OF the Eighth
ward is on the list and when asked
about IL, Monday, Harper said
II can't conceive how my name got
on that list but II Is said that
amounts were put down on the list
which would not have been expended
I'm the manner thus represented, or In
other words. some one would pocket
the amounts set opposite those names.
was always In favor OF vacating
Seventh and Congress-sts. Other
aldermen. whose names were on the
list. probably. were also In favor OF
such action The person who made
up the list probably realized that we
would vote TO yacate the streets so he
considered himself safe in asking for
money for us. money which was never
offered us. No bride was offered me
and ! was entirely unaware OF what
was going on until the arrests were
made.
Carney Indignant.
The name OF Aid. John Garvey, OF
the Sixteenth ward is also said 10 be
on the list Garyey showed up at the
city hall. with eyes ablaze, Monday.
II am going TO find out how II hap
pened that was arrested in connec-
ton with this affair" he said. i was
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