The Sentinel=record., 1914-04-30

l cause" said Mir Mcconnell.
 Judge Gotham overruled the mo- tion.
 A motion was then made by Mir. Mcconnell to require the attorneys on the other side to show just whom 1 they represent He argued that the attorneys had represented that they were in court for "all' the petition CTS, when he said that as many as 2,033 of the petitioners could not be located by the Temperance League, therefore he would like the other , side to see if they could locate their i clients if they represent all of them. This motion was ruled out.
 The next motion by Mir, Mcconnell was to require the attorneys for the ! petitioners to disclose the where abouts of some 2,O0O of their clients, so that the other side could know who they were.
 This motion was also ruled out.
 Tn opening the case to testimony, it was agreed between counsel for both sides that the county voted wet" at the general election pre- yious to the filing of the petitions. Then came up the point of the filing of the petitions, and they were filed | regularly as they had been originally filed in county court The petitions contained their 1 ,l69 names.
 Next being the matter of the suf- ficency of the petitions as to whether they contained j1 per cent of the white adults of the city, the l census of 1910 was presented to ! Judge Gotham that he might make conclusion of what the white adult population was at that time, and | then add whatever his judgment might direct, for an increase between | 1910 and 1914.
 County Judge Mooney was called to the stand, and he was asked to testify as to how he had reached deduction that the sig4Srs were 5l | per cent of the white aEilts, but on objection of Judge Sumpter, this fea- ture of the evidence was dropped. Judge Mooney testified that he had passed favorably on the petitions, and that he had taken into consid- eration the loss of population by the big fire and the changed policy of the city in the matter of the gam bling laws.
 On ross-eXamination Judge Mooney was handed a memorandum in his handwriting on which were some figures, by which it was at l tempted to be shown that in his esti- mate he had decided there was re- quired 3,308 names to be a majority on the petitions. Judge Mooney did not remember the use of the figures I Tn connection with such a statement. but said the writing on the sheet was his. He stated that he had made no detailed written decision in passing on the matter.
 M A. Eisele was called as the last witness for the petitioners. He tes- tified to his general knowledge of af- fairs here, and that he believed there were less white adults in the city than in 1910. He said the fire and the felony gambling bill had caused many to leave He testified on cross-examination relative to the af fidavit he had made as the footnote to the petitions he circulated. He swore the affidavit was literally true in the subject matter.
 Before the demonstrators put on any evidence to rebut the prima facie case made by the petitioners they asked the court to require the attorneys for the petitioners to bring in all those who had circulated petitions and place them on the stand for cross-examination. Judge Davies stated the petitioners did not care about such evidence, and would not produce it.
 Attorneys Sumpter and Mcconnell argued strong their point, and claimed that as they had in a pre- vious motion denied that the peti- tions had been properly circulated, and that the petitions stood chal- lenged. it was proper that the court should not accept the petitions as prima facie, but should require proof of what had been under oath denied.
 After much argument relative to the point, Judge Gotham ruled that the petitioners would be required to bring into court sufficient number of the circuators of petitions to es tablish that the petitions had been either properly or improperly circu. lated
 "It looks more like a fishing expe- dition than anything else" suggested 1 Judge Gotham, but inasmuch as the | declaration of law seems to favor making the order, l will direct the | clerk of the court to have fifty of | the circulators of petitions here for examination beginning tomorrow morning.
 STRIKE TEN DAY CLAUSE.
 Chicago, April 29.-The ten day