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p '-ti-gfmmWW 'Wr W LAST EDITION- . ' ' ONE CENT. WOMAN HITS GIRL WORKERS AT MEETING OF 8-HOUR BODYFARSON AND OTHERS INDICTED IN FRAUD CASE NAVAL BATTLE IMPENDING THE bAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper Daily Except Sunday VOL. 4, NO. 166 Chicago, Monday, April 12, 1915 398 COMMONWEALTH EDISON ACCUSED OF HAVING "YELLOW DOG" FUND Seymour Stedman, Attorney for James B. Hogarth, Says Light Trust Spent $301,724.83 for "Counsel Fees" in 1914 State Body to Investigate Charges. The Commonwealth Edison Co. paid $301,724.83 for 'legal expenses" last year. This money is "a yellow dog fund," according to Seymour Stedman, at torney for J. B. Hogarth in a suit be fire the public utilities commission to day for lower light rates. "We would like to see a statement of exactly what this big lump of money fias gone for " said Stedman. "It was paid out to lawyers. We can Tinderstand where part of it goes. Lawyers must have their fees. Court costs are expensive. Stenographers require their wages. And part of it was paid of r stationery and keeping offices. . "It will takemore than such items to eat up $301,724.83, however. Legal expenses of the New York Inter borough System last year were only $54,630; the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Ry, $204,000; the Burlington Road, $283,000; the Rock Island, $283,000. We would like to know why a corporation not doing any business outside of rCook county has to pay lawyers more than a transcon tinental railroadV "I would call it a 'persuasion fund.' I "would like to askMr. Insull before the commission whether any part of this fund was paid for creating pub lic sentiment." The Hogarth petition says Sam In sull and his pals on the Chicago Ene rvated RailwayB, Collateral trust put -VVT fa-afc. xS Mit,