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ADMINISTRATION PUTS THROUGH BUDGET WHICH MEANS MORE JOBS Budget for 1915, $26,623,588. Budget for 1916, $27,434,791. Estimated revenue for '16, $26, 893,250. The estimated expenditures over revnue is $550,000. The city of Chicago is now domi nated by a political machine, out for the spoils system and which will bankrupt the city within a year, ac cording to aldermen who fought ex travagance and waste in the budget which passed the council by a vote of 44 to 23 last night. The Thompson-Lundin faction rounded out in fine -shape. Enough "wets" switched to give Thompson necessary votes with which to win. Everything at last night's meeting of the council was jobs and more jobs. Aid. Lawley took the leader ship on the floor for the administra tion. The majority of his amend ments were passed. At one time in the session the Sher man house bar became popular and the administration had to keep con stantly on the watchout to preserve a sufficient number of votes to give it a majority. The meeting started off with a bang when Aid. Toman asked for $10,000 for the liquor com'n, to in vestigate Chicago saloons. It car ried. Mayor Thompson made this commission all "wet." The next battle came over hand ing the corporation counsel's office $56,000 extra for jobs for the mayor. This was put over by a vote of 40 to 28. The aldermen refused to increase the civil service com'n's appropria tion $15,000 for more investigators and refused to give Mrs. Louise Os born Kowe, com'r public welfare, an other $10,000 in jobs in her depart ment. The administration wanted a $63,- 000 item for a city-owned garbage .fleet -knocked .out, bat under the stinging words of Aid. Merriam, who recalled how the people had voted for this measure, Health Commissioner Robertson will still have to take charge of the city garbage disposal, a job he has fought against for the past year. Several attempts were made to in crease the police force by 500 men. They failed. The budget was passed early this morning and the mayor said he would use his influence with the comptroll er to make more cuts. "It's the best budget ever submitted to the city council," he told the re porters. "I don't agree with that state ment," said Aids. Buck, Merriam, Kennedy, McCormick, Nance and a number of others. TRIB AND NEWS AUTO TRUCKS FIGURE IN ACCIDENTS Some of the best news that is not told by the trust press is the news of the papers themselves. But when the name of one paper is mixed in an accident, the others are silent. A truck of the Daily News in its rush to beat the other afternoon pa pers to the South Side distribution skidded on the wet pavement of La Salle st. Saturday and crashed into the automobile of K. White, 1723 Bal moral av. The police made no arrests as the driver of the News truck, R. R. Ogil by, 19 E. Van Buren st, explained that he was going too fast to come to a stop on the wet street. A circulation wagon of the Chicago Tribune contributed its bit to the number of loop vehicle accidents yes terday. It struck the auto of W. D. Morent, 1445 Catalpa av., as it come out of the Tribune alley at Madison and Dearborn sts. with a load of papers. Both auto and machine were badly damaged.