Commonwealth Edison stock worth about over $130,000. As a fellow capitalist of Sam Insull, John J. Mitchell, the Field estate and other interests, he would have cut a poor figure as a political candidate. As a politician it has his game to make a show of fighting the Insull interests. He publicly pledged that if elected he r- wuuiu aypmui a. spcuai goa uugauuu committee of Aldermen Merriam, Capitain, Lawley, Utpatel, Nance and Richert to get for the gas users of Chicago the $10,000,000 fund of gas company overcharges held in escrow. "Two months after Mayor Thomp son's election the law firm of Schuy ler, Ettelson & Weinfeld was paid $14,000 in fees for so-called legal services. This was the beginning of so-called legal services for which the People's Gas Co. has to date paid that firm a total of $25,000. "The use of this amount of money at such a time, all things considered, fe so grave a matter that the truth of it might be questioned. That this money was paid to these lawyers, however, is shown in a report of Ex pert E. W. Bemis to aldermen who had asked him to examine the gas company books. "Pour months later Sam Ettelson of the firm of Schuyler, Ettelson & V Weinfeld, gas company lawyers, was appointed corporation counsel. One 0f his first official acts was to assert the right of the corporation counsel to control all litigation of the city. He insisted that Donald R. Richberg, at torney for the special gas litigation committee, should be an assistant under orders of the corporation counsel. Also he announced he had withdrawn from the firm of S6huyler, Ettelson & Weinfeld. , "About this same time Dan Schuy ler first made his first official appear ance at the City Hall-as the attorney for the State Street Stores ass'n, t asking mat tne ienaer ordinance, Mandel sub-basement and other or dinances be handled in a way not to 1 hurt State street busines. At a later time Weinfeld, of this same firm, ap peared as counsel for the Pennsyl vania and the Burlington railroads, in connection with city ordinances. "Why aid so many of the special privilege hogs of this city hunt out this ono law firm? Was it the su perior legal talents of Sam Ettelson's partners that attracted corporations arid the State street stores?. Or was it something besides legal ability that drew these liberal clients to Sam Et telson's law partners? "Notice how Sam Ettelson, upheld by Mayor Thompson and the Trib une, kept on with his tactics assist ing the gas company. In January this year Aid. Utpatel introduced an ordinance to reduce the special gas litigation fund by $100,000. When Aid. Merriam openly charged that Corporation Counsel Ettelson was the author of the ordinance, Utpatel failed to deny that,this gas company ordinance was written by the former gas company lawyer, who acts offi cially as corporation counsel and is paid $10,000 to serve as attorney for the gas users, the citizens of Chi cago. "Defeated in January the ordi nance to reduce the gas litigation fund by $100,000 was introduced again in February, this time by Aid. Michaelson, the Thompson-Lundin flocr leader in city counciL' In the defeat of this ordinance Aid. Merriam and Aid. Buck were leaders. They forced from Sam Insull, the gas com pany head, an admission that Schuy ler & Weinfeld are gas company law yers who were not employed before Mayor Thompson became mayor. That this firm, has been paid $25,000 since Big Bill went into the City Hall, and not a cent before, has Its point for any voter who does his own thinking instead of letting the news papers do it "Was it strange then that Aid. Merriam and Buck should find gas money and City Hall poHtics arraved I