The day book. [volume], June 17, 1915, LAST EDITION, Image 32

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NEWLY ELECTED JUDGES MAY
COST HEAP MORE MONEY
If the newly elected judges of the
circuit court do not take office before
the first day of July in the next six
years they will cost Chicago and
Cook county $240,000"more than in
the past six years.
While the taxpayers' attention has
been centered on the traction situa
tion a bill has been partially pushed
through the legislature to make the
salary of each of the twenty circuit
court judges $12,000 a year, an in
crease of $2,000.
It has been passed by the house and
is now before the senate.
Under ordinary conditions this in
crease would not apply to the recent-ly-eelcted
judges, as the bill, if it be
comes a law, will not be effective un
til July 1. The offical count of bal
lots, however, has been slow, and in
the election commissioners' office it
was Bnirt that, the count of the county
districts, the final ones to be can-,
vassed, would not De nnisnea unui
Saturday night
Then certificates of election must
be sent to the governor at Springfield
for signature and returned to the
clerk of Cook county, who will swear
in the judges.
And if these certificates are not re
turned immediately the judges will
make a nice little pick-up.
Indications at Springfield are that
the bill will go through the senate,
nnnnnents of the bill are pointing to
the fact that Judges Carpenter and
Landis of the federal court receive
but $7,500 a year, and argue that
their work is more important and
more arduous tha nthat of the circuit
court judges. It is also claimed that
a strong lobby is behind the bill.
MAHON SUGGESTS BLAND
Wm. D. Mahon, international pres
ident street car men's union, has
suggested L. D. Bland, editor Union
Leader, as the proper person to rep
resent the unions in the arbitration
hearings. Judge rSckham Scanlan
probably will be too busy in appellate
court to act. His name had been sug
gested. President Mahon may .remain in
Chicago during the period of arbitra
tion to act as counsel for the car
men and to formally present the case
of the men to the arbitration com
mittee when it gets in session.
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Qm .says
"Old Judge Skoover has th sym
pathy of th' entire community. He's
just out of th' hospital, where he
underwent a successful operation on
his wife." I
The
"L" SUIT DELAYED
supreme court in granting
Att'y Wm. G. Beale for the elevated
roads a rehearing of the quo warran
to proceedings started by State's
Att'y Hoyne delayed the suit for six
months or a year.
This spring State's Att'y Hoyne
gained from Judge Watson an opin
ion which justified his attempt to
throw open the books of the elevated
roads to show how much "water"
was contained in the stocks upon
which people were paying itnerest
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CHICAGO GRAIN All grains and
provisions lower. July wheat close,
$1.033,4.
NEW YORK STOCKS. Prices
slightly up; trading light
WEATHERFORECAST
Fair tonight, followed by showers
beginning in early morning or on Fri
day; slightly warmer today; moderate
easteny winds tonight, shifting to
southeast. Temperature Wednesday:
Highest, 78; lowest, 57.
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