CHICAGO CORRUPTION.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8855, 4 July 1907, Page 4

CHICAGO CORRUPTION.

Six officials under the late Mayor Dunne’s government in Chicago have been indicted by the grand jury, charged with the manipulation o£ a large corruption fund which was used during the recent municipal campaign in Chicago for the purpose of assisting Mr Dunne. The principal official is the recent Chief of Police Collins, who, it is alleged, turned the Chicago police department into a collecting agency for the campaign fund, and besides compelling every patrolman to contribute, extorted money from all the saloons and shady houses and gambling houses in the city. It is stated that ex-Mayor Dunne will bo implicated. Scandals are also reported from other cities, where waves of reform are having a temporary effect. At Harrisburg, Pcnur-ylvauia, a commission is now investigating the expenditure of £4,000,000 for the furnishing and decorating of the new State Capitol, and it is certain that criminal proceedings will be instituted against the contractors and several highly-placed officials. At Pittsburg thirty of the city counoilmen will be tiled for bribery in connection with the passage of a railroad franchise ordinance. It is alleged that the sum of £16,000 was divided between the councilmen who voted for the franchise.