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Newspaper
Chicago Eagle
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1919
Page
2
Vote totals show Thompson winning reelection with 260 451 citywide in a race against Igoe and Stuckart. The data lists by ward and split by gender, with mayoral and several judicial races noted and a long list of officials and officers named in the results.
All three bond issues on the ballot passed. City bonds of 1.2 million will fund the East and West Twelfth Street viaduct from Wabash to Canal. A 9.5 million city bond aims to pay judgments, including electric lighting contracts. County 0.6 million bonds finance Cook County poorhouse buildings and tunnels. City voting margin approx 21,000. county towns narrowly, 12,558 for to 12,335 against.
Oscar F Mayer, pork packer and Chicago pioneer, celebrated his sixtieth birthday with a factory dinner at 1241 Sedgwick Street. He distributed presents to his employer as a host of well known Chicagoans attended the spread.
The House committee reports favorably the Sonne man bill to repeal the state civil service law by a 9 to 7 vote. Supporters include Cola Epstein Curran Bancroft Jacobson Keane Frank J. Ryan and Thomas. opponents include Chairman Tice Douglas Hicks Walters Mueller Lucius and Johnson. A minority report is planned. The judiciary committee backs the anti injunction bill by Soderstrom, with arguments from John H. Walker and A. W. Kerr. opposition from Dudley Taylor for employers. Debates touch on Barbour-Lucius civil service reform for Cook County employees and welfare department bills on epileptics, feeble minded inmates, almshouse policies, and child custody limits. A waterway bill advancing an all driver route to join the Chicago Drainage Canal with the Illinois River was introduced by Gregory van Hetzel Clausenius Vogelsang Demme Eitel Wackenreuter Balz Brennan Sabath Mueller Schein Mayer Jr.
Federal taxes have reduced the Field estate's 99 year leasehold income from about four percent to around 1.32 percent. Trustees say the war time tax bite makes them feel they are serving the government rather than the Field estate and consider selling the properties in the loop district to avoid further losses.
Chicago voters approved the question Shall Chicago be Dry Territory gaining 247 228 votes in a Tuesday election. The piece notes widespread dissatisfaction with prohibition and predicts continued political pressure to overturn the ban, with rhetoric about a national effort to restore freedom against fanaticism. The article cites totals and regional examples to frame the Chicago referendum as a popular rebuke of Prohibition.
Mayor Thompson's victory will reshape Republican state politics with key leaders who opposed him facing their factions' scrutiny. The outcome signals a shift in alliances as the party recalibrates after the election.
The record cites fiscal impacts of prohibition on investments, noting higher taxes bite larger incomes and urging investment by trustees. It praises Albert J. Hopkins as a future governor, lists full wet and dry totals, and quotes William Fisher of the Trades Union Liberty League denouncing prohibition and the Dry Chicago federation for pressuring lawmakers.
The city won legislative permission to extend budget making to July 1 to allow new tax laws and licensing powers for Chicago. The efficiency plan trims several departments without reducing headcount, totaling a cut from 38,865,0 to 24,007,180 with major savings in Police, Fire, Health, and Comptroller areas as lawmakers may adjust rates. The goal is to pass the budget at the last moment to comply with the law while preserving essential services.
The mayor vetoed an ordinance to buy the 163 West Washington street Herald building for 200000 for a central police and court complex. He cites reports valuing it at no more than 183000 and suggests building on Market and Madison instead. The matter was referred to the finance committee. A supplemental special assessment for the Michigan avenue improvement project was approved with property owners consenting. The council also tied vehicle tax Wheel funds to allow only approved appropriations and discussed limiting unnecessary street repairs. An ordinance to rename the thoroughfare to Boxwood place was filed.
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