REPUBLICAN COUNTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE.

Headquarters-76 5th avenue, Chicago.
Chairman-Charles W. Andrews.
Secretary-William H. Weber.
Treasurer-Fred A. Busse.

Ward.

John A. Mullen... 13. Michael Rogers..

Richard Considine. 14. Roger C. Sullivan. Thomas F. Little. 15. John P. Tansey.

Joseph Strauss. 16. Stanley H. Kunz. John M. Nowicki. 17. William Dever..

Nicholas Budzban... 18. John J. Brennan.. M. C. Conlon.. 19. John Powers..

Thomas Gallagher.. 20. John J. Hayes..

George L. McConnell. 21. James A. Quinn..

Edward Diederick.. 22. William H. Lyman. James J. Lyons.. 23. D. W. Sullivan..

F. X. Brandecker... 24. Theodore Kwidzinski.. William H. Ehemann. 25. Harry R. Gibbons..

William F. Quinlan. 26. Matt Evert..

Henry Beutal.. 27. George S. Foster. Edward Keeley. 28. J. J. Tagney.

Frank Burke. 29. L. A. Lencki..

Vacancy.

30. Joseph F. Srahan. John J. Bradley. 31. James A. Long.. Edward Carroll.. 32. P. J. Murray.. J. H. Madigan 33. Peter A. Foote.

Thomas Noonan. 34. Frank S. Ryan...

Thomas J. Powers. 35. M. J. Collins..

Leslie P. Kelly

.1096 Douglas-bd. .482 S. Fairfield-av. 1064 W. Madison-st. .115 Dearborn-st. 942 W. Lake-st. 289 Hirsch-st.

.1197 Milwaukee-av. ..685 Noble-st. ..1070 N. Robey-st. .Room 50, 50 LaSalle-st. ...48 Fry-st.

80 S. Center-av. .381 W. Madison st. 142 Madison-st.

.241 S. Sangamon-st.

622 Jackson-bd.

.408 Ashland-bd. ..166 LaSalle-av. 389 E. Division-st. 265 Elm-st. .29 Huron-st. .384 Mohawk-st. .648 Sedgwick-st. .1060 Marianna-st. .717 Southport-av.

259 Orchard-st. .1224 Catalpa-av. 2008 E. Ravenswood-pk. .395 W. Ravenswood-pk.

..59 Dearborn-st. 1567 N. Francisco-av. .1601 Milwaukee-av. 1249 Milwaukee av. ..4809 Throop-st. .4442 Dearborn-st. 726 Garfield-bd. .327 W. 60th-st. .6022 Carpenter-st.

6552 Normal-av. 10312 Prospect-av. 7132 Ingleside-av. ..102 Fulton-av. ...106 city hall .2072 W. Monroe-st. 1027 Railway Exchange bldg. .133 Baird-av.

COUNTRY TOWNS.

1, Thomas McNally
2. Thomas Fitzgerald.
3. James Leddy.
4. M. J. Doherty.
5. William McAllister.
6. Frank A. Stadler.

7. Louis Richter.

9. Peter Kill... 11. John McGuire.. 13. James F. Curry. 15. James Rosenthal.. 17. John F. McCaffery. 19. William Skidmore. 21. William Kells.. 23. B. J. Mahony. 25. Daniel Herlihy. 27. Joseph J. Murray. 29. John H. Haines. 31. John H. Sullivan..

CONGRESSIONAL

1. John Griffin.. John Budinger.. 2. Harry Hildreth..

Fred Tegtmeyer. 3. John E. Traeger. George E. Brennan. 4. Edward J. Kelly. Edw. Cummings. 5. James McNichols. Denis F. Egan..

PROHIBITION CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
Headquarters-Room 38, 92 LaSalle street.
Chairman-A. E. Hoyt.
Vice-Chairman-M. C. Harper.
Secretary-W. A. Brubaker.
Treasurer-Edward E. Blake.

Executive Committee-A. E. Hoyt, M. C. Harper,
E. H. Parkinson, W. F. Mulvihill, H. H. Gill,
E. E. Blake, John Whitson.

Members at Large-North side: H. H. Gill, A. E. Hoyt, John W. Havenkampf, Leo F. Jeanmene, B. F. Solin. South side: John H. Hill, John W. Akers, Frank V. Irish, C. E. Cornell, Julius G. Olson. West side: Thomas H. Gault, Walter J. Miller, C. F. Wheeler, W. B. Rose, E. L. Kletzing. Country towns: M. H. Myers, Harvey; E. S. Nethercutt, Evanston; John Whitson, LaGrange.

35. H. W. Harris and Walter B. Dillon.

Ladies' Branch-Mrs. Annie Collins.

N. W. S. Jewish-S. A. Knopfnagel.

Ninth Ward Jewish-William N. Freihberg and A.
Scoviss.

Scandinavian Karl Marx Club-Anton Christiensen,
William Peterman and F. Anderson.
Thirty-Third Ward Holland-Louis Boersma.
Winnetka-William Bross Lloyd.
Berwyn-August Middlestedt.
Chicago Heights-C. Densmore.
Cicero-Joseph Buckley.

Oak Park-Fred J. Colburn.
Ridgeville-Frank McClusky.

Thornton-James A. Prout.

Bohemian Central Committee-J. J. Lorenz, Frank Raisl, F. Filas, Vincent Szramek, Steve Skalla and Charles Czerny.

German Central Committee-Karl Kissling, Thomas Kloske, William Behrens, Joseph Kempler. Polish

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Twenty-Second Ward Finnish-Otto Siltanen. Hungarian No. 1-George Eisler.

Seventeenth Ward Scandinavian-F. N. Holm. Eighth Ward Swedish-E. Warner.

INDEPENDENCE LEAGUE OF ILLINOIS. Headquarters-132 La Salle street, first floor. Directors-A. M. Lawrence, president; P. J. Moloney, secretary; James J. Gray, Charles H. Mitchell, M. C. Buckley, John C. Harding, L. P. Straube.

County Committee-James J. Gray, chairman; Theodore Nelson, secretary.

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ARTICLE I.

PUBLIC-SERVICE DISTRICTS.

There are created two public-service districts, to be known as the 1st district and the 2d district. The 1st district shall include the counties of New York, Kings, Queens and Richmond. The 2d district shall include all other counties of the state. TWO COMMISSIONS.

There shall be a public-service commission for each district and each commission shall possess the powers and duties necessary or proper to enable it to carry out the purposes of this act. The commission of the 1st district shall consist of five members and the commission of the 2d district shall consist of five members, to be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate. Each commissioner shall be a resident of the district for which he is appointed. The governor may remove any commissioner for inefficiency, neglect of duty or misconduct in office. The term of office is five years and the annual salary of each commissioner is $15,000. An attorney shall be appointed as counsel for each commission at a salary of $10,000 a year and a secretary at a salary of $6,000 a year.

JURISDICTION OF COMMISSIONS.

The jurisdiction, supervision, powers and duties of the public-service commission in the 1st district shall extend:

1. To railroads and street railroads lying exclusively within that district and to the persons or corporations owning, leasing, operating or controlling the same.

2. To street railroads any portion of whose lines lies within that district, to all transportation of persons or property thereon within that district or from a point within either district to a point within the other district and to the persons or corporations owning, operating, controlling or leasing the said street railroads; provided, however, that the commission for the 2d district shall have jurisdiction over such portion of the lines of said street railroads as lies within the 2d district and over the persons or corporations owning, operating, controlling or leasing the same, so far as concerns the construction, maintenance, equipment, terminal facilities and local transportation facilities of said street railroads within the 2d district.

3. To such portion of the lines of any other railroad as lies within that district and to the person or corporation owning, leasing, operating or controlling the same, so far as concerns the construction. maintenance, equipment, terminal facilities and local transportation facilities and local transportation of persons or property within that district.

4. To any common carrier operating or doing business exclusively within that district.

5. To the manufacture, sale or distribution of gas and electricity for light, heat and power in said district, and to the persons or corporations owning, leasing, operating or controlling the same.

6. And in addition thereto the commission in the 1st district shall have and exercise all powers heretofore conferred upon the board of rapid transit railroad commissioners under chapter four of

All jurisdiction, supervision, powers and duties under this act not specifically granted to the public-service commission of the 1st district shall be vested in and be exercised by the public-service. commission of the 2d district, including the regulation and control of all transportation of persons or property, and the instrumentalities connected with such transportation, on any railroad other than a street railroad from a point within either district to a point within the other district.

ELIGIBILITY OF MEMBERS.

No person shall be eligible for appointment or shall hold the office of commissioner or be appointed by a commission or by counsel to a commission to, or hold, any office or position under a commission, who holds any official relation to any common carrier, railroad corporation, street-railroad corporation, gas corporation or electrical corporation subject to the provisions of this act, or who owns stocks or bonds therein.

OFFICES OF COMMISSIONS.

The principal office of the commission of the 1st district shall be in the borough of Manhattan, city of New York; and the office of the 2d district shall be in the city of Albany, in rooms designated by the trustees of public buildings. Each commission shall hold stated meetings at least once a month during the year at its office.

The offices of each commission shall be open for business between the hours of 8 a. m. and 11 p. m. every day in the year and one or more responsible persons, to be designated by the commission or by the secretary under the direction of the commission, shall be on duty at all times in immediate charge thereof. A majority of the commissioners shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business, for the performance of any duty or for the exercise of any power of the commission and may hold meetings of the commission at any time or place within the state.

CERTAIN ACTS PROHIBITED.

Every commissioner, counsel to a commission, the secretary of a commission, and every person employed or appointed to office, either by a commission or by the counsel to a commission, is forbidden and prohibited to solicit, suggest or recommend. directly or indirectly, to any common carrier, railroad corporation or street-railroad corporation, or to any officer, attorney, agent or employe thereof, the appointment of any person to any office, place, position or employment. And every common carrier, railroad corporation, street-railroad corporation. gas corporation and electrical corporation and every officer, attorney, agent and employe thereof is forbidden and prohibited to offer to any com missioner, to counsel to a commission, to the secretary thereof, or to any person employed by a commission or by the counsel to a commission, any office, place, appointment or position, or to offer or give to any commissioner, to counsel to a commission, to the secretary thereof, or to any officer employed or appointed to office by the commission or by the counsel to the commission, any free pass or transportation or any reduction in fare to which the public generally is not entitled or free carriage for freight or property or any present. gift or gratuity of any kind. If any commissioner, counsel to a commission, the secretary thereof or any person employed or appointed to office by a commission or by counsel to a commission shall violate any provision of this section he shall be removed from the office held by him.

The commissions are required to make annual reports to the legislature on or before the second Monday of January of each year.

WITNESSES.

If a person subpoenaed to attend before a commission or a commissioner fails to obey without reasonable cause, or if a person shall, without reasonable cause, refuse to be sworn or to be ex

amined or to answer a question or to produce a book or papers when ordered so to do or to subscribe and swear to his deposition after it has been correctly reduced to writing, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and may be prosecuted therefor in any court of competent criminal jurisdiction. If a person in attendance before a commission or a commissioner refuses without reasonable cause to be examined or to answer a legal and pertinent question or produce a book or paper when ordered so to do, the commission may apply to any justice of the Supreme court upon proof by affidavit of the facts for an order returnable in not less than two nor more than five days directing such person to show cause why he should not be committed to jail; upon the return of such order the justice before whom the matter shall come shall examine under oath such person and if the justice shall determine that such person has refused without reasonable cause or legal excuse to be examined or to answer a legal and pertinent question, or to produce a book or paper which he was ordered to bring, he may forthwith, by warrant, commit the offender to jail, there to remain until he submits to do the act which he was so required to do or is discharged according to law. PRACTICE BEFORE COMMISSIONS.

All hearings shall be governed by rules to be adopted and prescribed by the commission. And in all investigations, inquiries or hearings the commission shall not be bound by the technical rules of evidence. No person shall be excused from testifying or from producing any books or papers upon the ground that the testimony or evidence, books or documents may tend to incriminate him or subject him to penalty or forfeiture, but no person shall be prosecuted, punished or subjected to any penalty on account of any act, transaction, matter or thing concerning which he shall under oath have testified or produced documentary evidence; provided, however, that no person so testifying shall be exempt from prosecution or punishment for any perjury committed by him in his testimony. Nothing herein contained is intended to give or shall be construed as in any manner giving unto any corporation immunity of any kind..

PREFERENCE IN COURT PROCEEDINGS. All actions and proceedings under this act and all actions and proceedings prosecuted by order of either commission, and all actions and proceedings to which either cominission or the people of the state of New York may be parties, and in which any question arises under this act or under the railroad law, or under or concerning any order or action of the commission, shall be preferred over all other civil causes except election causes in all courts of the state of New York and shall be heard and determined in preference to all other civil business pending therein excepting election causes, irrespective of position on the calendar.

ARTICLE II.

The provisions of this article apply to the transportation of passengers, freight or property within the state of New York and to any common carrier performing such service.

SERVICE AND CHARGES.

Every corporation, person or common carrier performing a service in connection with such transportation shall furnish with respect there to such service and facilities as shall be safe and adequate and in all respects just and reasonable. All charges made or demanded by any such corporation, person or common carrier for the transportation of passengers, freight or property or for any service rendered or to be rendered in connection therewith, shall be just and reasonable and not more than allowed by law or by order of the commission having jurisdiction and made as authorized by this act. Every unjust or unreasonable charge is prohibited.

SWITCH AND TRACK CONNECTIONS.

A railroad corporation, upon the application of any shipper tendering traffic for transportation, shall construct, maintain and operate upon reasonable terms a switch connection or connections

with a lateral line of railroad or private sidetrack owned by such shipper, and shall provide upon its own property a sidetrack and switch connection with its line of railroad, whenever such sidetrack and switch connection is reasonably practicable. can be put in with safety and the business therefor is sufficient to justify the same.

If any railroad corporation shall fail to install or operate any such switch connection after written application therefor has been made to it, any corporation or person interested may present the facts to the commission by written petition and the commission shall investigate the matter. If the commission be of opinion that it is safe and practicable to have a connection substantially as prayed for established and that the business to be done thereon justifies it, it shall make an order directing the construction and establishment thereof, specifying the reasonable compensation to be paid for the construction and maintenance thereof. It may in like manner order the discontinuance of such switch connection.

TARIFF SCHEDULES.

Every common carrier shall file with the commission having jurisdiction and shall print and keep open to public inspection schedules showing the rates, fares and charges for the transportation of passengers and property within the state between each point upon its route and all other points thereon; and between each point upon its route and all points upon every route leased, operated or controlled by it; and between each point on its route or upon any route leased, operated or controlled by it and all points upon the route of any other common carrier, whenever a through route and joint rate shall have been established or ordered between any two such points. If no joint rate over a through route has been established the several carriers in such through route shall file, print and keep open to public inspection the separately established rates, fares and charges applied to the through transportation. The schedules shall plainly state the places between which property and passengers will be carried and shall also contain the classification of passengers, freight or property in force and shall also state separately all terminal charges, storage charges, icing charges and all other charges which the commission may require to be stated. Such schedules shall be plainly printed in large type; copies thereof for the use of the public shall be kept posted in two public and conspicuous places in every depot, station and office of every common carrier where passengers or property are received for transportation.

UNJUST DISCRIMINATION.

No common carrier shall, directly or indirectly, by any special rate, rebate, drawback or other device or method, charge, collect or receive from any person or corporation a greater or less compensation for any service rendered or to be rendered in the transportation of passengers, freight or property, except as authorized in this act, than it charges, collects or receives from any other person or corporation for doing a like and contemporaneous service in the transportation of a like kind of traffic under the same or substantially similar circumstances and conditions.

UNREASONABLE PREFERENCE.

No common carrier shall make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any person or corporation or to any locality or to any particular description of traffic, or subject any particular person, corporation, locality or traffic to any prejudice or disadvantage whatever. The rates as fixed in the published schedules must be followed and no common carrier shall by any device refund or remit any portion of the rates so specified and shall not extend any facilities to any person or shipper except such as are regularly extended to all persons and corporations.

NO PASSES.

No common carrier subject to the provisions of this act shall, directly or indirectly, issue or give any free ticket, free pass or free transportation