Show DECISION AGAINST VETERANS I i I I Cannot Be Given Preference In Mat tee of Appointments Chicago larch nJudge Gibbons today declared that the act of the leg Iflature in Illinois passed in 185 giving veterans of the civil war preferment over other candidates in cvH service examinations is void because it gives a special or exclusive privilege und because be-cause it is inconsistent with the basic prInciples underJyjnghe nature of our institutions John Maloney a candi date for the occ of superIntendent water meter mechanical department brought suit to review the acts of the chU senice board in ghing the place to Aaron Id Drown a veteran of the Seventyfrst New York whose exanml nation average was thirteen points below be-low that of Maloney An appeal was ai lowed to Eecure the final adjudication in the supreme court I |