Show SAYS RALEIGH RALIGH SHAKES lM EM DOWN Former Street Makes Charges Before the City Council WILL BE INVESTIGATED i TITHING SALD SAID TO BE EXTORT EXTORTED ED FOR CAMPAIGN FUND Street Supervisor J 1 T Raleigh will wil wilbe willbe willbe be investigated by the city council on a charge that he is levying political as assessments assessments on those under him The charge that he ho is doing so was made in a speech before the city council c uncil last night by Councilman F S Fernstrom In proof of his allegation Mr Fernstrom submitted a letter written by William Jones who was recently discharged by Mr Raleigh as foreman of the street crew in the paved pa ved district After Raleigh had taken the floor and denied Jones allegations Councilman M E B Mulvey moved that thata a committee be appointed to investigate the charge The motion carried and Mul Mulvey Mulvey Mulvey vey Fernstrom and Crabtree were ay a pointed on the committee The date of the investigation has not been set Letter by Jones President Davis would not reading leading of Jones letter in full He said it was too indecent to be read in the presence of decent people It was made part of the minutes of the meeting however and referred to the special investigating committee In brief Jones charges that some weeks ago he was summoned into Mr office where Tommy At Atkins kins chief clerk told him he lie Jones was expect to collect a tithing tithing tithing ing from the men under him for po political poi political i purpOses Jones says that he heI I collected the tithing and that Raleigh after he supposed all the men had llad paid up told him to discharge the Mormon i under him some of whom had contributed to the judd fund Jones says sas that to dis discharge discharge discharge charge the men particularly so soon after they had paid the tithing am and that Raleigh himself then discharged him Turn Over Money Jones admits in his communication that he did not turn over o r to Raleigh the them money m ney he lie had collected e He Be goes on in inthe inthe inthe the letter to charge however that Ral Raleigh RalLigh Ligh owns an interest in a saloon am and that hat of the street str et department are ire expected to do their drinking in that saloon or be discharged When the letter was read in the coun council council council cil Mulvey demanded that Raleigh be given a chance to explain Raleigh took the floor and declared that he had discharged Jones because he found the latter drunk on the street at 9 in the morning and because further that Jones wife had complained to him I that her husband not been at home for four days davs He denied that Jones had been directed to collect money for po political political purposes and said that if he had done so it had been unauthorized He also denied ever receiving such collections collections collections from Jones In a statement to the reporters rep after afterward afterward afterward ward Mr Raleigh did not deny that money is being paid to the American party campaign fund by men in his de do department department He declared however that he had instructed all his foremen that such contributions were to be volun voluntary voluntary voluntary tary and that no man was to be forced to pay Mulvey on Political Honor While the matter was before the council Mr Mi 11 Mulvey made a sp ech in which he accused Mr ing politically inconsistent in making malting such a charge He and I have worked together r in politics many a time he said when I Iwas Iwas Iwas was drilling with the Democrats He knows how we w get our money mone We e twisted it out of every jevery very Democrat we could 10 and even 20 per cent It makes me laugh to hear an old rooster like him come in and make a kick against i now Fernstrom denied emphatically that he had ever been party to forced col collections collections of money Well Vell prove what we say about this administration though he declared This all weve got |