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Show PITTSBURG CITY GREARYAROUSED Iteceiit Exposures of Municipal Graft Theme of Sermons in Many Churches. ADDITIONAL SENSATIONS ARE EXPECTED THIS WEEK Reform Is Hourly Taking on New Phases; Rei Light Bis- . trict Raided Nightly. , PITTSBURG, March 27. Thcfmton season which ended today lias fictflj too short a season of penitence for Pittsburg, Pitts-burg, and It will be continued with promise prom-ise of even more startling confessions of graft this week. In several hundred churches today an unusual feature of the Ka3ter services was the reading of tho circular letter Issued Is-sued by a civic committee yesterday urging urg-ing the members of every congregation Continued on Pago Two. I PITTSBURG CITY GREATLY AROUSED Continued from page one. to attend a huge Indignation mass meeting meet-ing to be held some day this week. Sermons, Ser-mons, too, were designed to arouse public pub-lic condemnation of such practices as have been revealed. Lessons In civic cleanliness were drawn by many, pastors. pas-tors. It having been thoroughly established according to District Attorney William A. Ulakely. at least ?102,000 was used In Influencing legislation, the source of the money and the dispensers of it are to bo the focus of the grand jury's attention atten-tion tomorrow morning. Plans of Grand Jury. A considerable portion of the big bribe fund is charged to certain banks that sought to get city deposits. They succeeded, suc-ceeded, but it is the desire of the grand jury, as pronounced In Its report of Friday Fri-day last, that the bank deposit ordinance be rescinded and the banks, if found guilty, be deprived of tho uso of city money. It i3 known that some representatives repre-sentatives of the banks are to be called tomorrow to testify. The six banks tbat havo been named by the grand Jury as Involved In the scandal are the Columbia Colum-bia National, the German National of Pittsburg, the Farmers' National Deposit bank, tho Socond National, the German National of Allegheny, and the Working-man's Working-man's Savings & Trust company. The directorate of tho Farmers' National Na-tional bank has announced that It will comply with tho district attorney's call for information, and the Second National Is to be presented to tho grand jury to-morrow. to-morrow. Tho other banks havo -taken no action. It was still unlearned tonight whether Charles Stewart yesterday in his talk with District Attorney Blakcly told ajl that ho is believed to know about the men higher up. Stewart Is a former se-lect se-lect councilman who was declared by the grand Jury In its presentment Snlur-day Snlur-day to have been the man to whom ?15,000 of bribo-.talnted money was given at the Hotel Imperial in New York. Councilman May Resign. The city council meets tomorrow night Twenty of, the present members or the council are under indictment' in connec-' tion with the graft cases. It is expected that some will protest their Innocence, but the majority are expected to hand in resignations quite as meekly as they con- j fessed last week. While the big show continues there Is x lively side feature In a crusade against all varieties bf graft, and wrongdoing In j Pittsburg. Disorderly houses aro being closed up and every night lately has soon 1 a round-up of women In the tenderloin district. At a meeting of citizens In the Fort Pitt hotel, nt which a 'committee was .formed to further the mass meeting plan, It was openly charged the graft collected in the red light dltitrict amounted to a million dollars a year. John F. Glcln, whose confessions and exposure of others has netted such a scandal, has been muzzled, and is now kept In a room at the Fort Pitt hotel pending disposition of his case- He Is under sentence of thrco and a. half years. Yesterday hp Issued an emotional post- B card appeal for clemency and aid for his family. Tho authorities havo forbld-den forbld-den htm to civo out further public statc- 1 mcntp- |