Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-07-27 | Page 11 | Expelled for Proposing Law

EXPELLED f OR PROPOSING LAW Union Turns Oat Alderman Herlihy for Recommend-' Recommend-' in Capital Punishment for Criminal Assaults. ' CHICAGO, 111., July 27. Alderman . Daniel Herlihy f tho Twenty -eighth . ward wat a member in good standing of 4he Steam Engineers ' union until last night. " Now he is an outcast from the labor ' Organization, and for a strange rea-a rea-a ton. He was expelled from the union be-' be-' cause a few weeks ago he introduced into the City Council a resolution calling call-ing upon the Legislature to make as- .. saolts upon women and girls punisu-.' punisu-.' able by death. The union through the medium of a . series of sharp resolutions, "deplored the outrages upon women and cliil-. cliil-. dren," but declared that insane asy-v1ums asy-v1ums and hospitals are the proper places for the weak-minded persons who commit such assaults. V Alderman Herlihy, at one of the A last Council meetings before summer adjournment, introduced the resolution seeking capital punishment. His action . followed the many brutal attacks on . , women reported throughout the spring. Nothing was done with the resolution except to refer it to the Legislative j- committee, where it now reposes. " Herilihy's expulsion last night was ." unexpected. The resolution providing for it was introduced bv Arthur Mc-. Mc-. - Craeken secretary' of the union, ami was adopted, unanimously after a spirit-t spirit-t ed discussion in which the offending , Alderman was berated roundly as n s .traitor to the trades union movement. !