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Show MM WANTS NO m INVESTIGATION W Chicago, Jan, 9. Cjiarles Adkins, flj st eaker of the Illinois house of repre- 9 ccntatives. who spent Sunday In Chl- X cago, said last night that ho is op- ' fliosod to an investigation by the pre3- 9t lent house of any of. the acts of the last -H legislature. .-' Speaker Adkins said: -'. "I will not say whether there was dB anything wrong with the last lceisla- B'turo or not. I would not say that any- --jB fcedy has heen guilty of wrongdoing. Bjl will say that public confidence in 3BU'.ie Illinois legislature Is gone and it .m seems to mo Uiat the greatest thing for the speaker to consider is how to H restore that public confidence and ,'Hhavo tlie peoplo say the Illinois legislq- AiH'turc is on the square. VrB ' That question overshadows all oth- rHtcr; with me. I bollevo that if this .JJHkgislature will pass the next appro- prlaliou bills for paying the expenses f of our public institutions and state J9 government, and go home and ljave , jfltf the peoplo say the Illinois legislature ' IH Js on the square, wo will havo nc- H compiished :i greater feat than Well- B Inqton when he defeated and sent in- B to exile the ambitious Napoleon." |