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TRk HURON SIGNAL, FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1882.
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each suba.qusat loserUon. 1' early, half -yearly
and quarterly contracts t reduced rate*.
Jan rtlerevo.-. Are have also • first-class
lobbing department incosnection and possess-
ing the most complete out -fit and bestfsctliUes
for turning out work In Goderich, are prepared
to do business In that line at prices that cannot
be beaten, and of • quality that cannot be
surpassed. --Teras Cask
FRIDAY, MARCH 31 1881.
MR. JoHNarox's candidature has fallen
as flat as a boarding house slap -jack, and
Bente of his friends already look asham-
ed of having pitted him against Col.
Ross.
THE cable despatches state that Ten-
nyson, the poet laureate, is suffering with
gout in the right arms. This accents for
the lameness of his latest poetical effu-
sion.
"O1vra ° for the Ontarions" is the
iaotto of the supporters of the Ontario
Goverauteat, And we think it's just the
motto fir every loyal roan in the Pro-
vince.
Titles is woe peculiarity &lwut gl;ej
comments .,n the catt.Jidaturent Mr. F.W.
Johnston sit the 'I..,y interest t.•r West
I3urou, and that is that the uewspapsts
whose editors kirow least *bout Mr.
Juhuston art loudest in his prelim, sad
vice versa.
A MISTING of the uanuf.etureis of aalt
was held in Goderich on Tkuraday. Af-
ter the+ transaction of it little business, the
meeting was adjourned until ti -day, at
Clinton. The main object et the gat'ter
ing is to try and fix a living rate fur salt
Where the business is so niuub overdone
this will be a difficult thing to aocontplish
Tan N. P. hasn't done away with
bonuses. The 1Vingham furniture fac-
tory, which the Tories claimed was
made prosperous by the tariff, is now
asking for one.
Mx. THoit. FARROW, the solitary Tory
representative of Huron, must realize
by this time that that last dip in Sir
"Onderdonk" Tupper's pail of whitewash
has settled his chances of again being re-
turned to Parliament.
AT the Grey aasittes on Monday, Judge
Burton referred in favorable terms to the
recent change in the law relative to civil
cases by which a witness is now per-
mitted to give evidence without regard
to his religious helief. His lordship fur-
- thee expressed the hope that the Domin-
ion Government would take similar ac-
tion in reference to the criminal law.
Two more Tory editorahave fallen out
by theoway,and are abusing each other in
a lively manner. The gentleauudyediter
of the Blyth Rerietr thus alludes to his
high tutted euuf,wrr of the Clinton Re-
cord, in reply to the charge of not pav-
ing his debts:
We used to think that story
Of Balsam and his beast
'Was 'ust a little doubtful
Or tt by at the least;
But since we -re heard front Floats
In his editorial seek,
Even Ingersoll would own that
Moat any ass could speak.
ameudniwit • vote of want of «i * nus howlings of the Ministestabsta, but
dines in the Government. !outwith- when he characterised them as a brute
standing the pressure thus brought t of majority they %rut fairly wild, and it
eel *omen Woe buture order was rustur-
bwr, errs the rank atxl tile of the Mau-
terial supporters, titer* rot wnaideratle
eoseneUtx,n!tutting toe wore huaeat-utonti-
ei, thereby preying the corrsetme.s of
Usirtw right's words. This war the hart
speech of the debate. Whila wasting
ed of them, and whet' the division was fur this return sit the whip: atter dt
taken, it was found that Mesar• Cuuprl Tutt was called, the utus►etans un the
sang to a parliawentary uwnutite,
God Save the Queen'' and "Home,
Sweet Hoene." Great cheating greeted
Tellier un his vutulg with the Opposi-
tion, also McDonald, of Victoria, N. S.,
and Coupal did the same. 'Chose are
three clear gains to the Opposition, on a
strict party vote, and show that the tide
u turning even in a House so dominated
by it c irrupt ministry, as this is. allure
remarkable, however, is the tact that
two of Elie changes are from the ranks of
the French Conservatives. The divuiuu
-128 to 5b -shows that although a
strong whip was exercised by the kiwis -
try, iso less tit on fifteen of their support-
ers absented themselves. After a sheet
Tsparring suited between Mackenzie and
upper, the House went into Supply.
h tt
Tellier and McUuueld \'tcxurto; had voted
with the Opposition, and several other
Got et n trent supporters hast made it con-
yenteat to be absent when the vote wus
put. Mr. Farrow, who has misretitie-
slanted North Huron since 1ti72. aided
the "hrute force majority" to "white-
wiuhSir'•thnfetdotk Tupper ,.n the
occasion.
Tus SesIorth Expositor says: -At the
Corutervative Convention for West Hu-
ron held in Dungannon on Wednesday
last, for the purpose of selecting a can-
didate to contest that Riding at the next
election for the -Local Legislature, a1r.F.
W. Juhnsto • , of Goderich, received and
accepted the nomination. The contest
will, therefore, be between Cul. A. •M.
Rosa, the sitting member, and Mr.John-
stun. It needs not the eye of a prophet
G. foretell the result. The people of
West Huron are by far too sensible to
discard worth and ability for --well, for
very little.
THE "large and enthusiastic" Tory.con•
ven/ion at Dungannon oofisisted of sixty-
eight (68') delegates, all tpld. The por-
tion of Hullett in the West Riding had
one solitary representative present, and
Goderich township was not represented
at all. By the report published in the
Star, eleven candidates were nominated
but all "stepped down and out," being
unwilling to sacrifice themselves,'unti
Mr. Fred. Johnston vas reached. Th
young gentleman valorously threw him
self into the breach- and is likely to re
main there. There is a high fence be
tween a "ward politician"like Johnston
and a parliamentarian like Roos..
CLINTON New Era: Conservatives in
Clinton are nut very jubilant wer the
nomination of Mr. Fred:' Johnston,
"barrister" (I) In fact a good many en-
tertain the same v;ew as was expressed
' by one of the must active ones. who re-
marked theotherday that "If there is
such a theng'as a good, upright Reform-
er, A. 31. Roam was one."
PLOWS are heavily taxed by the pres-
ent tariff, the additional cost in the
production of a gond chilled plow being
about $1. These grinding duties are
placed as follows:
Handles.. IS per cent.
Paints 96
Varnish .....
Bolts, etc.,
Files, tools etc., >p "
Iron $2 par ton.
Coal Meta
MR. W. T. Bess, of Winghatn, with
his usual modesty, was constrained to
nominate two candidates for Tory re-
presentative fur West Huron, at the re-
cent convention at Dungannon. His
men were Messrs Johnston and Mitchell
Had the matter not brei "fixed" before-
hand, Mr. W. T. Bray would have had
to swallow himself, one way or another.
When he seconded Mr. Mitchell's nom-
ination, he showed a want of confidence
in Mr. Juhnatou.
So RAPIDLY have immigrants been
going into Winnipeo that it has been im-
possible to erect even temporary wooden
structures to shelter them. Tents have
bean put up for the accointdation of the
new comers, but a tent is, to our mind, a
poor protection against the business end
of a nor' -west blizzard, such as has
ruled for the past few weeks in Manito-
ba as well u Dakota. A Spanish pro-
verb mays, "A cold caught by the draft lag been guilty if jobbery and coo
through a keyhole, means death." ruptio'i when Premier of the Dominion.
What will the breeze under a tent -flap Not satisfied with attacking the personal
mean, with the thermometer at 40" be- and public character of the ex -Premier,
Sir Charles waned yet more furious, and
in • most cowardly manner proceeded to
abuse Mr. Gordon Brown, the manag-
ing editor of the (More. Mr. Brown ••c•
espies no seat in the House, and ordi-
nary decency might have kept the Min-
ister of Railways from abusing an ab-
sent ntan, but hon temper was up, and
he succeeded in establishing his reputa-
tion; by his vituperative style, as the
premier blackguard ()Wm House. Such
epithet. es "most degraded specimen of
public journalism," "a man without
brains," "a hired assassin," "craven
at
A RESIDENT AMERICAN'S VIEW
In a calm and impartial despatch re-
oently published, Ron. John Hibbard,
American Consul at this port, points out
the chief reasons for the prueperity of
the agricultural community in Canada,
vis: the development of the cattle teals
with (heat Britain, and the foreign de-
mand for Canadian farm produce gene-
rally. The despatch, as published, is as
follows :- -
Washington, D. C., March 25. --Con-
sul Hibbard, writing from Goderich to
the State Department on the subject of
our trade with Canada, says : --" There
has been a marked increase of exports
from this locality, particularly horses,
sheep and barley; also the less impor-
tant ones, which heretofore were so
limited as not to by specially noticed,
are now reaching a considerable volume,
such as hides, butter, etc.. Now, with
all the restrictions and duties imposed
by our Government, this country stens,
so far aa my limited observation can de-
termine, to be able to find a paying mar-
ket with us for many of the farming pro-
ducts, probably on account of the rapid
growth of population in the Western
States, and the short and cheap transpor-
tation thereto. One special feature in
the exports here is the Luxe increase in
the export of dairy salt. While noticing
the exports to our own count' y, and the
increasing trade between the United
States and Canada, in :..any respects, I
can hardly avoid directing your atten-
tion to the extraordinary growth of the
cattle trade between this country and
Great Britain, and the almost unprece-
dented development of the Canadian
North-west, which is said to be as tine ;1 ! they were always subject to appeals to
grazing and grain -growing country as ex- the unpartial and legally constituted jud-
ists on the American continent. Many icial tribunal. -[Globe.
of the merchants and men of capital are
daily leaving this vicinity to make in.-
vestments
n-vestments in Winnipeg and other cities
situated on the line of the Canada Pacific
Railway, *Inch is controlled by, a
wealthy syndicate, and being pushed
with a vigor and persistency only equal-
led in the construction of our own trans-
continental- lines. A large amount of
American capital is *lid finding its way
into those places, sial so far is this the
case that visitors speak of the city of
Winnipeg in particular as being On a
business way very like. ou1r own- fast -
We observe that of late several papers,
in their editorials, refer personally to
the editors of their cotemporaries by
name. This is a mean style of discus-
sion, and the sooner it is dropped the
better. -(Clinton New Era.
But if all the newspaper editors of the
county wrote cleanly, and avoided the
foolish habit of "Jack-ing,"' "Bill-ing"
and "Tom-ing" their .confrere', it would
be dttticult to distinguish who were the
trained journalists and who the "arna-
teura." As it is now, when an ''anca-
teur" is devoid of argument, he Beta over
the difficulty by indulging in persmali-
ties against newspaper men who differ
from him. On the whole, it is perhaps
better that the present styles should be
maintained; so that even the uninitiated
may be able to determine between the
real and the "amateur" editors.
WHITEWASHING TrPPER.
On the motion of Sir Leonard Tilley
for the House of Commons to go into
Committee of Supply on Tuesday last.
Hon. Mr. Mackenzie moved an amend-
ment condemning the action of Sir
Charles Tupper in the awarding of the
railway oontract for the Port Moody and
Emory Bar section to Onderdonk &
Co., to the detriment of McDonald &
Charlebois, who had sent in the lowest
tender. ?!Ay the act of the Minister of
Railways a loss of $204,255 had been
entailed on the country. Mr. Macken-
zie presented the amendment in a cool,
unirnpassionedmanner,and discussed the
bearings of the case in a clear and con-
cise style. Sir Charles Tupper then
took the floor, and without attempting
to deny the facts as set forth, proceeded
to accuse Hon. Mr. Mackenzie of hay -
low zero i - -
Ws cannot but admire the persistency
with which the Neer Ent hangs to its
notion that Clinton should be the enun-
ty town. The Fele E -a says in its last,
"et would he better for the people of
the entice (aunty if it was located in
Clinton." That is merely an assertion
on the part of the Clutton journal, and
we don't see how the facts would bear it
out. It certainly wouldn't he tetter for
the people of Goderich, or Ashfield, or
West.Wawanoah, or the resident, of the
greater part of East Wawanish, or Col I hound," .tc, studded Rir Charles
tent. or three-fourths of Otelerieh Tupper• reference to Mr. Gordon
township or Hayfield; and a. for the re Brown, an I went far ter prove thtt the
sidents of otherearteins .d the counts., amendment of Mr Mackenzie had en -
the midi • , of railway fare would tend the points of hie armour, and
hay them to prefer to have
besinees transacted at ( inb.a
this at Goderich. WhenGiederich
k nattlrtl de.th, and.' the benign
inffeerme of the N. P., and it is ntse sm-
ary to hare a new euunty town, controls'
located, the rote from West Hnrnn will
he to eatery the pnl•lir httilden¢s and
officer Myth
se,. t...
air. tmaIles Tapper.
It' the discharge of his duty as • mem-
ber of the House of Commons the Hon.
Alexauder Mackenzie yesterday, on its
going into Committee of Supply, 'moved
an atneudeoent setting forth the facts in
the recent awarding id a contract to
Messrs. Onderdunk. of Cu. for building
the Emory Bar section of the Canada
Pacific ltailruad. The amendment claim-
ed that Messrs. McDonald & Charlebois,
the lowest tenderers, had been impro-
perly passed over;and the country there-
by robbed of over two hundred thousand
dollars; and it ultimately duclared that
the House could not therefore approve
of the award. Sir Charles Tupper, as
Minister of Railways, fully recognised
the imposatbil,ty of disproving the char-
ges, and fur one who aspires to the lea-
dership rile great political party resort-
ed to the unworthy trick of assailing
with unparalleled vituperation nue° who
is clot a member of the House.
thereby hoping to withdraw public
attention from the gravity of his
offences. Those who are acquaint-
ed with the verdict of the electors in '74
upon the great Pacific Scandal know
Hutt such a 'flimsy subterfuge will be
without avail. \Vhatever charges have
been preferred against the Minister of
Railways in theseculumns were directed
ti.
4 reset bens state $sssbwesa.
„un .., Sir Joon ilacluna:d
_ DIRZMPTORY eUCTION SALit OF
u•,.id. rURt* 11.. 11.....1.. t
tHln l't.AO,
o,.ot s .tt the heat o. the L'ep*:traent o1
the bosom gl 4e lour indeed u the pre-
er( o otena
stout rt t permitted to tnisrule
Collodi'.... ug alai. will the Met inter-
ests of Manitoba and the North-west be
1141:1 laved by buo;hug u.e•,ntudeacid en-
ecrui.ol.us iaeuepttut [`1 uunpeg Ftee
Press. ,
1 ('weapaign Lie AalieJ.
The L.rdou hire f'., •. ..ye, there ass
no chants to start °wttort fe.,tuut s In
Canada before the adoption of the N. 1'
11'e dun t care u.u.:li ate t t discussing
the c'nin eA, hut we kilter as a fact that
early to 1.473 the N. Hudun Cotton
Factory of Hoecheinga, near Momtreal,
was stoned with an immense dourieh of
trumpets; and that war just abet the
time that Thema' White, M. 1'. fur
Cardwell, offered a reso ution it t: e
Dominion Board of ;Trade to the effect
that industries in Canada, which, could
not get along under 15 per cent. aril
did not desert a bt succeed. We rJsu
are aware that cotton Nitwits existed
in Cornwall an 1 Dutche bufine the N.
P. was cuuc iuve1 of. -[Advocate-Ad-
viser.
1 am tu'trutged by the *esI ,agcls. (u tell
b + public autttut., ,s. ilii pt Luis... "7 re
Hatibu.d liutcl," at t:.e 1 It...) . rtwu,
tiudertr li. uN Taaratla1, AprU a .. ia•x, the
entire contents sit the hour, t.•t.wisl,t a of s
missed T..ble . 1 t't.ttgr 1'.ai a at:e + 1001,
the L td., B.'dding awl W "r u. tw . enu-
talned In t3 nwos. luuing Tables, Table Lin-
ea. Cruets. Crocker), Glassware, kititis and
Forks '4C1"- ii. ac., l.rmtt cuulcuta sit d:ulur
ream, looking mud sit ter Newt t u..,1 thin
K itebea 'tarniture t ouspltat• the 1.4u -room
Furrlturerouatats re Beer i'natpe. H'ak•r
Taut, In• oaten.. lilessee, Crag 11 n 1, Vic -
tur s, .• e.„; in the e.u.ng 1 03. 6 ..ere s e
slot•., LUUWrtw t'eati. 'tsWO,, r.ui tut rats,
ha,»leh..., Mlm,n, ,taut ad hare. .1 i ar-
pet, Hal? Seat, )'aur t.. a and l'omoan. Cbaln.
T„,.,,,,Ie will c nntitoce sharp at 1 u', IiM i. -
end will lw cow., urd daily until the whole
1 .t .if dial o ed . 1 Retrains w U a glang at
thle silt, to. no se.1.l • nt er d w F br with-
drawn. Thr Piano and led flat Share, bed -
dmug etc., w I1 he sold ou flit Arcolal. Terme
Cash. J. (' CURRIE.
uaillif and A Ate hisser.
Oederieb. March laud, lett Iltst•lt.
Tepper and his New ('.dtra ter.
It may be mentioned -here, as n fur-
ther evidence .1 the character ..f the
transaction which Mr. McLelan describ-
ed, that some years later Mr. Holmes,
leader of the Tory party is Nista Scotia,
and now Premier of the I'rwince, mho
wits a resident of Pict. it at the time the
ratlway was built, gave his testimony in
a speech in the Leal Legislature trent
which we quote:
"The first thing we have to esti.natu
u the value of the railway. The twat of
the road was about $2,700,000. Its
length is about 54 utiles, including the
ferry and and the average cost was,
therefor, about 54,000 per utile. * *
The real cost of building the road was
probably a little over $30.000 per mile."
Here we have the authority of one of
Sir - Charles Tupper's principal Nova
Scotia friends, the Premier of the Pro-
vince, that the. result .it the arrange-
ment so ,•raphically described by Mr.
McLelan watt to ,stake the people' of
Nova Scotia pay one million two hund-
red and ninety-six thousand dollar,
more than an honest price for the work.
against him in his public, and not psi- Just how that handsome sum was dis-
vate, capacity. Made under the honest tributed is a question that to this day is
conviction as to their truth, and never asked in Nova Scotia.
sheltered by the privileges of Parliament But all such. reflections must be put
aside now to enable us to look epon the
noble picture of Sir Charles Topper and
A. W. 31cLelan marching arm in arae to
1 the table of the House of Commons.-
The rile* .f Rut.
(Halifax Chronicle.
How this N. P. does benefit the far - -
mer to be sure ! Wool here is as low as I The General v. the Premier.
25c. per pound, but in Michigan it air. Dalton has signified his intention
brings 35 to 38 its. --[Watford Advocate of keeping this case of General Hewson
Adviser.
growing western cities."
Hon. Mr. Hibbard also suggests reci-
procity in the wreekage lows, and draws
attention to the shortening of through
,trade from the west by means of the
Midland Railway and its water connec-
tions.
THE PORT MOODY J3B.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
Pursuant to the sit respeettne Truett es and
Executors creditor unu ,t w rat av,r a claim•
agabut the estate fl '.%plias• 1ry,•r Arnold
we of the town of Godrtiub y. ti a Camay of
Humin. Gentleman. dtu•aw d. are re iuested to
send to Meyer.. Strat hyof' Ault, Ba-rtr. Ont.,
aolici'ers for 11 e Ireset a White.' the rntrrta(te
settlement of the Is c father of said H'. 1t.
Arnold. deceased, on or berme the VLN$T
DIV OF snail., ta5Y. full and .'e'tatled
statemen's of their tinier. dulytcrhtd by
rtatutttry declarations. and to tae not ee that
immediately atter that date, the said Trustee*
will proceed to distribute 11 c .e7 s in their
hands W the credit of soul ti:ate u g the
parties entitled thereto, Itatfog rugs' d" only 10
the clatins of which told trustees have Sten
notice.
Dated 21.11, Fch. 1232.
STIt.\TI(1' it AULT.
SuLcitume, Harrie.
----
1811 -it.
it Cried. Teem.
The present tariff seem to be growing
gradually but surely unpopular. Retail
store -keepers now declare it an injury.
Importers never liked it Farmers as a
rule are against it. Persona with fixed
salaries find the tariff makes dearer
prices, but gives no increase of stipends;
while the labor strikes throughout the
oountry show that mechanics are begin-
ning to regardthetariff aaanarrangement
designed to give the cream to capital
and the leavings to labor. -[Advertiser.
The nyadleale'. Deadly Grip.
There are some papers to be laid be-
fore Parliament in relation to the Syn -
Tie odmlwlstratl.e lose Three hwpMrlers dicate contract and the prosecution of
.■ a sive..-Tee opMaus.n el
ms a
a11 the work undertaken. The great ob-
sIn the Government's Coen.
Correspondence London Advertiser.
Orrawe, March 28. --The hall opened
'to -day with a vengeance. On Tilley
moving the House into Supply, the row
jections being raised t., the Syndicate
are that it is carrying matters with a
high hand in order to crush out compe-
tition and secure a monopoly of the
carrying traffic, and that it is grabbing
began. • A paragraph in the Fre Press town sites alum* the line, to the detri-
having warned the public that there meat of settlers and the (government.
would be music, the galleries were cram- It is quite natural that the Syndicate
med to their utmost capacity. Macken- should try to make all it can out of its
zie opened the ball by a singularly div- I contract, but if the people of Manitoba
passionate but incisive speech on the begin to feel that it is too greedy there
Port Moody job. He recounted all the willbe trouble. It isao strtiig an organ -
facts with which the public is already 'moon that it seems to be able to beat
familiar, and declared it the worst he down or undermine all opposition, and
ever knew on the part of any Govern_ there is really no means of discovering
ment. He concluded by moving a re- how many railways and newspapers it
shlution to the effect that the House
cannot approve of the action of the
Government in losing so large a sum of
money to the country, and must disap-
prove of the system on wh ' this con-
tract was given to (hiderd&. Tupper
replied in a most violent ••rangue the
burden of which was a personal attack
employing 2bi hands. The Waterloo
on Mr. Blown and his paper. Among
Citron/4r points out that only one fac-
other choice figures of speech he dubbed fury, employing tifty-nine hands, has
him a "craven hound." and accused him been started there. The others were in
existence or the bulling' were being er-
ected before 1878. In one instance the
removal across the street of a children's
carriage factory has been credited to the
N. P. as "a new industry."Neu' tndui.
darted tit Waterloo and Olin duriny the
Mttrken.ir Gorntmr,t leer(:
Waterloo Woolen Works.
" Button Works.
Flouring Mill.
Berlin Two Button Factories.
Foundry and Engine Shop.
Steam Grist Mill
Slipper and Felt Work..
Children's Carriage Works.
Planing Mill.
HERIFF'S SALE OF LANDS.
Cot -STY or Htitoa, 1 By virtue of • Wrtt of
Ti) WIT:
FIerl Facial, honed out
of Her Majesty's Court of the ('panty of
Huron. and to me directed against the Lands
and Tenements of Hugh McDonald and Mary
Jose Mcltnnald at the snit of William Coate.
1 have seised and taken In execution all the
right, title and interim and equity cf redemp-
tion. of the aheve noted defendants in and
to the north half of lot number ten, in the
third concession of the township of Morris, In
the County of Huron, containing 100 acres of
land, more or les; 44 bleb Linde and tent-
nients 1 shall offer for mule, at my ofllte in the'
Court House. In the Town of Goderich, on
FRIDAY. THE title DAY Ole JUNE. next. at
the hour of twelve of the clock, noon.
ROBERT GIBBONS,
Sberii'of uron.
Sbertff's Omce Guderi4.
March 6th, 1862. 11SiH17t.
against Sir John A. Macdonald open
until the affidavit of Senator Howland
of P. E. I. arrives from Ottawa. It is
claimed that the award was made by this
gentleman, and his affidavit is ueeessary
in the case. Mr. John Shields swears
positively that there was noaward trade,',
while Mr. James Cotton swears positive- i
ly that there was an award made. Sir
John Jlaclonald has sworn in his afli- .
davit that Mr. Shields had paid 82500'
to General Hewson, and this the Gene-
ral acknowledges, together with some
other small amounts received from Sir
John, amounting to $200 or more, which
would make a total of $2750 on account
of the $15,000 promised by Sir John.
This would lestve a balance of $12,380
due Hewson. Sir John admits ,in his
affidavit that Hewsun's demand is cor-
rect, but maintains that, it is the party
which is responsible and not him. The
question is now, did Mr. Shields pay
that $2,500 out of the "patty's" money,
or was it Sir John's private funds. The
case will no doubt go to a jury, and the
result will be awaited with interest by
the public. -(World of Saturday.
8111 JOHN'S STATEMENT.
Ix THs House of Commons nn Mon-
day, Sir John A. Macdonald made the
following statement : Before the House
adjourns I wish to make a statement
respecting a tatter which affects myself
personally, which was the subject of an
article in the Globe of Friday last. The
article states that for the sum of $2,500
I was sold to a contractor. 1 do not sup -
embraces within its tentacles. --(Tele- pose that many on either side of the
grain. House will believe the statement, and I
would perhaps pass it over only that it is
The Tall Calafarya. specific in its statement, and it affects a
The "tall chimney" lie, is receiving contractor, Mr. John Shields, whose fu -
hot shot in broadsides from stem and ture might depend upon the charge be -
stern. It gave Berlin seven factories, 'ng answered or unanswered. 1 can
only state that there is not the slightest
of all sorts of treachery. it is impos-
sible to describe the fury and ferocity of
his language. He repudiated the action
of his Secretary, Bradley. His winding
up attack on Gordon Hrown, whom he
accused of trafficking in the reputation
of his dead brother, elicited cries of
"Coward !" ''Shame !" and created a
general uprrr. Mr. Cameron, of
Huron, followed in • remarkably good-
tempered speech, in which he pointed
mit the illegality of Tupper's action.
Mr. Blake dissected Tupper -s excuses
and explanations with a calm surety that
was perfectly crushing. Following the
history of the affair step by step, he
proved from Tupper's own story that a
deliberate intention was evident from
the dart to give the contract to Onder-
dunk. The effort on the H••use was There is no doubt • good deal i,
very marked. Sir John sprang to his ground for the feeling that is yearly
feet as soon as Blake ceased. He spoke
with unexpected vigor, defending Tap- Rgert^wing stronin England that the
per and pitching into the way the late ruppmrtof • lot of princesandpnneessesu
Government had given out contracts. i • very serious thing. Whatever excuse
never sew Sir John at violent. At one there may be for giving the Prince of
time, he fairly frothed and levelled Waite a g..od round allowance, seeing
charms wfminst Mackenzie. which it a that he performs many public duties that
evident he cannot substantiate or we wnuld ntherwiee devolve up,ntheQueen,
would have had them long ago Wheni there is no excuse for spending thous -
he sit don own Huntington took the floor ands of pends •nnially nn men sod Imo
brought forth etid.•e'es of *cute feeling. I i•i defence •of the es Premier, end dolled I men who are of no earthly service to the
The debet, was fnll..w •.1 up by Mr. nr. I the Government to mire the eharree errantry This age is not so foil of semi•
(' Cameron, Nr Rlake, Sir Richardmade by the ['minter He did not forint um the age that hove preoeeded it,
speak long, het tntnmged t•, pet a Rood sad the British workman. out id whose
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Tae Coot of loyalty.
Cartwright and Mr. Huntingdon, on the
Uppoeition side, sod Sir John Macdonald
e nd Mr McLennan nn behalf o1 the
Government. Sur .Inhn, in but speech,
.h.mldere.l the responsibility of the joh
• •h Tnnpn ,n4 iherehv made the
deal 'nit, the apart he occupied. The
grand explosion of the pent up excite-
ment of the debate was reserved for
Cartwright. He sailer( into Tupper and
the Government in a style that loft
nothing M he desired For whnle minu-
tes he mold not he heard for the hide -
pocket the allowances to the various
members of the royal family must come,
has Isogon to think that he might lost as
well impend his money in clothing and
educating his children as in maintaining
a swans of highly respectable but totally
rtnnr.wbnrei^^ ,nand.«.. a soriett
truth in the statement, and 1 shall short-
ly relate the facts. although it is rather
unpleasant to talk about one's own af-
fairs. An action was brought against the
by General Hewa.on, which I resided,
and was brought down for trial here at
the last Spring Assizes. At that time
I was, as illy colleagues and most of my
friends are aware, very ill, confined to
my house, and by some it was thought 1
would never leave it again. However, I
was preparing to go to England, and
when this trial carne on my medical man
I told me it was as much as my lite was
worth to go to court to give evidence in
the case. Mr. Shields, although a con.
tractor, is a friend of mine, and he was
subi.cnaed as a witness. He came to
see me, and to offer -me his good (}Roes,
and this relieve in. of the worry and an-
noyanoe. 1 bold him to go and try and
have • settlement, and to pay a sum of
'stoney to have • settlement. i was told
that it was agreed to be settled for the
sum of $2,500, and a release was to be
given for it That money was paid, but
it was not paid by Mr Shields; it was
for me and by me As 1 wish to he
.rictly accurate in the nutter 1 will
date this. that not being a rich man, 1
had not the money at the time, and a..
my .o lieitew went and procured it from a
friend, but not from Mr. Shields Mr.
Shields Aad nothing to do with it. i
lwwrowed It. It was lest to me, and
when 1 came hack fre.m England i pay
halt of it all D-eouid afort to pay rind
on the Ant ,.f July 1 will pay my friend
the other half with interest. Mr.
Shields has snake ►Aklavit to the troth of
these facts He doer not even know
from whom 1 borrowed the money.
The•.* are the simple facts, and 1 wonld
wish to inform the Hone, of them for
the reason 1 here piee-
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