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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1891-8-13, Page 4SANDERS & SWEET, Props. THURSDAY, AUG, I3tl , 1861. ANOTHER SCANDAL. The latest sensation at Ottawa is that of the alleged "hoodling" in the inatter of the, Bay Chaleur'ss Railway. This time it is a most serious charge of money speculation, in which noless a 1)ersonage than the leadenof the Que- bec Government (Eton, ?di Mercier) is to be the respondent, What aro the facts? . The Upper House was lately asked to incorporate a new company formed for the construction of the above lthe of Railway running through the Provinea of Quebec, so as to float the bonds in the English market. There- upon Mr, Barwick, Q, O. of Toronto, in- terposed for the protection of certain; creditors; and alleged that he was pre- pared to substantiate on oath that a sum of $100,000 oust of the subsidy vot- ed by Parliament had been nisappro• pliatep for election purposes in the in. ferests of the leader of the Quebec gov- errinaent. So serious was the charge, and so damaging to persons of promin- enee at Quebec, that Dir. Barwick de. unanded am investigation on oath, but would not otherwise give to the Senate committee the details of the case or the tames of parties implicated. No soon- er had the Senate resolved to proceed. -with the investigation, then Mr. Lon- ergan (one of the directors who Went to Ottawa to push through the Bill, on the ground that it was essentially nee- essary to borrow funds in the money Inarket) now asked leave to withdraw the Bill, Hen comes in the political purity of the men who have been cry- ing "Tory corruption" for weeks past. Fearing the exposure that ,would re_ suit from Mr. Barwicks allegations be- ing proved before the Committee of Senate, the Hon, Messrs. Scott and Por - mer followed by other grit members of that body spent a whole day in trying to hark 'the investigation, and to carry a motion for a withdrawal of the Bill; -which motion, however, was lost both in Committee and in the Senate by two to one. Meanwhile Mr. Mercier tele- graphs to his friend Mr. F. 'Langelier, M. P;, to represent him before the Com- mittee; this latter gentlemen is seen in close confiab with the grit members of Senate; one of the principal -witnesses summoned to give evidence, a Mr. C. N. Armstrong,' fails to appear and sub- jects himeel'f to be called before the Bar of the House; and altogether, to use the Hon. Mr. Abbott's words in the Senate, it looks like a case of "gross corruption, and of money that had been stolen from funds entrusted to the com- pany for the completion of the road"! To say, the least, it is very suspicious that so soon as Mr. Barwick's charges were tabled, and his papers and docu- ments handed in to the Clerk of Senate on which to substantiate the -charges,: all of a sudden the Company asks leave to withdraw the Bill, and the Grit 'sneinbers of the Senate with startling unanimity moye heaven and earth to bark the inquiry by trying on legal technicalities to carry a motion for -withdrawing the Bill. The yote in the Senate stood thus: 27 for pressing the investigation, and 11 for giving the company leaye to withdraw their Bill. Who are the purists grow? Where are the boodiers? On which side of the • Rouse was the attempt made to stifle inquiry, and thus withdraw from Par- liament an investigation in which a large amount of public money is said to have been expended for pnlitical purposes? Should Mr. Barwick's grave charges be substantiated, not only will the Quebec Government totter and fall, but the credit of the Opposition through. out the Dominion will be irre}-ocably damaged in the eyes of the electorate SYSTEMAY:IC BOODLING. The system of "boodling" seems to Lave been adopted in Canada to a con- siderable extent, judging from the rev- elations made by recent investigations at Ottawa. Not only have subordinate clerks and others in several of the pub - lie departments been suspended for ir- eagu}arities, consisting chiefly of draw- ing pay for extra work, but 'higher game has been successfully tried. Dur- ing the Tarte-McGreevy investigation, A has transpired that. 121. Thos. Mc. Greevy, Id P. for Quebec, was ap )roached b contractEr arbor y cis for tae ): arbor iniprovemenrs of that city, , acid by Lia burn admission under oath confessed to having,' received in all ,some $55,000 from L'nkin, Connoliy & Co,, which ,l 'sr;lr,a 111? ed to election purposes, Of course, Mr, �o ,uPrIcG; violated the : Inde- pendence penclence Act of Parliament by accept- ing money- for such purposes from contractors for public works, and is therefore now politically dead. He can never enter parliament again, His evidence, however, fails toc,mieet the government at Ottawa or the Minister of Public Works in any way with the transaction. The I:lon, Mr: Langevin will now have an opportunity of stat tug on oath how far ho Was cognisant of these transactions. Whilst, howev er, a great deal of bluster and bunk um has been expended by the Opposi• tion and their leading journals over certain alleged irregularities,—the lat- est sensation of the day seems to show that "the boot is on the other leg," and that no less .' person thian the Hon. Mr. Mercier, the leader of the Quebec ov- eminent, hasbeen charged 'publicly before the Senate of. Canada With hav in appropriated the neat little sum of $$100,000 for election purposes out of nrouey that vas granted to the Bay Chaleu s Railway, only a stall portion of the subsidy having_ been expended' on construction, it the topic of uni- versal comment, both in the lobbies of parliament and on the street; and bids fair from the prominent position of the parties concerned to eclipse the little peccadilloes exposed by the Tarte-Mc- Greevy investigation. What with "crookedness" on the part of such members as Mr. Charlton in regard to timber limits, and the alleged mis-ap propriation by Count Mercier for elect- ions purposes of monies voted as a saib- sidy for public Works, the moral ad - wits of easy application "They who live in glass houses ought tot to throw stones." LUNAR UL'SERYATI01YS• Of late years, with the advance of science, much attention has been giv- en by astronomers to the condition of our earth's satellite, the moon. It be- ing the nearest planet to our earth—in round numbers some 270,000 miles dis- tant—astronomers are in a position with their improved telescopes to form a tolerably correct estimate of its ap- pearance, Several drawings and phot - graphs of the moon have been lately made at the celebrated Lick Observa- tory, in the United States. The dram eter of the moon is now ascertained to be about 2000 miles—much less in sire than our earth. It is supposed to be an extinct planet— that is, life does not now exist upon it. And it is more than likely that the tempaturo of the moon never rises about freezing point, -which would account for what appears to be the now uuchaugable condition of things in the lunar world. From tele- scopic observations already made, there is no doubt that the surface of the moon presents an appearanceof craters and extinct volcanoes, and extensive seas, to which names have been given —one of those seas, (the mare crisium) being 78,000 square miles in area, and almost, visible to the naked eve at cora tarn .phases of the moon, This, sea is surrounded by a high walled plain, with rims of ruined craters on its sur- face, giving the appearance of'a lava flow, Sonne of the mountains on the moon are as high as Mount Blanc, in the Alpine range. It is evident that in some past age, long lsefore the creation of man, the lunar planet was the scene of great convulsions which have pro- duced chasms and valleys, and a wild- erness of mountains and broken cliff's, presenting a eimtlar appearance to what we see on our own earth in a re- gion e n of volcanoes. o canoes. Oine of the vexed questions to be determined by scientific men is as to the probable changes urn dergoing in the moon's surface And a series of observations is in course of being taken during the several periods of the 'moon's lunation to determine this question. With the advance of modern science, and the improved fa- crlitie,s for taking observations, we may be on the eve of a greatly extencl- ed knowledge as to the condition of the moon, and of other planet'ny bod- ies as well. We clip the following from Biggers Anecdotal Life of Sir. John McDonald:— "Readers of "Little Dorritt" will re- member the character of Mr. Casby,and. visitors to, 0 a t wa who have met the Ilon. John Carling may have traced in the refulgent beams of fatherly inno- cence which that honorable gentleman bestows upon: an unworthy world some facial and moral resemblances to that character of Dickens.,' Whether Sir John had such resemblances in his mind when the following question oc- carred to friar is not known,but the gem is none the less rich fen the doubt One day as the members of the Cabinet binet were chatting together, after the busi- ness of "council" was over:, Sir John was seen to look- in- tently and seriously at Mr, Carling. At last he asked, "Carling,I wonder if God Almighty ever created a roan as lion- est as you look?" Grand Bend Mrs. J. N. Hayter was up to Godericli tp, last week, visiting her daughter Dlrs. Mozare, Miss Barbara who accompanied her sister to her home in Michigan return- ed home on Saturday night, The heavy vain and wind storm which took place on Sunday eveting has blew the top of o11' severalstacks. The service which was to be helm in the camping grounds turned out'a_ fail- ure on account of the heavy raia and hind storm. The masons have cornpleted the brick world on Mr, August Hay tors new house and the carpenters ere bus- ily engaged us-ily,engaged roofing it. The flax bee of Mr. R. Olii'ers on Wednesday of last week was well' at- tended as well as' the party which took place after the flax was pulled, and af- ter the supper was disposed off, A valuable mare belonging to Mr. Geo, Leyte fell into a well on Sunday evening but before help could be so• cured to extricate her from the bottom Of the well life was extinct it is sup- posed that foul air was the cause of her dying so suddenly its there was only about 8 feet of water in it. Sunday's Storm. Gonuiuoi, Aug 10.—A heavy thia.n der storm broke over this section yes- terday afternoon and the heaviest rain fall for yea rswas the result. For tuneate- ly the cut grain haus'been' pretty well housed by the farmers of this section hurl no great daanage was done to the growing crops or orchards. SIIArOnTl-1 Aug. 10—The storms Here yesterday was very severe and a good deal of the standing grain was. `knock ed down, but as it is nearly ripe it will not be injured further than that it will be more diifleult to harvest. The apple crop is very light this year and it has been made lighter by the storm as Some trees have been almost entire - 'y stripped of fruit by the wind. Fen- ces were blown down and trees br6ten and uprooted, but no serious damage was done. The Wind while it lasted was very severe, but the .rainfall was not very heavy KINCARDINE Aug. 10th. ----The hurri- cane of yesterday was terrific, but of short duration. In this neighborhood considerable damage was done to crops by the wind and rain beating them down. Grundy's stove foundry here Was partially unroofed, and from the adjacent municipalities reports have been received that several barns have been unroofed and crops sulrered more or lees WATPORD, Aug. I0.—The heaviest thunderstorm experienced here for a long time occurred last ev'gdabout-9 p. m. and continued until midnight. Dur- ing the whole time the sky was a con• tinual mass of fire, the trashes of. light- ening being so vivid The rain poured in torrents, falling 21,0 inches while about6 miles south of here in the town ship of Brooke rain fell to the depth of 6 inches on the leyel. All: the wheat has been harvested and some of the oats and very little uncut grain being out, the heavy rains will not injure the crops to any extent. Jas. Tanner's barn on the 2nd line of Warwick was struck by lightening and burned in last nights storm with all his hay and 350 bushels of wheat just threshed, A self, binder and other implements Which- was partially covered by $1,000 in the London Mutual was burned Another barn on the 9th eon, of Brooke was also burned, while still anotner was struck but the fire was extinguish- ed, $(9A4 Ad,Aa,id.Y incl 00rnn,issioit to tTP,J*J'J o gents, Men and Women, Teach- ers and Clergy nren to introduce a fety and pointaItar atarrsiarcib•,oSK. rjesl;innmon y of 19 'lr)L ntiiries' to Jesus of Nazareth, The most remarkable religious book of the age. writ ten by 300 nrninent scholars, Non - sect a rianEvery Christian wants it. Ex- clusive territory . git e _. Apply to The 'fury Bill Publishing Co., Norwich, CONN, CONStJMPTI0N1 I have a positive remedy for the above disease; by its use thousands of cases of the worst kind and of long standing have been cured. 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