The Clinton News-Record, 1904-03-24, Page 41111100w,
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W. J. BarcHELL,
The Week In Parliament.
The proceedings of 'Parlikinant (hir-
ing the week were enliyened::by a Most
spirit( d debate. oe the address in- re-
ply to the • speech from the- Throne.
The Opposition took advantage Of • the
iirst 4.portunity afforded theta .16
criticise many peculiar traessatiens of
the administration. '
1.11000wwwiliwwWwwwwwwwwwwwiewemerie:', • '
hargain eva.s tegafly bound,duly signed
by Digby 's mayor and town clerk and
Alr. CePP . was submitted to Parlia-
ment and Sir Wilfrid Laurier was ask-
ed to take steps to investigate, the
.cherge and tithe action against his
supporter. The Premier did not even
mu:descend to reply and was satisfied
aitit te personal explanation of the af-
fair be- Mr. Copp. The people of Dig-
by„ evhe ore Mr. Copps own constitta
tintswere evidently of the opinion
that in order to get' the government
to act seenebotly must be bribed. They
accordingly ,agreed to tax themselves
to 'the tune of 55,00o for the pterpoati
of greening Palms. The ex- -
posure is one which disgraces Canadian
public life.. The • action of the govern-
ment in winking at the transaction, •
makes the scendal infinitely worse.
Rviclently corruptien •ia. the Liberal
camp is worse •throt liae :been suspect-
ed.
Excellent speeches ccndemnatory of
the government's policy- .were. •made
by Mr. R, L. Borden, feeder of. the
-
Opposition, Hen. John 0. Ilaggart,
Mr. W. F. Maclean; Mr. W 11. Ben,
nett, Mr. T. Chase Casgraiii, Mr.. EA):
Smith, AIr. Jabel Robinson, Mr. W,
Northup and Dr. • Daniel, - .
The appointment of Hem A. 9:.•
Blair to ehe chairmanship of the Rail-
way Conunissien,• after he had been:.
accuse(l -4)y members of the cabinet ctf
conduct unworthy of a .person aspiring
to such a high. judicial. position, OS
. denounced in unmeasured terms. -•
'A stra-1.1it chat 1.. W.1,!; sloe- .
ported by a sigaed agreement,• against.
J. 5. C pita Libend member. Joe
Digby, N. S., whO undertook 'to-set:tire..
the ectnpletion by- the government. cf
harbor improvements at Digby, in -re-
turn for $5,000.. The geeerriment • did
not even toply to .the 'allegation which.
shoelcl be investigated -at once,
• The -Cailbre of the i..cln.inistratiOn "Lc •
give eansideratior to many mieStioni
which Sir Wilfrid Laurierlias repeat-
edly P°°° ed to deal with was also
made a subject Of gen3:11 cmtonent. ,
Main estimates fcr 1'904-05 • calling.
for a .ote of $62,935,338, an increase.
cl $5,825,354 as compared with 3903-04
were submitted to the Commons.•
•A bill to amend • the 5Ii1iti 'Act.
was introdoced: Many- important cite'
Loges will follow its atop ic
Mr. Henri•Bourassa, Literal Ininaber-
for Labelle, -objected to the .'hTtion....Taek
being lice n from the .Parliament
dings.
Liberals Still Hold •
TO corruptiOn.-:.
The_ Caliservative party lias made:
another effort • to haveplaced on .the
statute books of Canada, laivi;
will , serve to sitepress the.
election crimes'. which • lia,ye(•, been.
S() persistently Utiq Sy ekt. Ily
played by the Liberal party for' years
past. Mr. It. It: Borden tiiok the .eare.
hest opportunity to impress. ten- the
premier the • import -once- of 1 taking:
sonic such step, bat Sir Wilfrid Lear-.
ler did m. -t take the trcuble tie reply
to the appeal ler purer elections, &J.::
though he referree at length ,to inatt-•
ers oi minor importendaaeon year,.
- the Prinnier lave a solemn; .proinjeg
that the question would. be giverii Ser-
ious consideration, but at _OM (Ind ct
the session of 1903, E.; bill to. proVale•
for the puniehmert of- election' ihugs.
was ignoininiov sly ,kickeei oat, 01! 'Pare,
Bement Ly the goverinnent..•NCY.•legis-
* lation is ii.ore necessary than that by
which elections in this 'country can be.
purified. But the ;Ahem]. party 'with'
the premised co-operalion of .the • Op --
position to assist it,: positively - de-
clined to take a step ehat would. at
once remove froin its coinanaudo an
instrument employed on every possible
occasion. Canadians, who. hr,ped- to see
some definite action -in the- direction
indicated by the Conservative leader,
will be solely disiSepoattecl at the lethe
orgy dieplo.yedi by the, 0c,vertenere:•
With corruption •of theworst type
manifesting itself on every 'side, it 'will
now beci.ine the duty of Independent
voters to joie' forces with the .Conser-
vative party in carrying thitt. issue -to
suceessiol cenclusion.
Boodling Condoned •
By Government.
The sec:di:MUMS With 1911041 50111e
inembers d the .14arrier Government
have risen frotti 1.101.70.1-3/ to 11.1111leliSa
wealth has been freely diectissecl itt
the Canadien Press. Hon. •Clifford
Sifton is perhaps the richest. Matt in
the ache i it streticm teed aye -although
in 1846 he was :addled with judg-
ments for large sums held by,. the
city of Winnipeg. It will rot be . a
matter fr ,r surprise, therefere, that
a Liberal member of Parliamere,
J. S. Copp of Digby, has ea-deal:mad
to use his tiositioit as a means of in-
creasing his fortune. On November 29
1902, that representative (?) of the P06,
pkt men d into at agreemeitt With
the limit of Inigiby to secure it gc,c-
ernameit gatnt :(ir the porpose of int-
provieg th harbor of that (.0W11. Mr.
Copp was paid $56o cash for hie see -
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