Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 25, 1891, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba daily free press. Winnipeg March 25 Manitoba free press. Morning and evening editions published every Day except Simony at six o clock a. M., and four o clock p. M., respectively at Winnipeg by Tho Manitoba free press co. W. F. Luxton managing director and editor in chief. Senhor edition by mall Ono tear six Ono Btl Coly Cafalli in Advance. Dally morning free press delivered in Winnipeg on Emo terms. Evening Freo trass Ami san delivered Jim in a leg 20 cents per week Pur month s Forturn months. . Advertising rates per no Parou line 1 Llnore a macs Ono Inch in for appearing la Bot i Ordinary advertising ton co its poll to each in Scialon. A11vfiitis1ng inserted for n definite period of biota wed for at Tho following one week. 80 cents por line two weeks. Z one month. So months. Advertisements occupying less space than five a Knob will to charged Flo Foo . 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The whole position is so extraordinary that be scarcely knows How to approach in. If the Dominion government is acting charged ice can be no doubt that it grave injustice s being Dona this province whatever Niay Eaid Al the shortcoming of either present or the preceding Mani Oba government. There is evidently dug info fact ii or. Greenway s remarks roman f correspondence on Tho subject which it inf thebe Well to bring do Vuna Well As any ther papers or documents bearing on it. Need the whole matter would seem it fit Obj eco for a committee of inquiry to which very other question connected with this angled maps of Hudson Bay railway affairs might be referred. If or. Greenway e gov lament is innocent of culpable negligence in out do the Security for those Bonds let it be mow and if it can establish its innocence in other matters the trouble of a specie 1 in Jeiry will to Well repaid. Daily edition. In Trade. Liberty Lubell in wednesday March 25. Is i. Communication. The auditor in the Way. In assuming the discarded Mantle of that distinguished and financier or. L. Is. Jones the present treasurer assumed with the policy which had characterized that Gen Al roman a administration of the affairs of his department. As has already been pointed out or. Jones condemned with Groat seventy practice followed by or. Lari Tore when in office in including in the provincial unset a tumber of claims against the Dominion with the object of swelling the total and making a Good showing. When his own time tame however he was weak enough to sue dumb to a temptation which waa to reprehensible in the Case of or. Norquoy a treasurer and he was found including fictitious assets amounting to the very respectable sum of or. Mcmillan pays or. Jones the flattery of imitation and proceeds v do likewise notwithstanding that both of them and their friends so unanimously and indignantly reprobate the practice in 1888. The present treasurer s addition to the capital account of the province in the shape of the won Bourne railway Bonus to the editor of the free press. through your columns to Call Tho attention of our local government once More to the fact that the Railroad Bonus of a by Luis county for starting the Railroad now known is the m. N. W. Railway still remains Bunuel led by them. The Burden Pill remains on this county contrary to All Justice and fair play. Do they cuu to Bay they still remain in ignorance of the fact As to How this Bonus was granted and the reason it Given at the time or is it because the present government did Nob handle the machine at Tho time that they Ore willing to allow such a Burden to rest upon this county. Crushing out its very life and blasting All Ita future prospects by allowing this injustice to remain. Delegation after delegation Haa been sent to Lay All the facts before the government and our m. P. P. Ban worked unnecessarily to Endeavor to eeb Justice done us. Then sir either our delegates have failed to put the matter clearly before the government or the government a so very obtuse thai they cannot understand the position. Therefore that there May be no Tat ther mistake about it or delay in the Astle ment of thie to us it. Grievous matter i will Juso Why this Bonus was Given at the time and the reasons therefor. No one sir knows better than yourself that the difficulties the people of this Northwest Corner of the old province Laboured under. As you Well know it was settled by some of the first settlers from Ontario in the summer of 1871. They had fought All the difficulties consequent to their isolated Posi Tion and it was Only after 0. P. R. Commenced construction that Tho pc open Here commenced an agitation to get railway communication. The government fat that time was not in a position to give any Aid to such an Enterprise but would Hare been quite will ing to have done so had the Means been within their reach. Negotiating were carried on for some time before anything definite waa understood bub it was finally agreed upon Between the gentleman who were acting on be half of the county and some of the members of the Goyer Mont who were interested in getting this Road through that if the county would Issue to t be amount stated that just As soon ast to Federal Railroad act could be passed this should to assumed by the government or at rate the debt should be taken off the Cou Ity. Now sir i those forty mites. An interesting discussion took place in the assets that had been formerly denounced As fictitious is criticising this Man Ner of presenting the Public accounts or. Roble said that one of two things waa established either or. Jonas waa falsifying the position of the province for the purpose of House the other Day on the item to put the forty Miles of the Hudson Bay rail Way in s for inspection and approval in order to earn the land Grant. Besides being interesting those who have perused re port of it have done Lesa concluded that it discloses an extraordinary state of affairs the was started by or. Ilo Blin who fcb ought the occasion an appropriate one for having a Clear understanding of the facts relating to the forty Miles. Or. Greenway was prompt to respond. He said the Dominion government would five Iio Assurance that the land would to handed Over if the forty Miles were completed Accord ing to the Standard agreed upon. This is certainly extraordinary if True and if True the action of or. Greenway a government in refusing to go of with the work will be satisfactorily explained. This statement was repeated in various shapes and amplified Dar ing the course of the debate. Or. Greenway mid that one of Bis first acts on assuming office was to Endeavor to effect a settlement of Thia matter in order to obtain he land Grant As Security for the Bonds Given in Aid of the to k. He added that they were trying to do so Yeb bub like other matters of business with Tho Dominion government it was it slow unmistakably slow seeing that three years have already been wasted in the Effort. In reply to or. Liblin the Premier stated that Thero was no agreement with Che com Pany for the assignment of Ita rights in the to the Manitoba government Aud that the Dominion government had never Given any intimation that Tho land would be handed Over on a satisfactory inspection. He also expressed doubts in which to was joined by or. Smart As to whether the land Grant had Nob lapsed and added to these that on this Point too he had been unable to obtain any satisfaction from the Ottawa government notwithstanding a great Deal of correspond ence had taken place on the subject. Still further pressed on the general question or. Greenway Mode answer that the whole thing in a nut Abell was that if this government were assured they would get the land Grant the work would have been done Long ago. When they first made the vote it was without any definite information they then Learned it would Cost Over or and then More to put the govern ment in a position to get the Grant when the Dominion government would give it to again asked if the government had not been assured of the land Grant he re plied no we. Never got any Assurance that we could get the land Grant on the completion of the 4.0 Miles according to the order in setting Forth the conditions on which it was and that no such Asur Ance had been communicated to Tho govern this is a most important matter. Provincial Bonds to the amount of had been advanced in Aid of the 40 Miles on Tho under standing that acres of the company s land Grant should be transferred to the prove Iaco As Security. Owing to carelessness at the time Tho Bonde were Given to Tho contractors before the Road was properly completed and As it has not since been pub in shape for inspection the province is without its Security. The present government in its first session passed an act appropriating to Complete the Road and thus earn the land Grant but that sum or any other has never been expended. Accord ing to or. Green Way s explanations by i fault would appear to lie with the Dominion government which refuses to give any Assurance that the land would be transferred on the pro per completion of the work. It would further appear that the Manitoba government has no assignment of Tho company s rights in the land failing which of course the province is at the mercy of the Dominion. This As we have said is a most extra Ordin. Ary shape of affairs if True. It is inconceivable that the Dominion government should thus play the dog in the Manger especially As it can. No fail to understand that it is a matter of the utmost importance to Thia province. To be out on a piece of Road that is not even in running order without any Security to show for it is not a trifling affair to a pro Rince who to resources Are so limited As ours. And if mi1. Norquay s government neglected to get an assignment of the company s rights in the Laud As a preliminary precaution against further is inconceivable How or. Greenway s government with these difficulties on Ita to Mckean attempt to procure it As a partial Protection at least to the interests of the province. We gather from the debate referred to thab this attempt was not made As if it had been the fact would naturally have come no in the explanations that were made. In the face of Snow a situation it is Impi discrediting or. Lal Riviere or he and his Suc Cessor were falsify ing the assets of the pro conclusion with which there will be very general agreement. To swell his Cash in hand or. Mcmillan includes various Trust funds to the amount of be it clearly understood which do not belong to Tho province Bull Are hold in Trust for the Benefit of others. Instead therefore of there be info it Cash balance in band its claimed by or. Mcmillan of 3057.074.12, the actual amount is f a bum of had been paid into Tho Treasury on account of certain railway Deben. Ture indebtedness for which Thero is a bonded liability on the of the province. This sum is included in the consolidated Revenue account As if it were an Ordinary item of Revenue. The merest Tyro in finance would know that moneys thus received should he accounted for in some other Way than this. In his budget speech the treasurer showed a surplus of Ordinary Revenue o Ner Ordinary expenditure for the year of or. Roblin took the treasurer s Flimsy Structure to pieces and showed that instead of a plus there was a deficit of 32. The actual deficit however counting expenditures that were doubtfully charged to capital Pecou acc was to this amount therefore the province last year was living on its capital in other much was added to the Public Clubb. Or. Mcmillan s extraordinary Book keep ing shows it More Rosy condition of affairs Tymn appears under Tho business like methods of or. Koblin s treatment of the Public accounts. Or. Greenway thinks it matters Little How the Hooks Are. Kept to Long As we have the Assurance of Tho treasurer that the accounts Are right. And that All round apologist of the government my. Sifton who Hopes before Many weeks to a burdened with the Carea of a portfolio says the whole thing amounted to a question of of course of course a Mere question of Book keeping. Whether the accounts Are presented in a Correct and intelligible shape is of no consequence to much was whether the balance is on this Lido or that door not matter a pin s Worth according to or. Sifton the actual condition remains the same whether we know what it is or not. There is no doubt As to the Correct Ness of this reasoning but As to its honesty and Utility from a Public standpoint we Are afraid or. Sif ton s Gnand Way of disposing of the question will not be generally approved. We can understand in View of All this the object of or. Smart ? Bill to curtail the Powers of the provincial auditor who is the servant not of the government Bat of the House and whose duty it is to stand Between the government and the people in All matters of Public expenditure. As it matters Little How the Public accounts Are kept As the whole tiling amounts to a question of according to these very grand people who Are disposing of the Money of Ottre there can to no objection to giving the departments unchecked control of All expenditures. Should or. Smart s Bill become Law the proper thing to do would be to Vole the supplies in one bulk bum Divide it up among the departments and allow each to expend its share in any Way it saw fit. This would do away with the necessity for an auditor All and would besides simplify or. Mcmillan s net Bod of Book keeping Thysa cheering the hearts of or. Tee May and or. Sifton who do nod believe much in Book keeping any is unless it can be used to conceal something which it is Dua ired to keep from the Public Oye. We do not know anything that would round off the present method of dealing with Tho Public accounts much As or. Smart s proposed legislation to tie the hand and Blind age the orca of the provincial auditor. Moat emphatically Assort Tiiu these were the arrangements and on no other conditions would or could such a Bonus have been Ghen. It can be easily seen by an not passed in 1883 leg Lis Inythe Sejebi it urea that the govern ment waa very particularly interested in this matter because at that time they could not assume the debt but never did i Liea a that they did not mean Ato some time to take the Burden off the county As a right nit As a favor and Here is where 1. Think misunderstanding really exists Between our delegates and the present government. To Shew you the Juo Tice of our demands it was the government s Pioso to develops this country not the duty of an isolated county like West Annrob. Secondly we Only got Lor 000 what other municipalities got for nothing and thirdly Tho government has inaugurated a system of granting Aid to Tho railways Why not they pay us Back the Money it has Cost us to do in 1381 when they were unable to do Ani which debt they faithfully promised to assume As soon As they were Able to do so but up to the Date of this present writing they have failed to do. If the government mean honest by us Why do they not appoint a commission or a committee to investigate this matter and if they consider it Nec Ebsary examine of oath any who can throw Light on this question and arrive a1 Tho Bottom of the matter and then Deal with us in a business like Way and give a straight Yea or no then we shall know what to expect and not keep us hanging by the eyebrows like some hero in a Penny a liner. We hate cringing and More to Clon c mean to do it. We Aak for nothing More than fair play Ani Don t intend letting up unions we get itt. We know Well there Are other municipal ties in the same miserable fix and contend they should out of their difficulties now to the Justice of our Case. Tho Lade Hon. John Norquay on the floor of die House acknowledged than the county of Westbo Irno was entitled to be relieved of Tho railway Bonus. The Hon. D. Walker who was attorney general at the time Tho Bonus was granted never understood but what the government stood pledged to redeem those debentures whenever they were in n position to do so. New sir if this is so and not Only i but a dozen or More of perfectly reliable men in thin county and elsewhere can verify this statement the county of Westbourne has sustained a Gross outrage and Tho sooner it is rectified the better. We Are not at All selfish in this matter. Although we contend we stand Alono in our Peculiar position in regard to these bonuses we should to Only too glad to bog All municipalities who have Given rail Way bonuses relieved. Vigilance. Gladstone March 24. The Posen books and the manful Way in which our Council stood up against and then sat Down upon Tho municipal commissioner. Tha truth is respecting the assessment Roll the Council had authorised the late treasurer to hold the books until the audit was completed. I would hero Obee Rte in passing that the local nud Itom were paid and Well paid although the audit was Noti completed by they had got Tho Roll from him to facilitate their and then refused to return id co him when he wanted it to Tonko it with him to Winnipeg in Obe Drinco to the order of Tho municipal commie Bionci. Tho report of oho provincial auditor upon the books was to the effect thab they had been Well Kepi and the business done in a Bui Iunus like Way and shewing a balance to of Oahu ii credit. The inability of Tho local auditors to make a balance Sheet appears to Lave been duo More to incapability of the nud Itura than the. Stale of Trio of them at least having Bei a elec of upon Tho nomination of Tiu councillor for he Ward More on apparently of his political support at the last election than any special til Ness far the Job. This great outcry about the books in simply a of the political wire pullers of the party who tie in the ascendant this year to Liry and throw discredit on the late Council and to excuse their own lavish and extravagant outlay thu year but i believe Trio elec tors will them up about correctly next fall. I May say that i know whereof i a perk having seen the report of the provincial audit or and being familiar with the goings of both last year s Council and the present. Fair play. St. Laurent March 21. Los Llcy for called out far morn. To Tho editor of the free press. The 1st of August last year the Farmers of this District were completely hailed out and lost their crops totally. A very few Days after the storm the provincial government having a just fatherly interest in Tho Farmers up printed forma to their crop reporters to lie filled out asking what amount of damage had been done in each individual Case and what Tho projects were ahead for getting seed Etc. These questions were All faithfully answered and also some members inter viewed who expressed themselves strongly in favor of assisting the Farmers and also of starting a Hail insurance that would be to a certain extent Retro Active. Will you kindly allow me through your columns to inquire if anything is doing or Likely to be done As Trio season is getting on towards seeding and soon it will be too late to help Tho needy settler hailed got. Turtle Mountain March 21. Who Sells that which is Best of its kind finds his bus a advertisement in what he Sells. The Quality of the Coffee to sell under our tirade Mark is he Only advertisement we seek. Buy our Coffee and buy judge us. By what von Tho Rise of English Trade is largely due to English Trade Marks because they represent throughout he world honesty and Chase jail Minerya openings of tuesday 24th pinned on by miss Tindall. Tho Ball was kept up with spirit until the Chhorb of the 25ch the two Rinke a. Grant skip and b. Allison skip will compete for the cup at bar Bank. Alex. Stewart is now for Tho maa s67 company at Thiu town. The company Ore about to build a la to warehouse for choir implements on Rich Hilt Avenue. The annual Veatry meeting of St. Mark s will be held on easter monday 30tb, fat 2 . There will be service on Good Friday even ing in St Mark s Church. Or. Arkel has rented w. J. Dixon o livery an 1 e the thaw Tab made the Sleigh ing Din cult. The late Elkhorn bachelors Ball wan a Good it ice to creditors. Notice la hereby that Felix la Tho Tom n of jioo3c Law merchant ban thu Day made an Attign Nicot to me for the Hon cult of i Hli creditors. All Cir tics having visa list tic bilk estate arc hereby notified to hand to me n dul verified Ritat linear of the game. C. A. Gass mouse jew ugh , 1boi. H. Ripstein co., 000 main Street. Winnipeg. Blk Al diff to licit numerous cd. That they Lisic received a splendid Assort men of Ushii a Haie urn secured for them by the ii brents in it in much on Trio Dollar these e As they arc now prepared to offer to the pub o u never before reached in the bade they Al invite in inspection of their and varied t of by Cliris talc Woodrow a Nelcy Stetson a co these they of Offei k at so o Dollar. Cull und in Epcot of varied stocks. Auction Mel cd every Cicini at 7 . Ii. Ujpstb1n co., in bankrupt stocks 606 Olsin St. Omaha r y us Tho Pollmann Ami i Ulinici a Ali nil or this Llop gift Kiiji run lie Job logo in h hours a on Ai c1 ill the run in 131 the leaving and Orrl Atnif get . St. Paul 7. So still water 7.47 Kau Claire 10.88 Ohl Oato 0 of equipment of table train pc St Bule l Bank afro a til i Veetal Buflod Ventini i Wagner sleeping can break Fahl served in flu of car nor vol in l a Moklev Cullu Iny a it Utko Only Complete tulo r Urr. From Minneapolis and by. I aul to the reduction of half an hour in giving hour Al arrival in Chicago with All fast line trains leaving Chicago in Ike moral or for Pittsburgh new York , pm Taville and the want and South. Returning this train will it instead of 6.30p re. V Herc Toofie 01. St. Paul 7.30 ., Minneapolis Tio Keto and bleeping or of Toomin options be scoured at St. Pan and Minnon Axilis Union and at lha following City of Ken. 3i Paul rut third St. Minnow poll. 13 flu allot if oust hic la. Duluth 832 to Tel St., units he Vuk t. W. . On l Anim. St. 1 jul established 879. insurance agent. Fire companies represented the guardian Assurance total funds City of udoh fire ins. Co. the Northwest Hue ins. Co. Cd Tau ins. 00. Of North America total assets All clauses of in Rumblo property Covert or shortcut notice at current rates of Enlil in Lonic d commencing Buchli Uwi la 1870. Office 376 and 377 main St. Winnipeg Mai Dominion Metal works Garth 536 to 542 Craig St., Montreal manufacturers of key n Low Titor alarm Van dozen s steam Jet pump. Van Duzen q Loose Pulley hot water Furnaca. Hot Wator part Tantoro Penberthy Injo Utora. Hydrant of All it. Glorge b Street Skuley Kearney pneumatic Trout Stop Curtis water Pren Bure a bestow packed Pooka. Watson s steam pressure regt Latore. A kinds of brass and Iron goods for plumb re. Toothache la cured instill by using olb bom Toothache oud. Sold by 35c ;