Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 1, 1915, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba 4 free press Winnipeg thursday july 1. 1935. Be hell my continued from Papfi tuesday s session. H. A. Bowman assistant Deputy minister of Public works testified that acting on instructions on july 2, 1918, he took a tender for the parliament Job into the Premier s office. Sir Redmond denied All knowledge of the matter. Questioned once More about the prime costs matter. Sir room once said that when he signed Tho original or Der in Council he did not know there was a reservation1 respecting prime costs. Had he known this and known also what the reservation meant he would not have passed it. Says it was Montague. Asked who recommended the 000 contract. Sir room once said it was not he. So far As he knew it was or. Montague. Who was acting minister of pub Lic there could to two or three. I was one or. Coldwell was or. Coldwell says he did not know about the contract till after the last counsel said to had taken the Trou ble to find out where the ministers were on july 4, 1914. Sir. Coldwell was at Brandon. Or. Armstrong speaking outside of Portage. The wit Ness himself spoke that night at Roland and or. Montague spoke at the Centennial school in West Kik Lonan. As sir room once had signed the or Der in Council he had either taken All the Steps in connection with the recommending of the Council or some other minister had taken in the matter. What ministers were present at the Council meeting of july signed it does t remember. I do not remember. As a matter of fact i Don t Ever remember signing the or. Horwood seems to think it was you who made that recommendation to Horwood never had a Conversa Tion with me for a. Month before the or. Montague appears to imagine it. Was you who made the recon Montague mistaken. Well he , i had Noth ing to do with recommending do you know when. You. Signed the no. It May have lain on my table for asked when or. Montague first spoke to him about the contract str Rodmond said it was in july or August. He was almost positive As to that. Can you Tell me How or. Monta gue could recommend a contract at when no plans were pre Well r Don t suppose he would prepare the estimate. That would he done by the can you suggest Why he would recommend a. Contract when he de sired to get plans drawn by an sex can offer no counsel then carried the witness Over the Steps taken in connection with Tho destruction of the contract and the. Records. He said the con tracts were torn up first the orders in Council he did not get until some time afterwards. They came in separately. He could not recall whether the last one destroyed was that from the lieutenant governor s office. Do i understand that or. Monta gue present when you destroyed these orders in Council i Don t think so. I told him 1. Had Dono did you Stop to think that the official who had recommended the contract should be to no because there was no ques Tion about the Why not let it stand until Tho plans were sir room once intimated that or. Montagu might have been willing to do that bin. contract hair been prematurely signed by mistake. You had made no mistaken signing the no it was a formal document and came before me in the Ordinary the doctor had recommended and still you destroyed the order Sweeney made the ammunition. Sir Rodmond Suid that up to the time he made his in the House he had Confidence in Horwood. His statement in Tho House was prepared for him by or. Sweeney and he Wau advised later it was. Not Correct. Sweeney worked with Horwood to. See How the yardage was made out. Or. Symington real from sir Rod Mohd s speech Deta is of depth Sot the caissons. Sir Rodmond said he was not a practical builder and simply used was placed Iii his Handt he took the attitude in his speech he said that there its nothing to justify the appointment of a Royal commission. Tended to conduct afterwards they in departmental expert choicest finest substitute sunlight investigation. Or. Sweeney got from Horwood. He admitted that he was trying to convince the legislature that there were Yards in the caissons but afterwards Sweeney told him i Fly rules were wrong1. He did hot Tell the House this because the House prorogued at once. Or. Symington said the House sat three quarters of an. Hour after wards. Sir Rodmond said the in formation was he admitted that when he came in to prologue tin1 House he did not take advantage the Opportunity to change . Did not care. He knew that details with regard to the yardage in the caissons had been refused by the Kellys at the Public accounts committee. You did not i did. Not he admitted that if this information had been put in it would have helped the Public accounts commit tee to reach a decision. He further admitted that he or other ministers could have prone to Kelly and secured the records. But he had no suspicion at that time. At that time he had absolute Confidence in the ability and honesty of the Public servants. He could not understand to this Day Why it should be otherwise. Answering or. Symington he said the sworn evidence of the inspectors was that the yardage was there and if and member of the Public accounts committee did not 1 Siuk so he could. Have made a charge on the floor of the House. That was Why. Outside evidence was excluded. This was. He j said the parliamentary procedure. What parliamentary sir Rodmond argued at length that the Public account committee did right in excluding outside evidence. Why then not appoint a committee of the House to go into this matter. I was not used suspicious of Salt s Book. Sir Rodmond admitted he was suspicious of Salt s Book and his i genl to sent a. Second wire Foi the slims Mattei he wanted to protect tie province he wanted a. Settlement oni the yardage basis i at this Point he said he not a laity i Foi which he i lawyers Coull get Inen a dil cult position and he wanted i open to influence Kelly. He did want a suit Jio feeding he said that the Lump f conflict had nothing to do with the i Mattei so Fai As he knew a was not anxious to Phil it pen come to Winnipeg wired several times he wired or. Rogers seven a Al times with regard to the com miss Lal did you mean by no clean be in this situation in your wire to or. Roger 4 t we had hot got. A p Nyji ii on Hifa aril Al said he was net Al j e to Nei Suade Kelly to accept a a , never in pal open in Toronto. He he i he discussed with Kelly the Lump si.4 m tender but he could not fix the Dati j he wanted an adjustment of All d c fee fences. He thought ship pen Cou 1 influence Kelly More than any Tolna r Man in the country. Campaign funds. Yancye or i be pc animation in gotten his name. Hoi Wood 011 july 4, 1914 it was addressed to the Hon. Or Montague and. Dea t with the Nio posed con tract Foi the dome the estimated Oost being ?812 000 us Rodmond said he had never seen it before he wat not aware that an estimate had Laden made. Referring to or Hudson s speech in Tho legislature in which the charges against the government to simulated Sii Rodmond he had heard it moreover he had made Inq Umes into the statements gaining pie payments on the steel Horwood gave him an which teemed to fit the facts to was to the effect that the contractor had completed cent Jan to k which had not been estimated Foi this offset the prepayments. With respect to overpayment counsel suggested that fell Rodmond could have Learned a Good Deal of the simple expedient of calling up or. Deacon of tie Manitoba Bridge and Iron works which firm had sop plied steel. The witness admitted that he did not do this. In your speech you dealt at considerable length with tvs Cost of Budge steel Why did you not find out something about steel for build who a As m charge of the Conser i Ger Rodmond said he understood the sir j Rodmond offered to get the e. In i Simpson to said had nothing do with . He Illy never stated to any person the i amount of Kelly s contribution to . Had yaqui any doubt that or. Kelly i to y that i had no idea. I know that i to was the practice to so h was the a .1 a substitute for sunlight is not As Good and never can be for sunlight has distinctions which can never be imitated with Success. Sunlight costs no More than inferior imitations so be sure you guarantee of purity on every 5c. Bar. The name lever on soap is a guarantee of purity and excellence. A made in can a absence. He admitted that this was the first thing he used Kelly to show the Engineer Sweeney after became suspicious. He thought it proper for Kelly to refuse to produce his records or in voices. That he did not do so occasioned no suspicion in his mind. Or. Horn Ood swore the yardage was there and lie believed him. It was a proper thing to find if the yardage and that s what they he admitted Sweeney told him that if Kelly s records had gone before the committee it would Nye shown that the yardage was not there. In the course of a Long argument sir Rodmond asserted again and again that it was not proper to Force Kelly to produce his records before the committee. He admitted that or. Hudson in his speech appeared to have justification for what he said. He did not think it would have been proper to have the Cement com Pany put in the records before the committee. This was the work of a special committee. Why did you not appoint because i trusted in the honesty i of my officials. I am not so sus Ocious As other people. I would rather let a noun to free than unjustly besmirch his character. That is my Standard iof went to government House at this stage sir Rodmond declared that 115 minutes after or. Sweeney informed him there was a shortage of Yards in the caissons a went Over to government House and informed the lieutenant governor of the fact. Or. Wilson Rose and said that he believed communications Between members of the government and the Lith tenant governor would be privileged. If anything in correspondence Between sir Rodmond and his Honor dealt with this matter the Cor Respondence itself should be product i e d rather than that the witness should state what it contained. If there were to be disclosure in this regard there should be total Dis closure. Chief Justice. Mathers said of saw no objection to the witness Stati if that. On. Learning q f the overpay i ments be communicated his know j ledge to the lieutenant governor. 1 such an act would tend to establish Lis Good Faith and it should head fitted As evidence just As a communication with anyone else would be admitted. As for the general i question of correspondence with his Honor the commission would consider and deckle the matter later. Wilson said he was perfectly i willing to have the matter produced. I Only he desired a ruling on the subject so that there might be Complete j production. Resuming his examination or. Symington asked sir Rodmond Why j he had not told the commission what i he knew. I i was the reply that in i Stead of it being a commission to i inquire into the parliament bit ill j Ings it was simply an Effort on the part of certain parties to besmirch Tho government. It. Did not. Appear to he an Effort to secure information i about Over payments. I said if it is a political inquiry and an Effort to throw mud i have no place will you refer to a single Circum stance which justified that Conlu everything right along. You gentlemen had charge of the thing and you asked men to say what they thought and what they or. Andrews intervened and began explain the attitude he had taken originally counsel for the govern ment. An. End was put to the Dis Cussion by chief Justice Mathers who. Said it was time to terminate it. The Phippen telegrams. Counsel switched to the the. Telegrams from sir Rodmond to Hon. Robert Rogers with respect to e. H. Phippen How had it occurred or. Symington asked that knowing Kelly had been heavily overpaid sir Rodmond interested himself to obtain counsel for the contractor. I undertook to persuade p. H. Phippen to act i sir Rodmond because i Kenw that or. Kelly had More Confidence in his j ability arid judgment than he had in i any other lawyer in Tho country. I that f. H. Phippen representing Kelly could More satisfactorily adjust matters with the province be cause he had More influence with or. Kelly than any other Man i broached matter to Kelly. Sir Rodmond said he first broached the. Matter with or. Phippen v7hen that gentleman was in Winnipeg in connection with some c. N. R. Busi Ness. He came to see the Premier i this being before the commission be j Gan taking evidence and sir Rod mond proposed that he should represent or. Kelly. But at the time he said or. Phippen refused. Subsequently sir Rodmond enlisted the Aid of or. Rogers because he believed that with Phippen. As Kelly s counsel the government would be Able to adjust matters without a Law suit wanted Phippen Here to represent. Kelly with the government. Witness explained the message he sent to Rogers to bring Phippen to Winnipeg. By saying a Day s delay Tould be he thought ship pen would have influence in Persuad ing or. Kelly and the matter was contributed of Campaign won t that it licit Campaign or Symin i ton held. To the ques Tion. Sir Atli Imond asserted he had no definite k i owl Edge of a Campaign fund or Conj i buttons he never election he finally admitted where there was not a Campaign fund. I Riall his connection with the in 25 years he never knew Keuy to a contribute a Dollar. In to insistent he refused to say if lie believed that Titomas Kelly i a contributor. After k son session. When the re Al commission met yesterday the chairman said he had been Wanderi by Harry Whitla a collection of h a Wood s statements said to have a a i Erial bearing on the Case. The documents i were submitted to counsel. Or. Wilson said that the first one he looked at had is material bearing on the examination l of sir Rodmond Roblin who was o of the stand ready Cost was the same. In any Case a did not feel he had a right to ask the Manitoba Bridge and Iron works what Kelly had paid for his steel. Did or. Kelly Tell you that paid to the Campaign did or. Phippen Tell did anyone Tell you no. Can t say i May have heard i Don t want what you bears on the Well no one told me that " "did1 you Tell that to r or. Wilson then asked the witness a question. Did or. Sweeney Ever Tell you the Money paid for steel on the Parlia ment buildings was reasonable 1 i gave or. Sweeney instructions to gather data and re Jurf. Or. Andrews officially but to Tell me As much As he could from Day to Day. He was working for several Days in the architect s office. When it came time for me to make a speech i told him i should want from him the data on which i should or. Hudson in his speech said the steel Cost and a ton for erection. The province paid ?132 a ton. Did you inquire into the reasonableness of left to to Sweeney sir Rodmond said he contented himself with or. Sweeney s investigation. What was your purpose in trying Ern ment paid an excessive Price for Bridge steel sir Redmond did not admit that Nib object to defend the pay ments co Telly. Counsel suggested tout h b object in having or. Sweeney pursue his investigations was to obtain Coli Parsons which would make the payments to Kelly look reason Able instead of sincerely of going after the absolute in the Case before him if Baid or. Avi soil the witness had honestly tried to find out the truth would he not have taken the simple business course of applying to the works Manitoba Bridge and Iron for information of sir Rodmond did not like this use of the word honesty. I Carnot say that i appreciate your remark very lie said. My actions were prompted by a sincere desire to get at the facts. I shall ask the commission to de cide As to your honesty of purpose by your actions not by your words. You were not really trying to get the right Price of Don t like you to say i was not sir Rodmond said that later on he sent Sweeney around to the various foundries to inquire the Price of steel. A found the prices charged by Kelly Wera excessive. Why did not Yon Send him be there was not i want the commission to under stand i never controlled the Tele he reiterated. I object to these said or. Andrews. I am going to ask the commission to curb the asked further if the reports of the speech in the Telegram was Correct sir Rodmond said Many of the re porters on the Telegram As Well As on the other papers Are opposed to the editorial policy of the paper they might have been influenced against hold absolute Sway Over Turkey London june daily chronicle s constantinople correspondent in a despatch forwarded by mail says the condition of affairs in constantinople is rapidly becoming intolerable. 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