Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 5, 1915, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editorial Section 9 to 14 Winnipeg monday july 5 1915. Published every to a built Obj free press limited at the to offices. 300-302-m4-306 a too Street Winnipeg Man. E. H. Lack Len. President and Maneger. Telephone Calls. 6310 us Ruvalc Branch Exchange it k a11 departments Day and night and Puli Liu holidays Ollice Ltd Cle Ciuc. 800 mailers building. Sew Voi u office inc try k lob Ishii Tooni 306, no. 1 West 3-1 111 representative if 29 la Duac Hill London registered at the general Post office. London. For transmission through he mails in the British Isles at Inland Revenue rates. Freedom of Trade Liberty in re Ligion Equa tit y in civil rights. Monday july 5, 1915. About election petitions the time is opportune perhaps to Jay a few Plain words about Cle Tiou petitions and saw offs and the part they play in the tactics of politics As we know them in Canada. Act in most of the provinces the opposition parties Are put at a great disadvantage in the matter of elec Tion petitions. In this province election petitions must be entered within thirty Days from the Date of gaze Ting the members returned j and As Tho Roblin government in variably Gase Ted the conservative members first the Liberal members had either to protest a. Considerable number of seats or submit to a state of affairs in which they could be protested without having the Power to retaliate. The result was that the liberals always protested a considerable number of conservative seats. The Roblin government came Back with an equal number of pro tests or sometimes More and in due course both sides discontinued the petitions and matters remained As they were i speaking generally an opposition does not want to flight election petitions. Whether it likes it or not it has in fact to accept the verdict of the country at the general election. Owing to the very Low state of political morality in the Canadian electorate the opposition party has a great Deal of talk is being in-1 a very Remote Chance of electing its bulged in on the of ill candidate in a by election no matter uninformed but a Good Deal of it what the issues May be. The Liberal j informed and hypocritical it will opposition in this province was up live be admitted we think that i against this state of affairs that if politically the Canadian people Are it unseated a government member. Hypocritical race take for in it could not Hope to win the seat in stance the horror with which the a by election while if one of its very suggestion of a Campaign seals were opened As a result of an election protest the government fund the Best political party Inui Gin a would inevitably turn its machine into the constituency and carry it. Is regarded yet. Without a Campaign fund the Best political party imaginable with the most progressive plat form would be powerless to put it everybody who has any knowledge self in a position to gave effect to of political conditions in Manitoba directly or indirectly from the Public Treasury out the Public refuses to has been no Nick of elections about which extraordinary a Oulch be made. The Section of a corrupt election which its programme. Tho proper distinct Allyl is possessed of any measure of lion of course is Between Campaign common sense knows that these Are funds raised Hon buy and Campaign the facts. Under these conditions funds provided by Money stolen Hie provincial Liberal party in Mani Toba during the last fifteen years although it entered Good Many i make the distinction. At the words i election petitions for defensive Pur Campaign fund it throws up its poses never pushed a single Case hands in horror aver the depravity with one exception which will to j of our politicians. J noted because it knew very Well Aslo election petitions it May be to Liat. Though its election methods paid with Confidence that the provi-1 would certainly stand comparison Sions of the controverted elections with those of its opponents it could acts for the Dominion and pro j not Hope to make headway by Vincus afford no Means for the re j Means against the strongly in veiling of political corruption and j trenched Roblin government. When the purifying of political conditions i the liberals were Defeated in 1903, the lawyers in parliament and 1910 had to conform seen to Liat. Not in forty years has to or. John t. 1-Laig s suggestion there been an election trial which and take their j has resulted in startling occasionally an election petition j although during that period there j is entered which represents a real intention to do business. There disclosures have been two such cases in Mani i Only Cross Toba within the last four years. One was the protest following the do has been effectively revealed to the minion by election in Macdonald in. Public during the last two the other the protest against Throe decades had relation to the the return of e. L. Taylor in Gimli London by election of 1305. This in 1013. These were genuine pro a was obtained by proceedings in the tests let us see How the petitioners j criminal court under a charge of i succeeded in these cases. J conspiracy. If in this Case the con a lot of people seem to think that sort natives had proceeded by election once an election petition is entered petition the Liberal member would h operates automatically. In pout have thrown Cor Ciance with . And would no doubt have been proceeding. When a Petitioner goes triumphantly re elected by his con ahead Wilh an election protest he Titi cents. The conservatives were has got to go into court with a com-1 Able to get the irregularities before i plate Case in the preparation of criminal court with the result i which thousands of dollars Are j lit at they blew the Cabinet minister spent and the better his Case s holding the seat out of parliament the less Chance he has of getting j and out of his constituency and his evidence before the court and they have Ever since held the seat j the people. The Macdonald by a by Large majorities. They would election was a reeking muss of Cor i have accomplished no such results i eruption. The liberals spent a year by Rii election petition. I and a Large amount of Money in col a the popular Conception of an elec-1 looting evidence. The election Tion saw off is that cynical Politi lasted just Long enough for the de Joa managers get together and openly j Pendant to plead guilty to a single saw off one election crime against of corruption sufficient to void another election crime the Public j the election. Under the Law the while looking on i 1. Powerless proceedings stopped right there. The Wrath. If this is what the with unseated candidate thereupon re a Ira Wal of election petitions turned to his constituents who gave. Why should the politicians earn the him at the second by election a a odium of the Public by going through Jority Over one thousand against Tho form first of entering the pct i seven Hundred at the previous con Tion Ami then withdrawing it Why test. That is the Reward the liberals not do inc sawing off before the got for undertaking to tight m the abandon the protest what a Roar would have gone up from the lookers on about the crime of the liberals in compounding the Gill felony the liberals raised the Money collected the evidence and went on with the Case. They had evidence to unseat or. A Hundred times Over. Did they succeed in in seating him the Case was Hung up in the courts by the Law s delays until the dissolution of the Legisla Ture terminated the proceedings. But if the liberals had been successful in bringing the Case into court would they have been Given an Opportunity to put on the records the evidence which they had collected at such expense not at All. Under those conditions or. Taylor s lawyer upon the opening of the Case would have Arisen in the court and in grave tones announced that or. Taylor had Learned to his infinite regret that an agent had committed an election offence sufficient to void the election and that under the circumstances lie Felt that he could not retain the seat. The seat would thereupon have been declared void or. Taylor would have gone Back to Gimli. And with the Roblin machine behind him would have been re elected. Such being the conditions is it any wonder that an opposition which is the Only party interested As a Rule in fighting election petitions rarely carries them beyond the preliminary stages the free press does not pretend to say that the conditions it has thus indicated Are in the Public interests but it Doss say that there must be a change in the Law and a still greater change in the political morality of. The people of Canada before a political party will undertake to make use of the controverted elections As a genuine political weapon. Era Memer Wou up his hands in ii of fact the carrying through of. And provisions of the election petition is a very expensive i election petitions Are entered in courts the corrupt methods resorted which event an Opportunity for pro to by the conservatives in the Mac test by the Public cannot arise Taliej Donald by election of 1911. Wisdom of some such course would. Now. Let us consider the Provin one would think Appeal to Politi i Cial Gimli by election of 191i. The Evans who Are a somewhat astute liberals entered a protest against race or men. I or a the fact of the matter is that determination to proceed to the save in certain instances the filing bitter end. After the petition was of election petitions by political entered the liberals set about the parties is Mckelv a part of the Cou i systematic collection of evidence. For position the work was enormously expend on the two Sive owing to the extent of the con political parties. An election Peti Tion is it political asset. To is a threat which usually can be made a oof if backed up by enough Money. The election Law is so strict and the election practices in a Large proportion of constituencies so Loose that l is usually possible to void an elec Tion if the protesting party will put a enough Money to necessary evidence secure the one party got the jump on Hie other by securing a monopoly of election petitions it could at the Cost of a great Deal of Money go ahead with petitions and seriously deplete Stit ency the absence of Means of communication and the character of part of the electorate. As Money docs not grow on Trees to be picked off by politicians the liberals made a Public Appeal for Money to assist in the collection of evidence. If it can be shown that that Section of the Manitoba electorate which is wont to wring its hands Over the depravity or politicians in sawing off election petitions contributed in the aggregate ten dollars to the fund for fighting the Gimli. By election protest the free press will record the fact in letters of go id on its petitions and Senous the necessary fund of the opposing party. Editor Ute Pas u not either party wants to be put. M Mem. A it psf arc trom Luu position protests Are red by both sides Tho filing of 8 Liet Ilioiu is essentially a defensive i a Oce Eding and. When it serves its j a pose it is usually discontinued. Alt Mouzli the Dominion Law has by 9n lately changed to put the Matios on an Equality in Manitoba Bers of the Community but from Plain Ordinary hum drum individuals who think that it is possible to serve the Community by belong inc to a political organization. If they had failed to raise the Money and had been obliged perforce to the alternatives. Tie Public ought not to Overlook the fact that Early in May when the negotiations looking to the re the Roblin government were in Progress these were tie alternatives before the Public the continuation. Of the investigation by the Koyal commission with the Roblin government willing and Able to hamper the investigation in Power or civil and criminal suits prosecuted by a new government pledged to a clean subject to the approval of the Royal commission to this plan As being in the interests of the people. If the Roblin government had stayed in Power and the investigation before the Royal commission had been continued much at the evidence which has since been brought out would not have been available. The commission in All probability would not have secured the attendance of hot Wood and Salt nor would the facts As to the prime costs order in Council and the contract have been made Public. As Between an investigation by a Royal commission with the Roblin government in Power and civil and criminal suits with a Liberal government in Power there ought to be no difficulty in deciding that the was preferable from every Point of View. That there should be a change of government with a continuation the inquiry by the Royal commis Sion with the Hearty assistance of the new government was a piece of rare Good Fortune for tie people. The situation Early in May was that if there was a change of government the interests of the Public were secured apart altogether from the unquestioned Bona fide intentions of the new government by the understanding that the Royal commission was free to continue the inquiry unless it was satisfied that the alternative procedure was equally in the pub Lic interest. It the Roblin government remained in office for a few additional it could have held on for that space of could have blocked the investigation to some considerable extent and in Addi Tion it might have compromised the rights of the province by agreeing to a settlement with Kelly. Since Admiral von Tirpitz s an writes the London financial times regarding tie Ger Man War of the fatal Day which was to Seal great Britain s commercial doom the value of our monthly imports and exports has increased by quite 20 per it has taken the Post office department eleven months to bar out from Canada the Lincoln Freie Presse one of the most virulent pro German sheets on the continent. Other equally objectionable news papers Are still coming in. However what of belgian bullets Teller in . Timea the germans of this country z. Few object to the United states Neutral country sending munitions of War to purchasers abroad. American bullets must not kill Ger mans who fight to uphold the divine right of Kings against the rights of the common people. _ yet belgians Are forced by the threat of massacre to make bullets out of their own materials in their own factories with which to Mil their own fathers and Brothers and sons. A Reader s notes books Are a finer world within the world or. F. S. Oliver author of tie life of Alexander is a thinker and Man much thought of by the Lon Don times which praised and promoted that Book now la Nelson s shilling Library to 110 end. Or. Oliver has an attractive Stylo very Lucid and pre Cise Ana lie carries you along. It is purely a political biography with a Subtle purpose and in ail that a mat Ter too High Tor me. But it May not be amiss to say that he was very keen about some special sort of Imperial federation ardently advocated by the times. I think that Tariff Ket orm had to do with it. At any rate or. Oli veils much too Young to have lived in the hungry forties. Indeed i have a notion that he is a child of the times. And now or. Oliver has written a Book called ordeal of to which that great newspaper gives a column and a half of its editorial Page. It will be interesting to read what the nation and the Westminster Gazette will have to say. Some of the things in the Book have been said before but we do not think they have been said so Well. In or. Oliver s hands the English language is a weapon of pre we Are told that his life of Hamilton had More influence than any political works of its decade and was a text Book for All those interested in Imperial reconstruction. I shall quote from the new Book and from the run Ning comment in the times. Of the enemy or. Oliver says the things which we Are finding hardest to overcome in our foes Are not the immoral gibbering of professors or the blundering cynicism of the German. Foreign office or the methodical Sav of the general Start. These Are sources of weakness and not of Strongoli. Our real obstacles Are the loyalty the self sacrifice and the endurance of the German later on in the Book he accuses the Liberal government and Hei-6 the times declares that or. Oliver a no partizan that he makes it Clear that the unionists in Power had done no better that the impeachment of this policy and the personal political studies Are clone with sch Tian precision. Well. He has e. Opinion of the Legal. To session As a Factor in government Iva wyers see too much of life in one Way too Little m another to make them make an interim report homily Shanman admits to Royal com Mission that Horwood got Cor Respondence last december. Denies he agreed to make dual set of will testify today. Faced with letters from ill s own flies e. A Shankland admitted to the Royal commission on. Saturday that Victor a. Hoi Wood obtained them in. Decem Ber last. He also admitted what he had previously denied namely that in an interview at Chi Cago three weeks ag-0 he told w. T. Sweatman one the conservative counsel the circumstances under which Horwood got the letters. When g. P. Wilson asked him to explain Why he said on Friday that he did not discuss the matter with or Sweatman the witness could Only say that his interview with the lawyer dealt with so Many important things that he forgot about the correspond ence. In his evidence at Minneapolis Horwood brought three allegations against the Chicago structural Engineer 1 that he agreed to prepare fraudulent plans of the dome for the parliament building 2 that he permitted Horwood to take from his files correspondence relating to the parliament building and 3 that he entered into an arrangement where by the dome plans were not to be sent to Winnipeg immediately on completion because that would be inconvenient for the government but Only instructed that it would be Safe to do so. Lightly Cross examined. Counsel s examination however Safe guides in practical matters Rhein 1 dealt Tollese Yoou nations Only in experience is made up of an infinite j an Way. In fast or. If Nimi Ber of scraps out out of Othni 30a was to Cono Dllcie Llis. Exam people s lives. Hardly anything me diaries. They learn and do except through inter the shopkeeper who blunders in his tallying and Selling or the manufacturer who makes things they should not be made suffers painful consequences to a certainty. His error pounds him relentlessly on Ike head. Not so the lawyer. His errors Are for the most part visited on others. His own Success of non Suc Cess is largely a matter of words and the writer himself so i am told has i qi1 years been manager of a department a an immense London store and the Hamilton look was a sort of Parer on. A. Reader of these notes a. Thousand Miles once sharply reproved me for that word. He said it was or. Oliver then would have fewer lawyers in the Cabinet. The times or perhaps interpreting a government of lawyer s is Likely to be Blind to facts because it is not accustomed to facts. Combine this with a crazy party sys tem and you will get matters of vital lir Jency both part Lea questions of expediency and party or else exposed to an Irre Levant Coin petition then great statesmen do not care first and care greatly for the welfare of the King Dom and the eni Pire or. Oliver sing Les out three names associated with certain Chamberlain. Fjord to and or. Lloyd he Days that no Point were these principles opposed to Eacoja they were interdependent for full real fixation and yet under the artificial Antans elements of the party system the vigorous Pur suit of any one of the three seemed to imperil the Success of both its he lays it Clown that policy depends upon armaments As armaments depend upon peace people the world Over notice or. Oliver proceeds to argue Tor National which is some thing much More than conscription. Great Britain s foreign policy has been wholly right and justifiable in but it demanded adequate nation without referring to the alleged dual plans but a. To. Andrews k.c., reminded him of them. Even then the Liberal lawyer did not a directly ask Shankland if to had Ever prepared two sets of pm ins. He pointed out that in the estimates for 1915, the government allowed Tor the expenditure of Cor the bal Ance of steel and other contingencies. Would the plans which or. Shank land had prepared he asked account for any such expenditure he was told they would not that they simply called for steel to the value of about for the dome alone. Nor had or. Shankland Ever pre any plans that would justify the expenditure of that sum. It would not be feasible the witness said for anyone to pad the plans he had drawn so As to let the contractor draw payments incommensurate with the material specified. I any one wanted to Over pay the contractor he would need another set of plans wherewith to justify the pay ments several More queries Drew from or. Shankland a denial that he had Ever heard Kelly was to be allowed to get an. Illegitimate profit of on the dome plans it was not until a. J. Andrews Cross examined the witness that the question of the dual plans1 came up Sei rarely. Asked by counsel for the late government if he Ever consented to draw two sets of plans Shankland said he had not. He also denied that he consented to Horwood s getting the Cor Respondence from his files saying he did not discover that it was miss ing until some time after Horwood s visit. The allegation that he was told not to communicate directly or. Montague for fear of letting secrets out he characterized As absurd. To make up loss. Or. Wilson s reference to the fact that the Hoblin government provided in this year s estimates for the balance of steel and other con will probably be referred to at greater length in the argument. And they fondly imagined that policy u is believed that counsel will con it Only it be virtuous and Una Gres Sive is in some mysterious Way s supporting and not need to depend upon armaments he praises the making of the new army in what the times Calls a. High and judicious to lord Kitchener he ride Cules the military system As neither voluntary nor military nor system. He asks that the simple truth of affairs be told plainly to the peo ple and he Calls lord Roberts the truest Democrat of his Tell the people the truth frankly. Here is or. Oliver s idea of National service which includes conscription it is not Only military duties which the state is entitled to command its citizens to perform y in time of danger but also civil duties. It is not Only men. Between the Ages of to Ond 38 to whom the state should have the Rig lit to give orders but men and women of Allag is. Under conditions of modern warfare it is not Only armies which need to be disciplined but whole we need conscription to bring this War to a victorious conclusion. We need conscription no less in order that we May impose terms of lasting peace. Conscription is essential to the pro per organization not Only of our manhood but also of our National As i said just wait and see what Stich Able journals As the nation and the Westminster Gazette have to say about or. Oliver a Book. The Bookman. A German Romance. Recent Story much featured in. Ber Lin has described the trip of German submarines from constantinople via Gibraltar Straits. This is Saia. By British naval authorities to be an invention. A British naval officer is the new York times As saying that Story was Given out because the gcitn3.n government wished to impress the United states with the idea thai its submarines could easily Cross the Atlantic and Desroy shipping on this Side in the event of a War Between the two countries. The germans Nave established a submarine base and fac tory on the bos porous near Constanti Nople and Are turning them out there in the same manner As thes have been doing at Zeebrugge in the North sea. The parts for the Are manufactured in Germany and sent by rail to constantinople through Austria mania and Bulgaria. The last two coun tries Are supposed to be Neutral but Many things can be accomplished for a Price and the germans have had no difficulty in getting the big packing cases containing the submarines through. Sections of the naturally the allies had to withdraw their from the Dardanelles when the marines arrived on the sub King receives Captain Mcleod. London july la Cleod 90tli Vlf Les Winnipeg was received by the King Buckingham today and invested with the distinguished service order. Tend the of this amount in the estimates meant that the government had determined to make up to icily Tho loss he suffered owing t-., the destruction of the 000 contract. Originally the con tract was to have covered the South Wing Cen trial portion and dome of the. Building. Shank land s plans As completed however show Only the steel required for the dome above the Grill age. If say those who have been making calculations on the subject the plans had included All the steel specified in the contract they would have necessitated the expenditure of an additional s100.000. To other words approximately 000 would have bought the steel which the g Overn irent had contracted to pay for. Call Simon today. F. W. Simon will be called to the witness stand when the commission meets today at 10 . In All probability the evidence will take More than a Day to deliver and when it is in the commission May be asked. To hear argument on the testimony received far. Oil behalf of . Kelly an application for an injunction is being filed with the court of icing s Bench restraining the com Mission from compelling Sivelly to give evidence. Until this Point has been made the subject i a court ruling Kelly will not be called and As some delay in settling the matter is expected the Royal commission probably make an interim report. Sweatman Shankland evidence. When the commission met or. Wilson asked Shankland if be could recall what had taken place Between him and w. P. Sweatman in Chicago. The witness now recalled that or. Sweatman. Had mentioned Horwood s evidence about abstracting letters from Shankland s files. Personally lie did not recall that he had Given Horwood permission to take the Cor Respondence off his flies but it was a fact that he afterwards missed some letters. Or. Save Atman s references to the fact that Horwood said there were to have been fraudulent plans has engrossed his conversation. Coun Sel pointed out that or. Sweatman probably informed the witness that Horwood s evidence affected him at three Points with reference to the alleged double plans with reference to the correspondence and with reference to a message which or. Mon Tague was to Send him giving him instructions As to when he was to Send the plans in. Told Sweatman about letters. In his evidence Friday Shank land said lie did not recall that or. Sweatman said anything about the correspondence. Saturday head fitted telling or. Sweatman that Horwood got letters from his files. He had explained that he and Hor Wood went into his Library and Hor Wood had the files near Ghini. Shank land had gone out room from time to time. Later on he discovered that the correspondence was gone. He had no doubt now that Horwood took it. Counsel asked him what explanation he could offer for the extraordinary evidence Friday. The witness said he had none except that Hie reference to the charge that he had made dual plans seemed to him so much More serious that he forgot the correspondence matter. Wilson asked the witness Why he did not Send the dome plans until May. Or. Horwood said he would Send for them when lie needed in his evidence at Minneapolis Hor Wood said there was a special arrangement about sending the plans. They were not wanted in Winnipeg he intimated until it was politically convenient. Or. Shai Imand conceded that usually he sent the plans he de signed to Bis clients on. Their completion. In this Case he had departed from the usual practice because 3rlor Wood had said lie would ask for them when he wanted them. There was absolutely no suggestion made to him that tile plans were not wanted in Winnipeg last fall. Eventually they had been sent to or. Montague be cause that gentleman when he saw or. Shankland at Minneapolis in May asked for them. Plans marked or. Wilson asked the witness if he had taken special precautions to see that the plans came to or. Mon Tague personally and not to any of the government officials. On the wit Ness replying in the negative counsel showed him the plans themselves still enclosed in the Brown paper in which they had been mailed. There were two packages each was addressed to or. Montague and bore in tie Corner the word Shankland said the packages were addressed by one of his Draughtsmen. He did not recall having told to put personal on them but he must have done so. Visited by Horwood and Kelly. Sha Irkland testified Tia to Horwood and Kelly visited him in december last at his invitation. There were some heavy pieces of material and he wanted to see if Kelly had the equipment for erecting them. As counsel pointed Horwood s Evi Dence was to Tho effect that the trip to Chicago was undertaken at the instance of or. Montague. If Shank land conceived the idea it was important the fact should be established. Did you bring the letter which you sent to or. Kelly asking him to no i did t think of or. Shankland. Went on to say that the plans for tie dome lie designed were full and Complete. When they were prepared he understood the Price of steel had been arranged Between the government and or. Kelly. Questioned again about his visit to Winnipeg in october 1914, or. Shankland said he was to Nike a re port of estimates of work on the South Wing and Centre portion. He was also asked to Check the estimates Oil caissons and he was asked to give an opinion on the change from rubble Stone to Brick. He agreed to the contract As far As prices were concerned at that time. Or. Wilson pinned the witness o the fact that he had come North in october to give the government tul vice. He admitted he had called the attention of the government to an error in the contract. The Only concern he had with the contract was that Horwood s weights would not Check. He asserted again that the amount was not discussed in Winnipeg. Report written in Winnipeg. To sus Gest you up to do exactly what you did when you got Here. I have a report dated Chicago october 22. I suggest that you drafted in i did it s a sort of defence of the government is it or. Wilson read the report. The witness insisted it was written four Days after he got Back to Chicago. Here in or. Wilson pointed to the use of the words Here in Winnipeg to show the report was written in this City. Tie witness said it should have read there in Shankland denied that in his re port he was i preparing a defence of the government to justify the con tracts entered into and which were the subject of vigorous attack at the War session of the local House in september. Or. Shankland said that when he was in Winnipeg in March to attend the Public accounts committee he did not see or. Montague As to when the plans for the dome should be delivered in Winnipeg. The doctor examined him before the committee but lie did not think it strange that the plans were head fitted that he gave an Esti mate before the committee that steel would Cost from to a ton. He admitted he was called to committee to help the government out. If a local firm said the steel could be Laid for ?12 or a ton they were in error he said. Met or. Montague in St. Paul. Or. Shankland admitted that he had met or. Montague on two Occa Sions in St. Paul going up there at his own expense to discuss details in connection with the parliament buildings. Requested by or. Andrews to examine the witness about the double plans spoken of by Horwood or. Wilson asked if or. Shankland told Horwood and Kelly what the Cost would be of the dome according to the plans then nearly completed. Or. Shankland replied that he Only told or. Horwood when he wanted to be putrid Money on account. He did not know whether Kelly was prese it or not but did not Tell Kelly that directly. Did you give them the information at that time that All the contractor would get on the plan you had drawn was something like was there any suggestion by Hor Wood that he wanted Kelly to get any suggestion of i never heard the sum mentioned until you mentioned was there any suggestion that the contract had been can was there any suggestion that the steel might be would it be possible to make a plan showing Tho weight of steel to be greater than was absolutely Neces would not be feasible if you increased it to any appreciable extent. The design would be de the Only Way would be to prepare another set of plans if you wanted to give additional Money a contract or. Wilson Drew the attention of or. Shanland to an item in the pub Lic estimates for the rest of steel and contingencies and asked How that could be Marie up on the p an prepared by him. That would said or. Wilson that Kelly was still to get that 5800.000." or. Shankland said he could make no reply to this statement. That estimate could not be made up on your plan tour own Only called for the steel work. That would not include the Stone covering for the questioned by or. Andrews or. Shankland stated that there was never any question Iris his mind when he was with or. Montague or. Hoi Yockl or Kelly an to payments to or. Kelly of More than lie ought to get. Was Ever any scheme discussed with you whereby any Money should be paid to or. Kelly in addition to what he would properly absolutely did you Ever discuss with particularly with or. Horwood Kelly or Montague the preparation of More than one set of plans for the when did you first hear of the suggestion of Over payment to think or. Horwood s Tes Timony was the first and that was Given to me by or. or. Horwood has testified that he went to Chicago explained to you that lie wanted some of the correspondence and took with your know ledge and consent correspondence from your files relating to the parliament that is not did he Ever discuss with you the question of did did you know that lie had taken any correspondence until he had testified to that missed certain papers but i bad no knowledge or suspicion that he had Tayten or. Horwood has also testified int there was some scheme about the correspondence that or. Montague thought it was dangerous to write to you and that tie Only communications you were to take notice of were from him and or. Is not Only in True but or. Horwood also stated that you had complained to him that or. Mon Tague was writing you too Many let he wrote me very few letters. My work was done chiefly with or. Why did you get or. Horwood to put in your or. Montague had practically turned me Over to or. Horwood would it not be right for or. Horwood is the head of the depart ment to get the Bill for approval for the same reason that if we lawyers expect to be paid we Khali have to Send our Bills to the attorney Gen suppose replying to further questions or. Shankland said he wag quite pre to let anyone nominated by the commission search his office with reference to double plans and to was also agreeable to produce All correspondence in his Possession or. The last few a no Utor that was Vita to you. Effecting your Honor called to your attention and you have said you forgot about or. Think Over Shadow eco All others to an extent that yesterday when reference was made to the interview 1 forgot what had been i. Only a few weeks ago All important thing occurred and there an important discussion about it Suci you . With or. Sweatman you have evidently a pretty poor Mem air. May the commission adjourned tilt Mon Day. I Elfo looking backward the free Prius was founded in 1872. T forty years ago prof. Bryce. Is to re Side at Woodlands during the summer vacation. Set lines now fringe the margin of the River and Gret away with the Lucious cat fish. S. L. Kyle has opened a tobacco shop next door to the merchants Bank and Calls it the smokers some pistol shots at. A very Early hour yesterday Inori Jinp announced the i fact that some enthusiastic. 4th of july a Cople were i thirty five years ago j the new saw Mill erected by hush t Sutherland it Bro. Is now v messes. Stobart Kolc a co. Intend i s iving up their crockery and i business and with that end in View i announce a or Anne Salo. I the Price of a awarded to master John a Jugal Koss As the Best dressed viol in costume it the j Donia zanies on the 1st. Inst., been donated by that nouns gentleman to i the charitable funds or St. Andrews society. The w. F. Battery meets tonight to i in Ange for firing a Salute on the Are rival of general Sherman tomorrow. From tub Rubaiyat of Omaro g bus k Khayyam. A me could i with destiny con spire this Manitoba state of things entire to grasp would i not shatter it. To bits and then remold it to my heart s desire Why certainly quite so. Dear . May 1 sugar Cost. An. Addi Tion. To your Jill of places where certain. Persons inight approximately spend their vacations the places you Nam fld for or. K. A. were excellent appropriate but there should another namely Susk. B. Why not n. Ice some alterations in a familiar quotation from shake Speare from whose Burn no Tele return. Is to no Telegram which the honorable losers wanta suppressed. A Strong Bear movement on the Board of Trade. From the Endako. the Board of Trade Koi m had fright while out surveying the Lake Road. A Black hear chased by dons. Ii Iii right for Tom parly or. Haily who in the path us Bruin was knocked Down. Or. Had 22 Joe amur ind at emptied every shot at tie boar but no Ihu frenzied animal so he throw the Rifle at him and took to his in i is. Anniversaries. Yesterday was the anniversary of the signing of some memorable documents. One Hundred arid thirty Iii if years yesterday lie declaration of Independence was signed at. Philadelphia. Yesterday morn Iii Flag of Fleer Charley Williams ran tip the Suir Spang a cd Flag on lie Courtesy Flagstaff at inc starboard of the Kurce press incl Diuk one year ago yesterday tin Ortli a authorizing Iho extra special Kelly contract which had Beon framed up secretly without Call for tenders was signed by the then Premier of Mani Toba and the contract was also signed. Two years lust Friday that is. July 2, was the Day on which All tenders for the new Manitoba Tivo building which to have come to speak of the parliament had to be in the hands of the minister of works according to Tho pub Lic announcement. The Lyal was in on that Day. But or. Kelly Sivon a Day s of Trade by special private and his flna.1 was accepted by the to bin. on july 3, 1913, two years ago Tust saturday. A year next a widay. , is july a 3dh. Or. Was paid js5.fli.io Oil account of tin extra for North steel As cruet d. Tho Lacni it had not thex Kvin Bekx Matjek in i Ovna Jiniv. Thin pay ment tin 1otal by or. Kelly on steel alon.-, previous to the elections thirty years ago Horace Luc Domgall and family returned Home yesterday from a visit to on Tario. V w. A. Mclntyre and k. A. Blakely school teachers went on Satur j train to spend their vacation j ill. Horses lady win Leld and. Winfield Scott were sold at the track on Friday. Bill j3arry bought the former for -12so, and Doc Hin mall the latter for h .1. Boyd of Ottawa hns a Purchas i Oil the Manitoba Niti Confer i j Dionery formerly owned ii w. 11.1 i Paulin main Star it. Or. Boyd. Will add another to the list of our business men who have reached us from the Dominion capital. A year Elfio next saturday is july 10, 1um. Tin Day of tins last. Manitoba election ill which Hoblin government with a minority of the total votes. to secure a majority in the legislature. On the. Six i Vutha con tracts made bet Ween the vol Lin government did Kelly. With lit , 1-tji Over and above the main contract on which was paid us to october 29 tile payments were As follows november. 1913 january. 121.s71.70 March 131 4 april l22.-iu2.-Fri june 1914 july 1914 Dufore the elections october 1sh 4.50 these be it remembered were All extras. From Gleichen. reports a threatened massacre by the blood 7n who Are on a Reserve there. Teachers and missionaries have left the locality. A. Dislike to Rev. Or. Tims is said to be the cause of the trouble. I the shipments of butter to Anco Uvora from Points along Tho m. N. Railway last week aggregated j pounds. Birthday congratulations to hopi g r. Coldwell worn Clarke township Durham co., ont., 8.i8. D. K. Killam Winn Lucio Horn Windsor. Out., 1878. G w. Markle born i Judas. Ont., 1sso. I july i Geo. Stephen Jorn i Montreal js76. I g. G. Ruel born St. John j k.b., 18c6. I 1-. C. Lov born Toronto j 1ss3. N. To. Perry Monti cull born Dray ton. Olla. 1576. July i William to cry born Middlesex. Out., ims. .1. 1-. Tennant Gremo Lorn new i Castle on Tyne j born St. Andrews j.ss2. J when pc editor mrs. I yom the . Northern the Best weekly in re marked , Watt of the Northern news and be ought to be. A fair Hadj re for lie was of a daily newspaper for three he or a. Some what different opinion to tin Man who once told the compiler of these pars that to ought to be shot lie was Quilly at us Lime of to the Kight Jlon. Lady Grundy. But on the other it would not do for us to usurp the judicial. Function it7 dear w.j.j1in the list of places void suggested which a. Member of individuals now very much in tin Public by might think of As Beitiks for their holidays Ruhy did you not include Crooks on minn., Tor inti c oin of them in connection election outs and other procedures made necessary by the improper election jaws which adorn the Dominion and provincial statute Hooks of this and enlightened country Ami occasionally hear people malting rants As badly off flip an the of some Kastorni papers on Manitoba affairs which make you want to alter a familiar Couplet of Goldsmith and wonder Willi a Pron How an Edir s head can Harry so much Tye All Tali a great Doal democracy and about the failure of the German people even to attempt to achieve self government. This an excellent time for very Cana Dian to Clear lieu mind of hunk and hypnotism As far As possible Ami look squarely at our Canadian in of of Elf Sov Crement and especially our whole election and election system with a View of seeing for himself just Bow far Workings of our forms of Seir Govi Rumen fall Short of the of self Sovari Zinent. In. J. Ii ;