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'“First, it has been stated by certain newspapers, and, I uni told, was believed by several members of the jury, that, the system of allowing Government contractors to depart from the specifications in return for subscrip- tions to the campaign fund was intro- duced into this country at the instance of Owen Murphy and N. K. Connolly, who came here. from the United States. "This is not the, case. I am sorry to 't iy the system has prevnilud in Canucla iot forty years, perhaps longer. It is hot necessary to on into unpleasant details. It is notorious that the system flourished before Confederation, andl has flourished since. Both parties, have resorted to it; it was one of the, offences for which Mr. Mercier. was tried last year. In point of mortality there is no difference between it and the system under which Ministers or their agents draw campaign subcrip- tions from manufacturers in return for laws enabling those manufacturers to toll the community. When Judge Rose and Mr. Osler condemned the practice of contractors subscribing to .eorrupttop funds, they did right, But they did not go far enough. They should have. been still more vehement in condemning the, politicians who pro- "fit;' by it, and without whose active or passive cooperation the evil could not exist at all. It is olovious that con. tractors with a pt'o0rllra centmct such as Larkin, (Jonuolly & Co. had, would not subscribe thousands and tens of thousands unless they were asked to subscribe; and who asks them if not Ministers or Ministers' agents, and what is allthe bribery of voters for Pt to help Ministers and the party, and who wink at the recouping part of the business but Ministers, the men said to be guardians of the public in- morests? Moreover, it is clear that where a contractor is allowed to scamp in re- turn for subscriptions, those in autho rity must initiate the hnusd-rnust make the overtures, must be the tempters. Ottawa, Dee. 4.--The following statement was iranded to me by a gentleman who has held a high place in the Conservative party, whose words carry weight, and who is likely to know a great deal of the effairs of the Con. servative party in Quebec. He has never luyd uuy connecciou with the en- ttrryjt? in which MuGreevy or the C holly’s have been engaged - V’TThe imprisonment: of N. K, Con. holly and Thomas )IcGreevy consti- tutes, in my jud,voent," sad misc-arri- age ofjustice, I proceed without further preliminaries to give my reasons for was“; , , .. DRAWING UN M'GREEVY. “Sir Jon Thompson and the C0t1ser-. vative party admit Sir Heetor's guilt when they put him out of the Cabinet. Mr. Leurier and the Liberals admitted Mr. Laurier’s when they condemned his conduct, and said in examination that he had been fighting the Tories with their own evil weapons. 1Vhetlwr Sir Hector Langevin and Mr. Mercier were any worse than the colleagues who must have known that the money they kept getting did not come from heaven, is a question I am not concern- ed to discuss here. But it must, strike every impartial man thut there is some- thing extremely grotesque in the politi tions putting the contractors in prison. How Sir John Thompson would have raved at the hypocrisy of mankind if Mr. Mercier had indicted Charles Arm. strong or the St. Rochs bookseller or Pncaud for conspiracy to rob the public. Yet the thing would not have been more utterly incongruous then the im- prisonment of McGreevy and Connolly by the Conservative beneticiaries of this particuiar scandal. "Secondly, thejury were led to be- lieve that McGreevy and Connolly had made an immense sum out of the tax- vpayers by these transactions. Suppos- ing that were true, would it in any measure lessen the guilt of those in sothet, who permitted them to make it in return for campaign 'boodle'? "It is not true, however. To begin with McGreevy, he is penniless. He was once rated as worth 8350,000. "That was in 1875, shortly after he got the contract for the building of the; 'North Shore Railway, The contract turned out pretty well for him. Since then, as the evidence shows; he got a great deal of money from Larkin, Cou- nolly k Co. ,\\'IL\T HAS BECOME or HIS WEALTH? It is a fact that every dollar of it, ex \cept a. sum which has been devoted to paying lite insurance, and his policies are now hypothecated, has gone into the party chest of the men who have sent him to s.rpol. "All the money he got from Larkin, Connolly & Co., and from other Govern, ment contractors during the last tifteen or sixteen years, was taken from him faster. so to speak, than it came to him, He was the siphon through which pass- ed all the funds destined for the trea, Asury of the Conservative party in the district of Quebec, and for years was Treasurer. But the party not only drained him of all that was crookedly come by, but of all he had laid up for his old age by years of labor as a con- tractor on his own account, “Here are some facts and f1gures on this point. Their accuracy can be de- termined by an examination of Mo. Greevy’s books and papers. I believe they are under rather than over the mark, bat I give them as I have got 4. -- The following, mded to me by n i held a high place e party, whose words them from a Quebec banker who knows' l "Under one head alone, that ofjour nalism, McGreevy paid $45,000 Ll, maintain 9. Quebec journal conducted by a person who is no longer Ib Conser- l vutive, Recollect, he was the generalh financier of the Conservative party in the Quebec district. Then it cost him l $35,000 to buy and nmntain Le Mendel of Montreal, which was always believed l to belong to Sir Hector, His douceursl to other Conservative journals Lfd,u/r-) ed to at least t335,000 more. Fae-similes of drafts drawn on McGreevy by Sir Hector and Sir Adolphe in the general election of 1887 were printed in Town to some time ago. The expenditure in the Quebec district on that occasion was $121,500, of which $80,000 wus got from Larkin, Connolly k Co., and other Government contractors, from subsidized railway companies, from storekeepers doing dusiness with the Government, and from a fee well-to-do partizans who had no irons in the fire The overdraft of Ful,500 came out of McGreeVy’s own pocket. The drafts piled in upon him before any money , worth Speaking of had been subscribed, and he had to meet them out of his private bank account. Then, as usual- ly happens in such cases, subscriptions which had been counted on were not obtained at, all, while in other cases the l sums received were much smaller than I those originally put down to the credit of the fund This is how it came that McGreevy was fleeecd in every cam- paign. The shortage was to great to be made up by subsequent receipts from contractors. ' “In the general election in 1882 Mc. Greevy was out $55,000, The expon- diture in the Quebec district was $131,- 000, and all he got was $67,000. After each general election he had to find money for protests and to defend seats, and most of it was furnished by him- self, for it was hard work drumming up fresh funds. Them, again, during all these years, McGreevy had to provide money, often at short notice, for bye- elections, and bye elections are always costly. It is within the marks to say that the protest and bye elections from 1880, when he was appointed Trea- surer, to 1888, cost them individually $40,000. He had to perform other ser vices which cost money. His own elec tions in Quebec West were expensive, and he spent a great deal in keeping things straight for Ministers throusr,lr out the Quebec district between elec- tion times. The Riel excitement in the fall of 1885 frightened them badly, and he had to pour' out money to keep this man quiet, to win over that news- paper, to pay for counter-meetings, and so forth. “McGreevy has been supplying money to the Conservative party ever since he began contracting in Quebec 10 years ago. He was a carpenter by trade, but soon got hold of small con- tracts, and blossomed out as a Govern- ment contractor. He built the Quebec Custom House and other public build. ings, besides Government wharves and harbors, and a section of the Intercolu- nia], which was in Robert’s name. His first big job, however, was the Parliament buildings at Ottawa. In 1874 he got the contract for the North Shore road from the Quebec Government, and finished the work in 1881. All this time he was being drawn on by the party leaders, Pro. vincial and Federal, for. enormous sums in the aggregate. In 1878 he supplied $63,000 for Sir John Mac- donald’s purposes in Quebec and Onta- rio. In 1872, when he had no con- tracts on hand, he gave $5,000. It was the Paeiiic scandal campaign, and the party was flash, \Vhen he had the North Shore contract Provincial Ministers and others bled him to the extent of $230,000, but he got a con- siderable portion back through being allowed by Ministers to depart from the plans and spec'ihications. During his construction of the Parliament buildings, subscribing and scamping went hand in hand for years, and a great lot of money was furnished to Ministers. All told, since 1862 Mc- Greevy has paid to the Conservative party for political purposes, and to Ministers for their own use, a sum ex- ceeding 8870,000. His books showed it, and he has vouchers for most of it. " do not ask for sympathy for Me- Greevy. It; is time somebody was made Jul example of. Bat I do say that agent of a monstrous system of corruption, who has likewise been its victim penunciarily, should not be sent to gaol while the principals are proment in the public life of the coimtry. "As for N. K. Connolly, contractors and engineers agree in saying that it would have been better for his pocket had Larkin, Connolly & Co. been allow- ed to proceed with their contracts as originally drawn, instead of being emeshed with the two McGreevys and with the Ministers behind the Mc. Greevys. The partners in the firm were drawn on for vastly more than they got by the illicit methods. The report to the committee of Parliament of the experts appointed to look into the affair was unintentionally mislead- ing. That is, it led the public to sup- pose that these men had made a tre- mendous lot of money. A large profit on such works as they were engaged in would have been proper enough con- sidering the risk they ran from the bursting of cotferdams and other ac- NEARLY A MILLION, cirlenLs; considering also the Ept'ginll skill requhed, the capital invested, od the grout saying nmdc by the CnnnulA lys in inventing improvemerrrs in the dredges. Butif the experts lmtl al- lowed for the costly plant that was thrown on the hands of the contracwrs when the work was over, and had heen in possession of the real truth about the sums paid by the firm on account of the Conservatlve party, and to Per. sons in high position and positions of trust under the Wing of that party, they would have found that L-erin, Connolly k Co. made very littleindeerl out of the contracts. Their hooks, vouchers and private 'stubs' Show, 1 uuderstund,that their total payments to the party, its leaders and hangers ‘on, exceeded $215,000. _ J'AY or: QUIT. "The Connollys went into the con- ltmcc as business men, to do business in astraightforward Way. When the contract had been signed and senlod, but not till then, they Were informed that they must comply with the usual conditions, namely, subsCrihe to the lparty funds, and take their chances of being recouped, They protested. 1 am assured, against this corrupt en tanglement, but it was next to impos- sible for them to escape. The Minis. ters and Ministers' agents '11;ch have ruined them in six monthsfnd doubt, less would have done so h 1"! they re- fused to come down withjhe money. Let the reader question my first con- tractor he happens to meet on the streets of Montreal or Ottawa. He will be told that, though there is now a statute against, this kind of thing,the contractor who fails to come down when requested is a mailed man. Any contractor will also corroborate what I have said above, that the agents of Ministers are the first in every in. stance to suggest the corrupt ar'range" ment, No contractor in his senses would dare to go to a Minister, or to n- departmental head, and offer to make such an arrangement; the proposition must, from the nature of things, pro- ceed from those in authority. The Connollvs did not male half as much out of the several mntracts as their acknowledged skill old enterprize as contractors would htve'vbroug,ht them in any other ordiniry well-managed work of the same dmensious. More. over, a large sum ofthe mom-y is still withheld, though noone disputes that they are entitled toit. "I am not pleadilq that the offences of which N. K. Cmnolly, as manager of the works, may have been guilty should be excused, but only pointing out that the extenuating circumstances are exceedingly wrong. Whatever others may have done, he at least did not go into the bonling business with his eyes open. a: was not until he was bound hard and fast that the choice was placed before him of sub- scribing or going to the wall. He has already paid a heavy penantly in an- guish of mind and in the indiscribable grief into which his much-respected family has been plunged. But, putting those considerations aside. I assert, without fear of contradiction, that he is not by any means as culpable as those infamous stewards of the ar- rangement that they might bribe the community with the money of which it was plundered. "One can conceive of nothing better calculated to lows-r Canadian justice m the eyes of Canadians and of the ond at large than the proclamation here made by the imprlsonment of these two men, um we have one law for contractors and another and a dient law for politicians, "Let justice be done though the heavens fall. If Connolly and Mc- Greevy mustspend a. year in the cor» ridors of Ottawa gaol, let the real vil- lians of the piece be sent to break stone in the penitentiary. Herein lies the thorougl. test of Sir. John Thomp- soh’s sinceriiy as a reformer of abuses and avengers of outraged morality. Let him cast his eyes around the Council board at which he precides, and remember the words of the Good Book: 'He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous, him shall the people curse.7 'r Howto Get In "garhlii,r11t Picture. 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