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Show John Roach on (he 1. M. Sob-. Washington, 10. John Roach has sent a memorial to congress in behalf of hiniKcH and the American workmen work-men employed in ship building, against the cancellation of the Pacific Mail BubsiJy for the Japan and China service. He Bays: "If bribery and corruption has been or can be proved, it should be punished, if possible, pos-sible, but cancelling this contract punishes no guilty persons, but punishes pun-ishes the innocent at the request and instigation of the guilty, and injures in-jures great national interests for insufficient in-sufficient reasons." The amendment adopted by the committee of the whole, cancelling this contract, has been unanimously adopted by the house. |