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Show HE ACCEPTED THE PRESENT. Tl.a InTeaticatluii at th. All. fd Caaadiaa lirtbary caav. Ottawa, Out , July 10. Chief Engineer En-gineer I'orlcy of the public works department, de-partment, before the privileges and elections committee, admitted that tha statement made before the committee by Owen K. Murphy that he (Perley) had accepted from liim a present of jewelry, valued at hs5, was true. Murphy is a member of tbe firm of contractors con-tractors whose alleged bribery of the minister of public works and of Hon. Thomas MctiravHry, M. P., is being iu-vtstigatert. iu-vtstigatert. j |