Show THE PAN PANAMA AMA CANAL SCANDAL when prance france has baa no governmental mental crisis on hand she ehe generally manage fr to improvise a huge scandal or some thing equally penetrating to got get alone with for the time being she has baa not had a ministerial overturning for a few years but the variety and number of the other commodity have led the record somewhat and this in france means a great deal oleal the latest thing in the shape of a full grown well developed scandal are the facts to light regarding the manner in money was raised for the panama canal scheme as well as what was waa done with it alter after it was raised Itlo it looks as if legislators were bueb the same in all ages and in all countries there to ia sure to be one here and there whose vote and influence are for sale and the price demanded and re calved usually corresponds with the extent to which tie he can cause others to do as an he be engages engage to do uncle sam has had bad several such skeletons in his closet but only occasionally have the dear public been favored with a view of them except during the period immediately following the war when they became so BO common that no one on the outside seemed to mind them much and the details of the credit modeller Mo beller by which the government was swindled out of a few a score millions the oe do golyer cou con tracts the pacific mail subsidy resembling the present french mud dle die more than any other the systematic traffic traffie in post trader ships and abid many others not forI forgetting ketting the later star route to be read as a so much news and nothing more there to is no tolling telling at present what will come of the developments anent the be isthmian canal but in the chamber of deputies yesterday M do de la haye created a most profound sensation and not a little tumult by showing that mousy money had been raised for the purpose of buying votes in that body the one who wha solicited the funds declaring that the modest sum of francs or of about one million dollars was all that was wanted to purchase the needed consciences in either house of tho the national legislature this if true goes to show that the average frenzi frencht sta statesman is in much bhea cheaper ae tt than his hie trans atlantic brother booths r for t he a mail company at the time referred to went into we the open market adver several times with more than that in each pocket all to be placed where it would do the most moat good why one oae member of congress joel shoemaker by name representing a now new york city district was vas found by investigation to have received at one time which the evidence went to show was waa his retain ing fee as ae an attorney I 1 the committee wanted to ask him a few questions but his bla physician had just juit previously discovered that the s health was impaired and had bad advised a trip to europe which advice had been hooded heeded As there thero were several high priced attorneys engaged for the honorable and high minded purpose of conveying special privileges privilege in the shape of monstrous moc mom strouB subsidies and aad other otherwise ise from the government govern meat they wore were paid to te make laws for and whose interests they were supposed to protect our gallic friends can congratulate Ahem themselves selves upon having escaped so easily A million dollars is about what the average corporation would start out cut to buy a state legislature with it it got get within gunshot of 4 longress congress with snob a paltry sum it is gratifying to know that on this ade tide of the atlantic we the kind of busino referred to has not been so observable of late in fact it Is questionable if there has boa been any ADY such going on en undoubtedly every gather lug hits has its purchasable commodities but these are bought singly and tr ins actions of the kind do not assume the proportions of former years when things were more unsettled france to Is welcome to all such development though the consternation and indignation which the unearthing of the panama business has provoked would seem to indicate that they have no more use for that class of work there than we have here and that somebody will have to answer for what has been done |