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Show tunlty of exonerating Mr. Cromwell and each and all the other gentlemen named from any connection whatever with such proposition and I unhesitatingly unhesitat-ingly assume tho entiro responsibility for having submitted It, and challenge Representative Ralney to submit a fairer proposition or one bettor calculated calcu-lated to promote the welfare of tho people of tho republic of Panama." WARD EXONERATES CROMWELL AND HARPER PROMINENT CIVIL ENGINEER REFUTES RE-FUTES RAINEY'S ACCUSATION. He Says, "I Am Individual Who Submitted Sub-mitted the Panama Railroad Proposition." New York, Jan. 28. Following a statement yesterday Issued in behalf of William S. Harvey, who was men-. men-. tloned In the recent speech of Congressman Con-gressman Henry T. Ralney, of Illinois, ; as being connected with the "in-I "in-I famous railroad deal," on the Isthmus , of Panama, denying that Mr. Harvey ; was in any way Interested In the mat-, mat-, tcr, Randolph G. Ward, a prominent I civil engineer, Identified with the work : on the Isthmus, comes .forward with a letter in which he refutes that part of Mr. Rainey's speech referring to W'll-i W'll-i liam Nelson Cromwell and others. The letter says in part: I "As I am the Individual, who, alone and unassoclated with any other person per-son or persons, submitted to the government gov-ernment of the republic of Panama, the railroad proposition thus charac- terlzed. but which I am confident will stand the test of competent and con-otientious con-otientious criticism, I take this oppor- |