Show A RAILWAY SCANDAL i 11 0 the canadian pacific up ii in bad shape share Sd EILERS 1111 TO t FOUS god felpi them who belp was afi motto or of me one ot t the smart ones QUEBEC may 14 in 1873 the administration lea led for fora a score of years by sir john A mao lonald donald a an dai swept sept butof out of existence on a wave of indigo a ion that foli mcd the chir chrie geo made by the lion mr n to the effect that over had been divided for elect nol ea es by sr S r hugh allan and the canadian Cana Jian lai fic rai radioed load p poil aino among g them sir john A mcdonald M sir georga georg E carter sir sit fia fla cis ui tanks feir sir hector Lang I 1 ansevin evill and other leaders of the conserva conservative live paty to today day ehte are indications that th the 8 pacific frandal of 1871 baa has been exceeded in in aiza by a scandal that may lw be equally far reaching in its result with the practical expel bi bion on of rykert from the dominion parliament an 1 thu the oread forced resign arlon of general feir sir frid fred fri d INT iddle ton from his high ollilee oll iLef arid the action t ik n br by the honee house of f commons on these matters be the ba hai created a painful in this country cloae clese upon 50 he passed into the hands of politicians from one linn firm of government contra contractors tors Aless rs larkin connelly Conuel ly co in exchange for contracts and other government favors and an 1 developments are furnished by two ex members of the firm who claim to have themselves paid over the money one of the aque ailers is 0 E murphy at one time a member of the state legislature of new york and for the last eight or nine years a fugitive from american justice jusli ie who precipe fled from new now york with gome some ago belonging lo 10 the office of the license commissioner I 1 of whom he was an overmuch over much trusted official olGe ial murphy is is a good deal of a wag and the story that has him here from new now york la is to the effect that in in burri hurriedly edly leaving his office he faund time to leave a nae sape behind him touched couched tu in thes terms god helps them who help themselves but G 0 d help the man who geta gets caught hell helan it g himself here in 1882 ha lie joined the contracting firm of 0 Lar larkin kiry connelly A co retiring ti from it last year witha with a ery very large fortune lie ile is a lover of fast art horses and of big stakes at cards and lias has cued sued a former tf fp end on a note for growing not out of a quiet little game of cards I 1 hi BO so is that the note vim was made in in sport agui phy the fellow informant in in the be boodle b is abert K abert mcgreevy A it artber of the lion ilon thomas me ic geppy G eavy 31 P 1 I 1 r Q gebec west mr greevy was also a niem member berof of the firm of larpin I 1 arpin connolly co and their joint rev rel I tin liuni 3 are the result of a di pule itu it ther members of the firm and of a family faintly quarrel between tio t io e two both murphy and robert mc lc creevy furnish details of various al amounts mounts paid by them from 1883 to 1888 for the of being favored aa as public contractors by the quebec barber commissioners commas bonera and public works department of the dominion g government overn ment of which sir hector langwin is head most of these sums were v ere paid to the lion thos me ile grocery though sir hector is is personally indicted in the declaration of murphy they claim lie officials official et have been paid about 50 of this money which went as bribes to the government who gave contracts for the improvement improve met of tho the harbor barber at eb ismall british Britis li columbia al larron aarron 31 P ha brought the scandal partially to light by posting a notice of inquiry me THE PACIFIC the mcclin ald and the condition tf of the company MONTREAL may 14 the annual meeting of the canadian pacific rii fic hail rall road com company wai was held tod today to d day the old boa board ryo of n directors were r re aLlec elected ted with one exception the rep report rt cf of the past year shown the tile crops earnings io be MO I 1 net ear earnings to surplus for year after payment of supplementary dividend ividene surplus from previous year increase in profits over previous year the report expresses a belief bat that there is no ground for anticipating hostile legislation at wa and states the intention to continue the 6 5 per cent dividend referring to the completion of the line from toronto to detroit the report says there is a traffic arran arrangement g a with the and two michigan igan roads and ease faye the creat great system of the wabash will aff afford ord the lone long needed independent connection wile wite the tile chicago st louis and other western and points and connection with two important railways will be 0 of very great value william 0 van was reelected president |