Show New York methods LONDON March 19The Parliamentary committee appointed to investigate the charges against the London corporation has held its first session Lord Hartington presided pre-sided Mr York formerly a member of Parliament Parlia-ment deposed that he had examined the accounts of the corporation He found that a special committee had been appointed in 1882 to oppose the Reform bill and that there was expended by that committee a total of 50000 He said that practically the city accounts had never been audited notwithstanding the fact that the corporation corpora-tion employed socalled auditors who witness wit-ness said were liverymen without n practical knowledge of the duties The meetings held in support of the Reform bill were raided by roughs who had been supplied with thousands of forged tickets of admission admis-sion by the corporation officials A man named Hood e made an affidavit that he had been engaged to bribe roughs to break up the Reform meetings Mr Scott City Chamberlain being sworn presented a written official protest against the production of the corporation accounts on the ground that the House of Commons exceeded its rights in demanding the accounts ac-counts and acted in a manner derogatory to the rights and privileges of the corporation corpora-tion |