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en manmaatane r commnns C aunerns ummmemennarmes smcs on se amenrenmr c romecsenmenscmmenmunensmmmn far he would go with lus corrupt proposals. declined what he first offered. Hoe had proposed | d there shou'!d be a coulition Government ; that there would be no dissolution of the House as they feared to go to tha country, the Catholie | w vote being against them. . We ultimately settled that I was to get $2,000 and the office--$1,000 | d was to be paid when I had voted, and $1,000 more | w in May when I was to get the office, 1 asked for security. --MHs proposed that Mr. Bunting, of the Mail, should give his own note for $5,000 to | t be placed with an agreoment that I was to sign, | | alurwith a lettor which he showed me from Hon. | L D. L. Macpherson, which he said was written to give him the disposal of the appointment at Edmonton, and was to be endorsed with a recommendation in my favour, These were to be placed in the hands of some one satisfactory to me to secure the carrying out of the agree-- ment. -- Wilkinson had explained to me that he | had scen Bunting, who would give his note for | d security, as proposed. | He made an appointment | 6 for me to meet Bunting about it in the Mail l Office on the day the Speaker gave his first din~ mer. I went to the Mail buildings, and instead | 'of finding Bunting as agreed I was shown into | l Mr., Meok's room, where I found Wilkinson, who | lintroauced me to Meck. . They prepared an | d lagreement for me to sign agrecing to vote | I against the Government, and had a uote | s for $5,000 with both their names on it. | B 1 objected, and insisted on having Bunting's | U note as agreed. This they said Bunting de-- | elined to give. Wilkinson at this time made a | t l partial endorsement on the back of the letter in | W a my prosence, and was anxious to complete it by | | §liing in my name, if 1 would accept us and | Meek's nots for £5,000, which I refused. wWib | kinson then undertook tomake an appointment ' for me with Bunting that night, which | he did. -- About half--past ton, aftor leaving | q the Speaker's dinner, I. wont alone, _ ac-- | J eording to Wilkinson's directions, . to the Mail | ;4 «office ,where I met Bunting. Hse took mss into | im room alone, shut the door, and kept me talking | y ¥or neacly two bours. Hso talked | F IX FAVOUR OPF A COALITION GOVERNMENT, | He said he knew that Wilkinson and Meek and | T . I had an arrangement. I told him Willkinson had | 'promised me his (BHunting's) note for $5,000 as | OM security, and he said he knew all about it, but | J from his position in the party and on the Mail | l 'he could not put his name to paper ; but he as-- | 9 sured me that whatever arrangement 1 made | 'with Wilkinson and Meck it would be carried | out, and that Meck was the party's solicitor t and controlled the party's funds,. . He | U pledged me his word and honour that | OM 'whatever was promised me by Meek and Wile ; m kinson frould be carriecd out, and said that | 4 Sir John always took good care of his friends, t He also said that Moek was the solicitor in the | W petition against Lyon, and if he would vote right | t it could be withdrawn. 1 left the Mail oftice t just before one o'clock in the morning, Wilkin-- th son then left town for some time, During his ; t absence 1 met Mr. Kirkland, who spoke to mo ; 'mbout his views on timber matters. Shortly afterwards he asked for an interview in my t room, aad then he said there was no use talking | 8 to Pardes, as he could not changa his policy, | ©" He said he had seen Meredith and talked the | ©4 timber question over with him, and that ho (Meredith) sad he would take four or five days to consider it, and that at the end of the time ho . b had seen Meredith again, when he told him that | ||| he agreed with his policy and would bring it up | ti in the House. Me said ho | F HAD ALSO SEEN BUNTING, ; C and that Bunting agreed with his views, He also | q told me that he bad spent $32,000 in lobbying | pg a Logislature in the States, MHe had hoped to get Ub along here without the currency, but he had found he required it, and had sent for $15,000 or $20,000. I also mentioned this and all other | conversations of the kind to the Govern-- | ment. Kirkland _ afterwards _ offered _ mo | w $3,000 for imy -- support in -- tuo _ House. , After this Wilkinson returned to town, and we | had a ta'k over Kirkland and thiis timber scheme. | gp Subsequently Wilkinson said he had been at a caucus, and it had been decided to make the | Y¥ankeo the scaps goat, Un a subsequent occa=~ | @ sion he told me that they had looked the Yankes | up, and were not going to work with him, as he | would be coming with his claims against the new | p Governiment, and that they would want the tim-- | / ber to divide up among themselves. During this | q time I met Bunting one evening in the Speaker's | | lobby. We went out together to Front--street, | q and up and down Jolhn--street, and had a long | g talk. He told me he had been at Uttawa, and had \ 01 now the power to deteat this Government. He told me that it was all settled to deicat them, About | 1: my own affairs, he repeated over and over again | 4 that I would get what bad been promised, and | would be well taken care of,. I also toid bim | about Kirkland's offer, and ho told me to get | all I cou!d from the Yankes in addition to'what I l was getting from them, and he would help me to | do so,. Hs also told me that in case of Mr. Mowat's dsfeat there would be no dissolution. | He again promisea that Lyon's protest would be dropped. Last week WILKINSON FINALLY AGREED TO PAY