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* F farce anda a humbug. |__ servant of the Government]} ¢ | * & l:ar.uFoy--Thut was in ! ega.td ;? mgu shielded. Mr. Whitney read fro tfi scope of the commission, . ho 1, printed copy 0(1; thfdlnlvest:" n ty ; sae commissioners. i , essep | the matter, and said that hon. gentle i 9 | Mr. Pett.VD'("-'('"YO"A';l1'\:;;'(x'1lé:\tn§ w«A men would believe that "carelessness". 6 in November, lon§ befor« isslon . WPre| was not the word to be used in charac--' ' membership of the ",n"";? 1se.»}" > MC: | terizing the action of a Sheriff who ha'd' known. _ (OpposittIon '"If.'l,',l.l"" 'Conser--| sworn in as deputy returning officers| Price orf the West i "'r.'_f.,.',,.'{ to| men who but a few minutes before had | vative Association "'};lf"' NVould M | been introduced to him. If these ac--| | ]g-\) bc'r')rp-'[lik' C(')lln.'llr;.f;." l.. -'.nr West El--| tions did not ju.'"if}f a G()\'Ol'nment ini M.""""""'n"'].' t'h\ i mission what he| dismissing an official, hon. gentlemen| «il! Le" the ~CpMME 44 would be glad to know the offence of| kn\Li" 'Ma'--liarml;l----l have no pessonal \\'?}ir:h it wuuh_l l)e'n"(w-ssuri\'f {t.);'::'nd(;f:' o Wladge of the matter before the ficial to be ;,u!lty to justify $ bv' knm;nlit:i:fin o ' misgal. A portion of the report of the} commins!t'"s h4 ~1 investigation which appeared in The Mr. Pettypiece--Then if the hon. gen Globe was read by Mr. \{'hltncy, the in-- !tleman had no personal knowledge \\'h.\'_ tention being to show that Sherift did he make such an arraignment of Brown had adimitted allowing strangers the Government, and upon what was i to obtain control of ballot--poxes. He based ? (Miuisterial -- cheers.) Mr. | asked if Sheriff Brown, after the dis-- | Wright, a Conservative organizer, had covery that baillot--boxes had been given \ sta ed at a public meeting that he knew to strangers, that these boxes had not ' 'of the destruction of the baliots 24 been returned until a late hour, and | hours after it occurred. having heard it | then not by the men who had receiv-- from the man who did the trick. Why | ed them, had made no effort to locate |did not Mr. Wright go before the com--| | these returning officers, what construc-- | |misslion and divulge the name of the 'linn could be placed upon his actions? |alleged destroyer of the ballots 2 They Every irregularity that had been dis-- '\.\»-r'n- asked by the amendment to, :x'rl covered ought to have been dealt with, | most severely towards the Sheriff of Kl--| and as long as he was in public life gin, who had been a little lax in his | men who violated the election laws |conduct, but had never previously b« en | woulid not be allowed to defy publi« Ishown to be guilty of irregularities, ho oninion or violate self--respect. Mr. | was not prepared to go that far. | | Whitney held that the matter of elec-- k "hi e«\ (Char tion frauds was much more important Mr. Whitney's Charges. than the 'budect, and said that th Mr. Whitney, after expressing his Government bad not beard the last of| surprise at the admissions made in tnc Wost Elgin. To--night they would com--| | previous address, said that they were '|n-l hon. gentlemen' to vote on the 'ull aware that the Treasurer of the 'zlnn-ntln"lnl. and he could not tell how| 'X']'ll'.'::)('u was capable, in fact markea-- soon again or how nfu-n. hon. gentle-- |ly capable, of making an eloquent men would have onportunitics of voting !s:»'t"--n. but he honestly, candidly and 'vn the same matter. | openly made the statement that as long 3 ';1g he was in the Legislatur he na ! The Premier's N« [v]'\'. never heard . a Treasgurers budge! Ispeech which was not immeasurably Hon. Geo. W. Ross in closing the de-- lits superior. This fact was all the more h:l"; met the criticisins advanced by Mr. lnl;'l'\'"!"'»'ls when the Treasurer's caps-- Whiine ¥. and various others members | bilities were considered. The leader of on the Opposition side. The Conserv-- 'the Opposition attacked the Provincial ative leader had threatened thati more iTreasurer for the discrepancies be-- should be heard of the West Elgin mat-- tween the statements of the Treasurer ter before the session closed. A very regarding the assets of the Province good answer had becn given from the land the revorts of the Finangial Com-- Government side to the --harges pre-- Imission. The CGovernment apparentiy ferred by the Opposition, but the Oppo-- |ecould not explain thes differences. sition were not yet satisfied. The Op-- | Again, the mombers of the Government position leader had at last condemned lhad tim> witbhout number made the Conservative corruption, but it had | statement operly and publicly that the' taken a long time. Mr. Whitney had \ surplus amounted o _ $5,000,000, ans declared that so long as he occupied his more than that, that the surplus was of present position he would relax no ef-- Isuch a nature that the hands of the fort to bring to justice villaing and Government could be readily pla« |\'-_l" scoundrels who had violated the elec-- | on it. The Financial Commission in its tion law and who were now walking I report placed the size of this surplus at the streets. Let the Opposition leader | $2,000,0000, Turning his attention <t« begin with Mr. William Smith, who had :lho- West Elgin Commissfon, th ~-:||1 .' confessed in open court to the expendi-- \of the Opposition satd that while the ture of £1,200 for the purposes of brib-- | hon. gentleman from East Lambt m had ery in South Ontario. Mr. Smith was \made the statement that the Lib-- the bosom friend of Mr. Whitney, had l,fi'l'aifl condemned Sheriff Brown, sat on the same platform with the lat-- ? |he did not say why the Liberals con-- tor during recent elections in South | 'dt mned that official if he was not guil-- Ontario, and had delivered address: -:l on | |'l,\'. The carelessness \'.Ilit"_l.'ifii'.'li"'\» behalf of the Conservative )».n-!_\"'_\'nll | |\ gentleman said was the only gullt of he was as free from prosecution by Mr | Sherif© Brown resuited in the robbery Whitney as was an :lllfi{';l in h("'l\:'ll' t of u_m-nstituwnn-y and the (_lisurau-in;:v_"" (Ministerial cheers.) The (,]m"é"{"; the fair name of the Province. Sheriff had been reising a hypocritical cry ever Brown was, however, to be condemn-- sinee the House met. If s \um'e n i)~"" "'1' | ed, but the major criminal, who really ed Tiberal got into .lrnu!:l'v he ,:{;::"{):. | committed the crime and who was a hounded with all the invective .thut. could fall from Conservative lips.