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$ : March 24 > | s Purther, he saw no reason ;mmmmhm}g; All for An AlHowance. t ' that concerned the Attorney--Gen-- Then, continued the Minister, it was eral's Department only. Magistrate decided to publish the so--called Gover seemed to have been willing to| CD2%®. "You are all familiar with | enter the arrangement with Mr. Mc--| thest beadlines in The Globe," said Caughrin. In view of the good liv.| th@ Minister, flourishing the issue of ing concerned, Mr. Gover was ready| {h8, PAD@ camying the McCaughrin | to divert certain funds, and was declmuon.. A "terrible crime" had { | "generous in the allotment." been committed, the public mind had f Dr. McQuibban held that the last been '"inflamed," the Government clause of the report, suggesting direct and two of its Ministers were accused ' payments by the Government in cases of \\12{1ng1:13. "AH," said the Min-- of retiring allowances, meant that the ister, "because they had tried to find committee really did not lHike --the :'?x;m allowance for Daniel McCaugh--| i?etm m"%'e":'dmmd prefer | _ 1Mr. McCrea said he could not under-- At any rate, he ""dm'lmm_-' stand now Mr. Nixon could repudiate vestigation had mcammwithout its. principles which he himself had held advantages, as mb"mn Youved while he was in office. When he sub-- I from it k mitted further precedents, Mr. Nixon | t remarked that in these there was no 'l\lr. McCrea's Interpretation . | evidence of any such bargaining as | Mr. McCrea said the case hag| bad marked the present case. grown out of 'The Globe's publication "Not on the surface," replied the' SS ~Desember of the MceCe hm' Minister, but he wondered how any declaration. It had beeft cal:uxht,em agrecment could be reached between ) "as a great political bombshel that| )' "~pasit" MeCaushrins nd y would do political damage to the Go¥-- | ;) the Mimcter. "was that ho listen ernment of the day. Unfortunately To aJ o 2'""."""- o o oalicfslane. nemm | for those who cast the bomb and' ed to the words of ]:!oht.icxans.. using | who lt the fuse, it has turned out to: Bm as 3 lool to advance their own | be another of the great political duds| {D'°"®!S" , ; of the Board of Strategy." ' _ Mr. Nixon's Position. t The Minister reviewed the -- early Mr. Nixon, he said, was on the stages of the matter, and said Mr. horns of a dilemma. He had said :'dlnéayson had sough't.. to help Mr. he was not against the evidence. \| | moeas. t t nartiies efi aenetoencth, No | * + n | member shows to a constituent who _ examine witnesses, "but neither' he | Te whtecbroge in: "How many . Cfiedc® tifmist nof ehedik auen * e in: n a ques-- | pensions "do you think a man ought tion. The evidence, he said, hadqbeen | to have? absolutely undisputed. Mr. Nixon, he Mr. McCrea replied that Mr. Mc-- ---- Caughrin had been receiving snfall| |continued, had to register some ob-- | pensions for his service in the war| | jection. and he wished the com-- I and as a C.P.R. telsgrapher, but had| | mittee report to pass no judgment . 'considered these insu_mcient to main-- "on the whole charge prepared by | tain him. 'The Minister then recilted| | Harry Johnson in McLean's office. | the precedents for the Government's| |1t is cur job to tell the House that | action, including scveral under the| |there was no bargaining, no traffick-- | Drury Government. ing in office. Reference to Solicitor. "The one man I'm sorry for in ! -- Returning to the history of the| |this case is Dan McCaughrin. In case, Mr. McCrea said McCaughrin, committee he impressed me as aA | after making the bargain with his man who wanted to do what was successor, had "contacted with his| |M8"t, and honestly thought he had | sometime solicitor, Mr. Harvie, an| |Breat capacity for his job. But the outstanding Liberal." Mr. Harvie pos-- evidence was too overwhelming in ! sibly was the first to suggest that this the local area that he"was inefficient was a case of trafficking in office, |and should be retired. | had "put a flea in McCaughrin's ear." | McCaughrin was made to "wonder if | he had missed the boat." In his inno. | cence, he thought that if he acted in : | concert with enemies of the Conserva--| | tive Party, they might hurt that party. | | He was taken to the office of George | | McLean, once Liberal candidate forl 'the riding. "There they mesmerized Danis!l McCaughrin" said Mr. Mc--| Crea. "Word was sent to Harry Johnson. Organizor of the Liberal Party, and the declaration was sworn. j Ethics of Settlement. } | . "Was Harry Johnson thinking of | the ethics or propriety of this settle-- ment, or was he thinking how he could use Daniel McCaughrin and this geclapation to injure the Conservative | Party?" demanded Mr. McCrea. | & | Instead of coming to the Parlia-- | | ment Buildings about the mattor, con. | | tinued the Minister, they had gone to the office of The Globe, and there had seen Harry W. Andsrson, Manag-- . ing Editor. and had shown him the statutory declaration. Whether or not it was qua'ms of conscience that affecied him at this| * | moment, _ McCaughrin then _ had| . |thought he should go up to see the | | Attorney--General. But the ethics of| the case, said Mr. McCrea, were nol, | troubling him so much as whether he | | could get a better settlement. Ho| had seen Deputy Attorney--General Bayly: and, when he couldn't impoce . his terms on Mr. Bayly, he had gone 1 back to The Globe. '