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such 5? `Vt; district `B have placed on um \..'.ana- . ication of solid and loose rock, and 3 in accordance with which the pro- gress estimates have been r.etu.nedv since the inception of the wo:`r:. I want hon. gentleman to take notethat the engineer herc_ announ- ces that from the very beginning of "the work the classication co-ntend- ed for by these subordinate engin- eers, and which at rst was resisted b.y Mr. Doucet, and denitely resist- ed by the chief engineer, has pre- vailed from the very inception of the work, and prevails to the present V`:--- time, aaxuc u. u.\.; . I have never had occasibn to` `force my views on my assistants. A11, to a gnan, have taken_ the same mterpretatxon of the classlcation as I have. ~ - -' - ea - `...-....-... nn't`\l txme, I wish to add a sentence from the same letter : L-J ....4.na;r\o-I fr}- IL \JHII (Continued. on Page FiVv-H) engh CCLV9 uc Days . L: I can only say that I do not con- to cur with the interpretation placed on clauses .34, 35 and 36 of the general I specication, by -Mr. Doucet or the am engineers under him. In my opin- ha ion solid rock excavation, clause 34. ye: covers. all material that should be `Cc classied as solid rock, etc. * * so: * * * Such being my views and in as stated to you in my letter of the to 17th instant, I must decline to certi- ch lfy to any future estimates. except an upon classication in accordance with st< lmy intrepretation. of the specica- et. = tions above mentioned, unless both P: . parties to the contract agree to da . amend the contract formally, with T . due concurrence of the government, 1:11 or until the estimates are corrected cc and conform with my interpretation. ei In any event, I ask that this corres- w pondence be at once -submitted to ` I I. ; the government. `1 i o : But Finally surrenders. _ w 3 `So the matter stands on the 30th Fl 1, October. The chief engineer, the `I k gentleman by whose decision we are ,. bound, the gentleman whose word n is nal, as has been said by a maj- 5 ,. ority of this committee, the gentle- (1 _e man who is the sole arbitrator on d`.the question of classication, stands t` ,e rm, with his back to the wall defy- ring all the subordinate engineers (of. a the eastern division of the Trans- at continental Railway. Yet strangeto 3. say, he changes his opinion later -on. 3. "How does he do it? , Well,~he does I-sit at the instance of an honorable class of men to invoke in a case of `s . . rig this kind._ He has the engineers on n t. . . . Dis _ he seems for the time being -.to be` ,1`-- the strong ..man. Thenia, `greater in- ; ueneea comes` in,__'-and ~la_wyer after -1`: lawyer is _introdueed to {argue ,_,th,,i,s 7 '. ,q!1eS,tiO!1--ln_ the ' interest;-._v _ hegg '. Grand "_'I`~runl<. `Pacic "who -are: 333 plaining? ' eNotat; all. In the- d est `_Of the _people- %,Vi_,l.__OSe-il`I11._O!'l"y.-'<.- - being, hpa,id'out?;'_-Not atfall: Bput, _ 4.:-i`=exi-i> a r.te, earsiiment 0!, .tIh`. ohfracr : O7. -ors,.f.who_a're e,l_a,i!,ioI_1I'1n;g;ioi_'_% i.1f i'or'e': is ' ra,- `introduced to , shape,` andt` f-;_t;ll` _ rlisl ju dmenjt_ o".the v.ch1,ef-i.j;$'IlII|,'"_:`li0:fI * h;e 5"f1 l.'%3.1.W-`ntil ,13i3'1,l.'VVI,3.i=' 191*!-` ; Mr. Douct surrenders. NAM mlsslou. _ _ I presume th contractors asked for the opinions rendered which should have been to the contractor and should havebeen reserved by the` contract- ors, .but when "these opinions were used .as zanergument ex Farte; behind 'the"._5ba'cks.. of ttheh, pegog the 9 56$ *1 :e`iF.. 7iif(:i-t: 1mcId_nt1y;; . .. ;..:=..-`.y:- I-H.` .3f;&_ .|'.'aCIncA H `ulluulnbuu-J.` .wex;` protectmg the__peo1:,le-`- 7!;o_ .shg_pf_1 `ar1d.warp_` t1re_.jurlgr,r1ent of the `chief 7 engineer whom we appointed as an indeperidenfjudge in; this, matter, a ` great wrong was done to,the pccple 1 of Canada. Here we have Mr. La- eur-`-a1l right; Charles H. Ritchie -"all right; Mr. Lacoste-all right; all'~good lawyers, all prominent men" % Mr. E.` M. M:A1C-DONALD. Not Mr. Lacoste;- Sir `Alexander Lacoste. A --:---v_ Mi-"I. It is A. Lacoste `here. I did not know that he had a ` tit1e--Sir `Alexander Lacoste, K. C. I He is no better lawyer on that ac- 1 count. You. see etiquette in it all i the way through. I do not think the people are so much concerned in that ematteras in the question whe- ther or not they aregthrough fraud or otherwise, paying too much for the construction of this railway. Mr. Dona1d'Mc.Master, Mr. George F. uShep1ey-we have heard of him be- fore--and Messrs. 'Ay1esworth _& ' Company, inclosing the opinion of ' Mr. Wallace Nesbitt. What hap- ' pens? .We had the opinion of the 5 chief engineer on the 18th October, - ....A6-0.: cbc-nnrr nnininnf We had the chiet engineer on me mm ucwuu, 1 a pretty strong opinion;_we had the deliberate, considered opinion of the chief engineer, on the 30th `October, sure, firm and deant; we had a-sub- sequent reiteration of that opinion slightly emphasized on the 16th December, which is found at page -426, and we had his opinion on the 9th January. ` __ J ____ ,v-- 4.. .... ...d , We know the position, and my hon. friend knows iteas well as any one, of an architect or engineer who is made the sole referee with regard to .a. question of this kind arising; he is not to yield to outside inuen- -- U. I... 4.. .-lash-I- "\ur rnnenn nf L he IS not to yxelu IU 'UuLDluc uI.uu_\.u- ce. He has_ to decide by reason of his professional knowledge and no voutside or extraneous inuence is to `guide his judgment.` * * * I say that we `have by this contract placed one man in charge to stand rmly .between the people and contractors and that it is infamous, unheard of and something that would never be sanctioned in a court of justice that -L-...I:...- and `Juan l\(\;+;I'\f\ f\F Sanctioned. In as CUUYL U1 JLIDLILC Luau. a man standing in the position of an architect or engineer should be assailed by one party in interest and his judgment warped and perverted. I say further.that this committee should haveibeen sitting for the_last ten or` fteen days, this committee and deal with this fact that we have an engineer who, however honest he maywbe, has permittedhimself to be "dragged and turned .about at the instance of parties whose interests are concerned. We should be in- , vestigating whether or not it is nec- essary, assuming all` honesty if you like, that there should be a change made and some one else placed in ' charge of this enormous work in _ order that.the- interests of the peo- > ple should be protected. So that we . have these two facts: We have the 3 resident and district engineers as- 5 serting their right to control the chief engineer, and we have the chief engineer ultimately surrendering to 6-1-`no.4 anal! and 1-n H19 nmmnn Of the '3 P should be sitting now, to investigate, 4 Lon 1% Ef $2.`! engineer u1tuua.u:xy auucnu-.....5 to these men and to the opinion of the lawyers--the ex parts arguments of the gentlemen employed on behalf of the contractors--and we have the `further fact, that when these classi- cations are made these gentlemen I are ignoring them. MIDLAND.-.1-)-e`n-n-ie. `Christo, 8.` Macedonian working on the cem- ;_e nt work at _the new G. T. P. eleva- |tor, fell a distance of about 35 feet on Saturday evening and received in-` juries from which he died on Sun- day. He__was wheeling cement for the construction of the building, when in some unaccountable way he fell and alighted on the sand thirty- ve feet below. He was` taken to the Hospital where he succumbed his injuries.--Fre Press. V BRACEBRIDGE. - Oscar Fuller , and Sam Fuller, for whom the police , have been looking for four or ve ryears, were corraled by County ` wConstable Robt. E. Armstrong and some -`assistants on Tuesday morning a house near Dorset and brought Bracebiridge. A long list of charges is hanging over their heads, among which are house-breaking, stealing horses, money, a bicycle, etc. Their cases came up before Police -Magistrate Spencer on Tues- day and were adjourned for a week. The capture of these men is a good , thing for the district as they are l considered to be desperate charact- . ers. They were armed to the teeth - when taken.--Herald., 4 s ORILLIA.--At a special meeting` 'of the town council yesterday it was decided to submit a by-law to the ratepayers on-August Ioth, ask- ing them to vote $25,000 for improve- ments and extensions to the water- works `system. A by-law was pass-i ed dividing the town into SIX sub-` divisions instead of three as hereto- fore. -Each ward is sub-divided in- to two divisions; This will do away with the crowding at the polls ex- perienced in late elections.--News- i Letter, NEWMARKET.-A fatal accident yoccurred "at the Home. on Wednes- day morning, about 5 o'clock. One of theinmates, George Baker, aged 69, was nqt of very_sound mind, but -.--...- ..,mmAnnaA mute caoable of 69, 1101: OI VET) souuu uuuu, uu; was donsidered quite capable of _looking after himself. His bed was beside `one of the windows, and about 5 o clock in the morning he got, up and crawled through: the _Jvindow'and fell to the ground be- distance of 23 feet. He was up and cared for,` but his in- Jggis were so severe that "he died ing, No blame is attached` to any- _one. The remains were buried in -Aurora on nThui-sday afternoon.- - Ex`press_-I-Ierald. ` GRAVENHURST.-A terrible fa.- tality -occ_t.1rred' last Saturday morn- Vix_1g at 'M1ckle, Dyrnent 8; -Co. s saw- rmill, whereby' one of Gra.venhurst s `most promisgng young men, Ormond _Cooon, sustgnned such injuries that '_.~h'e `died wxthin a; f w hours. The yongzg m_anr was -wor ing at-the car- riage iyI_h1;h- convgyed the 41o_gs to the `er ` ='a}l::_:wt-ayzell un._t':l`;sh0r,t1S _ llic-. ,`.`do_g ?.. rmghxyzfl` at-w~ the` log in position oh the Tears; *1-i:;g slipped. The end of the log .-.......-um nu-!\I1I'Il" and struck th lvef ragel Slip]-3.311.. L116 cgxu UL bus -31`, swung around and struck. the lever "_cont'ro1-lin `the carriage, with the `rec suit, that. it `was ' thrown upon. the saw lengthwise. The young man 31-` so wasstruck by theldg and thrown upon the saw; One of his legs `was almost completely severed, when the -saw broke; and the other leg was mangledin, a terrible manner by the knife-like action of the remaining portions of the saw`. The accident . was the work of a-few seconds and , none of the workmen could possibly . have prevented it. -Coon died at 4.30 l in the afternoon.-Banner. We offer One Hundred Dollars for `any case of Catarrh'that cannot be cured by Ha1l s Catarrh Cure. - F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. 011 J I,A__, I-....--..g l.uJo yon--..--._.-.. -. -v. _....a., _` .e the undersigned have known F, J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and n< ancially able to carry out any oblig- ations made by his rm. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. :Hall s Catarrh -Cure is taken inter- nally, acting directly upon the blood \ and mucous surfaces of the system. : Testimonials sent free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all drug- gists. an 1 77,11)- T.`__.21-- D:z- `Ar nan- SIDED- Take Ha11 s Family Pills for con- stipation. Order your wedding invitations early and at the right place. The Advance Job Printing Department makes a specialty of this class of work. All the latest samples of stationery. Call and see us before ordering. Advance Job Printing Department: Science, Said Lord Kelvin. Aiiirme the Existence of a God. I cannot at all accept the view of those who assert that ether ls atomic. since all my own investigations have 2 clearly demonstrated to me that its structure is totally nonatomic. In fact. it has no structure in the accepted meaning of the term. Neither can i accept the view of those who assert that science neither aiiirms nor denies the existence of a Creator. On the con- trary. science most positively asserts the existence of a creative power. We cannot escape from this conclusion when we study the physique and the dynamic of living beings and dead" nature which we see around us. Modern physiologists again tirmly de- clare that there ls something else out- side gravitation and the physical and ' chemical forces. This something is a vital principle. Science places before us an unknown. in thinking of this unknown we all become agnostics. We only know God in his works, but we are forced by science to believe with perfect condence in other than phys- ical. dynamic or electrical forces. There is no middle term between abso- lute scientic belief in a creative power and the acceptance of the theory of a gt haphazard coming together of atoms. n-` Here scientic thought is forced to ac- 1- cept the notion of a creative power. )1` Forty years ago i asked the great Lie- E uig durim: a walk in the country if `e he believed that grass and owers grew V` solely as the result of chemical force. He replied. Not any more than I be- lieve t'.:.at chemical force can translate -x hook upon lmtany describing the 9? phenmnena of vegetation. Every act Ce of the will is a stupendous miracle for :e"..'h( iiii(':lL physical and mathematical .~`(?it"'.l('(-.`. if your intellect is strong ng enough you will be forced to believe ,1 in God, the foundation of all religion. 'of and you will see that science is not at dg, .-ill hostile to religion. Far from that. rig, it must he looked upon as its auxiliary. WEDDING INVITATIONS. so rs he loom -Lard Kelvin. THE CREATLVE POWER. Wanted His Tip. "in Astoria." said a Washington state oicial. "there used to be an old slwrumn who brought me the first of every mouth a present of It splendld L salznon from his master. I always _<.~,~_:.- the old sherman a tip. "l .ut one morning I was very busy. and when the old boy brought the tlsh I thanked him hurrledly and, forget- tl' ,2 his tip. bent over my desk again. He hesitateri a moment. then cleared hl.- thl`-`$11! and said: "Senator. would ye he so kind as to put it in, writln` that ye didn't give me no tip this time. or my wlfe ll thlnk i"\?e went and spent it on rum. " ith-West] in out I lune; Excursions Leave on Tuesday: I Juie 9, 23 Aug.4-.18. July 7. 21 Sept. 1. 15. 29 Retur;_1.2_ngl Tic'kets~ _..-A` \AlI_- Q4: HOW S THIS I I LIB`; 3-`r ww --_....._.____ 1-icxztsnooo r-on_ao one Bertha In Tourist Sleeping Cart at small extra cost, If scam-ad In ndvmct. '- ~- - -..,. -\ Iln -ra-|..o Lm.nD'n lull! our: can, u uuuu U`: u. -....... V Apply to any C.P.R. Ticket A300!-f:r full 1 Info!-mntlon and fret copy of Homuoolnn` Pnmphlot. or writ: . 7 _POS lIl,_. Dial. Pa.` Mntyfolonto >`mCDC :---. ____- ,, From-all Ontario Statlonstowtnnlp ctlfury. Edmonton and `plflnclp po an In Manitoba. .8:s|nu:hovm and Alba:-twat a-n j IT E ... Owen` guiahena~ lS_l hav so at L 1 . purrle. "*1? ;'1}}? I ,FD. ine e. shed. d llwnl have msny {BY Events of the Week E 1?, ig i c T . .n--M--%--I-5-++-iv-t~-3--!--1-I-I--I--I--3-I-I-3-+-I-++-H--I-I-vt--I-3--H-t-1-I--I-4-4-:-+-I-I-++-I-9 SDAY, ULY 16th. vi _ The rail mill of the Lake `Super- m:}3iI: Lalondg has been found ior Corporation at Sault Ste. Marie ; 5 ` guilty Of usury at Mont,-ea1_ 1e closed. again. . - The Empress. of. Ireland, with A1`3-"- Swsmlth aged 14 was Lord-Roberts and other distinguish- df0'`1 `Mr 1`aaday' . - ed visitors. arrived at Quebec. ' R`3"- C.`` Arthur Baldwm med 'Miss May Proctor of London ac- . cidentall set r to her dress .and The Prince of Wales 1 P5' is in a. oritical condition. ' mouth W Q"b' y. d"` The Welland Canal is being equip- SCW `.i 5 '69 kmed by a `gas Ded with new electrical` devices for exD105i0 ` 3' come at Pottsvlumi operating the gates and swing brid- hdrowned I`; a--~ . Scxsmit Rev. Canon A at his -residence 0 mouth Queb V..- Seve_n miners explosion m Pa. \\'1a1 }, will be the guest of Premier ec, _ ouin. ' G_. 1: H,..,..I 'Fnv11 hfk Was re` Premier \\'hitneY VVhi.l in Qe'! E1` OIIIE ien-- f, at Ltlluux. Mr. Mackenzie King has_ started an mqu1r_v Into the cotton Industry -of Quebec. Four'Rut.m1z1nians were killed by the caving-m of :1 sewer & YOt1ngS'- town, Ohio.` .2-.. /\ ,. nannp '.`d_ 'UUuLA;. The \\'cH:md pzured ycstcrda; through. ~ -L/\1` Ulluuau. It is reported that the C.1 .R. r Central. Umo._ . By the upsetting of a Canoe, hd-K ward Collins, a laborer, was rlrown-` ed in Toronto bay. .......n-a have- ea m Lnrumu ua._v. Two revolutionary agents havg been cupturgd in Mexico, posing as Baptlst mlssxonanes. _L'1n1c.~` C. Clark and William D. Jones, wzmtcd In Newc'.1S*.le,, Pa, are to be cxtradtted. T .,.......A. van gr- ICDLCU LLL .V\Jl a p_assengcrs (>11 C.P.R. cars. Sir Wilfrid Laurier announce_d.in the Cmnnmns that Thanksg1v1t}'g- -Day would he held on Monday!!! future. ;.:u.~J - -1 - 1---... knofl INC UJ ux. \ . \ . u . . . . .., A negro named Lamont was at-1| rested at North Bay for robbing ' .. (DD nave. ~ | IUUJYC. Four llmckville youths h2}VC arrested on charges.`of_ steallflg def A express cars and robbmg 3 Jewe 3'. -store. _ - John Mulyea was ser_1tenc_ed at. Pox; Hopg to ve years 1n Kmstog pmtentiary for burglary and '6 `'93 emng to shoot. , . .1 The L'm~.ed States, Congress W11 be asked at next sess1on for an 3P; propriution hf $1,000,000 for C035 defence. -3* ucxcnce. , '7` - ` Two th4 rU`3'lnd b0y5y runntng In . C. . O relays or half 3. mm: each, wxllf Ner:; 3 m -:g.';U,r`- f{`I>`)II1 the Mayr O0 ! York In the Mayor of C mag - FRIDAY, JULY Nth- There wcr_-c 2.667 In Tomnto m the elecnon. [431 `.1-.1; I-L`): . i .was _Ge0r& ;\Lutt0ck_s _ of Tor`<::;0hors_e kllled x-.'hi .: exerclsmg 3 Yo - at O21kvi11c- _. , 4.1-... Q , _ . treal . 1thm :L short dlstance Of, Monj . , . -f iron An mnuwrtvant discovery 0 Is rcpurtcd. ! x\\LHL'- V . I- uh \Jd. _ ` Ninc man were killed _.al._t` mg up of It Powder _ ' Clcclum, \V:1S1'\- :11:m `Canal break `was re-` stcrday and boats passed] 5 ported at. Sault. Ste. Marie i.1 may buy the Algoma ackcnzie into mdustryl V JULY :23; spoiled ballots the last Provincial- iron I I - ..L-nn %_ n_1ill Lake Corporatnpni ` closed. agam. - 2 -r.._1-..,I ...:oI. ran: (my: t otom) x ges. TrunkePaeic wi1l.be able to move part of thus `year's "crop, r o The International Harvesting Com- pany of Hamitlon received an order for seventy-veecarloads of mac,h1n- ery for the west. Twenty-ve persons are thought ' to _'have been drowned by the found- ermg of a pleasure launch an a ty- phoon near Manila. r-~--- -......;.....= incnprfnrs and a The statement is made by General 1 Manager Morse that the Grand ` I3 151 G wnnsoyug \.v..------_- `Welland Canal wgth new electrical for operatmg gates bud- ges. " ~L-L-...-..L In ....'.A.. `xv r:9f1P1'$I1 pl lOOn near >.LVLduyu. Two customs .i'nspecto1-s and watchman _were kxlled at Boston `by the exp1o_s1on of a box of deyonatlng caps, whxch they were opemng. Thg E_x_ecuti ve`_oun cil of t'hfe~iCan- A a:ru~;af;n' `cu-`cu .. -- The Executive Council adian' ` Manufacturers Association- sent a. message to Sir Wilfrid Laur- ier asking for relief for the woollen industry. _ _` H ` ~ J--- T mvlelahire neirs The Barbadoes Legislature oers Canada preference of 20" per cent. on a_ large number of articles, on condition that Canada accords W'e'st Indian sugar a preference of 6.72 l per tOn- - The new cit_yVdirectory`gives Mon-' trea1 s popu1at1_on- as 454,000. Frank _Hogan, 3. convict _in King- ston pemtentiary,( hanged hunself. _ Seven prisoners escaped from To- Aront jail and ture` . Two composite regiments, red ....a green. I'eft Toronto for Que-| have not been ~ recap- 1. WU Lulu}; and green, bec. _ adian Pacic Railway. A aged by ,_ fl `Rev. i Canon Bald- wm took place to St. James Ceme- tery, Toronto._ `Mr W,` H. Allison` has retired as ' despatcher of. the Can- Earl Roberts will 'visit ~Toronto and Niagara Falls, but will go no further west in Canada. ing fourth` place. r V_ A New lersey. pastor `collapsed while in a mechanical swing at a picnic, and Thesteam bange of Kingston waswre fire at Sackett. s Harbo.r._,_` Rev, D. `C, Hossack` w v ill not with- plclllby I|I\.- _, - The steam baige '.of Kingston was an aged nre Sat C.A H ` on Clap- SATURDAY, JULY osite feft Que- is feared vamong the `of- Turkish army in ;Mace- 18th. . Mow` ,.;;g;.m.n, psto} of i._I)cer `Park Presbytenan Chm-ch. ; _I-!_._ A..L ",!If7CC *9uun_- q--w-vq-gw---.r-_. -- %N.'e_w VY'orkLbz"o ker.s ar-'tVa\VI: out polxcxes in Lloyds as a. safeguard ztginst the election of Bryan next [if` IIDIIO ' Joseph `I-I;zVe1`ton, a` Toronto drug- `gxst, was committed for trial on a charge of operfot -ming`a criminal ;op- eratxon, ~ ' ' V Extrncts frotn Mr. Lonnox stSpee;;--on Motion to Continne Investigation. ti o * The following is. in part a Han- sard` report of the speech _in the House by Mr. A'HaughtonA Lennox,, M.P., on the motion to continue the investigation re sMajor Hfodgins charges concerning the Transcont- inental. Railway `Commission. 7 --A~-------.- slant `:1 gun on t DION JIICIIVLGI. l\dlIVV_`LJ '\.o\Ian5anuuu-van I Mr._ Speaker, Icrecognize that, ini` `appointing a small committee, the House expected us to oc.c'up-y a. somewhat vjudieial position and to endeavour, regardless of what our preconceived opinions politically might be, to arrive at a conclusion which ~would be in the interest of the country. I am sorry .that I can- not concur in the motion of the chairman of our committee for the adoption of the report. The order of reference. to that committee was made on April 28th last. The hon. ,__,..1...._.. ...1... Lna Snub mnvp fh QI reterence. IO Ina: Cuuuuuucn; vvu-I , hon. gentleman who has just movedthe r adoption of the report stated that certain matters . were known to the House, certain matters were of pub-i lic notoriety at the time the order of reference was made. That is true. At thetime the order of re- ference was made it was known to the Housevand to the country that.` Major Hodgins had made certain charges which reflected very serious- 1.. .....-... 6-`no nnnrinnf nf nubllc b1151- IIIVIIL I made lette1'S WHICH CUllau|.u,u; Lanuawnu. -....| 38, as led before the committee,` and- which -, contained the damaging statement I am : about to refer to. +- It is alleged and reiterated by Mr. lParent that attached -to the_ memo. laid on the table, upon which the might hon; gentleman moved, were ..,.. nn`v nlinnimrs from newspapers,` _l'Ig'l lt HUD; .5c:.u.u.u-an ........_, .. ,, ;not_only clxppmgs from newspapers,` `but the bundle of papers which form } Exhibit. No._ 38 1ed_ in the commit- - - A ._.x ...1....t. Mmraanpd the charges NO. I1lCu_ Ill |.I.lC \p\JllId|nnu tee, and whxch contamed the charges ; I am about to refer to. I _ Mutilated Records. `H15 CU|lE;al.vv: ----- ..\,> ____ ,, ly essential, but I believe it is essen- 3` tial that this House shxould know ex- d` iactly the class of material and how 07 it was classied, in order to bein a 31 position to_' decide whether .the mo- 11 tion I am about to make, namely, D that the matter be referred back to ti quiry burkedi at this stage. Before reading theletter of `Mr. Wood, C Chief Engineer of the Grand Trunk 8 Pacic, I wish to make an explana- tion inorder. to elucidate certain 1 statements in it. In the specica- C tions in the various contracts on the 1 eastern `division we have it dened! that earth excavations have a slope ! of one and a-half foot to a foot; `1 thatgloose rock excavations have- 1 slope of one foot to- a foot, and that ' solid rock have a slope of only one- - quarter ofaa foot to a-.foot._ There- I, fore, when we find in these `letters ? reference to` the fact that a slope is one and a-half to one, that means I V fthat` the engineer is,call ing attention = "to the factthat whereas the slope. is "a "slope of :com'm,on earth the per- fentage-.retur'ned for the work is a _ I tage of..solid loose rock. De1iherate'_` _W_t`fondoin Charged. :H`ving~said `that. I want to read tthfeip rsflettier of `Mr. H; A. Wood 13),tth-.hief_engin,eerj.i ;`. ., . .,_. 'f._.\.-._'A.. 1...... nuntedfrom ML; The Hod5gins Charges. to. the chic! Cnglnccx. l I (Mr. 'Lehnox~here quoted from Mn; 1 WIood s "letter .' of 7tl_1 Qct.,. I907, . -which showed, by copxous illustra- tions. that the V-allowances _f_or so-lid . paid` loose _toc1 exce-ssnvely hea- r;`_1any_1nstances a. large, per- gefbemg` `merely common ex- } ;.- ,Th-e letter concludes `thus: L As l>_e,f_o1 -'` stat_gd,_ 't`n_eseT o`ver-c_l'as_s- V % _catiogs.g:age "pot ;m`a`d,e through ,e:,-__ ` " "t1di`i:lle}.1;;".n9r`:=;1pbn the, .dei'-..- `THE. t>xou'rHi1us1 % ADVANCE . -F rank "].o_hno,L a negro, hanged `in West .V1rgmia `for the murder of a. woman, .confess_ed to four other murders befote golng to the scaffold. - e t`\..L..---.. IIIEIKIUIU II\vLVr`\, av:--3 -- -.-v v_..__. `Mr. Thomas Kennedy pf Oshatnruatd * had diiculty in saving the lives of his family when re destroyed. their dwelling. He used a ladder to get them out. - . ~ ' -5 rt , \ erior.`To such classication as men- itioned above, increasing the cost of the work to such alarming extent, we most seriously protest, and re- spectfully request that either your- self or the assistant chief engineer `visit the work and pass judgment _ LI-_ -1..-..ZG.~n{-;nn QC fT'InflP,_\ visit the Work ana pass Juusxu {upon `the classxcatnon as made.) I - " ` A moment ago I mention:-1 the fact that Mr. Doucet did not pm- lpose to stand in harmony with his subordinates as to the higher classi- cation, but in some way he ivrts over to the contractors, like the chief engineer, changes his attitude as time advances, and as early as the 26th-. of Oct. we _nd that `Mr. Doucet is per- pared to state to the chief engineer a that they stand shoulder to -s`nould- -- M M... ...-m far the Ouebczs. class- that they stana Snoulucr w -=.-u...-- er as_ one man for the Quebec xcatnon. The effect of that upon {the chief engineer, upon the fortunes ,r r-__....1.. o.nA nnn'n- the 211110111: J. ua.v \uo K, So, as I intimated a moment ago, 4 k between the 12th and the 26th. of 1 l_ October, for reasons which I cannot r 1 explain, Mr. Doucet seems to have ` 1 surrendered to the contractors. it?` e Chief Engineer Stands Firm. re On the 24th of October there was le . . . . . [1_ an examination mto this tnatter. at Mr. Lumsden went down, and m the _e letter `of the 30th October, page 403, at he po1_nts_ out what was done. This is a signicant letter, It shows the position 111 which Mr. Lusmden stood I .. um anwn n October when he