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On the first point, in his recent speech in Lindsay, Mr. Mackenzie repeated the statement that he has made in nearly all his public speeches, to the effect that during his entire term of office he had given out four times as large an amount of contracts to the lowest tenderers as the late Gov- ernment did during the same period of time. " In other words," said he, ** out '' of nineteen millions in tenders that " were sent in to us we gave contracts to " the lowest tenderers to the amount of " sixteen millions, whereas by tSir John's " Government the lowest tenderers were " accepte 1 only to the amount of six or " seven millions ouo of twenty or twenty- *' one millions in tenders that were sent *' in." That statement is very plausible on the face ot it. To enable one to un- derstand its real value;, however, it is im- portant to rem-^mber that an entirely dif terent system has been introduced by Mr. Mackenzie. There may be difference of Dpinion as to the value of that systecs, and much can be said on both sides. When the opportunity comes, as come it will, after the general elec- tions, for the Conservatives to examine into the manner in which it has been carried out, it will be seen in all proba- bility that it has been used to a consider- able extent as a weapon wherewiih to help friendly contractors, and to dis- courage those who were supposed to be less friendly or positively hostile. Under the plan of the late Government the field was open to anyone to tender, the poor- est as well as the richest. No deposit was required ; all that was askea was sufficient sureties, and the contractor was permitted to use whatever capital he possessed in carrying on the work, in-' stead of having it lying idle with the Government in the form of a deposit. The result was that a great many people tendered, who were afterwards unable to furnish sufficient security, and as a con- sequence had to be passed over for those tendering at a higher price. Mr. Macken- zie adopted a rule under which five per cent on the amount of the oontract had to be deposited, in addition to a deposit in money, of a fixed sum with the ten- ders, subject to forfeiture in the event of the party refusing to accept the contract at the price tendered for. Under such a system there should have been no cases of letting contracts to other than the lowest tenderers, and yet it is admitted in the statement of Mr. Mackenzie, 'y^. 13D %A which mriat be taken, like all his state- ments, with great allowance, that ever three millions worth of contracts have not been let to the lowest tender. It «vould be interesting to know in how many of these cases the deposits has been forfeited ? It would be still more i:iterestingto know in how many cases of contracts let, the deposit has, in the nase of political friends, been pleasantly arranged. We have, fortunately, evidence to show that whatever the merits of this new sys- tem, it has resulted in loss to the coun- try. When the late Government went i)i;t tenders had been invited, and were in I he department for several sections of ihe Welland Canal. Had the late Go- \-ernment chosen they could have award- ed the contracts, but as Parliament was about meeting they did not do so. Here is a statement of the several tenders sent Jn whidi Mr. Mackenzie found in his de- (artment when he tot^k office : — .ectlon 2 $323,000 " 3 291,00 » 5 266,825 " 6 70,000 •• 7 251,770 12 • 302,500 13 270,950 14 271,950 Not awaded tftl 1875, on ne rr adver- tisement. Total $2,049,995 When Mr. Mackenzie came into ofiSce, r>e set aside these tenders, and adver- tised anew for oil the sections except section twelve, which was not let un- til a year afterwards. He required the five per cent deposit, and Bs a result, the lowest tenders '.''ere, in the aggregate, nearly a quarter : f a million dollars higher than those re- seived by the late Government, and set fif ide by the present Minister : Tenders received by present Government witli five per cent, security, i'^nders received by ilie late Oovern- ment ieo. 2 $S25,C0O 3 291,01)0 5 266,825 6 70,000 7 251,770 13.....'.... 270,950 14 271,950 Total $1,747,495 •ec. 2 $396,565 3 328,415 5 312,465 « 68,000 7 28<,935 13 313,160 14 'm;»;rDOUBi. •' Edward Blakk." Whether the contract was given to him because of that letter or not, it is certain that it did him no harm, neeing that he got it at $212,000, when there was a ten- der in from a reliable contractor, offering todotiiework at $182,600. When the papers were asked for in Parliament in connection with this matter, there »vas not a scrap of a pen in the department to show why Mr.Tolton's tender had been passed over Mr. Mackenzie luen asked a report from Mr. Page on the subject, who stated that they had endeavored to get some particulars about Tolton, but were unable to find anything about him. And yet, at the very time that this contract was let, at d when Mr. Page says the De- partment could ' iid out nothing about him, Mr. Mtcker t iiad in his po.ssession the following teltj,fam from Mr. David Stirton, one of his most faithful support- ers in the House of Commons, dated January 4th, 1874 : — " Ihe H(m. Alex Mdclc^nzie, Minister:/ Public Works, Ottawa : " I understand that John Tolton, of Walker- •• ton, hc8 t'lidered lor tho G»derich harbor " wo) ks. Mr. Tolton i» a ihoi-ovfjh, practical, '^ honest, and reliable man, flnanciuUi) nble and " accuitomed to the cotflrnction c/ public works. " t he securities named are reliable am, Aound " men." " D. Stirton." And he had a similar telegram from Mr. Sproat, the manager of the Mer- chants' Bank at Walkerton, vouching for his ability to perlbrm any work ho would undertake. Moro thu-a this: A I' THE VhRY TIME HE WAS, Ab IS ALLEGED, UNK.sOW>f I'U I'flE DEPAKTMEiNT, 6 HE WAS EXECUTING A SIMILAR CuNTRACT AT MEaFOKD HARBOUR, AND THE REPOilT OF THE ENGI- NEER IN CHARGE, EMBODIED IN THE PUBLIC W. >RKS DEPARTMENT'S REPORT, KEFERR .D '10 T- -E MAN- NEi4lN WHICH HE WAS PERFORM- ING THE WORK IN THE MOSf CuM PLIMENT illY TERMS. Thus were thirty thousand dollars of the people's money squandered to reward a renegade conser- vative for hia services to the Clear Grit party, in electing Mr. Blake, for South Bruce. Wo had an illustration in the case of section three of the Lachine Canal, of how the deposit is made to work for the interest of political friends. Mr. Jumea McShane, Jr., put in the lowest tender, the next being $30,000 higher. But Mr. Mco'hane was evidently not serious. He withdrew as soon as he found out who the next lowest was, and the $3,000 daposit, which; under the regulations of the department, should have been forfeited, was returned to him, as Mr. Mackenzie afterwards explained, »* through inadvertence." That, the reader-will remember, was the excuse put forward for tho illegal printing jobs given to Mr. Sopeaker An^n. In the case of the Examining Ware- house in Montreal, the lowest tender was also ignored. The Government were anxious to give the contract to Bourgoin & Lamontagne, for import- ant services ran ered by them in the county of llochelaga. Mr. Martin's tender was the lowest, and he was in- lormed of the fact by the Department, and asked to have his sureties ready. But the Committee who run the Govern- ment and its contracts in Montreal made up its mind that this would never do, and Messrs. Bourgoin & Lamontagne were permitted to change the figures as to ex- tra masonry required in the foundations and in this way secured the contract. Taking the figures of the two tenders as finally changed by the favorites, and the quantities actually allowed, the result has been a loss of several thousand dol- lars to the country, simply that political friends migh' be rewarded. Then the contracts lor the harbor im- provements in Quebec were manipulated so that the lowest tender was passed ovei and the contraet given to Messrs. Peters & Co., who were the favorites. A re<.ent trial in Montreal let in a Hood of light upon this matter, showing that the award- ing of this contract involved certain pri- vate arrangements with those awarding it. The same thing was attempted in the case of the graving dock. But the elec- tions being near at hand, Mr. Mac- kenzie had to interfere. Even then, how- ever, instead of giving the contract to the lowest tender, as in all fairness should have been done, new ten- ders were advertised for, and the advantage given to others, after the fig- ures of the tenders previously sent inhad been made known. But the interference of Mr. Mackenzie in the case of the graving dock, makes him responsible in the case of the harbour Improvements, and for the loss in that case in not ac- cepting the lowest tender. In connection with the Pacific Railway, and the Pacific telegraph, there have been numerous instances of favouritism in the awarding of contracts, resulting in loss to the Dominion. Section one of the Telegraph line was awarded to David Glass & Co. for $107,850, when Mr. l^uUer offered to do the same work at $38,750. That there was no ground for objection to the lower tender arising out of suppos- ed unfitness of Mr. Fuller, is proved by the fact that he was awarded the cot^tract for section two, and completed the work, though more remote, before that on sec- tion one was finished. By this, $69,000 were thrown away ; but a political rene- gade, David Glass, was rewarded for his treason to his own party. Mr. Glass has written a letter to the papers to say that the statement — with the ii|:ures as given above — is inaccurate. In answer the Ottawa Citizen gives the following as the facts of this case, and no attempt has been made to dispute their accuracy: — ''Tenders for the construc- tion of 250 (not 300, Mr. Glass) miles of telegraph line from Fort Garry to Living- stone, opposite Fort Pelly, were called for in 1874. Fifteen tenders were received. Amongst these, those of Mr. Fuller and Messrs. i- eiton & Oo. Upon coming to Ottawa, Mr. Fuller was informed that the line must be carried north of the Riding if { Moul ?he 4 the -with pirate. the id no I their Itruc- 38 of [ Mountain. He replied that if the hne tmust go north of that mountain, ''he would ask as extras, $20 per I acre for such clearances as might be necessary. This would have made his tender about $54,750 instead of $38,750. as the specifications clearly stated, (see returns to House of Commons, April Ist, 1876) that the length of the line was 250 miles with two hundred miles of wooded and fifty miles.'of prairie. The necessity of going around the stone mountain made a difference of 50 miles additional wood- land to be traversed, or 800 acres, which as before stated, at $20 per acre, would have added $16,000 to Fuller's original tender. Sut, no. Messrs. Sefton, (ilass and Fleming were awarded the contract at $107,850 — and the country lost $53,000 1" A favorite way of securing "a soft thing " for friendly contractors, is by changes in the works after the contracts are let, opening the doors for extras, which can always be arranged without diflBculty. The works on the Grenvi^le canal afford a striking illustration of this. The works on the St. Peter's canal, in Nova Scotia, furnish another illustration. And the Furcell contract, op the Pacific Railway, is also a case in point. The re- sult in this latter case is a loss of nearly three hundred thousand dollars. These are instances which, in spite of the efforts of the department to keep back information, have been brought to light. When the manner in which the contract system has been administered comes to be considered in the light of the open records of the department, it will be seen how little justification there is for Mr. Mackenzie's statement when addressing his electors last year : — *' I " assert, in the first place, that since the '' inauguration of the present Govern- *' ment, the most scrupulous care has been " taken to have the contract system so " administered that it would be difficult, " IF NOT IMPOSSIBLE, for pubHc contractors " who are friends of the Government to " obtain any advantage, or that public " contractors, who are opponents of the " Government, should suffer any wrong " in the administration of that depart- " ment." It will be found, on the con- trary, that the one consideration in awarding contracts under this Govern- ment has been the rewarding of friends and the purchase of opponents, regardless altogetner of the public interests. 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