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Canada, August 16th, 1873) — As this event is Ukoly o be^^^^^^^^^^^^ polititol fjartifes in this intended to carry across the ^orllr^fZZlV\L%T:t:iTA 7^1 V' ^h"* will consequently run parallel-though at 7 iXTimyiLJt^ ^'^^'' arc— with the proposed Canadiar line '^^** ^^^"^ * '^'der I87lfantKa:e\'rdl't:r:;''rh ZTl^tlrof .f ^''^T ^^^ -h^« thy were info^ed that the tta, frerrg'lrneifcjSZt^^^^ tW advances, expreased his «gr.t that a woA of .^^,0,1^21 M tato°"S 1 ■.31 t ch.™.ter,„„d^ VLi:;i.to;,trcSa:'°'''''"°'"' °' '"'^ "i*'' .Ending „„d On the'25Ty;i'„^''r"* °° 5''° IJ • ' ■^""''- P"'"""""' ™ dissolved o- the 8.h J„lv Lte»^sf Som^^^^ In Sir //v. ^^to', a Quebec of thrcoSr rtbe;,fnTn?^ n undertaking would evidently tax the resources « nv r ^y'^ *" ^^^ utmost. It would be undesirable, theKefore, ^{rJohn argued that Jn ^r„?i ',^ ?'' ''f ■ ""'""hstanding Sir /„/m J/icrfw-oiJ'. eflbrt, to Tfn "he pnS to "e ide tetf; *? "f -''"'T'T 'I" '""'"'', """"'p"'^' " " wrsiegT r.h': Ameria^inZrt aid fTi* o,l ,"' ""•' ""^"^ 'r'™ off hi. conneotioa »ith the ^r„l!; '™f "• >?» "•• thoother, becaiise Mr. Macphermn was not willins to recoinize fl^l, ' ■*."™»-^»''iP ."f Si-- ^- ^«<». *hose pretensions n>y Govemm^weS 1 1 In; eithev w Hugh Ai of the 0( who niig would hi market, Ba£ and hia indepond the Doir Board ol moteru < Province Ghaiimai eventual In tion 8 wli obtaining finixncing Charter, narrow s can judge be Britisl Canada, i years wit the Direc Ano Minister interest, < from acq ciently fa which Si but I ma; of subseq with the On the cc continued other. Ij to the adi which the would 8e< imagine, i But policy of On the 2n of Coranu Canada bj "Ho •' stated i " satisfact " Thi ttention to the some Quebec But as the ies cornectetl B WHS iKJCome uticed by the can Company the orjranizu- most positive ihe " Inter- itanding and I Companies, bta'ned Acts enabling the i^e-raontioned to grant a nt should be pany undfer- ' have been this time, concessions in alternate ig). Of this icaiion loan le Imperial e 8 th July, of many of held. As le Canadian lovernment rival com- 'a company a Quebec le resources gued, that ided, and a d contem- ;ricate and d Sir Hugh sufficiently p reference. 3 parties to ed on the a with the ) recognize nent were position io 1 associate eithei wrenorl. wl . ^ ' ""v7 '^'"'■^" ''^"^ '''''*""«^ ^ ^'^^« "° means of knowing ofThe Ocean .1r? ' chau mansh.p, the selection of such a person, the originator whom?ItTll L ''"''f'"'"'"^'^'" "" ^"''' ^"*""' ""^' ^'•^"*^"' * genflemau woulXmS^^^ «f tJ'« Dominion: and who Z?L.l ' ^y **1"" *"^ ''**'^ ^^ '"*'^« '^'^ impression ut>on the Endish monev market, was a dao.ce which, at that time, few seemed disposed to question ^ ^ and his cdl«l"" "^ *^ f^-^ ^^^ amalgamation they desired. Sir John Macdonald Ldei^nden Somoan^'rr'f Tl' *"'?*^°" "^ T"''''''^ '^' ^«^'"*«°" °f ^ new and iniepondent Company out of whatever elements of strength were to be found throuuhout Z^Trr-r'^ "'^"'"''^ ^'^"'^ ^^' '"^^^^^"g of the^ew Parliament 1 March ^^ IZio^TZoTi'T'''''''' ^''''''' ^'^'^'^^^ ^'' only some rtLTea^^gpVo* moteru ot the two defunct companie... buc representative men from each of th« lZ:iZ a1 Tr^s^rr- ^^ *'•!, ^°"-t «^^ ^'^^^ ^«- — to have bl eLted eventZ^yTssv'ed '"""'' ""^ *° *^" ""^"P*"^ '' '^P^e^^nted the Chaner was In previous despatches I have already described to your Lordshio the nrera,, tions which were taken to prevent any American interest^ or foreign Ctarev^^^^ obtaining control over the concern. I am not sufficientlv conversS wftn milway Chart -'wSiTf'-'" "^ ";■" '-f'^'y^^'^^'^ the restrictions introduced in" the Lhartei, with this view are sufficient for their purpose. Mon«y, like water has a vevv narrow shoulder, and will find its way wherever it is likely to fructifyT^bu; as far as T can judge every reasonable precaution seems to ha.e been taken. All the ZHrecto^s must be Bntish subjects The President and the majority of the Di^ctoi m^t relTfn Canada, and though the shares ai-o transferable, no transfer can hZTe fo"the fiit s x TLrrectrJ 'tVe^::. ^' the Government, nor after six years without the consent of Annf I T'" 1 • t™^^^«f ^n both cases being registered in the books of the company Another subject which seemed constantly to pre-occupv the mind of m vXZ" ^Z::'oTo^w'r ^T-^'^ "^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^'^^^^^ an7Ltdi"lVo"anyone interest, or combination of interests whether represented by Sir J/nah Allan or anorW irom acquinng a predominant influence on the directory.^ Here Sin farnorsuffi S^ Sr^tL^eHed'r "^" V'. ^Tf^^^ *° "^''^^ ^^^^^^^ 'he^djrtmeltstn wmcu oir Jofin relied were as effectual foi the purpose as thev anneared +n rn« +^ K« TslCi:^::::';!":' f' °"^' *'^, "^"^^^^ ^^ ParlFamen?w3irTter:nd\V?h^\^^^^ ot subsequent events to these especial points, neither House has expressed dissatiafftrtSn On tl e'onPr""'"' f 'i' ^^"""^ ^^^^*-' ^ ^^e personnel of Te goveSg IJ? On the contrary, up to the last moment of tlio session, on repeated occasions Parliament 1 r'nlXll''^ r'f"^'' '" *''"^^' who framed 'the one riToAsSted h other, it, therefore, as is alleged, a corrupt modification of the Pacific Railwav Charter to the advantage of Sir Ihcgh Allan and his American friends, . 'sthe consSaSon for luld tern TrZ: h'*"^"'"^', the e, -^^„^ ^^^^^ ^^J^^. to W beo;:^^^^^^^^^^^ wouw seem that they have scarcely obtained their money's worth n result T nhnnH imagine foreign to the experience of such shrewd men of busineT ' ^^^ nnbvf '^f T- • f ^^''^i^^ent of Canada thus unmistakably ratified the Kailwav Sn Llnd-^f TuiTS'r^/ '"'1 ,T^ ^"'J^'^* "" "^* ^^"""'^ ^^ P-« "-haUengeX of Commons s^SpVh^ W«« .S«ort from time to t me anTto 4?Hlt:t '"'^"" '''""^ *'"^ ^ *^"^' ^"^ ^^"-^ be l> sit after the ^o^^^^tion' o? " Hon '^m^Wnnl J° M^^r ,"'^ Committee were then named by the House as follows • "^U^'Jn:::^;^J:^,r' «^^ ^— • ^--^ (NapierviHe). ^oo^ona^ and ?/. */f/ ^""z f '"''' «'^"*^°"«^d gentlemen tliree, viz.-Mr. (/amaron, Mr. Macdmald t^o^MfStCllt^ l"^P°^^^™ «^ ''^' adiinistrll^rd Dn n' 1 . ?• ^?'''"''' "^ ^^^'^"^e members of the Opposition, an^ wl r f ''^''l' *"°^ I^'*^^^ '^'^ *^i« niotion, lam informed by my I'rime Minister _ with X rr '?""^ •'""/ ^^'"''^^'P ^'^^'^ I J'^^^^' "« «*!-'• ™-^^n« yacquSngmvseTf with what takes place xn the Hoube, as 1 am precluded from being rreserft 7Tts EeadTfoVTi? n' "'•^"^^'^P^'' ^"P"'*^ *'•« quite\intrustworthy,lthft MrllcLfi^ the leader of the Opposition, as well a« Mr. Blake, Mr. Dorian snd Mr ^o^v emi3 members of the same p«rty, expressed themselves of opinion tliat the eWdTce S^ should theC 01 introdui tliis UtI charges on the Royal J Purliari Tn history, (No. 11 198)~l has beei a certiti it will 1 adviser jui't'd te tliii (h-\ Home ( dtity. ' to reply the Gov tary of I In among.st " J. J. ( " is chai " these J " the Co '• should CommitI were ad< Th« ing beeti prorogat 2ad Jul *-heir re also settl As been wa ship wit forget tl communi mittee, ii mentioni assent to place as ness, tha the most "formd,- " Commi " that th " two H« mont pn " »ny bi \ f interfest, iti con- wtensibly that of ng between theUe vernment and Sir Is should advance irt and their sup- is should receive ley for the pur- !8of Ministers,— aection with the the said United uire into all the 3 Pacific Railway ig of the Charter md records ; and oceedings of said 3rd, the charge I trafficked with onstituencies of 1 making these firmatory atate- Se merely read I'eagnes having ch resulted in a 1 I imagine was own mere ipte 3poHed of, and ? motion which t Committee of [)ointed by this nd stated in a Ir. Huniington, Railway, with o time, and to prorogation of use as follows : le) Macdonald [r. Macdonald, istration, and ne Minister, — ainting myself ireseut at its Ir. Mackenzie Joly, eminent Knee tendered ihould bp on oath, and the former gentlonmn further snggested, it being doubtful whether the toninntteo could Hit after the House whh onco prorogued, that u Bill should bo introduced pxpre.s.sly enabling it to do ho. I shall l.av,, occasion subsoauontly to refer to this Uttor circumstance. As the nece.cedure it would be sufficient to reply, that I recognise no authority on this side of the Atlantic competent to instruct tne Governor General as to tho nature of his correspondence with tfer Maiesty's Sec-e- tary of State. •' ^ In the meantime the Committee ha.1 met, and on the 5th of May had resolved amongst other things "That in view of the absence of Sir Qe^orge Gartier and the Hon J.J. C. ^ 66«e then m Session,"— a conclusion which api.ears to have b^en arrived at in the Committee by a majority of three to two. On the following day these recommendations were adopted by the House of Commons, on a vote of 107 to 76 The ordinary business of the Session l^ing now nearly ' concluded, and it hav- ing been admitted, I understand, by all parties, that the Committee could not sit after prorogatiion, it was arranged that the Hou.se should adjourn to such a day beyond the iod July, as would enable the Committee to complete the investigation and to fi-ame ,heir report. The date eventually determined on was the 13th of August, which was also settled as the day on winch J'arlianienfc wae ta be prorogued. As the nature of the understanding at the time in respec't of this latter event has been warndy controverted, it h necessary that I should here acquaint your Lord- ship with the facts of tho case so far as I am cognizant of them. Early in May -I forget the exact date,--Sir John MacdormU waited upon mo in my office, and havin- communicated to me the arrangements contemplated for the convenience of the Com" mittee, informed me that he wished to t.ike my pleasure as to the date of proroc^ation mentioning the 13th of August as the one he desired to suggest. Having received my '^^'"'^'^'^rn'll^r^^''''^^'':^^''^'''^^^ ^^^ ---onlcei from hi^ nir Z, P T' . ' \^??^ '""^ *^^" ^"''''''' '•^"P^n^ble for tlie conduct of public busi- ness, that Parliament would be prorogued on the 13th August, stating-as he affirms-in '^IZf ^tT' ''T''^^' '^' 'Ir-'^'-^^^y «f P-liament on that day would bo pr^o >ma,--that no business would be done beyond the reception of the report of the fw ?l! m' ^?'°^ '^°»W then be printed with the evidence, and go before the country - that the Members would not be required to return, and that only the Speakers of Iho two Houses need be in their places "-The only observation elicited by this announce! J^'afv ^blt- ^Z'""" ^fV ^''^^"' *" ^PP"^^*^"" ^^«'"'^^-' -ho rcmarkei '< Zt to do »ny buBiness there must be a quorum, and that he »nd a (juorum nould be there/'-- to which Hir John infonnH ine h«i i.-r)ll..fl M..<^ » ;f _ aa««re8 n.i that th; rZrZJb^^^ V ''"'",■''"" ^''i'' ""«>«"'tan.lin;i. 8ir JoaS "^u- John JUacdonuU, Minister ofJustic, Oitau... "^'- *^°"'' ^'"""' ^^' ^^■''• bera ofTh'e alTorfrZet^^^^^^^^ U.at I ..nde.Htau.l havo co.ne from -ome n.em- the adio,a-a.»ent "tho 3tir to vou >. 7" 7^)' ^^'"^'^«^"''' ^"'"'i"" -^ ParIiumo..t at tho following .tatemclu l.y 1^07X^1 " '^ "' ''"' O^verruaent, I bog to umke timo oL';::.^z;:^"!3;'':'.t "rr "?;^^'"t- -''^ — ^-' ^ -uo-n to that Ottawa to make a Mmntlm^^^^^ "'* ^'""'^ ^«-'''* ^« '"^'>"«»^ «»'•<"'••'• wouJdbeatoncoprorogS *^ I> 'bliHhe.l. and that then Parlian.ent a«'^'^' ^" »"J cloihusby bringing t.le'l'^^lCt::^:^^^^^ ''""^" "'^ ^ ^-^- «^' «* -"'- attempt :;!i;si;^^'::^ :::i^.:n:^;nt^tS!ri;\^"">^ ^'^ :ii«i>onou..bi. .. .y«eif to . told that no business world iroZoanthlth." '"'. H^'f' V eolleaguas had been decline to do so ; and I prot st a^ Iv ^ ,!n V^'V r'^'"'* ''^'""^'' ""'^ *'''«'-'^^«'« ^ '""«» ment to fulfil th^ pledi n.a e t^nM.r. ^ ^ ''" ''?""•'''*' ^"'' ^ ™1"'''« "^'" ««^«"^- wouid be at once proro^^^^^^^^^^ "'" """^ ^° ^"''^ '"«'"^«'- «*' '^^^ "»»«". ♦-•'at Parliament require it ; th,3y must be the iii.].,^.. . fT? i ^ '"^ exigenciea of the country done in the usvKay that a 1 Tt^^;^^ "ud bo renponsible for it; but let that be when I. together wiU^anV„r/ue"ir^^^^^^^ '' ^ f''"* 1"^*^ «"-d ; and in my pla.H,, and I shall tlien fcM T t wZho^ exiled upon, I tn,st that I shall be found not ha '. heen kept away ra Xl^ft! a tLv Z "n '^T "°"""«"^" ""«'^''' ''^'^ ^^^ fore honourably join in doiiil S n J tl «t iT « ""'• ^f "'^""■^^' '^"^ ^ «°"^^' ^•'«'-«- of the country ^ ^ anything that the House n.ight consider for the interests " I have the honour to be, ic., ,,., , '"A. L. Paimkr, iVlember for the City and County of St. John." Formerly, the intentions of fLw„- J*""" '"^^^'^^''-'g '"7 anthoritv to do so. Chan.berbyaj£^™elV"b,frtZ^^^^ !V rV"'^"' ""'^ '^''"^"'^^■''''" *'^ «'*'-- Minister has been now subst Sie t doeSo/ /n .?""V''""''''*^"'^ ^^''^''^'^ *'^« *'i«-«^ less formal or- official, lla t ' efo ! tT^^ "^"'^^ °^' «o™ '"'-'mention the Session bevond h.lStl.o'- 4 n.,.^. "•!"'" ""^ ^'^^^^^om desired to prolong to have commuaica e. ;ts wthes' to Z 1 ' '*' T.f' '"''"'^ ^«"'^^ 1>"^« »^«^» no motion to thia eff.V was even 8uJel5^-'" i^^T" '^''^^"^'^ *'"^ ^^'^-^ *'»- ry u Biifficirnt nuiu- i qiiortinj cuniuHfing ii'HUndin;^, 8ir Jokn of lii^ uNHertioii he 'tiiUtrfor St. John : uousT 11, 1873. lie from Botno mem* n of Purliamout at it, I beg to make I to adjourn to that oil 111 b« traiisiictt'fJ, be »;/:oui3;h amuiul t of tho Cominittee ; then P:irhainent wouhj have con- y cc'iHert to any rter of a million rabk for myself to jUeaguas Ijuil been 1 tJioreforo I iiiust {iii>illy appointing tli« Comniittt-o, and carried on tin; Hth of April, ordered it to Hit, " if wtiH wero, h!i«,:" prorogation," and nioro th.in Heeing couHidered, not in the present but in a HiibNequent HesHion of Pailiament. Indeed, tht mere fact of pron^gation Iwiu^^ llxtxi for the l;Jth of .VuguHt impiies this nmch, for i* is not to be prei<'imed that the Ht)UHe would have proceeded to consider the iLeport, until both it and the evidence upon wliitli it was founded had l)eeu printed and dis'ributed to Members,— but to enable this to be done an interval of a few da>H, after Parliament had reassemJiled am! Imd received tho report, woohl manifestly have been required befo"., action could have been taken ujum it. If, therefore, Parliament had c< iite.mjdatod considering tho Report during the current Session it would havo desired a later d.iy t(» be tixcul for prorof{iition than that on which tho mere manuscript copy of the Report was to be laid on its table. Again, when Mr. Dorton mov ' in amendment of the motion for the Committee's adjournment to the 2nil July, that " inasmuch as tho Committee will have " no power either to eid'orco tho attendance of witnesses or to compel them to give " testimony without tho action of t'.ii.s House, it i issential to the proper ooiuluct of the "investigation 'hat it should bo prosecuted under circumstances that will admit of the " prompt exorcis*' ')(■ tho authority of the Htmse, it is therefore necessary that the House " should sit on thi» day to which tho Committee .« leave to adjourn," tho House decided ngainst4nni by ann\(Oiity of 101 to 06,— pne of the representatives from British Columbia, as I am informed, i-'votesting ag.iinst Members from the more distant Provinces in th' Dominion being i-equircd to return to Ottfwa so Iat« in the summer as the 2nd of July. But the intention of the House is still further exhilutod by the following circum- stance. During the Session a Bill was passed Increasing the indemnity paid in this country to Members of Parliament for their attandance. Into that Bill a clause was introduced to tho following effect : " The said a iieudi .ents shall apply to the present " Session of Parliament, and it either House shall adjourn for moi-e than thirty days such '* adjournment shall, for the purposes of such act, he equivalent to a prorogation." This provision was intended by its authors to enable Members to receive their salaries and travelling expenses on the 'J3rd May, the day on which Parliament adjourned, without having to wait for the 13th August, the day named for [)rorogation. I may also mention that the same day, i.e., on the 23rd May, I came in State to the Senate Chamber to give my assent to the Bills of the Session ; and in view of a Progi'css I intended to make through the Maritime Provinces during the summer, I provided, before leaving Ottawa, for the prorogation of Parliament by commission, in order to spare myself the labor nd fatigue of ajourney of 2,400 miles for what I understood would be a mere formality. From the foregoing narrative your Lordship will probably agree with me in the conclusion that up to the time when the Houses adjoui ned, it was clearly the wish and the exjtectation of Parlia aent that jirorogatioi: should take place on the 13th August. And ii; is most natural that this should have been the case. The commercial business and the agricultural operations of the year have to be crowded into the five short monthd of summer. Almost every Member of both Houses in this country is actively engaged in business pursuits requiring his personal attendance. To be detained from home at this eeascn implies not only extreme inconvenience but pecuniary los^i. Alre'xdy tho lateness of the current Session had bred considerDble discontent, and it bad been expressly determined by the House that in future the Session should never begin later than the first week of February. The distunca from Halifax to Ottawa is something like 1,200 miles, from Victoria in British ('olunibia it is 4,000 miles. The reassembly ot Parliament in August, for the transaction of husines^i, would have cut up the entire summer, as far us many members were concerned, and would have been more or less in- convenient to ail but thobo who reside within ft day or two's jowney pf Ottawa. The ^ Mters to reply to it, and I do not^Sle tha anv on^ 7 ^"* '"^" '■^•^""■^"g ^Y Min- of the Session on the 13th of Augusf «„5 ? J { Tu °^ *^^™ contemplated a renewal fided in the Government is eaSlTunderstood th"^ the conduct of the Ljorfty wTocI^ mtion is more difficult to explain' Th y haj nCo^'' of the Members of^the W what they considered convincincr nroofi, of fT ^''«^^.PO««e«sion, it is to be presumS been referred to the adiudir S III '! '•^^"'P*^^'^ of Ministers. The matter^,S Becution, could have bu one t^dt %tr'"'';,'"^ ^'''''^'''^ '' '^^ theory Sthe im allowed the announcementTp^oro^aL^ I" ^'"'" ^T^«tion«. they shouhl never hC resorted to every mean, knotn to t^fcoLtitut-rn Cwt","''''^"^^^'' ^"<^ «^«"S have have been precluded. Indeed, so obvZ wa^Th^f. J'f' -'"'^ '^ consummation could opponents have attributed to them a deHberalini . "*/ ,f *^"^ ''^^P^^^' tt** their tnaionty to take place .,b silently t h a 'fw t S 7 t'"°T^ *^^« ^'"^^^ of the adnerents on the day to which it hud adio,.rn!J ^ *^\'^'"Sf of a House with their own as the Parliamentary strength of Se SnS l'^ ""^'''"'T, *? *'^^"' «^c«Ptionally eZ lying Provinces, while theifowa s cl^e at homo in^'f'hr^ { "? *'''. ^^«"^™« ^^^ S tttL ^; '^'\^^'l"^"* publication i^tbetw p" w?ri '■'»"°" '^*' ^'^*-"° ^^^ --^einterventiL ^ ^^^^- -^^^C iS^^Lf ^^^^^ - Altb^^^clS^'S^^^SiS^tr^* " ^^^« ^^-^-« ^--atio. generosity than at ho^e, and althouirtt .nlT .1 ''"''*'-^ ^^*'^ ^^«« ^'eticenflfe ^d nrore frequently than co.lld be w s^Vy JZafw^^ *''« ^^^^^o"" sition convinces me that such a design Sd 1^0, hT^ f "^^'^ . ' ^^'"^''' °^*^« ^ppo- ppinion 18, that, from first tr last thev found fil^ , •"''' ^° *^"^^ "^*«res. My iwu m tactics^as I ventured at che iSocon dt.r ' '"Pf^'^ ^y the initial mlS not i-e^nforcing his niotion by the^M-olctbn S «orT.?"^^^ ^^ ''^^- ^««''V^ i^ founded. Had he done so, ParliamerwonW 1 [ . . ,?^ f '^'^ 'locuments on which it wa^ respect, and Mr. nononS motion nTi^rtrCT-eW^' '"" l^^^l ^'^ ^^'" ^'^^^ ^-" <«y case ,s far from being proved, no o^ne crnow dl^v ^^7^'^ •' ^°''*^lough Mr. ^Lin^- Allan correspondence at the time .. dema Id hif ' f ^^ ^f ^^ possession of the an investigation of the suspicious cLurt^nees husT""'*?!' ?' t^'^ ^ "S*^^ *« 4ure premature disclosure of his hand could no W ? his knowledge. \he >t^ce,^«^<^c«#^«,« " fi,r his purpose hive W 'fJl ^^^^ objec ion, for a sufficienov of not convince the House of the urgency 6fth; IS • "«^",P';oduced. As d was, he c;,uld daf^t., the Opposition, I imagil^^gaiup^tnht':^ discouraged by thei; repS to di.pute the arrangements of th^ triumSant nS.i P^ ^?'! ^"^ ^'"^^"'^'^^ Parliament that the day after the adjournment, mTt of the 2-^ ^^ J r?' * "^y' ^* ^^ '^^ selves m different direcoiins, .ome toXLtomes '1 ? "i^'« ' ^"^"^^^ ^''P^''^^^ th^l without any more intention of .veturniir[ooS." .'' 'I'L?'"'''' '^"^"^ «°'«« to Europe, ^ . On ;h6 2nd July, Mr. CamerorTll?iH^^ ' ? ^'. ^^*'' °^ ^"g"«t, than myself had rec. ved an inti,^;tion fror;:;;^" f h " h" O H ^''^t.'^, Y ^ ^^'^ ---'^-""l bv the Queen in Council, and I Ld made ttrfactputL^^^^^^^ ^''^ ''"^^^ ^'^«'^"°'^«d ^ Immediately on receipt of this int^li; J. ^ . - P-Of^lfimation. Jokn Macdona J an.lrnyZflZZ'^^Z^^^^^^ P--^ between Sir issue a Commission to the members of treXmmitteeTr t" ■'^''^"' ''^' ^"^"'^^^ to mwi lingness to expose the Crown to the rejSn of 1"' '' i^f'^'V^ ^° ^« ^^^om an the following terms :— rejection of .ts mandate, 1 addressed him in "The Citadei., Quebec, June 2«th, 1873 " I bo,. .oa*.ow,eO,..fl.e receipt of ,„.,.,.,,.., „,,„„. j „„ ,„^ ^„„ „;^, .^ . gpificance to Mr. iquiring my Min- )Iated a renewal Jajorifcy who con- )ers of the Oppo- !o be presumed, The matter had 3ory of the pro- ould never have but should have uramatioa could )et;t, that their aspersion of the 5 with their own eptionally easy, in time and out- of Ontario and now known as ;■« in aid of the insisting on the tipporters were us insinuation. reticenfib and he waistcoat" rs of the Oppo- res. My own iiitial mistake Buntington in which it was m with greater Mr. Hunting. ^session of the ght to require wiedge. The sufficiency of vas, he could ^eir repeated le Parliament > it is certain ipersed them- ne to Europe, han myself. ^ meantime I 11 disallowed between Sir inclined to o so from an 5ssed him in >, 1873. ''ou are quite ■ « *« yond your eont™l. Yo« Vm«>^^'>^\2 Zi^^t'Z't^: Zu""'"'- ?"'' ** n,in can mlko no ,n™S diS„r°' A ^ »on,,t,t„W, it, convcion into . Com- powe.-s de4 eTtrit hv P SS^^^^^^ 1" t u ^'}''f'^\^^^^ i" acquiring in addition to the to take evidence on U ":' t ^^AS ^ il^S^^^^i ^ ^-- Tnus authorized, Sir John communicated with Mr. Cameron in the following letter :- " Montreal, July 2nd, 1873. Of :S7ot^*=ctaiittreri":"^^^^^^^ Ho„s« „( Commons to ,",^,0.1!, ^ Tr- ■ f ""■ 0°™™'"'- »n the 8001- of the Hou.,ofco.„„„,il^,:;;^urr,!;i:^ro?i'r;;r;;:L\°^ copy of this letter to l.e sent to each member of yutu" Committee. '' "^'"^ ^ ' To Hon. J. H. Cameron, Ac, Jjc. " I have the honor to be, " Your obdt. servant, •' J. A. Macdonald, "to *!•!,«£ onrSe^fcirir''"™' "^'™'^« "-^ Co..i.W, to report "(Signed) J A. IyIacdonald." able ^iiv"f.MT;/o;': "nuw s """"■■'""'^ r i-r ""■■> *•■"■"» '<> «"- « f-™- in the following temsT- '''""'-"» """"l* «'« »>-mngonieut, .m,l stated their reasons " lo the Ri,jU HpnouralU Ktr J„hn A. MaalmuOd. " - --no wit„e..i, :£:;„:i;-i;'^i- r,;::^: riii^'^^rf ^^ *:'^s':? - 10 p r w " the Canadian Parliament, you dosiro to reiiow to him, as Chairman of tho Committeo, "tl»e offer made by you on tlie part of the Governraant to idsue a Royal Commission, ad- " dressed to the gentlemen forming the Committee, which would confer upon them all the " power given to the Commiitoe by the House of Commons, including tlie examination of " the witnesHBH by the Committee ; but, as I umlerstand your proposa', it is that the Gov- " ernmont should give to the several members of the Gonunittee named by the House of " Commons to enquire into the charge made against it, a Commission to enquire into the "same charges, with power to examine witnesses under oai.h, and this with a view to " carry out the intention of the House, to have this enquiry made under oath. Now I " would beg to call to your attention that tho Comiiiittoo was originally naiiied on your "own motion, OS an ordinary Parliuniontary Committeo, without referanoo to any au- " thority to examine witnesses under oath, and that it was only tn the suggestion of tho "Committee subsequently made, that the House aiul Senate unanimously passerof the House of Commons, to obey its commands in refereu"e to any " Parliamentary duties it might impose upon me; in that view I did not shirk tlie arduous " and unenviable position of a member of this ( ommittee of Enquiry, as being part of tho " labour and duty to wliich a ir.ember of Parliament is bound to submit ; but if, instead of " moving for the appointment of a Committee by the House, the Government had i)ro- " posed to name me on a Commission for the purpose of this enquiry, I would then cer- " tainly have declined the proposed Commission. I cannot see why I should now accept it, " when it seems to me that the effect of issuing such a Commission wovdd be to supersede " the Committee, and more especially in view of the declaration you made immediately " befoi-e the adjournment ot the session in reference to Air. Jilake and myself, that we " should not have consented to servo on the Committee, that men in our positions in Eng- " land would not have done so, ami that you could not expect any fair play otour hands. " This alone should be a surticient rt^ason why I humbly believe I should not be called " upon to accept a Commission from tlio Government of which you are the head, after " your public declaration, made in my absence, of my unfitness to perform what the Com- *'' mission would impose on me. " I have the honour, &c., (Signed) "A. A. Dorion." " Montreal, July 3. " Sir, — I have the honour to acknowledge tho receipt of your letter of the 2nd "inst., enclosing a copy of a letter addressed by you to the Hon. Mr. Cameron, sia " Chairman of the Pacific Railway Encjuiry Committer. I cannot agree in your "statement that the acceptance' of a Royal Commission would enable the Committeo to quiry and the exaniimitiou of witnesses on oath. The Committee is, " i»roceed with the enqu " ( believe, un»>nimousl, "enable the Committt'e to make " ( believe, un»>nimously of opinion that the acceptance of the Commis.siou won. J not progivas, and that the action uf the Ooiijniistiionoi'S II tho Coinniitteo, Coin mission, arl- pon thoni uU the ) bxtiinination of iH that the Gov- by the House of onquite into the with a view to [• oiith. Now I naiaed on your noo to any au- ig^tmtion of the niSHe; uring my absence from the House .' t f^m^r r. ^'fT' y"" "^'^^"'^ "' >'^""' 1'''^^^' t'"^t I had done wrong in not declining « ir • 1 . ^^^^ "^ Committeeman, which had been imposed on mo by the House, that ^^ ^Lnglish statesmen m my positi.m-which. however, you misstated— would have Bcoiaed ^^ to (to as I had done, and that my specH'h(;s daring the session showed that your Govern- ment could not expect fair play from me on the enquiry. I shall not condescend to reply ^^ to these statemuit:., but I Iuin e to say that although I reluctantly came to the conclusion, ^^ tiat^ 1 was not free to decline to serve the ilouse of which 1 am a member, I do not ^^ tlniiK It consistent with my self-rcapect to acce,)t the Commission here offered bya Min- ^^ ister, wl,o has chosen to so characterize my condu,;t. I have sent a copv „f this letter to Mr. tameron for his information as (Chairman of the Committee. " The Eight Hon. Sir Jiio. A. Macdonald." " I have, «fec. (Signed) " EuwARD Blake. I do not presume to question for a moment the i)ropriety of the course adopted by these gentlemen. As members of tho Houses of Conunouti, they may have had a more acut» appreciation of their Parliamenuiry obligations than had occiirrod to inv appre- Jiension,— but 1 trust that your Lordship will liot consider that I acted wrongly' in thus endeavouring to forward the enquiry by what I considered an opportune expedient. The couuuittee being thus precluded from swe.iring in their witnesses, a motion was made by Mr. DorUm sui)porbed by Mr. Blub:, that they should content then.8elves with unsworn testimony, but the majority cousideiing tliemsolves debarred from this course by the express mstructaons of the Huiise ujwn tho i)oi.it, they detennined to adjouni until tho 1.5th of August. This resolution was taken on the 3r(l of July. 'J'jio day after there appeared in the l/c;»J/Vfl/ IhraU, a series of letters and telegrams written by Sir Ilwjh Allan to a Mr. MclUnWrn, and to a Mr. Smith of f.'hioigo, and to some unknown person in the United tea m retereace to the (.'anadian PacKic R.iilway. The er. I have already hud the honmir of forwarding to vour Lord- •^'•'P '-oth the.so locuineiits, but I tliink -t; well to append them to this d to nu; as beiiu, withdrawn • • and to !:iy'kuo,vjo.]ge ^ir 6V.,/-y. telegraphed 8ir Jo'ia tliat ho ),:,] seen n^ and 'that ■^i u hole, as far as I iitions rather im- gh Allan's letters , his affidavit, — sfactoiily proved rtier, to yield to tion contest, my ' an arrangement o subscribe. In Sir Hugh Allan's a July, 1871, maid ; and with r in Council will Oorapany, under itrd of the amal- sliall be named four from the mainder by the Jie tenth section e agreement of from this date. procuring the n agreement of 18 contemplated .ts charter, de, as required pany, 1 have no ;he construction hall be agreed OS they are em- ich the Gk)vem- be required to am convinced ion, or to the referred in this Cabtikr." 3 Car tier, I in- Si) action of the George's letter. Id ooToe flown utely informed ig withdrawn ; n" ixnd tiiat as " he (Sir John) objected to Sir Gaorge', letter, it had been withdrawn. T also teleffranhed " ^T^. "^"^^ Z *^; «T^ ^V ^*^"^^ ^^'^) *^ ^^^ *^ff^«* *^*' I had seen Sir GeorgeUtier and ti;at he, {Sir John) might return my letter or regard it ns waste paper, and that I was "satisfied with the telegram of the 26th as expressive of the views of the Ooverntaent." But any reaction in favour of the Government which might have thus set in woa more than counterba'anced by the appearance of another series bf letters which I also re append, and which are now generally known as the McMullen correspondence Amid • these productions there have been introduced documents of a verv comoromiaintf ?Jr?nn' L°nnn '".""r ^T ^'\ '^r^^f^^^'^^^^kingfor twenty thousand more dollaif (f20,O00 = £4,OOO sterhng), and the other a telegram from Sir John Macdoncdd demanding an additional ten thousand dollars ($10,000 = £2,000 sterling). These latter J. SubJoiA ; — " Montreal, Aug. 24, 1872. "Dear Mb. Abboit -In the absence of Sir Hugh Allan, I shall be obliged by your "supplying the Central Committee wuh a further sum of twentv thousand dollars imon ' the same conditions as the amount written by me at the foot of my letter to Sir //La " il Kan of the 30th ultimo. ^it^n " George E. Cabtieh. " P.S.— Please also send Sir John A. Macdonald ten thousand dollars more on tli« " same terms. " " """ r., ^ "ToRoxTO, Auff. 26th 1872 " To the Hon. J. J. C. Abbott, St. Anne's :-^ " ' * " {Immediate, Private.) " I must have another ten thousand ; will be the last time ol callinif ; do not fail mm • " answer to-day. * ™ ' " John A. Maodohald." But for the appearance of the foregoing documents, I doubt whether so irreat an ^'^Pm'',?^" 'V ^^^"^ ^^^"^ produced on the public mind by the statement of Mr McJUullm. 1 myself have no knowledge of the gentleman, and have no right to impeach his veracity, but it is manifest that many of his assertions are at variance with Sir ffuah Allans avforn testimony, while others have been contradicted by gentlemen wh^e credibility it would be difficult to impugn. Even with regard to the documents them- selves, It 13 to be observed that they were neither addressed to Mr. MeMullen nor to any one with whom he was associated, and that they could scarcely have come into his possession by other than surreptitious means. They do not therefore necessarily connect themselves with those nefaiious transactions to which Mr. McMu'hn asserts he was pnvy It IS further contended by the friends of the Government that the sums mea tioned or even referred to were not very large-about £12,000 sterling in all— an amount winch would go but a little way to defray the legitimate expenses of the 150 Ontario and yuebec Elections, and that there was nothing to show whether they had been proffered as a fill Inscription or as a temporary loan from a wealthy political partizau Their Binister .sigmfioance resulted in a great measure from their factitious juxtaposition with M.T.McMullm8 narrative. Under these circumstances, though without attacl.inc too much importance to mere conjectural pleas of this kind, I was unwilling to iump toa lias'uy conclusion on a matter involving both the private and the pnhHc honoifr of mv Ministers, and above all things I lelt bound not to allow my judgment to be swived b'v the current of popular suspicion which thia coucafceuatiou of documents would naiurallv producet. • 14 !!•! II ..ache^^^^^^^^^^ .^' Mif.i^f M^Tilf ^ f"^'' correspondence andDr.Tupper, the Minister of Custom, hfli" ^"'^T' *^'^ Minister of Finance, details cons'eWnt on the recent c^rft^l^v^^Ion of t^VX 'l 1 ^'"T?[ "**'^"« ^^^^'"^ gentlemen, and the strennous assiu-ances T T^r/v! V , »™"^''''"it«ly sent for these that matters might bo sat^^fac o y ox ll ^ R.^T™ '""'' i *^'''" ^""^™«'^ "'3^ ^«P« our original programme for it ilS "' n;ro?. ti^^ r""' .'f' ' V^" *^''* adhered to, and that mv presence ut Of^.w .u ^f j^f "f"*^ «^"iJ no longer be Understanding, however that mer^.f °" *'"' ^^''^ ^"S"^^' ^'^^ impemtive. Halifax, I thought rb;ttef tr~d^^^^^^^^ ^^ °"^- 1^"^^'° ''^^'^I'tion a Hulsequent intentions und the Lt n^omen aTV^'^ '° °^^^' ^ '^»"«""c«"^ent of my intimated to him that the posftio^^ or.E ' ha I t' ''T *'"^" ^ ^^'"'^ *° ^"^ •^«'*^' ^^^ for the usual period was no 10^0" r ossib ^ an A., f f '^ '"''' ^" parted-that a recess be provided witli as ' arly an oXtSt^^^^^^ . '"''' "'^""''^'"^ Parliament should the points ut issue betwL iZSZrhi^arirnt"" ^"^™^""^ of pronouncing upon con.ing not n.erely the lub 1 'of coni:^^^^^^^^ «"^ -^-^--^ -- be- papers,- •tb'. aovernment press statin J «, if,, "'"^ J '''''^ foinment m the rival news- and Bo,-announcements?h n^-e nSt W h^SonosIn" "T ^^"'"^^ ^'^"^'^ ^ «° or mther minatory articles. As at th « time T^n T ''"''*' '"'^^,' '^''""^ admonitory the proper course to be pursued and felt W 1 7 - "'^ "'"''"' '"'"'' "P "^^ """^ as to my Ministers, I determiS toVX „^ t '''''°" ""'"^ ^^^^^^ I had seen of the Gbvern'or GwlZname t^S ^ch a VoE'"*^ of deprecating the introduction itself, and I have the honor tHuCint^extrttlT ^" '"""'^ ''''' ^'^''^'''''''^ made at a dinner given to me by th7Ha"ifex Club :- "«^Wer report of a speech I " posed to conclude this imperfect expre*ssiou oflt"fi .nf'^' 8^"*'^™^"' ,1 s'^o"ld be dis- " veving to my friend the Ohipf T„^Ff t 7 ^"''''' "^^'"^ ^ ^"t desirous 01 con- « remarks whw/ ha'; droprtf ft^m iL ^'"'* ^^-^fi^ation I have derived from the " General of this great oSon Go reme'n Tf 'T' '"^'"^ ^"'^^^^^^ ^'^ «— -* "a domestic festival, and th^t notl.Tnl T^'/i '^'" "'"^^"^ *^^'=^^ it ^ere, " allusion to any politca topic 1^1 mfvbTn ."T "^^PP^^-t"'^^ ^''-'^n the slightes •' ^-hathas fallen Lm the S Jusle C ifTert '' ^'^ «^{ *'- ™"«»' ^^ reference to " I appreciate more than other L ^t Sino to thi f V' ""^^'^^''^^ ^ho«« i'nportance " lute and paramount duty ^ nWai "a no^ """' ""^ '"^ ""^''^ ^* ^^ *^»« ^^«o- " impartiality towards the var^usX t "t . • u^'u^' an outward attitude of perfect " well as of ti Mother Sun riStv IV b^^^^^^ *^' J"'^*^"^^ ^^^^'^'^ "^ Canada as "and inward balance of sympltirtdit T'' "^'^'"'^^^ «"^^tJ« " representative of your SoveSn ^bJve^Tp f .^"^ ^pmion which should elevate the " desire. aim,or ambHion tl^to ibllow Ihe etrn'^^^^^^ susjncion of having any other " she has constantly maintained towarIhp..S'^f °^ u'' ^"^"^ ^^''^'^'' "» *'>« '"elation " (tremendous applLeTtoTemenr,Lr^^''^^^^^^^ '^"^ l^^'' P^ople " but one object-tordminkLThirGovrn'' T' 1'^^" '^"^ '^''''^'' ^^^ ^''' onedu y and " people, and of the dZ n o^at art 7g;^^^^^^ 'u '^' 'T'^Af ^^ *^" "^«'« ^^-»'>^dian "been but one bnef vea in tl!^^l ((-reat cheering.) Of course, gentlemen, having " respects can scarcely Z knUi and"S; Ts' 1"'"*"' ''f "^ ^^'^^""''"^'^ ^»^ *'-«« " of these political controversies whicTtpm l T^' ^5 .^''"^"^ ^^"'^"^ ^^^ ^^^^^ur ;; peculiar 'liveliness and aiZatll-f ^^T Lt^^^^^^ by the press of Canada with "made to the Governor G^nm-n'o »o'^*'^ 'f g^tei)— of unauthorized references beinjr " would convey to the uS^Xuc J «^'^"-.-- -^^ intentions, whil " and the attitude of the cS of tie State r> T^ ^"'"rT' ""P^'^^^^o" oi the conduct " way of complaint. If .here is^^ ^ S^^^lf]::^^^^-^'.^ " a "oi 111 16 correspondence Iter of Fitianco, f settling certain ly sent for these ifirmed my hope be, I knew that id no longer be was imperative, ic recej)tion at incement of my Sir John, and 1 — tliat a recess [liament should )nouncing upon unt all over the itions, were be- tbo rival news- •se would be so ng admonitory my mind as to i I had seen le introduction oon presented of a speech I should be dis- lirous of eon- ved from the a as Governor s, as it were, 1 the slightest I reference to se importance is the abso- ude of pei'fect •f Canada as • more subtle Id elevate the g any other \ the relation her people one duty and 'le Canadian 3men, having 3nts in these \ the fervour Canada with rences being tions, which the conduct remark by y and cou- « It n <( <( (( << « <( <( (( « (1 « « l( <( <( « « « « <( lause.) Whenever, in the vicissitudes of party warfare, they arereplacedbyothers— (laughter)— he welcomes their successors with an equally open and loyal regard. (Cheeis.) Such private friendships as he may have formed he may have a right to retain. (Hear, hear.) As a reasonable being he cannot help having convictions upon the merits of difl'erent policies— (hear)— but these considerations are abstract, speculative and devoid of practical effect on his official relations. (Cheers.) As the head of a constitutional State, as engaged in the administration of Parliamentary Government, he has no political friends ; still less need he have political en^n.ies. (Great cheering.) The jjossession, or even to be suspected of possessing either, destroj^s his usefulness. (Loud cheers.) Sometimes, of course, no matter how disconnected he personally may be with what is taking place, his name will get dragged into some controversy, and he may suddenly find himself the subject of hostile criticism by the press of whatever party may for the moment be out of power. (Laughte^-.) But, under these circumstances, he must console himself with the reflection that these spasmodic castigations— (laughter)— are as transitory and innocuous — (great laughter) as the discipline applied occasionally to their idols by the unsophisticated worshippers of Mumbo Jumbo— (immense laughter) -^when their harvests are short or a murrain visits their flocks. (Cheers.) For, gentlemen, of this I am certain : although he may sometimes err in his judgment, or fail in serving you as effectually as he might desire a Viceroy who honestly seeks to do his duty— (cheers)— to whom the interests of Canada It III 1)1 III contenlkn. of th, d.y-7ch«™r Z, ^ l'"-""- blame, between the mS On one point I was quite cleai--namHv fll v ,f *''*' ^'*'^°"« «o»™e8 "Pen to the he settlement of the'serious i«H»e" mil^^ ^ l!""'^' ''t^'. "«ht f«»- "•« to cLntenance involving aa they did, the pei-sonalirnor of tTe m2^ ''"'''^*'''" '^"^' '^^' opponents- ot my Ministry, and tlie Vublig cS ^/^"^ '"°«* «"»»"«"* "len i„ Canada, the fttte Parliament, in which the diLnt provinces of " T"*'^-'''""^'* "* *»'« ^*«''« «f * f"" thoseof Ontario and Caebec. P"''''"''^^ ^^^ th. Dominion were as well represented as deapatch,\'irSmt.^^ ^^ the earlier part of this be announced, to both Houses that P^olS^^^^ I had caused it to Ihis arrangement, I have no hasitation ?n « ^^^^ P'**""^ °" ^^e 1 3th of August riewsoftheniajoi%bothirtreHrteln7;n^^^ what were then 2 of this p edge, numy gentleuien we'e tone to ,1 /*°T "^ ^Jommons. On the faith impossible for themto be recalle(7Lnff,^''^''''' '^'"^'^'^^^ *''«* i* ^vaa physioallv already referred, that by f^rSt^^^^^^ i-n causes to whiiTha"^ the Government. All the membeif vL £S p hese absentees were supporters of on the wrong side of the Rocky MomitaZ 9 ^?^"»?bm, except Sir F. Hinch, were was informed, others in the ^sS « "l' J.""'! ^^^ «« I return to Ottawa, though not DhvSll . ,*° ^^''''^ ^" *he Maritime Provinces a prove a gi.at inconvenitraVfurf LLT'^:' ;h '' T ^'''f -"eagues? ruld Opposition were musteiinff their full fnv^I ^^ ''^''^'" ^^^i^' I learnt that the geographical facilities. Wert th^ foTkT So""'*''? 'o "'"'* *''^^ P°-«««^d oertaL action of public business, it was Snt tl,«^ . ^°''""""' *^ "^««* for the tra„^ decisions taken, contrary to the real sense of tt ™Pf **»t ^«t^« «i*ght be passed, and i::&a:meS^^ ^^- - -^- =^^;" =;^^ jthS^^^ ^s^iSa'^':! - niet:;S ''^XS^^^:^' ^^ .-ion of principle seem^ natural protector of the federal rights StsvaLn« P-*" '" *^" I>omimon, is the Imf,erial Act The sanctity of the rights oft vonr^?^ as secured under an the number of its representatives or the Imounfof i,. *j^"'^^ ^/.^^^^^^^ is not affected by especially necessary that, in a country 0*^ Population. In this view it is be given of the times and sea ons 1" ^l™ ' '^*'^"^"«' ^-^^'le notice should admitted that the official " fixtu^' wlSrre'uIater* " •*' ^^''- , ^"* ^^ ^^ "^^^^ and tlip conduct of public busine.ss. are fbe cfnS'o, 5l?r"'"^ 7 ' f"^ «^ '^ »«««ion so short a notice as to preclude 4e distant inrf^.^^f^ "^'^^^^ at evident much wrong and^nconvenLncf;l';iV fou^^^en.^ present,' it t deal of tnckery at the hands of an unscruplurMitCr '^"'' '' '^^'"^^^ *« "^ S^^* necesS;^^^:;!^;^^::^ P;^X^S? ^^^^-*V«P-'-^^^*^-^ - - -evit^We or has occurred to mo since, anif tha was .ntS'i' 2 "'"' ff\ '""^^^"^ ''^^^^^^ date as would suit the convenience of fhp I f"™^"* "^ *''« K«^'«e to such a appeared to me fairly l-cticable bZinthe V^^^^^^^^ t' !^^ ^^"^^«« *'"'^ «-^« once seen. In the first place this w' s «n '^'"^''t^on disclos d difficulties I had not at enforcing, and I was oonfi^.S W tl; obWorST"' iT^^'t ^ ^'"'^ "«* *he power of niotion to that efiect, it might be detSltedT L !""' "'"* ^^*'^^ <>'>v''.-nment made a ^ven -r «.e opponent, ot t,e^.'oveJ™nt'^l^ - »?»" Cti^'S^L^ri^ 1 17 'ering)— who steers ween the political the confidence and mucS occupied, oM urses open to Uie. nie to countenance their opponents— u Cwnada, the fiite the hands of a full 'ell represented as ier i)art of this lad caused it to 1 3th of August. *t were then the as. On the faith it was physically ;o which i have sre supi)orters of F. Hinch, were in Europe, as I ime Provinces, a olleagues, would learnt that the aossessed certain et for the trans- t be passed, and Vfiiiisters might teterrained by a )rinciple seemed •oniinion, is the >ured tinder an •• not affected by bhis view it is B notice should t if it be once ? of a Session md clianged at present, it is led to a great 8 an inevitable ited itself then _»se to Such a ess this course ' I Iiad not at ; the power of nment made a ifcaniount to a 1 should then to be avoided, ifair an advan- tage of their numencU superiority, it was evident that in view of the adjournment preliminary issues would crop up of vital i.uportauce relative to the fresh instructions tH«d that being that wheu tl.o Honio J Tt t L'^,^?''^'^*"^; ,-^i«'' -- carrio.l.-tlu, veHultl for the very purpose of receivinrtro O^n^mi; '' '''"' "'■'"'"'««'^ -ix woekn beforo, ! deaoription WW forthcoinin/ The follow,-,^ -T. '■*'^"!:*' "^ ^"I'^'* ''»" «»y "ot-t o mg. ihe following ib theoccotmt of the pi-ocoedings w»fen-ed t»:- " OiTAiU, Aag. IS. " was read. I'rocoeu witHotit further mstructiohs from the House, " Nays— Cameron, BUmchet. Kesolutioii lost. report, a^id withdrew becauHe th«v ih . ^"^'^ '^"''^ ""* '» favour of makinjr a " the Comnuttee would l^t Ike any rei; , " "'"^' ^'""'"^ ^« ""^•^«' *''« "-Jonty'of ""^^it^/"" '"' '^ ""'^ ' "'"' *° '^ "*'^«' but did not concur with the ''HoUl^'SVTdonTililTh^^^^^^^ our proceedings to the " Mi. DoHon- If T „.« "^ ' ^ "®®^ "°' "^ake any at all. " in.^e. ^ """^ '' ^ •-- --y amendment, I would «t'op the report iron, being ;;pr<:i^^^^^^^ reporting our should be made, I have no objection th!iM '''? ''V^ '''^'''^ of our proceedings ; as we Imported all our fon^- ,rocJ^SLlt.''trw'''^- ^^ «^" 'mpreiion is thf t *' also reporting those which h.ive tK^tT- ?f ?°"'^' *^*^''« ^« "« ^^J^^tio*^ <« our '''"^r\ r "''"' '' " " ""'"'' '"^-«'^— P'«^dour ;; move^!i:at^chf H^^^^^ umen.hnent is in order. I " them to proceed with the enquiry^ instructions to the Committee as will enable '^-^]^:'S:.;S^X -^» *^« motion was carried unani. « cation of this nStnV'*^ C'hairmau-Do you propose to give the House communi- ;; Tl^e CiuiRiAN-noT' '^ ^^'"'"""ieato any of the previous proceedings ? " Proceeiings^S the''(^L proceedings. I move that the " Mr. niake-l move an ar3mLt tSi' n^' ''P°'*"'^ **^ *^« ««"««• " tcmorrow. "'^ araendment that the Committee adjourn till eleven o'cloek " Carried. 19 u m Yoem—hlahe, Camcrm. 'ffay~/ifnnchel. The Conin)iit(V« t-lvfth ii(ljoiirii(oint«d a variou. grouud8. Ven ,^., Id IJ f^ ' PT-'''"K» «f this Committee have, on honour of the CO uitrTiSS T' ^"' ^'^^" pl-u^e ; that tho inveHtigatiun of charier o^^^^^^^ ''"' "^^"'•f:"!: ^''i^^ "^ould take place in the right aL privilege ofu:'ZS::Z''^^^^^^^^^ "'""'^ '' " ^^ ^"^^ -^ -doubted l>ost,ilrtJ.t^rq'^^^^^^^^^ conviction that any attempt to oreafe the moHt Znl' la^tisSon ??> *''« J""«i'«'i»'» «'' the Co.lons, iould to pro,.gue l^.riia^nt uT.ti r oZ orj^ot™'""^ ^^^""^''^^ "O^ the'HouV^tre^lr;- llX^^^^^ ''^" '"""«"* ^« --*^' -*hinten of one-half II II « II It « II II II Jiepli/. "matte™ to wMoh you arS:Srofr,KL|ry7J„tl""'''"' '^°"'''' "> "« • The names thus noted were ligned by proxy. 11 ida, dew. re renpeot- than four months tn luH place in tbe tional adviaers in *^ hm ap{)ointed a unmitteo Imve, on place ; that thfl A take place in the ity and undoubted any attempt to Jommona, would Excellency not m opportunity of lice to this im in ten of one-half Blake, Bodwell, (Huron), Curt- ,C'ook,CutIer, Do- ming, Foumier, i,IIolton,Horton, Kenzie, Morcier, Prevo8t,Kichard, scliereaUjThomp- , Young. 08, QlasH, Mao Jelkirk), A. J, representations airs with such 3t respect, even hought to the J the Hon. Mr. isers, in refer- las appointed a mittee have on tunate delays, hey have been •• iuL X?, , I • "T*''."^ •*" "^""^' '^ '" '"" f*"' ^' «v«ry one that I shoulC " lln 1 on ,u tSoZ ' rf ^ I "' '^™«'^»r ''•'*• *^*' i"HtrUctionB by which I am " the U^ent atST bv iT\\TT*rr^' to the opinion, (an opinion founded on " H^^-f V 'n'wr' «u ny uifl (Vet ot the Canadian Par amont. which emnoweni fhA " Uw^)te^7t;;f Sln'^.*'^ "^"^^^"-^ "'^^ ^"^ *'« profess Jjr on"of th^ " a5mi amUhu? .? r ' *' '^"'' I«^no«"««d ihcondistent with the Aoi « vjonfeder- " o'i oii It.; "^ '"■"• ^''^ r>OHtponement of the enquiry, no far aH U ha« ari«e, out '• i^t::^:^^::^^ ^'-"^ '^ ''- «^--*'- «^'-' -« »- ^'^ ^^ond " t,. ','wnl^'T ^*'T-^ *°i"T "'®' *"" 8''«""'^« **»»«h *«» verv fairly and forcibly stated " MinirteranS'f r r*"'^ ''"" *•*'«" "'uumnouHly tendced U, m^e by u.y m^Ln«^^^^ " mi^ ttem fron mv'co TT" ^*'"'*"'-* ' i" ^^^er words you r^ui^Ttoii - 'The necesLv rlK ' f^' ef"*'^">^'"» yo« must be aware thafcthm would be me necessary result of i„y assenting to your recommendation. ♦< wC r; ?. .r'""^' would l be justiHe,! in taking so grave a stepi " endor^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^Xl iSr^e 1 1?;!?^ ^'"^"^ *^« '-''^ ^'^ "mons a"ndrh"i'n;r''''"'';;^°r*^"r"^ •^''""^' moiety of the House of Com- " Bur;irto\i^o;inTon7rL:^;.t;^^^^^ -^"•'^^^-^"^ ''-' ^^« -j-*^ «^ ^^^^ ^^ " ftC't.t'tt!;'^ K ^ ' ^T '" "^''^"^ "' justification of my conduct ? "which i«dmi,e^oZ..'*^''.\''" ^'''^'''''^ '^«"'""^ these gentlemen ; charges )n. One or two Impendent." " time to mako a cal! of 'th;' Ho\"'ise"r,)'T"''" ^'T- V^ '^ ^'"''^^^ ^^ *^« V'^^^^^ I " Parliament of the Dom niori ^ l >' , P'"°'' "'J'^^'f "^ ^ duect communication with tho ''Foceedings'at the Time l"roifh'/sraL!e™ ^H^^^^^ p"'r*'^ ^^P?-^* '' *^« ;; August would l>a rmmedia"i;':i 0^^^^^^^^^ - the 13th of " WM t,L,n to t.i« a^nouncm^t; and thJ^^T^;;.^ rcSSSrSlif ^ 9? til: 1! (iii* " of the various Province: con Sn.firrf '^'>?^' °^ *^""^ ^<^f«^-« ^^e represe ...tives " separated as some c^h;™ n ^ r^oulZ^^^^^^^ Parliament of Canada can a ^emble! "I« -g"lati.gthetim:rnn5 e^^^^^^^^^ f^o Dominion.' " hixecutive is bound nof n> Iv '-. ^^, j T J^'iiJi''ment is to be called together, the " but also to pro^t thT eS;tl"iZ?;i T"""'^'^' convenience of these gentlemen " these circumstances I hfve ccnduded ^^ ^rT' ''^}'^' *^.^^ ^'^P^^^^"*' ^"^ uude? " .liffered from them as to the noTfcv of ' . 5 J"^ ^^'^^^*'''^ ('^'^^l «^«° if I ";vhich I should not LtrJ to^^^^^^ upon "Commission of enquirv tolhtte 1,^ *''«^%»'«''"»»"\«n^'ation,) to issue a Royal ;; authority as will cotmL. Itl'LIdeteTtl^ ^^nhK ^^^ 'r^'^^^' ^^^'-^•^^ -^ "feri-ed upon mc by th„ Act 31 Vic c^,"^? n ^!l ' ^ ''''*^"^ "^ *^^« I'^^^^^s co„. " in proroguing Parliament to announce o ft M >**^' 'fr .^""'^'' ^ l>ave\lotermined "assembUng them immeHbip will Mmvsters on any of the ..casions ref.n'c^d t '^-cc so t , T ' * i- ''*'"" ^^ "^^ conduct follows as u corollary (o the vi .Hcatk,, of I. • ""t 'r' •! "^^^^'jation of t],eir The propriety of their p^o,.;. to them. It is >le jierson hi this It has been very and should have i establishment of be a novel fact in r was to go to my 1 tho Crown has 'ffc as a matter of m their places, would be a gross ! circumstance as you unanimously you possessed a ent or not I can- 1 opponents have Jan. You have 1 mere questions •se, these gentle- forbe!\rance, per- 5iir recommend- 'he arrangement n\r honour " I ; the suggestion - tantamount to o examine the lonco from Sir upon ? There tatements were • llvntinyton'a ext there werq "pon those in ^te " language, ' tho Govein- ave been much 5ple of Canada to be staked ', and Sii- JoJm 'I've that sus, >pon any con- my Wei's coi,. " naid to the mpmhorLf fi n ' ****"* '''''^ P°''^'"'^ ^^ **^°«« sums of money wero taken to icl„,le them wher^'e lit .^ be „ 'frZa^'Sl' CZf i^" ■"""; of the \lTf\ ^'"i«be.^nmongstitsmembers gentlemen who had been on the dfrecSi coSous too?s of sTr^/ to 'elieve that these personages are either the willing or un But a still more important question remains behind. Had I any means of knnw oi-se if thX 'l^^Ti:^' '"'•^*'' *!" ^^""'^^"^^ «f ^'- H-- of CoarmoV-L",^^^ n"nt:'ot uJ^^rblem? "' ^"' """''' ""P""^^"'' «^ ^"-^' ^^^ -="1^ cea.e to be ele! What were the facfs unon which T ponld rpl>- 7 T^„.; xi 1.1^. V a March, majority for Government. 18tii do do do ^6 2nd April, do do 25 17th do do do 31* 7th May, do do 26 8tli do do do 31 12tl' do do do 33 16th do do do '.7... '..".".'.".".".■■ 24 ' ' ' ••It. jf) Mr, Himtington's Mctloa. n i I tionSttSSt^^^^^^^^ The ordinary pvesump- validate this cotichisio, ? S mhlir! L f I ? *^''"- ^'^'' '^'^^'^'''"S «<'°""'^d to in- from the process of tho ,diMn ,n v own ° f Y- •J"^"'"^'^*^ I l^'^ve referred to ? Judging could not bring 0^^^ Lv/Z P ' r ' ""^"f ^ T'^'"^'^ '"^ *° ^^^l'^'''^ ^Y vercuft. I sion. But I hfd /ne other Mcatt t! a r' ^'^i)'"»P-l to any premature conclu- cl.dared then>selves opposed to tl^W N;nety-t wo Members of Parliament the other one hundred and seven and Xt wf, ^r-'*"'- '" I'T'^'^ti"'^- ^here were forty who were in their 111?',,. . f^ *^'''''' °P'"'""« '^ Of the thirty-five or ceased to support the G^tZent "t]2 "*''" *' ™^'^^ -e aware that (hey ha| Men.orial. The sixtv or sixJv f ^ Imlor wT'™'' ^""" ««"«Pi^''ously absent from the interpreted their absence .raundlcSZt^^^^^ r"°' complain if I have far at least as prorogation ^.i tlteTe Thl^ftl^^ '^''-^f'^ of Goverhment,so no more was i, itself ,si-uifiennf Z.^-r u *'^« M™»o»'i^li«ts were so many and niaxinnun result. T ev Xe 3 ovln n ^T ^J",,™^"'"' "* *''^^ ^ff""^-*^ ^"'"'^ and the and therefore i,ot i. I ikTXu t , T '^ °^ .*''! ^^"""'^- ^Jiey were a minority, «peak in behalf o iyZX°tTl?""t"'" T*^ *^' "i^""^ °^ '^' '"■^J-itJ. or To within a very few days X rornlnn •? ''"*f ^ """^ *'^« ^°^"^« °f ^his fact felt that position newspa,)ers tint 7'"^^*f "' ^*^ ^T^^ industriously circulated by all the On this Men^oriavThn i L, n t "'/"^ ^^^T."^^"' "' '!!' ^-^^^^m of the signatories of -id that hypo;™;;! t hom^ ^d i^ ^t '^^tlf V°"^7^ ^^"^'^l- ^^^ this mis-statement has been prouaited f JmnnM I / ' f't^^'^^ity with which of n,y position. But not conS w h ].,. T 'T'^^ "' '' ^^"'^^^ *« *h« «t^-«"gth positively that other gent omerfri 1 of her''''^''' ^T '^.''" P"« ^"••*^'^^- ^^^^^'^ted and held lancruacre simik • to S',; 7 f Government, waited upon me the same day ^Hghtestfoundntfon rontI.a dr;"To';r^ a-rtion for which there is no the tlH. remonstr..t u/e, iors t e mX; "n i"; I' t''\^''\'^^^ --Ption of the Speaker, Wd from a single MemberorM^r^ n-v Mn.,sters I had neither spoken to o^ a Per/ec^i^fti? ^::1^^::^ :i:S:t:'-lTr'' -^;^^^^^- ever took place in appreciation of what sl.oidd constit fte Tl / ''^ T^^'^'f majority,-as though my ^ cogency of the respective hpf If hotever^^^^^^^ '' T " 'T^""''^ ^^ ""^ estimate°of the et us see how the case, stands I admktr / 7 ^'■'^^"^•°"" "^^'^^^ ^^^^^ s^ch particularity, in excess of its votin. power Thj'ri w 1 n ^"^^^ncal strength of a house is alway of each side are e^udinLbie to bo th^ M f ^^^"^ental vacancies. But the ranks represented by this memori. M Tt ,■ ^ith a dozon plausible excuses for their C ^eS wT^t:^ ^^^H«- ^H>utation had le^^J openly stated that insi^ninc the 11;^,; .f +» i ^ "'"''' ''^ ^''^'^ very persons had withdrew their .upporSom Governr^' ^^ by no ™ean« intended k, signify that they heardl:^^^ ^.S^r^^nSl S?'\f T^l^^^^ Ottawa at .ix in the morning.I Lent met that tho L„fr v • • ^^°''^'' ^''^t three was the hour at which Parlia- perlT':S;rttte' oS S son^'"S and tf tT 'T "^" /"^* ^*« P^^^^"*^*^^'^ ^^ ' Ministers -^vPf if w«r iT I ! ^,' . *^^* ^ '^^^ ^^0""^^ *« communicate it to my S^n wrefmv speech'Zm Uie T^fone"' ' '".71"* 1 *5^^ "'^*"^^' P— ^^in thi^ of hono'ur "nder aS tL I wt ex^^^^^^^^^ '^"' *^" ^"^""^ must have inevitil.lv ^rlT^ 1 v ^^^^f^'^ ^'^ ^^^^^ a step which under such circumstances T have ZS hi .\ '"^^ •''^ Government, and possibly a general election. by Wroppon^nts i "u^^^^^^^^ for i h?hPPn Ui * , I • ^'•^"/?"^ L-ordship and Mr. Gladstone hnve not escaped. F- 'cJr tcr^^A nTtl^Xtl'o^^^^^^^^^ Government have : .n-goty' b; domn the Oaths Bill'contran to tVeirie;!r:::.vfct?Jn: '^"'^ ""' "^'""*"^ *° *'°"- of Parliainen hL + . 1 • , / '"^ "'' '^^'''^' ""'"^^'^ "^« ^o agree to tliu [.rorogation Commi tee o. ^''^[^'''^'^''^''''i 7tUout reference tp the effect of prorogation ol Ihe inrrrlmn;nts foUll' ^^^^^^PP^'-^^'^d sufficiently cogent to overpower any" countervail- mSch r m1"hf t ? w' ^'"'^''r^^ "^ ^^^^''^S the Committee ali^4. However woman ■ aTd^ , ro C 7-^^ *° f ° '°'/ '°"'^' ""* '^'^^^ *^«=^*^d Parliament as a pregnan couL tiu IS"- ^"''I's^/Ptl^'^t Prorogation under the circumstances was the proper n Le saiv o ke- thi C.7™\"- ^^"'^ ^'^ i" effect with whicl, I had no concern lfi,JL 3 -^^ -n ^ ^'^^°"'''^^''*^*'^'^ very clearly ^.efore our *^ves, otherwise a con \TZ 4;tTtt:e sZn'/r"'""', *° ^^^^•'■^'^* J^^'^-^^"^ «^ *^« -- ^he e^tlncdon who L re dv o , ,. ?J ^1«"<^^^».«*^J :^« the worst feature in the transaction by persons iC same c ^^''^''f''^ 7\t ' the result to the circumstance which occasioned it fc nmTn indu elnt"witf '' P^ conjecture that the destruction of the Committee was llations r ■ t « I T 1 "7- ^«^«™'"enfc for insisting on prorogation, but with specu- no o iw ft 1 ami sut" T' "'? •" '" -^ '""""^^""^ Parliiment''for what I coasicE Cden to u fL« ? ', ^'"*/'"f ^-^tive reasons. The subordinate consequences pnculent to_ (he transaction do not, therefore, come under review. ^ ^ iherc IS one further point it may be well to romomber. I sea it is a.s«erted that l^oXTi" rJl iff '^'f ''^r'y^-^^^'^ -ay. ■ Of coursV l"ha:rno m an ' tlr^hl^ , '?'^ ^'"''^ ^'"^^'^ ^^'« ^^'«'^- ^t is probable that havlnc. concluded ot.^ iS";;,: -H "'' -'l- ''"''IT': -y ^fi'-ters nJy have noti lied th^ "! h ^^^^ m umuSdablr '" "^''^^:^"'"''*" ''''' ^hah the absena- of a considerable proportion the Co™Sor '"^"*^' ' P'-^P"- ^ address your Lo.^Ii~~^ir^^^ I have the honour to be, n.y Lord, Y°"'' ^^-dshii^'s 'mont obedient servant, The Right Hon the Earl of Kimberley ^®'«""'''' Duffebin. <»c., Ac, dtc. ' {Enclosure No. 1 *« Ar« i o 7 TT ~~ ' — — ^ The following letter has been addrpss«rl h., c- r- . ^"^ontkeal, July 18th win appear m that paper to.„orrowto "Lg 'l '" ^^""''^ ^'-^'' ^ «- ^a-^t, aud ^ojhe Editor of the Gazette. fied, which was that if the constn.Sof tW^""!''"' "'^'''^ ^^invH,,,\ and never Id ' the Government and the coimtry T, , "k nf Ji -T- "'"' ""^ertaken by proper paS I,r^' ^' m"^', ^^^"''^ ^-J de ;i; tdebtn/to tf '"^ *^'. *^^^ ^«d confetred' L TvS " tTn t r °"n^!:-- ^^'^^^^f"'^'^ letter to wtt tffel t?" if^ '"" "* P'"'^"^^"* *'''"«"« 4 '^- tmct recollection of Mr MoM.m ... ®^*^ "myself here personal I v Ti,„,, "'^j- ;;~tes tlfat Mr/lSitdte^ot^r'^?^^--- 'pP-ntl*^^^^^^^^^^^^ " mssed ^^^^I'f-^'jy.r^ld be entrustea to hfs hand fT" '" *^' ^^^" *^«' ^^^ f«™ation passed ,n the brief conversation that took nk.^ \ . ^ "°^ P'^*'^"^ *« recollect all that ernnent was not in a position to nCtW^^^^^^^ ^^'^ that the Got " week t; Iw. l^'f'i"""^''"^ »'« ^hat the lZ^Zu^r!\^^"'- , ^ ^^'^^"''^'^ ^ J^t^r " enl^rnH«i "'' "^""^ ^'*1' « gentleman who hT« K ?'''"^' ^'"""'S *'»« following ■■>«», the s«a« u,j„ry ,,„ b,„. „„„, ^^ ^^-^ tSkl'V^' "■J"<'-io„s prj;". J«mM Beaty, J,., E,q.» " F, Hmcits. (( 29 ip on the subjecl of rvant, DUFFERIN. REAL, July 18th. 'ctt to tlie Gazette, aiid to Mr. I/nnlinf/ton's «lay by Mr. Geo. W. le construction of the ^sed and never modi- m by proper parties, conferred a favour Biient confine my re- »Uy. I have a dis- ie was accompanie"«dian " terest of the Canadian people in s«L^ to^^^^^ '"'^'^ ""^"'"''^ *" *•>« i'^" "ties who h.ul brought the scLJCSr/p ^''"*^*''"^V '^^^ ^he par- " was desirable they^ should have I wt ^''^^'•""»«"t '^'^d not the standing that it "Scotia when the coiversations in New York Lk"!?! '""^ '°. ?"''' Brunswick and Nova 'address to Sir Hugh Allan. O^m v retr^I .P f^^ ' marked that he knew all or most o? ttm bv "enJiSn ^'"t," ^'^^ "^ "*•"««' *"d he re- ' Mr. McAfullen's letter is to the meetin J of cZ.tl^^ ^ ^'"^ "".*' '•"^'•■«««« *° °>« i" ," Mr. McMullen says :- ' It wa^Ton^l^L? ?Tu TJ'^ ^^^' "^ O''*^'^^^. 1871, when '"among themselves.' How^if waramS; • '* *?f^v ""''' "«^ ^""3^ ^^ '"^^orS I" to show, inasmuch as to the bes oT ' STe ^^^.T^^ 'k '^'^f^i' ^'' ^'^ ^'^^^^^^ \" a word except Sir John. Sir John Xd s'r ^S no member of the Government said "tion to submit, to which Sir HnaLv^yU^aZ.^-' 7^'f^'^' ^« ^^ *^"y P«>Posi- " tion, the Government would be p^pSd to L^^^^^^^^^^ ^^ ^« "'^de a JroJ^si- " which Sir John replied that they w^^not mZn^^^^^ . ' , ^"*''' ,'"*^ negotiations ; to ' that in that case he did not thi4radWsabK m .t' ^"^ '°' ''"^ .^^'' ^"^^^ ^J«i««d « collection whatever of holdine any Drivat«^n iV T ' ^""7 ^'"{meBtiou. I have no re- ;; not believe it possible that ?SZf dislseTwrth hTm' t?""" ''''''''''T' ^"^ ^ -- Kw^ter. It must Ke borne in mind that Sf^-.-'" the v^ews of Sir George ; wards, indeed till after the session of PaWamen TrnTT"^!"' '^''V °^°"*^« *^*«- " of the Pacific scheme and of the Govemmrnt wer^wSf ' Y *'^'?'"'' ""^ *^« promoters "and his followers, both before unraC Aj ^ ^ ** ^.""^''^«- ^^- -^cMulleu " trying in evexy pos'sible wa^and for thffthev anTn7r°^^ "^'J^ ^^•' ^^"^^ ^^'^«' -«re ."rnent committed to entrust he buUdnL 5 ThT^^^^^^ §'*> *^« ^o^^rn- ' Government v^ere anxious simply o g ? VUl,? i^^^^^^ *?• ^'^^^'^ ^^'"P^^y' ^hile the " to submit a scheme to ParliamL that wHd h/^ T^^^^ ^ ""*"« *hem "being too burdensome it> the countrv Tt 1 ^n acceptable to capitalists, without ' turned from England, I slid s me? n^abont Jv -^'"^ *^'* ''^^'' ^'^ ^V* ^"<^ re- '" blame. I must, in the first p acfSaJe Th^^^^^^^^^ ^7 '^'"^'''' '"^ ^ ^ *void cation to Sir Hvgh Allan, nor do t recSct Sat Z r""^-" ^"^ au*^^"^^*^ «°^«°'"'^- ;; was ever underTh, consideration of Jre G^ve^^ent fe 1 A '.t"^« ''' ^^^'^^^ "for immediate action, nothing would \mmnv^^Z \ ,l^^'\^^M Allan ^&a pressing "him that the Oovemment ^could not e^?er ^^^o I^^^^^^^^^^ P«i"* °»t to "submitted a scheme to Parliament. I may ha^e taVeT^^^^^^^^^^ ^^"^"S previously 'mod,ofascertainingnotonlythetermsoStalL«W 1 ^^f^fi^ing for tende.s as 'parties prepared to make offers. I canlt now ,S there were any othe ' nations, but I am clear that I merely ZeexpTeLTonl'v^ -^T^ ^* • '^''' ^°"^«'- y gave expression to my private opinion, and that I 'ii:r so "to tI,o necessity of ohtAinii^gS cone n3 '""'' "^'"'"**''"' ^"* '^^ "Oov.rn„,ont nlight finally Clo o.rirnlv fn '"'"•';'' *" ^'"^*"^''»' «'''^'""« «'« "Mullen's letter is to oortiiin n IpI-I ;.„ ! ^ ^'!' *'*'"' »'^f«'-e'ice to me in Mr. Mel ^'or from any person on }^ Zw ol ^^0^^^ ''Pacific RailLj; tJmtl never ^T/oZxIZSrfrj^^^^^^^ in connection M the\ pectatton«, and never, difectly of Srcctlv ^L^^^ ""'^ I'"'"""'^* 'A "tion with the scheme. Mr. icilf«ffriTHerts'fW t •*'",""'^ ''"^ "'""^^ ^" «o»"«c- ;; or yse:f. b„t a situation for ^^ ^^^^ :2^ £^^00^ "' ^^"^^1 "1 never made any such domaiid hnf r ,l J ^ • tnan ^J,000 'i)6r annum. " Allan, as I had done U> o h^ Snd tha if he ^ '^''''"r?"',"^'"'^^'^ "'^^ *° »'•• ^^V*| "for my youngest son I woild Cii; *i ^/J^ " least idea at the time of enTZyn^Tnf ,Tndl 7"^ ^''"" ''^ ^" '"'^^^- ^ ^^'^^ not the "an indefinite and cei^idTTZr ?^e ^r^^^^^ " Pacific Company was formed ho wn„uT . vA-^\ '"'^f^'"''' *^''* "« '^^"bt whfett the "and there thi mLer ternX ;.^' T^t. ZnloJ'^"^%h .'-"""^ '^"^ """I^WmentJ " tween the rival Companies, fro.n wh ch Ze iZf- h ^1"^'"*'" '^^''^' ^'^'^ ^^\ "me should have any en.nloymentr Inv ^ i V *'''""'°'^ ^^'"^ "" «"« connected with "nnmicated to Mr. L^;" f T^t ,:"^; ^^ ^^^'7' ""' ''"^ '^^termination I com- " without any reference to Sir/CHZ 1 fn. v a"!t^r?M" ^"^'''^"* ^""'' '^"'^ "tion took place, my youngest sof w ,n 'm ^ ''' *'""* '^^ ^''^ '""« t^^e converha- " leave of absence, andC"S Iv'sit to h flrii '^''T"*'^'°"' ^" ^'•'"•^^^ «'»-"'^. -«« on "Sign his appoiAtuuu^t, ^aS renTl L c^^^^^^^ I wa^ anxious that he should re- " ployment. I mentioned him oevemlS'n? "m"'" ""^ ^ ^'"^ ^"™ '''^''^^^ ^^'l " settle, and I also mentionS^um tH /« J ^ T' ' "^'"'^ V'«'»«d him to " incur tlie risk of being charged with biwinflf ^ "^''°' imagined that I would ;;«cheme. I desire t^ ^i^^J^^^JZS::'^' ^'^ ''"f ° ^^"^^H "any way apart,/ to ami ar^unnom^y,/ A / '^"'« ' „^''"^"«'* Government was never t«| "American element ox the ,trorLvel T^'f "'^^"f^r *^*''« introduction of the "though not unfavourabLTAuericrns b in" inh 1 '^^J Cabinet, and for myself, "McMnllen Avas a som-ce of weakness /V-M^^ ""^^^^^ ^'^' *"* ^^■• "mmt never entered into an, ^re^Z't tn rt P ". '^^^st positively, that the Govem\ " considerations of any klZ^ilTtAZlo^^^^^^^ ^^ "'^'^A " their merits, and Sir Huah AlLLZTl ■ ^*'"'' ^f V'"'^ *^'^ ''^^''^^ ^'^'"^ "discussed on "yield points 'which JLf I.irldTo pts " "11^00 L-n""': r^ ^f^'^'^*^^"^ "^^^^g^d 4 "amalgamation between the two CanS; Conl^S / l'.* ^"'''f^. *"^^ *" ^^^'^i'^ *» " and, failing that, they incorporat^lTc?n.d?T^^^ •' T "'^'^^ of Americans, "influence most c;rtaiilydoei^tpriSrIS! ^'^"''^"^^' ^" "'"^^ Sir ^^A J«^„.;j "I am, ifec, '•"!'. tTlNCKS." "yt "A "in "un "coi "of Th (Enclomre No. 2 in No. 197, Aug. 15th, 1873.) CHAHTER .OR T„K COXSTK.CTZON O. THK PACK.. HALWAV, WITH PAPE«S AXB COIIBESPONDENCE. " Montreal, June 21st, 1872. "Sir, — I have the honour to inform von tTi^f fi.„ to • • , :^. I youi "'Pa " be i " resp^ ' " you l"'Int ' " with I" the] "E.Le n " I 111.™ alio the Hon ,„,-to «;,1 ,*'«,':''''"/ »' "l" finvwioiml Uoiml. ; R«n.ay Company U Z/JotT /.i '/,.i t''' ta-o ii; "'" """I' """."■" *'""'"'" P-"» .mi^ev t ,. alatiito i„,|„„ti„g i,,„ Cui . h i ^i, «," I! 1. "F"""""*- »-'"' «'« Oovornmei.t •' I Imve, &0., "E. LeF. De BELLPEUfLLE, ThoHon. J. 0. Aikins, • " «ecrotary. " Secretary of Stato, kc, &c., Ac/Ottawa." K ist S..fl8ion of the "I have, «to., " E. Lef. de Bellefkuille, "E. Pabknt, U. S. S "Weoretary. Canada Pacific Il.ulway Co "Monti-eaJ." '' ili "OrncE or T,rE Canada PAciKicRAr.HOAD, " Sm,_With reference to the 1««^ • ^"''^''=^^' ^th July, 1872. for the building of the Pacific Railroad «u tZTell T^T^- *° ^''^"P* «f ^^e contract «J^ parliament, I have now the honour oatateT . v f.°"l'*'«"« authorized in the A^t ^adisgiven to thin Company, it will ^'t' w th suoL *'r "^""'""^ "^ *^« Pacific RtS' theGovernmenU of Ottawa and Quebec o;suchnM '''''"'" ^ "''^^ ^^ o^^t^inetl from build a branch Railroad from some „oinf A" '^««'«t'^nc« «« may be given ulT near and North of Lake NipisinrtVHulL?" *!l« ^ '^'''"^ «^ ^^^^ Pacih^R^i Sa^ Northern Colonization RailioHT^'^rhiH ^ it '''"^'n ' ^"'^^'^' *'>«''« ^o connect wUh the some other point as far up on the NorU Short of A T.T '^'' ^''^'"^'^ ''' ^cep R vor or as the nature of the country will admit ^^"' '^*''' '''^"^' ^^ *he Province Lf QuebJ^ ;; GoveJitn'tTf^^^^^^^^^^^ -istaiice as we .av obtain from the branch Railroad from the Nipisirtl'rra" /if .k'"'^^ "^/^T *° "« ^ build another leading to Toronto and other parts of Ontario "^ "^^^ ^'»« railway'system " I have, «fec., « Honourable J. C.Aikins, .. p .^ , '' Hugh Allak, " Secretary of State, Ottawa." ^'-^^^dent, Canada Pacific Railroad. "Department of Secretary of State,- ;; ref^S^I^^^^^ of yZl^t!rZ l?;tMnln, "struc^on nJ'"' r T^^"^ **^^ C«™P«ny wa^ lea^v tf ^t Tk'''' ^'''"'■'' "" *'^« *«™« scrucaon of said railway. f j »^ leaay to take the contract for the con- " I have, &c., "Sir Hugli Allan, "E. Parent, U S S " President, Canada Pac'fic Railwav "Montreal." 83 TARY OF State, h July, 1872. 'tor of the 3rd instant, I'l ready to underttike conditions contained tlie liiafc Stflsion of the ABKNT, U. S. S. ic Railroad, ruly, 1872. >^ou by the Secretary ccopt of the contract luthorized in the Act f of the Pacific Rail- ay >)e obtainetl from may be given us, to le Pacifie Railroad, to connect with the I at Deep River or Vovi nee of Quebec, ftv obtain from tlie 8, to build another to such a point in he railway system Allak, Jific Railroad. «'q,n Tu ^i- , "OWAWA, 2nd October, 1872. P-vcific £iLt;VcJ;^^^^^^^^^ ^r- '^'^^> « W«ting that the Canada that the former Company is wnifr "mak , " "^'^ "^^""T^ "^""^'^ .unalgamafe, communicated Hudi wilinLossitf? T f "•"' l "!' "">'^'«a""*tion ; and that I visional President, tl^ S Mr lA Ai '''"r":}° ^^"'^"^ ^"'"P'^"^ *'"-«"8'> ^'^ f'-O" have further to state tlmt I have nof t? ' r '''*'^ *?*'' "''"^^^"K y^"'"' last letter. I Company on the «ulje CLtv r^^^^^^^^ "l^'"*^^'^ ^^^ '^^' ^"t^— " io my letter. *^ ^ received an acknowledgment of the rece{.tiou of " I have, 4c,, u Tj " ■^"**" Allan, President, "Th. Hon. the Secretary of State &c &c ^'°^''*'°"*^ ^°'^'-^' ^^^^^a Pacific R, R. "Ottiwa." ' ' ■' " Department of Secretary of State, .,^ru T 1- . , "Ottawa, 3rd October, 1872. " answe l~Lrof"Stirjdvrt''«^^ '\- '''7^' '! ^«'"- ^«**«' ^^ *»"' 2nd inst., in ''panyandthelnterra^tSf^^bl^^^^^^ I have, thoy Lve." VZly as^rSjd?'"''''' '." ""'•*"'*"'^« *"^ ^''"•'y «»* the tha ho p],„,H „.ey ha4 formed o^- 1 Zi^^'r''''-',"^ ^'*'' '^^»«'''''' capitalists, probabihty, b(! carried out. »e«lui8ito financial arrangements can, in all J:>ntish uistead «f the whoIt» A„-i " —.....> i^^umug oniv a niaioritv f^ K^ engaged since their inro'^i^ratit In'^r/oSio'^ Canada Co^.pany have &ttefy tending to the acquisition of n^L s foS '. ""'^^^ ^'''''^ capitalists, exclusive v in-ospect of favourlblo result sho d tyte aXd^^dT "' ,*'" h'^'^y ^^^ evei'^ " In the face nf fl.n f / • authorized to undertake it. « Sn V""r'«'' "'"■ «>e NortWrp^ fi^" r''?,"" ""«"■' 'n nogotiation with Canada Co.pau,, . ...,.« ^ co^po-a^ "vttt X' fnTfrS ^d^^:^"; my felt that so vast an Thoy beliovwl that the •e etnpowHred to grunt, and that there was no ion. They considered ? to create by consoli- feotsome insignificant ler; and they felt that re of the Oovernment f as to the terms of it. ic Company would be valry that may have t of the undertaking. <-ke and cai ry out the th English cajiitalists, iigemonts can, in all lyHoe!: to establish by )uld be pre-eminently from Canadian and iply to say that any iui)erfluou8, although ■oat Britain — no one igof the Pacific Rail- «; nor the disastrous itrol of the A merican k'ays entertained the of that fact, it will ny to the House of exclusively British ; their draft charter the majority of it. lid Parliament that eroceanic Company ada Company took a majority to be have been actively talists, exclusively lilway with every it. ' aborate argument Company entirely ut possibly might g members of the negotiation with organization of a •ession still exists my, as they term B United States "ctnPy^ttl'^thtb^^^^^^^ Andtheydeclaro that the Interoceanio "deoIinW*'.,!r.l?"''*r' " ^^«/'»«f «™«nJ "tated by the I ntorooeamc Company for krimZj fe^^^^ " 'T *« «''"- *hat this ground is^ntirely 4IZnhicoul^.f L^^^ ''"I'"' ''"^* this erroneous iu.pro««i.n being ^' W^h re^d 7 ^f ?*'"° .^"'"i'f'y 'n*y ^ materially changed. ^ "Ooiolv s i^K !'*\* belief .exists everywhere ' that the Car.adian k^s o7/nels Ir^to trfZ".f *''" ^r'«" «^ ?»'*i"'»tio« with American capitalisU., "iome bmil^^r 77 -T^ ?'\* *l'^ ««»tl«'""" ^''o nay so no doubt speak truly as tJ " Sp ry elrttaUv iJ ' H ''7 "" /" 'T"^'"^*" communication. ' But tho^Canad^ "Xi eao7ai^^^^ ''^'^' "" limited circle any such belief or ev6U ' << T? 1, " ^^^ "^ *'""g8 "* entertained. I " the summorof ' eiSSn "^ *'? 7'""". *•'** " negotiation was commenced .luring . ^^'^ ^^^^ Batistied I themselves by a f, U enquiry into the circumstances and details of that negotiation ::S5utSf ^%^^ =r ^aJtrtH ''"t otcwL'" £7'"r''°'^'"^ ^TT'''' ^''' ^*« '^'^''-^ *»<* conduct in the incoicstot Ouna.a. But tiio discussion of the negotiation is entireh foreign tr fhn proposition now being considered. That negotiation terminated XnSrXA^/A,' "rZTed."'''"*'""'^ *'^ ^■"'"^^^''" «*■ '''' ^'--laComprvny^Tdittstl^^^^^^^ "or ll.tteht^fl?"'^''"^-?^'^'' participated in that negotiation, and never considei^od «!„Jf r T'^ pr'>r ition, suggestion or intention of asking aid ftnm American now th Eh J\r/ '''fll^^'T '^''^ ^'"''^ '^'''''^ °" ^^'« tl'^B^ '^»"^^^> 'Alluded tJ with Biitish capitalists, and they liave never even communicated on the subie^t nf the Ruhvay, wxth any one outside of Canada or Great Britai^ '" "^ " fl.«. " Mr ^•'■"I'^^y ^0"lfl fi"-ther remark on this branch of the subiect that they are unwilling to attempt to gather from the terms of th^ stlrn^ of ute Intaroceanic Company any meaning which does not plainly appear upon Tts face Bt they cannot omit noticing that the weight of this objection re.ts uiSn tl e sSestion " toStn*^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^'^^^'^y '^ I-i--^ tlllenSe To " of pIjS ^ . . P'"'"''*. ^f '^" ^-iailway, hy placing the control of it in the hands " bLrin. f w uT"^'^ "' " '■ ?^ ^■°"^- ^"^««^ *he objection is taken a. haviW his beaung, it would have no weight, and the Canada Company aro therefore foiS to make a single rouiark upon this view of it. Thev desire Lpressly to s^r that tLi^ "d"e;\';L'trsrri''«^ '^^"^^^^^^^^ *^ *^- i'tei^sof a,Xaui: deeply inteiested in its welfare, as tlie memDeiv, of tlie Inturooeauic Comiunv or i.iv one else can be. And they protest formally and energetically againstT7imp ati^^^^^ whe her expressed or implied, contemplating the possibility of "thoiitfnaZ™"' which they cannot but interpret as beiag imputed to them by the stt men of the Interoceamc Company. Altliough probably^he Interoceanic ComrLiVwm rcceil t le positive and unqualified disclaimer wliich the Canada Company nC^plI eon rco^ may no oe amiss to romart upon the iai,>o.ssil>iUty of any such coui J^Lrtaken 4' that which is implied in the Interoceanic Company's objection. ^ «Cov«.mr .t'"'"'"',' ^^''^ *ll' '"'^ "' '"^'^"^ •'^"'^ l'"^'!^ i« only to be granted by the Uveinment as the work actually progresses. It is also necessary thaUhe periods for 36 Government sbould fix a period with u Si ^\ '" '''''^ necessary that the . „ *J" Company should forfeit its rights othoPov ^ ^^^ "' ^^^^^ ^^ ^l^ese conditions •■Vntr'r '"•"''""" «"" *««"'«; -"'J'^'y "'■ ". "-W "e agreed u 1* "nl.if.in„+ ^''^'V^^^^S for argument's sake th^.t fl, ^'^"^'^'\ onipany m simply •suuil muionlv ofit. And without the ^'P'"'^^ ^^«"^'^ constitute but I Oeg.ee the operations of the maioritv of t]JnT\ " ^"^ obstruct in any materi-il po t on of tne proposed assistance could u^^uailv t ' f /''" Government, as no w itli regard to ' '" general] V and e., ! HiJ IJ.'I -^, ".""V.1...C in ics lavour. A li'-'- nf H.o d • ■ ""i'^-^'"^''ii>Jn mat tnev will «v«,.«; iT :ed by the agreement \ n^^cessary that the tl be cotnmeiiced and ■■ would be a provision my of these conditions ain, in the proposition sanic Company it was on of the Provisional the intention being lioiild be agi-eed upon at the carrying out of onipany is simply led the intention of 3in Pacific Eailway Id constitute but a 'roceanic Company's ^terly impossible not ruct in any material 1 IS impossible, the port to alienate the Government, as no 1 the purposes for le forfeiture of the "SnLntml^clV^*on it ^^' '''*''''* °^ '^' '"*''P™' "'"* ^^^ ^"''^^^ ^*''^°S*^ ^^"'"^^^ ^'^ .< fl^Jl'!!!! ""^'^':'^f f ^ ^™ f^^i'-ous "f inaking one remark more as to the observations of the Interoceamc Company's statement with regard to politics. The Canada Company have not m any manner or way interfered in politics, and they are at a loss to know to what circumstances the Interoceanic Company can refer in their remark on this subject! <i. il iity of con- " structing the great work which by the terms of the union of British Columbia with the " Dominion became the duty of Parliament to undertake. " In the opinion of the Committee of the Privy Council there is no ground for rivalry "between the Province cf Ontario and Quebec, especially as the eastern terminus has " been fixed by Parliament at a point convenient for both Provinces. " The Committee of the Privy Council has not failed to give their attentive conside- " ration to the reasons adduced by the Committee of the Interoceanic Company for II opposing the amalgamation with the Pacific Company, while the latter Conijiany, in de- " ference to the wishes of the Government, has expressed its readiness to agree to. " The Committee of the Privy Council concur in the opinion expressed in the report, " that the success of the Pacific Railway project must mainly depend upon its complete " identification with the public sentiment of the country, and that the lands appropriated " lor the construction of the work should be so dealt with as to enlist the whole energies II of the country in their early settlement; and they therefore admit that the organization " should be essentially and pre-eminently national in its character, and that success in the " British money market is more likely to be attained if the Canadian people themselves " become interested in the undertaking. " It is unnecessary for the Committee of the Privy Council to discuss the question " raised in the report as to the inoxpedieiicy of looking to aid from the United States for "the construction of the Pacific Railway, as they do not contrnnplatu seeking such aid, " but on the contrary most earnestly desiro to accomplish the very objecr recommended " in the report under their consideration, viz. : the united action of the Canadian people " in the work. It is assumed in the report that the Canadian Pacific Company would be " under the control of citizens of the United States connected with the Northern Pacific " Company. It is said to be a matter of public notoriety that the original ]>roposal of " Sir Hugh Allan, relative to the Canada Pacific Railway, was made in association with "the American gentlemen most prominently connected with the Northern Pacific " Railway. " The foregoing statement is the avowed ground of the refusal of the Interoceanic "Company to amalgamate with the Canada Pacific Company. The Committee of the " Privy Council avail themselves of this opportunity to place on record all that is come to " their knowledge regarding the negotiations on the subject of the Pacific Railway ; when " it became known that the Canadian Governmtnt was aboiit to invite the consideration " of Parliament to the subject of the admission of British Columbia into the Dominion " on conditions, one of Avhich was that Canada would undertake to procure the construc- " tion of a Pacific Railway, an enterprising gentleman, au inhabitant of British Columbia, " the late Mr. Alfred Waddinyton, who had already made extensive surveys at his own " expense, petitioned Parliament for a charter to' construct that line, intending, it is " believed, to obtain aid in England and United States. " Mr. Waddinyton had a bill introduced and printed, but did not procqed with it " during the Session of 1871 ; after the close of the Session, Mr Waddington, in conjunc- " tion with one or more gentlemen in Toronto, visited the United States, having, as he " always stated, failing in ecuring any co-operation in Canada, with the view of interest- " ing foreign capitalists in the undertaking. He took with him his own ^ rinted bill, and " the resolutions which had been adoj)ted by Parliament for the admission of British " Columbia into the Dominion, on condition that the Pacific Railway should be con- " stmcted, and he succeeded in interesting in his project a number of influential " capitalists, some connected with the Northern Pacific Railway, othei-s entii-ely uncon- " nected with it. " On his return to Canada, Mr Waddington employed a respectable legal firm in " Toronto, as solicitors to the promoters of the railway, and visited Ottawa, armed with " a document, signed !)y a number of gentlemen of known wealth, in which they stated ** the terms on which they would undertake to construct the railway. The deputation '' had interviews with some members of the GoveiuuKUL, who received them courteously, I 40 lii; m It a a (I t: tt u (I It tt It It (t tt ft It tt (t tt it t: ti a II tt i( it tt t( it i( (( taxn^o terns on which Canadian oa^ la ists Jo Jn,,.„ ^"^P'^, V to tlie exclusion of the othp.- ihe Committee ot the PnVv P«, •, , ^viichwonn Interoceanic Company may con /' ^ ?*''''* °'^ "^ reconsideratio. of " Gei [ified. " W. H. IIlMSWOBTH, " ^^erk, Privy Council. <.- (I 41 ment was not then »f the Government, le during the next leavouring to ascer- lertake the work. received, and for ihe construction of hMr. Waddington Government, dur- ho informed him of s of the Americans o Sir Hugh Allan ' foreigners, owing ice of this conver- American gentle- istion made to Sir Committee of the 3uro the construc- bained tliat there iticipated by the ill- ^/iujh Allan's an was the iirst line, and to him ' to decide with ommittee of the respective merits opinion that it of tlie other, their proposition mi^elled, ftom a iial co-operation dominion, in the that they have •ronioters of the d also that the ■nment for tiie en proprietary. v/ho was the imient for the luded from the consideration, nadian people. )iisideratiou of hat the course follow, would ^amation with inute he sent 'st attempt to nction of the " DEPARTMiiNT OP THE SECRETARY OP StATE, ua ^ '' <^ttawa, October 22nd, 1872. I «fl.« «n?'T f"? ^'''^^^^ to forward you the enclosed Copy of an Order in Council on ' " ComS: 'of IrSil'Tn^'^'r '""l ^r — ' of Canada and Se eTcIvo " I have the honour to be, Sir, "_Your obedient servant, "E. Parent, I" Hon. D. L. Macpherson, " ^"^*"' Secretary. "President, Interoceanic Eailway Co., Toronto. I " Sir Hugh Allan, *' President, Canada Pacific Railroad Co., Montreal." I " I " I " (( It t( II I " ' (( <( (( (( (I "Montreal, October 25th, 1872 fhat^ou wil bf.^^^^^^^^ ^^'w Excellency on the 16th instant, and I here reqa 'st tLZj^..t!;:t:ZtJVZ ''''-' ^^^ Honourable thePHvyCouncS the with^thB^blT'?-*'' *^V^'!r ""^ '^'^ Governmeut which they consider is in accordance prenaLd?o\tir!'^^"n-!-''TP''*^""^ ^"^ '^'"'-^'^ ^^'^^ *^^« Canada Company is prepa ed to make such addition to its members from the Province of Ontario as mav hi v^umpany ciecJining to accede to the suggestion of the Governmeiit that th^ r<>,n«,l>. Company will be prepared to submit addftk)nal names from OntZ in o^er th^t tW Province may be represented in the Company to the satisfaction of ke Gotnl^'ent " I have the honour to be, Sir, " Your obedient servant, "Hugh Allan, The Hon. J. C. Aikins, "' ^''^'"^^"*' Provisional Board, Can. Pac. E. R. " Secretary of State,' Ottawa." "Department of the Secretary or /'tate, uo T J' " ^'^'^A^^A, December 4th, 1872. "RailrScomrut'Sfl *'l *'T'""* *'y""' ^°^' *" ^"fo^'^tion of the Canada Pacific x^alroad Company, the enclosed memorandum of the Executive Council of the Inter- 43 i have the hononr to bo, Sir, ^' " Your obedient servant, " E. Parent, " E. L. De Bellofeuille. Esq " Under Secretary. "Secretary, Canada Pacific Railway Co., Montreal." CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY. Ihe Committei . ' the Pi-Jvu n-^,.r> -i i , , ^ "pondence and Reports of Con u/ttee " of theV "'^^r^«°"«i^«ration the corres- " Interoceanic Railway Companv and of Vh« P ^T^'T^ ^''^^^ovb of the Canada ;; whilst ™«ch regretting th^se 1^*' es W L^^^^^^^^ ¥T ''^"P^"^' ^^ " one Company for the purpose of or., «!, f- J ^ ■ "^''^'"^^ *« "^ite and form ;; the Privy CoLciJ are uS^ to Xi^e Cl Ex'cX' ''f'' ^'"'''''^' *^^ ^--"^^^ ^ " Companies separatelv. for tho constr etW^ ,,fl '"^ *° .''^'■'' ""^^^^ ^'^^'^'^ «f «'« «aid "described in the Ca^nvdian PaTfio it *i W^ r"'??^// *^^ ^^^ole line of railway ; they are of opinion, and submitlt o yo u E^^cedlenfv TJ-n]\'' "'"•'^'^P- ^^ ' ^^ "for the Dominion, and will better in.,.:; fif/^^* '* '^'^' ^^ "^°^^ " above referred to, that a Companv ioXh. ' '^"^"^«»f "t of the purposes of the Act " the City of Montreal. Esq. iLof rZT 7? ^"'^'" I "^'"^ ^"^^^"^'^ ^«««*l, o "/'rerfmc^ William C^cnJrlandTtL(iZ^Z^ 'J '^' 9'y "^ ^t. John, Esq.; ;;City of Ottawa, Esc^. ; A'oL'tl^f^t^^^^^^^ ^-f-c^ i^^m.^ of the' ' Honourable ./■.A,^ SebLian IMvickToi ifdiiJ J^' Z''^'" ""l ^herbrooke, Esq. ; the ; ^o-n of Winnipeg, Esq. ; DonMy:l^:,'''lrl^^^ AncMloDermot, of the ^hanly, at present of the Town of North Zu,^. -1 rr^.''^, Hamilton, Esq. ; Walter " and John Walker, of the Citrof London t?^.' P ^' ^"'^^ ^^'^^^^ ^^ ^™«^-ica, Esq. : " their ability and' willingn E to frnT s d C om ^^«^^"^V^u^"*""°' ^''^q-' l^ave'stated " capital of Ten Million DollalLdtl at KP^ *^^* ^^'^^ have a subscribed ;; construction and working o Ve ISle of ^Iwav"^ H T'" ''''' '"^ ^^''''^'^' '^^ '^^ " negotiations be entered into with the snJd Lf 7 ' .?^ ^o'^mittee recommend that " of an agreement under the Act U'^n ^^0 ^''^ *^' P"'"P°^« ^^ ««ttli"g t^e term 1 " Minister of Justice be instrtted t oo'dt^^^^ fhrs'mr* "^' ""'^ ''''''''' ^^^ ^^-* *^« I " Certified, "W. A. HiMSWORTH, " Clerk, Privy Council." " Department op Justice, .< TJ,« 1 • , " Ottawa, 31st January, 1873. " the Order iu Council of this dale, l^lit t„ r",^'/''" ^ """'''"" ^""'«'^ *»"™J'. ^y 43 )mitted to the Govern- 7 Company. mt, . Parent, " Under Secretary. Council, approved by I ; January, 1873. sideration t?ie corres- ctors of the Canada) ilway Company, and ng to unite and form ay, the Committee of ath either of the said I hole line of railway 35 7ic.,cap. 71; and )e more advantageous ! purposes of the Act [ le powers conferred pose. 3;ht; the Honouiable mibe?- of the Queen's ien, of Montmagny, BaptistG Beaudry, of of St. John, Esq.; ford Fleming, of the erbrooke, Esq. ; the CIO McDermot, of the | ilton, Esq.; Walter \ 3s of America, Esq. ; o, Esq., have stated y have a subscribed | tn agreement for the j iQ recommend that f settling the terms ersons, and tliat the •iyy Council." muary, 1873. {otiations with Sir 'acific Kailway, by " mvM^lI^rjf'^^ ^"^ Agreement and a draft Charter under such agreement, with "John A. Macdonald." "^^-Hif E^xi^KHIi,* Committee of the Honou-able the Privy Council, approved by His Excellency the Governor General in Co-^ncil, on the Slst January, 1873. Hon'^lhe mS"'^'*!*^!- ^"^y C!ounoil have had under consideration the report of the to tL Order in Pnl ^1"'?.?- ^]\^^^ accompanying draft agi-eement prepai-ed pursuant J an aLreemen?^^ V *'"/ ^^^' ^"^ ^^'^ recommend tlmt the said draft be accepted. HononrablnT '^^^^^^^"g *° ,^ « t"™« be entered into with Sir Ifnrjh Allan ■, the ^ZZLj^'^^^''^^t'^'''^'V^' th« Honourable Joseph Octave Beaubien • Jean iT ^fndtl'm"^-'^ ^^erton%er.o,.^«^e.,Esq.; Frederic William Crcmbrla^ul, ^ebasti^ n7ll /"*'?' f^'"^- ' J^t'' ^'""'''^ ^«^'' Esq. ; the Honourable John £tlkn?1 /■/ ^"^vT f^^'<^'> Esq. ; Donald ' Mclnnes, Esq. ; Walter IbJrnf VS^n ' f 't -'^"S"^' ^'^' > *°' *^« con..truction and working of the whole ^""l.l,*^?,^^"^!^^.^""^'^ ^il^^J'' "^J«r the Statute 35 Victoria, Cap. 71. ««na t ^.ommittee have also had before them a Stock List, allowing that the said per- under ^d bvi";'"' ^^,P^^^ ^^^en Million Dollars, and they a^e of opinion, fiiat u Tu„ ,7 *^/ ^^'T-''^ ^}^ "^''^ agreement, such capit-1 is satisfactorily secured, a C\.:TZr^^ ""^T *^^* ""^ ^^"^ execution of such agreenient by the said parties. clause of th ^Tli ^' ^"^ *^'"' "'''^^' *''" ^''^* ^''''^' P"^^"^'^* ^ *'^ 1^*^ u It tt « i< « II II IC l( " Certified, "W. " Department of A. H IMS WORTH. " Clerk. Privy Council." Justice, " Ottawa, 31st January, 1873. lift "j!J^"?^^™|^^^„^*f ;j,^« ''Tr *"" ''^P^^' *'^'^* *h« agreement between the Government and Sir Hugh Allan and his associates for the construction of the Canadian « rW . ,aI' T?''^' "^^^ '""f P*''^ ^'y *^« ^'''^^' "^ Ciouncil of this day's date, has been ^^ duly executed by them. He therefore recommends that a Charter under the Great Seal bo gianted to such persons, pursuant to the 15th clause of the statute 35 Victoria, cap. 71. "John A. Macdonald." "COPY of a Report of a Committee of the Honourable the Privy Council, dated 31st January 1873, and approved by His Excellency the Governor General in CouncU on the 5th February, follov ' g. "Hnl?r.!n ""T'-^r °!. ?^ .^""^y ^°""'^ ''^^« ^'^'^ ^«fo^-« ^^^^ the Report of the " Order n Co,!!'"; r.v^ "^"'^f ""^ f'' '^''''' ^^^*"^g '^•''' *he agreement mentionedin the " hvSr }?„ /T/^ .^'' &y ' '^''^'' ^'^^ ^^'^ construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, ''^L?,,!«^A^ ^"'^*^%P''"°'"'^^'' ^dams George Archibald; the IlonoxmiUe Joseph 4m W^' fr^^^r^f ,?^««^%' Esquii-e; Egerton %envon ;,-.ee, Esquire ; <'Hln%\ ^'^T ^^'''^''^"li' Esquire; ^andford Flendng, £qnivo) RobeH .Loton SjfTr'' *\Honourable /o/m ^.ias^um Hehncken ; Andrew McDermot, Es.uuie : Donald Mclnnes, Esquire; TTaZ^er ^/*««^y, Esquire; and John mdker, Esquiie; ha^ " been duly executed bv tbflm Tr,«r. ... ~~ "" - = "Certified, "W. A. HiMSWORTH, " ^^^ei-t* Privy Oounoil." "VirTilPTA u XI- /> CANADA. 'Ocean ; both the said points to hn ,]„;•' i "^ ^"'"^ 1''^'"* o» *'>« sliore of tlm Pn.^« branch line of railway. fro^Z^lXton^"^' m"'" ''^'. «°»«t^'''otiou and wo^ ^f ' some point on Lake Superior irfiS , t / "''^'''''^' ^''^ thereinbefore nienrimredfn " of anotlier branch Ii„e of rdwlv f ^^'''^tory, and for the oon.truc'ionTn 1 w ' mmmmmm that a Company should be incorporated CvulT ?l *^'' P"^'i'««^« ^^ «!« said Act were an Act of the Parliament of Canada. ' ''*''® ^°''''*^ ^^^ effect as if it " . m 40 Privy Oounoil." t Britain and Ireland, " And, Whereas, the Government Jinn f,.,'i«,i * • i ., " ated by Parliament during it« LTsliorfo " i- n ^"^^"^%*^« *^« Companies incorpor- "form one C'ou.p.ny, an.l do..,s not cui " -fdvil .1^;^'' ^^ ^"'f -"f "'« ^''« '-"ilW, to " Compunics for ti.e construction of tl h lUi tr ! " 7"'' '-' '?/"':"^ '''^ «'"'' ^^° " advantageous for the Domiuion, and wiUhJZ', I f"!'!'^"^"'^ t'"^'-' '* will l,e more " of the Act fi,-8t above mentioned hat a cl ^ Tu ?' • '^"^"""«»t "f the purposes « such Act provided. ' ^ Company shall be incorporated by Charter as in " Privy Council for Canada ■ The Honm.rah ! /' ; n " n ^^^^ber of the Queen's ''ComnnssionerofCrownLa^dsin the pTovL'/^^^^^^^ t""*^' "^ ^°-t'"«g'^y, "the city of Montreal. Esquire •VerLXr^/?''^'^T^^*^'^^^^ ^"^"'^'"^ ^f "Esquir^e; ^r«(fmc>t rawkX'l/TT ^"'^^'/'af^ *^'« "^^ ^^ -^i»t John, " i^m/.,, of the city ol OttawtrE ^ "^^^ i,*J &:/ ^"T^ ^^^'''^ ^ '^'""^/-'^ "brooke, Esquire; The Honorable jJl.^.W ^f f " ^"^'^^ «f the town of Sher- " Andrew AflDermot, of nZZnotWn^^^^^^^ ^'^""t"' /f *'^^' ^^^^ ^^ ^i^t^^* ^ " Hamilton, Esquire : WalteTsLnlyll'^^^^^^^ > ^"""^'' ^''^""^-S of the city of -UnitedStates^AjierEsqS'r^^^^^^^^^ t]]"' *T\ "^ ^'^''^''^ ^^'^'"«' i» the " Province of Ontario, FAtirei'^^l f ^«"d-. i« the " such Company for the construction and wSw of .L ' '• ''" ''"^^ 7!''"'^' *« f'^"'^ "have subscribed a capital sum of tenm/nriln^ 'i'"*"'''^ ^"'^ branches; and " Governor in CounciUndZeo sXrS S'"'"' '''"l^^^^ *^'^ satisfaction of the " iB to say : $3,846,000, or nearly fiv'to^^^^^^^ P-portions following, tnat "or nearly four-thirteenths, in the Prov nee of Quebec TnTrAln'^*"'''" ' •^3,076.800. "thiiteenth, in each of the Provinces Tf Nova Scotia' K ^^^^'^^^^'?\ "P^^'-^l^ of one- " British Cohxmbia respectively; and are ^ady to ent«^'^.?'''"'^''^' ^""^''^^^ "^"^ "Government for the construction and woiS of 2 v • ' ""^ ^gf «>"ent with the "Ss^ir r "*^ ''- '^ r«^-i^:o:;:s^^^^^ - '^^t^^^z^^^ixst :hirSrt;;*si;r '^^^^^^ *'^^ -^^ p™« " Now Therefork Know Yf that Wp r.f ^„, • i ;;and mere motion, and in pursuance of t^epol "^^t'ecl'rus'r;, "a^;", '"^"*^'^« "in part recited. Do Ordain Grant Avn nT,/ 1 . f '^ the Act hereinbefore '' Honourable ^rf^«.^«o.<7«Z>.t^^H^^^^^ hat the said Sir Hugh Allan; " ^eauc%, Escuiire • Eaerton R,jnr.Ju 'n""''"'^'^'i^' '^"".'^P^' Octave Beaubien; Jean Baptiste " Esquire ; Sa^^;d ZTg, fee J E P'T ''/fT" • ^""^'^^'^ Oun^beLuJ, " Sebastian EelLken ; ^«rfX/Zrmi £a,Sf ''A f; ^l^T^ ' H«'^«^rable ./«/m ;;fWy. Esquire; and, ^oA. irXl^ui^ ' o"e hei^^^^^^ ^'"^"""^ ^'^'"• " become associated with them in the miderakinlfnr^ ,'''"' 1'^''""' ^ «'"^11 "be and are hereby constituted a bodrc^.Tn^ f i ?!•'P^°''^ "mentioned, shall "of 'The Canadian Pacific R^UylLmX'xJ^^^^^^^^^ '^ *^",r"-' «^^^« ^-^1 title '' cessors shall and may have contimUsXssW,^":'f'^*''^^^^ ''"'' their sue-, "contracted with, of .^ung LTbr" Led i kx h; J""^ be capa be of contracting and being " being answered unto in all courts vnd K £l ? ""^ .""P faded, answering and ;; suits, complaints, matters and Zl ^^^^''^S^^i ijfjTT- °' ^^^^"^' " may and shall have a common seal anri mnv .h.l \ , ^ ^""^ their successors ;; Ple..u™ ; ana „,.„ that A^Aef »S „': ^'t n L' ? •^!^ ? "f ' "^i' "■?' '' Railway Companv ' shall h^ i., lo „ «,. 1 1 i^! ■ "* ■'■h*? Canadian Pacific "and thek succlZ;, ty estate rll Tisonn "^"' ^Tf^^'^^'S, and holding to them " pany, and of selling conveybl' k^irrotl ' •w"''"?''' '" "" ^'^' '^'^ "^^ «^ ^^^« ^om- " and on the account^^f the Com'pany from thirTn . ^^*'''":f therewith, for the benefit '< or neoessaiy, su.ect to t.e proSj^i^tSL^: a^lSlaSsS^ SS 64 ! I "9 A\rn\ir "stock. ;;ft.c.or^:!^Z;i,^^,;:f^^™H 0,,^,^ ana DECLAKE, that the Capital| Boual property, uiul ton ,,o. oontuo ho^u til ," •^"' f ''"'^I'"''"^'* '^^ ^•^""^^•l P«r- afterthodatoofthesop.e8onts,to.Cl H^^^i^^^^^^^^^^^ IT''^'''> ^^*^"" «"« '"onth liament. And the intc roHt reeeiv^,, ^ , r " ''''"^^ ""*'' otherwise ordered by Par- 8«o. money and from Hnch HocuX Clf;^^^^^^^^^ ^'^™ fc»^« investment of Bhall bo Huthorizod by tl.o UovenTStl^J I '^ f''^ Company as received, until he ' default incurred by the OWnvTn H « f '"''^ "'"^ ''*'*'"'^ ^'''-^ ^^^'^^ by reason of some ''orofany..„„,J,,,:::;;;S;;;^i^ ^ t^ ohJS::: " or of any .subsoquont a,^ree :ScVe^7th T^^^*^^ '^ ^'^'^ ^^^'^^^^^''^ «f *hi _ "3. That the shares of theL d.3 ^ Government and the Company. ; hoon paid, be transferable ■ rf/o S'^^^ ^^st deposit thereon has Bhall be valid or offectuai ;n iTt "Si/^Stlf " 'VTl ^''"'^ '""^ ^'**«"-«o" the Dn-ecto,-8, and registered in the toks to bl i.^t I'^^'lf'^^"^ *^" Government and of ;; "°'- «fter six years, unless it bo mad witi, fl.i ^ 7 c^'? Company for that purpose ; ;;e--J- And in the event of S -^f^ ^ ^ ^ ^?V^*^!' ^^^^^^^ aforoaaid. And in the event of t i^h .f ^ "T' ^* ^^' ^"'"''*°''«' «"d registered a^ Stock of the Com,,a,iy l.ocomin. t rln.Li ,' ?^ ?L^ "■ ''"^ "^ **'« ^''-^^'^^ ^"^ the Oapit^ person clainung tlu' same slmlTbe^o u To sf 1 I \"'"'T f '"^ ^y '^^'''^' transfer, th or th,> transnussion of Bank Stock Iv the Ao/ -jrV""^' "'"^™ ^" ^'^^ '"'^""«'" P'-ovided 'P'3cting Banks anl .T"^' ^^''' '""'^ expenditure call upon the shareholders for sucl hlsLlln n ^' *^ ^^^^'^^"^ «^ *^^« Government tion as the Directors may serfi ■ ext t 1.7"" ^'^f .«hare, ami in such proper- " RAILWAY. a continuous raUwarrti^tkltTVtlJ:^^^^'^''-'?" ^^^' '"^^'^*^^'^ ^"^ work ^vlii'^'^r^' Bliall be made in conform tv with fb ^'f «f ^t and one-half inches; with this Our Roval Charter- nn.l c i ^, ^ '^"^ Act hereinbefore recited and near Lake Nipissbg, and o^ 'the soatl. T^^'Yu '^''^} '""''''^ ^''^^ «^«^e pott on or the Pacific Oceivn, both the s d in s to be Tete"'^ *," 'T' P''"^^ ^ *'« «hore of course and line of the said rail^y between tr""""^. ^^ '^'' Government, and the approval of the Government ^ ^^'' *^^ '''^''^ P^^^^s to be subject to the a ^^^^1^1^^ equip, maintain and woi^ tioned, to some point on Lake ?SmKS i^ fwV? ^^-f ' *^' ^"^' P^'^'^^ J^"? «1^"«« ^^n « « « « 47 "uimatTll^H^^^^^^^ ^»>«^' P-vinoo and the ;; the gauge a..e:}c.Tt5^u:htrh'7o?^ ' u /, ."'/•"'"3' «Hall be d.vidtul into m-otions, us follows :- "Aii.Wy* v. (1.) r,i« Eastern SKCTiON^Extoruliug from the Eustom TormiuuH tolled (2.) The Lake Sttpebiou SKcrioN^-Extonding from Home point on tho « n \ Twp. n.«^„ a ^-astern Section to Lak(> Suporior. (3.) The Oentrai. Section -Extending from Kod River to a point in the " U\ T^. \i a ^o»g»t<"le of Fort Edmonton. (4.) The Manitoba Section Extending from the main lino in the Province « /R \ rr xnT r, °* Manitoba to the Boundary of tho United ataf«« (5.) The Western Section. -Extending from a poiift in the longitude of " ft n,nt ih^ n 1 „ . . ^'* ^"'nonton to the Pacific coast. "thevearlftTl ''''"^'^''P'^'*''''^ two years from the twentieth day of July in « OceaTtowards hT'l^X X" ^ "'"'' 1 1" ^«"^*''"'''^^"" "^ *'- '-^-^ fro'in the Sc "after to brdele^^minedb/i' ""'"^ *'^'" '^ »^""'* "' ^"" ^''•*^^"^'^« "^ Ontario here- ''^bol^dof I "l" i'^b^wS^^^^^^ ''"";'^ the Pacific Ocean, to connect the "struct the Manitobi W 7 »'« » ulway system of Canada ; a.id further shall con- u.vyot July 1871, unless tLo last nioiitioMil neiiod simll bo enlai-oj l,v A^t n) P„,.K. ;;«».,.„ wl„ohc..e tl,„ Co„,>..uy shall co,u„lL the whole ..aUwi/'itltXaS "Commnv P •^^'"7 be hereaftor agreed upon between the Government Indth! "?oTS. toX de':i3' *'"'?.? ^ Government and the Company sCw be unable "be from ne o til? If 'Y/^.f "i™"""':' "' *'"^ '^'''''^ mentioned, the same shall " of whom shall be holn 17^^^^^ Pot '''''r""'f'V' S''''' ^""P^^*'''^* ^>^g---. ^ne "itteV^e Unio" ^^^^^Hsh an approximate standard whereby aucL Ste^ mly bH- "Jl " H,« p!!! '''''°' r''''""'"" '™y portion of the railway exceeding twenty miles is comnloled « from +;,!. "^f ?^ passenger and goods, at such times and in such manner as sli-vll ' - "fXe?nnr ™'1f'nT' ''r"" ''''''''''' '^' Government and the Con p ny c^intse of failuie toagi.e,^shan^^^^ determined by three Engineers selected as herSXe proWded "think proper to ex^Z? 7'^^' /^om time to time, appoint such persons as it ma^ umic proper, to examine, inspect and report upon the construction and equipment of the 48 « «12 T{ t '"itooi all tho i.rovwions of thia " LAND OKANT. " B^t ? /"' "'''" ""^' Company as part of the said land sm§mmmm Aiie i^ompany shall also havp n viVki. e '"^ "«'"°'™^'°"«'«'«i'-y^i.rougha,e Dominion « « " 1 « <( , « It «mimon Lands Act and innj^tion and approval of the Suriey^rllt^raf -''^-^ ^" ^^o ",17. That the Government shall fixtingui.sh the Indi in hWl^ nffi. .• .v , , hei^m approprmted, and to be hereafter grafted in a /of tie raita^ ""^ " SUBSIDY. hJb,;iredi\tcL;Lyli:r£z:';''7 *? ''■"''^, «»-■> foliar,, i, made in 1 ye^t^Z^ , ILu rlX '7' f "'" """'''^' "■" '«'* "' ««' --7 best line for tne ndl^ay. "''™'°'"'»' "^ "^"""'l''. f" "■» pmiraM of ascertaining tlie Corporation, a subsidy or aid in money, or bmidn or slu X, " I'T'"' ^^' /''""^ ^^^ at such ti. es, on such conditions, ami at sucrpUrfn S/ ^""^ '1 '"'*' '""""°''' agreed upon with the Company. *^ *"'''^* °'" «i8«where as may be " BOARD OP TRUSTEES. thrl'e'pelt! 'ol'ZZiZZVrl;!:Z:^^^^ ^^^ of Trustees, to consist of one member thereof by the Government onrH ^'''''*'"r' ''l^'^"«^«' that is to say; Director., and one othe'r -emb"XS\nr otbebj :;^ «--» «^ manner as may be provided bv such Bv tJ2 .IT ! ^'f bondholders, in such the choice of- such membejrtre S^^Iall hl"^^^^^^^^ Company in the (7cruula Ga^ite ^" ^'"^^^^^^ ^^ *^« S^"-^*^'-/ of thj oftLla^dih^l^rarJa:^^^^^^^^^^ any Member the vacancy occiLonedlr^b; shall t filTeTr^ih"' T"" '""f ^'^'^ ''^ to be a Member of the said Board bv th« rL? ''^.^'["^ '^ the choice of ,< person Bondholders, as the case n ay ^ by whom tt MeZTr ' h '"' °' ''"^^*°™' ^^^ *^« • — ^ (I II II II II II II II (I II II II I. portions of .he ,„b,id™ TtZI'ZZ dII'''''""'''^ "' C-* >u=h portion J th« Coapanj. as heroiubefore mentioned "" ""^ '^ "™'«' ''/. ^^ 'a^te S^ ;;porirftt:t;d l^V' w^l'tedt rtr""'"!' °' *» -«»"■• rent, of .uo the United Kinffdom. or of thn R.;t- iT ri ^^' I'-eland, or of any of th^ o .u-i '•purchase outstanding bonds of trci;i7"^^^^^^^ with a by-law of the ip^ ms^rmsssmmm Same shall, from ti.ue to time become d eTnd .Tv^ ^' ^^ "''' ^^ ^J^^ Company as Si /and discharge the bonds of the CnZ.l ''"IP'^Hble, and thereafter upon tr {/ tl \ 'soured, shall mature andtco^a^S ^^H. t^^' ^ '""^ P- J'mon^^th ^E' full payment and discharc^e of all 1^. ^f^ ^ ''""^ "P^^^ this further trn.jtT^ Bnl none of the powers hereb/veZua .rcot", " '° •''' ?"" ^"^ "f the BMrf ' ;;h^l1fterofte^°S.;-;~^^^ made or taken contrary to, or incou /w f.^ ^g^^ement, resolution or pro eeZ^ ■• their »' of th [' missi ■'all sii r or en 'the! ' signa ' case 5 \' note, •" be coi *' to bes ' conclu ['tbeU r conne( r corapa *' intercl '^KeC'o V railwa r like ap I conneci United "32 ['public, r' opniuj ' sident i I' togethei ['freight, f any oth 51 ill b9 as follows : Canada such portion otl '-nod by, and payable tol ' sales or reiitg of suohl ne be sold or leased bvl •'-dtotheCorapanyl atber Corporation. f urns of money as shall neys received by them f any of its Provinces I tny of the Colonies ofl the United States ofl eciintles, and shall in) ather securities of the en so directed by re- law of the Company, d, and the securities I sinking fund, to be '0 say : upon trust tol secution of the trusts f iinbefore mentioned, ho Company, txa the ei- upon trust to pay Jipal money thereby further trust, after f td interest upon the expect of theexecu-, ' and the securities > Company; and the 3tion respecting the I wnpanyand by the in the premises, as 'ed ')y the Govern b, the provisions o "land management. Board of Trustees the net proceeds tWof ft J "'■''' *"'"'' ^"^ ^^^n^ Pay over to the [• and „,., ..^ ^ „„, .„ iSt,'X*'„?S;r^™ I^iT' »'■ ■""-=-™' •'POWERS OF COMPAN-y, tpartje^lS^^S^^ZS^^i^^^^ ^--- the name, of the several such parties espectively, to be entered tn^^' f . f "'"'''"'*^ °^ i»t°i'ests therein of "-d may in like mannei' cause the n iv. 7'^^. *' ^' '''^^"^ " ^to Stock BeCte, .ded from time to time h^a b ok toT;^^^^^^^ ofallreg;ste,^ f stock and bonds of ?he J:"!,^ tfof.,^?^ -nd duplicates 'the prmcipal office of the Comnanv in r.v,n,? ^ ^', °^*^'^ boldei-s thereof, kent at ^'agent for the time being of th^Spl.^tn t^^^^^ '° ^''^^^^^-^ *^ -^ '.ep't b?th1 htbe^^P^^t^rSS^S:^^ on the amount of of the raUway and works. ^ "*""' ^'^^ *''^^""J' ^liinng the construction It f\n rx« ... _ . ...V, ^v.„u, auau oe DinclHig on the Companv • and m^.; » • •^' *'**'' "^"*^ authority of signatures, redeemable in the stock of t rSmmnv m^i. ' T"" '"'^^^ ^*^ *ho liko [case shall it be necessary to have the se!l of ff^;. ^*"^'' °^ ^^ ^^^^ \ and in n6 note, bill ofeKchange, or script : Sov dl l^te^S? f '^' '\ any 'promis^o?; ^=^^.*^.""??"-^^« Company to issu:r'nrrt?fi^ be constnied to avi^r^^^Coii;^^ iirr'n^^^ ^"^^^^^ ^"^ thiT^eS^S to W, . n.en.d to bo circulated ^^ ^^ 7^^ ^ot^l^ SC^X^* )art tliereof, to thft hnKl^t^ pa. „.....„ .. ,„, [ opnmg of each Session thereof, a deSranf , r f''*"' '^'""'^ t^^"*/ fl^y« af or thl sident and Secretary of tho Co'Xn^^^^^^^^^ together with the I'unning expenses thereof Sl^? "'-f T''''''^ "" ^^^^« P'-^^-t^o opened ' freight, and the number of^,asLn^™?'r';*J ..^.^^^«^%.^ «tat°"^ent of the tonnu.o of 62 li I "33 Th f +li r< -—m—l v.sio„s herein contuinod ; a.ul iitCvhY' "^ Po^ion thereof, subject toanv nrJ «lmll he subject to the jaU' Su, o L ' " , ^''T" *? ""'i-'take such traCactLn7tn "«even of the ConsoJida/ed Starefof Can^!" "DIRECTOnS AND THEIR POWEIIS • ^^ tute a quorun, for the transactt'of bu iness) si fr K^T"*^: "^ ^^^«°^ «J^«» o3 Oompany, and slmll have power and «„fl! •? ^' , " ^® Provisional Directors of tul from among their numberf 'rapno nt n ^°"*T *" l"'^' '^ ^^'^^^dent and Vke Prelletl a general meeting ot shar4dde rfo the Hp' "^' ?^^.«"'-«r .nd other officeif reall and generally to do such other acts as shall bf^ ^"■'.'^*^'"'' "« 'hereinafter Lv^^^^^^^^ inentof the said imdertaking an^foi fiLll ''^'"^ ^"^ ^^^ «°"duct and marSI Directors by tJ^e shareholders^' ^"^"^ procuring the election of a Boar^J .'.esriueo, *e current ye,.r of office bTtheCri of B- :?,""'' '■"" "^ fl"«l for t " 3(i Tlinf fi,„ r»- i^ , ^ iJoara ot directors. I "thereafter, or on such ofb. .? ""^ ^^' ^''^ Wednesday in Feb-uarv inl i'""*"' ;; there shah be h\S't te'^^^:, ZV'orTcl'' '' ' '^^^'''^^ "-P-7 shareholders, at which meeting they shaH elp^f « ^'"1''^"^' ^ general meeting of Z' ensuing year as shall oe requitid tTsunn v ft. 1 '^ f r'"'^^^ ^^ directors for th pubhc notice ot such annual meet ng S be jveTItl 'V '"''^^^^'^'•^ «° '^^^^^ I and -Uj.^ the President of the 00^;^^;:::^ .^^^ ^^S^^H '/Si; 6» ■iy Parliament, imdertakJ rvph they may construe] Jay, with the approval ol Bi-eof, subject to any pro- esuch transactions, the^ clauses of chapter sixtjJ ^, Joseph Octave Beaul •■ William Cttmberlandl m, Andrew McBermotil of whom shall constij lonul Directors of thcl ut and Vice-PresideuJ ' ^ther officei-s, to calj s hereinafter provided,! conduct and manage-f lection of a Board ofl the election of theirl J on such day, as here-f is they shall decide,! I meeting the sharJ JJirectors, who shalll m their stead -, and ifl ty, insolvency or disT all be filled for the! Ii' Knf iL , ^^^,°^'t. tf *f of ^"'^iness of the Compaay shall be at tlie City of 0^tawa, I but other places at which the Directors or Committees of the Directors may meec and I" transact business may be fixed by the by-laws of the Company. .S,!?' '^^*\^^^«"«T«'- it shall bo deemed expeliout by the Board of Directors that a special genera meeting of the shareholder, shall be convened for any purpose, the Directors shall convene such meeting at the City of Ottawa, by alv.rbisomoa , in the atZh^ 'r r'n'l?'"*''"''*^\^" ^^'"^ advertisement the business t^. be t.ansacted at such meeting shall be expressly mentioned. «l.al'l II" Jn *l*y ^^""^ required and authorized to be executed on behxlf of the Company, V^^i Priln f , r^l*'L^ binding on the Company, if it be signed by the President or Vioe-Presidentand by the Secretary, and the seal of tha Company be affixe.l thereto • and no special authonty shall be required for affixing the seal to any such deed. «„n,ri?" '^^'','i *^®i^.'''«°fco7 of t^« Company shall have power to administer, conduct and manage the affairs and business of the Company ; and shall have and exm-cise all " ^IfZ""" ^T'"'^" f° "'"'^'! *>'"* *^ '^"^ ""-^ 1^^^^"""' ™'^1^« ^^'^ «^«°"te, all such acts, masters and things dee and instruments as shall be necessary to carry out the pro u IT f *^p ''^''*«'.' a«coif'\»? to the true intent and meaning thereof, including the power of selling, leasing or otherwise disposing of the lands granted or to be granted in aid ot the railway, and of any other lands of the Company not required for the purposes ^^ l»era)f. And they shafl also have power, from time to time, to make by-laws for the conduct, management and administration of the affairs of the Company generally ; and for the remuneration of the President and Directors of the Compiny, if such renmn- ^^ eiation be deemed advisable ; and also, such by-laws as are contemi)lated by the pro- ^^ visions of this charter for the regulation of divers matters herein required or authorized ^^ to be so regulated ; and the same to amend or rape il : Provided always, however, that ^ such by-laws shall have no force or effect, in any rosp:)ct in which they, ir any of them ^^ sha be contrary to or inconsistent with tliis charter, nor in any resp«ct in which thev ^^ shal require the approval of the Goveruient, until they have received such approval And such by-laws shall m no case have any force or eff>.ct after the next general meetin^r" ^ot shareholders, which shall be held after the passage of such by-laws b'v the Board of .< ,^"'^°tors, unless they aro approved by su.;h maating ; and any copy of" the bv-laws of „ ,f Company or any of them, purporting to ba underthe hand of the Clerk, SecVatary or u °. T' ?, u ^'' *'"' ^""'"^ Company, and having the seal of the said corporation affix.;.'l to It shall be received as prima facte evidence of such by-law in all courts of the Domiuioii " ot Canada. "41. That the Directors of the Company are Jiereby authorized and empowered to issue bonds wiuch shall be a first charge on the railway and its appurtenances, and on the tolls and revenues thereof, and on all lands, whether theproparty of the Company at ^^ the time of the issue of such bonds, or thereafter acquired. And such bonds sli ill be in such form, and for such amount, and with such coupons attached, and tlioy and the coupons attached thereto * 'lall bo payable at such times and places as the Directors ^^ from time to time shall provide. And the payment to the Treasuier of the Oompany, or to any other person ai)point.,-d by by-law for the purpose, l.y any bona fide ^^ purchaser of any lands nf the Com5,any, of the purchase money thereof, and the acquittance by such Treasur.r or other person so appointed, of such purchase money ^^ shall operate as a release of the lan.ls so paid for from the effect of such charge ; and thb bompany shall keep all moneys so received separate and ai)art from its ordinary funds ^^and shall pay over the net proceeds thereof to the Board of Trustee.^ as hereinbefore ^provided. The bonds shall be signed by the President, or the Vice-President and tha aecretary, but the signature of the President or Vice-President to the bonds and the ra I: ft I " ]L\ri: V r ■■"^^•'»;i of the i-n«-.„ '^'.'^'ff^tJi section of tim p ., '"^et^ correction. P o» plan, approved b^ the Sio or engraved thereon: ?l'an7 affixed thereto. orty thousand dollars bo constructed under ,amo„nt be authorized r ^'^""^ *fa« same and ompmy hereinbefore >n'ny with any persons '^;"e of bonds hy the defining or Jinutin„ ' not act upon snch greenient. And no 'r proceedin;' thorp- ■«etor,s, contrary to tanag^ntoragentB provision for the >i the Company at conditions as shali ' transfer of stock t to the approval ' «ioney subsidies 's sufficient infer' ^truction of «uch a of them shall bo f^ny; and if th« >rtion, the sanjo idod. Je Pai-liament of y railway to be r of the points ions of the same tar as they are >y incorporated '^ie Itaihoay Act ■ovisions: - any portion of JiicJi there is a >i'ks of Canada, erem may bo 'by him ; and J correction. ^ct shall not le Crown, or :es, deviations •oved by the "Government and deposited by the Company, shall b3 allowed, on the approval of the H«v7n H ]'''^'T\ ^''Y'' "'^ ^"'•"^^' ^-•^^•-'^^i'^'^ -• ««rkfi.,ate ; anTany further "deviution. i.vilway m accordanco with .suoh authorized " The map or plan and book of reforanc^ mado an I d.positod in accord mce with thi, -wl,i.l. I.?l f r °-!m *^''*^'"'^''*''f'''^^^'««^' '^'^•^- P^^-t of the completed railway " ot' oSe Min^tJ^:'; PublL^Ctr^ '^"'°^ '^''' ' ''^^ ^^-' ^« ''^' '^^ ^^ "The Company shall not comraenco tha construction of any b^Vc over anv navigable water unti they shall have submitted to th. Government plans of such bi-Klge and of all the intonded works thereto appertainiu., nor until such pans and "^tiots7sirst ITS^^^^^^^ '°T T'^ '' tI.e-V;ovornmentratl'3 co "shin aJv , .n nf , ^?t»?« *,«"°'""S «»^''' ''"il^o shall be complied with : nor "sectbt!niI^oV'^rrp';;'"™T''^'" .^1'^ thirty, thirty one and thirty-two of section nine of Ths Railway Act, ISGS,' as to incumi.rnncos on lands acquired bv the • Company, shall app y to lands acquired by the Cou^pauy in the Province? of Manitoa ''Iii^Test TeSolSftf '^''^'^ fr^-'^'^f' Terri'torils ; and as respSs lands Ji^ £ " Che d to be the Co J^ ^?"^^^ ^^'' '^'' l*^'°^i»«« ^f Manitoba shall DO new to be the Lourt intended by tlie said sub-seotions. "48. That in the Provinces of British Columbia and Manitoba, any Jud^e of a Superior or County Court siiall have all the powers given hy the said Act to a Conntv Judge, and in the North-West Territories such powe% shall^e ex" dtd by a Judte " of the Queen's Bench of the Province of Manitoba. exercised by a Judge " 49. That it shall be lawful for the Company to take from any pablic lands adiacent 'to or near the line of the said railway, all stone, timber, gravef S other ma edah • which may be necessary or useful for the construction of the raifway ; and dso to lay ou and appropriate to the use of tne Company, a greater extent^ of lands whetW " ?nf i^'r; md "'fo "T ', "^T' ""■'•^'"^"' """^"^'^^ ^^^^-t-'^^"' -harves, harbo ::SSSr^;^l^:Su:^rkr' ^^^ ^^°^^ - ^^« -^^^ - ^lans^epoS " 50. And whereas, it may be necessary for the Company to possess gravel pits and qunrvies, and lands confcaiuing deposits of gravel, sbone. brick, clay, iron o'^. coal a7we^U land for stations a,ul oMier purposes, at ooavenieat plac.s alon. the liu. of n ilwav for constructing and keeping in repair, and for carrying on the bunucss of the raiiwav, and as suchgrave pits quarries or i:ux bompany, their succgssora and assigns; aud it shall aud niav h^ U It « « " ffailway Icf /^^f?"? ' P'*««« °ot within anv P • " ' -Know all mZiJli^' *'"^<^ '« *o my -.J ^' "" ''' f**" ^ circumatances win LoinjMiiy their sncomj,; "M convey „„,„ (^ ^ . F' ""<"=» •» hereby ackiiow. ;fan ^ g "'CD. '^ "'FT?"'" or many other f„r„ to the tte effect 'Sr :se^i'£Sr??™-"'S^^^^^ ^--•^ 0^ Can.,U„ atS-rrfiS^^r^^^^^^^^^^^^^ by the Comn.ander 0? Her fc"! f ?^^ ^^-J^^ty's PdncipaTs "V" • *^* ^«'«Pan7 there are no such SeSonsan^r''^"^^ T'^^^^^^ ^^ the place not within a pZiLZ^:i'^'''':r "^ "^^^ Peace T„'\^f;' ^"^ \» P'^oes where Justices of the Peace in On. ^^ the powers given bt H ^ .^^o^mce, or in any ftabJes; and where there is^^^^^^^^^^^ constable shall be dispensed w?th ' '' *^" ^^^ '^^ ^^-^O'^ of th alTJ '"^' ''^- 'Appointment of a :Fn£SSS5^J^^rs-i,^-:^^^ . the tween the Government Td the pL '^'^^'''^'^ «»d agient, r^ */"« ^^'^rter, and 67 ■y of such lots or therwise, to grant, to be retained for vvorkshop8, or for '. the said ra^Uway required by The .may be given in purposes of this fcumstances will [ , paid to fiereby acJinow- Pacific Railway 'ifl (describe the Company, their 1 or Canadian, other stores, 'I or military he Company » of State, or er of Militia "can Station such terms ime to time * Columbia 1' vested by 'ed in the 'aces where or in any to any .wo 7 such con- tinent of a 'ed in the arter, and Hinder be- have not e Siatisfac, tion of the Government for raising the money required for the construction and work- ing of the said railway. "66. That the expression " the Government " and "the Governor in Council" in this Charter, mean the Governor General in Council ; and the expression " railway " includes as vrell the branches as tho main line of the Pacific Railway, except when the contrary appears from the context , " And We do, for ourselves, our heirs and successors, grant and declare, that these Our Letters Patent, or the enrolment thereof, shall be in and by all things valid and eflfectual in the law, according to the true intent and meaning of the same, and shall be recogniMd as valid and effectual by all Our Courts and Judges, and all officera, persons and bodies politic or corporate, whom it iloth or shall or may concern. ' ' " In Tbstimony Whereof, We have caused these Our Letters to he made Patent " and the Great Seal of Canada to be hereunto affiKed. Witness, Our R>ght " Trusty and Well Beloved Cousin and Councillor the Right Honourable Sir " Frederick Temple, Earl of Dufferin, Viscount and Baron Clandeboye of Clan- " deboye, in the County Down, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, Baron " Dufferin and Vlandehoye of Ballyleidy and Killeleagh in the County Down " in the Peerage of Ireland and a Baronet, Knight of Our Moat Illustrious' " Order of Saint Patrick, ar,d Knight Commander of Our Most Honourable " Order of the Bath, Governor General of Canada, and Governor and Cora- " mander in Chief in and over the Island, of Prince Edward, and Vice-Admiral " of Canada and Prince Edward. At Our Government House, in Our City " of Ottawa in Our Dominion, this Fifth day of February, in the year of Our " Lord, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, and in the Thirty-sixth " year of Our Reign. " By Command, " J. C. AlKINS, Secretary of State." "Department OF Secretary of State, " Ottawa, Uth February, 1873. " Sib,— I am directed to transmit to vou, the enclosed Charter of ' The Canadian and " ' Pacific Railway Company,' the receipt of which you will be good enough to cause to be " acknowledged. " X have, (fee, " E. Parent, U. S. S. " Sir Hugh Allan, dec., &c., '™peot l„ thoco..- "I lia\-0. rtrn 'I have, Ac, "Hon.D L.Macpherson. I*-.deaUatorocoanioRail..,Co.p.., •Toronto." ,,^^ , "E. Par.,t, Under Secretary of State. nntion f„, .h.Tl"'." ""I;-!", adopted „„,„„'11VW..''[,» ■B'P"" from the Exeou- prp:.;;.l:j;rr ,!?;,;;;:,.!-:• 1° -«--« .» *» o. declining amal- ^,. J «•» also requested hv/ii' , ' ' "' '' ^'^■^"""'g amal- '* I have, i'c., " To the FTonoiivahle, " The Secretju-y of State. " Ottawa." " D. L. Macpherson, " Provisional Pi'esident. 09 VADA, l> June, 1872. ■ilwiv C)iu]>aiiy of '^ Pt-e^idunt; Mr. icretaiy. will 1)3 piMpardl O.iijiidimi Paoifl- HSON, isionul Directore. TATE, July, 1872. lor consirloratioii of; Tlio Intor- infornicd wJien spect t(j the con- 7on tJint it is tlio Kla Padiic IJail- «'ith the tenth 'tfcer Company, ' of State. 3r, 187J. "nent, that I >^y Con?.pany ^t, that this ' the Execu- lining amal- "s Company tlian Pacific isident. , " Ikteroceanic Raii-way Company op Canada. "Toronto. 20th Sept., 1872. " At a rveting of the Provisional Directors of the Interoceanic Railway CompaB" of Canada, held thin day, present in person or by proxy : — " The Hon. D. L. Macpheraon, President ; I " CA»£ ^'^^"^^ Untscll, Esq., J. F. Randolph, Epq., John Starr, Esq., the Hon. " A communication was read from the dovernment, suggcating that the Interoceanic Railway Company should amalgamate with the Canada Pacific Railway Company. The toUowing report thereon from the Executive Committee was also read :— To theProvinonal President, Vice-President and Directors of the Interocemio Railway " Company : ^ " "Your Executive Committee have had under consideration a ccrmmunication from the Goveramont, expressing n wish tliat the Interoceanic Railway Company should amalgamate with the Canada Pacific Railway Company, and they now bejr leave to report : — " That they have givoi their best attention to tho proposal, solely with reference to the successful and early completion of tjjo Canadian Pacific Railway. ^ " The construction and manageujont of an undertaking involving such vast and varied interests must, in their opinion, mainly depend for success upon its complete identifica- tion with the public sentiment of tho country. " Tlie subsidy in money, though in itself largo, is still insignificant relatively to the enormous outlay that must attend the construction of the work. The Company having to rely upon tl- disposal of their lands for tho greater part of their expenditure, reu 'era It desirable, nay, necessary, that tho land should be dealt with so as to enlist the whole energies of the country in their early settlement. " It is therefore of supreme importance that the organization through which the Rail- way is to bo built should be essentially and pre-eminently national in its character. " The sources from whence the Company's means nnis't be drawn are two-fold • " 1st, Canadian ; 2nd, (and chiefly) British. "Success in the British money market will, in the opinion of your Committee, de- pend m a great measure upon the extent to which the Canadian people themselves become interested in the undertaking. " It is perfectly futile to look to the United States for aid in this work, as it is ne- cessarily a rival to the several existing Pacific Railways. While this remark applies generally to its future as a commercial enterprise, it is in the mean time still more ap- plicable and weighty in reference tc the measures r«quired for the early settlement of the vast regions traversed by the rival line.-? through the United Stat( s. Tho Canadian Pacific Railway Company must compete in Great Britain and Europe generally for tho emigration thence, and this can never be done advantageously or successfully in association with any of the .\raerican interests concerned in tho trans-continental traflic. The suggestion for amalgamation with the Canada Pacific Company, more generally known as that organized by Sir Hugh Allan, forces upon your Committee tho consid- eration of the matters above referred to. " It is a matter of public notoriety that the original proposal of Sir ffvgh AUan, re- lative to the Canada Pacific Railway, was made in as.sociation with the American gentl«men most prominently connected with the Northern Pacific Railway. It is gen- erally believed that the Government are themselves aware of this ; and it was mainly fbuSTnX r' "^•^'"""'*' ««"»»^in;7onVf rer!/rr«'^»S° ^^^^P^ny is probably „ "" *e Canadian PaoMc R,,, . "'■"'»■"''■'/ .na„,„oi„g «„ " •^uStS'n^r.sx' '? Bo"S„r«^ Sc£ :s °'r.^f -" ™.-p- " its abandonment nr "^ 1'"''"° "'■iHJence in the „„,!.• ' " "■'" 'o™ "oqu'ra •■ conteniplat". °' °'""''''"'<"' »' orifice, farVey„„Ta?"!t' '"l.'^''"' «'*» " Yonr Committe. ^ r, , ^ ^ ' ""■ °™"'"7 no* :«rengthoffcheZai„ion^r^ "^™^' *hat it would be Wu i, 4^^I e-nt.a Caaudun xuterests, though loc^:;^;^^;;^^- , '■ Yonr cCmi tf„^!T''».'° "," l"">'i« mteSs "^ """"S"""'"™ aa „,her„i,e ei > fut«re of the Do- aterooeaaio Com- ^ in the Northern ih a coinbimvtion ritish poBsoHHioiis ientof the fertile in the great Pro- the oo«t of the opinion on the iisively shew the adiin. It ,aay ce of the Inter- Ijut this cannot any is probably on which could ily anj equally is not in any Quebec, and himself, and )re8enting the re!,t not upon usolf. Early s character of has already that stren<;th ?'jneral pub- luenciag the tid improper )on acquire ision either )untry now the united lized by Sir • be well to 9^t Allan's > with the your Corn- otherwise !e destroy the enter- would be (I << I'iK'ilIf ('i»in|mMV "'riio u!nl*l'«iniiwl uhntMv«l!iut (Jut »!i»mmiili*'i> III IlioCiuunk lWllli'«'iiii;|ifitiy |irrif»iMi ••to nonoiii- t»illv iti Uio u|>ii,iim wUich (ho Int.»rtK'i'tvi»io (loinnuiy liolih, nmnoly tlmt ih« <■ iinpiiviMiv'H to (lanuiliKir Um «!H»iivliim riioilln Hi»i I ^'ny Iwlii^ nw>i«.l utnl ^vti-kt'd p>-n- " ptuiiu'iKly «« A Crtumliim «tiili>rpilii»', odiiiutl Im t's.i«H<'mUMl. It in iniitNf for iPKitit thitfc " »i miliilitu j " hi»«l lIi''^ or hw tloiiM m>. il In ih-oImiWIm lint liiU'roi'miili' <'tim|miiy wtmUl nnrpr Ifwvo " m»iij(lil iMoorporuliim. "Tiio Uominitifti of llui I'uiituU I'liullln ()«im|mny nwtii mminim In •'«tMl»ll»ili Uirtt llm " pininmluin nl' Uml iMiiiipmiy urn iiniitt (Miiiiiliiiii tlnni Mm fM'(iiiinl,tii'« til' llio triUn-ottHftnlo " tjompiiiiy, lj««)rt\iNn tliit «lmll. ( tliinUtc, nn oiinlimllv miliiiilU.»ln»c| Ut wlmt, \n fimiiifwilly " \iiiiiiiiiinl,uit, il mil, pitHitivoly liiviiil. 'I'k ninki- tJi»^ Coiiipiiiiy innlly (Jiiiiiullcii it In "tmowrtiny tlwt llm KiMMlni' p«,ii of tlio Hlm-k Hliotihl li»» hoim Jidn helii Ity C)tiii.ulihiiH mikI " Mcilihli nulii«H)tii, '• Ji, wiiM tho piuptHHii .if tlio liilfftiiii'Miiio (loiiipatiy to ntHnim that ulijnot, tttitl, it otimt "Ki'ouiv.l. timy mtw no nmmiii for ««xoltnliitK iiiiy (iIiihh of tlii«ir fnljow nltlf"iiK, whtillmr ••ntttlv« li'»i'i» •»•• ttli"H. fi«»ii« |iiutl»!ipiiliiix in tlin iniuiiiKfiimiit of tliH Ooiiipiitiy, "SliMi'«'li"tl(l"i'>« liiivn Uin power to control tint jioli<ir imtioi.nliiy, nmniiHn tin' nn^ll'rlllklll^ for tlio iitlvitntiixi' of lliu Hlmr«niinllimM of ('iiiiiuiiiin inlcrwtM, ov«n if tin- law roipiirtid ty^if^ry uwu\\m " of tint Mniinl to li(< M llritiMli iirec. I^rsigned meet that f '^^•en names which «eptatthesolici. ^rsigned have been , 'he Charter of the influential among stinct terms, that *o state that no utwn of the Pro- ire harijig been fontreal election, public speech, of g morning, gi^ 'Peech, referring ^^om8ir Geopffe ■ 'I have every ' be shown that [ and annulled leclar.d he had '* the Canada Canada Pacific ompanj when •y thing calcu- ™c intended ■fence, should ^ay Company *^' be as near of the line to sectionalism, ^ referred to, Kti-aordinary railways are construction at a port of itions Were 3 formation say ' that Pported by •^If at the i that that ~ •"■«« mac Company, bark with without the most jierfect secuiities and guaiantees for its control and conduct in the " ' interest of Can^ulii,' " If, as may ht, implied from the above, Sir Ifuf/h Allan provided ' aecuritiea and " guarantees ' for the control of the Pvailway by Canadians, the undersigned submit that " the production of tlie agi-eoment would be the satisfactory mode of enabling the Govern- " ment and country to judge of their sufficiency. "They must add, however, thitt in the opinion of the Interooeanio Company, nothing " short of the ownership of the undertaking by Canadians would afford real security or " guarantee for its control and conduct in the interests of Canada, _ " The undersigned are not aware who the intluentiai gentlemen are to whom the Com- " mittee refer. They never heard any influential gentleman named as having negotiated " with American capitalists except Sir Jhigh Allan himself The Committee of the Canada "Pacific Compa.iy declare that their Conpany ' never participated in the negotiations "• referred t», and never considei or entertained any proposition.suggestion or intension " ' of asking aid from American Ccij)italists, or of combining with them for the prosecution " ' of the Railway or for any other pui-pose. The only negotiations they have carried on " ' are those already alludgd to with British capitalists, and they haveuv/er evencommu- " ' nicat^d on the subject of the Railway with any outside Canada or Great Britain.' " " The^ undersigned confe; that this statement surprises them,and they have reason to " believe the American cai)italists with whom Sir IIu(//i Allan has been negotiating would " be equally surprised if they had communication of it, but the undersigned Assume that " the Executive Committee only mean it to be understood that the Canadian Pacific Com- " pany did not authorize, by formal resolution of the Directors,any negotiations with capi- " talists in the United States. While accepting the denial made on behalf of the Canada " Pacific Company, the undersigned assume as they have already stated, that it is not in-^ " tended to apply to the acts of their President, for the undersigned learn from one oi ^\\a " promoters of the Interoceanic Company,who has had the opportunity of communicating " witli gentlemen in Jie United States who were parties to and interested in the arrange- " ment made with Sir hugh Allan, that they consider the sametobe stijl in force,but that "owing to the feeling exiiting in Canada against the Canadian Pacific Railway being " owned by Americans, they, the Americans, would not in future be known in the prqiect " The American capitalists had been led to expect that the amalgamation of the ttvo " Canadian Companies would have been effected in September last. " The undersigned are given to understand, through the same source,that the scheme " of the ' American ' or ' Allan ' combination for constructing %nd running the Railway, " is to connect at Sault St. Marie, and at Pembina with the Noilhern Pacific Rj),ilway, fuid' " use that line when built between the two points named ; that it is intended to send all " the traffic between the West, including British Columbia and the Atlantic cities, by the "American Lines of Railway, via St, Paul, and sending through C;inada only the traffic " destined for JSurope and the Maritime Provinces. " This informatipn was obtained by the undersigned about the time the memorandum " of the Committee of the Canada Pacific Company, under consideration, was written. " The undersigned feel bound to communicate it to the Government. It confirms in a " remarkable manner the opinion expressed to the Government by tlie Interoceanic Com- " pany, and j\istifie3 the decision of that Company against amalgam/iUon. production of heat will be required, and one extra new boiler will, I fully expect have to be provided. The nsual and ordinary repairs have been done. " ' The correspondent, to whom the undersigned are indebted for this information, uses " ' the foUowmg language in commenting upon it, in which the undersigned fully concur : " ' If this (scheme) is wirried out, ©nr grout national enterprise, instead of being the " ' successful rival of tlie American Company, competing fur the Asiatic trade, which is " ' now in Its infancy, and building up the Dominion as no other undet saking qsm do will II 'simply be the Canadian Branch of the Northern Pacific Railroad, entirely under its -■ '• curitrul and dictacud to by it roientlessiv. " The undei-signed beg to say that they do not yield to any Company or individual " in the earnest desire to promote the earliest possible construction of the Qauadian Paci- " doing ro„ve™3?,r' ""■'■ »~' »"«™^ S.tk .f T:''' «T *" '^'i "» ;; take to co?Sttd ^Thr^Sf'S"^' ■" '? '"^P™"- orl t£''/""r' " work succfifisfiill,, +«, , . ■^^''ific Railway in the full ^^ J? '^"*^^'' can under- '■ Proprietor "^ '°''"'"™' "■""■«' *" »-™ *™w y'Sa Sra/' '^'7i?» *» "All Jr^u- k • ' '^anadian and British " fsln ^'' ^«P««tf""y submitted. (Signed,) n r AT i;- ^- -^ACPHEBSON, " oo^ir^lTco^^r"' "'-"-"^ -0'^^ «™ «■= -i-u., ,00k of «. I... " Toronto, 26th November, 1878." ' ''ProvSCf Secrete, y. " ^^^^«^^«NT OP THE SecRETABV OF Statk ^, '' SiX-I am directed to forward vou th« , T^' ''"' ^''*°^«'' 1S72. ^' --.. -- -r--oo ^e^riT'ST^- ^^d^S^ W ^ ^^^«^«ATHEB, VV. ±1. HOWLAND. fir ..^jL ...,- -r -j - ■"■ ■^■.- --J''- iterprise, and the desire to aid the •Id, however, be 'he Interoceanic itinctively Cana- sful issue. The Company would srnment that in n in the United led opposed to [•possession and '■ill continue to bscribiug stock rolling parties, i to a limited bund to influ- »r applications le Capitals of, e favour with iorandum, in- iscribed jp to Committee's d their Com- Jir Company lat the Direc- n above, and lersigned on igain declin- iterate, that r Provinces . can under- 'arrying the and British I'BATHEB, LAND. the Inter- cretaiy. FATE, auncil on 'Executive " Committee of the Provisional Directors of the contemplated Interoceanic Railway Com- " pany, relative to the Canalian Pacific Railroad. , " I have the honour to he, Sir, * " Your obedient servant, « K Pabent, " Under Secretary. " Hon. D. L Macpherson, " President,, Interoceanic Railway Co., " Toronto." " Office of the Interoceanic Railway Company op Canada, " Toronto, 25th October, 1872. " SiB, — I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of a Copy of an Ordei in Council on the subject of the correspondence between the Government of C da and the Exe- cutive Committee of this Company, relative to the Canadian Pacific Railroad. " I shall take the earliest opportunity of laying it before the Directors of this Com- pany. " I have the honour to be, Sir, " Your obedient servant, '• D. L. Macphbbson, " Provisional President, Interoceanic R. Co. To the Hon. the Secretary of State, " Ottawa." " Office op the Interoceanic Railway Company op Canada, " Toronto, 25th October, 1872. " Sir, — I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of a copy of a ' Memorandum of " * the Canada Pacific Railway Company,' upon the statement submitted by the Company " to the Government. " I shall lay it before the Directors of this Company yjith as little delay as possible. " I have the honour to be, Sir, " Your obedient servant, " D. I .. Macpherson, *' Provisional President, Interoceanic K. Oo. " To Hon. J. C. AiKiNS, " Secretary of State, Ottawa." " Office OP the Interoceanic Railway Company op Canada, " Toronto, 2Cth November, 1872. " Sir, — I have the honour co enclose a ' Memorandum of the Executive Committee " ' of the Interoceanic Railway Company of Canada upon the memorandum submitted to " ' the Government by the Executive Committee of the Canada Pacific Railway Company,' " dated 12th October, 1872. " I regret the delay that has taken place in transmitting to thw Government the«h «« " I have the honour to be, Sir " Your very obedient servant, " To the Hon. the Secretary of St^tr'''*""^ President, Intei-oceanicrcrTcanada. " Ottawa." ' " Office or thk Interoceanio Raii,wav Companv or Canada, ittirn Ti ^u i "Toronto, 28th' Nov, 1873 of the ^^^viz::^^::^ ^zzt: '"^^n ^^t^- ^^--^"- Honourable the Privy Council, apS'd by Hi/lJ ^Z"'''^"'-' °^ J" Oonunittee of the the ICtli dayof October last, a copy of whSi ^oT, tf ^V^'" ^^'''''''''' <^«"«r*'' on of the Interoceanio Railway Company ^Canada ^"""""""'^ ^ "^^f"'' '^^ information aoci;:^;t:S;.r ft:r?:ei;tL^ ^ v «— ^t t,. bera of the Executive Committerof this Tn,^ ^ ''^''f " ^'■•^'" ^^'^'•°»*« ^^ niem- England. "'""" ''^ *^^« Company, one of whom is still absent in " I bave the honour to be, Sir, " Your most obedient servant TO t. Ho^: ^rtr^rr "^""'^-^^« -'-^^^^^^ "Ottawa." ' (( (( (( « « (( II II It (( « (I 4( " MEMORANDUM. " The undersigned Executive CommittPfl nf +i,» t x Canada have the honour to state, tWthS have tdnT'""^^ ^^^'^^^ ^^'^'^P^^y of the Committee of the Houourabj; the PHvy CouncH n T, '"^^^^^^ ^*»« '"^P^^t of of the Interoceanic Comp..my and the CaZda Sk" M^^^ '' amalgamation His Excellency the Governor General in Council mH..!-^^^ ''T''"^' approved by transmitted to the Provisional President of tZ Co n. ^^V^^ 1 ^«*«^«r last, and beg respectfully to state, for the information of ffis T'^n ^"^ f^^^^' *'^^ ""^^^rsigned that the communications addressed to the GoveLSentl'.vT "p^ *''" ^""'^'^•"'''- ««»«ral, of September last and on the 25th day of NoveXr " ^^'^^T^'^^^^' °" *^^« ^Oth da/ which induced this Company to declineVn Lwt^trwS ''t/^^r' "'/"^^^ *^« ^«^«"« Company. "tgamation with the ( .nada Pacific Railway ad;;;!irZl::;£;^:n£ ]S;~:i ^r *^*^ *^- .^-nds. They wm merely of that Company with the OanatS °C^orprn7::;:i^^^^^^^^^^ thj.t the a^nalgamaJiS the Goveimneiit, because, in their opinion, itCuId not «° ' ?, "'"''"^^"P*^^^^^^^ people 01 the J;omuiion for the amalgamat d Companv allth 7 '^'" confidence of the mation, under such circumstances, would be fo/wd v . "rO^fq^ently amalga- time arrived for organizing the Company uL. a CaZH,^ certain failure when The " Ihe principal matters referred fo i^ Z renort of 1\^''^^"'*^'^ ^"^''■ the Privy Council having been, as " eadvsu!/ I^°'T'""^ ^^ '^^ honourable .ommunications above referred to, th, underdgTdlkyrSer > ^'''^'^' ^" *^'« *^° guru oniy oonsiUer it necessary to remark «9 oninany. It 9 Cfommifcteo )N. i" Canada. . 1873. Oomrnittee ittee of the General, on information ■nment the to of mpm- l absent in ^anada. a (< (( (I t< „pon one ot.or point now, forthe first ti.e, brought under the notice Of the Interoceanic of the Honourable the Privy Oounc.l, ^ -^ ^^« J^ ^f^ „,fc communicating with the pvomoterH of the Interoccan,c ^omp. ny w th remu^^ne ^^^^^^^^^ ^^ conHtructmg Government during the Summer of 1871. and maKm„ i and running the Canadian Pacific Bail way. ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^ -The und«rsigne.l Kubmit that ^^^y ^^^ "^V^^VowI propositions, tho aovernment had announced xts readmeH.s to lecovve i I ^^ .The Committee of the HonouraWe t^ef-y Council fu-^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^P^^^^ ^^ the undersigned, an answer to thin «^^jy.»«!^«»(^t;,'^ ^nt to t^mder for the construction r:!;Zl^:ni;rKr^:S^wriS:rrthat the aovemment was not. . it from all connection with the ^-"'''''"'l.^^^'^^f T^,;-- ', that if that great national HHsociMtes will nevertheless have the "-^^^ ^"^^'^^ Ce due, in no small measure uudoitaking remains m Canadian and ^^^'^^ ; 'Y? ^^ii ^J^o foreign and rival hands, it to their effoitH, and that i J^ should un or u,.ol^^^ g^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^.^^^ ^ : will b.) through no fault ot theirs, but m the tace ' avert so great a calamity. .. All of which is submitted. ^^ ^^.^^^^^^ It t< (I i( Office of the Interoceanic Railway Company of Canada, " Toronto, 28th Novembar, 1872. «' D. L. Macpherson, « C H. Fairweatheb, '« W. Shanly, " W. H. HOWLAND. I!l Jmpany of i report of Iganiation proved by ■ last, and idersigned I' Genera], I 30th day le reasons ! Railway ill merely gamation paiions of ce of the ^ amalga- i^lien the nourable the two > remark .1 certify that the foregoing Memorandum is correctly eoi . of the Tnteroceanic Railway Company of Canada. ,ied from tli« Minute Book "JoHK Hague, " Provisional Secretary. "Toronto, 28th November, 1872." „ s,„ _., „.v„ U,c h„„o,. . a*,„w1ed^ your ^l^^^^^J^^^^ S:^ °*'"';'"'- ..Your,, 40., 40., .^^p^.,„, The HonouraMe D. I,. Maophenon, Senator, .. loionto, ro (Bneloture Ho. 3.) "COBEKSK.NDENOK BETWEEN «R HT70H ALLAN AKD HIS "AMERICAN PARTNERS. (Irom tim " Montreal IleruW) "gn.ntu,g of the p«ia„ „.„„^ ciLr^ hrtoto tw oTro^r^r '"" "''" '"^ {Telegraph.) ~~ " ' To C. M. Sunn, of Chtag„, " ' "'"""" '""""■■ "*•»' «' ""• „,a "' Metropolitan Hotel, Ne* York "'(Signed) HAu-Aw/" (Ze carr^ the Government on the subject and f Jl! ''^''""'^ ^ ^»^vo not heard nnythinif from " ' propose to sail some time thTs 'montj ^ ""'' "°*'''"« ^'" ^'« ^°"« ^i" I go hli I " ' Yours truly, " ' (Signed) Hugh Allan.'" (.Telegraph.) "'To CM. Smith, Banker "'MoNTHEAL, 7th Dec., 1871. ;; ;f f t'^ef tf ^^75;Sr;s^r^r I'^r'^'^^ *« '^-^ -^^"^ - -ner 'tenders to avoid blame. ^®'''' ""'^ ^"»t» ''t necessity of advertising for '"(Signed) Hugh Allan."* {Telegraph.) ' u,o 1^ a • "' ^*'^™«^^ 8th Doc., 1871. •"CM. Smith, Blinker. at t *t"x' \ ^*^® ■•*'" ^^"^ /V«nc/* to-day He ulv <4..„ i. '"^\?tt«d) HuohAlun.'" HIS nature of with the J71. parties ri. od men io carry g from ick. I (Letter.) « . To C. M. Smith, E«i., Chicago. n • MoWTRKAL, fith Dec., 1871- it I (f II II << II II 11 , C. M. Smith, iSi»«iM v>"— »- . ^^.,^ yoa. , I <« Youth truly, , » . (Bignoil) HooH Allah. o . To O. W. MciMuLLEN, iwi-, Pictou, Ont. «« MONTBKAL, iiOth Dec, 1871. „• . !..,» T have not heard from New in „ S.H-1 hav. your note from l^'''^"' ^"1/ ,S^^^ ,. . curry. Tb.t i- the only J" *f **; "iut til what i. going on, b»t I tl,mk i< ' -will return here on Hatuiaay. .1 1 are «ure of Carlier'» opiM«ition. ^^ ^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ."(feigned) Huou Allan. sooner I tig fot- , and 11 < Montreal, January iBt, 1872. n . to N.W York, I ttarfor. ««4 '!"« l""' '» *' I 79 " ' To Charles M. Smith and Gkoko. W. McUv.'!'^"'"' """""^ ''*'' ''''• .jominflr the orRaiuzation and givinjr it f,« i «/ ; '\:^>^!J'''J<^>' «" condition of Jiis " -In case ho refuses or noKlects to ^1, ,'\^^''ffi*' "^ ''is aH«i«tauce and influenco ;; ; at once thereafter to yott^Z^^m,^^^^^ T, ''^ '' ^•'"^^ "-*' I - i'l «^-a S *" cmse Mr. i?.', influence and ru LTn ^t : u ^''*^°'"'' "'*"*«^ Hubscription and in ; ; way Co„.pany. th.n the !^o::Z:^:^Z^^'S^ f « 1- intereit, in"'thr'a!? ^^ half of any resuh,e that remains of the HaiHS^^^^ wdl tmnsfer to you one- the Company has been secured. Tt s iZeve.^n ' / "^ Jf'"' ^^''^'^^^' '^«°«««io" *" tion of the 1200,000 na^iod, nnvv bo useTfn' ""'^"^''*"°^' t^-^* "»y residue or por- mysdf and you desirable or impo tan? on ll «''""! ""^ °'^'«^' "^«"«"^« deemedTy Mr. /?.,^,.., and .nay uppiv toUht^ inlldition: Mm" " " ''"^^"'^ ^" ^'^^--^ *' •"Yours truly, " ' (Signed) HroH Am,an."' << < « < « ( « < « ( (( < '' ' Montreal, 5th Feb., 1873. wrn ^p^^ilfl^rt'enrtiXl" ?"^-^ *--ythinr looks symptoms of coolness betvvee, SivJomA n / • '^"«.^««'l«dence that there are the latter witi. Blake Hnd-JIackenJeto form 1 m-'""' """3"^' ^''""^ ^^^« coquetting of summer, with a view to leave /X j '7 ,? ^f "'n' ' t?''"'''^' *''^ «'^^''«"« "'''^t well for us ; but i am goinc. to Toronto on thr?^- 7^'\^°"lfl not be quite so We are all right ^vith the OU,, C. L" U^ v^^^^ T" *"J""'^ "^^^'^ "'"• ^"t^rest. Bigned by the parties. Send it imme ia^elv as J I "T-. ""' '^"^ ^' "^'^"^ ^^ agreement require you to come down here by and bv 'to «! ' u'^ '"^ negotiations.* I will pany,and consult about other nSte"s ^f; /"'^^'Jgt the construction of the Corn- about the land and taxation? Look at it. ^"'""^^ '''" " ^'^^^^ "°* ^ «»»take " ' Yours truly, :; l%^- ^^- McMullen, Chicago. " ' <®^«"^^) /.^.-I wrote you, but have not received any answer." Hugh Allan. '■' ' To C. M. Smith, Chicago. " '.Tokonto, 23d Feb., 1872. ^l-^t^o'^l^r;^ ^^^^ !;l:;J;yX t T^S^ ^^""^ '^^^^'^p* ^y exciting vourxng to go. up ^hat ho J a ely C I ,Han Cr '"^' "''""^f- ^« " «'^^'-- that we are going to make enormous imfits m t "^ TL ' f ?" .*''" representation m the United States. Ho b,,s written to Ifl - ', '"""^^ ""^ '^^"^^ ^"^ S" to parties 'country. urgingthemto.ubs;;ret:kn^^^^^^^^^^^ "to pay anything, and ],o savs the fWvn, ! . ^' ^"^'^'^e^'neverwillbecalled on •" Yours truly, (Signed) Hugh Aluk"' (( ( " ' C. M. Sm "'Dka " ' of Torout 'i ' to ^'aiu o " ' a lever " ' stock, an " ' those I ^1 " ' you, ami '"C. M. fc " 'Di « • foUowii " ' FoHter, " ' Abbott, " ' C. .S'. G " ' $50,00 " ' give uj " ' Jly(ih . " ' do not " ' i-equir< " ' for mo " ' aware " ' alread "'to be « ♦ immec "'1 " ' / hav " ' have " ' Kchei <' ' wani " < wo li •' ' whii' " ' and '• • you " ' you 73 (I ( II II «• ' Toronto, 24th February, 1872. ' C. M. Bmith, Esq., Chicago. , j^r. D. L Macj,heraon, " 'Dear 8rR,-Si.>co writing to you yoRtmlay, J ' "^^^ "^J^^ «„ Lnportant per«on ' of Toronto, who is a MenU.or of the •^^''>''";?'\^ Tf l^ ^ J " ,u>tH, and uHes that a« . to ,'aiu over to our nida He has bc«n apphml to ^V ;u oj.po..^^^ ,^^.^^ ^^^^^^^^^^ ' R lever hy which to obtain h«tU;.- tenns f»om uh. h^ ..e„„,mbor, lie i« one of < stock, and thrcaleuH opposition it h(> . loos "<' Kot ^J. You ^^^^ Jf„itfni?e», ' tho.o I proposed an Directors. I will '1'' ^^'i'-j^f^/^^n'o coru-.iliato these partieB. ' you, and mysolf will have to give up some of our stock J ' '' II I Yours truly, „ a . , am "• "' (Signed,) HiJOH A^lan. ^id $8,500, and have not a voucl^r, and cannot yet one. ■ " ' Montreal, 4th March, 1872. . < Mv D.AR MR. MCMCLL.N.-M1 3/acp^..on o^or^^^^^^^ ^'iSttiir; have both notified mo ^o-^ay tbat they dedin to^^^^o^^^^^^ « ' scheme. Their reasons are hat the <-o^"rany^» J^J 'J^^ f^^^,^ ^^,, f,..,„, the Company <. ' want to see it in the hands ot Canadian ^hey tucd to U ^^^^^^^ ^ ^^^^^,^ ^^^^^ « . we have formed and get me ^<> J"- ;^^ / ^^^u to C)ttawa on Monday, the 1 1th mst '' ' what they can do against us, but I »'\^'"' ^^^"'Ywill U' in Ottawa most of the week. » ' and will try and find out somothmg a\.out it. i will ul " ' Yours truly, a t t am '" " ' (Signed) HutiU Allan. II II II II II ^o n '" Yours tnily, ^''' "'(Signoil) HuQH Allan.'" " ' O. W, IVIcArulleii, Esq., " ' Montreal, June 12th, If 72. '"Russell Hotel, Ottawa '"'^l^^':::;:^^^!^^ nr'^ '^ *«'««-- ^-- 3-., dated New York, " ' it nece,.ai7 I fiho^'d «« r l.K., /;...,, the 1 acific Huilway scheme, I do not think " ' friends, by means yo,f .e aware of a.!l I^!* " ''''"'" T^"^"'^ ^'"'«"«'' '"^ ^^••«"<''' '•'have a majority, and ot er tlZs 1 F 7 '"*^\"r " '•^'."'"^ ^*' '''"• ^- *^"^<^ ^« ^i" '''wasthetrLhi^isS; uLr'am u^^^^^^^ '""" ^'^'f ^-,'^'1 '^'""g that this " ' and I think so still. You sTonId i?n f [ ^^ , " '*'''''''*''" ''"'' "*'''* *''rown away, " ' important transaction oT ^^v y Liy "-» Z T 't'' ^"' '"'•''' ""* ->^ " ' Government IJill and our own iiil ^n^n^ i ' ^ *"" ^''^ *' ^"""^^^ ^'"I'-V «f ^''e '''wilUuitourfrieranCmav]'^ to consider how' far they " ' in town to-niorrow and Mar ^r^ • / '^V" ^""^ ^"''^^ *" '°"«"1<^ *''em. I will be " ' Monday anri;^ ^l^ tUl FdZ;. '" ''' "^'"^' '"^ ^'^*""'^^' ^"^ ^i" ^•'^*«'"- here oa " Yours truly, '"(Signed) Huan Allan." "'MvDkarMu McMurLFv T f... i ," '^0^™=*!^. 16th July, 1872. '''Mi'^H^Lwiirrti^ '^"V ''-«h-^— 1 hStit wS " ' MacphersonrCom, any or our! td Str^.d"^ 1.'"'" w^ '"'"'^' *" ^'"^^ "'^^ ^^^^^r " ' a matter of amvsement bit he U v. ' ^ "."""T";^ ^^""^ ^"^ ^'^ incorj.orated as " ' form its own Com "my won W carrv nn .h7'^', '"*'!"'"' '^"* '^' Government would " ' according to the views'of tl e^^^^^^^ ^""-^ ""'''^' V^'-T^'^''"^ "^ "''^ Government, " ' Go^■emn?ent. He si' tharhe ^^^^^^^^^ '^"'^ T^^ "'^."«^ ^"^"'«hed by the " ' Youi-s truly, '"(Signed) Hugh Allan.'" 75 , f ».! hv Mr MrJfuUen that he has regularly k.^pb tso been given to unaorHtau I *>y J^';„7,^;',' ..., j Uavo not commtmicated ;.! of the i>rogre«H -uul pomtum o .^Fu^.s, ''--^jJ^J,^ ,,^ ,,, i„f,,„,ea you .^Uh yon aH often as I otherwise woul.l »"7" ^^^-^^^^^ ^^ something very good in H. "'That thinking as I had taken up th.^ l»'"J"'^*^''^w"t which for want of a better ...IveiT "-Sable opposition w- orgauued m loronto w n^^^ - took a8 their cry, ' No foreign mfluenco '^^^^^^^^ „enHible. So much effect <-to choke off our Cana.lian Pacific, "^^^'^ "^Siament by these crieB, that after .. . however, waa produced both i^n and ""^^ "^ J^;;'^f^ " ^ to drop OHU-nnibly from our .< < conHultation with Mr. McMulle., I ^'' ^^ , t in re "S le people on this Ride in place - organiltion every America.i nanu,, '^7\^» j \ /^^ h point Mr. McMullen and I ...of them. It will have ^^-^^^^ m^^^K'X^^^^^^ 1^^" .. < ?itS-ed a little as to the means to ^-^-V^ ^ ^^^ ,,,,.« formed. The one from ..'opposing cotnpanies, de«inng to ';"\l'\j" '^'^'Uile that from Queoec had tho .. . Sn'tarioSiaviig the greatest --/^^laTJ^rorof Bccuring tho inferior me^^^ .. . Kvoatest political powa.-. Mr. f'-'f"'; ,7"" ,„t, of which 1 did not approve as . .' '■ of the Goverumont, and entered into engage nentsoi ^^^. ^^^^ „it„ation, I .. . Itht t was oni; a waste of V^^^^^^;^ ^^^ , ^.ately be in the hands o .' ' H tisLd myself that the '^--^'^ ^f j^' ^f^Z L leader and chief of the French .. . man, and that man was Bir Georr. ^'- ^ ' ^«J ' ^..ov.n the ether factions ; it has " < V, rty ThiH party has hold the ^''^l'^""' f^^J'^,;*^ J tvernment for the l^st five years ; .. .^ ta neJ and kept in oilice '"»V'*'! '"t me Vl^^^^^^^^ voted in a solid idialanx .. bear in our " ' must be adopted to bring the inrtueuco of tl»« ««jn;;'^\' ^ '^^.^, ,,„,„« to pursue. I did .. . fovouraudU soon as I mad,, up my ^-^f^,2^^JilTmou.urA to Ottawa, through " ' uoUose a moment in followin- it up A l^'^"-^^ '^„„„ y,,,,, aesived by the French ... the Fench country, north of ^Ih' Ottawa nveb so, Trunk roa-.l, to ." nhabitants ; but Cartirr, ^^^o is the sa a u^d . o c^^^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^ ,„fl„ence " ' which this would be an «in;««^^'''"' ^' ;. ^^^ v e him desirous of giving the conti^ct .. . prevente.1 its being built. The same »' '^«o "^ ^^ connected with the Grand Trunk .. .L the Canada Pacific into the ^^7^ « ^^.^^jf J oZsition to ns ; but I saw in this '" Railway, and to this end he anned *!'« «'^"^; .^^^^^^ „f the general elections, when ."French railroad sclxMue and m tj>« ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ...SX - well as others had to go^thr^^^^^^^ .^ through to the teminus .. .nthunin2 my ob ect, especially as i pioposi themselves the best for the ...rr'Pack.' The plans I l-i-% ^ , ^ le public I am really doing .< ^« n''^^. thoreby gi Wnar ub ;;'of«tock will b. o^lt, 7; i,„ Sir '!:'• r"' -S^ for sLcriiTn " -and wo have notifiod (l.« r< 11 ! ^' ^* "'" different places n:unod in tho Art " ' the Canada Pa ic Ra ; "rZ"; "" """l "'^'''.'■'^ *" '""^^ ^'^ ^''^'-'^^t f^' • ilcUn« '"next thing to ^o lorfo l^^^ '^0^^^^ f<";n.sau,l conditions prescribed in tho Act Th! '"only, and ton pe cent of Z t^ ""''''' ^« ''«"« ^y British subjecte '"subscribing, wl Lvt M^ Lu "f"^T'»' |"" """"^ ^' P'»J "> cash at the t 2e of '"taking up whatove the ot fe .l-Jl "'"'""^ '"'1''"^"^'^"^^'' ^'' l'™««nt. afd of '"have u.-ran«ed in tl.« mln/i '"J^./'^'^' ""' «"^««"h« 'i* the end of the month T '"cIvnnts'RanlcofCHniul-, MontVp„r^^^^^^ ./".V Cooi-^ Jt Co. to tho credit of the Mer- '"checks for tho sub ;.ronT\-^ ;; ;and then t.„ per cenll Z' who e ^.Znt'of ' t^" ''" the contract is entereJ into ...to the Kecoiver-General. 6^13 the .1 T'^i ''' ""' *"^^^ *« ^e paid ' I'/'wrs of attorney to subscribe i reran )lr ; 7"^} ^ >^\^<^r\y ^ y,0B,lue, '; tioncl. I iKuo hud sov.ral letters kn En Ij-S V ^^"- «,''^''!"'^^^to aboVe men! •"if wo desiro to part with it I 1/^1 I ' ?"« ^"^ f^'k« tJ.o wholo thing up ;; ;if you wi«h ..y Uertr±!:;^rl wl firt^N^'yoi" Tt '" '7^^*^ ^^^^^^^^ It, and couniunicnte with you pcrsonnllv Pb-l / ^"'^ .'ext week, if you desire " ' the day. As vou mu y sunnose th," m .Vf^ f *^^^^«''*PJ^ '^ you wish to see one, and '"expense,-. laVsje poriio T^on Iv v S^ ? "ot reached this point without ^reat " ' it will reach nJt niuch'w; of fto'S"' "'"" '^"' ''^''-'' ^^ ^^^t-ne^, but I think " ' Yours faithfully, '"(Signed,) Hugh Allan. '"(Sign«d,) H. A.'" " The following is tc^ the gentleman before alluded to :- "'Dear Sip t . , " 'Montreal, 7th August, 1872. " ' date, of thf "eUlTnd C ll^' ''"'/' ?^^^"^ ^^'^ ^ '^'^^^^ -^ount up till that ;;'Bail'way. I h:;rnoTLd LracrowTed" .^^rT'T "^''"^ *^^ Canadfan Pacmc 'but I suppose it reached yo.UtZjfo^T tU^ ' remains unr.nswered, and 1 now moolp,! f. " r q"f tion I asked you, however, ;•• tions since the date ^f my lette ^ThTlllT/T.''^ '^ ^''S'^'' '^ '^^ ""g^tia- ''' strong French influor.coi uc^^dedin o^^/w^^^ '' "'" '^'"'" «>.ccessful^ the " 'elections, and as soon as ti.eCnvr/^^^^T^^^^ pi-oved sufficient to contro the " ' ^^ a ^ut and 1 w to si T^ZT\ '''^''f-^ * "' ^'^°^' ^^^""^ *hoy were Tw l^fg " ' .ietaU the various 1 h ses t hrotd^ Z^S/7'"'Tr: V'^' "'^- ^' ^' "nnecessary Z " ' signed an ajrreeuunt bv .v S ■ '^''''''■•' ^'"<^ *^^ ^^''*"It i« that we ycstmlav ;; ; company, of';^; V anf t^ t '^i'^iS^.rtt 7 """"^"^•' ^■''^>' '^^"^ ^^ " ' a n,a prity of tlie .scoolc .nd to ^vp t fn P "^y views, to give mo and my friends "'road on Iho te.ms of Z Icf of p° ^ contract to build the <« « be execut( '< « get a ini " ' conrtoquei " ' that no f< " ' ouraelvea ••'taken \ " ' name for <« « capital 01 " ' reduced «• ' my dttt; «» ' on the n " « aa secur " ' expense '• « tth-eafly " ' end of t " ' thi* wJ " ' go oil " ' settle i " « cUisioi <« < Railw •« « ftpfTO '< ' tbey ' «' ' 'matte •« « o seventeen 'by giving qg itscl mo Presi- ry, and Hoi^. HubHcription 1 in tho Act, for hiiilfling ' Act. Tlie ■ish subject^ the time of 3nt, and of ' month, t luivalent of sfthe Mer- I accept the itered into, i to be paid as possible, abovo men- lo thing up ith readily, you desire lee one, and hout great )ut I think Allak. lajority of i. H. A.'" , 1872. till that n Pacific lat letter, however, ) nogotia- isful, the itrol the inwilling essary to reatevday ■0 form a y friends )uild the Jash, and be given •age and act is tq ..,e executed within «lx ^^^l^^^^^ 'ZiT^^^^^^^ Z:^^'^^^^ ' '..get a minority of ^ho «tock. and theyj^ega « «s^ .. .^nHoquenoe of their defeat, and °" ^^^^Ide ho Ih to '.void tho former cry of sellmg .. . that no foreign ■ ^ ^l^l'^'^X^f ^dH uce ^ X^^ to foreiKu influence. Iho sharen .. . ouraelve. t > ihe N ^^'^^^'^f'^neJi friends, will therefore have to «tand m m v •"taken M '<^^' <* -^ """^ . n T • i inn .kUars of th« «tock out of the whole <. .lime fo^ r - ' ' ^e. We «hall «f --":^^ ^"1 ,"S^S; p.Hles are wUlin.^ to t.ke the u . thi. will all have ^o come to tl^ u^ mx . ^^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^^^„,^ ^ ...go on with the subsmpHon, ^ ^»l™^ a, early as convenient. .. . Bettle the details with you. Please apply as mvj f^i^i^f^uy, " ' (Signed,) Huou Allan. ...Montreal, Gth August, 187 3. ...DKAH MH. MCMULLBK.-I have been hojn.^^^-^^^^^^^^^^^^ .• . cUtBion! whioh I could communicate V^kms Iky X inter'^ The near .. .Railway negotiation, but some «^«t'^^^« ^ rXml aken by n.y Frendi friends, that .. .fprroach of the elections, however, an.l *^ ^, "^^'l" ^^^^^^ length Vought the . . Zl vould lend us help till I P;-;j:f j^f i^e^p y ug L now likely to be attended «.tnattertoacri8i8,andlthmktheganeIhav »)eeni^^^^^ ^^^.^^^ ^,^^ Government .. . iith success. Yesterday we entered into .n ^g^^*^;^^^^^^^^^ ^ ^i^he^. Thatthis .. . Lnd Itself to form a (Company of Canadtans only -c o«^^^^^^ ^.^^ ^ .^^ ,, ,te .. . Company will make me P^-^^l^^^f ' .^"f * ,y,VrXad will be given to tllL<» Compatiy, m .M3tock%ndt»at the contract for bnWm^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ .^ the fear „ . terms of the Act of Pari ament.. ^^'";'^^""^^;"i%a„,y ^e can get over that some way .. . that they will sell it to the Union Pacfi.b^^t 1 Jancy g ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^ I .. . or other. This position has not b.en .U tained w t^ ^^^^^ „^^l^ .^^ I :. ; ^r^^rtrLloT;!:^^^^^ ^^-i-a. .- gomg to do. They d.d .ot a. « ' swet my last letter. „ , yom-g^ truly, , „ .' ' (Signed) HtJGH ALLAN. ' ~~." Montreal, I6th September, 1872. •« « Geo. W. McMuLLEN :— „+« -hnvn a meeting in "NTew York, to see what ''f. Dear Sir:-I wanted -' ^^^'J^l^^ ^^Zj iT^^l letter from-i-stating that .. . our friends there were disposed to ^^^^j^" \^ ' X— and the two are going to Puget u . I is leaving New York ^- Chie^f ^;f,:\^ ^^iftl • - ^^.^^^ g . ^^^^ « . Sotmd. Tlu-y say, no "'^eting can be J^^^^ " .^ ^^ ^^^ would like immediately u . all. 1 hope in ten day. or so *« ^^^^« ^^^''^jS the°^ I have disbursed .?343,000 « .^fter to gi to Kngland to raise ^^^^^^^f *"^^" ^-i to my i^l3,500. which will close ..Uigold,^hichIwantt,ogetrep^^^^^^^^^^ .^ ,,^,^,,, ,,, ,,,,t » . everything off. I will g« ^^J^f J/„J ,^ to meet vou there." ' .. . the 17th of October, and woual be giv.l ^o^ ^^ ^^^^^ "'(Signed) HtJGtt Allan.' "^ »z :hi ys (Enclosure No. L) "EXPLANATORY STATEMENT OP SIR HUGH ALLAN. (From the " Montreal Gazette.") •■ ' Z^: Z^Lti;-. " '^™"»"™* '» "■« P-""- of Q-obac, Knight, W„g duly " 'ra;;:aytLt;i:SorhX;L7L"'^r„r;f ^ z ""."-"p-' ». " • the district of country Ivin, to t| 1 w«t„T. fM ^"^' "?'' I»"^''°l»riy through "'W^Adi.,ton,ioZ^2zeT^^Zy^^^^^^ to the Government, through Mr " 'Railway%uM,hat no actil'lZ been taken r'''^ "^ ^"''^^^ "^ *^" ^*"^^* P'^^ifi" " ' inasmuch as no rnovement appeterto t . T'" i I" P^'^P^^i^i^"- That, thereupon, " ' questioai, and I doubted if cSn^n ! „ ^ «,?"f' "P '\^«'l "^ Canada for the purpose in "'aV W extent. I oSllfr^^^^^^^^ '- it to " ' had been cominu^ica i rw th Tove nm'^^^^^ *^r ""T"' "^ '^'' P^ ^^o " 'respondence with them foT the nuZrnT' i ^'"•"^^^^i.t^ly Placed myself in cor- ;;;adv^ance of the measu^e^ wh^ ^^ rexpeotedtrtl ^^^ ^°"P^">^' ^^^ " ' then ensuing Session of Parliament ^^""^^'^ ^"^ ^ ^-'^^'' V the Government a^ the "' represent a certain number of AiSar^a^lxL^ ""^^ undei-stood to "'as much stock as I thought I ctulT,ro.nT/^ l^'?^' ^ reserved for Canadians '"to be taken up by the Ifnericans hxtm est 1 . '^^^"'^^''"bed in Canada, the remainder '- templated, a Porous mCcSn T^^^^^^^ ^'''''^'- ™« agreement con- '''desi^SnofkeCa^JZore im nts^^"^^^^^^ in conformity with the '"means to be placed at the dis,3 of The ? ;^n '^ ' ascertained, provided the '"associates would justify them hi „nii 1 f ^ '^"'^ '"''^ '^^ ^" t^« o^n^on of the ;''agreement,In.ost^Scly:nd:^^^^^^^ And with regard to this " ; nor in any conversation or negoti^k^TeoP ntt t ! ^^^^^^ ^ T, *^"^ 'Agreement itself, '"statement or expressed plan which hid fivY.?^ T ' '^^^ *J''^^'« ^"y stipulation, '"any other purpose than^its om, etioi throu ^.^^^^^ '"''^ retardation of the work, oi- '' 'sistent with reasonable economy nZilS^ ^""^^ ^' ««"- '" tWewas no, intention expressJor imd ed fi L if^^l '""'' P"^'^^^"''^/-'^' ^ ^^^^I'^re that " ' which accompanied it. of placitTt 7 h^.'ower f '' ^r ''.?'''* V"" ^^' "«g«tiations •'' any other Company or body of nien 4 ob^^^^^^^^ ^^'^^^^ Railway or " ' whatever. ^ obstu.ct the enterj)rise in any manner or way '''ti::onL^;s^^^^^^^^^^ up to the " ' Company, except that I placed mvsefi. on Z ^ ^*<^*r' "V^^spe^^t of the projected '' ' to organize a Company wh eh 7out nde^t^ke Tb " "f *^' Government offering '' 'discussing the quosLn of the facSeaud^^^^^^^ "^ *^'« ^«^^»' '^"^ " ' recommend to bo Airnislied by Te couV - . , ^ '' Government would probably " ' negotiations, 1 endeavour^ ,1 1 as ^oSbl Jo to ""f" °^ '^'T ^^^'^"^^^'"^ ^"^ :"S-3;t^L:^^^^3-i?^;=-S^^ «'inthe great national ente,ri::^::^S-:^^i^^^^^ <« « had reiere « ' Governme « That ^ « ' applied t< » ' liamen*. h «« ' were proj " ' undertak " ' previous « ' Canada ( " * assistanc " ' thought " ' any grea «< ' great as " ' ists. Ii " ' stock w] " ' eventua " ^ matters to formation of the Canadian Compan es tha line oT ""f f ^" ^f^^'^ '^f^^^^' ^^e cuciveto the interest of the couitry Inu the e L"7 '. ^""^^ '' "''''' «°n- ; done during the Session which gave me -lu v cluPtn ff ' •"'^^'?' ^"'"^ ^it"« said or " ' respect to the course of action which thov wou I , ^i ^7- "^ *'^^ G^overnment with ^^ , '" -^fter the session, the Ca ada Ftdrii' f '^r' ''^'''''^^^^y a^opt. ' member, proceeded to oianizerdLSth?^^^^ Company, of which I was a, to ^ake the contract for^>uildi'»"lr;S f"' *^-^ ^ - l-PareJ conditions n.entioned in tlie Govenunent l" ' *n,« ''^° 1^^^^^^'^>' "" *he terms and m various {.arts of tbe Dominion in Snn it w^tKeT '''f '?^" *^ ^« «l-"«d steps and such other proceedi.igs as we.^/necetavv 1 t? '.','"'' ^'""^ ''"^^ initiatory " ' ized corporate body. That it soon ift^ • 1 1. ^7 ''"''''''' *hem to act as an organ ;;; be best 'pleased to'see an lim! ^ ^ tt.'T^ mont, in order tliat united actk.n m^^^ t s u^Id am TT T'^?''"^''^*^^' ^^^ ^-^"a- m the formation of a Canadian Company I nd r t . ^ '^''^ ''"""8*^ obtnned • the Interoceanic Company for the pu -pose of emW "' ?^'"L"^' "^g«*^'^*'°«^ ^itJx mation, and at the same thne the CamirPacL It """°, *° f''^ ''''^' '''^ amalga- ' cation with the Government, with S Lf to fl^. ^''^"^ *' ^'"'^ ^'^^^^^i" communica- nitimated that the Government we re air^e Lu th:;;''!,"'''^^^ ^' -- *he-"pon ' place. Ihat, tliereupon, Mr. Abbott -i me nbe, f ? n amalgamation should take ; proceeded to Toront!, to' meet Semftor 1^^;^^:^'^' "^"n " ""''"'^^^^^ ^^^P-^v amalgamation that would be satisfactory to borbimnxr'''^^^ ,*" f "^"^^ *«™« «f of the matter during two or three days in Toronto r^^^ •^'"'^ ''^*"^' ^ discussion 'he reported to the Canada Comnanf that tl e 'l ? "''' ^'"'^ ^'^l^'- ^^cpherson, difficulty in the way of our amalgaZdo " exce^ at ^^1 T'''''' '?■ '" ^">^ ^^'^^^ " President of the amalgamated Comply and to b. .', "'''' 'r^'''^' ^ '^^'^^'^ *« he ' ' iiamber of the membeas of the n™w or'e to H * '' nomination of an equal 'could not be acceded to. Mr. ^I:^^:^J:,XsT::''f 'f '^''- ^^-i^'--« th3 Interoceanic Company, should have the non nS of', hi "' ^ •■•«P''««enting in the amalgamated Company than I a.T T./ P" """'^^' ''^^ "'shall be left to the Board of Di,-ectors W H i\ '^T^'"'' «^ ^he Presidency ;; informed the Company that Sir i^^. '^itcS^ n''" ^T't'^^^Y^ ^t. AUoL favourable to my election as President ami tlrt ta ^^^ expressed himself as being " ' possess among the members of the amaCmv.t ] P ^ """" ,*''" Gfovernment might ;; purpose of aiding in my election to h S;?',S' tSt ^. "^'n '^ ^^"''^^'^^^ '^^' ^ '"the nomination of members to the iv^^v(Cnn^:J\\^''^ Probably the difficulty, as to "might be obviated in some way. i oil ^C lets 1 " '"^'"'^r^'' ^'- ^4f^rson, '"divergence of opinion as to the amlaamatio S ) \ ''n'''^ ^^^^^ ^e could find no " ' and Air. Macpherson. amalgamation ot tlie two Com;,anies between mysel? l( < ■ ^. ,. „4. Tnrnnto I felt satisfied ... Mte.- r.c«Wmg Mr. 4(.Wf. report- f «« -f,''CslIr,^ination. , And .» .. .Z m«uenc , of the Govor.."ent Ao U ^0 -'^jj*^? ,,^ Oo,np.nyover wh«l. I l-e- .. . such terma as I conBidereu aid J"» " • "'f ?ihat Sir a^org. C.«i.s was, a, 1 w,. --« TrS'^on^nhe interview. :riiK^d:«irr:o=Si^^^^^^^^^ <- ing is a copy— -July, 26th, 1872. <« ' Sir Geotige Cabtier, Ottawa. «,v,v,ition but cannot, in justice to . < Have seen Macpherson. He has no l-^-l^X'^^.L^ p,esidency or in any ".Ontado concede any preference to Quebec m the mat^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^ th^ .. . ?tW p;^5:icular. He «ays the 'l^-^^^^^^^t you t^^^^^ '"^^^ ^l^f 'f'^T^ .-Board Under these circumstances I authoi^ze 70 ^^^.^.^^ ^^ President Ttw «< < of the Govermnent will be exercised t . ^^^^^^J^^^ ^^ j ij^,,,. The whole matter to « < other terms to be as agreed on between ^^^P^'^T t^o gentlemen to meet the Privy .. .be kept quiet until after ^ \V''lt"rrms S a prt-^^^^^ .?" " Answi^ « . Council at Ottawa, and settle tbe term ot | ^^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^j^^,. An wei . « . practical solution of the difficulty, and snoi ^^ ^ ^ Macdonald.' ^ (Signed) me the assurance which he was be granted, I urged upon him ^^^ f^^'^^*^^ ^ f ^^^^^^^^^^^ came to entertain the opinion aram from Sir John il/aoc/oMaitf, and ^?"'^^^'\2 .rAons conceded to me, and expressed . & wa™ entitled to have certain oi «>"««;"^f:f '^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^ of having as definite « hfwilUngr-ess to recommend ^"o }" ^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^f j,, fe"^lumseK iustified in giv ng I .an Ipve-iou of opinion ^-f ^f .^ ^^ W^l X - ir^ll^^lf^^^lB^^-^^"----- ^^^^- l^'^'"''-^ u . MoN-mEAL, 30th July, 1872. .. . DKAK 3. H.OH,_I enclose yc. c^^ ^f cele^;ns^e.iv^ .1^ ^^ ^^ ..,r„i W; and ^^ .''^::::^ZmZ?^^ ^J- amalgamation of y^- ...opu-^nthe Governor m Council ^^ W ^^ ^j. ^^^ cWian ...(Laanv with the Interoceanic <-;»!"1''Y^t^^'.^ of f ». amalgamated Company ... Sfic Railway Company, the ^--f^^^^^f ^i^om Inu' shalf be name.1 from ...to"'- compose,! of seventeen '^-'" "^^ .. .tt Province ot Quebec by the C.mada I^vcific K^^^^^ 1 ^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^ coveru^ ...o; Ontari. by the Interoceamc ^^^X S^^^J^, ,„ecified in the tenth section of ...^aent; ihe --^l^-'^^tloS Pacific ^1^^ Company, &c., the agreement o ...the Act,incorporatuigthoCuada P^^^^^^^ companies within two months fro.u .las . amalgamation to be execuuxl l)etweon tno 1 datt << < (( I <( (( (< (( < I amalgamauuu t^^ "- — - • matio-, ; and if the Interoceanic Compa.^y si-ouiu M ;|'tnation upon such terms and within sucIj limifcod time, I think tho co-itomnlated - arr-uv^caenta should b.n.ul. with th. Canada Pacific Co'.npaav underitrcS " ' l,v th« C n ""'y^'^y "^ '^'' ' r>''" ''It 0.1 aoomxt ol\st .)k, b',i,i.j nah, as required by the Act ol ast session, rospPctiug the Canadian Pacifi. Railway Company, I have no doubt but that tho Gov..n.or in Council will agroo witl the Company S branches as shall bo agred upon, ana will giant to the Company u\[ such sub siaies and assistance as .hey are empowered to do by .he aovornmenl A t. TbeHole «' uin Inv C ''*■' "t ^ '^" ^overnn..,,. Act en.pow.r. the Government to confer upon any Company wUl l,o requ-nul to en.blo tho works contemplated to be Buccessfnlly - fwould a^d'^Sr'^'r' "'■ '' *'^^'^"'^'^'' P'^cilic Cmpany, as the case m'ay be. ''Metre?T«U „i , ."^''?'" ''^ the measures to which 1 have roterred in thi« Jettei, 1 Bhall use my best endeavours to liavo them cariied into eflect. " ' Very truly yours, " '(Signed,) Geo. E. Cartieii.' "I positively declare that up to the date of this letter I had not any undertaking of any kind or description wit!: tho Government, either directly or throiSh any ofher pei-son than that contained in Sir John MacdonakVs tel,-gram of the 2Gth July Nvh^cMs given above ; and that telegram and tho above letter fi'!,m Sir Georye Oi2r conta n eveiTthing tha was ever stated or agreed to between any Member of the Governmen and raysolt on the subject of Uie Pacific Railway project up to that date On the same day that I receivo.l the above lett' r from Sir Ge.or^,c Oarticr, I informed Sir John A MacdonM of the contents of it, and asked .or his'sanction ^f the vTwa which 1 contained. Rut he declined to concur in the terms of Sir &W. le tteT telegraphing to him that he would not agree to them, and that he would come down to Montreal, and confer with him r. specting thmi. "l«ffl?'^'Tf"^"",l immediately infonnod Sir George Curlier that I should consider the letter addressed to me as being withdrawn. And to my knowledge Sir G'. r«. telo- ' graphed Sir John tha he had seen me and tl,at as he (Sir John) oi)jected to Sir Lrl le tei, It had been ^vit idrawn. 1 ah.o telegraphed to Sir J,hn on the same day (jSy 3lst) to the effect th.t I had seen Sir (?cwv,, fJanier, and that he (Sir /o/J) might of the 26th as expressive of the views of tho Government " I positively and explicitly d.olare that, excepting "so far a« an understanding ; between tho Government and myself is expressed in the foregoing correspondence, Ih^d ; no agreement of any kind or description either verbally o° in" writing by mvself or through any o her parson m respect of the contract for the Pacific Railway, or of any advantage to be conferred upon me in respect, of it. The t«rms of the Charter, the composition of the Couipany, tiio privileges which were to bo granted to it. the pr;por ions in which the stock was to be distributed, having b.en matters for negotiation and settlement up to the last moment; and were only closed and decided upon while the fanaJIy composed tho company were only decided upon within a few days of the issue of oc-k t^^^^^^^^ P''"""''' to subscribe only a si.nilar anioun: of stock to that subscribed by other prominent memi)ers of the Company " Arnnn!'! 7/ 7r *^'^!''^'"" P.'-i^-'^te and confidential letters published this day in the Montreal //cra/c^, ami to certain statements in these letters which may appear to condict in some degree with the foregoing, I must, injustice to myself, offer ^Sk explanations. 1 desire to state with regard to those letter.s that they were written n the confidence of private intercourse in the midst of many matters engrossing my attention,.mdprobably with less care and circumspection than might have been bestowed upon them had they been mtendedfor publication. At the same time, while in «ome ts co'itomplated b.i charter. I, ix% roquired my, I have no (Joinpany for with such I such sub- it. I bf.'liove nfc to confer Buccessfiilly jiupany to be case may be. rrecl in thia ARTIEn.' ilortaking of ;h any other ily, which is tier containa Government I informed if the views orje's lettei", mu down to ! insider tlie Ge rge tele- Sir George's > day (July o/t/i) might lie telegram " "" ~^^ ^..,^f, T concnivc that the oivcumstancofi, ta a with the parties to whom hose ^^^J^^f^o PaciUo ilailway. I hud' uovor hecm a Compt.»y prcjooted for <^h« const, uch.uo^ t ^^^^ ^^^ ,^^.^ ^, associatio.i ot informed by the (iov.rument tha i « ^ ^;;^\";i^,, i.^itio Company. And in co.mout^ foreigners with (.'anadians in the o.;;,ui./al. mi c ^ ^^^^ Mi'vvm^ to a il to the U-islation introduced into the J*^"" '' ^ ^ ^ ji,i ^^t hesitat., to intimato ;r^cj idico which I myself --ulered wij .out^n^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^^^^^ ^ ^,,,1,, , Slai if a suitabl.. ^I'l-f '^j^^^^;:^;! ^^tv 1 I Ll a.ro.d upon as circuu>s^.jn^ the Company, as "^"f ly,l'^^tlTSi'>vcd the statements that were maue as to tun would pernat. And as 1. .ntirely 'l^^;^> ■.'."'; ''^ considennl that they might bo of great V." .!. ._ ,.i..^..„,.f fl.n Canadian racitic, anuconhuuA ^ _^ „. Huau Allan. («' 'Signed,) G. W. McMullen, Esq., " Picton, Out. II i( « II It II II II 84 "to remove the objectifms made by the Interoce.iaic Gonvymv thev fiil«^ ;„ a • and he idea of amalgamation wa« shorily afterwards finany^Son d 'VT«^°' " o eiVhrofT'p"'*^""' "^ '''''' '' ^^^ ^-^^^-'- ^hat the Zt tr^^^^^^^^^^^^ nofbe "C " 'gathm-ed f,-.,„ tlie letter L quSi" co clereil U S b^ "'' T"'"!' ^ """' ^ ■' ■ [.orition as far as I possibly c™la S^^ot' Me ,,h ,„ J R"''"''-.'" »"".''«'b«" ">/ " • Ca„a,lia„ P.„,i|ic to^U S „f Montreal l,lrl ''""■° ,''"'', ,''" *". '"'"«' '""> ">e " • referred to in those letteiVwa fef„e° fed bv ^, ' " ««»"I«™''1« I'™-fon of the money ''^supportorListanc.iutlreeven o^^^^^^^^^^^ •' * nended sum* ^fm^^^.r ^"^ "^ i-i'tii tiection. in tJiese and sinnlar wavs I ex- " '^0= veTw alSSKd?' r^Trf ''"•" ""■""°"'«' " *ose l.tte'l as I ;; ; f-t. that a„y XroV£.*:t'„?il; ;t: is? :;; rMrb-:' "°jti" %'''' " ' contract. * ^ ^ advantage to me m conueotim with the Paiitic Railway " ' con Jata^' which" wreX'cdt'the'tXf H° 'u '•"^"^ ""'' ""> I»I«" »'''■"■ " " 'aerartn. for England "^^I^^X^^^JtS^^Z^X^S^ 7- 89 in doing so, Thereupon lot be given orate a new any leading 5e, could be lad decided at time the 'Curing the V Company, 3sion. And om posed in whatever, elf and the associates jsire of the ny fund or iiy friends ' be placed ected with eeraent or or any of way what jclare that ' lue to be my hands t, on any ber of the t, for any may be jthen my the Pro- N'orthern from the e money in many who had terprises liould be to assist 3ted, but mentary lys I ex- ers, as I is it the he Gov- consid- Railway /liich it ore my iag in- ' upon a claim by h m tot compen^iti- remained connected with it. These < tion of the enterprise «« /^'^g ^«^^« ^^^^„^j^^^^^^^^^ I declined altogether to en- . Srts and writing to them in a 7-- ^^^^^^^^^VS^^^^^ *^« '^"^'^ « power to annoy mo ^X *b« P^^f^^^f^'^ °;,^^^^^^^^ « which might follow their pubUoation m the ;°;™ ^^^ injure the prospects Tfe ted unceasing hostility to ^he Canadian Pacvhc^^^^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^.^^ ' of the delegation in England. I ^l^^^^f'^'^^^^^^^Xn his original demands should be ^mMc Mullen, by which a sum very ';^;tirtL relu ng Sa considerable portion ' paid to him ; the greater portion at »f «' '^f ,^^.^,^^ '^S of Parliament, should they . Z the delivery of the letters to me after^he P^^^ |essuM^ °* j^, ^cMuUen received ' not be published in the interval. This ^*\'\<'''"''^'7'^ ",.._^„:nder was placed in one < th greater part of the sum agreed to -f ^^ jnd l^l^^^^l^^^^,^ I the be.t of . of those envelopes in the form f . ^^^^^^'^Jf "'^^^^^^ i^ the Montreal Herald this «^y belief, the same letters whi^h have been published 1 ^^^^^^^^^^ . miming, together with one or t J « h^^g ^^^J^^^^ beet wen the Americans and myself- .have established the ''^f^'''\'f ^^^heZTlithMv. Mc Mullen, y^itho^xt the con- . And this --gement -s ^de -^^^^ ,f ,hom were aware \Z:Z ^p'er: had feel rpo^J^ed in the hands of Mr. ^.mes. « It « ti It « « i> (( It It « « << u H (I tt It tt It it <. It It " 'And I have signed, Hugh Auan. . . sworn before me at Montreal, this fourth day of July, 1873. " ' J. L. Beaudry, J.P- (Enclosure No. 0.) ,.,, ^/r A,TTTTTT?M WE'^H DOCUMENTS, &o„ &o. STATEMENT BY MR. McMULLEN, wi^u i^uu (From the Montreal Herald.) «< 11 « «i^/ -„,- ^ the cdonald and Sir Francis Ilinchs ; and " ' AfU'r some coi, vers ition"xviri,'?'"'f?l' *" ^i/^o'ypanv would bo entrusted to his hands. " ' CJovornment tuXwi h t^ . ""'•'• *^"'' ''^'"•' "^"'^ ^vhich intimated that tho " ' "n,iertaking th^ ork wV^.f^^'r''^'?'/" in-onnnent Canadian names in anj company '• ' ing M.at if occ sion fo; t rolT "f T^^ .*'^' *'^"" -^Vv^^^t^v,, with the undersLd- '• ' Mr. Chas. M. ^S Vci SI T'" *" ^''"'" ^n°''' ''^'"^- ^''"^'^ ^"^^ ^««ks afterwards " ' from Sir Ilu^h Man sfUi ^f,? ."l-" T' "'•^' r'^^'f^"" "' "^^"^ '"^^"«»-' ^•«'=«"«'l ^ letter " ' with us in o«ler o offi fc a Lit '^'Z ^;,'-«"7.^^^'"t^"' '■'^^"^•^*^^' ^'"" *« communicate -Railroad Company thattastorfol^Lfr^^^^^^^ ^"^'^''^^^'^ "^ ^'^'^ ^-^^^ '^ ' of A^u^'^n'tdl tt^!;;^""^ f ""'• ^'^^ ^^^^*'"'* ^- ^-•'^ - *'- -'•ly P-t "• ' through Messrs SmiS^llul^.i \ T^ *'',^"" ^^^^oci'^^s to cease negotiation, •"being^ loading Cadi^n wl^ Wt"^^''"' ,*^T ^^''^ ^'''^' '"' i^^ i/L, who, " ' fignic ]n-omineul]v / 1 , ff T '?"" ^■'' ^'''^ tJovrernment as a propei -and unible to Is e^stint? ^^" '^'« g«»^.J«>"«» ^'PPlied to were l,oth '"given tho adcL i Mf 'Si "^ arrangements, bir Franci,, on his return, seei -HminarieswereittecnXoe S^ 7/ 7'^Vr^^^ ^^^^' '-^^ ^^hich pre- " ' Sir m<^k was c^nrSvo^^^ .t ' f "f- f ^"'''5^'^';'^* ^^- ^^'""^^^ ^''^ "»y««lf. by which -InUion Imon. persoi whose f2 ^» *;7«t in the stock, and an amount for distri- " ' on such stock S^ul ] e Xn^TT; '''""•'\^f ^''t'^^'^' ^'^^ '^'^^ *^« ^^«^^ instalments " ' held by myself wW Sirlwf, / ?"''';';^ ''''' f'''' "^ "^^^'■^«*- ^'^ ^"t^'-^i^^ ^^s " • we .nei M^an, at iol lie ~ • f^^f ""^''' '^' t'.'^'; ^^"^^^"«* ^^^ *'»« '^'^y before " ' meeting, and •eoues S ,no , -'P'^'^^f.^ .^'»^ ;^Pl»-o^al of the Goverjiment at the proposed -the result. iZ^^J'^'^c^ ''' Ottawa, after it was over, to let hi!n Low '• ' tered into verirarr 7.4. -2 w?nVl^^ ''^^^ ^"^ '-"P'""'"^ ''^ ^^^ '^^^ «"• ^^'^^ ^^^ ^^■ -we had proviclr^ft. "f t^"'^' would soon assiune a moie formal shape, and that " ' advantage. T. 1 oo m d ; St , InT 1 • n ' '. °"''\' ^'""^^'"' gentlemen as would be of " ' Mian, to sotan .. • it' ' ., ''"'^^-'"^''^ S""^^ P™'"^^-^^'. «« communication with " ' niont/iu ordV t ; ! wholV ^r''- "",^^7 ''"'"''"•>' arrangements with the Govern- -Parliament. S n I .X:^ ,d , '"'^ ) ' "^ t^^'^'' ^'^ ^•'^^■^^ presentation to '-notifleclMr.A'.^V/ '.ml iv '■'^ ^'^ "^"^"V^'^^^'' ^^-^f-'' «"« understanding, Sir ffugh '' ' 5th, 1S71 io .uu'^ ^ " T'^ '*'"^ '"'' ^■^'''' »'^^ *''« Cabinet at Ottawa, Oct " ' pre^nt Sii' l^r V iW-^iSr?'' '^ ^^'!^-' ^f '^-s of the scheme. There 'w^ - W%, ^.^,^,.,; 4^^^^^^^^ Si; C-. i;. 6'a,-^tVr, and Messrs. " • they wore not fu iv u '^o^d u /o;^'^;!'' '"f -'^'"^"''- ^' ^'"^^ "*^ ""'^^ ^PP'*^^"* ^J"'* *" 1st of Bee '' * the status '<< MiulHter, " ' telegram <' « Afte " * Chicixgo, << < bo obUgef " ' agreemoti " ' ft meotin " < to follow " * Dccenibt " ' AUri7>, w " < xinderdii <» ' bv corrof " « cx-igonci '« * would \ " ' necessa " ' one tin " ' one let «' « )|4,00() " ' i-epaid. " ' intercK " ' expect " ' that a • ' 'ultimt " ' Secve " ' was, i " ' way, << ' disbu " ' appU( " ' into ' " ' authc << ' view " ' agret " ' the '< ' recoi " ' Api " ' OS fi «"S25 " ' nat: " ' $4,1 " < vrh '< for " I «ti " Kail " for 1 " RUgl " tier " Lai " auc «< pos " qu( " thf ?7 -.==========---^^--=^ ' " xr Vork to inform onv friends of '< « MiuiHtor, Nvhiob I li^vv" '^'■;*'; |^,„c(^ was received. ^j 5^ic..cuto tlie con ^^ a . a meo.iu,in Montreal, J f \"^ l^^ Mr. S.allh and .ny.cU '.^•^^^'-J^'J^^ i^.^^anes^ith « . to follow our verbal ""^^^'-fXr visiting Montro.l arul dosing .'^" f' ^^'^^ ^i,, . . December 15th, 71, and ^ttoi >n.^ „^^^^^^ ^^^ ^ ^^^,^^^.^^,^, ,„od by a H ' P^^ ^^^^ « . Allan, wo wont with hun to ^«^'J^"'^^,^,u,ty of topics wore J'«°^'«f ^^ .^^^ ^,i„ed hy tho . < under'date of I^ocembcr 2.kd ^ f ^,^ >i^,l,,, ^Hhe >---;;;^ t" bat no money .. . bv corroapondenco, durii S t « r^^"^"' "^^^ j.^^ „t lirst Sir Ihrih ha<\ ^ ""^^""°' ',' ' i^, .voubl be ...Souciosc,f thevoUtiealB. mj^t on^^^^ W^ ^^^^^ ^^^.^,^^^„, \" ;'^TZio « t: "o at . . woiild be required or « oh F^ 1. ^^^ ;;„,,,•„„ the closing o >«;; ^ .^^,^ ,„ „p,,UB in . . necessary to provide om , U^^ J^^ ^^^^^,, ,^ , "^''{t^ ^^^^HlncL. iii Hums of » ' one time announced to Mi. -» ^ Maahnald and bu irr/^u, « x . ^^ ^^ .< < one letter, bad be.-u bmt * > J* f/' f ^ ,^ ,.,,y j,ood knowledge ^^^^t \t^7' .^t deal of ...$4,000 and §4,500 '•*'«j'^'.^^^\'^y' , t^^ Fh.aiice. Minister w.3 taking age « < interest m the mattu, .ini ^ ^^ concbision. n« f"^i" ^" nev-contage of ...expectations, wlun^ it reached. mfs^^^^^^ ^.^^^^^,^ ^„ T" ui ti n the Position of .. . that at his time ol ^f « ^^-^^^ •' ^^^j^, ^^j i,,vo $o0,000, and m ^ ^^^^^^^^^^ ^ My reply .. Mdtimato profits, and ^^ 'f ^^ ;.^",,„, at a salary of not less '^"^ *-^'^,et, in some .. < Secretary to the Ccmpu.y or b s , ^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^,. would haj^o to ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^^'^^^^^^Z^cX.C.^^ pvoceed, but tha l-g;;^;"s\. //„,/. made .. . way, such ^en'and , je \ ^^^^ ^^^^^ *n'l*'"°^''^tniera^V contract was entered .. « disbursed on uncertainiies. ^ ^^.3 .^supplem,»in;» , SU- U'f^^^l ^S"'to\.e.tth, ' ' in o by which aeon inittiA^ 1 .Qiuract also covere.l a ^bange in -^^^j, to r:.tho^zed to provided. 11--^^^,^,,, ,^^^^ ; o by which acon.iniiuA^ .» -,'. .onlract also covere.l a c"*"-^ '" "^^ committee to .. . ;uthor^ized to pvov de f""^^;. ^/^^^^^ Gov«'-nment. and ^"^PJ^f ,^^f /^^^^^e amount . views, an Sir Ihujh -F^-^J^'^o Jjo and 50,000,000 --ff^^^ they would .. . agree to the -eeiit.;;- o ^ ..actlv the anioun h tUn^U .^^^ .. . . . viewB, ».' Sir llmh «l"jr„ 00 nOOarnl BO.OOD.OOO «« >'««'l'l»»=«<'' Sf"; I "U onacllv H.c ™u.nnt ho *™'7„„ri„„,- parties, .. I ,Uten ;^^^ ^^^^^J ,„y,,,, bad ^^^ ^ Stimosity of ^position weoccupied>th bu i/ J^ ,,/.,.;;/.. .on and hi3 ^f '^^^,^'8;^,,,, A. Uacdorwld « Lence of the pusition • ^ , ^^ g^^. ;^^,^,^;, j^i^seli. I mot »ir ^ "the Grand Trunk K; i' x" 88 " Q-.oh.., an,l he suggested th It aV!l/; ""''' T '"^ ^"'^'^ *« '"«'^^' t.""' ^«/fm« at " letter to Mr. ^«ir,o;^ o^,i,f ? ,^", '^l^'^K'V nation, prondsing to write a per.sonai "ever, both ,li«suafi me'from IL '^"''■f "'fT' ^'' ^^"''^' '^"'' ^r. AbhouZt ;;Com,,an, to raise the ^^^n^Z^Z^V^ the Interooolnl "promised to take the responsibility wth'Srt 7 ''"l'-^" ^'^'^^^ to allay, and they " I then went to Chicaco to aw I '" "^ '"^ ^'"''""^ ^" ''« "« "^g^ed. ^ ;;i got a letter from Sf,^^ seeredTT^ " a E. Cartur told him thev^ ,^vm inr f i T" • '•'«'^°'»r««"'g i" tone, a.s he said Si^ '' f «c;;/.em«V, but wi forVrn^^^^^^^^ ^'it'"''- our Oomi-auy or Mr ;; But Sir Hugh added that ^electls we.f "^'' '"u '' *''' ''°"*'-°^ "^ *'»« Uovornment " would make their power felt nnT^^ ''^'1'"''*^ «^»^ ^'^^^^ his French friends ;; Jlse he stood a poorcZ::'; ^eS 7 Tru '^tt j;' ^ ''^T "'^ '^'^^"^ -^«^"- he had brought about what he wished as thr rl™ I I.*' ^'i''*^* *«^"'' «**^i"g ^^at hnn, and he had secured an a..™en; Z.l^T'^T^ ^'""^ ^'"" ^'^''^'''l *« «°"^« to "be formed to build the road bit Z £ ^ Ir^'""/"^ \"*''''* '" *'^« Company about to ;; money, some $200,000 Zady and It mSo OOO^" ^'"^ -n ''?"''« ^ ^^'^' ^--"^^ of " know what the New York frie mts woll 1 dl n .T'f.'V" ^° '^" 1^"^^' '^"^^ ^'"^ti»g to " Btating that he had learned J eZnl f !• ^^*^ September he wrote agL "that therefore a meet nrcou d norri ,?^'™ '^^ "un*ati8factory,ashe3,o havethl / 1 !"^til November 15th, which was vSy ;; at once thereafter to go oLi^^^^^ days, and wanted " time as $143,000 noU, with Jf? S '? ! ^'^^ ?^ ""^''^^'^ ''^« expenditure to that "refunding this. /viStl^^Montfa 2r^^^ -•getJ^^^^ '' '"'^ ''"' ^1-*^- ^^ Government "he '^-oiununiced paying mone7b«ta^]HA'n ''°?""».''"''^^^^ stated in lettorof Aug. 8th, " talcing a receipt therefor, mti'm k „"u "' "" .."'''"'' "''^''" "^ "'"^^^^ "^^ ^''^ ;; of money would bo excessh-ely 1";^ "= ,a wf" >T' '' ^'"' "' ^'^^^ *'"^^ *^'« ^^^ and .1200,000, he became alarnied Tnd t;^d Va "thaM "" ? 1" '''"'""^ ^^''^''^^" which were coming in so rapidly unle s ho l I n '""'* '^'''^^ paying the dnifts bargnin. He then stated tlut sfr Sm Jint to ^^^ ««^«'-»n'ont would sanction the «ir J«/n,, .1. il/«cJ.«„?c;conhrminJS?ion Af r^ ''"Iv '''^'^^'^'^ '^ ^^^^S^'^'" ^^'^"^ tnitd ho had advanced $.358,OOo"^ addition to sto 000 i ^'"/"^^ ^^? P™'^^^''^^^ '"^>-"»« m-.sed to submit his statement to my f en. is in N^ew' ^T T\ ^'^ T''^' ^ '^^° '•thorn to decide. ^ ^'ii-nis, m JNew York, and leave the matter for ;;Au;is.:;jsrSLtie:ioc?^^ ;^^-«'!« -» — ction with "ag.unst such action, and in return n^iL?'^,-? f ^"'^ ^•^•^■'' ''^t^^'' P'-ot«.sting strongly "stated that he was in entl>lrai ="""..' wl'' ^^ •'■^""l ^^^"- ^1^^'' in^hich'he -'■•view o.. r,«„„u.. .,„„ :^, tz^^ ,1, -^ ';^ ,!^'r:ui.;rti^? r=====^^ <. KJJrr.timwhc wfts umW I.) them, and . with an utter repudiation of any o^"*" ,'..„x i.„ pouM not coiuinuo » aBSomte mus be a «™;\^ ^^^^^ed him to do one «f ^wo th ngs utn r ^^^^^^^^ « the public when they knew ^^Voblaati^ns with his associatoH -associates to ^^om tue » and allowed to break his sacred obhga^^^^^^^^ ..nreservedly with ^""/\^^^'\Kst « Government had directed him, and >^h«^eai Q^^^^nment, and who had the best - the ground jg^^"^^^ ^f^^ V' John, at his request copies of ^'1 th^se a ^,^ ^^^ ^.^^ " after th>' interview, i g^ivo )ji > ropeiots of 31i. ioatiioi tuo • i k« '^JJ.Abbott, an' ioHx. ^''^'"''.■^;'' ^fT^r 12th, 1872, whichmemorialwas piesented « ' Mersons in Ca\-i.cia, »« uoi & iMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) k / " «f 'I'e Railway, or for anv •■ ■ to wi.t Briti* capitaS^ a?d the v h\ "^ "™ °'"™'' ™ "■» "■"" "'^^'y ««"3 "nhe„iW,Hth^„yot:l?l^r''SaX^^^^ ;; which seen, nnneceSa," io Xtd7 " .irTiT ""=''«•.'"'">? °f « "ature relating to ,,' «uld dl tend t,, conflL t^^n S oin,^ W^^^^^^^^ ,*""]'' J™"- ''"' «>«» '»»' occur tnevttahiy i„ the „,idst I^^^S^Z S^rl^^'ntSr* "^ "°""' " Yours, (kc, '■e.;i^ulS^;^o;SS:1XS"''''"™"-" '-'^^ - '"' -"^icH wi„ " Dear Mb. Abbott : ' " ' ^^O-^'theal, August 24, 1872. ;; CoJJre'^i'llX?,: «:S fS/S^VS'r "^- ■-"-■■■"■'^■•"K .be Centra, .Be „n,onnt written hy n.e at ti.e ^^^^^^^^^^ZZZ^^ "sa„;'^t:S'-'"^= "'--^ S'-'o""^. ^/«c*„„« .e;\trnddo,L™eo„the RS "the terms of the letter of Sir Georr/e A'X-r' to be arranged hereafter according to ''T.r']' '']' !;^^^"^«^ -nt.ine:il"his^i.'te '"f 'th i';!,''^^^^''"^ "^ J"'^-- '- V" aLr" " MontreaJ, 2(3th August, 1872. n'stant. ^ " (Signed) '* For Central Committee. "L. BiCTOURNAY." J. L. Bea'jdry, Henry StarnSs, P. S. MiRPuv. ■W^J«"pl. =============^^ 2Bth, 1872. ^ T T n Abbott, St. Anno's :— ...„,e;an»wef to-day. ".JOHHA- r.MoST.E.t, 26th Ang«»l- 1"2- 1 o+ +ho Morcliants' Bank, tue .. . At right, pay to. my order, at tho M. ma^owlb."' « . dollar, for '.luo reoo.ved. " . JOHS A. M^ ti C ti « J J C Abbott. •i^t^ra?«rs^s:^i'-'^''^'"''°'' wu ^. Mac»o»....- ..MOOTEEAL, July 13th, 18". (t (( i( (t a « My DraR sib ■■ ^ »""""- ;;„nection with the ^««"'"/Vot,.1s of the Ministerial tV people of Canada aa to my jnnectio i^„d.^^^ imperative :l:rart:r arrSc.orthee« ^^,^^ Character has hee. '~ .. I think I am ,uat>fied in askmg y ^^^^.__^ _^y.^^^,„„,. r?tL"-^r«m he grate^ly .ceived hy ^^, ^^^^^. ■ «w*«Ri.oo,J»iyi«*.^"'- Ft With the first part «f /^"V''' til the opening of ^^^^'^I'f/^^'f the Pacitic Railway 'i our interoour^e did "f . ^ « Vv neg«*^^^^^"' "" ' '^ A? wffeM though from the .^ere intvoduced by Mr. f^f «^^/^,th Bir //• Allan ami ^J- ^^ ^\"^ ' ^^ericun parties previous to that time had been ^vrangements made :^" ^^ -^^ ^«a7i. ifc^o" SSmencement I K ^T^risoltod during the Session^^^^^ Railroad (( « K a (( i( (c (I «< nn 9S froni, I Jiscussfifl witli - ;;and with youi-self, AU^Z Mbo^HZutS'^""} T'^'' the propo,s«d arrangements "and such as were deemed netfsarrfoVf.t i '? 't'''' ""^ *^" legislation proposed. " in the way of closing matfZ ! f t ^ "^ ■'*''^- ^' ^"^^ «*=**«' <^here were difficulties "to which you refer a^^L' f ^ "^^'^ ^^'^^'^ °^ *^^ agreement with Mr zTnjS "was also a^aie S the Ir^f'S"^*'' '1^"^"^^ '^*"^"^ "^ ^^ ^r AtZftl "and of the means by Xh Si- Lt '^f ^Tf! ^^l^P^^^^i^'^ *« Sir ^«^/, Allan " In regard to the paymer 't oiT.Z%""f ' ^"'■'^" ^^' opposition. ' arrangement with Sir S'!l Vi™T^, ^"^ '^T^'^"} P^'-P^^^^- I ^a. informed of the arrangement with Sir Geo:-ge Cartl ";lte?and-IW?tlt'obeht"r. '^^ ^^^ '^^ ^e" -b^^a^triiraTir K "for election purpos:s;XA'hetrngt^^^^^^^^^ ^'^"^ °' ~-^ ^^ act'ually 'expend "Yours tiuly, A. B. Foster." (Enclosure So. 6. J MEETING OF MIMBEM OF PARLIAMENT IN OTTAWA. (From the Montreal Herald.) '''ro^^^^:^Z^^^''^^^^ '^^^ a meeting in the -Railway Committee ;; carriedThetetSt^tU^etT^^^^^^ '' TK" '^^ *^^ ^«P"*^*-- -^ohad been signed by ninety-three Memb r^ S weTJ f ' "'"?' • ^^'^^ '^^'"onalhad were usually in attendance in the Hois; It Jf" ''' "majority of Members who his hand so as not to prevent the House of T?lrn"'r'^ "^^^ P^^^^^g ^i™ *° «tay stupendous political and electoral frar^s which IwU?"? -^"'l 'u'^""'^"^ ^'^^^ ^^^ «^««t cheers.) The practical result was tlmt irthe itn^^^^^^^^^ '""^° ^T ^''''''^ «^- (^oud ;; received by thrcToveSo'r' S^n'SSTa vtttu^t? ™^"^^' *^'1 *'^^ ^ -' ^^^ been " was drawn in a very prop-r nun, i and tL^h ,"' '^^^' ^""^ ^**^ *h« remark that it ;; feelings of the gentVme,^ of tJ" d^it J^,t ti:'T''''''tj'l "^"^^ ^^^^^ «- advice of the Members of his Govern, ent H. 'T T "^''Sf^** *« ^ct upon the Commission consisting of three lega^nStne? and tnT, '^''"' '" ¥ "^""^^ ^ ^^^al agam m the course of about two iLnt^^ Ch?"^'^ ^T'^ ^'^^■"'^'"«"* *«°»^«t " B,xce!lency stated tlut his Ministrv wArrw + m T^'^*^ *^ *'''- ^^ths Bill, his " said that he had to declin^ to acceZ ^the plyt ofZl 'T^ ^T "~ He' afso prayer of the petition, because, unless he did « ^^-^^sr- " ment of the privileges of PaiharaenTi, out f . • v- -. SLu. not Wore f^^^^ r^kety o*er Ip ia co«>ection w«h .hem. •"»',."^it C;ra:d'Srroonfi™ea these »ta^—^ „, ,.,« exactly ,. Mr>aA also «i« *t ""n ^T Sat and h." aid noAing bat what had ;;?„^"Msrno?='r «t* ^rSiz: c Mini"":,: «, .p.. ?" ff "^C *a«fhT::Zrnor«X^^^^^^ «eei.g on which * H„ E.ceUency ■•^rji„„. M. c»„c,^ »i^ *^' *Wpr;«» itrrh»,t ^dSsS ..i,.irr«. had invited *r JHde wU wS have gladly been k»» '"J^d "there were numbers on the """ '™ ^^^^ ^fi-aid of their party, "e Wimeo .■ to discas.. As for ''!'"«' ^'.l^X hadtoen perpetrated on the people »>">*'"' 'Se .. r,p at the out^e and >nsuH wh.ch had be ^^^ P^^_l^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ,„ „,a.r to make ;; rr^-he S: (S-l£;:t« tS;? *««;.. speech, wMch had been ,. he hii' almo.t lost hi. l^-^X^TZl:^ti t House h.d 'l^^^^ZZt u "bound to take tl. a v^'e Shis udS I W wl ."'; "^r T 't*^ ^^^ «"^^ *^^* ^' ^^ " both on law and Imto^-who had ^ ll • T ^"'?^''^' «'riter-an authority " plainly in a leUo, n .^ J^?,t J as we ^"''"" V* "' ^'fJ^'^A ^'''^'''"^ ^'"'''^^> ^''^ " the members of li„. . ' >Pimifch „% T " "-"V"^^ ''' "'*' Canadian Monthly, that " by the parties accused. He takes thr^d tltt th/M ,?^^^^^^^ Commission appointed "pointed a Committee^ Se opltifn we.^^ that Parliament hll ap- " trolled by the Administration. (T e trueT He o^nh ,^ 'fT.f ""^'"^^ •^'^''^ ^'^"- " Committee were appointed bv t] e Min 1. !, ^^-^P/'""^^^ *^»«* *'»» majority of the "declined to take evi^d'ence withltth X [ ttm-trhTw ' '''"'TKr'''^^' ^^'^ "have all the witnesses, even were they MiSms thZoK^>; r"'. ^'''^''' ^ T'^^^''^ '" "evidence tc be token witho.nu sln^tit^ Tf "n o^th Is J ^rV''", T "^'u*° '^"^^ " would tell a lie would have no objSn at alMf^V^ ? I'^^a ^^^ '^^'^^ ^^^'^ " matters were in this state His Exce loncy's adW e4 lTa,M '^ j^tf ""««') While " rogue the Houses, thus turning the peopfe' let^eL 1^^^^^^^^^ ^f ^"^f "''^' ^. P^^' "them an opportu dty of discusfing t^m^^Z^S^^^^ ^S. ZTT ^'f " In order to prevent this the Usher of f),o Rlo.i, w j ft-soiution which he had offered. "tliat in this country, which wa^ ^overnS bv Srli.m. '^ He desired to say ;; to end of the land Against the indllSriith 1^ toen nit 'J ^^^ '', T ^^n°" '""^ ment sought to escape from the consequences of thei crime t Icy W./fi' ui^Hr' " axJtion only served to intensify the feeling. It now Wme ih7^^ f '^ *'''',* ^^^''l " the country, to do nothin- uiisoemlv bul toZS^J^v.,^T f Members, as rulers of I( Thev were IVare that by '^^f ^e 'duty to P^^'f^J'^'T-tl, ^tam the digmty i( <( (I « (< (( •<< \'t«^\r!;, I h^vo been brought up J^T^^W ng ^^^^^ ^'^■^^'"r f Te SWsh Columbia could easil>na^^^^^^^.^ instead of aa^^^^^^^^ ^^,_^^ ^^pt tLe hvve been met by an .uy ^^^^^ ^f them eiev attended, that ne u bear upon them, until u l( <( (( (( << l< (I (I 94 "from secSg tt i £ra,^^^^^^^^^^ l-'' ^^^^^ Sir Z^V* deemed sati« "diminish .he iV^FXu ^^^^^^^^^ \V"'*"^' ''"'' "^^^"'» ^"''^ alternotht' "son a benefit, at tho same thnSS^ ''"' '' ^"r^''' ^"^ ^^^' ""' ^' i^''''^^'^^^' ^r- "mense sum of n^oney, fr tl e n n^se o? h n '""T"^ ?"""' ^'"^ ^^ K^^'* «'' ^^^^ an im- " .men are not ashamed to say it ^ rue tha^ iw? / f.^f "' '^^''' ^'^^""^ "« ««««iWe " immense sum for the .nirno«,W f "f.'*^*^"^ f^^ ^^V* got the contract.and that he gave an ;; (Laughter.) He Zl^Zc^:Z' an IZ f "!•!;"? "'^''""^ '^ ^° -^^'^ *hSe" " support his party. (Lauihter and S .'r^ .1 pohtician, and gave his money to' "politician? Yes, they CO burMr r •/ ■ ^^ *'!Vf *"'' '^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^a« an ardent "Bteamboats and railways' cJ, f^'^r'\^"'''^^ ^^as said, it vyas in the politLsTf " (Laughter.) Howevrr ^"^rw ^'' ^'^''^ ^^« ^ir Hugh ll^n ;; as these le tens ^^^o.XinZt^XfZt tZt ti^^^^^ *^"^ ^'''^'' debated " only commuted a few little in J.,.,,. • i ^ *** ''® ^^®^ *» writing them He " vernations since we Ire o^ y t" S'to Z) " hV ,""! '^"" '^"^ ^ '^^"^^ ^^^P^v^e con ;; laughter). It is, tJ.erefoi-e Vu 't , L snen7l is "^"\^' '^''^'^ ^" P^'^H^ (^oars of " been pretended that Mr ^,SL/^^^^^ f "°''^^ *° g«* *h« contract. It has ;; ment to be directly c«f d u? ' .Zi "he X^^T/T"'^ ^•^•"'^^^- °^ ^^^ ««v«™ '' an Order in Council where 07^^71,7 w.V7 ^^'- ^''^'\ '""^'^"''^ ^^^y '»"«* P^'oduco " who were acquainted vyhh cS of JuS/r™ l{ !=f '^ *" (laughter.) But those ' cover themselves. Suol^^thing ^rl tu^^^^^^ 'T'^' '^^^ "«^ "««-»/ thus dis- " and even to swear that sim ?.+«! ^^ cloaked, and men were often found to aav " things together, aad win" r^^^^^^ ^"* ^«-^« -" P"t these two ;; benefit in one ];and and a lofof^U^^^^ h™ some great " and laughter.] The bnsinp^^ HtJ • ? *be other, they take them together fcheers ;; idea. £ l4k knL ST; wt Taff w'[S^ s,"'*^ ''^^ ^^"^*^"'«^ *« d« -^^ ^ t^s i-de his term., and put eve "thing dot ^^^^^^^^ -^^ therefore he " no doubt, to-day remU^ n ;. L^ wutuig. Hie principal actor in the affair " been we 1 se^^e^bvit A ,/''?"*'?' ^'''' '^'' •^^"^^ «f t^-^th and justice has " politicians are luke L^htt yrfW- r^-'^l"^^"**'^ ^''''^' ^' *« ^be effect tha "Hewasglad,howeyertosteth.fT,l^^^^^ '^'"''^ '^' "^^* w , a do someth ng " one to assert this in public It ueveiS.7 "' '''' ?* ^^^ ^^^ ^^ *« P^^^it a^yi ;; should, therefore, be flown'd d^^i T/Lh tl^ JSel thTca^T'^ ^"~^' ^^^ ^* the responsibility and the hanninpsa nf Iu° ^^^^""^'^ ^^at Canadians were entitled to ;; bribe, too," but Lve we not on^Zr s de of the hIZT*" ^^ '^''^^ «^>^ " ^"'^ -^ make bribery diflScult, if not imZibb?^^ endeavouring for years to " law which will give us means of ol)taim-,L r, , ^T"" ^''^^^'""S for an election ;; lars; and have we^lot berto d It thri a^^S^rt^'""^. j"^*^^^^" *^^- l-^tic " " cumstancesof thecountry ^Cheeisf WhnVZ^f • Ti ^'' '^'*^'" ^« ^'^ited to the cir- " was only made for the p™^ofTon^^^^^^^^ "whichhashithertopreya T? Who+b^^^^^^^^^ of bribery and corruption ;; belp being a.shamed'of Th ^ He d d not bt^tt'T^r" ^'f*^^'^^ P«*^*i«"« ^oZ " thmgs-for he was inclined ike Mr J/..?,,-. \ ff'^''^^ ^^ ^^e House for these ; thatofficer-sfailings-butt bt^S^ thtlt""^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^ - P-ible to Ao66rtee« instead of Robinson, the j.etitlm aVahist/ // r' "''''' ""'^f' '^^^ "^°»« ^ zzz::- — — " ~ , . nHps where opiriio'^ =="'^"' . V. , 1 interent to Hell f^r .aoney-; ftn«i I'J J.'' 'J^'^^rchHse of tho u Was not very decided It w^y^^^^^^,^^^^^^ . ^t^^^V lent woul I have been very . .. denial, indifferent and the^^^^^^^ ,fthis rai^^-^f ,t pTy dy"d in this iniquuy „ no one could doiibt that xn« i ^^^ ^^^ ,^ot be m *'«^^'4 / j^je of oorruptuig .. ^ the Min Btry ; sovne may ^^^.^ ^^ „,t those w ^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^ ..constituencies that of sem b ^^.^^^ i« °''^y* ^^^ Iven than eloct..!, one half of .. nvestigation to the last a« ^^^^^ ^.^^^ ^ ^'"i^T.e'u taken to assert the rights of .. perpetrated it but^when h^^ ^^^^.^^^ ,^, ^lee' vep^^«e"t'^t^^«« of tl;-,.!-''^^- .< the menibers should talceu^^^^.^^^^^^,p,^,lenceot lej re-establish the .. t. Sovnmons, .^e f ^J^^t resume ^^^^^g^^^J^l might then rc-ne- » Parliament ""gb.^ J^« « The motion which lusftienaua ^.^^^ .^ ,,^^1 l'^/^** .« He supposed he ougu " 7 98 th»re w..,Y, papnH in th. h,uuls .7 "'''7'"' ''•'*^i»'''' « t^'«"..inittf.e and have Li?! f?! "«?'ti'.Ht I.I.M ,UH| «}n4 |„ "^''"'»^'"r l'">tv wl.ich wouM prove a mL u ** , ;; '^'CJ!^ :n;;*;;;- z,:r «;- irv^ F''- '^^- -- - p™:!;!::;:: , w.„K feel deeply l.Mmiliated at tha r 'Sn ;t"H""'' "' ''^'''-'^ "«'« I^'^^'-a'^ who eon to-aay tram;,!,.,! in the dust for the sake Prerogative of the Crown had 'U>e.nsevcBguiItv..f the worst cril. ^aS^ e X^'^"'?' "^'« ^'-' -^^^^^d Si ,/,/,,, .1. MmlonalJ ahvavs showed !um e f If ^ / H P^^^l'^^- The Hon ^ I'at project did not take with the Hon o tL ' ^0'^"' , f ' *^"^"' Co,nnn.sion, but tl.epronust. of this blessing be^. .rsl.edu tmtji ''0;i0V™;'^^ mombens, however haL no doubt be ,nost nnxious'to prov iVoC ^'"^^t' ^jl ^«-'-«^'^ -oin ^ t.:.. ,,!:• /,,,,,c/, /y.,^^;^^ ^^jj V o V . (Cheers) They might, hmvever see was ealled for ; yet. under this hie h 1 (wJ ^ * ^ 'nnch alacuty whe/, hisev d^nce exhibned by him. He did not believe iS.S,/''*' ^T ''"'"*^ "'"' of course bo called in<« the witness box would sl^ th.t hi?.!: T '^"'-^ ^ '"« judgment, when missioners would say certainly not an IthpP If tT* ^"'"'"'^te himself The Com ?Cheer ^n'^r/^^'^^ "--' Cht ^f t f^ ?-*^— -uld t^n - £^Tk\ *J^ '''^"^ ^" ^^'•"^'"ent told the House TbL^^^^ f'l ^'^"'^P'-«««^bly sorry, which he had made, and told them now that So f . *' could prove these chargjg ; thrown on Parliament, it would at least ll K f if^ temporary contumely had been -thxs prosecution to itsVightfuldt.^^lL'LetfL!^^^^ *^^* '"^^^ ^^^^^J yixi^oT:^'^^^^ ''''''-' - adjournment til' ' He had merely to touch upon the Oaths bST Wh.^ TC'' ''rl^ti^nB *« be adopted- not already been token on oath 1 iV was the faull!>f T ^'"^ T '^ *^^* *^« evidence'^S ner, sent this Oaths Bill to England eve„bS-oeParir' ^^? ^^^' '"^ *" ""»«"*1 '"anner ' informed that bills had never for mknvla u ^*'^^^»™«nt ^as adjourned, for he waa 1 :nd;*'^ ?'"« of Parliament; ind w^n Xhel^cts"^*.^ t^^^"*^ "^*" *»^r«« -o«"^ -^ and bound and sent at the same tUew ft ^'^ *^® ^^^"^0" l»ad been printed Uament, and one of that oforrio"^ thlTr' t"^- ^f*^' «"« '^ our ow^ P^ had never been disallowed to this daTTh^d^Ll^^^^ ^'*^^" *" *^« ^^'"^ ^bjecti^ procui^d by some influence, he would not 2 vT"'''^ ."""'*' *^«'-«^°'-«' ^^^e bee^ ft of men wh« tho aid of ' could b« f C'omnaoni prevent it, ir Francit !>ro8j)ectir« is hand on ^ had bee» B said tlat le chargtffl y that he lissurancb "ntnstancft *rovidence 'rovidence vn rights, returned mention — ■ lent Itim !ral.s who ■own had rendered 'he Hon. ion, but 9r, have iild now, -ver, see evidence 'iirse, ba it, when e Com- Id then ^ sorrj. chargeu id been Id carrj I ' ont til dopted- ice had manner he was months printed Q Par- ection, i been lo had ployed Q, and iered. it u t( tl u *( n t< <( if "The meeting then adjourned till 7 o'clock The room wan crowded t, it. utmont capacity, and the fiejiug nmnifostud w^ ^hirof ngnw ot the people The Govprnor-General wun a so Hiwkon of as havini? ov«rNt..Atrh«^ enquiry, ihould ],ave l,een used to hasten and second the pro,,er condu« of an enqu™^ <' It WM moved by Mr. Cauchon, seconded by Mr. JUiL, Ind resolv^i; ^ ^• :henf:nrorrri^^^^^^^^ ''- ^'^^'^^ -' iudepenVce^rp;;. " Moved by Dr. Forbes, seconded by Mr. Curtumyht, and " Resolved-' That, in the opinion of this meeting, the House of Common» is the F?P«r body to institute and prosecute an enquiry into the iK^ndin. chZr I^i^t Ministers; and that the action of the accused Ministers, in .-emoWnTtr eXiTr ftx)m the Commons, and appointing a Commission unde; their own LtL t3 rr IZn and*. ^TyJlu"'^'' of the rfghts, privileges and independence 0^?!^ hament ; and t will be the imperative duty of the House of Commons at the earliest moment at which it is allowed to meet, to take action fot the rn2ation of the J ' rights ; and for the resumption of a Parliamentary enquiry ' ^'"•"•''^"°" «' *»»«»r CW/Sr W?"* 'i'"/^ t^-1"^ were iJelivered by Messi-s. Cau fmi, Mill,, Forbt,, Ca^itt^^A^ Hon. ^- J- Jr^uth, Imac Rnrp^, McDonald (Invemef,^), Cnnkingham " Tlie meeting broke up about 10.30 p.m. "Although many gentlemen who had previously been indentified with the Govern- ment were present, not one of them expre.sfled dissatisfaction with the proce^dhZ Tr bB a1it T *^« .^^'•I'f 1 1^'^^^ r,™""^' *"^ *''«'•« '' l'"l« ^* *"bt that there wiU be a tremendijus agitation throughout th^ length and breadth of Canada;" •