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NearlyTwo Millions stolen fromthe Public Through the Coiiiiivaiicc of Nir John'g Minister of* PiiliiiclVorlis Thirty TiioiiMand Dollars taken for a single Eieetion of tlie Militia Minister Fifteen Tfioussind Dollars for his eolleag:ne's in the Loeal Leg^islature Frightful Revelations of Dishonesty and Corruption The Pacific Scandal Eclipsed Turn the Rascals out ! p 2o the Electors of the Dominion of Canada, At this solemu crisis in the history of the Dorainion, ou the eve of a general election which for weal or woe will influence and shape the future of this young country, it is well that the electors should pause and seriously consider into M'hose hands they are about to commit their government and the management of their dearest interests during the next five years. The fiscal policy of the Dominion is undoubtedly a question of the most vital importance for its people, but it pales into insignificance before the necessity of having an honest administration of the country's affairs and the country's moneys. The countenancing of systematic dishonesty and corruption in high places would not be alone disgraceful to a Christian community, but it would be a direct encouragement to the repetition on a a still bolder and more alarming scale of the gigantic frauds on the Canadian taxpayers, which have vexed the sight of God and man in this Dominion within the last ten years. The list of these, for which the G-overnment at Ottawa are directly responsible, is too long to be here recalled, but the attention of every man who prizes the good name of this fair land and who desires to have honesty and incorruptibility in his rulers, is specially called to the latest and greatest scandal of them all— the gigantic frauds perpetrated on a trusting public in connection with the Quebec harbor works and the British Columbia graving dock and better known as the "McGreevy-Langovin scandal.*' It is no oxagj^eration whatever to say that the revelations in this instance far exceed in gravity anything of the kind that, to our shame as a people, has yet developed in our midst, the Pacific and Rykert scandals not excepted. For audatity of conception and magnitude of the frauds involved, the Quebec harbor works scandal is without a parallel in our history ; and, though some of the incontrovertible proofs by which it is supported have already been pvMished all over the land, it is well at thi.i moment that the public memory should be refreshed in regard to it, especially as the conspirators, the very men who havi^ been using their public positions of trust to plunder their fellow citizens in such a wholesale and barefaced manner are both, through themselves and their party candidates all over the Dominion, seeking to obtain, by the votes of the people, another lease of the power which they have so grossly misused to the public detriment. It should not be forgotten for an instant that the election of candidates pledged to the support of the Oovernment of Sir. John A. Macdonald, Sir Hector Langevin, Sir Adolphe Caron and their colleagues means the endorsation of these frauds and an encourage- ment to the same men to repeat them with even greater audacity, magnitude and impunity in the future, until the name of Canada becomes a hissing and a by-word throughout the civilized world. It should also be carefully borne in mind that every dollar diverted by these public plunderers from its legitimate destination to their own pockets adds a dollar more to the already unbearable burthens imposed on the poor man and makes the Dominion from day to day a still more expensive and undesirable home for him to remain in. To throw dust in tlie public eyes, to triumph again, if possible, in their nefarious designs upon the pockets of the taxpayers, and to prevent investigation of their past misdeeds, the conspirators, headed by Sir John in Ontario, and by Sir Hector Langovin aird Sir Adolpho Caron in Quebec province, are shouting treason on the part of their opponents, boasting their superior loyalty and franti Co : ST4TEWKMT or Mr. O.- 'VII R Pill T have been a member of the firm of Larkin, Connolly cV Co. since our first work beinj^ the Graving Dock, at Quebec, Levis, a contract made with the Harbor Com- missioners of Quebec. In 1H82, our firm made another contract for dredging in connection with the harbor improvements, with the Harbor Commissioners It was with this contract that I first became acquainted with Robert H. MeGreevy (brother of the Hon. Tho- mas MeGreevy, a member of the Harbor Commission, and a member of the House of Commons of Canada) and who became a partner with us (Larkin, Connolly & Co.) for the contract of dredging, becoming interested to the extent of 30 per cent. The Hon. Thomas MeGreevy was aware of his brother's interest in the work ; an agree- ment in writing was made by Larkin, Connolly «Sr Co. setting forth his interest. L In the spring of 1883, we (Larkin, Connolly & Co ) tendered for the construction of the Cross Wall in con- tion with tlu' Harbor Improvements; M. Robert MeGreevy becoming interested to the extent of 30 per cent, by a written agreement signed by us all ; the Hon. Thomas MeGreevy was aware of this before the tenders went in. We (Larkin, Connolly & Co.) became aware of the posi- tion we held as tenderers before being informed ofTicially and governed ourselves accordingly by the withdrawal of John Gallagher's and G. IJeaucage's tenders ; and in con- sideration of $-5,000 paid to R. H. MeGreevy, in presence of the Hon. Thomas MeGreevy, we obtained the contraci. This payment of iJ2').000 was made in .Tune, 1HH:{, by promissory note's made l)y one member ol'fhe firm and endorsed by another, which notes were subKequently retired by the firm at maturity, and charged to expense account. II. On or about the 23rd of June, 1884, Larkin, Connol- ly Af Co. signed a supplementary contract lor certain works lor (completion of the Graving Dock at St. Joseph, Levis, and erection of th«' caisson, with the Harbor Com- missioners, lor the obtaining of which contra(!t Larkin Connolly a: Co. paid the Messrs. McGreevy the sum of $22,000 in promissory notes of one member of the firm to another, which notes were subsequently ])aid. III. On or about November, 1884, Messrs. Larkin, Con- nolly & Co. signed a contract with the Department of Public Works of Canada for the erection and complftion of the Graving Do<.k at Ksquimalt, in British Columbia Mr. R. H. McGreevy being with his brother's, the Hon. Thomas McGreevy's, know^ledge, a partner in (he said contract. That, immediately after the signing of the said contract I paid the sum of $5,000 in promissory notes of J^arkin, Connolly \- Co for obtaining said contract and for his services to be given to have change made for the be- nefit of the firm of Larkin, ConnoUv & Co. and later on and to the end of the work, various large sums were paid to him or ibr him on said contract amounting in all (exclusive of R. H. McGreevy's share of the profits) to $30,000, as per statement of the accountant of the firm. IV. That on or aboui the mouth of January, 1887, on a proposition made by the Hon. Thomas McGreevy, our firm met and agreed to pay him (the Hon. Thomas Mc- Greevy) the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars (^25,- 000) on condition of his obtaining for us 35c per yard ibr dredging the Harbor works to the extent of 800,000 cubic yards or thereabouts, instead of 27 cents, our (contract average price. The money was paid most of it direct to himself, part through Robert H. McGre(»vy. I have seen a memorandum in pencil on the subject, among others, and I recognized the handwriting of Michael Connolly on T behall'of tho firm. We received the 85 centH per cubio yard i'or dredgiug afterwards, beginning with the season of 1887. V. On the 7th of August, 1887, the Hon. Thomas MrGreevy caine to mo and stuted that Sir Hector Langc- vin was going that evening and wanted money ($5,000) ; I gave him 11,000 and on the 8th of the same month he received |!4,000 from N. K. Connolly ; this sum was charged in the books as appears by the accountant's statement, suspense account. VI. That large sums of money were paid to the Hon. Thomas McGreevy, including special above set forth between 1883 and 1889, amounting to over $100,000. " VII. I also paid to two sums of $5,000.00 each for these works, and my share of $10,000 note by Nicholas K. Connolly to Sir Hector Langevin, as so stated by Connolly, which was paid out of the graving dock, Levis, all of which appear in the accountant's statement. VIII, There was paid to the Hon. Thomas McGreevy, through Nicholas K. Connolly, $3,000 on the 29th of December, 1883, or therabouts, charged to the British Columbia Dock. IX. I paid, on or about March, 1886, to the Hon5 Thomas McGreevy $5,000 ; on this I have a letter of P. Larkin, dealing with that sum. " X- The statement of the accountant shows $3,646 paid to one inspector on the Harbor work dredging, $1 ,560.00 to another and $445.00 to a third ; all the partners had to contribute their proportion to these payments." I have a statement signed by the accountant of the firm setting forth all the payments, and others as above. (Signed). O. E. MURPHY. ATATEMEIVT OF IVIr ROBERT H. UleGREEVY I have read over the statement of O. E. Murphy,Esq, one of the firm of Larkin, Connolly & Co. for the various con- tracts of the Quebec Harbor Improvements and Graving — 9 — Dock, British Columbia. I have a knowledj^e that all these statements are correct, aud add the following : To parag-rapt 1. — That I handed the twenty-five thou- sand dollars (125,000) in notes to Thomas McGreevy for his own use. To paragraph 4. — That I handed ten thousand dollars (10,000) of this sum to Thomas McGreevy. To paragraph 5.- I have no personal knowledge of this except that, on the statement of Messrs. N. K. Connolly and Owen E. Murphy, both members of the firm, the amount was charged in the books to suspense or expense account. To paragraph 0. — Of this I know that it was charged in the accounts and I paid my proportion. That I paid to Thomas McGreevy seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) out of my share received from the firm of those contracts and eighty-five thousand dollars ($85,000) or thereabout from the other sums paid by the firm as stated by 0. E. Murphy. I know that since 1884 Thomas McGreevy has been the owner of the steamer Admiral subsidized by the Federal Government, and benefitted solely from the traffic earnings, the steamer being to theuameof Julien Chabot, afterwards in mine and recently again to that of Julien Chabot. It was to February 1888 that I got the steamer transferred to my name at the instance aud for the benefit of Thomas MclJreevy, and for the ^mrpose of borrowing from Nicolas K. Connolly the sum of twenty- five thousand dollars ($25,000) which I handed to Thomas McGreevy. I have never received any of this subsidy. (Signed) EGBERT H. McGREEVY. Now% what was the result of the appearance of these startling affidavits in the leading' French Conservative 10 — paper at Quebe<; ? For somo days, th*^ principal culprit. Mr. Tliomas McCxrcevv- M. P., tried the old game of treatini^ them with contemptuous silence, but it would not work. Public indignation, the voice of public opi- nion, was too strong lor him and. for very shame sake, he was at last for •«*d to take a semblance of action to exculpate and set himself right before the public. He swore out warrants for criminal libel against Mr. Tarte, his brother, Robert McGreevy and Mr. O. E. Murphy. He raadt' a pretence of employing the best lawyers in Quebec, to punish, he declared, his slanderers and to push the pro(3eedingsthrough as vigorously and promptly as possible. This was early last spring, but from that day, to this, on one pretext or other, by one artful legal mauieuvre or another of his lawyers, the proceedings have hung fire, have been obstructed and delayed and the cases are still pending Far from courting the thorough investigation and ventilation which be professed to be so anxious to obtain, he has endeavored in every way to avoid them. Was this the conduct of an innocent man anxious to clear his character for public honesty and pro))ity .'' Certainly not. The same remark applies,, too, to the ci\ il actions of damages for libel which he also instituted aji'ainst his accusers and which are also to- day no furthi'r advanced than they were last spring. In the action brought against him by Mr. Tarte to recover the penalty for illegally sitting in Parliament as a public contractor or as one having an interest in public contracts and subsidies, his conduct has been precisely the same. Instead of seeking to meet the issue squarely as an honest and innocent man would do, he has left no stone unturned to evade it. He has resorted to endless dilatory pleas, pleas to the form, and every other kind of legal quibble for the purpose, and to the demand for an investigation during last session of Parliament, he put in, through his colleague, Mr. Curran, a genernl denial of the terrible charges against him, coupled with an abject appeal to the pity of the House as the victim of the ingratitude ol his brother and the man O. E Murphy, for both of whom he could not lind expressions too hard, though they had been — 11 — his confidential Iricnds and business and boon coinpanions for years, while the (.Tovernment, on their part, pleaded the lateness of the session for not pressini^ for an enquiry, which events have since shown they never intended to grant, but rather intended to prevent at all cost. The sudden dissolution of Parliament before its term and in defiance of the solemn prornisi made })y a Minis- ter of the Crown in the House to the represontatives of the people that the general ele(;tions would not be brought on before the taking of the census and another revision of the lists was dictated by the same desire, to prevent the complete exposure of the Government and Mr. McGrreevy's rascality that would be sure to take place if another session of Purliament was held before appealing to the people. It the reader will turn to the remarkable speech, which is also printed and circulated, and which was delivered by Mr. Tarte a few weeks since at the great Laurier demonstration in Quebec, he will find positive evidence of this, as well as ol' tht' criminal com- plicity of Sir John and his colleague. Sir Hector Lange- viu, as shown by the persistent way in which they igno- red the charges and in which they endeavored to cloak Mr. McGreevy. But to return to Mr. McGreevy. The solemn declara- tion, with which he attempted to deceive and mislead the House and country, was promptly shown to be a deliberate falsehood from beginning to end. His own letters, in his own handwriting, the letters of his accom- plices in the contracting firm of Larkin, Connolly cvc Co. and in the Public Works Department at Ottawa w^'re published and put in proof of this and no onc^ has attempted or dared to attempt lo dtMiy their authenticity and i'orce, for neither can be questioned. Now, what is the situation of the afi'air to day ■ It has been fully ana unmislakeably proved that the Public Works Department of the Dominion was handed over by Sir Hector Lanaevin to unscru[)ulous sjMvulators ; that a member of Parliament (Controlled and practically ran it for his own benefit and that of his accomplices ; that he used the official paper of the Department for his corres- 10 pondeuco, that he dictated to his associates the way in which thoy should make ihi'ir t»»ndcrs, to the engineers what they should enter and omit in their reports and to the Minister himscli'hovv he should draw up the Orders in Council to plunder hundreds of thousand of dollars from the public treasury. And as this system has been practised for years, it is impossible to believe that frauds of the kind could have been perpetrated without the knowledif-e and consent of the Minister. If these frauds do not constitute wholesale brigandage then words have lost their meaning;. The conspirators operated, not only on the Quebe(; harbor works, but on those at Kinfrston and on those at Esquimalt, in Bristish Columbia. They had ramifications in the public depart- ments, in the offices of members and in the House of Commons. Mr. Tarte has in his possession and has published in his paper letters which incriminate a mul- titude of persons in high position among the Conserva- tives, from Sir Hector and the Government engineer, Perley, (since superannuated by the Government to get him out of the way) down to the members for British Columbia. Tenders wert^ put in for $100,000 more than the value of the works to be done ; and the lowest tenderers were either elbowed out by some dodge or other or they were bought out and frequently not paid, as in the case of contractor Beaucage, at Quebec, who has been obliged to sue Mr. McGreevy to force payment of the amount promised him. Not a contract was given unless the political influence of Mr. Thomas McGreevy and the other big bugs behind him w^asrichly paid for, $:2.5,0O0 being the minimum price thus paid. The works were prolonged eternally as it was much more prolitable to the swindlers to keeji then dragging on than to linish them. Changes and additions were made in the contracts, which brought in hundreds of '' '"usands of dollars to the accoinpli<'es ; all kinds of costly . j.eriments were made for which they w^ere paid as extras ; the bottoms of rivers were actually paved with — 13 — lice id im Ire lis Portland cement, thousands ; of cubic yards were added at increased prices to the dredj^iug contracts; and no sooner was a dock or any other part oi'an undertakiui^ completed than the contractors, inspired and assisted by Mr. Mc- Greevy, with his backer at Ottawa, Sir Hector Langevin, started on agitation to have it enlarg^'d and were invari- ably successful much to the augmentation of the plunder to be divided among the gang. These statemi nts ara not made lightly. They are proved and supportedby the ad- missions of the conspirators themselves in their own letters and by the official records of the Public Works Department at Ottawa. But where, it may be asked, did ail the money go that was thus diverted from its legitimate objects and virtu- ally stolen from the heavily burthened taxpayers of the Dominion ? Partly to supply funds to carry elections and deb" h the electorate and partly into the pockets of the mplices. And what role did Sir Hector play in the matter ? Is there any one so bereft of common sense as to believe that the infamies which were carried on in his own office, under his very eyes, were carried on without his knowledge ^ Dit he profit by them personally ? His accom- plice says : Yes. He paid him $15,000 on one occasion. And this evidence has been corroborated by another ac- complice equally well informed, Mr. Valin, ex-Conserva- tive M. P. for Montmorency and President of the (Quebec Harbor Commission, who stated publicly on the 10th February instant that, to his knowledge, Sir Hector Lan- gevin was the guiltiest of the gang, that he was in a po- sition to prove that, it was, by Sir Hector's direct orders, that the Commission signed with Larkin, Connolly & Co. the contracts, by which they and their friends succeeded in plundering hundreds of thousands of dollars of the public money, of which Sir Hector was the guardian and trustee for the people of Canada, and that if Sir Hector knew all he jould tell about him, he would not think twice about giving him $10,000 to take a trip to the United States. Again on Sunday, the 22nd inst the same Mr. Valin stated openly at a large public meeting in Montmorency county, for which he is actually run- I - 14- ning again as a pretended Independent Conservative candidate, that $30,000 oi' the public money appropria- ted lor the Quebec harbor works were taken to elect Sir Adolphe Caron for Quebec county in 1887, that $15,000 more were taken to elect his colleague, Mr. T. Chase Casgraiu, for the same constituency for the Local Legis- lature, and that a considerable sum also went from the same source to elect Mr. L. (J. Desjardins, Conservative, for Montmorency, in 18i)0. The question naturally suggests itsetf— to how much do the robberies amount in all V The thing is well known — that, for the Quebec harbor works alone, the port of Quebec is charged will a debt of nearly 5 millions and that the works done represent value for only about 3 millions, and when it is considered that the same gang operated in the same wholesale fashion on all works of the same nature executed since 1882 all over the Domi- nion, a faint notion can be formeed of the vast and ter- rible extent to which the Canadian taxpayer has been plundered. The incriminating papers and letters thus far published show the following amounts robbed to a certainty: Since 1882, on all Larkin, Connolly & Co's contracts, 3() per cent In 1883, for the cross wall contract, paid to M. Thomas McGrecvy $25,000 00 In 1884, to secure the completion of the Levis graving dock, paid to the Messrs. McGreevy 22,000 00 In 1884, to seciire the contract for the Esquimau dock and to get it modified from time to time to suit the contractors.. 30,000 00 In 1887, to get an increase from 27 to 35 cts. a yard on 800,000 cubic yards of dredging, pnid to Mr. McGreevy 25,000 00 In 1887, PAID TO Sill HECTOR LANGE- VIN on Mr. McGreevy' demand 5,000 00 Another sum paid to the s.ime in considera- tion of the Levis graving dock contract.. 10,000 00 - 15 - In 1883» another sum of $3,000 paid to Mr. McGrreevy and charged to the British Columbia dock 3,000 00 In 1886, paid to T. McGreevy 5,000 00 Paid to the Dredging Inspector 3,t)4G 00 To another official 1,.M>0 00 Toathird 445 00 Paid to T. M<'Greevy, through his brother, as his share oi" the profits 75,000 00 In 1888, paid to T. McG reevy on the transfer of the steamer Admiral 25,000 00 00 00 )0 )0 10 io i8;240,651 00 What the 30 per cent share imposed on Larkiu, Connolly <& Co., as the price of the Ministerial favors must have yielded 400,000 00 Profits on the increase in price of dredging 800,000 yards 82,000 00 1786,(151 00 This is the total as far as known or rather as far as shown by the documents yet published, but Mr. Tarte, at the public meeting in Montmorency on Sunday last, which Sir Hector Langevin, was invited to attend but took good care to absent himself from, as he did also on Tuesday, the 24th instant, from the meeting at Sorel, when Mr. Tarte was ready to confound him with the proofs of his complicity in the McGrreevy frauds, publicly stated that he has and will publish in a few days proof that the total amount stolen is close upon, if it does not exceed, $2,000,000 and that $500,000 of the plunder came from the British Columbia duck alone. In the face of these indisputable facts, in the presence of this frightful and alarming exposure of the immorality, dishonesty and ulter rottenness of the present men m power at Ottawa, all party and other considerations should be set aside at this juncture and every honest elector in the Dominion should pause and consider well before giving his vote to any candidate pledged to the support of the present unprincipled Government, for to - 15- d.0 so will be to approve and endorse their wrong-doing and to encourage the continuance, perhaps, on a still larger and more audacious scale, of the through-paced rascality, of which the Quebec Harbor works only afford one illustration. Of the guilt ol the accused conspira- tors, there can be no question. It is not only established beyond perad venture by authentic documentary proof, but by their every movement and by the present excitement into which they have plunged the Dominion to try to escape from the condign punishment of their crimes, while their defiance of public opinion emphasizes the urgent necessity for the Canadian people to guard against Thomas McGreevy in the future. Quebec, 25th February, 1891. •5V rr- i doinff i still paced afford spira- ished )f, but sment ry to imes, s the 'aiast ^.