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Letter from the Hon. Dr. Tupper, C. B., to the
Hon. James McDonald, M. P. P,

Ouawoy February 5, 1872.
Mt Deab McDona.ld, —

Although I have on principle refused to make anj defence against the yile
slanders upon my public character invented and published by the Anti-Union Press
of Nova Scotia, — because I thought it would establish a veij improper practice if a
public man were called upon to defend himself in the press against unfounded
calumny unsupported by any ahow of evidence, — I would like you to be prepared to
meet any charges that may be made against me in the Legislature of Nova Scotia, as
I will be prepared to meet them in Parliament. Well knowing tliat the enemies of
Union, finding our cause rapidly commending itself to the approval of all intelligent
men, are anxious to assail it through me, I feel that I owe it to the country to orush
their lying inventions by an array of evidence which must silence them forever.

You will remember that many persons interested in mining, urged upon the Govern-
ment of which we were members, the policy of allowing additional rights of search
to be taken out for the same area — that it was; well known that this question was
engaging the attention of the Government for some time previous to the 25th of
May 1865, when an Order in Council making the proposed change was approved
by the Lieutenant-Grovemor in Council. That order was published on the 28th o£
June, and on the 29th C. H. M. Black, Esq., and at least two or three other persons,
made application for rights of search under its provisions.

On the day after the Order in Council was approved by the Lieutenaut-GrovemOT
I went on a mission to Fredericton, to arrange with the Government of New Bruns-
wick a joint delegation of the two Provinces to England, with the object of securing
the construction of the railway from Moncton to Truro. I was absent a week, and on
my return was engrossed with business preparatory to my leaving for England, which
I did in company with my colleague, the Hon. W. A. Henry, and the New Brunswick
delegates, on the 22nd or 23rd of June. It will thus be seen that I was not in the
Province on the day when the first Gazette issued after the Order was approved
in Council, nor when it was subsequently published. As the publication of Orders in
Council was the duty of the Clerk of the Executive Council, and for toe reason*
mentioned, from the time that Order was approved the subject passed from my mind,
until I read the attack upon myself contained in the Moming Ohronisle of August
7th, 1871.

Mr. Annand, the proprietor of that paper, sat m the Assembly of Nova Scotia
with us for two sesakms after taat Order was published ; yet, while leading a violent
oppoflitioo, he, with all the facts known to the public, never ventared to question
either the f^oUoj of tb« Ordwr or our aetioa under it, Daring the last four yean,
whh rll the ardiives of the Mines D^partcMnt in the poesessim of the Gk>T^rnment,
not an insinuation was ever basarded queatiuuing the integrity with which our Gor-
emment had Mbninistwed ih» Mines. We gave tp the worid Um b«st evidmo*
possible that we had nothing to fme from the exposure of oar acts, when we in 1867
Md Mr. P. & HMultott from th« oftoe of Chief Coniiiiisfio«er qf th«t D^ifri-
whi#i h» iud pmaM over 4«n>iS 9^ wMlt> \^}n ^ <<<^ Tet ||Ir. QjMl^

ton, while declaring himself my " implacable enemy," when dragged to the stand, was
compelled to admit in his letter to the Acadian Becorder, dated August 17th, 1871,
^ I cannot state of my own knowledge that any member of the Governmetit of that
*'d''.j made a business hit in th<; speculation which that Order in Council provided
♦♦ for." Mr. Hamilton, it is true, opposed the passage of that Oider, when he, in
common with several others, was examined before the Council upon the subject ; but
as the Legislature unanimously approved of the policy contained in nhat Order, and
Mr Annand's Gkivoroment have embodied it in the law, and placed it on the Statute
Book, I am not called upon to defend it. I need not notice further the many misstate-
ments contained in Mr. Hamilton's letters, as you and all my colleagues of that day
are well aware of vlieir falsity ; but, I may here remark that the numerous com-
plaints made to our Government of his close intimacy with a gentleman who was
constantly speculating ia mines, was a sufficient reason for informing him of this Order
in Council through the same channel as all others — the Rojfol Gazette.

When Mr. Black obtained his license to search, I was on the other side of the
Atlantic, and had never exchanged a word with him upon the subject. While I was
• member of the Government 1 steadily refused to have anything to do with either
gold or coal mines, and when I resigned my seat in the Government on the 30th of
June 1867, 1 did not own one cent's worth of mining property.

Haviug said thus much in general terms, I will now furnish you with tUe evidence
bearing on every point on which f have been assailed. It is admitted that the Order
in Council made a valuable change in the law, but it is asserted that J gave Mr.
Black private information which enabled him to anticipate all other parties in making
application under it. The only evidence that, in the absence of any to sustain this
charge, could be required to disprove it, is furnished by the admission of the Chronicle
itself, that when Mr. Black made his application, after 10 o'clock, A. M., on the 29th
of June, he had *he RoycU Gazette of tie 28th in his hands, containing the Order
under which he applied.

The Chronicle asserts that the Gazette was withheld from tbe public. Suppose
that were true, I did not issje the Gazette ; but it is shown to be false bj the answer
of Alpin Grant, Esq.. the then Queen's Printer, contained in the British Cohnitt of
September 12th, 1871, of which he is the proprietor:

" Psrhapa the gravest part of tb« accasation against Dr. Tupper is that of having caused
a delay in the issue of the Royal Oazetle in order to gire his friends on opportunity to
operate in the Mines Office. Our answer to this charge shall be very bnef and explicit. The
•tory is a lie without a shadow of ground to justify it. The proprietor of this paper held tbe
o9«e of Qae«a'8 Printer at that time, and no »«ich delay in the issue of the Gazeltt ever took
piftc* while it waa published by him. Wc subjoin an aifidavit from the foreman of the
Q<uttt$ Office, which will be conclusive on that point :

" ' I, John McDonald, of the Oity of Halifax, make oath and aay that I was foreman of tbe
Royal Chuetf oAoe daring the whole year 1865 — that I had sole charge of the printing and
)mwm% of the Royal Oazette newspaper — and I solemalv declare that I never on auy occa-
•ioB received ixistructions, — either from the Queen's Printer, or from any other quarter, — to
withhold the publication of the Gazettt beyond its regular day of issue, which was Wednes-
day in each week ; and I f^irtber declare tbat the publication of the RoytA Oatettt was never
delayed beyond its regular day of issue.

JOHN MoDOKALO.

«< « Swot* to b«lbr« a»« this Uth day of Se]^i«mb«r, 1871.

" ' W. Mt«m Gray, Aid. and J. P.' "

It ia notoriotis that the Soy<d OaxtHe h alistoet invariably printed late in the even-
iii|; <^ Wednesday, and sent to the puUic ofllces sometinoe in the forenoon of th«
aest day. It la not pretended that tstr one was relbsed a oopy at the Qaeeu'i
FHn^i, where it dwAjs could be h«a on Tltariday morning as early as tbe offioe
opened^

TW Ckronitif of August 22nd and : '^ It n<m appears ilbtH iioeBoes to sewali three
<*iairelM of five sqone oulei' eadi cff die Spi^ ifill ooal formatiott Held hj two tvih

" dentg of Cumberland, expired on the 29th of Jane. These parties would then have
" been in a position to select a square mile from each area, and would undoubtedly have
" done ro if not taken by surprise by the Order in Council. The ring, with Tupper at it«
" head, was perfectly (»gnizant of these facts. The Order was therefore suppressed
" for four weeks, and only printed in the Gazette on Wednesday, the 28th of June, th«
" day before these licences expired. Not a copy, however, was publicly distributed on
" that day. On the following morning, at the very hour they expired, Tupper's oon-
" federate appeared at the Mines Office, with the Gazette in his pocket, and holding in
" his hands applications for eight areas, including these three we have referred to. The
•' other parties were of (course taken by surprise. If the Order had even been published
" ill the Gazette of the previous week, they would have had sufllcient notice to enable
" thetn to select their square mile of each area." No man knows better ,aan Mr.
Annand the disingenuousnesa of this statement. He knows that on that miming of
the 29th of June the three areas referred to were entirely free for any one to apply
for them — that it did not require the Order !.. Va. 'ncil to secure them, and that the
previous occupants had forfeited all claim to them. Had they desired to locate a
square mile, they well knew that it must be done before the year expired, as it did
on the 28th of June, and that after that date they had no more claim there than any
other person. That Mr. Black should have had his applications ready, would surprise
no one who knows that the books of the Mines Office, containing all the metes and
bounds, were open for inspection to every one who chose to visit that office. Of the
reason why these parties did not locate a square mile and apply for a license to work, I
know nothing ; but the statement that they were " taken by surprise by the Order in
Council," and thus lost their opportunity, carries falsehood upon the face of it. They
allowf.d their rights to expire, as was not infrequently the case, and the areas were
then open to any one who chose to app'y.

Having thus disposed of the question of the suppression of the Gazette, I now
come to the charge that the " Order in Council was suppressed for four weeks before
publication." - ik

As I have already said, from the day on which the Order was settled in Council in
1865, until these attacks were made in 1871, the matter had not croased jr.j mind,
and until I, last autumn, met James H. Thome, Esq., who was the then Clerk of the
Council, and whose duty it was to attend to the publication of the Order, I did not
rayeelf know why this delay had occurred. He at once said that he had recently met
the Hon. S. L. Shannon, who told him that he (Mr. S.) had been the innocent cause
of the delay, when they both remembered the facts as narrated in the following
affidavit of Mr. Thorne, and note from Mr. Shannon. You will no doubt recollect,
as I do, that Mr. Shannon differed in opinion with the majority of the Council npon
this question, and it appears that, as I had gone to New Brunswick before the next
Gazette was published, he asked Mr. Thorne to withhold the publication of the Order,
as he thought it might be reconsidered by the Council. In the nre«)sure of batineto
preparatory to the Attorney General and myself going to England, the matter Waa
not brought up before we went, and Mr. Shannon, thinUng that it could not properly
be diMie in our absence, Mr. Thorne was directed to publish it in the Gazette, all of
which is fully shown by the following affidavit of Mr. Thome, and note flram
Mr. Shannon : —

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" I, James H. Thorne, of the City of Balif&x and Frovlace of KoVft Scotia, mak« <titi^ and
say, that I held the offices of Deputy Secretary and Clerk of the Execative Council of the
Province of Nova Scotia, during the year one thousand e'ght hundred and sixy-five, — that
the duty of furnishing the Orders in Council to the Queen's Printer for pablication in the
KayeU Gaaatte devolv^ exclasively upon me, — that the order relating to Licenses to Search
for Coal, approved in Council on the twenty-fifth of May, one thousand eight hufldred and
sixty-five, was fumiebed by me to the Queen's Printer in the usual way, — (hat I never re-
. ceived any intimation, directly or indirectly, from the Honorable Charles Tupper in reference
to that Order ; and that the said Charles Tupper was absent on a mission to the government
of New Druasviok, when the first Oaztttt issued after tho approval of the said Order

tn Oouncil, and that h« wa« abicnt on a tnisiion toBngUnd when th« taid Order wat placed
bj me in the hands of the Quien's Printer for publication ; and further, that the publicatioa
uf the Mid Order in Council was deferred bj ue in consequence of an intimation from th«
Hoaorable S. L. Sbaimon that the said Order in Ooancil might be reconsidei^d.

(Siffued) JAMES H. THORNI.

"Sworn to at Halilkx thii 30th of October, A. D. 1873, before me,

"OlO P. HiTOBILL, J. P."
0»pied from the original by Oharles McGalla Almon, ) , , .

at Ottawa on the 9tb January, 1872. f

" Halifax, January 2,\S12

"Mt DiAB TU7P1E,—

"I hare mnch pleasure in reducing to writing the statement I made to jou on the
oecaiion of your recent visit to Halifax, when I explained to you my recollection of the
eanse of the delay in the publication of the Order in Council of May, ^865, in reference to
licenses to prospect for coal.

" Ton may probably remember that I differed with a majority of my colleagues as to the
policy of making the change provided for in that Order, and while I felt the weight of the
arguments used for the adoption of the policy, I was afraid that the inconreniences result*
ing flrpm it would more than outweigh any supposed benefits. This conviction was so strong
with me that my impression is that in your absence the publication of the Order was delayed
for a lime at my instance, for the purpose of having a reconsideration of the subject by
the whole Council. Subsequently I withdrew my objections, and the Order was published.
" I mentioned (he above to Mr. Thome, the then Clerk of the Council, when 1 saw the at^
tack made upon yon, and he confirmed my recollection.

'* I need only add that you are quite at liberty to make any use you may wish of this
statement of facts in reference to which so much unfounded abuse has been heaped upon
yon.

*' I remain, believe me,

" Faithfully yoars,
(Signed) "8. L. SHANNON.

'< Tri Hoh. Cbarlm Tuppib, C.B., Ottawc, Ontario. "
Copied from the original by Charles McCoUa Almon,
at Ottawa, on the 9th Jauuary, 1872.

I may here state that the articles which have appeared in the Halifax papers, de-
fending me from the slanders of the Anti-Union press, were written and published
without my having seen any of them.

When it was shown that there was not the slightest foundation for any aspersi(»
o( my public character — that I was on the other side of the Atlantic when the Order
in Council was published, and rights acquired under it, and my assailants were chal-
lenged to adduce the slightest evidence that I had any property in mines while a
member of the Government, the Chronicle was obliged to confess that all the evidence
they could adduce in support of their charges was that I had offered te sell the Spring
Hill Mines. It is quite true that I did offer to sell the mine, but it was not until I
had received a Power of Attorney, executed by Mr. Black, in the office of Hon. J.
W. Ritchie, on the 4th day of June, 1868, eleven months after I had ceased to be a
member of the Gktvernment, and which was forwarded to me when I was in England.
lii 1869 Mr. Black conveyed to me an interest in the property of which he held leases
from Mr- Annaod's Government, as will appear by the following authenticated copies
of Power of Attorney and Letter from Mjt. Black :—

" Know all Men, that I, Charles H. M. Black, of the City of Halifax, in the Province of

Nova Scotia, merchant, have nomirated and appointed, and do nominate and appoint the

Jionorable Charles Tapper, of Halifax, aforesaid, now in London, Bnglaad, a Companion of

the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, to be m" 'rae and lawfhl Attorney for me, and in my

name and stead, absolutely, to bargain, sell, and dispose of six ■everal Ueenses of oconpa-

tion, isaafld to me on the thirteenth day of Jnne last, A. D. 1867, under the hand and seal of

.John Batherford, Bsquire, Chief Oomnissioaer of Mines for tke Province of Nova Scotia,

.and now in force, granting to me the exclusive right of openicf nines, and getting minerals,

■ether than gold, tn the period of two years flroa the i%'p, last aeatieaed, at firing Hill,

AOoaaty of CniBDerland, Nova Scotia, within the limits in tue said lieensoi marked Nos. 1, i,

), 4, B, <, ncpoctively doseribed, being six hundred and forty acres ia oaeh Uooase, er sis

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•quaramilei in all, and anj or either of toch liceutea, with all rights, powers, pririlegei, *nd
ippurtenivncn!) hereto belonging, including the right to take out before the expiration of the
■aid two years, a lease or leases of tbe said areas respectivelj from the Commissioner of
Mines aforesaid, or from the Gtown, for the purpose of getting the said minerals, and to
niKke etich S!il« bj prirate contract ; and also for me, and in my name, and as my act and
deed, to make, sign, eiecute, and delirar to tbe purchaser or purchaaert thereof, their heirs,
executors, ami administrators, and assigns, from time to time, good and sufficient deeds or
instr jments o. conveyance, and transfer or asaignmsnt of the said premises, and every part
thereof respectively as aforesaid, and to receive the purchase money, and give acquittances
and discharges therefor to the purchaser and purchasers aforesaid ; and gsnerally for mc, and
as my Attorney to do and execute all snch acts and deeds as may be needful for conveying
and assigning the said property in whole or in part to the purchaser or purchasers thereof,
I hereby agreeing to ratify and confirm all acts that my said Attorney may lawfully do in th«
premises by virtue of these presents.
" Witness my hand and seal at Halifax, this fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord one

thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

(Signed) "CHARLES H. If. BLACK. (Seal.)

"Signed, sealed, and delivered in presence of

"S. B McEaAY."
Copied from the original by Charles McOoU'. Alnron, V

at Ottawa, on the 9th January, 1872. /

" Provinok of Nova Scotia, 1 »,^ _..
Halifax. '[To wit:

"I, T .omas Ritchie, Notary Public, duly admitted and sworn, dweDing in tbe City of
Ha'-fax iiid Province rforesaid, do certify that Steplien B. Hurray, the subscribing witness
to Ibe foregoing Povf er, this day appeared before me, and being duly sworn, made oath that
he was prenent, and saw Charles H. M. Black, thi-rein named, sign, seal, and deliver the said
Power of Attorney as his act and deed, and that the signature ' Charles H. M. Black ' to the
said Power subscribed is of the proper hand-writing of the said Charles H. M. Black.

'* In testimony whereof i, the said Notary, have hereto my hand subscribed and Notarial
Seal affixed, at Halifax, this foarth day of June, Anno Domini, 1868.

/Notarial^ (Signed) "THOMAS RITCHIH,

t Seal. / Notary Public."

Copied from the original by Charles McColla Almon, >

at Ottava, on the 0th January, 1372.

"Halifax, 19lh December, 1871.

" Ho.tofiABLi ChablRS Tcppia, C. B., Ottawa, —

" Mr Dka« Sir, — A fier the repeated attacks upon you by a portion of the city press, touch-
ing tbe Spring Hill Mine, I have thought it but right that I should state tbe fact that I had no
communication with yoa respecting licenses to senrcli for coal at Spring Hill or elsewhere,
previous to the application made by ne in June 1865, and that I received no intimation fiom
you that an Order id Council had passed authorizing the granting of second rights to
search.

'^ In Junr ]8B8, when yon were in England, it was thought by the friends interested with
me that yon could be of essential service m us in bringing tbe mine to the notice of English
capitalists, and I accordingly executed a Power of Attorneyr authorizing you to sell the min-
ing rights I had acquired, which was duly transmitted to you ; and in 1869 it was determined
to convey to yoa one undivided fifth of three sq^re miles, of which I held leases from Mr.
Annand's Government.

" Tou are aware this explanation was at your service last sammer, and you ean now make
what use of It you please.

" Begrett'ng you should have been tbe subject of so mucb momorited abuse,

" I remain, yours very truly,

aj£^ ed) " C. H. H. BLACK."

Copied from original by Charles McColla Almon, I
at Ottawa, od the 9th January, 1872. j

But one charge remains to be noticed, and that is— that I used vaj influence to
divert the route of the Intercolonial Railway so as to make it subserve the interests
and increase the value of the Spring Hill Coal Mines. The Chronicle of August
7th said : " The route of the Intercolonial Railway had been diverted from the shorea
** of the Bay, where it would have touched the seaports of Five Islands and Parrsboro
** Village, thus building up two Ports, and shortening the distance between Truro and

"Amherst about nine mUei, and was canirl over the Cobeqiiid Range, where the
" diflicullif*-!! of running and rnaintaining the line in working oriier are in the opinion
" of aimpetent pentons almost unsuruioufitable." Afjain, the Morning Chromicle of
September 16th, 1871, said: "The building of the Intercolonial pt-omised to make
" the Spring Hill Mines a highly remunerative Hpeculation. Pr. Tnpper now appeared
** on the scene. The shore route was rejected, and by his influence with the Commis-
" aioners and Chief Engineer he was enabled to run the road within four miles o^ Spring
" HilL" Incredible as it must seem to those who do not know Mr. Annand, ah tliis is
not only untrue, but the very reverse of the truth. The shortCht line that could be
obtained by the shore would have been more than nine miles longer than the present
line, and the published correspondence, which has been laid before Parliament, sho-^s
that while I took no part in the discussion, and Mr. Fleming insisted upon locating
th« road four miles away from the mines, Mr. Annaud and the Executive Oiuncil of
Nova Scotia, fought a most determined battle to carry the road " over the Cobequid
Mountains," and through the centre of this Spring Hill Mine, as will fully appear
by a perusal of the following public documents ; —

RETURN

To Au Address of the Houie cf Commons, of the 10th ultimo, calling for copies of all ci/cres-
pondence relative to the surveys of the several proposed routes ot the Intercolonial
Railway, with copies of all documents rettiting to the same ; also copies of all Orders
in Council relative to the same since the last Returns.

HKCTOR LANQEVrX, Hecrttary of State.
Department of the Secretary of State,
Ottawa, nth May, 18t;9.

(Copy 497 — No. 30) Gommmtnt floute,

Halifax, Nova Scotia, llth August, 1868.
Sib — I have the honor to transmit herewith for the information of His Excellency the
Governor General, a copy of a Minute of Council approved by myself, respecting the location
of the line of proposed Railway between Truro in this Province and Moncton in New Brans-
wick. I have the honor to, Sir,

Your obedient servant,

(Signed) Hastikqs Ooyli.

The Honorable The Secretary of State for the Provinces, kc. Ac , Ac.

Ifalifax, N. S.
Copy of a minute of Council passed on the 3rd day of August, 1868, and approved by His
Excellency the Lieutenant Governor.

In view of t*<e immediate commencement of the Railway between Truro and Moncton, it is
incumbent on th« Gove: nment to see that the engageincntit and interests of the Province are
dnly protected in its location and construction.

As regards the Route, the line when commenc;d in 1806 as a Provincial work, was designed
by those who undertook it, to eflfect the shortest possible communication between Nov*
Scotia and New Brunswick, and to tecurr the largest amount of intermediate traffic by giving a new
and important development of the mineral resources of the Province by connecting the Iron and Coal
Districts of Colchester and Cumberland, and thtse objects should be still insisted upon to the fullest «x-
tent possible. It appears that without any engines -ing difficulties and at probably less cost and
with easier grades than on the Railways at present in the Province, a hue can be made, and
is already located, passing through the Acadia Mines to Springhill and Amherst, which would
give the requisite facilities for extensive mining and manufacturing operations, involving a
considerable consumption of coal paying Royalty, and thus contributing largely to the Revenue
and prosperity of tha Province ; and this route the Government is therefore bound, in the
interests of the Province, to recommend in preference to an alternative location which would
omit such a source of traffic.

(Signed) H. Ckosskili , Dep.Prov. Sse.

Provincial Secretary's Office, Halifax, 8th August, 1868.

(Copy of No. 604) Government Souse,

Halifax, Nova Scotia, 17th August, 186
Sir — Referring to my despatch (No. .10) of the llth Instant, enclosing a copy of a minute
of my Executive Council concerning the rou1;e of the proposed Ir -olonial Railway through
the Counties of Oumberland and Colchester, Nova Scotia, I have the honor to eneloie a copy

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of » letter addreated by Captain Tjrler, Ottveroment Inepector of lUilwftyi, to John Lei'tMj
(together with an illustrated map) hearing on thr name iiubject ; and I roqaest that, when
the previous despatch is submitted to His Excellency the Oovernor General, this also, with
its enclosures, toAj be submitted at the same time.

I have tbp hoior to be, Sir,

Tour obedient serrant,

(Signed) HisTiiTas Dotlb.

/Tigk Elm*.
Hampton Court, 17th Juljr, lfl6n.

OiAR Hia, — W'lb reference to our various converi^ationH and our interview with Mr. Flem-
ing, and having had tin opportunity of seeing the plans and sectioas, and the careful
calculatioDS worked out (purtly on the basis suggested by m/belf) bv Mr. Atkinson, 1 have
no lunger any doubt as to the relative value of the routes " A " and " f " for the Intercolonial
Railway through Nova Scotia.

Au regards the engineering part of the question it would appear that line A has an extra
elevation of 101 feet over line K, and thatcerliiiu curvesj aud couuter gradi.iits must be al-
lowed for in excess of lino F. But it appears also that taking account of the coat wf con-
struction on each line, aud capitalizing at t) per cent, the extra cost of working over the
supcr-elevatinns, tlu- rouutcr gradients cud the curves ou the 8tee))er gradieuts on line A,
there Btill resuItH an economy of £:i8,o00 in favor of line A, and against line F.

As regards the general rircumstancea of tiie case, line A would place the Spring Hill Coal
Held and the Acadui fron Mini' [which I hnvf vi*itrd) in direct rommunieation with each other in the
be»t manner. If on the other hand, line P were constructed, a branch nrould be necessary at a
cost of £30,000 to contiect it with tho Acadia Iron Mine, befoie the valuable mineral of that
mine could be extensr ely brought into uhc, and a traf.lc of perhaps £10,000 a year thus be
placed aiion the Railway. The extra length of haulage by such a branch and by line P would
be considerably more coHtly than the super-elevation, gradients and curves of line a.

In fine, the conntruction of line F in place of line A would appear to me to be from every
point of view, a great nrstakc. Settinqf aside the interest.s of the proprietorii, the connection
in the best mauner of S/ninff Hill Coal Field with the Acadia Iron Mine, Ih probably the object of
the greatest industrial importance (with a view to the developcment of the resources of the
country) upon the whi "e of the Intercolonial Railway. The quality of the iron is first rate.
Ita manufacture in a cheap foiai by the use of the Springfield coal, would be a great advan-
tage to the Intercolonial liailway, and to all the Railways (besides other interests) in Canada.
Such an obstruction to the developeuicut of such resources as the construction of line F,
whon line A is available aud lus.'i cost'.y, would be nothing less than a general misfortune to
the industrial interests of the Dominion.

I remain, dear Sir, yours truly,

H. W. Ttlm.

By Telegraph from Halifax to John Leviaey :

. Government has not revoked Minute of Council

fuUy.

Otimtea, 30/A September, 1888.
nor will they. Thomson telegraphs
W. AimAND.

Telegram* through the Montreal Telegraph Company.

Ottawa, noth Stptemiftr, I8G8.
Resolution unopposed because

By Telegraph from Halifax to John Leviiey ;

Government retain viows expressed in Council Minute
not contradictory, and passed undiscussed in their House.

Ja8. Tbomsoi.

(Copy of No. 836) Ottawa, October 20, 1868.

SiE, — I have the honor to enclose in a conveniently printed form, a letter on the general
features of the Nova Scotia Intercolonial Railway Location, as regards population, traffic, kc,
these points having recently been brought under official notice, accomp&aied by copy of a
despatch from ^he Local Government of the Province in confirmation of its minute of the
3rd Augast last, and respectfully soliciting the attention of the Council thereto.

I remain, Sir, ^

Your obedient servant.
To the Hon. H. L. Langevin, G. B., John Litmit.

Secretary of State, kc, kt.

IKTBROOLONIAL RAILWAY.

Dtepmieh /rtm tke Loeml Gavemmtni of If ova Seotia.

Portieulart of Population , Mining and MaaufaeturMfi Operation$, and TraffU.

To th« F<>borable S«creUr7 of State fo? Oanada, —

Sin, — Ontha 30t^. ult. I ha4 the honor to enclase a tele^Tam ftom tho Hun. W. Anuand,
Provincial Treasarcr of Nora Scotia, affirming in the moat positive temu adherence of the Local
Government to 0$ minutt of the 3rd of Auguet latt, on the loec :n of the Intercolonial Railway
through that Prov^t, vhieh recommended thi Centre Line {A) thrcugh the Iron and Coal DittritU,
as most ronJueive to the intertrle oj the Province. A renewed attempt having been made to in-
terpk-et an informal approval of certain recominendations in Mr. F'oming's Report bj three
members of the Qovernment aa an official reTocation of the minnte in question, I have now
the pleasure of submitting copy of a resolation unanimousljr adopted at a meeting of the
Gouacil in Halifax, on Tuesday last, the 13th instant.

(Copy.) Halifax, \2th October, 1868.

The Government have seen no reason to abandon their Minute of Council of the 3rd
August, and will appiove of to location which does not effect the object/* therein con-
templated.

The alleged approval of another location was by only three members of Oouncil, on repre-
sentPtion of Mr. Fleming, in his Report, that, by branch construction or compromise line,
these objects would be as effectuuUy and economically secured.

(Sigued) W. B. Yaii., Clerk of Council.

The foregomg extracts from the sesaional papers of 1869 establish beyond con-
troversy the fact that Mr. Annand brought the whole influence of his Government
and himself to bear upon the Dominion Grovemment in order to compel the latter to
carry the Intercolonial Railway "over the Cobequid range" of mountains, and
through the centre of the coal mining property in question, in opposition to the line
recommended by the Chief Enpineer, Mr. Fleming ; declaring that the interests of
Nova Scotia demanded that it should run there ; and then, in the Morning Chronicle
of August 7th and 15th, 1871, denounced me (although I was not a member of the
GU)vemment, and had taken no part in the discussion) for having sacrificed the in-
terests of the Province by diverting the route of the ISailway to promote the interests
of this coal mine. Had Mr. Annand succeeded in \xxs efforts it would have saved the
i:rcpriAU>rs of the icdne in which I am interested the oonstruction of nome four miles
of railway now required to conne* ^ the property with the Intercolonial.

The annals of poUJcal dishonesty will, I believe, be searched in vain to find so im-
pudent an attempt to denounce a political opponent for an act which the party making
the charge had himself struggled to the utmost to accomplis^, as the perusal of
these public documents and Mr. Aiiuand'b paper have established against him, and
will, I tMnk, go far in the future to absolve any one fnnu taking notice of charges
emanating from suc'> a source.

I am sorry that I have Veen obligHi to trouble you at such length, and will con-
elude by saying that yuu are at liberty to make any use of this letter which you may
oonsider desirable.

I remain y ran fiuthfolly,

CHARLES TUPPER.
How. Jamm MoDohald, M. P. P.