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NOTES FROM OTTAWA THE TARTEMCCRERVY CASE

[SPECIALCORRESPON DENCE OF THE EXAMINER. }

When the Privileges and Elections Com- mittee amet jJast Tuesday morning, Mr. Henry,Q.C., on behalf of himself and Mr. Osler, counsel fur the Public Works Depart- ment, presénted their joint brief. Neither of these gentlemen addressed the Commit- tes, but Mr, Fitzpatrick occupied two days in defence of Hon. Thomas McGreevy. Mr. Tarte announced that he had nothing to say, andthat Mc. Geoffrion, his counsel, would act trouble the Counnittee with any remarks gither. This “sudden outburst of sileyce? on the part. of Mr. Tarte who was irrepressible almost during the exami- nation of witnesses, is unintelligible to the Grits and puzzles them very mach. It amounts to an abandonment of the case by the plaintiff, w!o is very evidently satis- fied that he has failed t p-ove what he expected. Knowing ones account f r Mr. Tarte’s withdrawal by the very open denun- ciation which the Globe, Cartwright. Mills and other Ontario Grits have made cf the , Bay Chaleur Railway scandal, and of their intention to shake themselves clear of their | boodling allies in Quebec. Tarte, Lange- dier, Bronskill and the rest of the Quebec gang insist upon the support of their Ontario brethren, otherwise something will be heard to fall with a dullthud. It is a very pretty case of ‘‘ When rogues fall out,” ete. Meanwhile Mr. Laurier is in an awkward box, and he feels it. He is frequently absent from .he House, and the leadership of the party is practically in the fhands of Cartwright and David Mills. Laurier is serivusly compromised by his relations with Mercier and Pacawi, and his Ontatio followers are consequently sus- picious of him, while his Quebec supporters are all the time fearful that he will betray them by sicing with Outario,

It is impossible, in the narrow coifines of this letter, to give your readers any sum- mary that would do justice to the argu- ments of the several counse! for the accused in this celebrated case. They had better possess their soula in paticnee and await , the finding of the Committee, and mnean- . while get in their harvest. 1 say ‘‘fhnd- ing®,’ because there is no probability of a unanimous verdics from the committee. The Grits. are bound to incriminate Sir ; Hager Leangevin,.and there will undoubt- edly bea majormty and a minority report.

I think it highly probable that, owing to the necessarily many imperfections of these hurriedly written letters, and to the intri- cate as well as voluminous nature of the evidence taken before the Committee, your readers have been but poorly instructed as to the real facts of this casé, and the testi- mony adduced on both sides. [am pretty sure that they held the belief that Thomas received information as to the contract which he should not have feceived, and that he. used that information for the benefit of Larkin, Connelly & Co., of which firm his brother was a member. They possibly also consi- der tkat Sir Hector Langevin, as Minister of Public Works, had no right to hold the communications he did with Thomas Me- Greety, and that the engineers, P: rley and Boyd; disclosed information to MeGreevy that they should not have done.

Batit should be remembered all the time that the harbor works at Quebec were underthe control and management of the harbour commissioners, that- Lurkin, Con- nolly & Co. made their contracts with the commissioners, that all-tenders were ad- dressed to and opened by the commission- ers,.o| whom Thomas McGreevy was one, and avery prominent one: The statutes regarcing these works provided fur a co- operation of the Government with the. har-

| bor commissioners only tu this extent, that

the works should be sanctioned by the Gov- ernor General in Council. When this sanction was obtained the work came under the exclusive jurisdiction and control of the harbor commissioners. They made all con- tracts, appointed and controlled all officers, engineers and inspectors, and made all. pay- ments for work done and material provided. Neither the Government nor the Depart- ment ef Public Works had any such fanc- tions or powers in connection with the works, Kegarding the cross-wall and !ock, the statute was a little different, as it re- quired that the plans should be prepared by the engineers of the Department of Public Works, that public tenders should be called for, and the contract awarded by the Governor-General in Council, so that even under this Act the harbor commis- sioners were responsible for the carrying out. of the work; and they retained the powers and duties above reterred to as* to the employment of engineers, inspectors and other servants, For certain reasons (chiefly because they were resident in Eng- land, and performed their duties by deputy, which was found unsatisfactory) Messrs. Kinipple & Morris, engineers, were dis- missed, and Mc. Perley, chief engineer of the public works department, was appoint- ed chief engineer of the Quebec harbor works, Mr. J. E. Boyd being resident en- gineer—both these gentlemen were accord- ingly servants of the harbor commissioners, and were responsible to them. So that there was no impropriety * either Mr. Perley or Mr. Boyd giving information re- garciet ean ae tenders to Mr. Me- Greeyy, for he was their chief. Of course, if Thomas M-Greevy communicated this in- formation to his brother for the benefit of himself, Jarkiu aud Oannolly, or saayone else, he acted improperly. If he sold the information he is guilty of a corrupt act, and abused his position as a harbor com- missioner. But that act does not involve Perley, Boyd or Sir Hector.

Regarding the Esquimault dry dock, the case ia diffarent. It must be borne in mind

that the contract for this work with Larkin, Connolly & Co. was not a lump sum con-

tract, but was at a schedule of rates applied to estimated quantities. The charges against the Public Works Department in this case are that Thomas McGreevy had improperly obtained information from the Department for the benefit of Larkin & Connolly before the contract was awarded them; and, secondly, the procuring by the agents of Thomas Mc(Greevy of alterations in the plans, in the execution of the work and in conditions, thus enabling the con- tractors to realize improperly large sums of money. And it is charged that in reply to a letter from Thos. McGreevy, Perley im- properly conveyed information. The ques- tion is, does this letter give information which should not have been given? Answer is made that if the Department had been calling for lump-sum tenders, the in- formation conveyed in the letter would have been improper, but the tenders asked being by schedule of rates, the information as to the probable cost of finishing the work would be no guide to the con- tractor in making up his tender, Mr. Perley wrote, ‘“‘I cannot send the ‘* rates, as i have never determined them.” {Tt must also be considered that Mr. Perley was writing toa member of the House of Commons who was disqualified from tender- ing and whom he knew to be interested, as harbor commissioner, in a similar work at Quebec. Mr. McGreevy was also inter- ested iis a director of the Union Bank in getting information on which his bank could act in making advances to their customers (Larkin, Connolly & Co ) in carrying on the works, and it is suggested that any |bank asked to-advance toa contractor for a large public work, might well obtain in- formation from the Chief Eogineer which, in a general way, would guide them in considering the amount of advances prudent to make. Mr. Perley also testified that he had been in the habit of giving such infor- mation—‘'Il have always done so and will continue to do so,”’ he said. :

As to the improper agency of Thomas M:Greevy in procuring alterations, ete., agency is proved if Robert McGreéevy’s evidence be accepted, for he swore (as a member of the firm) that Thomas McGreevy was to havea share in the profits. But presuming partnership or an agency of Thos. McGreevy, there is nothing to show lthat the department was aware of jt, or ‘that undue influence was used by him in ‘ precuring the alterations in question. These jalterations are all allowed to be beneficial : Two of them were insignifieant in character and cost. A third wasjimportant and was psid for at ordinary schedule rates, invelv- ing an increased cost of $17,026. The fourth change, that to large courses in stone- work-wes andoabted!y beneficial, and that there could have been no undue influence ‘used in procuring this change, is proved by the fact that it was allowed only on the distinct. understanding that it should not cost the department any more than the work as originally designed. The serious question to be considered arises from the fact that, after the work was executed on this distinct understanding, a sum of $32,- 789 was allowed for it by the department. The department, or Mr. Perley, seems to have thought that the country had got a very considerable benefit from the change, and that it was only fair and reasonable that the contractors should be paid for the extra stone put in. The remaing point to be considered is the deduction by Mr. Perley of $19,873 from the price of the plant taken over by the contractors from the Government as part of the consideration of their contract at $50,288. Mr. Perley states that he examined the plant and he reported. to the department that much of it was. worthless, and he concluded his re- pert by presuming that its value would become a question-at a future day between the department and the contractors. No definite action was taken on this report, but when Mr. Perley was making up and deciding the final payment to the con- tractors, he made the deduction mentioned. He seems to have taken the whole res- ponsibility upon himself. No order in Council was made authorizing it, and Sir Hector Langevin, as Mininister, pleaded entire ignorance of the transaction.

In the matter of the South Wall con- tract, it was charged that Thomas Mc- Greevy improperly procured the tenders and showed them to Murphy, Connolly and Robert McGreevy, who had them several hours in their possession, after which they were delivered to Mr. Perley. Now if this charge be true, there is nothing to implicate the Public Works Department or any of its officials. Mr. Me. Greevy, as a Harbor Commissioner, was entitled to handle the tenders, and if he made improper use of them, so much the worse for him. It is also charged that through Thos. McGreevy’s intervention, changes were made in the contract to the detriment of the public interest and to the advantage of the con- tractors. The other charge was the substitu- tion of stone for concrete and brick in the coustruction of the sewer. The engineer (Roswell, who succesded Boyd) reported that the change would cost $13,028 extra, and the Public Works Department refused to sanction the change until the contractors agreed to do it without extra charge. Again, bear in mind that the only connection Sir Hector Langevin and the Public Works Department had with this werk was to recommend the nec-ssary paymeuts as the work progressed,

Regaiding the contract for drudging the Wet Basin at 35 cents a yard, the counsel acknowledge a number of suspicious circum- stances involving Thomas Petey and to a slight extent, Mr. Perley. No tenders were called for this work, but the commissioners were not obliged to call for tenders. Larkin & Connolly, having the plant on hand, were in a position to execute the work more cheapty than other contractors, who would have to bring the plant there. On the other hand, Mr. Perley seems to have made no attempt to reduce the price asked by Larkin & Connolly, and no sufficient reason is ad- vanced why an increase over the price of former years should have been allowed. Again, one at least of the Harbor Com- missioners, Mr. Giroux, took some trouble to satisfy himself that the price was fair. On the other hand, it must be borne in mind, that the contract was entered into after Mr, Perley had received the jewellery and plate,

allowed the contractors gave them large and unusual profits. Then again, Michael Con- nolly’s celebrated letter must be remembered in which he said, ‘‘if contract is entered into with Harbor Commissioners for 8000 yaids of dredging at 35 cents, to be dumped in the river, or any more dificult place to be paid extra, we give $25,000.” Although the con- tract given was not in the terms of this memo, the evidence goes to show that the $25,000 was actually paid by Larkin & Con- nolly, and that part of it found its way into Thos. McGreevy’s hands. It should be said, however, that there is no evidence to shew that Mr. Perley bad any knowledge of this corrupt agreement. In carrying out this contract it was proved that three inspectors received payments from the contractors in consideration of their reporting more work done than actually was performed.

Regarding the Levis Graving Dock, the counsel say that while there is evidence of corrupt and improper bargaining by Thomas McGreevy, by which he received $22,000 for procuring this lump-sum contract, there is no suggestion that the Public Works Depart- ment, either through Sir Hector or Mr. Perley, was aware of this improper under- taking. Your readers are not seriously interested in McGreevy’s defence, so that { shall leave the case here for this week.

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