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‘ orrosmou clulYL vows

Mr. Bell and Mr. Johnston are to be pitiedf as well

as blamed for the mess they have made of 'their politi- _cal stewardship. The scene in the H0US¢. }'@Sl¢fd3y»

'when they crawled down, and were even_pulled_ do_wr_r‘

by their colleague`s,fon the charges they 'made against

the Honourable James A McNeill during the Souris-

campaign was about as humiliating as any humiliation \vell could be. They had conducted a campaign on this slander, had carried it around from meeting to meeting, had flashed .it in capital lettered headlines as a “damning accusation” against Mr. McNeill, and when confronted with an opportunity-or rather a demand-'-that they substantiate their charges' they crawled down and out and in their abject fear of the investigation demanded being pressed, heaped deserv- cd encomiums upon the head of the man whom they had villilied and slandered during the election _cam- Peisn- '

In other words, during the campaign, they made

charges for political purposes, which they hoped would drive the Commissioner from public life and bring the Government down in his ruin._ If they had suc- ceeded in making the electors of Souris believe the fimputations and insinuations they wished to be drawn

from the now notorious affidavit, the consequences'

might have been serious for the Hon. Mr. McNeill. But they failed to deceive the electors of Souris, thanks to tl1e fact that Premier Mathieson, Senator McLean and the Commissioner of Public Works were in a position to prove the utter falsity of the allegations. ' '

Notwithstanding, however, _l\lr. Bell and Mr. _Iohng

stun still pretended that they believed in the affidavit and Mr. Bell went the length of stating during the de~

hate on the address,-as reported- in the Patriot, that-

it was open to any member' to draw their own infer-'

ence from the "damning evidence” whirh he purported

to set forth. This could leave no other impression and was intended to leave no other impression than 'that Bell believed that thc Hon. the Commission- er of Public Works, had acted with a corrupt motive. \Vhen called upon by the Premier to have the courage of his convictions and to ask for a committee to in- vestigate the charges he made and applied, Mr. Bell declined, and the Premier intimated that the matter would not be allowed to rest there but that the House would be asked to appoint__a committ_ee‘_`_f_o'r ,t,he"pur4 pose. The resolution f'or'the 'appointment-'of such a committee of investigation yesterday found Mr. Bell in quite a chastened and humble mood. There was no

more bluff and bluster in him. Ho denied' that h'e"had_ ever thought or imputed motives' in connection with.;

the Arsenault transaction and said all there was to it was that the Provincial 'Auditor had been guiltyof incompetence; or carelessness in signing a cheque in 'excess of the amount due. All the members of the Opposition seemed to vie with one another in ex- pressing their _confidence in the Commissioner of Pub- lic Works- and as all charges ot' corrupt act or impro- per motives were withdrawn, the necessity for an in~ vestigation was removed. And so by a standing vote of the House the matter was allowed to drop. Surely this will be a lesson to the Leader of the Opposition and hisfright-hand lieutenant to pursue dillerent me-i thods in'any future campaigning' It also at¥ords a

_of the province '\`v'ould be stopped short, all thc public

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One of the greatest, as well as one of the most

asinine political crimes ever attempted by any political party was that undertaken by the Leader"of the Op- position when, at the close of. the debate onthe Es- timates, and whep the_motion was :made that the estimates be .passed enffbloc, he rqs"e in his place in the _House and. asked _that`rio'such grantbe given. ~ tp __ This, after two whole nights had been wasted in pure and ~. unadulterated _obstruction; after every item §n the proposed' expenditure had been passed without 'li solitary objectionibeing' raised by the leader of the i0position or any one of his, followers; after every dollar in the Estimates had been scrutinized with a view to lopping ot? any one dollar the expenditure of which could be avoided without detriment to the pro- vince, and after the Opposition members had failed to place a linger on any such!

The Opposition would have been perfectly justified

in holding up the Estimates indefinitely by every means in their power, except physical force- if they had been refused any information they' asked for with reference to the`expendit_ures _ under coxisideration; they would have _been justified in holding them up if, they could show that any of the items of the proposed expenditure were unjustitiable. Yet they had no such excuse. All the information they asked for was cheerfullyigiven; every dollar proposed to be spenti was held up to them and examined and they could offer no objection to the expenditure of any one of them, Yet they held up the whole House for two nights-by every means in their power-of speech and villitication. Such a tinale to a debate on Supply had never before been experienced in the Prince Ed- ward Island Legislature and probably in no other; Mr. Bell’s only argument, his only reason, was not to grant any “Supply to His Majesty.” - _'Had his desire' in this case been confirmed by the House, what the_n?_ ,_'_I`lle whole financial machinery

offices would be _closed, our schools would be para- lysed, our teachers would be out of busiiless: our jails would opentheir doors, our lawvbreakers would be free to move whither they \voulcl! Our public roads and bridges would revert to the condition in which they were left byuthe Liberal' government and even the Leader of the Opposition and his followers would go without their sessional indemnity!

This is the record, thus far, of His Maje_sty’s loyal

(?) Opposition and its Leader, Mr. Bell. And this, too, in a year of serious conditions, a year of life or death to the Empire! , ‘

The vote of the Opposition in 'this case makes a

reco'rd'which,-if~such deeds live in history) will be a' standing disgrace tozthe Liberal- party.- For futurei reference-we givetlte vote as 'it stood on the question » of gran'ting_"Supp_l`y to His”‘Majesty.~‘ The Nays, that is, those who could raise no _objection to a single item and in desperation oi"'pti're cussedne'ss` voted against the whole thing en bloc. are inscribed in the journals of the House as follows; "Bell, Gallant, Mclnnis, Mc- Millan, David McDon:ild, Howatt, Dennis, Johnston, Lea, (9). Those \vho, after scrutinizing the items” and inviting conference with their political opponents' with a view to making the amount as light as possiblejl and who voted for the \vhole amount because in the interests of the province it could not be made less,-_ were: “Mathieson, Arsenaulb McKinnon, McNei,ll; Dalton, Kennedy, jenkins, Wood, McEwen, _Prowsc,~' Paton, A. A. McDonald;”' _

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