DIDN'T WANT THEM. Mr«. Chickering Gives a Body Blow to a Growing Abuse. Oeeltaed to a CoiißreNAionftl Committee Attend Her Ifuftt ba 11 il'n Fn ne ra I—>ll o n ored lit?rite If by the Act, [Special Washington Letter.] /Cl HAIUTY is said to provide a 1 mantle for a multitude of sins. ' So does the appropriation called "the contingent fund of the senate." Out of that fund the sergeant-at arms of the senate pays for wine, -whisky, apollinaris water, cigars, cabs, •carriages, funerals and all sorts of things which do not go into the daily public records, but which are neces sarily shown in the annual reports of the secretary of the senate. The sergeant-at-arms is the execu tive officer of the senate, and it is his duty to anticipate and minister to the -wants of the American house of lords. The secretary is the disbursing officer of the senate, and it is his duty to keep an accurate account of all moneys disbursed by him. Conse quently, when the annual report of the secretary is compiled and pub lished, all of these things are dis closed. Hut, as a matter of fact, not one man out of ten thousand ever reads the report. Newspaper men are too busy to scan it closely. Therefore the multitude of sins committed un der the cove; of"the contingent fund of the senate" remains hidden from the knowledge of the people. The annual reports for the past ten years show that comparatively lit tle money has been expended for in toxicating liquors. But out of this fund thousands of dozens of lemons, And many grosses of mineral water are bought. So that, when the senate is in session during the spring and summer months, there is always a large bowl of lemonade constantly available in each of the senate cloak rooms. Also, pitchers of lemonade are prepared for all of the committee rooms. Plain people employed by the senate are able to exist on plain ■water, but their fellow citizens who .are called senators must have lux uries, of which lemonade is only an illustration. They have quinine, soap, cologne, pocket knives, manicure sets, and almost everything conceivable of that nature for which the senators ought to pay out of their own pockets. In the house of representatives there is also a contingent fund, but the fund is generally used for legiti mate purposes, in the nature of actual contingent expenses which cannot be foreseen when the general appropria tion bills are prepared and adopted. The only abuse of the contingent fund of the house (or, the most notable one) is in the disbursement of extraordi nary sums of money for the expenses of the funerals of representatives who die during their terms of office. This subject is brought to the attention of the writer at this time, and conse quently to the attention of the read « ing public, because of the sudden " death of Congressman Chickering. of New York, and the noble action of his ■widow. Congressman Chickering had been a member of the national house of rep resentatives for seven years when his <lead body was found on the pavement in New York city, in front of his ho tel. it is generally supposed that he fell out of the window of his bedroom, or that he leaped forth to death. He had been in poor health for more than a year, and was known to be exceed ingly depressed concerning his physi cal condition. However, be that as it may, the manner of his death, or its cause, need not. be discussed here and now. The subsequent action of his •wife is the subject to which attention is being invited. Immediately after the public an nouncement of the death of tl<* con- THE FUNERAL TRAIN. pressman, in the senate and house of representatives, committees of those bodies were appointed to attend his funeral, ostensibly to show to his neighbors and friends the esteem in which he hud been held by the con gress. The sergeant-at-arms of the senate and the sergeant-at-arms of the house made preparations for a funeral train to bear the congression al joint committee to the scene of the funeral. Their preparations were cut short, however, by the decision of Mrs. Chickering that no congressional committee would be desired by her or by the other members of the family. Congressman Chickering Was a very popular member of the house of rep resentatives. The announcement of his death caused sincere sorrow to those of his colleagues who knew him, and he was well known to almost every man in public life. But a con gressional committee could not have honestly shown respect and esteem for him, unless the members of the committee had departed from the cus tom which has prevailed of late years. On all occasions when the subjeot came up for discussion Mr. Chickering ! denounced the hilarious junketing- in dulged in by congressmen on funeral committees, and he often declared that if he should die, while a member of the house of representatives, he would want 110 junketing at his funer al. His wife saw enough of the hollow ness of this congressional inockerv; and it is to her eternal honor as a wife, and to her everlasting credit aa an American woman of the highest type, that she carried out the wishes of her deceased husband, and also demonstrated her own individual con tempt for the mockery of an ostenta tion of unreal woe. It, is fortunate for the country that there have arisen a time and a person to stop this ghoul-like performance. Mrs. Chickering has established a pre cedent which ought to stand forever as a bar to future congressional fu neral committees. There ought to lie no more funds paid out of"the con tingent fund" on such occasions for champagne, whisky, cigars, gloves, flowers, carriages, decorations, sump tuous breakfasts, elaborate dinners and orgy suppers 011 the funeral trains. Well-informed people have long been shocked and humiliated by knowledge of the preposterous pa geantry, the discreditable and vulgar ostentation, the shameful junketing on such occasions, and the extrava gant expenditures incurred in these flagrant parodies on sincere mourning and heartfelt grief. Mrs. Chickering deserves the admira tion of the country, the gratitude of CONG RESSIONAL J 'UN Eli A LJUX K ET. women and tile plaudits of the people for her •irm stand against the con gressional spree and vulgar demonstra tions of guttersnipes in high places. She honored herself, and honored her sex. in honoring the memory of her husband l.y thus forbidding the pres ence of a congressional committee at the funeral. It would require a great deal of time to examine the books of the senate and house of representatives, in order to secure the statistics concerning the cost of all congressional funerals. But in a speech on this subject, delivered in December, 1895, Senator Peffer, of Kansas, gave some statistics which had been carefully compiled, and from that official utterance the following facts are gathered: The first congressional funeral was that of Senat or Gaillard, of South Caro lina, which occurred February 20, 1826, at an expense of $877.44. Twenty-four senators had previously died, and the congress had l.ot paid their expenses of interment. Head how the expenses increased from time to time in the fol lowing- funerals of senators: John Fairfield, of Maine, December 24. 1547, $1,072.25. Chester Ashley, Arkansas, April 29, 1848, $1,505.42. John C. Calhoun, South Carolina, March 31, 11S5U. J. 1,106.47. Henry Clay, Kentucky, June 29, 1852, $5,- 417.02. Solomon Foot, Vermont, March 28, IS6G, $4,399.67. Charles Sumner, Massachusetts, March 11, 1874, $4,687.99. Matthew H. Carpenter, Wisconsin, Febru ary 21. 1881. $3,012.34. John F. Miller. California, March 8, 1886, $3,532.34. George Hearst, California, February 28, 1891, $21,322.55. Just look at the difference in the cost of the funerals of the two California senators. The funeral of Senator Mil ler cost $'i,5.'52.:;4. The funeral of Sen ator Hearst cos' $21,322.55. The same distaiHX' was traversed, and the ex penses should not have been very dif ferent. Senator Hearst was a popular man, and a good man in many respects. If he could have had anything to say in the matter his funeral would not have been a three weeks junket for senators, representatives and favorite employes, twit e across the continent, in the course of which upwards of sls - (100 should be expended for champagne, cigars and luxurious banqueting. He was a proud man, and a rich man, who would rather have paid all expenses himself, even though they had been twice as large, than to have had his name recorded as it is in this manner. Some of those who disgraced his mem ory in this manner still hold public places. This is but a brief presentation of facts; only a partial culling of inci dents from a vast accumulation of in cidents of this nature. The people do not know, and it is just as well that they do not know, the many ways in which their moneys are wasted, under various pretexts and devices. Hut the disgraceful funeral junkets which have occurred should be known, at least in part, in order that the brave stand taken by the wife of the late congress man from New York may the better bt understood ami the more fully appre ciated. Without redundancy, but for the sake of emphasis, the statement may be repeated that this good woman has honored herself, honored the memory of her husband, and honored her sex, as well as rendered service to her coun try, by refusing to permit a recurrence of revolting scandal 011 the occasion of the closing of tne grave over the body of her belcved. SMITII D. ruv. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1900 BRAVE LITTLE BUGLER. John Franela Dunne Honored lijr the Queen unil I.lonized by Ihe I'eople of i:n K lit 11 d. One of the proudest boys in the Brit ish empire is John Francis Dunne, bugler of the First battalion, iioyal Dublin fusileers. He was wounded at the battle of Colenso or. December 15, but was one of the first to cross the Tugela river, losing his bugle in-the fight. On his return to England he was summoned to Osborne, where.the queen presented to him a silver bugle, inscribe-': "Presented to Bugler John Francis iiunne. First battalion, Royal GALLANT Bl 'GLER BOY. (John Fmncis Dunne Borne Through tho Streets of Portsmouth.) Dublin fusileers, by Queen Victoria, to replace the bugle lost by him on the field of battle at Colenso on the 15th December, 1899, when he was wounded." His companions thought that he would probably be more afraid to face the queen than the enemy, but he stood firmly to his guns and came oIY with flying colors. The queen asked him about his health, and whether he had fully recovered from his wound, and seemed to be pleased with the frank and manly man ner in which the little soldier acted, and accepted with evident pleasure the framed portrait of himself which he presented to her. In the room where the little fellow had to wait —and, ac cording to one account, this was in the basement of the palace—he was surrounded by servants from various departments, who were all anxious to see and speak to the young soldier. And then ladies from oilier parts of the building came and brought their birthday books, which the bugler was asked to sign against the date of his birth, July 14; and before the sum mons came to appear before the queen ho had held a levee in the basement on his own account. NEW SENATE SECRETARY. Charlon (•. Dennett, Iteeently Kleeted, Is a Younu Man of More Than Ordinnry AbllltioM. Trie new secretary of the United States senate, Hon. Charles Goodwin Bennett, is an exceptionally young man to have been elected to such an honor able and important office. But worth is often recognized before 3'ears and white hairs announce the period when confidence may be placed with surety. Mr. Bennett was born in the city of Brooklyn, December 11, 1803. He has always -esided there, though his law offices are located in New York. He was elected to the Fifty-fourth con- CHARLES Q.BENNETT. (The New Secretary of the h'nlted States Senate.) gress and then to the Fifty-fifth con gress, as a republican, llis term of office expired on the 4tli of March last. His office of secretary of the. senate imposes upon him exceptional duties of trust. In addition to the responsibil ity of the detailed business of the sen ate, lie is also the disbursing officer for all the expenditures involving the pay of senators, committee work and a large corps of clerks and other em ployes. Mr. Bennett succeeds Gen. William P. Cox, of North Carolina, who, since August, 3893, performed with so much ability and satisfaction the du ties of the office. Cuba and Porto Itleo. The preliminary figures of the newly completed census of Cuba and Porto J'ico show a total population for Cuba of 1,572,545, a loss from 18S7 of 53,842. The population of Porto liieo is 957,000, which is an increase of 150,300 over the census of ISS7. The largest Cuban province is Havana, which has 424,811 inhabitants, a falling off of 27.000 in 12 years. The next largest is Santa Clara, which, with its 350,£34 residents, shows an increase of 2,000. Santiago has gained about as much as Pinar del l!io has lost, says the Army and Navy Jour nal. The former province returns a imputation of 327,710. an increase of .'J.337. while Pillar has fallen from 225.- S!ll to 173.082. Matanzas has dropped from 259.578 to 202.462. The smallest province in point of population is Porto Principe, to which the census gives SfV S3T inhabitants, a gain of 21,000. BESIEGED TOWNS Pen Pictures of Life in Mafekins and Kimberloy. Kbopkrpprn at I>rl<-ea of All Food Products Tile lloiiibprootn Wire stout Kllougll to Hrxlol I lie ICi plosloii Of !»I Pound SbellH. London, March 30.—Writing aftn the first 11)0 * l "*"3 of siege liad been completed, the .ilafeking correspond ent of the London Times says: "We have now began to prepare for an in definite sojourn in Maifeking and al most all foodstuffs beyond a few luxu ries have been taken over bv the mili tary authorities. Although we have enough food to last se.w:al months, this precaution is necessary, as when the siege is raised many weeks must elapse before supplier can come in '1 he garrison hits been put U|x>n a scale of reduced rations—a half pound of bread and half a pound of meat per day. Matches and milk are prohibited from public sale and the latest order prevents the shops from opening. Ail supplies of biscuits, tea and sugar— preserves also have been comman deered. It is perha.ps difficult to de fine precisely what in the present eir emi>stance-* are luxuries, but le.-.i there should be any doubt upon the point the price of every variety of comestible has been inflated to nn abnormal value. The shop keepers and the hotel proprietors and indeed everybody who ean find any possible excuse for doing so have trebled the price of their goods, pleading that the inflation is due to the siege." Lady Sarah Wilson, also shut up in Mafeking, writing to the London Daily Mail, gives the woman's point of view as follows: "There is something very cowardly in the fairly regular evening shell from the big gun which is usual ly loaded and aimed at sundown. and fired off between N and t) p. m.. or e ren later, over a partially sleeping town, very early hours being kept here, when the Boers must know men and women may be killed indiscriminately. "For this last shot wearied women aind children generally wait before leaving their shelter and seeking their beds in their various homes, but some times, as a refinement of cruelty, it is not fired at all, and these evenings the poor things creep to bed at last with many forebodings. "A feature of the town ait present is its bombprcofs or shelters from the tire, from rough holes, hastily dug and covered over with boards aiad earth, which were at first constructed at the arrival of the monster Creusot lioer gun, which fires a projectile of 94 pounds, these refuges have been improved upon till they arc now luxu rious chambers roofed over with best steel rails and sandbags, ventilated and lighted by round windows. "Mine, for instainee, measures 18 feet by 1-1 feet, ami is eight feet high. With boarded floor, covered with matting and panelled wood walls, painted white, with three large portholes for windows, iit much resembles the cabin of a yacht and it.s efficacy has been tested, as it is, 1 think, the only shel ter in the town on the top of which a 94-pou'nd shell actually exploded—• without even making the glasses jin gle or disturbing various war trophies hung on the walls inside. The Standard's correspondent at Kimberley, writing of the hardships of the siege, says: "For many days the novelty of eat ing horseflesh formed an agreeable break in the war talk. Starving peo ple, however, take kindly to any arti cle of food. Personally, althougti I have always found a piece of succu lent horseflesh excellent eating, I did not take any of it in Kimberley. No; only were the wretchd animals reduc ed to skin and bone, but there was an epidemic of influenza and cough among them which forced me to aban don its use. it was. however, daily served out to the soldiers as well as the people, though there were cases of anthrax in the hospitals and an outbreak of scurvy in many of the re doubts. At 9:30 p. m. all conversation ceased, for by proclamation all lights except electric or acetylene gas— had to be extinguished. "There were many cases of extreme suffering, which, although due to the niege, reached a climax fronn constitu tional circumstances. There are ladies in Kimberley who are strapped to their bedsteads and wearing stmight jackeits, mad from sheer nervousness and fright. "It is the red tape which made the strain heavier than it would otherwise be. After we had been for weeks shut up in Kimberley— not at the best the most cheerful place in the universe— our heart* became specially fixed on our portion of the British army—the relief column. By accident we learned that it had reached Modder river. Kagcrly we awaited news from Lord Mothuen. Men find women sea lined the horizon nightly to seek the firs' flash from his searchlight. All night long our three searchlights sent their long streams of light past the rugged fastnesses of Scholtz's Nek and the rocky kopjes of Spyfontein to the two rivers, on whose banks our preserv ers were encamped. "At last one night far from the south came the welcome flash. High up in the conning tower sat Lieut. Col. Kekewich and his staff officers, with picked men from the signal corps. Anxiously they deciphered the first message from their chief. It was this: 'Ascertain number on forefoot of mult omitted in Cape Town return.' " ■ InrriMoii Write* ;t l'ro-Boer Letter, Indianapolis, March .'!().—The In diainapolis News says that (Jen. Harri son has cM>ressed some pretty blunt views on the Boer question and lias written a letter to Secretary Ilav on the subject. Kither in this letter or in some communieaition. he is credited with having maid: "He hoped the Boers would find some place on the green earth where they would have a right tn live unmolested by the Brit ish. They have more thain once sacri ficed their land and their homes and moved on, to avoid British aggres sion." HELD TO THE GRAND JURY. Preliminary 'Mat or Republican Sec retary ol Mule I'oivern la I Inlslied ut Frankfort, Ky. Frankfort, Ky., March 28.— There were some startling 1 developments in flic Goebel assaussi nation case yester i v. In tihe afternoon W. 11. Culton, who waived examination and was held over 1o the circuit court, went to the Capitol hotel, where he was in cor./er ence with the attorneys for the prose cution for over two hours. He was accompanied by his brother-in-law, E. E. Hogg, who is also his attorney. In the trial of Kc|>ublican Secretary of State Powers the attorneys for ihe defense announced that, no testimony would be introduced for the defense and that they would waive further ex amination. The pardon issued to Pow ers by Gov. Taylor was tendered by ex- Gov. 1 !rown as a bar to the prosecu t.'on. and he asked that the defendant be dismissed. Col. Campbell said the commonwealth denied Gov. Taylor's rijfht to issue a parti on at the time the pardon was granted. Gov. Urown moved that the prisoner l>e dislnissed upon the evidence, but the motion was o\erru.led. I'*ail was asked for. .fudge Moore said: "It is not my belief that Powers tired the shot which killed Gov. GoeUel, but from the evidence it is my opinion that lie was connected with the conspiracy to kill him. I shall therefore order that he be held j over without, bail to the Franklin county grand jury, that the case may be further investigated." Lexingii«n, Ky„ March 30.—The Morning Herald, of this city, prints the following special from Winches ter. Ky.: "If Youts'ey will -tell what I think lie knows, he cam hang Taylor and de stroy the republican party. I feel sure that 1 can arrange for enough of the appropriation for Youtsey to make him aiiwl his wife comfortable for the rest of -their lives. Culton is going to confess in the morning and Youtsey had better get in while he con. The money is going and he might as well have his share." The above is what .Tames Andrew Scott said at the lleese house Monday nighrr. lie was addressing \. If. With orspouiti and Judge C. S. French, re spectively brother-in-law and father in-law of Youtsey. Scott had 'tele phoned W'i'.herspoon in the afternoon "Meet me sit the Reese house on the quiet," and he had been met. Judge French was later called. The party stayed in consultation until midnight, Scott insisting that Youtsey should confess and make liitn .-elf rich, and then the others replied: "Youtsey has told all he knows and can say nothing more." Scott dwelt on the point that Culton would confess the next day.and unless Youtsey got in his story first, the other man would gelt away with the money, but neither Witherspoon nor French would accede to the request for Scott togo to Frankfort and a<lvisa Youtsey to tell a story which would lia-ng Taylor and damage the republi can party. THEY FELL FLAT. I3x»<ou*iil .llacriim Fall» to Sutintuß* tialc UK Mciisational Charges. Washington, March 29.—-Ex-Consul Macruni, of Pretoria, was heard by the house committee on foreign affairs yesterday in regard to the alleged in terference of the Uritish censor with his letters. Mr. Macruni made out no case what ever and after the hearing the com mittee determined to le»t the matter drop without taking any action. Even the democratic members were disgusted with the result of the exam ination of Mr. Macruni, and two of them .said there was nothing in the oa.se. Mr. Macruni presented two let ters which had been opened by the censor, neither of them of any import ance. In reply to a question by llepresen taitive Smith, lie admitted he had re turned to the United States largely on account of private business, lie had made no report to the state depart ment in regard to the letters, nor had he attempted to make such a report to the department. He declined to say why he had not made a report, but said he had gone to Assistant Secre tary Hill and said: "I understand I lave beein dismissed." Mr. llill said his understanding was correct and Mr. Macruni said he had therefore no report, to make. He had attempted to see Secretary Hav, but was informd that lie was "out " RAN A "BLIND POOL" .tlanager ol'a Get Kleli ((uick Schema I» In the Law'* Clutches. Philadelphia, March 29. —Charged with conspiracy to defraud by means r»f an alleged stock transaction. Cecil White, a young man, was yesterday held in $1,500 bail for a further hear imig on April 4. White is alleged to lie connected with a firm training as Kdga.r Ileva.ii & Co. Superintendent of Police Quirk recently received a letter from Cur wensville. Pa., signed F. T,. Arnold, in which the writer enclosed a circular announcing that the "annual Master pool"-of I'M gar I'evnn & ( o. was being formed and that subscriptions of $lO and upwards were being collected. The circular explained that, the money was ito purchase stock i:n a cer tain corporation, the quotation on which was to advance from 50 to 75 points within a few weeks. It was sh >wn how a small investment of $lO would magnify to $l5O. The only charge nirule by the firm was a 5 per cent, commission on the net profits from 'the investment. 4'oloiiifcts ill Kud Miaju 1 . Havana. March 29.—Gov. Gen. Wood has received the report of Maj. Hat field. sitationi'd at Porto Principe, who was detailed to investigate the colony of l.a Gloria. It says the roads lead ins - there are poor and go four and a half miles inland through the swamp, which is impassable in the rainy sea son. There are 175 people there at present. Rations are plentiful, but very expensive. There have been no fresh meats since the camp was estab lished. All the colonists are living >n te.mts and the sanitary arrangements are bad. LAW ANDORDEB. New York's Police Have Xo Jiegard for Either. A STARTLING STATEMENT , (imnd Jury Arraigns (Jothiim's Utliciiils in Strong Terms. TIIE DISTRICT ATTORNEY. Jlc I* Kaperlnlly mentioned an Abet* l '"K Kelgu <»•' Vice In the .tlelropa uli* lit- \«>U» <*ov. fiooMevelt to Or der an Invrallsatloii. Now York, March 31.—The March i j*rand jury concluded its labor Friday j l».v handing' U|> to Kecorder Goff a pre j sentmenit which arraigns, in severest ■ terms the police department and the i city government, the Tliird Avenue i wreckers, the district, attorney and the newspn|>ers. George i'utnam, foreman of the jury, explained tliat the grand jury hud not dropped the Third avenue investigation. The an nouncement by the district 'attorneyS ottice to that effeclt was untrue, lie said. -Neither had Assist aunt, District Attorney I'tiger asked the grand jury to authorize the abandonment of the inquiry. The presentment says that the grand jury "undertook to inquire hiito and secure knowledge as far as pos sible concerning the work and the methods of the poUce department in its relation to violations of the law on. the part of the managers o.f immoral resorts." They report further that in such endeavor they failed to receive from tile district attorney any help or effective co-operation. The grand jury were in dirty bound to find indict ments as so advised by the district at torney against a comparatively incon spicuous official, lint they were of the opinion and they so sitated to the district attorney that if this official was guilty <;f criminal negligence in permitting open violation of law to liourish in his precinct, his superiors were criminally responsible, even t > ;v greater degree, for the existence of such conditions. "The district attor ney in reply to our specific, written questions stated in his written answer that no complaints have been made, nor did ,he know of amy violation o£ law and that he had no evidence to present on this question of the respon sibility of a higher official." The grand jury expresses the opin ion that with a capa.ble ami earnest district attorney the police depart ment would find it "both difficult and dangerous to permit or to tolerate certain conditions in our city which are almost flagrant in their defiance of law and order." The. presentment handed up by the grand jury was promptly reflected in the hearing of the City (dub's charges against District Attorney Gardiner. When file hearing convened Mr. Un termeyer, counsel for Col. Gardner, arose omd called attention to the pre sentment and stated that. Col. Gardi ner had prepared a telegram to be sent to the governor asking for inves tigation. Mr. I nterlll ever then read the dispatch, as follows: "Hon. Theodore Kooseve.lt: A ma jority of the grand jury of this eounlty has to-day made a presentment against inc. concerning the conduct of the office of district attorney of this county, which is monstrously unjust and is unsupported by so much as a semblance of evidence. I am con vinced that the present action is due to the active advice of one whose per sonal hostility to me has been a mat ter of public notoriety and the sub ject of newspaper comments from the time I assumed office. Contrary to the immemorial usage of grand juries, its coinmu 11 ica)tiions •with me have been almost exclusively in the form of cor respondence, although miii assistant and deputy assistant were regularly on duty with them and present every day, and although on several occasions 1 personally attended before them. This unusual court* I have assumed to have lieen resorted to in the liopo of procuring in it halt way a foundation for a presentment. lam most anxious that the correspondence and all *he transactions between the grand jury and myself and my office shall be the subject of your immediate investiga tion. "I therefore respectfully request you to refer this presentment and statements eontaind in it to the com missioner appointed by you who is now taking testimony upon the charges preferred against me. '"For the purpose of expediting this course, I hereby consent to any mode of procedure that; the attorney gener al may deem legal for that purpose." KIISBIII'M Warlike Preparation*. London, March 31.—Tile Schastopol correspondent of the Daily Graphic says: "War alarms fill the naval headquarters here. The whole Kuxino squadron is fully equipped for instant service. Troops with full war kit-, are daily arriving from it-he imterior. The garrison will soon be a powerful army corps. There is much excitement among the staffs of both services, and all the talk is of bringing Turkey to her senses by forcible measures." A 4ai£antlc Scheme. Xew York, March 31. —A special lr» the World from Toronto says: A con tract has been signed between the? Ontario government and.l. l'ierpunt Morgan, of .New York, under which millions of dollars are to lie sp nt in developing power from Niagara Falls on the Canadian side. Mr. Morgan represents a llrit.ish syndicate', which agrees to erect pulp works costing not less than $.">00,000 and to supply power to an places from the falls t > Toronto, a,nd the government will give the right of way for channels and cables. Power is to be really in three years ftud cian only be supplied in Canada. 3
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