The New York herald., 1873-07-19
CREDIT MOBILIER kANDCK.
Hoax Ames McMullen Among the
Canadian Patriots.
HOAxED AND EUCHRED.
How American Money Was Placed Where II
Would Do the Most Good.
FINE FINhNCIERING IN THE DOMINION.
The Story of the Rise Of the Canadian
Pacific Railroad Job.
BARONETS AND THEIR LITTLE RAKES
Documentary Showing of the Little Rake
Of the Knight Of Ravens Craig.
SIR HUGH'S NICE DIPLOMACY.
''There is $4,000 Gold Expended and
$4,000 Yet to Pay"
THE WASHINGTON LOBBY OUTDONE.
A Condensed History Of tho Scheme Of Plunder,
with Reflections Moral and Political.
Documentary Showing Of the Little Rake
Of the Knight of Ravens Craig.
SIR HUGH's NICE DIPLOMACY.
''There is $4,000 Gold Expended and
$4,000 Yet to Pay"
THE WASHINGTON LOBBY oUTDoNE.
A Condensed History Of tho Scheme Of Plunder,
with Reflections Moral and Political.

MONTREAL, July is, 1878.
The Canadians have resolutely determined to
clean house, and it needs but very small gilt OF
prophecy to ioreten that q heavy dust will be
kicked up in the parliamentary halls whenever
that long deferred operation begins. There are es-
timable people, old residents OF the Dominion, who,
II the alternative were to be forced upon them OF
being elected to In the Legislature or in the
penitentiary, would unhesitatingly choose the lat
ter, on the ground that the enforced companion
ship would be less debasing to their moral nature
In the penal than in the legislative establishment.
This seems hard: but New Yorkers-who have worn
the ring of political servtude themselves-will un-
derstand from experience now this may be so.
The 18th of August is the time fixed for the re-
assembling of Parliament for the purpose of being
formally prorogued. 1t is also the time when the
attention Of the government will be called, 'for the
third and last tme,'' to the fact that the reputa-
tOns OF its leading members must be FURNISHED up
or suffer An everlasting eclipse.
The nature Of the Information in the possession
Of the opposition with regard 10 the corrupt
means employed to secure to the parties now hold
ing 1t the charter to build the railroad to or
ward the Pacific Ocean is said to be Of that
PRECISE, CONCISE AND CONVINCING
character which will render it necessary for the
members of the Ministry to make series of in
stant and magnificent disappearances, after the
highly effective manner OF Fields, Connolly and
other missing celebrities OF New York.
This We are told with suggestive calmness, is
TO be the result-or ese revolutionl OF course 1t
Is patent that the opposition, comprising the fam
fishing "outs," are volunteering rs pilots during
the storm brewed out OF this agtatcd Pacific ques.
tion They would be less than politicians-utterly
spunkess patrots--d.d they not hail the opportu-
nifty with joy and bid the p0puace back them up In
making Sir John A. Macdonald and his piratica
crew "back down." 1t has transpired that Sir
Hugh Allan, whose pottering Tor preferment has
precipitated this ntercOlOnial pOther, far from
being dragged into the job. pounded persistenty
1t the doors OF the original quiet concoc0rs Of the
financial machine that for peace sake they were ut
last glad to bid him walk in. The gentlemen
who at that time--a little more than two
years sgo-were discussing the propriety or
constructing road to the west coast OF the CONT
W. McMullen and a gentleman OF the easy identity
OF Smith. Mr.. McMullen, though Canadian, had
trained In the Chicago schools OF finance Ill CON-
pany with Mr.. Smith, They had become enthu-
slastc over the necessity for building just
ONE MORE LITTLE RAILROAD
across the Continent through the missionary zeal
OF an estimable geographer, Alfred Waddington by
name, now deceased. Waddington claimed to have
established not only the practicability but the su-
perorlty Of q westward course for empire through
the high latitudes. His report Of his discovery Of
the route which finally obtained acceptance with
engineers i have read with interest, and it will
know that the climate, as well as the character Of
country is better adapted for q route OF through
travel than either OF the lines which have been
established through the States The facts may be
uncomfortable for our pride, but nature has
planted them upon an incOntrovertiole basis. The
Canadian survey is four or five hundred miles
shorter than the American routes besides
having much easier gradients over the
unknown and where the cereal cereal products thrive
in review, except to show incidentally that
good case could be made out for capitalists LOOKING
1or permanent investments. Undoubtedly Sir
Hugh Allan regarded the scheme, winch was being
modestly aired occasionally In the press with u
''PADDLED HIS OWN CANOEo
prosperOusly upon Canadian waters and as the
chief owner Of a fleet OF ocean steamers greater
the best ships that yet succeed in baffiing the
winds OF the Atlantic, he probably felt that his
road Shah--n0 Fisk, Gould or Scott. Ships were
He had followed in the wake of his father, an old
Scotch sea dog, who traded between Glasgow and
the Canada harbors whenever the latter were suf-
hciently liquid to accommodate his orig. Finally,
when the senior Allan had tackled 10 his long home,
Hugh continued the perilous bat lucrative business
OF navigator for some years. Afterwards he came
ashore and established a small commercial busl-
ness in Montreal The failure OF the orignatOrs OF
the first line or Canadian steamers, about eighteen
years ago, was improved by MIR. Allan and his four
brothers, who got the government to subsidiZe
them suiiicertly to enable them to keep the enter
prise anoat after getting it into their own hands.
Up to date the government ls reported to
have paid to the Messrs Allan upwards OF
xix millions OF dollars towards the sustenance of
their venture, which Is now accounted one OF the
most prosperous OF its class In the world. Their
vessels ply between Montreal. quebec Liverpool,
Glasgow and Londonderry; Baltimore. Norfolk and
Liverpool Portland and the same British ports,
and from Scotland to Norway. These facts enable
asked to be let swim in the Pacific pool OF Nc
Mullen, Smith and Waddingt0n, who represented
capital, but were not otherwise capitalists. The
acquaintance developed into business intimacy,
letters OF Sir Hugh after it was decided tnat a
ROAD Tor carrying freight from China to the Allan
steamers ought to be built.
AN AMERICAN SYNDICATE
1s salu 70 nave been formed by Messrs. McMullen
and smith Tor the purpose OF advancing money to
he JudlclOusly spent in surveying practicable
route through Parliament and via the ministerial
seats-the geographical line being left for later
consideration.
But the Canadian amour propre was rlled by the
intelligence which soon leaked out, that American
fingers were TO be permitted in purely British
pie. At any rate, the opposition, who had neither
offices, subsidies, nor votes, any thing else
that the lobbyist could possibly turn TO account
explained to the country the nature OF Sir Hugl's
proposed company, for whom charter to build the
road was solicited. The pressure created served
the purpose intended.
CANADA FOR CANADrANs"
was the cry. The government at the time was in
need Of the sugar" necessary TO sweeten an sp-
ministerial opportunity, and what arrangements
were made seem clear from what next took place
Or has since been disclosed. The American pro-