, 1877-12-30

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] Miscellaneous ITEMS,
sDec1a1 Dtspatch to The Chicago Tribune
! TORONTO, Dec. 29.-The Globe has obtained
| from Col. Shaw, United States Consul at this
port, full copy of the official t'Rcport Of the
| Commission on the Bureau OF Statistics Of the
| Treasury Department." This report is the doc
! ument from which was alleged to have been
/ taken the paragraph cul1ed from some Ameri-
| can newspaper and distorted and commented on
| BY the London Free Press. The following arc
| the words:
t'That Edward Young, Chief of the Bureau,
| had been improperly interested with Brown,
Canadian Commissioner, in preparing tables to
AID said Brown in negotiating q reciprocity
treaty, anu that some Of the clerks in the Bu-
rcau also aided him in the work, and that
Young, though at first opposed to q
reciprocity treaty, suddenly changed alter this
transaction" These were tho words al
legged to have been cut from the official report
of the Commission, aud on the strength OF
which portion OF the press has not ceased ever
since to Charge the British Penipoteutfaries of
1874 with the most gross wholesale corruption
of United States officials
Tile G{obe says: snow, what is the truth as
it appears from the published report now before
lis! Why, that there are no such words in tine
report The name of Mr.. George Brown, or
any Other Brown, is not named in the report.
The reciprocity negotiations. or the Commission
ers who conducted them, are not even referred
to. To the employment OF clerks By DR..
Young or any one else il, connection with the
,,,t
the slightest a1lusion. From beginning to end
no such phrase as improperly Interested is
used; aud as to the alleged scharge Of opinion
on the part OF Dr.: Young on the subject Of rec
lprocitF, not one word is to he found in the re-
fabrication"
= washington correspondent writing On the
subject says: 'tDr. Youngs attention was cali
ed to the article in the Free Iress, aud he states
lnere G IS no foundation whatever for the charges
ana lnslnuatlons it contains. He SAYS at the
time efforts were being made to negotiate rec
lproctty treaty between the United States and
Ianada Mr. Brown, accompanied by Sir Edward
thornton, ana at the einstance Of Secretary Fish.
called at the Bureau of Statistics for statistical
information touching the trade between the two |
This information was wanted within |
! week. in order that it might be used in areu- |
nent ent for the iurthcrance OF the treaty. Mr. |
3romh 81 was informed that the clerical force of !
lie Bureau could not be taken from current work |
Q prepare the tables he wanted in SO shor: a
lh'c; an arTangementwas then made by which |
ne dcs'Fcd Information was to be prepared BY
ceeral clerks after office hours, Mr.. Brown
e fair and reasnnoh1c ~ ~ 1os Us wouiu
he work was done un1er this
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overnmcnt adycrtses to h. Iem lcssa, 'ne 1 ,suene
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,ccived to work il as whole ~ Ut t, WI oe
18th Montreal as the divitline~noint. t@A
TORONTO, Dec. 20-Thc Dominion ' PnrI;,,on,
i'll meet for the dispatch Of busiuA;s I'm shs
b OF February. Last year it met d ta T'a e.h etI
the month, aud was prorogue.l t' on thn bl,
,th OF April. w 1no
-. :sp.ctal Dispatch to 7B- en.cogo yxia,<,<
AAL1FAx, Dec. 2o-Anotncr Steamship 1ine
10 os added leg to the number that ply to Iial:- !
-. r.'1tc closs LING OF steamers att ]