Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-07
BOODLERS VOUCHERS
Flashed on Sir John Thompson in
Response to His Challenge.
M'GREEvY WAS A SCAPEGoAT
10 Hide Corruption in Twenty-Eight
Canadian Constituencies.
A GREAT SCANDAL TO Be REoPENED
SPECIAL rELEenAM TO THE DISPATCH.

SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DrspArcH.J
TORONTO, Feb. 6.-The revelations made
here to-day of more boodling by Dominion
Ministers to carry % constituencies in the
Province of Quebec in favor of the Govern
ment has created sensation in political cir
cles, and the opinion is expressed in some
quarters rather freely that disclosures of
this kind are doing more than anything else
to force Canada into annexation. The story
comes from Montreal and shows how, by
organized corruption in that Province, %
ridings were carried for the Government.
In recent speech at Halifax Sir John
Thompson, Minister of Justice, stated if
anyone had information to communicate
concerning boodlers or boodling he would
be glad to receive it and act upon it. Upon
this invitation the Globe to-day gives q
statement which it says it was requested to
publish by director of leading monetary
institution in Canada 1t is said in town
to-day that this man is Hon. Thomas Nc
Greevy, director of the Union Bank of
Canada, the Government contractor whom,
with Mike Connolly, the Government is
about to prosecute in court at Ottawa on a
eminent for work never performed.
Mixing Politics and Contracts.
The statement goes on to say that the
boodling investigation at Ottawa last ses-
sion which led to the expulsion of Nc
Greevy from the House of Commons and
the subsequent proceedings against him
were superficial and in a large degree abor-
tive, and that special pains were taken to
suppress the ugliest facts connected with
the affair. When McGreevy was discharg-
ing immense Government contracts he acted
as cashier of the Conservative party's funds
in the District of Quebec.
A dishonest man could have made mill
ions out of that position, but instead he
lost, and his personal sacrifices have been
larger than those of any other in. the his
tory of the party. Yet now, in his old age
the writer goes on, the Tory leaders turn
upon him to send him to Jail, in order that
Premi er Abbott, Sir John Thompson and
John Haggart may acquire reputation tor
purity. Every Government contract under
taken in Quebec since 1850 paid tribute to
the Tory party managers.
Thomas McGreevy was contractor for the
Government North Shore Railway from
Quebec to Montreal, and paid half million
dollars on this contract ostensibly for con-
struction but really for the use Of Cabinet
Ministers for elections and journalistic cor
ruption. Sir Adolph Caron, present Post
master General and Sir Hector Lapgevin,
privy council, or and adviser of her Majesty
the Queen and late Minister of Public
Works, undertook as two Quebec Ministers
the charge of % constituencies in the cleo
tion of 1887. They drew orders on
McGreevy for money as needed and for
money so paid out the writer believes
McGreevy can produce vouchers for at
least S112, 900.
Backed Up by Fac Smiles.
Accompanying the published statement
are fac SMILES of some of these vouchers, and |
they show among others money paid to j. |
/. Tarte, who at the instance of Robert Nc |
Greevy inaugurated boodling investigation |
at Ottawa year ago, and the writer calls |
on this apostle of pure politics to explain |
what he did with the money.
Robert McGreevy, who was well-known |
in New York, frittered away his money |
with his brother, Thomas in ticker opera |
tions, speculations on margins in pork and |
wheat, and Robert owed his brother S400, 900 |
on account of contracts in Canada and the
States which he never paid. A quarrel en-
sued through Robert trying to squeeze more
money out of his brother by threat to ex-
pose the dealings with the Ministers and
the revelations began.
The Globe promises more revelations and
The talk is that the blacklist feature of the
whole scandal will be unearthed at Ottawa
If the Government consents to an investiga-
ton when Parliament meets at Ottawa in a
lew weeks. 1t is question with many if
The Government can survive these ex-