The Cairo bulletin., 1906-03-07
NEW EVIDENCE OF
GRAFT IN PANAMA
COMMISSION PAYS Al CENTS A
POUND FOR CHEESE TO BE
USED AS RAT BAIT.
WOMEN ARE NOT WIVES
pouItney BioeIow Correct About I'M
ported Martinique Females
Exorbitant Prices Paid
for Everything.


/ Washington March 6--Cheese tina
would and did kill rats was bought a
II cents a pound. This isonly one 0
/ the counts IN a new indictment agains
/ the commlssariat at the canal zone a
showing the extravaganza Of the GOV
ernment there.
/ A lon list of extrayagances is giyel
in a statement published here toda!
from J. w. Ferguson, formerly a loco
motive engineer on the isthmus. ant
this list appears to be up to- the pur
chasing agent in New York, Incident
ally the Isthmian Canal commiss on
after hearing from the New YorE
gent, would have 10 explain them an,
the canals committee OF the senate /:
now in session. The last act of the ma
iorty Of this committee was TO shuI
off Senator Morgan, who was pryine
into some of the secrets Of the canal
administration
A1F8tI IN LAHlD@I GCElAI dIlS,
Mr. Ferguson. however. says that
his figures are from the books of the
company on the isthmus. He, among
other things. asserts that redwood was
purchased n New York, as if the best
forests of that material grew there
whereas net a foot is found east of the
Sierra Mountains and that in genera
timber is bought in the interior in
stead of at the coast cities.
Mr.. Ferguson does not say SO in his
statement but II Is pretty well known
that the contracts for lumber are made
not with the people who cut and SAN
ii. for instance in the Carolinas, il
Mississippi, in Louisiana and else
where bur with middlemen who agreo
to have the lumber inspected at Co
Ion. AS a matter of fact, there have
been some reflections, but the whole
history Of the lumber transactions j.
not known.
Mr. Ferguson also deals with the al
legged graft of ignoring the civil ser
vice Sc that grocery" clerks and
others may get fat Jobs through
various kinds of pull.
Exorbtant Prices Paid.
The Markell contract business was
scarcely out Of the way temporarily
before the committee. and the allega
ton that Senator Millard's son was TO
be chief commissary for Markell at
$4,000 a year when the Ferguson
charges came out Here are some OF
the things which appear substantially
in Feguson's statement;
Most of the Redwood purchased IN
New York at n cost of $40 a thousand
In house constructed for stevens at
Culeh,a common sap pine cost S2S75
per thousand and was shipped from
New York instead Of from Southern
ports.
Hotel plain trucrure. no doors and
no windows. cost $4,000.
Cost Of common materials: Pig iron
$500 per hundred pounds; block tin.
rs cents per pound; saventy-pound
steel rails. S27 a ton; one lot of wheel
Oarows. $l74 apiece; second lot, $3.50
apiece: refuse cheese for sanitary de-
partment. Al cents a pound
Locomotives cost half as much
again. though having to ba recon
as railroads here would pay.
Women Are Not Wives.
Imported Mart nique womea were
not wive
Angle bare for four railways cost SO
cents per pair. linsead oil 81 cents q
gallon. boiled oil C3 cents a gallcn, the
lowest grade Of engine aad valve oil
IS cents per gallon.
Remisiuon was sent for a large
quantity of cheese tO De used 10 -at
traps. The best of cream cheese at
hi. commi airy costs is cents q
pound. while the shipment OF cheese
sent down for the sanitary department
amounting 10 several hundred pounds
cost the canal comm 'ssion a cents a
pound.
Here are some Of the places at g1oi
salaries which are alleged to be held
outside civil service rules: J. 7. Girls.
ON. $4,000 per year: J. S Mel hl7y
.2.iOo per year. Harry Leonard 81 800
ler year: Frank Wright. $500 aI
year. Mr.. Graham. s2.100 a year
Reiterating the charge abort these
women. Mr. Fergu On SAYS. /
II wish to say that 7 was in Colon
IN the morning Of their arrival and J
-ailad to see the outst-etched arms o.
IN anxious husband greet ns any ~
hem"
.
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