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GRAFT CHARGED INPolitics Figures in CanadianCase.Winnipeg Man.* Aug, 20,—Charge* that enormuus overpayments wort made to the con tract ora who erected the new purlbunent tin It ding* of the province o[ Manitoba; thnt these over* payment# In part at least were designed to provide a campaign fund for the recent UohUn government‘and that Kome mem Hera of that government were aware of what was going fin, are made In the report of the ro5 a I euimntBBlon, which Inquired into the elmt'KV*.*Tho coinmlHBloners found that from April 21 to Juno *, 19Jir just before Ihe eloctiona of the latter month, payments were made the con tract or b totalling *B82,2Dtf, upwards of *000,000 of thin being fraudulent overpayment*, The total amount* paid the contractors vrx fl/64l242, the excess payments being *701,703 without including IS per cent which should lmvo been held buck.The throe member* of the eommis-Bion, Chief Justice Mathers, Justice McDonald and Sir Hugh John McDonald, Winnipeg city police magistrate, were unanimous tn their flndtnge,Thomas Kelly and Sons are the contractor* named In the report as having received the enormous overpayment*.The report Btutoa that the commissioners were hampered by the absence of material witness** and ths reluctance of others to testify^and chargesttiat *28,030 was spent In keeping on« wltnifit away.
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Decatur Daily Review
Decatur, Illinois, US
Thu, Aug 26, 1915
Page 11
Full Page
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