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Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 48, 20 July 1908, Page 8

One w.ould think it hard to make a sensation in America by any disclosures about "graft.” But the arrest of fifteen of the most prominent men in the State of Pennsylvania seems to have done it. The "graft” disposed of is put at nine million dollars, and it had its origin in the building and furnishing of the new Capitol—Americans will not speak English if they can help it. The architect and the principal contractor and several Congressmen and State officials are implicated in the charge of conspiring to defraud the public treasury by false pretences, and, as the bail is fixed at sixty thousand dollars each, we may assume the seriousness of the prosecution. One or two examples of the procedure may be given. Furniture charged for disappeared ; burglar-proof safes supplied were shams ; bronze work worth tw r enty-six thousand dollars passed the accounts at over five hundred thousand ; other goods were supplied by the contractors at almost six hundred per cent, on the original prices.—" Saturday Review ”