Vogel's Petition.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1711, 24 July 1885, Page 2

Vogel's Petition.

We have already referred to the impudent and totally unjustifiable claim for some £7OOO put forward by Sir Julius Yogel in his petition to Parliament. The Evening Press has an excellent article on the same subject in which it remarks :—“ Sir Julius Yogel is not on the same footing as other petitioners. He himself nominated the Oorpmittee who are to adju* dicate on his petition. fje selected the majority from his own party. He is Colonial Treasurer, with great powers in his hands, both of reward and of injury ; and so long as ho remains in that position, he is actually to a very great extent the arbiter of his own petition. Hence, wa maintain, the case is so exceptional that the public and the Press are perfectly justified in treating it exceptionally. If Sir Julius Yogel had placed himself on equal footing with all other petitioners, by retiring from a position which gives him the control of the Committee, then, o£ course, it would have been right to

suspend judgment and delay discussion on his petition, until the Cornmiitee had reported. But so long as he, a petitioner to Parliament for a grant of money, retains office as Colonial Treasurer, he cannot in any fairness to the public be regarded as an ordinary petitioner.” Finally our contemporary declares that the same claim on the past of Vogel was submitted to Parliament long ago and finally disposed of. Surely ihen this bringing it forward again is a piece of measureless audacity.”