PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12566, 1 August 1905, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

"after the ball. i (By Telegraph.) <From Our Special Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, July 31. After tho battle I find the name of s -itJie progressive party simply stinks in t the lobbies, and the revelation made tai-s v morning in the "N.Z. Times" put the h ■finishing touch on their collapse. ..he I ■proof of Friday that, the- regulation ( which permitted the Ministerial memos. t for domestic purposes were drawn up j .-and passed by the Hall Government, 3 :sund could not therefore be due to the r "•diabolical cunning" of the present Go- t •uravmreut, anxious to remove a 1 traces c «of their corruption, was tha nr.st tig t mail in the progressive coffi.i. To day s s ■revelation is tho last. It is this: Mr. r Fisher had at a late hour apparently s substantiated his charge by q-jotingthe t •date and number of the vouoaer which j, tie said wars paid to Captain Seddon, at v ■CJha-istchiircli, by the Stores Department v -for work he had not done. Of course -the hidden gravamen of tho charge was t -that the money had been lmpa-operly r , paid in the face of all authority, arid \ went to help the Captam pay Im costs 0 in re Seddon v. Taylor, and the vevoiu- I 'this morning is that tho daw and ], tnumber of the voucher, and the place oi- ' ■its pavmenifc (Chrktchurch) aa-e quite cor•srect, but that it was not paid to Captain Seddon, who has no right to it, nnd f) it was paid to Mr. Sneddon, who repro. ? •sentin"1 a firm which bad supplied stores j, -to the Government, was the proper per- , o •son to receive the money. Ihe ferment. in the lobbies at the denouement is in- c -clescribable. What happened is of course 0 -claar. Some one got access at some v irime to a pile of voucher&-some one fc ■who had no right to look them through t. tand he saw in one a name which looked f, like Seddon. We all know \vhaifc havoc t -man make some times of their signa- j turns. Being anxious to make a case t lie utilised the short time at his dis- a posal for his dishonourable espionage, n not to verify the signature on the page ]\ Ibut to get "down the number and date g ■>of the voucher. This person, wnosver p lie was, set the ball rolling, which Mr. c "Fishea- brought into the House. There y Is to be another explanation that some j -clerk who also misread the signature v the information to Mr. Fisher, ii Whatever was it happened. The fall t •oi Mr. Fishei- is violent and resound- 0 "ing. With him has fallen the pa-ogres- i ; %sive party—so far as the House is con- £ toerned.