SCANDAL IN CANADA.

Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18394, 30 July 1931, Page 7

SCANDAL IN CANADA.

COMMITTEE’S REPORT. SENATORS’ ACTION CONDEMNED. DRASTIC RECOMMENDATIONS. United Press Assn. —Elec- Tel. copyright. OTTAWA, July 28. The committee which inquired into the Beauharnois electric power scheme has presented its report to the House of Commons. It reconimends Parliament to take such action as may be within its power to procure the development of the Beauharnois project. The committee declares that the actions of Mr W. L. McDougald, a member of the Senate, “ cannot be too strongly condemned, for letting private interests interfere with his public duties.”

Two other members of the Senate are criticised for their acceptance of money for party funds and for other actions.

The committee asserts that the Arm’s vice-president and general manager is not a At and proper person to continue in the management, and states that the company’s money which was squandered on election campaign funds should be returned.

The committee, which was appointed as the outcome of charges made by Mr Robert Gardiner, was instructed to Investigate from its inception the Beauharnois project (for the development of hydro-electric energy by the use of the waters of the St. Lawrence), so far as the matters referred .to are within the jurisdiction of the Dominion Parliament and particularly to inquire into the questions raised by Mr Gardiner involving fraud, misrepresentation and improper dealings.

Whose death is announced. He was chairman of the London Hospital for a great number of years