POLITICAL CORRUPTION IN MANITOBA
ALLEGED HUSH MONEY TO DROP ELECTION PROTESTS. Ottawa, June 23. A Royal Commission is investigating charges of political corruption against the Manitoba Legislature. Counsel is representing fourteen private members. It is alleged that the former Administration made a compact to pay tho present Administration, which was then the Opposition, ten thousand dollers as hush money, to drop election protests. The alleged agreement provided for enough Conservative resignations to allow the new Government to take offico without an election.
MR. BRYAN'S SUCCESSOR MR. ROBERT LANSING FORMALLY APPOINTED. Washington, June 23. Mr. Robert Lansing (United States Counsellor to the Secretary of State, and an eminent authority on questions of international lan - ) has been appointed Secretary of State in succession to Mr. \V. J. Bryan, resigned. EARTHQUAKE IN CALIFORNIA TOWN PARTIALLY DESTROYED BY FIRE. San Franclsoo, June 23. There were fifteen deaths through an earthquake in the Imperial Valley, California. The town of Caleoico was partially destroyed by fire.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2497, 25 June 1915, Page 9
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160POLITICAL CORRUPTION IN MANITOBA Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2497, 25 June 1915, Page 9
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