"TRAVELLING EXPENSES" IN ITALY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8987, 23 November 1907, Page 5

"TRAVELLING EXPENSES" IN ITALY

CHARGE AGAINST MINISTER OF INSTRUCTION.

Received November 21, 7.35 a.m

ROME, November 21

Signor Nasi, who was Minister of Public Instruction in Italy in 1903, was recently tried on a charge of malversation of public funds. He then admitted having charged to his "travelling expenses" account a considerable portion of the sum which was voted from time to time under the heading of "secret expenditure for political purposes."

His advocates tried to secure an examination of the Budgets of all Ministries, with a view to rebutting the charge that Nasi hai exaggerated the amount of his personal expenditure.

After a stormy scene the advocates relinquished their belief as a protest against what they described as tha unjudicial attitude of the Senate.

(Signor Cappelli, president of the Parliamentary Committee, who was appointed to enquire into the charges against Signor Nasi, testified that he found overwhelming evidence of the guilt of Nasi. The frauds, he stated, had been conducted with most astonishing impudence. One deputy, Signor Cappelli reported, had assured him that Signor Nasi's department had become the headquarters of the Camorra and J\ r afia, two notoiious Italian secret societies.)