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Q.-Hon. F. B. JOHNSON.-Then why did you say just now you received nothing?
A. He said it was for paper.
Q.-Hon. A. LISTER.-That is a pretty way of phrasing it, just as you say you give a man money to buy tea.
A.-But one per cent would be a very good thing to me.
Q.-Then it is true, is it, that he gave you $5, and three or four dollars' worth of presents besides ?
A. Yes, one of them.
Q.-Well, of course you can call it paper, but $5 worth of paper would last you a year. You could not expend $5 worth of paper in a very long time.
A.-It was at Christmas time, I think.
Q.-But the man said this: the percentage is not exactly one per cent, sometimes it is six-tenths, sometimes seven-tenths, and sometimes as much as one per cent. Now is it correct that it is towards one per cent?
is all.
A.-Never.
Q.-He said it was six ten cent pieces, or seven, or as much as a dollar. Is that so?
A.-No, never. It was only last year I got a few dollars for buying paper; that
Q.---But do you mean that this one case of $5 is the whole and sole sum you have taken? Do you mean to say you have not taken any other money?
A. Yes.
Q.-You cannot expect us to believe that. Have you written all these scores of bills for $5?
A.-It was only last year and a little before I wrote bills for these people. I have been in the department for six years.
Q.-Altogether you have written hundreds of bills.
A.-No.
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Q.-Now don't say no. I wonder your own acuteness does not lead you not to say things like that. I have only to go into the Audit Office. What will you say if I
and produce hundreds of bills?
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A.--I did not hear clearly what you said just now.
Q.—I said I have only to go into the Audit Office to find hundreds of bills in your hand-writing. Here are seven in this little packet, and I am sure I have seen fifty more. Now I say you have written hundreds of bills, have you not?
A. Yes, in one or two years.
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