The National Dream: the Great Railway, 1871-1881
“There would be only one subject discussed in this new session of Parliament: the evidence taken before the Royal Commission.The Governor General spent two days going over the evidence with Judge Day. On Sunday, October 19, he wrote Macdonald a brutal note in which he said that “what has occurred cannot but fatally affect your position.” The Prime Minister’s first impulse was to resign on the spot. Had it not been for Dufferin’s “imperative commands to the contrary” he would have done so. But Du...fferin wanted a meeting and on Monday morning a painful interview took place at Rideau Hall. Dufferin pointed out to his prime minister that there were four charges against him: first, personal corruption; second, selling the railway to an American ring; third, granting corrupt and improper concessions to Allan; and, fourth, “having obtained money from a suspicious source and having applied it to illegitimate purposes.” On the first three counts Macdonald had not been found guilty; on the fourth he had.MoreLess
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