JESUITS^ ESTATES BILL

Summary.

The Mail, July 2, 1888, objects to the disposal of the money being subject to the approval of the Pope, as tmder the British Constitution no authority otitside the Frovifice should control public money.

Reply : — Objection frivolous. The money ceases to be public money, when by will of the legislature it has been voted as compensation to Father Turgeon, a British subject and the duly authorized Procurator of a recognized corporation.

As well might it be said, that a foreign authority exercised control over public money, when in settlement of the Alabama Claims, a gross sum was voted by Parliament to be deposited with the U. S. Government, with the understanding that special courts of adjudication, within the United States, should decide as to the validity of individual claims, and in accordance with such decisions suitable compensation be made..