efforts to get the Canadian Pacific Railway Company to remove Mr.
Smith from his position as station agent, a _Witness_ reporter,
yesterday afternoon, interviewed Mr. Thomas Tait, Assistant
General Manager of the Canadian Pacific Railway, on the subject.

"'Is it true, Mr. Tait, that the Canadian Pacific Railway Company
have been asked by men interested in the liquor trade to remove
Mr. Smith from Sutton Junction, as they disliked the active
interest he takes in the temperance cause?'

"'It has been stated to us that Mr. Smith at times, in order to
get convictions against men who broke the liquor laws, used the
information which his position as station agent gave him to
secure convictions. Of course, you understand none of our
employees have the right to use for their private ends
information they get as employees of the road. I mean that if Mr.
Smith prosecuted liquor men in his private capacity he was
perfectly justified in doing so, but if in order to get
convictions he had to use information which he could alone get as
station agent, he has laid himself open to censure. I have no
proof that Mr. Smith has violated the confidence of the Company.
Mr. Brady, of Farnham, has gone to Sutton Junction, and is
investigating the outrage, and he will let me know whether or not
there is any foundation in the charge against Mr. Smith. If Mr.
Smith is in the right you may rest assured the Company will take
care of him.'

"'Are you trying to find the man who committed the assault?'

"'Yes, we have taken action in that direction, too.'

"Another official of the Company said: 'I was in Richford the day
Mr. Smith was assaulted. It was rumored there that the liquor men
were incensed against Mr. Smith, as they believed he found out by
the way-bills when liquor was addressed to any one at the
junction, and used that information to get convictions. I also
heard that it was men from Vermont who assaulted Mr. Smith, and
that they had been sent to do the deed by liquor men in Vermont,
who are enraged at Mr. Smith.'"

In this conversation the acknowledgment was plainly made by Mr. Tait
that the liquor men had made complaints to the Company concerning Mr.
Smith, so that, whether their reports had any influence with the
Company or not, the fact remains without contradictio