"Wasn't it Virgil who wrote 'What cares the wolf how many the sheep be'?
The wolves, I tell you, win." Senator Hanway, full of inborn furtivities, still hung in the wind of doubt.
"Would it not be as wise," he argued, "to claim the public's attention with some new unusual proposition?
Might not the public, being wholly engaged thereby, forget finance ?" Senator Gruff thought this among things possible; at least it might be tried.

Something surely must be done, or Senator Hanway would be compelled to disclose his attitude on Silver versus Gold.
It was the decision of Senators Hanway and Gruff that the former should bring up for Senate discussion the resolution concerning that Georgian Bay-Ontario Canal.

Credit Magellan was dead and gone, and had been since the "bear" failure against Northern Consolidated.

But no one in the Senate, no one indeed not of the osprey pool, had heard of Credit Magellan.

Therefore, Senator Hanway could handle the Canal resolution as a thing by itself.