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lthedbeeneeld thatWheGovernment wee 4 Fr'! gagoodmerket "me W9- $) toretainthetimher. That unqueetionahiy P. ihad known her In the lumber district-u hedheen mentioned ea being the policy of (high. in s40 . ton, and on- from 81 toto $2 the Government ' and when the queetion I" tmatter. m had known lumbermen not came tobe dieoueaed, and It I at then that ', - "WWS aettlement, but offering Pr" ttte Government Willi"! to ever: the dire 'miumeto eettlere to come in. On the other b m of arm "no... by huabanding , hand, he knew there.were inetenoee in which the timber which oon.tttitod " large aettlere had been eent by the Government . MOI of the mal wealth of m. [ intothewhite pine country, not fit for nettle- country, he wee "ttefied a. ' ment. Theaeaettlere might get along for a people of Ontario would eey that the Govern- "W Pa", whik Ihe lumbermen out ttte "W ment had done right. They knew that many he: In their neighbourhood. but, " eoon " oithoeewhohad gone upon lands, prune. the timber wee out, ea the land wee not ing an intention toeettle upon them, only worth cultivating, atarvation eneued, and went to out the thnlttrr---ind, when the they had to go may. m beluvtd all the timber wee gone, when were they? With eettlementa on the Opeongo Road had been that experience, were they to throw away abandoned, except one or two. Al for the the valuable reecuroee they had in the pine fitne- oi white pine land for eettlement he timber, which wee now getting ecerce .might mention that in 1863nPariiaatenUrr . ttmmtth the country? A. the thnber wee -Committee received evidence, not only from beaming more valuable, it would he the e,et'hte,,trt, but from dietingniehed tttsolo. , duty of the Government to bring do an "only gieta, atl "reutg that, an l rt1le, the white ' of charger, which may be htgtter 1 i 9,090.. pine land of thie country wee not fit for net- tlon an the demand was greater, and which tlement. A great I" 1 ot apecnletion had would give the Government the revenue d been practiced n ' ' ' d6 name of aettlement. which they had hitherto burs. deprived. Thousands of . ' ind been taken up. Some hon. membere were diepoaed to look particularly in the Ottawa country, upon the timber limlte ea & patrimony for " parties who went on them limply I future aettlere. Bat he knew the. in hie tor the purpoee ot selling the timber. who? own motion tho pine land: were inferior to had in that way deprived the Crown of the other lenda; and the intention of the Gov. dnee it would otherwile have received, and eminent wee that the acltler, in swimming who, after they took thetlmber, in nine ceeea land, should, under the direction of the out of ten, abandoned the lende. And thin Crown Lend Agente, eelect a lot which he had led tothedeetruction ot timber in another could really live upon, and that he abouid wey. Pertiee who had no interest in the not be allowed to Delect timber lands, with locality, except to get the timber, frequently the view of ceiling the timber " price: which by cereloeeneee not fim to the woods, con- would pay him well tor going upon the land, ruining the standing timber, and it we: eat! and leaving it alter he had acid the timber. mated by than who knew the facts that a [ The commieeioner of Crown Lende would quantity " lceet equal to whet wee exported ll probebly give notice to-morrow ot tho trom thin country. wee annually doetroyed reaclu'iona which embodied the policy of by fire, Coneidering that the value to thin the Government on thin euhject, and country of itelumbertrade, was in exceu of would bri them before the Home tor dis. all other brenchne of our export trade, an cueeicn In: ccurae of next week, and the ehowu by the trade and navigation return, Home would then be able to "is upon the it would be understood how great a late the mtblettt with thst an" human?" whlcl I country thus contained by the oarcleseneea of was due tn an important a "iiii'iii.' The "stileris. _ . 'T Hangs. he wee "re, would not "109010 that Mr. Ill KfilWi) said he thought the Gov. ther Government had anv oNust in view ernment mutt have mtrt1udraurocd the pun "ttopt what pertained to'the advanteae of port of the, latter part of his resolution. the country, when they imfated iiii'ii2 They were (My raked to make yco roam pine land. cf i113 country should no, is: on ' tt an far as practicable," and, if tho Govern- the dispoeei of the "ttler, t 10.3.. 'e, sq he- r." uncut raid it we: not practicable to make the he rcqnirr'! '.r.-, rlne tirc', or nay. "in Mid return, 1mm thorn hst it" rrepotu'tb0tte rest, tow M; g", "M. c,,, . -. ' ' "A, 5.1.6.13 or The member for Ottawa heed enmewhnt min huh-1.. ", F . i ". ' i. {a t.s be under- coneirued hie remarks, when he charged him L " cl "all , . T 'd." r; ttrct was rot re- with repreeenting the lumbar trade an hostile ' 'pr {L} fer -» r pi, voudnc'i of t're Crown to eettlernent. Yet, It he had raid thin, has .n 3.}. A gnu". which had not been auch I he would have been borne out by evidence as v. cannula itrclt to the people of thin which appeared on the journals of com try ; and that, ham, t':sy granted the Parliament cf Canada. Mr, Ry- farther privilegee to lumbermen, they were i kert here read evidence by Mr. determined to know What they w". giving Hayea, late Government agent on the coin- away, and to have the: deecrlption of in. nizetion roads, to the effect that the lumber formatirn which would jug", the policy trade had exerted a detrimental itsiluerust, on they deemed it right to purine. Ill)',',".',',',',';, chiefly lt consequence of the Mr. HAY" T r g ' an e [manner a which the employeee of the Jfdd?,',tfoeaa,',2ep 12:2": 31:2: i ot acme ot the lumbering ettabliahtnsata had laid on: an town plote, which there wee no aoted towarde acttlere, in dirputtm abouti Wm?!" would "a, be occupied as town .righhtotimber. In support at another of n. aettlere on theee lande Infrared . greet ' hie atatementa, which had been dieputud by deal of inconvenience. from inability toget ill" member "I Victoria, ho read the tavi. their patents, and he hoped the matter deuce given on the name accesio'n. by a gou-l would "a": the only attention of tlemau in tho intercnt of iir. (nimonr, the the Cominikttamssr of Crows Lende. rat-eaten lumberman in the Province, to the i Mr C00KtlUltN trsii Ih H I ti f effect that ",,ttuH.tet1uae.uy had the (i:',',,) the i'i,i0',,' irCii 'i, ' AWN": fl"', at?" 0. intimation of, a timber license having been had gm Telly been (2", good in Il',,',',',,'?,'.',',',' . f.j,t'fe,', which! envered their Iottatioira, by i but they hid been perverted. The member,- 'tl',',?,","""",',"').?,', "r,Ut"hit 'le t; i :21; fiii'2/it'c,",ttt R Ergo: 1gurt',rt/: if; cmree, blame thie Government for. the i ' by the lir.ir/,iriii coming 1'; rod 'dll','; conduct n! the Crown Lende Dtsparttnorttl, their ilmh:r. That was ", 'im,".".. he. 'll/lf, In peat timer, but ho hoped '" would lumbermen could not do an underlie Ar, have a better eystem for the future. Thin ' letloun ot tho Department. m was eururii'e-d l, ttl1'ee dehowul that, whenever , arm I to hear the Comrnttaionor of Crown Lcuia ve)or me a . correc. report to the (i overu- i n, that he w" unable to tell wh r j d ment " to the qualitiar of the lend no eur- lands Wm to be found Under $1,283: voyed. he never got anoihor survey. When Cookbnrn'.t) trveol iii',,, the Dopamine; Mr. Paterson, of the Heetinge Dietrict, made had run revere! exploratory linen and the l rswrth to! the hCornmieeioner of Crown eurveyore had taken notee of G'iuiiUG' an ., ' ow " t at m tho whole of the of the lead for three milea oneaohaid t townehipe he had eurveyed, there w" very the" linen and their notee were no. l Ill little agricultural land, he got no more work. -iiiiriGiiilt withre ttnd l',', all It he had eteted that tho laud wee fertile imam". 2', to "tam" ttet on illicit»! and fit for settlement, he would have got a . make th diehoneet tion out of thel dozen more 1yr'? timber, he thought all." muethe exocptioaal ' Mr. K. GRAHAM (Heatinge) aid that ' canoe. He could not - with the Attor. la 1865 he wee employed by the County hey-General, that nine lands were poor Coneciioi Heeiinge to go eevaluatcr upon ngrhmltarai Vanda. H. maintained that good the Healing: Road, and he found that nine .. A lands bore the beet timber. out (310%,; tea homo: tht, tn" been put ' Mr. R. . k up ere were Caner e - r. country not Lincoln JpriceioJig,tl,., 'lt J1tli"dg being oapab e of supporting nu egriculiural r the lumber trade wan hostile to the eettlej population. - It the timber and minorele merit of the country. lie (ttr 3 ) WM orc- Were non mama to accounr' 1: t" ' "ND": pared to show that the Giiiii"triiii and T,'e'll tttttgt (have been "we" i?. vain, been rather the hand-maid oi immi ration~ or t w" 800 for nothing all" m W"! l at .11 events in tho action Pf,',',',',',',' told that It he went further back he would from which he, came Th 1 (l,', ha come to good land. That might be tho o"er, I 1 generally 113000 d ed the nettle um Thmtl I but he did not we it. Be wee told by i, had in all canoe followed Ti, l be? ti" neighbours of hiawho had gone to British ..; " -- , tun 'l'lll'a Columbia by the overland route, that in tho i"imli--g-u_,,L" valurotttMtehrtto_hfwats,turi, "a" "L - A -