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the member for Algoma in regard to the} mincral interest, and in the remarke of the member for Oitawa on the timber limite. Bat the statements o! the latter hon. gentle-- | U man,from which it might be inferred that the agricultural land of the country had been exhausted, were not correct ; and it would | K. | be matter of regret it zo unfounded an im' pression should go abrosd. With some | "¥ modifications and explanations he thought | E the policy of the Commissioner of Orowu | H Lands a good one. He had decid«:d to give F one. He had decided to give the free grauts | ! of land in those seotlons, which wore now | S | unoccupled and beat adspted for settlement ; | BI and he had acted wisely., . As to the Home-- stead Law, it could hardly be called such. But in the United States a similar system | U had worked to .dvnhio. and it certalnly would be well to try the experiment here,. The present law, he would also remark, need | A not at all covfl'cs with any leglelature which | P may hereafter be proposed for a general Lo Homestead Law af--cting the entire country. | Ic But he conaidered it doubtiul whether the | T country demanded a Homestead Lew at all. 8 'There were, he added, improvements which | W he would like to have seen in the resolutions. | B In regard to the latter of the resolations, he | W ust express his satiafection at the declara-- 1 n of the Commissioner that the sett'er | W ouid not be liable to bave the timber ipped from his land by the lamberer, When he had fully performod all the daties | W requ.red of him, the settler was to be fally | V entvitled _ to all that the land contain» | W ed. He (Mr. Boatty) would even | 8 go :o ~far as s to _ extend _ this | 8 privi'ege to the minos on the lands.. He | V would say, however, that the Government | B policy did not go far enrough. Nothing had | C been said in the resolution regarding the | If mods of settlement, or the sale of lands to | 8 those who did not come under the lIlfim cf| M free grants. -- It would, in his opision, be a | C good plau to sell all their lands at say $1 an | B aocre. Thtu%h he would be sorry to go so f&r ar the member for Al;ona, and advecate a | G slavish copying of the American Crown Lands | & system, still he thought much of their system might be copied to advantage. Tha Province | & would undoubtedly gala much by a free, un | V restrloted, uncondit:onal sals of its unncocu:« pled lands to actual settlers, at one dollar, or | N one dollar and a quarter an acro, But before | M golog further thore was one thinog which was | O of fil' utmost flm.l*, ta the devetl=y % MmeB¥ CIL uo »--««try, and that was com* munloation. -- Without roads, free grants | V * ;nt'lol useless. iWhh l:lumi as had been !:leon T n the very region where it was proposed to give thouy!r« grants, the country would be i settled up and prosper. . Much of the land | § to be included in the free grants was really ' cf exoellent quality. The whole area of the Nipissing region was said by surv:yors to |€ yileld from 60 to 75 per cent, of arabie land ; | and there were yet many such distrlcts otf | land fis for settiement in the Province, 1f H aviog ahown the fo}ly of royaliies in regard I so miseral lands, the hon, gentleman closed | y expressing a hope that the Government i( would embcdy in their measure as many of i the suggestions cffsred as they could, 4 }, Sir HENRY SMITH said that though ho might have charaoter!zed one of the measured: before the house rather harshly that omla ke was bound to nx that he had he nothirg durlog the dobate yet which comr vinced him that the rusolutiocs cosms up the standard intended by Hia Exoellerog remarks, What was there in the new sohon to attract emigration here? Where the lberal bomestead law ; Was thore any i. liberality or fairness in giving grants of land to sottlers, and callig them froo grants, | ' when the very timber and mines wore exempted? Now, he wanted the promise of | the Government to be kept, and it they were | ' not disposed to keep it, he desired to drive | them to do it. Why not allow the man who | : usttles and builds a house, to have the timber | at the sameo rate as the lumberman ? (Hear). As to the evlogiles delievered on the Com--« 1 missioner of Crown Lands, by the member for Algoma and others, he (Jir Henry) would say that there was very slight fourdation for thein, (Laughter), 'Fhe &nmlulow had, is was brue, made a fair speech for a young member--(laughter)--but he had falled to |* deal with the matter before the house in a |» stateamanlike, comprehensive way ; and it was to be hoped that in committee the | honourable gentleman would allow of such modifications and lmgrovemcnu in his re-- | solntions, as would make them something like |" the %tomhod measures. Let them bo so | modified as that the settlers going on |' those free grants shall bo dealt | with liberally and honestly. ~Again he (Sir |; Henry) would osll attenrion :o the last | resolution. It really reserved all merchant-- |: able timber, clm or osk, &0., to the Crown. As to the induc'nvg of emigration that was | something on which not one word had been | said by the Commi{issioner ; nor did he (Sir |, .H:.nn) see whas i2ducements were alladed ||