The Ontario Scrapbook Hansard

Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 27 Feb 1868, p. 9

The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

- Viv -P'""""--"'""" ', " e. Well," " wereeo. tttttitat ' inf: food:- of the tttttt might , " bout to do that which, in euc b one unit-law . - bark would drive them to do, adoptthe broad. - 9. " 8.380 (Hear. hear). Hon. gentlemen le d the would hear in mind, too. that the "one. b) srfiag whono namen were recorded in Eiii u . lretary the promote" of thin men of - : oHght the highest oorrtnteNk' f of ' I they 'ttMM-m" in whomthe full-t fltlhte d o (no. could be placed. Inc had been a lug a. "ttlon in Parliurutstrhnd1huhrgtluytrtut1eri"atdu " . _ of " never new among the pronoun oinn under- to deter. taking Inch an array of namm, giving a on n the guarantee that the undertaking naked for he pond would be carried fully into operation. (Hear. to hich hrar). How, he would like to w much ask, wan it :that honourable gentlemen u- hould came to determine on five feet for the exact ed the gauge? Hill not the Great Wanton Company co a rail. greatly ttaid by the adoption ci a loner b ade of gauge! They need 4 feet 8 and the". new . Mr. it came to be exactly ttrr-neither more nor {an to 1"r-U could not nee. He would alno call th no tho attention to the fact that the greater number to their of chartern granted in thin Province hitherto, he eon- had no gauge prenuribed at all. Why then H them can iiae the gauge inthin inataucn? (dpplauee and from tho ECHO"). "ion. Hon. J. S. McDONALD tone and moved and that the Speaker take the chair. ' The Speaker took the chair. E qu". Hon. J. B. MODONALD naid that if any " mum" demonstration of the hind jnnt made were no "h" repeated, on the part of then permitted by tt ' clty courtl nyor null arence to come intothe Rom Irng Ele the gallery would be cleared. That Home . vairy wan not a theatre. The dignlly ot the Le- .. " '; glnlature munt be enpported s-aad their In ' lie expreaolou of opinion mutt be kept free and th, " my: untrammelled. gu ' tll,' re. M r. McKELL AR thought the applaune be but had proceeded from hon. membern them to ist " eelvee: and, from what he knew of the " "M citizen of Toronto, he wan euro they would w d be not attempt to do anything unparliamentary. [I no The Home again went into Committee. . ta of Mr. FERRIER hoped the L9ginlature m their would grant the Bill. Why not . _ once allow the narrow gauge to be tried. ' W" No doubt,. from the character of Fl', hem. the promote" of thin enterprine, they * " of would not only endeavour to build the line. r . t in but would not do no on the narrow-gauge. if to _ In" that wcro not the bent. The eectionof mm '0 tltry try moat interoe=ed had long been promieed a ell: dby railroad, but that promlea had - been . kept; and u no. projrct did not carry. he {I had believed they would have heard the laet of bu ' on the Wellington, Grey and Bruce line. an d ia Mr. LYON opponed the three feet nix no ' oad gauge. tic denired to nee thene people have w ' ba a railway, It doeired, but let the road be a me y,'l uncfnlone. This wan an age of expannion ho 3:30 rather than contraction, and he would not be .1 oil an advocate for a wild attempt " economy MW. by reducing the preeent five feet gauge. He the denied that the documente thitdUg that thes Home in favour of the narrow-gauge repre- nu ia, rented the wiehen of the people ot Toronto. du " There dommentn only reprenented the dull" the la of the produce deale " "m Mr. WALLIS would correct the hon. ot 'en- member. The majority ot the rr, of be or. Toronto are very ntrcngly in favour the a r n- narrow-gauge. for It. LYON went on to argue that in con- . eao uq canon of the break of gauge, which would in 1 re be neoeeaitated by the three feet nix linen. an ter and. for military renecna. there narrow-gauge I'd ._ ion projeotn were not nuch an nhouldbenanc- be ', pie tionod by the Home. and would not, certalnv W " In be each an to induce capitalinm in Eng- oi land to lend any aaeiatance to the enter- mi sd, mil". 2- Mr. WALLIS hoped the manure would tor " pane with the narrow-gauge. He had at - olr tome the {Railway 0triitarfttoe-ud we fill or. a eopn one no tin the atm-and ' l a wee convinced t7,"l'll/V'll,,lg' wan the " to oheapent and mutt 1mtethgat. He hoped the M e, Home would grant thin charter to gentlemen the " where renponnibiiity wan undoubted. and " d who would undoubtedly - out thin an. ecu , " terprua--one largely calculated to tttttedt pm " not only the immediate nectiou traferned by "I . " it, but the Province at large., Ell . Ir. BOYD wan not a little nur- cl prlaed " way in which the honour tie ble member for Algoma tried to make "a " out hie cane that afternoon ; and thou t . I that honourable member had Ll,2'lfe l',' tie failed. It appearedto him thataringhnd or It been conntructed to defeat thin -r.-.gt I red measure which he honently believed tcbe fd " one well calculated to advance the welfare of M. on. the Province. What wan to bauuderatocd M At by the combination ngainet thin mane-re oi ro- m Grand Trunk, the Great were. the th on Northern and Pelatrt, Gm and Bruce per- linen? It wane com ed #fhiamt.--qthm " em- --an4 he hoped it would not be moo-lid in The defeating a movement calculated to be of the uni rail greatnat benefit to till. It" thq roved peninanla. The opinion of Ir. Shelf, VII t pro- Mr. Keefer. Mr, Cumberland and r. the bang Raid were died, an the. nehhth ought r ' ~by donated-hug"... Indltwanurgnd ', to that the bent plan would he to entm' into an - rior arran mentwit ', , 21- . o i . "

Powered by / Alimenté par VITA Toolkit
Privacy Policy