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Mr. BLAKE had no objection on condition that a similar privilege should be accorded to other members who might desire to reply to the hon. Ireaaursr's remarks. Mr. WOOD then Encoded with hie re- marks. He would, 0 laid, ftrst refer again to the question, of the arbitration. m asked the hon. member for South Bruce whether he could point to any article or area: of any individual in Quebec where the o jection of hie holding a ttthere/t was made to Col. Gray, an taken by Mr. B aka , Hr. W001) taking his seat, Mr. BLAKE rose and snid that he had not agreed that the hon. gentlemen ehould put a eerie. of 2,t'geitteg to him. He would mower them in no eeaaon. (Laughton) W. WOOD laid t With regard to the charge ot ttpta",",.',', brought against the Government or_ha_vmg precitgitetqi a deci- Mr. WOOD Mimi" "a ?d?diheey on the clause. H6 t1pisught, however t' it wu desirable to llzve a full discussion. The Attorney General intended to have been present, bat he had suddenly become ill, and In his absence he hoped he would be allowed member knew" that the Government had re- fuedintototo go Into the matter on the tinniple of er pertnerehip whetever. flue. Bee'e ropoeitxon. that the nutter should be was on the principle of A partnership, in which the mete brought inand thoee token out should only be coneidered and the whole period during the pthrutrssly'p not be consid- ered at all, would it edmitted have settled the award at once. But the counter .pro- position of putrio 'Pf thet'if you take thet to proceed. would be, according to law, proper and cor: met, while the proposition of Quebec was simply monstrous. it they took tuco. toms' duties collected at Quebec, Montreal, and St. John'a, and divided them equally, they found these startling results: That from local sources in Upper Canada about $75,000,000 was paid in rev- enue, and from local sources in Que- bec about $35,000,000. There was during that period expended on 103le objects, in l'pper Canada, $6,000,000, in round sum, and in Quebec $19,000,000. Wear, hear) The gentlemen representing Quebec knew this perfectly, and they would not listen to the proposal. The proposition on the part or" Ontario was to let bygones be0typ.onea, that each should take their 0 Vtt property;. and that ii the proposed plan was proceeded with, that the result would be startling to the whole countr , and least of all satisfactory to Quebec. Ta', course pri- seuted to the arbitrators was to enter into the discussion on the ordinary principle of partnership, or take it on the principle of population, or, as the only other alternative, they had to tind out what caused the excess of debt over the F.1iu',500,000. This pm. lirninar question passed in review before the arbitrators; and in its discussion he (Mr. Wood) contend ed that the whole ques- tion was discussed. The hon. entleman said the Government were L,,'l'l'liad': because they pressed a decision after it had been in- timated to them that the Quebec arbitrator would withdraw if the decision were render. ed. Ile thought that probably, bein in their oontidence, Mr. Illa e might have been aware of this fact, but for himself, although he attended all the meetings of the arbitra- tion, ho was not aware of this alleged fact. But if he had been aware of it, it would not have changed his course. (Hear, hear ) He always believed the award might have been made in one or two days. The Govern- ment were _constantly taunted yvit)tu1ihttori- nessgsndin obtainin thli -- urinary " cision, the Governing" rrtttf,tit a td an pottting M r, Wood 'd'l','f1S into some statistics relat- " right through. And this, he tttougl1titttts hon._l_n_ember ior/8ot.tth.Brtteo would agmit, irinciple of partnership at all ion must take , right throng). _ ydthjs, he tho.ughtjtlye Mr. BLAKE laid M be bed then Itated, in reply to an interruption of the Bon. Tread eurer. that this eon-e wee certainly not to be taken without reference to the condition of the account letween Upper and Lo wu- (Jennie. tained similar fund. tChi, Wood quoted the won. of " reported in To Gums. Mr. WOOD then referred to his vote: on the Independence of Pulimnont Act. The hon. member for South Bruce (Mr. Blske) had accused him of being in some way ro. aponliple fontho dissatisfaction of Quobe¢ tte. tent for having priiiipitited n doci- ttut 'stth1niy.aitiruer6toet, tle bon. 'ceuee he had voted id When. member's I "nsndmentorrthrs t2g1t2g of Parlia- l, ment Act. The hon, gentleman did not himself take mi objection to Col. Grey'e pre- sence on the or itretion, but said that Que. bee mi ht object ', and consequently it One- bec'e objection fell to the ground, that of the l hon. member's did also. The amendment moved was that no persons holdin em- ployment of Poli' under the L',',",',", m Canada, or in my of the provinces, other than the members of the Government of Cenade, should not be eligible for a wet in the Home. Under the amendment he would 'certainly have excluded himself. . Mr. BLAKE-That would have been very unfeir. (Laughter.) . Mr. WOOD-And, if I mistake not, the hon. gentleman also. He had voted against the ainendment and would do so again, be. - the amendment dealt with certain of- tice" with whom the Dominion had nothing whatever to do. m was propered to go as .far as the hon. gentleman in excluding all greens. of whatever employment they might , who were receiving any emoluments from the Government of the day. Mr BLAK Ill-- Does not a county regis- trar receive my emolument from the Govern. ment of the day , Mr. W00l)-a'o. _ Mr. BLAKE-lun why is he excluded? . Mr. W00D-Beoause he receives a regis- trarahip, and is ylaced in position to receive emoluments. No doubt, the afirit end the in)eyt of the levy go so for, on he oontentr ed that unless they construed very narrowly the Independence of Parliament Act, it went far to exclude all persons who might directly or indirectly receive emolu- ments from the Government of the day. ll e admitted that a person in the position of Col, Gray was not able to give " independent vote; but he was not prepared to vote for so sweeping an unend- ment as that proposed by the hon. member fer South Bruw. The next charge brought against him was that he had voted against the 13th reference of the Nova Scotla sub- sidy. He should give an aftirmstive vote on a question of that kind when put as a sub- stantive motion, Wherever he might be. He agreed with the hon. member that Ne Ia Scotia had got more than she was fairly en- titled to; but the great leader of the ooeifad. eratlonparty was so anxious to bring the union about that he (Mr. T-'ood) was'Quite willing to extend to Nova Sootia the same terms that had reviously been givento New Brunswick, rather than that it should be necessary to coerce her. into the union by means of an ygreitgo,t, which would cost far more, and bu es wouldrankle in the breasts of the Novi Beotians for years to come. lie agreed that'more had been grant. cdto Nova Scotia that Was her due; but the question'on the matter being brought for ward in this House, whether' it was ad- visable to array Ontario against Nova Scotia. was debateable, and on the six months' hoist being proposed, he voted for it. It had been endeavoured to make sonic capital out , of the aid rendered to medical schools, hutthe Government were of opinion 'that subsidies to medical schools were of no advantage to I the came of education, and if the hon. mem- I her for South Bruce thought that the Gov. ernment would be-oustedoti this question he was wry much mistaken. The speaker went on to comment on the action of the hon. member for South Bruce on the Dower Bill, and said that be (Mr. Weed) we: not in fa. vonr of a wife having any lower during the life of her husband. He alluded to the. bill of mag Smith a one whloh had been ep- posr d y gentiomen opposite, but which had -proved of great beneih to the eat-to. Mr. BLAF, 1il-Pehsq, the hon. gentleman does not know that "tho bill in question panned with my amendment; (Hear, hear.) Hon Mr. WOOD went on to any that the opposite party was becoming weaker, and etterwu'de combetted the assertion that members on the Opposition and Government lidee of the Home who voted with the Ad. ministration wen corrupted. He stated that changes of this nature, which oppeered inTRtr Omen: neweprper, and were echoed over thereountry, did more to demorelize the primal voters than All other conne- put toge- ther. (A laugh.) He (Hon. Mr. Woody was quite prepamddn talk this matter out to the next election. He was willing to meet the hon. member for South Bruce in. my riding in 'e e country on these subjects. Still, however, he (Mr. wood) would any that the reletions between a member and his constituents were of a eoettidetitiai diameter, and it wet simply insulting for any gentlemen to any that he would enter the conetituency of another, and tell' these constituents what he thought of their representetive. The, member for Sovth Grey we: retpmelbloto his own constituents, and be (Mr. Weed) was not theme to my whether that gentleman were right or wrong, but was willing to leave the matter to that gentteman'tr condiments, He (Mr. Wood) could now state that he would have in cash, and invested, $3,1t;0,000- half e million more than he could be sure of last session. The ordinary sources of revenue were $3,000,. 000, and there were 8300,000, free of ex- pense, from theorown Lands--. permenent source of revenue. We had . permanent re- venue that would yield enough to satisfy all the expenses of tire public service, and leave 8600,000 or $1,000,000 annually to dexote to nblie improvements. (Hear, hear, from government benches ) The Opposition were oorspiratora--he meant politicnl conspire. torg.-. doing their best against the interests of the country. (Applause from Government benches) Mr. CUMBERLAND deprecntad the per. sonalities that had marked the debate For instance, the hon. member for South Bruce had been vilifyinga member of the House. Mr. BLAKE rose to a point of order. m said. there had been a miamsport, and af sex- explaining, the gentleman concerned had profev:ed himself tsatitstied with the explana- tion. Therefore the hon. member_for Ng?. ma {M r. Cumberland) was out of order% making the statement he had made. Mr. CUMBERLAND went on to complain that thy ngositjgn had yet. a wyeil. of Mr. R _YjiBRT said tint the Government had mow cqngraklatsa t1yy.rue1ress that the Opposition had found nothing to com. plain of in the addreu. He was sorry that the hom, member for South Bruce had found objection to the award of the arbitrators. Mr. BLAKE said he was not aatUfied with the award, and had said so before, and given his reasons aho, namely: -that it gave less than justice to Ontario. Mr, RYKERT went on to speak favour. ably of the nddrcn. As: respected the rail. way policy of the Government, he would wait until th? "meant-e- were brought down, and if these were nthfectory, he wosld support them. Having been engaged for when yem in the administration of justice in his on district, he was convinced of the necessity of I central prison policy as enunciated by the Govern. ment. Mr. :Rykert deprecated the person- slitles which had been chemterietlo of the 3 debate; and though he would not endorse the action ot Mr. Smith the other night-tor it we: t'atg to the Bousr,.t-ati11 he had been goad into it. The hon. member for South Bruoehad taken the member for ITU. land (Mr. Batty) to talk. Well, he (Ry. I kert) knew that the member for Welland had been elected to support the Adminutra. tion. (Hear, hear. from ngition benches.) He (Bykert) had, oppose the. member for WeWnd, andhad heard him on the hustinge pledge himself to support the Government. (Laughter.) At the same time ht (llykert) told the electors he did not believe that Mr. Beat ty would support the Government. l Hear, hear, and laughter.) He, qukert) as a friend of Mr. Beatty, would advise him in praise for Elie address, and blamed them br carrying the discussion into put mat. the future to come exit for the Government and not be beating about the bush. (Hear, hear, and 'langhter from Gevemment benches. t Be u. ligkert) mnintalned that the present Government was composed at a ma. jority of Reformers. (01:, oh.) At the some time, he would challenge any one to glow 3 good measure passed within the but ld or 15 years which had not, tot large extent, re- ceived the support of the Conservative party. The cdnuervatisas apnrty had been consistent, and in good faith hail supported the present Government; and he would an- sert that at the next election the Consonan- tive fatty would triumph. JLs hoped he wouh see the hon. member for South Brae i in his (Rykcrt'a) constituency at next elec- tion Mr. ll YKERT said that he had mpporbed the Government ilor the put three yam, and his conduct had been satisfactory to his cone atituent s. Mr. CALV 1N said he was sorry that there had been so much diceaussion between Ite. formers end Conservatives. He regretted that the hon. member for South Bruce had taken the course he had taken on the "bi. tration ; but at the some time he was sorry to bear from the Treasurer that Onhrio had not obtained full justice, Meat, tte As to the school question. he though that the people would have petitioned for it if they wanted it. (Laughter. ', He did not like the idea. of one or two knowing more than the rust of the (wintry. Jungian] laugUer,) Mr. p,LAiiE---rll be there. (Hear, hear.