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m '9 9 _ "f;?ilh' a,1,:iii's'tiia,i'1tt'il'h)1 I- i 'i'iiii,ht, on f,,! or may , TORONTO. THURSDAY, FEB. O, 1871. as . ' mill t?rh"rjull0 LESISLA HIRE --------i-------- Fourth Session-First Parliament. w-------)-------- I 'Vn'nvvreniv T?oh ft . .___"-. wc------------ SECOND ss'r'mrm. ' At 7:45 pm. the House met for its second ', sitting. i, VXALKERTON. On motion of Mr. BLMrE---L'ill to in- _ corporate the Town of Walherton and to C define the limits thereof, was rel erred hack l . to the Committee of the "hole, and eer- l tain amendments made. i w OTTAWA FIRE RELIEF. i Mr. LYON asked whether they intend to pay over the aid of 823.000, sanctioned t D .- by this House. for the suii'erers by the ()t- l , , tam. fires; l if so, when, and to whom they r C ' intend to pay the same, I l F Atty.-iiun. MACDONALD said the (lov- t it" eminent was ready at any convenient time t .l t to pay the invite}; over to the chairman of a " the Central eon'rinittee at Ottawa. s 'onoeriuo or TOWNSHH'S ron , t I noxrsrts. I Mr. BLAKE moved the remand reading . 1 of the Bill to amend the At") incorporating a the Toro1to, Grey and Bruce Railway t Company. lie, said that in the Railway! {3 Committee a. rider had been put upon the, , Bill, wltiih had the internied eil'ect of an- nulliny the chi-ct whirh it. divs'wed---nvanwly, r of putting an end to the grouping; of town- q P ships for the granting of railway bonuses. l " He would not add anything further to his oft repeated ohjret'oos to this system Hem Mr. 3,'i1f'dllrlrLr; sncved the three months' hoist. iii? said that from tt $22,000 to $25,001) uncrth of steel; had heen subscribed on the faith of clause wiiwh the - Bill now before the Home pinning-r1 to if . r I "' ,r,rr.'et ', ' A Fol-1.} ',, . e strike out. Fixer-r! "and! t a 1l'c'-l'i,ic',i1l'? lli r the case of Garrick. but More "Vi'iitl he a 8 much greater horrid: ip i the groupina were 0 I not allowed. if this Bill nos" passed. the ll Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway would have to stop at Home: Tyrant thus slimy 1: dqtrodryr2lr, sum ess'of the. 1131113.. l. ', Mr. RYh'rXZT supporter; 'tie bill. as he considered the tty/iii'-':-',' system a may, r ' pernicious one. 3.12.273 or" the, towitshua, g now running riot, in their all to mailman fl, l : would,bei'ore another srsion, he waning . k to the Hons: as! in: ior felt-f. e Hon. Mr. "(00:3 said ir,.ttC;irailrlydd', l _ 'i' been one of the mo}. forward in the. aiding; . ' system, and now the: the, railroad mail run through it, and it must have the hem;- ', tt tit of two railroads, it came, to the INCL-L- (l Jamie and asked to be relieved. of the 'srtr- r" den of paying for those privileges. This was most extraordinary concert. What u had been done must remain done. TD. I House might, if it chose, assert that y the general principle of grouping q _ was wrong, but surely they could not ire d terfere in this case. It Hon. Mr. CAMERON said that the. It House deliberately last session put the st grouping clause into this Toronto, Grey and Bruce Bill. This session the hon. it member said that the ruling of the House. _ ,h on the Htliburto,n Bill should be fina) as to n I, the grouping system: . He also considered . m the ruling of the Railway Committee final . :i- as to this Bill, because he had gone to the e. accountant of the House, and withdrawn [O the fees paid on it, evidently intending it to withdraw the Bill. Now, however, he " ' appeared to have changed his mind. He 2 (Mr. Cameron) thought that apart from the k grouping system, great injustice would be i, done' in this case if the Bill were passed. } The House had last session and this one, l, on several occasions, decided in favor of d l the grouping system " A somewhat lengthy debate followed, g after which a vote was taken on Mr. Me- IS _ Murrich's motion for a three months' hoist, le [ which was carried-yeas, sr, navs, 16. 'Si ' .Yrrvr--1ree.,.Mydertyon, Barber, Bonner, Cai- t-! tin, Cameron, Carling (London), Carling (Huron), n ., Carnegie, Cockburn, Corby, Coyne, Craig(G1eu. i furry), Crosby, Evans, Ferguson, Graham' (Hast- tt rigs), Hays, Hooper, Luton, Lyon, Macdonald, Me.. _ t Kellar, hIcMurrich, Matchett, Murray, Paxton, Read, Richards, Secord. Smith (Kent) bmith . h . (Leeds and Grenville), Stran 9,9prin er, Wallis . t, _ Wlliamts(Bamilton), Wilson, (it',il'J1'li] t ' C- Ft .NArsyraftysrs.. Beatty, Blake, Clemens, Craig _ . (Russell), Currie, Farrier, Finlayson, Fitzsim. _ l. sr, mans Galbraith. cow. McCall (Norfolk), McDou- - g; Itll: McKim, Rykert, Scott (Ottawa), Sinclair. '. ' 1,; RAILWAY BILLS. ' t . l 2' i, Mr. MURRAY moved the third reading [s c.s' ", , ot Bill to incorporate the Pembroke and "if: in? Ottawa Railway Company. j 'v.' t, t .W. JlCDOUGALL moved to refer the is,")')] h v' Bill back to the Committee of the Whole J' :4 d . to strike out the sectional bonus clause. of, . This, was lost on almost the same divi- '35:. r 81011 and the Bill was read a third time. . , 's'. - , The following railway Bills were then read a third time and passed.