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at Hamflion, that Conservatism wai ot ruited to the time or to the genias of the «ople. Bid ke find the father of the ~eparate School Bill, the opponent of re. icsenrtation according to population, un srpited to the time and to the --evivs of the people® After quoting from l --ome other speeches of the members of the Government, he observed that they did not nlush-- they thought thkey had dons a meri. uricus act, in trensformicg themselves from ne side of the House to the other. (be Commisasioner of Crown Lands hbad boasted that his section of the country was going to follow him, and their interests were to be brought to follow hon. gentlsmen pposite He thought thosze declarations cught to satisfy every one-- Hor, Mr. MACKENZIE--Sexar, hear. Mr. CAMEF.ON--Of the want of princi-- wle (Oh !) shown by hon. sentlemen opposits in forming an Ad'ministm*.ion. Until re: vently, be had always fouud the Commis-- woner of Crown Lands an hovourable man, and had never cbjected to his advocating the tterests of the lumber trade. (Cries of * Why cbject now?*") Now, he was going to »e a judgo of those interests of which he had neen the advocate, If the hon. gentlemsr were soing into the Administration, he ought wot to bave selected the Crown Lands De rartmexnt as the depariment he should be w:.v:o.;. a -rer:;ed to pull down, in order to en joypthg esweets of office. He was f(ln]' '..r. in Op flon, 'nd h' d'd not likd the position at Jl. though be was lauded «aver the oonntry for his magmficont states-- wansbhip, All this had been overthro through that converting Conservative who had brought his colleagues to the way of thinking of the late Government on the sab-- ject of coalitions. He referred to a speech of the Premier in which he though: there was impropriety in the Cabinast at Uttawa makirg thirtcen Cabinet minister® when twelve wore sufficient, He said the constitution wisely limited the numbar of the local Cabinet. If so, the number so limited was five, and the honourable gentle-- man, in setting aside the limitation of his or n free will and pleasure, must have acted unwisely. He had eaid bhe thought seven Ministers would be sufficient What! :even for the wholo Dowirion of four Pro. vinces, and five not enough for the Province o Onteris? The Provincial Treassgurer ad said, in his speech at a mass meeting partdie® mptage tor recegs. Mr, CAMERON resumed his address. He accused Mr. Mackenzie of eccentricity, and qucted from a report of a speech delivered by that pentliemsn in the House of Comanons, ind puvlished in Tus GrosrE of November 12, 1867, in which Mr. Mackenzle opposed wahtions. But now Mr. Mackenze hai ormed an ailiance with a Conservative--the ommissioner for Crowan Lands. Mr. Csm--. 'ron proceeded to discuss the policy of the new Government. He characterizsd the woposed income franchise as being & shirt tor fency aswells of the city to wear, while 'he rural constisuencies cared nothing about 'nceome franchise, The proposition with re-- zard to Cual representation was an attempt o cnrtail the rights of the psople, Hedenied hexnecessity foranActrespecting the indepen 'erce of Parlament, because the late Gov rnment, in four years, kad appolnted one member of the House to a trustesship He again referred to Mr. Macken me's speeches, and qucted from the ome be recently delivered at West viiddlesex,. to show that Mr.' Mackenzie had curued an incongistent course in enteriaz he question of coalitions aside, bUS §"°y would diecover much more serious abandon-- ment of principle yet on his part, viclations f the Constitutlion of which he used to con-- irder himaelf the plllar, the Comtitntion which e must support and uphold, bat which 'be Cabinet with Mr, Scott. Mr. Cameror| went on to say th«t be bad. in c1iad past, | "Upported the Reformers in two of their, 'ead ing principles--nawely, es againat sopar-- te schools and in favour of replessnta'.icn' ny population _ On both thezequestions the ommission<r of Crown Lands had voted vsinst the Reform party. _ He (Mr. Cam-- 0p6 alluced to these topics in order to show . lan ow untair it was to blame the Hon. J. 8. | vacdonald for baving Conservatives like him Mr Cameron) in bhs Cabinet. MHe qnoked} rem Tux GioBE of August 5, 1867, to show , bat that journal was opposed to coaliti'ons, | ind hoped the country would soon have their ';es cpened in respect to this matter, Mr ameron next alluded to the Attorney--Gen-- ral _ VThat gentleman had delivered an ad-- ddress to a meeting composed of col: ured men, and hbhad informed that very -- distinguished _ crowd _ that he was opposed to coalitions But now he war in ieagus with the Commissioner for rown Lands, Mr. Cameron, proc--eded it After recess, o auote from the speeches of the memhers| or South Wentworth and South Oxford, in bich these gexntlemen spoke stwongly & ainst coglitiocs. Healso referred to th: scsition of the member for South Waterloo yanet coalition. and quoted from a former :perch of the Provincial Secretary in the same oltection. He then proceeded to s2y chat the President of the Council had vio: lated the Cons'itution in increasincg the num-- l<r of the Executive Council _ He argnued hat it this principle was carried out to its full extent the Government of the day wight fill the Hogase with placemen; to have the question submitted to the Cour!s io decide whether Ontario alone, or Ontati-- and Quebec, or the Dominion should give the grant _ That was the difference of opinion between Mr. Scott and the late A t,.;zrney'Gené,"", He' thought the astlon of the Premier in taking in Mr, Scorp fa k justified the late Premier and those wi. . l anpp"t',d him in admitting Conservatiy. . . ipg ix O'cleck the House rose 1t was an tions aside, but they| 'hat the present Premier was wrony in n zl'::'":lon; sban?on-, past course. If he had no m'Pi":»i-)z\guf a?x; n his part, violations| tscachery on the part of the Commissioner ; which he used to con.| ~Yown Lands, he would say that that gentl Tat, the Constitution !~>~ w15 enfied to his thanks, and he and uphold, bat which| ould 'ii'f'"'l}' have acknowledged his os!iv. to pull down, in| "ors. i8 "'";"'lided at 10 e'clock by a ';i'. ets of office. He was) '(}j}"@ to _ nmx t rnosEc, and he con femuced n, and he dfi nt_)t'llk" tmut Jovica'! for it§ attacks upon pu jl!~ me«; __asd those &m ¥led a>, Fion. Mr CAMERON said that he did not itate that he could produce the evidence sficr recesa ; but he cou!d now challenge th bon. Premier to deni his statement respect | ing the member for Brant., l & Bo';. Air, BLAKE--I deny it. (Hear, €Aar 'and said it shcould be put down by all des :. % mer. | be considered qualitied to take honsurable | _;"%/" _ """ " > _8 ".ng four--filths of the | positions in the Dominion Parliament o' this | -- ;a'Lly'a); !a({)p'ave'e(g;:nd o y ""3}1' P?f ?fif |\ country. (Applause.) 'nking furd wou'ld have §o e paid by the | \rovince of Ontario, -- Great lojuastice has HEon. Mr. WOOD said that he understoo® | +]so been Gore in the matter of Manitobs, , that before the recess the member for Esast | wkich had four representatives in the House . To:ronto had made some observations w.th i Commens for 10,000 inhabitants, balf reference to himseif, Ho (Mr. Wood) | iyeeds snd all, and two Nenvators, while this , bhad stated to the Houss that no | |.ovince bad snly onerepresentative for each person, _ except | the member _ for | +7 0(0 people--notwithstanding that the | Lircoln, had any intimation before he re:-- | [yiij h North America Act was based " rigned that he intended to resign. He had | .. on the _ principle of _ represents | supposed that that would have been suff< | sion _ by _ population. (Hear, _ hsar.) \ clent, but the charge in connection with his | |;, the tinancial arranzements, too, this Pro-- name hsd been repsated to--night by the | \ince Lad suflered. Then, there was British member for East Toronto. He would take / Ccolumbia, with a population of less than . this cccasion to ray that if the member for| ( q((--thcugh they had swelled it up : | East Toronto had made declarations, in this } |;('((0, becau--e they had some Indians up i~ '\ House or elsewhero, that he had any com | ; , w j | | 8 {n \ ~he woodsg--aund they had sent six representa y mun!caflgxlll 'f'hh any hfinth':'t:n ti:el tives in the Commons, and three Senators \ House with reference to his position, 0T 837 | 1f Rrupert's Land were to be divided up into Hon. Mr. BLAKE said the bon. gentle-- man stated in effect before recess that be bad made a corrupt bargain wich t member for Scuth Brant, by bribing h with the promise of office, and tha> h« (M Lamirop) had ths proofs and would produo them after the recess. He (Mr. Biake) chal-- lenged him to do so. Eon Mr. CAMERON--ThenI shall ask for aCommittee of Euquiry on the subject. Mr. COYNE said that during the last four years he har supported the hon. member for Cornwall, and on but few votes had the hoan. Commissioner oft Crown Lands recorded a cifferert opinion from bimself. _ No one bad ever dared to asperse the character of the bon member for Ottawa. If bon. gentle. men had belisved the hon. member to be the pard sgent of any interest in that House, ihey shounid pnever bave voted for his electior to the Speakerahip of that Chamber. Thaougo he (N'r. Coyne) might cut the moorings thas had bound him fOr the past four years, he was prepared to support the hon. Member tor Uttawa. He believed that gentleman hsd the irterest of this Province at heart, and he belisved the Government, as now constituted, fairly represented the intorest-- of the Province. He cared rot whether th« hop, gentlemen opposite were called: a P tent Combination or a Coalition He hald that gentlemen should be judged by th: views which they considered most concucive to the best interests of this Province He held it to have been the duty of the hon Premicr sgecdily to bring down a measure to abolish vwhat was called the dual represents tion system. In orGer to carry out the policy of neutrality to the letter, it would become those gentlemen to leave that Chamber separate and distinct from the influences o the Ottawa Cabinet; and he said with some regret that the very correspondence, the very advice, the very telegram which the bon. Ccmmissiozner of Crown Lands had read showed the presense of a hand that should never have fignured in ecmnection with the legislation of that Chamber (Hear, hear ) In order that in fuiure no such interference should take p'ace, it would become every member of tha House to stand up boldly against it He took the observations of the Commissioner of Crown Lanés as declaring & position in which he covnld give him his cordial support (BHear,hear.) But be dissented from the views expressed by the Provincial Secratary as to the earlier political lifeo of that gentieman. No one conld claim thet the Commissioner of Urown Lands had been distinctly known as a Reformer, He did not say he should be dis-- tinctly known as a Counservative in that Gov-- erm»ment, _ He looked unon him as whkat ho had always been--an honest, unricht man. He had bad no communication with the me n-- bers of the Government, excepting to iisten to an explanation of his position made to him by the Commissioner ofo Crown Lands, He hopged i)nti bickering would be put a stop to, and when hononrwh"ém mado thaiy maule A----*teme sscersff1OF , t * gOt late Government would still have been iD . power, But having entered on the consid: eration of the Address the Government had assumed that the House was competent to deal with all queations brought betore them. He knew [nothing about any surmises that His Excellency _ was asked to pror0@NC the House, Hoe hbad always declared himscif, in all his addresses and speeches, to be a Reformer; bhe had never allied him: sclf with the Comservative party, and no member of that party ever regarded him as having done so. He always claimed to be> kcrg to the Reform party, Of the Reform party to belong to him. (Laughter) And being unable to induce the members for Halton and North Ontario and North York, or any other Reformer, to vote with him against the nor--contidence m»tion, he did not feel that be was under any obligation to the head of the (CGovernment to remain longer in the Government. He had no ' complaints to make against any member of | the late Administration, He had etaudiously avoided making any, and he defied the member for East Torouto to point to a einogle act during his whole con | nection with the Government that' was not loyal to the Premier and to every , other member of the Government. The member for East Toronto had told him at one time that he had told Mr. McCal!, of Norfolk, that Mr. Cameron and Mr. Carling | should go out of the Government. That was when he was attending Court at Simene; and the fact was that during the whole time of his stay he had not spoken a single word to Mr McCall upon politics., As to his (Mr. Wood's) future course he would say a few words. Ho Sdid not suppose any member of the House knew the course he intended to take, and the member for East Toronto might be sur-- prized at the course he would take. He would tell that hon gentleman that he never bad been a Copservative, that he never acted with the Conservative party, and he never intended to, (Cheers.) _ A MEMBER-- They elected you, _ Mz. WOOPD said those who elected him would justify him in the statements ho made to night, HBHe had been supported in his couty by a good many Reformers, and yet his wajority of 300 was reduced at the last election to 140, and, if he ran on the same ticket again, by the same token as an Irish map, bis majority would be very smal\l in-- deed. (Laughter). He would tell the House frankly that he would much have preferred | kad the Government been formed of men alied to one party in the past ; but, as he had always contended, parties should te divided upon the liviog issues o' he day. Some _ gentlemen on the Opporition side of the House believed the Family < ompact to have been the bes: Goveinment we ever bad in this country. Hon. Mr. BL&AKE--And yeu said thas we bave rot gained by the change to reaponsible goverrment, (Hear, hear.) Hon, Mr. WOOD proeceeded to say that while much may be said in favour of ecalition, he woulg admit that poople natur ally divided into parties, No doubt in the future in this country there would be a Con servative party, and a Reform, Liberal, ofr Grit party. lge believed the time would ecme when the word Grit wonld be a time-- heonoured word. With reference to the present Government, he always believed that the Commissioner of Crown Lands was a straightforward, honourable, high--minded man,. He was not aware that he had urged s»ny particular claims upon the Crown Land: Uepartment in the lumber intercats, that he (Mr. Scott) did not consider equitable and {air, Until he was shown that his view o the matter was wrong, he should b:s inclined to support the Commissioner of Crown Lands. The hon. gentleman had gone into the Government, and he hoped it would be understood that he had gone thers once and for all. He was not to be a Re-- {ormer in the Legislative Assembly of On-- tario and a Conservative in tha city of Oitawa ard in his connection with the Do minion Geverament. (Apgl'ause.) Ref%n?ers 'c'Fi"iv;l"h\'ié""rmuJDm e House of Com-- ice in tbe matter of grunta&xt({x%nne.fiie'.f'f"':fl Railway--(applause)--and four.--filths of the 'nlking fund would have to be paid by the \rovince of Ontario, -- Great lojuastice has lso been Gore in the matter of Manitobs, w khich had four representatives in the House Hovp, Mr, CAMERON said that what he bad atated was that the men who belonged to the Family Compact were the best men the country bad. mall province», and if a roprese: were to be given to every 4.000 ple, the repregentatives of Ontario + Commens for 10,000 inhabitants, balf breeds and all, and two Nenvators, while this 1?.ovince bhad snly one representative for each WeR o in oi es oo ons cce e ple, the repregentatives of Ontario would be overborne by thoso sent | from this distant Province, at the bidding of any corrupt Government who might be in power, . (Hear, hear ) Little good would : esult from representation if all were to be over--ruled by the fiat of a Government, and whe accior of an obedient majority se cflreo by the means he bad alluded to. _ From iwova Scotia to British Columbis, from Hali fax to Westminster, they must organ'ze \ one party to_ carry out their strict principles in the Dominion Parlisment. | or all that hbad been expected and hoped for from Confederation _ would be entirely swept away in a few years. (Ap plause.) He owed no allegiance to the gen tiemon on the Treasury benches He ia0 nothing to expect from them, and wanted notbhing from them. (Hear, hear.) It was humiliating, after the demonstrations he hao made of "bis independence, that the hon member for East Toronto should say he bad been bought by the promise of office | (Applause ) Office might be good for . him -- upder certain circumstances, bus the bighest office in that or the Dominion Government would have no attraction for him unless he could tak: it honourably, and could be of service to his country. He did not see anything to com-- plain of in the programme ot the present Government, and would give them his sup port so long as the¥ sontinued to act hon-- 1 ourably, and kept free from the use of any urdue influence. (Hear, hear ) _| Hon. Mr. CAMERON said that if the hon. i member tor Brant chose to ansWeIl certain questions which he would put to him outsid : EO OS NC J um nakinfantortIy. CeOBRkditc ie WR 8 0 0 Mnb' that House, and answer them satisfactorily. he would withdraw the imputations he had made against him, If not. he should ask for a committee. repre:0u tative Fon, Mr. Blake--On Tusséday--An Act to make further provision touching the appro-- ! priation of the Railway Fund. Also--An Act further to secure the Inde-- pendence of the Legislative Assembly. Dr. CLARKE (North Norfolk) was unable to discover the object of the hon. member in exhuming the dead body of the defunct Ad-- ministration, and exposing its corruption, by way of comparison with a living Admin istration which was yet to be tried. If he thought the Government a _ cvalition of fie!ormers with a Torgy, he would lend his aid to overthrow it. But he did not take the partisan statements he had heard that nighs as proof. When a Conservative party was so demoral-- ised that they had no principles themselves, they were very likely to impute a similar want to the Reform party, as the hon. gen-- tleman oppositeo had done that night. (Hear hear.) The House adjourned shortly after eleven o'clock. Mr, Lauder--On Tuesday -- Engquiry of Ministers, whether or not it is the intention of the Government to introduce during the present session a measure authorising the re-- vsaluation of that class of the unpatented public lands sold to settlers, known as school lands. Also--Enquiry of Ministers : Whether or not fatents will now be issued to settlers in the townships of Melancthon and Proton, on payment of the prices or valuations under the reports of Messrs. Lewis and Thorbura, made under the Act of last session. Also--Whether or not the re--valuation of all unpatented lands sold to settiers is to be proceeded with as directed by said Act. Hon. Mr, Blake--On Tuesday--An huwm. ble address to Her Majesty, expressing the deep sympatrily this House has felt for Her Majesty and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales during the recent dangerous iliness of His Royal Highness, and the great gratifi-- cation and delight with which this Houss haile the joyfal news of his happy resovery. Dr. Bouliter--On Tuesday--Bill to amend the Act 31 Vic, Chap. 37, intitauled " Aa Act respecting Dentistry." Mr. McCalil--On Tuesiay--Address for a copy of all applications by the Long Poist Company for a confirmetory patent, or to purchase, lease, or othe: wise to acquire cer-- tain lanos or marshes outside of Long Point, northerly of blocks 15 ard 16, on Long Poict, with copics of all letters and correspondence between the said company and the Govera: ment relative thereto, Mr. Clark (Norfolk}--On Tacsday--Select committee to enquire into and report ugon the cordition of Hospitals, Poor houses, and Hoeuses of Correction and Refugs. Mr. Cameron--Gives notice that he wil: move, on Tuesday next, that a Special Com-- mittee be eppointed to enquire whather any snd what corrupt inducemenats or offer was made to the Hon. E. B, Wood, as member of this House, to induce him to resign his position as Treasurer of the Province of Ontario, by the Hon. E. Bizke or any other member ofthe present Administration, while members of the Opposition in the Legislativs Assembly, Mr, Lauder,on Tuesday next--That whore-- as certain statemerts have appeared in the public press regarding improper influeaces used by a psrson named Lewis, alleged to be an agent of the Crown, in the election of a representative to this House for the South Rintea of Gixev.eod .as.said Lewis repre-- der the direction and with the, soting un-- members of ihe Executive :;:ff?{i" N4 this Province, and as such allegea interferer ce is Ceserving of the severest cen. sure, and all parties guilty thereof are de--. serving of punishment. Resolved,--That a select committee of the House be appointed to inquirse into the cir. cumstances connected with the alleged inter-- ference of said Lewis in said election, and the authority on which he so acted, such committee to report the resu'lt of such in-- quny to this House, together with the evi-- dence taken by them, such Committee to have power to send for persons and papers, NOTICES OF MOTION.