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---- en 4 C p uis . es _ F ts us W S | ooMon. deficit, and while of ev f es t eS 000. -- ~+ aoB -'('t'her'?eut, perhbpl as far as the Rocky l in o t p 3 ery $100 _ _ 1Sey 4 Y\ _ ,".,ed Upper Canada gave $70 and Lower _ _ _ _ _ Mountains. He thought that any one who _ _ i Canada $30, and of every $100 spent Loawer _ 7 _ _ WO L looked into,this question could not fail to see|. 42-- e Canada got $70 and Upper Canada only $30. +\ that the As,'umentl for the farther lines were ___ _ --____ _ ; : Eut Confederation changed all that, and the _ 00 qorrect. Perhapsit was not right now to en. ~-- _ ___ _ %':.:wfi-'»'. result was that to--day we have t> 'ter into this question. A good deal of it . > mMiies rejoice over a surplus of over four mil-- depended upon the construction of the Quae-- 3 lions. _ He could show by a fow figures bee Aot of 1774, and the proclamation of _ ' # « muchmore decisively than by any othar 1791, He thought there could be no ques--' F language the prosperity of the 'country. In | tion that the boundary laid down by the ~ e v 1867 the banks of Ontario and Quebec had a Quebec Act was the boundary which fol-- OJ 3 ' paid--up capital of $29,467,773; in 1872 the lowed the Mississippi, and extended in a line f paid up capital was $45,715,311, or aa in due north to the boundary of the Hudson Bay A2e \ crease in five years of $16,247,538. . In 1867 Company's Tecritory, wherever that imay have e k :s the deposits in the banks in Ontario and Que-- been; and that this boundary was further woukk .t bec were $28,704,327, while in 1872 they nad extended by the proclamation fo 1791 to the e ~. increased to $56,249,432, being an increaso of | utmost limits of the country known as A --~<% $27,445,105. Besides that he might say that | Capada _ It was impossible to _ look 1 3 the increase in deposits in building societics . at anything relating to that period, | and Government savings' banks amounted to whether a map or an anecdoteo, wtih-- about ten miillions. In 1867 the bank assets out believing that these were the boundaries amounted to $77,500,000; in 1872 they am-- then established. Hefelt satisfied that when ounted to $143,594,369, beirg an increase of this question was further v_entilated by a $66,094;369. There was another curious fact perusal of the archives in Paris and London f | that showed at least the extraordinary ac-- we could not fail to succeed before the Privy | tivity of the country. Me found that since Council, before which the case would he | Confederation no less thon GS commercia' aud hoped sooncome. He concludedjby thanking quasi commercial corporations had been creat-- o i se on en the braves °. Phy Rxoehicny | ed by this _ House, _ besides those oo n o ane" ; \ Chai Elxfiogw?llenpy created by the Dominion -- Parliament, for the divine guidance in thelr lefive | many cf which related to Ontario. He is Porri, | fc'nu.d in the Statutes of 1872 alone, out of Mr. LAUDER, reforring to the compli« ; :1.{ corpotations there created, no less than ments which the member for South Bruce 23 related almost exclusively to Ontario. it bad paid to Mr. Blake, said that the hon. | was also a cause of congratulation that while memfigr had ulso something to be thankfual we were progressing (Quebec was also pro-- to Mr. Blake for, because on every gate--post | gressing, having now a surplus of $700,000, in Bruce there might have been seen tae pro-- ; and which would have been more had the clamation, '* Vote for R. M. Wells, the | rame wise policy with respest to the Crown friend of Edward Blake," and it was to that @ Lands l';c(u pursued which had been pursued proclamation vhat the hon. gentleman owed | ¢ kere. The next paragraph in the Address | his seat. The hon. gentleman had spoken ' rf:latcd to the Municipal Loaa Fuand. The feelingly of some members who had last ses. Goverement deserved credit for plack in sion been in this Chamber, and who now uridertaking the settlement of this ditficult were absent, but he had not thougl;t fit to f question _ Still, thera were some questions spcak of the gentleman now gone fr'om | j connmected wish it which somewhat sim--. | amongst us who once led this House. For , plified it, Speaking simply upon his owa | bis (Mr, Lauder's) part ke coald not com-- authority, he would say that he belicvred mence the duties of this session without ex-- f that the efluct of the Act of 1859, with re« preesing his deep regret that that gentleman spectto the Municipal Loan Fund, w¥as really whom he had faithfully supported for ears, to make a compromise which -- were bouad and who had left an example bureyGOV: P t to abide by, (be believed thecffect of that ernments in the country which th§y dare not ; < Act was that five per cent of the assessment disregard, had, during the\ rgdess usf | ; of the previous year was to be taken as the ed from the world. He co:isié)ered t a debt of these municipalities; in other words, that there was mothing new in the j ® they had the legal right to come to this Gov-- Bpeech except the reference to the boundary 4j ' ; ernment and say they only owed the amount question. He was not able to discuss that {f (I otf that assessment capitalized at tive per question, as he was uot so familiar with it as i? , f cent. Take, for instance, the town of Porkt the bon, member for South Srace appeared i ; unlm, which town owsed some ©£800,000. to be; but as the matter was in the hands of ' The assessment of Port Hope for the year a comimission he bat no doubt it would be pro-- f d 1818 was $.:=.;,900, which, capitalized at iive serly dealt with. The present Government * 1 af per cent, would give the amount of itsindebt-- eserved no credit, he said, for the drainage ' 1 § edcess, With regard to the railway question, policy, which was the sam'e as that of the 3 . the Government had been misropresented ta Nandficld Macdonald Government Speaking f $ | themost extraordicary manser, -- it had baen of the school laws, he said that there should | $ raiu that they bad gove in opposition to be no interference with them _ He could see > I { 1 their opivions. H_e .wmxlv..l vefer brielly to no necessity for establishing Normal Schools : i { what bir. Blake soaid in discussing tho rail-- either in the castern or western portions of the f a way Bill of the late (}nv'ermu-:un He readl FPiovince. No petitions had been recsived by f extracts fron} Mr. Biike's spseches in that the House, nor had any deputations waited { | detate showing clearly that bhe approved of upon the Executive, on this subject. He ac-- i 7 granting aid to railways. As to the drainage cused the Minister of Public Works of acting | [ of swamps, it was a highly importaut ma; in contravention of his former protestations; | w ter ; but he thought that whatever schomse inasmuch as he had gone to Ottawa and | ) k wight be adopted, the Government should Kingston to select sites for Normal Schools } < W pot retain the charges in th.ir owa haads. before those sites had been approved of Iy A [ They should be negotiated and col ected by the Legislature. With reference to the fl a other parties independenrt of the (Gisverna:-- School of Technology, he claimed that its t { ment. With regard to immigration, soms establishment was due to the old Government, 6 improvements might be made in t.i'ut dires-- and had been opposed by the members of zh; :\f J i+ tion. The agency aistcm might be improved, present Government. He would like to 5| 3 j as at present we had not suflicient know-- know to what use this building was being pat. ' i( $ | [ leege of what the agents were doing. . Some He knew of its being let out to concert V ~ < P scheme might be devised by which the ten-- troupes, and last night it had been used as a t : ant farmers of (Great Britain could be in-- hall of feasting, where the Hon Minister of & duced to settle in this country, _ Passisg Agriculture took occasion to derisively laugh | w over--for he must not detain the Houss-- at the smallness of the Upposition, He con-- & those questions relating to education, to the tended that that building belon.ged to the | 3 \ measure for the consoiidation of the pablic minority as well as to the majority in the q -- ard high school laws, he would _ say Mouse,. They might as well have occupied ' a word or two with _ refsrence -- to this chamber at onco. The gentlemen the clausges referring to the administration opposite were always boasting of their 4 of justice, to the trial of controverted elsc. Reform privciples, but at the sams they tions, and to the ptoPosqnl measure relative bad not tnitiated a single Reform measure y to our municipal institutions. | In regard to since -- Confederation. _ The Controverked p all these subjects it was fortunate that we Election Law, of which they often spoke as ' \ | bad at the head of the Government a gentle-- their product, was notbhing more than a { man 'who above all others was so well margled edition of the Exnglish law on the | qnalmed to conduct legislation upon them. subject _ With respect to ?he acceptanca of ' He would quote from a speech of Lord the leadership by the Attorney--General, | & Macaulay, delivered in 1853, upon the subject ke |said that personally he had the | | S ; of excluding sne Master of the Rolle from kindliest feelings towards that gentlomim the Houseof Commons, Lord'Macnulny spoke and if any hon. gentlemga would make a | c of the progress of law reform, and hoped motion that the precedent should not be ' that it would continue, and added that of all followed, he would give his vote in favour of f law reformers the best was a learned up. it, and he believed it would be sustained by k right, and large--minded judge. (Cheers.) _ He ihe constituencies of the Province. He pro-- ; --__| M now came to that part of the Speech which dealt ceedcd to allude to the time when the hon 3 # with what might be called our foreign rela-- gentleman opposed Mr. Scott, the Comais. ' \3¢ tiens, The North--West boundary question sioner of Crown Lands, ;Iicioual;' and strongl& { § t ® was of the highest importance--it beiag and alluded to the sectional cry, against | 4 ; a whether our western boundary Wll: 'I"{h""i which be protested, and observ'edatha.t ' d & der Bay or '°"'°"h°'§'vl.'°t'.v°en + eevo'n °f uoc. he had a estrong objection to his having left | A . * . the Woods and Lake Winnipeg, or the Bench as Vice.Chancellor at theinstigation , J _ * :