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¢ ylored the absence of any rofercnce to C ~said that a judge who left the Bench to enter S e gentleman except by members who had acted litical hfo Gesecrated the sauctity of the S T || with him, while the distinguished merits of | gnch. He (Mr. Mowat) admitted the sanc-- | it 7 > [ ¥r Blake and Mr. Mackenzie had been ad-- || vity of the Benc'1, but hs denied its desecra-- | s | verted to with so much eulogy. He spoke tion. He believed it a low, degrading view 7 of the sale of timber linds by the Commis-- of a politician's life_ to say that there was no sioner of Crown Lauds, for which sale he sanctity belonginga it. _ As he understodd | beld there was no necessity, and he held that | bis posgition there as leader of the party, he | before takm% so important a step Parlia-- thought there was as much sanctity in his p>-- mesnt should _ have been cousitited. sition as leader of the Reform party and of C At this stage he would not discuss further the Government, as in any other in the land, | Wt this paragraph of the Address, but he | It would be a sad thing for our couatry if | * "\ | thought it might be his duty at a subsequent the opposite opinion were to bs held by the | %§ period of the session to endeavour to prevent j people. Our whole system of goverament ~€ || any such proceeding as had taken place in was ope that involved party as a necessity. | a»~f | the person of the Attorney--General. Ho All statesmen had united in that view, and ~~C _ | thought this House should declare that it thatit must bechanged if notworkedbyfarty | 8 _ | was unbeooming for any member of, ths If this systemfof government, which had done | 1 _ | Bench to retire from the Bench for the puc: | io much for our own couatry and for the | M | pose of entering into political life _ He | glorious motherland with which we are con: \ _| thought no member of the Bonch should be nected, and with which we all hope to be §« permitted to hold a position in political life connected as long as xe live, was one waich _ acain--certainly not till he had resigned degraded a man to take part in it, then it _ | bis position on the Bench for a considera jle was a sad thing indeed for our future history. f j pericd. It was strango that among all the But this was inconsistent with the én.s' his-- é; | kcformers in the House no one could be tory of buth our own aud the mother coun:-- f "fi" found fit to lead the Government, aud <that l try. _ He felt that he was as much discharg-- < _| the Bench had to be resorted to _ In making | ing his duty now, and acting upon as high s j these remarks he wished it to be uaderstood | moral principles as he possibly could on the «j that no personal considerations entered into | Bench. (Cheers) HMo entirely repudiated them. _ The -- Hon. _ Attorney--Goneral | the notion that there was anything inferior CE wes a gentleman for whom he enter: in the pcsition of a political man--a repre-- ; tained great respect, though he found / sentative of the people, a maker of the laws, that party seemed to be with him the all--iin-- &n administrator of justice--to the position of [ | Forunt consideration. -- The Commissioner of any judge. "The hon. gentleman said it was ' ablic Works had been treated by the public dangerous for a judge to leave the Bench and A / . press with some very severe animadversions, | again take part in politics, and he l:]ggestod _ : and he was surprised that that hon. gentle-- the necessit{ of some legislative declacation _ . man had not taken the earliest opportanity | upon the subject. Surely the hon. gentlemsna _.| of relieving himself of these charges. He | was not in earnest. . He surely did not imz h regretted &at the House had not been c ilied gine that there was any very great d inger oi together early in December, as had been the judges one after another leaving tha agreed to. But this only showed that hon. Bench and taking part in politics One _ | gentlemen opposito cnredy more for party con:> might just as well argue that it was danger-- ig ' siderations than for the interests of the ous for every man to become alawyer, though _ | country. For himself, he would be put it was perfectly constitutional for evory man _ _ to a considerable loss by the meeting of ths to so, just as he believed it was constitation. > (€ | House having been postponed. ally righ: for sljgigle lflf) leavlz the Banch and e | 3 + * take part in politi ife. «was ccnstitu-- B Attorney.Genaral MOWAT said he wo ild | tionnfiy righgofor his hon. frienis opposite to t | t mind the hon, gentloman that no mau ¢ i come over to this side and support the Gov-- _ | engage in public life without losing a good \ crument, but he did not think there was j [ | de=l personaliy, and that there is no ho1. | wuch danger of their exercising that right { & . member but has had that experience. They | +s would %es great pity if they were: to _ | must all make up their minds to that, fa | evxercise it, for he would like to kave a lar« s going into public life they were not to expec} ger Opposition than he now had. (Liughteor,) j much trom it. The hon. gentieman objectol ' There had been no pretensions made that $ to the time at which Parliament had been w!at be had done was uaconstitutional y called together. He (Mr. Mowat) had oaly to \ Tix(n his hon, ~© friend -- had _ stated i E> say that although they had been unfortunats teat he should hbave alluded to | the h |_ _ | as regarded the hon. gentleman, he thought position _ of _ three of _ his colieagass, '_ _ _ | it suited the general convenience, and that al-- in that they did not go back to the peosle ||| | though the circumstances that led to the ",'3 for re.election after entering his Govern: [ R \Amy on this occasion were exceptional the m nt. -- They did not go bask because their | i '1 public interest would not be injured, Th reuts were not vacated by any ast of theirs p 4 | chief evil which the hon. member sa ¥ ia him The Speaker would not have issued the V (Mr, Mowat) was that he attached too much ; wiits if he had been spplied to. Thera was p | importance to party. He had been kind | nothing in the law or the Consttution t, -- enough_ to say rome very kiad words | ju--tify the issue of the writs. Ths hy ' | of him--too _ kind -- and too flatter-- | ventleman oppositc could not poiat out that | A ing, but he could assure the hon. |\ there was any English law requiring thow e =| gentleman that the kinduess of the feclings | re--election, and if there was any reason for A | which he showed was not greater thaa the | it, it must be in our own law. Oar statute ; | kindness he (Mr. M.) felt towards the hoa declared that whenever any member holdiag gw { member, He (Mr. M ) confessed that he did certain offices, which are named, migned $ l attach a preat deal of importance to party, h s oflice, and one month after accepted an-- ! but he did not plave party before country, | nther office. he should not thereby vacate | and he was for party bocause he was for | his seat in the Assembly,unless the l(fminil- \ country. (Cheers.) His attachment to | tration of which such person was a mem-- ' i party was because he believed--bscause he ber resigned, and he accopted office in a new t knew--that the interests of the country wore Ministry--the two things must concur, The d best advanced by means of a well--orgaiiz>d Administration mustallresign and a new Ad-- s Earty founded on well--recoguized priaciples nivistration must fill the offices, Well, a [ he hon gentlem«n had been kind en»ugh new Administration did not fill the offices, | to say that he hal been chosen to lead the | | nor were the resignations of the old membars C Reformers of Ontario because of his him | rccepted ; they were asked to ksep: their f f moral worth, He thanked him for thas 1 offices till the new members were calle1 in. ie compliment, but did not the hou. gentloman | Butithad been said that the spirit of the see that he was at the same time paying a \ C pstitution had been violated ; but ths in-- 6. compliment to the Reform party. Theymight | tention of the law was to preven't an admin y be . right or wrong in the estimate | | istation from resigning.a now Administration k which they placed upon his charactor, | |\ with an entirely different poli¢y taking their j but the fact of thcir choosing him for thiat | p'aces, suffering defeat, aud then wibghin & l particular recommendation sho wed their high | lropth the old Administration coming back d appreciation of that virtue. . Thore ware | ard _ taking office without an app sal f mavy men in the Reform party well fittad to | to the people. This was what hap -- fill the place for which he had been selected, | pened in _ the case of the celebrated 11 there were some among his colleagues aud | double sbufflie, and the law was ameaded 1 i many in the House; but it was thought de-- to prevent such things taking place, But in sirable by the party that one of the old lead. | this case the preseut Administration adopted f ers of the party should occupy the position | the policy af the preceding Administration, l' again, and he thought it his duty not to re: | and ar appeal to the people would have been $ | fuse. It bad been said that this position was | \ a farco. _ His hon. friend theo alladed to the ' | not a Constitutional one--that it was au un | sur, lus--complained of it in fact. He did + ' ! constitutional thing which he did when he , nut'cnmidcl' it a good thing. He thmuoht l('c"l'::d th"{"fli'" ot 3""""{19' ltxhe (f""'"fi e | the effect of it had been to rouse the j aloasy atter having been a judge. is hoa. frien r ar R ince 4 a 2 gat bad not t.ukgen that grouad. . Nothing of this | ! of the other Provinces, . He Vhenght w2 £* , had been eaid by his bon. friend, an eminent ' f Constitational l.wyer, on this subject, al-- though the newspaprs had bsen filled 6 1 wite _ statements _ of _ this kind. _ At : all events he (Mr. Mowat) stood freed by the _ silence of the hon _ mem-- i | berfrom the charge of unconstitutional ac o -- | won. The hou. gentleman had, however,