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55 dcnude -- himselt of his manhood. Hon, gentlemen misht call him inconsistent, but the people coul discriminate between a slavish mgport of either side and an indo-- pendent, honest, and outspoken course. He would not stop to bandy words with the hop, member for South Grey; be had more 'mmortant matters to attend to. Ho'- was o tharrt WA imsom; IN&VUCEE really not worth Upon the wholo 1 gentlemall!;"he h ;J:S()m' InmQCER® WU MRARCOC O O0 really not worth a quarrel, (Laughter). Upon the wholo ho rather liked the hon. gentleman; he was good--natured: his bite was not balf so bad as his bark. (Laughter). He was great at barking, but he was not much of a biter after all. Ho was great at rauth 0 2 CX "londineo words, Ec remind-- using big, high sounding WOTGOS, A*C **"*** ed him of the lines :-- Uplifts the club of Hercules ; for what ? To brain a butterfly or crush a goat : Seta wh. els in wheels on motion, awful clatter To force ur'ono poor 1 ipper. skin of water; Bid ocean labout with tremendous roat, To heave a cocale shell ngon the shore. In every toome the samo is wondrous art, Heaven's awful thunder or & rumbling cart (Great laughter). 6 He proceeded toadvert totheother accusations that bad been made against him, First he was to be sont to England, then he was to be appointed Crown Attorney, thon again he was to be on some Commission, and then he was to have a seat in the Cabinot. All thess predictions had failed. He stood there to-- day, having been offered what the hon, gen-- ticman never would have rafused, inde-- dendent of the men on the Tressury benches, as well as of the men on the Treasury tenches at Ottawa; and as long as he had his health and intellect he could gut at defiance the whole of his accusers, in the House and out of it, before any assembly of the people of this Dominion, Hekad now, he thought, d'%oud of this aubject once and for ever, r. LA UDER made some interruption, Mr, WOOD observed that his words were ro doubt like living coals to the hon. gen--« tleman,. It was very much like throwing burning coals of fire in a nest of vipers; it was lile holy water whero it was not wanted. (Laughter.) The hon, member for East To-- routo had been dragged into this discussion; whother he chose to maka any remarks or not he was perfectly indifferent, He had known the hon member for many years and entertained for him the highest respect _ Mr. PRINCE protested against a con-- tinvance of this disoussion. o 3 l a 4. . Mr. CAMERON said he would take this the first opportunity of stating that the member for Simcse was not open to the charge of having picked up thLil paper. _ 'I;I'w charge of having picked up this gaper. The gaper was transmitted to him by hipr (Mr.C.} t was received hy him (Mr. C.)--at this mo-- on r uk E it was received hy him (Mr. C.)--at this mo-- ment it did not signify how. He was willin to assume all the odium of its being reooivos in any manner in which the membor for South Brant might see fit to charge him with receiving it; when the proper time came for him to tell hbow it was received he would tell it In the meantime he had aimply to say that the paper was in his possession when he was churging the member for Sonth Brant wit aving betrayed his party and the (Giovernment of which ho was a member. He charged the hov. gentleman then, and he charged him now, with that accusation. The enquiry that he propoged was burked by the ingenuity of the then Premier. He charged, among other things, that a communication had passed be-- tween Mr. Blake and Mr. Wood on the day on which the latter gentleman had anaounced his resiznation to the HMouse, He al-- lsed, as within his own knowledgo that a communication had passed betwoen these gentlemen when Mr. Wood was a member of the Administration. When the bon. gentleman announsed his resigna-- tion to the House, it was not known by his colleagues that ho had resigned. Half an hour before the House met ho and Mr. Sand-- ticld Macdonald were coming to the Houss when a meesengor handed fir. Macdonald a letter. He did not open it then, and they went into the Treasurer's offce and spoke to Mr, Wood about the affairs of the &ovem- went, Mr, Wood asked if he had not receiv-- «d his lstter. The Attorney--General i:flied that be had not. He (Mr. C.) reminded him that the note ho had just received must have been it, whereu{)on Mr. Macdonald opored the letter and found it was Mr. Wood's re:i-i;nution. While he and the Attorney.--Geroral were in the office a meesenger came with a communiation from ¥r, Blake to Mr, Wood. The hon. gentle-- man came into tho House, and in response to the appeal made by Mr. Blake to cach individual member of the Government, an-- rounced his resignation, and he stated at the sametime that ho would feel bound to support the policy of the then Administre-- tion. _ That was on Friday. Upon the Monday follewing this note passsd, whin it appeared that Mr. --Bleke bad control of mon. gentletnan. ITe (Mr, C.) saw this communication nsssing, and, suspecting what it was, asked Mr. Richards 7 p and to prevent Mr. Wood | ??mehnup '";'. ?:ak'Mr.pRicb&nll did so. i Alomt.o the mapner in which the evidence ; apainst the member for Sonfl;' Br:)nt :r';: ot')ttined, it"dld 3"'..'.".'?'."'1?;:,' :;"m;..:;hn" B ':tlauv BRA C rpainst the member for South B { ot)tsined, it .did not matter. --Mr. r:)'::n;;: was l'noceed' ing to ;s'tack the Commissionsr of Fublic .Works in connection with the | 0»ctan affair, when, it being six o'clock, the 1 Proton affair, when, 14 Deing B1X 0 GI0UR, P90 House ro#e. ' After recess, } The House went again into Comumitteo of Supply-- Mr. CAMERON rosumed the debate. --He . at a loss to know the reason of the at-- ] tack made by the member for South Brant | upon the members for South Grey and Lin-- coln, The only sin committed by the mem:-- ' ber for South Grey was bis upright and uniform support _ of the Ministry of which ', the member for South Brant was & member. | He (Mr. Cameron) thougbt the prosent dis-- cussion was of little avail at this time. He knew of no princ'ple which was more to be upheld than the rectitude of action of mem» ' bers in this House; but ho thought that & P C Us Latrav his friends and bers in vBIS LVUPY} _ CO 0_ i.i 4 gentleman who would betray his friends and colleagues, as the member for South Brant had done, would betray his country, and was not deserving of trust where there was the power in his hands of doing injasy. He (Mr. Cameron) never d(?dé' the ability and force of character of tha hon, gentioman, and his knowledge{of ho Municipal Loan Fund question, and" rbitr«tion question, and be thought the interests of the country P us ""ha"" served 'by -- tho: appolink: We oo ENCV APVUERA T OOE en oc the power in his hands of doing injasy. HC (Mr. Cameron) never d?dé' the ability and force of character of tha hon, gentioman, and his knowledge{of ho Municipal Loan Fund question, and" rbitr«tion question, and be thought the interests of the country would be _ served by the -- appoint: ment _ of _ that gentloman . as the agent before the Piivy Council, before which the Arbitration question wWas to be IP t ue' ureali t V PERP e( i Ne h iob D a d c 2 11000R 0 Aduste Nes I argued. Hoe had no personal enmity or 1.l-- feeling towards the member for Braut or any ' other gentieman. The only gentloman who . had ever thrown down the gauntlist of psr-- sonal ill feeling to him was the leader_ of the Blake--Scott Government, who said that there was an impassable gullf between them on account of his action with reterence to the question now under dissussion; but ho felt no bitterness of feeling towards that gontle. man, _ Heo concluded by asking the Treasurer for some further explanations as to the sup-- plementary estimates now sought to be passed, Hon. MNr. CROOKS said if the hon, gen:. tleman referred to the resolution he would find it explained itself. It wes for the pur-- pose of p'l)acing in the hands of the Govera-- ment a sum of money suflicient for the pur-- pose of meeting the present requirements of the Government. It would bo seeu that thero was nothing extracrdinary in the resolution. They ouly required a sum of money which would enable them to carry them on for a period of about two months. They submitted to the House something more than an open vote of credit, they submitted also the items. They were acting in accord-- ance with the custom of England, and only, he reiterated, required enough money to carry them on until the regular estimates were brought down. Mr., WOOD explained the circumstances under which the supplementary estimates had been passed last session. A good deal "of consideraticn had then been given to the matter, and the course ad'o;hf had been deliberately approved of. hile on his feet he thought ho might as well regly to some of the remarks of the hon. member for East Toronto. He (Mr. Wood) was becoming somewhat impervious to the regetition of these charges, Ho would now like to ask if a person findinE an article of value and ap-- propriating it to his own uses would not be prepared to defend a person committing lar-- ceny. The hon. gentleman saw a piece of paper passed over to him (Mr, Wood) which he un-- _derstood was to ask him to speak now; the Mr. CAMERON said the matter had beeu laid bofore the House in a very crude shape by the Hon. Treasurer. He thought the smoun for contingencies should be explained more fully, Hon. Mr. CROOKS was glad to afford any information asked for. f{e would have followed the English precedent, but had been influcnced by the proceodings of the House last session and ite previous session, according toa system devised by thethenlead-- er of the Goverment, and the leador of tho Opposition. What was asked for was suf. ficient money to meet the expenditure for two months, in proportion to the usual ycearly expenditure. 'The item for contin-- gencies was based on tho calculation that the contingent exrendituro of the Treasary Department was about $2,000 a month. Mr. CAMERON said that the supple: mentary «stimates had been passed iut year in tho same way as was now being done. It was to bo regrett'ed that tho Hon. Trea-- eurer had not followed his own inclinatien in this matter. or ill--