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_they were all compelled to contribute to ths fund to the same extent, any difference should be made in the amount paid to them, Mr, McMANUS susportod the resolution as it stood with regard to the distinction re-- ferred to. The resolation was then adoptsd in Com-- mitteoe, reported to the House, and the re-- port received. On tho motion of Hon. Mr. MOWAT, the House then went into Committee of the Whole on the Public and High Schools Bill --Mr, Hodgins in the chair, The resolution fof the Promier regarding the Superaunuated Teachers' Fand was added to the Bill in the form of a clause, and agreed to. in order to aid them in theiv. de-- clining Gays, after they had spont the best part of thoir life in the service of the country. He could not understand why, if Horn, Mr. MOWAT said the resolation made no such distinction as that mentionsd by his houn, friend. _ The distinction it made wasin favour of High School masters and holders of first and second--class certificates. It had been urged that such a provision would be an incentive to have these corti-- f.icstel. Mr. SINCLAIR said his objection stil held good. The superannuation was not a thina to which teochers were exactly entitled, but the provision was mads Hon, Mr. MOWAT said there would be some doubt under the provisions of the Bill as it stood, whether first--class county certificates would be valid, He proposed to insert an amendment which would remove th.al.itddonbt. and make them usqaestionably valid. Mr McLEOD thought second--class county certificates should also be included, Hon, Mr. MOW AT said there was some objection to that. Mr. McLEOD showed that there was but very alight difference between first--class *B" certificates and second--class "A" cortificates, ard unless the one wore made valid the other should not be. _, -- 0 was Cuiilil00 0 BV *w:-lv-' E94 of the amount he had paid into the fund would be returned to him; if he died before he wl so entitled his family received the wholé amount he had paid with seven per cent. interest, and if he remained in the ser-- :o? ;élfil he was e;:titled to the mfuultsy,1 he ear for every year of servics, while hopgd':mly paid $4 l?m;o it _ He did not think the country would gradgo it. Aiter a few words from Mr, Cameron, Mr, SINCLAIR objected to the distinc-- tion which he thought the resolation proposed to make in favour of the tsachers educated at the Normal School. If a man had taught a number of years and doune his duty wotil, he did not see why he should re-- ceive less advanh%e trom the money he paid into the fund simply because ho'did not re-- celve his education at a certain institution. He altogether disapproved of it. Mr. SINCLAIR desired to know i! the Attorney General is to make the certificates provincial as well as permanent, . At prawoas they were oniy vabd in the couaty where they were granted. Hon. Mirx. MOWAT theon -- consoa*t-- ed to makeo the clauses so _ that first aud recond--class county cortinrcates belid by tsachers of tea yoars' staadiag shou'ld be nermanert. The Coamittse then ross aad reportsl the Bill with amecdmente. THE OCENTRAL PRSON. Hon Mr. CROOK$ moved that the House go into Committes oi Sapply. Mtr. CAMERON rose for the purpose at moving an amendmsnt. Referring to the evidence takou before the Paboltec Accounts Committee in relation to the half holiday granted to the Government emoloyea on tas Sth December lait, on the ocsasiona of the West Tororto nomination, he asid it appsa«ar-- ed that such holiday had been given anl the ---!"h-.;:fi retired from tl::-p-r;f;;idn tlef fore he was entitled to the ponsion, the half men paid their wagos for the time It had always heen contemfl-d by Reformers ia this country that thera should be nothing like ia-- terference on the nart of ofticials of the coun-- try with tho trsedom of elsstion; that nothing tended morse to ths gooi government of the conutry and the weliare of the people than that freedom of eloction should exist; that there should hbe no such thing as intimidation or undue influsenca ex-- ercized over the eloctors; and that thare should be no such thing as public money bei ..« devoted to the promdtion of the inlerdsss of one candidate over his opponent, whosher guch candidate was in accord with the CGov. THE SCHOOL BILL. and who made BP PPE 7 00 d sys ¢o men opposite had made, to allow, besides to cause, such & thl.n% to be done. He was aware that some of the purs Reformers, some of the ultra Grite who used to beshocked at the very semblance of corruption, hai been endeavouring to make light of this thing. He charged it upon mombers of the Public Accounts Committoo who wore no' members of the Opposition that thoy had not done anything for the purpos® of eliciting facts or gettE;g information. . (Hear. hear and lr'onlcal cheers.) The, members of the Opposition upon that Committes had boaen described as nothing but a body of roughs-- (hear, hear)--that they were hunting down the Commissioner of Pablic Works, and were only deserving of the contempt of every right--minded man in this country. (Hear, hear.) Hon, gentlemon in their hearts know that this was not true, although they had not the honesty of purpose to confess it, He| was now about to offer for the consideration of the House a resolution, upon which they v.v:sld yet have the opinion of the people,. hon, gentlemen before voting it down gught to remember that they would st.i:::: t:.nlv;'efiefor theifdvote bsfore their con-- 8 y would ex for cpndevnnlng Sir John Magg;':\altr}ll e:::ifl: 5. flglgtlx'i'ugo?o:g ?omtt)nissicner of Pablic Worl?n; t on by saying tuil y gt{xtu;e!y diffarent thin)g. 5""," i? wnzsu'v:g:?;; :sz;: 6 ohn Macdonald to borrow monsy from 5 ugh Allan, or take it as a gift, it muast "g far worse for the Commissioner of Publi:: orks to take money from the publis tre sury for the purpose of influencing the e!l . tors. He charged it upon the Gommissi l-ev- t{f Pu!llio Works that he had used m:::' for this purpose, and he also charged u"oy the _ whole _ Gavermment *the " -- mis: 4: })ropnation of that money. He t!lxse:; ore moved, seconded by Mr. Rykert, that "All words after 'That' to the end of the question be left out, and the following substituted therefor :--*"*1It appsars froim the report of Kivas Tully, Esq., Architect aud Engineer of the Public Works Department, to the Hon, Archibald McKellar, Commis:-- sioner of Agriculture and-- Public Works, dated the 20th day of January, 1874, ap-- ponded to the Commissioner's Report for the year of our Lord 1873, submitted to this H?gsgr during the present sossion, that the said Kivas Tully, according to instructions, accompanied Mr, Scott, who was acting for the Hon, Attorney General, and Mv. Wagner, to the Central %flson on the 18th day of Beptember last, when the works woere for-- mally taken possession of and handed over to Nir. Wagner, as Superintendent, who has since continued in charge, «*That it further appears from the evidencs trken before the Public Accounts Commit-- tce, and reported to this House, that a largo number of men were employed in the said Central Prison Works by the Government, who were engaged and discharged at the wilil of the said Wagner, and one George Hellam, a foreman under the said Wagaer, "That it further appears from the said evi-- dence, that on the eighth day of De:sember last past, at the requost of one Nathanicl Dickey, who was a member of a committee formed to secure the return of Thomas Moss, Fisquge, one c:f the candidates for election to 4L a Rasal o e L S to berlast past, and to allow y .0 0 SmmeP" their wapey or