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I AFTERNOON SESSION. . _ e V - r , I TU Bpeaker took the cheir st 3 o'clock. [ PUBLIC BILLS. _ ra, b' F, ATTACHMENT OF WAGES OF MR. Ile following Public Bills were advenced . " " _' 'CEANIOS' 'Tfiia, Billt d ti R ll . a , V _' Mr. MEREDITH moved the second reed- Act." Remind1 '2il'h' third?" in a any 5 - (i; in: of the Bill to use: the law misting to . . R., _ m Attachment of Debts by exempting the Mr. Bathums-Bi11 to. provide for allow. rr a i _ . nose to trustees, admlttiitratora, and execu- . Weges 'dtl sales-res of mschsnics and others tore Reed . eecon d time, through , . "i, from Minty to sttechmsnt thereunder. . Committee of the Whole, reed s third time, if" w. _ Mr. MCMANUS thought the law n it and ruled. , 'i 'i, '..: 2,tlg'et.,f, "o well, and objooted to tU Mr. Meredith-Bill to prevent fraud end "' . _ . tng. fraudulent practices upon or by hotel-keep- l o The motion wss cerried. The Bill passed ere, invert-keepers, end others. Reed e M ' " . l through Committee, sud wee reed e third second time, peered throw" Committee ot ' w: ' time and psesed. the Whole, reed e third tlr. "ad pessed. f , I The order of the day for resuming the de. M . If-ell-Bill to "tend the Act for , t, ( bets upon Mr. Rykert's resolution, " Tut, in the improvement of water prinleges. Reed ' *" u ' tge'opmiolr:1 of dt', gold", lit is gt'f,,t?) IRWIN! time. ' * E ,t s prov on me e y w ie munici e i. . -- . . . f Ei '" ties entitled to payments under the E'll'lil'llli with"; 2,'2,ig,' "ill Tr'l"a the St is E g. LonnFund Act of 1873 shell be permitted _ paged" me "r " .a third time and 'l, I , o to expenddtheir tg,"gg,te'g in scoordsnce . I l with the wish of e rstepeyers, " expressed Mr. Clarke ( Norfolk) - Bill to con- i , I , through their Councils in By-lews to be some" and amend the seveni Acts l, 'AN I ( P"" and approved by them, ' being read, of the Port Dover end Lake Huron Reiiwey. ( ,3 , M ' . end to oontirm certein by'lsws in eid thereof. 1:? o '. . .J'u SPEAKER sud that the rule was Amended in Committee, read s third time, " . il,',h'eht,t222oat, import?" vestsh and passed. .2; on co 0 e mposes or w c Jr. , , s grant ot money hed t','ll21',2'd1 when it we: DRAINAGE WORK l ii' ' , recommended by 'rs Excellency. By the Mr. LAUDER moved for s return of I, pw English prectice it is ssid to be possible to capies ot ailadverrtuurusnts for tenders for the '5. ' frsme en sbstrect resolution on t e subject construction ot drsinege works in this Pro. . " ' ot duties without going into Committee, but Vince, together with copies of ell tenders rs- 7'; l T that it is not regulsr (Bourke, 181) No et~ ceived end contrscb entered Into with con- tfi, , gempt hes beeutnkiud7i tf2 rciilsolntdion to treetors misting to theseid works. Gerried. 3"; T I' rune itsoesto e si on o t cor inery . , " " k, rule. I see no difference whatever between ' 2'tPtgt tlt,ze, " fhrt ouook, to . - . such en important change in the distribution and be mm" quorum afternoon. , h t of the fund " is now "oe,t?ft',f., ' p _ Cl - f and s resolution which woul es- . Q r I _ some to appropriate my port of the Jil . public revenue. The onefis just es objection- I F able in principle es the other, and the seme f l" reuoning is eppilceble to one es to the other 5?. ttl . throughout silthe cases which I have con- i: v. ' suited. But itis sad that this resolution 2', 5.; . only proposes en ebstrsct o; 'nion. Mr. Msy , , . . l ssys that such resolution: heve been allowed, l a . but he proceeds to sey thst " they ere objec- . I , ticneble, and being en eveeion ot s wholesome 7 rule ere dUoouragird ssmuch "possible." ' _ Mr. Todd slso ssys that "abetrsct resolutions , T in re erdto perticuier bunches of tazs'ion f " l bevegbeen submitted to the House by ttr' 6n " members, but the y heve been uniion tt5 eisted d being inexprdient and impolmc. _ you ' These abstract resolutions ere, in tact, grow- r - . fr; ing more and more into distavoar in England, a i C aatending to embarrass the Ereoutvs, ke, . f ." u , The lsnguege of the 54th section of the Bri- , F tish North America Act seems slso to be , . "d r more stringent than the rule in Engieud. l _ " It shall not be lewinl for the House to T l , adopt or pets any vote, resolution, ' ,9 address, or Bill for the approprly ' tion of my pert of the public . ' ' revenue, or ot my tax oriuipost," the. Bat ' I h" _ whatever might have been my own oginion ,. , upon this subject, I consider myself ound i by e precedent which I find in the journals 'tl . of this House (1368, per 66). Au ebstrect ' resolution was proposed effecting the revenue I . '. from timber The Attorney. ienci'ei, Me. , bo , Donald, objected that it could not be enter- 1 , l I " tained without the recommendation of His l . ' , " Excellency. A long liscussion followed, i ' l . during which Mr. 3:. .nsdc the following , " , , ' otmtrvntionat-"Tlut .csolution merely " , l ' is . fhmad the expediency of asking certain pro- 3 . Ill' visions; the House did not sesame to provide l IN for it; and in no other wey could the sense " ot the House es to the policy or impolicy of r . it pursuing e similsr course be expressed. The i E -. resolution wee barren of any result except of J i , d elimting the aginion of the House on this , if ', L _ point, but e quite egreed tut, es i 5 , .. a general rule, it was not expedient "l",?, , j, thet discussions on such subjects should tl l. T take place." The Speeker ruled ageinst the F, resolution, and upon an mr,'t, to the House " ; hisruling was susteined. elieving, es I do, I _ ' . , that there is in principle no dlfrdnmos u. _ I tween e resolution which propose. e great of , money end one which proposes to enpiy s [P, grant sireedy made to en entirely different .3, mat' purpose from that recommended by the a f brown, and _fiadipg en express decision not 1 [ only of the Speeher, but of this House itself, -. i Iete, such motions, end finding else that t s " resolutions ere so much condemned m-'. g , and ilir.ooTytrd in Englend, I ceunot do s "rr, If otherwise the rule in Jena: oi the ohjoa. _ ,1, thm, The order wee then discharged. 't ,7 __"---..--- L- - --