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asked for information on some points betore Public Works was there also, for the worst g f vetirg for the Add ess. . It was not cust)> ! purpose in the world--to endeavour to stir |-- 1 mary to make an attempt to give details on | up religious fecling, (Laughter and Opposi-- 1 the various matters stated in the Spsech. tion cheers ) Hon. gentlemen had been running f f Mr. MACDOUGALL--1 do not ask for allround theoountrv,lntoovezcamtlfiuency. [ :4 details, and the un;endmentst: thz} w _ had bo&: | $ ) said he did not exactly provided for them by a Commission. . H | s knh:: fh(.;w.flunt of lnlormat!n::d the ho':.i figremg very ::311 g tf;nd tht!l:. Zords 'Hi.t gentloman wanted. He possessed a go onour" impo rmitted to call dd!hlm""Hil | 0 uch as he would by: they were not pe y ' 1P | ~| f;;l.;ow, l;';: llluzl'foorl:otten a good deal, and Excellency" they should not give him any 1 € | h.fi; would bave so relearn it He had term whatover except simply "'the Lieut -- . | med that the payment of criminal witaesses Governor." 'There was not a Governor in had been alluded to in almost every Speech the Republican Unlged States "vho was n?; N | <] be bad read during the long time he had addressed as "His Excellency," and he coul P > $ been in public life. He (&r. Mowat) had not conceive that the Lieut.--(jiovernor of this [| 4 ! only read it in one Speeohb, and he thought important Province should be addressed by t his hon. friend's fancy was canyi:g him | any lesser title. If, however, they must $ | away in that matter as it had carried him drop the term, tlux. ought not to apply the t ; away in mavy other matters. (Laughter and title "}Ij! Honour" to him, as it was an ' ':' cheers.) He had adopted as a pet subject inferior title which ought not to be ap-- { ' the boundaries of the Province, and had al-- plied to the 'gentleman who filled that im-- I ready given ncotice of a Bill on the subjsct. | -- portant position. 'There were mo reforms in ly He (Mr. Mowat) was quits ready for the dis-- the election law which had had Id cussion. The hon. gentleman objscted to fl beneficial effect in the late gene. \ negotiatlions for a compromise, and asked election which had not been | whether the GGovernment were going to com-- made before the preeent Government took t |~] promise before referring to the representa-- office, Partisans of the hon, gentleman had rives of the people. -- Negotiations must ; given notice to a retnrn!nfi-ofioor in Woent: & [ precede any arrangement, and he sup-- worth not to open the poll under a penalty | posed _ that _ if _ they wore fortu. of $2,000 because his name was not set out | nate enough to find a line which they in full. He supposed that was not a roform. | <[. could assent to, and which would satisfy the He admitted that the holding otf the 3 | Dominion authorities also, they should agree elections on one day had been strongly to it, necessarily subject to the sanction of urged by Reformers in _ times | | this House. No line they could agreo to past, but they had violated their principle « would be _ effectual until assented to by the in the recent elections, which had been held House, In reference to the paragraph stat-- so as to suit the convenience of Ministers and | . | ing that we had still in our g-ndl Qaebes's allow them to travel from one constituency to | share of the eeds of the sale another to assist their friends, _ He was to-- t of the school m., the hou. gen-- tally opposed to the extenvion of the baliot tleman was surely aware all along to voting upon by--laws. Though his political that that was the case. Perhtplh he friends had bonofitteél by the ztsllot he hlld had otten that some years ago thers always thought was n a manly | was lor'gn arbitration bstween _ Oatario |fnightforwu5h way of voting, besides which ' and _ Quebec, and that an award it was much more expensive than open was made which Quebec refused to voting. As to aid to ui["!., he had al-- | | carry out, though we were perfectly satisfi-- ways thought it was in the interest of the [ | | ed with it, W'e had been endeavouring to country to encourage enterprises wlgloh would | get Quebec to agree to carry it out, but open up the back ccuntry, He did not be-- | they would not, and so we were left in pos: lieve it was possible to build a railway in seasion of what assets we would have had this country without beneficial reanl(.a | without any award. It was satisfactory to flowing from it, and he thought it \ | know that although we had not all the as: was proper that we shoald always have | | sets the award would have given us, we had money in the treasury in order that we might I | a portion of them, and all the proceeds of undertake enterprises of public importance, 1| | | the sale of school lands received rincs, in: and give employment to thoss who saffered | | dndlni'Quebec'a share, We could not tell in times of depression. _ More information what that share was unless the award was ought to be given in regard to immigration. taken as the basis, and so it could not be It was extraordinary that his Honour, | paid over to Quebec, K was satisfactory in his recent visits to public in-- that wo _ did not lose auything, stitutions, had seen mone except those and that was why the statement was put in designed by the late Administration. In the Address, 'The hon. gontleman wauted reference to vital statistics, he shought when .' | to know how the destre of the Chist Su perin-- the late Covernment permitted a private | tendent of Education to ratire came about, member to introduce a.measure providing ' z The hon, member would be inform sd by the for their collection they did not a scomplish | member for East Toronto that befors this anything in the interest of the country. Tae | Government came into office at al', when the coflection of statistics ought to belong to ;' | country had the misfortune to have another the Dominion Government rather than i | Government in office, of which the to the separate Provinoes, and un-- 1 | gentleman from East Toronto was a less * this scheme was calculated to a member, the Chief Superintendent urged mccomplish the end fully and completely, his desire to resign in & formal communica-- it was not in the interest of the couatry to | tion, and he belisved in addition expressed have any further l.ag;:nhon on the subject. an opinion which he had expressed several He complained that the House had not yet times since, that the office should be held by had the Public Accounts for 1874, | a Minister, _ He did not know whether that Mr, CROOKS--They are ready. | To otlntice B was diwatisfied with the Mr. CAMERON said they ought to be on | 0 icy o t Government or not, but *L C ' | the mu[:xober for South Simooe would le:' that the table, and ought to have been distributed gwu":g:nta new thing. 'The Chief h?:::gdx dlok, the SperkcE Tof the uperin was 73 or 74 years of t o'clock or 6 ago, and had held bis office for upwards of chair, thirty vu& a;d he d:dt notl:fl thiln: dit at ali After recess, | unreasonal consent to a withdra A talls * | | 1t then became necessary to concider wh'e'::gr G Mr, CAL{EE?N ;t;nh':mog. said tfh't the ' the present system shouid be continued. He owmm"f' oug j necessary for the | | had given the hon. gentloman more informa-- purpose af showing ?he r atronoth, and how l | tion than was customary or necessary at this mach. they had gained aince the previous | | stage, and he hoped he would consequently olection, to sond their Treasurer from West | 1 express his entire satisfaction with it, and Toroxto to the Fast for the purpose of de-- | would conocur in the Address, (Cheers.) l:::htgh h:mu(:lf '(1' Mr. O.metm * &'be m;:: ' Mr. CAMERON said the Address was us "1f , -- SAhetthe Wak ], meagre in matters of importance, and he tlll:ongl'l'ont the country sceking a resting-- | was glad to find the Attorney--Cieneral foroed place, but was unable to find one till he | to acknowledge that it was to the porti. reached the extreme (i:it constituency of ! nacity of the Opposition that they were in« Boath Oxtord. This scarcely demonstrated | debted for the promised measure in the growing strength and influence in the | relation to the payment of criminal z""' of hon, gentlemen opposite. _ He ks (Irogte l}' cheats.) -- 'Ius "meap. re say they thought they had returned to sure was promised in the Sneech open-- the HW!O mth.t-multrong as in tie | ing the seasion during which the Go:-- last Parliament, but no doubt the discussion vernment of Mr, Sandbeld Macdonald coaved they had, and the difficulty they experienced | | to exist, and hon. gentlemen had to admit in coercing their fullowers on the election of ; f theis inability to grapple with it ever since ths_flpeuker, must have convinced them that p ' The Attorney--Gieneral had been quite as tbeir influence was on the wane, even in this l | much in the county of Victoria during the House., (aughter.) It was all w'{,mll tor [] | vecent election as he (Mr. Cameron) and the , Commussioner of Public Works to t ' J ' is hom. friend, and the Commissioner of laugh, but he (Mr, (Cameror) bad + ;