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<g [ -- e ¥A8 _ L --a* ( e Licduthrtin 4 T hNo s ce PrraR i( ts oo »;":».}', _.: s oo P 6 d «0¥ > ® f A N *" Jt s ~ C "fl::'_».:':l".', '.,_' ks »la'« o : P 'P3y FORL > * .11 *« P C % & * F t ;' r + '.5 | Referring to the Iumber trade, he said he understeod {:,r:}::fl:;w rulatw:: that in the neighbourhood of 14 * | that the reference made in tbo'slmich :' d'hr:!' l';:i'x?; performed: 8;;. th;uk m':lyo':i"t?f"fim;"fow'z' 3y 4 | was a very genoral reference. Instem and _ the 'rural _ m isthe | ) d con-- 1 agistrates _ had little | fourishing, that trade was in a very depresse ar, nothing to do. With regard to | ; dition. Persons dealing in lumber haddrawn largely to agricultural socioties, he t} n ';'8" T nHt mork Jrants $ on the banks for capital, and they were czu'ryiu{ it 1985 the far hag ¢0 'q 2e "g CB"nt that perbs ® the i + vain for a market, | le armers had to epend on Governme ail. y dtfl:';fxexz'.ho.li:n:udr :ou;t:':;:cmdd that he was t:\e better. The feeling in the country wt that % not in the confidence of the Ministry in the matter | :r':;f :::eitx?rel:::g :&fif;&"}f:'g:?e :"d ":; 149 W, 4 enants We A 16 --comnt aica-- £ g: ;h; girvg:emr;l:;in& ;o,l':um'::"";'l':l"w Ld re-- | tion, a little more centralization wauld be . a i». % 1N CA provement. He urged, as a better mode of P Ap ag A sponsible fos. § | the agricultural interest, the creation of an. imuer. f The sixth paragraph}was then. carried. | druina;e fund for the Province, as the jues-- | On paragraph seven tion of drainage had perhaps more to do, t the ' NMr. CAMERON remarked that the hon. gentle-- | Tan surtiveg che. 4; it $y OO "S 7 Of the tarmer f man (Mr. Lane) ough t to have obtained some infor-- leLt" wo ?d degencrate 1 said that such a mation from the Government with regard to the BC °ff. Y'" reg d"'?" 0 1nto somothing like " -- measure on which he spoke before un dortaking to :t'ank (.:rat oaxlxd t;l:th mdebwdlneu, but he did not | | address the House npon it. Me did not believe that ' m'": 1 on s 14 9;,'0"" t might also he gaid | A ff public opizion had beon expressed against the To-- : A a ";'"."7 :'o:e' "0:' is "{""' m';',"'-'; :10 drain their | # A ronto and Ottawa Railway, but, on the contrary, "'nl" (e y obor in u t PTt avon the C is t e feo 3 that it was a road which a)w"l' receive Government Ligh, _ He suguested that it should be made a Goy-- aid. ermrent matter, and that the foan should be made * | the first lien on the land, the same as a tax. He f The seventh paragraph was carried, | hoped that thetGovernment would see their way to On paragraph eigh the adoption of some such scheme as he had suggeat-- Are. Chakk® fNfirfolk) pointed to the necessity onl . h) TU regrare to the question of immigration, his | f of the Government watching over the interests of | thought it would bf '.'":'x'" mistake to send into our | roads | that / had been _ assisted, _ in _ order new territories exclusive 'ythose who have just ar-- that _ their usefulness might not bo impaired. rived in this country. There should be at least a He referred to & railway which bad been built to fair sprinkling of Lanad_ian fqrmcxs. He beheyed ' Prince Arthur's Landing with & view to connecting that few people had any idea of the extent to which 3 ' it with the Pacific Railway, This had been prevent. | cieq"oio Patis, Of the. Province had been ed, however, by the action of the Dominion Govern-- | settled S'"t in 'l"' M ": kfe" . vhats. In the | ment. _ Me thought the time had come when the Pa;-{'y inE la:!( fu:flo e fidls'r;;m hfre lne} Ontario Government should cease giving aid to lines at l""'.' & Pl'l'p" w '°'l'." f'}""l'.{; ye thousand, while | ho which were not absolutely necessary, but he had no mcluding the township o Jaliburton the number of | objection to aid being granted to the Toronto and settlers in that county, which a few years ago was Ottawa Railway. ifo proceeded to refer to the almost a wilderness, would number bet ween -- 30,000 crowded state o{ the lunatic asylums, and to the dif-- and 49,000 people. | (Hear, hear, and cheers.) 'The ficulty under such cases of curing incipient casen of Government had largely aided in securing that & insanity. Persons ofwhose cure thore was athope might very desirable result by their liberal colonization 1 be kopt in buildings separato from incurable lunatics. road policy; but there was another iuestion' per-- | There was no dou{t that in our increasing popula-- haps more importaut than that of colonization roads | tion insanity was also increasing, and ho was grngllh and that was the one of colonizatinn railways. He | 7 Honour ba! referred to the subject. He suggested , tmusted . that the _ Victoria Railway _ would | the appointment of a Committee to consider &e con-- be pushed as rapidly as possible in the | dition of our ingane asylums. direction _ or _ Lake Opeongo, anrd thence / P onward to the Mattewan. ~'There were millions of ! L 1t being six o'clock, the Speaker left the chair, acres of land in that country which was not only a Aftar recess available for cuitivation, but the wood it bore would 8 Mr. SI ;ABI\:F (Norfoll) resuued the debato. We prove of thelgrc':;cst' 'val?eb llf dx'nzanshof téxlp.o;t' were + \ (B + »d. e irch ; ) w strongly approved of some better provision being $ }::;l'ed;%uld!;et ;n:vo 2f gre';t vah::; to.':;xe J';rovifln?e'? % made for the protection of the pauper classes. At but these heavy woods could only be ltflnsported' present it was quite common for one municipality to by rail, as their -- specific Rravity was . too relieve itself of its own burdeny by laying them reat --to fHloat them down by water. If rail-- on the shoulders of its peighbours, though his ':m,; were bunilt through that country -- they county had done its duty in providing for its pauper would find steam -- mills starting up on every population, but it was frequently called xpon to band to manufacture this bimber and supply it for #upport those who properiy belonged to other coun-- the foreign and the home market. There was a (':Z?;W-l,lle':l z::;,llg::).\'i'el:e.i{)r "3:1":3'&"';3'0" ho;xll;l ;?: prevailing irr»pre;ui(:ndtgnnt al'l ithufar:ublp lauQs of ' | proved of much larger grants being given to agri-- :',):'é';f;o':;i:: \f.li':lerx(;,'l?h: ;,-r,..!:g ?ak:s"!:::r{h'i:?.z | eonultural societics than were given at present. He knew by his own observation to be unu'stakc Be-- | | was pleased to notice that it was the intention of the twoen the Laurentian formation and the head \;vuters | l tGovernment to return to the system of employing of the Oltawa there were large arcas of fertile land / f , prisoners at certain kinds of labour which had pre-- covercd | with | valuable | timber and Le be-- f vailed some years ago. He would suggest an amend lieved that before fifty years 'tbey would ' find | mont of that provision of the criminal law which that this section of the country had developed into required stipendiary magistrates in the outlying dis-- ne of the finest grazing districts in tho Province . | a tricts of Muskoka and Algoma to send prisoners :'\ -- hig friend from South Perth would tell them. j comuitted for more than thirty days to cortain gaols "s' Herts of the country in which there was / in the Provinee. The result was that the magistrates ")' '*l luca of pure water were always the best for frequently inflicted comparatively light sentences for .k "n;;dm-tion':)fchecse and he (Mr. Hay) nad never grave crimes, owing to the impossibility of sending LiE nywhere that could eqaal the districts to prisoners to these gavle at eertain seasons of the | ";l,".}"h"_', ferred in the extent and beaut of. its year. He regretted that the leador of the Opposition | nlop o +. He U ferred to the anos; p had repeated his attack on the magistracy of the water supply. hi ml{_'r&,e Sn it 1P Auaition o country, and the repeated itoration of this attack | education, and exp;os)s; oopxtn'aonnth.nt tl;ere was would seem toshow a disposition on the part of the | little or no danger o t.ac!rgcoug € T eC AL ie hoad legal members of the House to destroy the magistracy of the _1] 'ZI;"?.'::;',\,: r;nsru t(l,;',l:icl"; Plfl' ;',_',;::mu(';f{): L 4 and to substitute plipendiary magistrates for those N our)s 'J(;' n" ngly ap )mpv('d of, that {-hau g6 ; im larl"' c | officers. 'The lagal fraternity seemed desirous to freun.) Hos Ofi'& &' lop itfelf it eouly' : M C | monopolise all the official positions in the country, guct a iendane} hl hnel(»p rope ], .w'";' P no e T | and he hoped that this tendency would be chocked! j checked. He i ie t',ln-msie? ';'"h".t;m' P tas | He insisted on the right of cvery member of the some of the Departmental regula Te which, if too f ns $ > oo I vigorously entorced, would prove a hardship Honse being at fuil liberty to express his opinions on & ections. He referred particalarly to t the Speech, instead of the discrssion being limited | 8O mAne Roofons, 1 the ement of an addivionat to a few members on each side. He concluded io v'.h"'h c ooheelf !t" "'55".'""_".5' C s a' (.' o Nagl by congratulating the (Government on the Speech | qualified tt':l(_"r'"r" '.iue r'l" 'f"':,x_uf" ":-t M scl'xool they had been enabled to bring down, and on the | attendance of 50 PuUpS. inspectors sometimes acted 1 7 reenti he altogether too arbitrarily in requiring the enforce. | hearty Tteception which the Reform leaders had met & ; lati rher orh with at the picuics last summer. | ment of this regula Ca; Iufp perbaps the | excessive -- attendance | was only for two or 1 Mr. CAMERON remarked that the original inten-- | three months in . the year. _ flieatr, hear.) tion in establishing the free grant aystem was to at-- ! With regard to inspection, he might remark that the * , tract immigrants frora uhrou«fr.uher than thn sons of professional life of every teacher in the riding and Canadian Carmers, however desirable a class they county depended upon m('_ln?l"'d"; and uniesas that | might be. 'The object sought was to increase the % otticial used his powers faithfuily, without partisan. f k s consuming power of the country, and this, of course, ship and political bias, he could do infinite mischief, was not accomplished . if 0¥my weare settled by Politics should not be allowed to interfere with this Canadians. In reply to a remark of the member for duty, and he suggested the passage of a small Act to ] North Norfolk, ho said that though he (Mr. Cameron) the effect that any Iympecu;r meddling in politics | advovated the anpointment of stipendiary magis-- should loso his position. Very few men could be : strates, it did not by any means follow that they trusted in duchlpo!ltloll-. Uniess an Inspector was ! should all be lawyers. But, even if he did imply | a strong, square, honourable man, if he took an in-- | that, it could not be denied that professional men | terest in municipal politics he would be sure to use | would be the best fitted to administer the law. -- He I his influence to promote his own ends or those of his | had not attwcked the magistra'es of the country, but | friends. Referring to the question of mnm'gratiou, he | be simply suid, speaking from his own professional said »no Government which had endeavoured to pro-- experience, that the majority of them wore unquali-- mote immigration could be held responsible for the | | fied for the dise} arge of their dutics. large class of \\'Ol'flll;b_l persons w;m came to the | s t oi P A xy, The steamship agents in Kurope were very f rmltl ;\"\Nl"lu\tht sx:;;{ h? nl:t'll'l;'\'o:, "h.(:vcimclr'(l(r btou': :'(z?il\l':'.,fi"'-' had no scruples us to who l"migratod so | ' cat acdvar B > cour C a y N i hA » 8 1 | :mut lands t':;u.em::o extent aeu{ed by sons of the | :.;'"F' :;l::Wlf::::'c%':n,:u?;){uwughl;al&w::m':{:; t;s(nrl; )ll, as otherwises we woul ind o you : w8 ; j f p e ::'::\'l'"' h:-::oun'ni."c'l\'hv;»d smfz.; "?tm )at' u}za:'ne: good for x-'nmlmg;;'nfiil:i:),xfd (;;):u:::; wld(h'"'?'; C aprinkling of Canadian settlers among those who nuisance in the tigh tidg fekt wasof ulge !:'i h';k."" immigrated from abroad, as they would prove of that the nnml{trfll t thi As tion s} MR id great assistarce to those who were new to the coun-- but he rogretted that this (lee s unc oo bo uds # try. e belioved the magistracy of the Province one of party ""'hvt',"('; and m;"? mrflx\?'f of the pross wite a respectable body of men, and by no means 80 should decry dosirn' (::_maxxbr:::n. # Ebeotl:flr)day'he y illiterate as the leader of the Opposition would have saw A letter in o;?a' 'f o mng ',h[". wors of the Cty the L{ousa to believe. 'The Government had beea ututing that no class of immigtants was wanted in 4 Yory _ careiul to _ appoint. the best _ men; and if the magistiates had occasioually made ) mistakes, they made no more than the legal gentle-- men of the country. (Hear, hear.) ; _ Mr. HAY said that though there wore some magig trates throughout the eountry who were unfit for f | their duties, they had ail been appointed before the present GGovernment came to power (hear hear, and laughtor), and got very little work to do. Hao be-- lieved, howerer, that there would soon bhave to be a * + change to some extent in the direction suprgested by the member for East Toronto (Mr. Cameran), At * » & h | } % $