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F wenninnsmmacomnnmes moecemmionnpnnrnnan emnpmmemecemmem e 22-- 4,, _ ONTARIO LEGISLATURE,. | _ ~----| # -- Chird Parliament--Third Session. | wunrmmmGge t ] Lzxaistarivs® AssexusBuy, | * 'foronto, Jan. 14, 1878. _| The Speaker took the chair at 3:10 p.m . PETITIONS. | 'The following petitions were presented :-- By Mr. Wilson--An Act to incorporate the St. Thomas Ktreet Railway Company. By Mr. Chisholm--Of the Toronto Gene-- _ > cal Hospital, praying for an Act to 'anlalgaf mate the Burnside Lying--in Hospital with | the Toronto General }losp.xtal; also from | the Burnside Lying--in Hospital to the same | effect. 1 By Mr. McGowan--Of the Village Coun. cil of Harriston, that the village may be in-- corporated as a town. By Mr. McMahon--O{ the Town Cogr}cil of Dundas, that an Act may pass authorizing them to exempt Johkn Fisher & Sons from taxation. By Mr. Dawson--Of the Town Council of Sault Ste. Marie, to divide the District of Algoma into three electoral districts. Also--From Thomas Marks and others, of Thunder Bay, to the same effect, > By Hon. Mr. Fraser--Petition to incorpo-- rate the National Club, Toronto. By Mr. Meredith--To incorporate the Western University of London, Ontario. By Hon. M. C. Cameron--Of the Victoria | « Railway Company, for an Act to limit their power of issuing bonds. By Mr. Deacon--Of the Town of Brock-- ¥ville, to consolidate the debt of the munici«| pality. QUESTILNX OF PRIVILEGE, Mr. 1OBINSON rose to a question of Pri-- vilege, and called attention to & report in the Mail of his speech on Friday evening, which be said was a deliberate tissue of un-- truth, 'The Hail made him say ;-- He hoped the question of the Ounlse Bill was not coming up again this session. He had heard it was, although he found no notice of it had been given in the Gasette. He was awarse that the Orangemen do-- gired it, but ho was of opinion that the 5;;losltion had onfy taken it up for rolit.ica.l purposes, If the Opposition had dropped it, probabl'y they had done #o, so suddenly, at the suggestion of a power behind the Throne, He did not believe the Opposition had any instructions from the Grand Lodge to take it up, and as an Orangeman ho protested. From the beginning to the end there was not a single word of truth in that report, and how such a misrepresentation of his re-- marks came to be made he was unable to say,. Me sincerely hoped the Opposition were not in such desperate straits as to be compelled to encourage this kind of report-- ing, What he did say was correctly given in Tus Grozg, as follows :-- He hoped it was not trac that the Orangs Bill would receive the go--by this session. At tho last meeting of the Grand Lodge of East Ontario it was umranimously deciaed that the question should be brought up yearafter year until it was carried. Why it was not brought up by tho mem-- bers on the Opposition side of the Houss he could not understand. He remembered that there | was some talk about a power behind the Throne having prevented the Government from bringing it forward. Moe hoped the power behind the Throne had not induced the Opposition to drop it s0 eud-- denly. (Hear, hear, and laughter,) He did not be-- lieve that they bhad received any orders from the Grand Lodge to abandon the measure. He did not know whether they were keeping it back for a session nearer the general election or not. 'l'he{ would find that when the election came it would operate like a two--edged sword, for it could cut both ways, As an Orangeman and as a meinber of this House ho protested against the Op-- position dropping this measure without giving a reason for so doing, Mr, LAUDER--That is from Tas GroBz®, is it not? Mr, ROBINSON--If you are so anxious to | know you can look, (Laughter.) The matter then dropped. THE DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS. Mr. BAXTER, resuming the debato on the Address, said that in previous sessions the complaint of some members of the Op--| position had been that too much money was | given for charitable purposes, but now the complaint was that more was not granted to certain charitable institutions. _ The money was now faithfully expended in ac-- cordance with the statute,andaccording to the