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4 , I " A t. . . ' l ' VS" _ a. A 1 _ 5 member for North Victoria, his full session- l , Mr. CLARKE (Noriollc) strongly objected al .allowance, with mileage, his absence I to the clause being struck out. Many peo- . _ being owrng to iUnei'-.Carried. ) , pie had been taken advantage of and THE MERCER ESTATE ' wronged by railway companies. V Mr. MOWAT moved a That the Rouge l Mr. PARDEE traid there wal' now no will, on the second gesttion to-day, resolve practical grievance, sine-s the two roads re- , itselrt, itself tnto a Committee to consider a ' ferred to had removed the difficulty relating . certain proposed resolution respecting the to themselves. As the cause of the injustice , , Mercer eatate."-Carried. which called for the measure existed no l TIL longer, nothing should be done which l. Th ll E DBdINAGE. . would be an injustice to those who had in- , e ol?".' went into Committee and vested their money in the railways of this ' cr ., made a slight amendment to the lh country " 'rpecting tiltt draicago. Mr ishemuar ont d d th t th ll so ' I . . c en e a e on , " . BRIDGES IN VILLAGES, _ ' should pass this section, or something simi- ' Mr. M0WAT moved the second reading lar, to protect the rights of the public I _ of the Bill respecting bridges in villages. against railway companies. a " This bill was to give villages power to Mr. FRASER said the protection of the i ' acquire from county municipalities bridges public we not involved in the matter; it , . which should be tree from toll. was simply a question between individuals , h. The motion was carried and t Bi an railway companies. The public right I read the second time. he ill wtb8 l was that the credit of the public ofthis f . , , , T , country should not. be impaired. There . , THE REVISED tyllATUTES. was no need of special legislation at present, Mr. news l' moved that the House go for the people could protect tlwtugelvets _ into Committee on the Bill to make certain against railway companies. Those. who , amendments to the Revised Statutes. wows!" {hemlwith supplies, being warned, "hind nl'hAKER, lit reference to the ti I: "33:33 (1:13": f l b 'l ltn men propose to the Bill in Com- r. i L sui in most o the onds t . mince on Friday by the hon. member for of Ontario railway companies were held by , London, said he knew of no authorities capitalists in this country. The Canada w. SliOWingthat there could be an appeal from Southern Railway Bill was at prescnt before . _ a Committee to the Speaker, and the rules the Dominion Parliament, and the provisions ., 01f ,,te'te't',ittlt', Assembly seemed to be I of it were of such a nature that he did not . ' c car rat such could not be done. If the I believe it would be passed. The capitalists , decision of the Speaker were the decision , who invested in railway companies were the r ' ff, uwduhhsc' there might be an appeal from few, but their creditors were the many, and i ngs castlclinhot the fHouse to the he thought it lives the duty of the Govern. I , e, w IC was o course absurd. lllt'lll. to give t, rein some redress. l a He quoted from May to show that the 1 Jr. P1T'l'lilt.riUN (Essex) said it was of . trraft.ice was to appeal from the iy'.r'1"/, importance that our credit should be - deciSIon of the Chairman of a Committee of l pinlrctvd in (in: English market than the the ll holcdo tt.ioyouys; the Speaker might l "'r"'s.tt' 1". iuu'ivuiuals who supplied a rail- be asked his opinion, but there was no case i nay with cor-divood. A measure of this C, in which the appeal was made to him. With i mind mould ulllct not only railway bonds ' {:fercnce , the question of the relevancy of 34:1 oi Iii-r sccuciliuri. cement ment proposed it was of Course _ .. , t t " . . l , to a large extent it rTiiL7iij/iGiini.' The i Nr, Dl'.l.OLllln took a similar "r . l ., usual practice was that where an ayncn(l_ The motion to strike out the section in , ment not relevant to the subject matter of a question was their put and carried by a vote Bill was proposed the House should give ""5 to Ib'. . power to the Committee to deal with it, Mr.MoWAT pronosod to insert a clause lhat an amendment was merely on the same in the Bill tobe sulistituted for section 12 e i gerieral subJect as the lull did not ni'Ct'S. of chapter 28, and providing that an appeal r : sarily rc.'nt.ler it rulevttnt ; it was shown by front a countyjudge, a Surrogate Court, or a l May that it nr.?, White to the particular itiprndiary magistrate to the Court ot 1 I _ purpose of the .tli.ll. lie .could not see that l, :n ui should be heard before not. less than ' . I the amendment P. question had pal'tlcular , uo judges, andfrom. a tiupcrior Court before it glevancy {o the Bill. t1lt ti'voiulduhave been int less than four. - ' , ' . ore rcgu " 0 move at t my case ive T." id ' ,' w r , .- _ instructions to the Committee to make Elich TIN"? Mi.ltlri)l 1 It rose ion point r f order. . . . . ma amendment was subject to the some . _ an amendment than to move it in Uoin- I . . . . , mittee. r "jwiion as the one he proposed. , . . 7 Mr. MUWAT admitted that it was open to , mil?""""" then wentintoCominitteou the objection. Ile moved it by muse", of the " . llousc. lie 'ower issue rc- . -, 'tNt . .. v. - 'i' ferential stock on a unanimous vote ofptlie 1 Jy MARIA," (."fL-[jl (.TIHH'.(?(1) 1""le at, , . shareholders. It would be a manifest in.. ,'Il'umlw tht. _"")..,',','.',"'",-' I I Y-"f-t J m? "Km; t i justice to the minority if a majority of .wm. C.', l?? li? "'11:,"45 1 _1,)"ni)', Ie": 3 _ shareholders were empowered to bind them Tomi}, In-UPH.'y Wli "l "er t mur, an , by their decision; the practical effect ot .lilluuclill l'i'llll.tim) tttyi'.,?':;',,',,::"),'))),,",',;',')') I such a provision would be to wipe out the "e. b l u (I to the cu funim Slinky}, . stock of some parties, unless they took up s',"',',',."),';','", ""'f h alt "l)1C'fi1'1 "a; ".19.": ' preferential stock, which they might be 'l'Hu' MM." tly t 9"." . 2,' (,' mm") . unable to do. Believing that an ex post Ill', tlw y/l '1 trl 'hil'rivmi'. Ails. 1ie.y.1',1.'ll, . facto law shorld not be passed on this sub- f, ICU? will." "Ill",'llgh (h' Divine deL-'lu'rllm 'he, ject, he asked the House to agree to the uni rclumn logia..tlur ins Milli a iioice. ; section as it stood. lie proposed, 1llr'r-'rore, tlcd, it should be , t' Th Ai n w d provided that a wife should be deprived of l _ '- C MN o as passe . . her (lower onlv when she had abandoned " w Pi, MCliwdAtThsmd ef Since the discus- und Was living apart from lur husband. , " sion t lat a airen p ace on the tifteenth Mr MOW AT thcmaht the House could , ' section, providing that .railw.ay bondholders hardly deal with that subject at present, 2 I should not have a prior claim to working . , . - ' expenses, he had come to the conclusion It being one o'clock, the l ominittcc rose, l that it might interfere with the rights of . and the Hausa: adjourned. debenture holders, and he thought it would " tr" _ t Frtre, v l i be better to postpone legislation on the t SECOND s1'1"l'iNU. subject. The only two railways which The s caller took tl ' 2i I . a u would be affected by this tneamtre--theCats o'clock plin. L , It ( mir t 1ree ' ads Southern and the Midland-had them. " , selves provided against the evil anticipated COMMITTEE 1lli1'0llTS. l by the Bill. and the discussion which had Mr. CLARKE (Wellington) presented ltaken place in the House would probably the seventh report of the' Standing Com- ' 1 detr . any other railways from getting into mittce on Printing ; tl e osition which these railways had got Also n t . h 1 . I into. He should not have introduced the same 't,tiei/iite,t..11 and final report of the 1 r . . ' , section had he expected that it would pro- , , l Voke discussion. lie had an amendment to i, I "' the section prepared, but he moved that it , f be struck out altogether. , 4 r, ---._ . i