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a "3P4 s Boit i rogrcia "" ons C m f x & : e * I ..w w2 m io m t aom C P R P & ® ~ 3 '4':;. Yees '_::.,:'"A Te P f ed by building no i ration 1o ipwep o 4 is -- no public cl:fitieu?'::l: 3::2:}32 xrl?d:,bafid',ns * He was t pleased to hear that hon,. genile. s - y . k stitutions ; but this was not desi l':l c in-- & men wexe'samhcc_l with the poundary award, . l ' . _ leader of Nt esirable, _ The : The credit ot this was in part due to th s $ 7 eader of the Opposition had charged the Senator whom the mover ho mA -- /8 1/ Government with being respousible for the had said h ki aver of. the Address 3 i s o9 dcpression- ;.cg-;:?l'iugwt';l:l lgut::itino'lifiousu o enuimant | & ts R * & he ances. ie Gove I ' ts Mr. MLR_EDITH--EQ a measure they would have difiiculty in getting (:)v;crlum:g: |14 $H-- on were responsible. > statements., -- HMe expected ftrom the Govera-- | 1. :: +=.3 Mr. MOWAT --How large was that moa-- meut a measure reducing the uumber of ] 4 ts y sure 1 (Laughter.) 'The depression existed members in this House. 'There should be a $2e ns all over the world ; but in no country was radical reduction in the cost of government. es e it felt less thaa in Ontario, Why was this The expenses of schools were being griey-- | t es5 | so* Owing to the policy of the Ontario ously felt in the country, We were mak. | > ,.-: | Governiment. (Cheors.) They had, through ing education too expensive for the people . a ' e the _ surplus _ distribution _ and _ the He supposed the jury improvements pro-- Py l \grant _ to _ railways, greatly _ lessened poscq were in the line of the speech made i ¥+ . d the _ depression. By -- reason -- of _ the o in this Chamber by one of the meimbers tor § s / Government _ aid _ twenty.two _ millions ' HMuron. 'The people took very little inter-- | ; f 3 had been extended on railways in the Pro-- est in the election of school trustees, and a A vince, -- He deprecated the mention of Do-- the proposed extension of the franchise in ', f is \.f | minion politics in this Chamber, but the this matter was a very trifling one. 'The| . {1 $ ie | leader of the Opposition had referred to CO'lll}lvl'y demanded reform in the ad-- " k | the National Policy. He hoved that the ministration of the Court of Chancery. 1| R B | debates of the House would be conducted He had defended that Court in this Cham-- [': i * o--s in the same spirit as that which had char-- s ber, but the cost of suits in it should be & acterized the remarks ot the leader of the lesscned, 'The procedure of the Court of ° Opposition. -- (Cheers.) | ({huucc{y should be changed in the direc-- Mr. MORRLIS confessed it was with much medidl O the procedure in the common | ~4 | pleasure he followed an old friend--no t.;)u"?'. The whole syst cm of Mast.ers in || matiter how much th@y uiffcred politically. o oc tinng should be abolished and their duty § was The position in which he sivod was a some-- pe.nllm.uwd.by Cio U~elks of ie Ux:own. In / what novel one, MHe found himsef at home this direction no reform was promised, The [ -- $ ""t. though he was but returned from a western + futoruey-hcnergl must know that both in Province. 'The Premict had chosen to in-- e lluusp and in t.he country there was a e troduce questions in the Addrvess which he df'm"."d for reforsm in this Court. 'The time \ B (Mr. Mowat) deprecated himself, 'The late had come for putting in the prining--knife . clection showed that it was not the duty of ml r%:urd t(? cxp.e'ndgmrc. He _hu.d alw_ays s | a Government to fola their arms and say '1" Xo.lufled- cologn/:uuon ,"o"fd.s; but the time | | God help the country, Mr. Bluke had on Li j also come for bhauling in our hands in . e | two occasions introduced Dominion politics r.hl:: .lt.em. %ie had been mformc'd that | in the House, e belived, and the people dr.&'b dm.mmtb epepbaweninc ns i gely )h s 4 of the country believed, that something m(".t 'th.mugh the rprei 4 i hich lumbgr se could" Abive-- been " «done to miciga.t,z duf-.n\wu-.cullcctc({. "'.c country demanded a & the depression. e would take the opinion 51"".,'\'. of the stticlest «cconoimy n "every T ot the HMouse on this matter. _ HMe was sure d ip. -- 3 Earl Duflcrin took with him the respect of ie -- Mt. BETHUNE congratulated the leader | / all Canadians. lle was sure a carcer equal ~ of the Opposition on the place he held, and p sig to that of Lord Duiflerin's was before the to which his previous service In the House ; Te Marquis of Lorne. _ He did not desire to entitled him, . He had also great pleasure a f censure the Government, but with regard to in welcoming the member for East Toronto, am the large territory which had been acquired 1t was importaut that the Legislatures | §: 3 by the Province through the: settlement of | should maintain a high personnel. He s s the boundafies, he would advise the Gov-- hboped that,the Logisiabures would never be 4 6 ~a erument to take great care to prevent that ubslished,-- How was i6 possible thab the -- is land falling into the hauds of speculators. oncrous duties of seven Legislatures,sitting e : He beneved the policy of the Dominion j from one to tUiee montlis cach, sloug. Witi s : *) Government with reference to the North-- | the admigistrativa of the Domiuiou, could $ i West shouid be tollowed,. _ Already large be dischaurged by a Federal gavcrnment? j ~ portions of Ontario had been locked up in HMowever, mucl} could be done in tl_le. way of i private hands, _ He trusted the accounts economy, . A Senator of the D_omxmon had af wouid show a due regard to economy, 'The sent tables to l'nem~bcrs r(-gtu'c!lng the cx. 4 i /s> Premier hnd had to declare tbhat it was not penses of the Province, He did not know & as Premiecr, but as a private citizen, that he WWhal ief fllh(fll!ltvd CC l}uc he was S0ICS appeared at a political imeeting of his . | to investigate thcu'n for ln.msclf. . | | f friends. _ Regarding the trade question, he Mr. MOWAT--There is nothing new in, would take the opinioun of the House on it, and them. ~ accordingly moved the following resolution ; Mr. BETHUNE said it might be that .. * wl --* That the words in the second paragraph [ thers was nothing new in them. The t i ie of the Speech of the Throne from *it' to | Premier knew more about such matters C ig 'devression' be struck out and the follow. i than he did, but it would not do to treat t e ing words substituted :-- Thit this House, statements like that of senator Macpherson f -- while deeply regretting that our country cavalierly, 'They should bo investigated. continues to suller from a period of depres-- If they were erroncous it would be for the e / sion, is Oof opinion that such depression good of the Government that they were : m 6 might have been mitigated by judicious exposed ; if there was something in them | 8¥ legislative: action, and iurther regrels that it would behoove the Government to take j f 7 | the members of the Executive Council of heed in the matter,. ;It was casy to say f P | the Province ol Ontario did during the that thoere had been an increase in the ex. & | recent clections to the House of Commous penditure, but it was much more difhcult f & | of Cavada identify themselves with the to put one's finger on any amount and | . = A poltcy of those who opposed legislative in-- show that it was a wrong outlay . k. & tervention tending to ime reliect of the sut-- He would like to know how i! was that E! * ' fcring industries of the couniry ." these figures bad been prepared by a Do. f k The SPEAKER first puat the amendment. minion Senator, and not by. .t-he lcadrcr S . e -- 1t wasdleciared lost on the fellowing arvi. other member of the Up[)OSlthD.' f Was .lt To | sion :-- * because the members of the Opposition did P w"i" \ Y¥ Eas--Moessrs. Baker, Barr, Bell, Boulter, Broder, uUt'. believe the ll).UE'c.thDt made., am'l f . o Brown, Calvin, Code, Gontts, Creighton, Deacos, avoideqa the responsibility of asserting it? B +. l Flesher, Grange, Harkin, kean, Lauder, Long, Mo-- He was forced to the counclusion that there « '\;, "." M ;\,1';;',',"'"' P ark ;\.:;l',' '1.'.':,'_'."':"',""",'\.'lt':;m"f"l'j;,'ij: were errors in the stateinents of the Senator. . Rosevear, Seoct, Toolcy, White, Wigle, Wills--3%. If there was any truth in these statements ..' M Na¥s--Messrs. Rallantyne, Baxter, Bethune, Hon-- surely the leader or some other mcm}mr of fioid, Chishoim, Ciarke (Norfolk), Clarke (Weluug-- the Qpposition would have found it out l o tori, l,uh.'.\'r-ml\u'(.\umu-, Deroche, Ferris, Finlayson, during the last three or four years. The h # s Wraser, Gibson, Graham, Harcourt, Hardy, ar» e h s s 3 ' : wrait, liay, Hunter, Lyon (Aigoma), Lyon (Malion), Opposition were good in making r(ssolamous o Mc aney, Mchaws, Mclood, Medahon, Alussic, covering gcucl'uln,ics' but they avoided < l Mulier, -- mowat, O'Donoghue, | Paxtom . Hobinson, | details. 1t was a singular thing that the ' #'ak Rows, Sinclair, Springer, Suriker, . W alterworth, P n . ® + to discuss Widdifield, Wailliains, Witson, Wood --4%. ' UPPO.M?W" were 80 '"uxlo"s d | .:' The second paragraph then cagried . | pomlu\ug politics . ." C !".'d (Ex'lough P Nel. a (At eb f i s in attending to Ontario affairs, The Opposi-- e On the third resolution, ' tion thought that the country was pleased | y Mr. DEACON was glad to hear the refer. with the turn Dominion pelitics had taken, i4 :# ence mu(lg _by the mover ol the Addvess to and hoped through them to gain power. In k e Lord Duilerin, _ ln 1873 the friends of that a ftew months the people might fiqd that fous 4 gentleman had said that Lord Duiflerin was the change was not so pleasaut aiter_all. a5 4 .. not heary cuough for the position, and that 'The member for North Renfrew had said a fias4>.; he would leave the country without regret. reduction should be made in the number of ($he . They now said he was au able Governor, i members. He also thought forty Of fifty ' | % WWe m oo oi en mm ce on en anoi nias n hn ied anne sc _ _ SCYE nctvies zen