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-- e e inamnmmmeim mm on,.--oumnl C t e g | greatly fallen within the last few years, the no doubt that . hon. gentlemen opposite ¢ . timber trade had been becoming less' and ; wanted to make political capital out of this it3 less profitable, and many lumbermen were | matter, but they were not going to make . now tailing. _ And the reason was the much. _ The motion would be voted down, + s increased price ot stumpage--or the price Every man on the Gover.umen't side of the of pine timber on the siump--which had House would vote against it--(cheers)-- risen from $2 a thousand in 1872 to $5 and and then they would be willing to $6 in 1878. While this enormous destruc. take whqtevet course the _ Govern-- j tion of pine had been going on in the | ment desired _ with respect to the [ o o ty,. _ But whatever was done United States the people of Onturio had been | ;l"dem"ll Y . ; | forced to reserve their resources on account | l:iw on dhgo to his people and tell them | § of being denied access to the markets of | P *y fat 1e Was uD posed §o ue reiuos | the United State. They had been reserving | (tilon rom $800, (Hear, hear.) He strongly | them, and they were going to profit from | 'S"Pp"'"""f' of reducing the number oi | them at a very early day. In the natural | :"'_"'(:"'"? the House. 1f it should be re-- I | course of things the State of Michigan | | Huoe to 1o'rty, why not reduce it to thirty ? 1 | could not continue to produce the | e could well understum! how some hon. , quantity of timber it was now pro-- | gentlemen on the other side of the House, [ P _ ' ducing. At the very utmost the pine "l!ho beiieved the Family Compact, when t | 'rcsourccs of that State could not last | there was no representation at all, to have § more than ten years, and at the ex-- | been the best Government we ever had, || M ,' piration of that time Americans would be | should want to lessen the power of Parha-- | | vyery glad to throw off the duty and accept | mentary Government. (Hca;, hear.) That : } _our lumber free. Even this year Ontario principie, however, so universally held j a lumbermen had been able to fairly and mo-- sway at the present day that it _could not -: derately compete with the Americans in be overthrown. _ Instead of diminishing R their own markets and pay the duty besides, the representation, the day was not far f (Hear, hear.) 'The lumber interest of On. distaut, he hoped, when it would be in-- N , tario was rapidly reviving, and its resources creased, as the growing population of the 1 °F had received a great addition in the requisi-- country would shortly demand something i §# tion of territory which was the result of the further to be done in that direction. Hoe 1 I award on the northern and western boun. understood that it was the desire of both 7 Al | + daries question,. 'The revenue that would sides of the House not to sit to--night, and i H be derived from the sale of white spruce--of he therefore moved the adjournment of the i S which an immense quantity grew in that debate . * ' district--and which was a voery valuable Mr. MOWAT said that as several mem-- | n timber--was perhaps the greatest benefit bers on both sideg were yet desirous of * that woeld accrue to the couutry ftrom that | speaking, his hon. friend who led the Op.-- B awird. _ The time was not far distant when , position and himself had come to the con-- \ the timber revenue of Ontario, instead of clusion that the debate could not close to-- K being tne paltry sum of to--day, would in-- \ night, and they had come to an arrange-- P | crease to a million dollars per annum ,| ment to adjourn, subject, of course, to the | € and remain at that, if need be, for fivrs approbation of the House. His own prefer-- | l centuries to come. (Cheers.) He thought ence was to go on--(cries of *« go un")-- p + it unbecoming in hon. gentlemen opposite but a number of members, relying on that to belittle the position of the country before | avrangement, had gone away. He second-- the world (hear, hear), and he trusted that | ed the motion to adjourn the debate. they would hear less about a falling timber * I The debate was adjourned, and the ; revenue in the fulure than they bad in the House adjourned at 6 o'clock. l past. There were besides other sources of t \ o t & | revenue to which they might justly look, NOTICES OF MOTIONX ; and for these reasons he thought it would 5 miahled & be an unwise policy to keep on hand the | §1: Fig#lisr--On 'Puesday--Order 0 the ' surplus, while it might be put to good use ' House for a return of all moneys received F in developing the latent resonrces of the by , the Provincial Treasurer during the $ country. Instead of hoarding it up and vua;'s "T4) "15, "16;"T7, 'T8, as fees forfeited » ; deriving four or five per cent. from it, be i)y Divisi(,)u U'(mrt.'buil,ifi's _' Such returu to | thought we might by a proper use of it give the name of the bailiff forfeiting such | 6 derive fully 20 per cent. HMe acknowledged fees, the name of the Division Court Clerk f |f the feeling in the country in favour of re-- Lo w,hom such fees were paid, the style of i | serving the money, but if they stopped this the cause in which suck fees were forfcited $ ta'lk about increasing expenditures and and the amount of each forfeit separately . | § | wabout deficits which were not in cxistence Also on 'I'uesday--Order of the House for A f and went into the country and explained copies of all correspondence, aflidavits, or + the matter, it would be better, Other papers filed in the office of the Attorney-- \ countries were even borrowing money to General from any person or persons respect. "I, expend in developing their resources, and ing the south half of lot No. 14 in the 10th | [f : our children would not thank us for leav-- con, of the township of Tecumseh (part of & | ing the surplus for them to quarrel over. the Mercer estate), or from any person or Bome of it might be used in judiciously en-- persons claiming the right to purchase said f couraging immigration, Thirty--five lhuu-l:mu haxif 106. I people had gone into the district of Mus-- CaPPiA § . 1 koka within the last ten years, and with hM;.)_Llll:lll:;--((;)ol:"f:eSAdcalY--Blll to amend good land and a good climate they were ho AJIYVIELO 398 , prospering. -- The ooly difliculty was in the Bill to amend the Association Act. N lack of roads into the district. _ If it wera Bill to amend the Municipal Act. BJ a fact that people were leaving Canada for Mr. Graham--On Tuesday next--Order of 6 a f the Western States, they would continue the House tora statement of the number of f | unless we had a liberal immigration policy applications for loans which have been P | for the settiement of our own wild lands. made under the Tile Drainage Act of 1878, | MR | | betilers had gone into several of the town. the municipality by which applications _ |P ships of Parry Sound, in which the Govern-- lave been mado,.thc sums actually paid out | 40 ment had not expended a single doliar for of said fund, the municipality to which such | | colonization roads, He was not blaming payments have been made, | 0 the Government, tor they had been willing Mr. Boulter--On Tuesday next--Order of | | to incur a modcrate expenditure in that the House for copies of all reports of thei direction ; but this continual ery about the Inspector of Colonization Roads to the | f expenditure was not likely to encourage Crown Lands Department for the last three | | them to go _ much further. If the years, | d | Georgian Bay Branch were completed short-- i | ' l ly, as seemed likely, probably 10,000, s * f s 4 | people would go into that country dming :i ' the next year, _ With regard to the indem. 5 nity, he had signed the round--robin ; but, i so far as he was concerned, he was quite } willing to dispense with the entire in-- f demunity, and he hoped the time would come $ * when men would be able to serve the people f as members of this House. without compen-- U ; sation,. Doctors and lawyers, in the loss of i | practice, and merchants, in the loss of busi-- B | ness, suffered much more than to the extent + | of $800, fie had voted tor that amount, | and he was going to vote straight and h | square for that amount still, 'They were 3 asked to vote a condemnation of their own l action, and if they did that, they must ex. (t pect the people to do the same, There was | f i ' " d | CE c _ LLommmmeenentemimmmmemmnemntrmmnmmimnniioemeniioemmnnnnnnnnnnnnn n