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e k m CRA ee~»/-- onl R 7 A t ts s ts y o es e vateo e l /; /.. , iORANGE INCORPORATION. nmmmmmtrmmaatfemeeww n Animated Discussion in the Private Bills Committee. . o es | THE BILL THROWN OoUTC. wommnnnnc@men meveme In the Private Bills Committse yester-- day morning the Oranga Bill came up for disoussion,. Tho room was crowded with members of the Committee and other citi. yous. | : Mr. Mzerricx was the first speaker. Hoe | opposed the general Bill of Incorporation ' | on the ground that it was too expensive to ' incorporate the lodges separately, and be. | sides,it was under the general Act imIpoasi.- ! ble for them to hold property, :In the special Act now betore the Committee there ' was provided & form of deed to enable them -- to liold and transfer real property--&s was ( the way with other socicties. The yeas and nays were then called for. Mr. Lavuour thought there was apparent a liitle haste in this matier, 'The Bill should be well considered bofore taking & voteo. He had never heard any good rea. ] son advanced in opposition to the Bill, and strougly favoured its adoption. Ho | believed if party questions had been ex-- 1 cluded it would have carried long ago. $ Mr. Panxaict believed that amajority of 2 the poople in Outario were in favour of the incorporation sought under this Bill, If tho petitions for it had been -- carried through his own -- coustituency . they would havo been signed, not only by Orangemen, but by Roman Catholics as | well, (*Ob, oh," and laughter.) A Bill of | incorporation had been carried fire years | ago, but had been refused the sanction otf s | the Licutenant--Governor, His own name ; was on the potition for incorporation, and ' he hoped the Government would seo their way to passing the Biil., 'The Orange body was composed of respectable men and good citizons, -- lithey could not have justice in the Housc, whon they came before the d electors the ballot--box would secure it to $ them . \0 The Crarexas (Hon, Mr, Fraser) sug-- f gested that this was not the place to ques-- n tion or defend the action of the Govern-- ment. -- That could be doune on the floor of the House. Mr. Mors:is desired, before the vote was taken, to express himsel{ in i favour of the Bill, HMe thought it most | uafortunate that the House and the coun-- -- try should be kept in a siate of dissension 8 upon the question for such a loung time. 'g The Government bad already admitted the | principle of the Bill, and he did not see 1 how they could consistently oppose it. He s had never boen a member of any secret - locicfy, but he deemed it but an act of sim. plo justice to graut the iucuorporation t prayod for. ' | _ _ Mr. Crark» {Norfolk) said that when the »t | Bill came up in the House last session he | p | bad voted for its second reading in order | that the whole matter might be discussed. | He sympathized with the hon. mem-- | ber for East Toronto in his regret | that this matter had so long been kept be. fore the country, a fruitful source of irri-- tation and dissension. He had desired to learn what was tho object and history of { the Orange Order, and he had found its his-- | :YU t:t bc)s one ott:jmurdur and bloodshed-- 1 aughter)--its object 'to foster hatred and fK_f_l'B voMMITTEE: :;fi'l:{l h ?t';d '°1 :':' :':i"(: ?Ka?:zst class infithc G o « ed in its course fire-- | y f:im"o. 3; eb. 11. brands, arrows, and death, (" Ob, 'oh;" and | ne s morning. Pre. } |loud laughter.) He need ont ke (chairman), Wood ' i only point to the f & + ; | | late incidents in Montreal in proof of what , Wills, and Harcourt, :ho said. In voting agminst this Bill n'e s done was the exami. | -- Would do so belicving conscientiously that Forsyth Grant, Private | Such was 'his duty, Let us support our utenant--Governor, upon | OWA national mssociations, but import no ure for sundries which | forgigu political societies ti;uudod on worn ' lic Account«i :lh iw'lb'l. out gricvances and doad issues. . money was paid him by | _ Dr, w ' ' quisition, and that it Biu,r ?fisgp:m::ntth:amfig:d" frp 1 l t Sf l't'""t';fl:;; ll;lel:) a:l: vided. a means of incorporation the c?nr:; « = t # ' \ id that his dutics woere ;':é?tllonl :«:hwhich was the oxpense attond-- _ Honour, perform com-- | j s ese people were so anxious for hi d acorporation as they pretended, and if they | o him, and to superin-- | wore the loyal and faitliful fu d es of the Government ; i in ul citizens they | claimed to be, they would avail them | I / D | selves | of the means afforded them, oven at a { "'I" ts slightly greater cost, rather than keep such ' ;