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They had more people, and were showed its willingness tog help Mus better able to take care of themselves than o koka _b fferi & P y * C in y offering a bonus of $8,000 the Province of Iwitish Columbis. . He mile for the building of a railroad from | thought it unfair that the people of this Emvenhurst to Lake {fi o ns L Te 4 A s Nipissing. 'That of-- lProvmce should continue to receiveo the ¥er had not been accepted, but doubtles | money from this district and still refuse to when good times retngxcd'eome chter :i 4 aid in the true policy which would lead to in o%u aby would take the mafter u P Is- X & the development of the country, m' l pt_ J it 1 edl fair t p." nt Mr. CURRILE thought the thanks of this hee Frovince was notaviine #entronsly aind (® * e Province was not acting generously and P House were due to the member from Algoma Lliberally towards those parts of her domains o for bringing about a discussion fraugit wb'flt'x y Lo rull -lp eserving °f t a with so much interest, As a representative ""d, "e"'d Pfeb lmhy C 1'&h'0 ; aid. ' of one of the oldest constituencies in the H_e lsse.nte C T % L Nes aiea mamtrogn ' Province he was willing in a shoit friend fxo.m Muskoka thn't the pcol.)le in | ' time, if not now, to give the poo» that constn(ucncy wQuId pneicr'secesglon to | ple 4 of Algoma _ what _ was _ asked a continuation qf their conuection with the @ for by the motion. lie was surprised to rest of the Province, s hear non,. members say that the people of 'The resolution was withdrawn, ¢ ?hnturtgo l;s:;'reo?veé'-eroxg:aentedi. It was MARKET FEES.§ } C nservative Ar 4 »PTT tis ~ & 10 reduce the represshtation, andpthti: M::. LUhI»lle_u IllnovF:d thg.t all petitions movement came with bad grace from them presente 'to ', C vangit dufu?g in g pmcfn : considering what hud been done by them fegs10n TespecLine marl\'e't e fafm.lnm t ' in connection with the admission of British duce be }etcfuec'l'&o the bcl:.'ot boxflmxttme, to Q | Columbia to the Dominion, 'They had in which was 1e1cucd' the Bill to amend the $ 3 C , the first place two senators; Cariboo, with a fAumecipal Act. . Carricd . % voting population of 232, had a representa-- LUNATICS IN GAOLS. § -- tive in the Houge of Commons, and other | Mr. ROSS moved for an Order of the 'ffi | constituencies were in the same propor-- House for a return of the number of lunatics * tion, 'The position they stood in was who were confined in the several common | that each member in this House re-- gaols of this Province in the years 1871, presented on an average about 20,000 1874, and 1878, and the aggregate number people, and any goutlem_ml who did this of days during which lunatics were so con-- hag epoufil to do, Let the Consgeryalives Gued in these years. Carried,. go beiore the people with this as one of the LAND JMPROVEMENT FUXD. planks of their platform. It might be con. '\Ipa venient to the Government of the day to 4 \!r. GIBSON moved for an address for reduce the representation, but he believed topies of all correspondence between the f in leaving the people's affairs in the hands Government of Outario and that of the of the people. The hon, member for I?omnnou as to the Land Improvement Algoma had the sympathy of .many mem-- Fand, more particularly as t:) that portion j E bers on the floor of the House. 'They which accrued between the "'fl' (»{ March, ' should feel for people who had gone out | 1861, and the 30th June, 1867. 'The peo. 4 into thuat new country and struggled for its * ple of the counties of Huron, Grey, and | ' f development as the people there were Bruce _ had, . unlike | the . people °fi | doing. He trusted the day would soon Algoma -- who received _ their lands | come when the representation for Algoma for nothing, to pay $5 an acre | would be larger, and somewhat more in for them, He thought that if Algoma de. proportion to the importance ot the district, '¢ided upon seceding from the Province she J Mr. MEREDITH said the hon. member | ¥rould find her resources mortgaged by the for Muskoka spoke of the timberand other | gonstruction of the proposed railway from resources of the unsettled districts be-- Fort William to Manitoba, 'The moneys j i longed to the people of that part of the | paid in Huron and Bruce for Crown and Province, 'This was wrong, for these re-- | Bchool lands had been appropriated for the | sources belonged to the whole of Ontario. | | building of roads in the Opeongo, Bobcay-- | He thought the case of Algoma was a | Feon, and other new districts, Since Con-- | spccial one and required special dealing | ederation the counties had been regularly | with, but he did not see why additional | receiving their share of tho fund that had | representation should not be given to | accrued from those payments, but they had it without adding to the number of received no part of the moneys paid between | members of the House. _ The repre. | 1861 and 1867, They now thought that sentation in the Dom'nion House was | that portion of the tund should be distri. a different matter lrom the representation | buted, aud. if \here was any correspondenqe here, and the Conservalive party were op, | on the subject 1t, )vould be well to have it '"posed to an increase of. the representation | brought down. There was no doubt that in the Ontario Legislature such as had | the revenue accruing from the sale of school taken place in the Dominion House. 'The | lands was entitled to be paid over, although British Columbia representation was & R there might be some dubicty as to the re. matter of contract, and had been approved k venue from Crown lands, 'The counties by the representatives of the people. He were entitled to their share of the fund, did not understand the hon. member for and he hoped the Government would deal Welland speaking as if the rights of the with the matter in such a way as to enable people would be interfered with by a re-- them to get it. duction,. Would not the people be the Mr. HAY said that the peopleof Perth had slectors of a smaller as woll as of the pre-- been in past years greatly aided by the s sent number, aod }vould it take away from revenue received from the Land Improve-- the people any rights they bhad? By the | ment Fund, and they were anxiously look. reduction of the number of members from | ing for the distribution of the remaining the older constituencies the proportionate | portion. His hon, friend from East Huron | representation ot the nc "atricts would | bad said that the pcople of Algoma had be increased, and this was the policy he got their lands for nothing, but it must be hoped to see carried out. remembered that the land there was not Mr. PARDEE said that the hon. member equail in value to the land in the counties for London hbhad stated that the Conserva-- * ot Huron and Perth. He would rather pay tive party did not desire a reduction in the $5 an acro for land in Huron than take up number of members of the Housge, while his lands in Algoma tor nothing. He thorough-- \ hon, friend from West Peterborough had ly agreed with the hon. members for Al-- boldly taken the position that a radical de--= goma and Muskoka; that those districts | crease should be made. _ He admitted that were entitled to large expenditures to as-- ' Algoma in the near future must have in--= , sist in theirdevelopment, He would like creased representation, but it must be re«= | to -- see -- larger amounts spent there membered that it was only a very short | than _ had been speut, for there time since the limits of that district were | was nothing that would do more good to gtrictly defined. _ 'There was no doubt that | tho: entire Province than the opcning the leader ot the Government had the whole up of _ those sectlements, _ The cities matier under consideration, and if ho oc« »f the Province would never attain the cupied tho same position next session as growth they should attain if they did not he did now, Algoma would doubtless attract to themselves the trade ot Algoma receive the justice it certainly deserved. and the other new aistricts. Therailway he It was an unsound contention that the was promoting--the Strattord and Huron-- would do more to open up Manitoulin