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E2 e oA n 3 1e i .. _ n -- Wls /.. / of the country.ot thebeneilts dfived pol':got tho Dominion Government. He depre-- | _ the introduction of Dominion politics in the * 1 House, and charged the Government side | _ with having taken the initiative in referring to the National Pollciv. He claimed that after a | three years' trial of that policy the unanimous verdict of the country was in favour of its con:-- tinuance, Coming to the question of the Boundary | Award, he termed it an erroneous idea which | seemed so largely to prevail that anything had been taken from the Province of Ontaric. lHe asked if any power short of the Imperial Legisla-- ture could change the first Imperial Act by which the boundaries of the old Province were defined. He quoted from the Imperial Act of 1871, and con-- tended that the Dominion Government was power: less to changoe the boundary without the assent of the Provincial Legislature. Proceeding to review / the history of the cuse, he contended that it was always the intention of the parties in the case that there should b3 concur-- rent logislation b'f the ° Oftawa and Ontario Governments in order that the tinding of the arbi-- trators should have a binding effect. No such Act was passed by the Mackenzie Government during the years they wore in power, the evident inten-- 'tion being to reserve to themselves the right to \ dispute the award. He admitted that perhaps \ faults might be found on both side« in this matter, ' but he denied that it was for the Provincial Gov-- ernment _ to entirelg absolve themselves from 1 blame. He claimed that there never was any abinding award given in the case, and that it was | quite competent for the Dominion Government to | refuse to ratify it. Me read from the report sub-- i mitted by the Committeo appointed in the Domin-- / jon House to consider the q'nesuon in which they reported against the award. An han member--Did the Reformers who were on that Committee sign that report ? Mr. MACMASTER said the document was a majority report, and all the Reform members of the Committee did was to pass a resolution stat-- | ing that the tims for a consideration of the subject } was too short, and asking that all the information | sessed by the Committee be laid before the ' muse. He did not pretend to say whether the award should have been confirmed or not, but in ¥iew of the fact of the contradictory report made by the Parliamentary Committee, and the furthor ' | fuct that the awhrd only gave Ontario one--thir-- 1 teenth of the territory asked for, he thought the | delay, of the Dominion Government was quite 1 excusable. . He favoured opening nexotiations I| with Manitobh or submitting the question to Her Majosty's Privy Council. -- He asked the Aitorney-- General if any negotiations were at present pend-- ing botween his Government and that at Ottawa in relation to this matter. Mr. MOWAT--There are no negotiations now pending, 'There were informal negxotiations in | zress, which, I beliove, have amounted to no-- m)g. In counsequence of that a desputch, which will be laid befove the House, was sent to the Do-- minion Government relterating our various claings, ' and rnimmz: out tne evile arising from the delay of the Government, both in reference to a tinal Asettiomer.t of the, maiter and also in rogard to pro-- :' wisional arrangements for the maintenance of Epeace and order in the dispated territory. T * Mr. MACMASTER--Weroe proposals ever made i for a settiement ? XMr. MOW A'T--There wers proposals made, but we accomplished nothing by them. Mr. MACMASTEIt, continuing. referred to the disallowance of the Streams Bill, 'The veto power 1 or r the Acts of that Legislature was, it could not be denied, vestod in the GovernorGeneral. That | | the veto power had not boen exercised by the | »*Sovereign of Great Britain for hundreds of years | A be accounted for by the fact that its exercise would | amount to : refusal to accept the advice of the re-- ! sponsible Ministers, Every subject had the right to | appeal to the Government of the Throne, and in | disputing that hon. gentlemen did not understand I | respousible government. The Provincial Lesisia-- | tures could legislate within certain limits and not \ || beyond thein, lt was by dectaring their sove-- | reigu powerin the imatter of slavery that the South. D. eru states procipitated the Amcrican civil war. W He cited anthorities in erder to support his contention that all local imeasures woere | . subject to the Federal veto power. These included citations from Premier 'Tache and the late ilun.l | George Brown, Coming to the consideration of | i the Act in question, the hon, gentlemaun cor tended | ) that the Streams Act.was one which called for the | L exercise of the veio power, being an unwise measure coatiscating private rights in property which were oz ahould be sacred and inviolate. By thes Streams Act they had made Mr. McLaren a toll--keeper in his own house, -- (Ministerial laugh-- ter.) A man whose land was appropriated for the purposes of a railway was not made to zo into the passing train and collect a peorcentas of the fares | or to collect the tickets. On the contrary, he was | paid a sum out and out. and that was the right | way. The hon,. gentileman concluded by sayving | that he thouzht Ontario had all her rights hboth | l with resoect to territory and legislative freedom. | Mr. YOUNG moved the adjournment of the | | debate. i The HMouse adjourned at 10:20. I NOrICES OF MuTiON. | _ Mr. Pardeo--A Bill to protect the public inter-- ests in Ti\'?'-l'.'!. atreirms, .'\l\d creeks. Mr. Wood --A Hili respecting unpaid balances o | payimnents to be mude by the Province under the '! Municipal Loan Fund seitiement. Mr. Madili--OJn Thucsday next--Address of the ) House for a return of all correspondence between the Government, or any imember thereof, and any person or persons, referring to the widening or deepening of the channel of the Severn River, at the outiet of Lake Couchiching, during the years 18741 to 1381, inciu«ive, torether with a copy or copies of the report of theé surveyor appointed by the Government to take the necessury levels around Lakes Simcoe and Couchiching with the abu\'e UlU\'l'r, Mr. Madili--On Thurslay next--Enquiry of | Ministry as to whether it is the intention of the | Government to take the necessary steps towards ' ' W}dfillll\'.: or deepening the channel of the Severn River at the outlet of Lake Couchiching, with the | _ | ohject of lowering the waters of Lake Simcoe to or | beiow low water mark, and if so, when? | Mr. Waters--On Thur--day next--For leavo to | introduce a Bill to amend the Municipal Act. | $ Mr. Creighton--On Thursday next--For an ad-- | + dress for copies of all correspondence subsequent | Ho that already brought down, bet ween the Gov-- t *Arument of Ontario, or any member thereof, and | the Government of Canada or tho Government of Quebec, with reference to a settioment of finan-- cial matters between the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec and the Dominion of Canada. ooo