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m" _.", " - _ _ _ _,....-------------'-,----"-::""--:-'" ONTARIO LEGISLATURE. FOURTH t'AItt.thtiGT---0lR0 SESSION. (By Our Own Reporters.) IT EDNESDAY, Jan. 18. I The Speaker took the chair at 5 o'elock. PETITIONS. The following petitions were laid on the 5 table ".-- Mr. 1ur-rll'rptn the Stratford High School Board, the Public School Board, and the Town Council of Stratford, praying that an Act may pass to vest the High School building and [and in the Stratford High School Board. l Mr. Brereton--lhom, the Town Council of l Port Hope, for an Act to enable them to con- struct water-works. Mr. Richardson-From the Gananoquts Wa. I ter Company, for an Act to authorize them to issue debentures. . Mr. Robinson (Kernt)--Oi the Erie and Huron Railroad, for an Act to amend their Act of in. corporation. Mr. Crei hton .-0t the Town Council of Eugen Sound, for an Act to consolidate their e t. Mr. Badqerow---0t the Villa 0 Council of Yorkville, for an Act to consolidate their de- _ benture debt. h Mr. Creighton-From the Town Council of Owen Sound, for an Act to confirm an agree: ment between the Grand Trunk Railway and the Toronto, Grey, and Bruce Railway. Mr. Wells-From the County Council of Bruce, praying that the annual grantto the Provincial Exhibition be discontinued. Mr. Hareoart-From the County Council ot Welland, for certain amendments to the Act imposing a tax on dogs. Mr. Wells-horn the County Council of Bruce, for certain amendments to the jury law l also front the same, that county and other otlicials be paid by salary instead of fees. Mr. MetGlie-From the City Council of Kingston, against abolishing market fees. Mr. Robinson(Kent)---hYotn the Town Coun- cilof Chnthani, that municipalities may be permitted to erect crossings over railway tracks. M r. Near-From Thomas Osborne and others, of Victoria, praying for certain amendments to the law of evidence. Mr. Freeman-From C. E. Barber and others, of Norfolk, to the same eifeet. THE ADDRESS. Mr. YOUNG, in resuming the debate on the Address. congratulated the House on the ex- cellent programme foreshadowed bv the Gov- ernment in the Speech from the Throne. It C was gratifying that the Government had de. cided to deal with the question of market foes, and the establishment of a bureau of statistics, both of which were matters of great interest to the farming community and the public gen- erally. He also congratulated the member for Glengarry (Mr. Macmaster) on a safe delivery, ' after the anxiety evinced by him prior to his speech of the previous evening. (Laughter.) Referring to the introduction of Dominion politics in Ontario affairs, he reminded the Op- position that neither the Speech from the Throne nor the Government had done so. Their own leaders were the only guilty ones in this connection. it was well known that on the eve of the local elections in 1879 the Pro. vince was visited by several of the Ottawa Ministers. including the Premier, who urged upon the people the necessity of turning out Mr. Mowat to secure a fuller working of the National Policy. This attempt at Dominion interference received a fitting rebuke from the people of Ontario at that election. Coming to the statement that the present prosperous condition was attributable to the National Policy, he clearly shoch by statistics and otherwise that the real cause of the revival of trade arose from several good harvests and the improvement in the lumber and timber trades. The exports of farm produce in 1880 had been 850,000,000, as against 834,000,000 in 1877, and it was this increased production of sixteen millions which was the main cause of the ex. isting prosperity, and with the exception of .atimulating a few large industries, the h. P. had been a drag to the ex- tent to which it had burdened peo- l with additional taxation. (Hear, hear.) he member for Glengarry had contradicted himself in his speech on the point as to whether or not the Boundary Award was bind. ing. . When that arbitration was decided upon no dissentto it was made by the Conservative party at Ottawa, and, so far as silent gives ' consent, they were consenting nnrties to the iiieaaure which they afterwards'saw flt to re- l pudiate when they came into ower. There': was little doubt that if the 'llfuers'; Admin. l Iirtration had continued in power the award i,