The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

t oE VCm TW z n n .v-_., P ."' 7 S i nCP ue FSe -- > * es e e s 92 f';,- F&'g-:_"-';f"'"' en d .0 9 s o P Pss l mss stt . heBkge «l e y ---- on t o es ... 0 © ./. e ol ¥" l es x ~"'~'7 3 -- ; '.} C :.}.-.:v PR ). m «is ". tolse -".-:.," ' ',4>"'" -- w '""' 3 f ¥ °e *\ heace /+ : wahe * s ie o o ces ' | the prices of goods had increased, although it | y '% e uy B N 4 6308c -- "9*;* 5e ' was contemded at the time the Nationai Policy | have one to them by the I)om11119n Gov. ) _ heg> t ._| was launched that the foreigner was to pay the , e¢nment. He believed the Streams Bill to l?"{' f '";,, tax. If the people a--that time had known in the interest of the lumbermen and the public |-- / / y en c that they were to be taxed t> the extient of generally. No member on the Opposition side oN C= noll | five or six millions per anaum to support cer-- had ventur_ed to deny the competency of the se :'5; tain industries, the National Policy would not l Local Legislature to pass that measure, nor |. ~'14 a have been allowed to pass. The acvicultural | had it been denied that the Dominion Govern-- 7| industry was as much tfipt'cssed 8 the othefdit-- ' ment had power to a certu;x'g extent to disallow 3 $3 § + dustries, and it was not fair that they should Provincial legls!ntlon. s There appeared, .how. 1| a be cailed upon to pay a large iax to support | ever, to be a limit to their power, as established 4 other industries, _ When the proprietors of the | | by precedent and as laid down by Sir John i protect=d industries were able to put forty or | Macdonald in l.ns report and Order in C-Ol.mc'.l' S tifty per cont. profit into their pockets those | and by the action of the Ottawa authorities in g i industries, in his opinion, were too highly pro-- ' Q\'erste;l)]pl.xg these bounds our constitutional | is ; tected, It could not make the coun'ry richer | liberty had been trampled upon, and a step had 1 | to have money taken out of the pocket of one bgen taken which, if 1-.{1)c:xte«l_, xmght' lead to ' man to put into the pockets of another or into dismemberment of Confederation. _ The Gov-- the Government treasury. (Hear, hear.) Ex-- ernment was to b.e congratulated upon the | | porience proved that it was not well to protect nunanimity with which all parties regarded t,he | [ one class at the expense of anothor, 'The ef-- | labours of the Agricultaral Commission. _ The fects of that system were visible only too | report _ of 'th'at Commission vyonld forrn * f s plainly in the Old Land. He had no sym-- valuable addition to the agricultural litera-- ' ( pathy with the Nuational Policy, thouzh ture of the Province, and he -- hoped f it might bo beneticial to him _ person-- the , Government . would issue _ second | ally, and it was beneficial to _ him, edition to supply the wauts of many 'who were | I but he felt that every time he received an ad-- not yet provided with copies, The question of | ' vantage from it that the consumer was being | lme. fences_aml water courseg was one of inter-- | compelied to pay him a bounty which he other-- ] est in rural districts, and h'"'_""Pe'l the Govern-- | wise would rot be ealled upon to pay. 'The I m.eut would prepare as concise, plain, and com-- ' purchaser ought to be allowed to expend the prehensive a measure as LFossxhlc on the sub-- ! product of his labour where he could get the jecot. Hoe was not prepared to say the author-- most value for it, and ought not to be com-- ity to s"l,l t","b'"' limits belonging to thL'C"{W", a pelled to buy from a certain market whether }vxthout having first obtained the consent of the | he would or no. (Applause.) Referring to the 'Iouse, should be taken out of the hands of the f Boundary Award, he felt sure that the posi-- ('0"?"1"10"?- A case might arise when it tion taken by the Ontario Government was the would be in the interest 'of the Province-- J correct one. . They said all along that we were l especially 'whex_x all sales are to be by public | entitled to the territory between Thunder Bay auction--that limits should be placed in the 3P ' and the Lake of the Woods, and they stilll market before the Honst could be consulted, | held the same opinion. The statement that and if a regulation of this kind were in force [| | | the Dominion Government had not deprived an advantageous s.llel might be lost. If the / P Ontario of her territory was perhaps techai-- | Government could take some effective steps to EL 7 \ cally correct because the Dominion Government ' prevent those extensive b_n._s'h fires which yearly | [ hadl not the power of doing so. But theyattach-- destr.oy such large quantities of valuable tim-- | 'ed to the Province of Manitoba a portion of b""-. it would be a boon to the country. On the 1} termtory which they could not detach again subject of new Parliament Buildings he could [ \ without the consent of the Province concerned. not, as a new member, boast of any hallowed | |1g justice delayed was justice denied, then a§'80x3x:xtlom in connection with the venerable | certainly jastics had been demed to Ontario. | ple in which they were now :v.sseml)lei.l. He : He thought ske had been too long deprived of | had gazed upon l'ts architectural beauties and { herrights in respect to her territory. (Applause.) | upon the artistic colouring of its walls-- With resvect to the Streams Act he adinitted (laughter) -- he had wandered through -- its at once the legal right, but denied the consti-- : spacious halls, and had lost himself in laby-- | tutional right, of disallowause in such matters. rinthine passages--(renewed l;.ughCQrL---he had ¢ The Regal right of the Licut.--Governor of observed the security of its yaults and the § Quebec to dismiss his Ministry was not denied, variety of the receptacles provi led for keeping | L. but his constitutional right was. According the public records, 5 but he was 'forcgd | ~H > to the contentions of hou. gentlemen opposite to confess that none of these had excited in §# £ the limnperial Government had the right to dis-- him either veneration or respect. | Laughter.) ' | allow the N. P., and they would have had _He was fully in accord with tl:c1-Al»\"qt'unmvut -- | good reasous for doing so on the ground that it in the matter of new l':l."hl'.l'.n\'?'.!.'.' Bzu{(l.mgs i'or | ® ¥ was contrary to Imperial interests. (Hear, the Province, which shoulid be in keeping with f hear.) But the Imperial Government did the wealth, intelligence, and enterprise 'uf its not disallow that Act, because it would | people. A Applause.) Mr. Hagar concluded have -- been _ contrary to _ constitutional ' with an eloquent panegyric on the late Presi-- f usage, and «[that was the view which 5 dc_uL (;;;1'.1ugli, a man of whom any country (H the Ottawa Government should have taken might have been proud, a noble outcome of free ' A wpit':lx rcl;p';_?»t to u'u,irf lt)r'.vtcr"o'fx '('.'H".'l'lxo'.'.'t,:u,nfi. 1 CORRECTION. e deliberations 0 A ouse re 'e-- A 5 LA slxxxlt: 'itn' ';1-'t;u;t;':::'\li&ll\c::t they should say to ! In our report of Mr, Long's remarks he was E. { d throw n'akan nf in FB radry ; made to predict the early repeal of the duties « whoever was Minister of Justice at Ottawa, 1 '*'tea and C "" It shculd have o 4 i that such a course as was pursued regarding o ew t""l it eotton. t should have been t the Streams Act was neither right unor proper, | j tea and coffec,. . nor one to which the people of Ontario would t se o ¥ ks | submit. It was an unhealthy and unsafe pre-- ! NOTICES OF MOQTION. 4 : cedent touching all the Provinces, aad he be-- f m w' 4P l C ' ' lieved the pcopl.:.- of this Province especially, " Mr. rncll~0n I";""',\f pext~-(')1"}1e1' of 'the | ' who regarded their constitutional rights with ' }{.Uflstl for a return showing : --1 j lpc num'ner . so much "jealousy, would take a firm stand | oL prifonels employed each .}nuntn in the Cen-- i 9 against it. (Hear, hear.) They would take trai Prison !13'3:031 factory from Jan. 1, 1878, s 1 p . the view that the members of that House who to Jan. '1- 187J. 2. A\'llm'm!'_ of foremen, gn:u:fls. d adopted the constitutional position of libcrty! or mstz'n'xct(n-s emp.oyc;l in the slxgy;) {Eunng ) @ f legislation in matters cutirgiy Provincial, | that pcn_lod, and ";lg»'.'i },lll(l same. J. Nature 1 lhe 5 tat + tag; g , of machinery used, whether steamor foot power, | awdopted a position eminently beiitti ng a free | . C o nrv ons lles necd during o | | people. -- (Cheers.) | «C o:t oi knives and necdles use during that & P°e? s | period, 5. Number of brooms made from Jao. I a Mr. HAGAR thought the most a;dent advq- | 1, 1878, to Jan. 1, 1879, cach month, with ave-- | a cates of protection could not claim tbat it rage numbermadeper manin dozen perday. 6. i n would have wrought any consulembl:a degreeof Number of prisoners employed in Central Prison the present prosperity if there had not been good brooin factory from Jan. 1, 1879, to 16th day M harvests, -- While he did not deny that in some of 'eac! th, 1882 °7. RKumber of fore: s . y ach monuth, 8 7. Number of fore | towns and manufacturing centres the N. .P. had men, guards, of instructors employed in the 1 ! stimualated and fostered mrhnstrx;n:;. it \tv is uol*.f shon during that period, and wages paid same. | such a great factor in securing the return o 8. Cost of knives and needles used during that ' better times as would entitle 1t fo a montion In period. 9. Nature of machinery used, whether 6 the Speech from the Throne, _ Without repeat-- steaim or foot power. 10. Number of brooms i ts that had been advanced on | es , ing the argumen , s made from Jan. 1, 1873, to Jan. 1, 1882, each the boundary question, he thought that in | month, with average num|l le per i | i he facts no fair--minded man could en inany o mber made per man in view of all t s h hss dozens per day. 11. Also copy of the coutract | come to any other °°3'°h§"'°_'.' fian Snat tihe made by the Government with H. A. Nelson's | f territorial rights of this Province, given to it Sons, of Torouto and Montreal, 12. Copies of U «l under that award, had been t,reu.clhamusly and any correspondence relating to the contract | dishonestly imperilled by the action of one of Sinee it wavinade . : t h apper.s * 9 3 | racting parties, It was to be deeply 8 . was le ; as to changes in same, or 16 4 | the contracting p« tatives of the people complaints as to non--fulfiiment by either the f | regretted that the rel{)resen A\:lh" #% § lt Government, or Messrs,. H. A. Nelson's Sons, 8 j j of the Eroviace, im Winné }breatfil'rt.:b.iexsorx)r; P)le'-ty of Toronto and Montreal ; also any complaints, ! | trammels and rise above t '9('"!*'"" h Patky if auy, as to the quality of ~the brooms manu-- i f jjin a united opposition to this encroachment on factured, and waste in manufacturing the same -- | their rights. He was confident that if they had 5 8 * I done so, if they had used every fair and constitu. umwonrummmamemeonmmencememmes * mal means to secure thoserights, justice would f % M