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s Moxnay, Feb. 25, The Speaker took the chair at three o'clock. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. Mr. GLBSON (Hamilton) presented the fifth report of the Standing Committee on Private a 1+ FIRST READINGS. Mr. PARDEE--Bill protecting the public interest in rivers, streams, and creeks. _ Mr. MOWAT--Bill to amend the election law, for the better vprevention of corrupt practices, Nir. McCRANEY--Bil!l to amend the Act |: respecting Public, Separate, and High §chools. A "MAIL" MISSTATEMENT. Mr. ROSS (Huron), on a question of privilege, said--In the report of the speech of the hon. member for East Grey given in the Afail on Friday, where it referred to the statement that I omitted to teli them that the expenditure of the Dominion Governinent had increased $9,000,000, and the increase had been in proportion to the revenue, I was made to give the follo.wm,g inter-- jection : * We can keep it up by taxation. What 1 did say was that ** the increased revenue had been obtained by increased taxation." (Hear, | hear.) PRIVATE BILLS. The House in Committee of the Whole, Mr. Baxter in the chair, considered the Bill to further amend the Act incorporating the Roman Catholic Bishops of Toronto and Kingston in Canada in l each _ Diocese. The bill is one _ dealing chiefly with the power to acequire and con-- | vey land. _ The following bills were also report-- ed :----To authorize the township of Colchester South to borrow certain moneys. -- Respecting the synod of the Diocese of Huron. To amend the Act to incorporate Knox College, _ To authorize the town of Collingwood to issue certain deben-- tures. Respectiny the debt of the county of Middlesex. _ To authorize the Corporation of the | town of Orangeville to purchase land for a post-- | office site. To authorize the Trustees ot the | estate of James Stock, deceased, to mortgage cer-- tain property,. -- Respecting churchwardens in the DNiocese of Toronto. This lastbill provides that churchwardens of free as well as pewed churches be a corporation. sECOND READINGS. The following biils were read a second time:-- | To incorporate the Sarnia & Lambton Southern Railway Company; to incorporate the Brock-- ville, Westport, & Sault Ste. Marie Railway Com-- pany; to incorporate the Midland Junction Ral-- way Company; respecting the Gananoque & | Kideau Raulway Company; respecting a certain | by--iaw of the town of Trenton; respecting the | Toronto & Nipissing Eastern Extension Railway Company; to reduce the capital stock of the English Loan Company, and tor other purposes. THE CREAMERIES. Mr. CREIGHTON moved for a return show-- ing the location of the three creameries erected under the Act passed last session, the cost of each, and names and salaries of the ofticers. He accused the Government of having dangled the creameries before constituencies. | _ Mr. ROSS (Huron) sud there was no doubt he increased value to be derived by this Pro-- vince from a genperal improvement in the (jrality of butter. _ 'There ware several reasons why the Government had not been able to carry out the project, and they were explained at the time the Lbill was introduced. _ At that time it was explained that due care should be taken th --they should not be established in places wuners failure was imore certain than success, owing to the local circunstances; that they ald not be placed in localities where the ese factories would compete with them; and information should be gathered as to the most roved methods of manufacture. These were reasons given tor delay at the time, and they were the reasons which had preverted the erec-- t _ of the creameries, Duaring the summer a com uttee of the Duirymen's Association had visited different localities, with a view of obtain--> ing information, and they had embodied their l views in a report. Honourable gentlemen would see that in the estimates there was a sum ($2,000) under the head of public buildings for the erec-- tion of a creamery at the Agricultural College at Gueiph. It had been thought better to establish one central creamery at Guelph, as there was no & doubt it was an important part of the education of tarmers. 'The students would thus be in-- slrvcted in the most inmproved methods of butter-- making, An experienced butter maker would be engaged, who would also lecture on the subject and give intormation to others on inproved but-- ter--making. -- He concluded by remarking that, if built at Guelph, the creamery would be visited by great numbers of farmers who annuaily vis-- ited the farm. Mr, BRODER said they had beon a long time toachingy young men scientific farming at the Agricultural College, but they found very fow farmers who farmed in a scientific manner. He thought there should be some means by which the peop'le could get information at their homes without going to Guelph for it, The pamphiet sent out by the Government was a good idea, but it was too diffuse. It was too lengthy. If the butter made in this Province in future was not better than'in the past its sale in foreign mar-- keis would be shut out altogether. | _ Mr. CARNEGIKE thought the **creamery | kite" had failen flat since the elections, The