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l ,_--'" \,:_i_\'-'b';;-":?fi' ¥C _ %":'-_»',_»_ y s ogga > | Tegespar, March 11. . _ The Speaker took the chair at throe o'clock. STANDING COMMITTIEES. Mr. GIBSON (Hamilton) presented t'he four-- toenth report ot the Standinig Comunittee on Private Bills. Mr. FRASER preseuted the report of the Municipat Committee. FIRST READINGS Mr. FRASER--B.11 to amond the Line Foncos Act. A PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. Mr. FERRIS presented the first report of the Public Accounts Commitee, THIRD READINGS. The following bills were read a third time :-- To declare valiu a certain -- survey of part of the town of Cornwall --Mr. Ross (Cornwall); to authorize the Toronto Street Ratiway Company to issue mortgage debentures, and for other pur~ poses--lir. Badgerow ; relating to the Mume-- pality of Ncebing--Mr. Lyon ; to amend the Act to trans{or the sccurities of the .-\u',:'lml_'.a.,n.u' dian Mortgage Co. to the Omnium mecuires Company--Mr. (Gibson (Hamilton); to amend the Act to impose a tax on dogs, and for the pro-- tection of sheep----Mr. Chisholin ; to amend the Act respecting the expenditure of county funds in certain cases--Mr. Waters ; and o amend the Ontario Drainaze Act--Mr. Baltour, MORNING SESSION, Mr. MOWA'T moved " that when tins House adjourns to day, and on each other day during the present Stssion, it do stand adjourned until eleven o'clnck on the following day, Mr. Speaker to leave the Chair each day at ene o'clock until three o'clock without question being put ; and that when this House adjourns on Fridays, it do ; stand adjourned until Saturday at eleven of the clock, for Government business only ; and on Mondays Government Orders to be placed on the Orders of the day, after Public Bills and Orders." Mr. MEREDITUH objected to morning sessions of the House till the Public Accounts Committee had completed its work. The hon, gentlemen opposite were preparing to prevent a turther ex-- amination of the Public Accounts this session, Mr. MHARDY sarid the hon, gentiemen opposite had been pointlessiy and aimlessly wandering through volumes and volumes of papers,. The Committee had been in session from eleven to one w'clock almost every day since they had organized,. The hon. Chairman had been com-- pelled, through serious illness in his family, to be absent two days. _ When there was no quo-- rum on one day the Committee had not been | called togethcr, _ The hon. leader of the Oppos:-- | tion had not given notics to have a meeting called / that day. 'The Committee had not been able to | find anything against the Government. _ He could not see why the Comumnitteo could not meet | at nine or ten o'clock when the HMouse could | -- hold morning sessions. | Mr. CREIGMTON said to--day was the first | on which the Public Accounts Comnittee had been able to yo into the accounts of 1883. Mr, FRASER said the whole burden of the complaint was that in two days there had been no meeting on account of a want of quorum, and this was almost an unexampled thing for that Committes to be able to sit day after day through the session, for they had found that day after | day thero had been no quorum, and the Govetn-- ; ment side of the House was not to blame for this. | The Public Accounts for 1883 had been before the | \ Committee, and no earnest effort bad been made | | to reach them. . Mr. CARNEGIE was repeatedly called to | | order for givine information as to what had oc-- | curred before the Public Accounts Committee | when the report was not before the House. Me continued with a tirade against the Government with reference to public expznditure, and claam-- | ed they had got a great deal of evidence avainst | the Government. He did not think the Public | Accounts Committes would get through their | work till next June or July if they proceeded at the same rate as at present. | Mr, ROSS (West Middlesex) said the Opposi-- ; tion were trying toget the Government to dic-- tate to a committee which always had regulated _ its own affairs. 'The leader of the Opposition | had made a mistake if he thought there was the | least disposition to prevent a full investigation of the public accounts. At Ottawa, where they | had to investigate the accounts relating to an | expenditure of --$25,000,000 to $30,000,000, they ' had to be content with four to six meetings, | Mr, McolLAUGHLINX had attended every meeting of the Public Accounts Committes. The | whole management of the Cominittee was in the hands of the hon, leader of the Opposition, and if it had not been so conducted to suit the hon, gentleman the tault lay with him (Mr. Mere-- dith). (HMear, hear.) A division was called for on Mr. Mowat's re-- solution, which resulted as follows :-- Y®as.--Messrs,. A.wrey, Badgerow, Balfour. Bal-- | lanityne. Baxter, Bishop, Biezard, Caliwell. Casea-- den,Chisholm, Cook, Drury, Dryden, Fraser, Hree-- | man, Gibson (Hamilton), Gibson (Huron), Gi¥es, | Gould, G&ham, Hagar, Harcourt, Hardy, Hart, | Laidlaw, Lees, McCraney, Mcintyre, McKonzic, McKim, Mchaughlin, MeMahon, Master, Morin, 1 Mowat, Murray, O'Connor, Pardee, Phelps, Ray-- side, Itosa (Muron), Ross ( Middlesex), Sills, Snider, ' Waters, Widdifield, Young--47. Nays,----Messrs. Baskerville, Blythe, Carnegie. | Claney, Clarke (Toronto), Creightor, Denison, |