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While thus recognizing the gallant services of the Volunteers of our own Province, we cannot justly omit to record our like high appreciation of the conduct of the permanent military force of Canada and the Volunteers of the other Provinces of the Dominion, and of the alacrity and patriot-- ism with which they, too, responded to the call of duty, or to recognize that the speedy restoration of tranquility, to which Your Honour refers, was due to the united exertions of them all. MR. MOWAT'sS ADDRESS, Hon. 0. MOWAT was received with loud applause.--1 congratulate the Mouse upon t{xc way in which the resolution has bean moved and seconded. We have heard very excellenut addresses from the hon. gentle-- men. ]look upon the mover of the address as one of the most promising of the young members,. -- He comes from a very cloge con-- stituency, and had a hard fight for his seat. He -- had sk)ecclws to make and ad-- dresses to deliver upon all the current topics and the result is that one better acquainted with Provincial politics or one better able to express his views on them in an effective way it would be hard to find. _ (Applause.) I am glad that he is here again, and hope that he will lon]g continue to represent that old county of Lennox, which in the early days was represented by such men as Bidwell and -- Perrvy. The hon. member for Algoma West made a strong and use. ful _ address, which _ manifested _ that sound sense _ and -- vigorous intellectual activity which have made him successful in business, and as a municipal administrator. (Applause.) The hon. leader of the Opposi-- tion in his srech called attention to two measures which have been named in the Ad-- dress as having been suggested by that side of the House; the Bill regarding employers' liability and the independent audit of the 5e 7390°0a occasionally, 4lm€lght:er.) Mr. MEREDITH said the Minister had got robbery on the brain. (Laughter.) The onuly amendment that Mr. Blake had mov-- ed when the railways were taken over would not have affected fifty miles of road. HMHe hoped the Government would assist settlers in the matter of railway communica-- tion,. He had no desire to rob the Premier of his laurels, but he thought credit had been %iven to him unjuastly in the Insurance and @scheats question and the Streams Bill. In the case of the Boundary, the First Minister had been defeated upon the only constitutional question which -- was raised, namely the validity of the award. As to the License question, the late Mr. Bethune and several Ministers under Mr. Mackenzie, had expressed the opinion that the license power belonged to the Dominion. The Opposition had been unjustly taunted with giving Ontario last, and expense be saved. He had glad to observe a great activity IN THE MINING INDUSTRIEs of new territory of Ontario, and hoped the Government would do something to assist in the development. (Cheers.) He was ite aware that the Government was in the fl:bit of saying whenever it was asked to aid a railway >--"Oh, the Dominion has seized all the railways!" It was a great advantage to the Government to be able to use that argu-- ment. Hon. C. F. FRASER--It's a good thing to be robbed occasionally. (Laughter.) e therefore moved to add the following words to the address :-- A HALTTING SUPPORT Public _' Accounts. _ 'There 4 CV _ ACCOUNUS, Lhnhere _ are Bills | upon these _ subjects _ in Imperial legislation _ with 'which all lawyers are more or less familiar, and it doas not occur to ine that it re(luires a mighty intel-- lect to mention two Bills which he finds in Imperial legislation AS BEING APPROPRIATE SUBJECTS for legislation in this House. (Applause.) This does not occur to me as any particularly great thing. We have found a great deal of valuable legislation from time to time among the Imperial Acts, and it re-- quires a considerable amount of industry and experience to adopt that legislation to the needs of this Province, But to suggest that any subject should be taken up here does not seem to me to require more ability than has fallen to the lo% of many members on the other side of the House. (Applause.) Now, with regard to the independent audit of the public accounts. Not only has this been the subject of Imperial legislation, but an Act has been placed on the Domin-- ion Statute Books on this question. This was during the time the Hon. Arlexander 3 Mackenzie was Premier. It must be remem-- bered that their cireumstances and ours are very different. Our need is not nearly so great as their need, because our expenditure is not nearly so great--indeed it might even now be a question whether an independent audit was one which could be pro-- nerly introduced here. _ Our -- financial matters will not be better attended to, _ no matter what sort of audit we have than they have been attended to by my hou. friend, the member for Huron. (Applause.) The finances have been so well managed that they will not be improved, and it is reasonable that we should be diffident in prolpoeing an expenditure for an independent audit,which willgive us some increased pa-- tronage. But by--and--bye a %ood Government may be succeeded by a bad Government, and we are prepared to place the Bill on the Sta-- tute Book, so that when a check of this kind is required it will be ready. -- The liability of employers is well knowr to have ocoupied the attention of my friend, the Commissioner of Public Works. Before it was heartof in this House he had a Bill in print, bu! %flufi withstanding all sorts of inquirles he made, it seemed to require SOME FURTHER CONS#IDERATION, I The next point in my bop. 'g 8 As that deafl:s with mnm 52" h' claims credit because from time to time the Opposition -- had made motions that the amount voted to emigration should be re-- duced. That is a thing also very easy of ac-- complishment. -- You can easily make a mo-- tion that the amount be reduced from $30,000 to $5,00), but I aon't recollect his urging us to abandon giving assistance to emigrants to this country before woe abandoned it our-- selves, and I know that his friends at Ottawa continue to grant assistance to emi-- grants. We have reduced the amount spent on emigration from time to time, but it would not do to recall our staff on the other side and reduce the emigrants to star-- vation after they have arrived here, as many would undoubtedly be forced to if assistance were withheld. We need a staff on the other side to give information to those emigrants who do not need other assistance, and this is the class we need here. We have learned also that the interests of On-- tario are not attended to in England in such a way as justice and the advantages of the Provirace call for. Last session we found it practical to reduce the expenditure under this head from $31,500 to $19,500. We could not have reduced it -- any further _ without doing _ very _ sori-- ous harm to the interests of this country and without depriving ourselves of the powor of preventing those emigrants who land here without any money from starving. The hon. member next referred to THB AGRICULTURAL COLLRGE. He said that he and his part{ were not op-- posed to the Agricultura College, -- but _only to the unnecessary and extrayagant expenditure in connection with it. Now we have discussed the details of the expenditure very frequently, both here and in the coun-- try, and the people are quite satistied that they have had tpxe worth of their money. What we have to complain of is that they have brought failse charges of extravagance with the manifest, and in some cases with the avowed, object of creating such -- public feeling against _ the in-- | stitution _ as might -- result in sweep-- |\ing it away. . Now that its value is fufiy recognized by the countr{v a change of l tactics has taken place. He refers to THE LAND TITLES ACT of last session, and to the comparatively limited number of cases which have been brought under its opoeration -- by _ rea-- son of the_ practice ;{rovided for by the Act. -- In -- this ie is entirely wrong. -- The -- practice is not complex. It is as simple as practice can be, and those who have taken advantage of its provisions