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e _----""'""- " ""------- . P-"""'" r.. --ttotttin but a dilletante Court of pesl. l ,' Separate ticltool Act, in '2tl1, $333: (Applause) He came now to the ';l'Sl),e'el; " against diaallowanee, he had mi in l i . by the hon. gentleman who had last spoken, 'ir Legislatures should feel that they wdrl TI' that the HG. Mr. Mercier had got all the , lating in reality and not in sham, sub: is t e tinanciat advantage in the proceedings of the Dominion Govcrnment ttog not. to. any! th Quebec Conferencezaud the Hon. Mr. Mowat Court of Appeal trout the Provinoial ttta t l had got all the glory. That was not so, for tures. His hon. friend (Mr. Meredith) shoulo Hoarhir. Mowat got a in" denl'inore. than ! ' hay. applauded the conference for their ttttrt? glory. He got a very ." smntial fiueneitd ad. 1 l to crystallise the opinions of his great chief at vantage by the resolutions. (Aplhihhsw The i . I Ottawa. The ttext qurmtion to boeousidered '" position at present was that the laritiine Pro. l I where should the veto power be placed? The vinces were receiving why. was practically . i Dominion Government had txbused the tret, aubsidies ftont . the Dytini.on Governing"; i, and another trustee hid to be looked for. His while tho Province of Ouwrso W's receIVIug i I hon. friend was very indignant " the pr.o; nothing at all or next to nothing from the Do. ', osed transfer of tho power to the Imperial minion Treasury. Under the system proposed l Ib','J'l1tn',',",','l,' contending that it "tttt a "Wald" by the resolutions Ontario would have a much _ of responsible government. Was it respon- fairer share of the tiuhn.cts of the Pomiiiiou I sible government for the Minister of Justice at Treasury. The hon. Ministfr of. Education I ' l Ottawa to have the wer to veto the 1ty1iy1h/yyleyysn.tper,ortai,onp.iyooucydim, l legislation of til" grtsttt tah,',,' of Ontario a remark being that he hoped his hon. irieiid i l V He said that if the Ottawa Government abused 1 would with raw " opposltxon to the well.in. l I the power of disallowaiice they could .be é tended ellorts of the gentlemen . who met- at l T , punished by the people of Canada. Supposing Quebec to improve the 9Pistitutio? .ot which _ that in the case of the Province of Prince. the leader of the Opposition was himself an f Edwards Island the ower of disallowsnce admirer; and thatevery hon. gentleman would I were grossly Aht what could its six see that the future of the country dependedto 1 Federal "presentativss do in . ". Houo, l't a great extent upon the smoothness With i ' 215 "phlenutive' with a "'"JONW utteriy which political operations moved and upon the 1 subservient to the party in power. Mr. Mare. loyalty and henrtiiiess with which we can ' aith '33 "W much shocked " the idea of "vary one approveof the Constitution in all up going to Downing street, but he forgot that details. (Applause) it was at Downing street that judgment was Mr. H. s', CLARKE followed. m dc. assed, perhaps by a third-class clerk,upon the nounced the conference at Quebec. as a rebellion l Pagination of this great Dominion. They in embryo, condemned the whole aifair as I l were asking that the veto power he being an attempt at Annexation, and warned i transferred to the Imperial Govurnrmsnt,whieh , the members of the Government that the ghost l had always acted with justice an) courtesy t of these resolutions would haunt their chairs towards the Province, and had g.""'.". them for many a long day to come. He then claimed l redress when they were treated with Plustlc"' that the whole affair was absurd, and to prove i by the Dominion Government. Coming How it quoted statistics in support of his contention to the matter of the Senate and the hon. gen. that 481 per cent. of the voters of the Province I tleman's defence of it, it WUtt tttt easy matter had voted in favor of the hon. gentleman, the to criticise the proceedings of . conference, leader of the Opposition, and what did that , but a more ditfiettlt matter to suggest is reason- mean, he would like to know. "d V _ able improvement. Surely the lion. gentle- Hon. A. S. HAR1tY--It means that we stay l l man would not undertake to say the innate here. (Loud laughter.) bod answered'the $111080 for which " m" Mr. Clarke continued his speech some time originally dew" . t W" a place generally t longer, any at 10.35 p. m, for those iiliirhGrlillurhTiaTiTGinTfd. The Mr. EV ANTUREL moved the adjournment I l members of that body did not have to be of the debate and the House man. i elected. That was one of their greatest privi. ----- leges. Had they to be elected many of them undoubtedly would never have been there. Did the Senate ever devise any legislation? Only one Act of any importance could be credited to it-the Canada Temperance Act-a poor record . for so many years. What did the Senate ro- i present as it was constituted at the present l time? Nothing but the Premier of Canada. THE DESIGN or This SENATE was that both political parties should be re- t presented on terms of fair equality in the Senate. But nobody would pretend that there Was any idea of fairness in the resent system of appointments. They were I of one side of politics. Now and then, indeed, as if to give " a shadow of fairness to his actions, the Premier F [ appointed an eminent Liberal like the Hon. John Macdonald, but what could one Liberal do among so many Ctr.tervativor--iiny or I sixty of them at least. These resolutions pur- posed to infuse new blood into the Senate, to make it an active legislative body instead of allowing it to remain what it was at present I ' - . I' - _ ---_---- "r . -----""---"-----