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% i:""- /A &A }n.."vz- 4 "IP A NTARIO LECISLATURE. Sixth Parliament, Second Session. ¥e" (By Our Own Reporter.) TnHursoay, March 1, 1988. * The Speaker took the chair at three p.m. | + The following wvills were read the first | ; time :-- » To regulate the sale of seed grain--Mr. | ; Freeman o To provide for the incorporation of cheese / and butter manufacturing associations--Mr. _ Wood (Hastings). p 'To amend the Assessment Act--Mr. Gar-- son. To amend the Act rospecting ditches and _ watercourses--Mr. Harcourt. | THE REVISED STATUTES. Mr, MEREDITH said that it was impossi-- |_ ble to obtain copies of the Revised Statutes at _ QOsgoode Hall, although aill the Courts were _ sitting. |-- Hon, 0. MOWAT said he had given orders |\_ for a supply of copies to Osgoode Hall, and would see that they were supplied. THE CONFERENCE RESOLUTIONS. _ f Hon,. 0. MOWAT said that on counsidera-- _ tion he thought it best to have the debate take place upon the resolutions as a whole. This |\ _ was the course adopted in the case of the re-- -- solutions of 1854. | Mr. MEREDITH--Swallow them whole ? | Mr. FRASER--They are wholesome. |-- Mr. MOWAT said that if a member ap-- proved of some resolutions and disapproved of others he could point that out in his speech. | Mr. EVANTUREL, in continuing the de-- bate, remarked that although a Frenchman speaking in the English language, he felt that he was not ruuning any great risk in following | the hou. member for Toronto (Mr. H. E. | Clarke), A certain paper published in this city ' had lately remarked that the Conservative side of the House contained no member of any ability save and except the momber for London alone. Now, he did not agree with that. He thought it was a most unfair accusation to make against many members on the back benches of the Opposition, whose ability and eloquence he frequently had had reason to admire ; and if the hou. member for London bad placed the hor. imember for Toronto in a proimiment place on the front row, he felt cou-- vinced that it was not because he had no men of ability with whom he could fill up the frount | _ row, but becauso he felt it was due to the ; great city which that hon. geutleman repre-- | sented _ that he should be given this| prominent position on the Opposition benches. 'Jhelz-..).u. _ gentleman then referred to Mr. Mere lith's charge that Quebec had acted dis. loyally in electing the Mercier Government 4 _ because of the lines upon which that (iovorn: ment was clected. 'The people of Quebec were as loyal as any in the Dominion. It had been said with truth--and he was proud to repeat it----that but for the French Canadian people and their action at the timse of _ the American _ rebellion the -- British f would not now be floating over Canaia Qu? bee disloyal ! French Canadians are .trne to the British flag ! Why, at the time of the Northwest rebellion he had himself two brothers in command of regiments that were: z:t:;:egrz?:::ifit t(hie t('l"'lb'e"lof the Northwgst Crown ; an:l in tllxis' th d'Ll.IL' av w 'the ""t'mh 3 tms they were doing nothin but what the French people of Canada ;m§ bee_n doing ever since they had come into al-- legiance to the British Crown. If Quebec wer disloyal how was it that tho majority of it: representatives at Ottawa were supporting £2: Covee ting the Dominion Government at the present time. If they were disloyal why was it that so n of the English-apcakin;;.neople of (')lleb('c"]l""y | vince had lert their assistance to the Fre ml; | Canadians in the election of Mr, Mercio:-nc Proemier of Quebec* The hon. member lus defended Nova Scotia against the clmr"en s(f) disloyalty, contending that that Province h:d never been in favor of Confederation, and had in reality been unwillingly forced into it C If any Province should take the lead in thi matter it was the Province of Ullt'll'i':') whifll}sl for many years had been hampered by 'atmc;x | upon Provincial rights and which had success?y fu}ly rt:_:"lsted those aggressions. If the Do.| mirion Government had proper} i t | the B.N A. Act he \voullll"l(x)a?f:grzlf'::'xl'o:: ol?t provisions of that Act to any of the f tl @ _ tions of the conference, but he acce ; lleslo wag [ [ | resolutions as tiie next best tll{ll'vp ia veght 'of the fact that the B. x C Am VX': ' k. N. + & i bad _ not _ been respected. _ Ho was ]