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minion Government had properly carried out the B. N. A. Act he woul(f have preferred the provisions of that Act to any of the resolu-- tions of the conference, but he accepted those resolutions as the mext best thing in view of the fact that the B. N. A. Act had _ not _ been _ respeoted. He _ was glad _ to hear Mr. Meredith denouncing the Dominion Franchise Bill. _ At the Quebec Corference it was a source of pleasure to know that the members for Ontario took the foremost place. Mr. (x'ufinou. Provincial Becretary of Quebec, bad said to him, **You lucky people oi Ontaric have not a weak man in your Cabinet." (Applause.) He was sure he was expressing the opinions of his country-- men when he said that he was in favor of these resolutions, and that he had rather be ruied by a second--class clerk than by a Dominion leader who had always shown himself hostile to Provincial rights. Mr. METCALEE charged the last speaker with wandering from the point, and remarked that for "a three--year stretcher" the hon. fiulleumn beat anything he had ever seon. ' e claimed that Mr. Meredith was not so hard upon the people of Quebec as the last speaker scemed to think. 'The Conservatives 'hml nsl high an opinion of, and as groat a respect for, the people of Quebec as the members of thol Government side had, not to say more ; and | they had not to go back far in the history of Canada to find the Reformers sayingy worse things of the French Canadian people than the hon. gentleman even charged Mr. Meredith with saying. He condemued the speech of the hon. gentleman as being one that would influence people and mislead those who were in the habit of reading much. The speaker claimed that the Attorney .General