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na F C 6 of the frout benches with being the greatest | sinners. 'The gentlemen opposite were troubled | to distinguish between loyalty to the country and loyalty to Sir Jolhn Macdonald. They held that the gentlemen who composed the Quebec Confereuce were not such persons as the members of the Government should be foundfin conference with, but he pointed out that they were the chosen reprosentatives of the people of their respective Provinces, and showed that the leader of the gentlemen op-- | posite at Ottawa was now treating with Hon. glr. (Greenway, of Manitoba, on the basis of | holding in abeyance the power of disallowance. x |\ He believed{thatfin supporting these resolutions '\\ | they were voicing the sontiments, not ouly of || all Liberals, but of very many Conservatives ; ,; and recalled the refusal of the Conservative \leaders to submit ** that great. constitutional chunge that was equal to a revolution "--the scheme of Confederation--to the people. He claimed that did the leader of the Opposi-- tion read the rest of those speeches of the || ** Fathers of Confederation," from which he || quoted extracts, it would be seen that it was | not expected that the veto power would be | used by the Dominion Government, save in |j cases where the rights of minorities, especially | MA religious minorities, were seriously threatened. | |kAfter twenty years' experience it is g,' xow CoMPETENT To AsK 1 J whether the veto power should remain || with the Dominion Government or not. | f T He instanced the bills passed by the Ontaria 1 J J Legislature and vetoed by the Dominion Gov-- | [ | ernment and the disallowance of railway legis-- ' J J lation in Manitoba, that produced a perilously I § near approuch to revolt, as proof of the tyran-- | M j nical use of this power, and argued {rom past | M experience that it is safer to vest the veto I f r "power in the British Executive. 'The Impe-- ; rial authorities have not vetoed any Colonial | & legislation for manuy years, even sparing such | [ fadverse legislation as our ** National Policy." | & 'E He dubbed the leader of the Opposition ** as A*l P a very great Radical," in that ho favored not 1 fonly the iimprovement of the Senate, ® | Lbut that it should _ be wholly { Felective. _ He (the speaker) regretted that they "Fhad any Senate to improve, but would wil-- .r" lingly see it elective that it might be liberal-- ® |ised. The hon,. gentleman was not pleased | | [ with the proposed scheme, but he must at |\ |least admit that it was not worse than the [ present arrangement. The result of the | | |proposed plan would be that they would | | ||| |soon be "levelled up," and begin to ¥epresent the views of the people. Hoe com-- > ,,' Wpared the Ontario Franchise Act with that of ' E the Dominion, and contended that the latter "] had not only a cumberous and expensive ma-- ') chinery, but acted very unjustiy, disenfran-- ;z chising at least 10,000 voters in Ontario. --In | | closing, the speaker made an appeal to the Op-- J position to unite with the Government and go " 'to the Dominion Cabinet and thence to the | v {" mperial Parliament to obtain the changes in ) l (the Canadian Constitution that are sought. KOJ_ Mr. McCLELLAND spoke against the reso. '1: lutions. $ | _ Mr. SMITH moved the adjournment of the t |} debate, which was carried, and the House ad-- @ P journed at 11.10 p.m. l » Genen: man..c ons mome mme cenamnnimmeee ( L k M he ves of the other Provinces, and argued t if this "POwWER BE VESTED ANYWHERE it should be placed where the people may effectuaily avenge its arbitrary use. He combated the position of the hon. treasurer that under the proposed financial scheme the relation between the Provinces was identical with that arraunged at the time of Confedera-- tion; and by an intricate calcnlntipn he en-- deavored to prove that in 20 years--from 1891 --Ontario's pepulation would reach 24 mil. lions, when her subsidy on the surplus would be but 60 cents per !le;'.d, which limit Quebec s would not reach until 70 years later. Mr. AWREY con:gra.tuh_.tad the majority of | the Oppotitiml ca discussing this matter in a | non--partisan spitit and charged the occupauts ;