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mouths hence. s eccivel with [ speaker) was concerned, the legislation pFO~ i Mr. Mowat, on rising, Wws t | posed was in the interests of the city. cheors. He declared that he \_vi(mldt'not \ Mr. Balfour had no hesitation in giving hpd thp committee almost unanimously de. withdraw the bill on any considera |on.f his support to the bill, believing that the l cided in their favor, and reported the bill The Act was drawn up in the m;leristt:io i| people of Toronto were not called upoun to with but slight .u.mmdmenn. As soon as the City of Toronto and he deficd the lea ('zl' i pay anything out of the way for the in-- the season opens it is proposed to push this of the Opposition to point out one singie citased accommodation by the establish-- ll'n? vngo'rously In connection with the Lake item of the bill that would go to show .tnalt I of another registry office. Erie, Essex & Detroit River railway. he was inconsistent wngh_lus past rew(;mt.i * Ostrom con»tipuod the debate, after Besxdfls_opem.ng up one of the finest fruit Except where the public interests demau e" | *A¥eh Mr. H. E. Clarke was pained at the | | aud grain regions in the Province, it will it,he denied that the Government had at a [ | ayjack made by the member for East York | | run along the natural gas belt throughout increased the number of offices or amount of ; | 38 ing M ayor of Toronto for not be ng | | the whole region where that valuable com-- patronage at their disposal. The object. of | plesent to oppose the bill. The Mayor | | modity is to be found. the bill was to make the registry office mlox'e l | would have been here and voted azninst the '.lhe. western division of the new registry efficient than it had been, and surely tlut 64 'i}l had it been possible. Mr. Clarke then | | office in Toronto begins at Spadina avenue, was a sufficient ol?]cct. Ho claimed t 1:1: ! | chujected to the discussion of Dominion | the Uo_verument having come to the the result of this biil wqul_d be to make the | politics by Mr. Harcourt, proceeded to in. | | conclusion that the business of the city will registry offtice more eflicient. _ As todt :' }yist that Sir John Macdonald was the lbe onghunced by providing for the growing alleged incousistency between his conduc . _ greatest statesman the country had ever | requirements of the city in that direction. now and his conduct on a certain 'occlixgsosui ' produced, and sat down with his usual || Hon. Mr. Hardy, in moving the second | thirty years ago-- t'he year in qu{ornou, 0; smile. Fendmg of the bill to grant representation \ was a very long time ago, anc ulwns i: i | Mr. (%. B. Smith denied that he intended | in the Assoembly to the District of Nipissing, } -- quite sure he could recollect oix:\ct 'vad."d ! making an attack on the Mayor.after which | gave a graphic description of the develop-- | the circumstances of the case were, . e ai | Mr. Metcalfe relieved the monotony of the | : ment of Northwestern Ontario. He im-- not consider for one thing th"'"h °" "t'l"s debate by telling the House many of his | pressed the House with what is well known, bound to coincide now exactly wit Rt llw experiences amongst the Indians of u",[ that the CGovernment is doing everything views he held thirty years fi.g.t).' bieut lm Northwest. He never knew of any case | possible to advance the interests of every same time, so far as he could llcw .°_° *3 "{ whon the Indians were starved. (Laughter): | portion of the Province. The Commis-- occupied the same position thzxth}e o""tpl-tx(- Mr. Craig attacked the bill, after which | sioner o'f Crown Lands told the House that thirty years ago in respect to t l? P'"',f""]e the amendment was defeated by the follow-- | from 17,000 to 20,000 people live in the | lar matter. | The p'ropos[tmn.tttwn. rlfl"is- ing vote : dlstmct', and it was . only fuir that they recollqctogl rightly, was to institu ; &A el's THIRTY--ONE To FIFTY. slmuh.} have a voice in regulating the affairs try office in every riding in this . .ranlnce. | Yras.--Bliyth, Clancy, Clarke, H. E. (To--| af their own locality, if not the Province. | He disapproved of that prqposnt:nt\i;l:o:,, l 'fimm)' (nmif ("rfigl&l on, 1(-11".58' 1;{,3"' y,.?"ch_ I 4 her{.; was no point in the argument of the | id do so again were the ques ammell, Hess, Hudson, Ingram, Werns, Lces, | member i I G ipissi '"'d woufl( (dcfie(lgthc leader of the OQpposi-- ! _ Marter, Meacham, Meredith, Metcalfe, Milier. shoulhf nofr I.\torth C ol thu.'t Nlplumg CMe +. ly else t int to a single | -- Monk, Morgan, Ostrom, Preston, Rorke, td Lopwesentalive " because tion or anyvody eise to poli a Ng * Smith (Frontenac), Stewart, 'Tooloy, Whitney, | the number of the members of the House | registry oftice crfmted by him in any part o Willoughby, Wood (Hastings), Wylie--31. would be increased, and if there was, the the Province which had not beon absolutely Rl\;-i"._,i.__'.\"{.:.n'l A""}Tlmng.l Auwrey' Bul(f',ur' | cheers of the House after the Hon. Mr. * allantyne, Bishop, ezard, ronson,. Cald-- ardey wJ f & necessary. bill it ting | well, Chisholm. Clarke (Weilingtoni, Conmcey | H.).u.'y sa(t) "f"Y" <_)u_'ut to convince any i Mr. Ciancy opposed the bill, reiterating Dack, Dance, Drury, Evantu;cl, Cerguson, Field, | Ou€ that Ontario will be allowed to expand the arguments prevnously used uglllluStll'i. Frgsur. l";'lcmnnn. ((:"z\lruon. uihsonld(llixxnni}toln), [I not only from a representative stand, but C ns as he said, that 'iibson (Hurou), Gilmour, Gould, Graham,. | also from its territori ewvers of }mc("mpe,' :l mt side of the | »(iuthric, Harcourt, Hardy, Lyon, McAndrew, | |* C M e e ol ht | members of the (Government : McKay, _ McMahon, Mack,. Morin, Mowat, | Rtwtmtansamanemamenamzunmammemmets | House would for once muster tl_m courage | Murray, O'Connor, Pacaud, Phelps.' Raysido, | | of their convictions and vote against it. Robillard, Ross (Huron), Ross (Middlosex), | in + i Smith (York), Snider, Sprague, Stratton, | Mr. Waters gave the bill a bearty SUP | \ynrers, Wood (Brant)--50. | port. He gave ""t"""l'h"".mi "h;' ttr}::; Tho Attorney--General then moved the | mendous growth of the \;nr 5 o't tce l second roading of the bill respecting the | registry offtice. | In 1886, m" 't""'_(i"":n; appoals on prosecutions to enforce penalties the number of instruments registere and offences under Proviuncial Acts, The 14,243, and the year afterwards the | ppoosp ghon adjourned number had increased to 17,639. Con-- i l Cmm trasting theso figures with those of other ARCUND THE HOUSE, places, Mr. Waters mentioned that in the ! ITEMS OF PHUK HOUSE, THE LOBBIES AND THE city represented by the leader of the Oppo-- | PEPARTMENTS sitiou (London) the number of instruments j At the meeting of the Railway Commit-- registered was bat 1,644 in 18_87. or lt'SBi tee yesterday forgnnou the first bill con-- thau baif the amouut of actuul increase be-- ! _ sidered was one in charge of Mr. Balfour, tween 18 : 1007 : as ¢ To, to incorporate the Amberstburg, Lake 1 alo(ncl 86 and 1887 in the City of Toronto Shore & Blenbeim railway. lt is ;';ropusetl * € & F £ a i il w hrough the feriile and Mr. Harc y 99 to run this railw t)_' tarough 1e } ecl Arcourt, in a seven or eight minute populou. Townships of Essex and Kent, | speoch, rose to higher flights of eloquence ; &ri | the ® io in e seg lying along the Lake Erie shore from Am-- | than any of his predecessors. He referred f | n mf Hhaw ) an. e o7 . herstburg, at the mouth of the Datroit to the use of the words '*infsmous " and s s 4 1 [' outrageous" by tie Opposision (Mr. {AiVR': 8 Uistance of 60 miles cast, to Blon g Creich Y ~Ppesi 8 (Mr. heim, on the Erie & Lake Huron railway, | reighton here nodded his head approy-- 1 larnt: | ; alv % J w runs north to Chatham and Sarnia. ingly), and remarked that the listener All" the other-- 11 I zh t] | would imagine that those words--the in nR amanine ror the Conmaesten.| Eato Cmaptt n i northern townships of the southwestern | | strongest the English languago sould supply eninenl By Mr. Balfour's bili r is | * | --were applied not to a Government with: PEMNTLN i9 *L bMILOHTS o ry and 'the clésn anu--.excellent record of) Al also taken to conuect Amherstburg and | G es o S '* the valuable islands at the mouth of the | | Lovernment of Ontario, but to a Govern-- 5 f j 1j F | hovk ns Detroit River with Windsor and Detroit by | ment, say, that starved thousands of its > s s ive I Indian sublects, that ! e o ul a line running just back from the river | | jects, that had pus into a high fronk. Th arti ki ' ation | | place the agent that bhad starved those |"°V! l oo anmmmmeiment uesw | | Iudians, the Government that without the ander the bill ave all promines$, usiuces | | consent of the peopleo und against the will fad pablis menrof fie fwao Te enAE mat ['of the people lhad imposed . upon the several citizens of Detroit, Mich. 'The bill i Beont o : PO" 58 -- was opposed before the Railway Committee people as many as 633 appointments. 5 j q A a Amnarn [R s by Messrs. Kingsmill and Symons, on be-- every one of them of considerable emolu-- E nf s a q ; Mr. Harc fo half of the Cavada Southern railway, and mont. Mir,. Harcourt aroused a good deal 's. Y h. Q.C I of entlhusiasm by these sharp and incisive ty Mfanet®-- i oo Cw * MP Lntioar. L SFks. Whic a oa., _ half of the Grand Trunkt. _ Mr. Balfour, J. remarks, which, being unansworable, were % * 1 f nnniant" C. Patterson, M.P., and A. Campbet!, M. P., met with a loud and _ ironical laugh Lo i R by the leader of the Opposition. _ He for MRent, sppesred in suppors .of 'the Lill, | * f maintained the exceptional growth of the city demanded the step which the Government h'ul.mkeu with respect to registration. He 4 denied _ that oflicials under the Reform party did anything towards the election of men!\hers on his side of the House, but that e(:m(l not be said of the Tories in Ottawa. ' (Great cheering.) He would vote with pleasure for the secound reading of the bill, Mr. l)nnc§ said that his celection in \Eigin had nothing to.do with the bill before the House, noth\'vnthstnnding the efforts put forth by previous speakers, (Cheers.) s Mr. ingram _thought that Mr. Dance * would have a difficulty in reconciling his aute-ele(:tlou speoches with his statement on t.l;o. bl". urder consideration. (Govern-- ment ironical cheers.) § Mcr I;o:ke said that he would oppose the bill, feeling that it was against the general | lnterest of the country. | _ _Mr. G. B. Smith, on risiag, was received f | with great applause. He said that the fact | that the Mayor of Toronto was not present !to'protest against the bill was sufficient f | evulence. t}mr. its provisions were acceptable to the citizens of Toronto. 'The bill was | framed in the interests of the people of | Torouto, and they were the proper judges of their own affairs, and so _ far as he (the w