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C ® 4 * Th J nts" "M # w j . ' the bill in line with the idens ho had nrl;? see the 'Fronch Canadians learning to tall _ . cated a day or two earlier. They woro all do-- English and iningling froely with their neigh-- ' ~Aeated by tho usual Government majority. bors, Hoe referred to the charges which he * Mir. Armstrong voted against the Governinent had made in the Movse iast session and to the on two divisions and Mr. Oruess forsook his reply mnade by the Minister of Education, and ' party on the same number of occasions, to the appointment of the (,opumsmon to in-- | * M The bill was then road a third time, quire into the KFronch and (r.erm'nn schools, JUVENILE OFRPENDERS A0T. le also quoted from an editorial in Trus h c o . GroBe to show that thoe state of affairs The Attornoy--General's bill respecting the | was _ regarded _ as -- satisfactory nnd -- thai ecustody of juvenile offenders was considered | there -- was no need --for change, _ Tho in Committee, and the Attorney--General | Governinent was obliged to appoint a Commus-- . availed hun:.olf'. of the occasion to reply to a | sion because of the dissatisfaction growing up quesu?n Mr. French hu:i on Ehe order paper in their own ranks, Ho thought more satis. | % ag to tho vacancy in the Protestant chaplaincy fuction would have been given to the country \'_) of the l(cforgpulmj for _Boys at Pone-- ns to the work of this Commission if one nL| tanguishene. 'The Attorney--General replied least of the three imembers of the Committoo .. briefly -- showing _ that thero had _ been had been a Conservative. Being all Reformers \ \ |no wgrievance in the case; that Mr. An-- thoy naturally wanted to let the Minister of | t derson, . the predccessor of _ the recent Education down lightly. Ho was, however, | | ll\(.'llll.llw.n.l. Mr. 'hl'u)'dillm'u bv;en in the office glad in a certain sense that the report of m(',| | ten of t""?"""'_'"- \;" ml?' reard and kne w Commission bhad justified his churges in the | of _no gmovance, blo it AbneR, understood most complete manner. Mr, Craig then read | thore wak some tron 0'n{'«,uimn::L.m-'wnn Mr. ' from Tir GLoOBE a remark that stated that he l Hleadman, the Deputy arden, but the At-- had not referred to the German schools in lornc)'-(._vncru} said such a suggestion was his {charge® against the French -- schools. ne w to him. 'The bill was then put through 'This he denied, referred to the notes ho Committee and read a third iime. had used in Iast year's speech, ind said that | Te MR. DRYDEN's DoG BILL. the writer of such a romark would write any. \ _ When Mr. Uryaen's bill to ameud the Act thing. Continuing on this point he said lhut' | to impose a tax on dogs, and for the protection Germans were Anglicised in language very | of sheep, came up for third n-zuling. Mr. Monk quickly, and made no aittempt to perpetuale | ' ! moved the amendment with which ho had ' their language at the expense of the English ; threatoned the House a day or two before, to language, Me denvied the claiimn of the Minist| the effect that a Municipal Council shail have ] ter of Education that every objection that ap-- the right, upon the petiticn of tifty ratepayers, plied to French would apply «lso to German, | to exempt the municipality from the operation ' Fhis claiin had been preferred, he said, simply | of ihe annual) aoy tax. 'Thne amondimcat was to divert amwitontion from _ the Counties defeated on the following division :---- i of -- Prescott _ and Russell, _ where the | Y®as.--Messrs. Armstrong, Blyth, Clancy, | French schools' evil prevailed. He quoted | Ciarke, _ M.E. (Toronto), Creighton, Cruess, from The _ Berlin News to prove his | . Dance, Drury, Evanturcl, Fergusen, Kraser, | contention that the Gorman schools were not French, _ Hawmmell, | Hess, | ludson, Mack, | conducted on anything like the same basis as Marter, Meredith, Mouk, Morsan, Mowat, | the French schools, that English was given far U'Conneor, Ostrom, Presion, lovillard, Morke, | grcater prominence in the German schools and | Smith (Frontenac), Siewart. Sprague, Tooley, | vlsowhere. _ He said he had been charged with | Whitney, _ Willoughby Wood -- (Hastings), | ignorance of the French schools in Essex. He | W ylio--$4. I was not ignorant of the fact, but had not given ' Nays.--Messra. Allan, Awrey, Balfour, Bal-- | attention to those schools, because tho evil < lantyne, Bisbop, Blezard, Caldwell, Chisholm, | was not nearly so flagrant. 'The evil in the Clarke (Wellington), Conmee, Craig, Dack, | schools in the East was so great that he had Davis, Drydon, Field, Freeman,Garson, Gibson | considered it a danger to the Province, Not so tManuiton), Gibson (Muron), Gilmour, Gould, | with those of KWssex, ""'l't""fl from the report of Grahaim, Marcourt, lardy, Ingram, Kerns, the Commission to sustain his charge that many Lees, leys, Lyon, McAndrew, Mckay, Mc-- teachers in those ceastern schools had been Laughlin, McMauhon, _ Maskenzie, _ Master, made to teach the English langoage,and d welt Meacham, Metcalf, Miller, Morin, Murray, «t some length upon the consequent evil to the Phelps, ltoss (iHuron), toss (Middlesex), Simith youth ol the connties coucerned. HMoe com--| (York), snider, Stratton, Watrers, Wood (Brant) mented upon the low grade of the teachers l --48, whoim the Cominissioners, according to their Mr. Waters then moved the six months report, bhad found there, upon their general | hoist tothe same bill, which was lust ou the imperfect knowledge of English, and so on. Me | following division :-- rou-i also l::;- ('l.nnu:s»mn'q-rsv rc;u.n'ln in re-- ! " ts HipsPe muistran y M mm sard to the bngliso minority in those connties C \"l'"'"' '",' j + Prit Arm _tm_i'vc' "j~'"" ( "l'l.)"'"' ;':m! sho wed lTxl: difficuities by which thv): ruess. Duck, Kyanturei, Frasor, Garson, Haim-- io s hoteg Do Shat were surrounded,. in twenty--four schools the me 1, Hess, Hudson, Ingram, Keras, Monk, Morin, C fua!t reborted * ) ie " Morgan, O'Counor, Ostrom, Preston, Hobiilard P Mn ".'m' CA LInaAt ono JOur ol Peaiat EO ts Spraguo,. Todley. Waters. W hiines. day was devoted to teachingy English. The \..:'oll:"" "\'; 'u".(::/::c. ECrs iess position _ of _ the _ English iminority in NAars.--Messrs. Allan, A wroy, Balfour, Bal-- lll,';i;"" it ,dl"";'('):'. "ll"sm, uuow :'f extromd liutyne, lishop, Blezaré, Chishoim, Clancy, rprapon trire M utd aspith is 3. 11" $ adiibrs a% Falis to obtain sufticient education in English to fit IL k. Clarkeo (Foronto), Clarkeo (Wellington), A sharane on fair A U C | s se. Craiz. Creithten Dunce Davig themselves for a fair yvmnlu.l} in 'hlq. f The Conmee, raig, . Greig s *, * remedy was to be found in making English the Druty Dryden, Ferguson, Ficld, Freeman, A o s o del a * A Ry o language of all the Public Schools of Ontario French, Gibson (Hamilton), Gibson (Huron), oi br i ThE i IRICEOT tive ied + li] ir, Gould, Graham, Harcowt, Hardy in elevating the stand a h O' Fie, Lefk he ts and tilmour, Gouid, : Wipeo 2 * in requiring of thetn what the Commission ré-- Loes, leys, l.yon, McAndreow, McKay, Mc-- [ mmdLod ly Wriman. s 1 ut coinmeonded, not only that they should be able Laughlin, McMahon, Mack, Mackeonzie, uurch HirumyLiu dihoh | tm : 49 s is | K uns i tlaw to teach English, which even many of them Master, Meacham, .\laxoduh.._Mctculf. Miller, could not do last year, but that they should be Mowat, Murray, Phelps, Iorke, ,Ross (Huron), able tospeak Inglish, and fluently. Discuss-- Ross (Middlesex), Smith (York), Snider, I ing that 4_lnus~ ol h'm lu\l! which provided that Stratton, Wood (Hastings), Wood (Brani--53, where it is impracticable lnl; a teacher to use Hon. Mr. Frasor then moved that the bill bo I-..ng.'l:s'h in l':u'ph;n_.;lh'- chlidren ho may use ' amended by making the number of ratepayors French, Mr. Craigz said he !'.M not agree with mehtioned in the clauuse to which Mr. Monk's those who claimed that children could not be ' amendment had ireference twenty4lvo in-- | taught English from _ their first entrance stoud of fifty, 'This was accopted, the bill was i into the -- school. Young ('lnlvibn-n could ' recominitted while the amendment was made ; !"""' a _ new )"'n:":?"""" """'h, faster v""'l and was then road tha third tims and passed. betier than older chilaren,. _ At the same time | LANXD SKCUIRITY COMPANY. this clause provided for R[nujml cases. -- The ' M . s 114 4 i seventh clause of the bill provided as follows . | '.\". Leys' private bill to amend the Acts l"(" "And whereas, in certain portions of the Pro. | | lating to the Land Security '. """.I"xh" '\nm road vinge it has been permitted for many years | | & second time and passed without discussioun. past that a language other than the English bo | PHE FRENCH SCHOOLS BILL taughs in the schools, nnd it is expedient to | At about half--past nine o'clock mauke teimporary provision with regard to the Mr. Craiy moved the secound reading of the schools therein, it is therefore enacted that in bilt res pecling the languago of instruction in I thore parts of the Province in which schools the Puvlic and Separate Schools. e regret-- now exist wherein any language otherthan the ted, he suid, that ho had boen obliged to move inglish is taught, such other languago may, the secound roading of the bill at so late a period until the Legislature shall othorwise enact, be of the sossion, but in view of the importance of continued io be taught for such n-'riml not ex-- the subject he felt justified in asking the atten-- ceeding one hour per day, as the Trustees may tion of the Mouse to this matter for as short a direet." . s period as possible. lie had no reasou to be Mr. Craig said he hopod this clause would not ashamed of oringing tho bill up. 'The impres: lony bo nocessary under the operation of the sion in the couniry was that he was amply jus-- romainder of tho bill. He complained of the tilied in making the statements he had done in difticulty of knowing just what the recent re-- the past, 'The agitation that had taken place gulations of the Department were. it was hard in the country and the discussion at Ottawa to got at thom. -- His bill would be found every-- on this question had kept it prominently where if enacted. e proposed to include before the public mind. He remembered last Sepnrate Schcols under the operations of the yoar it was a part of the argzument of the Min-- bill ho submitted as well as Public. 'This was ister of Education in favor of the continuation wone by tho last clause, namely :--"All regula-- of the presont system, when this subjuct was tions of the Department of Education incon-- "AK\:-L)"'i,l )t enc 1 4 { l"t", U\ 1(0 s puls t | in the .'.ornlnl\:.'rfll.| "ll":."c'.\\l"r'.l"("1'.'\11;,"»"\'\':«'?:' \"lnu'\ gistent with the provisions of this Acl x?r;c | glad that that would not be so very much hereby abrogatei and rep« "j"',l' 0¥ ,ll"_ longer. Last year he was much blamed for means l}w, would obviate the 'm'):i'.-l\{'.l: ~"y Slarting what was called a race cry. --When he yanced by some that if the Public l( .1.')".'; | brought the matter forward last session Lo was were deprived of the right of teaching ll'l n«lé | yery careful in the facts he simted to the l'hoy would -- become Separate . Schools, i1 | llouse. IHe took particuiar care to confirin Saparate Sechools were included in the Y {poront everything he brought before the House, He thom of the bill, this could not be u,vr"')d.rl"nl?. ' was extremely careful in collocting his facts-- longer, He knew of no regulations of the #40 I In seomg that they were absolutcly correct. | P"'"'W"' that would interfere with the }\('l" ""' onvject was not to create a race fecling | ng of the Aet, b".t-'.lf they existed they >'1.1'u\} : in any . way, but to bring about a | exist no longer, 'There shoulid be no r"'\'u.l. state of thin@s that would do away with--race tiens that would conflict with the teach fecling entively. 'This race feeling had exisied | ing of English in the schools of the Pro-- in that part of the country to which he re-- vince. Mr. Craig then read oxtracts from the ferred, e had in his hand a news-- speech of the Minister of Education last year, paper edited and published in the part of | and contended that they wore proved '1u;\ccu~ the country by Mr. Evanture}, M.PP., j rate by some of the statements of the Comumis-- and he noticed in that an article of an inflam-- slon. He reforred particular'y to the remarks matory character, exhorting the Frengh people of Mr. Ross as to the attainments of the chil-- to vote at a municipal election for the fFreuch dron, the extent to which English was taught, candidate. Instead of his being ougagod in ! the abilities of the teachors to ieach English Lrying to stir up race fecling, they saw that and the use of religious books of the Church of other parties were engazed in doing so. 'That Rome during or after school hours. He claimed | article threatened to hold up all French--Can-- that he had boen sustained by the Commission adian electors in the Alfrod 8. Clarenco dis-- "" hiS.COnl«'ulion that '"Le Syllab. ive des Ecoles tricts to opprobrium in the event of their not Chretiennes," a Roman Cathol'c book of in-- voting for the candidate . named. liis struction, had been used in the |'ublic Schools desire was -- to seo Ontario _ a -- unit-- J# \ during school hours, which cUu\mllion the ed _ Province; to sce IFrench _ Cana«-- JB Minister hac denied. 'It might not have been dians, _ Germans, Irish, Scotch and Eng-- 4B used in the particular school from which had lish welded together to form a Canadian [ come the telegram which the Minister had people, and he desired to soe them become real read to the House in support of his denial, but adhercats to the Constitution, and ho desired {t was used in others, It might be urged that i to see the English language continued as it was ha Minister had beon misled in this and other _ _\ to--day in this Province. He was anxious to MnA thiee ® | e h