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-? , , fl /'/. _ a C "[2 do e_" /d/"2"7é' ?? THURSDAY MARCH 4.. 'ttMt W 'ven to 'iioouiderratton of the pay- gent. ttlit Mr. White had no informa- , r 1 . tion to give, because the information in the UN"ARIO LEGISLATURE dnrattiteGroutrit.'t.t. While tho pm- 1 . ties should not prevail, yet there was noth. I . ing immoral or wrong about it. The action 1 of Mr. White involve; no breach of faith ';, , . V . a law. An l ormation oonoernin ' Jr. Matter s Motion Respecting 33°:th be t,t,'lh'l' down. h g ' . id seem to Mr. Clancy t at a more Mr. Aubrey White. "mm?" through 5 "baking this - oiiioial. _ Mr. Hardy said their; was not a T/tt t , , , P. .i .8 FLA"! . of information in the epartmeut as to t e . HE ATTACK li " estimated quantity of pine on this property. -------."--. Mr. M..itkiiypbeli said the Province had f paidtheforest ranger, Mr. Johnson,in i886, Facilities for the Education 0 and he should have communicated his in. Farmers' Sons. formation to the department and not to same one else, --------- Mr. Whitney said that it appeared that some oiiicials were paid by the Government run AGREEMENT WITH THE asunmnon's BAY during a portion of the year for acquiring COMPANY mm at: sewn-ran iy1f:r1';1fy"'t'Gttoi11hel'i'_ the rest of the TO THE PEDP'E- M r. Meredtth'a chief objection was that . Mr. White had rushed into print and there. -..---_ L' by anticipated the Itiurht He thought _ it was rrossl . indecent an discourteous to PROT', March 2531892. tlichoéiise tin an otftcitU who thought he In the Logiutaive Assembly to. f y a re was going to be attacked to make a defence in was read from two of the comm!" in the newspapers before the question came oncrs of Estate Bills, Chief Justice up in the House. 'agarty and Justice Maclennan. upon the Mr. 'Mogat said that the suggestion that bl M Soden to tsell certain Mr. White ought to have remained silent '11 to can 'At - My " it t when he thou ht he would be attacked was auh, in the City of Guelph, to thee ec monstrous. f/dl/l was no obligation on tat the bill in its present shape ought not Mr. White to wait. As long as the explan- , pass into law. . ation was proper it was within his rights The bill to amend the act respecting the : ttl invziilig:3 J,', m ldizaid'thazf t Idecency. . . i M no n e l ere Wa8 dbl." byying ground at Guelph was read one word untrue inbMiu White's statement l . third time and passed. or that Mr. White has kept back anything. AN OLD STORY. What his hon. friend was indignant . about was that the ex lanationhavin been Mr. 11tfer moved for a return showmg made this whole 1'd'el, falls to the gonad. Ar date when the persons to whom and (Applause.) The Government did not all" . ice for which timber berth No. 118, Wove oi Mr. Whitey conduct. lint the "m shore ot Lake Huron, was sold; the action involved nothing morally wrong on spective dates when and the amounts in his part, nor was it illegal in the sense that Web and persons by whotu ly iyuys wa., he could be compelled to pay any of this .id; the date when the said limit was money into the public treasury. The case "t,vlacerl under license .tuol thv, WWW". was that a valuable oilicer had obtained , whom the license was issued; copies ot this tnouefon account of a sale which had {transfers oi. the said berth. Ot' ct any taken place before he became an term therein, and copies of all oilieial. It, was an isolated trans- 'rretspundenco, memyry,tuia, rulings of .nction. The Government did not l, L' 1'o,inmissieter oi Chy.wtt Lands, or think that it Wat? in the public interest that ly '"yr otlicer ."f . h." department, such a valuable otiiccr as Mr. White should :th r<~icrence to rm, .said berth; and 1redituuitsssed. Nothing whatever was lost 40 copies of all reports made to the said to the Province by this transaction. It .pdnme'" by any wood "WK" or otlysr would probably surprise the, House to learn .icer of the department as to the quantity that Mr. Barnet was not a ileiormer at all, umber in the said berth. He said that but a good Conservative ot long standing. , was informed that this berth was sold in "In". hear ) 1 r72 tori f'hldhch Wlbich "All: ua., paid I iiii'iaii,' attacked Mr. Aubrev White awn. u iby,6 t in ant was no t to a party o,', P...-- ' ' - . , l when we. who "rsold it iort90,000 "id, I ad divided a [who PTty'n ot tho pro' Aubrey Trhite in writing a plain unvar-i , eeds among three othcials of the Crown nishea" "my to the Gia' when} find; tttret:"); t,te will"! baits rtsugera "tvriots weic being circulated about him. i, t '/i '"ht'le' 'ill It 1?"t . l . . i There Vwould have been a serious wrong if l', . f r. Ir") Btht that Mr. UH"? had the property had belonged to the Govern. ally t:xpli9T,,1 the whole transaction m the llit'l'b, but the whole transaction was be. olumns oi I'ur: GIMME" wetk "go, Ind tum-u two parties outside of the Govern- ', hat a large portion oi the information muncaitogethtsr. The fact that two years , sitedht forl in the return had been . up, Mr. Martcr was in possession of "ll the 2 Twig} IIT" on.. o.Use ou'C'itatoitti. facts he now had showed that there was. a." m l no objection to the tl"" 1 nothing wrong about it. The matter was ion.' As tor the money transaction _ brought no new because there were cries of in" tft.',',",',""?,',',",', disapproved ot clerks uu- ', hemlle and commission in other places, and Ir,); tng for th commission tsa?,',, of that ', it, was thought that to associate the name "PM? its"??? m 'rltte,"t The Hel""' , of an honorable man with commissions here mg h l m e to a. use or euspicion. " would damage the Government in quarters lae2,t,' Ill :,'.ou'ig.r 1ivtel tppetryd to i where the explanation was not well known. i've'th 'l, on? . l; _ ite had nothing to I In view of the reports circulated about Mr. o T t e " e m t te department, "Ch as White when the motion was pat upon the hissing the transfer. As a matter of mar. order PM)" it w" the right thing tor him tlity, or as far as the ethcient discharge of to do to come forward and tell the truth his duty was concerned, .there was nothing especially when he had nothin to hide: o prevent him accepting a commission, (Applause) g in a sale, provided that it did , h . . . . iot interfere with. the time which i, Mr. Marter traidit YO?" be more correct mould be devoted to the country. i to say that Mr. Whites letter emanated Jlauae 38 of the Public Lands Act iorbids ! from the Government Itt order.to break the my officer of the department from buying ' force of the attack. The motion was then inhlic lands, but it does not apply to sale l _ adopted. . of timber lands. Yet from the analogy, he , r. Btltmtr moved tor. th return tshowing ' lisapprovsd of a clerk assisting in a sale the amounts ot deialcations made Ay the for a commission. A letter from Mr. Bar- "In." of W ttt the mttnistitmliti" in not states that no private information was I "