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'"W'"'a#'-\ / 1 --w, ' the 'plan of distribution ant administra-- "'xrée . e / tion of the fund had been made by the detaf r"cy made some inguirles 4 Government, and they were not avoerse to \'"g'l --aln the work of the school a's}) 1k recciving further suggestions from the Op-- " e '{'SH fully explained, Dr 'v[" ( t position, though the Opposition did not f"r"r" ied the dlscussiun, and l}-l(." "tl<hun1 & seem inclined to make any. Sir Oliver All'l'fll'.' passed. vote was | then read from the Education Department The committee then rose £ f rg ons the rules according to which .thn- vote for Normal lm'i" '\;,},'lfl';m\)'l.'.""' at | nt to poor schools must be admin-- f:\,'.-l- which Mr, Meredith ";,'A', l' schools, . f by the Minister of Education Pate, and the House adjourned _ af * 0* Meredith interrupted the .A ttorney 'U'uluvk. S o. MAd 9 ral at this point with a remark, and * | ' Oliver said emphatically that he de-- 'l ""1""1""71"1"10.\' "]LIL \ €élined to be drawn off from his argument |_ Un the motion for adjournment } He continued reading the regulations, | put, Mr Meredith :tsl\w-vf \~.i'--.x' VL'}J;A cdiss w showing the Minister is hedged in by very }1"0--13; n bill was comifg ."'W'; -" 1] s-- severe restrietions, and his discretion lim the House had been referred I'x'um" 1! ited AR_.every practicable manner. Sir Minister to another. It looked as if 1I'|"',. .O ®¥ said it had never been suggested ' all ashamed of it y 't'?'?py.-r) poor school which should re I'h .4 --\'!"Y'Yl"'.'~(]tll"l"ll laughingly said ceélve a grant should be named, any more """ Government had wanted to "")"".l"- than every district which should receive m bill so perfect that the uanUuJ; ;w l"Hl share in the grant for colonization roads have no fault to find with it es should be named in advance ',\'lr\ Meredith--When will it be down > Mr. Meredith asked why not. The Attorney--General -- 7 had been hop--' Sir Oliver replied that the suggestion Ing it would have been Aaw j had never been made before, and no hon (Laughter.) veibeen down before this, member on the other side had mentioned Mr. Meredith reforreq to a t ! it during the present debate. At at rati onnection with the h N. 3h ag l~\.:'z'.'._:-'y," | he did not think it was practicabl Hor per, as a possible indic KtIOh of ite « Pi & gentlemen opposite said the distribution »ir Oliver remarked :--" I , m"x»\-v* "" , was guided by political influenc That non. j leman that there has beer migdt i was the charge they makins ving--knife used." 'Cen i No { | now in connection with everything the Mr. «Meredith--Perhans butnr | S n Xiiky s 14 ty . BMA We 5y Alg C CInaps a butcher--knife \Government did, said Sir Oliver em iti ihe Attorney--General vouchsaf. [ ho re Weally. They were crazy on the subject of Ply to this, and the House dJ y x | § political influence.-- (Ministerial appla ) C e They made that charge at random nad could not bring forward a ngle fact in support of it For 22 years ipportion ments have been made by the Gov ernment to poot hools, and yet no cas« Of an improper grant being made has ever been discovered. (Applause,) Mr. Marter thought that the grant was a good thing under propar rsestriction o But ho thought that the grants were mad through nolitical influence ; pi theally they were made through th rept tive of the county in the Hou In hi feown constituency, his opponent was tryin ',t'o induce people to vote for him by pr mising ald .to the schools ; he himself had I never been able"to get so much as a man for the schools in his constituency, though his predecessor had managed to get aid He held that many of th« newspapers of the Province regard Mr. Ross as a parti zan Minister. Mr. Stratton again reminded Mr. Marte: of his motion at the ond of the last Parli ment to increase the fund, and defended Mr. Ross for the way in which he has el« vated the condition of the poorer thool A few years ago the Opposition were ask Ing for the grant which now they were resisting Mr. Stratton then detailed the methods of the granting of th« im and defended the course of the Govern ment in this connection Mr. Waters supported the grant, holding that the Province is just now in a posi tion, its Parliament buildings being built and paid for, and being free from debt, to enter into such an expenditure He was better pleased with the grant for poor schools than with any other dollar of the expenditure of the Province. Mr. Meredith rallied the Attorney--Gen-- eral on what he termed his sensitiveness upon this subject, and on the wavy in which he scolded the Opposition for im puting motives. He held that the Oppo sition could furnish examples of political favoritism in regard to the grant, and ence more stated his objection to relin-- quishing so large a sum to the absolute control of the Government Mr. Tait called attention to the continual repetitions indulged in by the Opposition upon this toplc, and requested them to furnish some plan by which the required id could be distributed any better, more ethciently or more equitably than by the system now employed by the (Government. The attacks of the Opposition were too vague to arouse serious attention Their tactics were simply resorted to to wasie the time of the House, as the public who heard it and read it next day would fully understand. A number of votes went through with-- out discussion, and then some debate arose over the vote for the School of Pedagogy. Mr. Meredith expressed some doubt as to the advisawbility of having this school a separate institution, and asked if the Uni-- versity could not undertake this branch of instruction. Hon. Mr. Ross, in reply, stated that he would be very glad if such were the case, and entered into a full exposition of the @ircumstances of the origin of the school. and the question of the teaching of the subject of pedagogy in universities. Dr. Willoughby expressed doubts as to the efficacy of the school. He thought that he Vice--Principal, Mr. Levan, was not altogether successful. He was also in-- clined to think it was wrong to send highly--qualified University graduates to learn from men who had no higher quali-- llcations than they Mr. Ross explained that these teachers in the school were not to teach lnglish, classics, etc., but to teach the graduates how to teach these subjects.