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V ton' or Kemptville. The amendment! l proposed was without precedent in iiGl - municipal history ot tar, Province, and: the hon. gentleman should not endea- vor during the, last hours of the ses- t sion in the application of these bills to impose a new principle that has.' never yet lit-tn approved of. He sub- mitted that the hon. gentleman had better withdraw his, opposition to these bills. Taking all these bills to- " gcthcr. one case with the other, there has been a sort of tacit acquiescence in allowing theso bills to go through. not in the form in which they were origin- , ally inti'oduc-d. The House and the public should understand distinctly that t'rwsi hills to which a two-thirds \vott- has not already been given and the ri-iiuircnicnts of the municipal act; have not hi't'il met the Private Bills) Committee insisted that they should go! hack to tho people and again submit thr, Iry-liiws to tho qualified ratepayers; Mr ii'|\\lfillii withdrew his amend- l'litlli. and tho bill was read a. third Him and pass d. I Th.. Juli..; to confirm hy-law No. 2411 of tho Villupr of New Hamburg (Mr.i Mimi") and iespecting the Village oft, iii-nylon (Mr. Tucker), which are of ai Similar nature to that respecting the! Tov, n of 'i'liorold. were also given third} mailings without opposition. ' TIIN, l'thithllHYE CASE. l lion. Mr. (lilvson moved 66 that this Pous" doth ratify and approve of a ccrtain agrocnwnt and license of occur. pation granted to Col. w. T. Engledue. of liyiiect, Surrcy. England, and oth-l t-rs, of certain locations in the Rainyi Itlveap district, bearing date the 17thl, day of F'erruury last." The hon. gen-l tlcinan said that in view of the fact! that all the papers and correspon- uencc had iii-t n printed and submitted to the iiousc he would have. felt in- t'lincd to support his motion by very few words luy way of explanation had . it not hccii i'or'the fact that hon. gen-l ilcnwn opposite and the Oppositioni i lift-Sr? in thc Province seemed to have, I conic to tho conclusion that some, po-; l litieal cat-ital was to be made Ly op-l, I ------. posing the action the Government had i I" . .t seen fit to take. As tho attempt had ) .- , ' Inum mado to turn the question to P". Hon. Mr. (libstm's Statement litical advantage, it seemed to be necessary that a few ohse .,, a. , . h fl should he made by way of tuWMN Brt is" m t f) OUSe. , of the course taken by ii39tiiir lr-tu . ment. The rwgotiations whit' 's,JigViuJ, ". lirvislativc Chamber. April 6. to thc agrocinent began last "mm-.- Tic (pinto upon the motion ort'ctu.il early in the month of July. and th ,., t" by thc turrimic.c,iotu't' of Crown Lands . Wt'rf' practically completed 1n tttot, . _ r" H . ..' her lilll- mou: ' oher. He proposed to 'ortdsrtslii:,' th, itpr,rwrvritt'rrt with t . show ma. .pdt he Government! glctlut- .u.i~.tl.t;.t.~ oci'ui'iH1 tht. "MW" "ad in view was the encouragement of s," attention trl' tlu- Home to-day, with tho the introduction of English capital In- . . V ' 'NN' Inintitc.s autumn} to to our mining regions in the. northw :st- .-xtt-p.iou oi .. it . , F am part of the Province. that the ac- rcuiiiiv pro rsr-diuvisr. Th" tltlurt' wirs tion of the Government had already re- Inisls, in.» si-n'uk» 1's on thc t+Iroroitiott suited in gratifying evidence of its F, l- of Ihr. "LUV imparting" scpicts by success. that there had been an entirei :1". . I , F i .r tl b "rt-""114 ' absente on the part of the Governmert iiisitiuatriis iv-'lMU'n lt l. ' l.,f anything like want of good faith, of the Fillillt'titt' and thi- ziili';:wt I'i'lil- _ and that so far as the imputation oi tlons inl\\l' it its iii'iiilwrs and the l Johhvry' was concerned or the vct'"'tTe'i".- '< . . . . _.. ' (l onl , that in making the arrattgemen my Govctitlrirttt, Mr. Hayturl l 1;} .. t .3; i WL't'U, conferring favors upon their tndotstril thc trarr.c,artiim, Lut f" "ML," l friciitls in Cyntario under the pretext of the application of the pi'iiiciplc, with [ dealing: with English capitalists, these soun- slight in 'rliticatiotis in tictnlls, to l, ttt'ctac,atirrtis.v, "pl-o entirely unfounded. . ri..,..: fr a "tdirtttrs or lurliHrlttt- l Tlw papwrs showed on the face. of them an) 1rilt l'yi "m Fi) C . . . 1 that tho s: It: motive of the Government its ma in: similar I""il"'slt"lr'"h wl.1'm 1 was: to assist and promote the mining the M iv was mitt-r. a few. minutes utter l industry in the northwestern part of 1 oyslru'li til" Iliv'tiyt1 1,isls .sclorwrul a ', the Province by the introduction of majority ot ."p) tor the i.ovci'uiucut. l for: lizn capital. It would be seen that lithl'S ljY-laAWS. i, in thc letter' of th, Attorney-General, then Commissioner of Crown Lands. to VIM" thr. motion that hill No. W Ci"- l Col. 'tcnrdeduc, dated Sigh July last, the spot-ting the Town of Thoturhl, lw rcziii i ovinilvns, expressed that it was only a third tins. Mr. Howland inure-i in l with a view to the further introduc- I attiendnwnt thut tlu. bill "" t'tst'ry.'rc'i't i tion of British capital into the Rainy t ljack ti coniiuittc». with instructions River ("grim that the proposal could to ttrtirond lit" Sim" " irv.osrtlt1p,' ct. I he ercn considered. In August Crt. l clause lithldihK that " shall not '4tt I Fhsr,'leduo, after his return to England, into eiTt-ct until thc question has licon wrote to the Commissioner of Crown sulunittcd to the whim-"M's 1y'o'er'ly Lands stating that the terms which utralilitsd to Irtrs on tpm1'y' ity-laws had been proposed by the Commission- and (um-"dd"- a nyirrity trf nyt less l er were not such as to enable him to than tht"'r'-t'ourtls l'l niirii.l't'.r' oi those [ enlist sv.tr1ciot capital in the enter- inting t"Iris"ritirry,' ti lililJUl'li)' of the I prise. It wt.ulil be seen that the ttt"st ae,e.i"Y/C.l . appearance of Mr. J. K. Kerr in the . ',v,1J,r,.f..,'it',T/y1 point '1 /,.?,?, '11")."rm't'f'"? negotiations was when he tirst casual- ti,1l)'ri"."f)yttt), oi 'i"tli?,e/ie,'t'ii'; lby-ld" 1y met (Vii. Engledue on a visit to uthi k",' t in" f) H. .m.mm 1mm? London, England, and the Government 7 r. ' t. J! 'r1It sPnl"".rt.t d tly" .ary"mrl-, knew nothing of Nr.herg' in the mat- ment as hem: corri ct in principle. . . b th: t visit to Eng- Hon. J. M. 1'rilrson suggested that the, {ghdataihld "littlesimther negotiations we ; s',.1J'r',':efi,'ytliyif,',c',, £333} o1,/,ehl,di.'i,, t well under way. The House 'r/li))')) _ ' ' tn ).t' ' ' understand that in his own country and he holed that ho would not Gil . . . the Hon t" to th . . Col. Engledue "as a gentleman whq y. e trouble of dividing.,' . . t The Port l'aihousle hill had been allow.3 had been deemed worthy of heing "Si' , t 't' _ . . trusted with an important mISSIOH , ed to go thi stiqh without opposition,, . r. th Fl lisbury '; _ and he depruuted the selecting of one! far back as 1891, when, e itz'ii Co- or two bills and passing others. He Government sent him to Br 11'l a d not set; that the hon. member for _ lumbia to report upon the con or: uth Toronto hsi given notice of am- the ero'tters settled there. He IvaF. i U ent to the unis relating to Draw.), i -