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C . . '. Pr , - cw .. A . _ 5 , . _ '. , . Isiiiiiething' but" -irt _ the transac- very block of land P f) in / i tlon. None of his relatives had ever! tt this country by 10 pet in hd _ - made anything out of him In that sense, I . Beatty ot Parry b (it: n and are not likely to. Had the trans- ngly opposed the "1011321; - action been consummated nine months e insisted that tho , of l- ago there was not a paper in the coun- . ons were known. to be of are?" Vi try but would not have chanted the Ite, and that the. phllanthropls s "in? praises of the Government. There was were entering Into the. atrangemlt it _ thclt a loud demand for a grand mining _ were "'cll aware of thtsftut. air .I_ policy, and the less the Press knew . was clrar to. anyone flit". the r "EL ahottt mining the louder was their de- ttons were within C').'?)...,",')",'.) 1 t; t "M mam] {or a policy which was largely latrtilgt'fHd other favorable iyo n s tit-sired My mining speculators. This s twin-n . 'tppiicatiott was made after the fever Mr. St. John declared that "tte/T, had h-voken out from Hossland. There rattgenient smack-d nihiwllilf:l I',", :tad in years gone by been booms in 1'.?."1tll Iturr,"1er'tntfu, .m "3"} (','nh't, Ontario mining lands, which had drop- 'tt'y, :tttd_had 'g,e//cipn/,?"pi'.l,,"1,t"t'i.. to oed. and investors had not got their fyPry,itsi.'m,tr httnsclt in fly? vi 1 if money back again in many cases. Brit- Col. Flnui uur. who IU/C',' "i'/y,tC1/t.""d'.l, tsh capital was in consequence very a speculator. Mr. Read. he sa t '., "(f coy. and the Government had recogniz- a prer.curitll and political frirmd oi Mr. "I this fact in negotiatiing with Col "9"" yr. J. K. kindwml .l,""ll:.l:.].l;, tingledue. The tract of land licensed -. .l'mfui" of it": INTI"! Jill?,",',)),")?, to this syndicate is, he pointed out, an " funds for man) seats. anl "f ' unknown quantity so far as its mineral the great capttaltsts at the bark of t'... l., . ' . .. _ ' . , "with is concerned. There may lots concern. Ho contltlucd to tttttkt Ot' . , .-_ ' . . . . , ' . b t may not ht valuable chntacs of this kind tot son" titttv. "vi rtal dw h"it tl " Th S di t tlllti trtlt'ta said that ho ttid not 1"Al't' It'. n rd 1110.18 it. e. e syn tca e, iio make any charge against the (iov- had to take its chance, Referring to ', t-rnmcnt. the case of Mr. Caldwell and his claim , Mr. Hardy o, go on. no one minds for land under water, the Attorney- " hat you say: yott are too well known. General asserted boldly that in law Mr. Whitney asked the ylpolit'i' if Mr. Caldwell had not a shadow of foun- the l'rcmier was in ordct' in speaking! dation to the land in dispute, but the in this way of a memo-r. Government had dealt. with him gen- Mr. Hardy insisted that he was t|llii0 erottsly. At tirst when Col. Engledue in ord~-r. I"Will-"c fot'tlipast "It". ""11" ,suhmittt-d his proposition the tmpres- Mr. St. John had hot-n d-aiing: with tsp," was that it could not he enter- statcmvnts of which he could not kitot'. I taino-d undcr the law. That was after-i rt1ythirts: !rr-trtllyr. wards found to be incorrect. The cry; Mr. \\ilili.'} rot-lied that tho tnsin was going up that capital must he: nation was that M". Ft. .lt-iiii was too brought in. The Government saw the] "oil known for his sttttentcnts to he or i opportunity and embraced it, and the! "nv vulurs. , Government asked the House. to II-l, After some further discussion MP. St licve that it had acted in this matter.l John l'i'iI""tilti with his si-lt, "loin lag it had acted In all other matters. ill". cmn-itr-'ion of witch Mr. Hardy loot-1113' and honestly, and to say that it'Irrit' ltr rcply " it" trillllllv's Into"; it l (I "cted in the best interests of i midnight. 'tVu),','.,,'))',,',",',' in making this arrange- , FVTrrN 'qmrrr. 't"v'rmr, " . 'rttt-. Au. I'r)l'.Nrlr-tiIiNrH'sAl,. 'IC/r, sr-hes, hy Dr. Willoughby'; The i'lt'ltiit-l' first draw-ted his Iiilt'n- and Mr. Howlnnd kept the debate g1?" ttion to Mr. St. John, who, in; said. "as , ingr until 1 o'clock. at which hour t " Itz'ivcn to (also insitntations. and who hells were set ringing for a division. lshould not discredit himstvlt' hy insinu- The amendment to the trery1.Ttn.t, :ttions {also in cw-t'ythini: that '.\cnt was carried on the following division i to make up an argument. Mr. Hardy i Yeas -Auld, Barr, Petercpyyy.rt..t,, can: a tlat denial to Mr. St. John's 'Ilit-zartl' Hurt. Cantpltrall, carpenter,' statctttcnt that Mr. lt-ad was a porn ii'v'),"ri, Chapple. Charlton, Cieland. k-vnal or political frivnd of his. Mr. '(raitz, Curtis, Dana, Davis, Dtclten-g lit-ad had iivod in "motion! o\"r 2t) |:'oll_ Drydcn, Farwcli, Ferguson, Flatt, wite'tt'rs' 'tf-Crt, and lit'ud tin-rt- two years. itiarrow, German, Gibson (Hantllton).t :-nd he hardly knew hitn. As to helm; "Harcourt, Hardy, Haw-och Loughrln, who." friods. Mr. Hardy declared |I\i:tc:tish, McDonald, McKay (Oxford), that from that day to this ho did not :Mciiay (Victoria). McKee, .M.tLay.T, know unit Mr. lit-ad's politits wore iMciaztn, McNaughton. McNetl, Me- Aftrcltcisirv,r Hrantfot'd Mt-. itczlti lived 'Nit-hol, Mcl'hcrson. Middleton, Moore, in Toronto for t\'.'t'l\'c years and ho did i Mtttrio, O'Iie-efo, Pardo, Paton, Jj,t," not St't' him more than once or twice itttilo, ltichards<n. IIotTt'stm: Ilohil- in that time. Twelve years ago Mr. ilard, iinu'f", Shortak Smriéh, Stratton,, Read "out to Englanthnd in that time Taylor, Truax. Tuc 'er-. . Mr. llatdy said he had received but Nays-Heatty (Leeds), Beatty (Parry ..n.- io-ttwr from him. in rct't-rcnco to a Hound), Brower, Bush, 9epfr1ts t't'qttcs't swim-tiling like the present. He Crawford. (lamey. Curd. "Raggedy. was in: more his friend than the man lliscott. Howland, Kerns. Kidd, Lang' in tho moon. it this Houst- had not) 'i'il'tl, Little. MrCullum, Magwood, tpr-. lrarn, d in tuinty yours they would i" r, Mathcst n. Bitacham, Preston. Reid in the nt-xt tanty yrttt's that his itAdi:in,trttrn), Reid tDurham), st. John, friends did not act any advantagcs cht' l Whittw.v, willoughlry--26. . his enemies. In making appointnn-nts I All of tho Patrons voted with the the (lovmnnn-nt favored tin-tr friends. C,oNirtotiomt exr't'pt MP. Gamey. .As hut in deciding: and dealing with Irri- tin-y did so ea~h was greeted with rate rights politics had nothing to do itonicai "hear, hears" from the Oppo- 1vith the decisions of the Government Isititrn. upon the rights of gentlcmun who came before them. He pointed out that Mr. [ 1Vhitney, in his resolution, had remov- i Hi the words which he had quoted front l the Premier's letter from its context I so that it appeared to refer to an agree" I tncnt similar to the present. while as i a matter of fact it referred to a Very 1iifft.trnt Itrrtostl. Ho "ttlid the at- tention of the House to every line of the correspondence as a testimony to the alisolttte fidelity to the cottntry'sty interest of the Government in the mat- ter. He did not ("arc whether Col. Engicdtlc had capital of his own, or induced others to ith-sl tin~ir capital. The question whether the promoter of this company ir wealthy or not is of little importance. He did not care how much money ht. may he worth so long as he can command the capital. Mr." Read. hc had liviu'tl. is a man who has millions, mado to a very large extent on the London Stock Exchange. The Government had taken good care that they deposited 820,000. and then only Rave them a license which bore upon its face the condition of forfeiture if they failed to carryLout the require- ments relating to development work., The Government.had therefore sate-l guarded the interests of the Province-- i had but one object, notwithsiandinsrl, the insinuations and lnnuendoes to the Cr contrary. Some of the papers had as- t serted that he (the Attorney-General) ' _ d relatives that were con- . ted with or might make _ a V," _ '5 l .,