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K organ to make his mode of discussion | N : omm & one of insinuation, false accusation, en-- > '?fi?,e?-? e}?t tth' rg:gula.tlons witndrawing d | deavoring to arouse the prejudices, to \| enjo e% b Oufu _'all i oirfers any y 4 ' --__ make believe that hon. members on the ) ,he,,i' (he Ping iimit--holders and gave Government side of the House are un-- l / I ti o HDm Inell ~ e Ainportant| . f patriotic, that they were dabbling in ; | navvic 0'? which the Government had to treason. that they. were: loving: The [ ls;ttle was whether they would reverse United States more than they loved k tme aot of Parliament and the contract b Canade, that they were niembers from with limit--holders, go back on the hon-- 7/ Michigan. Irresponsible writers had of Ihe Chown.. abmething . which Alle e ' q3 -- from day to day and from hour to hour Canadian Parliament has never yet ~£ sent these statements through the sarctioned, whether they would-- keep f ' country. i {)helxt-hworcd, whether the contract made / y e Crown on the honor of the | «_ & The Situation. | Crown with foreigners was to be broken P The Government found itself face to \] |for the first time in the history of the | / face with a situation in which business | Dominion and Province. That --was | > meonOf 1&rEE cabpit & what the resolution of t p & pital had invested in | > he hon. mem-- L this country, which we had invited ber for Simcoe asked them to do. /A 4 them to do. 'They had paid their money | he Government had received the Can-- A *¥ to the Crown. They had invested un-- ' _ _ adian delegation perhaps two weeks der our law, which permits and invites before the American delegation came. 89 ; aliens to purchase and hold property. He was rather inclined to think that f ¢ under which the rights of the alien or the latter was a morning interview, but ) $ foreigner are as sacred as those of any-- as the Canadian delegation came at 11 | body else, l_)ecause it is under .British o'clock he might be confusing the two. I law and British practice, which is not P ever the Hime, so long ns it was | like the American practice, which says not 7 o'clock in the. morning, was | ° , @liens shall not hold property in that not a matter of the slightest import-- '\ ountry. 'The 'hon. gentleman had ance. It had _ been -- made -- to . l poken in tones of hatred of the for-- appear that they were starting out at eigner at every meeting he had ad-- break of day with their slippers and j dre_ssed; he had advocated a policy by | underclothes on, as conspirators intent | which the bonds which they had enter-- | gnly on betraying the interests of their Y _jed into with these men under the sign country, and when the Canadian dele-- / manual of his Honor would not be re-- | enfion came there was a YTeporter on 'spected, but would be wiped away, just hand, but the delegation did not wish as if they had never existed. 'The Gov-- { him to be present at the interview and :\ ernment were dealing with the logs of & he did r:.qt come in. When the American } y | these men, which they could not take e lt ow kame --there was no reporter 4 out of the country until they had paid présent, ut a renorter was called in the full stumpage dues. The Province from one of the departments to tak had sold 20,000 ~odd: miles _of .timber dt)}\'n \\'hqt transpirea, that none of U;g § lands, and the Americans have pur-- points raised might be overlooked in > |0hased 217 miles from the Government the subsequent consideration. |and 2,471 miles from~ private parties. " i i These were Americans who did not own To: Consult «Farfiatient. mills in the country ; those Americans The Premier read t i ; . f 8 ; € ie provision of t ;v7hs(; digmoe\;n ;rr\llllsaldnd,ganuda owned statute \'\'hich had 'been alluded i() l:; ¢! tl,h L 1 on. Bohind u/4 Mr. Whitney, relating to the imposi-- J ese owners, however, stand the tion of restrictions on license--holder + banks and private parties -- who / and put the que's'ti'(m as to. ;\'l;f-]toh( t'q?'l t + have loaned money in -- some # did not mean that these restri ~te'l tr1 | & instances to nearly its full value, so ; should be imposed l)cfox.'e tm-'eal(e lODS; s | that the Government is not dealing so not after it. He advanced the pro an.(} C much with Americans as with those wa'n that any restrictions whicg n?lomz * ; who had advanced money. be impesed should be consistent \\i?hl | & y the rights of property whic L l f | Provincial Honor Involved. sold to the ll(~ensc-}¥01del';h l&:?lg h('f(:l!:" f ! 1 Yl:t hon. gentlemen had sought to "h}:l,((h "F,}:ey had pai({ltheir money. If] * E make it appear that when the Govern-- nomnt ho' oofi e e ApubF on thisl . | ment met the deputation of lumber-- tne dovenmeion t io Oe t reaily ot | ' \ men. as they met deputations in the | t el,}'f,'-'.mnn"'m 1 o subm}r 1e mattex" Counci Chamber every day, they.--hald o Parliament and not pass an order in | a meeting that smacked of treason; clouncil this year, 'They resoived that | ?]s if the members of the Government ;tm? 'Sh::um"nnt deal"w]ithj the "('('HS(!s' & E a s year. ecause iad bee rge | en hale eeane o atuaays sgainst the interests '0f. This Province. alxml' a conflscation of property rights, If there could be anything more ('h"d-' '::d?':fidnx 1";"{"(11 ie \iinlating one Of y ish than these statements he had t ancnloi masins upon whic ' to learn it, anything that apprnace\(:d ! monarehical institutions is based 'i! ht' ' ' nearer to imbecility, that could show the honor of the Crown is th':'fl';fl"!tl :a | ' greater desperation. Hon. Mr. Hardy curity of the subject thé ('.0{'érfiméx§' then compared the amendment of Mr. | thought it was better that they shmxlril Haycock with that submitted by Mr. | not --deal with the question so far as it.I Miscamphbell, and pointed out that it | referred to the bugm;\ V'f'"th'm ?b v.| was not the practice in the address to "'Mr. Whitney had S)dlsci O'N l'?fi zleaz;; * set forth fully what the policy of the American fumhefmeg \\'nnw\u 1ulnd :e::i-i Government is upon any particular and thieves, Having d -i;;lp i 1e e j / question, but merely to refer to the \ terfere wlffi the llc%nse(s (f'r(r ?t?itq 9 m-' matter, and the Government had fol-- \ the next question was :s tg the lI '-eyxfsurs' | lowed the usual course in accordance ' hereaft N remi idaao: fe! | [ «iA precedents. Mr. Marcdy th . after. The Premier told of the ; | & M s Tok F . . Hardy then read magnitude of the interests invoived in | ; i the salient provisions of the timber h i j i eenses . and »pointea e k , the industry, and said that if through! Comfii;eiuner 3t Crow OuL dat when the action of the Government these had | 8 4 n Lands he had | been p;gj'tx_di_cially affected, the Opposi-- j