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ce Leen 'Concéerned. . 1t ' | miliar with the subject at all wilt ad-- | |Parliament BAY® NY py the Dominion mit that there is more . money |i Las been dealt with NY one occasion for the country in a free ex-- | 9] Parliament on more 'hmklx 6 trade and port of lumber or manufactured timber, » as a matter affectiing h from this country into the United | } Commerce of© 'the country z,.np,-m]y.! St:t'h-'s than th(:ro, \m'uld ,M) by the im-- | which properly and naturally belongs position 'ff any duty upon "_'I(' "Xl)"l't': to the Dominion to deal with, (lit'ft-ro;nti of the unmanufactured material. That | Provinces having different interests | o to have he@nfithp view by which j 1 circumstances varying in different | the l(ll'll:'lrfl('nt of Canada and the Do-- ","'. s of the Dominion, and internation-- | minion Government have been actuated | ,I'i"('\ )% }]t" n;"'m"f i "trade' -- being | and I have no doubt that is the correct "l]""_.,_ '":'"f "'1"'" involved. T may view so far as this country is concern-- | perhaps refer. . to what has ed, in realizing on the products of our been done during the past 30 yeéears by forests, whether they be pine timber, -- To atth se ts c MATAPH. cedar, tamarack or any other variety the Dominion Parliament and Govern k + gv1 arlbugs ment in connection with the export of of our timber resources. sawiogs. The Canadian Parliament in 4 a wAl 1866 fixed an export duty on sawlogs Canadians at a Disadvantage. of $1 per thousand feet board measure. Now, the position was as I have de-- i That _ remained, I _ believe, the j seribed up to & recent date, when the & law of the land for a very long,! bill known as the Dingley bill was $ period--I think about twenty ,\'m_rs.! passed by the. American Congress, im-- % In 1886 the Dominion Parliament in-- | posing a duty ef $2 per thousand upon creased the export duty to $2 per 1,000 | lumber going into the United States feet, and by the same measure the Do-- | from this country. That was, of course, minion, Government were authorized by | a reversal of the policy of the pre-- order in Council to increase it to $3 | vious Administration, and naturally a per thousand if <thought expédient. F very important change in policy. But | Then in 1888 the Doniinion Government | the feature of that legislation, Mr. |""""' authorized by the Dominion Par-- Speaker, which has caused the trouble, liament, whenever it was deemed to be which his cavied irritation in this | advisable in the public i'";""'-""- ".' ""f' country and which has called public at-- | } duce or remove the export duty on "j' w = tention very pMMedly to this question, . |logs. The form of. that aet woes (0o is what is called the automatic aitach-- 'shm\\' that llif' l.'thniQiun '.A!'lf..l:nt'l'f ment of the Dingley bill--(hear, hear) j seemed to charge 'm",l,f""h the "','"'ni --namely, the provision by which, lf' sibility of 'l_'"'l"l'j' with the export o this country imposes an export duty of | A 1« :.\2 whenever Anl:l.l 'U.)It' t(lb ll'nln'. it any kind upon timber or sawlogs gulng' n'.u.:nt'l... deemed ~:.\|Ied'n-nt'm t'w .n}- into the United States, the duty of SZ' terests of the country either to reduce o Y P 4 l Or i worease the uty Under per thnu.fn.nd upon lumber, by reason 8 and in pursuance Oof the powers | of that, ipso facto, there springs into/ given by acts of Parliament the existence an additional duty equal to Dominion Government have act-- whatever may be imposed as oxp(:rt ed by order in Council. _ _On Nov. 13, duty by Canada upon the raw material 1888, under the act of 15"'"'- the '*"'"""1 going in. In other words, if this coun-- h (tlml' l\\i}h' {"":']':flit";lnlw s'l't'll';;r ;':":';'":g try imposes in a reciprocal way an ex-- Y 1889 h)\"kt.rx'do-:' ir'xl Council, the (1{1:): was port duty of $2 per M on the raw ma-- s s * terial going into the United States, im-- reduced to $2 per thousand feet board mediately the barrier against lumber measure, and on Nov. 11, 1890, a further \ pipa wepoke mo Ni ~Abv, F8 > } o in ons i: d order in Council was passed entirely going _'mtn the United States sprlnL&. % e from $2 to $4 per thousand and becomes removing the export duty, so that it Ohibitory.® Now ffect of that is | will be seen that during the five years txi," the ")'-"1'\ wow mmeleflect of hn s wg from 1886 to 1890 the Dominion Govern-- M ons o oO0 heic . Oikh a oe . Or ume ment as a Government dealt with this ermen after manufacturing their logs question no less than five different into lumber and taking that lumber to times. Now many of the previous | lhj" ;l\m('f,h"]u';"'".\l.";'.tl flIP (1'.h.'.rls.::-d Cor% changes which have been made have | ':f]t ""{}"l,'l('] ]' e (.m"'m 4T n:r;n"' '1 been reciprocal changes ; there has \,} l.n tow t u'- ogs n\q-'x to the :,\m' ricar been in a sense a measure of reciprocity TA' '.-'uml 1]1'.1111_11'11(-11.1(-' th.'m' into hn.n- between the two countries with refer-- | )@r in their mills there have an z\h.m.w' | ence to the duties on lumber exported ll'llu .1<.l\~.-1nm::-' nt" #2 per M over their { to the United States and the duty on f"!'"'!"'" competitors. (Ih-.ar. hear. logs going from this country into the This is a very much more ]"U"'"""' United States. One thing is certain-- , matter than on the face of it will ap-- | the policy of the Dominion Gov-- | pear. Although the mere stateraent .nf | ernment was to remove restrictions up-- | this fact alone shows the hardshin, | on the export of logs when the Ameri-- | | when it is stated that the lower grades can Government removed the barriers of lumber and the refuse, tnv' against the importation of lumber, and / odds and ends, all the cheap | 1 doubtless acting> for, representing or | and comparatively valueless material | ; voicing the sentiments of the lumber-- ; which in the face of the $2 per M duty I men generally, and doubtless acting in cannot be taken to the American mar-- I the best interests of the country at ket and sold at more than cost,if even , large, they would have been content, | at that, on free access to the Anwri(-anl -- whether Conservative or Liberal, for | -- side, the same classes of lumber J all time to come to refrain from impos-- | manufactured at the American mills ing an export duty upon sawlogs-- can be made the subject of very con-- ' (hear, hear)--as long as pine lumber siderable profit, and that is a point | continued to hbe admitted free, or per-- | which I believe hon. gentlemen who are | haps admitted at the moderate rate of familiar with these matters will con--| duty of $1 per thousand into the United | sider one of very --great importance in--| States. & ; decd.. (Applause.) l \\Itlltl"'iljl :11\\.1'_\:"(-unvuh'rod.h aindral | . wo suppose that anyone who is fa-- /