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e should votein the future, why 16 the crities might neve their say. on | hot equally as Just and, right {D4f C ie they would th seg the other side of votes should be hetd i4 e" Heen? 70 the case, the Tothetr© side of the® ques-- | past, as they W"Y'M avthe Gov-- tion. But, he said, they laughed him | When men who are serving in larger to scorn and #ook--pooned it, and the | ernment the whole time at much '0tROY result was that when the work came salaries than the retu-rni_ngti cers d on out it fell dead. It was dead from poll clerks, who | are gett "E' 1e:1" ioqi the beginning,. he gaid. That was not more, Are unquestionably entitled, ht good -- Parliamentary practice. Good vote; when these men enjoy that mg! ' parliamentary practice was to give out, by universal assent, when these men | | as it were, an advance sheet of what enjoy that right not as a party n;etfl:-. | their measure 'was to be, and they ure but by the unanimeus vote 0 he might then héar; what the public House and of the entire country, W ty \ thought of it and what the critics had are these constables to be singled out, to say a@bout it. He thought, there-- who -- are employed for' twelve fore, that he was following good ad-- or ten or _ eight hours' -- service vice, a practice well known and well to the . country: to. preserve the understood, and a practice which as peace and keep order, or if there is no | great a luminary as Gladstone had treach of the peace stand -- idle-- | sealed with his approval. why, he repeated, are they to be dis-- 'An Impc ~ _ _ ariminated against and placed in a n Important Clause. Aifferent position, either by iaw or by Mow, sir, as to the provisions of the act of Parkament? It is not rea-- bill. The first section makes provision Zonable; there is no justice in it. (Ap-- for setting down the questions in plause.) Therefore the iMustratio® given | schedute for the Court of Appeal. The by the passage of the act of 1"887 _gt second provides for the postponement Ottawa was, he thought, all on the "he of trials until after the decision in which of the contention on his side of the the constable question arises. Now, I}| House. But the Opposition said that have endeavored to meet the objec-- both parties united to pass that act. tion offered by my hon. friend from Uust so. That riveted the point, mak-- | South Toronto, which I think is a good ing it infinitely stronger than if it | objection and I am going to take ad-- |\hed been coined by a party vote. vantage of it. (Cheers). I have ell-- ' (Cheers.) The TIAberals had risen su-- deavored to provide that where the perior to party feeling. They were not petitioner desires to proceed and gives llike some others he had seen o.n.d an undertaking that the question of ' heard of--(applauee)--they rose superi-- the constables' vote will not be raised | or _ to all such. influences. We upon the 'trial, that the case shall be as Liberals are. just _ and fair proceeded with as though this act had enough _ to adhere closely to not 'been passed. The third c{guse pro-- the principles ~we have always vides for the trial of petitions; the avowed, and we"'are not prepared <to ; fourth declares the rights of consti-- take away fromm'these men the fran--| bles to vote hereafter, and the fifuh chise which _théy -- are entitled to.| adapts the oath of electors to this state (Cheers.) Their opponents said ' of the law. ~Bections 7, 8, 9 and 10 that the . mot at Ottawa adapt the law to the Dominion. As to showed that the constables had the certificates of the trial Judges, not the right tojvote; this act is to re-- they are to send the ceriificate to the move that dcubrh_and put it out of the Count of Appeal when there is an ap-- way; it would sot leave the country veal. * in a turmoil., "{Applause.) His hon. Section 11 deals with cases under ap-- friend had aoufi t to assume, he under-- peal from the decision of an election stood, that Sir Jehn Macdonald's seat | trial, The Ottawa act permits a per-- would not have; been affected had the son who has been unseated to hold his act of 1887 not 'been passed. The right seat until the appeal has been decided. hon. gentlemamhad a majority of 17 That is going too far.. (Applause.) only, and the "Wttorney--General --read Our own act provides the opposite from the petitidnt to show that the pe-- course.and that he should not take his titioner contested the right of the dep-- seat. I think both of them.are wrong, uty returning officers, poll clerks and or rather perhaps that is too broad an cornstables to vote; the number of votes xpression. I think the Ottawa act is affected was therefore equal to three distinctly wrong and that our own act times the number of polling divisions may be amended, and, therefore, I sub-- in the constlt'x'bncy. (Cheers.) The mit to the House as a substitute for seat of Sir Jé¥n 'Thompson was also the present sectilon, that where an ap-- affected, and that of Hon. Mr. Mon-- peal is made ;gom the decision of the tague, with his majority of one vote, % election trial, (where"the member re-- also, (Applause.) | turned is unsefited and the other can-- At that time there were 4n all 34 Con--| didate is declared to be elected, neither servative members, and later 36, in On--' party shall sit until the appeal is dis-- tario out of 59 in the House who had a posed of. (Cheers.) majority of a good deal less than a Section 18 providés that if a member | hundred. They could see, therefore, is unseated~by reagon of the consta-- that it was not a trifling matter. In bles' votes, then there shall be a new that declaration they said '"shall here-- © election, after be entitled to vote," they declared , | as positively as it was poseible for any i A Queruqfiof Justice. | person to de(;'lare th:dt constables "have ' and always have h a right to vote." f Discussing the right of the constables |It was a mere declaratory act, in the ( to vote, Mr. Hardy .referred to the dis-- words of Sir John Macd v wike : cussion in the public press ana else-- o nE twolll ' onald.. If so, p $ where would be the crime if Ontario did where. Was there anything more just p 4 likewise. If so good at Ottawa, how and in accordance with fair play than could it be bad in Toronto ? 3 that these constables should have the oC (Hear, c hear.) The mere fact that it was more right to vote in the future? he asked. important here in a political sense was If it is an act of justice that they begging the question; there was a t