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- __ W i-------------_ Mr. Hodgkin and his run. and informed tir' the'oonotgbio Tttteq ma the owttem T 8 the House that according to Mr. Hods- of pollinl booths. His hon. friend. the tmf written statement the animal in fltt"tttve"2'rttfi,ii,t'itij,ii2'iiky' if??? question was at the Guelph farm in 1886. mm"), or ladder by which"; should which was before Hon. Mr. Dryden be- climb out of the slight depression-U. came Minister of Agriculture and be- fl',uv't!,1enrtiittfdw/gli2tiaihi,ijiva,' the fore there was any Minister of Amlcul' now able to see what its 'e'ir'e'letU2Tt ture for the Province. Therefore the be atnd 2l",,tc1,t, will landlthe Govern- . was uilt of men ' an w y t will carry out the charge that Mr Dryden tr l, ' suggestion and declaration of his hon. any wrongdoing "as disproved. he friend tor West Huron. when he said remainder of the afternoon and even- while they are Btrhtlettr for a party ins sessions was occupied by the. de- 31f; Je?,, :5; not going to throw away bate on the constables bill, which was He proposed to enter into a proper opened by Mr. Whitney, who was tol- and reasonable discussion of the at- lowed by Hon. Mr. Ross, Colonel Mathe- tempt wthibch has rtieept'i,"e"t,tg the Gov.. ernmen y means 0 e o over- Bon. Mr. German and others. ride the legal result of the elections Privilege, held on March Irt last. Now they had Hon. Mr. Davis. rising to a question rC'lt iteiru'g/egg,T.itte,,t/ij,i '23:; of privilege, called attention to an edit- lsiature to discuss the measure, to see orial article in The Mail and Ernmre whetherdit t', tgt", and proper mea- ot to-day in reference to the charge 3:318; ',',urhhteto'le'ihi,t, 'l1U'gg,,t,e,fotti, made by Mr. Hodgins regarding Treasury benches. as they climb up out the alleged purchase of a senile ram of the hote into which they have fall.. for the Agricultural Farm. After read- en. (Cheers) His pe. friend the Premter said there had been no retro- ing the article In question, Mr. Davis grade movement that the Government said that it was pretty clear that .there have not gone back any distance at all, are two features intended to be impress- and further than that, that he has not ed upon the House and upon the coun- heard of any ob ection from the ranks try by the article, one of which has of the Reform tfit' to "the bill. ire that thin worthless animal was purchas- had been astonished to hear' the state- ) ed by the Agricultural College at a mam ot ms hon.' friend, because he great loss to the Province, and the SP- could tell him now, that having due cond was that Hon. Mr. Dryden was regard for garrulousnegg of speech on the man who perpetrated this Wrong up- occasions like this, that eonflning him-7 on the Province. He held in his hands self to the City of. Toronto alone, he a certified statement from Mr. Hodg- could not io into any club or pestau-' ins that this animal was imported try I rant in the city where men t'ontrretrate him in 1882, Ind. that m the fttll ot and sit down for ten minutes that he 1885 he sold it to J. Glennie of Guelph, would not hear an expression of C)ppo- and that he saw it at the Guelph farm sition to this bill and to the principle in 1886. Assuming for the moment that which prompted its introduction. He it was there, he pointed out that the knew it to be true that the Reformers Hon. Mr. Dryden was not Minister of of the City of Toronto can he counted Agriculture in 18M. That Tvaa 1tetore in large numbers. who express openly any Minister ot Agriculture waa "0'. ' their dissatisfaction with the state of pointed in the Province at all, and when ', affairs in existence to-day, by reason Superintendent Brown had charce oil of the Government calling this session the college at Guelph. So that thei in an extraordinary manner for the charge that Hon. Mr. Dryden was guilty ; purpose avowed by the Government. He of anything wrong was entirely mis- then proposed to discuss for a moment taken, was not borne out by the facts. whether the hon. Attorney-General had and he hoped that the paper would receded or not. In support of his con- make a retraction. stating the facts of tention that he had heiointed out that the case. With reference to the charge the hon member for Oxford asserted that the animal had been purchased that he'was quite ready to have gone at an exorbitant price in 1888, the re- for the measure. which was indicated cords of the farm have been search- by the Reform press of the Provlntt--- ed studiously, and it could not be found simply a retroactive measure declaring that in that or any other year any such that the constables have and always animal had been purchased from Mr. had the right to vote. He referred to Glennie or anybody else. (Cheers.) the memorandum which had been quot- Hon. Mr. Hardy moved the second led by the Attorney-General the other Walling of the bl" respecting the elec- day "That the Legtslature should bc. tion laws. without offering any remarks asked to deal with the question in such upon the bill. a .way as to it may seem reasonable , ' md ust." The reference in the memor- Mr. Whitney; End's", to the refusal of the Court of Mr. Whitney immediately rose to cri- Appeal to give an opinion "Wed to noise the bill and was received with give the full facts. It should applause from the Opposition benches. have gone on to state that He said that after a lapse of a comic]- the Judges expressed doulbts .whet'her erable time they were face to face with n was a question upon which . they the mature proposition of the Govern- should be aid to give an opinion, ment. After practically two weeks' and, secondly, whether or not hesitation and discussion the Govern- the decision, it they did give one, would: ment had decided accurately the dist- [be binding upon the trial Judge. Than once which they will recede or retreat (iii tu' question of great imoortanmH in this matter of the proposed amend- ment to the election law, with regard -Ir-i-----i-"i-ir---..---,-,