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Mr. Hardy quoted Mr. Whitney's ntate- ment that he never anticipated there would be a reduction in the rcVenue as a result of the enforcement of that rc- gulatlon. He hoped the press would quote him fully on that point. That the h . gentleman would go from one end xthe country to the other, talk- ing upon that timber question, using vlnlpnt language, seeking to intUme the Crown land: revenues owing td-ttil,' nfohjyltign of my Expgjtauon ot logs. In reply to the charges of the leader of the Opposition that he had attempt- ed to bribe the. electors of West Elixir! in the speech which had been quoted, Mr. Hardy characterized the charges as trash and stuff. and declared that there was not one ten-thousandth rart of bribery in all the remarks he had made as in one. single appeal by the friends of the hon. gentleman opposite to a. single manufacturer m respect to the price of " goods under the Na- tional Policy. (Cheers) The Westmin- ster had not copied the extract upon which its condemnation was based from The Globe. but from The Mail and Em... fire, which claimed to have copied it rom The Globe. but had not whim the whole of it, nor did it copy the con- text. He then read from The Globe re- port of the speech, as follows :---"He spoke of its trowth and prosperity, of the keen political contests of which it had been the centre. They were an ambitious city, a great railway centre, and were becoming more so. They were to some-extent also a manufacturing 'clty, and were a. growing and expand. in; yeopic. What did they wish to do "Where In the bribery there,?"-aaked Mr. Hardy. "Where the promise? What benefits had we to confer upon St. Thomas, ?" Mr. Yrsrrden--Railway aid. Continuing, Mr. Hardy excused his interrupter for the remark, whose youth as a legislator was responsible for his Ignorance of the fact that ten or twelve years ago the Government adopted the policy which had since been adhered to of not granting further aid to railways in the older settled por- tions of the Province. The Prompting Motive. Taking up the timber question und the reference to the necensity for rats- ing revenue to replace the loss in be " in power, representing the sum-3 party at Ottawa. and at Toronto. Ap- plying their arguments locally to 'West Eigin. Mr. Hardy showed that as they already had a Conservative representa- tive in the Dominion House, therefore they should send a. Liberal to Toronto. This deduction was greeted with laugh- ter and sppiause. Mr. Hardy pointed ta the benefits, that would follow such a course at a. time when the ttood tide of business was risint. Just as Food times were upon them, just as the Gov- ernments were beginning to teel the ef- fects of good times. of increased busi- nese, of increased commerce and grow- ing enterprise throughout the Domin~ ion. did they want to place so goodly a town in Opposition at both centres of political inttuence'? (Cries of 'No.') Continuing, Mr. Hardy paid Mr. Mac- nish , high personal tribute." on-the 12th , Their oppotients Virrgruévd Pt) the two' Governments should not A Slander Nailed. Replying to Mr. Whitney's remarks in reference to the proposed amendments to the school laws and his charge that the Minister of Education was cutting the ground from under his feet, and that there were not a. hundred pur- sons who could read and write In the whole Province who would say they agreed with the policy of the Govern- ment, Mr. Hardy said he had found it most dimcult travelling all over the Province to tind a hundred persons who knew what the policy of the hon. gon- tleman opposite is on education mat- ters. ((Theers.) On the other hand, he pointed to the thousands who have ex- pressed their opinion within the past few months in Halton, Lennox, East Northumberland and other rulings. The assertion of Mr. Whitney that not a shadow of education was imparted In the public schools of the Dresent day was monstrous. unJutstituble and un-' warranted. Did the hon. gentleman contend that the education is not prac- tical enoutth ? It is more practical than it ever was. and, the tendency for mind of 'tiW'iropuiace upon it. suiting thatthe logs"should be exported to tho United States. and never anticipating or suspecting that there would be a reduction in-the revenue, was an un- paralleiled statement upon the tioor of the House. and one that he could not have conceived would drop from the lips of his hon. friend even in his rashest moments. He had said on the platform that the hon. gentleman did not know much on the timber question. and now he knew that he did not., _ (Cheers) How was It possible to pre-i vent the American lumbermen 1ioiding t limits from cutting logs tor export usl 'they had been doing for some years 'without causing a sensible and appre- ciable reduction in the revenues ct the Province ? No other man could have been so blind as not to see what the re- sult would be. It was a blind leader loading the blind in that sense. lie must have known that there would be a great drop in revenue as a result. It he could say all he thought, without! imputing motives, he would say he had! wondered whether his hon. friend had: " much solicitude as he alleged for the ) prevention of the Americans carrying, it away. He had always suspected that there was something more, that there; was another reason. avowed only in' private and not in public, and that was that the moment , they began to reduce the revenue of the Government from Crown timber and lands' or other sources. they would have to impose tn some way or other a tax for the purpose or.mak- ing up their revenue, and the moment they began to tax the t1itticul- ties of the Government would begin and they would be in a corner. (Government cheers.) For the past fifteen years. during which the Opposition had been arguing against the license tax, Crown timber dues and other methods of raising rev- enue, the inspiring motive behind all this pretended desire and activity for the preservation of the timber has been the desire to get the Government in a corner rather than any consideration of the public rights and interests. (Cheers.) The Educational Policy.