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lot lars more to build up 0: side an industry to can already "stalolished ju: river l' I'nder the agree adlan Niagara Power ( to develop 10.000 horse- have water connections t power. There was not In the agreement from iittt é'onrtrrnintt the deveir mmpleted it likely. would ape for the pay Ms. The ( mny had .8 [am on the a: he tttuh the thrtsp 'arenticinen 10} mmpany to be forum]- Nidgytrn Pawn Comm"): mually- within Mr. Hr lodge that the commany adgururt to the concern on of the river, the ('atamo Power. Company, The; " trolled and o'wned by tho, aims of the City ot Neuw \f-ry prusp'm-lus It had it the aprwmont into which you have entered." ' He had recently road in the paw-rs. and had hoard on the boat authority. that tho statement was cox-afoot. that onn of the largest textile manufactur- ing establishments in Scotland, via., Alex. Morton & ('o.. was troine to In- 11er an the Cat sin-re. s Snnm d thv Cat on tho Alex. Norton & Vo., was going to lo- vatc on the American alde of the Falls In order to manufacture there and CX.. port its products. In Mr. German's opinion that company could manufac- tttro land export to butter adviintire on tho Canadian side than on the opposite shore. and he firmly believed that if the sun» development of powm' oxlstvd on the Canadian sido- that was to. be found on tho opposite bank tho firm in ques- tion would hav6' established itself In tho County ot Welland. Thom was anothér fact to be homo in mind. Messrs. Rankln. Ste-tson and Shaw wore: tho threo kentlenten toproswntmg the' company to be formed-tho Canadian Niagara P6wer Qumpuny, But it was people in this locality have a right to Insist that there should he at the earl.. iest possible moment a development of power Within the park. On the other side of the river there is a large, de- velopment of eleetrie power', and in the development of that power the com- pany have spent large sums of money. the development having Isvouer,ltt about the building up of very large Jtinnu- facturing establishments. The newss- ment as a result rose from 34.000.4430 in: 1890 to $15,000,000, and the population from 9,000 to 23.000. On the Canadian- side the place is positively at a stand- .stlll, without increase in population or assessment. " anything is sure to brine about the establishment of man- ufm-iories it is the "erelotunertt of electric power there. Title stagnation is simply bet-nus . the Very company whivh are making tho large tleveloprnent,butid- ing up tho :lSSiSiabii' value and inernns-' ing the population on tho Amerienn side have tied up the power on the I'anadiau side. and to all uppenram'es intend to keen it tiwl up unless the Government and Legislature put their foot down and say. "You shall Co on no longer un- less tTut (-m'rv out the :u'm'isions of tho agreement into which you have on this side to-day. He fiiifriFem TE would "wet with the approval of [ivory rimmhr-v: ofrthf' Lrtislatuvo that the . Company, But it wa f Mr. Harman's know commany named. was ttl 'nncern on the pthvr sh! lan side, but had not, it, more than hall trlopment there. Was l, that the company a or four million dor atarm't C%tt.qtrurtion lht latter "as mm- " tntsltGtotinion- v York; and the' issued. Provided Canadlzin rent, .etrut'tion Com, millions' of dot- le, but had not, mm- than half manufactur- otlund, viz., going to In- of the Falls in mind Shawwon "nuns: the Canadian: mm-, dol- n: It ' half Was an extent as sible rest they did. He also revlc-wo new Canadian con right to develop pm the deslre of tho I It, but Its lnabillt: the terms of tho a lly sympullllzed l Niagara Falls and thcir desire to see on as a. reasonable limo 'in must 0011191019 their i-nnm aside; Mr.. Hardy tltep he! n-ply to 11* qmistlnn by Mt: few days up? in which he in intention: of the Crovermu force tho terms or the Hun" I' knots for plrto whic- tvrod Into by the l'ruvinwo in 1592. when the development of vlrwtt"ic, pow- t't' at Niagara Pulls was in its in- famy and a matter of experiment. The Government was met with the (igne- nunt made with the company; an agrr-c-memt made not with the Govern- ment alone, but with the Hume and with the Province, assented to unani- mously by the Hausa. whieh the (-oun- try assnnted to, and in respect to whleh there was svarreiy a murmur. The Government had on thron o:'t'a- triotts--m 1897, 1898 and again in IS90--. v.otitied the company that the timo would not be oxtmulm]. In tho latter part of inst year tho company was to,ctithul in view of the" cammvnrcmunt of certain works at the Falls that no extension of time would be "llowot. Later on and since the House hav, us- somhicd notion was sgi'ved Upon the company. stating that time was: the pascm-n at. the ranting-humid that the 1ivt tif Novcifitwr, 1899. Wailooko ttp- ou as a reasonable time "m whieh they must rommotv their bontvat.t or sham forfeit the (-nnu'acl. Tho felt that the Provinz-v w, bound by that ugrvemont Individual would have been Vince muld nut gtiTord to ountrmt by a strutch of and the Govvrnnmnt foun up by tho provisions of a kWh the power tied up for a hundrnd years, and only develop 5,000 gun-triad horse-power. It was perfectly proper for the Government to exact sullivient rental to pay the interest rm the park debentures. and to make the park free in fact as " was in name. but that the q'ugstion of rentals should be the prime object in the "nGrstioTt-ii? -titeGciaop. went he denied. The Government need 't' the cto the hich th Sympathized IN t as roseato a result of that did, he agreed l of the Governmmrt terms of the agnwnn and \Vollnn see industr! Mod by Pet ith Ni P.vrrwt't-anet.'nvhi; tslttrtrttte full vieutott. the Iror. (lmu-lopment an' with them as to I or prm'ogalivu, round itself tied of a r-ontl'uM rm- mvinco in 1592. T of eltttphe pow- was in Its in- expuriment. The was t as en. If H as mus: s a wimp The Pro violate th n'm'ogaliw Home nnd I to unani.. t the mun- respect to a murmur. 111N154" hielt they t or step I'('(] to his lé-rman a 1tatert tho L'l'lll lv, u lat IIIJIIJ' n ha:- could m1: nt much 'I\':l , J 0n-