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3( "Where did you get it ?" asked Mr. Whitney in gsome surprise. -- "I had it taken in shorthand by a} man than whom thére is none beiter in the country," returned Mr. Davis. Mr. Whitney, in referring to the corruption, had said : "The men who counselled | these things are professedly Christian wen," and who "had sunk so low in the moral scale that .they had done these 'thlngs." and had referred to Mr. Davis as '"one of these professedly Christian Mr. Whitney, on rising to reply,plung-- ed vigorously into a discussion of Mr. Davis' position. -- HMe said he was sorry for his hon. friend opposite. "The hon. gentleman was not himself, and never was less himself. As to Mr. Davis' report of the Newmarket meeting, Mr. Whitney declared that if he had report-- ed him as saying Mr. Davis was one of those professing Christians who com-- mitted those villainous acts, it was an abominable and untrue report. He also denied that any of his remarks could be construed as a sneer against Christianity. (Opposition applause.) Mr. Davis had not, he declared, become seized of what the charge was against him. The charge against Mr. Davis was not that he had secured the reap-- pointment of a deputy returning officer, but that he, a Minister of the Crown, had interfered between the righteous wrath of the returning officer and the misconduct of a deputy returning officer. . Moreover, the Minister had ad-- mitted interfering at the request of Mr. Alex.> Smith, the hub of the machine and the man who had brought in all the outsiders to the constituency. Ap-- parently Mr. Smith knew the right man to go to. The Cabinet Minister should have resented at once as an insult the application from Smith to interfere with the returning officer, who occupied a sort of quasi judicial position. Whe-- ther or not Mr. Davis had any in-- fAuence in reappointing the deputy re-- turning offilcer, the result of the man's rehabilitation was seén in the stealing of 58 Conservative ballots in one poll-- ing subdivision in the Town of Berlin. (Opposition applause.) HMe deflied the mer who. would perpetrate these vil-- latnous acts." -- Therein he had sneered at Christianity.. He had also referred to Cummings as a "protege of B. J. Davis." '"Many men had been hung," Mr. Whitney had said, "for less crimes than those.\ Every hamlet in North York, Mr. Davis added, would know Mr. Whitney's statement, together with the statement he had to make in re« gard to it, and the result would not be satisfactory to Mr. Whitney omm hig party. -- (Ministerial applause.) C Mr. Davis concluded his address with a reference to his trip to Sudbury. The nickeli law had been enacted in the Gov-- ernment's belief that it would benefit the country and result in the estab-- lishment of reflineries here. _ Already plants were being constructed at Sault Ste. Marie and at Hamiiton. © There was also much to do in the way of colonizing the Province, and the Gov-- ernment intended to direct particular attention to those townships suited for Mr. Whitney Replies Vigorously. Hon. Mr. Gibson--Perhaps the hon. gentleman will favor us with the names of other guilty parties. Mr. Whitney--He has only to look at Hon. Mr. Gibson--I have told you that the prosecutions against known offenders were attended to. There were lawyers in this House, Mr. Whitney sgaid, who were as much amazed as he was to hear the Attor-- ney--General say his department were not in the habit of instituting prosecu-- tions in the Province. He contended that the statute provided that wher-- ever an election court,reported _ any person for bribery, it should be the duty of the Crown Attorney to prose-- cute him, unless the Judge directed otherwise. _ 'The Government _ spent large sums in prosecuting -- ordinary criminals, but in the case of West El-- gin made no effort to carry out the salutary provisions of the law. K Mr. Whitney--Bole and Cahill were the only two being prosecuted. C@¢emmissioner of Grown Lands to point iJ one drastic step which the Govern-- ment had taken for the punishment of wrongdoers at elections. What the Government were doing was covering up instead of exposing the wrongdoing that had taken place. * w More West Elgin Threatened. Mr. Whitney intimated that the West Elgin matter might again come 'up for discussion before the session ended, and that more than once. He reiterated his opinion that the appointment of Mr. John' Hoskin to the commission of financial experts was an indecent one. He was proud of the vote he had given against a railway to James Bay. The reason was ~because the Mouse was absolutely in ignorance as to the route of the railway and its pos-- sibilities of success. As to the ques-- tion of education, what he had propos-- ed was that a consultative committee or advisory council should be appoint-- ed, and he had suggested that the members of this body should be select-- ed by the teaching profession. It did not follow that the Minister should be obliged to accept the advice tendered. He was flattered that Mr. Ross had ac-- cepted his suggestion, even to the very name of the committee. The Attor-- ney--General had maintained that On-- tario could not legislate vo as to re-- strict the manufacture of logs to On-- tario, on the ground that it was in vio-- lation of the B.N.A. act, but what was Quebec doing to--day in the matter of pulpwood? Mr. Whitney affirmed that he had in the summer of 18098 advocat-- ed placing an embargo upon sawlogs, long anterior to the announcement by the Government of their policy upon the question. He also contended that at the session of 18908 Mr. Hardy, the then Attorney--General, took strong ground against the appli¢ation of the manufacturing clause to licenses to cut Crown timber, although Mr. -- Gibson claimed that the Government had de-- cided upon the timber embargo weeks before. Mr. Gibson--Not as to current licenses. _ The Failure to Progecute. has only to look at