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F-------------------------'--w'; prowae nestance. mnereroses ne was not e f 154 lpapodflontouyth&thqoua"'r § f Little, ° = f port the resolution. _ He deprecated, l%nmfi. Macdiarm Ay'+ A l)d.nl't'!duu( Dah-g f however to the Lieutenant-- o flfl'". t *3 $ Governor t&:mfifi- of imposing such ham), Tucker, '$udo . Whitney--21. | € taxation when he saw fit. It was too \ _ The main motion was lost on the $ much like hanging a threat over the same division reversed. . heads of the ml:fuc companies. In \ _ The pairs on the amendment were the view of the amendment moved 'by | | same, with McKee and Carscallen add-- 'the Commisstoner of: Crown Lands| . ed. The House adjourned at 12.80. he moved the following amendment tol * r ' t the amendment: '"That the information Station Street Bill. in possession of this House would not A deputation, nearly 100 strong, in-- 3"'1"{ the putting in effect of sections terviewed the Government last night to 4 to 11 of the act of last session, and protest against the measure known as thet this House deprecates the practice the Station street act. The Premier of giving power to the Lieutenant--Gov-- and Hon. Messrs. Latchford, Stratton ernor in Council to impose taxation by and Davis received the deputation. Mr. \ order in Council." :u'.!; AéhDuVernet. the'nrsltn sp:al::r. "111d ; at the measure proposing to give the { Conditions for Refining. railways . control (& Station street was 1 Mr. Conmee (West Algoma) said the a violation of the rights of the Govern-- ' conditions necessary before we brought ment. The Police Commissioners had into effect the mineral tax were a 1%® | declared against allowing casmen and. finery established here which was cap-- runners in thke station, and the railways ' able of refining nickel at a profit, and now sought exemption from the powers that we have a market for the nickel of the commissioners. -- He said. that when refined. We had neither con-- after being defeated in the courts the dition at present. We would have to Transgsportation Company, which -- was look elsewhere than Canada for a owned by large stockholders in the rail-- market for our nickel. For many years| ' ways, were now asking the Legislature: to come our best market must be the to aid them in obtaining their desire. ; United States. Mr. Conmee quoted He protested strongly against the re-- fAgures to show that New Caledonia uest of the railways ; they had produced more nickel than we did, and ?urlsdlctlon over their own busi-- added that the staterment that we had a ness, but they should not have monopoly was far from the fact. _ On--. jurisdiction over the whole public. Mr.| tario's Fmduction was about 35 per James Wilson, President of the Tradss cent. of the total for the world. He| and Labor Council ; Mr. Robert Glock-- hoped the Government would reeog-- ling of the Provincial Labor Bureau, nize the importance of the mining in-- Ald. Burns and James Conmee, M.P. dustry and pursue a vigorous develop-- P., spoke in the order named against ment policy. the bill. . Mr. Cor!l,meeh:;ld that the bromoters of the bill some. am-- me: piviston: endments which they would introduce, The following was the result of the but these were only roundabout ways division :-- of attaining just what the measure now On the amendment to the amend-- meant. He "°B§2 the bill would be de-- ment :-- feated. The mier promised care--| Yeas--Barr, Beatty (Leeds), Boyd, ful consideration. _ The bill comes be--| Duff, Fox, Gallagher, Jessop, Kribs, fore the Private Bilis Committee this, Jittle, Matheson, Monteith, Morrison, morning. Macdiarmid, McLaughlin, Pyne, Relid serimeninctteientimmmmmeemmermmmenmemmaze (Addington), Reid (Durham), Wardell}, * Whitney--19. 4 Nays--Auld, Barber, Beatty (Parry Sound), Bridgland, Brown, Burt, Cald-- well, Charlton, Colquhoun, Conmee, Davis, Dickenson, Farwell, Gibson, Graham, Gross, Harcourt, Holmes, Latchford, Leys, Loughrin, Mun-- |ro, Mutrie McKay, McKee, Pardo, '\Pattullo, Pettyplece, Preston, Ross, Stratton, Taylor, Truax, Tucker--34. Pairs--Dryden, Hoyle ; Harty, Foy ; Pardee, Lucas :; Blezard, Robson ; Richardson, Eilber ; Ferf\uon. Marter; Douglas, Dempsey ; Smith, Carnegie ; 6 Malcolm, Jamieson ; Clarke, Fallis ; Guibord, MeDonald ; Breithaupt, Thompson ; Carpenter, Brower ; Ayles-- worth Joynt ; Hislop, Miscampbell ; ; Russell, Crawford ; Lumsden, Powell ; | Bowman, Kidd ; Hill, Allan. | On the amendment :-- Yeas--Auld, Barber, Beatty (Parry Bound), Bridgland, Brown, Burt, Cald-- well, Chariton, Conmes, Davis, Dicken-- son, Farwell, Gibson, Graham, Gross, Harcourt, Holmes, Latchford, Leys, 5 ;m";:hnn. Munro, Mutrie, McKay, + o, Pattullo, Pettypiece, Preston, p Ross, Stratton, Taylor, Truax--81.