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T W"' l0 time m M uim hm . f G'séd;tz.p?o: 30 e ns %% ists, :@and when ',,hgm ready io y o g ~their, money, in w .,t.trpwur";t.o 1 6 i U i .. .. mGreat, Area to be Settled. ...= 221 dc: no:' uv,\z'«pgect%;"bn. bfl'fi Jt ' $ e c irahave * \ $.an enterprise--w romises well to We have, however, to guard ourselves m"w dp\ s ich ,mgs t'.,be r:ceel::d ,gy f on two points:.. First. we have to sce 'the people in.whose interests the money § that that railway goes through the new is expended. as very gratifying. . Per: . ~territory where settlement can be most haba'.we should £uard ourselves Against |ameily established.. As far y¥ ol knglw risking our trées%m in the capitalists" ' that countty, and'we khow it tolerably hands, but we 'must have capital for a: l--well, the road projected~from Sudbury great enterprise of any kind. ' Lwest. to, Batchewana Bay or Michipo--. This bill seems valuable for this. This | 1 peaten embraces & stretch _of territory. seems to be our golden opportunity. We | ;]; n¥TH miles wide at the wpahlrrn vigncf orshill should, not let it slip ; at all events it d | rovw'i,n_?' to about 40 milés fn the eastern | 'uhonld' be through no fault of ours that | tend of the Towhship of Trill. Xll that oe s ipictuntly should be fost." 1 lake 1 'dountry "will be then honeycombed or gradt p(e vre 'in ~moving the second: | mwttled with townships alternatéely P eadfn] 'o%"th'ls bil '~(hlfniiterla) Sp« i awned by the Government and this Iadflés Hios saf uol oomermes/tatis company, A district of 175 miles by .p Pstkr sne aise ~ 40 n?nest It means a great deal. llé ! i"¢ M Whitney~Concurs. means that what is now an unsettle is uiss ~ ; 5 . p Mr. Whitney said :--I beg to concur | i napiiecs prt t cooumeryraf tnat man | in the second reading of this bill. With-- | :being- dotted by settlement:-- That is a | out attempting to follow my hon. friend Tcountry as large as there is between J"' the region in. which he traversed «bere and Kingston, reaching back nbotut | :::hfx}'h{r;n??{fie'lst:g':!lx?ol:zototful't'gndgf 40 nmilés. That means a popiulstk;{l of &A, |--Mrabitity S¥' a piin business propésli. g:;oa pulate .dt]lou::'n (ll(i * s l(flgd()m:;.g tinn,, It seems to me that this propos 5 populated as ckly: as t as iAt . OCCH f is populated. That. point, I think, is '?l:':me';{nwzgdfim';:ryg:;:ggfy?g: g\fflrded by. thisbill, any rate, for some few years past, the Simultaneous Construction. | attitude taken by the Opposgltlon :)v;t.h $ * | regard to railway 'grants has n The other point to be guarded is that. |komewhat different from that upon this while we are providing for the settle~ docasion. --As a rule the Legislature has ravent:of --Algome we do not overlook the | 1 been asked to pronounce upon schemes impertance of <he lower.end of the rail-- | | which involved far greater responsibil-- way.'::4#f. by--any .accident in providing | | ty upon the Legislathre 4t granted than | for: settlement we do, not make ample | this. "And we Have 'é'tfihplt'r\ed always provision for the connection along the ' that' We HAYE' not"been firnished with peninsula conjointly with the .construc-- | progéte dg'ta " or" "any ~ hatermal) "from | tton of the upper end we would be mak-- | which 10 Toim Judémeht "v."lth regard ; Ing A mh;ta.ko.-.' , We contemplated that | to 1t..~ Bit, as T have Just 'Intimated, in our bill.. We have made ample pro-- | we'arte not 'l'n tbi' same position on this vision for it, we think. When it comes | | occasion, because I think a person who Into committee again we will look into llu"ac uu.l'nted with the geography of the it more closely. T think it is very well | ','dut??at Yebferred to will be able to see ,xum'd,e_g_! ZPon ""'l" pq_l'nt. -"' .tt?i?,k-' alt onte 'the. desirability of a railway in fls 4 Sniario rallways at Winre |sudaW'as this: ~Whether it will land us with fhe old Ontario rallways at Wiar~ 'on 'the shores of the Pacific Ocean or . ton, OWen Sound and Meaford we will |'of the Hudson Bay is another matter. } have secured for Ontario the full privi-- 1f {t"de6ed, wwell and good. _ Even if tl& \leges of the lower connections, and its prd ositfon w hich my hoh friend res completion as early as the upper con-- tlt\m&'to--fin" T Afras on fonglisn bapitai nection, or, at all events, that when to Be 'invested: in" pulpand otl::?re- the road on the north gshore is built the sources--even "if "it 'should: 'result © as | railway on the ;_wnlnsula will not be somé ' of ~his predictions --have in " the 'lonx delayed. These are the two ob-' ~past, there would be renough left to 'Jective points. . By the construction of justify the<Eegislature of the Province t the north shore line we bave the set-- in consenting to the passing of this act tlement, and by the constraction in the | ' I Shall--merely now at this stage men_' peninsula we have the contiection. Both | tion 6ne point which occurs to me as pael n i nc 6e i en ar raoeiven 10B very important, namely, that the bill guarded by the bill before it receives its shoutd 'contain Some provision before }ghlrd reading, . °_ A being finally passed which will compel E: "otra n R ithe company: to--~coustruct the line 'on | a WA "Foppwadrk Movement. 'the mainland of this Province. 'I see no |»~I 'shall not weary the House any fur-- | 'reazon »whatever' whythere' should be | ther. We look upon this as a forward | any distinction between. the two parts. | movement ; for movements for opening | I~understood ~»my' hon.friend to say ; : up the country are forward move-- | that when ithe portfon on the north | ments . even a colonization road is a | shore wiak:completed--that on the penin-- ' n forward movement. It is a large| bula would not be far behind., I see no schenie, a scheme . which means | feason why they should not be carried | | much-- io every . man that looks | | on (stimmultaneously." <If it' is impract!-- | @ Ufto: ~the> ~future ; --of~ Ontario; -- & | "cable the company should be compelled | | scheme which costs.us no money, which | |to fAnish the mu'lnhnd portion at as 3 | will give transportation and oppor-- earlya date as the northern portion. I f | tunities for settlement of lands which | hope the House will make a provision \ are now unproductive. We were fortu-- | that the company shall finish 'the line i_nate in being able to bring down this 'in the: peninsula as early as on the ' bill this session, when there is a super-- ,north shore. (Applause.) I'abundance of money in the bands of