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_| was a Federal one, in chat the Pro--| | m to the British Govern-- ' wt. At the same time the unoffi-- il action of Hon. Mr. Doherty had been unusually successful. , ,|°-- '"My own opinion,'" the Premier said, '"is that the removal of this '> embargo would 'stimulate greatly ; the feeding of cattle on Canadian | farms. The export trade, as I re-- member it, demands a better--grown and better--fleshed steer than we | raise for the home market." i Mr. Orawford's View. [ Hon. Thos. Crawford agtonlshed' many of the members when he x'e-| marked, at the outset, that he hap-' pened to be "the owner of the ship-- ment that had revolutionized the Canadian cattle trade." Along with others, he had sent to Great Britain, prior to the imposition of the em-- bargo, a consignment of cattle, and over thirty of these had died in transit. On arrival of the ship at 'a British port official inspectors stated the cause of death to have .been contagi'ous pleuro--pneumonia. ; '"We hired independent veterin-- arians at great expense," said Mr.] Crawford, '"and we proved to the satisfaction of the British authori-- ties themselves that the deaths had been due to pleuro--pneumonia, but in not one case to contagious pneu-- monia. We proved it, I say, to the satisfaction of those British officials ----but they put on the embargo." At that time, Hon. Mr. Craw-- ford stated, the United States cattle could not show a clean bill of health, so they, along with Canadian cattle, / were affeqted by the qrder. United | ;Sta.tes cattle, he thought, never had | shown such a clean bill of health as | had Canadian stock, nor did they at the present day. '"Remember this, gentlemen," said the ex--Speaker, gravely; "to--day we are living beside those people south of the border. We are living withl them. Our cattle are going there and their cattle are coming here. I warn you, this embargo affects 'more than ourselves. If we are enabled to have it removed, the re-- sult may be that American cattle cannot come here, and the American people may say that our cattle can-- not go into that country. '"'This is a wide and grave issue. At no time in history, since the in-- ception of the embargo, have the British people been more concilia-- tory, more anxious to be on friendly terms with the people to the south. I would just say this: Let the Min-- ister be very careful." l e ie ie e teervc nc se en ce ce