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iiiâ€"15 DOMINION Hausa SEVENTH PARLIAMENTâ€"FOURTH SESSION AT OTTAWA. CARRIAGE 0? LI?! STOCK. correspondence regarding regulations for the carriage of live stock our Canadian railways from a point in the United States to any other point in the United States, read a great number of letters from J .B. Wright, of Windsor, an ex-veterinary in- ; ector of the Dominion Government, tireatening to publish articles which he declared would result in the scheduling of Canadian cattle unless paid a sum of sever- al hundred dollars, which he alleged was owing to him. The 'charges which he threatened to make public were that the Deputy Minister of Agriculture winked at a violation of the inspection regulations, and that his officers certified to inspection without making an examination. These be (Mr. Sproule) declared were false, and without foundation. If any inspection was not properly made Dr. Wright was to blame, for the inspectors at the port of on- try acted under his orders. He was our prised that the Government tolerated blackmail so long and thought the Govern- ment ought to punish him. The motion was carried. TRAP SHOOTING. Mr, Coatsworth moved the House again into committee on his bill to make further provision as to the prevention of cruelty to apimals, and to amend the Criminal Code 0 1892. ' Sir John Thompson hoped the committee would reject the amendment of the hon. member for South Norfolk (Mr. Tisdale), which proposed to permit trap shooting as a test of skill in marksmanship Mr. McCarthy thought it was scarcely fair to the hon. member for South Norfolk (Mr. Tisdale), to deal with the clause in his absence. He therefore moved that the committee rise. The motion was lost. Mr. McNeill defended trap shooting as a less barbarous method of dispatching pige- ons than by wringing their necks. It was quite as cruel to. shoot partridges or any other game bird or animal as it was to engage in trap shooting. Mr. Miller moved that the committee rise. The motion was carried by 43 to 19. OCEAN FREIG IIT RATES. Mr. McMullen, in the absence of Mr. Mulock, moved the second reading of a bill respecting ocean freight rates on cattle. The great trouble was in the power possess- ed by vessel owners at Montreal, who were enabled to extort from cattle dealers, when there was a rush, rates far in excess of the customary or legitimate rates. The pro- motion of the cattle trade was a. vital ques- tion, and reasonable freight rates would do much to promote the industry. It was well known that the price of carrying ani- mals had fluctuated in a season from $7 to $17. It was impossible that market prices could fluctuate so as to make this variation reasons ble. Cattle dealers, too, complained that they were unable to obtain rates in advance of the sailing of the vessels. Their interests were thus carried on in a very precarious manner. It would be well that legislation should be passed to regulate the rates within reasonable bounds. He was sure his hon. friend the projector of the bill did not desire to embarrass the Govern- ment. Statistics were quoted showmg the difference between the freights from Boston and Montreal for the past four years to represent a loss of $1,645,326 to theCam adinn farmers. The excess of rates from Montreal over Boston in 1892 was eleven shillings, and in 1893 seven shillings. Sir Charles H. Topperâ€"What was it in 1894 ? Mr. McMullen said he had not the figures for 1894. He believe the rates from Mon- treal were lower this year on account of vessel owners having heard of the action proposed to be taken in the House. There was no doubt that the vessel owners raised the rates whenever the prices in England were good. The billproposed to compel the publication of rates at all times for the benefit of the cattle owners. Mr. McNeill said no more important question could be presented to the House from a trade point of view. Mr. Forbes moved that the debate be ad- journed, as the hon. mover of the bill was absent. The motion was carried. FISHERIES ACT. Sir Charles H. Tuppcr moved the first reading of abill to amend the Fisheries Act, which contained substantially the same provisions as were very fully consid- ered in the House about two years ago. It was not proposed to bring the chau es into effect this year. The bill concerns princi. pally the canning, curing, and packing of lobsters under a license system. At pres- ent this important industry was not under supervision, and he was convinced that under the re ulations at resent an injustice was works to bona~fi e packers. Illicit canning and curing went on to such an extent that the ofiicers of the department were unable, thou h exercising all vigilance, to stamp it out. Vithout such regulations as he roposed in the bill, it would be im- possibl’e to preserve the industry which concerned the Maritime Provinces directly. The bill did not make any change in the close season. He had instituted a series of enquiries to determine the facts about the actual condition of the lobsters, etc., at certain seasons, which would enable- him properly to arrange the close season. An- other subject dealt with in the bill was respecting the prohibition of the using of the driltnet for salmon. With the creep- tion of the Fraser River, B.C,,and the Bay of Fund , the use of these note was prohi- bited. he bill also prohibited the catehin of fish for manure and the polluton o .rivers. It had also a revision with refer- ence to which he wo d like the opinion of the House concerning the dation of penalties. Under the regulations as they stood at present, an inducement wuactual- ly held out to hers to carry on their i licit work. If they were fortunate. they could make several times. the amount of their fine. He had adopted the language of the Fishery Acts in other countries, where the pcnaltius- increased with the offences. The penalties should lav-dour rent. The bill was read a first time. CANAL srarss. . Mr. Be [any twenty-four The bill was read a first time. one: mans. Sir Charles H. Topper moved the second read' f th b'll t ' h' l ‘ hIr. Sproule in moving for a return of the fiomuéigd, :0 gm." pom“ . 1p. p ymg y a six-foot deck load. Formerly, the limit was three fact. Mr. Davis suggested that some word should be inserted in the clause providin chat wharf owners shall be liable for al tests in actions resulting from the loss of life by reason of a passenger falling our- board in crossing from aveaselto a wharf in the absence of a light, making it an ofi‘ence only when negligence can be proved. Very often wharf-owners did not know vessels were coming to a wharf until they had tied up. Sir Charles H. Topper promised to con- sider the suggestion, and provide for it as the hon. gentleman had stated. The bill was read asecond time. MARINE csarmca‘rss. Sir Charles H. Tupper moved the House into committee on the following resolution : â€""That instead of fees rovided by sec- tions six and of ht of t 8 Act respecting Certificates of asters and Mates of Ships, the Govenor-in-Council may establish ascale of fees to be charged for such certificates, and until so established, the fees to be charged shall be the following: that is to say, for a certificate of competency as master, fifteen dollars; for a certificate of competency as mate of a sesgoing ship, eight dollars ; for a certificate of compet- ency as mate of a ship trading on the inland waters of Canada, or on coasting voyages, six dollars; for a certificate of service as master, eight dollars; for a certificate of service as mate of a seagoing ship, five dollars; and for a certificate of service as mate of a ship trading on the inland waters of Canada, or on minor waters of Canada, or on coasting voyage, four dol~ lars.” The fees received last year from this source were $2,280, and the expenditure was $4,416.~ From 1871 to 1893 the total fees received amounted to $55,000, in which period there was adeficit of$i5,000, The resolution was adopted. N ORTH- WEST POLICE. Mr. Ives moved the House into commit- tee on the following resoution :--“ That it is expedient to provide with respect to the North-\Vest Mounted Police force, that the maximum pay of veterinary surgeons shall be $1,000, instead of $700 per annum; that the maximum payof four staff-sergeants shall be 32 instead of $1.50, per diom, and that twelve buglcrs may be appointed at a rate of pay not exceeding 40 cents per diem; and also, to provide that all pay due to deserters at the time of their desertion from the force shall form part of a fund'applicable to the payment of rewards for good con- duct or meritorious services, to the estab- lishment of libraries and recreation-rooms, and such other objects for the benefit of the members of the force as the Minister op- proves." The resolution was adopted. LABOR DAY. Sir John Thompson moved the second reading of the bill to make the first Monday in September2 a legal holiday to be known as Labor day. ' The motion was carried. The House went into Committee of Sup- ply and passed the resolutions under the head of dredging in public works and the North-West Mounted Police. FRENCH TREATY. Sir John Thompson introduced a bill re- specting a certain treaty between her Brit- tanic Majesty and the President of the French Republic. ‘ The bill was read a first time. M OUNTED POLICE. The House went into committee on the bill respecting the North-West Mounted Police. Mr. Landerkin thought the Northâ€"West was civilized enough todo without a mount~ ed police force. Mr. Ives said that whereas 800 men were sufficient to patrol the Canadian North- West, the smallest number of men that the United States Government found sufficient to patrol the States of Montana and Dakora, much smaller territory, but possessing about the same number of Indians. was between 3,500 and 4,000. THIRD READINGS . ' Respecting the Manitoba and North- Western Railway Company of Canada. To consolidate and amend certain Acts relating to the Ottawa and Gatineau Val- ley Railway Company, and to change the name of the company to the Ottawa and .latineau Railway Company. MOUNTED POLICE. The House resumed in committee on the bill respecting the North-West Mounted Police, and reported it with a few amend- ments. The House then went into Committee of Supply, and passed resolutions in the de- partments of ocean and river service, light- house and coast service. DISALLOWANCE ASKED FOR. Sir John Thompson, answering Mr. lLeduc, said that the GOvernment received yesterday a petition asking for the dis- allowance of the Act passed by the Legis- lature of the Province of Quebec during its last session, whereby the town and parish municipalities of N icolet are authorized to vote a grant of $8,000 each for the purpose of aiding in the building of a cathedral church in the town of Nicolet. The sub- ject had not yet been taken into consider- ation. cacao I'I‘OWS moraines.” l Mr. Landerkin, on the motion being made that the House go into suppl , called attention to the dismissal of Mr. I: W. Goodenough,pcstmaster at Georgetown. He had been twenty‘five years in the service, but having sufi'ered recently from illness.the duties of the office were discharg. ed by his daughter. Last January the post- master was dismissed for not giving person- al attention to his office, and Mr. H. B. Henderson, son of the member for Halton, was appointed in his stead. Mr. Henderson was only eighteen years of age, and had never yet ‘ven his personal attention to the office. his was atrangje,and conflicted with the policy pursued elsewhere. The Owen Sounl postofiice had been kept vacant a year and a half. Ottawa was kept a long time without a postmaster. In rgin introducedabill to provide that no employs on a canal should be employed more than twelve hours out of Gait the postmaster resigned, took t in an election, and was reappointedp‘lrn his own constituency there were pest-ofiices that were farmed out, to which the post- master: never gave their personal attention, yet in the case of Georgetown 8 tmaster was removed because he was a nt from illness. This was unfair and unjust. He ,ap led to the Postmastei~General to rig t the wrong that had been done. He moved anamendment reciting the facts,and concluding with the declaration that the dismissal of Mr. Goodenough was unjusti~ fiable, harsh,and cruel. Sir Adol he Caron said the department had arrive very unwillingly at the conclu- sion that the postmaster at Georgetown was unable through illness to discharge his duty. In January, 1893, it was informed that through a great afiliction, which be much regretted, Mr. Goodenough had been confined for twelve months in a lunatic asylum, yet the department did not act upon that. It waited thirteen months to see if there was any hope of recovery, and finding there was little or none, appointed a successor. There was no harshness or haste in the matter, for the daughter of Mr. Goodenough had been retained in her position as deputy. The charge was base~ less, and therefore the accusation falls to the ground. ' The House divided on the motion which was lost on a party vote of 36 yeas and 88 nays. The House went into Committee of Supply and passed several resolutions in the apartment of Marine and Fisheries. A QUESTIONABLE PURCHASE. Mr. Edgar called attention to the pur- chase of methylated spirits from H. Corby to the value of $4,900. He asked if the gentleman named was a member of Parli- ament, and if the purchase was a breach of the Independence of Parliament Act. Mr. Wood (Brockville) said he would enquire into the matter. IMMIGRATION. Mr. Daly, explaining the immigration policy of the Government, said there had been alarge falling off in immigration to America, the decrease being 52 per cent. to the United States, and 45 per cent. to Canada. At present there was a movement towards South Africa, which was holding out inducements in the way of free passages and otherwise to an extent that Canada did not ropose to do. The Canadian agents in rest Britain were, by lectures and literature, stimulating an interest in this country. At no time in the history of immigration had Canada been so well advertised in England and Ireland as now. Most of the immigrants to Canada lately went to the district of Edmonton. Agents had been sent to the World’s Fair,and were very successful. The amount of ignorance amongst the people south of the line as to the opportunities for settlement in Canada was amazing. Mr. Fraser said the character of the im- migrants coming to Canada was determined ratherby the country they came from than by personal or collective appearance. The question of immigration was a most serious one for Canada to-day. The only way to meet the growth of debt was by an increase of population. The reason immigration was not diverted more to Canada, in his opinion, was because too much time was spent in figuring on how to make the people rich who were in Canada. now. lie was ready, if necessary, to vote even a larger amount than was voted for immigration if a more sensible method was pursued. Further, and speaking for himself, he would be willing to purchase land back from the companies which had received it, and give it to the bone fidc immigrants. He had very little faith in agency work carried on in Great Britain. The resolutions were adopted. A PETTICOATED‘ ADMIRAL. The Queen of Greece the Only Woman Ad mil-n1 in Europe. tion of being the only petticoated “ad- miral” in Europe, having been appointed to that rank in the Muscovite fleet by her cousin, the Czar. From her earliest child' hood Queen Olga has been accustomed to the sea, a fact due in great measure to her father having been the sailor prince of Russia and the High Admiral of the Empire. Like the late Lady Brasscy, Countess Andrassy, and a number of sea- loving ladies, she has passed the examina- tion and received the di loma of a full- fledged sailing master, an is able to navi- gate sailing vowels and stenmships as if she had done nothing else all her life. She uses her yacht just as constantly as other ladies do their carriages, and enjoys no- thing so much as a stiff breeze. It was not only with the object of paying a gra- _cious tribute to this taste, but also with a political object in view, that the Czar ap- pomted her admiral in his navy. the other day. Russia stands sorely in need of a. port in the eastern portion of the Medi- terrranean, where she can coal and pro- vision her ships preparatory to making her eventual descent upon Constantinople, which is within striking distance of the Piraeus. As Admiral-in-Chief of the Mediterranean squadron of Russia, Queen Olga can scarcely refuse hospitality to what are practically her own ships. flying her own pennant; and hence the Czar, by means of this pretty compliment, really acquired Athens_ as a convenient head- quarters for his navy in the eastern waters of the great inland sea. Queen Olga's nomination is of quite recent date, and is as yet unique of its kind; and it remains to be seen whether other soverei us will follow the example of Alexander 11 . in the matter. Died in Terrible Agony. A Bufialo, N. Y.,despatch saysâ€"Mrs. Fred Der-est, 40 years old, of 791 Exchange street, died- in terrible agony at the Accident hospital Friday morning as the result of a wilful attempt upon her life by taking rat poison. The cause of her suicide was disapueiutment at not being able to bring about a marriage between her daugh- ter Alice undo-boarder named Wolfe. ’ = The Uhkhowable. Binks-J' Winkers is a great friend of yours, isn't he 2" Jinks (a man of the world)-â€"“Can’t say. I haven't had to borrow money since I knew him." The Queen of Greece enjoys the against it. YANKEE DOODLE IN INDIA. cry eta mule Drummer Bey. self-collected. At the taking of the Shah Nnjeef, in Lucknow, by the English, the commandant found it necessary to signal to the English force at the Residency to For this purpose make known his position. an adjutant, a sergeant and drummer Rose, a boy only about twelve years old and small for his years, climbed to the top of the dome of the Shah Nujeef by means of a rope~ladder. There, with the regimental color of the Ninety-third ands feather bonnet on the tip of the staff, they signalled to the Resid- ency, and the little drummer sounded the regimental call on a bugle which he had learned to play. The signal was seen, and was answered from the Residency by the lowering of a flag three times. - But the enemy on the Badshahibagh also saw the signalling and the daring adventurers on the dome, and turned their guns on them, sending several round~shots quite close to them. Their object being gained, our men descended ; but little Ross ran up the ladder again like a monkey, and hold- ing on to the spire of the dome with his left hand wavedhis feather bonnet defiantly about his head. Then he sounded the regimental call a. second time, and followed that by the call known as “The Cock of the North,” which he sounded as a blast of defiance to the enemy.» When he was peremptorin ordered to come down from his dan- gerous position he did so, but not before he had sung, waving his bonnet all the time : There’s not a. man beneath the moon Nor lives in an land he, That hasn't hear the leasnnt tune Of “Yankee Doodle nudy." In cooling drinks and clipper ships The Yankee has the way shown. On land and son. ’tls lie that whips 01d Bull and all creation. When little Ross reached the parapet at the foot of the dome, he turned to the lieutenant, saluted him, and said : “Ye ken, sir, I was born when the regi- ment was in Canada. when my mother was on a visit to an aunt in the States, and I could not come down till I had sung “Yan- kee Doodle” to make my American cousins envious when they hear of the deeds of the Ninety-third. “\Von’t the Yankees feel jealous when they here that the littlest drummer-boy in the regiment sang ‘Yankeo Doodle’ under a hail of fire on the dome of the highest mosque in Lucknow l” CURIOUS CAUSES OF FIRES. t Needs But the Smallest Spur-1r to Start n Blaze Where Least Expected. ' The origin of fires is often very myster- ious, and not infrequently incendiarism is suspected, or even taken for granted, sim. ply because no other explanation seems easy; but once in a while the truth comes out in such a case, and the fire is proved to have been occasioned by some accident so peculiar in its nature that no ordinary measure of carefulncss could have guarded Not long ago, for instance, a lot of cotton in bales was discovered to be on fire in a warehouse, and when the flames were ex- tinguished in one spot they would immed- iately break out in another. An examin- ation showed that it was cotton of which the lint is drawn away from the seeds by a pair of rollers, set at such a distance apart as to keep the seeds from entering be- tween them, while the fibre passes on and goes into a bag. In the resent case, a quantity of the seeds he somehow got between the rollers and been crushed, and had thus saturated the cotton with oil, which, in due time,had caused spontaneous combustion. A still more curious case occurred in a factory. In the middle of the room a mill- ing machine was turning wooden knife handles, the dust being blown up through a metal tube into the room above, and thence forced out of doors through a wood- en pipe. A spark from an emery wheel, 15 feet from the milling machine, struck a window, and rebounding, entered the mouth of the metal tube, set the sawdust on fire, so that the flames poured out of the wooden pipe in a stream 20 feet long. An engineer, cleaning it a. mill, put some cotton wasteiu fronto the boiler, where it would be handy for the fireman in the morning. During the night this took fire spontaneously; the flames spread to the kindlings under the boiler, and soon raised steam enough to cause the boiler to blow off, badly frightening the watchman, who knew, or thought he knew that there was no fire under it. In short, hard as it sometimes is to kin- dle a fire when one is obliged to do so, it needs but the smallest spark, at just the right moment, to start a blaze where it is least expected. Boil the Murphles With Jackets On. An English scientist, after careful ex- periments finds that when potatoes are cooked without removing the skins they lose only 3 per cent. of nu'ritive quality through extraction of the juice. When the skins were removed before boiling the loss was 14 per cent. which makes the process of cooking the potatoes without their jackets an exceedingly Wasteful one. Tiberius, Palestine, has a meteorological observatory situated 08?. feet below the level of the Mediterranean Sea. In 1851 India had 91,000 Christian conv verts. At present there are 250,000 Hin- doo Christians and 1,000,000 adherents to Christian churches. An Incident of the Indian nannyâ€"Brav- Contiuual exposure to danger breeds cool- ness. The soldier who nervously dodges the first bullet that whistles past his hand becomes indifferent to, the fiftieth. Men under steady fire for hours, with comrades dead and dying about them, are callous and inclusions. NOW RAVAGING CHINA AND MAY SPREAD TO OTHER COUNTRIES. ~â€" ‘l‘hls Plague Devastated London In ISM-A Pcstlleutla! Intonation Proud the Ground-The Chinese Desert the Allie!- edâ€"ne Corpses not Buried. but Laid In the Sun to Decay. The records make it evident that the singular plague now ranging China is the Black Death or Plague which devastated London, in 1665. It has its origin in Yun- nun, a Chinese province where it is endemic. The Catholic missionaries hold that it is a pestilential emanation from the ground. As it slowly rises all animals are drowned, so to speak in its poisonous flood ~the smallest creatures first, and man, tallest of all, last. Its approach often may be fore- told by the extraordinary movements of rats, which leave their holes and run about the floors without atrace of their accustom- ed timidity, springing continually upward at if trying to jump out of something. The rats fall dead, the poultry, pigs, goats, ponies and oxen successively. In man its approach is indicated by minute rod pus~ tules, generally in the armpits, but occa- sionally in other glandular regions. If plenty of pustules appear the case is not considered so desperate as when they are few. The sufferer is soon seized with ex- treme weakness, followed in a few hours by agonizing pains in every part of the body. Delirium shortly ensues, and in NINE oasss our or TEN the result is fatal. It often happens that the patient suddenly recovers to all appear- once and leaves his bed, but in such cases the termination is always collapse and death. As soon as a case appears the Chinese desert the nillictcd, leaving him in a room with a jug of water, peering in at the window at intervals and prodding the victim with a long pole to ascertain if life is extinct. In the country the corpses are not buried but laid out in the sun to decay, poisoning the air for miles around. The disease is knowfi in Yangtzu (under the name of bubonic fever), in Laos, Siam, iii Burmah and in Queyclio, China, where it has pre- vailed for years. Never before, however, has it made its way to Canton, and to Hong Kong, whence it may spread over the earth. One reason for attributing its origin to miasmatic influences is because it always appears on the planting of the rice in May and June. It penetrates by caravan: and travelers to the uplands and becomes more severe by fall. Sometimes it passes over certain communities in its line of progress, only to return later on or next year. When it appears the people desert their homes and crops and flee to tents in the hills. In some provinces the population is decimated, and WHOLE FAMILIES DISAI‘I‘EAR. Dr. J. F. Payne, in the Encyclopncdia Britannica, says that the plague is a speci- fic febrile disease transmissible from sick to healthy persons, accompanied by glandular swellings and sometimes carbuncles. In the minor form swellings of glands occur in the armpits. groin, neck and other parts which suppurate. The severe plague begins with aguc, the patient becomes distracted and staggers about. The temperature rises to 100 and 107 degrees Fahrenheit, glandul- ar swellings, carbuncles and hemorrhagic spots appear. In all plague epidemics cases occur in which death sets in within twenty-four hours. The nature of the soil has little influence on plague, but a moder- ately high temperature is favorable. The disease is unknown in the tropics. In northern "countries the disease is generally checked in cold weather. Bad sanitation is favorable to plague. No special line of treatment has proved efficacious in checking it. But by hygienic measures a locality" can be made unsuitable for the spread of plague. In the middle ages Europe was frequently visited by plague, which was called the Black Death. ‘lhe great plague of London, in 1665, from which nearly seventy thousand people died, out of a population of about half a million, was not an isolated phenomenon, but was preceded by aseries of smaller epidemics the last of which occurred in 1603-1664,in Amsterdam, when rir'ri' THOUSAND PEOPLE DIED. The disease has always shown a tendency to spread, but by a law not yet understood each epidemic is liable to a spontaneous and sudden decline. In the eighteenth century tliecplague was very prevalent in Europe, on visited Constantinople, Aus- tria, olend, Russia, Germany, Italy and France. In 1815 Europe was panic- stricken because the, plague had appeared in Noja, on the eastern coast of Italy. This was its last appearance in that country. The epidemics in Egypt between 1833 and 18l5 are very important, because the dis- ease was then almost for the first time scientifically studied by skilled physicians, chiefly French. It was found to be less contagious than reported. The last out- break of plague in Europe was in 1775-9, on the banks of the Volga. It was very virulent. and at Vctlisnka, out of a popula- tion of 1,700, there 'were 417 attacked and 362 died. The epidemic probably took in rise in Astrakhan, in 1877, and was not brought from Turkey by Cossacks alter the war, as was popularly supposed. But the conditions under which maismatic forms of laguo are spread are as yet unknown. ’iague has been observed in China since 1871, in Yunnun and at Pakhoi, a port in the Tonquin (lull, since 1882, where it is said toliave revailed for at least fifteen cars. 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