PHS sevord Aebate of the week was TORONTO EXHIBITION. _ Cheap Fares Commencing SEPT. Ist. MANITOBA EXCURSION, September Ist and 15th, Call on me for rates and tickets. J. A. HACKING. Agent G, T.*R. Issuer of Marriage Licenses. ListowelStandard FRIDAY, SEPY., 11, 1°°S. OTTAWA NEWS LETTER. Ottawa, Sept. 7.--The close of the third week, of the Session finds busi- ness in this condition, that Mr. Bor- den has got through that portion of the ~ Militia estimates which makes provis- ion for the annnal drills, and conse- quently, such camps as are to be held at this late and inconvenient season of the year can be gone on with. The militia force owes nothing to the Gov- ernment for this. Had it not been for the obstruction of last session and the refusal of the Liberals to vote any supply at all the camps would have been held in June as usual, and would al! have been over long ago. The passing of their estimates is about the only thing the Government has so far accomplished, as the week has been almost entirely taken up with two debates ; first on the wholesale dis- missal of Civil servants, on which there was no division : and second on the issue of Governor General's warrants. The discussion on the first question developed the fact that Mr. Laurier and his Ministers have adopted Andrew Jackson's motto: 'To the victors be- ng the spoils," f on the illegality of the action of the Government in issuing Governor General's warrants for over $2,000,000 to pay salaries and other expenses for July and August. The debate com- Mr. Laurier get into office than be at once does the very thing he had con- tended was illegal, Of course it is illegal. Nobody really doubts that. What the Govt. should have done was to have met Parliament on tue 16 July for which date it was call. d, asked for a vote outof which the Civi] services could have been paid, and then ad- journed the House fora month or sv in order to have the new Ministers re- elected. Instead of that' they have wilfully violated the law and have established the- dangercus precedent that so loug as he can get an unscru- pulous Minister to advise him a Gover- nor General can issue his warrants without restraint and expend the whole revenue of the country forany purpose he pleased, without the expenpiture of a single cent everbeing authorized by Parliament. Indeen the whole principle of Parliamentary over public expenditure is destroyed by the action of the Govt. and this has been clearly pointed out in the many able speeches from the Couservative side of the House, which have been delivered during the past week. Of course, the conduct of the Govern- ment will be approved by the sorvile majority of thirty or soit has in the House ; but the sound sense of the people will be against the principle of placing such vast power for mischief in the hands of avy one man and his so-called Ministers. Mr. Laurier ought to have met Parlia- ment like a man on the 16th Jnly. for which date Parliament wassummoned ; and uot have postponed the meeting for five weeks and during that time spend two millions'of the public money without the consent of Parliament. There is rumor afloat that Mr. Laurier is finding his "sunny ways of peace' much more difficult to tread than he had anticipated in those happy days when he could devote all his time aud control "responsible" the to criticizing showing how very disunited its mem- bers were. There is raid to be serious trouble amongst his Quebec followers, and the cause of it is Mr. Tarte. The older and most respect- able members of the Liberal party have vever entertained so high an opinion of Mr. Tarte as is held by Mr. Laurier, and it is said that five promin- ent supporters of Mr. Laurier from the Province of Quebec have addressed aletter to that gentleman notifying him that Mr. Tarte musi be' restrained and suppressed, if he wishes to retain their support. The difficulty is un- ver derstood to have arisen out of an at- tempt on Mr. Tarte's part to absorb and control the French press in Mont- real in the interest of his own paper, menced on Thursday, was continned | course to which the five gentlemen Friday and will be concluded to-mor- row (Tuesday), when a division will he taken on Mr. Foster's motion, which referred to raise serious objections. The first Government caucus was held on Tuesday and it was given out after reciting the facts of the case con- | for publication that the utmost har- eludes asx follows,--"That under the] mony prevailed and everything was circumstances the House is of the lovely." Itleaked out, however, that opinion that the issue of the said war- understood principle of Parli tary all was not so rosy as it was reported rants was in contravention of the well- | to be. It is said that something very control, and abuse of the power vested I in the Governor-General-in-Conncil by nearly ap} Sir Oliver Mowat. ana that Mr. hing a "tilf" took place vetween Sir Richard Cartwright and Laur- the said uct, and a msnrpation franght | jer rather hastily adjourned the cancus with danger to the public liberty and | } constitutional Government." The de- bate bes been an interesting one and the Opposition has had the best of tlie | , come more prononnced. is said to be chafing under the re- vefore the little difference could be- Sir Richard traint of Sir Oliver having assumed argument in every way,as even Mr. | the leadership of the Ontario wing of the McCarthy thonght that under the party, and to be anxious that Sir circumstances of there being no supply | Onver should accept the Lieutenant bill passed last session it was as well Governorship of Ontario with as little that the Government should issue these warrants. The argument is not very strong and is pretty much ona par with Mr. McCarthy's statement before the Sub-Committee of Council two years agowith reference to the Mam- toba school case to the effect that while he admitted that the Minority had a grievance which Parliament was competent to redress if it pleased, the Minority was so small (20,000) and was | © Bo steadily decreasing that it really did not matter whether their grievances were redressed or not. The fact of} q the matter with respect to the issue of these warrants is that the Liberals, for many purposes, refused to grant supply last sessisn and by doing so have got themselves into difficulty. They openly boasted that if the Conser- p vative party was sustained at the polls Sir Charles Tupper would find him- felf "without a cent" after the first July, as the Governor-General could not issue his warrants for expenditure which Parliament had refused to authorize. There was nct the slight- €st doubt last session in the minds of either Liberals or Conservatives that the Governor General could not issue his warrants to carry on the ordinary business'of the country ; and had Sir Charles Tupper's Govt. been sustained and he had advised His Excellency to issue a Warrant to pay the ordinary ex- penses of the country there would have been a Grit howl from one end of Can- d P delay as possible. caucus Sir Richard is said to have re- marked that, doubt, proposed retiriug from the Govern- ment, so that it may be reconstrncted. To this Sir Oliver is said to have torted, rather turtly, that he would leave the Government when he got ready and not sooner. feeling in the caucus, which was creased when Sir Oliver proceeded to wis received In his speech in Sir Oliver would, inform the caucus when no le re- This little ex- hange of pleasantries caused a painful in- iscuss the duration of the session aud advised that it should be less than 30 ays,which would look economical and have a good effect in the country. "Yes," said Dr. Landerkin, would have a damned bad effect on the [but it ockets of the Members." This sally with "uproarious ap- lanse" and it was nnanimonsly de- cided that the session must be made to last more than 30 days so that the Members may be entitled to their full indemnity of $1,000, instead of $10 per day for the number of days the House may be session, if prorogation should take place within 30 days. -It was alss decided, bewever, that the ery of '"'Obstruction" should be raised and an effort made to make it appear that thesession was unnecessarily pro- longed by the Opposition ; but this will not work, as thé Opposition has not been guilty of the slightest 'ob- struction, and the only debates "which ada to the other. But no sooner does ave taken place have been caused by penditare not authorized by Parlia- ment. Liin Canada. The Great Chinaman Enters at the Suspension Bridge and Proceeds to Toronto and Views the Fair. Niagara Falls, N. Y., Sept. 7. Shortly after 9 a. m. the Chinese. Am- bassador, Li Hung Chang, left the United States through the door by which so many of his countrymen legally and illegally enter the country at Suspension Bridge. He travelled ou a special Canadian Pacific trajn, which had been bronght to this side (the first ever brought into the United States, by the way,) especially for Earl Li's convenience. The retinne of servants went directly to the special train and boarded it, while Li himself with a small party was taken ina car- ringe across the upper bridge to his hotel at Niagara Falls, Ont. Here Sir 'Henry Joly, De Lotbiniere and Mr. W. Parmalee, representing the Domh- ion Government, received the distin- guished guest with words of welcome, and the American escort bade him bon voyage. The Canadian hosts then took Liin their carriage and drove through the Canadian Park to "the Dufferin Islands. Liwas even more visibly impressed with his view ofthe Falls from the Canadian side than *he had been from the American side, and so expressed himself through his jin- terpreter. At 11 o'clock the party boarded the special train and started for Toronto. Toronto, Sept. 7.--Li Hung Chang and his numerous retinue reached To- ronto late this afternoon by special train, accompanied by Sir Henri Joly, Mr. W. G. Parmalee, the Chinese com- missioner, and Dr. Horsey, all of whom go through with him to the coast. Li did not come into the city proper at all, but stopped off at the Industrial Fair, which he inspected thoroughly. When the train reached the exhibition station, about three o'clock, Li was re- ceived by President Withrow and the directors of the exhibition. Mr. With- row very briefly welcomed the dis- tinguished visitor and expressed the hope that he-wonld have « spilt visit, t8 which "the Viseroy . through interpreter, expressing) grést pleasure at visiting the exhibition. Three cheers were given for the Vice- troy. The earl's retinue and directors of the exhibition then formed a pro- cession, headed and followed by police- men, and sallied forth to see the fair. The great Chinese magnate: went through the exhibition in a hurry, and under great difficulties, owing to the enormous crowd, estimated at fully 100,000 people. From the moment of his arrival in the grounds until his train steamed away the great statesman was an object of the most intense in- terest. At six o'clock the train was again boarded and started at once for North Bay, en route for the Pacific Coast. Mr. Hugh John MacDonald. Mr. Hugh John Macdonald and *- A. W. Wright had been members of the first Ked River Expedition under General (then Colonel) Wolseley. Mr. Wright gives an account of his comrade- in-arms' exertions in that campaign, which shows that heis strong physically and has lots of energy. 'Mr. Macdonald,' said Mr. Wright, 'was strong enough as far back as the days of the Fenian Raid to shoulder a rifle in defence of his country, and never has there been an occasion since that use when true men were needed for the ceuntry"s defence, but Hagh John Macdonald was found in the ranks of his country's defenders. During the first Red River rebellion he was one of the detachment sent by Wolseley up the Ksministiqua Rinr on a service where none but brave and trne men were wanted, andI have heard his comrades on that trying trip s ,eak in glowing terms of his devotion to duty. Later onI have seen him working on the roads, with his coat eff, and his sleeves rolled up, allowing none in an expedition where all were chosen men to do more or better work. Then, in the trying trips up the Mattawan and on.the portages and in the rapids, where the Canadian volun- teers won the unstinted praise of their commanding officer, there was - nope more active or more devoted than this pes 'tious and independent enongh to mani- 'fest its uneasiness, if not dissatisfac- tion, over the policy which the Liberal Government has rather avowed than acted upon of punishing Conservative i ip in elections by exclusion from office, and at the same time re- warding Liberal partisanship by ap- pointment to office. The Toronto 'Globe' has a very fair article, which is clearly deprecatory of this policy. In discussing what constitutes offens- ive as distinct from inoffensive part- isanship the 'Globe' shows clearly that no satisfactory line can be drawn, and the inference is that the security of the civil servant will depend more upon the temper and fair-mindedness of the successful candidate or government he has opposed than upon the character of his opposition, and its conclusion that under such a policy 'the cival 'servant who has more regard for his 'place than for politics will inter- 'fere as iittle as possible in elections.' This means that the civil servant must under the avowcd policy of the Liberal party be a rather contemp- tible creature who is willing to sur- render his civil rights, his privilege to advocate what he believes is best for his country, in order that poli- ticians may vot have an excuse to deprive him of his bread and hntter. Civil servants are bound to be loyal to the trust and confidence reposed in them by their superiors, but they are not bound to make their political views subservient to or in accord- ance with those of the government of the day, and they should not be bound to surrender their undoubted civil rights to express their views £0 long asthey do so without malice to individuals or parties, and this is a limitation which all other people as well as civil servants should feel bound to observe. The civil service will be filled with poor creatures, in- deed, if wiliingness to become a thing, neither fish, flesh or foul, in the politics of their country, is to be made the great qualifying test. To do one's part in politics is s sacred duty one owes one's country, as well as a right which should never he sur- rendered. as ys Gaudaur is Champion. HE DEPEATED STANBURY BY TWENTY LENGTHS. Putney, England, Sept.--Gaudanr, the Canadian oarsman, won the row- ing championship of the world and $2,500 to-day, in addition to the Sportsman's cup, defeating James Staubury, of Australia, who recently defeated "Wag" Harding for the championship of the world. The 'course was the usual championship ®ourse, four miles straight away, from Putney to Mort Lake. Gaudatr won by 20 lengths. After twelve false starts both men took the water together. Stanbury had a slight lead at Cravensleps, but soon afterwards Gaudaur pulled up, took the lead and maintained it to the Crab Tree, where, it was alleged, a foul occurred. Stanbury thereupon stopped and appealed to the referee. The latter, however, would not allow the foul and Gandsur finished 20 lengths ahead, in 23.01. "Jake" Gaudaur has held the pro- fessional championship of America since 1893, and twice before, 1886 and 1887, he had the same honors. Gand- aur and Stanbury last met at the Aus- tin, Texas, regatta in 1893 ; but Stan- bury was notin good form. Since that time Gandaur has defeated Ed- ward Hanlan, George Bubear, Rogers, Hackett and other professionals. At the Halifax regatta he also stroked the "four" which beat Bubear's English combination. The new champion has visited England twice previously. In 1883 he was over here with Geo. Hosmer, Ed. and Wallace Ross. But he had to succumb to Hanlan and Ross, despite his clever style, which was very much admired by the English experts. In 1886 Gandaur rowed Beach, the Australian, for the championship from Putney to Mort Lake. Stanbury won the Aus- tralian championship in 1891, when he defeated John McLean on the Para- matta River. Both men were in ex- cellent physical condition. Gaudaur ighed about 175 pounds. He is six feet high, while Stanbury is about seven pounds heaviér andone inch taller- ------------ ille reserving Company em- joy 75 and and put up from 8,000 to 12,009 cans of corn each day, and 10} to 400 of tomatoes. They are in 'patting up 1,000 bushs of tage. interesting. If he's a big boy or a little fellow it's all the same tous. Our stock of Boys' Cloth- ing is compre- hensive, varied neat and dressy. It's well made It fits well It wears well. It embraces all sorts of ma- terial and styles and the lar- gest assortment ever shown by farmers' produce. No. 8 Main St. W SPEARS Busy Store will be on Tap right along every day now for Refreshing Bar- gains. If you're down on the heel and feeling rather Blue come right along and put up with the crowd of Buyers. money does a lot of buying and profits are not considered at all in much of the stuff we're pushing out. Room is what we want, and Money, and patronage, and while there are many lines given at cut prices that have not been. advertised, you may find here the very thing you'll soon require to spend money on, spend it now, and here to advan- SUN BEAMS In the Busy Store --gm Customers are the sunbeams, what merchant would not be cheered by 'their presence? Of course at this particular Midsummer season we do not expect the Commercial arteries to be bounding full of life, yet we see the tonic of low price which we are infusing into the community. furnished with enough business circulation to make life very A little We are certainly All lines of Summer Goods such as Parasols, Wash Goods, all-wool Delaines, Summer Gloves and Hosiery, Lawns, Mus lins, Straw Hats etc, must be cleared out regardless of cost to make room for fall goods. CLOTHING us, that's why we Say no matter what the Boy's size is we can suit him in cloth- ing. We are anxious for you to see that they have the same real merit we claim for them, this can only be done by looking, 2nd remember. we don't count it a trouble to show goods. - BOOTS AND SHOES.--Sh0«s to please the people. The largest display in Town, the tion, the very lowest prices. GROCERIES.--All Highest prices paid tor Butter and Eggs and all kinds of WMH. SPEARS No & Main St cry latest produc lines of (rroceries cheap, THE Selling Below O something to deceive the bu sell without profit WHEN WE SAY that we are selling ata close margin of profit you can rely'on that-as absolute truth and when we refund your money to you if goods are not as we represent them the trtuh is made plainer. We Never Hesitate to Show up Goods for Inspection. Over 300 Frieze Ulsters now ready for Inspection. BARGAIN TABL in Remnants of Tweeds, Flannels, Underwear, Flannelettes, Cottons, Clothing Etc. | ; | | | | | i RELIABLE We learnedat the beginning to put facts b 'und words, to make the actual facts greater than the N: vspaper statements. There is so much exaggeration in clothin.; advertisements its hard to tell what's what, Stores always advertising Clothin Facts. Clothes are GOOD or BAD never bot's, no dealer can sell $0 suits .or $5 without going into Bar .ruptcy. The man who sell. for fun hasn't been born, we :.ell only one kind of clothing KIND COST snd Selling. t SALE yers and make them believe they We have started this table to let the public see what we actually can do LISTOWEL. WOOLLEN MILLS.