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j Fand tf it would not be prudent to speak. It would would not place the (Government and V1O not. --It would not be in good taste to speak, "I memberson both sides in an embarrassing pO-- It decidedly would net. Futther, the hon. * w sition, Hon. gentlemen opposite were foud member ftor Leunos, the sooomier of the o ! of pointlnfl to Mr. JOhn S:\ndheld'Macdono l'esolution' h"d stated outiide Of the Hou'e 1 ald as an example of economy, Where was l that he had been dragged into the position : there a single Johu Sandfeld Macdonald he occupied, When the resclution of the >A among the whole lot on the Op pogition Treasurer had been submitted, looking to a _ i benches now ? They were also fond of giv-- reduction of the indemnity, the vote which ing the Hon. E. B, Wood the credit defeated it came fromm members on both | for the seitiement of the dispute be-- sides of the House. He was sorry the i tween Ontario and Quebec, . No doubt hon. members for North Hastings and North 3 he deserved a good deal of the credit; but Rentrow had kept so singularly silent dur-- & could they find an K, B. Wood on the othsr ing this discussion. 'The Opposition pre-- | side ot the House? 'The fact was that Mr. sented the spectacle of a number of men Macdonald and Mr. Wood were virtually being rallied by their leader into doing ' the whole otf the late Governmert of On. something which they knew was not imanly tario, and performed everything that Gov. and straightforward, -- For his own part he etnment accomplished, and the reason was was prepared to take his shave of the re. * that they had both been educated as Ro-- sponsibility of the increase. . When it came { formers, 'There was great reuson fot con-- to a fair vote, when each man might express 1 gratulation at the settlement ot pho North-- his opinion im would vote for a reduction, western boundary of the Provmc.o, for so Abd ud no' doubt he could justity to his 1 conversant was the Attorney--General with Constituents the vote ho would in this case | that matter that he had secured a larger ivo in favour of the Ministry amount.oft territory to the Province than giveo in tay e $ l\ § i § even hon, gontlemen opposite claimed Mr. SEXTON desived to'. now to what $ that we had a right to, As to Benator extont the reduction of salari¢s and indem-- it Macpherson's pamphiet, all he would say nities would reduce the depression thromlxgh- £ was, that it had> shown that gentle-- out the country,. It would give tq each gf man to be of all extreme partisaus the most the 1,600,000 of the people of Ontario « . extreme, as it bristled with strong bias to. exactly one centand six mills, If that was | wards the Conservative party . -- With refer-- | going to do away with the depression it | : ence to the indemnity quesiion, when the | would be well to inlroduce the scheme at S matter came up in the Committee of the | once. A comparison of the expenses of the : Whole, he had voted with the Government | Dominion and Ontario Legislatures would for the reduction; but ho would have no show that the latter was not one--half of the ¥, hesitation in voting for $§00, as he had former,. It had been said that the dutics | f taken that money during the past year, of the Dominion House were more : 4 and was under obligation to defend f important than those of the Ontario 1 his position before the country, The Legislature. 'This he denied. Hoclaimed $ people would not fail to see that this that the standing and intelligence of mem-- was a mere picce of political buncombe just * _ bers of this House was quite equal to those | before the election. _ He had, therefore, no ' \ of the Dominion Parliament, As to the hesitation in voting down this amendment, | yalue of the matters legislated upon, the and when the proper time came he would ' _Onti\l'lfv Covernment had quite as important be prepared to support any meimmber in mak-- interests under theitr control. Some were ing a motion for a reduction. He belioved saost inuportant, such as ednucation, the & the course pursued by the Opposition on the regulstron of municipal laws, the law of present occasion was unprecedented in proporty, taxation, constitution of courts, legislative proccedings, and when they and ithey bad immenso posers in the way went before the country he belicved they of granting subsidiecs to public enterprises, | would discover their mistake,. _ (Cheers.) The saverage session of the Ontario House | Mr. FERRIS, after a few preliminary re-- was within twelve days that of the Do-- | marks, congratulated the Opposition, and minion THouse, 'The members of the On--| [ particularly their leader, upon the fact that tario Legislature had the same contest to § he had for a coach and a driver such an ex. > go through, and were forced to neglect their | P perienced and talentod gentleman as the f{"'"'""'" and lose their time as the others. | member for Kast Toronto. -- He had always l.hu l'r'ovmce must be liberal in their con-- | f belicved that there was noavailable surplus sideration to members if they desived to ' } in the finances of Ontario, but a book had | have good and disinterested legislators, t | been written to show that there was a sur= ; Mr, TOOLEY thought it was tho duty of | € plus in a very tangible shape, and the leader A the farmers to aid e€porters and others by | t of the Opposition thought it would be a raising a class of stock that would be 5uif--{ # | very popular move to ask for the distribu« able ftor export, _ lHe was slad that it was ' trion of that surplus, It had been proposed to simplify Ult'\'jlll\' system . said that this pamphilet should receive With reference to what had beoen said by t!.e' attention. HMe had no doubt that it hon, member dor East Elgin (Mr, Wifson) would receive attention, not so much for he denied that the hon. member for Londoun what it did contain asg for what it did not and himself had sought to make political contain. It was a noticeable fact that,! capital out of the iud:mnitv ucatlion' (;u 3 though the surplus under the Reform Gov--| the contrary, they had at the qmectin'i it & ernment is shown to have been $1,000,000 question distinctly sti nestifu. 4 P¥ a 1 y stated that they assum-- | less than under the Sandficld Macdonala ed whatever responsibility should attach t Government, yet the interost in cach case them in the matfer, _ He thought t ':C o was the same, -- 'This would show either no compact cxistm.l amon uhl m" n'U" f that John Sandfield Macdonald was not the all hon . imnembers w c'rc At &l!'b u_"' Andthak in¥ P g atf -- $ iberty to vote as | man of good investments that he was said they pleased. He stated that w to be or eise the Hon. Senator who com-- signed by Aif mmes| C hi lat a petition, f piled the figures was the man of blunders. had been .scntl, i¥ hmm( is constituency, Ho believed that the -- latter _ was (eneral in (ilo Nn ns( o Attorney, 1 i o * £ f 4 e Ceneral in fayour of the appointment there ie rcal state of the case. 'The of two magistrates, both abl leaders of the Opposition should not the A i ee t in NO 4 able men, and that T feel _ complimented at the appesrence h e Attorney--General had refused to appoint ) s + in affant" axs them on theground that thef w tr d of this pamphlet, for it in eficect said that hortl¥ after, how Sy werenot needed. they were not able to attend to their duties g"n n{ad etrl,x owever, a similar request had in this House, and the chiets of the party Oho of th e through another gentleman, and outside had considered it necessary to help | He had ose very gontlemen was appointed. them, 'This pamphlet was valuable bo-' e had signed the round--robin tor an in« causo it called to mind many things which crease o{ tho indemmity, and he had voted c ths country should not forget, 'The item for its reduction in 1876 and was going to $453,000 collected under John Sandfield do so now, He thought the time had come iA Macdonald tor the Crown Lands carried for reductions all round, both in the indem. back the memory to the way in which that | nity of members and the salaties of Minis-- money had been collected--by abuse of the | ters. -- He had never voted more conscienti-- £ powers of the Crown and with injustice to | qusly than he would for the motion of the * the s.:tttllers. Now the revenue _ was | ho:. member for South Simcoe, about the same, the heavy tax was not vr. RO8SEYEAn t laid upon the settlers, but money was enough of compuml:%l:fl.nu::ey had heard f collected |from _ the ordinary revenue seconder of the Address l'ver T ef vouny for rp § f e clever youn ; of woods and forests, 'The sale of the men, and he wished they had i ow $ timber upon the land had been effected, and n the other side of tfié ioh m0£e o higns § the money received was simply a gain to éo had signed the round rolf'e « (Laughter,), ¢ the Province. It was a unoticeable fact in und that it was a bad aff * (Mauphren. p the present discussion that the talking on &§ bad first been brou ht air, (Laughter,) t the Opposition side had all been done by ?tcr of theo (jo'-.g to him by a sup-- | a the heads and tails of the party, The great * ls never seen fl; l::meut ; but, as he 1§ | | nfixmber oft miqgll'e mel? had been silent upon refused to sign it, t:inl?intghl?f wbefore, ho | the matter, ey though i ¥ug as some | 1 ' ¥ ght, no doubt, that trick of tho Grits (loud laughter), but whon | t# | 9 A » ammsmcmcncacnome cmmcacn encz » | 7 ho nz uis