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GREAT PCBLIC oRrrar® and he warned the House agair M L. o f L03 -- (Fu gfP HAGuse agsingt repeating the mistake and passing these resolutions be-- fore the people had passed upon them. The one great need of Canada, urged the hon, oc BEEX EXERCISED ONLY OCCaASIONALLY ; contending that the very fathers of Coufedera-- tion had certainly contemplated a liberal use of the veto power when they had bestowed it on the Dominion authorities. Concerning the ques-- tion of reforming the Senate, the hon. member said the original scheme of the Senate was to make it a sort of "flywheel" on Canadlian politics, and quoted some remarks of Hon. Alex, Mackenzie, which he said supported that view. He saw no reason for reform. ing the _ Senate, As _ to the _ fran-- chise _ resolution, _ he thought _ every legislative body should have full control over the franchise on which members to it were _elected, and he belioved it was certainly in-- tended at Confederation that the Dominion should control its own franchise. He could not discuss the financial resolutions in telli-- gently because the Treasurer had not yet |Eoken on it. 'The hon. member claimed slso that the House had no certainty that the re-- vision of the Constitution was final, supposing the proposed resolutions were incorporated in the Confederation scheme,. There was no certainty that the Constitution would not be still further improved in years to come. There was one other point. The Liberal party of Canada seemed to have ceased playing with Protection and had adopted a straight Free Trade policy, and he would ask where, suppos. ing the present '"abominable tarift" way abolished, were they to get the money to pay to the Provinces the increased subsidies ask ed: for by the resolutions * The hon, Minister of Education had stated the other day that the scheme of Confederation ought never to-- have been passed until it had _ been submitted to _ the people. _ He _ agreed with the groposition, and would go even further, and say that the enactment of the Confederation scheme, without being -- first pfusod upon by the people, was little short of a s ul on n oenin o ©EICRD UI vision of the Constitution was final, sup; the proposed resolutions were incorporat the Confederation scheme, _ There wi certainty that the Constitution would 1 still further improved in years to come, / was one other point. The Liberal par Canada seemed to have ceased play ing Protection and had adopted a straight Trade policy, and he would ask where, su ing' the. present _ "abominable tariff" WHWar c® CC 0c THE QUEBEC RESOLUTIONS. Mr. WHIUNEY then resumed the debate on the Quebec resolutions. _ He thought the subject had been pretty well threshed out, and that little remained to be said of it 'There was also an unwritten law which he did uct himself approve of, but nevertheless had to bow to, that young members should not take part too rashly in a debate of this kind. He would hardly speak at all were it not that he felt sure his constituents were altogether op-- posed to those resolutions, and it was only with profuse apologies that he would attempt to enter the lists against one so distinguisned in his past and present career as the Hon. Attorney--General. (Applause.) He objected to the propositions of the Attorney--General that the power of disailowance might have been allowed to remain with the Dominion Government had it THIRD READINGS. The following bills were read a third time:-- Respecting the Methodist church at Aurora --Mr. Widdifield. Respecting the Town of Parkdale--Mr. Leys. Respecting a certain agreement made be-- tween the Town of Lindsay, the Midland rail-- waz of Canada and the Grand Trunk railway of Canada--Mr. Leys. To provide for the division of the Township of Waisingham--Mr. O'Connor. _ hak Respocting a certain railway debenture of the Township of Thorab--Mr. Gould. _ ns To incorporate the 'Town of Stayner--Mr. Wylie. Respecting By--law No, 402 of the City of Brautfonl--gvlr. Hardy, To enable the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity of London to sell certain lands--Mr. Meredith. Rolating to dissolution of united counties-- Hon. A. 8. Hardy. (By Our Own Reporter.) Turspay, March 6, 1988. The Speaker took the chair at three o'clock. FIRST READINS. The following bill was introduced and read a first time :-- To authorise the Corporation of the Town of Peterborough to issue debentures--Mr. Strat-- ton. Rospecting the Nicholls Hospital Trust-- Mr. Stratton. Sixth Parliament, Second Session. ONTARIO LEGISLATURE, 0p!¢. _ Hie -- agreed ind would go even 6 enactment of the without being --first ple, was little short of this P 1 am... _ q i0; 9 YCV¥ SHHEL AUCXC -- IHOFR-- l1ug in the paper which gets the advertising the old familiar complimentary notice will ap-- pear, that the actor carried the house by storm, that he electrified the audience, that the exhibition was the grandest attraction of the day, and the performer the greatest living actor of the age, But while this loyalty farce has its comic aspect it has also its scrious aspect. Does it never occur to the member for London that charging e .. C000 0i en ie en C200 _but when repeated session after session it be-- comes stale and uninteresting. It is like wit-- nessing a play when you have been a dozen times at the rehearsal. -- You thoroughly know the plot. You know when the colored fire is to be introduced. You know where the particular studied and well--rehearsed attitude of raising the hands and bowing to the mimic company of rustics on the stage is assumed, it is the pre-- concerted signal for these rustics to throw up their paper hats, the village band to blare their trumpets and the little boys to frantically beat their big and little drums, In. deed, the stage tricks do not cease until the drop of the curtain. No matter how tedious and huckneyecl has been the performance, we know from past experience of years that next morn-- ing in the paper which gets the advertising the old familiar complimentary notice will ap-- pear, that the actor carried the house by storm, that he electrified the audience, that the exhibition was the grandest attraction of the day, and the performer the greatest living actor of the nge, Irantically beat their big . deed, the stage tricks do drop of the curtain, No m hackneyed has been the p from past experience of y Ing it tlme nurnuer whick The fact is that the older members of the House are getting a little tired _ of THIs OLD LOYALTY sPEE0I of the hon. gentleman from Loudon ; they have heard it almost verbatim et literatim, session after session. _ When first delivered some eight or ten years ago it was amusing and Piquant, us © Hon. A. M. ROSS, rising amid cheers, said :--I think, Mr.Speaker, it is much to be re-- gretted that the hon. leader of the Opposition, in leading the criticisin on the propositions for the amendiment of the Constitution, should have sought to impart into this debate a spirit of partisanship and acrimony altogether out of place in the consideration of the question be-- tore the House. Iam glad to see that, with the exception of his second lieutenant, the hon. member for 'Foronto (or perhaps 1 am doing the hou, gentleman an injustice. I perhaps ought to have said first lieutenant, as it looks as if the hon. member for North Grey had been deposed)--I say I am glad to see that with the exception of the hon, member for Toronto the other Opposition speakers have had the good sense to refuse to follow in the unworthy ath of criticism marked out for them and K'u_vc endeavored to discuss the propositions in a logical and temperate manner. I think I may especially compliment the hon. member for East Durham as being the first to lead off in this much _ more appropriate manner of dealing _ with the _ subject. His speech _ hboth _ in tone _ and _ argu-- ment was much better than that of his leader. It may not have been so fluent or frothy, but it was more argumentative and dealt wit: the proposed amendinent in a manner befitting the subject, I think I may extend the same com-- pliment to that of the hon. member for Gren-- ville, who in the main applied his criticisms in a businesslike way, befitting a deliberative body calied upon to deal with a subject as grave and mommentous as the amendment of our Constitution. member in closing, was g'"' manency in her ;;:x?;,pu.&d;xg w spreec'h or having a fling at a political institutions, and he begged the House political opponent * If the leader of the Gov-- to think very seriously before they accepted | ernment is (fisloysl and if his colleagues are resolutions which would, he contended, have a disloyal the majority of the people of this Pro-- contrary effect, (Opposition applause.) vinze are disloyal, because, although the hon, Mr, PACAUD asked the kindness of the | gentleman has appealed to the electors on House on account of his b°i"f so i'°""8 &\ every hustings on this loyalty cry, the people member and also because of his lack of famili--| of this PFrovince have repeatedly, again arity with the English language. It had been | and again, expressed their 'cot.lfi'dence in suggested that both parties should have been | theGovernment by increased ma]or!cles_a.nd have represented at the Quebec Conférence, hesaid, | indignantly cast the slauder back in his teeth, but supposing the hon. member for London W hat is now the immediate cause of the re. had been at Quebec and had considered it | iteration of this charge ? It is partly because his duty to do there as he considered it| the Government have presumed to attend & his duty to do in this House, and | conference of the chosen representatives of the oppose everything the hon. leader of the | Provinces to consider patriotically what are Government brought in, what would have . the evils in the present relations between tho been the result of the conference * Its object Provinces and the Dominion which are causing would, of course, have been thwarted, and yet ijrritation and discontent and how these could the hon. member for London had been several: bhe removed to make the Federal Union work times notified by the Province that the Pro-- jmo»» smoothly. Thig is called a conspiracy vince did not place any confidence in . ai| hatching rebellion, but the cireumstance him. The hon. member referred then that has more immediately called forth this to the franchise resolutions, and in doing theatmical horror is that the representatives so, _ commented upon _ the _ improper of Nova Scotia in taking part in the confer. manuer in which the last Franchise Act encoe desired to be understood that while had been worked in his constituency. He taking part in the conference and endeayvoring was perfectly sure that the people of the Pro-- to tind a remedy for the evile of which thit vince would endorse the action of the Govern-- . Province complains, their action in taking ment in this matter. The member for Dundas part in this deliberation was not committing (Mr. Whitney) thought that the Governiment | the Province to an abandonment of the right should have gone to the country before attend-- of the people of that Province to agitate for a ing the conference. _ But the Government had 'repeal of the union if the evils under which the confidence of the people, and the people they felt they labored were not removed. knew that that confidence would not be Now, in the first place the circumstances abused. 1In Canada, as in England, the Liber-- under which that Province was brought als never hesitated in the duty of awakening into Confederation must be borne in mind, and educating their own party. He was sure It is well known that they _ were that not only the House but the country coerced against their will into the union-- would endorse these resolutions (Applause). that by blandishments and bribes the Federal QUEBEC RESOLUTIONS. Government secured a majority of the Legisla. A MAJORITY or TtE reopor rovince with disloyalty -- and _\ 3 " _V , '8rce Nas its comic o its serious aspect. Does it the member for London that and the fos-- wWILFULLY SHUT THEIR £¥Es and closed their ears to the representations made, and although respectfully invited to discuss these _ causes _ of _ dissatisfac ion, -- refused _ to consider them °* Was it not better to discuss causes of dis satisfaction and seek an equitable path for their removal than to allow that dissatisfac-- tion to foster and grow under contemptuous indifference until it culminated in disruption, or through callous negiect drive a suffering people into rebellion, as was done in the Northwest. But these kid--gloved loyalty gentlemen -- would be contaminated, for-- sooth, -- by sitting at the same table with those who would even hint at such a thing as discussion. 'They could not tolerate that a man like Mr. Fielding or Mr. Longly: should believe that his Province would thrive better as a separate Province, connected direct with the Empire through Downing street, as before Confederation, than under the sway of their benign, refined, houest, motvral, trathful, red--breeched deity at Ottawa. It was intoler-- able that such a fellah should com between the wind _ and the nobility, Mr. Speaker, They were not always so squeamish. _ Theivr deity has not always frowned upon those who have threatencd secession. Nor has -- he refused _ to CORDMALLY ACCEPTED THE SITCATION,. The question of repeal of the union and a re. turnto their original position as a separate Province was directly Eut to them at the late oneral election for the Legislature, and the i«)cal Governinent--committed to agitation for repeal unless relief could be had from the bur-- den which oppressed them--was sustained by an overwhe!lming majority of the people. Was it improper for this Government, so committed and so feeling the injustice under which they were suflering, to say at the opeuiug of the conference, We are v:mhug to meet the representatives of the other Provinces to discuss any remedies that may be proposed, but it must be unrderstood that the people of our Province must not be debarred, if these remedies are musullicient, to still seck relief by constitutiotual means in a withdrawal from the union. And hon. geuntlemen call this disloyalty and incipient rebellion, and say those who met with them to seek how the dis content could be removed were * disloyal," ** conspirators," " shaking hands with rebels." Where, 1 ask, was the true loyalty to the Do-- minion?* Was it not with those who, recog-- nising that such irritation and dissatisfaction must proceed from some cause, sought by con. ference and discussion to remove the irritation and consolidate the union, rather than with those who Now, in the first place the circumstances under which that Province was brought| into Confederation must be borne in mind,| It is well known that they _ were! coerced against their will into the union--} that by blandishments and bribes the Federal | Government secured a majority of the Legisla. ture in favor of the Union, but the people at the first opportunity unanimously repudiated their action. With onefeolitary exception they were defeated on an appeal to the people. We know that to allay the bitter animosity with _ which _ the union _ was _ viewed by the Nova Scotians, the sanctity of the compact and the B. N. A. Act was in. vaded and better terms given to Nova Sco-- tia and the head aud front of the repeal agitation, the Hon. I. Howe, was purchased by a seat in the Cabinet; but Nova Scotia has never yet | tering of rebellion is a very SeTI0US® W"'"Mp, 300 to a true son of Ontario ought not to be in-- dulged in for the purpose of ppmtmg_an argu-- ment, padding a speech or having a Hiing at a political opponent * If the leader of the Gov-- ernment is (Fisloyal and if his colleagues are disloyal the majority of the people of t'his Pro-- ' PH L F § ATGe OW L O t s vin:; are disloyal, because, although the hon, gentleman has appealed to the electors on every hustings on this loyalty cry, the people of this Province have repeatedly, again and again, expressed their confidence _ in the Government by increased majoritiesand haye indignantly cast the slauder back in his teeth, e n Nok Eo0E ELT on is a very serious thing, and