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sATURDAY, JUNE ,!4 YANT LARGEA gUBSIDIBS. Province Memorializes the Do-- minion. THE QUEBEC RESOLUTIONS Subsidy to the Nepigon Rail-- way. Brisk Debate on Mr. Conmee's Reia-- tion -- Thereto--Legislature Ad-- journs Until Tuesday. A busy time was spent by the Leg-- islature yesterday on its fifty--third day of the sessiton, when the business, with the exception of the considera-- tion of the Gamey commission's re-- port, possibly some assistance to rail-- ways, and one or two small matters. was all concluded. _ A brisk debate took place on the motion to transfer the subsidy to the St. Joe Railway to any other railway which would build firom Lake Nepigon to the C. P. R., forty miles in length.. Mr. Conmee's interest in the enterprise and his sup-- port of the resolution in the House was criticized by Mr. Whitney, but the motion carried. The estimates were all passed, and the bills not pre-- viously assented t'o were made -- law by the Lieut.--Governor in person. in the afternoon the resolutions passed at the Interprovincial Conference in December last, asking for an increase in Dominion subsidies, were concurred in, though opposed by Mr. Whitney and his followers as not securing enough for this _ Province, ._The House then adjourned until Tuesday aiternoon, and on Wednesday morn-- mf the Gamey Commission's report will be taken up. c k. The Premier announced that the ses-- sional indemnity of $1,000 to mem-- bers was only temporary for this ses-- sion under the extraordinary circum-- stances. It was his view that $800 was about right for future years un-- der ordinary conditions. _ He also an-- nounced the appointment of Mr. Alex. Fraser as Provincial archivist, a new *oificial, at $1,500 a year. Nepigon Railway. Mr. Latchford moved that the Lieu-- tenant--Governor in Council may trans-- fer the subsidy of the Thunder Bay, Nepigon & St. Joe Railway Company to any company that undertakes to build a railway from Lake Nepigon to the CP.R. He said that the Nepigon Fish Company had undertaken to build a road, by the terms of their charter, but it was not to be expected that they would do so without some assistance. The road was about forty miles long, and the "St. Joe" grant was $3.000 a mile and 5,000 acres of land a mile. Mr. Whitney's Objections. Mr. Whitney said that this was a most outrageous scheme. The Nepigon Fish Company had already been given great concessions, and had undertaken to. build the road in réturn for those concessions. It would have been too barefaced to have offered a-- straight subsidy, and so the Government asked for permission to transier the license of a company which, for all they knew, might still be in existence. Mr. Conmee said that the new road 40 miles long--would open up _a moved that the Lieu-- in Council may trans-- of the Thunder Bay, n ---- oo wih 1 ~country equal to an ordinary road Oi 230 miles, because the lake was 90 miles long and some forty miles wide. The undertaking was a meritorious oneé, and so deserving of aid. Mr. Whitney--Let me ask the hon. wantlaemar whether he is not interested _Mr. Whitney----Let gentleman whether h in the company. £EE EN NCR Cw C Mr. Conmee--I want to tell the hon. gentleman frankly that I am, and why not ? Why should I be debarred from taking an interest? If the hon. gentle-- man asks me whether J am a stock-- holder, I say no; I am interested only as a contractor. A Justifiable Vote. Mr., Whitney--Does the honorabie gentleman mean to say that he has no interest in the fish company, Other-- wise than as a stockholder ? Mr. Conmee--The fish compau{ > :1 was referring to the railway, but will answer that, too. I am a stackholder in the fish company, and why should I not be ? Sn + a ze oi n Sn ts it B 4 EPOC EW T Mr. Conmee justified his ac* tion because the enterprise was a meritorious one, and there was no rea-- son why he should mot do all in his power to assist -- in developing the sountry. SE d wl c h ol ce _ Te ooe Aondnaliih se yO LIRIEE ) * Mr. _ Whitney--There is nothing wrong in his being in the enterprise, but it is in his coming here to ask lor aid. _ Mr. Conmee--I dispute that propost-- tion ; there is nothing wrong in it morally or otherwise. uS & Li L 2) MWicadians es ""ix[;."!\\/'}'x'itr;é;:ln-gx;i)pose the honor-- able gentleman will vote upon the question. a oo ypnaass2nts y C CR t Mr. Conmee--Certainly 1 intend to vote.-- Continuing, Mr. Conmee ex-- plained the importance of the road, justifying the Governmment for assist-- ing it. Some years ago he had been attacked for having an interest in the Port Arthur & Western road and for voting upon a motion to assist the road. _ He had a letter from the late Sir Oliver Mowat upholding his action. A Good Proposition. Mr. Ross reviewed the advantages to be obtained by the promotion of the road. A calm consideration would de-- monstrate that the proposal was one of the best that had been before the House for any similar purpose. A great sweep of northern country would be opened up, around Lake Nepigon. The road would reach to within a short distance of the Albany River, and all this was to be done at a small cost. They were looking ahead now. A great transcontinental road, the Grand Trunk Pacific, would be built north of «Lake Nepigon, and the proposed road would be necessary to give old On-- tario a chance to send supplies into that territory. The Nepigon Railway would do for western Ontario what the Temiskaming road would do for north-- ern Ontario. A division was taken upon the mo-- tion and resulted in its favor by a vote of 37 to 33. The House in committee assented to a number of-- sections of the statute law _ amendment_ law pro-- posed by Col. Gihson. One amend-- ment provides for an appeal under the controverted elections act in case of a failure of the trial Judges to agree. Mr. Foy opposed the measure, and Mr. Milton Carr spoke of the Govern-- ment's railway policy, saying that it was, if anything, too slow. oo in seabic ies 0 it C en' -- ie te+ Mr. Brown's bill respecting the town of Listowel was given a third reading, after a smali amendment in committee. Vote on Shannon Deal. Mr. Ross moved that the House go tito sup;_>1y, and Mr. Whitney moved in amendment "That this House con-- demns the action of the Crown Lands Department in selling by private sale about May 1, 1902, a timber limit in the Township of Rutherford for a sum of $250, which was shortly afterwards resold for $9,000, and recommends that in future no sale of Crown lands be made unless by public competition." The debate of the previous after--' noon was taken as suflf)iciem for the purpose of the amendment, and the vote was put and a division taken, re-- suiting in the amendment being lost j an ordinary road of the honorable