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HomeMy WebLinkAboutLucknow Sentinel, 1892-07-08, Page 211 DOMINION PARLIAMENT. ,,. Phew John as to Those. erelaUve receipts replying andMr. ex- - Waftsol t>he,_._..f _cs>ai,.nec.-wt - motto offices of the Interoolonial Railway, said that since 1887 the total re- ceipt! the Montisah office were $113,613 ; expeneem 121,989 - balance, $91,634. In Tomato °fates the expeaditore during that period. had been $15,692:. the receipts, ; leaving a deficit of $7,39L Sir John Thoinpson moved that on- and after Wednesday, for the remainder of the asasi' " the House commence each sitting at II o'clock. Mr Darier did not suppose there would be a continuous sitting from 11 till 6 o'clock. Sir 'John Thompson said it was under- attooil that Mr. Speaker world leave the oisir at 1 o'clock and resume at 3 o'clock. Mr. Mils resumed the debate on his amendment in favor of a scheme of redis- tribution in Ontario which will maintain intact the county bonndariee. Anyone who had had experience of a constituency made up of parts of several counties, would. know hew hopeless was the task of unitieg such parts of counties by merely binding them up in the same constituencies. The pr oposal he (Mr. Mills) had made was cleat , easily worked out, and fair to all partied, and would better carry out the principle pro- posed by the hon. gentleman than any other that had yet been put forward. The Min- ister of Justice had contended ti. .t the county bound in Ontario had not 4 -hal so well maintained as in the other Pr. ince& A division was then taken on Mr. Mills' amendment, resulting as follows : 1. as 27, mays 51. The amendment was declared loot. , Clauses A and B, detaching the t- .vnship of ,Clarence from Russell county, we r e drop- Pea - following vote : Yeas 32, nays 58.- Mr. Bain (Wentworth) moved in amead- asset that clause H be amended by otrikiag 'sad oat the words East and We&tl Loco village of Waterddwn and adding township. Mr. Bowell, on clause C, defining Ren- frew North, stated that the entire change was the transfer of the townships of Head, Maris and Clara to Nipisaing. $' Sir John Thompson explained that clause . E as printed did not include, as was in- tended, the township of Niagara. He there- fore inserted these words. Mr. Mills moved that the village of Mer- rittoa be put in the county of Lincoln, where it belonged, Sir John Thompson agreed to this motion, and the clause was so amended. - Oa clause G, defining Haldimand and Mcmck, Mr. Mals objected to abolishing two con- stituencies in the west and leaving the Weaker sections of the Province with a full measure of representation. ' Why not unite Addington and - Lennox or Frontenac and Lennox, 'giving the town of Portsmouth to the city of Kingston, and leave the Niagara distrjce as it is' • b Sir John Thompson said that the ,popula- tion of Haldimand was 16,300, of Monck 15,300. He was a afraid he could not agree to the change proposed by his hon. friend from South Oxford and his ,hon. friend from Bothwell The chane was adopted. On clause H, dealing : with South Went- ' ent' worth, Mr. Paterson (Brant) pointed out that the constituency was separated. The town- ship of Ancaster or city of Hamilton divided the town of Dundas and the township of Flambero'. Mr. Paterson (Brant) said that as a ques- tion of numerical consideration there ways a difference of 4,000 between the counties of North Brant and Wentworth, and tnia, besides the geographical absurdity implied is the proposal, made it inezcaaable. Mr. 'Montagne said during the debate on the bill of 18ild hon. gentlemen had com- of the length of the county of which they said extended from Hamilton almoat to the town of Woodstock ; yet now they would support an amendment increasing the length of that riding by ten or fifteen miles. The amendment was lost by the following vote : Ayes 21, nays 46. Sir John Thompson moved the insertion of a clause relating to the constituency of Bothwell, by which the island of Walpole and other islands in the St. Clair river would be added to that riding. Mr. Mills said he had another amend- ment to propose; and the matter was allowed to stand for the present. Clause M, by which it was proposed to transfer London West to the city of London for electoral purposes, was dropped. On the clause dealing with West Toronto, Mr. Denison said, as some membera had suggested that this riding ehonid be divided, he had ah suggestion to offer. He moved that West Toronto be divided by Bathurst street, including Toronto Island, all west of Bathurst being West Toronto, and all east West Centre Toronto, while what was now known as Centre Toronto would be East Centre Toronto. This was allowed to stand. Mr. Bennett moved amendments respect- ing Muskoka, East Simcoe, North Ontario, and South -Victoria, of which he gate notice on Friday night. - Eir John Thompson said it was rather late to take that up this evening. The committee reported progress. The House went into committee on Redistribution Bill. On section 3 of clause 2, dealing with Province of Quebec, . e Mr. Laurier said he begged to move that the,whole of the motion as to changes made in Quebec be omitted from the 'bili. " Party inspired hon. gentlemen opposite. As an instance, it was only nee nary to look at the Senate- It had been 'created foe an express purpose, but instead of fulfilling that purpose, what was it ! To -day it was reduced to such a pi ce that you 'could count on the fingers of your two hands the members of the Liberal party therein. The Liberal party had been ostracised from the bench by a high hand, mild the . object of this bill was to ostracise the Liberals from this House, not with a high hand, but by degrees. The member for Albert stated some time ago that he was shocked and horrified at his (fir. Lanrier's calling the measure a gerrymander. Mr. Ouimet said it wofild be amusing, if the House had time for. it, to follow the leader of the Opposition in the shifting positions he took with regard to this bill In the first place it was perfectly clear that if Montreal and other places were to be given representation in proportion to their population, other constituencies must be wiped out ; for the number of members was fixed by the constitution. The interest of religion and nationality must not be forgotten in dealing with Quebec, and heiflattered himself that these also had been harmonized. Mr. Laurier—That is very poor flattery. Mr-, Onimet said if he bad to wait for complimenta from the hon. gentleman he would wait a long time. Therefore, he thoaght'it well to speak in his own praise when he honestly could. (tanghter.) The attempt had been made quietly to stir up religions feeling*, and rumors had been care- fully circulated ,among, the Government supporters . that the religion of the min- ority would be put at disadvantage by the BilL Mr. Laurier—I deny that statement abso- lutely. ',lir. Onimet—Such rumors were circulated. I heard it from several. Mr. Choquette—Name, name. Mr. Otiu,tt—My word s ill gofer what it is worth. The hon. gentleman is not bound to believe what I say. Mr,. Choquette—1 do not believe it - Mr. Oaimet—I am not speaking to be be- lieved by him. Mr_ Leerier—Such ineinuationeare alto- gether cowardly. Mr. Oaimet said that in the central group he had followed the rules laid down by the leader of the Opposition himself, so far as those principles could be harmonized. Mr. Laurier calledupon the member for Albert (lir. Weldon), who had stated that he was opposed to the bill of 1882 and only voted agamat the amendmentt' of the mem- ber for North Simcee because that bill had the , sanction of time. The provision . was & gerrymander of the gerrymander of 188th Mr. Macdonald (Winnipeg), acid he was surpraaed at the proposal of the member for Bothwell to finite Kingston and Portsmouth and throw the counties of Frontenac and Lennox together, since there was no con- nection between Kingston and Portsmouth mnnicipaL••ty, and the same could be said of Frontenec and Lennox. Mr. Boyle was sorry that it had been ' found necessary to remove the constituency of Manch, and still thought some arrange- ment might be made by which it could be retained., Mr. Macdonald (Huron) , contended that West Ontario was under -represented, and he was opposed to taking members from that section. The population west of To, ionto was 1,119,000, ande49 members came from that portion. East of Toronto the population was 630,000, and 32 members came from that sectiop, showing that the east was much more largely represented numerically than the west, Mr. Weldon said that if the propoeal was to unite two of the small counties in the east, and, also the two Wentworths, he thought it was reasonable, and would frankly say if put forward he would sup- port it. The House was again in committee on the Redistribution BilL Mr. Bowed said as fax as he was con- cerned he would have no objection to taking a unit beginning at the east and dividing the whole k'rovrnce of Ontario, giving repre- sentation by population so far as could be done without interfering with the township lines. Sir Richard Cartwright'taid the Ministry said that they desired the minimum of dis- turbance, and that as few constituencies as possible should be inr.fere3 with. He would suggest that the four smallest con- stituencies in Ontario continguous to one another be united; two and two, thereby obtaining the minimum of disturbance, and the two necessary representatives . would be secured, and leave the rest of the province alone. Unite Forth Leeds and Grenville, with a population of 12,500, with South Grenville haring 13,000 ; and then unite either Frontenac, 14,80e, and Lennox, 13, 30e, or Lennox and Addington. He pro- posed in amendment to the cause that the electoral division of Toronto be divided into two divisions returning one member each, that Frontenac and Lennox be u ni ted to return one member, South Grenville and North Leeds lie united and return one mem- ber, and let the electeral districts of Algoma and N ipissing be divided to return one mem- ber each. Mr. Bowell thought this was not in order, as it meant an amendment to the entire bill, and the committee would have to recyst all they had done. ' Sir John Thompson—We have been four Weeks getting down to section I3. I would the the fossa part el the bill was- carried by 57 to 27. Oa subsection (a) dnfieteepttawacounty, Sir John Thompson said the Government proposed that the division in this county should be north and south instead of east endwest,-:Ottesia West to -be-known Wright— (Conservative applause) — and Ottawa East as Labelle. The sub -section as amended was adopted. On sub -section (o) defining Lval, Mr. Laurier wished topoint out the want of logic in the Minister of Public Works' assertion that a man in Montreal was as good, as a main the retal districts: If that were so true as he held it. to be, Montreal and Hochelaga would have eleven repre- sentatives instead of five. There was no reason for giving Montreal and Hpchelaga five representatives and atoppipg there, He appealed to • the House to strike out this clause. After farther discussion the sub -section was carried. After a brief discussion the clauses 41 to Joliette and Montcalm were dropped, thus retaining these constituencies as at present. In respect of Hochelsga East and West it was decided, on Sir John Thompson'& sug- gestion, to name them respectively Roche - and Maionneuve. baring theediacnsaioa on the Montreal districts Sir John Thompson proposed to add to the new constituency of St. James the East Ward, proposed under the bill to be part of St Anne's division. Mr. Brodeur objected to this proposal as not calculated to equalize the population. Mr, Curran defended the proposal enithe ground that the interests of race harmony would be.promoted by it. After further discussion the amendment was carried. On the 'lanae relating to Chateauguay, Mr. Brown contended that the effect of the rearrangement proposed world be to prevent the election of an English-speaking representative, which was in direct contra- diction of the expression of interest in this class and their rights expressed by the Min- ister of Public Works (Mr. Ontmet). Mr. Chaplean deniedthat the result in- dicated would follow. - He understood it was proposed to amend the bill by leaving Chateanguay and St. Philomene parishes in Mr.ve, Chateauguay.whicontended that Mr. 'Brown was correct" in the forecast he had given of the effect of the change. Mr. Laurier objected to the proposal made by Mr. Chaplean, as not meeting the case. He suggested that Napierville. and Laprairie should be, united. This would give, say, 21,000 population for the united counties. He moved an amendment to this effect. ' After a farther discussion debate on this clause was adjourned, `and the committee rgee and reported, and asked, leave to sit • be sorry to go back. (Laughter. The amendment was put and idst on the dealing with the Province of Quebec do present dishonest shippers were in the habit of making the barrels with theheadanndsely thick aad very atrsight in the stave, so that they oent ined &-comparatively small quantity of ' fruit. It was proposed :oleo that the maker of barrels should be obliged -t stimip"hia'narne upon each barrel; -both maker and &hipper to be subject to fine in case of packages being undersized, and he hoped the Government would consider this matter and give notice of intention to make the• amendment. 'He suggested also that potato barrels tthould be similarly regulated and.inapected. hir. Mills (Annapolis) endorsed the sug- gestion made by the last speaker. Mr. McMillan (Huron) contended either that the inspection ahould be permissive or else that the inspection should take place on the premises of the grower. • Mr. Campbell said the effort in Ontario was to make apple barrels of the same con- tents aa flour barrel& These barrels were now made of 28t inch stave and heads 161 inch, and the reason why the barrels ' were made as nearly cylindrical as possible was to save freight, the charge on the Atlantic vessels, being by the space occupied, and the less bulge in the barrels the -closer they would pack. At present flour was shipped in sacks for this reason. It was not neces- sary to have more bulge on the barrel than just enough to tighten the hoops. He thought the trade should be allowed to regulate this matter. Thousands of barrels of apples were shipped out of his county (Kent) annually, and he had never heard any complaint or any demand for this change. TheHouse went into committee on the Redistribution bills The amendment by Mr. Davies, that the county lines in Prince Edward Island be not interfered with, was under discussion. The question was put and voted on in committee, and Mr. Davies' amendment was defeated ; yeas 49, nays 71. Onthe motion for adjournment, Mr. Laurier asked as to the truth of the statements in the newspapers of serious trouble in Edmonton over the .'removal of the Land office. Sir John Thompson said there was no serious trouble. No proposal had been made to remove the land office, but orders had been given :to remove some • of the records, in order to facilitate the making of entries by settler,, and the only trouble waa caused by a few persons who desired to pre- vent the removal of the records. Discussion was contained on sub -sections " S " and " T," dealing with Renville and Chambly. And then, on motion, Sir John Thompson asked that these clauses be allowed to stand. The committee then took up the sub- section dealing with West Toronto. The question was on Mr. Denieon's amendment, that West Toronto be divided into two constituencies by Bathurst street, one to be West Toronto and the other West Centre Toronto. Mr. Cockburn said that it did seem to him that some concession should be made by Toronto by which the manufacturing interests of that great city would be repre- sented. " Ten years ago the capital in- vested amounted to only e4,000,000, now it was $32,000,000. • The number of employees was 9,400, now it was 26,333. He gave other figures to show, the progress of Toronto. Sir John Thompson said he could not accept this, much as he admired Toronto, its great growth, and of course its represen- tatives, but it would be necessary if this was accepted to remodel the whole Bill, and of course give greater representation to Montreal Sir John Thompson announced that it was decided to leave the electoral district of Chateauguay as it is now, except that it should rnclnde the ' Indian village of Caughnawaga. This was agreed to- It was decided also' to unite Lapraine and Napierville- Mr. Chapleau announced that it was pro- posed to unite St. John and Iberville, and also to put in with them the two small par- ishes of NotreDame deStanbridgeand Notre Dame des Anges. It was proposed also to take the pariah of Lacolle from St. John, adding it to MissiequoL After considerable . discussion the clause was adopted. Mr. Welsh made an energetic speech. He claimed that if the Local Government had gerrymandered the Province they had learned to do it from this Government. The Islanders had never had a day's luck since they were confederated. This Government. bad taken away everything they could from the Island, and now they were taking away a member. Mr. Bowell—We are leaving the Island_ M. Welsh—Oh, you would take it away if you could. (Laughter.) For 1:0 years the borders of the counties had never been 'touched, and now it was going to be cut up. He criticised the bill as it dealt with Prince Edward Island at length - After a farther discussion the committee rose and reported progress, Sir John Thompson moved the second reading of the Bill to amend the General Inspection Act He explained that he nnderatoad some gentlemen desired to pre- sent to the House some views on the sub- ject, and that they would be prevented from doing so if the consideration of the measure was postponed. to political principle. 1 Mr. Borden expressed gratitude to the Mr. Davin eaid that in condemning Chic `Minister for giving himself and others an bill in tote, as the leader of the Opposition opportunity to speak upon the subject at ani the member for Bothwell had done, , this time. This Bill, while it related to the they were only following the example of the • export of apples, was not what the fruit - Tor` party .in England when they opposed ` growers of Nova Scotia wanted. The Bill the Reform Bill of.1832. provided for the inspection of apples, but it The motion that sub -section 3 of section 2 did not deal with the size of the barrels At AFTER RECESS. Mr. Bechard •continned hie eddies in or_ position to the bill, and supporting . Mr. Lanrier's amendment. Mr. Jeannette supported the measure. . Mr. Choquette spoke briefly. Sir John Thompson congratulated the member for L'Asanmption (Mr. Jeannette) not only upon the manner of his first speech in the House, but aleo upon_ the fact that he had introduced some arguments upon the subject which he (Sir John Thompson) had not noticed in the speeches of gentlemen opposite, though he had listened carefully:' Mr. Mills said there was no pressing necessity for going on with the bilL If there had been snch obligation was binding on them last session. While the Govern- ment considered the claims of tfontreal to increased representation, why did they not consider the claim of Drummond and Artha- baskaville to another representative, and why was not Ottawa County given three representatiyes ' Mr. Montague—If yon bad your way it would only hate one. Mr. Miiis—What right hie you to say that` Sl r. Montagne—Ion support the amend- ment of your leader, which is to leave the Province of Quebec alone. Mr. Mills—We are only anxious for de- lay. The present'measnre was entirely un- justifiable from any principle whatever. It was en unprincipled measure introduced by a Government not overburdened with regard MUT !MAIM= IS. lihopto 111te-GJyeerine nixed With VasM - otsiPlagrellteats. Very few _peojle have a correct idea of , `wlsa't dynamtte is; of What it is made and end the uses to which it is put. To the French belongs the honor of discovery and its first practical use. Nitro-glycerine is the force of all high ex- plosives. Dynamite is the name moat usually given to these explosives, though other names are sometimes need. Dynamite is simply nitro-glycerine mixed with various ingredients. Nitro-glycerine is made by mixing sulphuric and nitric acid with sweet glycerine, the - same that is used by they ladies to prevent chapped Hands Mixing the acids and glycerine is where the great danger lies in the makisg of nitro-glycerine. The mixing tank, agitator, as it is called by dynamite-makeri, is a large steel tank, filled inside with many coils of lead pipe, through which, While the mixing is in progress, a constant flow of ice -water is maintained. '.his flow of ice - water is used to keep the temperature a the mixture below 85 degrees, as above that point it would explode, -and a hole in the ground would mark where the faztory had been. ' The nitro-glycerine is stored in large earthenware tanks, which are usually sunk in the ground to guard against blown or severe concession. The other ingredients for making dynamite are : Nitrate of soda, which is found only in Chili ; carbonate' of magnesia and wood pulp. . • Dynamite is put in paper shells usually 11 inches in diameter and 8 inches in length, and weighs about one-half pound to each 'shell or cartridge. It has large taken the place of black powder for blast- ing, as it is many hundreds of times stronger and consequently more economical It is used chiefly in mining all kinds of ores, coal and rock, and submarine blast- ing and railroad building. Without its aid many railroads, especially those crossing the ttocky Mountains, could not have "bees constructed ; without it Hell Gate, in the East River, New York, could not have been destroayed, and without it the miner, at prices now paid for mining ores, could not earn his bread. Dynamite will not explode from any ordinary fall or jar ; it will burn without explosion,- and freezes -. at 42 degrees, -10 degrees above ordinary freezing point. The bomb of the anarchist is made of metal or glass and filled with pure nitro-glycerine, arranged so as to explode by severe contact with any hard object. These bombs are, of course, never made by a reputable dynamite factory. Five or six millions of dollars are invested inthe manufacture of dynamite in the United States, and its use is constantly on the increase. The fumes of nitro-glycerine produce intense headache, which can be cured by taking a very 'small dose of it in- ternally. The debate on the clauses relating to Prince Edward Island was continued by Mr. Davies, Sir John Thompson and Mr. Mills (Bothwell). The biil`from the Senate to make further provision for land grants to members of the militia force in the Northwest waa, read a first time. The bill from the Senate to amend the Winding -lip Act was read a first time. M r. Dewdney's Bill to amend the Domin- ion Land Act was read a third time after some amendments. The House then took concurrence in the estimates passed in Committee, of Supply. On items relating to penitentiaries,, Sir John Thompson, replying to Sir Rich- ard Cartwright, stated that it was proposed to proceed soon with the construction of two buildinga at Kingston, one for criminal lunatics and the other for female criminals. There was room for one of these on the present penitentiary property, but for the other a site would have to be acquired. , On conurrence in the vote for customs. Mr. Chapleau, in answer to Sir Richard Cartwright, said changes had been made in the customs service by a reduction in the number of officers fortuerly entitled to share in fines and in 'amulggled goods for- feited to the Crown. Collectors over a cer- tain Salary would have no share in fines or p:izares. On the item respect- the Sault Ste. Marie Canal, Sir Richard Cartwright aaked if the Gov- ernment was in possession of information to the effect that the Government were about to close the American Sault Canal to Cana- dian traffic. Sir John Thompson replied they had heard nothing of it, extent what had ap- peared in the newspapers, giving the text of what purported to be the President's message. Negotiations had been carried on between the two Governments respecting this subject The Canadian Government had cent a despatch to Washington, which kunst have reached the President about the time be sent his message to the American Senate. He thought a satisfactory settle- ment would be reached. He (Sir John Thompson) had promised that, a statement would be made to the House on the subject, and the documents laid on the table. This had been postponed pending the receipt of information as to the exact character of the President's message: The Finance Minister (Mr. Foster) would be in the House to -mor- row, and he would make a. statement either then or at an early day. - Sir John Thompson announced that as next week there would be two holidays, Wednesday a statutory holiday and Friday Dominion Day, he proposed that they be observed. , He made the announcement in order that members - could make what arrangements they wished. r' The House went into committee on the bill to amend the Patent Act. Sir Richard Cartwright could not agree to the extension of the term• of patents to eighteen. years, as fifteen years was quite as long as any single patent should live. Mr. Carling said it was not intended to extend the time of present patents, but only those issued, henceforth-, Sir- McMullen moved that fifteen years be the term forthe life of a patent. The amendment was lost, the clause car- ried, and the bill reported. victoria.* One Death Warrant. England's Queen, since the beginning of her reign, nes only reigned one death war- rant, which was for an execution in the Isle of Man, the act passed for relieving Her Majesty of the signing of death warranta having, by an oversight, not included that part of Her Majesty's dominions Charity segIueth at Howe. Daughter—Yon know, father, they are going - to have a fair at the church next week, and I thought I would like to get something for it. Father (handing her a cheque)—Certainly, nip daughter. In the cause of charity, I am always liberal.. Daughter—Something in the way of a new Flood the waste -water pipes every week with boiling water, and occasionally with a hot solution of sal soda: Bete—" When did you first suspect his inconstancy I." Blanche—" When I re- ceived his first letter: Belle—Why? Was it cold t Blanche—No ; it was type -written - town. The House went into committee on the Criminal Code_ Mr. Curran said that his attention had been called to the provisions of section 269, by the S. P. C. and W. of Montreal, whereby anyone carnally knowing a girl under It years of age is liable to imprison- ment for life, and in accordance with their request he moved that the age be raised to 16. Sir John Thompson pointed ont that although he had the utmost respect for philanthropists of the kind mentioned, it mast be remembered that a terrible punish- ment was provided for the offence. The clause was for the protection of children, and it could not be made to corer the case of women. A clause reads : "After the commence- ment of this act no grand jury shall present that any one has committed an offence ex- cept upon a bill of indictment duly set be- fore them. Ch After the commencement of this Act no one shall be tried upon any coroner's ingni.eition." 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