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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1890-3-6, Page 2aninnsaanrrraa. THE � ONTARIO rr �R�10 �L i Cl[� f 1 LEGISLATURE � 'ronoNxo, Feb. -- The Speaker took the ohair a 3.20 p.m. The following bills were introduced Mr. Orson -An Aot respecting the City of Belleville. Mr. Gibson (Hamilton) -An Aot to further amend the Liquor License Law. Mr. Gibson (Hamilton) -An Aot respect. ing the Hamilton Patriotic 'Volunteer fund. 'lir. Ross (LIIaron)-Au Act to provide for the purchase of debentures issued by counties for drainage purpoeee. Mr. Awry -An Act to amend the Assess- ment Aot. Air. Phelps moved for an order of the Housereturnshowing fora stationary steam engines ueed in the Pro- vince, and for what purpose used. Dlr. Gibson (Hamilton) brought down a report on bi•lingnal teaching in the United States,,and Ceneda The Speaker read the following message: The Lient.-Governor recommends to the Legislative Assembly that a sum not ex- ceeding $100,000 be set apart from and out of the surplus moneys forming part of the consolidated revenue fund of this Province to aid in the reconstruction of as mach of injured University as has been or destroyed by fire ; the said sum to be in additiou to all other sume which may be received or recommended by or on behalf of the university under any policies of in- surance against loss or damage by fire to the said building. The message was received with much applause from both sides of the House. Dir. Mowat •moved that the message be referred to a committee to prepare a regio• lution to be presented to the Committee of Supply later on, Mr. Blyth asked the Commissioner of Crown Lands if the return with reforence to debentures in the municipality of Proton ordered last session hey been prepared. Mr. Hardy said tbet the matter would be attended to. Petitions were presented by : Mr. Awrey-Frvm W. G. Walton and others, of Hamiltuu, praying that an Aot may be passed t• moorporate the Hamilton and Barton Incli ,+ Railway Company. Mr. Preston -From T. B. McMnrohy and others, of Gananoque, praying for pertain amendmente to the Game Act respecting duck shooting. 4e Several other, petitions, praying for amendments to the Municipal and Assess- ment Acte were presented. - Mr. Gibson (Hamilton) presented the sea. and report of the Standing Committee on Private Bills. Bilis were introduced by ; Mr. Dryden -An Act to amend the Act to impose a tax on dogs and for the protec. tion of sheep. (Cries of " Lost.") I47r Maokenzie-An Act respecting the old cemetery and the Methodist cemetery in the town of Semis. Dr. Gilmour --An Aot respecting the town of West Toronto Junction Dr. Gilmour -An Act to incorporate the town of North Toronto. Mr. Mowat -An Aot to amend the Elec- tion Aot as to secraoy of.voting. Mr. Mowat -An Act to amend the law respecting the lease and sale of settled estates. Mr. Mowat -An Act to further amend the Aot to secure wives and children the benefits of life insurance. Mr. Mowat -An Aot reepeoting official documents when required as evidence. Mr. Mowat -An Act respecting the pow- , ere of commission;s for taking affi}`iavite. Mr. Gibson (Hamilton) laid on th table a return showing the amount paid out of municipal fonds either by direct grants or remission in each city, town, village, or rural municipality in the Province during 1887 or 1888 for the relief of poor or in. digent persona, not including any sums paid for the support of houses of industry or similar institutions. Also a return showing the name of the municipalities which have passed by-laws ander the authority of the Ontario Shops Regulation Aot, dietingnishing eases where such by-laws were passed without petition, also showing dates of the passing of such by-laws, the classes of shops, the hours of labor, and the period of closing. Mr. Clancy, in resuming the debate said that there was a shrinkage in the Domin- ion a000nnte which the hon. Treasurer had failed to account for. A reduction of 13210,000 had been made in the 6 per Dent. bonds between 1885 and 1889. He con- tended that the subsidy at Confederation, and the capital constituted by timber lands, and a trust held by the Dominion could not be called a surplus. Neither were the Upper Canada Grammar School Fand nor the Upper Canada Building Fand, amounting respectively to $312,769 and 51,472,391, any portion of the assets or liabilities. He pointed out that while an asset might be a surplus, a surplus was not always an asset. Coming to what the hon. Treaeurer had been pleased to call liabili- ties not at present payable, the hon gentle- man said that the fact of the matter was that since 1884 the hon. Treasurer had been nnable to meet the obligations that ought to have been met out of the revenue, and had been compelled to pledge the Pro- vince for the amount required,. and to. day there is a debt of nearly $1,000,000. Mr. Awrey dealt with the question of public institutions and the maintenance thereof. He defied the hon. member from Toronto to point to one single official in the employ of the Government that gets one dollar more than he ought to. Dealing with the statistics of aeylnme for the past year, he showed that while the hon. mem- ber from Toronto had asserted that Mid- dlesex and Wentworth furnished the greater number of criminals snob was not really the time. Touohing on education, the hon. gentleman charged the hon. member from Toronto with stating by implication that the expenditure had been unfair and unjust to the common sellouts of the Province. He had omitted to state that while more money had been granted tbe Separate Schools these schools had increased proportionately. Continuing, the hon. gentleman meld that, while the cost of civil government had increased during the pad five years in Ontario only 5 per cent., it had increased in the Dominion during the same length of time 55 per cent, Legis- lation had increased in Ontario 5 per cent. and in the Dominion 25 per cent. These were facts worth considering. The expen. ditnre, he admitted, . had been alightly larger than the revenue daring the last few years. The polioy of the Government, as ,stated by the Treasurer, had been to draw upon the surplus rather than tax the people. This course has been adopted. The hon. member for Kent had made the estonnding statement that Dash was not an sweet. Mr. Clancy -I never said any Both thing. Mr. Awrey-He bad acid it was capital, and could not be counted as a surplus. He would ask the hon. member for Kent if the Dominion 6 per cent. bonds, amounting to $210,000,, and the 5 per cent, drainage debentures, amounting to 5187,481, were :not a enrpins? The trnet funds held by the Dominion, he maintained, could be realized at any time. Asir. A. F, Wood (Hastinge) said that he by both aides s f the House with the i o country and lot the people judge ,which Aide was right, He did'net knots of a more vioious principle in finitude then not look - Mg the truth squstxely in the:lege:; Thie was how the' Provinoial TreaHtix9r rignored the question of annuitiee,whioh'waei ouey borrowed. Thie debt did not appear in the statement of liabilities presented by the hon. Treaeurer to the House. The true facto could not escape the public in spite of all the dust raised by the members of the Gov- ernment. Mr. Smith (East York) said that the attempts at producing imaginary debts, the efforts to teach the hon. Treasurer how to keep booke, and the patching up of bogus deficits would not go down with the people of the Proviuce. Mr. Gibson (Huron) thoughtht the Ontario Government entitled to all the credit they get from the country, for they got none from the House, for every vote they have given for railway grants. The timber limite, he contended, should be put up to publio auction Mr. Meredith -Yon had better inquire in a certain department about that. Mr. Gibson (Huron) continuing thought perhaps he had trod. on the corns of the hon. member from Loudon. t question of de- ficits he Hon. Mr. Hardy, finite as handled by the hon. member from Toronto, oredited that gentleman with planing the question in a new and remark- able light. The hon. member from Toronto in his speech had criticized the finances from 1884 to 1888, and there he had dropped them without reference to the •),closing year. Figures were quoted showing the amount per capita for maintenance of inmates in asylums at Toronto to be 52 per week, at London •5140 per annum, at Kingston $132 per annum, at Hamilton 5132 per annum. The hon. member for Toronto had stated that one-third of the total amount was expended in wages. The percentages were: At Hamilton, 28 per Dent.; at Kingston, 25 per cent.; at Lon- don, 27 per cent. ; at Toronto, 30 per cent. Mr. Meredith said that Dominion politics should be discussed at Ottawa, and not in the Ontario Legislature. It was nafair to assume that if the Opposition were in ;:power, in Ontario they would persue the same method of disposing of the timber limits es obtained at Ottawa. The polioy which the hon. gentleman piersaed was the policy pursued by Mr. 'Sandfield Macdon- ald, yet they eonght to take all credit to themselves. 1t was amusing to see how figures were made to show a surplus that did not really exist. How could a surplus remain ocnstant in the face of a constantly iaoreasing expenditure. He then referred to the large number of lunatics kept as in- digents in the Provinoial asylums, and said that he believed that the Government should take steps to have mild lunatics maintained in the county poor -houses. The hon. Commissioner of Crown Lands had referred to figures relative to the poet of such institutions in the United States. These were private calculations drawn from unknown sources, and .as the House was not in possession of the informa- tion the figures should be ignored. Be. sides, he believed that in figuring up the cost per capita the cost of maintaining the " paying patients " was included in the American calculations whilst this was excluded in the Onterio tables. Then with reference to the Central Prison, it Dost tar too much. Hon. John Sandfield Mac- donald never dreamt that the Central Prison was to serve the purposes of a penitentiary when he first established it. But every person acquainted with the administration of justice kisiew that many prisoners that should go to Kingston were sent to the Central Prison Now it was the duty of the Federal Government to look after criminals in the penitentiaries, and he did not see why the Province should undertake the task. The Dominion had assumed the responsibility at Con- federation, and it should be called upon to do its duty. Mr. Hardy -All prisoners sentenced to more than two years are sent to Kingston. Mr. Meredith -Yes, but• everyone who knows anything about the administration of jaetioe in this 'Province knows that. judges, for certain reasons which will not now be discussed, prefer sending a prisoner for two years to the Central Prison instead of for three years to Kingston. With. reference to the terminal annuities he did not think that the hon. treasurer was pursuing the course of hie predecessor in office in issuing these ennnitiee. The hon. gentlemen boasted of their surplus, but if they had a surplus, why did they have to go into the markets to borrow money ? Mr. Mowat, in rising to reply, said that there was not the slightest danger of the people being misled. The chief reason for the hon. gentleman's indignation for a number of year% was because the people refused to be misled. He denied that there was any concealment. It was quite true that there was a charge against the Pro. vince in the form df annuities. What the hon. gentleman would want the hon. Treasurer to do would be to capitalize this liability. This liability was in the form of a mortgage. If it were capitalized, then the whole assets of the Province in the shape of unsold timber limite, Crown lands, and the moneys due or payable on such assets would also have to be capital- ized in order to give, a properestimate of the financial "position of the Province. The financial statement furnished only con- tained enoh assets as might be ooneidered ready cash,and the liabilities showed only the present chargee. There was an enor• mons amount of moneys due to the Crown lande. The timber limits represented only 56,000,000 of assets, a very small propor- tion of the whole amount, 556,000,000. It would be a ridiculous thing, continued the hon. Attorney. General, to place the annuls ties as liabilities, and not put down any part of the fund out of which it ie to come. He had referred to the value of drown lands and unsold timber limite, which had not appeared on the assets or large Bums of assets which were held. • The Govern- ment annually received a very large sum ander the British North America dot, amounting to gonsiderably upwards of one million dollars. Thie was a permanent annuity. The honorable Treasurer, the Attorny.General contended, had but fol- lowed the course of the Dominion itself in this matter. Mr. Meredith -No. 0 Mr. Mowat -I say yes. It was an annual sum that the Province had to pay last as the Dominion obligations to whioh he had already referred. In substance they were preoioely the same. In concluding he said that his hon. friend the leader of the Oppo- sition would have to present a much stronger case than he had today why the affairs of the Province should not'remain in the hands of the present Administra- tion. Mr. Ross (Huron) repudiated the aeser- tione that his financial statement had been calculated to deceive the people of the Province. Continuing, the hon. gentlemen said that the the total amount drawn from the surplus to meet expenditure over sesete during the past 'seven years had been 5460,936, instead of thedefioit of 51,800,000 ets had been charged. He repeated his contention that the interest showed that a surplus existed capable of being realized upon. He then moved that the Honee go wail satisfied to leave the figures presented into Committee of Supply. Mr. Speaker left the ohair. The blouse then went into oommitte Mr, O'Connor in the chair, One item was Paned. • Mr. Speaker took the chair and the House resumed. •;.; Mr. Meredith enquired of the Govern- ment when the question of the grant to the University would dome before the House. Mr. Mowat replied that it would be re. Carred to in committee tomorrow and be dismissed on Thursday. Mr. Meredith enquired of the Govern- ment whether they were in possession, of, any information me to the Dost of r000n- struotion, and thought the fullest informa- tion possible on the subject should be pre- sented to the House. Mr. Mowat stated that the infortfratteh` would be forthcoming. Mr. O'Connor presented a report of the Private Bills Committee. Bills were introduced by Mr. Bronson"' To enable the oorporation of the pity of Ottawa to issue debentures for waterworks purposes. Mr. Bronson -To enable the oorporation of the city of Ottawa to issue debentures to the amount of $50,000. +a Mr. Lyon -To incorporate the Sault Ste. Marie and Hudson Bay Railway Com- pany. Mr. Gibson (E amilton)-Respe?tleag the New Yok e n York LiteIn ere o Company. Pan Y. - ooneo i tete ease To Tda Mr. Rase (Middl ) the debenture debt of the. County;._ of Middlesex. Mr. Mowat -To provide for the appoint meat of junior judges in provisional die. triots. , Mr, Marter moved for an order House for a return showing what a tions have been made for payments the oonsolidated revenue under pr of section 4 of chapter 4, 43 respect of the dues on pine tree showing what is the aggregate en up to the 1st day of February patentees of lands,subject to the p of the Aot, are entitled to receive the dues collected on pine tttees on the date cf their patents. Mr. Meredith said for some ti the policy of the Government to allow a pertain amount of timber to go to the set- tler after he had obtained his deed. This regulation had been withdrawn, and now the lumberman had the privilege of taking all the lumber. He would like to know if any Order-in•Oonnoil had sen passed on the subject, or it the Columnist ' Crown Lands was noting on his ownrespon- sioility, or it the Government ha My set- tled polioy. Mr. Hardy said that no Order had been passed, and that th :Council egalation had been changed for certain r}iaeone. It had been the rate when only 40,000 feet of timber remained on a lot that this should go to the settler. The settler at once out this timber and sold it, and it a to the Government, and also to the holde of the license- The department had no set- tled polioy on the matter, bat he was con- sidering some means whereby the amount of the dues to go to the settler would be increased from 25 Dents to 33i. Dente. Mr. Marler said that this was a;,barning question among the settlers, and there was more cause for rebellion over the ha..� ase of the regulations than there was''iniklani. tobe over the railway monopoly. Mr. Phelps said that he considered the settlers reoeived far more than they de. served. One-half of the settlers were bogus settlers, and they pretended to tie on land so that they could ate timber. Mr. Murray ear the Government should elloly nes of the dry pine. The motion was oarried. Mr. Harter moved for an address for e return of a Dopy of the Order-in•Connoil appointing W. H. Spencer Police Magic• trate for parts of the districts of Muskoka and Parry Sound, and fixinghie salary or emolument, and of the oomirrinei issued to him as each Police Magistrate. Mr. Marter said that there was no reson for Mr. Spencer's appointment. Thera were saffioient magistrates and judges in•• the district to enforce the laws without his assistance. Mr. Hardy said that no complaints re- speoting Mr. Spencer's conduct had been made to the Government. If the hon. member had not been talking polities in barrooms himself he would not have Been Mr. Spender. The chief reason for the attack was because Mr. Spender happened to have opposed Mr. Marter polirioally. He could see no reason why the motion should poss. Mr. French condemned the action of the Government in appointing Police Magistrates in towns and municipalities without the petition of the inhabitants. Mr. Meredith said that he considered the aotion of the hon. gentleman from Muskoka in bringing the matter before the House was quite jastifiable. Mr. Armstrong said that the appoint- ment had been made largely with the eon. sent and wish of the temperance people of the district. He said that the district over which Mr. Lonnt presided was so large as to require an assistant in the performance of the work. He related a serious condi- tion of affairs in the Parry Sound district, where so much liquor was consumed ae to require an immense amount of police pre- caution. He defended the opening np of colonization roads, and thought it only fair thet the Algoma, Parreafiggud, and Mos- koka districts should be developed in that way. Mr. Marter said that the hon. Commie. sioner of Crown Londe had stated that he was not very well acquainted with Mr. Spencer. Mr. Spender's conduct at the last Provinoial election in Mnekoka had been inconsistent. The Conservative party did not consider him worth baying, but the Reform party evidently did. Mr. Spencer wanted the nomination which Mr. Cook. burn reoeived, and at the conclusion of the meeting announced himself as in favor of Equal Rights, religious liberty, and special favor to none, and a faithful and patriotic adherent of the Crown. Mr. Spencers appointment under the Crooks Act was never asked for. Mr. Hardy said it had been asked for. Mr. Clarke (Wellington) moved for an order of the House for a return showing the number, end designation of school boards in the eines, towns and incorporated villages in Ontario which have adopted the use of the ballot at annual school eleotione under section 103 of ohapter 225, R. S. 0., with the number of school boards in pities, towne and villages which have not adopted the ballot for such purposes, Mr. Roes replied that the number of Dor. porations in cities, town and incorporated villages in Ontario entitled to the ballot is 231. The number that nee the ballot np to date is 81. The names of the corporations in which it is being need will be given later. Mr. Creighton moved the second reading of the Bill to amend the Public Lands Aot. The Commissioner of Crown Lands slated that the information required was: not yet in his possession. The Bill was allowed to stand over. Mr, Waters moved the second reading of the Bill to amend the Ditches and Water- coutees Aot. The Bill passed the second reading end was referred to the Municipal Committee, set. the the ,Mr. Roes (51iddlesox)etated that he had his oseeaston a statement of the finen- n P with the 'vera: wt 'of the Uni t , standing Y a t i income and expenditure from 1886 to the presort time. The matter will be brought before the House to -morrow. Petitions were read from Mr. McMahon, praying for pertain amendments to the Assessment Aot. Mr. Leys-Respecting the Assessment Aot. Bills were introduced by Mr. Graham-Toprevent the sale of meat or milk from animals affected with tuberculosis. Mr. Hardy -To amend the General Min. ng Aot. Mr. Garcon-Reepeoting the inspection of boilers and the Government examina- tionof'` 'gineere. Mrs onnor presented the report of the Co ittee on Standing Orders. Mr..Preston moved for an order of the House for a return showing the number of sohools aided by grants from the Poor School Fand. He oomplained that the grants had not been equitably distributed. In his own eeotion 516 bad been granted to one school and 5100 to another, the want in both oases being the same. Mr. Ross (Middlesex) replied that $25,000 had been given annually for poor school gadistribution grants. in order that the dietr' might be fairly made, a sum was set apart per quarter to Separate schools, in propor- tion to what they were entitled to receive. The grant of 516 had been made on the representation of the inspector of that eeo- tion. Since the year 1886 a share of the fund had been withdrawn and given to Separate school(' who have poor eohoole. Last year there appeared to be a greater number of applications than in former years, and a system of percentage had been pplied, which resulted in the schools receiving eighty cents on the dollar. The name and number of every school receiv- ing these grants would be found in the report. Mr. Preston wished to know farther why very poor sohbols had received only $16 whilst others reoeived more. Mr. Rose (Middlesex) replied that the grant had been made on the recommenda- tion of the inspector, whb had asked for $20. Had $100 been asked for on reason- able grounds 580 would have been granted. The recommendation had been made by Mr. William Johnston, inspector for Leede. Mr. Preston accepted the explanation. Mr. Wood (Hastings) thought there should be no distinction in the matter of grants to Separate Schools. He woe also of opinion that the poor sohool grant should be increased. They were as deserving of recognition as the university. He objected to the schools being called " Poor Sohools," and thought® they should receive assistance simply because they needed it. Mr. Meredith thought that the action of the hon. gentleman opposite was calculated to promote the growth of Separate &hoots. He did not think each action in accord with the policy of the law. There should bs no facility for the establishment of Separate Schools by making grants of this kind. Applause. Mr. Fraser thought the Minister quite within the law in making a distinct grant of the Poor Schools fend to the Separate Schools. If anything,the Minister had not dealt as liberally with them as he might. The grant was not asked for to facilitate the establishment of eohoole, but to assist in their maintenance after they had been established. They had been established strictly according to law. The motion was oarried. i 1rH E. Clarke moved :for an order of the House for a return showing the amount of disbnreements oonnected with the Registrar of Deeds office in the city of Toronto for the year 1889, as follows: (a) To the city of Toronto. (b) To the deputy registrar. (c) To other clerks and assistants. (d) For other purposes. Also, showing the gross earninge of the regis- trar for the year 1889, and the total amount received by the registrar for his personal nee. Mr. Mowat replied that much of the in- formation asked for was in the report. The motion was oarried. Mr. Phelps moved the eeoond reading of a Bill to amend the Municipal Waterworks Act. The hon. gentleman wished to remedy an inequality in the law by whioh persons whose property was situated on a thoroughfare in which a main was laid were assessed for the water rate, although not consumers. The Bill was referred to the Municipal Committee. Mr. Wood (Hastings) moved the second reading of a bill to amend the Registry Act. The bill provides for the registration of receipts given for mortgages or transfers of property in the Registry office for a email tee, thereby providing additional security to the holder, who in many cases, had no other record than the endoreation on the bank of the receipt. The bill was referred to a select committee composed of : Messrs. Balfour, Clarke (Wellington), Clancy, Craig, Dryden, Fraser, French, Gibson (Hamilton), Guthrie, Harcourt, Hardy, MoKay, Meredith, Morin, O'Con- nor, Ostrom, Whitney, and Wood (Hast- ings). Mr. Gibson (Hamilton) presented the third report pf the Standing Committee on Private Bills Mr. Gibson (Hamilton) presented the fol- lowing returns : Report of the inepeotor of the Elgin House of Industry for the year ending 31st October, 1889 ; a brief history of Publio and High school text books, authorized for the Province of Ontario, 1846.1889 ; analysis of reports of county, township and horticultural societies for the year ending 1888 ; report of the working of the Tavern and Shop Licenses Aot for the year 1889. Mr. Rose (Middlesex), in rising to move the House into committee of the whole on the rosolntion with reference to the restor- ation of the Toronto University, was received with much applause from both sides of the house. He said that it would be unnioeesary for him to detail the calamity which had overtaken the great provincial Rat of learning. It was only four years since the House, after careful consideration, had passed a bill for the fed- eration of the colleges with Toronto Uni- versity, and eetablishiuga faculty of law and medicine. Since then a medical faculty had been suooessfally established, with 284 students attending the lectures. In law also ooneiderable progress bad been made. The same year there had been affiliation with the Agrioultaral College and the School of Dentistry. By its federations and its faonity the university had attained its present proud position as one of the best end most progressive universities in the world. Forty years ago there were 4,200 pupils attending the grammar schools, now there were 17,742 ; forty years ago 54,733 was expended per annum on these intti.tutione,'now the amount had increased to 5637,000. Forty years ago there were 3,244 Public Schools, now there were 5,569, with 27,522 pupils forty years ago, as compared with 495,323 now. This expansion in the direotion of education was in no small measure due to the University College. Its influence wes far- reaching. The amount required to restore the building as formerly is 5250,000, of whioh .090,000 is covered by insurance. Of this amount we are asked to grant the sum of 5160,000 for building the Consular lists just published. purposes. The lose to the library is with 50 000 . at 150 UO t $ estimated$ 0 ineuraneo, leaving a �net� toes of 5100,000. The total amount required to place the institution in a position to orgy on its work is $460,000, a very large slim in- deed. 01 this we are asked for only 5160,000, e, very email sum, and the trustees promise to undertake to procure the rest ,by sub- scription by the graduates, private sndi- viduels, and the city of Toronto. After granting 5160,000 it will require 5300,000 more to place the university in a straw; position. The Legislatare had always been kind to the Provincial University. This is a tradition of the House. The property lost is a portion of the endowment, and this alone the Provinoe is asked to restore. In 1798 the Legislature granted 467,665 acres of land as an endowment for higher education. This was 100 years ago, when the population of the. Province was less than 100,000, when there were no railways or canals.: Still, even then the Legislature. recognized the value of higher education. (Applause.) In 1828, 272,600 acres were granted to restore 170,000 acres that had been diverted from the endowment, and in 1887 a portion of the land of Upper Canada College had been handed over to the university and the site itself, worth half a million dollars. In conclusion, be con- aicere the sum ask d very small, and he was satisfied that the resolution would meet the eapport of both sides of the House. (Applause.) Mr. Creighton, in speaking to the motion, said that it was a mistake to suppose that graduates only sympathized with the uni- versity in the repent disaster. The hon. gentlemen declared himself heartily in accord with the proposition to grant $160,- 000 towards the restoration of the univer- city. The grant was not one of additional aid, but simply to aid a Provincial inatitn. tion. Mr. Wood (Hastingsl'did not wish the resolution pressed upon the House at this Gaily stage. He thought additional infor. mation was reo_aired. Mr. H. E. Clarke wished to aesnre'the House of the cordial support of the Oppo- sition in the proposed grant. There was no pile of buildings on the continent more admired then the pile that now lies in ruins in the Queen's Park. He advocated the necessity of having Convocation Hall ereoted at some distance from the Univer- sity proper, in order to prevent any similar calamity in future. The erection of a very large hall for such a purpose at an expense of say 1100,000 would' be of inestimable benefit. This mete the hon. gentleman thought, could be met by the City Council and resident oitizene. The 5160,000, how- ever, was absolutely necessary. He did not see why the House should delay the matter till next week as urged by the hon. member for North Hastings. Mr. Fraser reminded the hon. gentle. man who asked .for more time that a bill would have to be introduced based on the resolution before the House. Practically there was no reason why the reeolation should not be oarried. There would be plenty of time to consider the bill before the session closed. Mr. Clancy was not convinced of the propriety of having the House pledged to assent to the reeolation and discuss be - tails afterwards. Mr. Meredith regretted to see that oppo- sition had been made to the proposed prompt action to render assistance to the university. He deprecated such action, and thought it was plainly the duty of the Province to stand by its institutions. It would be a contemptible thing on the part of the Province to withhold its sympathy and the appeals for aid in the hour of need. He was glad to see that sympathy had been extended, and thought this was a case where he who gives quickly gives twice. He appealed to the Provinoial pride of hon. gentlemen that the vote be unani- mous. Mr. Harcourt was also of opinion that in the present instance he who gives quickly gives twioe. There should be no delay. Mr. Caldwell advocated a poliay of delay. Mr. Balfour did not feel able to vote clearly on the eubjeot with the limited knowledge he possessed. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Fraser pointed out that the scope of the resolution was simply that the House go into Committee of Supply to consider the resolutions. They might reduce the cum named or do with it as they wished afterwards. Mr. Wood (Hastings) did not propose; o give up his convictions to the leader of the Opposition or anyone,elsei The House went into Committee of Sup- ply, Mr. Heroonrt in the ohair. The resololation of Mr. Rose (Middlesex) respecting the grant to Toronto University was adopted without an amendment and reported to the House. with instructions to frame a bill dealing with the question. Mr. Speaker took the chair. Mr. Ross (Middlesex) introduced a bill framed upon the ' resolution granting $160,000 to Toronto Univeraity. The bill passed its first reading. Mr. Mowat moved the second reading of bill No. 85, relating to the jurisdiction of Courts of General Seesione`of the Peace. Mr. Mowat moved the second reading of bill No. 86, for the relief of persons pro. fusing the Jewish religion. Mistook Their Man. Hon. W. E. Gledstone's servants took forcible possession of the person of a unique looking specimen of humanity that invaded Hawarden a while ago, on suspicion that the aforesaid specimen was insane. Mr. Gladstone was summoned to see the wretch, who turned out to be a Greek pro- fessor speaking no English, who had come all the way from Athena to congratulate the British statesman on knowing Homer's " Iliad " by heart. Only a Relic. Small Clerk -What is it that we are com- monly called green gropers, Mr. Sands ? Grocer -Only a relic of the credit system, boy, only a relic. 'At the cert.. She -How expressive 1 Was not that " Cradle Song " beautifully rendered ? He -Ya -as. I guess that's what made. my leg go to sleep. Oatoh 1 One of New York's dudes is said to have 25 different Silk' hats. A. versatile fellow. Nature has wisely arranged matters so that a man can neither pat his own back nor kick himself. -Sam Jones, the evangelist, has decided to leave Georgia, and has bought a fine stook farm near Eminence, Kentucky. Ho is now quite wealthy, and after fillinghis present engagements will retire to give bis vernacular a rest. Tho will of the late Bolsi. Browning hes been proved The valve bf the personal estate and effects was sworn et .£16,774 19s. 4d. Miss Bistand, the brave little woman who went around the world at six. hours notice, has teen m %de literary editor of the Cosmopolitan Magazine. Dr. Kappa,. the German Consul who made all the trouble between America and Germany at Samoa, has been dropped from LANGUAGE ON' THE FUTURE. Eaallsli Spoken in Every Port and by 100,000,000 People Preeminently the language of the future will be English.. It is a stalwart language 'beoause itue the mother tongue of two stay. wart and one long-lived nations. Its rudi- menteryeidioma were in use at the founding of London, fogey years subsequent to the oruoifixion of Christ. Its vitality is ire. direct ratio with the vitality of its parent nation. The restless enterprise of English exploration has oarried the language, with the frog, atoned the world. Nellie Bly, speaking her native tongue, can be under- stood in every port and every nation em- braced in her flying ciroumvalletion of the, globe. The English language has broken down the barriere of old-time =stoma in. e diplpmaoy. To'American intron0e619 duet discarding of french' at the Samoan con- ference at Berlin and the adoption, for the first time, of Engiieh in international die- oueeion. During the period of Rome's full fruitage of supremacy, before political deoxy at- tacked the Empire, Latin was the universal language of a limited world. The early English dramatiete wrote in a language known to but 6,000,000, and Thomas Jeffer-. eon's inaugural address oould have been the latter eo le . At read but by16,000,000 000 P P period Grench was the language of from 35,000,000 to 50,000,000 people. Fifty years, ago the German language was in as great favor numerically as the English. Not so today. To German is accorded a speaking clientele of 60,000,000 ; to Franck 45,000,000 ; to Englisb, 100,000,000. Should. ever again the stare have occasion to sing together, it can well be assumed it will be in the language of those earthly eingere, Milton and Byron, Bryant and Whittier.-- St. Paul Pioneer Preis. Hints for Housewives. One quart of sifted flour, well heaped; ie one pound. Two tablespoons of powdered sager or flour weigh one ounce. • A little pounded ice laid on the back o€ the neck will allay nausea. Bathe :tired eyes in 'hot water two ar three times a day ; .it wili•rest them. A firmer or more delioete grain is secured in cake by stirring the cake only in one, direotion. - A wine glass of 'strong borax water ina pint of raw starch will make collars and Duffs stiff and • glossy. To prevent the smell of cabbage per- meating the house while boiling, place on the stove a dish containing vinegar. To gargle a eore•throat take of paregoric one teaspoonful, of glycerine two teaspoon- fuls, of limewater one tablespoonful. If you wish to keep a sharp knife don't put it in hot grease. Stir your potatoes while frying or tarn meas with a fork or an old case -knife kept on purpose. To renovate bleak lane. -It lace is nor - row, wind it tightly around a bottle and pin it on. Wet it thoroughly with alco- hol and let it remain until perfeotly dry. It will be like new. If the laoe is wide take the wooden roller from a window shade to roll it on. How to take coal oil out of a carpet. - Saturate -the oarpst with benzine and thew rub dry with a, clean, white cloth. If the first application does not take it out go through the same process until it is out. As benzine is very explosive, be careful and not have a light in a room nor a hot stove. Any sort of . dark wood may be freer: - from all traces of dirt and grease by a good sponging with strong tea, jest warm ; it will not, however, answer for light, un- polished furniture, as it woald stein it. Very old furniture that is be/nothing worm- eaten may be greatly preserved and im- proved if some carbolic oil is poured into the wood. The Child of the Future. Itis a dreadful point about microbes, says the Hospital, that the only way tea avoid having them in a virulent form is toi have them in an artificial or attenuated: form. The children of the future will not run through the present gamut of infantile disease, bat they will probably be sub- jected to inoculation with various miorobes every few months. First, they will be vaccinated for smallpox ; when they have recovered from that, they will be taken to a Pasteur Institute to have a mild form of rabies. Next, they will be given a dose of the comma bacilli to prevent cholera, and so on through all the ever.growing series of disease microbes. Ohl luckless child of the future 1 you will never be ill and never be well ; your health,will be awfully monotonous ; you will' - never know the weariness of the first night of .measles, when it was so nice to lie in t other's lag ,. and feel her cool hand on -your,' forehead; you will never know'the'joys of convales mance, when oranges were numerous and, every one was kind to you because you were not well ; and your end will be to die of. debility. How glad we are that we live is r: the present, with all its ups and downs of health to lend variety to life and death.- St. James' Gazette. - Why He Was Honest. Lady (to olerk)-Will this calico wash Clerk -No, madam, it will not. It will: fade, run "brink, and, in fact, is a most in- ferior article. Lady -Why, young man, how honest you. are 1 I thank you for telling me. It is not often that I find a clerk who has suoh a high idea of honor, and— Clerk -It's not that, madam ; but the boss lett me out when he raised the salaries of the others to•day,'and I am trying to got even with him. Got the Place. Miss Hardsense-I see you advertise for a saleslady. Mr. Quicksales-Yes, madam, you. are the 57th applicant, and the position ie olid vacant. You will not do. Miss Hardsense-Ob, bat I don't want a position as saleslady. Mr. Quicksales-Yon don't ? Miss Hardsense-No ; but I would like to get a job as saleswoman. Mr. Qnioksalos-Sit right down. James, take the lady's name, and put her down for 525 a week. He Lost What He Lent. " Loan me 55 to aontinne playing with." " I . w'oald but it is Unlucky.. The last. time ;Iloaned 55 I immelietely began to lose." " Indeed 1 How' mnoh" did yon lose ? " " Five dollars." • A CATHOLIO bishop in ICan'eas,, in an addrees> to 'the people of hie diocese, says that the•,only people who are not protected by eitiet ilg'tariff laws are the farifaora and the waga:artnnera This is touching peril- onely close toparty grounds. But why should, not a olergyman interested in the temporal and morel welfare of hie gook. speak of those thinge that comp home to the business and bosoms of the people?