HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1899-5-25, Page 7NO LIVES WERE LOST
But the American Liner Paris
Will Be a Total Wreck.
STRANDED ON THE MANACLES,
The Big Steamship, Carrying 380 Pat-
*engem, Lies Near the Scene of
the mohegan Wreck -The Ship
Badly Out of Fier Course -
only goo Yards Ifrom
Shore,
FaInociuth, Eng., May 22.—The Ameri-
can Line steamer Paris, Captain Watkins,
from Southampton and Cherbourg for
Now York, struck on an, outlying ridge
of the Manacles early yesterday moruing
at a point half a mile from he the
wrecked. Atlantic Transport Liner Moha-
ve; Hes. The Paris, whit% sailed from
Southampton Saturday, called at Cher-
bourg and peaked up 50 passengers. She
left Cherbeurg at 6 o'clock Saturday even-
ing. Soon after 1 &desalt yesterday morns
beg at high tide and In a dense fog the
ran ashore.
From the first there was no danger.
tafeboats and tugs were then literally
swarming around the vessel to render
assietance, le majority of the passengers,
who nemhered 8e(), were brought to rale
mouth, where they obtained lodgings for
the night.
The first intimation of the vessel's
striking the reeks W2$ a slight grating
sound, which was followed by a seoond
and more pronounced ahQUIL The 100kOlit
ehouted that there was something loom-
ing up aced, but before there was time
to reverse the engines the ship had gone
on the rooks. 200 yardfrom shore.
Assistance was summoned by mauls of
rockets, and. the coast guards promptly
telephoned to the lifeboat station for boats.
All the passengers were transferred to
the tug Dragon, but 1)03'014 the clothes
they wore they took nothing with them.
They were beaded at Falmouth ehortly
after 7 o'clock. the local agents of the
American Line meeting them and provid-
ing them witb, every care and quartering
them at the various hotels and the Sail-
or's Home.
When the Parte Struck the title wee
within an hour of the flood, and thia
proved insufficient to raise her oft the
rooks.
It is said that a Falmouth pilot boat
showed a warning signal to tho Paris,
th
tellino e Cantain that ha would put the
vessolc'on top *of the Mohegan if he did
not alter the course of the ship. The
warning, however, came too late, and the
Paris struck on a ridge to the westwerd
ot tbe Manacles.
The scene of the wreck is about five
nules from Falmouth. It is stated that;
these in (Margo of the Paris were so per-
fectly eonfident that they were ',uniting
the proper course that the vessel was
;steaming 18 or 19 kuots an hour when
they struck,
Last night the Paris was lying in much
the same position as when she struolt,
her bow being ttbout 150 yards from the
there, and her stern about 200.
Plymouth, May 22.—The Admiralty
has sent several fast Government vessels
from Davenport to assist the Paris,
which, it is reported. will probably be a
total wreck. Among the vessels sent to
the assistance uf the stranded steamer is
a gunboat, and Admiral Sir Edmund
Robert Fremantle, conenander-in-ohief at
Plymouth, has ordered a number of tor-
pedo boat destroyers to hold themselves
In readiness to proceed to the scone of the
'meek at a moment's notice.
TWO AMERICANS WOUNDED.
Th. Expedition up the Rio Graude Had
No Pleasure Trip..
Manila, May 29.—The expedition up
the Rio Grande River met with resistance
at the outskirts of an Luis on Saturday,
where several hundred Filipinos were
entrenched on the banks of the stream.
The rebels retreated beyond Candaba, and
the gunboats steamed ahead, all the way
training their Gatling guns upon the
banks anti dropping shells wherever uni-
forms appeared on the shore. The gun-
boats dispersed the insurgents before San
Luis.
After they had passed, sharpshooters
from trees across the river, a hundred
yards distant, harassed the 17th Infantry,
-which was marching by fours along the
narrow wooded road, from which the
troops were unable to see the enemy. The
members of one battalion laid on their
faces in the road for a quarter of an hour,
trying to locate the riflemen and return
their fire. Two Americans were wounded.
Filipinos Called on Otis.
hfanila. May 22.—The Filipino tom-
enissioners ;lied on Major-General Otis
on Satureey nfternoort and arranged to
meet the na,olioeers of the American coin-
xeisssion hewer. when they expect their
'colleagues well have arrived.
TUX atlifilEalvo QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY.
tne. Congratulations of Her
Paattiy at Windsor Castle.
ninsoton. May 22.—The approaching
corm:log.1es at Windsor will be most inter-
esting. 'Upon the occasion of Her Maesty's
birthday next Wednesday morning the
'Queen will receive the congratulations of
her family and will then be serenaded in
the grand quadrangle of the castle byeya
their of 250 voices, to which the Queen
-will listen from the oakroom overlooking
the quadrangle. At noon the Scots Fusil-
iers Guards will ;march past the Queen
on the east lawn and fire a fen de joie.
J. thanksgiving service in St. George's
,Chapel will follow. The Queen will then
drive through Windsor, passing under a
.xnagnificent floral arch erooted on Castle
'Hill and in tbe evening "Lohengrin"
will be given by the Opera Company in
ithe Vetere:xi Clhamber.
It; is rumored that the Queen, in con-
ziectiort with her birthday, will again
offer the Marquis of Salisbury a duke-
dom, which he refused at tho time of Her
Majesty's Jubilee,
A NOBLE SALESW0HAN.
'Countess of Warwick Proposes to Ge
Behind the Counter.
London, May 22.—The Countess of
Warwick, after creating a sezisation by
'floating the Warwick State Company
'(limited), now announces that she will
personalty attend her store in New Bond
'street, where she will sell the product of
school needlework on Tuesdays during
the summer. Tbe new departure of a
.00ttettess behind a counter is expected to
bring swarms of oustemers,
THE CZAR'S CONFERENCE,
The Eight Points of count Muraviefre
Circular Delivered to the Committees
-The Order of importeticie
The Hague, May 22.—The colninittees
will meet for tlae first thee to -morrow.
The eight points enumerated in Count
Mura.vieff's oirculer for their considere-
tion have been distributed• araong the
committees. They are esfollows:
The disannanteut committee consider:
First, the limitation of expenditures:
seeond, the prohibition of new firearms;
third, tho limitation of the use of explo-
sives; fourth, prohibition of the use or
submarine boats.
The coomaittee on laws of warfare will
discuss; First, the application of the
Geneve, Petteentien to meal warfare; sec-
ond, the neutralization of yessels in an
engagement while engaged in saving
shipwrecked men, during and after nava/
engagements; thine the revision of the
deolaration of Brussels in 1874, on the
notifications and customs of war.
The committee on arbitration and
naediation will deal with the eSghtle ques-
tion of Coups Muraviefre ciecular. Tbe
British members of the arbitration com-
mittee are atessrs. Pauneefoto Ara
TIOWard.
It was learaed during Sattredlay that
M. de Steel placed the question of media-
tion and arbitration in the forefront dur-
ine his speech. Tile question of the laws
of warrendering war as humane as pos-
sible by the extension of the regulation:a
already exieting, Was then t011elleil upon
by the president, and he relegated the
question or she reduction of armaments
to the third place.
The conference decided. oa Satunlay
that all delegates, luelutlipg the teohnical
representatives, are to partioinate in the
sietings and join in the baemess. The
date of the next sitting bas not yet been
fixed. It depends upon the progress which
will be meets by the committees. Ai, de
Steel announced that the Government et
the Netherlands would givo an artistica
fete ou June 10111 honor of the conference.
THE TRADE RETURNS.
As Increase of Over $14,000.001a la 04
hoot Ten inontho-atoperoi Lower
-Raw Materials.
Ottewa, May 22, --Tile trade returns
compiled by the Customs Depratment for
the month 0 April intlicate that the
mowing time in Canada's eommerce eons
Muses with increasing strength. • The
value of dutiable goods imported for
home consumption amounted to 88,032,-
724, upon which duty to the amount of
2320,419.02 was colleetedt free goods,
84,381.305, end colts and bullion, 838,078,
making total imports of$12,442,117 as
compared with dutiable goods, $0,08404,
upon withal $1,7e3,053.90 was (*lieeked;
free gootie $3,5710.124, aud coin and
bullion. $195.104, with a total of 810,-
127,03 in April, WS. This gives an in-
crease of 24e1s2 for the month, as
compared with the corresponding period
of last year. Tbe total imports for the ten
mouths ending April 30 show a gratify-
ing Inatome over the total for the eorres
spending period of the provinne year, bos
the in MS. 8106,283,315, and in 1800,
8123,242,129, upon which the duty was
in the respective years Me,3311,392 and
831,072,127, tut increase of $2,723.000.
.en analysis of the schedule of goods
entered free of duty for consumption In
Canada shows a heavy increase in the
goods tiblob constitute the raw material
of various industries, the principal in-
creases over Apr11, 1898. In certain lead-
ing articles being as follows: 'tulle rub-
ber and gutta perehle crude. $97,000; fur
skins, not dressed, 870,000; metal, iron
and steel, other time steel rails for rail-
ways, $102,000; sisal, manilla aim herun,
endresstel, $56,000; wool, $416,000; dyes
and chemicalo, $30,000; Mace and skins
880,000; anthracite coal, 8190,000. In
fact, every article specified in the returns
which nuty be classed as raw inaterial,
with the exception of raw ootton, shows
an increase.
The exports for April were $6,517,608
of goods the ploduce of Canada, and
8198,574 the produce of other countries,
making a total of 86,710,18e, as compared
with 86,756,960 the produce of Canada,
8237,039 the produce of other countries,
and a total of 86,992,993 for April of last
year. Coin and bullion exported during
April, 1899, amounted to $826,72% era
compared with $218,165 during the tone -
spending month of last year, brieesee;
the total exports to $6,942,902 and el'
121,164 respectively, a falling off •-4
$209,262.
o. 0. FISH IS PREE.
Grand Jury Threw Out the Indictment
Against Emsdale Man.
Parry Sound, Ont.. May 22.—The
spring Assizes here were concluded on
Saturday before Mr. Justice Ferguson.
The case against 0. C. Fish. accused of
stealing $6,000 from his brother, an
Emsdale merchant, was thrown out by
the grand jury. Fish had been arrested
in Dubuque, Iowa, waived extradition
proceedings, and was brought back to
Canada by Detective Murray. The only
other case on the docket was one against
Joseph Cornfield for criminal assault.
The indictment was amended to that of
common assault; prisoner found guilty
and sentenced to six months.
Drove Off the Detectives.
Montreal, May 22.—Detective Joseph
Killert, chief, and. ton of his men, return-
ed at 10 o'clock. on Saturday evening
from Valleyfield, where they went to
execute warrants for the arrest of Captain
George Marks of the big lake schooner
Helvetia, at present at Valleyfield, at the
head of the Beanharnois Canal, his son
George, and his wife, :fenny Mitchell.
.ell hail from Cleveland, 0. The trouble
arose in this way: Capt. Marks was
appointed by the Atlantic Transport
Company, and looked to them for his
wages and the settlement of his expense
amount. Until his claiin is satisfied he
refuses to leave his ship, and his son, his
wife, his crow and the people of Valley-
field stand by hino: TIM owners of the
vessel, a Cleveland firm, sent Captain
William Parker and another crew down
to Valleyfield to take the vessel over, but
Marks refused to allow them on board.
The detectives from this oity fared simi-
larly, and the chief, in order to avoid
bloodshed, withdrew his men.
•
Over 1,000 More Gametal's.
Halifax, N.S., May 22.—The Hamburg,
American steamer Phoenicia, arrived here
yesterday afternoon from Hamburg, and
this morning will land 1,308 Galician
immigrants, who are bound to the north ,
west, 489 of Wh0/31 are between the ages
of 1 and 14 years and 119 less than a
year old. The only notable incidents of
the passage were two births and one death,
DAWSON'S THIRD FIRE
The Loss Will Aggregate Over
Pour Millions of Dollars,
PERILOUS CARRYING OF NEWS.
The Vire Brigade Powerless and the
r 'topic Fled l'anlc-Stricken to the
Hills -Not a Pioneer Building
roeft Standing -Dry. They Burn-
ed Like Tinder -2,000
People Homeless,
'Victoria. B. 0,, May 224—An extra of
The Skaguay Alaskan was received by
the Tees at midnight, containieg the fol-
lowing brief report, wired frem Bennett
to Skaguay just previous to the sailing
of the steamer:
"Another disastrous fire visited Dawson
City, this time fairly wiping out the
entire basiness centre of the town, creat -
lug losses that Will aggregate $4,000,0001
With not a dollar's -vvorth of insurance
on any of the great losses."
The news was telegraphed over wires
from Bennett yesterday afternoon by the
special correspondent of The Deily Alas-
kan, who received it feom a man Rained
Tokalee who had juet rencleed lienneee
front a long and perilous trip out of Dew,
son over broken trolls, open rivers and
dengeroos lakes,
TokOes reports that the fire
weltered on April 21, in the very heart
of the bueitiess centre of the city, com-
mencing neer the Opera House, on the
weterfreitt, and epreeding witla unusual
rapidity, driven by a strong wind, de,
saroying everything in Its Ivey on that
street, down to and Including Donahue
& establishment and taking in
all Of the waterfront buildiugs abreast of
the same blot*. In other Words, the fire
caressed the street. burned through and
spread over to Second street, mooring tbe
principal busieass portion et Dawson,
leering le all in ashes, with the firemen
helpless and powerle,es to do anything.
The fire eonsumed everything from Tim-
DDR9' live! Cafe down to awl opposite
rairview Rotel,
The fire WaS the most clisaidavus that
has ever visited Dawsen, Every building
burned like tinder, duo to the feet that
they have been standing for nearly two
years and the logs are as dry as powder.
The ihn spread with Buell great rapidity
thee the chimes appeared panicestrielten
and unehle to wre anything in the way
Of furniture, goods and clothing, so that
the lessee, When footed up. promises to
be oven greater than at first estimated.
Among the most prominent firms
burned Out W01'0; The 110)78.1 Cafe, Dono-
hue (Fe Smith, McLellan & MeFeely,
Persons' Produce Company, Aurora
Saloon, Bodege Saloon, Madden lines°,
Hotel Vict-orla, Macdonald Block, Bank
of British North Axnerica, tuiti scores of
smaller lirius and business houses. This
flfti came at a, time when the inills and
dealers in building materials bad exhaust-
ed their winter's supply and ware
walt-
Ing the opening of navigation to replenish
their stocks.
The results are that there is a, famine
in all kinds of building material and
furniture, such as sashes, doors, locks,
hinges, aro. The fow artioles still remain-
ing outside ot the burned district have
quadrupled in prices. Doors are selling
for 835 each, door locks 88 wee and
everything else in proportion. Thu town
is paralyzed because nothing can be done
until the opening of navigation, -which
will not bo for several -weeks. The first
boat going down with building material
Will reap a rich harvest. ,
vaerco sweat alums LOSERS.
Rank of lirltisb. North America Suffers
to the Extent of 3S5,000.
VanCOU'Ver, B.C., May 22.—The Bank
of British North Amerlea was one of the
chief sufferes in the great fire 'which de-
stroyed the business; centre of Dawson
City. "William Godfrey, manager here,
says tho loss to the hank is about 85,000.
Vancouver firms are among the losers.
Parsons' Produce Company and McLellan
Ss MeFeeley had only recently stocked
their stores, and they fear their loss will
ee large.
L. S. Humes, who brought special des-
easehes to the bank from Dawson, left
'A... Klondike on April 28. He will return
Wednesday. Ho says tlutt at one thne the
fire threatened to destroy every building
in the city. A strong wind from the
south swept across the 'Yukon River and
fanned the flames so 'vigorously that
waterfront buildings and those behind
were burned with appalling rapiditv.
Luckily the wind shifted to the northeast
and thus the conflagration was not so
terriole as first appearances indicated.
This is Dawson's third serious baptism
of fire,
INTERVIEWED IN Tonaerro.
Mr. Doyle Says That Between 2,000 and
3,000 Are Homeless.
Toronto, May 22.—Mr. .Tohn J. Doyle
of Dawson City is at the Walker House.
He came to Toronto to call on his sisters,
who are attending Loretto Abbey. Mr.
Doyle was surprid when told last night
of the great fire at Dawson. He beet Daw-
son on March 27 and has spent some time
in Ottawa. Mr. Doyle said that between
2,000 and 3,000 persons must have been
left homeless by the blaze.
"I feel sorry for a good many of
them." he said, "because they had been
hanging on over the winter expecting to
make a harvest after the clean-up. Now,
they are wiped out. I was at Dawson
during the two previous fires and the
people there lose their beads on such an
occasion. Many of the people on the
waterfront had just got into shape again
csfter the last fire.
"From the despatch, I should judge
that the burned district was about a
quarter of a mile long," continued Mr.
Doyle. "Min MeIsaaes, who owned the
Victoria House, sold a fraction on Hum-
ber Creole for $16,000 and put all that
money in the hotel. Now I see be has
lost all in this last fire."
Mr. Doyle, who formerly lived in
Perth. Ont., went to Dawson first in the
spring of '97, and he has made four trips
over the White Pass and intends to return
to the Yukon in two weeks.
Col. Caverhill Is Dead.
Montreal, May 22.—Lieut -Col. Frank
Caverhill, senior partner of the big hard-
ware firm of Caverhill, ligament & Co.,
died last night from pneumonia. He was
at one time ocatunander of the Royal
Scots and prominent in business and
nalfitary circles.
TUR REDISTRIBUTION BILL.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier Introduces 1t -County
Lines the Basis.
The Prime Minister, Sir Wilfrid Laur-
ier, in rising to introduce the reclistribu-
tion bill. said: "My hon. friend and col-
league, the Postmaster -General (ildr
Mulock), beteg unavoidably absent to-
day, I have undertaken, with the view oE
expediting business and in order not to
disappoint the very legitimate impatience
or the public with regard to the measure
whith stands in his name, to present it
to tbe House. I may say at once that the
object we have in view in presenting this
bill is pot to make a total redistribution
of the electorai districts under which the
House of Commons is now constituted.
We deem that It would not be expedient
at this time to do that; but 'Rode ess far
es sve can the more glaring violations of
a principle which we have always held
and which has always been universally
held by public opinion in Vats country
to be a fundamental principle of More-
eentation in this country,
"We think it is a principle which will
commend itself universally to publie
opinion that the basis of representatioo
this House should be the municipal
county organization. It is in the recollee-
von of all the members of this House
that this principle was to a large extent
interfered withby the Redistribution
Aet of 1882. That act was a violation of
the principles which had prevailed up to
that time, and maintained, not alone by
the Liberal perees, but by the COXISSIIII,
tive party as well, There are many well,
known reasons why the municipal county
organization should be preserved as the
basis of representation, and I can't do
better upon this point than to quiet° the
language of Sir John A. Aftscdoilaid,
When the Iiret redistributima tut after
Confederation Was introduced in 1872.
Sir John A. Macdonald at that time went
ver the question sou fully and, gave
grephie language the reasons, to whittle
there was no dissent expressed at that
time, why the municipal minty orgataie
=Won should be laid, down as the basis
of representatien."
Sir John etaetionalcits opinion.
The language which he made use elf 011
that occasion reeds as follows:
It Lo desired, AS meet; 48 flOSSible,
tne representation within the
coeuty se that fciell COillay that is it
municipality or teatario slimed be re-
presented and if it betomes large enouge
Mat it should be divided Into ridlugs.
Tito priticiple IS %aided out In tee
seggeotions
1 am about to make. That
nap was bronco in leer in three ton-
etitueueles. nanielY. IlotIiwell, Cardwell
etenek, and 1 de not think an the
Nthoh: that the exPerhueut has Proved
nliceesticat one. I do met 11411118 18 was
IllihilreQ$Sfel tie far as the representa-
tixes of those new eenetititeueles them.
SeiVei were eoncerned, tie they are well
and ably represented by the gentlemen
wbe now hold heUtti for the minima
eueles, and I hope that it 1 am return-
ed again to the next Parliament I shall
meet those honorahle members, ient
it le obvious that there is a great ad-
vantage In having counties elect men
wboxit they know, our muuielpalities
give
an adniirable opportunity toecons
etbeeneles to seleet men for their de -
"1.1:g all know the proeess winch hap-
pily goes on in Western Canada, a
young man in a comity commenees his
public- lite by belie; elected by the
neighbors, wile know him, to the towns
ship eounell. If ite slums himself pos-
sessed ot administrative ability he Is
made reeve or deputy reeve of the town-
ship, Ile becomes a member of the
county eounell, end as les experleuce
intoeases and, his character and ability
eremites known, ite is selected by his
people as their representative In Perlin -
meat. It is, I think, a grand system
that the people of Canada should have
the opportunity of ehoosine for pond -
eat promotion the men in whom they
have most confidence and of whose
nidilty they are fully Assured. Ali
that great advantage le lost by cutting
oil' a portion of two several eountles
and netting them together for electoral
Purposes only. Those portions so cut
off have no vommen Interest, they do
not meet together, and tbey have no
common feeling except that once in
five yeerS they go to the polls In their
own township to vote for a man who
may he known In ono seetlon and net
in another. This tends towerds the In-
troduction and development of the Am-
erlean system of caucuses, by which
wire-pulters take adventurers for their
political ability onise and not from may
personal respect for them. ao that,
as much as possible. from any point of
view. it Is advisable that counties
should refuse men whom they do not
know. and when the representation Is
increased it should be by sub -dividing
the counties into ridings.
It iodine ot the Remarks.
Continuing, Sb 'Wilfrid said:, "Now,
herrn the wisdom of these remarks nobody
will dissent,. It is true that the redistri-
bution bill of 1882, which was introduced
while kill. John A. Macdonald was in
°face, was not drawn upon these lines,
but while the prinoiple was departed
from on that occasion, Mr John A. Mac-
donald did not. so far as my memory
goes, express any litotes at all differing
from those be bad expressed on the previ-
ous occasion, I think the country at large
will be prepared to come back to the
adoption of those views. I may say at
once that this is the guiding principle
wbich we have adopted in proposing the
modification which we intend to propose
to the Redistribution Act. As I said a
moment ago, we do not intend at this
time to undo the old representation act;
we intend to deal with it only so far as
is necessary in order to do away with the
;most glaring violations of the principle
which was laid down as a cardinal and
guiding principle in 1872.
Another Principle.
"There is another principle which, we
think, ought to prevail whenever a redis-
tribution of constituencies 18 tO be made.
According to the Constitutional Act it
becomes the duty of Parliament, after
every new census, to make a redistribu-
tion. If it were simply an optional duty
there would, not be so much force in the
contention which I intend to advance.
but as it is a mandatory, an imperative
duty imposed upon Parliament by the
constitution itself, it became all the
more important that we should adhere th
the well-known principles hitherto laid
down and accepted, when it becomes the
duty of Parliament to interfere in any
way with the representation of the House
of Conmions. The first principle that we
lay down, as I said a moment ago, is
that municipal:county organization should
be the basis of representation, and the
consequent principle of this one is that
county municipal organization should
not be interfered with, mid that bound-
ary lines ahould not be interfered with.
If Small, Counties to Be Annexed.
"If the population of a county sbould
become so small, according to the develop-
ment of the population in other eiouetieS,
as to no longer justify it to be represent-
ed by one man on the floor of the House
of Commons, then we hold that minty
should not be separated piecemeal, but
that it should be annoxed to the neigh-
boring county, as 'was done in several
instances in this House in Cornwall and
Stormont. Niagara and Lincoln, Three
Rivers and St, Maurice, Chant* and
Vercheres, Napierville and Laprairie, St.
John and nerving. In all of these cases
the population of these eounties had the
privilege of sending Olie rnexnber to the
E*ouse of 0=111011S but the population
had become so small, relatively to the
population of Other counties, it was
thought advisable to deprive thexn of the
privtlege that they had up to that time
of sending each one member to the House
of Commons.
couetiee were combined,
"In these cases county lines were not
interfered, with, but these counties were
combined together to ferre one single
electoral district, We have thought that
when such a case arises, this is a prece-
dent which we have already closely
adhered to. This is a case which I believe
is not likely to arise very often—a case
that is more likely to arise where the
population of a county may become so
large that it vrill be entitled to /none than
one representative, tinder such circums
stances, it is provided that a celmty may
be divided into ridings, on the prinoiple
we want to lay down, ad. which we de
act upon, which is, that whenever coun-
ties have to be divided Moe ridings,
whenever a county which up to that time
is entitled to one member becomes en-,
titled to two or three members, the divi-
sion should take plaee by judicial deci-
sion and authority. This la the principle
upon which we base the bill that we in,.
traduce to this House now,
Character of the Dill.
"After them proliminerer observations
es to the guiding prineiplee upon whicli
we have acted, I. will now proveed to
give to the House than character of tbe
bill which we have introduced, I may
say at first, keeping in view the Main
observations with whieh I started, thee ie
is not mar inteption to have a gerterel
redistribueion, but eireply to undo core
tain wrongs tbat we think were does to
the people and cereein of the more glar-
ing violatieue which 'took place In regard
to the prineiple we hold as SaCred.
No Disturhanee in These.
"It la not the Intention to have any
disturbance at present be the followsug
peostituencives Ottawa, Carleton, Add-
iogten. Durham, Froutenao, Glengarry,
Grenville, Helton, Hastings, Einptoie,
Lenerlt, Leeds, Lennox, Nipiesing, North.
untheriand, Peterboro, Prince Edwarel,
Renfrew, Russell, Stormont and Corn-
wall, Victoria and Waterloo. These re -
Main undisturbed.
These Disappear.
"In the remarks whdch 1 quoted a
moment ago, Sir John Macdonald said
that eormay lines had been interfered
with in three instances at Confederation
—that is to say, in the cases of'Cardwell,
Aionek and Bothwell. The House, it
scents, agreeing with Sir John Matelot*,
aid, has already caused Idonek to be
redistributed, It is proposed on this ooca-
sion that Bothwell, Cardwell, West On-
tario should disappe.ar. It la proposed,
also, that Middlesex, whioh now returns
four members, shall only return three for
what is now tho four constituencies,
Which at the same bhile shall be replaced
by giving representation to the County
of Dufferin and the electoral district of
Parry Sound, and two suldltional mem-
bers for ICent, Ontario,"
Three Members for Kent.
Mr. Bergeron—That will be three
members for Kent?
The Prime Minister—Yes; that takes
out part of Bothwell. The bill proposes
to restore county lines to the following
counties: Brant, Bruce, Elgin, Grey,
Ilaitlintand, Huron, Kent, Lambton,
Lanark, Middlesex, Norfolk, Ontario,
Oxford, Peel, Sirneoe, Welland, Welling-
ton, Wentworth and Yorlre
"To give these representation. the de-
tails would have to be as follows, taking
the changes which I have just indicated:
The electoral district of the City of Lon-
don shall CC/1151Sb of tbe City of Loudon,
and shall return one member. The elec-
torel district tat the City of Istamilton
shall consist of the City of Hamilton,
and shall return two members.
"The electoral district of the City of
Toronto shall consist of the City of To-
ronto, and shall be divided into four
electoral districts, each of which shall
return one member.
"The Counties of Dufferin, Ifaldimand,
Lincoln, Peel. Welland and Wentworth,
and the territorial districts of Muskoka
and the territorial district of Parry
Sound, shall each be an electoral district,
and shall each return one member,
"The Counties of Brant, Elgin, Lamb -
ton, Norfolk, Ontario, Oxford and Perth
shall each be divided into two electoral
districts, and will each return one mem-
ber.
"The Counties of Kent, Huron, Bruce
Grey, Middlesex, Simcoe, Wellington and
York shall eaoh be divided into three
electoral districts; each of these districts
shall return one member.
The Judicial Decision.
"In the three following sections, which
we have inserted in the hill, are the pro-
visions in regard to the judicial division
of the counties into ridings:
Where, under the foregoing provisions,
any county or city is to be divided into
more than one electoral district, such
divisions shall be made by a Board of
Commissioners, consisting of at least
three persons, being Judges of the Su-
preme Court of Judicature for Ontario.
who, for the purpose, shall be appointed
by letters patent under the great seal,
and who shall divide the City of Toronto
and each such county Into the number
of electoral districts by this act assign-
ed to them, respectively.
The letters patent appointing the cora-
missioners shall request the commission-
ers In making the divisions to consider
the distribution of popalation according
to the last Dominion census. the public
convenience, and such divisions as ap-
pear to them best calculated to the an
justice.
In case of the death or resignation or
pointed.
refusal of any one or -more of such
commissioners to act, a successor, or
successors, shall in like manner be ttp-
The commissioners shall complete such
divisions within a time to be limited
pboyseighletters patent, and shall re-
rtsdivisions to the Secretary of
State, making a separate report as to
each electoral district so set apart by
them. and Shall Set forth In such report
the boundaries of the electoral districts
to which such reports refer, and the
nrimicipalities comprised therein, and
assign and appropriate designation to
the electoral district in question, and
upon receipt by the Secretary of state
ot the reports of the commission complet-
ing the divisions aforesaid the respect-
ive territories by such respective reports
described as constitnting the respective
electoral districts into which the said
city of Toronto and the respective
counties shall have been divided, as
aforesaid, shall,subject to the provisions
of section 18 Of this act, become and
be electoral districts, as if the same land
been so sot apart and established as
such by this act.
1.Yorce at Dissolution.
"Lidt 1110 say this, that section 18 is
simply to provide elute this bill shall not
COMe into force so long as the present
Parliament continues'but shall come
Into force only at, the dissolution of this
Pa,iliament."
gir Clutrles Tepper—The last portion!
The Prime Minister—The Whole
tbis bill. This is section 18:
Nothing herein contained slaall operate,
as to change the constitution or Ow
electoral districts as they now exist
until the dissolution of present Parlia-
ment.
Sir Charles Tupper—But the iterifcial
arrangernene applies to tlus bill.
The Prime hfinieter—Yes, it ia apart
of tbis bill. Each report shall be signed,
by the commissioners, Or, in CASO of 4i
agreement, by a majority of the commie -
stoners, which sball be the report of the
commission. Each separate report shall
be published in The Canada Gazette,
forthwith after its receipt thereof by the.
Secretary 0 State. 1.Cheee are all the
provisions in regard to this point.
Little Change in Quebec).
"In zegard to the Province cif Quebec.
is not proposed to make any altera.
tions in the representation as it exists to-
day, except in so far as is neeassarY to
bring hack the differeet niunicipalitiee
which had been transferred in the Redis-
tribution Aot of 1882 from one celantY to'
another. Thus the parish of Laveltrie
whIch for the purposes. nounielpal, judi-
cial and otherwise, belongs to rho Counter
of Berthier, but which by the act of 1882'
was transferred from Berthier VAS-,
sonaption, will be restored to the Counter
of Berthier. The same applles tho
Indian village of Cauglanawaga. The
Indian Tillage and reserve of Caughna-
waga le transferred from the electoral
district of Cenglonawaga to the electoral
distriet of I,aprairie and Napierville."
Indiene Neve No Zeights,
Mr. liergerou—What about Caughnso•
wage; under the new Franehise ,At the
India:se have no right to vote?
The Prime Alinister—They hava AO
more right to veto, and I do not think it
affects the 0850 ene Way or seether. But,
in order to be consiseet, we place Calm-
nawaga where It belong* At presentit
immaterial whether 1; is Chateauguay or
Laprairie, or anywhere else, because the
Indians have no right to vote.
"The parish of Lacolle, together with
the islends situated in the River Riche-
lieu, opposite thereto, Is traneferreer
from the eleeteral district of lidisolsequoi
to the electoral district of St. Jean and.
lberville. The parish of Lavelle, for all.
purposes, municipal and judicial, belongs
to the County ot St John, and ought to
belong to
"The parishes of Notre Dame de Stan-
bridge and Sto. Armes de Stanbridge,
together with the Island situated in. the.
River Richelieu, opposite thereto, ars
transferred from the electoral distrleb at
St. John and Iberville to the electoral
district of Mississquoi.
"The parish of St. Pie is transfecred
from the electoral district of Bouville to
the electoral district of Begot
"The parish of St. Marcel is transferred
from the electoral district of Eagot to dm
electoral district of Richelieu,
"The parish et St. Eugene de Gran-
tham, now in the eleotoral district ot
Begot, is transferred to the electoral dis-
trict of Drummond and Artbabasca. It
belongs to Drummond County for al1
purposes judicial. municipal and other-
wise.
"Tho parishes ot St. Nazaire and St.
Christine as municipally constituted shall
be included in the electoral district of
Begot, and that electoral district as
re -constituted shall consist ot the town
of Acton, the village of Upton, and the
parishes of St. Andre cl'Aeton,St. EphraSm
d'Upton, St. Helene, St. Hughes, St.
Liboire, St. Pie, Ste. Rosalie, St. Simon,
St, Theodore d'Acton, St. Dominique,
St. Nazaire and St. Christine.
I "The parishes ot St. Guillaume
d'Upton and St. Bonaventure d'Upton,
are transferred from the electoral district
of Drummond and Arthaloasea, to the
electoral district of Yarnaska. That is
done for all purposes, except for Federal
electoral purposes. They belong to the
County of Yalnaska.
"The parishes of St. Eulalle and St.
Samuel shall be in and form part of the
eleotoral uistrict of Nicolet. All that part
of the township of Stanfold, too, with the
12 lots in the three first ranges of the
said township which formed part of the
/wish of Notre Dame de Lourde, are
transferred from the electoral district of
Drummond and Arthabasea to the elec-
toral district of Aiegantio. AU this for
the same reason.
Prince licisrard Island.
"Now, coming to the Province of
Prince Edward Island, sab-section 6 of
section 2 of chapter 11 of the statutes of
1892, which refers to P.E.L, is repealed,
and the following substituted so as to
provide there, as elsewhere, county lines.
"In the Province of P.E.L there shall
be three electoral districts, designated as
follows:
"The electoral distzlot of Prince, which,
shall consist of the County of Prince,
and shall return two members.
"The electoral distrlot of Queen's,
which shall consist of the County of
Queen's, and shall return two members.
"The electoral district of King's, which
consists of the County of King's, and
shall return one member.
Little change in New Brunswick.
"With regard to the Province of New
Brunswick, no changes are contemplated,
with the exception of the City of St.
John; which, as everybody knows, is in
a peculiar condition. An elector in the
City of St. John bas two votes. He votes
first for the City of St. John, and then
he votes for a member for the City and
County of St. John. It is proposed to do
away with this anomaly and to have two
electoral districts, one for the City of St.
John and one for the County of St.
John. Section 5 of the statutes of 1892 is
hereby repealed and amended by striking
out sub -section B and substituting the
following:
The electoral district of the County
of St. John shall consist of the County
of St. John only.
Nothing herein contained shall operate
so as to change the constitution of the
electoral districts as they now exist
until the dissolution of the present
Parliament.
"These Mr. Speaker, are the provisions
of the bill which wesintend to propose. I
hope they will reconimend themselves to
all sides of this House and above all to
the country, and I therefore move the first
reading of this bill."
Mr. MacDonald (King's, P. le. I.)—
Might I ask the leader of the Government
if it is the intention to have two Na-
bors for Prince, and two for
Queen's, running together att
formerly and one for Ring's, P.E.I.?
The Prime MiniSter—Yes.
liflOhleinIc of Cholera.
London, May 20.—I8 is announced in a
special despatch from Aliahahad, capital
of the Northwest Provinces, that a SCIPI-
OUS epidemic of cholera :has tollowed in
the wake of the plague. At Xurrachee,
the principal seaport town of Shade, the
dospatoh adds, there were 04 deaths yes-
terday from cholera,