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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1885-05-08, Page 4' 1 Tfik HURON EXPOSIT:OR BuTTERIC Reliable Paper Patterns Ladies', itfiesea', Bays' Garmertts, for sale by •e,eforth. - CIL OAP for all kinds of and Children's OFFMAN BROS., NEW ADVERT Se The ilium between th each line denotes the page of the advertisement will be fo Pa.rturage-Ales. McLennan. Popular Stallions. (5) Houses for Selie-Edward Dog Lost-Robt. Shortland. ( Egmondville Liquor Dealer. House for Sale -Wm. an. To COW Owneis-john Beatti Veterinary Surgeon -H. Cy. HousekeepersAttention-4. Bull for Service -David Miln Bulls for Sale±David Min Special Invitation -W. Ke Hardware -Reid & Wilson. (5 ..d ta Re t-ExPosrrort. Wall Paper-Lnimsden & Wits Wante Bulls for Sale -James Carnoc Huron and Brute Loan and In Brussels Lime 'Vorks-Town Auction Sale or Furniture -31 SEMENTS. parenthesis after e dpaper on which . (8) (8) G. E. Jackson. (5) -5) • (5)'' n. (5) • Robert. (5) (5). orne & ?o. (1) n.(5) Mos. (8) - () restment Com. (5) • Son:. (5) • J. Yank. (S) esitrq. SEAFORTI11; FRIDAY Ma.y 8„;- 1885. • Mass Meeting. , We are requested_ to s te that a Mass Meeting will ;be held at Ithe town hall Brussels, on Tneeday ne t, at 1 o'clock, ! p. m., for the purpose of onsidering the Fra,nchise Bill, now befor the Dominion Parliament. !This bill i probably one of the most 4nportant th.t has ever re- ceived the attention of t e people of this country, and we hope th people in the • vicinity of Brussels will how their ap- preciation of the situatio a by attending this meeting in large num. •TS. Millions Upon illions. The public will not b 'surprised by the announcement that is n *made that et the Canadian Pacific Rail y Company, aro to receive another ul from the public treasury of the t minio. Sir John Macdonald has at ength given notice 4 the resolutions ieh are to be • submitted to Parliame t authorizing the Government to make his new ad- - Vance. It will he remem 0 red that last year the Government adv need the com- pany some $30,000,000, and. took as • security a mortgage on t e road, rolling stock, steamers, and other appurtenances connected with it. On • the company to pay any terest clue, this mortgage 0 , closed without notice' o formal legal proceedings property mortgaged wo • the hands df the Geyer -Inn proposal is, in substance, company $5,000,000 mor the failure of art of the ;m- ould- be fore - without * any d the entire d lase into nt. The new o advance the in cash, and $7,000,000 in • bonds, a d instead of • securing additional securi the securi- ty already held itobe re axed. A new mortgage is to be given, covering only the same property as t e former one, and under \ it the Gove ment cannot forcibly take over the oroperty mort- gaged until twelve month • after default • in the payment of inter t has been made, and until all the rdinary legal formalities are complied with. And, more than this, if the seve a million dol- lars worth of .bonds given the company •are disposed ' of, the hol ers of these bands will rank equally w'-th the Gov- ernment in a division of ti e assetshand they will have to be settle with before the Government can sec e control of the property. The com.pa y are una,ble to borrow one single doll r additional en their road from outsice capitalists, because they have no in rest in the property that is not mort aged to the Government to offer as•ecurity. In • other words the amohnt dvanced and secured by the Governmen is as much asthe Property is worth a d hence there is nothhig to offer others a security for additional loans. But, no withstanding this state of affair the co pany apply to the Governm.ent for n additional loan of $12,000,000 in cas and bonds, • and instead of °Werth. additional • security for the increased le an, ask that •the security now held by the Govern ment be relaxed. Andstr nge and un- reasonable as it may see • , it is true that the Government have assented to their request and have, a Ted to give • them what they ask. Sur ly no person will say that this is a busin ss like pro- ceeding. There is not a township council in the county that are propose • such a proceeding with a 0unicipal con- tractor. If they did th re is not as member of that councll- th t would be • re-elected next year. Y t, when the • Government of the Dom elon submit • etuch a proposition to Parli ment, every • supporter in the House wil Vote for it, and many of their °chit ituents will support -them in doing so a d will even commend. their action. If the members tif the ompa,ny .had exhausted all their own p ivate means iu an earnest endeavor to c rry aut their contract, and had beicome ankrupt in. their individual as well as n their .cor- , perste caleacity,there wo id he some reason in extending hem such favors. But, the ve y contrary is the case. Every • ernher of the' company - is still roll ag in a filuence. • The Montreal itn ss puts the case so plainly and for bly hat we quote its words: " The Coni rnny is made up of wealthy m n wi o have money of their own to car ), out their contract and finish the roa . They ap- parently do not believe in the road as An investment, for it is an open secret that they have declared t iat they are -determined. not to embar any more of tliei own personal means in it. That they ave embarked any considerable arnoui t already in it is doubtful. • Why then hould these men, who will 'not spend their own means in the under- takie , be trusted with the_eXperiditure of mil ides upon millions of the public money'. The Company is the owner other railways, which it has constructed or purchased at the samel time as it as constructing the Canadiah._ Pacific Rail - 1. • way, aril it is in negotiation for the pur- chase and constraction of still -others. Is -there any security that the money which should'have been, and should be, spent po,n the Canadian. Pacific has not been oent upon the other lines of the Comp nyv It ;is one of the extraorclin- • ary a 0 d inexplicable things about this Coni, e ny that it owns lines like the On- • - tario • d Quebec, the_Credit Valley and New nriitnswick Railways, which are said ti be \good properties, and which it wilt ot mortgage to: the Government for a ew loan. This ie in pursuance' of the -ell understood. .policy of the wealt y directors of the j Canadian • Pa- cific • ilway, Who are the Syndicate' which contracted to construot the road., that none of their means or _their pro•:: • perty eutside of the roa4 itself is to be risked in the enterprise." -Nov, when is this hing to stop? If; in •ordinary biotin ss trensactions, • a contractor under akes the performance of a work he is forced to complete it if his re- source are sufficient for that purpose, no ma ter whether he be ruined by the under king or not: But here• we have the cu boas spectacle of a company pro- lessin to be bankrupt and refusing to proceed with their contract unless those from whom they took the work nearly donble the original' contract price, al - thing • they have abundant means of th jr 1 wn for „all .pirposes. And there is iao rantee that next year a 'similar de an 1 will not be 'made and granted. W en. the contract was given in the fir .t p ce, the price was considered ! ex-' orl ita, ts but it was argued •that the pri e eing fixed We would know ex- act y hat the work would cost. • Last year hen the . second grant was given we w re assured that that wo Id be ample to relieve • the company lof their difficulties and complete the road: New, after the lapse of a year, the com pany profess to be harder up than ever, and another grant must be made. Next year again we will have the same old story. • Parliament should refuse further" aid until the members of the compa,ne, show that they have exhausted all their own private resources, and honestly ex- pended what has already .been given them; either that or foreclose their mortgage and take the roa.c.1 into their own hands. We have no hope, how- ever, that anything of this kind will be done. In -fact, the matter is practically settled already. 1 A caucus of the Gov- ernment suppOrters was held the other day, and they agreed. to support the Goveenneent resolutions, so' that the sub-. mitting of them to Parliament is simply a matter 4 form. The French members, of course, at first objected, but they have been pacified, and 8,111is now clear and serene for the company. The slice which • Quebec will receive or its sup- port of the scheme will be made known before the close of' the Session. It, is needless to say, however, that_ although Ontario will have to pay illy three- fifths of this new advance to the Syndi- cate, sheqloes• not evien, receive a scraped bone in return. Such, however, is the way Government is administered at Ottawa, and this sort of •thing is What some people call statesmanship. What Peter Mitchell Has .to As every person conversant with public affairs knows, Hole Peter Mitchell is one of the most ardent supporters: of the, present Dominion Government • and a measure propOied by the Government must be bad indeed to meet with Mr. Mitchell's clisa,pproba. tion. Well, the following is what Mr. Mitchell thinks of the two most objecl° tionable clauses of the Franchise Bill, viz., that conferring the franchise indis criminately upon the Indians and •pla,e- ing the voter's lists under the unrestrict- ed control of the revising barristers. By the way, we wish more particularly to direct the attention of the readers of the Toronto Mail to Mr. Mitchell's _re- marks, as that journal, with its usual sense of fairness _and honesty entirely omits Mr. Mitchelf's spee, from it re- ports, so that those who depend tvhOlely upon that journal for their 'political in- formation will not haye an`loppertimity• of seeing what even the most intimate friends of the Government think of their Bill. In the House on Tuesday last Mr: Mitchell said: am here to speak my honest senti- ments on this matter, and I shall do ad. I can say that the description given by the Premier of the condition of the Indians in the older Provinces is, so far as the Indians of my Own Province (New Brunswick) are concerned, as different • from the facts as day from night. • I fully •endorse the" statements by the member for Queen's (Mr. Davies). Any man who knows the • wretched state in whieh those Indians exist -I speak of it with regret -and then would propose to give them the electiie franchise, eould not fairly have considered what he was doing. • The question of the elective, franchise is too sacred a one to be dealt with in the spirit of prejudice. (Cheers.) I don't want to see my right honorable friend the Premier go to the other side • of the frouse. I •aim, anxious he should continee vhere:he is on this side, and the Opposition where they are iow, to keep them in.lorder. * l' ,* .• ' * -1 it ! This discussion has er used an amount of -feeling .between the two sidee of the House which ought n t to have been created. The course pursued by gentlemen on the other side i's ut- terly indefeneibleeaceept on one gr und, • and that is if they feel this Bill to e so serious in its ° erecter hat it ould wipe them out; g ve them- no fair lay, • it is the only mtense for their eoeduct that I can see. I don't mean to say the Bill will do that, but.I mean to say that if the gentlemen on the other' aide hap- pened to get into power, and more un- likely things have happened-(che4-s)e- . I would not like to have in their hands the power to appoint in my constituency naamavnto.„decidd e who should , oh- shoul tete. . Mr. Mitchell evidently comprehends the whole AitUation, and he is mlanly enough, notwithsta,neting ' his des' e to -adhere teo his party, togepeak his h nest sentiments. In the first place he • does not . consider the tribal In- _ • dians in their present Condition to ive attained to that degree of indepem dence and intelligence to be safely eh - 'trusted with the fraechise ; andein the second place, he would not like to piece in the hands of hi a opponents the_ Same power that his friends are trying, by this law, *6 secure for themselves. • his - is fair and Manly; and this is wha Re-; formers are fighting against, and w4 are sure that every - fair-minded cons rva,I- tive will take h, similar , view. It s en 'eutrage to, place in the hands of anyl one man; no matter how good or heraeho est he :may be, the Power to cast asiele the assessmentrolls, fie the values a pro- perty as he may think fit, prehare a voters' list on his own ° valuation, and then deny the voter the right to ap eal from this 1 decision. Yet, this is the ut- rage vvhichl the Dorninion Governme t is now trying to • foist upon the people of this country. ' ' h - • ' immemiteeet.......4 • • , , • The Northwest. t .• As will be seen by a dispatch, w ich we publish elsewhere, another ,battle has • been fought in the Northwest, thiS time bet\ween Colonel Otter's„ forces andthe Indians, and eight more brave Canadians i have been cut down and several wotind- ed. This, like: the engagement at Irish Creek between General Middleton's nen and the half-breeds, was not as satis ac- . - 1tory as could be desired. Our trcimis 'fought at a very great disadvantag& on account of -the position selected by the Indians_ for the engagement, and 1 al- though the enemy were driven back and severelyepunislied, they were not follOw- ed up, our troops haying retired. This, while it was no doubt unavoidahle, is lik ly to have the result of encouraging rather, than intimidating the enerny. Telegraphic commnipation between Battleford and Hiim oldt is 'broken, and t , news has to be sent forward by couri'er, so that it is not known whetheror pot ,Colonel -Otter has again advanced or what course he intends pursuhig. At last accounts General Middleton was still encamped at Fish Creek, the former 'battle ground. •The reason given for the delay in ioing fat -Ward being the lack of supplies. ! It is stated; however, . that the steamer Nertheeter which was stuck: On a sand bar in the :Saskatchewan river, has been floated off and has reached Middleton with abundanjt supplies, and it is probable ere this he has marched on to Batoche's, where jilt is said Riel 1 is strongly en- trenched and is expected to make a .-; strong -stand. Reports from other qu rters are not reassuring, and present , appearancee -1 • ,seem to indicate that if the Military do not at once asseme a more bold, active and aggressive course, the e hi be general uprising of all tI e half-breed and Indian tribes. X fe r days now • must, therefore, determine, whether1 or not the rebellion will be of ong or short • I duration. In the meantim settlement has been entirely broke t up in the Northwest country._ • POSTMASTERS, Revenue C Ilectors, and other Government officers a e prohibied • by Act of Parliament froi exercising the franchise, although th y give full value in labor for the mo ey they re- ceive from the Government, and most of them fill office e requiring the highest inlelligence, and manY of t em are large property owners' and laeavy tax payers. This law is admitted by b • th Grit and Tory to be both right and proper, ad 'why ? Because,- these parti s being the servants of the Government for the time being, the- Gove nment co Id, were it so disposed, bring infiue • ces to bear upon them to wr ngfully in uence th m in, the exercise of -the franihise. Y t; itithevery face • of this la the. _ °- minion Governm nt are n w trying to force through Parliament la* whi h will enfranchise the tribal Indians, of whom are under.thedire control lof the Government, and ire dependent upon the bounty 4 .the Go eminent fpr their very subsistence, and t least fonre •gfths of whom are so gros ly ignorant that they can neither read nor write and all of them are so- improvid att that the very authority which now ishes to:en- franchise them dare not true them w4h the other ordinary duties a o d respensi- bilities of citizenship. It is quite right -that the Indians should be nfranchised so soon as they are in a, posi ion to exer- ise the privilege independ tly and in- telligently, but the very fac that thy are still dependent on •overnment bounty for their support, and are not permitte4 to ,assume other duties of citizenship the same as'white men, must make it clear ‘ every one that that time has nott .arrived. Th gs have come 3titt, to a pre pas tt in • this Canada of ours if the shiftless ignorant Indian is to be placed over th intellige t, thrifty white man. i --- 1 -t. IF the Dom ion • Franchise 13i11 now before Pm -lime nt comeri into law three officers will h ve to lie appointed in each county to prepare the voters' lists, eta ; A Revising Barrister, his Clerk and Bailiff anti the salaries of these_ of - supposed - fieers will ambent, it is said, to not less than $500,000 Per annum. Now; what will, we receiv,e in return for this expen- diture? Soineltlree or four hundred Tory 'lawyers and Ve rd politicians will receive situations at.th expense of the people. The work that s now done by the muni- cipal clerk, w thout additional fee or reward, will th n cost thousands of dol- lars, besides co afusing and mixing up the whole fran hise of the country. If the People are atisfied with such a re- turn for the outlay ; if the honest, hard- working tax -pa ers of the country are willing to '4ontijibute $500,000 ammally •that a Tor la yer and two assistants in each coenty ;limy live on the fat of the land for the re minder of their natural . lives, then,1 of, ourse they should -hold • up both handS. n favor of the Franchise Bill,ands oul 1 applaud their parlia- mentary r res ntatives for imposing it Upon them. „ . LATEST advic, s seem to indicate that after all liheir fuss, the difficulty be- e I tiVeen RntsEna and England is to be set- tled withont an appeal to arms. It is now said that both powers have arrang- ed to submit ilheir differences concern- ing the Afghan frontier to arbitration, and that both are bound to abide by the result. Before next week, however, the liffair may a sume another phase. AFFAIRS AT OTTAWA. _ (From Our wn Correspondent.) Orthme, May 4th, 1885. The situation in the, House of Corn - 1 mons since my last letter may best be . pictured in a story told by the member for East L mbton, Mr. Fairbanks, in a speeeh on riday morning, the substance of which w s this: In the early days of the gold ex item nt hi California, every ship leavina New York harbor for the , . thes veSs+, n the fourth day out, a : i Paci c` coat was crowded. On one of passenger came to the captain and asked for a place to sleep. " Where have yea been Isleeping for the last three nights?" asked the captkin. "Well, captain, the fact is, I've been sleeping on a sick man, but he's got 'well, and he won't stand it any longer:' "The 'Opposition has been slept on by the Government long enough," he continued,. "and -I hope, .Hbeofoursee, liti tIiirs debate is coleluded, that our .friends on the other side of the 11 have come to the con- clusion that the Opposition is convales- cent." Mr. Fairbanks' hope is certainly well jestified by the facts as they appear, for ito sick man could have made the vigorous and determined fight, and have shown such enthusjam and anxie- ty for further _riv r, as the Opposition has shown last we k. From many points of view this is.the most remarkable week the .House of !Commons has ever seen, and its history will probably occupy more Space in the books -yet to be .writ- ten than that, of• any other since Con- federation. I . HOW IT CIAME ABOUT. The troublear se out of the Dom- iniop Franchise Bill This measure, or one something like it, has been brought more or less prominently before the House of Commons almost every session of the present Premier's rein The House had come to • look upon the Franchise Bill very much las one regard the gorgeous speci- mens , of the confectioners' art , which grace ;the table at al public dinner -some thing ; that could e eaten if the ben- quetters were deterjnined to do so, but not intende to form part of.the repast, occupying a central place only for show. The Bill has been changed from time to time, but as it •stands at present it is unique among measeres su witted to a free Parliament: It proposes that the voters' lists for 'the Dommion shall no longer be prepared by the officers se- lected by the people themselves and carefully scrutinized and checked, but shall be hereafter prepared by officers of the Government on any evidence they choose to accept as to the qualifications of those whe. claitni the • right - to vote. The lists are checked and scrutinized by the same officer) aril from his decision there s to be n0. appeal whatever except on questions of law, and then only if he choos s to allow it. !There are a large number of minor objections to the bill, which in the case of any other measure would be regarded as outrageous, 'but by comparison with this chief and cen- tral wrong they are- comparatively of little moment,. It involved the ' dis- franchisement of ma, y people in all the Provinces, and e coinplete change of the franchise in every Province except Que- bec, and even l there the changes are very conside able. It involved the idea of enfranchising eve1y Indian on a re- serve who occupies 150 worth of the land • held by the - Government for the benefit of -his band.1 It involved the principle Of taking from the Provinces •the right to say who hall elect the rep- resentatives an the Canadian Parlia- ment, . and aithou h there • is . no doubt of the Dor inion's right to do so under th letter of the constitution, the ad isability of doing so is a very serious qi estion indeed. I involved theiquestiola of enfranchising women, confining tha enfranchisement to unmarried women and widows with- out extending it to married women. This involves treme dous and tremendous orliffic lties upon which even such men' as Cladstone have de- clared that they do ni t quite see their way throtgh them It was only to be h efir t t that hill of this should arouse est opposition, not only - fronthose wh ; se rights were menaced,. butfrommhe frforienthose who held different opin- ionsGovernment on some Of the minor que %lone involved. No de - mend .has been mad lt upon the Govern- ment •maktng i necessary that the Bill shOuld he pass d at this particular ses- sion after it ha been standing so long. The session : us lay. over before the House has sat o 1c ig as it has already • sat The puhl c b einess is wofully be- ahri d,sepsostiohna,lhvin f f tl it work of an ordin- been accomplished. Th Northwes rel ellion should have as eaely and as e clus)re attention as pos- sible. The fin nces of the Dominion are in bad state, owing partly to the enor- mo debt.whi h has been 'run up,. and paat y to the unsettled state of the mopey market in view of the possibility of ivar betwee Britain and Russia. It is contended, with a show of reason, that it is wren t ' to compel, Parliament to take this in,asure up at present, that pr sing pub c business should first have attention. The G vernment, how- erdr, determh ed to piess the Bill for-. wa •d, and afte • a hot debate the second to last stage, hat of the consideration of the Bill, cla se ky clause, in commit- tee of the while, wale reached at the clo e of the .rev oumweeh. The Gov- ern ent gave oti e thatIrwould go on wit the Bill d y 1 y day, beginning on Mo day. He nor than kept his word. Th House nit o ily Went on day by da but day a, d ight almost without int rruptien, b in actually in session 99 lours out o ti e. 119 hours, between thr e o'clock oi M )nday afternoon,- t111 ho r when the o se meets, and twelve o'cl ick on Sa uiirc ay night, the thn wh n it ought, in 11 conscience, to quit. HE LONGES SITTING ON RECORD. he longest sitting of the House of Co mons up ti last week was hi April, 187 when, in discussing the Letellier aff ir, it sat fro 3 p. m. en Friday to 6 p. .•. on Satur. ay. • The first sitting of the House last week was from 3 p. in. Mo day to 10 15 p. m. Tuesday.I The Pr ier had gi 'en notice that the wo- ma suffrage s uestion would come up on n amendin nt to be moved, by Mr. Toe nshend, on _of his own followers. He did not forc woman suffrage upon his pary or upon e House. - It was pro - vied d for in th Bill, but the Govetn- mt•evould no i iniperil the Bill for the sak of the wo an franchise provision. It as well k own that his reason for thu leaving i an open question was tha the majoriy of his followers were opp e sed to the • rinciple, and that those fro Quebec w o uld throw out the Bill and the Govei 1 i ient too rather than agr e to it. soon as the House • we. t into conl i tee of the whole on Moi day Mr. 1 whshend moved his ante dment, wl i h would have the effe t of doing way with the female fres chise 1 provisio so far as the Prov- inc1e of Quebec s concerned. The de - hat had not _ oi e far before a *rave diffi ulty cen 1 nted the Premier. Nea -ly all the o osition were evidentlyprmared to fa oi female franchise. If enongh .votes n his own side, be- side 1 . • ce re were !given for it, the 'Amen 1 sent would be de, feat d, female ranchise evould have bee faetened on Quebec., notwith- sten ling • the intest of almost every mci ber from th Province and the Bill wou d have b e lost to a cetainty. Seei g the diffic ty he passed the word amo g -his fdl • 'ers to sustain the a,me idment0 eve • though he himself was stro gly oppose to it. A number of cons rvatives sr), te and, all but one or • two f them sus ined the amendment. *number of formers spoke, and all but one or tw • of them opposed the am endm en t. . , two o'clock in the moiling, after e ht on each side had spoken, the Opp • ition proposed, to ad- jourli and eolith t e the debate next day. To this, how ver, the Government woutd not agre , and several of them viol ntly declar d that they had hein-d it w s the inten ion of the Opposition to coin el 'the Go Ternment to withdraw 'this 3i11 and tha they were prepared to sit ti ere day an night for a month in mete to put it through. This looked. very like a chall nge, and after trying to aeoid a confli t the Opposition took up t, e challenge and agreed to sit it out with the Govei 1 iment as long as the latter mi ht th nk it necessary. • The deba e had b en conducted •with mod ration and ery fair decorum up to that time, but a soon as it was decided. to go on, both si les showed not a little temeer. The Opposition strung their epee hes out, an t did all they could to show that they ere in no hurry td ad- joins . ' The 0 • vermnent supporters refrahied from -e; eaking, but they did all t ey could o interrupt, embarra:ss and nnoy the s teakers. Every fowl of the 1 arnyard ha its hnitator. There were six or seve different " roosters " on t e floor to judge be, the crowing, cat -c Hs were keit up continually, songs were sung and n )ises of every kind were rningled in a per ect babel -chorus. ' The • sitth g went on hrough the night till grey morning, ti en on through the fore- noon the aftern on, to -six o'clock at whic time,unde the rules of the House, there must be a ecess, which is gener- ally &bout two oars long. At eight o'cloek the tro le was renewed and everybody seem d , to expect another 3•nigh of it, whe • a message was sent acros the floor rom the Government stathg that if he Opposition would consent to take vote on Mr. Town- shen4's aniendn nt, the Government woul 1 agree to an adjournment lin- medi tely after rd. This was called a bar ain, and t House , rose after a sittin of thirt ne iours, including .reces . TH ' HOUSE DL T iNCES THE RECORD. Th Bill was at first it was longer sitting wo after 2 a. in. the an adjournment. servative caucus ,word was °given t on, and that must keep quiet,. ing the speeches speaking therns vote down all a the , Opposition themselves, beca Bill through w thing, and thatni thing else. Once sumed in commit Francnise Bill, secon clause bei sion. There are the B 11, so that rethei slow for t it was exactly wh had t e Govern journ4ient on 11 sumed next day, and u posed that a much d follow, but shortly Government agreed to he next day a Con- s held at whieh the t the fight would go ernment supporters • t only not interrupt. but 'refraining from es. They were to dments proposed by d to propose none the getting of the the one important u t give way to every- • gain the House re- f the whole on the early part of the still under discus - ver sixty clauses hi he progress has been e time spent. In fact t it would have been ent agreed - to an ad- uesday morning at a 11 18 reasonable,hour, and quite as much could have been expected on one of th MO t important clauses o such a Bill thi -Shortly after the opening of t sit ing, the clause takeh Up VMS on, which, in connection with another cheese, will give Indians on the reserv s a r ght to, vote. Mr.- Mills asked S Jo in Macdonald if that Was the trite tio a of the Bill and got a reply in the atl rmative. The question was asked if he Indians of the Northwest would be enfranchised as soon; as the petopte there were given representation in the I:4118e of ComMODs, and i again the an- swer was in the affirmative. Wheel thit comes then Pi -a -pet will have .a vo ?" "Yes" ‘` Andiroundmaker e. es." "And Big Bear ?" " Yes ; an1 Strike-hini-on-the-back too," Mr. M Ils characterized. this , as an outrago- ,ou clatise, one that it was a shame ev n to propose, one which it would be infjamous. to put on the statute boo Ti e Indians, he showed, were complet ly nder the control of the Governmen th y had none of the responsibilities tf cit enship, they could not own land, e - CI ugh they might occupy it; many If th m in Manitoba and British Columlia, es ecially were • degraded savage. T ose now in rebellion who lived o re erves controlled by the Governmen uld be given votes as soon as the se s. Many of them, by the t they lived on reserves, w. s,• while the brave young Sprung to arms in defe tle eth • vo ha helpless women and childre th se savages were threatening to ma saclre would not be allow d to vote. of he control of the affai s of the nation was, he said, a proposal give a shar into the, hands of the i icn whom ou - la, declared were unfit manage the o* i 11 affairs. It was a attempt swamp many Liberals and to elect many Conservatives in 0 tario who hac Indians in their own conlatituencies, fo every Indian was absolutely under th control of the Superintendent-Generii. 1 , of Indian affairs, whose other name w ' Sir John Macdonald. He proposed in amendment to the clause that the clause in the latest Ontario Franchise Bali should be substituted for that in. th Bill. This clause gives the vote to In diens who live apart from their band and who are legally, -or,' as a ter of fact, in charge of their° own affairs like other citizens,. The' amendment was warmly sup ported by other opposition members and the ,arguments they brought to bea upon it made his position so uncomfor table that, much against his will, th Premier was compelled to "rise anc explain." He said that no Indian woul have the vote unless he owned and occu pied land of the required value, and he did so there was no reason why h Should be refused the rights whicl were accorded to a white man. ' II denied that he had any control over th Indians. His Department had, but tha was a mere matter of routine. In en franchising the Indians he was only fel lowing in the footsteps of 'the Premie of Ontario, and in a mild kind of wa he wondered that they should do so He omitted to say that he woulc accept the amendment, which was i the exaet words of the Ontario Act nor did he explain how it was that he having control of the Department, an the Department having control of th Indians, he had no control of the In diens. His speech was attacked by sub- sequent Opposition speakers, who show ed up the flimsy pretences of which it was composed. One or two of his owri party attempted to better the matter but the speeches went to show that th clause did not mean what the Premie said it did, and that if it did. mean that they would not support it. At . tw o'clock the Opposition again proposed t adjourn, but the Government refused t allow it ; they would make further pro gress with the bill first. The Oppositim proposed to take a vote on the Indian enfranchisement question (leaving them the right to take any Course they pleased on a subsequent step of the Bill) an adjourn -for the tune. . This also was refused, and and the fight was resumed.1, The Opposition was thoroughly aroused 8,nd metaphorically speaking took a reef in its belt and ran along til it get its " second wind." The mornin found the House still in session, so clic the next morning and the next night, Seturday. The Government then pn up one of its creatures, Prof_ Foster, t hold the attention of the House fronil half -past ten to halt -past eleven, and h did so. The Premier then and-clid his best to excuse on the Indian question and in keeping the House in s ok the floor, his attitude his conduc ssion. II • sought by using such words as "ob- structionist tactics," and so on, to sho that the Opposition was in fault, but -.h failed utterly. He sat down at ten minutes to twelve. Mr. Blake spoke for eight minutes, much to the astonish- ment of the• Government Supporters, for they supposed that he would be pre- vented from replying until Monday. He completely turned the tables upon the Government, and aroused • the en- thusiasm of his followers to the highest pitch by,his denunciation of the con- duct of the Government in attempting to force this Bill through the Houee in this unprecedented and unheard of1 manlier' , A RESPITE. I . I When tie house met on Wednesday evening the discussion on the Franchise Bill, whiah •had been in progress all afternoon,1 was about to be resumed, when Sirl John at once rose, and 'said that he clOired the committee to rise and report progress, and ask leave to sit again. He said the Government were anxibus to press on some other public butiness, in order to give the Senate sonie empleyment, to that 'body had nothing to do. This action of the Premier loioks very much like an ad- mission that the Franchise Bill must be laid asideifor this session. No one be Heves that his excuse was anything but a pretence to conceal a backdown. It may be glided, the bill being consider- ed ocean°ially, but it is now evident to l. the most o tuse of the Tories that they cannot foice the Franchise Bill upon Parliamen without a prolonged struggle.' . _ • -Our r ders will remember that late last fa,,1 a body supposed to be that I- of Walter 1 Crane, who lost his life by the wreck f the ill-fated schooner Ex- plorer om4i eighteen months -since, was picked up n Colpoy's Bay and coffined till such t me as zonveyance was pro- curable. he roads being open the remains w re forwarded last week, ar- riving in Godench on Saturday. To make sure as to the identity, Dr. Nich- olson, dentist, of Goderich, who at various times dentally operated on the - AY ft 1885. deceased, made an examination, the result of which ullwy satthisafiteodf the lateerela- fives that the bo ly as Walter Crane. • News f the Week. THE ROYAL V KT OhR.-The Prime and Princess of 'ales arrived in Lon- don ffloolinth‘evirrtEi_ lin.iltr. h e water in Lake Champlain is in -STRIKING OR DLE. -There are 8,000 - ` reronthas:riink25in ynciairnso.is. coal miners idle THE SPRING WHEAT AREA. -The area sown h4 spring wheat in the West and Nort west Statee is reported to be considerabl less than; last year. CHARTERED F R TROOPS, -The Brit- ish Goiermnen1 has chartered the Guion Line stett4ier Abyssinia and the Allan Line steahier Peruvian, ior troop- ships. • RreetNitm- he Queen and Princess Beatrice-returne 1 to England from the Continent Swain ay evening, and have gone to Windsor Castle. . WELCOME TO WOLSELEY.-GerlOral Lord Wolseley a rived at Suakim Sat- urday night fro n Cairo and was re- ceived with mit usiasm by the officers and men of Gen al Graham's command; - SAILED FOR EtROPE.---GeOrge H. Pendleton, limns cr to Germany; Thos. M. Waller, Cons 1 -General to London, and Madame , atti sailed from New YorkliAforcRossBEuropeAiroSt pn RIaNeuErday loN.. -In the -opening, champ° ship lacrosse game Sat- urday Princetoi college defeated brew :Ycork university three to one. - NO BULL Fr() TS WANTED. -A party of Spaniards or anized a _bull fight to take place in emu], but the police authorities refus d to allow the show to beten's3 fOOTH nireeldatit:ns have been • r -AGAIN.-The French , Cairo, - and Fehraarngeeo_Ehgyaspthiaet 'TED ON 1 THE .cvybE. e 111 sEt ar Eblil icsEhe dsiv,• • _ 1 , 1 -Shipowners a e urgingi the English Goverment to e ect defences upon the Clyde, declarin that foreign cruisers could quickly de -troy its shipping. ARMY NUBS S. -Seventy Sisters :of - Charity have been ordered to General •Komaroff's army to aid iti caring for fithveAe wthFoo°11insTdauetiNdicloilA SHars were found sewed M -Twenty - T. in the shirt of a miser who died in a Philadelphia, hospital on Tuesday. ! He had another $25,000 in a ba k. HANDSOME MEMORTAL. The, Prince of Wales has sent the Mayor of Belfast a handsome gold pencil case as a testi-' menial of his regard. GARRISONS ESTABLISHED -The Rus- sian military authorities have establish- ed permanent garrisons at Krasnovodsk, Askabad and Chikislair. . SNOW. -Fifteen inches of snow fell in Bangor, Maine, on Sunday last BURNED TO 1 DEATH. -Eight persons perished in a New York tenement house fire on Sundadyt . THE TALENTED Koem-e-Dr. Koch, the cholera expert, has been appointed professor to the University of Berlin. "NDEATHs.-James Caine, member of parliament for the • county of Antrim, Ireland, is dead. -August Dumont, founder and editor-in-chief of -a munher of Paris newspapers, • is dead.. -Mrs. Francis A. Vanderbilt, of New York, widow of Commodore Vanderbilt, is also dead. FAVORABLE REPORTS l' ---.r RoM IRELAND. -The English GOVernment does not in- tend to press for a presentrenewal of the Irish Crinies Aet, ' as ;the ,reports. from Ireland are touch mere satisfac- tory. It is possible that the Queen will pay the island a visit next autumn. THE TYPHOID EPIDEMIC. -F -At Wilkes- barre, Pennsylvania, 600 'persons, are prostrated with typhoid fever. To me Dissomtem-The Suez Canal Commission, composed of , representa- tives of the Powers, and appointed to fix the status of the canal in the event of war, will be dissolved immediately upon the declaration of War between England land Russia. - 1 .SEVERE S0101. ----The dania,ge as re- sulting from the storm on !Wednesday lastavaek along the New Jersey coast and in Long Island will amomit to many thousand. dollars. • The gale was the severest known in April hi OVer twentY years. The damage to orchards will probably esroabearblyef-eeriygrain have Hundreds have been ruined by the floods-. The damage to small shipping along the Sound is great. =ME 1111•1110M11.11111 -Last week Bishop Ward arrived home from a three week's visit to Ne- braska, where he went on a ,prospecting tour. He is -0-catty pleased with the country and will probably remove there if he can make the necessary arrange- ments. His brother William, who has been a resident of Nebraska for the past 12 years, and who lived. in Grey township for some years before going west, came back with him, with a view of improv- ing his health. The latter gentleman has 405 acres of land and before he left home he had 85: acres of wheat, " Sea Island " and " 'Grant " varieties ; 10 acres of oats, and 10 acres of barley in the ground, and! part of 90 acres, intend- ed for corn, ploived. He lives near St. Paul. --Mr. David pi obson, of Brussels/who is now on a -visit to Kansas writes from Abilene on April '20th, as follows : I ar- rived in Abilerfe on the 15th March, I found the farmers busy plowing and the land in fine *lorking order. Oats are looking nice and green but fall wheat is prettf badly whiter killed. It is a late spring here -but -we have had a fine rain to -day, and -things are beginning to look well. I was away seeing our old friend, R. Laidlaw'Iasi week. He has a nice place and likes Kansas well. I have visited most of Our Canadian friends, and they all appear to he doing well, and I do not think any of them need be sorry for coming to Kansas. -There is lots of vim in the old man yet, as the folio -Wing from the Leeburn correspondent of the Goderich Signal shows : On the 21st ultthe beaming countenance of _the popular sheriff of the county lightened our burg'. He was accompanied by Hugh •MeGrattan's team, but his errand was not to capture law breakers and drag them to durance vile, but to bring home a lioad of lumber. The hale old Sheriff showed the mill hands that he could still, lift hie, end with any of the boys„ and lee, rolled sev- eral of the logs out of the way with a cant hook in a nimble fashion that surprised some of the youngsters. The sheriff also handled the reins of the dashing bays during a little fright from steam in a manner that told them that an old and tried hanol had the liuies. AY 8, 18'8 ANOTHER • A .special correspon telegraphs as follou ' last : Col. Otter, wi ed t Pouedmaker's • afternoon; drove Saturday morning -engagement with the our men were killei • ed. The attack was • BEGUN BY THE IND and looked as if a tra us, into which we ra very istrong,estinested • fiercely from cover, pa,ratively open to • from the brow or a Five minutes after fired we,appeaxed compLETELy s Fifty men were sen the rear. We had ju • a dense gully, thickl • stream miming on on sent back meek a 1 • tomplished their obj LESSENING THE DAN AVON The fighting, which ing, was over a large country and our • ata great disade-anta to it like heroes, . whistling in on them direction, • NEVER FLINcHED Every corps stood A sive'and by 10 Ohloe almost eitenced. Th shortly, and the fig heavy. The al -tiller) •Seven -pounders and good. work repeatedle enemy from their o'clock the enemy completely silen already given orders a position of such Thdians, observing t cut off the retreat of o FoUGHT THEIR WAY the front always to• , praise is suffieient to ery of our officers and she* himself a heroi, his staff was in every and his orders were coil as in; a sham :battle. badly 'usedl up before begare comPosmoN- W r Ouxi force comprised, nee and scouts, B Bat 'Guards, 0 Company. part Of the Queen's • Battleford Rifles. It , THIRTY TO of •thel enemy were kiTh • retwaied to Ita,ttleford • The Wounded are all ch id 1.........mi ! • - lillett is rapidly 1 fer the excellency oi Mr. IVin. Rinn has Borel4nd Chief,. risin this spring, for $350, t of MiChigan ; also Mr. his Chief filly for $250 of London. Six kind ' geed. hrice for two zotti • -The Gerrie Enter' A, „McIntosh,' who has Albion hotel for the pa retired this week and the proprietor, has talo will run a temperance' ' ,Mrs. McIntosh have famous in this section enjoy a large -measure x . , -The Goderich Sig • -says : i The Curry Brett schantS, will leave here] for Brantford, where I lo cate : permanently. 7 a store under the Op city, and will early e tionery and wine and b is one • the best stani, and “the boys" will*h success. • • :E. F. Black, P returned from Laprairil bringing with hint a ne Shtae ipliaoind„ ' B ,,r4,,,.‘ 3,001acok. T;iiiri,t,i1 joint proprietor of the: Black. The horse is 0 with heavy mane an hands high, weighs O't RMI. has large bone good action., -On Thursday bf Hof0AwlizraThteoT ns.niilayoi, • eslf-rcr destroyed by fire toget1 • tents, consisting of a e eral pigs and calaese- betweee three and fona 140 bushels pf grain. 1 tureen WO .a.)2,41 $600 ticularly heavy on N had not a cent of insur; see-reAtalreywdoftaYsagohe\re,gt1 received from Toronto! given by the. Ontari u_mea sywlonCfaltdmontiaS0 hen 1,,10] season. Mr, A-. R. M • the rink whieh made • ber ef boiriU in the mai medal until the next aa • the club. ,. . -A Londesboro- eor ' ! 'Geo. Rose,' of Plum 4 Territory, -son of Dr. boro, has leased the ho ried on by Mr. Bell, al will conduct the -stall Will be carried on aS perance house, and tr• t on finding it A .1 in ev. Bell moems into the 1 pied by Dr. Rose, wk hotel with his son, wim alsIberttd.e ' • Duglihpast'y of Howick has hetet • which has been :dis Paid rates, county tret salaries and •commisi • interest on coupon; ? },369.60;•$taxes re printing and stationel , ,an7c1996r!ds;electionges,$,e 29.2l $,0 4 x, ity, WA° ; drahnig . -cellaneous, $1,061.28; urer's hands, $1,019.70 . -Says the Wintl Among those injured h with the Indians and h • treek, was W. W. Matti • well and faVorablyirmi • having been for a coup -employ of G-. J. Clarke jeweler. "Will' is 1 stitlitenriDed.egbBaty a 'babel .90watsh to his friends at Winn "not mueli injured." ' • -Another pioneer se . of the late David N,