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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 •
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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
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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.
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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,