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RTII, FRIDAY, July 10, 1S85.
Death of Col. Williams.
One of the most painful episodes of
the late Northwest Rebellion is the death
of Cot. Williams, commander of the Mid-
land Battalion, which took place on
board re steamer at Battleford on Thurs-
day of last week. Col. Williams led
the gallant charge at Batoche and pass-
ed throngh the perils of that and sub-
seqoeut engagements unscathed, to die
in peace on board a steamer just -as the
campaign was ended t and he was pre -
Taxing to return home.. Col. Williams
was an able and courageous officer and
an estimable gentleman. He had re-
presented East Dunham in the Local
Legal& e for two parliaments succes-
sively and for many years has repre-
sented he same constituency at Ottawa
and wa relieved from his parliamentary -
duties 4n the brea11 ing out of, the North-
west re ellion, to o and serve his coun-
try at the head of a regiment of volun-
teers raized by himself. In politics he
was always a staunch Conservative,. and -
during luxe present parliament occupied
the position of Government " Whip."
His genial disposition and gentlemanly
with b th parties, and there were few
bearin made him a universal favorite
more p: pular men in the House of Par -
Hamar ti . He was naturally, however,
More a soldier than a politician and al-
though he had long ond extensive po-
litical experience it was his social
qualiti s rather than Ms abilities that
brc;ug14 him such klegree of prominence
as he s tired. He had been a college
mate of, Hon. Mr. Blake, and although
differhaie in politics, they had always
been intimate pertonal friends. A de-
spatch from Bata ford dated July 4th,
gives -hie follovCug, particulars con-
cerning his death :
"Col. Williams complained of illness
on Sunday at church parade, and imag-
ined heItad been the victim of a slight
snn stroke. . The candping ground_ at
Pitt behig damp, he removed on, Tues-
day to the steamer, -where he received
attention. He rapidly beceine worse,
and on Thursday became unconscious.
Typhoid fever, and one of the physi-
cians says,inflammation of the brain set
in. He neer recovered consciousness,
and at 9.30' Friday morning, passed
peacefully away, although death eves
unexpeeted. The subdued feeling of
the men gave wayto open expressions of
grief, aucl. the sin eerest sorrow *as
i
manifeSted on all hands at the loss of
the most popular officer of the whole
column.not only with his own battalion,
but with the 'whole command. ' There
was the deepest regret felt at the loss Of
so gallant an officer, who had passed
safely through the whole campaign. All
the steamers are flying flags at half
mast. l'rom-Battleford'the remains will
be se4 home -via Swift Corrent and
Winnipeg in charge of Capt. Reed ancl
an esco t."
Withy of Consideration.
As wle are credibly informed, a cer
tain ch trch congregation in this county,
red:let-I - held a public entertainment for
the be efit of the church funds. Seve-
'
nie I
rad of t lose who took part in this enter -
taint came from a distance by train.
On aning at the station, these parties
took the bus and came to one of the
leadinghotels of the place, where they
pot up. The proprietor of this hotel is,
we are informed., making an. holiest ef-
fort to conduct a first-class house of,
public ntertainment on, strictly temper-
8,11Ce pliIleipleS. Shortly after the arri-
val of these guests at the hotel, a prom_
inent member of the church in ques-
tion, who is also a leading temperance
and Seott Aet mare called and took
s
them away and billeted them with
menibeis of the congregation. This was
done no doubt thoughtlessly, and for
the purpose of saving money for the
eltarch,land not witiTi the intention of
giving tffence to any person. It did,
however, give serious -offence to the
hotel keeper, as it was well calculated
to do. ;How are places of this kind to
be maintained, if church members and
' temperlance workers, who should sup-
port mid encourage them, deliberately
deprive them of legitimate patronage in
this way? It would have been much
better, ,had the members of the church
in question, foregone the paltry saving
they effected ley -billeting these strangers
among themselves, and let it go to the
hotel keeper, who can only live and
maintain his house respectably by pat-
ronage lpf this kind. ' We know that
this congregation is not an exception in
this. respect, and for this reason we
make mention of this circumstance
which has been brought to our attention
1 •
that others maY be on their guard. If
we are to have temperance hotels,church
i
members and temper ce . advocate:3
,
minitenot selfish
ler deprire them of their
legithnate patronage. If we are to in -
1
cul ate temper rice principles, and if we
de *re to furth : r the good work which
has recently been began in this and
°tiler counties in endeavoring to make
• the Scott Act operathre and effective,
• ch,rch membe and teinperance people
generally mu t be prepared to make
some sacrifice to fur her that object.
They must no expect all the sacrifices
to be made on the one side and none on
._ ,
the other, bu1 they nust endeavor to
show their sin erity bT theirtictions. If
they are not p epared to do this, they
may as well tke thei hand from the
plow at once d per • it things to lapse
into their former statp of lethargy.
This, above all others, is a movement hi
which we must have eXample as well as
precept on the part of its promoters. _
The Policii*agistrte Again. 1
I .
The Exeter Refleeteir again returns
to the questi n ofethe!appointment of a
Police Magistzfate for this county. We
did. not intenld troubling our readers
with any furth r reference to the subject,
but as there are still two or three points
which seem to bother•oor contemporary,
we know our readers will pardon us. for
making one m6re effort! to try and put
him right. The first ofthese is the con-
sistency of THE EXPOSITOR ; the second
the appointmeht of a: person who has
been .nominated or r , conunended by a
body of his fellow in ii, and the third
is the appoiothient of a lay -man instead
of a lawyer. •bra the firht of these ques
,
tions our contemporary gays : , .
"The National Policy received the
support of a large majority of the 'elec-
tots in 1878, and again in 1881 Did
the Exposinon any inciee than the Re-
flector "accept. thel Verdict- of the
people" as correct? Did it "loyally
try to -make the expe iment a success ?"
Does it, even now, " n aintain a decent
and dignified neutrality " with reference
to it? We trow not,I and yet it .pre
-
some* to lecture us for daring '16
deal si•milarly 'with the Cott Act."
Our contemporary misapprehends the
, ,
course of the Ex.rosinoit on the Nati al
Policy. Frony its inception until' the
last general bleetimal THE EXPOSITOR
never said one word editorially in oppo-
sition to the National Policy • or in
condemnation cd it. On the contrary, We
advocated that as the people had de:
dared in favor of it, it should have at
least a fair trial. , 'When hhe. Notional
_Policy had been •• in operation for
five years, we did take • the liberty
to i paint out wherein it ind failed
to accomplish what its prothoters had
claimed it worild do, and what some of
its friends said it had done. This is all -
we ask for the Scott Act. Let it be
tried for three years and if its operations
are evil, or ii. its operation does not do
good, then we shall join With out con-
temporary in 4ndeaVoring to prevent its
re-enactment. , !But, we desire it to have
a feir trial, atk this it can not have, if
the, leaders of ablic opinion and the
moulders of pdblic sentiment such as our
contemporary, continuato hold it up to
public ridicule, by persistently recount-
• ing its failureand portraying its in-
justices, and in this way poisoning the
public mind against i even before it
has scarcely been put into. I operation.
This is not the way to giye the Act a fair
trial,and we are sure o r oontemporary's
common sense will . induce it . to •agree
with us that it is not. But, aside -from
• ] •
this view of the ate, -there is no analogy
. ,
whatever between theetwo eases cited.
The National Ptelicy does not depend in
any degree upon the sentiments Of the
pec!pie concerning it for its success:
,
Th Government imposes certain duties
,
or $axes, and the people are foroed to
pas'r them whether they like it ,. ornot,
,and. hence adverse criticism of the Act
, -
imposing these duties can not in any
1
way interfere with the object -for which
they are imposed. With the Scott Act
• however, it is entirely. different.
The entire success of the law de-
pends upon the manner in which
it is received by the people. If
• they are educated to believe that it is a
fraud, and that it is meritorious- rather
than innnoral to violate .its provisions,
its enforcement under any circerristances
will become an impossibility. Bat if,
. on the other hand they, are led, to feel
that the obligation to obrerve its provis-
• ions is as binding as that to observe any
other law; that its enforcement will ab-
, .A 1
complish a general good to society
and that it will have a restraining in-
fluence upon those who are unable to ret
ibility that the pro -
stn
strain their q appetites and passions,
then there is a pos
visions of the lew will be respected by
the masses and the law will have a •fair
opportunity of 'showing svhat it is cap-
able of accomplishing. 'Our conterapo.-
I
-may -must now see that there is no
1
inconsistency in opp_osing theone measure
and. deman din g th at oppoSi tion•to the other
,
should cease until, at least, it has re-
ceived a fair trial. On the second point.
the Refleictot says: ! .
" We took the broad ground that the
appointee to any jodicial position. of the
kind should not be made to feel that he
owes his appointment to any organiza-
tion of partizans, no matter whether it
be Grit or Tory, Scott Act or Antif Is
it not the proudeboa.st of our Canadian
Judiciary that its appointments are
made irrespective of party? Who ever
heard of Liberals or Conservatives as
such petitioning the Government to £p
point a member of their own particular
sporty to, a judgeship? •The very idea
would be scouted even by -the extreme
adherents ofboth parties."
- This means, if it means anything at
all, that because Mr. Beattie was recom-
mended by the Scott Act Association
that, therefore, he should not be appoint-
ed, and because he is 'so recommended
he must necessarily be a partizan, .and
must give partizan decisions in his offi—
cial capacity. Now, to use ono contera
porary's own simile, we would ask wh t
authority is it that appoints our judg s,
and from whence are they taken? Ajre
they not, appointed by a Partiz n
Government and are not the appointees
as a rule the Most violent partizans1e-
fore their appointment, and still it is
very rarely that their'decisions alre
questioned even when political and p r-
tizan issues are involved. When su0
is the case with regard to theregular'
judiciary, why should it be assumed
that the appointee in this instance would
act differently even though he be a par-
tizan and be recommended by a so-called
paitizan committee? The • assumpti n
is simply' absurd. It is eqtia, ly
absurd to say • that because a man lia,s
been recommended for a certain ponition
by a• number of his fellowmen, who
have in view the accomplishment of a
purpose which the Act under which
the appointment is made was framed to
assist, =should be a bar to his appoint-
ment to tliatpositiori. The very Act ef
Parliament under which these Polipe
Magistrates are appOinted was framed
and passed for the express purpose of
giving increased faeilities for the el-
forcement of the Scott Act, and the a
pointment when Made will be made f r
this very purpose, and still the Reflect- r
affirms that because those men who 4e
charged with securing the enforceme t
of the Act, and wile in a great degr e
will be held responsible shoulcflit pro e
a ailure, recommend a certain pers n
fox: the position, it orould be an outrage
to have that person appointed, The
contention is so manifestly absurd it is
Surprising our conteMporary would f
a moment think of submitting it to
intelligen
mittee d
for the e
public. If the Central Corh-
sired that appointment ma1e
press purpose of securing a
partizan administration of the law, th n
there mig' t be soni sense in disregarcl
ing their recommendation or actiog
contrary IS it. But that is a position
our conte nporary dare not take. • On
the third •oint it is, said:
Our centemporaty offers as a reasen
for Mr. •eattie's appointment to the
•position. If Police Magistrate, the fact
of his -ha ing been an ordinary maps
-
trate for ver twenty years '• , but it ati-
iiears to • erget that the duties of the
two office: are very different. As well
might our friond reason that because a
man can, assably, Behr .a button on his
pant, th t,. therefore, he would be a
great suc ess as a fashionable tail le'
By the hi hest exercise of his authority
the ordin S7 magistrate cao only co
Mit for tri 1 in a case of Misdemeano ;
he cannot commit for trial_• in a case of
felony; • e Police Magistrate, hoW-
ever' can lot only commit for trial in
sucha cite ; but he can actually try the
prisoner Cf . he so elects), and if he finds
him guilty pass sentenee to send him to
the peniteitiary for a term not exce d-
ing fourte n years.
The abo re is sinfplh begging the ques-
tion. In the first place, no person
would thir k of employing a fashionahle
. tailor to n ake a pair of common over-
alls, beetle se the work could be done
just as .w 11, and probahly -better by. a
common • orkma,no. Ir.' the secoad
place, a ommon magistrate has the
power to try and punish misde-
meanors, and • a is only - for.
felony t at he , is required to
• commit foo trial. liut, these examples
are aside ftrorn the point at issue. The
Object of hving a Police Magistrate ap-
• pointed, i that infrantions of the Scett
Act may be tried before him. • Ttee.
Mayor of t�wn 0 city, or any two
common n agistratei, may now try the
cases, eveo althongh ithey be not learned
in the lawl This being the 'case now,
• why would it bean outrage to appoint
as a Police Magistrate a layman for the
trial of these very same cases which lay -
'men are now empowered to try? If a
Mayor iS competent to try these • cases,
surely the same .person ifeappointed a
-Police Magistrate would not be less
competent. It is true that .a Poliee
Ma,gistrate is -given power to try caees
that an ordinary magistrate is not. But
-he is only given this power . when the
accused elects to be tried -by him. If,
therefore, an accused person electe to be
tried before a Police Magistrate, al-
though he be only arlayma,n, in prefer-
ence to being tried 4 a judge, who is 1 a
lawyer, it s the best possible evidence
that he ha the greater confidence- in the
layman, aid that be knows he will not
suffer injustice at his fiends. This por-
tion of our contemporary's argument,
therefore, goes for nothing. • It is not
so much a knowledge of the intricacies
of law thht is 'wahted in our Pollee
Magistrate. This is, of course, tcha
etirtaiit'exthit, ind'spensable, but aboVe
this is requited ood. ,sound common
sense, a high more, rectitude, and tie
courage to clo right irrespective of what
the consequences may be. While Mr.
Beattie possesses the requisite legal
knowledge, he also has, .'in an emineht
,degree, the other qualifications referred
to, and heuee we say he is a man erni-
nently quolified and admirably adapted
for the position. And what is more, he
has net sou ht after it.
We also iotice that the Goderich Star
coincides with the Reflector, in urging
the appointment of a legal gentle an to
the position, and cites the opi lion of
Judge Toms in support of its p sition.
While we would value the opi ilon of
Judge Toms very highly on man ques-
tions, we are not prepared to adisPlit that,
he isa, very safe authority on 'this. It
is well known that "a fellow feeling
makes us wondrous kind," and it1 is only
natural that Judge Toms shOuld desire
to see only gentlemen of his own pro-
fession fill positions of this . kind. In
addition to this, if we are to judge from
the selections which the Judge some-
• tiines makes for his own substitutes, we
must say that he is not a very safe guide
in such matters.
iseensenemelinmsemi
THE capture hi Big Bear air many
-
of his band closes the last act of thei
Northwest Rebellion, and General Mid-
dleton and his army Of brave volunteers
are new on their way home. Some of
them have already reached Winnipeg,
and the remainder are making for that
point as rapidly as the transport service.
will permit. lJt ie expected the Toronto
• and London contingents will real& their
respective homes ear* next 'week. Now
must commence the , work bf Counting
the cost, and squaring up the accounts.
The bill when all. has been paid will
amount to a big .sum, --sufficient, we
venture the prediction, to haVe construe -
ted a net workof brandh eailways
throughout the Province oi :Mitaitoba.
Had the amount beep! expended in this
way, it is doubtful if a tebellic4i would
thwest,
have
ight at
hand to have quelled the (list rbance.
However, we must take matters -as we
find them, and "grin and bear" the in-
evitable. The prisoners 'captured are
now all lodged in Regina, Or are being
conveyed thither. The trial of Riel will
be commenced there on the 20t1 of this
month if no adjournments are ade.
ever have taken place in the No
and if it had, there woul
been a sufficient force of settlers
AFFAIRS AT OTTA
'(1from Our own Vorrespfind 1.)
OTTAWA, Jury 6t , 1885.
Amid shouts jef victory from i e Gov-
_
eminent supporters, the great F anchise
Bill passed its third reading in the
House of Commons at about lA a.m.,
on the 4th July. "A fittifig 4 ay" as
Sir Riehard Cartwright remark d " for
the majority to disfranchise thei fellow
countrymen."
HOW 64 UNIFORMITY " WS SEC ,RED. •
The great plea in favor of t tis Bill
has been that it would make a niforrn.
franchise hi,11 over the ,Do • inion.
Indians whq• were not to be e trusted
with a bottle of whisky, were • be en-
trusted with a vote. The deci ing as
to who should vote, and whe sho ld not,
was to be left not to officers apj :Anted
by the people subject to appeal, to the
judge,' but by Men appointed : by the
Government. T4 cost of every ' general
election in the DOmihion was to be ;in-
creased from $120\000 to $650,00 at the
very least, and th usands of in m who
i
had done no wren' politically, o • other-
wise were, withou trial, to be s miner-
ily deprived of thein votes. Al these
things, and others almost equi ly bad
\
vete to be done, bu they were I made
justifiable, if not so, red by the end to
be achievedoeunifor liter. And low has
uniformity been secu ed ? The ndians
of the older Province only are tq be al-
lowed to vote. Man ood suffrage is to
continue in Prince E ward Island and
British Columbia, s far as eencerns
• those who have alrea y had the ight to.
vote, and a similar ceisiderationI for the
already -existing franchise is ref4isecl to
the other provinces. • fThe cities' t. Hy-
acinthe and Hull, Quebec provii ce, are
to rank as towns beeause they are of
ernall population, but the sameivilege
is denied to Guelph, t. Thomas Fred-
ericton, New.. l3rur4swick, aiuhl other
places incorporated as cities but wiith no
larger population thail St. Hyaciinthe or
Hull. Fishermen are 1iovedto qualify in
part on personal prop rty and this just
right is refused to, thej workman and the
mechanic, and; so oi threughout the
Bill. The prvisior respecting man-
hood suffrage was made at the last
moment, and in all wing it hi two
provinces, and tefus.
the Government mad
of uniformity. The
have had manhood •s
Edward Island for o
--and all the people,
of class or party are
the principle. 1 If t
with its confused an
chise were to noine
g it in the
a sorry ex
' fact is th
fferage in
rer tW-ent
ithout distinction
much atta hed to
is ridicule s Bill,
variegate fran-
into force, there
fractibn of the
would be only • a
people allowed to vote and they would
be of the property-holdinh cl ss, the
vast • majority of Whom are ijiberals.
eNot only would the political Iearlings of
these voters ensure the defeat of the
Government candidates, :but the indig-
nation of the voters at seeing friends
and relations deprived of the right to
vote would condemn those candidates to
never-ending disgrace. There is no use
of a uniformity that $ simply to bring
thei Government ca
Government aisle int
queptly, when a Gov
from the Island, Dr.
the amendment guar
in Prince Edward'
Columbia who had h
hitherto the centime
the premier aecept
He said it didn't ma
that nearly everybod
chisectunder the Bill
it to manhood suffer
existing voters in
named would enfran
people. But, strapg
others
ibition
t they
Prince
years,
•
didates and the
disgrace. '. -Cense-
rnment supporter
Jenkins, proposed
nteeing to ell those
sland and British
d the right to vote
nce of that right,
d the suggestion.
er much 4nyhow,
would be enfran-
and that t� extend
ge in the case of
the two provinces
hise very few more
to say, when Mr.
Weldon proposed to grant ae similar
privilege to New Brunswick, the premier
• objected that this would be too great a
departure from the principle of ohiform-
ity. The object of the Liberals was to
make all the provinces uniform with
Prince Edward Itla d, but 'Sin John's
view of uniformity as to make an ex-
ception in favor of two provinces and
Jrefuse the same to the others. It
1 '
seemed strange, moreover, that he
shahld choose the provioces with the
widest franchise for the purpose of mak-
ing the exception, It would stretch the
Bill far less to make it cover the com-
paratively limited franchise of the other
provinces than to make it cover the
mm6hood; suffrage of Prince Edward
Island and British Columbia. The votes
were Ireporded, however, and the Con-
servatives in Nova Scotia, New Bruns-
wiek,1 Qhebec, Ontario and Manitobawhb iiefulsed to their more populous and
tent provinces what were granted
smaller provinces at either end of
ominion will have an opportunity
swering for their action before.
constituents.
Frz DiscussioN Daereeneora
Th yptes on the last stage of the
Frarihnihe 13111 were put through with
all h4e14 The government's majority
stood firm, Bind there Was no hope of
their either listening to reason or show-
ing, any sense of fairness or decency.
Therii web no chalice of accomplishing
more i than had already ,been acconiplish-
ed---eheldieg the bill up to the public
gaze, and giving the people a chance to
learn its hideous deformities before
allowing it to fasten itself, like a vam-
pire, upon the body politic. There was
every ;cos= for thrusting it aside as
soon a, po'ssible for other and more im-
portant businees. The iail, while the
Rebellion was in progress, declared that
all discussion must cease until the .in-
surgents had been put down. No soon-
er had it become apparent that the In-
dians, as well as the half-breeds, were
crushed, than the Mail began to shout
that the time for. discussion was • pa,et,
that if the Opposition had anything to
say they should have said it befo
Fortunately for the country, the Op
sition does not- guide itself at all
what the Mail says. When the cot
try was struggling with the Rebell
monster, which the Government had
created, the Opposition said nothing,
but now that the Rebellion is over and
Parliament still in session, the Opposi-
tion will discus a the Government's
Northwest policy fully. Nobody doubts
that the Northwest has not been pro-
perly ;dealt with. The people of Huron
ankBruce especially having so many
friends in Manitoba, the Northwest and
Dakotto are able to judge perhaps better
than any others of the ill effects of mis-
government in Canada's new territory.
Nobody pretends that the 49th parallel
makes any difference in the soil or cli-
mate. - The mighty prairie is as fertile
and the country just as - good on the
north as on the south side of the imagin-
ary line which men have run from side
to side Of the continent, a,nd called an
International Boundary:" But on
one side the settlers are allowed to
nonage their : own affairs under laws
which, whether good or bad, are reason-
ably permanent. And, moreover, those
laws hre capable �f being administered
for tile benefit of the settlers. But on
the o her are settlers who have taken up
theinhomes in advance of a promised
railway. • That railway would yield a
magnificent dividend to capitalists, and •
the money could readily be found to
build it, but that it, must run into a
monopoly line; and the monopolists can
make or ruin the men Who build the
read, and the road ie never built.
Lands on Which men have settled are
suddenly found to be " railway reserves".
or eolonization reserves," or " Govern-
mentireserves," or "town site reserves,"
.or soine other "reserves," which makes
it necessary for the settler to " see "
somei monopolist or- speculator or dis-
honeStIGovernment agent before he can
get the title to the land. Men who
know of no reason why they should not
be treated with every consideration as
the pioneers of a great -country, find
that they copilot get the title to their
land. ;They would improve their farms,
but they cannot borrow money; they
would 'break more soil were it not that
their labor might benefit, not their
families, but •some man with more in-
fluence with the Government than they.
Ministers who never visited the • North-
west a
tails o
Gower
impel
to th
the
of a,
their
e at the head of affairs, the de -
the business are in the hands of
merit clerks who have learned all
the in and outs • of the Circumlocution
office, and are proficient in the art of
how not to do it. The settler has sacri-
ficed eoerything thathe may go to the
Northhest, and there provide a broad.
roof fdr his family and bread for them
all. The delay that maketh the heart
sick is his daily portion. He sees his.
family growing up about him still un-
provided for. All his sacrifices may
lead et last to his new home being taken
from him, and he left a beggar. He
can gtet no satisfaction from the Govern-
ment; for his case is still slowly wind-
ing th a,nd out in the mazes .of the Cir-
cumlocution offi6e. -The Government's
theory is that under the circumstances,
the settler ought to be calm and trust
the great men whom the people, assisted
by the gerrymander, have delighted to
honor. But what wonder can it be to
ordinary men, who do not receive large
salaries and larger stealings from the
Government, that discontent and a mar-
sellous feeling of unrest took possessibn
of the people? What wonder that the
hidden fire should _break • out where
there were such weak spots in the crust
of population as the half-breeds and the
Indians? The people do not lolly un-
derstand the complete' want of knowl-
edge and capacity which has character-
ized the government of the Northwest.
Canada depends upon the development
of that great country aa her means of
salvation from disintegration or abject
depeodence upon the 'empire. 'Vere
the bpposition to refrain from protesting
against the policy which has ,held sway
so loug, they would be recreant to their
dutyr They will—protest, and ;‘,vill give
grouilds for protesting. But when ?
• DELAY AND ITS CA8J.
•The reason is' plain. The Govern-
tifice to
fject of
session,
, re, was
.simply to prevent the discnssion on the
Northwest taking place. The enly way
in • which that question :can properly
come up is on a motion to ame d a mo-
tion to go into Cemmittee of
When the motion is brought t
will; of course, be a long discuss
it. The Government is well a
by taking up other matters in
part of the day and not piso
Committee of Supply until la
evening it will prevent the
coming up, because Amen canno
with 'vigor upon a question aft
of Work upon other matters,.
Opposition will not take hold
thing until they can get a good
it. Day after day Supply has b
posed by the Government some
ment has resorted to every a
stave off discussion. The o
pressing the Franchise Bill this
when it never was pressed be
Supply.
p, there
OD upon
are that
he early
osing 11
in the
mestion
t enter .
• hours
nd the
• of . this
grip of
en pro••
unes at
'9 o'clock in the evening, sometimes after
midnight, but never early enough to
enable discussion on the Northwest to I
be effectively entered upon - Other I
questions, such as that of Finance, dis-
cussed by Sir Richard Cartwright, as
mentioned in my last letter have been
taken up, and no time has been wasted,
,so far as the Opposition 18 COD-
eerned. The Government pretended to
be anxious to hurry on with business.
So great was his haste that Sir John
Macdonald refused to allow an idjourn-
ment over Dominion Day. The eigh-
teenth birthday of Miss Canada was
spent by her rulers in hard work and
not a single word was said in the House
about the joyful occasion which all good
Canadians were supposed . to celebrate.
But, contrary to Sir John's expectation,
the business washurried through, and
• on; Friday he found himself almost face
to face with the Northwest question.
He had given noticathat he would move
for a sitting on Saturday, but, at this
moment, his heart failed him, and he
'dropped his motion. The eonsepence
• was that the legislators who worked
hard on Dominion Day had a holiday on
the 4th July. For decency's sake they
should at least have eat on the American
Independence Day, having sat on Can-
• ada's National Holiday. What made it
look aJi the worse, was that Sir John
Macdonald gave no reason for not sit-
ting on Saturday. •-• His followers, of
course, -would net need a reason if he
proposed that the House of Commons
should take an excursion to New York
to join in the festivities of the "Glori-
ous Fourth" as the Americans call it.
But without any reason given, such a
proposition would look ba'
d and the ma-
jority of people will think the same of
the adjournment on the Fourth after
• working on the First. The only answer
the Tories have had for many years to
charges made by their opponents was
the " loyalty, patriotism" cry. After
this'it is to be hoped that .we shall be
sp4red a repetition of that thread -bare
apology for an argument. If the House
was so awfulleobusy that it couldn't ad -
over Dominion Day, surely it
ought to have been just as busy three
days loter'or else it should have been
through its work altogether.. The loss
ofla day is a more serious thing than
would at first appear. The supplies
have not yet been voted, although the
fiscal year expired on Tuesday last, and
not a dollar can lawftilly be paid out on
any account. The Opposition are ready
to join in voting the supplieS, but this
is the occasion the Government chooses
—when the wheels of administration are
at a stand still for want of money—to
demand a holiday. Sarely this kind of
patriotism must pay, for it is such utter
foolishness that no reasonable man
would profess it for nothing.
A CONQUERED PEOPLE.
. There were two bills before the •Cem-
mons. last week, which speak volumes
regarding the views that the Govern-
mente le - _
have concerning the . Northwest,
and their duty as affecting it. One of
these hills was to appoint an additional
police magistrate and to make that
magistrate a member of the Northwest
Council. The police magistrate may be
needed, and seeing the efforts the -Gov-
ernment . has made to stir up strife in
that country, they are the ibest judges
as to that. But an additional member
by , appointment, of the Northwest
council is not needed. The law passed
under the Mackenzie Government, pro-
vides that when the population within
• any district of one thousand miles
reachds one thousand 'souls, the people
shall. be authorized by the Lieutenant
Governor to elect a representative to the
cohnciLand as soon as there are 21 elected
members, they shall alone form the first
LegislativeAssembly of the Northwest
Territories, and the appointed member
-shall cease to act. - It is claimed by the
Conservatives that there are 150,000
people in the Territories. Yet there are
so far, only eight elected members.
This shows either that the Conservatives
are awfully astray regarding, the popu-
lation or Lieutenant Governor Dewdney,
shielded as he is by the Government,
has set the law 4,t defiance. There are
seven appointed members of the Council,
including the Lieutenant Governer. To
appoint another will be to make a tie
between the appointed and elected mem
bers. The Lieutenant Governor has an
additional and caSting vote in case of a
tie. . Consequently the whole -Northwest
is ruled by creatures of the Government,
and in contests between these creatures
and the people, the latter might as well
have no representation at all. Yet we
talk about our "guaranteed liberties,"
and call this a free country. This infam-
ous measure has been passed. The other
bill provided that no man; White or
Indian, should have any Weapon using
fixed ammunition. In other words, the
settler on the plains was to be refused
the ri lit to have a rifle in his house, or
even a breech -loading shot gun. The
first 'hefty of a Briton is the right to
poss ssi arms. Take that away and it
is tantamount to declaring martial law.
The constitution of the United States
provides that no Legislature shall pro-
hibit t se citizen. from holding arms.
This dastardly • outrage Was not con-
summated. The bill reached its third
reading against the fierce protests of the
opposition. • At _that stage even the Tory
1,
stomacl turned. They could not bolt
the mo •sel.. They protested also, and
the Goe eminent "moved the adjourn-
ment of the debate." In other words
they ithdrew their measure.. They
went fa ' enough, however, to show' that
they dr afraid to trust the people of the
Northwest With the liberges of ordinary
citizens They went far eno-ughto show
that thy are prepared to back their
system Of spoliation, • fraud and folly
even to he extent of provoking another
rebellioili in that land that:thould be the
peace c ntre of the world.• -
THE SENATE -AND THE SCOTT ACT.
SThe lenate have decided to insist
upen their amendments to the hill
amending the Scott Act, and the bill
will be sent back to the House of Com-
mons with the wine and beer clauses re}
stored. The question came up in the
senate Monday evening. Sir Alexander
Campbell undertook tochampion the
anti -temperance Iclause. : Mr. Vidal
moved that the Senate should not insist
upon ite amendment striking out the
clause imposing penalties upon doctors,
magistr tes, and others, for granting .
liquor certificates improperly. Sir
- Alexan er Campbell advised the House
to adhe e to its course of a few days
'ago. The House of Commons had not
given sufficient reasons fon restoring its
penalty clause, as the act already pro-
vided for the punishment of persons vio-
lating the Act. It would be an outrage
to have !doctors and clergymen dragged
SUMIDEWily before any seat of a justice
JULY 10, 1885.
Of the peace to answer charges of grant-
ing certificates for liquor improperly.
Sir Alexander's motion that the Senate
should insist on its amendment was car-
ried by 15 to 30. Mr. Vidal then
moved that the Senate should not insist
upon its wine and beer amendments.
Sir Alexander Campbell moved that the
athendment should be insisted on, as the -
reasons given by the Home of Commons
for rejecting the amendment were un-
sound. This Parliament was not bound
by the Act of any preceding Parliament,
and those Cities and counties which
adopted the Scott Act had no right to
assume that it would not be repealed -
for three years, _so that there was no
compact to be broken. This Parliament
was free to do as it pleased in the mat-
ter. The House of Commons had mis-
represented the law because all that
was providecl was that no executive act-
ion should be taken to repeal the Act in
any particular county within three
years. He assigned as a reason for in-
sisting on the wine and beer clause that
it was desirable in the true interests of
temperp,nce. ,This was as true as any-
thing could be, and, moreover, it had
been passed in compliance with the ex-
pressed wishes of a large proportion of
the electorate. Sir Alexander's motion
was supported by Messrs. Plumb and
Diekey, and opposed by -Messrs. Scott
and Vidal The house then divided on
Sir Alexander's amendment, which was
carried by ;30 to 15.
A. B. J.
News of the Week.
- THE CHOLERA EPIDEMIC.—The total
deaths from cholera in Spain DOW num-
ber over 9,000.
WOLsELEY'S RETURN. —General Wol-
seley and staff will start from great
r CLati rrea eaet
°I1ceDfDo
f6rEtliAlAVS.
JoLD.T
horse Jim Douglas has been sold at
Chicago for $7,000. •
WOLSELEY SAILS FOIL ENGLA ND.—:GeH.
Wolseley sailed from Alexandria for.
Evian(' on Tuesday. .
WENTY-NIN MURDERERS. --Twen ty-
'nine murderers from Indian Territory
are confined in jail at Fort Smith,a,wait-
ing
LORD CHURCHILL ELECTED.—The el-
ection in Woodstock has resulted in the
return of Lord Randolph Churchill to
Parliament
CELEBRATING THE FOURTH. — At
Watertown; Dakota, Mrs. J. Barrett
gave birth to two boys and two girls on
the Fourth of July. All are doing well.
HONOR FOR SIR PETER.—The Que n
has made Sir Peter Lumsden a kni t
commander of the or der of the bath.
Her Majesty has also offered a dukedom
to Earl Spencer. s
Drama WITH THE MAIIDL—It is stated
that Osman Digma is With the Mahdi,
and that the latter has presented him
with a sword of honor and a sum of
money. -
EXPENSES OF WAR—Despatches from
Simla, India, state that the expenses of
the Indian preparations for ,war against
Russia amount already to 400 lacs of
rupees, or $20,000,000.
AMERICA'S CITIZENS -CELEBRATING Do -
MINION DAY.—Over five htindred citizens
of Grand Forks, Dakota, went on a trip
to Winnipeg on the first of July—Do-
minion Day.
A SCANTY RAINFALL—There has been
-
but a scanty rainfall sofarthis season in
India. The prospect for good crops is
bad in Madras and Bengal, but in the
central provinces satisfactory results are
looked. for.
TERRIBLE FIRE.—At Madison, Wis-
consin, Im Sunday, thirteen large to-
bacco warehouses were burned down,
also the St. Paul depot and twenty
freight cars loaded with wheat and mer-
chandise. Loss 5500,000 to tz1,000,00Ce
GLUT IN' THE TOBACCO MARKET.—
The glut of tobacco at Lynchburg, Vir-
ginia, is said to be unprecedented.,
Wagons have stood in the street all
night, unable to get to the warehouses
to unload. No such necessity ever oc-
curred before. Prices are kept up,
however.
THE NEW LORD-LIEUTENANT.—The
Earl of Carnarvon arrived at Dublin on
Tuesday to formally assume the duties
of lord -lieutenant of Ireland. He was
received with great enthusiasm, and
cheered by crowds along the whole route
to the castle. No demonstration of a
hostile character was attempted.
IMPORTANT MISSIONS—Hobart. Pasha,
the ,English Admiral in the Turkish
service, left a few days ago for Constanti-
nople with secret instructions from Lord
Salisbury to watch the progress of Rus-
sian intrigues for the informationof both
Governments. - Baker Pasha left for
Cairo the same day, and is also said to
be charged with a secret mission: from
the foreign office.
UNPROPITIOUS WEATHER. -- Eastern
Kansas and Western Missouri have suf-
fered severely from almost continuous
cold rains for the past six days. Work
in the hervest field has been brought to
a complete standstill, and much of the
wheat in stacks has been ruined. The
loss is placed at one million bushels in
Kansas alone. It is feared that the
minor crops will suffer in the same pro-
portion, and that potatoes will rot in
the ground.
THE HALF-MAST • FLAG.—Saturday
being the 4th of July was generally eel-
ebrated as a national holiday by the
people of the United States with the
usual forms of rejoicing. One solitary
exception is to be noted in ,the ease of
Silt Lake Utah, where the national
flag was displayed at half-mast on all
pu'blic buildings and the houses of many
Mormons, in obedience, it is alleged, to
an order from the head of the Mormon
church.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT FOR SCOTLAND.—
A banquet was giVen the other night to
Baron Macdonald, the newly appointed
Lord Advocate. The Marquis of Salis-
bury presided. The Premier made a
speech m which he confined himself to
Scottish affairs. He favoured decentra-
lization and, local self-government for
Scotland, and referring to the proposal
for the disestablishment of the Scottish
Church, said he hoped that the event
would be far in the distant future.
HAPPENINGS ON THEOLORIOLS FOURTH..
—During a fireworks display at Albany,
a spark fell into a box of -bombs and
rockets, causing a grand explosion.
Fifteen persons, mostly boys, were se-
verely, but not dangerously, injured.
Large plate glass windows' in the vicinity
were shattered. The main office of the
Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Company
in New York, was completely destroyed
by fire. Loss, $100,000. The origin is
supposed to- have been firecrackers
thrown among the stores by messenger -
boys. At Oxfofd, Michigan while fir-
ing the salute the cannon 'burst and a
fragment struck Frank Moyers, nearly
Jinx 10, 1885.,
severing a leg from his
knee. The leg will hoer
ed near the body. It is
ts
hisraTsveSrTing
Tnr'elt BY A "'N
Ompsatiahoen,moTrenxiiaisg, oaf tiirseeig;
struck by a waterspout.
Bow the waterspout appr
ing along like an Nat rill
• ann up the earth and u
sthpoluugt rthi
eaclstway.esd the
line
changed its course, and
with the bed of the mad
velocity- When oppositt
spout burst deluging th
earth. The engineer, iiren
men abandoned the trai
refuge in tree tops.'
fully eight feet high and a
an breadth. The locomot
teen ears were raised binli
nearly 200 feet from the t
roadbed was completdy
Huron Not
• --The Binet -ale Cheese
out an 'average of forty eh
• —The average attention
Model. School for the 7
was 411, an increase of 2
• time last year. .
—There is to be a Maso
from Exeter to Pore tiiit
August. A nicer plane fo
could not be selected_
—The fall show of the 1
.Agrieultural Society 'will
Clinton, Thursday and Fr'
ber 24th and 25th,
Vanstone &
• known millers of Brussels,
• ed 400 acres of pine tim
township, near Wiartom
_Mr. P. Robertson, of
cession of Grey, Is having
barn with stone stabling
erected this season.
—Owing to financial di
M. B. Mallory, of the Reil
of Blyth, has made an
his estate to Mr. G. IL Ito
act as trustee in settling a
—The annual strawberr
• the Methodist chureh nt C
held on Dominion Day,
evas well patronized, and
Ale holiday was spent
—The Johnston Method
time itt Turnberry preseti
Lounds, the retiring pas
address, and Mrs. Lound'
some china tea set priorto
ture to their new field of
—On the farm of iVrii.
Sheppardtons • township
some pretty lively work
Thursday- This a -as neitii
• less than the logging- of 20
with 8 teams, in fit hour
—A ten year old son o
Bluevale, died suddenly
• after an illness of three da
blood poisoning arising fro
thought to be an. iusign'
bruise on the heel.
•—Miss Case, teacher
department of Wingham P
was, on Tuesday, mink th
a handsome aibuite by a
pupils et -ho have recently 1
to the highest
—Mrs. R. HareltordSof
driving down the London
Way home from Exeter on
ing of Iast week, when she
en man named Beahan, wit:
into the ditch, and she w-
and considerably injured.
—The Bishop of Huron 11
following appointments in
Rev. R G. Newton, to th
Sstall'a and Fullart
F. Robinhon,' to the inieeios
and Exeter - Rev. .1, W. 11
mission of BItyfielti, Varna
—The Clinton NeW Brae
says: The Granger's Excur
cardine, on Tutestlay,
largely patronized from.1
only three persone'got on le
number of tickets sold at a
tween here and. Exeter drars
a dozen;
Hunteis an old
Stanley, has been granted e
very ingenious car coupler.
pc is a simple onei and the
by Mr: Hater works like;
• hope the old 'gentleman evil
vention a payme one, and 1
dueed on all th:lines.
• —Mr. James Maarlane,
—.....
esteem, and the geod will tS
ak:tolliveeziries to hs praiii
.
, on ncession of Stanley, base
',finest calves, from Polled sl,
to be found anywheae: ill
ii/lnettlriyec.ounty. One of them
• old, is of a great 'weight, an
fully - built., being • a no.
—Frank .11eMithom. for ti
years foreman of the Intel
works, Gliderich, Ieft on ni
week for Dakota, Where 1
up land, and intendis to ma
home. Mr. MeMahon has
years in the employ* the iN
„ . ,.
scohn—xlettetvns.eho?)f.e.e1-141.17,xiptit74.7aotli:itii, I
resigned his ehargo. of the
tisms, •a -d intends •going -
-country, where he will rt
least six months. it is his
give lecture § there en Cana
the advantages it affords t4
the extent -of her territory,
houseAIInicSectionnSunday
y sr 41
school,-
been in operation for about
John McCrae is the sur
The teaehers are Hugh F
Boyd, S. Walker, and Mrs.
attendance is in the neighbe
'Pupils; A library aid pa
school are to be precureo
itt r ties
etiingehisooiheroliese-e!-y Peen
—The Signal says : The
ment of salt made freni Goti
the past five years Wen dees
the International Salt AVe
The shipment comprised e
of dairy salt in bags, in bas
chulLTIT total amount,
I61,19tleilliabatriorIlasi ntmee tteretei
shipment of bulk salt eve
:sAe:oelem'Exel raen! idhide
,eaSrnt al lilli amelyi ss" .'e I 1g; °v:aoll 'Pei lel 0114
- good people of the nekhbori
be desired
s-irTehde. wLathontriowras
a table, which for quality a
to meral!
of the good things by elealan
entirely tpheleairsei