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THE HURON EXPOSITOR.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
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Ilse denotes the page of the paper on which the ,
advertisement will be found.
Bargain Sale—Mullett & Jackson (6)
Wbat Makee it so Popular ?-1.. Y. Fear. (5)
Farm for Sale—Win. Allan. (6)
Thank You—W. G. Glenn. (6)
Farm for Sale—Mrs. E. Ferguson. (5)
Wool—James Beattie. (8)
Black and Green Teae—J. McIntosh. (8)
tke pun txpooitor.
SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, May 27, 1892.,
Are They -Unnecessarily Ob-
_
structing Public Business ?
Judging from the reports, there were
lively times in Parliament last week. Our
worthy legislators had, at. least, one all
night sitting, and there was much &mini-
monious discussion. The eause of this
trouble was the estimates for the Publio
Works Department. Among the items
which the House were asked to vote, were
grants of various amounts for post -offices
and other public buildings in different parts
of the Dorniniou. The opposition maintain-
ed that these grants are unnecessary ; that
they are not made in the public interests
and that they are simply bribes to the con-
stituencies which have returned supporters
of the Government and thst as such they
should not be passed ; moreover, that the
system of granting money in this way is
wrong and should be discontinued and is
also contrary to the spirit of a resolution
which was unanimously adopted by the
House two sessions ago. This resolution
stated that in undertaking to make appro-
priations for public buildings and other
public works, regard should be had to the
revenue derived from those places, and that
the localities in which the largest amount
of revenue were collected were the
localities in which public buildings should
be first constructed. As a sample of the
grants being made, and which the Opposition
so persistently oppose, we have only space to
give the following : Lapraire is a small vil-
lage in the Province of Quebec. The piece
has a population of 1,200 and the entire re-
ceipts of the post -office. there last year
amounted to but $413.16: The population
of the place, also, is decreasing and the office
receipts ere year by year growing smaller.
Yet the Government propose erecting a new
post -office building there which Will cost
$16,000, and which will entail an annual
outlay for interest and maintenance, in the
neighborhood of $1,400. This is only !learn-
t ,
ple of many similar grants, and this is the
sort of thing the Opposition arP fighting
against. For opposing these grants so per-
sistently the Government press are busily
engaged in abusing the Opposition in insult-
ing terms. These papers accuse them of
wasting the time of the House and causing
unnecessary expense to the country, and ao
on. In fact so severe are the Government
papers on the Opposition, that those who
read only these papers can scarcely come to
any other conclusion than that the leaders of
the Liberal 'party -are monsters of iniquity,
and the rank and file nonsensical ninnies.
However, as many of our readers have not an
opportunity of perusing the official reports of
the debates in Parliament, and have to form
their conclusions from the partizan reports
of the discussions as published in the papers
on either side, we give the Hansard report
of the speeches of the leaders on this ques-
tion. We ask our readers to. peruse these
speeches carefully and to judge for them-
selves which side is right. It is scarcely
necessary to say that, notwithetanding all
the discussion, the Government majority
voted the items and would probably have
done so had they been five times as unjusti-
&Tale. This is one of the beauties of blind,
unreasoning partizanship as it prevails in
Canada.
The following are the extracts from Han-
sard :
Mu. GUIMET, Minister of Public Works.
—The amount we expect to spend on that
building is $16,000. The building is now
under contract, and it is expected that it
will be completed before the end of the year.
MR. FLINT.—What are the receipts of
that office ?
MR. OITIMET.—They are not very -large.
The statement I have here is $433.16. I am
sorry I do not possess the eloquence of the
leader of the Opposition, because if I did I
might expatiate on the merits of Laprairie
and the glories of that historical place,which
is really a landmark on the shores of the St.
Lawrence, and likely to become in the near
future a suburb of Montreal. Certainly, all
good Canadians from Lower Canada will be
glad that this old historical village of La -
prairie is to be adorned with a monument in
the shape of a public building which will
show that the Government has a proper
esteem for that place.
MR. FOsTER, Minister of Finance.—I rise
to suggest that probably the committee is of
the opinion that honorable members have
discussed the item at sufficient length to
pass it. I would be sorry to break in on any
fair discussion, but I want to call attention
to the fact that we have been engaged near-
ly two hours on this item. We on this side
of the House have been taunted with being
silent. I should like honorable gentlemen
who mske that taunt to consider for a mo-
ment what are the cla.sses of arguments ad-
dressed to us. It is not to be supposed that
we are to go into campaign speeches, and re-
fute all charges made from the beginning of
the world, politically speaking, up to the
preaent time on every item that comes up in
the estimates. Is it to be supeosed that
members of the Government, or even sup-
porters of the Government, are bound in
duty to arise and eepel with indignation and
warmth, and with more or leas length, as-
sertions which are Chiefly remarkable for
the hard language and the unfounded nature
of the statements which are preferred ?
Such, for instance, as when an honorable
gentleman to -night declared that when a
vote of Parliament was passed for -a
public building and that became an Act
of Parliament and the t law of the
country and the money was` expended ; that
it was simply putting the Minister's arm
into the treasury up to the armpits for lout ;
and as when another hon. gentleman, or per-
haps the same, charged one of the members
of the Government with hatching a con-
spiracy, and so on through all the different
charges which are made. Now that is hard
language ; it is a perversion of English, and
it does no harm to anyone, except to the
persons who make it and to the party in
whose behalf it ie made. I for one do not
consider it my duty to arise on every oc-
casion and repel these general election
charges. Another hon. gentleman was sur-
prised that we sat here so still. Well, we
did sit still for a certain portion of the time
th&t this discussion, if it may be called snob,
hen been going on ; and we sat still out of
sheer astoniehment that when hon. gentle-
men speak as far away from the subject as
one pole is from the 'other, and bring in
all kinds of irrelevant arguments and person-
al castigation' of gentlemen from whom they
differ, yet from the leader of the Opposition
down to the humblest member, there seem•
ed to be nothing but approval at that
apectacli. Certainly the leader of the Op-
position and his supporters are as respon-
sible to a certain extent for good order and
the good aonduct of business as are the
members of the Government or those who
sit on this side of the House, and I • think
we ought not to turn this House—I am not
reading a lecture to-night—we ought not to
turn this House, for any long period at
least, into a show of the kind which was so
much applauded about 15 or 20.minutes ago.
The item under discussion has been before
the House previous to this. Is it a new
*issue or an old issue ? Hon. gentlemen op-
posite say that there has not been a fair
principle observed in this post -office appro-
priation ; that the town is small, so it is ;
that the revenue is- small, no --one doubts
that ; that it is possible that on a financial
basis there is very little return for it, I ad-
mit that. I am not going to say that these
arguments are not true. Again there comes
up another argument that a year or two ago
a resolution was adopted unanimously by the
House, and that that resolution said what ?
Not what a great many gentlemen opposite
say that it said, but it said simply : That
where post offices or public buildings were
being erected and appropriations made for
them regard should be had to the revenue
and population of the place, But it did not
say that sole regard should be had for that.
I quite agree with the proposition, but let
me point to the fact tbat hon. gentlemen
look, and look in vain, for a single appro-
priation for a new public building in the
items which are before the House.' They
cannot find one new item. Every one of
the appropriations whioh are here are made
in pursuance of votes that have been taken
already in the House, and for works that
have been begun so far as to be brought be-
fore this House and to receive the vote of
the House. There is not a single new ap-
propriation for a new building in the esti-
mates now before Perliament. This present
estimate started two years ago, when a vote
was given for it. It was thoroughly dis-
cussed last year in the House, and after a
thorough discussion in which the same argu-
ments were gone over as have been gone
over to -night, the House passed the vote and
the contract is let, and the building is partly
constructed, and yet in the face of facts of
that kind, we are kept here for hours dis-
cussing this matter. If this were a new
poet office building, and under similar cir-
cumstances an appropriation was asked for
it, hon. gentlemen would be perfectly right
—they are in their right, of course, now—
but they would he perfectly right from my
point of view in causing all the discussion
about it that they thought proper. This,
however, is an issue which has been discuss•
ed before and which has been settled, and
the Government is pledged—I think no
person would care to break it at this time
—to carry it out, and it will be carried out,
and we propose to carry the vote. But here
we are kept through all hours of the night
and through all hours this morning upon an
item or two, discussing matters which have
been thoroughly discussed before. I simply
recall this state of things to the House and
ask whether there has not been a reasonable
discussion already upon an issue which has
really been settled before, and whether it
is not beat that we should proceed to busi-
ness and pass this item. When new appro-
priations are brought before this House for
new public works, let them be discussed as
to the principle upon which they are based
and upon which the appropriation is asked.
I do think it would be better for us all if
instead of every time that an item is brought
up, it should be discussed fairly and fully
rather than that hon. gentlemen should go
into a series of election and stump charges
and speeches. It would be better I say
that we should devote ourselves more
especially to the item in hand, and be
reasonable in our methods of discussion.
MR. LAURIER.—The hon. geotleman, as
well as his colleague, is quite at liberty to
talk or not to talk upon this or any other
matter. That is a subject on which I have
no opinion to offer, and he is the best judge
as to whether he should speak or not speak.
Upon the present occasion, however, I must
tell him very candidly that if he did not
speak I interpreted his silence as simply
meanibg that he had no argument to offer
at all in answer to the charges which were
made from this side of the House. The
hon. gentleman says that this it a case
which has been settled a year ago ; no, this
case has not been settled, and that is the
reason why it is discussed with so much in-
tensity on this side of the House. It is
very true that last year these items were
voted, but I deny that because a vote was
carried last year the question was settled.
It is because bon. gentlemen -on that side of
the House will not say that they will not
cease to do as they have been doing, that
they will not cease to violate a principle
which they adopted on the ffoor of this
House two years ago ; it is because they
will not say that they will adhere to that
doctrine, as laid down id the resolution I
referred to, that we are forced to discuss
this matter again and again. There are no
new items, I admit, on the present occasion,
but this is asking an appropriation to con-
tinue the vicious policy enacted last year.
Why are we debating it ? It is simply be-
cause we cannot obtain the recognition of
that principle which has been adopted by
Parliament unless we impress it on the
House and the country by repeated discus-
sion. Let the hon. gentleman stand up and
say that these appropriations will be hence-
forth made in the spirit of the resolution
which was adopted two years ago, and then
the discussion will cease at once.
MR. FOSTER.—Is the discussion going on
until I do that ?
Mr. LAURIER.—I am afraid it will go on
for some time unlese we impress the country
that we are in the right and the Govern-
ment are in the wrong.
Mr. FOSTER.—You are a long time impress-
ing the country.
MR. LAGRIER.—That may be, but after
all there may be some time or other when
the measure will overflow, and it cannot
overflow until we show by repeated discus-
sion the wrong there has been done. Has
any argument been offered by the members
of the Government either this year or last
to support this vote ; what justification has
ever been made on the fleor of this House
to show on what principle a post office
should be erected in a place which has a
population of 1,200 and a gross revenue of
$432 a year ? If the hon. gentleman can
stand up and give any argument to justify
asking Parliament to vote such an appro-
priation, I say the discussion will cease at
once. But no argument- has been offered,
and the appropriation -has been voted by
Parliament for no other reason than that
the Government have a large majority over
the Opposition in this House. Sic volo sic
jubeo, stet pro ratione voluntas e that is the
only reason that has been given torParlia-
meat, and under such circumstances, so
long as the Government will not adhere to
the resolution votad two years ago in fa-
vor of having such appropriations made
under a certain rule, they must be pre-
pared to have such discussions as are now
going on.
SIR RICHARD CARTwRIGHT. —I may add
this. The hon. gentleman appears to allege
that because the vote for this building was
made two years ago,therefore th e G o vern men t
were bound to go on with it ; and the
hon. Minister of Public Works took the
same position. Yet, a few hours ago we
had under consideration the case of Lunen -
berg post office, for which a vote was taken
in 1887, and for five years, because that
constituency was represented by a gentle-
man in opposition to the Government, they
allowed the vote to lapse and took no steps
whatever to give effect to it. Now, it is
due simply to such gross abuses of their
power as this that these several items have
been discussed as pertinaciously as they
have been lest night and to -night. It
is because the Government are not bringing
forward arguments tol justify these
votes. If the Government, either in the
shape of the Minister of Public Works, the
Minister of Justice or the Minister of Fin-
anoe, will give US now any reasonable argu-
ment why the village of Le,prairie,with 1,200
population, a village whioh has not increas-
ed one single soul in twenty years, bat
which is rather smaller to -day than it was
twenty years ago, should have a public
building, and why $16,000 of the public
money ehould be wasted and squandered in
this way, then there would be no disposi-
tion whatever to dispute this vote. But it
is simply as a protest against this most im-
proper and unjust expenditure, deliberately
made, net for the public good, lent for party
purposes -of a most improper sort, not be-
cause there is any just ground for erecting a
post office building in Laprairie, but because
it is necessary to bribe tha electors of that
town, that we insist on calling public atten-
tion to the matter.
A Roland for an Oliver.
A few days ago, in its report of the dis-
cussions in Parliament, the Toronto- Empire
made the following statement :
" During a rather stormy period of the all-
night session Sir Richard Cartwright had
been using some very abusive language,
Which led to the following reply from Mr.
Foster : "Now, as to the reptile fund. My
hon. friend is very fond of bringing up the
reptile fund. Some of these days he will
get enough of that reptile fund in this
House, and if no one else does it; I propose
to take tbe matter in hand myself. I say to
him, and I would say to his leader if he were
here, that gentlemen are sitting on these
benches to -day, and the number that you
have is made up of men who are in their
seats and, voting on that side because they
were bought into their places with stolen
money. The great Reform party, that para-
gon of virtue that stands up here night after
night thanking Heaven they are not as other
men ; the great Reform party have not got
the commien honesty to pay back into the
depleted funds of Quebec the sums of money
which they acknowledge to have been stolen
from the public funds." The prolonged
cheers from the Government benches which
greeted this outburst were like so many
stabs at the Opposition ; they sat there like
whipped curs, not one venturing to raise his
voice. '
This is a very nice little yarn, and it is
almost a pity to spoildt. Those who depend
upon the Empire for their political informa-
tion would' naturally come to the conclusion
that Mr. Foster is a perfect terror, who can
make the Grits cower and shiver by the
sound of his voice, asdthe above extract is a
fair sample of the Empire's daily utterances.
It is fortunate, however, that there is an
official report of the discussions in Parlia-
ment so that the misrepresentations of the
Empire and others of its ilk can be met and
exposed. By referring to the report of this
discussion in Hansard, we find that instead
of the Opposition sitting " like whipped
cura " under Mr. Foster's strictures and
" not one venturing to raise his voice," Mr.
Foster got fully more than he gave. Mr.
Casey, of West Elgin, replied to Mr. Foster,
and the following extract, taken from the
Hansard report, will show (Jur readers how
little confidence is to be placed in the state-
ments of the Empire. Mr. Casey said :
" In regard to the speech of the Minister
of Finance, no course of conduct could be
more cowardly, could be more indecent,
could be more in contravention of ordinary
parliamentary Inlet, than for a member to
get up and make bold assertions across the
floor of the House that members on this side
were eleeted by means of stolen money,
when he dare not make his statement on his
responsibility as a member and demand an
enquiry into the facts. When we have
charges to make against that side of the
House, we make them on our responsibili-
ties as members. We demand an enquiry
before proper tribunals, and they vote them
down. They will have no enquiry .at all un-
less they draw the indictments themselves
and appoint their own judges. It is very
easy for the Finance Minister, knowing that
he has a majority at his back, knowing that
he is sheltered from all euquiry, to make ac-
cusations which he knows to be unfounded
against members on this side of the House.
He dare not make those accusations in the
way in which they havebeen made from this
side. He adopts the cowardly plan of get-
ting behind a stone wall- or a stone fence,
and throws mud across the floor:
I challenge tbe Finance Minister,'
who did so much mud -throwing tenight, to
have an enquiry into the policy of the Gov-
ernment on these matters, to have a detailed
examination into all these items, and I chal-
lenge him tceprove his offensive and indec-
ent insinuations, for they are such unless
they are backed up with the motion which
should follow. Let us have a full and free
enquiry as to the standing of members on
both sides. and see who sit here as represend
tatives of stolen money, whether himself
and hie colleagues or members on this side
of the Let the honorable gentleman
show himself to be a man or a mouse, and
let him back up his assertions in the consti-
tutional manner.
THE Toronto Globe is just now publishing
a very interesting continued story, an instal-
ment of which has appeered in each daily
issue for the past two weeks. The story is
profusely illustrated. Unfortunately for the
creditof the country, however, it cannot be
olassed among the works of fiction. It is
not only founded on fact, but conveys a very
true picture of political life in the sister
Province of Quebec. The story delineates
the manner in which the elections in that
Province were conducted in 1887 and the
illustrations are fac similes of the written
orders and receipts of Sir Adolphe Caron,
Sir Hector Langevin and other prominent
politicians of the Province on the treasurer
of the boodle fund, Mr. Thomas McGreevy.
A peculiarity of these orders is, that in
nearly every case, the orders asked for
money for " legal expenses," but another
peculiarity is, that the amount shown to
have been expended in each constituency is
ten times the amount certified to by the elec-
tion agent as having been expended for
legal expenses, thus showing that the use of
the term " legal expenses " was simply a
blind. An -other peculiarity is the fact that,
while Sir Hector Langevin swore before the
Privileges and Elections Committee last
session that he had not received one cent of
aid , from the election fund -for use in his
own constituency, the vouchers show that
he received several thousand dollars, enough
to make about $600 for every vote recorded
in his favor, thus making it appear very like
as if the old man had ccimmitted perjury to
save his former colleagues from exposure.
Where all this money came from has not yet
been clearly shown, but that will likely
come yet, The general supposition is that
dt bas been filtered from the public treasury,
subsidized railways and Government con-
tractors being the instrutnents used in the
perpetratien of the robbery. If all the
other constituencies in Quebec) fared the
same as those that have already been
brought before the public, the Conservative
party must have expended over a million
and a half of dollen in that Phovince almie
during that election. What it cost to
carry the whole Dominion may be judged
from that.
North Perth.
North Perth has done the right thing by
Mr. Grieve. It elected him ou Thursday of
-last week by an increased majority. Mr.
Grieve, it will be remembered, was unseated
'on an appeal to the Supreme Court. The
Government threw their wholeforce against
him in this election, but it was all to no
avail, the electors stood by hint most nobly,
and it is to be hoped that he will be allowed
to retain peaceable possession of his seat for
the remainder of this parliamentary term.
The following is a statement of the votes
cast :
Sorimgeeur. Grieve.
906 911
416 387
61 59
273
362
463
387
Stratford
Mornington
Milverton
Listowel 228
Logan 343
Elms 458
Ellice 342
2754, 2842
2754
Majority for Grieve 88
A CONsERvATIvE, writing to the Mail in
condemnation of the policy of the Dominion
Government, granting large BUM of money
for the erection of Post Office and other
buildings where no such. buildings are "re-
quired, and the expenditure is not justified
by the tevenue returned by these offices,
says :
It is no surprise that no Government mem-
ber feels equal to the task of supporting
the appropriation by argument. It would
be absurd to attempt it. If the Govern-
ment does not mend its ways, but continues
to perpetrate such preposterous jobs as this,
they need not be surprised if they are de-
feated at the next general election, even If
many persons hitherto Conservative, have to
swallow the bitter pill of supporting Sir
Richard Cartwright in order to attain that
end.
If a greater number of Conservatives
would talk straight to their Parliamentary
representatives in this way, we would soon
have more honest expenditure by our Do-
minion authorities.
ENGLAND'S " Grand Old Mae," in a recent
address, made . the following statement :
He said : " They speak sometimes of the
greed of competition, but the greed of com-
petition is not to be compared avith the greed
of the monopolist. The greedy competitor
at least thares his gains with the public ;
but the greed of the monopolist is the greed
of the robber." There never ,was a truer
utterance, as the people of the United States
have found out and, the people of Canada
are just commencing to learp. The best
thing to stop the operations of this robber is
competition, and good, healthy competition
can only be had under free trade.
oseeesesaimemeseti
THAT mammoth combinatiom the Harris -
Massey Implement" Manufacturing Company,
is gradually spreading out,and is swallowing
up everything in the shape of competition
that falls in its way. It has even invaded
our own county, its latest meuthful being
the Verity Plow Works, of Exeter. Mr. L.
M. Jones, the mandager of the poncern, was
in Brantford the other day, and while there
was interviewed by it representative of the
Expositor of that city. In reference to the
Verity Works he was asked :
" What about the Verity Plow Works ?
Has Brantford any chance of getting
them ?"
To which he, replied :
" As to that I cannot say positively. We
have acquired a large interest in them but
the concern will maintain an independent
organization. The -matter is deserving the
attention of your council."
A LADY subacriber sends the Stratford
Beacon the following paragraph from a New
South Wales journal, an opinion of those
who have tried Free Trade :
" The Free Trade party has, according to
Mr. McMillan, saved the people of New
South Wales at least £3,000,000 during the
past four years."
When a small colony like New South
Wales can save fifteen million dollars in four
years by the adoption of Free Trade, what
could not Canada save by the same policy ?
This Is a point which the people should
ponder. If the farmers of Canada wish to
help themselves they should vote only for
those representatives in Parliament who will
pledge themselves to support Free Trade,
no matter by which party it is brought for-
ward. If, however, they prefer filling the
pockets of the monopolists at their oath ex-
pense, then they should continue on as a
majority have been doing for several years,
voting for candidates who support the N.P.
THE Woodstock Sentinel -Review says :
" By the way, the Sentinel -Review has just
now a number of prospective libel suits lying
around loose somewhere. It is rather
pleasant to reflect that under its present
management in seventeen years it has had
to defend only one suit, and that about as
frivolous and groundless as those it has re-
cently been threatened with." This is a
•very good record, but THE EXPOSITOR can
beat it. This paper has been under its
present management nearly twenty-two
years and it has not yet had to defend alibel
suit. It has had a good many threatened
but a straightforward course and a stiff
upper lip set them at rest.
HER Majesty, the Queen, has signalized
her seventy-third birthday by conferring
titles upon several prominent men, both in
this country and at home. Among those -
upon whom the title of knighthood has been
conferred, we notice the namea of Hon. Mr.
Abbott, Premier of the Dominion, and Hon.
Oliver Mowat, Premier of Ontario, so that,
hereafter, Ontario's '''Grand Old Man "
will be known as " Sir Oliver." We under-
stand, also, that Mr. Mowat, on the advice
of his colleagues, has decided to accept the
honor. The ecceptieg or ,declining of it is,
of course, largely a matter of taste. We
are sure of this, however, that it would
have been. vestly mtore in acoordance with
the feelings of a great majority of the Lib-
erals of Ontario had Mr. Mowat seen his
way clear to respectfully decline the preffer-
ed honor. It cannot possibly add anything to
the esteem and confidence in which he is
held by the people of Ontario, and, after all,
in view of the promiscuous distributien of
such titles in this country and the way in
which they have been tarnished by' the
beeners of them, it is, indeed, a doebtful
honor to have the " Sir " handle te an
otherwise honorable and untarnished "tame.
On the whole, Mr. Mowat would have raised
himself in the estimation of those whose
good opinion is worth anything, had hp fol-
lowed the example of Hon. George Brown
and Hon. Alexander Mackenzie, and de-
clined the empty title.
l
pIR Alexander Campbell, Lieuteeant-
Governor of Ontario, died at Government
House, Toronto, on Tuesday last. He has
been ill for over three months ; parelysis
beteg the meet. He was an Englishman by
birth, and was 71 years of age. He has
been connected with Canadian politics for a
great many years, and although a person of
lite special ability, he succeeded in keeping
well to the front. He had nearly completed
hie Aim of five years. It is reported that
Mi. George A. Kirkpatrick, of Kingston,
will probably be the next incumbent a the
Gcivernment HOUSe.
WE are glad to notice that so influential a
journal as the Montreal Witness is a strong
advocate of compulsory voting: It says :
A law making voting compulsory would be a
boon and a joy to honest statesmen and
those opposed to political corruption. It
would be a nuisance to a large class of , peo-
ple who have " no time for politics " unless
they have an axe to grind. To induce such
people to vote the Government has become
a egular axe -grinding institution which is
ee dy to grind for any man who is willing to
vote or contribute to a fund which the Min-
iseers distribute among the constituencies to
bribe the voters. If everybody coeld be
compelled to take the trouble to go to the
polls, there would be very few who would
have any conscientious scruples against cast-
ing a vote for one or other of the candidates,
but for the sake of the consciences of the
few a provieion allowing the casting I of a
blank ballot shOuld be a part of a compul-
sory Voting act. ,
R. ERASTUS WIMAN, who is chiefly
known in Canada as the able advocate of
Cemmercial reciprocity between this country
and the United States, has a good head And he
uses hie ability as well as his wealth for the
geod of his fellows. One of hislatest schemes
in this direction is the furnishing of
hOrnes on Staten Island near New York, to
persons of moderate means on paymeets of
$18 per month, through the aid of the build-
inie association and life insurance plan. He
says: The weak point which the building -loan
aseoeiation movement seemed to posseis was
thnt, in the event of the death of the eume-
eatner, the inability of the widow and chil-
dren to keep up the instalments and interest
dee on the mortgage held by the assoctation
imperiled the loss of the home. My plan is,
through the Travelers' Life Insurance Com-
peny, to insure the life of the wage -garner
foe the unpaid instalments he paying a
sniall monthly premium into t'he assoctation
with his instalments, which prem-
ium gradually diminishes as these
instalmente extenguish the debt. Ifi the
father lives, he pays for —the
home. If, alas ! he dies, the widow and
children have the home because the insur-
ance company pays immediately the onpaid
instalments and thus liquidates the mort-
gage. So, whether living or dying the
family are in possession of the home I
T)1E DOMINION PARLIAMENT
(By Our Special Correspondent.)
OrrAwA, May 23rd, 1892.
The Government still delay in bringing
down their important measures, and the
business of the session is not,therefore,being
advanced at all rapidly. The Minieterial
press talk of the Opposition obstructing busi-
ness, but if the Government desire to make
headway why do they not go on with the
Rp-distribution Bill, and one or two other
important measures still hanging fire ? They
centent themselves with simply asking the
Opposition to vote funds to them, and if
this, always a slow work, is made still slow-
ee by the tactics of the Government they
will deceive nobody by trying to threw the
blame on the Opposition. For instance, an
all-night sitting on Thursday nighe was
ceused by the attempt of the Government
to, obtain votes for the erection of post -
offices and other public buildings in email,
obscure villages where their erection is not
at all justifiable. In one instance they pro-
posed a vote of $16,000 for a post -Office at
Laprairie, the annual revenue from which
only amounts to $433. Even the Govern-
ment's own supperters could find nothing in
this to defend, but, on the contrary, one of
their friends in the front benches, Colonel
O'Brien, said that he agreed entirely with
the Opposition in condemning this expendi-
ture. Let the public judge then if the Op-
pOsition were pot justified, in fact if it was
not their duty? to use every effort within
their power to draw the attention ef the
ccuntry to such iniquitous jobbery, in the
hepe that public opinion would compel the
Government to desist in bribing the constitu-
ensceiemseinefththise
re oa ennneesr i n this all-night'e sit-
ting, which lasted for 18 hours, were very
spicy. Mr. Mulock insinuated thet the
Government supporters were machines and
the Minister of Militia retorted by calling
t e Opposition,a. pack of dogs. One honor -
a , le gentlemao told the other that he had
wind on his stomach. Between three and
four o'clock Me. Devlin took the floor, but
the uproar from the Ministerial b9I1C4S was
S9 great that he was compelled to appeal to
the Chair for 0 hearing. Colonel Denison,
ap Equal Righter, was in the Chair at the
time, and as Mr. Devlin was speaking in
E'rench, the Cheirman could not understand
him so Mr. Devlin changed his sepeech into
English, but again the cat -calls, desk slam-
ming, and all the various interruptions with
which the Helm is so familiar, from the
Ministerial benphes, were renewed.' At four
o'clock in the morning Sir Richard Cart-
svright asked the Minister of Finance to
postpone further discussion on the Farnham
post -office until' concurrence. But the Fi-
nance Minister refused, and Sir Richard
Gooly replied, ", Very well, then, we will go
on with the discussion," an announcement
which the Tories greeted with an indescrib-
able confusion cif whistling, yells, and shouts
of all kinds. The discussion went on, being,
enlivened by occaeional songs from the Min-
isterial membere It was rather awkward
for Liberal members who were criticising
public expenditure in the public interests to
be interrupted y the popular melodies from
the other aide o the House, but theY; took
it' in good part and, afterismilingly awaiting
uetil the song ceased, resumed their Elpeech
-tct
where it had been broken off. The climax
of farce was reached shortly after six o'clock
when Mr. Haggett walhed into the Chamber
and was greeted by "Nearer My God To
rhee," from his supporters. Dr. Landerkin
rose near seven o'clock and was greeted with
" For he's a Jolly Good Fellow." As soon
as silence was restored the doctor expressed
regret at -the absence of the Minister of Jus-
tice for he did not like to talk to " junior
members of the Cabinet." Those members
who had gone away early the previous night
now began to turn up, and joined in the
fray. Mr. Laurier and Sir John Thompson
arrived back into the House between eight
and nine o'clock, and, after consultation, an
agreement was come to that the discussion
on the Farnham post -office should be con-
tinued upon other items, and the Farnham
item was. passed and the House adjourned
at ten o'clock in the morning,
The Royal Commission to investigate" the
charges preferred in the House by the Minim -
ter of Militia against the Postmaster -General
is to be composed of Judges Routhier and
Tait. Judge Routhier is a friend of Sir
Adolphe Caron, and Judge Tait was, when
raised to the Benoh, a partner of Premier
Abbott's. The approval of the House to
this Commission has to be asked and it will
probably give rise to a discussion. It is said
that Mr. Fitzpatrick, who defended Mr.
Thomae;MoGreevy last session, will act as
opunsel for Sir Adolphe Caron in this
Matter.
, The Civil Service Commission has made
ies report. The Commissioners are of opi-
nion that the service is overcrowded beyond
anything which the Government requires or
v!' Lich the country can stand. , They make a
number of recommendations, none of them
of a revolutionary character. They propose
tie increase the maximum salaries of Deputy
Ministers and to decrease the maximum sal-
aries of first-class clerks. They propose a
permanent Civil Service Commission which
will supervise the various public services
and discharge a number of important duties.
They call attention brethe system of erect-
.
publid buildings in, small places where
they are not needed, and recommend that
an& buildings be erected only where the
revenue justifies it. This entirely vindicates
the position taken by the Opposition in the
House. They approve of the superannua-
tion system. It is yeti' uolikely that this
elaborate report, coveting several thousand
pages, is worth tbe paper it is printed on,
"(lit is very unlikely that anything will
ever come of it.
There was a division in the House of Com-
mons on a Divorce Bill passed by the Senate,
granting a decree to Remington Meade, a
physician who resided in the Northwest
Territories. The peculiar feature of this
case is the fact that Dr. Meade married his
wife twice, once secretly and two and a half
years after publicly. The justice of the bill
was cballenged, as it was asserted that the
ground for the divorce was not established
by the evidence, but the House passed it by
02 to 3-1. All the French and Catholic.
members of the House always vote against
Divorce bills and the leader of the House,
Sir John Thompson, found himself, for once,
in the minority.
A rather rare instance of the remorse of a
Judge was given in a case brought up by
Mr. Armstrong, who demanded of the Min-
ister of ustice to know why one Edward
Wilson, & convict, had been released from
the Kingston Penitentiary. This man was
sentenced in the county of Essex, Ontario,
to 20 years, for setting fire to a farmer's
buildings. This was commuted to seven
years, and with good conduct the convict's
sentence only lasted five years, Immediate-
ly on his release he returned to Essex and
again burned down the same farmer's build-
ings, the farmer and his family only escap-
ing with their lives. Sir John Thompson
explained that the matter had been taken
up upon the receipt of a letter from Sir
Adam Wilson, the Chief Justice who had
,tried the convict, and who wrote that he re-
gretted the heavy sentence that he had im-
posed upon him. This led to the Minister
of Justice recommending a commutation of
ehe sentence after full enquiry.
Fully half the time of the House last week
was taken up in considering the Criminal
Code, a measure chiefly of interest only to
lawyers. One section, however, provides
for the imprisonment of anyone who pub-
lishes false news affecting either private or
public interests, and this Mr. Davies de-
nounced as an outrageous clause which
should be struck out. It was allowed to
stand, however, for further consideration,
but may be dropped,
A motion by Mr. Charlton for a Prohibi-
tion Plebiscite was, after discussion, with-
drawn on the advipe of Mr. Laurier, who
believed that until the Royal Commission on
Prohibition had reported, the House should
take no further action on this subject.
Two new membets were introduced last
week, Mr. W. F. Maclean, Conservative
member for East York, and Mr. Lowell, Lib-
eral member for Welland. Mr. Laurier will
have the pleasure this week of introducing
another supporter in the person of Mr.
Grieves re-elected for North Perth by an
increase'd majority.
A sensation in Military circles has been
created by the arrest of Captain Bliss, of the
Ottawa Field Battery, on orders from head-
quarters, charged with returning -false pay-
Iists to the Department of Militia, the occa-
"ion being the turn out of the _Battery at the
Iiipening of Parliament. Captain Bliss is a
Civil Servant, and the son-in-law of the
Minister of Inland Revenue.
, Mr. Robert Watson, the able young mem-
ber for Marquette Manitoba, is about to en-
ter the Greenway 'Cabinet and must conse-
quently resign his seat in the House. Sena-
tor Bolton, who was appointed as a Conser-
vative to the Senate by Sir John Macdonald,
tells me that he will resign hie seat and stand
S8 an Independent. He will advocate out
and out free trade.
The annual meeting of the Royal SoCi.ety
of Canada will be held here on the 30th inst.
Papers will be read by prominent scientists
and literateurs throughout the Dominion,
but the programme appears to be about as
prosy as usual.
There will be a new election in L'Assomp-
tion on June 7th, to fill the vacancy created
by the unseating of Mr. Gauthier, the Liber-
al member.
Divorce petitions are already coming in
for next session, Saturday's Gazette contain-
ing the notice of the first application. This
time it is the woman who is the applicant.
Mr. C. E. Clark haa been appointed Su-
perintendent of Stationery in the House of
Commons.
Dr. Sproule, the member for East Grey,
proposes to abolish Hansard, and has given
notice of a resolution to that effect. It will
share the fate of similar resolutions in the
past.
News of the Week.
LITES LOST.—It is said that 1,200 lives
were lost by the great storm on the island of
Mauritius.
THE EXTREME PENALTY.—The execution
of Deeming, the Australian wife murderer,
took place last Monday morning at ten
o'clock.
A QUEER STEAL.—Elenry Varrell, a runa-
way from Barnum'a eircus, is under arrest
at Chicago for stealing a cage of lions.
KILLED THEIR KIN(:.—The natives of the
Marshall Islands, in the Pacific ocean, have
risen against their kin* and killed him, and
a state of anarchy now prevails in the
groep.
SIX HUNDRED YEARs OLD.—In excavat-
ing some ancient Aztec ruins in the direction
of Chaco canon, NeW Mexico, Gov. Prince
has unearthed twenty Stone idols of different
type from any before discovered. They are
believed to te at least 600 years old,
A FOLDING BED INVENTION.—Charles W.
Pratt, of Muskegon, Michigan, has been
offered $25,000 for the patent on his inven-
tion of an improved felding bed, but he re-
MAY 27, 1892.
fused the offer and will build a factory at
his home.
A LIFE 8ENTENCE.—Perry, the train roe
ber, was sentenced to 49 years and 3 months'
imprisonment in Auburn State prison.
THE EPWORTH LEAGUE. —At the recent
Methodist Epistler,' conference held at
Omaha, a report was presented which stated -
that the Epworth League had at present
4,000 local lee_gues with 400,000 members.
A JOCEEV KILLED.—An English jock?
named Hall, attached to the Rothschil
stable, fell from his horse during a race and
was trampled to death.
DISASTROUS Coimmenee—Lon. Owens, en-
:gineer, was killed and a property lois of
$40,000 was caused by a collision on the
" Chicago, Milwankee and St. Paul railroad
on Friday at Preston, Iowa.
ton, expect to leave Florida fin. their home
in Clinton this week.
ter plow works, home amalgamated with the
fourth son of Mr. G. Diehl, formerly of
Massey -Harris Company, of Toronto.
Williams' property in Clinton. This is one
of the finest in that town, and the price paid
was $900 cash.
there last week from- inflammation of the
To—rerist Blair/
Manitoba, and formerly of Lueknow, died
lun—gOn Saturday, May 7th, Fred Diehl,
Clinton, died iat his father's residence in
—Mr. John Scruton has purchased Do
—Mr. A. HH. urMaonnninNg oatnedsv.eife, of Clini
—W. FL Verity -de Company, of the Exe.
—Mr. Robert Copeland, of Pilot Mound,
who lately retired from the .
public school staff of teachers in Goderich,
was presented with a neatly worded ad.
dress and a handsome present, by her fel-
lMowe—lvteWinahePhileeenrsinilanygitnogn, son of Mr. Wm. Pen -
ball, the other evening,
nington, of Goderich, fell on a piece of glass
inflicting a deep gash in his leg,
—Mr. B. S. Cook has sold the-Pyke farm,
just east of Gorrie, to Mr. John Clegg, of
Fordwich . Possession is to be given in the
fall. The farm comprises 47e acres and
brought $2,600.
—Mr. George -Glasgow, of Clinton, has
disposed of his gents furnishing stock, in
that town, to Messrs. Plumsteel and Gib -
binge, and expecte soon to leave, in the
pursuit of business and fortune, for Dakota.
—Wm. Heaman a former resident of
Exeter, and second" son of the late Wm.
Ileaman, of Stephen township, died at lfie
residence in London on Friday, leth inst.
Consumption was the cause of death. He
leaves a wife and two little sons.
—On Friday, the 13th inst., &boat six
o'clock, the fire alarm waa sounded in Zan.
ich, and it was discovered that the roof of
the engine house was on fire. It was put
out, however, before much damage wss
done.
—While riding on a wagon at Mr. Inglis',
on the 17th concession of Howick, on Mon—
day last week, Mr. Richard Graham had
the misfortune to fall off the vehicle in such
a manner as to seriously injure hie back, so
that he may be laid up for some time.
—At nine o'clock on Monday morning of
last week, death claimed a victim in the per-
son of Mrs. Cyrus Horton, of Lakelet, who
had been ill since the evening previous. Be-
sides her husband she leaves two little chil-
dren, the youngest only a few hours old.
—About as fine a bunch of cattle as ever
left the neighborhood of Clinton were those
delivered by Mr. D. A. Forrester, on Wed-
nesday, last week, to Mr. S. Smith. There
were twenty-four head, and they averaged
1,445 pounds, which is a pretty good
average.
—On Sunday afternoon last Daniel Mc-
Kay, jr., and Wm. Costie, of Goderich,
were out driving, and while making a sharp
curve near the cannon the buggy upset,
throwing them out. The horse then bolted.
The rig was badly damaged, but the youths
got off with a few bruiees and a bad scare.
—Mrs. Francis Clegg, of the 15th conces-
sion of Howick, passed away -somewhat sud-
denly on Saturday the 14thInst. Deceased
had been in excellent health up to almost
the time of her death. She leaves a family
of several small children, one of whom was
but a few hours old,
—On Wednesday, la,st week, while two
children belonging to Mr. Andrew Diehl, of
Zurich, where playing in the yard, the
youngest one accidentally struck the eldest
boy, about six years of age, in the eye,
which beemed cause great pain, so by ex-
amining closely the doctor declared the eye
useless, and likely to be lost altogether.
David Mahood met with a serious
accident while working in Dick's mill, Ford-
wich, Tuesday morning of last week. He
was removing a board from the circular saw
when by some means his left hand came in
contact with the teeth and in a
twinkling the thumb and two of hie
fingers were taken off and a third finger bad-
ly —t°Ornn. Saturday morning, 14th inst., Mrs.
Aaron Martin, of the 4th concession of
Howick, passed to her long home. For
some time deceased had been a sufferer from
cancer, and had undergone one or two oper-
ations, with the hope of effecting a cure but
all medical skill was in vain. Deceased' was
forty-five years of ege, and waa a most high--
ly respected resident of the 'neighborhood.
—On Sunday, Jane 5th, Rev. Mr. Mc-
Lean, of Blyth, will preach- anniversary
services both morning and evening in St.
Andrew's Church, Bayfield, and on Mon-
day, June 6th, there will be a tea -meeting
in the Town Hall, at which a good enter-
tainment and plenty of eatables will be pro-
vid—edde A.
londay of last week, Mr. Samuel
Nay, of Lakelet, met With a serious accident
which will lay him up for some time to
come. He was assisting to place the bind-
ing -pole on a, load of hay when it broke,
precipitating him to the floor, The
fall was a heavy one and he sustained
serious bruises besides having both his arms
broken at the wrists.
—The Toronto World publishes the de-
tails of a scheme for handling Ontario flour
that was worked by a Nova Scotian, who
expected that both the millers and himself
would make a good thing out of it. He suc-
ceeded in getting about $1,000 commission
and then lit out. According to the World,
Kelly's mill, Blyth, and the Zurich mill
were among those that Were taken in.
—An accident happened to a young son of
Mr. Thomas Noble, of Hullett, one day last
week, whereby he bad a miraculous escape
frorn instant death. Hie father was picking
stones, using a team and wagon, the child
was playing about the wagon when the
horses moved, catching him under the wheel
and almost crushing the life out of him,
—On Monday morning,- last week, while
William, son of Mr. David Riehard, of
Exeter, was engaged putting the harness on
a horse belonging to Mr. John Hunter, of
Usborne, the animal bit off a portion of one
of his ears and dropped it on the floor.
The horse was never considered cross, and
the reason assigned for this occurrence is
unknown. The injured part has been
properly cared, for by medical skill.
—The Wingham Advance, of last week,
tells of the following transaction made by a
cattle dealer of that vicinity : " A Morris
cattle buyer, living not far from Wingham,
purchased six steers from a farmer residing
in Turnberry township, the bovines being
brought into town on Saturday to be weigh-
ed, the bargain being that they were to
stand six hours to allow of shrinkage. The
buyer not wishing to wait so long, or think-
ing to get the start of the farmer, offered to
have them weighed immediately if he would
throw off 25 pounds per head ; this was out
of the question with the fanner, who in
turn said he would take $300 for the lot and
give the buyers back $L The purcbaser
wouldn't do it, The buyer brought other
schemes to bear upon the seller, but they
MAY 27,
were of no avail,
twimase m_visadst,u pbutthew
viz : to throw oil
and the cattle we
time several perss
beard of the case
jithoawt itthewbouuerldert,lirt4
$300 offer had los1
laughed at him.
three pounds phh
were standiugi
—The anniverei
with the Prenby
were held on Sabi
withstanding the
congregatione eesi
evening to listen
discourses by le
who -conducted t
evening the wren
elisnteinsgelheocotiu.reNvo
—Mr. John HI
a spelling match LI
purchased three V
The school was
CMaarrt ey r Tt 000wi: sseenedo
captains. Mary
third. Mr. Barn
school at midsumi
school.
—On Sunday,
sTiaeynloerf dined° watiekb.m
with a tumor eih
of troubles thet
demise was not
was -a resident ()
long time and
friendships which
ethause yedeaerswpiasdeldpil
sympathy for th
community.
—On Saturday
the township of C
from the grist mil
passing down the
his spirited. horse
took fright, and
ran off the street
T. Smiley's prope
the fence, lee.ving
dononethseavoetaheirewsids
horses and the h
few places,
—On Wednesdi
R. W. Kneel:Me
Ripley, and form
Bella, eldest thug
of the 8th concese
in the bonds of sm
the bride)! parent
Chesley, assisted
Walton. The lor
ary McGavin,
ladies being neati.
ww remwr eh:1:r ea. :rat lots
Mr. Wm. Moorm
btornid,eLs been app
burg Railroad No
which include the
Atlantic, the Sou
Opaguslyer wbuitrhg,:tacind
-Street, Boston.
an upward tendee
prising that be B
Cfalecytefr" Itiless it: ()fill
selves part and pi
which country isi
sible just what t
cream of ourporei
mainder.
The Religi
The Della -tale
Dominion has
religions of the
the figures for ti
Perth as dividei
districts
Population,
Brussels, and
town, Turnberry
townshipe.
Baptists
ROM= Catholio
Church of Engla
Methodists —
Presbytetians
All others
Population, 2(
and Clinton tow
West Wawatto
Goderich.
Baptists _
Roman Catholic
Church of Enea
Methodists —
Presbyterians
All others
Population, 11
town, Bayfield
Knipp, Stanley;
Baptists.. . — .
Roman Catholle
Church of Engh
Methodista
Presbyterians
All others t
Stratford cite
village, Morni
Ellice township
Baptists
Roman Catholl
Church of Eng
Methodists
Presbyterians
All others —
Population,
and Mitthell
Fullerton, Rib
Baptiste
Roman Cathol
Church of Ensl
Methodists
Presbyterians.
All others .,..
sal
Lessons
'READ SEFORE
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natural objeci
Teaeher with
enforce spirit
thus teaching
rest attettiom
the multitude
heesion of spt
ly listlees and
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hearts of the
the truth
force. In the
have Christ u
lesson. Ther
learn from tivi
dicate a few o
lesson is, tb
clothes the e
fills them witl
toil on their e
hag to prov
children, witi
part. Secooe
flowers the
perishable na
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in all ereatior