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Lucknow Sentinel, 1891-09-18, Page 7TOMINION PARLIAMENT Mr. Tisdale moved that the committee !pointed to inquire into the charges against Cochrane be granted leave to sit during the time House is us seesion. The motion was carried. Mr. Foster, replying to Mr. Rider, said there is a commercial treaty between Eng - lard and Fiance. It does not appear to be • applicable to British colonies. It would seem .that the higher tariff •applies to imports into France from Canada, and in addition there is, I understand, e surtaxe crentrepot on any merehau.dise imported into France vut Britiols port% Mr. Foster,. answering Mr. McMullen P •goad that John Campbell and Richard Thomas, clerki3 in the Montreal- CU -steins eervice, had defaulted. Campbell's shortage seas $3,500, Dad hat -of:. Thomas had no yet been report* upon. Campbell having secured the money for the Government and having made no effort to cover up the fraud in the books, dismissal was 'considered suf- finient punishment. Thomas died before the shortage was discovered ,--.#se,,F -F-Tstersetenlysings tetsainelsesesdnekin„, said thatsmce-1.883 the sum of ,96 555 had been paid to John Heney, wood contractor for the Government, as refunds of tolls paid on the Rideau canal. . Mr. Fester, replying to Mr g Brod.eur _ said that the Government had purchaved land from Senator Guevremont, at the in- , stance of the Montreal Harbour Commis- oioners, at $66 an acre, making for the 64 acres $1,224. The Government were not aware that the land had been bought by Mr. Guevremont _feet*. Mr. Foster, answering Mr. Davies, said that the contract for the basin at Perth, on the Tay canal, was $44437. The total cost . of the work was $53 4, of which $6,985 was for deepening the st side. The House went into Committee of .,f3upply. Mr. Mills (Bothwell); upon the item of $25,000 for a subsidy to a line of steamers to run between Liverpool or London,or both, and St. John, N. B., and Halifax, questioned the justice of making a grant of money to a particular line of steamers, to the detriment of other lines. This subsidy wouldnot stimu- late the trade between Canada and Great Britain, but kill off all competing lines. It was also an injustice the people of Canada to pay out, their Money for the benefit of a private enterprise. Mr. Foster said that last year a contract was made with Messrs: Pickford & Black, representing the Furness Steamship Line, which would not expire until 1894. It would not do to break the contract now. This service dated back for many years, and last year it was agreed by the steamship owners to give much izn s . esti. service. Mr. Laurier said that , r. Foster should have asked for an Act of Parliament cern finning the contract for four years. When an appropriation was asked for yearly. •Par- liament had the right to grant or refuse that appropriation. The'contractors at the time of entering into the contract knew that only one year's appropriation had been voted. Parliament was under no moral obligation to vote the money asked for. --- Mr. Davies asked that an item of $12,500 for' the steamer Admiral between Qtmpbell- ton and Gaspe be allowed to stand until the report of .the Privileges and Elections Committee upon the Tarte charges ie, pre- sented. , Mr. Foster said that the result of the deliberations could in no way affect the necessity of the service or the adaptability of the Admiral for that service. Mr. Laurier pointed out that if it were found by the committee, as had been stated, that that vessel was only worth $16,000, a subsidy of $12,500 would be too much. He asked that the consideration of the item be deferred. , • The item was allowed to stand. Mr. Haggart laid on the table a correc- tion of the census returns for the District of Alberta, which showed the population to be, 26,123 instead of 20,056. Mr. Haggart, explaining the item of 2 000 000 for carrying mails'which shows an increase of $244,000 over last year, said that the amount paid the Grand Trunk last year was $329,952, and that this had been increased by $8:265 for additional service • in Wellington, Grey and "Bruce'Georgian Bay and Lake Erie. The amonnt paidthe Canadian Pacific Railway last year was $372,825 ; for next year the subsidy would • be $483,500. The increase was made up of $74,936 increased rate between •Montreal and Vancouver, $28,950increased rate be- tween Montreal and St. John, $25,670 for • the New Brunswick Railway, which was • not included in the Canadian Pacific Railway grant last year, $2,000 for Prince Albert service, $1,081 for Winnipeg and Glenboro branch, $300 for the Missouri branch, and $160 for the Great Northern Railway. The increase between • Montreal and Vancouver brought up the • subsidy to $105 a mile. Previously it had • been $75 per mile. The Grand Trunk was paid. at the rate of $160 per mile for 884 mil24-for-369-mileerwith$25,000-addeds for increased accommodation between Mont- real and Toronto, and $5,725 for Carrying American mails. He rad a letter from Mr. Van Horne dated 27thVanuary,1891, which • pressed for an increase to $150 per mile. For several years the company had been pressing for increased "payment. He re- -ported to the council in favor of $105 per, annum, believing it was fair and just, and it was granted. Sir Richard Cartwright, on the vote for the Indians of New BruneWick, palled attention to the fact that $1,015 was paid last year to missionaries, and asked an explanation of it. It occurred to him that missionaries •might bes. better employed • nearer home. • Mr. Dewdney said that was a bonus to clergymen who had been doing special work among the Indians. Sir Richard Cartwright—Of what denom- ination are these missionaries? Mr. Desvdney—Thoy, aq all Roman Ca thol ics. Sir Richard Cartwright— his is a do nparture with which the House should have been acquninted. This should have been going to pay these men, I do not hnOW' where you are going to draw the line. This is * question of considerable import? mice, and I wonld like to hese further information as to how long these gentlemen have been paid, and what relations they occupy towards the Indians. Mr. Girouaad presented the report of the Privileges and. Elections Committee, embodyiug and endorsing the following re- port of a sub -committee upon the resigna- tion of Thomas M•eGreevy, the con -testa - tion of his goat, ,and the issue by the Speaker of his warrant fon a new election in Quebec Weet • The voting Sergeant -at -Arras, upon the orders of the day, being called, arose and alga s I have the honor tp report that wit: nese Senecal left Ottawa on or after the 24th ult., and tsheughs.L have made _careful inquiry I have been unable to ascertain his present whereabouts. In consequence of bis absence the order for him to attend at the bar of the House this afternoon was left with the members of his family at his Ottawa residence. Mr. Lister moved, " That Andre Senecal, not having attended this day at the bar of thi S HOUSe pursuant to the order of this anearesestedinesteroikees7thwatigeteMItOWIY taken into custody by the Sergeant -a Arms attendiug this House, and that M Speaker do issue his warrant accordingly. The motion was carried. • Mr. Bo -well moved •the House into cern mittee on his resolution providing for th • cancellation of $1,500,000 worth of mor gage bonds of the -North Shore Railwa Company new held by the Government. The, House went into committee • The resolutions were adopted. • Mr. Barron, on -the motion by Mr: Foste that the House go into Supply, drew atten tion to the Trent Valley canal. Mr. Welsh protested against spendin any more money on railways and cane until the questiongf,the construction of th tunnel between PrIdee Edward Island an the main land is settled. Mr. Girouard, upon moving the adoptio of the report of the Committee on Privilege and Elections upon the tendered resignatio of Thomas McGreevy, said that the law no made no provision for requiring the clerk o the court where an- election was being con testested to report that fact to the Speake of the House. Sir John Thompson said that it was no necessary for the House to deal with thi- question during the present session. He did d not think the provision should be retains preventing a member from resigning his sea under the circumstance. Mr. 'Bowell's resolution for the .cancella tion of the North Shore bonds was read a third time.. Sir John Thompson introduced a bill foundedon the resolution, which was read a first time. Sir Richard Cartwright, upon the motion to go into Committee of Supply, said that no one who looked at the census returns could regard them with anything bueregret. According to the official statistics which had been prepared, the Government wee misin- formed as to the true population by as much as 520,000 souls, showing, he repeated, either gross ignorance or wilful misrepre. _scntatio.n. Not content. with publishing theanstatements, they denounced and vili- fied every person who drew attention to the true facts, and which facts were jut as ac- cessible to the Government as to others, and their subsidized organs had pursued a' shril- ler course. It -was an old -principle of-Engs • lish law that when a, woman lost her chas- tity she was unfit to give evi- dence. The subsidized. press was a political strumpet, and was no more • worthy of credence. There were 104 of these false prophets, which were fed with the crumbs that fell from the Government's table. During the last 'few years the con- duct of the Government in devoting several • millions of dollars to the 'subsidized press had prevented many facts relating to Can- ada from being made known to the • people, and be proposed to turn on the search light. In the older province during the past twelve years there had been no appre- ciable increase in the wealth of the ' people. Of the total increase of .504,000, at least 377,000, if not !store, was due to increase in the towns and cities, and the direct result, of this census confirmed in the strongest possible degree the statement that he had so . often made—that the result of the • Government's policy of excessive taxation was to favor a few large cities and individual towns at the expense of the en- tire remainder of the. community. It was the flower of our population that we were driving to the United. States, not the resi- due. Could Canada have kept her young men at home, the Government would have been swept out of existence. He would not say that the Conservative party conspired to drive the young men into exile, but he would say that some of their leaders viewed with complacency the exodus of young men, knowing that they would have better chances of retainining power with the resi- due. Mr. Foster said that 'the only end Sir Richard Cartwright had in yiew was to further the interests Of his ownarty, and • • e-these-of—his—opponent. ad never been any deliberate falsification of 're., turns of the population by the Government, as charged by Sir Richard Cartwright. It was a disappointment to Canada that the rate of increase in the population had not been as great during the past ten years as could have been desired, but this was a disappointment that was being ex- perienced by the United States, England and other countries. Sir Richard (hut- wright should have been honest enough to state that there were conditions, wider than the administration and deeper than the fiscal policy, which should be canvassed. Mr: McMullen pointed out that the annual expenses of the Toronto Custom House were $66,000, while at Montreal the annual cost was$166,000. He asked what the revenues at these pets amounted to. Sir Richard Cartwright, upon the item for paying -Indian missionaries in New Brunswick, said that if missionaries were paid in this province, he could not see how the Government could refuse to pay other clerical gentlemen in other parts of the Dominion who might be rendering similar ervices to the Indian bands, It would be found impossible to confine the payments to ne province. Mr s Dewdney—They are paid in the same way in the Province of Quebec and have sen for some years. Mr. Fraser said it was ine part,"bf the unctions of the Government to pay clergy- men of any denomination. It was no part f the Government's duty to enter the r. e' t - y r ie e d. n n w f r st I 8 brought down as a special 'vote. • Out of f $6,000 spent among the Indians • of New o Brunswick $1,000 has been appropriated for the payinent of, salaries of a number of •clergymen. That' *as not 'contemplated by b the House when the money was voted. Clergymen in various parts of the Dominion f have devoted a great deal of time to the •spisitual welfare of the Indians. If we are o religious field. It ins wronk prinei, ple. The Government was laying up trouble for itself, _and .the (pinker it nut of this execrescence, •this relie of bygone days of Church and State, the better for the country. The House adjourned at 11.25 p. m. Temperance Topics. A distinguished Englishman, returning to hie own country after a cereal study. of •Ainerican inititutions, on being asked what he had seen that was most unlike England, answered " The winelpse dinner table of •the great middle oleos." Every saloon in North Dakota is clooed, the. meat of the Supreme Court declaims that liquor in original packages cannot be sold in that State. Kansas, with 100,000 more people than Texas, has only one penitentarY with 906 prisoners, under proh-ibition. Texas, with less population and a liquor traffic, has two penitentiaries with 3,000 conviets. There are mow five Free Churches in Glasgow which refuse admission to mem- bership to anyone engaged in the liquor traffic. .030,000im nals in ma t-hssresceeseserersherse,,?s-e;1 prisons, 14,000 were arrested for crimes committed' under the influence of intoxicat- ing drinks. And yet it is continually assertedthat beer and wine do not degrade the Germans ! Coffee-houses have been established in England by business men on business prin- ciples. Sixty-five such restaurants are successfully operated along the docks in Liverpocil. More than 30,000 men visit these houses daily, to thejustified detriment of the ever -open saloon. Thereceiptsamount to $150,000 a year, paying 10 per cent. dividend to the stockholders. The members of the Congregational In- ternational Council, recently convened in London, were tendered a breakfast at Exeter all, the morning following the ad- journment of the meeting. There were strong words spoken for total abstinence, As was most fitting, since the hosts of the occasion were the members of the' Congre- gational Total Abstinence Society, the Sec- retary of which said that out of 2,700 min- isters, 1,650 are total abstainers --about sixty per cent. When this society was famed, only thirty per Cent. were ab- stainers. These figures were encouraging, but much more encouraging was the state- ment, applauded by the English brethren, that American Congregational ministers were abstainers, almost to a unit. cut in Texas. Mr. Gustav Nauwald, Jr., Tivydale: Fredericksburg P. 0., Tex., U. S. A. writes, 4‘1 waseut by a scythe and knife in my hands and feat; I suffered three week. .A half bottle of St. Jacobs Oilscured me." The Russian czarina. People usually sympathize with the Czarina of Russia; considering her a frail little woman, always dreading the explosion of a bomb ; but, contrary to public opinion, Her Majesty is the bright star of Russian society, -the leader of fashion and the helper of the peer ;_anttsn,noted saying that Dagmar is the happiest wife in St. Petersburg, as the Czar, unlike his subjects, is a most devoted husband. If any cue needs sympathy it is the Princess of Wales, and not her sister, the Czarina. Although the Princess is supposed- .to past! aene existence, yet her life is very unhappy, constantly fearing the developments of hew scandal with .either her son or husband as the hero. A Ten Dollar Gold Piece for a Cent. Some timengo, a gentleman bet that if he stood at the corner of Broadway and Four- teenth streets, New York, and offered gold Eagles to the passers-by for a cent each, he would find no purchaeers. The experiment was tried, and it turned out just as he said. No one would believe that the coins were genuine. It seemed too good to be true. An equally remarkable offer is that made by the proprietors of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medi- cal Discovery, the sovereign care for Con- sumption. Think of it ! restoration to life and health for a mere song. There is not a case of Lung-scrofula—in other words Con- sumption—that will not yield to it, if it is taken in time. It is the greatest blood - purifier ever known, and is guaranteed to benefit or cure in all diseases of the throat and lungs, or money refunded. Only extra- ordinary curative properties could warrant or sustain its makers in selling it thus, on trial. He Was a Diplomat. A salesman should know his goods and - his customers ; and if, beyond . that, he has some general knowledge of hufnan nature, he will ofteis find it useful. . " I am very sorry," said a clerk in a dry • goods store, but, I , have nothing exactly like the saint*. The very last remnant was sold yesterday.", • " But I must have it," said tomer. " Otherwise how shall I wife ?" " Well„ now," answered the salesman, -4 if I Venture to •suggest, why don't you invite a friend home to dinner with you ?" the cue - face my erman FUI3" Here is sornething from Mr. Frank A..H-ale, proprietor of the De Witt House, Lewiston, and the Tontine Hotel, Brunswick, Me. Hotel men • meet the world as it comes and goes, and are not slow in sizing people and things up for what they are worth.. Ee ..says that he.has.lost_a.. father and several brothers and sis- tfrc from Pulmonary Consumption, and is himself frequently troubled With colds, and he Hereditary often coughs enough • to make him sick at Con su mptiOnhjsstothach. When- 1?,'Jf,..p.e'TX1I'S'Alt-i&a.ra.4•VilrertAar9 cold of this kind he uses Boschee's German Syrup, and it cures him every time. Here is. a man who knows the, full. danger of lung trou- bles, and would -therefore. be most particular as to the medicine he used. -What is his opinion? Listen! " use nothing -but Boschee's German Syrup, and have advised, I presume, more than a hundred different per sonsto take it. They agree with ithem methat airtkeist2,the best cough syrup 0 eluno.soiLosuss ut Juvenile Precaion. Anxious Mother—What in the world did you do during the terrible thunderstorm? Little Dick—I got under a tree. Mother—Horrors ! Don't you- know a tree is a most dangerous place in a thunder- storm ? Little Dick—Oh, I jumped out every time it thundered. • Sure Signs. • He—Do you think they have been married long ? She—No—on their honeymoon, I guess. She is- trying to appeareConomical and he is trying equally hard to appear generous. Field for His Talents. St. Peter—Who are you ? Applicant—An humble Texas rain maker. St. Peter—Um ! You'd better apply one story below. They've been complaining of drouth there ever since the country was settled.—New York Herald. The,Old Han Would Have His Joke. Two boys, who owned a cattle farm out West Christened it "focus," at their Sire's request; The old man•thonght it quite a good conceit. For there the sun's rays meet—(the sons raise meat:)• The lads prospered, and they and their families enjoyed the very best of health. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets were always found in their medicine -chest --the only positive cure for bilious and sick eirsIteadaehe crtipetion, indigestion, and, all 'disorders of the bowels and stomach. Strictly vegetable, small, sugar-coated ; only one required for a dose, and- their action is gentle and thorough. The best Liver Pill on earth. A New Thing in Torture. " I think I'll give up that dentist of mine." • ' " What's the trouble? Doeshe do poor work ?" " No, his work is excellent; but when he does any filling, and has stuffed my mouth with tissue paper, he begins talking on the, tariff question. The man's a fool." ateful Day. • New York Press: Mr. Benedict—What's today the anniversary of? The Johnstown flood, Garfield's assassination, the firing of Fort Sumter, or— Mrs. B. —Why, it's the anniversary of our Mr. B.—H'm 1 I knew it was something like that. While engaged in reforming the styles of woman's dress the Chautauqua world - improvers utterly forgot a very important point. Beauty ie all well enough, but the invention of a device whereby a woman's pocket multi be found without the aid of a search light and a sheriff's posse would have been of much more praeticalsvalue. —Poet (in newspaper office) -.-Have you an efficient staff. Editor—Perhaps not; but I have a very effective club. There is less tile about the Derby than there is about the silk hat, but the latter is more fashionable. A Philosopher's Opinion. • Voltaire said to a beautiful young lady with whom he was dieing," Your rivals are the perfection of art ; you are the perfection of nature." This could not have been said if the young lady was sufferieg from disease, and pain had loft its signs on the features. Women who want to keep beautiful, and be the "perfection of nature," should use "Favorite Prescription" to assist Nature when needed, to correct irregularities, aid circulation and digestion, and thereby clear up the skin, rendering it soft and beautiful. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription ,the only medicine for woman's peceliiir ills, sold through druggists, and guaranteed to give satisfaction in every case, or money refunded. rete',. Wish. One clay, after having gone on an errand and forgotten whittle was sent for, he ex- claimed bitterly to his sister : ' • "Oh, dear 1 I wish I was a snake 1" " You wish you wore a snake ?" said his sister, horrified. " Yes, and a great long one—as much as six feet long." " Why, what for, Pete ?" " So I could tio nots in myself to make me rer :ember things !" Even if we could see ourselves as others see us, most of us wouldn't stop to look. Nuw-Y-ark has one clean street, and city is so surprised it scarcely knows whether it is tuberculosis or Bright's disease 1 110111111TAllf MIEDMINIgn Some People Who Should May Away From Mph Lands. The London Lancet has a timely editorial dealing with the benefits derived from visits to the nammtaine, and possible injuries thst • may result to those unfitted for such atmos- phere : "The very aged should rarely, if -ever, be sent to high latitudes, inasmuch as they are apt to be unduly depreesed by cokl, and are for the moot part unable to practice those habite of activity without which the 1111311.11,- tain je -either useless- fine positively hurtfuL Those with weak •dicarte er weakens blood vessels constitute another unsuitable class. Rheumeaiseeeesntretan _ Oirely not adapted for a cold and bracing climate. Cases of profound nervousexhaus- tions, acute insomnia and utterly. damaged digestion are generally unsuitable for the mounta•nns," The Height of Impropriety. 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