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AE 4 bd HOUSE OF ASSRMBLY.
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\ATI ASYiiU}
i iouse In Committee of the Vhol Mr.
prii 1}, ISéo. Rowe in the chair—agreed toa bill relating
to the Lunatic Asvylum— with certain
he ae rmendments. The bill provides that $80,+
. , sb OOO shall be expended on the erection of
Asylum the money, if the Govern-
, one | Was not, | ment deem expedient, to be r.ised by de-
that cirenlated agro I 2s, bearing not more than 6 perc
} erest, and vable at the end of twenty
: 2 cues ‘ It slso provides that the Medical
t] EXAMINER id S123 }per annum, and receive board
, 240 os lodging free. rive lrusteos of the
veil Asyium are to receive t Agzregate sum
rt t t that the 250 per year to be dividelin propor-
t to the number of visits miade by each
° ausgibas te< Supposing that the institution
iis mind be visited once a week by one trustee,
mnt 1 with the idea! each visit will cost about $3.75. When|
7“ " ee the Sneaker had resumed the Chair, Mr.
i rr Welsh moved that the bill be referred back |
to committee for the purpose of striking |
ssi . lout the clause relating to the issuing of |
ted out that— ' motion as follows
| #or-L. H. Davies, B. Davies, Callbeck,
ai peen P| Rowe, Beer Welsh, Conroy, McLean, Me-
\ f wire has been | {SV ""™ st
. st has beea | Neill, Pope, Jenkins. t
ine. I isLasit was { ‘Owen, Haviland, Breeken, 1 ed,
weeks of the | Richards. Arsenault, A. J. MeDonald, Sul- }
way raed llivan. J. A. MeDonald, Holland, J. E
? ted ' road was | MeDonald, MeEachen, Mclsaac, Kelly ‘
“oe OUTHPORT FERRY.
never wont farther Shas TH?! ion. A. J. MeDouald eubeaitted a ses0- |
mt e 4th of May, lution setting forth that it is expedient to |
I i the I words, |introduee a bill relating to Hillsborough |
same ae Ferry. The bill, it was explained, will
oinenasinicnars. | provide for the running of two boats, to be |
di owned and controlled by the Government |
| —the fares to vary as might be found most |
\ 1 ginded that the represen- expedient.
(the Pr ; Suenced the Dom- Mr. Beer agreed that it would be well to
a aahyioeananiee: | have > res vary; but he should like
; i eee ave the fare vary : ut — |
on Government to apport “ir. OWI) 4, now if the fares ,Wwould be lowered. |
r Mr. Swinyord’s instructions— | The bill must provide for a reduction of |
Yofned in his |e thes of the 6th August | res before the people would be satisfied.
eee Ree : sails The travelling public should not be requir- |
that the eredit of awakening | oq to pay for more than the working ex
McKenzie Administration from its | penses ofthe ferry.
settee Males | fon. Mr Owen said the Government |
Pees ce ONT Fanirey, Sere” | would endeavor to meet the wishes of the |
he Exa Mr, Swinyard says : people. He feared, however, that they
The Gove: nt ofthe Dominion, being | could not come quite down to the scale of
ae } ~” | yates submitted by the deputation which
crous that undu delay should take | had waited upon the Administration.
in of the P. E. Island Mr. Beer said that if the running of two
- =. 01 | boats would cause the fares to be kept up; |
; outbad aba wen oO" persuaded that the people would
sland fF orangizing the | yather have only one for some time.
a wements to receive} Mr. Welsh thought the people of Belfast,
no ter ths D Murray Harbor. ete., had a good right to
. e assed the 20} cheap ferry accommodation at low rates,
nG nt to take measures for | whether the ferry is self-sustaining or not.
rat ailway staff. and He wanted two boats and the tares reduced
the railway sta, and) i. two cents per head. Further discuss
the line for public traffic | sion ensued. The resolution passed, and |
3 as contract was completed ; Hon. A. J. McDonald submitted a bill in}
ee a ‘ : accordance therewith.
t—precisely this—the Do- | enna
G veut, after some delay, | Tvespay, April 15,
measures were, however, OUR FINANCES AND PUBLIC WORKS.
fF was not organized ; House in Committee of Supply—J. E. |
in McDonald in the chair. On motion to
e Were not procured. i grant allowances of Auditors of Public
rhe inf the EXAMINER on the | Accounts ($325),
Si alsa sh laid untfietinisabe Mr. Stewart said he questioned whether
aan area coup: iin eagnie **? | the auditors were worth the money. In
u vence of the local! the public Accounts he had discovered an
} Swinvard. The en-| error of $507. The balance in favor of the.
diy : | Province was S307 more than it should be.
rent aud the con-| m4 guditors had been grossly careless.
Vrofessional and | The system under which the Finances of
were roused ‘the country are managed, is disgraceful,
. . «No one appears to be‘responsibie. A
casts. 4 | Gregory maintained Financial Secretary. who would be respons
tions to the interfer-/| sible to the Legisiature and the people, |
i ae Th, should be appointed,
6 ate rt) re raised. The | Mr. L. H. Davies said that the way in}
ea the section of railway be- which the public monies were accounted |
n Charlottetown and Summerside had | for, was simply monstreus. The auditors |

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|log rolling between the members of the | turned, addressed the following letter to

| retary might, he thought, be combined.

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‘ience; for he was at one time Chairman

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| But with respect tothe union of the office

jing Street. Ife would suggest that the
| Offices of Financial Secretary and Provins

€ > the section road in question |
’ a an for transfer in ample time
’ to make the necessary prepar-
oing the d fort con the Ist
Hud fon J.C. Pope
i r Island affairs, instead of the
ble and well-meaning centleman who
ennied the high position, «nd had Mr.
Swinyard not been unduly influenced by
the bitter opponents of tle railway policy,
the efforts of the Examiner would not,
re beli have been oaly partially suee
cessful -an arrancemcnt would have
been entered into under which the people |
the Provinee would hove enjoyed the
lvantages of railway comm inication as
, most ssog¢uine among them
/ ing eo same a t ition Mr.
Havi made a statement which, at the
inder the circumstances, was |
1 to throw ciscredit upon the |
: I He repudiated the assertion
the EXAMINER wis, at any time, an
f the present Government. We|
have, indeed, more than onee given pub-
of our independence. When,
i Mr. Stewart had depicted to the
Legislature, in apt and forcible language,
the small, filthy, underground, prison like
cells ef the Lunatic Asylum, and des- |
ibed the horrible treatment which the
- eompelled to endure, the
Hi ble Senator Provincial-Secretary
s place and declared that no re-
rm would be instituted, beeause the con- |
tro lr ment of that jpstitution
was in the hands of trustees—and the |
Government, with startling inhumanity,
greed to le by the declaration—we
. sted ist that policy with all the |
abilite ws iid command. Had our|
ay on the oceasion been adopted, the
evclonm which made the Island no-
tarious ti hout the world, which
brought upon our Government the cen-
eure of all good men, which called forth a
it! rebuke from Lord Carnarvon,
mania ver “have been made. Again,
wl t rable Senator-Provincial
Sy laring inconsistency, |
ubmitted a Bill by which dual represen-
tion trould have been made illegal, and
} clared that he would
; ld ‘atin the Loeal Legis:
lature wetil his term of service had ex-
pir compelled to enter a protest
neainst bi . Dual representation,
the & incialeSeeretary declared,
s enicul interfere with the inde-
pen Varliament. Dual represcn-
tation. the | r Provineial-Secretary
. no man on the Island knows better
ysistent with a eardinal principle
oft onstituti ler which we live—_
is incowsistent with that perfeet indepen- |
denee and that entire freedom (within their
nhere) from the influence of the General
(Government,which is guaranteed the Con- |

federated Provinces by the British North
America Act, and which it is specially de-

th'e should be maintained in its in
tegrity in this the smallest and weakest
Province of the Dominion. We may,
we feel sure, be excused if we have not
all times been strictly | val to a Goy-

at
ernment, a leading member of which is 2
man who holds the extraordinary, the
«anomalous, the invidious position of the |
Hon. Seoator-Provincial Secretary ; who,
moreover, holds that position in defiance
write advisedly—of the wishes of a

lara majority of the people of this Js-
land,

But if we have differed from the Gov-

ernment on its weak and foolish policy |

respecting the Lunatic Asyiuin and Dual
eon one of the

Representation, we have |
warmest supporters of its

neral poliey,,'

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and, above all, of its railway policy; and
we did feel somewhat surprised when the |
Hon. ‘ir. Haviland, spesking for the!

Governinent, not only publicly repudiat-
ed us, but did so in such «a manner that

mmer is proved | the session ended,

874, he wrote :— | been terribly bungled.

| him 2 great
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| improvement until a Financial Secretary is
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| appointed.
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been at the | respectable men to go into the accounts |
: jand audit them properly for the smail pit~ |
| tance afforded by the Legislature.

| been asked.

| Sir Robert
| plated that he should
| As, Governor, he is really paid by the peos

| duty it would be to lay out and superintend
| the Public Works, to see that they were

{ ed into by the

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| convenience sare

llon. Mr. Owen laid a report, signed hy
by Professor Anderson upon tha table.

Hon A. J, MeDonald, from the Com
mittee on Private reported a bill to
incorporate the minister trustees of
‘ion Chureh Charlottetown.

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accompanied by Mr, Ridout, and makes
some objections to the road, Now I may
aay, toat in my Opinion, Mr. Boyd is an

) engineer Ot mueh betior standing than Mr.

Ridout. Im Nova Seotia and New Bruns-
wick Mr. Boyd achieved 9 reputation, not
o be in comparison with (he man sent down

vill not pay under the high tariff to be im-
posed, nor if the offices sre filled with in-
capable men, At present it seems to be
arefuge for the destitute - those who are

too lazy to work and to proud to beg. he
this is continued it will not pay work»

ingexpenses. ‘The Dominion ‘ overnment

anes inanimate tmnt

“He contended that for this state of things

tstone abutments and centre pier.

THE RAILWAY. here to criticise his work, But this apart, | is pledged to run the road on oy ect tr
In the evening, Hon. Jd. C. Pope rose (0 | g gross insult was offered Mr. Boyd. Tha = of the country. r wah. wucert*
move an address to His Excellency the | pominion Government, it is true, had pow- | that seeond class cars be done aw ay le
t : Hl ’ 1 . . re . ¥ , vat; " >
Governor General, representing that the | ey to dismiss him ; but, so long as he held Every one know ‘, that nen? peopie i sf
7? aw * 4s q 4 i ie ae p aw 2 ay y} €
people of Prince Edward Island have | the position of Chief Enyineer of the Road, | country are not able to pay 5 cents per mue,

grossly wronged by the Governs
ment of the Dominion neglecting to open
the railroad for public traffic in vielation
of the public faith of the Dominion, and

praying that ilis Excellency, as Represen-

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tative of the Sovereign, may be pleased to
use his influence, in order that the comp ret
tered into between the Dominion and

this Island, upon which the Island entered
the Dominion, miy, without delay, be ful.
and the railroad opened for public

lied,
trafiic.

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briefly reviewing the address, he
said that when the Island negotiated terms
of Confederation, the people of Prince Ed-
ward Island felt satistied that every acco~
modation would be aflorded by the railway,
which would have been afforded, had the
Province remained out of the Union. On
this condition they consented to surrender
their independence and become a part of
the Dominion of Canada, As the contract’
for constructing the railway had been enter-
Government of the Province,
it was considered expedient—merely for
that the Local Govern,
that it was finished ac-
The railway, he
is built at the

ment should see
cording to specif

would remind the House, w

on 4}
iCAvlon,

cost of the people of this Provinee. !t was
built with their money; it was theirs, On
the arrival of Mr. Swinyard in May last,
he had no letter of introduction to the

Lientenant Governor ;
authority whatever

Government. Hae,

he presented no
from the Dominion
however, addressed
himself to the Leader of the Leeal Admins
istration as follows

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Cusrcorrerown, P. E, 1., }

May 26, 1874.

have the honor to inform you

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that in pursuance Gf instructions from the

Minister of Public Works of the Dominion
of Canada | have arrived here for the pur-
pose of placing myself in communication
with you in order to ascertain the inten
tions of your Government with respect to
the opening of the Prince Edward Island

Railway, a portion ef which it has been re. |

ported to the Dominion Government is

completed and ready to be taken possess |

sion of.

I have also received instructions to make
myself generally acquainted, for the infors
mation of the Dominion Government, with
the present condition of the entire railway
and its appurtenances.

on you,
I have, &c.,
THo, SwWINyarp.
The Honorable
Lemuel C. Owen,
President Executive Council.
Now these are the instructions he says
he received. The first question which arises
is, who reported to the Dominion Govern-
ment that the road was ready ?
should have been taken until the Local
Government had forwarded an intimation
to the Dominion Government that the work
was done. It would then have’ been time
enough to send down and take possession

ofthe road. However, after some corres-

pondence with the Leader of the Governs |

do their work. He hoped the Govs!
ernment would introduce a reform before |
Hon. ‘ir Owen said the mistake com-
plained of had been made last year~not
Last year the accounts had |
They had given

deal of annoyance
Mr. Welsh thought there would be no

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Mr. Pope thought it impossible to get

Sut
there should undoubtedly, bea Financial
Secretary. Such an Officer, if competent
would save his salary three times over.
He thought the Government should go to |
werk right away, atid provide for the ap- |
poiptment of a Financial Secretary before |
the session ends. He referred to the grant
of £650 to the Lieutenant Governor. The
amount, he thought, should never have
When the Act was passed
which provided tor a retiring allowance to
Hodgson, it was not contems
ever be Governor.

ple of the Island; for it was made up from
the general revenues of the country —to-
wards which the people of the Island paid
their share, He thought it beneath the
dignity of a Governor to come down on the |
Legislature and ask for such a petty sum; |
and he hoped the good sense of His Honor |
would show him that it would be more |
graceful not to accept the allowance. With |
regard to the Board of Works he was of |
opinion that it should be abolished, and |
that a Commissioner or Minister of Public |
Works should take its place. The charge |

} ofthe Public Works of the Province was | . .
| too great to be placed in the hands of any | Allan Correspondence to Huntington. On
| Board.

There might ®e a good deal of |

Foard and their friends; and, besides, the
Opposition had no chance to obtain infor. |
mation respecting the Department. A |
Commissioner should be appointed whose |

dene well, and lay before the Legislature
every year, a detailed statement of the
works in progress; and a clear exhibit of
the accounts in connection therewith. Le
thought this a matter which both sides of }
the House should consider well, A wrong |
system prevails, and it should be reformed.
The office of Financial and Provincial Sec-

lion. Mr. Haviland said there was a says
ing that,*an old smuggler makes the best
exciseman.”” le presumed that the
hon. member from Summerside knew
about the log rolling and the short-
comings of the Board of Works from expers

of the Board. for himself, he thought it
would be more economical, and contribute
more to the efficiency of the service of the
‘ublic Works were placed under the con-
trol of s minister. ut he was surprised
Pope had not thought of the
reform With regard to the aps
pointment of a Financial Secretary, he (Mr.
liaviland} was for years in favor of it,

bef re.

vith that of the Provincial Secretary, he
vas notso well satisfied. The duties of the
Provincial Secretary, are, he .said, much
more onerous than before Confederation.
There is three times as much correspond-
ence with-Ottawa as there was with Downs

cial Treasurer be combined. The work of
the latter official is much less now than be-
fore the union.

Mr. Pope said he had made no reflection
against the present Board of Works. His
remarks were directed against the system.
ile was not aware that the duties of the
Provincial Seeretary had increased since
Confederation, He was glad to have some
explanation for the raise of the Provincial :
Secretary's salary. He contended that the
office of Financial Secretary should be add-
ed to that of Provincial Secretary, and that
a clerk should be added to the office if
necessary.

Mr. L. il. Davies said he was pleased to
hear the members of both Independent
and the ‘\inisterial branches coming round
to the views of the Opposition. He trust-
ed the Government would make no further
delay. The present system is, evidently,
not conducive to the interests of the Col-
ony. Jet the Government prepare a Bill
now. Now isa favorable time. There are
not many important measures in hand,
The need for a Financial Secretary and a
Minister of Public Works is very pressing.

After some further discussion the resolu-

the p opie who thronzed the floors and
Jleries conld not but receive the im- |
pression that the Examiner had cir-|

enlated false and ridiculous report
Under the cireumstences we feel that we

are justified in pronouncing the act almost

as flagrant a breach of faith as their igno-

mivious desertion of the Hon. J. C. Pope
on Wednesday evening last.

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tion was agreed to.
MISCELLANEOUS.

House in Committee of the Whole—Mr. |
Rowe in the Chair—agreed t> the Bill re~ |
specting Wharves and Bridges.

Hon. Mr, Owen laid on the table reports |

concerning new roads and repairs of old

ads.
Mr. Conroy asked for # detailed account

of ~ state of Prince of Wales College ;
ane

ment, Mr. Swinyard felt justified in send-
ing the following telegram to Ottawa :—-
Ca'rown, P. E. Isiann,
June 8 1874.
(Telegram )

After careful examination and enquiry,
cal Government have concluded
Contractors are not yet in a position to
hand over to them any portion of the rail.

| way; that much work remains to be ac-

complished; that Contractors require con-
tinued use of line at unfixed hours and
cannot give up sullicient rolling stoc’ for
proper train service; that complete teles
graphic communication is necessary along

| railway, and that having the general wel-
in view, itis neither exs |

fare of the public
pedient nor safe to open the railway for
traflic before September.
is not uptili month of September, !
turn to Uttawa on Thursday.

Tuo. Swixyarp,

Hon. Alex. Mackenzie.

Minister Public Works,
Ottawa.

there all communication with Mr. Swin-
yard should have ended. It was quite com-~
petent in the Dominion Government, t
send an agent here to inspect the line ; but
the course which should have been pursus
ed by the Local Government was to have
bad no official correspondence with him.
He should have reported to the Dominion
Government, and the Dominion Govern-
ment should have communicated his objece |
tions, if any, to the Lieutenant Govern. |
nor in Council. If the Local Govenment
cid not see the contract, performed accords
ing to the requirements of the agent, then
the Dominion Government could interfere,
discharge Mr. Boyd, and finish the road |
themselves. When Mr: Swinyard came
here he was accompanied by a Mr. Waugh;
but who do you think the Dominion Goy-
ernment appointed as Secretary to Mr.
Swinyard ? No other than the notorious |
Norris—the man who had violated the trust
of his employer, Mr. Abbott, and sold the

the 6th August, Mr. Swinyard. having re-

the Leader of the Government : i
Charlottetown, P.E. Island,
August 6th, 1874.

Siz,—1 called at your office yesterday,
but had not the pleasure of finding you in.
The Government of the Dominion, being
anxious that no undue delay should take
place inthe opening of the P. E. Island
Railway, have directed me to revisit the Iss
land for the purpose of organizing the staff.
and making arrangements to receive over
the railway on their behalf, from the Local
Government. I shall, therefore, be much
obliged if you shall take the subject into
consideration, and notily me, at the earliest
possible moment, whea your Government
will be prepared to tender the railway, or
any portion of it, for the acceptance of the
Dominion Government, when I will imme-
diately proceed to make the final inspec-
tion of the line on its behalf.

In the meantime, perbaps you will kindly
request your engineer to place himself in
communication with me, in order, as far as
possible to facilitate matters

Ihave, &c.,
Tro, Swinyanp.

Hon. L. C. Owen,

President Executive Council,

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Mr. Owen replied -
Executive Council, P. E. Island.
August 7th, 1874.

Sin,—I have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your communication of yes-
terday’s date, and in reply to state, that
the Government of this Province are very
anxious that the railroad shall be opened
for traffic at as early a day as possible ; but
as the Contractors, for the building of the
road, do not intend handing over any part ,
of it until their contract is completed, the
Government cannot interfere with them in
any way, other than seeing that the road
is built in all parts in accordance with the
specification and arrangements made for its |
construction,

I have, &c.,
L. C. Owgy,
President Exeentive Council.
Thos, Swinyard, Esq.,
«&e., &e.

Now, Mr. Swinyard says he comes down for
the purpose of organizing a staff. His duty
was to get the telegraph posts put down.
To do this, he had from May to the kegin-
ning of the winter ; and yet only a few men
procured. Jlis duty was to provide work.
shops; but none were provided. Why was
he not employed in getting the railway
ready, instead of dancing attendance in a
smali political faction in Charlottetown.
When he came down here, in August, the
first thing he did, was to order Hotel accos
modation in the cars. I wonder if this was
calculated to forward the work of organiz-
ation? Atthis time a number of engine
drivers came down from Canada, to drive
the capable men, brought here by the con-
tractors, out of the country; but it was
found expedient to send them back again.
The bounds of official etiquette were then
overstepped by Mr. Swinyard, in the publi-
cation of the correspondence, going on be-
tween himself and the Local Government .
and then he returns to Ottawa — before
he had made the first step in the organiz-
ation of the road. By and bye he returns

that |

| dwellings, 34,500; R

it was their duty tobe erided by his adyi
The act of bringing M yr, Ridout hera to over-
see his work: was v.tually a declaration of
war, Deficiencies in the work were of course
found; and the loss figured up to a nicety. |
Clearing is »ut down af soo. Then there is
fencing, $3,000; grading at stations $2, 500;
ties or sleepers ballast, $15,009 ;
sidings, including iron, $65,000; station
tolling stock, 81,007
altogether 100,000, and odd dollars, Ie
had actually the presumption to find fault |
with the length of the railway. Was he |
sent down here for this purpose?) Was the |
road built at the expense of the govern -
ment, of which he pretended to be agent? |
Will not all amounts, outside of the con-~
tract, would have te be paid by the people |
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88,769 ,

of this sland? Now, more than half of the
$100,000 of alleged deficiency is absorbed by
the item of *“sidings.’’ In the original con.
tract it was specified that the “ sidings”
should notexceed ten per cent.of the length
of the road. Mr.%,Boyd certified that the |
per centage of sidings is greater than on any |

Other railroad in the \ieritime Provinces,

And yet we tind the Leader of the Oppo- |
sition in this Hlouse - the Liberal Leader—
doing all he ean to take out of the pockets |
of the people or t Island $15,000 for

alleged deficiency of * siding ;’ for he was |
Mr. Swinyard’s legal and political counsel.
What next do vy An arrangement |
was made to carry grain last fall for the |
accommodation of merchants; and we are
told by the Leader of the Opposition that |

for this arrangement we are indebted to the |

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ve tind

exertions of the hon. member for Strath-
albyn. Good heavens! have we come to
this? Has Mr. Stewart then more influence
than all the other merchants of the Isiand ? |
If so, I for one would like to live out of it.
Now, let us come to matter bearing more
immediately upon the question before the |
Ifouse. The road was taken pessession of |
by Mr. Swinyard on the oh or 29th
December ; and an attempt was made to ,
open it. What did the attempt amount |
to? Was there a workshop? Was there a

jtrackmaster”? Was there an organized |
j staff? Was there a telegraph? No,

No action |

I beg therefore humbly to request that | the. vanks Of 2 are Wenner ree fe

| you will be pleased to appoint an hour at |
| which I may have the honor of waiting up-

nothing of the kind. And why was there
no trackmaster? Mr. Swinyard could
have obtained the services of a competent
man; but because he had no power to say |
who should or should not be section men—
because the appointments were filled out of

the fitness of those who received them for
the work — that man would have nothing to |
do with the road. And there was ab- |
solutely no preparation made to open it.
In Alberton, the hon. President of the |
Legislative Council seted the part of station |
master; in Summerside the figure head-- |
Mr. Muirhead —did service ; and in Georges
town Mr. Munroe did duty atthe station.
But there weve no others. Great efforts
were, however, put forth on the Voenday
and Tuesday after the road was taken over;
but they failed of course, for there was no
organization, Nothing was ready ; and the
snowstorms were heavy, After Mr.
Swinyard had put forth all his exertions, I
wentto him «ud offered if he would give |

; mea snow plow and two engines, I would |

| was net, however, accepted.

| Mr. Boyd whether the Government had

| ing that the most exaggerated claims
| most assuredly be given by them?

| right had he to attack men just as good as
| himself?

| Summerside

/yet the late Government unjustifiably put

et it put in that location. | :
|§ a | gently, they returned, having cleared the

| booking, waiting and freight rooms.

| by Mr. Schreiber and his Engineer, Mr.

| the manner provided by the contract,

merside,’’
Then, about the loeation of the road, Mr.
Swinyard says :

is undoubtedly well laid out to serve the
general
course is generally central running midway
between the waters,
principal ports, which are Charlottetown,
Summerside,
Georgetown and Souris,”’

raise the blockade to Georgetown ; and get |
the grain stored at Mount Stewart to the |
ships. I told him] did this because Mr.
Rannie, the Contractors’ Superintendent,
had, in view of the strait to which the |
merchants were driven, volunteered to |
carry the oiler into execution. The offer
Instead of
trying to get to Georgetown, to benefit the
merchants, nearly all their efforts were
directed towards reaching Summerside.
No less than seven engines were in the |
country between Wiltshire and !/unter |
River. In his report Mr. Swinyard says :
“About twenty miles east of Alberton
there is a splendid bed of gravel It is
the only real gravel bed that has yet been
discovered alor g the course of the railway
It will be used for the western section. I[t
is unfortunate, and I think very much to be |

Contractors time | regretted, that no srrangement has yet
res
; the owners of this land for its purchase.
| It would have been wise to have done this |

been made by the Local Government with |

before a line had been laid in and the |
pit worked. Jadging from past experience |
the most exaggerated claims are likely
now to be mace, and will assuredly be
given by the Appraisers, from whose de- |
cision there is an appeal, While upon |
this subject may state that I enquired of |

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made any permament provision for bal-
last pits at any other places, and was in.
formed by him that no lands whateyer for
that purpose hal been purchased ”’

What right hed Mr. Swinyard to refiect |
on the character of the Appraisers by says

will
What

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Me was not sent here to insult,
to superintend. Then there is the |
station. Of he says ‘a
worse location could scarcely be conceived.’
This is what I stated myself in 1872; and

but

if
su

the country to ¢40,000 extra expense to
Mr. L. H. Davies asked if the price paid |
for Lefurgy’s shipyard was justifiable
What did Mr. Pope think of that?
Mr. Pope said he believed the amount |
paid for Lefuryzy’s shipyard was larger |

| than it skould hive been; but it was not

so jarge in proportion as the amount
(40,000) awarded by Appraisers, of whom
the hon. Alexander Laird was chief, for a |
little bit of land on the property of Mr. |
Cahoun. Yet nothing was said by the |
Leader of the Opposition about it. Next |
in o. der (in Mr, Swinyard’s report) is the |
wharf at Summerside. Of it he says

“The depth of water along the wharf is |
not sufficient to allow of the ordinary vess |
sels trading with the place to run alongside, |
at low water, to load and unload, and cons |
siderable dredging will have to be done.” |

Now this isa complete misrepresentation. |
There is plenty of water at Summerside, |
At low water there is 15 feet, at high |
water 23 feet. Next Mr. Swinyard finds
fault with the stations -—

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None of the stations throughout the
entire line have been provided with Dwell-
ing-rooms, and are not therefore in accords
ance with the requirements of the original
contract, an alteration having subsequently
been made, it was stated by Order in Coun.
cil, by which they were reduced to simple
This
ismuch to be regretted. At Charlottetown,
at Summerside, at the terminal stations of
Tignish, Georgetown, and Souris, and at
each station where an Operator will have
to be placed there ought to be house ac-
commodation at once provided. In several
instances there are no houses near at hand,
and it is indispensable that the Operators,
who will act as station agents, should al<
ways be in ear of their instruments.”

In my opinion these station houses are not
necessary, In many parts of Canada, they
are considered a nuisance. At the junc.
tion, and at one or two other places, it is, |

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of course, necessary the Station Master |
should live in the station; but generally |
resident Station Masters are not required. |
Mr, Swinyard, however, says :

“There was every disposition manifested

Gregory, to have the work completed in

except where the same has been changed by
Order in Council, or by instructions from the
Engineer which they regard as binding.

Mr. Swinyard remarks, ‘‘there are six
bridges between Charlottetown and Sum-
The fact is, there are eleven. |

‘Although the line is very circuitous it

interests of the country. Its
lt embraces all the
Cascumpec, ( Alberton ),

If so, what right has Mr. Swinyard after-

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i strongly worded,

| everything.

| situations.

| jéfteen feet deep,

/machine shops.

even with the privilege of setting in a first

cla . car: and those people would virtus
all be shut out from the benelits of the rails
road, if second class cars are abolished.
The Dominion Government is also bound to
open the road, if possible. No exertions
were made to open it throughout the en-
tire winter. The same thing may occur
again. Itis the duty of every may in the
to insist on our rights. The gross
neglect of the Deminion Government, in
respect to our railway, has been represent-
ed in the newspapers ; and at public meet~
ings, in Charlottetown and Summerside, it
has been protested against. There is no
reason why the road should remain closed
—no excuse for the flagrant breach of {. th
on the part of the Dominion Government ;
the Hfouse should unanimously join in the
very moderate request of the address that
the road be put in running order without

Jen rose the purpose of

Dr. ibs for
seconding the resolution,
speech of the hon. member for Summer-

ie sich, age

Mr. Boyd was greatly to blame. The eta-

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snow was no deeper here
Scotia ind New Brunswick.

hatno

tion grounds have not been graded, Of | ter what the cost, it was the bounden d

Medgell Bridge, Mr. Swinyerd says -—

“The Medgill bridge is across the stream | accommodation of the publi

of that name, also emptying into St, Peter's
Bay. Itis of How truss of two epans, one
of 50 feet and the other of 3) feet, with
This
bridge is placed on x curve of a radius of
600 feet, and is approached from the east
by agradient of 58 feet per mile, or 1] in
91, and from the west by one of 66 feet
per mile, or 1 50, thus forming a most
dangerous feature in the railway. [t will
be necessary, for safety, to bring the trains
ton stand before passing on to this struc-
ture in either direction.”

On the item of sleepers $8,500 had been
lost, because Mr. Boyd would not inspect
them.
more
engineer did net do his duty.
sidings were not up to specification the
people of the Island would iose $65,000.
Instead of sidings being 10 per cent of
the whole line, they were only 4 per cent.
And the Contractors had pocketed the pro.
fit, The length of the line was 28 miles in
excess of the original survey— 26 miles of
which were on the main trunk— twenty~
eight miles taken up in curvature, which
might have been avoided. The profits liad

ty
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' fallen into the hands of Schreiber and Bure

After the able |

side he felt that there was very little for |

The resolution is pretty

It could not possibly be
more strongly worded, but strong as it
was, it was not half strong enough to sstisfy
iim. The people should have had the
benefit of the road in March; but the
neglect of the Dominion Government to
open it was not the worst feature. Ie
looked upon the high tariif as simply
ruinous. Ile believed the people would
not take advantage of the line. They
would rather put themselves to
venience than do so, There is no reason

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why the rates should be the same as those |

ot the Intercolonial. The road did not
cost one third as much. He felt most
grieveously disappointed with the way
in which the line had been managed.

Mr. L. H. Davies remarked that he

|might fairly say that the speech of the

hon, member from Summerside was lengthy
and labored. Nor could he congratulate
him upon the mederation of the language
in the address he had submitted; fer it

was so insulting that it could not meet |

with the approval of the House.
was the way in which he argued his case
<0 logical or so inconsistent with his high
position as might have been anticipated.
ile had brought bills of indictment against
Mr. Swinyard, Mr. Ridout and Norris.
He had even brou&ht in poor McLeod. Is
this the proper way to bring an important
subject before the House? One would
suppose from this speech that he knows
He talks about the railway

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being a retuge for the destitute ; butif he)

was in power to.day the offices would be
filled with men to whom he had promised
Hundreds of his creatures
would find a refuge in the offices of the
railway.

Mr. Pope said the statement was false—
and there was a sensation,

Mr. Davies continued. He contended
that Mr. Swinyard had a right to find fault
with the undue length snd deficiencies of
the road ; for every penny of the money,
thereby, put into the pockets of the con-
tractors would be taken out of the pockets
of the people of this Province, and if Mr.

pee. the people of the Island had to bear
the Joss ; and Mr. Boyd was to blame. He
(Mr. Davies) did not think the Colonial
Secretary and several other members of the
Government could give their adhesion to
the address, tabled by the hon. member
for Summerside. For his part, he would
oppose it.
The House adjourned.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Wepnespay, April 14.

r Suilivan presented a petition from the |
Hon. Robert Moouey, for a balance of $10 | amendment — Messrs

due in account of salary as Registrar of
Deeds.

Vir. Stewart submittet a bill fo Incor.
porate the Masonic Temple Company.

Mr. Campbell suggested that in order to
efliciency in the road service, higher sala»
ries should be paid to Road Commission-
ers.

Incorporate Zion Church.

Hon, ir. Haviland presented a petition
for Hon. D. Gordon, A.A. 'ecDonald and
others, for an Act to Incorporate the Steams»
boat Company of Georgetown, and sub-
mitted a bill in accordance there with.

The bill relating to Uillsborough Ferry,
passed in Committee.

THE LAND QUESTION.

In the afternoon Mr, Brecken submitted
a bill to be entituled * The Land Purchase
Act, 1875." He explained that under it,
one arbitrator would be appointed by the
yovernor General, in Council; one by the
Local Government, and one by the Propie~-
tors, or, if the proprietor refused, by the
Supreme Court. The arbitrators appoint-
ed by the Dominion and Local Government
would each be permanent: those of the
proprieters only being temporary. To pre~

_ vent delays of justice, complained of by pro-

Swinyard had not done his best to make |

the contractors perlorm the work accord.
ing to specification, he would have been

false to his duty yet wider Ho | Opposition should, he thought, have made
eth \@ his elaborate defence of Mr. Swinyard and

represented here.
road isso great that travelling upon it will

be dangerous, whojwill suffer$for it ?'The |

peopleof the Island .And the curves on
our railway are without a parallel,
hon. member had asked why Mr Swinyard
come down here in the first place.
not known to the hon. member that the

been spreading the report, throughout the
length and breadth of the land, that the
railway was ready ?

Hon. Mr, Haviland asked what organs
were referred to.

Mr. L. H. Davies said ‘the Examiner and
the ew Era.

Ifom. Mr. Haviland said the Examiver

present Government

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newspaper organs of the Government had | Copan.
re ed, gre opel ment Aa | Mr. Boyd with the report of the New York

{| Engineer.

prietors, the Land Commissioner is to be
made complainant in case of legal proceed-
ings, and will be liable to attachments from
the Court. ‘hese are the main features
of the amendments to the Act passed last
year,

THE RAILWAY,

Hon.Mr. Brecken renewed the debate on
Mr. Pope’seresolution. ie said that
probably no man on the Island was more
deep'y interested in the opening of the
railway than Mr. Pope. The Leader of the

his ernel and unmanly attack upon the
character of Mr. Boyd at the bar of the

The | House—arrayed inthe insignia of an Ad-
ic |

voeate. Mr. Swinyard, it appeared, came

Was it | down here accredited, not to the Leader of
Vas it

the Government, but to the Leader of the
!e (Mr. Brecken) defended

Ife criticised statements of the

_ Leader of the Opposition at some length.

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As for the New Kra, |

ir. Stewart opposed Mr. *Pone’s resolu-
tioi_on the ground that it was acknowled g~
ed That to open the road in January was
impossible or at least imprudent ; that no
material interest of the people had suflered
because it was not opened in February or
March, for as navigation was closed, trade
was stopped; that with snowbanks ten,

it had circulated no such report at the time | twelve, or fifteen ffeet in height, it would

referred to.

have cost a large amount of money to open

Mr, L. EH. Davies said at any rate the | the road, which would have been lost to the

| reports were circulated; and was it not an| Country at large. He said that it was

evidence of the extreme willingness of the | #Sier to keep the railroad open in New
Dominion Government to aflord railway | Brunswick or Nova Scotia, because one of
accommodation to the people of this !sland | the engines on these roads was equal in
that they so promptly despatched an agent | Strength to eight of ours. Ie failed to see

to see whether or not the road was ready?
Is thisa reason why we should now send
up this insulting address to the Governor
General? With regard to the opening of
the road in December last, he would read
what Mr. Schreiber thought of it. Ina
letter to Mr.

he sayrs—

Swinyard, dated 19th Dec.,

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AS you are aware, heavy snowstorms |

have prevailed the past week, completely
bleckading the traflic. The snow now upon
many parts of the line, is from eigAt to
On Tuesday last 1 dess
patched two engines with a snow plough
to the westward, to raise the blockade,
After laboring the whole day, most dilis

way for six miles only. On the following
morning, I held conversation with our
manager, Mr. Rainnie, when we decided to |

abated, Yesterday being a fine day, and

| necessarily harsh,

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send out no more trains until the storm |

fecling that if we Jeft the road blockaded |

you might consider we had acted unhands
somely towards you, and shirked a respons
sibility, we concluded, very much against
my better judgment, to dispatch a train
both East and West, to make an effort to
clear the road. Accordingly, three ed.
gines and a snow plough, left Charlottetown,
Vestward, at 8.30 a.m., and two engines
anda snow plough started East about a
half an hour later, The westward bound
train returned about 7,30 p.m., yesterday,
vith one engine disabled, and another dam.
aged; she reached North Wiltshire Station,
to which point she ploughed through some
hundreds of feet of snow three feet above
the top of the snow plough.

‘ The eastern train I have had no tidings

of since she left Charlettetown. This |
morning two engines were dispatched |

westward to take the place of the dis-
abled machines. I have come to the full |
determination that if they suece:d in reach-~
ing town to-night, (the 18th inst.,) I will
house them believing it to hea far more
prudent course than sending them out in
the storm to be battered to pieces. In
this it is quite possible and very probable
you will differ withme. If so, [ would say,
then let the service be undertaken by those
who are better able to bear the loss than
we are. Our train expenses have been
very heavy the past week, and the receipts
nil, To expectus to continue to operate
the road fer another week, under the special
arrangement, is, we maintain, unreasons
able, as, within that week, it is possible, we
might have to raise the snow blockade sev-
eral times, and derive no benefit from it
thereafter.”

ed from the reports of Conductors Wood |

}and Taylor respecting the depth of snew |

and the number of men emp'oyed, and |

| contended that it was well nigh impossible,

not to say imprudent, to open the road at |
that time. He said that the Contractors’
engineers had placed every obstacle in the
ray of Mr. Swinyard, and that it was not |
till \'r. Schreiber arrived, and rebuked his |
mitted the use of the line for the purpose |
of getting posts for the telegraph along |
the track, and material with which to build
The Local Government |
had been only too eager to back up the.
contractors engineers, !'ut there was, |
notwithstanding, quite sufficient organiza,
tion for the running of the road if it had |
been possible. He censured the Govern-
ment and Mr. Lefurgy for their conduct
in the matter of damage for Mr. Lefurgy’s
Shipyard. He said there was this diflerence
between the cases of Messrs. Leturgy and
Calhoun, that the one was a member of

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| following resolution in amendment :—

. . | he had always been allied, and he }
subordinate, that Mr, Swinyard was per- | ay rae og

wards, to comment ‘‘on the unnecessary
length of the line.” He estimates the rey
ceipts of the road at the same amount as

Mr. Boyd, and, after working expenses are |
paid, calculates that there will be $600 over. |

Here is testimony to bear out my assertion,
that the road will pay.
lieve the gross receipts of the road will be
much greater than the estizaates of either
Mr. Boyd or Swinyard, and if properly work-
ed, it will pay 50 per cent more, But it

Government, and the other was no He
condemned the conduct of Mr. Boyd, Chief

Engineer for the Government.

For my part, | be

from Mr. Swinyard’s report—

* The extraordinary amount of curvature
and extent of steep gradients, are much to
be regretted, as the cost of working the
traffic will be very much increased thereby,
while in winter, with snow and ice upon
the track, operating the line will be ren-
dered very difficult and tedious,”

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that the resolution before the House was
anything else tian an electioneer:ng dodge,

Mr. Richards was not posted up
on the railway. He deeply regretted that
it was not opened last fall; but he thought
that after winter set in, to open it would
have been next thins to impossible,

ier. MeNeill thought the railroad would
never be of much service in winter; that it

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It would cost the Island $15,000 |
for ballasting, because the kid-gloved |
Because the |

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House in committee passed the Pill to |

of the Government to run the road for the
: : ©: and, not
having done £0, faith was broken with the
people of this Island. If the Local Govern.
ment had not protested against the neg,
lect, they had been recreant to their duty

Atany rate, the people had given expres.
sion to their protests, At two of the most
numerously attended meetings held in
Charlottetown and Summerside. respectiye

ly, this resolution had been almost unani-
mously carried ; and he charvzed the Gor.
ernment with not having done t!oip duty,
The Government have not stirred a hand,
They are deserving of the censure of the
people. By every principle of decency
| courtesy and honesty, they should have
supported the resolution betore the House.
And although they would not Pr. Jenbing
and himself should feel proud of the posi.
tion they occupied ; for they would repre.
sent the people, not only of Charlottetowy
and Summerside, }11. of the whole Island

They would alse ve the satisfaction of
having the addre ced upon the Jour.
nals of the House, and of having done their
duty.

Hon ‘ir. Haviland said he believed the
Government had done right. Mr. Pope had
never submitted the address to a eavens of
his friends.

Hon, Mr. (owen said that he had declared,
when the address was submitted to him,
that he thought the language in it too
strong.

Hon. Mr. Brecken said he bad neryer
seen the address before it was submitted
to the Liouse.

} Hon. Mr. Arsenault said he could not
agree with the address; for the language
it contained was too strong. He thought
‘the leaders of the party should have in.
| formed Mr, Pope that they would not sup.
| port it.

The House divided on Mr. Haviland's
Pope and Jenkins

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ROARD OF WORKS.
Tavrspay, April 15.
| House in Committee of Supply—Mr. J.
| E. MeDonald in the Chair.
Mr. Callbeck urged the establishment

the opening of roads, and the improvement
of bridges in his district

Mr. L. I. Davies said he feit dissatisfied
with the accounts of the Poard of Works.
It was impossible to understand. They
presented an elaborate scheme of myseti~
fication. The vouchers were not classified,
It would take months to compare the ac.
counts withthem. The amounts of money
in the hands of the Secretary could not be
known. He contended that the expend:-
ture of the Board should be by order
drawn direct from the Treasury — not
pass through the hands of the Secretary at
all. He criticized the accuunts at some
length, and declared there was a mistake
of $1675 in the classified accounis of the
Board. He also said that he would not
vote fora sum sufficient for unfinished con..
tracts, unless a detailed statement of the
works on which thej money was to be ex-
pended were laid before the House.

Mr. Welsh agreed with the Leader of the
Opposition. He also suggested that seme-
thing should be done to utilize Statute
Labor.

Hon, Mr. Haviland showed that the pres
ceding Government had voted a sum suffi-
cient for unfinished contracts.

Mr. Stewart explained the management
of the Public Works Department of New
Brunswick; and thougbt that a similar
system should be introduced here. He
did not intend a reflection on the present
Government, when he said that under the
system now in vogue here. 4 door was open
to log rolling which it is desirable should
be shut.

Mr. Holland pointed owt that in Nova
Scotia, New Brunswick, and Upper and
Lower Canada there are difficulties in cons
nection with the Board of Works as weil as

here. The idea of reducing the Board of
Works to one member was, he said. ridieu-
lous, He hoped we would never return to
the system of putting two much power into
the hands of one man. The argument to
abolish the Board of Works will apply with
equal force to the abolition of the Execu~
tive Council—centering the Government in
one man, and that man the Lieutenant
Governor. The expenditure of the De-~
partment, with a Minister at the head of it,
would be $2 500 more than at present. A
Minister would be Jess responsible than a
Board of Works is now; the members of
the Board are responsible to the Legisla~
ture and to their constituents. Nearly all
the members admit that a fair shore of the
public money has been expended in these
districts ; and those who do not, have no
cause to complain. Mr. L. H. Davies had
stated that in his district only £5 were
spent last year: the amount was, instead,
about $5000.

\ r. Conroy said the Roads snd Bridges in
his district were in a lamentable state.

Mr. B. Davies contended for a detailed
report and estimate of the expenditure of

the Board of Works. He went pretty fully

| into the Board of Works system.

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Mr. Campbell also attacked the system.

could not have been worked last winter; | wa said it appeared as though the mem-
that the language of the address was uns | Pers of the Board were responsible to none

and that the address
itself was uncalled for.

Hon. Mr. Haviland defended Mr. Boyd

| against the attack of the Leader of the

Opposition. Hesaid that in his opinion
the report of the New York Engineers ex-
onerated Mr. Boyd from any improper
conduct. He was not politically an admirer
of the Dominion Government; but, in-
dependent of politics, he believed that
that Covernment was prepared to do
justice to this Province in the matter of
the railway. He did net think the tariff

great. The address sets forth that our
railway should have been opened in Febru,
ary or March, To do this would, he thought,
have been a hereulean task. Hewas a
believer in pure constitutional and re«
sponsible Government, and he thought
that under that Government we should
notignore the Cabinet —- we should address
the Governor General in Council. Again
the Local Government had not petitioned
the Dominion Government to open the
road; nor had our representatives at
Ottawa,as far as he knew, moved in the
matter, and he thought the House would
not be justified in sending the address
proposed by the hon. member from Sums
merside. i'e would therefore move the

Resolved, that the Honorable Member
from Summerside, has leave to withdraw
his motion for an address to the Governor
General, upon the subject of the opening
of the Railroad of this Province for traffic,
as this House is of opinion that the Do-
minion Government are now about to use
the necessary exertions for the opening of
the said railroad,

Hon. Mr. Yeo seconded the resolution.
He knew that the hon. member for Sum-
merside, as well as several gentlemen out.
side this House, had suffered serious pe-
cuniary losses, because of the failure to
open the railway. At the same time, he
could not agree with the substance of the
Address. Before the address would reach

;on the Government

Ottawa, the railway would be opened. The |

hig: tariff should, he thought, be lowered,

| There is the opinion of Mr. Schreiber,a| Mr, Welsh reviewed the debate. He
' practical engineer; and his opinion will | spoke on railway matters, generally,at some |
have some weight. Mr. Davies then quot- | length. j

Hon. Mr. Pope said that he felt he was
in rather an awkward position,
knew where or how to begin.

tion, was placed in the order book on the
first night he took a seat in the House.
The address had been handed round among
the members of the political party to which

led to believe that they approved of it,

and would support it. He had submitted |
itto his honor the Provincial Secretary,
who read it over, and suggested the addix«
tion of the word ‘the ;’ and,as he offered |
no objection, he accepted the act as a/|
token of approval. The full tenor of the
address was known to every member of
the House. And, although, he had reason
to expect that the Opposition would oppose
it, he had no intimation that it would be
opposed by any member of the party to
which he had, till this time, belonged. © Py
every principle of honesty and fair dealing,
the support of the Government should have
been given him, or he should have been
notified that it would not. And yet he
would go outside the bar, accompanied
only by his friend Dr. Jen‘ins. But he
believed that they would be accompanied

by the sympathy, and their action would |
be endorsed, of a large majority of the peor |
ple of this Island.

‘he Dominion Govern. |

ment, he contended, were bound to open pear] Barley, per lb

the road, just as much as to keep teains |
on the Intercolonial railway running. The

| through it-
be obtained for 24 cents a ton.

He hardly | Beef, (small pieces) per Ib
Notice that | Beef. per lb (by the quarter)
he intended to bring forward his resolu, | !
| Lamb, per quarte:
|} Lamb, per tb
} Mutton, per ib

i; Apples per bushel

| Wool, per lb

He wanted to know how
was that nearly £5,000 had been spent
House during last

but themselves,
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year.
Mr Mclsaac produced a paper showing

| that Pelfast district had received $5818.74

during the past year.

Mr. Welsh :aid the amount included the
road appropriation. He acknowledged that
the Chairman of the Board of Works had,
at his suggestion, made several. improve-
ments On the roads; tut if he had not,
they would have been impassable.

Dr. Jenkins said that last session it was
tacitly admitted that a Report of the Board
was needed—and ha fully expected to have
seen one this year. Some time ago a
stone crusher had been imported ; but last
year it was idle—not a single stone went
At the same time stone could

Mr. MeNeill said that, in his opinion, the

| Board of Works is rotten to the core. He

did not know what was to be done with the
$40 000 asked by the Department.

Mr. L. It. Davies said that the Board of
Works expended last year €173.900; his
district composed one sixteenth ef the pop-
ulation; and, had the money been equally
divided, would have received £11,000.
was nou fair, he contended, to charge the
district with the wharf, for it was a public
work, The wharf at Machan’s Point is, he
said, as much good to the district as the
fifth wheel toa coach. In 1873, $1524 had
been expended in the district, when there
should have been nearly $15,000. A wharf
is required near Munn’s, at the end of
County Line Road. The wharf at Aitkin’s
is washed away and should be replaced;
a road is wanted to the wharf at Sturgeon ;
Peter's Road is impassable; a ferry is re»
quired at Machans Point. About s1x
thousand dollars should be spent in his
district next year.

[Owing to want of space we are obliged
to leave out the rest of this week's sums
mary. It will appear in our next issue, }

PRECES

Civtown, April 16,1

CURRENT.

Siw,

MISA’.

€0 08 to O16
0.07 to 0.10
0.12 to 0.16
0.00 to 0,00
0.07 to 0.12
0.8 to 0.14

Pork.(small pieces) per ip 0.10 to 0.14

Pork, per ib (by the carcass 0.74 to 0.69

Veal, per tb 0.05 to 0.08

lam, per ib

MisSsCELLANIZOUS.

0.00 to 0.00
0.75 to 0.84
0.25 to 0.27
0.24 to 0.25
0.06 to 0.12
0.15 to 0.17
0.05 to 0.00
0. 22to 0.25
0.12 to 0.16
0.00 to 0.00
13.00 to 14.00

Barley per bushel

Butter (fresh) per ib
Butter per lb by the tub
Calfskins, per Ib

Cheese (new milk) per lb
Cheese, per Jb

Clover seed, per lb

Eggs, per doz.

Green Peas,

Hay, per ton

Hides, per lb. 0.0 to 0.07
ifoney, per |b. 0.24 to 0.25
Homespun, (men's wear)per sd. 0.65 to 1.06
Homespun, (women’s do)per yd 0.55 to 304
Homespun Flannel, per yard 0.31 to 0.48
Lard, per lb 0.12 to 0.14
Oats, per bushe. 0.57 to 0.C0
Straw, per ton 4.50 to 5.02
Tallow per Ib 9.08 to 0.14
0.17 to 0.28
0.32 to 0.86
0.02 to 0.04
0.75 to 1 00
0.00 to 0.00

Potatoes, per bushel

Sheepskins, (each)
Timothy Seed per (bush. )

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