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FURSPAY, Decamber Sand, 1879,
TRAINS GOING WEST. Nos. 1 & 3, | Mixed.
No. 5, Mixed,
STATIONS.
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WeNington.... 4 “4 279 *
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Trains Going East.
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LOCAL LEGISLATURE.
The Road Act. |
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SPEECHES BY MESSRS, UNDERHUAY, HOOPER, | MCKAY, AND BON. MR, FERGUSON. | March 23. |
On a clause being read
;
Mir. UNpexway said the Hon. member fer West River appears to think that the
system of paving money for the mainten-
ance of the reads suifs ile people better than Statute Labor. | daresay that system may give more satisfaction in the towns, where meney is not so hard te obtain. But there is a great difierence between the con- ditions existing in the town and in the country. In the country a young man nay have, in the first place, to look about him for a way to earn the meney ; and in the nexi, he had to do a great deal of werk in order to obtain it. To obtain the two or three dollars required by most families for the taxes ef the men belohging te it is, in many cases, a matter of some diitfienlty ; and a great deal of hardship was felt on ac- count of the system introduced by the late Governinent, for money Was scaree and hard to get. The feeling in the country is very different with regard to the require- ments of the present Act. | have attended several meetings held in the district I have the honorr to represent, and at those meet- ings expressions cf general satisfaction with the Act wero freely given. The Gov- ernment ave thouglit proper to reduce the hours of ‘aber on_ the roads from eighteen to fifteen hours; but, as far as I am aware, there was no general complaint against the Act as it stood before. The amendment of the Goverument is, however, a good one. In my odinion, very nearly as much work will be done in the fifteen as in the vighteen hours before required. Butif the amend- ment of the Opposition be accepted, there will be «a very material difference in the amount of work performed. The roads could not be maintained in goed re- pair, and the consequence would be additional taxation to make up the difference. This would, perhaps, suit the Elon. member for West River, who is a resident of Charlottecown, very well; fer in all probability the money paid in the country would be spent upon the approaches to the tewn, and the country roads would be neglected, as they were by the late Government. When the late Gov- ernment was in power, it spent nearly the whole of the netj amount received for pell taxes upon the macadamizing of the St. Peter’s Road, in the vicinity of this city, ipon a read leading into Mount Stewart, and upon the road leading to the city in Lot 43. Itdid this, too, without a vote of ths Legislature at all; and, no doubt, the influence of Charlottetown would be se paramount that the same course would again. be adopted if the work upen the roads were insufficient to keep up the roads threnghout the country, and money had to be raised and expended upon them. I think that the reduction of the time re- quired for statute laber from eighteen to fifteen hours would-be abundant. Of course there was, and will still be, a disproportion Setrveen the labor and the commutation money ; but, though this was felt before, little dissatisfaction was expressed, and even less will be shown in future. I feel that it wouldsnot be in the interest of the country to vote forthe Amendment. I in- tend, while I am representing the people in this House, to do that which I believe to be right ; and [ shail vote for the Bill.
Mr. Hoorrr.—-I think that the Road Act has worked very well—only fer the disproportion between two days labor and seventy-five cents. That 1s not strictly in aczordance with’ justice. But the people would be very well! satisfied if the require- ments of the law were reduced to one day’s labor. In general, twelve heurs is con- silered to be a day's werk. In the coun- try, in the month of June, people can put in twelve hours a day very well. I will support the amendment.
Mr. McKay.—I de not know that there is any Act which is, on the whole, se ac- ceptable to the people as the Road Act. In tae part of the country I have the honor te represent it gives a great deal of satisfac. tion. Certainly there has been some little urumbling abent the time required for statute labor; but when we look at the thing as it really is, there does not seem “o be a great deal to compaih about. When you go into the street and hire aman, the man considers that he is doing you a service, and expects, and is entitled to, full value for his labor, But this case must be looked at in a different light. The people who work on the roads of their own District work for themselves. We know that a certain amount of money is spent ; and if the people did all the labor necessary to keep the roads in order that | amount weuld be saved to themselves. If they do not perform the laber, the Legisla- ture must, in the first place, tax them for
the Government. The
i‘ heurs to fifteen hours, so that all the time
anamountof money. The money has to raised at a heavy cost. If we want $20,- 000 that $20,000 has te be levied, collected . and expended ; and the expense of doing |
Manager | this will be about 25 per cent. in addition
‘ aw artialle ONnCY fBCLUAUS
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‘ wade
i ‘ ore I e 7 if the roads.
a fi e wll jhoanwe ta th AIL@r ALi. tnere 18 tne
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applied to the repair
2 2 aAppiled ih
Tivetuc ns ¢ Poi te : f I ie Mistrict in which it is paid. Altogether, he
for the
ts of their work, they
, 4h. hh : . ® ra+ ‘ ; + } ; na that the present system 18 much t Hiost aecentahle igy the re ople ,
‘ i we tt) 2 t- t L : eopie see the resu are under no appre
p be if they paid in
hension, as they
money, that their own reads will be neglected; and there are no commissions to be paid to Collectors and Supervisors. The few who de not care to work can jay their money with the assurance that it will be laid out | not far frem their own neighborhoed. [| ieel that this is the proper system for this | country. Under the old Statute Labor Act, | thirty-two hours’ labor were required ; now, | only about half that time. Before, the commutation money was for
4 cents ;
would
each man 49} Se that under} the present Act there is an increase of
¥ Te and a om j 3 ° A + 7 money and a decrease of labor. And alto-
now it is 75 cents.
gether, I think the people have not a great to complain about, especially as now, in ac
cordance with the Bill before the House, | the time for doing Statute Laber is to be re-
duced from elyhteen hours to fifteen hours.
A creat deal of work can be done in a short
time, and Lam very glad the Commissioner
of Public Works has seen lis way clear to
make the reduction.
Hon. Mr. Frravson—I was pleased, Mr. Chairman. to hear the speech of the hon. member for West River, because he hrs made theaimportant admission that he has been talking to his constitrents, and that they have told him that the Road Act is ‘fall right.” The lion. gentleman has vielded the whole ground. He has teld us that the optional system had always had his approval ; and, in this particular, at least, he seems to be in perfect accord with Road Act, his con- stituents have told him, is “all right.” I de not wonder at all that he makes this admission. He could not shut his ears to the testimony which is coming in from all parts of the country ; and his own observa- tion must have convinced him that the Road Act is a good one, that it is suited to the country, and that it can stand on its own merits. But the hon. member con- tends that the people did not, in all cases, comply with the requirements of the Act. Well, Mr. Chairman. there is ne law but will be evaded, in some respects, and it would be wonderful if the Road Act had been an exception to the general rule. But T holdin my hand a report from the Sup- ervisor of the District which the hon. member represents im this Honse, from which I will just read. Mr. Maleolm Me- Cannell, Supervisor of Lot 65, reported as follows to the Deparvment of Public Works, Sept. 15, 1880 :—
‘*}] have no complaints about the roads being bad in my District with all the rains we had this summer. I consider the Statute Labour did good work. In some of the Overseer’s returns there is nothing for ine to collect ; ip some more, there are a few dollars.”
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This is what Mr. McCannell, a Supervisor placed in office by the late Government— doubtless a supporter of the hon. member, and probably named for the office by him- self—says about the working of the Road Actin Ins District—the people of which have been heretofore opposed to the present Government. This is the testimony of persons whe are in accord with the political party of which the hon. member is such a burning and a shining light. There is nothing here about the people evading the law. ‘The requirements’ of the law were coniplied with inthehon. member’s District, and the result is that the people have goad reads. ‘The Government now propose to reduce the number of hours the people are required to werk on the roads; and this proposal is objected to because it is con- tended that the work should all be done within one day. The amendment of the
ect tg GN Me TTI. a RN Sl CN OTe
oe macedanizuy of the
Hon. Leader of the Opposition is, that the Statute Labor of each man be redueed to! twelve hours. The hon. members knows | right well that twelve hours is not a days| work—that it is impossible for a man to do} twelve hours labor on the reads in one day; } and, even if his amendment were carried. every man, young and old, would be obliged to break a second day in order to get his statute labor performed as required by the law. Abeve all other things the Government is determined tha
the ceuntry shall have good reads. But it is felt that the amount of labor can be re- duced, and the roads still be kept in excel- lent condition. The Oppositien would not, of course, care if the reads were bad. They wottt@ make political capital out of the; fact. But the Government propose to re-
duce the amount of labor from eighteen
can easily be putin in a day and a half ;' and they have no fears for the result. The Government would not be deing its duty | if it allowed the labor to be insufficient to keep the roads in good order, and this is the reason why the time is not reduced to only one day. I cannot agree with the Hon. member for Centreville when he ad- vecates giving a discretionary power to overseers. In my opinion, the less discre- tionary opower permitted to any efticial | of the Gevernment the better. The acts ef the Commissiener of Public Works should be regulated by the law as much as pessible, and every Supervisor and Over- seer sheuld also be hedged in by the same authority. If you introduce the principle discretion with respect to overseers, you would also have to introduce the principle of discretion with regard to the payment of commutation money ; and the result would
be a loss of labor and a loss of money. The
Hon, member for West River says that I was instrumental in getting some mack- adamizing dene on the St. Peter's Road and at Mount Stewart while the late Gov ernment were in power. In that case I must be a man of more influence than I imagined. But I am serry that I cannot return the compliment fer the Hen. member. He had no infinence even with the Government of which he wasa supporter and a member. He promised
|a bridge to the people of West River, but
he did not build it ; and that work will have to be placed te the credit of the Hon. member for Rustico, or to that of some one else. In fact, he cidnet succeed in getting any ef his promises performed. Perhaps, since thia imatter-has heen bronght np, I may tell the House what share I had in the St. Peter’s Read, and the road leeding te Mount Stewart. I hed had the loner of Leing chairman of'a com- mittee appointed to wait upon the late Goy- ermve:rt, vith respect to this matier, inthe
jhope of getting a sum set down in the es-
timaies fer the work. Bot the Government ef that day gave us very littl encourage- ment. We were teld that th y could not afford to make the improvements we re- quested, unless the peeple would conseni to additional taxation. We gave the matter up. But in the following September the Dominion election came on ; andthe mem- bers of the Government cf that day were exerting all the pbwer they possessed to secure the_election ei the party led by the Hon. Mi. Mackenzie. 1 believe that it was then that the change eame over the Govern- ment. At all events it was then that the work was undertaken—though the consent of the Legislature to the expenditure in- volved in it was never asked or obtained, I was very well pleased that the Werk was done; but I believe that was done In the interests of the party in the Dominion, supperted by ihe members of the Local Government, and not with the sole desire of improving the communications with Charlottetown and Mount Stewart. I have also to say that the work cost too much ; that the amount required forit should have been placed in the estimates ; and that the money should not have been usee for poli- tical purposes. ‘This subject does not properly belong to the matter in hand. But it was imported inte the debate, and it is perhaps right that it shesid be disposed of. ‘To return te the question be- fore the Iicuse, it is evident, in the words of the Ho». inember for Weet River, that the Read Aci is “‘all right.” The testimony of all whe use the roads, of men who are opposed to the Government, of such men as the Hon. members for West River, Pert Hill and Tignish, the testimony of every independent member of this House—-of men who receive and expect no favers from the Government-—is to the effect that the Road Act is well adapted to the country, and that it lias, on the whole, worked well. With this testimony before the Legisiature and the Province, what is te be theught ef thatupress which fiooded the Island with denunciations of the Road Act and those who introduced it? The statements of Hon. gentlemen give ihe lic to the asser- tions of that press. But these slanders never gave-me any uneasiness, for I was confident of that which has come to pass; viz., that the consequences would recoil upon the press which published them. sik > 0: aie Ae
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