THE DAILY EXAMINER.

TUESDAY, A

PRIL 18. 1898.

. ® s . “+? sTN C ) , y \ THE DAILY EXAMINER. |Ppgyinel egisla APRIL 18. 1893. a Legislative Noves House of Assembly. Ir is ox ted that the Legislature will a ri pe Sit » Government is “ ‘Ar rise to-morrow. Bot the Goveromen* *) SUMMARY OF PROCEEDINGS, atill withholding the information which '8 required by the country in respect to the Public Works and other Departmente. Mowpay, April 17. Something wrong somewhere ! House resumed consideration of the bill the amendments to the City In-|to amend the act incorperating the City of ic Inet ' . , ; we } rday wee} Chariottetown—in committee. The bill ‘ ; nropose resterda corporation B pt P sed yes y was rep ted agreed to. : one providing that both hospitals in ¢ haz- The bill to incorporate the St. Eleanor’s lottetown be free of civic taxation Hall Company was read a second tim». No one will object to this. but the right | committed snd reported agreed to, read a of ion eli I enalty to an | third time and passed. Che I ES ee The bil to amend the act incorporating offence for which there has been no pen!'Js/ 14, Montagua Hall C ympany was read a and to make the ect retrospeciive, 1s U8") third time and passed. If murder were gommitted while Mr. Clow presented « bill to amend an Pr eeiitat es oe ment, | et entitled an Act to Incorporate the the penalty fur murder was wnmprin™ "| King’s County Exhibition Association. The would it be right to hang the murderer) |) 14. read a second time, read a third under a law psss sub equently to '£@) time and passed.

The bil to incorporate the Winsloe Hail read a second time, com

f not, it is not commission of tue crime lf n , wis

: ‘ee Councillor and legis Company was sight to. gaan ONY er a a nitted, reported agreed to, read a third late him ou » because he dealt with seis hell paseed. the Wat Com yners at a time at House took recess. which no ; ty for the offense was fixed. Afver reczss the House met at half past The Legislatur y, even ye', correct e — a. ‘ :

' ‘ nm r, Peters moved that the bill r bill to amend the City Incorporation Act, specting the representation of the pecple in by taking away the retrospective p°ovisiOD | the Legislature be read a third time and n this regard. If not, the fact will only passed. ak er sf that Mr. Mr. Bentley moved in amendment that make stronger the prevalent belie the bill be read a third ti onth ‘ the pill Dea read &A ir time siX months Premier Peters and his followers are Stee actuated by « vindictive spittof reveOk®] The House divided on the amendment as in respect to his political opponents. 1! | follows : r the Councillors whe are said to have dealt Ayes ~Bentley, Shaw, Arsenaul! : A. J. Macdonald, Clow, Underhay, Gordon, with the Water Commissioners were 8U} James E. Macdonald, McKay, Rogers, A porters « f Mc. Peters, the penalty now MicLeod, Suilivan,—12 ; 2 made applicable to that offence against the N ‘ys—Peters, M Lean, McM ] wn, Far } d wot be retroactive | quharson, Richards, Sinclair, Forbes, H. eT : ; U. Macdonald, Bell, Warburton, Matheson, On the other hand, we agree with Mr. Montgomery, McWilliams, Cvmmiekey,

Roberson —15.

The main motion was then put and car- ried on division, the ayes and nays being ceversed.

Hon. Mr. Farquharson then rose for the purpose of moving the reselution which he had placed on the Order Bovk some time ago. The resolution reads as foll ws :

Whereas, The present Dorinion tariff dis- criminates in favor of certain mauufacturers

Peters that the right of a man to take

action against the city, im case of loss oF

damage due to civic negtigence, cught not to be taken away An acedent may at at first seem to be trivial, bat complica- tions may be developed causing years ol It would be a

suffering or even loss of life.

wrong to deprive the victim of such

disaster of his right of action sgainst the corporation simply because he may have failed to give notice that he would do « withia fifteen days or even two months of the date of the accident.

In the Legislative Ccuncil yesterday, the

and capitalists, and has « tendency to create monopolies and trade combines to the detri- ment cf the farmers and laboring class, who compose the great majority of the Canadian pe p'e; and

Inasmuch, as the tariff in its practical oper- ation tends to make the rich richer, and the poor poorer, and it ie most desirable in the in-

Amalgamation Bill was passed in committee, | eresis of the people asa whole that it should

A motion of Hon. Mr. Camptell to strike | De reduced to the lowest possible point con- thirds cl mtn en ete with the weceasiry requirements of the

the two-thirds c suse was Vi ’ revenue}

was alsu the resulution of Hon. Mr. Me-| Be it Therefore Resolved, That in the opin-

ion of this House the tariff should at the earli-

fang ‘ 8 publ d durin Kenzie to have the bill publishe s est possible moment be reduced to the lowest the recess. point necessary to meet the requirements of eonnenmncnstinncsiiiniilnelitlin he pub ic service, and that all trade restric. -Since our correspondent * Justice has | tions should be removed; taken exveption to Alberton as the designatior Be it Furtber Resolved, That this House re

zrets the failure on the part of the Federal Government last year to negotiate a recipro- sity treaty with the Unitei States;

Be it Farther Resolved, That a committee

o Dr. P. C. Merphy, we may say in seif justification that we were not at ali desirous of rovbing Kinkora of any of her honors, bur simply gave the name found after Dr. Mur

phy’s name in the aoouary of University | of three members of this House be appointed Medical © liege, New York. In the list of | co confer with a committe of the Legislative students entered there ia 1892 we reed: ** P.| Council in preparing a memorial to the Dom- C Murphy, Alb-rton, P. R. 1” As this wes] inion Government embodying the views here- evidently don the gentlemen's own desire | inbefore set forth. we ke ** Justice” to draw bls own conclu- He supported the resolution in a lengthy sion may fu her say tha’, contrary to <peech. Ma ehid the seenleticon ean just ** Justis sesertion, the Dr. bas speus his ' : H had . holidays each; yesr, since he commence? bis such an one as the Honse ha & pertect studies st Alberton, and now, we are inform. | “Ig5t to pass, and he hoped that it would ed, intends taking up the practice of his pro be dealt with in a manner free from politi feasion there» A/berton, therefore, bas clear-| cal prejudice. Che resolution provided ly made out a fair claim to the brilliant young | hat a committee of three members of the doctor, and pos+ib'y may have disceve ed the | House be formed to unite with a com- ability which in Kinkora, like m»ny a flower, | mittee of the Legislative Council in pre- ** was bovn to blush uaseea.” We are g'®!,| paring a memorial to the Dominien Gov- to recognize, however, a spirit of hearty em-|.enment embodying our views on the ulstion in the sir, Kinukora may yet outrun | tea, question. He claimed that the prom- Vieg ises made by Sir Charles Tupper on the oc- casion of his visit to Charlottetown in 1878 Persenal, had not been fulfilled, and drew a_ roseate en picture of the condition of our people prev- i Speaker of the Imperial House of} ous tu the inauguration of the National Conmons must be decidedly impyrtial, as he Policy. He asserted that the National ia aimitte lly powe rfal a th sides are abus- Policy protected the rich at the expense — Bak * B y. a hy drographical of the poor, and thought that the souner a iepen he the Mesias DB :partment, and his | Change were made in our trade policy the family have left for England, Mr. Stewart, | 0°tcer for our people. It was quite true

son of Major John Stewart, contractor for the | that under the Nat‘onal Policy a certain

Toronto drill hall, takes Captaia Boulton’s | amount of trade had been opened up with place. the neighboring provinces. But this trade Stepuiak, the Rassian pstriot, has written | did not amount to very much, as in these

aletter to President Cieveland making a strong protest against the Russian extradition treaty.

~ a ee Labor Disputes —Arbitration.

proviuces they raised the same articles as we did, and in consequence did not want our products to any very grear extent. He claimed that asa result of the National Policy the emigration from Canada to the United States had greatly increased. The very best of our young people had gone abroad, and in consequence property has depreciated in value. In Charlotretown

Lonpon, April 18.

The House of Commons yesterday passed the first reading of the bill to provide for

mand there was for our horses in the Uvited States, and in the next he said thet the demand was on the decrease because electric cars were fast superseding the horse cars in that country. In conclusion he ex- pressed the hope that the day was not far distant when the trade barriers which now existed would be removed and such a system ef reciprocity between the two countries would be established as would be mutually beneficial.

Mr. Warburton said it gave him pleasure to be in # position to second the resolution. He was giad to see that the tide of public opinion was rising in favor of the principles set forth in the resolntion. Thisis not to be wonderec at when the great evils that have resulted to the people of this Province as a result of the National Policy are taken into consideration. Property bas greatly depreciated in value, aud although our farmers werk harder and have more im- proved facilities than they hud years ago the results that attend their efforts are not so successful as they would be had they a better market for their products— had they not been deprived of the right to trade on an equal footing with the United

States. He believed that when the people of the Dominion were given an opportunity of expressing them- selves at the polls they would

pronounce in favor of Free Trade with the

Caited States. Referring t» the failure of

the recent trade conference at Washington,

to which reference had been mide by the

previous speaker, he said he did not blame Mr. Biaine for refusing to negotiate a treaty with Canada upon the lines Jaid

down by the Canadian Commissioners.

[he proposition they made was not one that Mr. Bixine could reasonably be ex- pected to agree to. He dealt at consider- able length with our trade with the United Srates, and pointed out that the egg trade had greatly decreased under the cperation of the McKinley bill. The trade in sheep, horses, ete, had also greatly decreased since the adoption of the National Policy. He thought that it was high time a change were made ip our tariff on these and other lines. He claimed that the duty on certain articles in the dry goods and hardware lines which he mentioned, was too high, and bore harshly on the people, for it was the people who paid these duties in the shape of high prices. As @ result of the change that was now taking place in public opinion on this matter of our trade relations with the Unired States, he thought the day was not far distant when a change for the better would be inaugurated.

Mr. Gordon said he thought the resolu- tion was much the same in spirit as thoss introduced at previous seasions. The resolution is evidently intended to do execution in two directions—to attack the National Policy and the Dominion Gov- ernment. The members on this side of the House could not support the resolution because it was made up of unsupported aasertions. He denied that the existing tariff discriminated against the farmer, and the laboring man. On the contrary it was framed in the interests of these classes. Tea, sugar, coffve, flour and everything that was consumed in the Pro- vince was now cheaper than they ever were before. The poor man, i+ would thus be seen, was oot discriminated against as stated by the opponents of the Naticnal Policy ; the rich were not made richer or the pour poorer, as had been asserted. There were really only one or two rich men in Canada at the present time. Sir Donald Smith aud W. C. Macdonald were rich men, and they were making a good use of their money, But they made their money before ever the national policy was inaugu- rated. Now look at the great numbers of rich men in the United States, that country which is so highly praised by our friends on the other side of the House. Look also at the great many very poor there are in that country, and read the lung stories of poverty and crime that are daily told in the United States newspapers. There were really no poor people in the Dominion as compared with the United States. There are in this Dominion, said he, a number of persons known as pessimists—persons who spend their time decrying the land they live in and dving all in their power against the National Policy. But to attack the National Policy was vain; that policy would live long both in the United States and Canada. Under the National Policy manufacturies have «been established and industries built up that were not possible before ; employment was furnished for our people at home that was not furnished previous to the inauguration of ‘that policy. He then referred to McCarthy's motion, which had been read by the mover of the resolution, and pointed out that McCarthy was what was known as a political ‘‘sore- head.” He was one of the greatest friends and admirers of the National Policy at the time of its inauguration by Sir John Mac- donald, and would be a great friend of that policy at the prasent time had he beea taken into the cabinet. But he was not made a member of the cabinet, and the conase- quence is his present attitude on the trade question. It is admitted by all travellers,

the submission of labor disputes to arbitra- tion

property had depreciated one-third of its value, and in some sections of the Province houses that unce were well kept and looked trim and neat were now tenantiess and fast falling into decay. For this state of affairs the National Policy w«s te blame. He then quoted some of Mr. Laurier's rémarks in opposition to the National Policy, and Dalcon McCarthy's resolution suggesting an amendment to our trade policy, introduced at the late session of Parliament, He (Mr. Farquharson) be- lieved that if the Liberals were in power in Canada we would have Reciprocity with | the United States in very quick tims. The Fagty Saitise —One of the first clearances | (Jnited States was our natural market, and of the season was made fr: m Alberton last! we should do all in our power to improve week, when Captain Miller's schooner left our trade relations with that great country, that port with a load of potatoes and oats and remove the barriers which now stood shipped oy Meme Woodsnn Boot gf0t|in the way. Ho admitted that «reciprocity : ° oi J ' | such as he was in favor of would discrimi- Lovsrex Packine.—We are informed that | @*te sgainst the Mother Country, but great activity is manifested slong the coast claimed thet she was not disposed to regard by those engaged in the lobster packing in. | such discrimination unfavorably. The dustry. A very large number of persons, United States, he pointed out, would not indeed is interested in this year’s pack, and consent to a reciprocity in natural the ameust of capital involved is the:efore products only. They wanted our produce much increaxd, 1: wes'ern Prince County | and in exchange would send us their manu- especially the increase is nvticeable. factured goods. The Dominion Govern. eer ‘ment would not agree to this, as they At Your Own Price.—-You can get the best: wished to protect the rich manufacturers room p«per at the Diamond Bookstore. and monopolists of Canada, and asa result You will always get bargains at the the negotiations fc": chrough. He admitted Diamond Bookstore. that under the existing tariff tea, sugar, oil Blank books and stationery, at cost at the and other articles of common use were very Dismoud Boukstore, cheap, but were they as cheap as they Cloth bound slates and newest echool should be? Was the cheapness of flour the supplies at the Diam nd Bookstore. result of the national policy? Was it not Good fresh cysters by the quart Josiah Carmody s, King Street east. ap! 18 @i.

NO Intimation.

Orrawa, April 18. No intimation has been received at Gov- ernment House that Lord Aberdeen has actually been appoinced Governor-General.

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Wixter lingers in the lap of spring. A anowstorm eet in early this morniog, which continued until about noown, This atternoon we are having a high northeasterly wind with sleet.

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opening up of the great northwest fields? In one breath he spoke of the de-

Mr. Gordon weat on to remark, that the farmers in this fair Province of ours are as well off and es comfortable as are the

; farmers in any section of the United States

He contrasted the condition of the labor- ing mas of the present day, with the condi- tion of the laborer of former years. In former years, he said, a man thought he was well paid if he were given seventy-five cents for a day's work, and now if he did not got a dollar a day or more he consider- ed himaclf ill-used. A National Policy was the only pulicy that would encourage per- sons to come into Canada and assist in the building up of its manufactures. In order to build up the country we should urge our people to import nothing that can be man- ufactured in Canada. Everyone knows how the Canadian delegates were received at Washington — how they were prac- tically told that unless taey came under the fixg of the United States they could not obtain Reciprocity. It takes two parties to make a treaty, and -the statesmen at Washington are very clever. Until such time as they see that they must trade with Canada, and not until then, will they make such 4 treaty as would be fair to our people. The resolution before

the House, as he remarked before, was intended tocut in two directions. But it was harmless. Like Gulliver's

bladder flappers it made a great noise

but hurt nobody. The poet says :—

** The earth has bubbles asthe ocean hath, And these are of them.”

He could compare the resolution to

at rather because of the development and | 20thing else but bubbles intended for gul-

wheat ible people. intelligent and they can read and tind out atthe Diamond Bookstore.

The people of Canada are

the true state of affairsfor themselves. They | would tell these pessimiste—these bubble-

lowers—that they were not the oppressed | peop'e they said they were, He had been’ listening to resolutions such as th’s during | the past twelve years, and during that time ' the trade policy of the Liber»! party has gene under varivus names. One time it was called unrestricted reciprocity, at an- other commercial union, thea continental free trade and a host of other names. He wondered what they would call it next. Are the farmers anxious to have Armour's pork and American flour brought into the country in competition with our produc- ; tion ?

the West India market, the English mar- ket and our own inter-provincial market. and of these we have taken advant- age. He thought that the greatest enemies Canada had to-day—the men who were doing most to prevent the inauguration of a fair and equitable reciprocity treaty— were the men who were daily decrying their country, who were telling the Jnited States that we could not get along without a reci- procity treaty. As another member of the House was to speak after him, a man who was well versed in the trade relations of the two countries, he would say nothing further on the subject, but would content himself with moving the following amendment to the resolution : Resolved, That all after the word ‘‘where- as” be struck out and the following inserted : Our trade relationship with the United States is of such a nature that reciprocity in natural products would be beneficial te the agricuiturists as well as to the people general- ly of both countries; and

Whereas, The Government of Canada have signified their intention te carefully recon: sider the whole question of the tariff duriag the recess with a view to the readjustment of the same;

Therefore Resolved, That this House ap- proves ot the contemplated movement on the

He did not think so. Apart from! 4 = the United States altogether, we have the =

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part of the Dominion Government ia this re- spect, and entertains the belief that the tariff will be so adjusted as to promote the freest possible traffic between both countries con- sistent with the requirements of the Dominion revenue and our convection with Grest B it- ain.

Mr. Rogers seconded the motion made by the senior member for Georgetown. This trade resolution, he said, was now an old affair. Year after year it came up serenely ; but the policy enunciated therein was not always. the same. Two or three years ego the policy was Unrestricted Reciprocity. Since that time, however, the Liberal party had been badly stranded on the rock of Unrestricted Reciprocity, and in conse-

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quence there was no talk of Unrestricted Rec'procity now., It was quite true that there were good times under the old Reci- procicy Treaty.. But circumstances have changed since then, and the treaty which was suitable then would not be fair or just to-day. The United States was not then

popular in every home,

Luok HERE! J. M. McLEOD & OO.

Charlottetown, April 11, 1893.

developed as now, and Canada was not then the great and growing country she is now. To lister to the speeches of hon. members on the other side of the House one would think that it was Sir John Macdonald who inaugurated the obnoxious McKinley bill. Atone moment they groan over the terrible burden of taxation borne by the people because of the National Pol- icy, and at another they ask us to accept the United Srates’ tariff, which is much higher than ours. The absurdity of the ar- gument is apparent. He then took up and considered the different tariffs or treaties which existed between Canida and the United States, and showed that it was not Canada, but the United States that first abrogated them. The Libers) Conser- vative party, ssid he, is not opposed to a reasonable reciprocity treaty with the United States ; but we are decidedly op- posed to making the Dominion a slaughter market for the Republic. The United States waa ready at any moment to violate treaties and insult friendly powers when- ever it suited their own purpose to do so. Erastus Wiman and Ned Farrer—those two great Liberal leaders— were doing their very

st to force us intoaunion with the United States. He quoted from letters written by Farrer, in which he made cer- tain suggestions relative to the bonding privilege, etc., the adoption of which, he claimed, would result disastrously to Canada, and in which the admission was made that on this matter of atrade policy the Liberal party were wearing a mask.

Mr. Rogers moved the adjournment of the debate at midnight.

The House then adjourned.

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Srxoran Desratcurs ro Tut Examiner. Careless Mother—Lucky Child.

Moncrox, April 18.

Mrs, Crossman, living in a small tene- ment on Cable Street, yesterday locked up the House leaving a three year-old child alone. A short time later the building was discovered to be on fire. Fortunately the door was broke in in time to rescue the child who was badly frightened but not seriously injured. The child had evidently been playing with matches and set fire toa quantity of paper in the room.

Crossed the Line.

St. Joux, April 18.

G. J. Gunter, of Fredericton, who keeps a livery stable and dues some horse trading, has suddenly crossed the line, ,His liabili- ties are supposed to be ten or twelve thou- sand dollars.

There is talk of the establishment at 8t. John of smelting works for the reduction of Nova Scetia ores.

Disappolnting Results.

Lonpon, April 18. The report of the Grand Trunk Railway says that though the utmost efforts have been exercised to effect all ponsible economy in every department, the result of the working of the past year has been dis- appointing.

Result of Grit Extravagance.

‘Quepec, April 18. This Provinee wants to borrow ten million dollars, and the Hon. J. & Hall will leave at once for England to negotiate a low loan.

PROPOSED SAILINGS.

3 permitting, Steamers CARROLL and

WORCESTER will commence their reguiar trips from Charlottetown to Boston on THORSDAY, May 4th, and every week thereafter until further notice.

Cabin Fare to Boston, $5 00.

Sailings of S. S. BRITANNIA will be given later. For full information apply to

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BROWN’S BLOCK.

MR. VINNICOMBE’S ORCHESTRAL CONCERT.

Under the Auspices of the Oddfellows.

We PROGRAMME IN A FEW DAYS.

Reserve Wednesday Evening, April 26,

GNE PRICE ONLY. I WILL NOT give a discount of 20 or 26

per cent. to the first lady buying a OOLUMBIA, asTam not running a gift euterprise. Remember that the reduction of the selling price of a Bicycle is a virtual admission that it has no standard value. COLUMBIAS are the standard the world over, and are backed by the guarantee of @ Company whose word ia their bond. Don’t

make apy mistake. Let others try the experimeat.

R. M. YOUNG, Agent for P. E. Island.

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By the above Steamers, just arrived at Halifax from London, England, we wiil this week receive an

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Ladies’ Mantles, Capes, Dress Goods, Millinery, Silk, Gloves, Flowers, Ribbons, Laces and Fancy Goods,

The goods have been personally the latest London and Continental Styles.

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Ladies should see them.

selected, and embrace

Extra value

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Wholesale and Retail.

Uharlottetawn, April 12, 1893.