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JANUARY 28, 1881.

NOTES }'ROM THE CAPITAL.

In Parlia t, the past week has been chiefly distinguished by long speeches and late sittings, along with an occasional sharp passages at arms by the Iidading political combatants. Last Friday night was a stormy

in the House, and an exceedingly cold one ovtdoors. Sir Albert Smith never speaks but somehow or other he manages to ** put his foot in it. (n this ocecasion he

made a characteristic speech attacking the

Minister of Railways ina wild and angry |

manner; but before the House adjourned he found that it would have been much more comfortable himself if he hzd been cautious enough not to ‘‘ wake Tuper.” After this quarrel had been disposed of a | war of words suddenly broke out in a new place. The member for Hochelaga referred in his speech, to the course Mr. Anglin had taken in reference to the New Brunswick school question, accusing him of betraying the Separate School Party in order to ad- vance his political interests. Mr, Anglin who is rather a long-winded and tedious Speaker, though a wan of no mean ability,

for

shewed considerable temper in replying, | } than your humble servant.

challenging in leud angry tenes the Hon. member for Hochelaga or any other man to diseuss the New Brunswick school queatien in the press, or on the floor of the House, or on public piatforras, &e. This brought Mr. C pointed and deliberate manner, soon suc ceeded in bringing the already very red and very angry ex-Speaker to the boiling point. ** It is false” ‘‘you’re another,” were among sore of the expressions freely indulged in for a few minn Mingled with cries of ** order, order’ and what the Printing.” At last order was established, and the House adjourned forthwith at the early hour of 2.15, a. m. | stormiest night of the session so far. AN AMUSING SCENE | oceurred the other evening in the House of Commons. Mr. Oasgrain, who had been dining out, as might be seen by his white

tes

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about

After speaking for a short time in French, under dithculties, he wanted a drink—of } water. No page happened to be present | just at the moment. ceed without something to wet his whistle. So with tumbler in hand he left his desk |}and deliberately proeseded to quench his | thirst, while Mr. Landry, who is the play boy of the House, tock the floor and began speaking. Amidst loud laughter from both | sides of the House, Mr. C. disputed Mr. | L's right to the floor, and vice versa. Finally the Speaker ruled that as Mr. C. had left his seat and stopped apeaking, he | must give way to Mr. L., who thereupon | | delivered a most amusing speech, chiefly | directed against the Ronge leader. By sowe inadverience in the report of the | | speech, Mr. Oasgrain was described as the i | Bleu leader. Mr. Landry took the earliest | | opportunity to draw attention to the nais- | take, and good humoredly, on the part of | the Bleus, repudiated such leadership. i |

SPECTATOR. The ‘* Cay-* Spectator ” of the 15th | tust. eaye i: 10 ¥ho Mackenzie Govern. }

ment believed that it would ruin the coun- | try to build the line into British Columbia, | why did they not say so. Many of as held |

-the ‘‘ Canadian Spectator” among the

rest—that the promise given at the time | § Confederation was a foolish one and | | ghould be broken, but the Government of | ithe day ratified the promise, and having | failed to get a company to carry it out, | began to carry it out eu its aceount, and | Mr. Blake should have told us what has

brought about the change of front.”

| little to say of his attitude toward thie Lpailway question when he held a position in the late Liberal Guvernment; he didn’t

| taik of the Mackenzie effort and failure to |

| get a private company to build the road; he didn’t tell us why the Mackenzie Govern- ment had chosen to break a contract with Foster rather than allow him 20 cents an acre fora land grant; he didn’t tell us how the same was now worth $3.18 an acre; nor | did he tell us why he gave no practical | effect to his sanguine ideas about the Sault St. Marie branch during his term of office ** But it is said the Company will lock | up great tracts of land! Why should | they when their interest willgbe to have | the land settled ! They will have to count | on people, not on acres of unsettled land. | | But they can regulate the freight tariff! Precisely, but they have to work the Ine, and to do that profitably the North West must be populated. Put the price for | traffic too Migh, and it will keep settlers

‘away, or open up a new highway, say by | ‘ry-

New Orleans and the Mississippi. Trade | is too strong for great monopolies in these days.”

NEW SYNDICATE. '

Le Moniteur Acadien, published in New | Srunswick, says :— ‘‘ A new syndicate 1s | | just bern, It is the general belief of those | | well informed in such matters that their | | propositions are only made to delay the)

scheme, and at the same time help the Opposition. It is our opiniom that the new | syndicate has no more idea of undertaking | the construction of the Pacific Railway than the man in the moon has, and every one must admit that the present circeum- stances give considerable weight to that opinion.’

DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER BILL.

The Bil! to render marriage with a de- coased wife's sister, or, as some have it, with a wife’s deceased sister, legal, will, it is thought, again be brought before Par- liament. Petitions, for and against, have already been presented. The House will probably pass the Bill by a majority equal- ly large as last year. Its fate, however, resta with the Seuate; and as the great bulk of the Senators are sufficiently ad- vanced in years to be now married for the last, if not the first time, it is believed) that the Bill will meet with the defeat of last Session. It would be no great loss to | the country if it were again set aside. One | great advantage claimed for the Bill is that i

a man might marry two or three wives and only have one mother-in-law. A THIRD SYNDICATE It is rumored that Mr. Bunster is about forming a third Syndicate to build a Van- couver Island Railway. He purposes to build the read for a million dollars subsidy and every alternate block of land aleng the | line, and five hundred buffalo skins per mile. No Chinese labor wanted. : STILL ANOTHER SYNDICATR. : Rumors are afloa: that still another Syn- | dicate is about to spring into existence, | As the Opposition appears bound to talk ‘against time, there w:ll be ample oppor- ‘tonity for formulating the terms of the | latest scheme. It is, of course, already

,much lower than any submitted. Among | some of the gonditions, it is hinted, will be | provision againet weg! fa the fur trade

ina, in which a

) said to be an extensive dealer.

Petitions in favor of ratifying the agree-

stigan to his fect, who in a cool, |

Thus ended the |

shoker, *‘ swallow-tail,” &c., rose to speak. ) ' elements, can now be formed,

Mr. C. eouldn’t pro- | Berse has gone,

** He (Mr. Blake) had but an ominous |

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WEEKLY EDITION. |

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Friday, January 28,1881.

ment with the Syndicate are now being

presented to the House. Mr. Coughlan, | aa

mber for North Middlesex, on Monday; In the course of his remarks on the last, presented hine petitions, numerously | New Syndicate Contract, Sir John Mac signed, from Sir Richard Cartwright and | ais M. C. Cameron’s constituents, praying that | donald said :— whereas the building of the Pacitic Rail- The document had been made in Ottawa; road is a work of extraordinary magnitude, | it had been concoted by leading members if built by the Government, would press ' of the Opposition in this House and by heavily on the taxpayers of the Dominion ; | friends of theirs outside. The hon. memn- and as the Government have now an offer | ber for Niagara had alluded to the fact froin a Company of responsible capitalists! that amoug the tenderers there were no | to build, equip and run the line of Rail- | less than road fr oe Lake Nipissing tw the Pacific | SEVEN DEFZATED GRIT CANDIDATES. — een : ~ se Pg verritory,- ©) pore could be no doubt about the matter. | offer now before Parliament be at once |

accepted. | being presented are not all on one side of | the question.

DRAWING ROOM.

} The Drawing Roum held last Monday evening by His Excellency the Governor | General in the Senate Chamber was one of | the grandest affairs of the kind ever wit- | nessed in Ottawa, There was no sound of | revelry by night, such as was heard in Bel- | gium’s capital the evening before Waterloo. | Nevertheless the lamps shone brightly o’er

ladies and gentlemen, in full dress, anxious

to pay their respects to His Excellency.

The description of the ladies’ dresses, along

with the other et cetras, of this vice-regal

| reception may be safely left in the hands

of others better posted in these matters

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The New Syndicate.

The following is the opinion of the Mon-

tary Times, a thoroughly independent

| commercial journal, on the new Syndicate | question :—

‘*The novel feature in the affair is the for- mation of a rival Syndicate, now said to ke in progress. In connection with the new Syndicate a few strong names have been men-

come and from others of whom it may be ex- pected. But what is wanted in any company which proposes to engage iu this gigantic work is a strong cast as a whole. A weak Syndicate making its apparition on the Lon- don stock exchange, with a contract as doubt- ful value on ita hands, would be doemed to certain failure. We doubt whether a reeond Syndicate, really strong in all the essential Besides, the formation of a new syndicate now is some-

} thing like shutting the stable door after the

To any eompany now ap- proaching the Government with a de sire te negvtiate, the Government car hardly help replying that it is too late ; thata bargain has been made in good faith witha syndicate, and that that bargain now awaits the pleasure of Parliament. It is for Par- liament te ratify or to refuse the bargain ; but the Government cannot till Parliament decides one way or the other, turn its back on

| the arrangement to which it has set ite hand | and pledged its henor.

We do not see bow any Government could help giving some such answer as this. It might say, in addition, that the time to make offers was when the negotia- tions were open; that no one can say he was precluded from tendering by a want of specitic invitation to do so, since it was well known to every body that the Governinent was receiving offers. The first thing in order is for Parlia- ment to pronounce upor the bargain now before it. Should it refuse to ratify the bargain, then new offers to undertake the work, such as the one now spoken of, could be made a basis for new negotiations,”

The Shifting Ordanance Prize

CAPTURED BY A DETACHMENT FROM MAJOR MOKHIS’S BATTERY OF GARKI#ON ARTILLERY TIME: 1.08

We are glad to learn that a detachment of Major Morris’s Battery of Garrison Ar- tillery have succeeded in carrying off the Shifting Ordnance prize, given by the Do- minion Artillery Association. petition, which was open to all @arrison Artillery Batteries in the Dominion, con

| sisted in dismounting a 32 pr. gun over the 8 pr. ¢

front of its carriage, and then remounting on the same carriage, by parbuckling up the rear on a single skid. To do this the gun has to be raised out of the trunnion holes and slewed across the carriage, then thrown over, by raising the rear of the carriage, skids have then to be placed and the parbuckle ropes fixed, and the gun parbuckled up the rear, slewed and lowered imto the trunnion holes, stores to be then replaced. This was done by the Battery in the remarkably shert time of one minute and eight seconds.

Last year, the Battery—in order to allow of Lt. Ool. Lewes, Assistant Inspector of Artiller, who was on the Island ona tour of Inspection, and acting as umpire—-com-

peted after only three or four special drills,

and were—although Col. Lewes expressed himself as highly pleased with the smart and yet steady manner with which the work was done—beaten by a smart Halifax Bat- This, together with the fact that woveral other Batteries drilled with the intention of competing, but finding they could not beat the time made by Major Morris’ detachment retired, awakened con-

| siderable interest in this year’s match,

among militiamen generally, as it was snp- posed that the ‘tug of war” would he between Major Morrie’ and the Halifax Battery. Major Merris’ detachment, how- ever, beat them easily, and may now claim the proud distinction of being the crack artillery corpse of the Dominion.

The prizes consist of a gold embroidered badge, and Hand book of Field Service, to the commander of the Detachment, and $20 to the Detachment. Also to the Com- mander, a Winchester Rifle given by the Assistant Inspector of Artillery, for compe- tition by the Maritime Provinces.

Political Notes.

Mr. Huntington has returned frem Cali fornia. It will be interesting to note his attitude on the railway matter. It was rumored that he had some connection with Syndicate No. I. The report may be un- true. And if true, believing the contract to be safe, he may for political purposes record his vote against it, and even perhaps orate a little in opposition to it.—St. John

ews.

There is the petition from Prince Xdward Island with its four thousand signatures, presented by Mr. Anglin. That is a docu- ment needing close inspection. Its list of names should be printed and sent back to the Island for an analysis, which would doubtless bring out some most interesting and striking facts concerning the bono fide character and value of the document.-—St. John News.

ren ar

Tur Spirit of the Times says :—The Hanlan-Laycock race has been postponed from Monday until Saturday, with every prospect of further delay. The American oarsmen have'carried with them American weather, and still the course from Putney to Mortlake has been full of heavy ice-fields driving dp and down with swift tides. This extraordinary conduct of old Fatner Thames

feres with strict training and regular prac- tice. It is thought that the race cannot be rowed this week, and as Hanilan wishes to sail for home on Thurday there is possi- bility that the race may be aoandoned. Postponement beyond Saturday will make all bets off, nnder the rules of beat racing,

and only main stakes remain in question.

So you see the petitions that are |

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This com- |

‘in making any offer they chose.

Sir Jobn on the New Syndicate. |

The whole affair was a poltical dodge. It |

had been stated that the men connected

| with the scheme took no interest in polities, | but he was inclined to think that such men | as John Walker had pretty strong political The same might be said of The whole document

prociivities. Herman H. Cook. bere the impression of deception on the face of it.

entitely'in the interest of the tenderers,

for it was perfectly plain that should the

hon. gentlemen opposite succeed in re-

gaining power, the Company would at once be relieved from the most difficult There could be no doubt about that, in view of the opinions held by hon. gentlemen opposite in refer- | contract on the table.

portions of the work.

| Party.

A contract made on the basis of that proposition must of necessity be

ocean to ocean by one great iron chain which can never be broken. (Cheers.)

|That was the policy of the leader of the

Opposition, supported by his Pariy and

| which would be equal to $17,333 or $39,132 | per tile respectively. Now, gentlemen | opposite, when speaking about the subdivi- sivn of the subsidy, had alleged that there

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Local aud Other Items,

MonTrReAL’s arrears in taxes amount to

cee supported now by the organ of that| was too great @ disparity under tke | $1,630,364.59.

Yet he remembered that it was

Stephen’s contract between the Prairie and

only a few months ago that the organ de- | the Eastern sections.

nounced the Sault Ste, Marie branch as traitorous, because the close commercial connection which would ensue would eventually be

FOLLOWED BY POLITICAL CONNEXION ;

THE REASON FOR THIS | was that it was considered of the greatest and extra inducements had been held ont | to get it completed in three years.

| importance that the road be built at once, |

De. Mvurrart has spoken on the Syndicate Contract question.

THE population of the United States is offi- cially reported at 50,152,866.

It is understood that Princess Louise will

The return to Canada early in May.

‘but other men controlled the organ vow, | division was made for the purpose of hurry- |

Ross and Boyd have pap, a race for

aud he believed that if the chief man of | ing up the completion of the 900 miles and | £200 aside on the Thames in August next, that paper was still alive he would not be- | every inducement had been given to build

lie his whole life, because that gentleman had always upheld British connection and had always sustained a continuance of the

‘that portion first. It must be remem- | bered that no lands were given in British

| Columbia, or .orth of Lake Superior. The

relations existing between the grand cld | lands were all in the North West, and this mother country and ourselv@. The docu- | was done for the purpose of inducing the

ments on the table shows evidence on the face of it that it had been prepared here for political purposes.

He would call attention to the very few variations from the contract now on the table. The new offer has been

80 FRAMED

could sien it and he was safe. They knew

that the Gevernment must support the |

They knew that the

ence to the line which should be built. | new proposition could only be entertained

Shrewd fowlers did not set their nets in

by the defeat of the Governinent, and they

sight of the birds; and the Government}! Know that in that event the leader of the

and their supporters must be as blind as | bats, and the country as blind as owls in |

the day, not to see the net which had been spread by the hon. gentlemen op- posite. (Cheers. )

HE DID NOU BELIEVE that the hon. member for West Durham (Mr. Blake) would dare to support such a

there were others on that side of the House could not support it.

One gentleman declared that the Govern- ment had no right, no suthority, to make the contract which they had submitted to Parliament for ratifieation. If there was no authority to make that cuntract, how could there be any authority for making a con- tract with the new Syndicate ? (Hear, hear) Another, and he referred now to Mr. Char!l- ton, the hon. member for North Norfolk, had denounced the provision concerning the selection Sof the lands as a swindle aud a robbery. He observed that the new Syndi- cate had in their proposition asked them for this very same privilege

OF SWINDLING AND ROBBERY.

They wanted to select the lands in precisely the same manner as the old Syndicate. Surely the hon. member for North Norfolk could not support the second Syndicate any more than the first. (Applause. )

Mr. MeCallum—Oh he'll support any- thing.

Sir John continuing, referred to the pro- visions relating to the sale of the lands. It had been asserted that the old Syndicate were given power to issue bonds on the lands, and ater issuing them they could drop the work. The bondholders might whistle for their money and the country might whistle for the railroad. Strange to say, the new proposition had precisely the same provision contained in it, and as the Opposition had denounced, #his orovision try!

| the oid contract they couid jsescely accept ;

itin the new. (Hear, hear!) “in the con-' tract before the House it is provided thata million dollars should be

DEPOSITED AS BECURITY.

In the new proposition the same amount was stated, though there had beasts that the amount would be much greeter. The new Syndicate, however, had made up their minds to ‘‘ go one better,’ as Herman H. Cook would say. it had been announced to-day that they were prepared to make deposits to the extent of twelve or thirteen hundred thousand dol- lars as security that the million decllars would be paid, but according to the terms of contract the old Syndicate were not re- quired merely to deposit one million as security. ‘They would have to pay one ruillion down and an additional four mil- lions before the Ist Dec., 1882.

TO CARRY OUT THE BARGAIN

already made. The faith of the Govern- ment had been already pledged to the con- tracters who had come forward and offered to carry the work to completion, and had pound themselves so to do, and they be lieved that contract to be the best bargain ever offered to this country for the building of the Pacific Railway. He would chal- lenge the vote of the House on that con- tract on its merits, and he believed he would be sustained. (Loud cheers.)

The Government would not be deterred by the bogus offer which had been made. He would call it a bogus cffer in spite of the fact that there were zome gentlemen of respeetability connected with it; for he felt certain that those who concocted it never expected seriously that it had any chance of acceptance. They knew that the faith of the Government had been pledged to the contract before the House, and hence they

KNEW THEY WERE PERFECTLY 84FE A com- pany might offer to build the road for one thousand dollars a mile as long as the felt quite certain that their offer could not be accepted. What would be the result in the event of the Government ac- cepting the new proposition? The hon. Leader of the Opposition was opposed to the building of the British Columbia sec- tion of the railway; he was willing to let that Province depart in peace, and to sub- mit to the disintegration of the Domin- ion. He (Mr. Blake) was not in favor of extending the Railway beyond the Sea of Mountains, as he termed them. The hon. gentleman had moved last session that work in British Columbia given out under the terms of the Mackenzie Act, 1874, be post- poned. He (Sir John) pitied the hon. member for Lambton at that time. If that hon. gentleman was his worst enemy, he would as for NO GREATER HUMILIATION

than to see him compelled, as he had been by the man who had depoeed him, to belie his own policy as set forth in his own ad, vertisement. Some of the Opposition mem- bers said the advertisement referred to was not for the pur of getting tenders or of having the coho on, but merely to ascer- tain the probable cost of the work. He could not believe such a statement. He could not believe that the hon. member for Lamb- ton would bring contractors from all parts of the country to make tenders merely for such a purpose as that. If the member for West Durham SHOULD COME INTO POWER,

there would never be a mile of railway built ora trein run in British Columbia, for that was the hon. gentleman’s pelicy, and British Columbia would be forced to appeal to the Imperial Parliament to release her from a connection with a people devoid of honor—who refused to comply with their obligations—and resume her immediate connection with the crown. The policy of the hon. gentleman, as far as the eastern section was eoncerned, was to build the Sault Mane branch to run off to the United States, to the utter Jestructien of the great plans to unite the whole Dominion from

yroposition. He could not believe that that 10n. gentleman would vote for entering inio t ; ' la contract with this second Syndicate, and tioned, from one of whom a disclaimer has |

been loud |

Opposition would succeed to power. They knew what his policy was, for it had been so recently announced. He could scareely have changed it. It was too quick. He could change between 1880 ann 1881, but this would be too quick, and his policy would be announced a few daysago. Now, suppose a change of Government took place, what would be the position of the gentlemen who made the second offer? He quoted the section of the new tender which provides that the Government may ABANDON THE EASTERN SECTION. The company never had any intention of building the eastern section. They knew that the previously pledged poliey of their friends was to abandon the eastern section, and the document was so drawn that none of the parties signing it--some of whom had large means—-and some of whom had no means atalli—could run any possible risk of loss by the building of that section. In lieu of the eastern section they pro- posed to build the Sault branch. The 21st clause provided thas if the Government wished to withdraw from the line from Kamloops to Fort Meody, they could do so. Hon. gentlemen opposite did net want to build the line from Kamloops to Fort Moody. The next clause provided that the Government could abandon the 650 miles between Kamloops and Jasper House, which was also part of the policy of the hon. gentlemen opposite, Take THB WHOLE PROPOSITION then, and it amounted to this :

lst. The abandonment of Lake Superior section.

2nd. The building of the Sauit Ste. Marie branch.

3rd. The Government may abandon the section from Emery’s Bar to Port Moody.

4th. The Government may abandon

that part of the line west of Point Jeune Cache. ; j ;

Now, it was the policy of the Opposition to accede to all these propositions. This was what they had contended for, and they could not go back on it. What we come come to then was this: That these gentle- men offer to build the Prairie Section, which was easy and cheap to build, would pay almost as soon as it was built, for pop- ulation would flow into the country as the roadwas built, and provide business for it. So this scheme which was to take the place of the contract to build the whole road was simply

AN IMPUDENI OFFER to build the prairie section. (Applause. ) This scheme would give a connection with the American railway system,and our trade would be carried off by one or more chan- nels to American ports, to the great ruin of our trans-continental trade; te the great ruin of that trade between Asia and Eng- land, which we hope to see carried on over our Canadia Pacific Railway. (Ap- plause.) It was as easy as rolling off a log, to build and run a railway across the level prairie section and make it pay. (Laughter and applause.) This scheme was an attempt to prevent connection with Ontario, with Quebec, and with the Maritime Provinces. which would save a through cenuection by our own line. If we have our railway on our own soil, we can put an emigrant on board at Halifax and take him through the Maritime Provinces, through Quebec, through Ontorio, into the North-west, al- ways keeping him under the British flag, where he would be removed from the,temp- tations to which he would be exposed if passing shrough the United States. It was quite clear that the gentlemen who made the offer were .safe, safe as a church. (Langhter.) There was no idea of building any of the difficult portions of the road. Then consider what the offer is that they are going TO BUILD THB PRAIRIE SECTION FOR.

They ask a subsidy of $7,333 per mile in cash as compared with $10,000 under the esent contract, and a reduction of the and subsidy, but it must be remembered that all the land would be immediately along the railway in the prairie sections, where it had been variously estimated as worth three, four or five dollars per acre ; whereas, if the whole line ig built, the greater portion of the land will be away from the railway. Under the present con- tract only some eleven million acres can be got between Winnipeg and Jasper House, and the balance must be got elsewhere; ana in order to make these other lands valuable, the Company would have to build branches at their own éxpense, which would open up the country. He was quite sure the second Syndicate would get more value fer their lands, because they would be in the very richest portion of the North- West, and have a railway running through the centre of them. He contended that the profits to be made by a Company which would only build the prairie section would be much greater than that of a Compan

which had also to build the section ae of Lake Superior. The offer was so much like the Contract that it led to the sup- position that it had been prepared here by aections of the Contract Cee eut out and used as they were, merely substituting the word tender for the word contract. 4

BUT ONE LITTLE WORD

had been changed, which made a great dif- |

ference. The word ‘‘o4ll’”” had been sub- stituted in the offerfor the word ‘‘ shall,” in the clause inning, ‘‘ the company to build the troad,” &c., which he contended changed the nature of the contract so that it could not be enforced in the courts in the same manner as the present contract could be. Referring to the value of the land, he pointed out that it would be much more valuable taken all in the prairie section than if taken all over, as the present Syndicate had io. Taking the value of the land at $1 per acre, the new Syndicate would get $15, - 600,000 fer the nine hundred miles in the preirie section, If the value waa placed at

$2 the amount would be $24,600,000. If

at $3.18, it would amount to $35.220,000,

compary not only to build the main hune, but numerous branches. In order to in- duce them to build branches, liberal terms had been given, and he hoped to see the country herring-boned with railways. (Ap-

| plause.) Great care had been taken that | the company should build the Lake Su-

that the most timid man (Sir W. P. How- oe ae at the same time as the ett Se ene rar ae tlemen eomposing the Syndicate were men et ee ee | of honer and high character, but in so im-

He believed that the gen-

portant a matter he had no right to take

the word of any person, so it had been |

PUT IN THE CONTRACT

that they should commence at Lake Nip- pising, and that the annual progress should be at such a rate as to show that the work would be completed in ten years. It must be remembered that this was not two separate contracts, one for the Central sec- tion and one for the Eastern section. It Was a contract to build beth.

If THEY WAITED to build the other section, even though they build twice as much as they were re- quired to in the other section, they would not get their land. If they did two or three times the pro; rtion in the prairie section and not the proper proportion in the eastern section, not a pound or a cent would be given them, beeause they had failed in the eastern seetion. (Applause.) The new Syndicate, in order to make a fleurish, had struck out the fifteenth clause which provided for the construetion of lines south of the Canada Pacific for twenty years. This clause was put in the contract deliberately and for the same cause that Parliament had been asked to build the Canadian Pacific Railway, in the desire that when it waa built it should be a Cana- dian road and not a road drained and bled by American roads. (Applause.) We aimed to keep the trade from the foot of the Recky Meuntains all through the North West in our own territory ; that not one of the trains running ever the ©. P. R. should be run to build up cities in the United States. We aimed to build up Moutreal, Quebec, Toronto, Halifax and our own cities—-not those in the States. (Applause.) He contended with reference to the monopoly ory that if excessive rates were charged a rival road would soon be started. There was no law to prevent anether railway across the continent. It would be as reasonable to say that