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The Fishery Award.

_ Mr. L. A. Davies is « singular eontroverrial- ist. A week ago he undertook to deplore our ‘Intense ignorance” as shown by some "* statements of fact” made by the Rxami- NER, and which he said were ‘ail untrue.” in his letter, whieh we published on Satur- day, he is compelled to admit that the most lnportant of our “‘ statements,” viz , that Sir William Whiteway had made a sepa- rate claim for Newfoundland, was correct, and that he was himself inaccurate on a pointon which he had branded us with “Intense ignorance.” But, nothing dis- concerted, he blandly adds, ‘‘ This inac- caracy, however, does not affect any of my other statewents of fact,and rather adds to, than detract from the strength of my argn- ment.” In ourinnoeence, we have thought that any advoeacy which derives add’ -ional strength frem inaccuracy, as to facts, is scarcely deserving of the name of argument. But we may be teld that this opinion is due toour ‘intense ignorance.” Seriously, hew- ever, we do not see much prospect of con-

ee: ees —_ Vineing an opponent, who, as his “‘ facts’ mj b. ms| meen | lh m. | *re demolished, plucks up a little more au- tl Fe 146 24. 6 32imorn|12 49 | 4¢ity, and stoutly contends that his argu- 2} sat i - 1} 0 25' 43) ment has grown stronger and stronger. 38 : W 27, 755 1 4! 47) The uninitiated reader of the letter be- #M Ss 2 $3 45 146 50) fore us can scareely eseape the conclusion 5 slay js 29) 9 35) 2.33! F3 | that dir. Davies is still in the service of the 6 Wedareday | 34 20 45/328) 58 | Dowinion of Canada. That the part per- : a oo a = ~ = oa 13 7 formed by him before the Commission, ie tet og] 35| 1 53) 6 831 : | was highly impreper, as well as prejudicial Sitenter 97| 26| 2 87/7 491 g | t© the interests of Prince Edward Isiand. is aa) thendion 25 37 4 3 834) 2g) Plainly demonstrated by the fact that he 12. Tuesds+ 23; 38 5 91914 15 | cannot offer any defence for himself with- 88 Wednesdat 21 40 6 19:19 53 19| Out adopting the same line of argument 16 Tharcday 19 «41 7 30:10 30! 22) with which the Dominion has opposqd our 15 Frida i7 42 84212 7! 25) separate claim. He admits that Prince 16! Saturcay it 44 9 Sl ll 47 28 | Edward Island, as well as Nowfoundland, 17) Sunday i 45 10 56 aft29 31 | was reparately mentioned in the Treaty of 18) Moad.y 12 46 11 St 115) 34) Washington; that Prinse Edward Island 19) Tuesday 10, 45 morn’ 2 7) 33) ratified that Treaty when she was, like 2 W edie sday % 49: 033,3 5 Newfoundland, a seperate colony; but he 31) Thursday i} 5O' 1161419 43 adds :— 4 22 Friday Sei £eee Gi oa 8) Seturdey $ 58 215 655) 49|_ “There the analogy between us: and $4; Sunday 2 541'241-8 Ij 2| Newfoundland ceased, beeause instead of @5| Monday o| 55'3 & 8 49 55 | rewaiming a separate colony, we entered 96) Toesday 459 57 3.3019 32; 58| Confederation on the Ist of July, 1873, 37, Wednesday 57, SS 3 07 10 12,14 OL | and, therefore, became and were a pars and 28 Thursday 55 59 4 33:10 52) 4) parcel of the Dominivs.” = a , ‘ zs . é a ntetlng 10 | Now, we most emphatically dissent frem —a a thie view of the case. To admit that the analogy between the cases of Prince Bdward

Prince Edward Island

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Winter Arrangement.

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island and Newfoundland ceased be- cause the former became a part of the Dominien on the let of Jniy, 1873,

| means that by the terms of Union we ceded | to Oanada the proceeds of the bargain we

had made as a separate Provines. This would be a complete renunciation of our separate claim. Can it be that Mr. Davies takes thie ground, solely for the purpose of shielding himself from: just censure, fer negleeting to urge our separate elaim, not oniy as our Attorney General, before the Covmmission, and in the preparation of the British ease, but also before the British Government, previously te the meney being paid ever to Canada?

Mr. Davies is agaiw ‘‘ inaccurate” when he says that ‘* Prince Edward laland was a part ef the Dominion, during the whole of the time the Fishery articles were in opera- tien.” By an Order in Council, of this Islapd, dated the 24th of July, 1871, American Citizens were admitted for that season, to the liberty which it was proposed to secare to them by the Treaty of Wash- ingten. This liberty was granted to Ame- rican citizens, on condition that a refund should be made by the United States of duties on Fish snd Fish oil, exported to that country. The Dominien of Canada refused this concession, and the American Government made that refusal the pretext for denying the refund, whieh they had

romised to make to our Merchants and fishermen. If the fact that Newfoundland did not ratify the Treaty until 1874 sup- plied an argumert, (as Mr. Davies says it did)for keeping the claim ef that Province separate before the Commission, did not the provisional effect, which our Govern ment gave to the Fishery Articles on the 24th of July 1871, furnish an equally valid argument for preseuting a separate claim for Prince Edward Island ?

The claim of Newfoundland is different in many respects from thatof the Do- minior. The Ainericans enjoyed very ex- tensive privileges on the Newfoundland ceasts in terms of the Treaty of 1818, which they did not enjvy in any of the other waters of British America. The rights se- eured by Treaty to France, on these coasts, lessened, to some extent, the vaiue te the Americans, of the privileges conceded to them by the Treaty of Washington. Cod, the priucipal fish caught in Newfoundland waters, by Americans, is taken for the most part, in the open sea. The claim of New- foundland, was different from that of the Dominion, mainly beeause it was weaker. The claire of Prinee Edward Island diftered | from beth, and was stronger than either. It was stronger in point of time, when the Fishery Articles tock effect, and it was stronger, beeause our inshore fisheries are more yaiuabie, and are used to a greater extent, by Aniericans, than these of the Dominion eof Canada er Newfoundland, Bence Prince Edward Islaud had much strenger reasons than Newfoundland, for keeping her ease separate before the Com- valssion.

Mr. Davies exhibits great dexterity in evading questivns, which we have asked bin as plainly as our knowledge of the English ianguage will admit. We ask him, why did he, while Attorney General of Prince Edward lsiand, accept very large fees from the Dominion of Oanada, as Counsel in a case in whieh the interests of Prince Edward leland, and those of the Dominion were in direct confliet ? He replies that he would have beea *‘ a laughing stock” or *'a natural born idiot” to have raised the sepa rate claim of Pvince Edward Island before tha Commission. DVews he imagine that the most blind partisan in the community will accept this as a satisfactory answer! As counsel for the Deminion it was hia duty to see that the money was awarded to Canada, and that no part of it, should be set aside for Prince Edward Island or any other Province. But what wes the duty ef the Atterney General of Prince Edward Island at this jenetare? It was - dut soe ae asked for » hearing before the arbitrators in sup- port of the separate elaita uf Prinee Edward Island, and afterwards te have applied to the British Government fer eur equitable share of the Award, at the time when one millien dellars were ory to the Celony of Newfoundiand.

It was clearly the intention of the Gov- ernwent of this Island, when it gave effect to the Treaty of Washingtor, that Prince Edward Island, should be represented at the Halifax Commission. In proof of this we submit the feilewing extract from a des- patch from Gevernor Rebinson to the Earl of Kimberley, dated the 25th of July, 1871 :—

“may add that in the evemt of the Act necessary to give effect to the Treaty being roe by the Legislature of Prince Edward sland, my Government wi'l apply te your Lordship for a to send os aie j ifax for rpere of conicr tive te Halif pot io ‘

with the, Agent of the

| Make the calves fat, and never ajlow them | to lose the calf fat ; you

AND ISLAND ARGUS.

pains appointment is provided for im the concluding paragraph of article 23, of the

| Treaty, and of urging upen Ain the claims of

| the Island te a just share, propertionate to the

| valwe of our Fisheriva, of whatever compense- tien may be awarded, as am equivalent for the

| privileges which the Colonies are a-ked bo sur- render.”

The italics are ours. This extract plain- ly shows that it was the intention of the Pope Administration in 1871, to present ovr separate claim to the Commissien, and indicates the great culpability ef Mr. Davies, in not carrying out that intentiun. There can be no excuse for his delinquency in this matter, unless he is indeed prepared to urge that we ceded our claim to the Dominion, whieh, as we have already said, involves a complete surrender of our claim.

In his great anxiety to keep this question open for political purposes,Mr. Davies says, that ‘* our claim has nothing at all in com- mon with the claims made by the other Maritime Provinces, and on which Parlia ment jhas passed an opinion.” We have already called attention to Mr. Davies’ statement, that the ‘‘ analogy between us and Newfoundland ceased, because we entered Confederation.” If this were true, our case would have everything in common with that of the other Maritime Provinces. But it is not true. It is equally untrue that no adverse opinion has been passed on our claim by the Parliament of the Dominion, Sir Jeiin MeDonald’s resolution, supported by Mr. M: Kenzie, declaring that the portion

of the Fishery Award paid over to Canada eoustitutivnally, and of right belongs to the Dominion of Canada, ia a distinct repudia- tion of eur claim, and every other Provin- cial claim. When Parliameat solemnly affirmed the principle that all the money belonged to Canada, it made no exception of the amount claimed by Prince Edward Ilaland. The whole must certainly include its part. It is quite impossible that Mr Davies does not understand this perfectly well, and consequent!y his attempt to fasten the whole odiumw on the Dominion Ministry ineluding Mr. Pope, ia very discreditable.

Does not Mr. Davies perceive that if there are good reasons for presenting our claim to the Houseof Commons, apart from the claims of the other Maritime Pro- Vinces, the same reasons suggest themselves with mueh greater force in favor of the

view that our case should have been pre- sented separately befere the Commission?

The remarks of the Minister of Justice, to which Mr. Davies refers, had reference only to our claim for the period interven- ing between the time when we gave provi sional effect to the Fishery articles, and the date of our entering Confederation. This is aelaim against the United States, net against the Dominion of Cavada.

The Outlook for Farmers.

LETTER FROM 5. KB. WRIGHT, BSQ. Tue following letter from B. E. Wright, is well worth reading. Mr. Wright is one of our beat and mest enlightened farmers, and his opinions deserve on that account mere than ordinary consideration. The wonderful progress made in Ontario in stock-raising, and more particularily in cheese making, should certainly arouse our people to the importance of starting cheese factories in this Prevince. Mr. Wright knows whereof he affirms when he says that our pastures are better than those of Ontarie :—

‘* $imn,—These hard times are quite suffi- cient to make the farmer consider what his prospects are likely to be. Storms and blight and destructive insects may in a great mea- sure, destroy the cereal crops, as they have often done in the past. Then, would it not be well to look round and ascertain

WHAT IS GOING ON IN OTHER PLACES? Two or three days travelling will take us to where there are plenty of cheese factories and creameries, and fat stock being shipped abroad. Canada, ouly twelve years since, imported fifty thousand dollars’ worth of cheese a year, but now she not only supplies the heme demand, but exports $4,094,046 worth, and her export of butter and cheese combined is $7,213,208, more than one half the value of the export of wheat. Here are facts that ought to

OPEN GUR EYES

if anything will. I cannot see anything to hinder steek-raising and fattening animals, to acertain extent, being carried on here in connection with cheess factories and creameries. Our pastures are very much better adapted for grazing purposes than those of Canada, then why not avail our- selves «f our natural resources. There is

A FOOLISH PRACTICE,

I am afraid, among many, and although it may appear but trifling, it is quite the reverse, and will not facilitate the develop- ment of the cattle trade. I allude to put- ting calveson skim milk whenthey are about two weeks old. That is something like paying one dollar fer twenty-five cents. They should always have new milk until they are five or six weeks eld, and then it shoald not be taken from them all at once A little flax seed well beiled would be a good substitute, with partly skim milk.

will then have vasily kept animals. This rule will apply geod to all other kinds of asteck. Thore who make their pigs weigh three hundred pounds and over at nine or ten months’ old de not allow them io lese the grunter fat. It would be presumption on my part te attempt to threw ontany hints on pork feeding, or to enlarge on the advantages of this braneh of farming. What cne has accomplished others can do. It only requires attention. If farmers would raise half an acre, more or less, of some kind of crop, such as

FoDDER CORN,

for soiling purposes, and keep the cattle in the yard a portion of the time and feed them, a large quantity of manure could be accumulated. The farmer should net re- quire to be reminded that the manure heap is the farmer's Bank. When agriculture and the fisheries beeome developed, there need be no trouble patieentes im respect to conveyance to market. In the meantime a subsidy will be required. The Dominion Government

DESER\ £5 CREDIT for having allowed a sufficient sum as an indueement fer a steamer to make regular trips the approaching season, and it is ne ‘naa than reasonable to hope that the same Government wil! be generous and do a ¢ deal for us in similar and other ways. ad we remained out ef Cenfederation eur share of the Fishery Award was eertain. However, there is no use trying to mske politieal capital out of what canzot now be ae hat we have lost we must try make up in other ways. There is no alternative, ard let us be enceuarged with the recollection that if we had remained eut

Barking up the Wrong Tree.

Follewera but Unfaithful Servants.” will be noticed, very slight changes would make his article read in this way :—‘t We

man can serve two masters, and it is evi-

accepted » retainer from the Hon. Alex. Mackenzie, he became the servant of the Dominion Government. He could not obey the orders of his masters and serve the interests of Prinee Edward Island, where those orders and interests clashed. The mandate was issued, thatin order to earn his fee, he must be silent about the claims of P. BE. Island before the Fishery Commis- sion. He was plainly told that silence on that point was what was wanted, and to govern himself accordingly. He knew that the inshore fisheries belunged to the people of P. E. Island, and that their right to them had been freely acknowledged by the Imperial Government time and again. Mr. Davies knew all this well, but he did not hesitate a moment. Although he was Prime Minister and Attorney General of P. H. isiand, he had taken the fee, aud the Prime Minister ci the Deminion had the first elaim on his allegiance. Asaciever lawyer, and the Isiand’s Attorney General, he had the opportunity of pleading our case before the Fishery Commission. He was at the time receiving $1600 a year as salary of Attorney General, from the people of P. E. Island, avd he was in henor bound to look after their iuterests. But never was the Island interests treated with such gross

neglect or so shamefully given away. It is plain that Mr. Davies pre- ferred his prospects aud his party

to his duty te the people whom he should, but didn’t, represent. Island had peculiar claims to retuee for the loss of eur Fisheries, he shi have gone before the Commission untram- melled by afee from the Dominion Gov- ernment, to plead our case with all the ability he possessed. If he had done his duty at the time, i¢ is mere than probable that our share of the Award would never have gone into the cyffers of the Dominion Government, but would have been handed to us the same as Newfoundland’s share was handed to them.”

If the editor of the Patriot was really in earnest when secusing the Conservative members for neglect of duty in the Domin- ion Parliament, he was certainly barking np the wreng tree. But we rather think that his yelp at the Conservative members was only a blind, and that 1t was intended asa hint that he knew exactly where to find the right coen smd could ‘fetch’ him at any moments.

The ‘“Journai” and Mr. Davies’ Letter.

THs Summerside Journal of Thuraday’s date, contains au article extending over nearly three columns, upon Mr. H Davies’ letter, and our subsequent remarks thereupon, We have read, and re-read it earefully, and we acknowledge ourselves beaten, coupletely vanquished, and entirely unable to reply. Perhaps, after such a confession of editorial iucompetence en our part, it would be presumptive, nay imperti- nent, to ask to make any suggestion to this literary Gamaliel, at whose feet we have never been privileged to sit. But we take the liberty ef hinting to him that, in future, he endeaver to acquaint himself with facts, dates and circumstances, befere he wastes the ‘‘ midmght oil” in ** evolving from his inner consciousness” such an effusion as graced (!) the editorial columns of yes- terday’s Journal. He may have ‘‘ personal knowledge ” and elose intimacy with promi- nent Fenians in New York, (vtde local col- umn of Journal), but his kuowledge of Dominion polities, and of the proceedings of Parliament, is sadiy deficient.

Srapsinc ano Atrswprep Rospery.—A Prince Edward Islander, Géorge H. Stock- well, was found in a terrible condition near the Intercolonial Railway Station this mor- ning. He had been in a row on the Marsh Road last evening, wherein the knife was freely used. He states that he was set up- on by three men whom he did not know, and that in the scuffle which ensued he was brutally kicked and beaten. His appear- ance, as he walked down Dock street this afternoon, pretty well agreed with his state- ment, his face and neck being cut and bruised in several places. He refused to apply to the police for the arreat of the guilty parties, which caused those he har- rangued at the corner of Dock and Union streets this afternoun to express the belief that he brought his condition on himseif. He was a lumberman ; had just been paid off by a man named Harris Morris, his em- pleyer ; had about $60 about his person when he cameo the I. 0. R. train last night. Since then he has managed to dis- pose of most of the money. He states that his assailants intended to rob him, and did succeed in getting $17. The man’s story sounds very curieus, and it is altogether likely he received his injuries in a row with a sompanion— Lane, of Grand Lake—whom he adwits was with him ‘‘ onthe spree” last night.

We clip the foregoing from the St- John News. We olaim to have rather an exten- sive acquaintance with the inhabitants of this Prevince, yet we do not know of any family of ‘‘ Stockwell” resident thereon. Several times lately, in the police reports ot St. John and Halifax, have we observed the names of prisoners arraigned before the courts, hailing from this ‘‘ Garden of the Guif.” We have been unable, in any case, to identify them as belenging to the Island, and we protest, in the name of our wide- spread character asa law-abiding people, againet our land being made the scape- goat in the mat‘er of the nationality of the atheists and other hard tiekets whom these larger cities cannot find roem for. We wish it distinetly understeod that in the winter season the erossing is too perilous, aud the rates too high, fer our most respectable tramps to wander so far. But sm any circumstanees, the ease referred to is a libel on the fair fame of our Island, and we will have none ef it.

manetin ~-

Sarzs orSrocks.—Mr. Dodd seldon Friday, the following Stocks.

per $106.

5 shares Gas Co. Stock, (common), @ 78.00

35 ” 7 v3 @ 75.00 10 ~ ” ** - (pref'l), @ 104.00 il » " ne - @ 106.00 10 ‘“ Bank P. E. Island @ 126.00 20 ** Union Bank, P. EK. IL. @ 1380.00 10 ** Sferchant’s Bank, P.EI. @ 91.00 5 ed “ “e of @ 90.00

‘““Youno Atmonte ”—-Mr. Rodk. MelIsaac,

of Confederation we would have had in a measure to pled along in the dark, and would nos have had the opportunity of competing and keeping pace with the times. 1 will have a little more to say en this very important subject, viz: What kind of farm- ing is likely to turu out the most profitable.

Thanking you fer your valuable space, I remain, yours, etc.

Bensamixn EB. Wricnrt.”

—L—<i 22 Gi> «2 Ge -—-~

A new boot and shoe fact ’ six storeys high, and costing nearly $25,000, is aboyt @ be- erected in Montreal.

eung bleed herse, of the *‘ Almonte” stock. (eung Almonte has splendid action, and has proved himself a first rate sire. We congratu- iate Mr. McIsaac on his enterprise ia pur- chasing such a herse, and we trust that both he, and the community in which he resides, will profit largely by the services of Young A)monte.

Counrrrrsit Bi.t.—A counterfeit five del-

ss at the} Savings _— last Friday, om Mon-ton, a etected by Mr,

Foley, and retu

Tax editor of the Patrivt is evidently having aslap at Mr. L. H. Davies-—over the shoulders of our Dominion representa- | tives—in his article entitled ‘‘ Faithful As

have good warrant for knowing that no

dent to every one that when Mr, Davies

of China Point, took home, Friday, this fine*©

lar bill on the Union Bank of P. E. 1, was

ETRY

wn, Prince Edward Isiand, Friday, April 20, 1¢91 |

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| —- Correspondence.

wr W 2 dor not hold ourselves the statements or opinions of our aonann naeeonn>catpenntine® demeanor ae mnne

the Editor of the Kxaminer.

| Te

Dominion. accurate on this point, and I hasten to con- firm ‘* Layman’s’” correction.

statements of fact, and rather adds to, than detracts from, the strength of my argument.

correspondent are fully aware that no claim could possibly have been made in the British case especially for this Island, apart from the rest of the Deminion, still the persistence with whieh you have reiterated your state- ment, justities me in again recalling the facta.

Newfoundland had a special claim deyoted |} to her in the Treaty of Washington, aud was not mentiened in conjunction with Canada or this Island. As I showed in my previous letter, there was nothing at all in common between the two claims of Newfound- land and the Dominion, and «as a conse- | quence, they were entirely divided by the i British Agent in presenting his case; and as | ‘* Layman” has reminded me, a special sum claimed for the privileges conceded by each. | Newfoundland was & separate colony at the | time the Treaty was signed. Her Lesslature | ratified the Treaty, and thereby submitted | to the arbitration, and she has remained a separate colony to this day.

The Dominion “never had or claimed any more right to the mauey awarded by reason

Knowing that ents the concassions made to the Americans by

Newfoundian’, than that colony did to the | money awarded by reason of the concessions | made by the Dominion. No one ever thought | of disputing their several rights, and although the arbitrators had nothing to do with them, hut awarded asum in gross, the Ayent of Great Britain afterwards divided that sum between them.

Now P. E. Island was also a separate | Colony, separately mentioned in the Treaty of Washington, apart from the Dominion. Our Legislature, when we were separate, ratified the Treaty as far as the Island was concerned, and submitted to the arbitration.

There the analogy between us and New- foundland ceased, because instead of remain- ing a separate Colony, we entered Coufedera- tion on the Ist of July, 1873, and thereafter became, and were a part and parcel ef the Dominion. Now it so happevs that the Ist of July, 1873, the day we entered Confederation, was the day fixed by the President of the United States ae that on which the Fishery articles of the Treaty should come formally into operation, se far as the Dominion of Canada was concerned.

Newfoundland did not adopt the Treaty till the following year 1874, and the articles cid not go into operation, so far as she was con- cerned, until] June, | 874.

P. E, leland, therefore, was a part of the Deminion during the whole time the Fishery articles were in operation. Whether she had, er had not, surrendered up tothe Dominion her rights to her share of the moneys to be awarded, waa a question that the Fishery Commission were not concerned within the remotest degree. It was purely a local one, between the Island and the Dominicn.

The British Agent found P. E. Island, a part cf the Dominion from the first day the Fishery articles came into force, and to ask him to separate her from the rest of the Dominien, and present a separate claim on her behalf is therefore absurd on its face. He very properly treated her as a portion of the Dominion, with which she had thrown in her let, and left the division of the Award to be determined by the parties interested, according to the terms of the arrangement made between tiem. For me, in the year 1§77 to assume that the Dominion (:overnment in- tended not to keep faith with the Island, and then formally to submit that assumption to the British Agent, and to the Minister ef Marine and Fisheries, and seriously to ask that it be formally adopted by Great Britain, in the case submitted by ber to the arbitrators, would certainly stamp me as a natural born idiot

Ovr elaim could not be presented separately and apart from the rest of the Dominion, be- cause we had become a part aad parcel of that Dominion on the very day the Fishery Arti- cles came into force ; but although that is the ease, the justness of theelaim ayainst the Dominion isnot the least weakened. The question isnot a very complicated one. We had certain rights in our fisheries before Con- federation. Great FEritain acknowledged those rights, and, in au International Treaty, asked us to ratify the submission to arbitra- tors, of the value of the cencession of a share of those rights te American fishermen. We did so by legislation, when a separate colony. We agreed to share those rights with Ameri- can fishermen fora limited peried, and left the value of the concession for subsequent adjudication by the arbitrators.

Wethen entered Confederation, and the question is, did we agree with Canada to sur-

artieles of agreement are ferthcoming, ,and if uny claim can be found in them which ex- preasly, or by reasonable implicstion, assigns over our share of the moneys, we of course must submit. If the contrary is the case, we should have our claim recogsized. It is purely aquestion between the Dominion and ourselves, and, as will be seen, has mothing at all in common withthe claims made by the other Maritime Provinees, and on which Par- liament has passed an opinion.

The Minister of Justice, in his place in Par- liament, while repudiating the claim of the other Maritime Provinces, acknowledged that ours was different and deserved consideration, and yet our representatives have never deemed it worthy of being brought forward in the Cemmons for discussion. Your centention, therefore, that those members of Parliament who voted against the elaim submitted, on behalf of the Maritime Previnces generally, alse repudiated our speeial claim, isnot cer- rect. The only mem of Parliament who decided against us are the Government led by Sir John, and including Mr. J. C. Pope. The Minister of Justice, subsequently to dividing against us, partially recanted, asd acknew ledged that there was more in the elaim than he at first imagined, and I yet indulge the hepe that our ntatives will not be unsuceessfal, if they have the courage, man- fully and boldly, to submit our claim on its basis tothe House ef Commons, and claim there a vote in support of it. If we lese there, then it will be time enough to consider of tle expediency of resorting te the courts of law.

Yours truly, L. H. Davigs.

How It Was Done.

Te the Ediior of the Mzaminer.

firx,—It is simply painful to refieet on the disgraceful manner in which eur case, in rega~d tothe Fishery Award, has been ruins! «rough the faithlessness of a man in whom our »eople have put their trust. In his letter to the Examinzr, which was pub- lished last week, Mr. L. H. Davies denied he tained by the Deminion at

i sid that he was appointed eat. Ford, the British Agent, this appeintment was made some

nine 6r ten months before he became Attor- ney General. He addedthat ‘Sir William Whiteway, whorepresented Newfoundland, did not keep the claim ef that colony separate. The Briti<) Agent the case of Great Bri‘sin asa whole, and made his claim for answard asa whole, and not so much for the /ominion and so

responsible Sor correspondents.

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Another Letter from Mr. Davies.

Sir,—Your correspondent “ Layman” is eorrect in stating that the British Agent, im the case submitted by him te the Arbitrators, although he claimed a gross sum on behalf of Great Britian, did also sub-divide that grose sum, and asked so much for the privileges conceded in respeet of the coleuy of New- foundland, and so much for those of the In my previous letter I was in-

This inaceur- acy, however, does not affect any of my other

Although I am satistied both you and your

render te her our share of these moneys? , The |.

presented

Mr. Davies was retained b ion, and during the year ending the 30th of June, received out of the Treasury of the Dominion the sum of #600, for ‘* re- tainer and brief” (see Publie Aceounts) in the Fishery matter. In the year ending the 39th of June, 1878, he received from the Dominion the further sum of $6,400, | as ‘‘counsel fees’”—in all $7,000.

The larger payment was made while he was Attorney General. During nearly the same peried Mr. L. H. Davies was paid the sum of $4,018.97, as Attorney General of this Island, while a further sum of $2,029. - 51 was paid to the Hon. John Longworth, Messrs. Palmer and MeLeod, and Frederick Peters as Counsel, in doing work which Mr. Davies should have done as Attorney General.

[In consideration of this $7,000, Mr. Davies worked for the Dominion. He says that he ‘‘ assisted in compiling and _ finally settling the British care,” and adds ‘‘in presenting her case to the arbitrators, Great Britain divided into parts: Part I related to the Dominien, Part Il to Newfoundland. If as he says, he assisted in compiling and finally settling the British case, why did he not, at your vigorous. corresponden: ‘** A Layman” has pointed out, see that the question so far as it related to Prince Edward Island, should be Part IIf of the British Case? The only answer is that Mr. Davies was employed and paid by the Dominion Government, that he was their servant, and, as he admits himself, if he had urged our separate claim, he world | ‘*“not only be a langhing stock, but would | be dismissed as unfit for the position.” Your correspondent, ‘‘ A Layman,” is wrong in one particular. Mr. Whiteway

was not before the Commission on ‘‘ pre- | cisely the same footing as Mr. Davies.” Sir Wm. Whiteway did not accept a retain- er from the Dominion. Although fie be- came ‘‘Counsel for Great Britain” he did not accept Canada gold, and was, conse- quently, free to take the course which “ A Layman ” points out that he did take, viz., ‘** to confine himself to that branch of the enquiry which had reference to Newfound- land.” The result was, that Newfoundland reeeived one million dellars as her share, while Prince Edward Island, with a strong: er elaim, was betrayed, and received nothing. Our Attorney General actually ** assisted,” according te his own statement, ‘in compiling and finally settling a case” which ignored our separate claim, while it recognised that of Newfoancland. He now endeavors to cover up his delinquency by denouncing our representatives in Parlia ment for not being able to compel Canada to disgorge the money which he assisted to lock up in the Dominien Treasury. We read of one who, having betrayed his Master with a kiss for thirty pieces of sil-

ver, wat afterwards seized with re- morse and committed a very rash act. Had Judas Iscariot been a

man like Mr. L. H. Davies, he might have taken the silver, and given the kiss, but he would immediately afterwards have branded the eleven Apostles as cowards, because they did not assayjt Pontius Pilate en his judg- ment a d*denounce them as ‘‘in- capables,’ usé'they could not eause an instant resurrection. , AnoTHtr LAYMAN.

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The Safer Course,

To the Editor of the Examiner :

aminsR, or ‘‘ Layman,” the organ of the Opposition has adopted the safer course of abusing our representatives at Ottawa. In tting his finger on the lip of the Patriot, r. Davies should not have forgotten the Summerside Journal. The ponderous editor of that paper tells a cock anda bull story of Sir John McDonald introducing “‘ seven resolutions” in the Commons, to be “ de- bated upon.” He says that these ‘‘ seven resolutions” were favorable to the Island’s getting the money ; that Mr. Mackenzie and Sir John held a ‘‘pow wow” on these “seven resolutions” ; that if somebody had net moved an adjournment, and somebedy elee an amendment, and if Sir John him- self had not moved another amendment, we would have carried our point, and the million and a quarter would have been ours. The inference to be drawn from the Journal’s narrative, is that Mr. Mackenzie got bewildered by the ‘‘seven resolutions,’ and the ‘‘ amendments,

and the motions of adjournment that were