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: laformation Denied

As a result of the persistent demands of of the Opposition there were brought dows yesterday the report of the Stock Farm Commissioners, the report of the Hospital for the Insane, and the Supervisors’ returns and estimates. We ask the independent yeomen of Prince E iward Island if it is not geacdalous that important reports and re- tucns such as these are brought down at almost the end of the session, and as a re- suit of what the Patriot is pleased to call “obstruction.” Of all the questions and mitters dealt with by our Legislature, those of the Stock Farta and the promotion of agriculture are the most interesting and im- portant to our farmers. But they cannot now bo properly discussed. Nor oan resulting from discussion,

judicious action, ae Neither

now be taken in respect to them. can the management of the Hospital for the Insane or the operations of our supervisors now b» effectively criticised or investigat+d by the Lezislsture during the present session.

But a number of returns are, even yet,

wanting. Among these are the amount of the accounts carried over from 1892 into 1893 ; the amount given away as discounts at the Land Office ; the eost of operating the road msking machine ; the expenditure of the Government in the first three months of the present year; # statement of the cost of stock imported last year, etc. It will readily bs seen that to request these statements is most ressonable on the part of the Upposition, and to grant them,

the most matter of course thing on the part

of the Goverowent. But the Peters com- bination will not yield them, though the Opposition courteously request or indig- nantly demand. Our autocrat has desided that the information required will not help

his party in the coming election,and so the

information is withheld. Ore

The Same Old Gerrymander.

Ir was expected that the same influence which caused the withdrawal of the Mort- gage Vure would operate to prevent the revival of the villainous gerrymander of outery against the Gerrymander was just as strung as it was against the Mortgage Vote. The injustice of the Mortgage Vote was no greater and no mere apparent than the But it was found that the passage of the Mortgage Vote would cause a large defection from the ranks of the Government's supporters, while it was, on the other hand, believed that the Gerrymander—affecting K'ng’s

King’s County. The popular

injustice of the Gerrymander.

County and the Conservatives particularly, and giving *‘ the Party" « decided advan-

tage in the elections,—would not be so So we have the same Tue ExaMIner’s illustration, aeveral times published, is a

generally resented. old Gerrymauder »gain.

House of Assembly. SUMMARY OF PROCEEDINGS.

Fripay, April 14.

At half-past three the debate on the motion to adopt the report of the com- mittee on the Gerrymander Bill three months hence was resumed by Mr. Under- hay, who pointed out, among other things, that the evident object of the bill was to ‘thive” certain classes of voters in certain districts, and in this way assist materially in keeping the present Government io ower.

r Dr. Jenkins thought the object of the bill was good, as its sim was to give more equal representation. In his opimion, how

ever, the step proposed was a short and a very crooked one. He thought that when a change was being

made in the election law it should effect every electoral district on the Ivlid and should provide for the protection of the voter by the introduction of @ system of ball t voting. What he would like to see would be such a change as would provide for fifteen electoral districts without regard to counties, of as nearly equal number of votes as could be arranged. He would also favor the prohibition of canvassing and the inauguration of compulsory voting. He be- lieved that this was necessary for the purity of elections and for a fu'l and free expres. sion of public opinion on the «questions of the day.

Hon. Mr. Peters said he had spoken on this subject before, snd would not say very much now. The object of the bill was to provide for a more equal representation, and if the proposal made did not suit the Opposition they sheuld have suggested something better. They bad ample time and opportunity to make any amendments ta the bill they pleased while in committee, but they did cot duso. Neither had they pro. duced any petition against the bili from any person or persons and there had been no expression of opinion agsinet the mea- sure last year.

Mr. Shaw pointed out that Jast year the people thought that because the amalgama- tion-mortguge -vote-disfranchisement. gerry- mander bill was not assented to there would be an end of it, and, in consequence, no pub- lic meetings were held throughout the country iast year, nor were there any pe- titions against the billsent in. But where was the petition from the people asking that King’s County should be cut and carved in the manner provided by this bill ? He asked the Leader of the Government to lay on the table petitions asking for the disfranchisement of young men, the amal- gamation scheme, or any of the other high- han ied measures introduced. The members of the Government declired that the Dominion employes had asked that they be disfranchised but the very men whom they thus misrepresented sent in a monster pe- tition against the disfranchisement. A meeting of citizens was also held in the Market Hal}, at which strong resolutions were passed denouncing the disfranchising measure. But what attention did the Gov- ernment pay tothis pecition and these resolutions? What attention did they pay to the will of the people as thus expressed / A strong resolution against the Peters Gov- ernment and the gerrymander bill was

ed ats meeting, held at Monaghan Road recently, and at ® meeting at

was not to «qualizs representation, but to further their own ends. When we consider that the East Point distriet was left un- touched, with an electorate of over 400 in| excess of the other districts, we must con-

clude that the Government were actuated

by the most unworthy motives. He had

the greatest faith in the country, and be lieved that at the very first opportunity

the people would hurl from power the

Government who had so ruthleaely trampled

under foot their sacred rights and attempt-

ed to render as serfa the freemen of this

province.

Mr. Gordon spoke strongly against the

proposed gerrymandering ot King’s County.

He pointed out that instead of taking the

districts adjacent to Georgetown and

attaching them to that district they had

gone across the country in an easterly

direction distant from Georgetown by road

some twenty-five miles, and in a south-

erly direction some twenty miles,

crossing the Moniague River and

S:urgeon Bay on the one side and

the Cardigan and Grand Rivers op the! other. Under the proposed change the

district would cover some forty or fifty miles.

This would be about the same thing as

extending the bounds of the City of Char-

lottetown to New Loudon in one direction

and to Belfast in another. Ne sane man! would think of doing anything like this. / The only object tha Government had in

making the change was to furthr their own ends and _ keep’ them selves in power. It seemed to him that

the Government had forgotteu that they were the servants of the p-ople and not their masters. They claimed that they the district, and

were equalizing aB- serted that there were only 181 voters in Ge-tgetown. He pointed out that there

was a greater number of voters there than had been stated—that if all turned ont there would be between 400 and 500. It was clear that the intention of the Government was not to equalize the district but to keep themselves in power. The measure would have a bad effect. It would se’, class against class in constitueucies that had been settled for about forty years. He had heard Liberals characterize the gerry- mander as a great crime, aud say they did not think the Government capable of act- ing as they were. In conclusion, he im- pressed upon the Government the enor- mity of the crime they were sbout perpe- trating upon the people of King’s County, and expressed the opinion that at the pro- per time they would be dealt with by the people in the proper manuer.

Mr. Clow also protested vigorous!y against the gerrymander bill, He contend- ed that the Government were legislating in advance of public opinivn, and against the wishes of the people. Has anyone asked for this legislation? Have the Government received any petitions from the people ask- ing that this measure be passed? The hon. member for Bedeque said he thought that the Government have a very good reason for bringing forward this measure. He would tell the hon. member the reason: It was to keep themselves in power. They had obtained power hy a fluke and they wished to perpetuate their existence. Last session the Government had passed the amalgamation bill by a majority of one— their majority in this House—and with it the other obnoxious measures. The bill under consideration was one of the most tyrannical he had ever heardof. The idea that the Government would accept any sugges- tions or amendments the Opposition might

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very iasdequate representation of the tg le en ae semntetionn eles tote SAR we stuaed, . dae Ge ereckednecs of this notabv exams of | ** . : d that the Government would not secept any| The late John Albert did not ride a ——-ON-———

Petersonian legislation. Supposg that the eee ape os hes om ym ed basi oo the Pago might make on | COLUMBIA BICYCLE. There is a moral . : i al With E. R, BROW, Conservatives, desiring to streagthen| legislation. Yet in the facé of these strong dag agg wert pant ne encpeed Ce a eee Monday Evening, April Li th,

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the constituency of the Leader, he says Agent for Columbia Bicycles, there have been no protests against the legislation. We know well, also, said Mr. Shaw, that the people of King’s County are directly opposed to the measure now under consideration. At a meeting held at Stur-

subject at the present time, as the hon. member from New Perth had gone into it very fully. The Government might go ahead and strengthen their stakes, lengtheo their ropes and kill themselves as quickly as they hked. He had recorded his opinion

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interests of his party. He has crossed rivers and bays and taken into Georgetown

District polls twenty aud twenty-rive miles

away from Georgetown.

There has not, during the present ses- sion, been a more decided hit that which was mule yesterday by the Hon, Daniel Gordor, when he compared the robber-tyrant Procrustes with the Peters Combination. Procrustes had a bed to which he fitted his victims by cramping and aroputating the limbs of the tail ones and by stretching the limbs of the short ones. In like manner Mr. Peters robe electors of their rights, and cuts and carves the districts of King’s County, to the end that the electorate may fit his selfish party purposes. It is to be noted that Procrustes

was, ere long, captured by a stronger man than he and subjected to the tortures which he had inflicted upon others! We have yet to chronicle the political fate of the political tyrant-rubber of Prince Ed- ward Island.

Jogging His Memory !

Tus Leader of the Opposition has given notice that he will ask the Leader of the Government whether or not it is his inten- tion to pass, at the pretent session of the Legislature, an act to repeal the Disfran- chisement Act,—io compliance with the resolutions passed at the public meeting in the Market Hall, Charlottetown. If Pre- mier Peters should disregard the expressed wishes of the citizen electors, it cannot be said that he was not reminded concerning them.

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Provixcrat Lectstarure.—Io the House of Assembly this ferenooz, an act amending the Charlottetown Waterworks Act, for the purpose of authorizing the construction of a second main pipe in i894 was read a second time in committee and reported agreed te. fhe amended act also provides that any Couneillor or Water Commissioner who shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in an contract with the Water Commissioners shall forfeit his seat and pay @ penalty of $500, and that the Mayor shall have power to declare suid seat vacant in the event of such a case arising A repert of what took place on

Friday evening and this forenoon is unavoid- ably crowded out of to-day’s issue. 1 appear on Monday.

lt wil

geon just before the House met a resolu- tion was passed protesting strongly against the iniquitous gerrymander-mortgage vote- disfranchisement measures of the Peters Government. Could the Government pro- duce any petition from the people of Stur- gecn—one of the districts that is to be annexed to Georgetown —asking for the change? He defied them to do so. Again, at a public meeting of the electors held at DeGros Marsh about the same time a reso- lution condemning the iniquitons legislation of the Peterscomb nation passed unanimous- ly. In another gerrymandered section of the St. Peters District, Lot 56, an equally strong resvlution condemn:ng the unfair and unjust legislition of the Peters Admin- istration was also passed. He thought that these protests showed clearly that the peo- ple were decidediy opposed to the gerry- mander, and refuted the statement of the Leader of the Government that there had been no protests against the change. We

of the measure and would await the resulc of the Gevernment’s action.

Mr. Hell said he had no objection to the people expressing their opinion: upon certain’ matters. He claimed, however, that the late government attempted to paas an amalgamatio bill similar to that which we ara now passing, without the authority of the people, and yet they talk about the present administration acting without a mandate from the people. Hw thought they should be consistent. He spoke in favor of the proposed electoral changes in King’s County, and claimed that the obj-ct was not to keep the Government in power, as stated by the Opposition. H2 thought that the Opposition had not advanced one substantial argument against the bill.

Mr. Rogers said the Amalgamation Bill] which the late Government introduced was not similar to the bill of the present adininis- tration, It did not contain the obnoxious mortgage vote, gerrymander or disfranchise-

are told that Georgetown was too email

the representation in that district. they only made such changes as suited themselves—changes they thought would have the result of keeping themselves in power. Why didn't they take the land adjacent te Georgetown and attach it to this district? That would not suit. | I[n- stead of taking Lot 69 off the Murray Har- bor District, which lies adjacent to George- town, they bounded over that section and took the Sentner polling division, in- cluding Sturgeon, Gaspereaux and St. Mary's Road. The reason of this is obvicus. Atthe lest election at Lot 59,or the Montague Il, the vote stood as follows : White 117, uthoe, 9%, Clow 86, McLeod 67. To teke this district, although contiguous to George- town, would not suit their purpose, so they vwooped down on Sentners, where at the last election the vote was as follows: White 92, Burhoe 62, Clow 202, McLeod 161. Instead of taking that sec- tion of the Cardigan District adjacent to

Georgetown, where the vote was about even) divided, they crossed the Cardigan River and took the De Gros

Marsh poll, stretching from Cardigan to Dundas, and annexed that sestion to Georgetown. The vote at De Gros Marsh pole was as follows : Sigsworth 50, Norton 50, Shaw 178, MeDonald 181° It suited their purpose better to teke this poll than the one that was next in geographical order. They next bounded over Lot 55

and something had to be done to cqualize , But_

and swooped down on Lox 56, in the Sr. Peter's district, and attached it tu George- | town The vote at that po!] last election was as follows: Hooper 33, McLaughlin

ment clauses. If the bill wasthe same, why did the then Oppositionin a body vote against it. He a criticised the Government for passing the bill disfranchising the Dominion employes in the face of the petition sent in against the measure and the resolutions pass- ed at the citizens meeting. The object of the eee in Georgetown was quite evident.

natead of taking the land adja. ent to George- town they jump ecross Lots and attach such constituencies to Georgetown as best suited their own interests.

Mr. Arsenault could not see the use of ada- ing 700 electors to Georgetown of the same political stripe as the electorate in that place at the present time. The object of the bill was to ‘‘hive ” the Conservatives in order to keep the Government in power.

Mr. Robertson was epeaking at 6 o'clock, when the House took recess,

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