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Bill No. 71, respecting the Sterling Life Assurance Company of Canada.-Mr. Mac-donell.

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Correspondence between the Auditor General and the Militia Department.-Major General Hughes.
Copy of Order in Council P.C. 304, regarding establishment of ranks of Lieutenant-Commander, Engineer Lieutenant-Commander, and Lieutenant-Commander, R.C. N.V.R., in the Royal Canadian Navy.-Mr. Hazen.

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[Questions answered orally are indicated by an asterisk.]

Mr. MACDONALD:: 1.	Who is Mr. Woodworth, who purchased horses for the Militia Department in the county of Pictou in 1914?
2.	Where does he reside, and what is his occupation?
3.	Were the horses he sold his own horses, or did he act as a middleman?


Major General HUGHES:: 1.	Mr. Woodworth purchased no horses for the Militia Department in Pictou county in 1914.
2	and 3. Answered by No. 1.


THE CIVIL SERVICE.
Mr. DEVLIN:: 1.	Did the Right Honourable, the Prime Minister, when leader of the Opposition, make the following statement at Halifax:
" A thorough and complete reformation of the laws relating to the Civil Service should be put into effect, so that future appointments shall be made by an independent commission acting upon the report of examiners after competitive examination. I am convincecb-that we shall perform a great public duty by establishing in this country that system which prevails in Great Britain, under which a member of Parliament has practically no voice in or control over any appointment to the Civil Service.
" To use the power of filling positions in the public service as a reward for party service and without regard to the character and capacity of the individual selected, is a gross breach of a solemn public trust. A private trustee so dishonouring his office would be subject to punishment by the criminal law."
2.	If so, what was the object of making such a statement?
3.	Have any appointments to the Civil Service been made since October, 1911? If so, how many?
4.	If any, have the appointments to the inside or outside service been made upon the recommendation of a member of Parliament?
5.	What steps, if any, has the Prime Minister taken to implement the above mentioned Halifax pledge ?


Sir ROBERT BORDEN:: 1.	The language quoted consists of certain statements detached from their context hut is substantially correct.
2.	To impress the importance of the subject upon the people and upon the Government then in power. The purpose had considerable success as the then Government within a few months thereafter introduced the reforms effected by the Civil Service Act of 1908.
3.	Appointments have been made to the Civil Service since October, 1911. A return to he brought down as soon as the necessary information has been compiled will indicate the number.
4.	Appointments to the inside service are made upon the certificate of the Civil Service Commission under the provisions of the Civil Service Act. Appointments to the outside service are made upon the responsibility of the Government and after careful inquiry as to the character and capacity of the individual selected. For the purpose of obtaining such information the Government is ready to receive assistance from members of Parliament or from other persons who are capable of giving reliable information as to such character and capacity. The recommendation of a member of Parliament or any other person is not alone or of itself sufficient for the appointment of a public officer, as character and capacity must be taken into consideration by the Government.
5.	The public steps which have been taken by the Prime Minister are within the knowledge of the bon. member asking the question, as they are on record in Parliament. As to other steps which have not yet been made public, any necessary announcement will be made in due course.


INTERCOLONIAL RAILWAY-ABUTMENT CONTRACTS.
Mr. WILLIAM CHISHOLM:: 1.	What was the estimated cost of the Intercolonial railway abutments recently built near Antigonish?
2.	What was the contract price for the construction of said abutments?
3.	What was the actual cost of said abutments?
4.	How many tenders were received for said work, from whom, and at what figures?


Mr. COCHRANE:: 1. $22,100.
2.	Amount based on schedule prices, $13,941.60.
3.	Not in a position to state, as certain matters are still unsettled.
4.	Nine; from the following: C. Edgar
Whidden & W. E. Landry, Antigonish, N.S., $17,804; McDonald & McIntosh, Elderbank and Antigonish, N.S.,	$13,941.60; Walter
McNeill, New Glasgow, N.S., $17,499.52; Chisholm, McGillivary & McDonald, Mus-quadoboit, N.S., $16,701.60; Roderick R. McLellan, Antigonish, N.S., $16,783; A. W. Girroir, Antigonish, N.S.,	$16,162; A.
McGillivray, Antigonish, N.S., $14,088.20; K. A. Morrison, Ottawa, Ont., $17,492.20; E. R. Reid & E. M. Archibald, St. John, N.B., and Middleton, N.S., $22,106.


MR. A. GOBEIL.
Mr. KYTE:: 1.	When did A. Gobeil retire from the position of Deputy Minister of Public Works?
2.	How long was he in that office?
3.	What was the amount of his retiring allowance under the statute?
4.	Is he employed by any department of the Government at the present time, and what is the nature of such employment?
5.	What is the total amount he receives from the Government at the present time?


Mr. CODERRE:: 1.	1st July, 1908.
2.	Appointed deputy minister on 1st January, 1891.
3.	$2,160.
4.	No.
5.	$2,160.

JOHN W. MeLEOD.


Mr. MACDONALD:: 1.	Is John W. McLeod employed in the Department of the Interior or by the Conservation Commission ?
2.	If so, in what capacity?
3.	Where are his headquarters?
4.	What is his salary?


Mr. CODERRE:: 1.	Yes, in the Department of the Interior, temporarily.
2.	Making an investigation in conjunction with McGill University into the present and future supply of timber for coal mining in Nova Scotia.
3.	He has no fixed headquarters outside of Ottawa.
4.	One hundred dollars pet month.


RECRUITING AT HALIBURTON.
Mr. KYTE:: 1.	How many men have offered their services to the Minister of Militia from the township of Haliburton, and what are their names?
2.	How many were accepted, what are their names, and where are they now stationed?


Major General HUGHES:: The hon. member is not very well up in his geography. There is no such place as the township of Haliburton. There is a county of Haliburton and a village of Haliburton. If the hon. gentleman refers to the riding I have the honour to represent, the riding of Victoria and Haliburton, I may say that there have been 411 raised directly up to a week ago and about 80 since, making about 500 raised for the first contingent, 250 for the second, and 150 for the third. Nearly 1,000 men, all told from that riding have volunteered, directly or indirectly for active service.
THE LATE JOSEPH LeBLANC.


*Mr. SINCLAIR:: X. With reference to a statement made in the House of June 9, 1914, by the Minister of Marine and Fisheries relating to the request of Mrs. Margaret Richard, of Port Felix, N.S., for assistance for the adopted child of the decreased sailor Joseph LeBlanc, namely:
"Our information is that this child, who was living with him, was a nephew, and that the father of the child is living and is well able to provide for it.'
Who furnished this information to the minister?
2.	Is it in writing?
3.	If so, will the minister lay it on the table of the House?


Mr. HAZEN:: 1.	Information is based upon a letter from Captain Stuart of C.G.S. Canada, addressed to Admiral Kingsmill, and dated April 10, 1914; contents of letter result of statement made by E. Richards, cousin of the deceased.
2.	Yes.
3.	Yes. The following is a copy of the letter above referred to:
Canada, Shelburne, Friday 10, 1914.
Dear Admiral Kingsmill,-I received your letter of April 6th in reference to J. LeBlanc who died last summer in Montreal General hospital. On inquiries from his cousin E. Richards, who is a fireman on board, LeBlanc was not married, but apparently was taking care of a boy, his brother's son, whose mother was dead and who I suppose Mrs. Margaret Richards now has charge of. As the father of this child is still alive, I can't see why Mrs. Richards has to take the responsibility.
LeBlanc's Government service dated from April 11, 1913 to July 29, 1913, a little over three months. I will make further inquiries the next time I visit Whitehead.
I remain,
Tours sincerely,
C. J. Stuart.


INTERCOLONIAL RAILWAY-ENVELOPES.
Mr. E. LAPOINTE:: 1.	Does the administration of Government railways make use of a certain kind of envelopes known as Window envelopes, made by the Transo Paper Company, Chicago?
2.	Can those envelopes be procured in Canada?	I	,


Mr. COCHRANE:: 1.	Yes; one lot of one-piece envelopes with transparent window was purchased from Business Systems, Limited, of Toronto, on January 24, 1914.
2.	These envelopes are not made in Canada.


LAKE ST. JOHN HYDROGRAPHIC WORK.
Mr. E. LAPOINTE:: 
Mr. ROGERS:: 1.	Yes,
2.	At the request of the Chambre du Commerce du Saguenay, (b) District Engineer Amiot was instructed to make a survey and prepare plans; (c) No report has yet been received at headquarters.
3.	$2,862.74.


POST OFFICE REVENUES.
Mr. E. LAPOINTE:: 1.	What has been the revenue of the Quebeo city post office for the year ending the 31st March, 1911?
2.	What has been the revenue of the same post office during the year ending the 31st March, 1914?

3.	What has been the revenue of the Montreal city post office during the same two years?


Mr. CASGEAIN:: 1,	2 and 3:
1911.	1914.
Quebec .. $ 160,968 62 $ 184,362 24 Montreal .. 1,152,177 27	1,625,615 86


RIMOUSKI DREDGING.
Mr. TOBIN:: 1.	During the years 1913-1914 was any dredging or deepening work done on a little river between Lake St. Mathieu, county of Rimouski, to the station of St. Fabien on the Intercolonial railway ?
2.	If so, what sums were expended on such
work?	.
3.	Was such work done by day labour or by contract?
4.	Who directed and superintended such work?
5.	Were certain sums paid to certain people for damages sustained on account of the said work or otherwise, and what are the names of the said people, and the amounts received by them?


Mr. ROGERS:: 1.	Yes.
2.	$4,849.15 in 1913; $997.33 in 1914.
3.	Day labour.
4.	The district engineer, Mr. J. 0. Tache, and a foreman, Joseph Belanger.
5.	Yes. $415 were paid to Messrs. Ernest Dionne and Honore Chouinard, $400 of which was in settlement of their claims, and $15 for payment of legal expenses incurred.


NATIONAL TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILWAY-BRIDGEKEEPERS.
Mr. E. LAPOINTE:: 1.	What are the names of the persons who have been appointed as bridgekeepers on the National Transcontinental railway between the Escourt station and the Lefebvre station?
2.	Whiat is the salary of each of such persons?
3.	By whom were these persons appointed, and on whose recommendation?


Mr. COCHRANE:: The Department of
Railways and Canals has no information.


DUTIES ON SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS.
Mr. E. LAPOINTE:: 1.	What is the amount of the duties paid on the spirituous liquors that were in the customs, from the 7th to the 21st August, 1914, and addressed to the following importers of the city of Quebec: Langlois & Paradis, Whitehead & Turner, Naz. Turcotte & Cie., J. B. E. Letellier, A. J. Turcotte & Fils, A. Toussaint & Cie., N. Rioux & Cie., Ledroit & FrSre, Gagnon, Garant, Lt6e., La Cie Europfienne, Quebec Preserving Co., L. H. Levasseur, Joseph & Co., Geo. Patry, Geo. & Ed. Couture, Levis, A. Carrier & Fils, Ldvis ?
2.	What quantity of liquor was delivered to each of such importers during the said period?
3.	What are the amounts that have been readjusted between each importer and the department on the goods delivered between,.the 7th and 21st August, 1914?
4.	In what way did the Government fix such readjustments, and did it fix the amounts thereof?
5.	Are there still any accounts or settlements pending, and which are the importers whose accounts have not been Anally settled?


Mr. J. D. REID:: It is not customary to give information as to the business of private individuals with the department.


Mr. SPEAKER:: Question dropped.


ILE ICAMOURASKA LIGHTHOUSE.
Mr. E. LAPOINTE:: 1.	Who recommended Mr. Charles Blondeau, of St. Pascal, as inspector of construction work at the lighthouse in He de Kamouraska?
2.	How many- trips did Mr. Blondeau take to the said lie de Kamouraska during the construction of the lighthouse.


Mr. HAZEN:: 1.	Mr. W. A. Potvin, of Fraserville, and Hon. L. P. Pelletier.
2.	There is no evidence in the department to show how many trips were made. The department received three signed progress estimates and a final report from the inspector, and the department's agency officers at Quebec report that the inspection was satisfactory.


INTERCOLONIAL RAILWAY-SUBSTRUCTURES FOR BRIDGES.
Mr. BOULAY:: 1.	Who obtained the contract for the construction of the concrete piers between Montjoli and Matapedia?
2.	How many piers were built during the season of 1914, and what was the cost of each of them?


Mr. COCHRANE:: 1.	There were no concrete piers constructed between Montjoli and Matapedia within the last year, but two new substructures for bridges were constructed, for which contract was awarded to R. B. Stewart, of Derby Junction.
2.	The two new substructures for bridges cost $4,893.94 and $3,864.15, respectively.


SHERBROOKE, N.S., AND MOSHER'S RIVER MAILS.
Mr. SINCLAIR:: 1.	Who is the present contractor for carrying the mails between Sherbrooke, N.S., and Mosher's River?
2.	What is the date of the contract?
3.	(a) What is the duration, (b) and amount?
4.	What is the name of the previous contractor?



5.	What is the yearly amount paid to the former contractor?
6.	Why was the previous contract cancelled?
7.	What are the names of the sureties under the existing contract?


Mr. CASGRAIN:: 1.	This is a section of the mail route between Sherbrooke and Sheet Harbour. 'The contractor for the whole route is J. S. Cameron.
2.	Executed 15th May, 1912.
3.	(a) From 1st April, 1912, to 31st March, 1916. (b) $3,293 per annum.
4.	Matthew McGrath.
5.	$3,334 per annum.
6.	Mr. Cameron represented to the department that his contracts had been cancelled in the years 1897 and 1910, before they were due to expire. This was found to be the ease, and instructions were given by the Postmaster General on the 29th December, 1911, to terminate McGrath's contract by giving the three months' notice provided for in the contract and to invite public tenders.
7.	Matthew McGrath and Alexander F. Cameron.


KILLARNEY AND MANITOWANING MAILS.
Sir WILFRID LAURIER:: Is it the intention of the Postmaster General to establish a daily service during summer months between Killarney and Manitowaning, Ontario?


Mr. CASGRAIN:: Application has been made for a daily mail service between Killarney and Little Current (not Mani-towaning), but the department has not yet completed inquiry into the matter. *


W7EST ARICHAT CUSTOMS.
Mr. KYTE:: 1.	How long has the office of collector of customs at West Arichat been vacant?
2.	Who is performing the duties of collector at the present time?
3.	Have any applications been received for the position? If so, what are the names of such applicants?
4.	Have any petitions or recommendations been received favouring any of such applicants?
5.	By whom are such petitions or recommendations signed?
6.	When will such appointment be made?


Mr. J. D. REID:: 1.	The customs preventive station at West Arichat has been closed from 30th November, 1914.
2.	Answered by No. 1.
3.	4 and 5. Applications or petitions for appointments are regarded as confidential.
6.	When the services of an official are considered necessary.


NOVA SCOTIA INDIAN SUPERINTENDENT.
Mr. CARROLL:: 1.	Has William Gore Foster, of Dartmouth, N.S., been appointed to the position of inspector of Indian reserves?
2.	If so, on what date was the appointment made and what is the salary to be paid him?


Mr. ROCHE:: 1.	Mr. Foster has been appointed Indian superintendent for the province of Nova Scotia, his services to be available for such other work in the maritime provinces as the Department of Indian Affairs may require of him.
2.	He was appointed by Order in Council of 18th September, 1914, at a salary of $1,800 a year.


WAR SUPPLIES-HORSES.
Mr. BOULAY:: Who had charge of the purchase of horses required for the militia or the first contingent, ir. the province of Quebec, from the 1st of July, to the 1st December, 1914?


Major General HUGHES:: The principal veterinary officer and his assistants.


Mr. DOUGLAS:: 1.	Has the Government withdrawn the commission for the purchase of horses for army purposes in Alberta?
2.	If so, will a new commission be appointed and when?


Major General HUGHES:: 1.	No.
2.	Answered by No. 1.


Mr. LAW:: Referring to information given to the House by the Minister of Militia on February 24, that 224 horses were purchased in Kings county since August 1, for military purposes, and on March 8, that a certain number of horses were purchased in Kings county from Messrs. Keever, McKay and Moore, at an average price of $171.09.
1.	Is this intended to convey the idea that the principal veterinary officer for Canada purchased 224 horses in Kings county from Messrs. Keever, McKay and Moore?
2.	If so, has the Government the names of the private individuals who sold these horses to Messrs. Keever, McKay and Moore, and what are they?


Major General HUGHES:: 1.	Yes.
2.	We have not the names.


UNOPPOSED MOTIONS FOR PAPERS.
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Mr. E. Lapointe: For a copy of all documents, correspondence, reports, recommendations, notarial deeds, etc., connected with the purchase of land for the erection of a drill hall at Montmagny, P.Q.
Mr. E. Lapointe: For a copy of all documents, investigations, reports, correspondence, etc., relating to the burning of certain buildings be-

longing to the Trois Pistoles Pulp and Lumber Company and to Andr6 Leblond, near Tobin station, on the Intercolonial railway.
Mr. Sinclair:	For a copy of all Orders in
Council issued since October 11, 1911, appointing commissioners to investigate partisanship, and also appointing all Royal or other commissions, respectively.
Mr. Carroll: For a copy of all letters, correspondence, etc., relating to the appointment of William Gore Foster, of Dartmouth, N.S., to the position of inspector of Indian reserves.
Mr. Marcil: For a copy of the report of Dr. Wm. Wakeham, on the extent of the losses sustained in the Baie des Chaleurs and Gulf of St. Lawrence, in the storm of June 5, 1914, together with a statement showing the number of claims, received and those entertained with names of claimants and their residence and amounts paid to each, together with a copy of other documents bearing on this question.
Mr. Sinclair: For a copy of all correspondence, recommendations, petitions, contracts, tenders and other papers and documents between January 1, 1914, and the present date, relating to the letting or the renewal of contracts for carrying His Majesty's mails in localities situated either wholly or partly in Guysborough county.
Mr. McKenzie: For a copy of all charges, correspondence, letters, telegrams and other documents relative to the dismissal and investigation of John J. McDonald, at North Sydney, in the riding of North Cape Breton anl Victoria, and of the evidence taken and reports of the investigation held by H. P. Duchemin, in regard to same, and a detailed statement of expenses of such investigation.
Mr. McKenzie:	For a copy of all charges,
correspondence, letters, telegrams, and other documents relative to the dismissal of Captain John Arsenault, at Sydney Mines, in the riding of North Cape Breton and Victoria, N.S., and a detailed statement of the expense in connection with said investigation.
Mr. McKenzie:	For a copy of all charges,
correspondence, letters, telegrams, and other documents relative to the dismissal of Frank Dunlop, of Graves Point, at Sydney Mines, in the riding of North Cape Breton and Victoria, N.S., and the expenses of such investigation in detail.
Mr. McKenzie:	For a copy of all charges,
correspondence, letters, telegrams, and other documents relative to the dismissal of Joseph Day, at Little Bras D'Or, in the riding of North Cape Breton and Victoria, and of the evidence taken and reports of the investigation held by H. P. Duchemin in regard to same, with a detailed statement of expenses of such investigation.
Mr. Sinclair: For a return showing: 1. Number of employees of the Intercolonial railway retired from the service during the year 1914, under the provisions of the provident fund.
2.	Number of employees dismissed or retired from the service during said year without receiving any assistance from the provident fund.
3.	Total amount paid to employees under the , provisions of the provident fund for the years
1911, 1912 and 1913.
Mr. Kyte: For a return showing: 1. What medical supplies or other materials have been purchased since August 1, 1914, by the Government, or any department of the Government, from Mr. E. Powell, Ottawa.
57£
2.	What quantities of these goods have been purchased from him and what prices were paid.
3.	Whether the Government, or any department of the Government, prepared a schedule of rates to show what constitutes a fair and reasonable price for such goods purchased.
4.	Whether a careful check has been made to see that a fair and reasonable price was charged.
5.	The total value of the goods delivered by Mr. Powell up to date.
6.	The total value of the goods which have been ordered from Mr. Powell but which to this date have not been delivered.
Mr. William Chisholm : For a return showing:
1.	What medical supplies or other materals
have been purchased since August 1, 1914, by the Government, or any department of the Government, from Mr. S. J. Stevenson, or the Waverley Pharmacy.	.
2.	What quantities of these goods have been purchased from him and what prices were paid.
3.	WThether the Government, or any department of the Government, prepared a schedule of rates to show what constitutes a fair and reasonable price for such goods purchased.
4.	Whether a careful check has been made to see that a fair and reasonable price was charged.
5.	The total value of the goods delivered by Mr. Stevenson, or Waverley Pharmacy, up to date.
6.	The total value of the goods which have been ordered from S. J. Stevenson, or Waverley Pharmacy, but which to this date have not been delivered.
Mr. Carroll: For a return showing: 1. What medical supplies or other materials have been purchased since August 1, 1914, by the Government, or by any department of the Government, from Mr. W. B. McDonald, of Ottawa?
2.	What quantities of these goods have been purchased from him and what prices werje . paid.
3.	Whether the Government, or any department of the Government, prepared a schedule of rates to show what constitutes a fair and re-sonable price for such goods purchased.
4.	Whether a careful check has been made to «ee that a fair and reasonable price was charged.
5.	The total value of the goods delivered by Mr. McDonald up to date.
6.	The total value of the goods which have been ordered from Mr. McDonald, but which to this date have not been delivered.
Mr. Kyte:	For a return showing:	1. What
medical supplies or other materials have been purchased since August 1, 1914, by the Government, or any department of the Government, from Mr. T. A. Brownlee of Ottawa.
2.	What quantities of these goods have been purchased from him and what prices were paid.
3.	Whether the Government, or any department of the Government, prepared a schedule of rates to show what constitutes a fair and reasonable price for such goods purchased.
4.	Whether a careful check has been made to see that a fair and reasonable price was charged.
5.	The total value of the goods delivered up to date.
6.	The total value of the goods which have been ordered from Mr. T. A. Brownlee but which to this date have not been delivered?
Mr. Boulay:	For a return showing : 1. The
total number of employees under the Federal Government on the 23rd June, 1896.
2. The number on the 21st September, 1911.
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3.	How many public employees were dismissed or left tl}£ service in any manner from the 23 rd June, 1896, to the 21st September, 1911.
Mr. Carvell: For a return showing: 1. How many nurses have been sent to the front by the Government to aid in the work of caring for the sick and wounded soldiers.
2.	The names of said nurses.
3.	Whether or not all were graduate nurses.
4.	If so, from which hospital each graduated.
5.	Whether all the nurses who have been sent to the front have passed the special military training course, for which provision is made by the Department of Militia.

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On the Orders of the Day being called:
Sir ROBERT BORDEN:: I beg to inform the House that the following telegram was received yesterday from Sir George Perley, Acting High Commissioner in London:
Just received letter General Alderson in which he makes following statement: " Our men have now been in trenches over a week and I am very glad to be able to say that they are doing quite remarkably well. I knew they would do well but they have done much better than I expected and all has gone with less trouble than I anticipated. All artillery, infantry, engineers, medical people, supply, etc., have settled into their places and work in way that makes me both pleased and proud."


NOVA SCOTIA POSTAL SERVICE.
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On the Orders of the Day being called:
Mr. G. W. KYTE (Richmond, N.S.) asked for leave to move the adjournment of the House for the purpose of discussing the question of the postal service in Nova Scotia.
And leave having been granted,
He said: For some weeks great complaints have been made with respect to the carriage and delivery of mails in the constituency which I represent, and in other constituencies as well. The hon. Postmaster General a few evenings ago in discussing the work of his department explained the development which has taken place in the postal service of the Dominion of Canada during the last three or four years. The expenditure in respect of that service now amounts to $13,000,000 a year. The report of the Postmaster General for the fiscal year ended March 31 last disclosed the fact that a great many rural delivery routes and other conveniences have been established throughout the Dominion of Canada. I respectfully submit that we in the eastern part of the province of Nova Scotia do not participate in these additional conveniences which are enjoyed in the other sections of Canada. If confidence in the postal service is withdrawn, the very foundations of civil life are shaken. I have here a letter which
I received a few days ago from an official in the province of Nova Scotia, in which he makes complaint regarding the postal service in the part of the country over which his jurisdiction extends. He says:
I have been the prime mover in the agitation for improvement in our mail accommodation; but, unfortunately, I have had occasion to make so many complaints for some time past of delay and miscarriage of mail, that I have doubtless made myself obnoxious. When I got tired sending complaints to Halifax, I began sending them over their heads to Ottawa and, I am sorry to say, with no better results, until at last I made my bow and retired from the contest, promising not to trouble them any more.
Since I am on the subject, I may as well say that the same causes of complaint continue. There is not a week that mail does not go astray or get delayed en route. Within the last week the Halifax newspapers, on which we depend for the daily news, miscarried twice. The enclosed letter will disclose a flagrant case. I sent a parcel of blank forms of school returns to the teachers at Port Hood for their semi-annual return^. Subsequently, a letter came from the secretary of the school board asking me to forward a set of blanks, which I did. Some days afterwards a telegram comes, asking why I did not send the required forms. The third consignment reaches in due course, and, as you will see by Mr. Murphy's letter, the other two parcels came sauntering leisurely along some days later.
Thomas Chase Casgrain: Would my hon. friend give the name?


Mr. KYTE:: I shall be very glad to give the name to the Postmaster General. I do not think it desirable to enter the names of private citizens upon the published records of Parliament. Another gentleman in the county which I have the honour to represent, and to whom I had arranged that Hansard for this session should be sent daily, writes:
I have not received a copy of Hansard the last two weeks, and I have received but four copies in all since Parliament opened.
Parliament opened on the 4th day of February last. As I said, I had made arrangements to have a copy of Hansard sent to this gentleman daily; but up to the date on which he wrote, the 5th of March, he had received only four copies and had not received a copy for two weeks. Another gentleman for whom I had made a similar arrangement writes me that up to the 15th of February he had not received a single copy of Hansard from the Printing Bureau. I may say, in justice to the officers of the Printing Bureau, that before I thought of bringing this matter before the House I communicated with them and they satisfied me that the failure to deliver Hansard to the gentlemen to whom I refer cannot be traceable to them as they gave satisfactory proofs that they mailed

Hansard every day. I have another ease which affects myself more particularly, and as it does affect me more particularly I regard it as the most serious case of all. On the 11th day of January last I wrote a letter addressed to my hon. friend for South Cape Breton (Mr. Carroll). That letter should have reached him on the evening of the 11th day of January. On the 15th day of January he wired me asking why I had not sent him the letter which he expected.
I communicated the non-delivery of this letter to the post office inspector at Halifax, who immediately undertook to trace it, hut up to the present hour without success. This is quite easily understood as the letter was not registered and there was no way in which it could be traced through the various post offices that it would pass through en route. Suffice it to say that this letter, which was an important communication and one which I was very desirous should reach my hon. friend in due course of mail, has not yet come into his hands. Another letter which I addressed to him on the following day which should have reached Mm on the 12th day of January did not reach him until the 16th, some four days afterwards, and the delay in that case was caused by the letter having been mis-sent in another direction to another post office. These matters are too important to be allowed to continue and, while I have no reflections to make upon the hon. gentleman who is now discharging the important duties of Postmaster General, I am bound to say that the conditions which we have at present are those which he inherited from a not over punctilious predecessor. From time to time in this House, members representing the party to which I am associated have felt called upon to protest against the numerous changes of postmasters in the province of Nova Scotia. For many years we had a system of post offices that were in charge of postmasters who had served a considerable time in those offices and who, by training and experience, were calculated to give every possible satisfaction. After the change of Government there was a demand for the universal dismissal and official execution of these postmasters, particularly those who happened to he in sympathy with the late Government. As a consequence of this demand these competent and well trained officials have been dismissed from office and a band of men quite untrained and unqualified has taken their places. In so far as this is a reflection upon the Government I am willing that that impression may remain. I think it is too bad,
however, that the public service should suffer in the manner I have described. I would urge the Postmaster General to take such steps as will give us some reasonable assurance that the postal service will be *conducted more satisfactorily in the future.
I know of one case where a man living in my community, having undergone a serious surgical operation in an hospital in a neighbouring county, on his return found it *necessary to communicate with the medical man under whose treatment he was. He addressed three letters to the medical man in question, none of which had reached its destination upon the 30th day of January at the time I left home, notwithstanding that the letters had been written some two or three weeks before and should have reached their destination within 24 hours. There is another case of a woman living in my neighbourhood who suffered for many weeks from a serious illness by which she was reduced from comparative affluence and comfort to a condition of great distress. A friend of hers sent a generous benefaction to her by letter addressed to the post office where she received her mail. This letter was not received, and when inquiries were especially made it was found that this letter remained in the post office for four weeks, notwithstanding that the person to whom it waa addressed had every day sent messengers to that office for her mail. I know other instances which I would be glad to discuss with the Postmaster General which would seem to indioate that there are grounds for public confidence in postal service being weakened. I fear very much that there are some postmasters who have an idea that, since their friends are in power and they have been selected to fill these offices on account of party services rendered by them, they are at liberty to set at defiance certain rules and regulations which heretofore have been regarded as binding. I fear that there is not that secrecy existing in the post offices in some places in Nova Scotia that it is necessary and desirable should exist. I know cases where persons not at all connected or associated with the post office staff have the run of post offices in some small centres, and no person mailing letters at these post offices has the assurance that the addresses, if not the contents of the letters, will not be disclosed to those who have an interest in ascertaining this information. If reports be true, we are upon the eve of a general election in this country, Important confidential correspondence in re-

lation to the election campaign must necessarily pass through post offices. I take the responsibility of saying here to-day that there are certain post offices in my county where I would not take the risk of mailing confidential correspondence during an election campaign. I desire to make this statement in order that the Postmaster General may make a note of it, and issue warnings to these postmasters that the public have a right to repose some confidence in their discharge of their duties, and that no trifling with the mails will be permitted. I know of an instance where, in a municipal election campaign, certain correspondence was supposed to have been de-posted in the post office upon the eve of that election. On the day subsequent to that, a day when the post office was not supposed to be open, two persons not associated with the post office were seen coming out of it, one of whom shut the door as he came out and put the key in his pocket. That information satisfied me that in this particular case the public interest is not safeguarded, and a proper appreciation of his obligation is not felt by the postmaster. I have information to the effect that in another election campaign in this country some two years ago, not in the province of Nova Scotia, 90 per cent of the campaign literature which was mailed in certain post offices in one constituency was never delivered to the persons to whom it was addressed.
The statements which I make here this afternoon are made in absolute good faith, and with a full knowledge of the responsibility which should rest on any hon. member who undertakes to make such statements in this House. But I repeat that, in addition to the specific complaints which I have made this afternoon, there are many others which I might very well bring to the attention of this House; but I do not desire to delay the proceedings. All I ask at the present moment is that the hon. Postmaster General will give such instructions to his inspectors as will enable them to ferret out the cause of the non-delivery of the mail in the instances I have referred to, and in those instructions give a warning that postmasters cannot in future interfere with the mails and letters passing through their offices without running the risk of being summarily punished for such an offence, even though they have been appointed to their offices by the hon. gentlemen at present occupying the Treasury benches.


Mr. WILLIAM GRAY:: I should like to ask the hon. member whether the late Government, when they came into power in 1896, did not dismiss competent men and put incompetent men in their places?


George William Kyte: I can only speak of knowledge concerning my own constituency; and with respect to my own constituency I desire to tell my hon. friend that from 1896 to 1911 not one postmaster was dismissed in the county of Richmond, which I represent. Every man who had been appointed by the Conservative Government previous to 1896 was continued in his office, and he has continued to hold up to the present moment.


Mr. D. D. McKENZIE (North Cape Breton):: I have much pleasure in confirming, as far as my personal knowledge goes, the observations made by the hon. member for Richmond (Mr. Kyte). I think his observations in bringing this matter to the notice of the Postmaster General ought to be of some service, and ought to bring into existence such a condition of affairs between the postmasters and the department that the postmasters should know that they are not to be at all events encouraged in conduct of that kind. I wish to say to the Postmaster General that to my knowledge the post office in the Tory centres in the part of eastern Nova Scotia that I know is just a place that is occupied by Tory heelers for their meetings at all hours and at all times, Sundays not excepted. While the Postmaster General cannot follow these men into their offices and see that they take proper care that the letters are not opened or interfered with, there is one thing which I think he can do; and that is to prevent the post office from being a place of common resort of the kind I have mentioned. If the Postmaster General will make inquiry into the situation which I speak of, he will find that in all the villages where changes and new appointments have been made since the last general election, the postmasters think they are there as political agents of their friends, and that the post office is of course the proper place in which to gather and discuss political matters; and if they suspect any letters that may be going through they take such steps as may be advised, in order to obtain the desired information. That is a condition of things that should not exist; it should be removed. A little over a year ago a local election took place in the county of Victoria. The chief

Tory organizer of the province of Nova Scotia, Dr. Hayes, who was on that occasion black-listed and disqualified by the judge of the Supreme Court-


Thomas Simpson Sproule: I think the hon. member is travelling outside what is permissible on this motion, which is to inquire into the unsatisfactory condition of the postal service now in Nova Scotia.


Daniel Duncan McKenzie: It so happens, Mr. Speaker, that I have no particular gift by which I can say everything that I have to say in just one word; and that it is necessary for me to make two or three sentences before I come to the real sentence. I was going to say that this man has commandeered the post offices down there.


Thomas Simpson Sproule: If I understood the hon. gentleman correctly, he was speaking of an occurrence that happened over a year ago. Of course he cannot, in that case, be addressing himself to the present condition of the postal service in Nova Scotia.


George William Kyte: I think, from the wording,
that the notice is not limited to the present condition of the postal service.


Thomas Simpson Sproule: The notice reads:
The unsatisfactory condition of the postal service in Nova Soot la.
I presume that has reference to the present condition.


Daniel Duncan McKenzie: I submit that the condition of terror under which postmasters are held by Tory officials existed then, and exists now; it is a continuous trespass, as it is known to the law. I submit that we can speak of this condition as having commenced over a year ago, and as having continued to exist up to the present time. I submit that it is quite proper to go back, if we can, to the origin of the disease, and follow it up to its present stage. I submit that that was the condition over a year ago, and that it is the condition now.


Thomas Simpson Sproule: Order. It seems to me that my ruling ought to be respected. A notice worded as this is must be taken as referring to the present.


Daniel Duncan McKenzie: I say that this condition exists by reason of the interference of Tory officials in the county of Victoria. I say that the chief official of the Tory party in the county, who is the chief adviser of the Premier in Tory matters in that province, a man who has been blacklisted by a judge of the Supreme Court, terrorizes and
commandeers the post offices, and that in the county of Victoria or any other place where he is doing this you cannot get a postmaster to do his duty; for this man goes about telling them he is authorized by the department at Ottawa to dismiss them if they do not carry out his behests. That is the condition, and if I am not to speak of it as in the past I bring the conditions as in the present to the notice of the Postmaster General, so that he may deal with it. I wish to keep strictly within the motion that is before the Chair, but I did not know that it contained a word which restricts us to the very present. I submit to the Postmaster General and to the Government that not only the post office, but every other public service or utility in Nova Scotia, including the telegraph service, is being dealt with in the same way. They commandeered the telegraph service at that election. Thousands of messages were sent out and the minister knows they were not paid for. The man in charge, who is still in the service of the Government, swore that he put those messages through free, without a cent being paid, and he is still the man to whom we must go for our telegrams in the county of Victoria. The condition being such as this man has sworn to himself, I submit to the Postmaster General that he cannot -be too severe in dealing with matters of that kind.


Mr. W. F. CARROLL (South Cape Breton):: I do not wish to take part in this discussion except to corroborate something that has been said by my hon. friend from Richmond (Mr. Kyte). In the first or second week of January last I had occasion to write to the hon. member for Richmond on a matter of importance not only to ourselves personally, but to a large number of other people. In the ordinary course of mail I should have had a reply to my letter on the 12th or 13th of January. On the 14th or 15th of January, not having received a reply I telegraphed the hon. member for Richmond to ascertain why he had mot answered my letter, and in regard to certain inquiries I had made with reference to some engagements in which we were both concerned. He telegraphed back that he had answered my letter, and gave me the desired information. My hon. friend also wrote me a letter	on	the	same subject.
While I should have had the letter on the day it was written, I did not receive it for four or five days afterwards owing

to the fact that the postmaster at the place of mailing the letter had sent it to another post office which bore no resemblance either in name, spelling or otherwise, to the place to which the letter had been addressed. I am not making any charges; I do not know who was responsible for this, I do not know whether the person who mislaid this letter did it wilfully or not, but there is some looseness cr laxity certainly in the post office where the matter occurred. There are other instances that affect myself in the matter of sending out literature, but I am not going to make any comment upon them. It may be the fault of nobody. In the county I represent, people are coming and going, it being a great industrial centre. Very often the literature I send out- Hansards and that sort of thing-is returned to me here. I am making no charge, but I wished to corroborate the statement of my hon. friend from Richmond in reference to the two letters that he addressed to me in the month of January.


Thomas Chase Casgrain: I thank the hon. member for
Richmond (Mr. Kyte) for having drawn the attention of the House to these matters, which are of considerable importance. I beg to express the regret of the department that he has been put to inconvenience by not having had these letters transmitted through the mails as they should have been. I am a little surprised that any complaints made about the very unsatisfactory manner in which the post office seems to have been conducted in his town have received no answer.


George William Kyte: The letter of the official that I read to the House has no reference to the post office in my town. He lives in another part, and his statement has reference to another post office.


Thomas Chase Casgrain: I would ask my hon. friend to kindly come to the department and give me further particulars. I cannot punish any of-these men without hearing them; I have to give them fair warning. If it is necessary to hold an investigation, we certainly shall do so. It will be my endeavour to make the postal service as perfect as possible. Anything that money can do to promote that end will be done by the department over which I have the honour to preside.


Robert Laird Borden: Mr. Speaker, I do not think it is a fair conclusion to draw that if anything goes wrong in the ad-

ministration of the post office it is done through intention or design. I have had instances in my own experience which are of a much stronger character than anything which has been mentioned this afternoon, and I have not thought for one moment of attributing the result to any intention to do wrong. I remember about six years ago I sent an important and urgent letter from Halifax to Ottawa. It reached Ottawa nearly three weeks after I had despatched it, having gone to Vancouver and having returned from Vancouver by slow stages. It was important for many reasons that the letter should have reached Ottawa in due course. I did not, however, jump to the conclusion that any Liberal partisan in the post office had done this from design. My hon. friends on the other side seem to have come to an unwarrantable conclusion. During nearly the whole of a year, about five years ago, a business man in the city of Ottawa sent to me almost daily three or four letters which had occupied in their transmission to him two or three times, and sometimes four or five times, the length of time that would have been necessary. I used to forward these communications from this business man to the Postmaster General for the purpose of directing his attention to the unnecessary delay. In a very large country like this such delays will from time to time occur. So far as the aspersions which have been cast on the postmasters of 4 p.m. Nova Scotia are concerned, I regret that hon. gentlemen who have spoken this afternoon should have gone so far as to cast what I believe to be undeserved reproach upon a class of men who, I believe, are inspired by a sincere desire to do their duty. On their behalf, until some definite and concrete case of maladministration is brought to the attention of the Postmaster General and dealt with as it ought to be dealt with, I desire to repudiate any such aspersions on the postmasters of Nova Scotia. I have had experience of them when they were very largely Liberal appointees, and I found no occasion to reproach them then. I think that no greater occasion for reproach is to be found against those who have been appointed by the present Government. I shall make inquiries as to what the hon. member for North Cape Breton and Victoria (Mr. McKenzie) has said in regard to Dr. Hayes, and ascertain what Dr. Hayes has to say in regard to these accusations. They have not been brought to my attention before, but

with all due respect to the hon. member, I venture to think that it will be found he spoke beyond warrant and beyond the limit of what he should have said, when he made these charges against Dr. Hayes this afternoon. So far as the distribution of campaign literature is concerned, I have heard of reproaches of that kind for the last fifteen or seventeen years, and a great many of them when my hon. friends on the other side of the House were responsible for the administration of the Post Office Department. I know that in the election of 1904 my own political friends made the declaration that they verily believed that not more than 25 per cent of the campaign literature which was sent out in very large quantities from Ottawa ever reached the destination for which it was intended. I do not know whether that is the case or not. I simply desire to remind my hon. friend that we have heard a good deal of these charges during the past seventeen years and before we came into power.
Motion to adjourn the House negatived.


GRANBY MAIL DELIVERY.
Mr. BOIVIN:: Mr. Speaker, I would like to draw the attention of the hon. Postmaster General (Mr. Casgrain) to an article which appears in the Leader-Mail of Granby, of Friday, March 5, 1915. It is also in connection with the post office service, but in this case there are no officials to blame. The statement is as follows:
The morning mail missed the train again on Wednesday. This is a matter which should be taken up vigorously by the Board of Trade. There is too much doing these days to allow us to quietly submit to being without mail for twenty-four hours. There is no good reason why the mail bags should not be brought from the city direct by the Central Vermont. Under existing arrangements they come to Farnham by Canadian Pacific railway and if this train is late the Central Vermont comes along without them. Telephone requests that the bags be put on the freight which follows the passenger train here do not bring any results and we have to wait for the evening train to pick up the bags and bring them along. Will the Granby Board of Trade, which has been suffering from drowsiness lately, kindly wake up and attend to the matter.
Under the present arrangement the town of Granby, with a population of 5,000, receives a closed mail in the morning on the train from Montreal and the registered mail on the evening train. This closed mail [DOT]is placed on the Canadian Pacific railway train at 8.25 in the morning. The mail is thrown off at Farnham and transferred to
a train which leaves Montreal via the Central Vermont at 8.35 a.m. If the Canadian Pacific railway train is fifteen or twenty minutes late in arriving at Farnham, the mail has missed the connection with the Central Vermont train and remains on the station platform during the entire day. I would ask the Postmaster General if some arrangement could not be made by which this morning mail, instead of leaving at 8.25 by the Canadian Pacific railway, could be placed directly on the train which leaves the Bonaventure station at 8.35, and thus save this inconvenience.


Thomas Chase Casgrain: I will look into the matter, and if it is possible to remedy the evil I will have it done.
17th NOVA SCOTIA REGIMENT.
On the Orders of the Day being called:


Robert Laird Borden: I have received a telegram from Sir George Perley, which sets forth the substance of General Alderson's reply to Sir George Perley's letter regarding the allegations of Mr. H. C. Crowell. General Alderson states that the only word of truth in the whole article is that Colonel Robertson has been replaced. He further says that all the nonsense about the 17th Battalion being used as scavengers, etc., is pure invention.


POSTAL WAR STAMPS.
[Stage Direction]
On the Orders of the Day being called:
Mr. STEVENS:: Referring to the following clause in the new proposed taxation, under the heading of Special Taxation:
On every letter and postcard posted in Canada a war stamp of one cent.
Does this clause apply to mail emanating from this House under the frank of hon. members? If not, in my opinion, it should.


Robert Laird Borden: I will bring my hon. friend's inquiry to the attention of the Minister of Finance, and I will give an answer to-morrow.


THE BUDGET.
[Stage Direction]
Consideration of the proposed motion of Hon. W. T. White (Minister of Finance) for the Committee of Ways and Means and the proposed amendment of Sir Wilfrid Laurier thereto, resumed from March 10.
Mr. JOHN H. SINCLAIR (Guysborough):
In the resolution now before the House the Minister of Finance requires to explain
[Stage Direction]
a deficit of $80,000,000. He ought also to deal with the Estimates submitted to the House. Permit me to pick out a couple of sample items such as a new dredging plant for Manitoba and the inspection of pickled fish. When listening to the speech of my hon. friend the Minister of Finance, I could not help wondering what the bombardment of Constantinople had to do with a dredging plant for Manitoba or with pickled fish. I was curious to know the purpose of this item of $33,000, to provide a new dredging plant for Manitoba. I did not know that any dredging was required in that province. I made some inquiries, and it was hinted to me that the Minister of Public Works was promoting this scheme, and that his idea was to dredge a track for the prairie schooners in order that there might be facilities afforded to carry cargoes of homestead inspectors for use at the next election. I do not know whether that explanation is the proper one or not; but if it is not it is for the Minister of Public Works to explain.
Mr. HENDERSON:: Not worth while.


John Howard Sinclair: Why, let me ask, did not the hon. Finance Minister deal with the questions before the House? It looks to me as if one of those resolutions is kept on the Order Paper in order to reinforce the other.
When the House adjourned last night I was dealing with the question of a pledge given to the people of Canada by the Prime Minister a few days before the last election.
I read the first clause of his manifesto, which -was published on the 15th day of August, in the Montreal Gazette and signed by the Prime Minister. In this pledge he promises on behalf of his party, if elected, a thorough reorganization of the methods by which public expenditure is supervised. That pledge has not been redeemed. I pointed out to the House that there never was a time in the history of this country since the days of Connolly and McGreevy when there was such a lack of supervision of public expenditure as there is to-day. In order to prove my case I produced correspondence laid on the table only a few days ago between the Minister of Finance and the Auditor General. You can see by that correspondence that things went so far and that the expenditure was so loosely made, in one department of the Government at all events, that it became necessary for the Auditor General to step in and stop the payment of the cheques of the Minister of Finance at the banks.
I want to produce another witness, an 
hon. gentleman who supports the Government. I refer to the hon. member for South Ontario (Mr. William Smith). You, Mr. Speaker, know that there is in this House no more loyal supporter of the present Administration than the hon. member for South Ontario. It will be conceded that that hon. member would do things for his party that he would not do for himself. He attended a meeting of the Horse Breeders' Association at Toronto, on the 2nd day of February, 19X5. He took occasion to make a speech, and I will read a paragraph from the report of it published in the Toronto Telegram, which I understand is a Conservative journal. Here is what my hon. friend says:
Perhaps the course of the Government has not met with universal satisfaction, and no doubt there is good reason for this. What I am about to say, i say as a supporter of "the Government and with a due sense of the significance of my words. As far as I can see, gentlemen, there is going to be a considerable graft In this business. I fear the tactics we condemned in connection with the Boer war remount purchases are to be repeated. This should not be. Men have been sent out to buy who might play a game of marbles, but who cannot buy horses.
There you have the opinion of a gentleman who is supporting the Government. His opinion was evidently given very reluctantly. He knows what is taking place, because if there is anything he knows well, it is horses. That want of oversight in the purchase of horses was not confined to the province of Ontario. In the province of Nova Scotia there was one gentleman detailed to purchase horses who would also, I have no doubt, be all right at playing marbles. Every one knows that the Militia Department is besieged day after day by contract brokers, patronage hunters, middlemen, and cattle of that character. All you have to do, if you do not know the facts, is to go down to the headquarters of our war department and see for yourself. There you will find them in hordes, like the army worm. I have very much sympathy with my hon. friend the Minister of Militia, who wished that he had the power to turn his quick-firing guns upon them. That is the way the business of this Government is being done in Ottawa; and outside in the rest of Canada the business of the country devolves upon patronage committees. In the town in which I live the recruiting officer could not select a medical doctor to examine the recruits volunteering for service without submitting to the dictation of a patronage committee. That is how the Minister of Finance is standing behind the boys in the

trenches. It makes a man's blood hot to think that at a time like this, when so many of our people are making great sacrifices, when over fifty thousand of the best blood of Canada are risking their lives in the country's service and every day adding to the number, when some twenty thousand of our countrymen are at this moment somewhere in the blood-soaked swamps of Flanders exposed to the hardships and dangers of war for the defence of their country. All honour to them for their patriotism and courage and devotion to duty. But what shall we say of the grafters, and the jobbers, and the patronage hunters who in this hour of their country's need are thinking only of themselves and of what they can steal for their own pockets or for the reptile funds of their party? The Auditor General is the only safeguard we have; and it would appear from the correspondence laid on the table that he is spending a good deal of his time at present looking after the ministers. It is a Godsend for the people of Canada that we have an Auditor General and that he is a man of integrity and courage. Otherwise they would steal the Mace off the table and the carpets off the floor of this Chamber.
I pointed out in connection with the pledge given by my right hon. friend the leader of the Government (Sir Robert Borden) that he stated in his manifesto that a yearly expenditure of $74,000,000 was extravagance beyond all defence. To-day instead of $74,000,000 we have an ordinary controllable expenditure of $140,000,000. Now, Sir, if there was no excuse, no possible defence for an expenditure of $74,000,000 in 1911, when my right hon. friend wrote that manifesto, how can there be any defence to-day for the enormous expenditure of $140,000,000? If there is a defence we should like to hear it. For, I submit, that in the whole course of this debate no one on the other side so far has attempted to make a proper defence on that question. The people are asking throughout the country, Could this staggering deficit be avoided? I submit that it could. All will agree that with honest administration and the practice of economy it could have been greatly reduced. I will venture the statement that if the grafters and middlemen and patronage hunters and partisan committees had been driven out the Minister of Finance would not have to meet Parliament to-day in the humilating position he finds himself.
My hon. friend to-day says he could not interfere with contracts because the honour of Canada is at stake. That is a new
theory for hon. gentlemen opposite. They were hardly warm in their seats before they cancelled a contract made by the former Administration in my own constituency for the construction of a branch railway. The former Postmaster General has admitted in this House that he cancelled hundreds of contracts. A return was placed on the table last year showing that he cancelled no less than five hundred contracts for carrying the mails throughout this country. Many of these contracts were entered into after public tender and competition, and many of the men whose contracts were cancelled were ruined in the operation. But he claimed the right to do that on account of the fact that there is a clause in all Government contracts that enables the Government to cancel. It is a new doctrine for hon. gentlemen opposite that they cannot cancel contracts. Where was the " honour of Canada " in the cases of these five hundred contracts? Where was the honour of Canada in the case of the railway contract in my county.
Referring again to the deficit why should not this Government live within its income? The people are practising economy. They are endeavouring to live within their incomes^ The late Government lived within its income. If this Government cannot live within its income, permit me to suggest that they should be requested politely but firmly to step aside and make room for a Government that can. If you ask me to be specific, I will venture a few suggestions. In the discussion which took place in this House a few days ago, it was pointed out that the official staff appointed throughout this country since this Government came into power has been increased by the enormous number of ten thousand new officers. I know very well that explanations have been made, and I am quite willing to make allowances for all these explanations. But after the explanations had been submitted, after allowance has been made for what can be said on behalf of the ministers, we are forced to the conclusion that there was utter recklessness in securing positions for their partisans. The Minister of Customs (Mr. Reid), whom I am glad to see in his place, is one of the most plausible of ministers in making explanations. But we all know the Minister of Customs. His method of appointing officers has been exposed at various times in this House. My hon. friend from Richmond (Mr. Kyte) gave one case that happened at Red Island in his

county a few days ago. The Minister of Customs dismissed an officer there because there was nothing for him to do; and then immediately afterwards appointed a party friend to do nothing at an increased salary -nearly twice as much as the former officer had. I pointed out a similar case in my own county. The hon. member for Antigonish (Mr. Chisholm) also exposed a case of that character in connection with the department of my hon. friend, in Antigonish. In that case it appears that a preventive officer was dismissed because there was nothing for him to do. The report of the inspector stated' that the officer had not struck a blow for nine years-and made no report to the Government for that length of time. In the face of that report the officer was very properly dismissed. But a party friend, one Moses Delorey, had to be looked after, and he insisted that he must have his reward. The Minister of Customs was up against it.


John Dowsley Reid: He is doing good work since.


John Howard Sinclair: So, what did the minister do ? He put Moses Delorey in the place of the dismissed officer. But the salary was not large enough, and in the face of the report of the inspector, he did not like to increase the salary. . So he appointed the same gentleman as an inspector of food. This " inspector of food " is residing in a country district where no inspection of food is carried on.


John Dowsley Reid: I did not do that.


Mr. SINQLAIR:: No, but the Minister of Inland Revenue did. The return shows what was done. This man has for two years been drawing a salary as inspector of food; and outside the porridge pot in his own kitchen he has inspected nothing yet. In my own town, a few miles further west on the Intercolonial railway, a young man by the name of Cavanagh was dismissed from the customs service -by my hon. friend because there was no work for him to do.


John Dowsley Reid: That was a good reason.


John Howard Sinclair: Yes, if it was true, but whdt happened? In the place of this man, for whom he could find no work, my hon. friend appointed two men, at substantial salaries, to do the work Cavanagh had been doing. Similar instances could be found all along the three thousand miles between Cape Breton and British Columbia. In the face of examples of this kind, what is the

use of hon. gentlemen opposite trying to refute the accusation that they have increased their staff of officials to such an extent that their action has become a public scandal? The number of new appointments, after making allowance for resignations and dismissals, is placed at 10,000. One hon. gentleman estimated that these appointments would cost the country in salaries an average of $1,000 each. I think that that estimate is high. Some of these persons occupy important positions in the inside service, and, of course, draw correspondingly large salaries; but some are employed in the outside service at salaries which are not so high. But if we estimate the average salary at $500, that means $5,000,000 a year, or $16,000 a day, which is required to pay this increased official staff, the great majority of whom have been unnecessarily appointed to positions in the public service since hon. gentlemen opposite came into power. In view of these circumstances, what is the use of telling us that we are doing a patriotic act when we pay five cents additional a bottle on patent medicine, or two cents instead of one for a post card?
My second proposal is that the Government should abolish the middleman. I am glad the hon. member for Peel (Mr. Blain) is paying attention; he was the great critic of the middlemen when he sat on this side of the House. The middleman has had four fat years.


John Dowsley Reid: He had about fifteen
when hon. gentlemen opposite were in power.


John Howard Sinclair: of additional employees in order to collect an income tax. The hon. Minister of Customs himself figures in the list of appointments to the extent of 1,649 new officials.


John Dowsley Reid: That is not correct.
The hon. gentleman is not stating that correctly.


John Howard Sinclair: Substracting from that the number who died or were dismissed.


John Dowsley Reid: Yes.


John Howard Sinclair: There was a large increase was there not?


John Dowsley Reid: I said there was an increase but the hon. gentleman did not explain it correctly in the first instance.


John Howard Sinclair: My hon. friend did not wait for my explanation, after we make all allowances, there is a very large increase.


John Dowsley Reid: But there has been a very large increase in the revenue and new offices have been opened.


John Howard Sinclair: At present there is a very large decrease in the revenue.


John Dowsley Reid: No there is not, the revenue is increasing now.


John Howard Sinclair: It is increasing for the last month but that is only temporary, the decrease has been very marked for the whole of last year.


John Dowsley Reid: No, it has not.


John Howard Sinclair: Well then, the hon. gentleman's returns are not correct, my proposal is that the Minister of Customs could furnish a staff of men throughout this country who could collect the income tax without burdening the country with a new set of officers. There is one thing I would like about the income tax, it would afford some of those millionaires in Toronto and Montreal who have been accustomed for many years to shout loyalty, an opportunity to do something more substantial for their country than singing God save the King and waving the flag.
I wish to enter my protest against the 7i per cent increase in the general customs tariff. My chief reason is that it will increase the cost of living, which is already too high. It will not produce much revenue, it will put perhaps $3 in the pockets of the combines for every dollar it will into the treasury of the country. Besides it is done without any discrimination, no account is taken of the large number of articles of which there is no importation. These articles are taxed just the same and

from them not a dollar will come into the treasury of the country. A very large amount will be extracted from the pockets of the people by this means. Take, for example, the item of unbarked marlin, a kind of twine that is used on the coast of the maritime provinces by the fishermen for making lobster traps. Under the old Government that twine was admitted free. Under the present Government it is taxed 25 per cent.


John Dowsley Reid: There has been no
change in the tariff there, the hon. member knows that well.


John Howard Sinclair: My hon. friend knows too that he put a different construction on that item of the tariff since he came into office.


John Dowsley Reid: That is not in accord with the facts, and it was thoroughly explained.


John Howard Sinclair: My hon. friend cannot deny it; we have had the matter discussed several times in the House and it has been proved beyond all question that a different 'construction was put upon that item of the tariff after my hon. friend came into power.


John Dowsley Reid: It never was.


John Howard Sinclair: I can prove it from the importers who imported the article. For 15 years it came in free until my hon. friend took office.


John Dowsley Reid: It never was.


John Howard Sinclair: The tariff schedule itself shows it, but at the present time there is none of that cordage imported into Canada. That is a statement that my hon. friend will not deny. It is completely controlled by the cordage combine at Halifax or Montreal, wherever its headquarters are. The consequence is that the 25 per cent is at present squeezed out of the fishermen of the country and no cordage is imported. What will happen under the new tariff? Any one can see that in place of 25 per cent the fishermen will have to pay the cordage combine 32J per cent. Why was that not put among the excepted articles? That is only one of a very large number of items of which there is no importation in respect of which the people will be oppressed with a heavy tax and not a cent will reach the treasury. It is clear that the war is being made a pretext to confer a boon on the combines at the expense of the consumers of this country.
It has come out during one of the discussions in this House that the Conservative party issued a pamphlet claiming that they

knew about the war for some two years before the war took place and that we innocent people on this side of the House did not know anything about it, that we could not recognize an emergency when we saw it. All I can say in reply is that if they really did know, there is no parallel in all history for their conduct unless it be the well known case of Nero who kept on fiddling while Rome was burning. When the crash came they were totally unprepared, both by land and sea. They had allowed the barnacles to accumulate on the bottom of the Niobe in Halifax. She was partly dismantled; some of her machinery was stored in a warehouse on a wharf in the dockyard. The officers had been encouraged to desert. The officers of the Naval Department were engaged in preparing a book on how to cook fish instead of preparing for war. A few days before war broke out the departmental report for the year was issued. I received my copy of the departmental report on the 6th day of August, just two days after the war broke out. I opened it eagerly to find whether the naval defence which we had in this country was in a good state of preparation. On the eighth page of the book I found the following:
Owing to the decision of the Government not to continue H.M.C. ships Niobe and Rainbow in full commission, the course of exercise and training for these ships has been discontinued and they are at present manned by nucleus crews.
That is what I found in the Naval report issued about the time war broke out. A few days after they got very busy in the dockyard at Halifax. A force of men was put on, a double shift was set to work, the ship was refitted and prepared for sea. That was the condition of our naval vessels when war broke out. What, let me ask, was the condition of the militia? Was it any better? The Militia Department, on an expenditure of about $12,000,000 during the previous fiscal year, was in very little better shape than the navy. The treasury was empty; the Finance Minister had been scraping the bottom of the pot for months before the war came. There was no clothing for the troops, no boots were ready for the soldiers. It has come out in the investigation that there was not even a specification in the department to tell what kind of boots a soldier should have for active service. There were no blankets, and socks were as scarce as blankets. Even the camp at Valcartier was not ready, the stumps had to be taken out, it all had to be cleared and drained and a water supply put in. There was absolutely
nothing ready but a long list of honorary colonels. Yet we are told that these gentlemen knew all about the war two years before it broke out! At the time of the Boer war some years ago, with a yearly expenditure of only $1,700,000 on militia, the country was much better-prepared than it was on this occasion. Permit me to remind hon. gentlemen opposite of the promptness with which the country responded in the case of the Boer war. The president of the Transvaal Republic declared war against Great Britain on the 9th day of October, 1899. On the 30th day of October of the same year, just 21 days afterwards, the steamship Sardinian was sailing down the St. Lawrence bearing the first contingent to a distant part of the world to fight for the flag, the men all ready and equipped. That is the way' the late Government met the emergency in 1899, not, of course, on such a large scale-


Mr. GLASS:: Could the hon. gentleman
tell how many men were sent at that time?


John Howard Sinclair: I have not the number here. I do not pretend it was anything like the same number as has been despatched at the present time; but I am pointing out that the Department of Militia, as managed and controlled by the late minister (Sir Frederick Borden), was in a state of preparation to respond to the call of war, and in the short space of three weeks he was able at least to do something; whereas the present department was not able to do anything in anything like that space of time. Let me suggest that my hon. friends will do well to suppress that pamphlet that has now become so well known and notorious, if they have not done so. If not, it is bound to do harm to them. The Canadian voter is the last man in the world to tolerate incompetence, especially at such a critical time in the country's history as the present.
I am glad to see that the hon. member for West Peterborough (Mr. Burnham) is in his seat; I want to have just one word with him. My hon. friend from West Peterboro, when he spoke, rattled some old bones and attempted to revive the old navy debate. We have no objection on this side of the House to revive the navy debate. We are ready to discuss that question at all times. My hon. friend poses as a philosopher, and I am free to admit that there is a thin veneer of philosophy outside of his outside skin.
But when you scratch him you find a Tory; and a Tory of that type that is peculiar to the province of Ontario, the type that

relies more on kindling prejudices against my honoured leader than on the justice of their cause. His patriotic soul was wrestling over the use of the word "may" in that clause of the Naval Service Act which permits the Canadian navy to be used for the defence of the Empire. The word "may" did not suit him. In that word he saw a deep plot to wreck the Empire; and he wanted some word like "shall" or "must," I suppose, substituted for "may." He had no faith in the Canadian people. That is what was underneath the suggestion he made in that speech.


Mr. BURNHAM:: It is only a portion of the Canadian people that I have no faith in.


John Howard Sinclair: That is what was at the bottom of his suggestion. It is the same old Tory heresy that, in the early part of last century, placed his party against the granting of responsible government to this country; it is the same spirit that placed his party in England against granting selfgovernment to the Boers a few years ago; the same spirit that, a few months ago, almost turned the British Isles into an armed camp over the question of home rule for Ireland. I am sorry that that spirit still lives in the backwoods of West Peter-boro. But, suppose we had put the word "must" in. Do you think that would have made any difference? Would it have been respected by the present Government? Suppose we had put the word "must" in the British Preference Act. Would that have prevented my hon. friend the Minister of Finance from driving a horse and cart through it at the present time? Certainly not. My hon. friend knows that very well. But of course I am well aware that that speech of his was for consumption in West Peterboro. It is a well known fact in this country that he won his last election there on a bogus cry. He has practically admitted it in the House.


John Hampden Burnham: I appeal to the House against such an assertion as that. He has no right to say that I admitted such a thing in the House. The statement is false.


John Howard Sinclair: I appeal to you, Mr. Speaker. I say it is not false. I say it is true, and I can prove it by the records of the House.


John Hampden Burnham: Do so.


John Howard Sinclair: My hon. friend openly admitted in the House that the question that was discussed in his county and on which he ran in 1911 was the Ne Temere

Act. And what was the promise that my hon. friend made his electors? Did he not know at the time he made that promise that the highest legal authorities in this country had decided that this Parliament had no power to deal with the Ne Temere? Was he not well aware of that? But in face of the knowledge of that fact, he made the promise to his electors that, if elected, he would see that a uniform marriage law was passed for this country. Has he fulfilled the pledge he gave?


John Hampden Burnham: I do not run the whole House.


John Howard Sinclair: Has he attempted to
carry it out? He was well aware at the time he made it that he could not carry it out. He must have been aware of it. And now he is trying to stir up another question that he expects will do service for him in the backwoods of the same riding. I think I have dealt sufficiently with that question.
I do not wish to detain the House any longer; so, to sum up:
1.	I am cordially in favour of the proposed war loan. I am also in favour of such taxation as may be necessary to meet the interest on the war loan. I am prepared along with my colleagues on this side cordially to support any measure that will enable the Government to give effective assistance to the Empire in the supreme crisis through which it is now passing. To quote from my hon. friend from South Renfrew (Mr. Graham), " millions for war, but not a dollar for graft."
2.	I am opposed to the 7i per cent increase in the general tariff because it is levied without discrimination. It will bear most heavily on those classes of the community least able to pay. It will not produce any substantial amount of revenue, and it cannot fail to enrich the combines.
3.	I am especially opposed to the 5 per cent additional impost on British goods. By this impost, we are treating Great Britain as a foreign country, and are striking a blow at British commerce. If ever there was a time when the interests of British trade should be safeguarded it is at the present, when the old land is engaged-in a struggle involving its own existence and our future.
4.	This is not a war Budget. If it were, I would cordially support it. We have the admission of the Honourable Finance Minister that not one dollar of the money to be collected under this Budget outside the interest on the war loan, will go to prosecute
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the war; and as a matter of fact the interest on the war loan will be borrowed as well as the principal.
5.	The Government, in face of decreasing trade and a falling revenue, should have adopted a policy of retrenchment and economy; and if the Government had done this during the past four years, nay, if they do so now, this increased taxation will not be necessary.
I shall vote for the amendment.


Samuel Francis Glass: Mr. Speaker, I rise to participate for the first time in the debates of this House, and I trust that I shall not transgress any of its rules. I have listened with a great deal of interest to the hon. gentleman who has just sat down (Mr. Sinclair), and yesterday I listened with an especial interest to my hon. friend from Red Deer (Mr. Michael Clark), because, from the views he has enunciated on previous occasions in this House, and the stand he has taken as a free trader and a Cobdenite, I knew that he was a lucid and clear speaker. I am not sure, however, that my views on the question of protection have been changed by hearing the able remarks of the hon. gentleman. I knew that he had lived in the old land, where free trade' has for so long stood the test of time and given such satisfactory results. I am also not unmindful of the fact that the great German Empire and the great country to the south of us have, by protection, on entirely different systems, built up their trade and grown wealthy, possibly to an even greater extent than the Motherland herself. I believe that conditions in the old land make free trade the desirable policy for that country to pursue. But so far as Canada is concerned, there has never since protection was adopted been submitted to the people of this country an alternative fiscal policy which met with their approval, or which they were prepared to try out. The hon. member for Guysborough (Mr. Sinclair) has referred to the panacea which the Government of the day applied to this country in 1911, in order to try and relieve our people from the ills that, in the Government's opinion, existed at that time -a time when the revenues of this country	were	buoyant,	and thecountry	in a	prosperous	condition.
Our hon. friends, in their wisdom, thought it good policy to undo the splendid structure that had been built up through the years under protection by casting in their lot with the United States, and opening up to them the markets of this splendid coun-50
try. I am glad that the hon. gentleman has given us the opportunity of considering that question of reciprocity again, and I can only say that if it should be the desire of the Opposition to discuss with the people again the same subject the Government are prepared to take the issue to the people, and I have no doubt the result will be the same as it has been since 1878. We have had similar policies enunciated at different periods in our history since 1878, and they have been submitted to the people. It seems to me that hon. gentlemen opposite take the view that the people do not really know what they want. They have had the question tested before by an appeal to the people and the country has supported the policy of protection.
The present situation is an extraordinary one. Nothing like it has ever at any time faced us in this country, and as hon. gentlemen on the other side of the House have expressed their views on financial affairs as they are now, they seem to want to impress on the country and to try to convince themselves-although I cannot believe that they are convinced-that the great war now raging is responsible only for the amount of monejfthat we actually . expend in aid of the military that we send to help the Mother Country. Surely hon. gentlemen opposite do not believe any such thing. Surely they do not believe that the conditions of war are not responsible for the decreasing revenues of this country, or that there are not losses to the country resulting from the war conditions in Europe which are entirely aside from the expenses that will be incurred in equipping the forces we are sending to the front. The failure of so many intelligent citizens to realize and appreciate the tremendous effect of this war on finance, commerce and industry throughout the whole world is to me surprising.
The world's population to-day is estimated at 1,620,000,000 people, and of these 925,000,000 reside in the countries and their colonies affected by this war. The total area of the globe, exclusive of the polar regions, is about 52,000,000 square miles, and of this the countries engaged in the war represent an area of 28,500,000 square miles. Five continents are engaged more or less in the fighting. The greatest . wars of the past centuries were but trifling as compared with this mighty conflict. To-day armies aggregating 15,000,000 of the flower of the world's manhood have been summoned from field,



forest, mine, and factory. The great armies of England, France, Germany, Austria and Russia are facing each other in deadly combat along a battle line of over 1,000 miles. The war has already cost $8,500,000,000, it having been in progress for six months, and that represents an expenditure of $17,000,000,000 a year, or $47,000,000 a day. The world's trade is estimated at $40,000,000,000, and of this total the nations at war and their colonies represent $25,000,000,000. The commerce and finance of the whole world are so closely related and interdependent that it might be said that the arteries of the whole world are as closely associated as the arteries of the human body, and yet with these conditions prevailing in the great countries of Europe hon. gentlemen on the other side of the House virtually tell us that these conditions are in no way responsible for the shrinking revenues. The war has driven the powerful German marine off t'he high seas, and the foreign trade of Germany, Austria and Belgium, representing 22 per cent of the trade of the whole world, has practically vanished. These countries did with our country, as well as with the United States, a large volume of trade. Importation from these countries has absolutely vanished. That, necessarily, must diminish the revenue of Canada. Many of the agencies of transportation have been destroyed. Trade routes being deranged, demoralization and partial destruction in every branch of commercial and industrial activity is in evidence. During the year England's exports decreased by $475,000,000 and her imports by $355,000,000 making a total decrease in her foreign trade of $830,000,000. Notwithstanding her enormous importation of food stuffs her imports in Janu-5 p.m. ary last fell off $3,000,000 and her exports for the same month decreased $98,000,000. We know that in England large numbers of men have been withdrawn from the factory and the farm to fight in the trenches of France in defence of the Empire and that there is to some extent a dearth of labour in the larger factories and industries of England which are employed very fully at the present time. It is not surprising that it should be so. Belgium's trade of $1,500,000,000 is gone entirely and her fields are laid bare.
Going back a little beyond the present conditions I asked a question of my hon. friend from Guysborough last night which he did not answer. The question was if my hon. friend did not know that a war existed in the year 1912 and that the conditions 
brought About by reason of the war were conditions that led to the stagnation and to the interruption of commercial activity throughout the whole world. I referred to the Balkan war. The Balkan war, was a live, active war in that year and as a result of that war $450,000,000 of the capital of the world was obliterated. The increased outlay by armaments for the war and the gradual rise in the world's standard of prices, were the chief factors contributing to the financial depression of the time being. If hon. gentlemen wanted to be fair they would not condemn the fiscal policy of this country which for so many years has justified its existence and has been the source of a large revenue, and a source of strength in the development of our many industries. They would not deride that policy which the public six or seven times had endorsed as the correct policy of this country, nor blame the policy of protection for the conditions that prevailed at that time, which, -were, as hon. gentlemen must know, directly due to the world disturbance in finance and commerce. Reciprocity was the panacea suggested by my hon. friends. The hon. member for Guysborough (Mr. Sinclair) said last night:	.
We all - recognize that Canada is passing through a period of hard times. We may differ about the cause. Statesmen on this side of the House saw the depression coming prior to 1911, and they endeavoured to provide for it by opening new markets for Canadian products. Their efforts were frustrated, and Canada is having a taste of the depression that existed prior to 1896.
The hon. gentleman seemed at that time to have a vision of the future, a thing that hon. gentlemen opposite have not been troubled with in the past, because if they had that clear vision of what would come as the result of submitting that policy to the people of this country, they would have preferred the honour of serving their country as leaders in this House to going down to ignominious defeat as the result of submitting that policy to the people. If hon. gentlemen opposite wish to challenge the Government again on that issue, I am sure we shall be prepared to meet them in the country, and I have no doubt as to what the result will be when the question is submitted again to the people.
Our friends have to some extent derided the campaign, as we may call it, of *patriotism and production. I have even heard hon. gentlemen, who are interested in matters of agriculture and who represent agricultural districts, ridicule this policy. It will be an unfortunate thing for

this country if the time ever comes when a man engaged in agricultural production thinks there is nothing more to learn. I have the honour to represent a district which is peculiarly an agricultural one. In fact, I have not in the whole constituency even an incorporated village of any kind. My constituents are a very intelligent and progressive people. The Ontario Government has established in my county a district representative of the Department of Agriculture. It is the farmers who are progressive and enterprising, and who wish to be up-to-date who read the literature sent out and who attend the lectures that are given by that representative. A patriotism-and-production meeting was held in my district last month. At that meeting I learned from the district representative in our country of the splendid results obtained by our young men in what was called the acre-profit competition in the province of Ontario last year. In my own district, in the county of Middlesex, there were three farmers' sons, one of whom, as the result of the information he had obtained and the interest he had manifested in the lectures, was able in the competition to produce from one acre 501 bushels of potatoes, at a cost of $32.50, which were sold at 40 cents per bushel, giving a profit of $168 per acre. The other two boys from the same district were within ten bushels of these results. Each of those three boys produced an average of over $160 clear profit per acre as a result of the effort they had put forth in intensive production. The campaign, as the matter has been laid before the people, is encouraging them, not so much to a greater acreage as to a better production. The great problem is that of labour. Until that problem can be solved it will 'be difficult to increase production. The farmers of our country arfe working late and early, and are unable to procure sufficient labour. Notwithstanding that, I do not think any one denies that it is quite within the bounds of possibilities to apply more science to the development of agriculture, and by that, and by a little better tillage, to produce larger results on the same acreage.
There are three ways in which a farmer can increase production: first, by the application of increased labour; secondly, by the application of more intelligent a*nd scientific methods, and thirdly, by application of increased capital. I do not say that these three are entirely independent of each other. On the contrary, they are very closely connected. No one of them can be applied by itself alone. Each carries with it the necessity in some measure 58!
of both of the others.	Pure bred
stock, tile drains, improved buildings -all these things make	for better
production and essential pre-requisites for them is capital. The tendency of the whole financial world is to draw capital away from the farms. We find in all the small towns the banks establishing branches. The object of this is to collect the savings of the farmers and to distribute them in the commercial centres, applying the money to commerce and industry. This is the natural thing to do but works injury to farmers themselves who used increased capital for their operations. It cannot be denied, however, that agriculture is awakening to higher and to greater possibilities. The situation within the Empire in this world crisis calls upon our people for increased production. The people in this country are largely responding to that call. To fulfil these requirements, to meet the urgent demands of the Empire, the present need is for a large increase in the amount of capital available for rural credit on conditions suitable for agricultural enterprises? What in view of the situation ds required? What can be suggested by way of remedy? It is an economic certainty that every enterprise promptly responds to the magic touch of prosperity. Let the farmer have an experience of this, and you will see agriculture expand. Better returns to the farmer need not mean higher prices to the consumer owing to improved marketing, improved methods of transportation and storage facilities, not operated in the interest of the railways and the middleman, but in the interests of the producers and consumers. If scientific production is a good thing, then why not scientific marketing and scientific distribution? We cannot enlarge our farming activities unless the means to supply the capital is provided.
The question of credit for farmers is one which I think is of greatest importance. This is one of the problems that, I hope, this. Government will be able to meet. We are told, when a subject of this kind is presented, that it offers difficulties. But in spite of the difficulties the situation has been grappled with in the United States. A movement was commenced over a year ago to meet the growing needs for extended rural credits. A commission was appointed under the authority of Congress to go abroad and make a study of this whole matter, especially the organization and operation of rural credit associations in Europe. On its return the commission made a report, and, as a result, a Bill was introduced in both Houses of Congress embodying the ideas and plans of this com-

mission. This is called the Moss-Fletcner Bill. The McCumber Knral Credit Bill was later introduced as an alternative plan; and finally the Bulkley-Hollis Bill, an amendment to the Agricultural Appropriation Bill, was the one which met the approval of the Banking and Commerce Committee of tire Senate and was reported to the House of Representatives by a committee of that body. So the Bill has made good advance.
Some plan should be devised to enable farmers to organize co-operative credit associations throughout Canada with the assistance of the Government given under proper safeguards. The matter would imply using of the credit of the Government in a business-like way to reduce the enormous interest the farmers now have to pay. The great difference between the credit required for farmers and the credit required for ordinary commercial purposes is that the farmer requires a loan for a longer period than the ordinary commercial or industrial loan is expected to run. The application for credit should be supported by the Government in such a way as will give to the farmer, under proper safeguards, the assistance of the Government. That, to my mind, will go further to solve the problem of production and the problem of labour on the farm than anything else. It is of primary importance, above all other things. The interests of the farmer imperative^ demand that we should have legislation extending direct Government aid to the tiller of the soil. Cases have come within my own observation, and in my own township, of farmers with a large area of grazing land, but without the- capital to buy the necessary stock, and so their land goes to waste. I have seen more failures, I think, directly as a result of the want of capital to carry on the work of farming than from any other cause affecting my own district. I do not say that there are many who are in that unfavourable position. In fact they are comparatively few, because the farmers of that, district are progressive. And I find that the most progressive farmers there are those who do not sell their grain at the first price the market will give them after threshing, but they feed that grain to the stock on the farm, and so, as they say, their grain leaves the farm on the hoof. These are the men who are making a success of farming in our district.
Now, I have said there are difficulties in this matter. They have had difficulties to face in their efforts to solve this question in the United States. Sam Warren defines

difficulty as being only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects; a mere notice of the necessity for exertion; a bugbear to children and fools, but only a stimulus to men. There may be difficulties surrounding this question, but I believe that the more the problem is pressed upon the Government, the sooner a way will be found to solve it. I believe that Agriculture should be the most important department of the whole Government. We have our experimental farms, as we call them, in different parts of the country. And while these accomplish a good deal, in my humble opinion, the system of appointing district representatives in the various communities where they can become practically the agriculturists' doctors, right among the farmers themselves, is accomplishing a great r measure of good even than the work of the experimental farms. I hope the time will come when agriculture will be deemed of so much importance in this country that in every county at least, if not in every township, we may have a demonstration farm right in the midst of our people, which can be carried on with profit, and which will arouse the interest of the farmers in the most up-to-date and scientific methods of agriculture.
It has been stated, and it seems most unfortunate if true, that in Ontario, notwithstanding the enormous production of that province, they are not producing half of what the farms are capable of producing. I have given a good deal of thought to this matter and have discussed it with our representative including hon. gentlemen who are here representing eonstituentencies in the great West and who are endeavouring to make a good living out of farming in that country. I believe the time will come when they will follow the information that can be given in their agricultural schools in their several districts, and when the farmers there will not sell their oats at 25 cents a bushel and their barley at 30 and 35 cents, nor will they sell their wheat at the ridiculously low prices that have prevailed, but will feed their grain to stock and send it off on the hoof so that a twenty-five cent bushel of oats will represent a dollar or a dollar and ten cents before it leaves the farmer's hands. Our friends on the other side constantly complain of the tariff. But I believe the time will come when they will get interested in these lines. When the great West becomes a leading industrial district the demand from that

country for extensive changes in the tariff will entirely disappear.
In regard to the patriotism and production campaign throughout the country, I desire to say a word though the Minister of Agriculture (Mr. Burrell) is not here. I would respectfully say that I think the campaign would have been productive- of even better results if the advertising campaign had preceded the meetings. I believe that the information gathered by the Department of Agriculture and issued in bulletins from time to time does not accomplish its full purpose, because the means of distribution is not what it should be. We have discussed this in the agricultural committee of this House and have not been able to suggest a method which would give the best distribution for this literature which, properly distributed, would he so valuable to the farmers of this country. I have thought, and still think, that it would be a good plan if bound catalogues of the publications of the department were in every rural reading library throughout the country. Then the man who is interested in live stock, the man who is interested in horticulture, the man who is interested in field crops, may send for the particular literature dealing with the special branch of agriculture he is particularly interested in.
I want to touch briefly on the matter of reciprocity, because that subject may, perchance, be a live issue when another appeal is made to the people. The inconsistency of hon. gentlemen opposite in connection with this matter is amusing. I have a clipping from the Winnipeg Telegram in which reciprocity is recommended because eggs in Minneapolis are only 29 cents a dozen while in Winnipeg they are from 35 to 45 cents a dozen; because butter in Minneapolis is from 29 to 34 cents a pound, while in Winnipeg it is from 30 to 40 cents a pound. In the last reciprocity campaign hon. gentlemen opposite attempted to convince the people of cities and industrial communities on the one hand that the effect of reciprocity would be to lower to them the prices of these commodities, and on the other hand, that the farmer would get a better market on the other side for his produce. Hon. gentlemen were so inconsistent in the matter of reciprocity that they could not interest the people in it. It has been said that protection is foolish, and that if it were abandoned the country would he better off. But if it were not for the duties which keep them away, would American capital and American manufacturers invest half a billion dollars in establishing industries all over our country? Almost every member of this House has within his own constituency evidence of the fact that American manufacturers are establishing branches in Canada. My hon. friend the member for North Essex (Mr. Wilcox) probably knows better than any one else what the effect of reciprocity would be upon the large industrial district of which his constituency is a part. You cannot convince the farmers of that district that the markets of Detroit are better for his produce than the home market. He has the big markets of London, Toronto, and other places, and to these markets, taking advantage of the protection which he is afforded, he may ship his vegetables and other produce. The automobile industry in my hon. friend's constituency has grown to enormous proportions; notwithstanding the financial pressure which exists at the present time, it is expanding rapidly. The question naturally resolves itself into an inquiry as to what would he the benefit of reciprocity to the farmers. It has been repeated time and again-and it certainly must be evident to any hon. gentleman in this House-that a market that produces a surplus of 300,000,000 bushels of wheat cannot be the natural market for the products of this country.
I 'believe that hon. gentlemen opposite look upon the Globe as orthodox. I have a clipping from that journal of the issue of February 13, which says:
The price of Canadian wheat is fixed not in Winnipeg but in Liverpool. The price of cattle and hogs on this side of the border cannot long remain materially above that of food animals in the United States. The value of Canadian cheese is set by the volume of consumption in the trenches of Flanders and the mills of Lancashire.
In the same editorial the Globe deals with the question of radial railways, which is a project with which I have a good deal of sympathy. It says:
If the farmer needs radial railways and better roads to help him in marketing, the Government should come to his aid in organizing such services. Even the social side of farm life might be benefited greatly by united effort. Whatever is needed to turn the stream of settlement to the land should be done cheerfully and with the good-will of all classes of the community. Ontario's prosperity, like that of the Dominion at large, must spring from the presence on the farms of contented and prosperous food producers.
Under the administration of hon. gentlemen opposite the people of this country had this matter presented to them praoti-


John Howard Sinclair: Does not the hon. gentleman think that if these gentlemen he speaks of were gentlemen who were dismissed at the end of six months they would appear on the other side of the account ? We have from the various departments a number of appointments and dismissals. If a man were appointed for six months and relieved from the service no doubt his name would appear as a dismissal.


Samuel Francis Glass: That explanation was given by the minister, but I would answer my hon. friend's question by asking him this one. Will the hon. gentleman say that to his knowledge there are at the present time 10,000 more civil servants than there were in 1911 ?


John Howard Sinclair: I am going wholly by the return placed on the table of the House by the Government.


Samuel Francis Glass: The returns do not show that. I know it is very easy to twist or rearrange figures to suit a purpose.


John Howard Sinclair: The fact is that the returns show a larger number, for 515 additional officers in the Marine and Fisheries Department are not included 'in that 10,000, and we have not yet heard from the Department of Militia. In addition to that, the return only covers about two years.


Samuel Francis Glass: I have not made any particular study of this, and I was only stating the figures given me by my hon. friend. But I think that if my hon. friend wanted to be fair and to give the proper information to this House, he would endeavour to find out from the Department. The fair comparison would be not the increase in appointments but the increase in the number of employees now in actual service. That comparison would be a proper and
fair one; if the increase were unreasonably large in proportion to the increase and development of the work in the departments there might be some cause for criticism, but there is no ground for criticism along the lines my hon. friends have pursued. This gloomy picture that is painted of our country and the conditions that exist here is not justified by the actual results as shown in the buoyant statements of the banks, with their large reserves and deposits, and also in the statements from loan companies and insurance companies. Under the existing circumstances there has been a surprising growth in our railway earnings and remarkable improvement in the bank balances and clearings. All along the line the tide seems to have turned. On the 30th of January the banks of this country had a total paid-up capital and reserve of $227,203,192. The deposits in the chartered banks in Canada were $996,877,212, the deposits elsewhere were $91,807,007, making a total of deposits of $1,088,684,219. But the increase in the deposits for January over the corresponding month in'the year 1914 is very striking. These are things that come close to us and are indications of improved conditions. The increase in the amount of deposits this year over January, 1914, was $21,929,917. In addition to the capital invested in these banks, our loan companies have a paid-up capital of $59,700,000. I have not the figures of reserves of loan companies but in many cases the reserve exceeds the paid-up capital and I do not think I would be very far mis-stating the fact if I said that the reserves were equal to the paid-up capital. We have invested in our manufacturing industries in this country $1,247,583,609; in railways $2,250,000,000; in canals $102,000,000. Our factory output amounted to $1,600,000,000, and the wages in our factories to $241,000,000. These figures are for 1910. The returns for this year show large increases over them. It does not look to me as though this country were in a deplorable condition financially, and I think that all along the line the tendency is towards improvement.
Hon. gentlemen complain about the cost of the administration of the Post Office Department in Canada. I find upon investigation that even in the United States the total revenue of the post office from 1865, the time of the civil war, to 1913, was $3,775,000,000 and the cost of operation for the same period was $4,555,000,000. There was that difference between the revenue and the cost of operating the Post Office Department of that great country. From 1884 until

1914 there have been almost constant deficits in the Post Office Department of that country. In 1902 the deficit amounted to $2,961,169, and in 1909 to $17,479,770. The aggregate deficit in the United States Post Office revenue from 1884 to 1914 reached the enormous total of $210,544,802, or an average yearly deficit of $7,797,955. That is in the great country south of us, with their much more dense population than that of Canada and their enormous revenue. Looking at that record we have reason to be proud of the administration of the Post Office Department in Canada.
The development of the parcel post system and of rural mail delivery has been a matter of very great interest to the farmers of this country. I do not know that any department of this Government has ever had to undertake a matter more difficult or complex than the arranging of rural mail routes throughout this country. The work has been done well. From the district I represent, a pretty large area, I have not received a single complaint of the service that has been given by the department. When we want to get an estimate, of the prosperity of this country we sometimes look at the annual bank reports. Hon. gentlemen opposite say that the present condition of the country is due to the gross extravagance of this Government. Let me read from the proceedings of the annual meeting of the Royal Bank of Canada which was held on January 8, 1914. Mr. E. F. B. Johnston, K.O., in seconding the adoption of the report, said:
Personally, I have great confidence in the vigour and elasticity of Canada and its people. Compared with many other countries, people in Canada do not know what hard times mean. The fact is that financial stringency in Canada is generally caused toy over-prosperity. Many business men of Canada during the past two or three years have been doing $200 of business on $100 capital. If they had confined their business relatively in volume to the amount of capital they had invested in it, they would not be hard up.
He goes on:
We may ask on an occasion like the present: What of the future? I am very sanguine as regards Canada. Let us look at some of the evi-. dences of prosperity which are laid before us:
Then after giving certain figures in regard to England, he says:
Coming to our own country, we find a pronounced feeling of hopefulness. Prom every province comes the voice of prosperity.
That was the optimistic opinion expressed of the conditions in the fall of 1913 by the

director of one of our banks at that time. The Minister of Finance too, when the Budget of 1914 was brought down in this House, was considerably optimistic as to the future of Canada; for then, neither he nor any one else knew of the great conflict that was lurking in the rear. Let me now turn to the annual meeting of the Royal Bank which was held on January 14, 1915. Sir Herbert Holt, the president, in moving the adoption of the report, said:
The outbreak of war was followed by a convulsive derangement of International exchange and general trade. Stock exchanges were closed, in many countries a moratorium was proclaimed, and a financial catastrophe of world-wide proportions was only averted by the wise and timely action of the British Government in providing through the Bank of England, powerful machinery for sustaining and protecting credit during the war, and for twelve months after peace is concluded. Much credit is due to the Canadian Minister of Finance for the emergency measures so promptly introduced to protect the situation in Canada. The efficiency of these is demonstrated by the fact that the business of the country has pursued its ordinary course, and we enjoy the distinction of requiring no recourse to a general moratorium.
And further on, he says:
Having no misgivings regarding the final outcome of the war, we venture the prediction that its economic effect upon Canada will be beneficial, although the magnitude of the struggle is without precedent. Previous wars during the past half century (namely, the war of Prussia against Austria in 1886, and against France in 1870, the South African war and the Russo-Japanese war) were all followed by active and expanding trade, but in each case, only two countries were engaged, as against the inclusion of nearly all Europe on the present occasion.. .. If the present war be long-continued, the European nations involved may become financially prostrated for many years. Even if the war is not long-continued, the flow of capital from Great Britain to this country is not likely to be resumed for a considerable time, and new . constructional work will therefore be retarded. On the other hand, we reap distinct commercial advantages from our geographical position and remoteness from the scene of warfare, which permit us to prosecute our farming and manufacturing industries unmolested in suite of our participation in the conflict
That is the opinion of the president of the Royal Bank. I have said before that I believe the time will come when our industries in the great West will be so developed that they will impress even our friends in the West that our home market, which industries alone can build up, is a matter of some interest to them; and when that time comes we shall not hear so much of the cry for free trade. I should like to give the House some figures taken from the report of the Royal Bank, from which I

have already quoted, giving the number of capital employed, employees, salaries and factories in this country by provinces, the wages, and the value of products.
1913-	Establish-	Salaries	Value ofments.	Capital.	Employees.	and Wages.	Products.Alberta	. . 334	$ 34,166,900	8,079	$ 5,052,530	$ 21,747,275British Columbia. .	. . 748	142,404,000	38,558	19,955,400	75,473,700Manitoba	. . 505	55,491,000	20,053	12,630,800	62,126,500New Brunswick. . . .	. . 1,329	41,814,700	28,654	9,623,400	41,000,900Nova Scotia . . . .	. . 1,702	92,137,800	33,336	12,303,000	61,007,100Ontario	. . 9,201	689,168,540	276,430	136,174,500	671,130,000Prince Edward Island. 508	2,330,000	4,354	614,600	3,618,500Quebec	. . 7,592	378,441,000	183,124	80,368,600	406,167,950Saskatchewan . . . .	. . 199	8,125,000	3,761	2,240,970	7,329,30022,118	$1,444,078,940	596,349	$278,963,800	$1,349,601,225
The total value of the products from all the factories was $1,349,601,225. Those figures show how this country has prospered under the tariff, and I do not think they furnish any reason for discouraging our optimism. I have said that the evidence all round shows that conditions in this country are not deplorable. In Winnipeg last year, in spite of the adverse conditions, 91 charters were obtained for industries, and 22 new industries were established in that city. Twenty-four of the companies that obtained charters had a capital of from forty to sixty thousand dollars; 24 a capital of from eighty thousand to one hundred thousand dollars; 6 a capital of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and 8 a capital of one million dollars. The prospects in that section of the country for the coming year are most encouraging. Since 1913 a great many more acres have been brought under cultivation, and the area under crop this year will be very much larger than last year. But, estimating the crop for next year on the basis of the area under cultivation in 1913, the value of the crop, at present prices, would be $293,281,218, as against $94,604,616 in 1913.
The estimated increased production and price of wheat alone for the coming year will be more than three times what they were in 1913.
A Conservative estimate of the oats, barley, flax, hay, live stock and dairy production, in which the prices for oats are placed at an advance of 100 per cent, barley at 100 per cent, hay at an advance of 30 per cent, with dairy products, live stock and flax unchanged, implies an increase in the returns to the farmers of the west of something like $88,206,758, as compared with a return in 1913 of $63,816,307.
This article goes on to say that
It is reasonable evidence that the farmers' crops for 1915 ought to approximate in value to him something like $381,487,976.
At six o'clock the House took recess.
The House resumed at eight o'clock.


Samuel Francis Glass: Before the
House took recess, I was endeavouring to point out conditions as they exist at the present time, and to show that from all evidences Canada has more reason for optimism than for pessimism. The condition of transportation companies, the improvement of banking conditions and trade generally point to a hopeful outlook. Hon members of the Opposition have endeavoured in the course of their arguments to impress upon us the necessity for economy at such a time as this, but I do not know that they are any more impressed with the need for economy than are the members of the Government. It is simply a matter of difference of opinion as to the best way in which to conduct the - affairs of the country at this time. If one wants to see the dark side of a question, it is quite easy to exaggerate conditions. I have here a clipping from the Globe under date of March 5, 1915, only five days ago, which says:
Economy is contagious. Talk of hard times, whether warranted or not, is certain to cause a tightening of purse-strings. That industrial corporations not injured but aided by the war have reduced wages is a natural though a lamentable development, the glut of the labour market making it possible. The encouragement toward business as usual will have but little influence on men who see a chance of increased profits by improving opportunities, but there is no ground for a general tendency toward personal economy by those who do not fell any pressure in that direction. Farmers have not lost their market by the war, and so far as prices have been affected the tendency has been upward. Their position, so far as production and returns are concerned, has been improved. But it is worthy of note, and perhaps to be regretted, that they have been affected by the contagion of the economy irresistibly forced on many city workers. Instead of more freely patronizing mercantile and industrial establishments in accordance with the better markets they are enjoying, the farmers have been inclined to fall into line with the prevailing habit.

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The prosperity of agriculture is a matter for congratulation. The farmer has borne the heavy end of the load, and it is always cause for general satisfaction when he comes into his own. Our dependence on him is revealed and confessed in the request that he increase his output. The individual farmer, knowing how ignorant the wisest adviser must be regarding the personal considerations surrounding the operation of his farm, may resent advice as to methods or general operations. But the advice to enjoy the good things within reach and extend liberal patronage to other industries now feeling depression may be regarded from a broader outlook. The farmer has no ground for fearing the influence of the war. His business Can never be ruined. He may be injured by taxation or by the obstruction of trade routes, but the world will continue to demand all he can produce. In the matter of markets he has nothing to fear. It is in the interest of the province and the Dominion at large that the farmers fully enjoy the prosperity that has fallen to them through the necessities of an unprecedented situation. By thus benefiting themselves they will confer a still wider benefit or, their fellow-citizens now, in many cases, sadly in need.
Agriculture is the great basic industry of Canada, and its products yield practically $1,000,000,000 a year. At a time like this, when the demand for gold is so great, and when the impossibility of increasing our borrowings is so evident, the fact that the farmers of this country can produce from the soil products to the value of $1,000,000,000, is a matter of congratulation and should dissipate all pessimism.
Before recess, speaking of the development of the business of this country under our wise and prudent tariff policy, I said that this country was justified in adopting that policy by the experience of countries in Europe and on this side of the Atlantic which had adopted protection. The wealth of all the countries of the world has grown enormously during the past century. Sir George Paish, who is an authority on statistics, says that the wealth of the United Kingdom in 1814 was computed at $12,500,000,000, while a conservative estimate would place it now at about $85,000,000,000, or an increase of about 580 per cent, while its population has grown 130 per cent. The income of the British people has increased 700 per cent-from $1,500,000,000 to $12,000,000,000. We all admit that the United Kingdom has prospered under free trade to a degree which must he gratifying to that nation, and the colonies take just pride in that prosperity. For the sake of comparison I want to point out that the wealth of the United States in the same period has increased from about $1,750,000,00Q to something like $150,000,000,000, or nearly 8,500 per cent; and the income of the people has risen from less than $500,000,000 to about

$35,000,000,000 a year, a matter of 6,500 per cent. To those who uphold the doctrine of free trade we admit that it has done in Britain what protection has done to a larger extent in this country. If the nation to the south of us, following along on the lines of protection, has built up such powerful industries and has so developed its factories, and has increased its wealth to such an extent as is shown by these figures, we feel that the conditions that prevail in the United States should prevail in Canada and that it is our duty to protect our Canadian workmen. We have evidences everywhere of the benefits of protection. A clipping I have here shows how necessary it is for the large factories in the United States to establish factories in Canada. '
" Our company Is now incorporating in Canada and will build a factory at Toronto," said Mr. Booth to-day, " simply because our tariff policy is wrong. Canada is a great, aggressive vitalizing country commercially and a great market. It is naturally a commercial unit with the United States, but tariff walls separate the two countries, and we are forced to go to Canada with a factory to escape the Canadian products without asking for reciprocal advantage in their markets for 30 to 35 per cent burden their tariff imposes. Meanwhile, the Wilson administration is proposing to open our markets to our manufacturers."
That is a condition which existed some time ago. We know that Governor Foss in the state of Massachusetts, in appealing to his people, drew particular attention to the fact that $500,000,000 of American capital had been invested in industries in Canada because they were compelled to come to this country to obtain the market of which they were deprived by reason of the tariff of Canada against them. I do not see how, with such evidence before us, there can be any ground for arguing that this policy has not been a good policy for our country.
My hon. friend from Guysborough (Mr. Sinclair) in his closing remarks made one or two observations to which I wish to refer. I am surprised that my hon. friend should draw any comparison between the conditions under which the contingent was sent to fight for the Mother Country in South Africa in 1899 and the conditions under which the immense body of troops was organized to assist the Empire in the present crisis. I am surprised also that he should refer as he did to the efforts of the Militia Department in the organization of the camp at Valcar-tier. It is quite possible that, with the short time at the disposal of the department an(I the very extraordinary conditions that existed, mistakes may have been

made in connection with that camp, but I think it 'is a tribute to the capacity of this department of the Government, and of the Government itself, that so enormous a camp should have been organized in so short a time, gathering men from the four quarters of this great country, equipping them, and sending them out within the space of a few weeks. I had the pleasure of visiting the camp myself, and was very much impressed with the wonderful executive ability and energy displayed and with the wonderful things accomplished in so short a time. The contingent for South Africa, to which my hon. friend alluded, and which he compared with the contingents that the Government is sending forward to-day, consisted, if my recollection serves me well, of about three thousand men. I do not know how many trained regular soldiers we have in the country at this time, or how many we had at that time, but I think that a draft of men could have been made at twenty-four hours' notice from the regulars stationed in barracks of the Dominion at that time, and there would be no reason wjiy that contingent should not have sailed within a week of mobilization. Aside from that, we know that at that time the sea was not menaced with hostile ships. In the present case, it took a considerable time to get our men across the ocean. We know that care was necessary, and that the Government showed its wisdom in taking precautions against molestation by pirate submarines or enemy battleships on their way across the sea. It is a tribute to the power of the British navy, as well as to the organization completed here, that so large a number of men-I understand the largest body of armed men that up to that time had ever been transported across the Atlantic, were carried in safety. And to-day they are in the trenches, fighting for Canada and for the Motherland. We realize that this war is no more the war of the Empire than it is the war of Canada. We do not regard ourselves as fighting England's battles, but as fighting our own battles. And if there is one thing on which this country and the Empire are to be congratulated more than anything else, it is that Britain's command of the sea enables commerce to cross and re-cross absolutely unmolested. If we have so little commercial disturbance in our country today it is due directly to the power that the British navy wields. In view of the protection that has been afforded us not only now but in former times and that has thrown its sheltering arm around our country, we are responsive to the call of duty, which is
the call of privilege, to serve the Mother Country in this trying time.
My hon. friend from Guysborough also referred to the British preference. I would like to ask hon. gentlemen opposite who do dot see eye to eye with us in this matter how they can logically oppose the increase of the preference unless they oppose increase in the duty on raw materials. The revenue has to be raised, and they concede, 1 believe-I do not see how they can refuse to concede-that we must have raw materials for our industries. A small duty must be paid on those materials in order to produce revenue. Now, in Great Britain raw materials are free, though they come from the four quarters of the globe. Would it be just to our manufacturers here to propose that they should pay a tax of 7J per cent on raw materials and allow the manufacturers of England, who have their raw materials free, to send their products here to compete with our labour? In other words, is it reasonable that we should put a handicap of 7\ per cent on our manufacturers? Even if it were said that the handicap is not so great, the best that can be said is that while the increase is generally 7i per cent the increase under the preference is 5 per cent. Hon. gentlemen opposite have been trying to draw a red herring across the trail on this subject of the preference. I think the Finance Minister put the matter very well yesterday when he defined " preference " when he said that a preference was an advantage given to one country over competing countries in the markets of another country.
The net result of the increase in the British preference is that to the extent of 2i per cent Britain is given a greater advantage over foreign competitors in the Canadian market than she had before. I do not think for one moment that there will be any criticism of this increase in the old land; nor do I think that there is any just reason why hon. gentlemen opposite should criticise it here. Evidently their only reason for doing so is to attempt to prejudice the minds of the people by asserting that we are fighting the Mother Country with tariffs while our men are fighting in the trenches. If we had taken any action other than that which has been taken, I am sure it would have been a gross injustice to the manufacturers of this country.
I have watched with very much interest the course taken by hon. members of the Opposition for many years past, and I have


Mr. W. S. LOGGIE (Northumberland, New Brunswick):: Mr. Speaker, I followed with very much interest the remarks of the hon. gentleman from Middlesex (Mr. Glass). He made a very moderate speech, somewhat lengthy perhaps, but that of course is to be pardoned. He touched on many matters which to my mind are hardly relevant to the discussion of this Budget. He referred, among other things, to the reciprocal trade proposals that were before the country in 1911. He anticipated that that might be a live issue in the coming election. I may tell the hon. gentleman that in my judgment it will not be an issue in the coming election. Conditions have changed since it was a live issue. So far as the maritime provinces are concerned, we appreciate very highly the reduction of tariff made by the United States. It has been a great boon to the producing interests of the maritime provinces. It has enabled the producer to earn a very much better livelihood than ever befofe. The pockets of the producers have been very much enriched because of it and I do hope that although we may be compelled under the present circumstances to put an increased duty on natural products from the United States, our friends across the line will not change their tariff which is so favourable to our Canadian interests, especially in natural products. The hon. gentleman has asked if it would be justice to put a duty of 7) per cent on raw material coming from the United States or
a foreign country into Canada to be manufactured in Canada, and not put a corresponding duty on the manufactured article. The hon. gentleman must not forget that at the present time the manufacturer has an extra duty over and above the 7i per cent, ranging from 20 per cent to 30 per cent; and with reasonable facilities and with capital procurable at a not unreasonable rate of interest, there is no reason why manufacturers in this country should not compete successfully with such a duty as this in their favour.
If the Minister of Finance were in his S' at it would give me very much pleasure to convey to him my congratulations on the Budget which he presented to the House. It also would give me very much pleasure to say that I would have been glad to have been here to listen to that address. I regret that I was not able to be here, and the reason I assign for not being able to be here is the war. I am quite sure if I were asked to establish that, I could establish it with as much success as has attended the attempt which has been made to establish that a customs duty applied for current revenue is a war tax. Let me join hands with the hon. gentlemen on this side of the House in saying to the Government that they have our hearty sympathy and our support in the efforts that they have made to stand by the Mother Country in this time of extremity. It is certainly a great struggle that the Empire is engaged in, and to Canada as a daughter nation I am sure it gives pleasure to be able to do our little part in sending our sons to the front to fight the battles of the Empire, which are practically our battles, because on the success of the Empire depends the freedom of our firesides. I wish heartily to concur in the vote for $100,000,000 for the prosecution of the defence of the Empire. I also consider it a pleasure to be able to congratulate the Finance Minister on the very favourable arrangement he has made for securing money on reasonable terms for this great purpose; and I say further that if another $100,000,000 is required we shall come to the rescue and do our part. We shall not fail to do our full duty as His Majesty's loyal Opposition to support the Government in their aid to the Empire for the defence of this great, young nation of ours. If I may be allowed to quote from Holy Writ, "To-morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant." We are willing to give $100,000,000 to-day; and to-morrow, if


An hon. MEMBER:: No.


William Stewart Loggie: Well, let us see.


Mr. GRAHAM:: They decide the case before they hear the evidence.


William Stewart Loggie: 000 which will go into the Dominion treasury. That is exactly how this taxation will work out. It is reasonably fair to state that it is burdensome. If the burden cannot be helped, that is another matter. It is the duty of the Government to see if there is not some other way to find the money than to make the taxes upon the farmer and the artisan burdensome.
I want to refer to barrelled pork which at the present time is dutiable. The total importation of barrelled pork in brine in 1914 was 11,960,408 pounds, valued at $1,210,473. On this value we paid a duty of $237,525.46. The total importation of barrelled beef in brine was 1,503,606 pounds, valued at 116,000. The duty paid on it was $12,000. The total importation of bacon and hams was 7,000,000 pounds, valued at $1,250,000, and the duty paid was $140,000. The duty collected by the customs on these three items therefore amounted in round figures to $390,000. If you add 74 per cent more duty you get an increased taxation of $180,000. If that is all, it means that the consuming, public must pay that same rate of duty to the packers of the Dominion, because, because their prices are put on a par with what these goods can be laid down for. I think I would be safe in saying that the packers in Canada produce more than half of the barrelled pork, and beef, and bacon and hams that are consumed in Canada. Therefore, on this food commodity the people of Canada will be paying a taxation of $379,000. I think that every hon. member should understand the whole effect of the proposals of the Government.
Yesterday the Minister of Finance, in referring to the legislation under the war revenue Budget, said:
Does any person grudge any portion of those taxes?
I say no. But he says:
Now, come to the other taxes, the sums I am raising by means of tariff increases. What has caused me to raise the tariff? I pointed out that my borrowings were cut off in the markets of the world; I cannot go to the London market and get a dollar except with the consent of the British Treasury.
If the money cannot be got except in this way, the people of this country must bear the burden. The minister, however, does not tell us in that statement that he cannot borrow the difference between the current revenue and the current expenditure of $20,000,000. If he could borrow it, it would have been very much better to borrow it. It is only fair that future generations should to some extent bear the brunt of the extreme

situation in which we are placed. If the money cannot be raised, and if the minister can suggest no other means of raising it, then I suppose the majority of the House will approve of the proposals of the minister. I presume that he considers there is no other way to get that money.
While I will not find so much fault with the 74 per cent he is putting on foreign goods and raw materials imported into Canada, I take strong exception to his attempt on this occasion to tax the raw material and the manufactured article imported from the United Kingdom.
The hon. Minister of Finance asked us what he is to do about it. He tells us that he has to put a duty of 7J per cent on the dyes and other raw materials entering into manufactures, which duty the Canadian manufacturer must pay. He referred especially to cotton. I think he might very well have said to the Canadian manufacturers: We must put on this duty of 7i per cent, but I want to show you where you will have the benefit as against the British manufacturer even though there is no change in the duty on goods from the United Kingdom. How could he have done it? In the first place he could have pointed out that the duty of 74 per cent on raw materials does not amount to more than 3 per cent on the finer line of manufactured textiles. On cheap grey cottons and common duck, it might be as high as that, but on the finer goods I think he could easily have shown that this duty of 74 per cent on the raw material would not have amounted to more than 24 per cent on the manufactured article. On the other hand, what is the British manufacturer up against? Let me tell you a little experience I had a few days ago. I sent some canned lobsters to New York for forwarding to France, and I booked freight ahead for a certain proportion of that consignment. Later I found I had another shipment to make and I asked the broker for the rate. During the interim ocean rates had gone up nearly a hundred per cent. Now, if the Canadian merchant- putting it that way in this case, though the same applies to the manufacturer-wishes to buy the goods from the manufacturer and bring them across the ocean to compete with Canadian manufacturers, is not he obliged to add these extra rates of transportation to the cost of the goods? Will not that help the Canadian manufacturer to compete at any rate to the extent of 24* per cent? More than that, might nqt the minister have said to the Canadian manufacturer: The British manufacturer must

transport that cotton from New Orleans to the United Kingdom at double rates of freight, and we will not touch the duties from the United Kingdom either on raw material or on manufactured articles. My hon. friend from East Middlesex (Mr. Glass) told us the British preference was not decreased, and that the British manufacturer has now a greater preference in our markets against the foreign manufacturer. I do not deny that. But would it not have been a magnanimous thing for Canada to have " let well enough alone," to use an expression at one time very popular with hon. gentlemen opposite, especially when we help ourselves by helping the trade relations between the Motherland and this great daughter Dominion? So I think it was unwise-I do not say it was unpatriotic, because I do not believe there is an unpatriotic man in the House-to touch these duties under present circumstances.
I have shown that this duty on raw materials would represent only 24 per cent on the manufactured article. And what protection-if I may use the word which hon. gentlemen opposite have sought to make their own, but which they have urged very strongly upon us-what protection has the Canadian manufacturer of cotton or woollen textiles as against this 24 per cent represented by the duty on raw material? I have a little table here which I will not take time to read, but the general result of which I will give. On woollen goods that come into this country from the United Kingdom there is an average duty of 25 per cent. And do you mean to tell me that the Canadian manufacturer cannot afford to pay 24 per cent when he has a protection on the manufactured article of 25 per cent? It seems to me the minister might very well have gone that far. I think that is a good reason why I can support the amendment presented by my right hon. leader. That amendment states that the Government's fiscal measure is particularly objectionable because it places extra barriers against British trade. Another reason-and I have dealt with that also-is that while this means increased taxation especially on goods from the United Kingdom, it will yield little or no revenue. Certain commodities do yield a very little revenue, but as to others, I think the amendment sets out the facts as they are.
The Minister of Finance asked us three questions yesterday, or he put the matter before us in three phases. He practically asked us to answer these questions: first, shall we cease to send troops? Well, so far 59
as I am concerned, I say send more troops if needed. Second: he puts it up to us to suggest an alternative method. Can I suggest an alternative method? Yes, my suggestion is that the British preferential tariff be not disturbed.


John Hampden Burnham: Would the hon. gentleman be good enough to tell the House where the preference would be if we had free trade ?


William Stewart Loggie: I do not know what the hon. gentleman means; I think he should be a little more explicit. Free trade-does my hon. friend mean with the whole world ?


John Hampden Burnham: Just as you like.


William Stewart Loggie: Very well; I will take it just as I like. My suggestion is that the present rate of duties on goods from the United Kingdom be not disturbed.


Some hon. MEMBERS:: Answer the question.


William Stewart Loggie: The question arises: can
we get the 'money in any other way, and how much do we require ? In 1914 we imported from the United Kingdom nondurable goods to the value of $28,000,000, in round figures. As there are several commodities to which the increased rate does not apply, I put it down at $25,000,000, which, at 5 per cent, would yield us $1,250,000. In the same year we imported from the United Kingdom dutiable goods to the value of $100,000,000, in round figures, which, at 5 per cent, would yield us $5,000,000. So if my suggestion is of any value, we would require $6,250,000 to take the place of the revenue to be derived from the proposed increase in the British preference. I have on previous occasions pointed out to the House that pork, which is the chief food of the lumbermen and fishermen, is already over-burdened with taxes. It was my privilege and my duty to tell the Government led by my right hon. friend the present leader of the Opposition, that the duty on pork under the late Administration was burdensome. What is the result of increasing the duty upon pork by 74 per cent ? When hon. gentlemen do this, they add $1.50 to the price of each barrel of pork. In other words, the duty on a barrel of pork is now $5.50, and the fishermen pay three cents per pound into the treasury of the Dominion of Canada for every pound of pork they eat. Instead of doing that I would make the fishermen pay more on his tobacco. If he is



bound to use tobacco, let him use it and pay duty upon it, but make the taxes upon pork as reasonable as possible. I would suggest that the rate of duty on spirituous liquors be increased by 50 per cent and the duty on tobacco be increased by 25 per cent. The man who smokes a cigar is in a better position to pay an extra 25 per cent duty than the fisherman is to pay an excessive duty on pork. If this were done the money would be obtained without increasing the British preference. Money talks; it was Lloyd George who said that silver bullets count in this war; so do silver bullets count in connection with the tariff. I have had some financing to do myself; I have been mighty hard up some times, and I know what it is like. I know, too, what it is like to borrow, and I sympathize with the Minister of Finance in that respect. I put these proposals forth on my own responsibility; I have not suggested them to hon. gentlemen beside me, but I believe they are worthy of the serious consideration of the Minister of Finance.
I frankly affirm that I cannot agree with all my hon. friend's proposals. I do believe that he should not place upon the necessaries of life any additional taxation if it can possibly be avoided. No increase should be made in the taxation upon goods coming from the United Kingdom. It is my judgment that this is necessary not only in the interests of Canada and of the Empire, but in the interests of our standing in the Motherland as well. I concur, therefore, in all my hon. friend's proposals but one; this I do heartily, and with pleasure. I suppose that the suggestions I have made will not be accepted by hon. gentlemen opposite, but I submit them for their careful consideration. I realize that this is a solemn occasion; I realize that we have to do our duty by our homes and our firesides; by our country and by the Empire of which we are all so proud. I take second place to none so far as loyalty is concerned; I will hold the talismanic flag as high as any hon. gentleman in this House. I hope the Government will do their full duty under the conditions which now confront us. Circumstances may arise after the House is prorogued which may call for extreme exertion. And if they do call for extreme exertions, if the Government of the day use their best judgment and act wisely, they shall have my support and sympathy in everything that can be done to bring this war to a successful issue.
But let me utter one word of warning. While I say all this, the Government must

expect to be criticised for the management of this money. If they do not use this money economically and honestly, and see that it is administered honestly, they must expect to be called to account and to be criticised. That is our duty; we would fail to do our duty to the country at large and to our King if we did not hold them responsible for the proper discharge of their duties and a proper dispensing or paying out of this war fund. We undertake to return to the Imperial Government this money. We undertake to pay the interest in the meantime, and we are bound to see that those who have charge of the treasury benches so use their privilege that they can render an honest account, so that the people of Canada will be proud of the part which Canada has taken in the defence of the Empire on this momentous occasion.


Mr. JAMES BOWMAN (East Huron):: Mr. Speaker, coming as I do from a county which is considered one of the leading agricultural counties of Ontario, I might say in the Dominion of Canada, I think it is my duty to say a few words with regard to the application of this Budget to the various industries in my county.
Before doing so I wish to tender my most hearty congratulations to the Minister of Finance for the very effici-cent manner in which he has conducted the finances of this country since taking office. His work during the past three years has shown the master hand, and his ability has never shone forth with greater brilliancy than in introducing this Budget. The minister was called upon to devise ways and means to meet extraordinary circumstances, which, have been brought about in this country by the war, resulting in a falling off of the trade of this country, with a consequent decrease in the amount of revenue collected and available to meet ordinary expenses. Then, too, several million dollars must be provided as a nucleus for a pension fund for our soldiers, and also a sum of $7,000,000 as interest upon the war loan, the $150,000,000 which has been raised for the purpose of mobilizing our soldiers and sending them to the front to fight in defence of the Empire. The minister had to devise ways and means to meet these expenditures, and in doing so he had a choice of three principles as the basis of the method of collecting taxation. Two of these principles have been tried in this country. We had the policy of revenue tariff which was tried some years ago, prior to 1878. It was then put in practice by a Liberal Government. That tariff was 15 per cent in the beginning, and was afterwards

increased to 17| per cent. It is unnecessary to tell the people of this country the position in which Canada stood at that time. It was anything but good; our manufacturing industries were closed, our labouring men thrown out of employment. As a result of that, the business men of this country sent a delegation to Ottawa to wait on Sir Richard Cartwright, then Minister of Finance, asking that he give a measure of protection to the interests of this country. However, he ignored their request, they had to go home unsatisfied. But it was not very long until a man rose to the occasion in the person of that great statesman, Sir John A. Macdonald. He espoused the policy of protection and made it a plank in his platform during the election of 1878, with the result that he carried this country with an overwhelming majority. He continued that policy of protection consistently for the 18 years that his Government was in office, subject of course to certain regulations which were necessary to comply with the needs of the country. During that time what were our Liberal friends in this country doing? They were still advocating a revenue tariff. In 1891 they advocated unrestricted reciprocity with the United States, and later on, prior to the election of 1896, they advocated free trade as they have it in Great Britain. During that time the people of Canada rejected these policies; they rejected the revenue tariff and also reciprocity with the United States; and prior to the election of 1896 Hon. Edward Blake, who was considered one of the leading statesmen among our honoured friends, challenged them before they talked of free trade as being practicable in Canada, to devise some possible plan whereby the revenue needs of this country could be met in any other way than by placing a duty on goods similar to those which were produced in this country. That was the challenge thrown out by the Hon. Edward Blake. The hon. gentleman opposite never devised any feasible plan nor have they done so up to the present time. What did they do? They were returned to power in 1896. They were not returned as a result of the policies which they had advocated, but they were returned on an issue that was foreign to the fiscal policy of this country. They had the opportunity of their lives when they came into office. The right hon. the leader of the Opposition (Sir Wilfrid Laurier), a man of ability, I admit, had told the people of Canada that if he was placed in power he would give them free trade as they had it in Great Britain.
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He told the farmers in this country that the manufacturers were nothing but a lot of robbers and that if he was placed in power he would abolish every vestige of protection. I say to the right hon. gentleman, and I am sorry he is not in his seat, that then was the opportunity, if he was -sincere in what he told the farmers of this country, to give free trade as they had it in Great Britain. But, Sir, what did he do? It has been said, and it has not been denied, that he gave an assurance in secret to the manufacturers of this country that, if returned to power, he would see that their interests were conserved and their protection retained. Let that be as"it may. We are satisfied that after Sir Wilfrid Laurier was elected in 1896 he took to his bosom the manufacturers of this country who, he claimed, were robbing' the farmers of Canada.	During the election, I think in
Centre Toronto, Mr. Bertram, the Liberal candidate, was authorized to give the assurance to the manufacturers of Centre Toronto that their protection would not be abolished; and on the strength of that Mr. Bertram was returned as a supporter of the hon. leader of the Opposition. I will go further, and say that during the fifteen years the right hon. gentleman was in power he consistently carried on the policy of protection. What did he do when he went out of office in 1911, after he had entered into that reciprocity agreement with the United States, and was asking for the people's mandate upon it? He said to the manufacturers of this country: I have always befriended you, and I am going to befriend you still; I am going to see that your protection still remains; and he had nothing to say regarding the best interests of the farmers of Canada.
In this connection let me read what the hon. member for North Oxford (Mr. Nesbitt) -and I am sorry he is not in his seat-said in the reciprocity campaign. He spoke at a meeting in the city of Woodstock, and is reported by the Toronto Globe as follows:
He could not see that the manufacturers would be touched very much, as few articles manufactured in Canada were affected. He was sure the Bain and Woodstock wagon companies would compete in the world's markets, even with 2J per cent reduction in the tariff. He thought the manufacturers opposed reciprocity because of what might follow, the " thin edge of the wedge," but he had been assured by Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Mr. Fielding that nothing of the sort would follow. They had gone as far in the farmers' interest as they would.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier was asked whether he had given Mr. Nesbitt authority to give that assurance, and this is what he said:

The statement made by the hon. member for North Oxford (Mr. Nesbitt) was quite consistent with our policy; it was nothing new, and he had perfect authority, not only he but every rn mber on the Liberal side, to make that statement.
The present Minister of Trade and Commerce (Sir George Foster) asked Sir Wilfrid Laurier this question at that time:
Did the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance authorize the member in question to make that statement?	v
And Sir Wilfrid Laurier replied:
I have answered that already. It is perfectly true. The hon. member for North Oxford and every Liberal member had such authority; he was not kept in ignorance of our policy in this matter and knew it well. He only stated what is our general policy.
I think that this is conclusive evidence that the Liberal party when in power were protectionists. The manufacturers were their friends to the very last. In 1911, the year the Liberal party went out of power- and it was the farmers of this country who put them out-the Liberal party said to the farmers: We ask you to sell your products in a free market, and to buy in a protected market.
What is the history of the fiscal policy of this country? From 1878 to 1911, when hon. gentlemen opposite went out of power, the policy of protection was consistently carried out. May I give some further precedents to show that the policy of protection is the only policy upon which to build up Canada as a great nation. Every country in the world, with the exception of Great Britain, is to-day fostering its industries under that very policy. We have Germany, a great country, a country which has developed her manufacturing industries and her agricultural industries until to-day she is able with a smaller area than the province of Ontario to support a population of nearly seventy million people. We have the United States, a great nation, which has developed wonderfully in the past under that policy. She has grown up under it, and to-day has a market of which hon. gentlemen opposite are jealous; they envy it, and that market was built up under the policy of protection. And that is what we in Canada intend to do. But I think I can hear the voice of my hon. friend from Red Deer (Mr. Michael Clark) pointing, as always, to Great Britain as an example; but what are the facts in connection with Great Britain? Great Britain has free trade at the present time; but what were the circumstances in 1847, when she discarded the

protective tariff? She was supreme so far as the development of her manufacturing industries was concerned; she had cheap labour; she had great natural resources; her commerce reached out to every country in the world; and therefore Great Britain thought it was an opportune time to set an example to the other nations of the world. But that example was not followed by the other nations. To-day we see other nations forging ahead, and actually depriving Great Britain in her own market of the sale of many of her products for which she should have a ready sale at least in her own market.	In view of	all
this, I think the judgment of our Finance Minister is such as to be worthy of commendation by the people of this country. He has maintained the policy which has proved successful, not under the Conservative party alone, but under our Liberal friends opposite.
Now, Mr. Speaker, I ask, where stand our friends on the Opposition benches to-day? They have gone back to the old position that they held prior to 1896; they are back now to decrying the manufacturers of this country, calling them robbers, the oppressors of the farmers of this country, and every imaginable name that they can possibly get their tongues around. The farmers of this country to-day, of whom I am one, are intelligent people. They are not going to be misled by any political-I was going to say clap-trap, but I understand, Mr. Speaker, that you would rule that out of order-so I will say the farmers are not going to be misled by any political deception. The Liberals are telling the farmers to-day that the manufacturers have set out to rob them. It is very strange that, as soon as they get out of power, they should tell the farmers that the manufacturers are trying to rob them. That is very difficult to understand. Speaking as a farmer, speaking in my own interest as a farmer, and I have every respect for the agricultural class in this country and wish to see it succeed, I think it is the greatest mistake to try and create a cleavage between the manufacturing, agricultural and labouring interests in this country. The hon. member for Red Deer (Mr. Michael Clark) last night said that protection is not a builder of industries. I disagree with the hon. gentleman in that regard. What do we find is the fact? Take the census of 1910. We find that there are no less than 19,000 manufacturing establishments in this Dominion and that these manufacturing establishments represent an

investment of $1,240,000,000, all of which is adding to the tax-paying power of the country. They have 500,000 employees in their employment paying to these men, as the reward of the labour which they give, the very large sum of $230,000,000 per year. This money which is being paid out in wages is distributed through the length and breadth of Canada and around these industries have grown up large urban centres. I might mention the city of Montreal with its half million population, the city of Toronto with its 400,000, London, Hamilton, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver and many other places of equal note. What is the result? Where does the farmer realize the benefit from protection? These great cities that have grown up around manufacturing industries are affording farmers a great home market. That home market is consuming a very large percentage of our farm products. Notwithstanding that I think I can hear the echo of the voice of my hon. friend from North Oxford (Mr. Nesbitt) when he puts up a very strong plea, a wail of pity, for the farmers of this country. He says that the poor farmer has to pay 7) per cent additional taxation on the fence wire and fertilizers which he uses. He says that this is a very heavy tax on the farmer; but why did not my hon. friend point out to the members of this House the increased market that this policy has built up for the farmer?
It has been claimed by hon. gentlemen on the other side of the House-it was contended by the hon. junior member for Halifax (Mr. Maclean)-that this extra tariff of 7.) per cent would not be one that would bring very much revenue to the treasury. What does that mean? If it does not bring in revenue to the treasury it means this: We are now importing millions of dollars worth of manufactured articles. These goods, if they are right-and I am taking it for granted that they will be right -will all be manufactured in Canada thus bringing millions of additional capital into this country to build up additional factories, employing additional labour, paying out additional wages and, as a consequence, increasing the great home market for the faimers of Canada.
I was surprised the other evening to hear my hon. friend from St. John (Mr. Pugsley) put up a pitiful wail for the farmer of Canada. He said the farmer had to pay this additional tax upon the fertilizer which he uses, but in the next breath the hon. member said that he would like to have free food. He would like to se'e these things placed on the free
list. The hon. member for Carleton, New Brunswick (Mr. Carvell), I think in the session of 1912-13, was asked by the hon. member for Frontenac (Mr. Edwards) if, should he get into power, he would abolish the duties on eggs, butter, and so on. The hon. member for Carleton said that he would, that that was his position. Then we have the right hon. the leader of the Opposition (Sir Wilfrid Laurier) yesterday getting up and declaring himself in favour of free food. What does that mean to tne farmers? I challenge	hon. gentlemen opposite	toappeal	to this country	on the	freefood question. They are trying to draw a red herring across the trail, and they are trying to deceive the labouring classes in the cities in order to gain some political advantage. The	good10 p.m. citizens of Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto or any	other of	the
cities, are too wily to be trapped by any such appeal as that. They know that protection means the building up of industries, that it gives them employment, and that they would not get that employment if these industries did not exist. They know that protection to industries cannot exist if you do not give protection to the farmers. The working man therefore says: If this policy gives me employment at a good wage I am in a position to pay to the farmer a fair price for the products that I use. If you will allow me to apply a phrase which the late Goldwin Smith used at one time with reference to commercial union between Canada and the United States, I would say that this great policy of protection couples together the interests of the manufacturer, the farmer and the artisan, that it puts them all together as one economic whole, and that if you destroy the interests of one you destroy the interests of all. The 'attempt has been made at various times in this House to show that the United States is a great market for Canadian farm produce. It was also declared here to-night that the farmer has nd protection upon anything which he has to sell. I want to read to the House the list of a few articles under the heading of provisions which come into Canada in competition with the farm products of this country. During the fiscal year 1914 we imported 8,000,000 lbs. of butter. We are not producing sufficient in this country to meet the demand. I contend that the additional 7) per cent that is levied by this Budget will be a great advantage to the farmers of Canada in conserving that market for them. I am going to give you

a list of articles that we import from the United States. During the year 1914 we imported from the United States 10,000,000 dozens of eggs. We are not producing enough eggs to supply our market, and therefore the additional tariff of 7J per cent is quite an advantage in our own- markets. We also imported 5,758,000 pounds of lard, lard compound, 9.34,000 pounds; bacon and ham, 7,150,000 pounds; beef, fresh chilled or frozen, 235,000 pounds; beef, salted, 1,496,000 pounds; dried or smoked beef, 1,204,000 pounds; mutton and lamb; 3,825,000 pounds; pork barrelled in brine, 11,950,000 pounds; or we took from the United States in the fiscal year 1914 no less than $7,615,000 worth of provisions. With the additional duty of 7J per cent, which is applied under this Budget, we give the farmers a very great advantage.
We have come to a period in this country where the cry is: "Back to the farm." It would not have been necessary for us to have that slogan sounded throughout the country, had the late Government given attention to the agricultural industry. In the county from which I come, and which is one of the best agricultural counties in this Dominion, under the Liberal Administration, in the ten years from 1901 to 1910, we lost nearly 8,000 of our rural population by migration from the farms to the cities. That looks very bad for the agricultural industry in my part of the country. Was anything done by the Liberal Government to remedy that condition of affairs? They had every opportunity; and if they had taken such a deep'interest in the farming industry, they would have in time applied a remedy. Nothing, however, was done, and to-day we are forced to use our utmost endeavours to get the people back to the land.
I must give this Government, under the leadership of the right hon. the Premier, credit for what it has done for the agricultural classes.
At the very first session of this Parliament there was a grant brought down by the Minister of Agriculture to assist the various provinces along the lines of aid to agriculture. At the succeeding session an additional grant of $10,000,000 was brought down by the Minister of Agriculture, that grant to be divided over a period of ten years, which would mean $1,000,000 a year to be given to the provinces for the purpose of assisting that great industry. That is having its effect at present, and the farmers have never been in a better position than they are in to-day.

Rural mail was introduced by my hon. friends opposite, but it is no credit to them, and if I were in their place, I simply would conceal that bit of information. They instituted the .rural mail delivery in some ridings where it was of some political advantage, and so it was used as a political expedient. Do you think the farmers in my riding could get rural mail under the late Government? No, but the farmers in North York and South Oxford and Wentworth and other Liberal ridings could. The present Government are now giving rural mail, irrespective of political considerations, to the farmers of this country wherever the population warrants it, and that is of great advantage to the agricultural industry, because of its convenience and the addition it makes to the comforts of farm life.
Parcel post is being initiated by this Government, and no doubt in time it will be very largely developed. I am sorry that the Postmaster General is not in his seat, because I wish to throw out a suggestion to him. The zone system was inaugurated in connection with parcel post for the protection of towns and villages throughout the Dominion from any encroachments or inroads which might be made upon them by the large wholesale businesses such as Simpson's or Eaton's, of Toronto. While it is perfectly right and proper to have that zone system to protect the small towns and villages, it is very unfair to the farmers living at a certain distance from Toronto and other large centres. People speak about the high cost of living. If we want to reduce the high cost of living, let us abolish that zone system on farmers' products coming from Western Ontario to the city of Toronto. It would be the means of giving to the people of Toronto cheaper ' farm products, and would be a convenience to farmers living more than twenty miles from Toronto. It is unfair to place an extra tax upon farmers living beyond the zone limit. A farmer living close to a city has a greater advantage because he has that home market at his door all the time. Therefore, I would suggest to the Postmaster General that he should take this matter into consideration and try to have the zone system not apply to farm products coming to the various cities in this Dominion.
We have done much to help the farmers of the West. In the first place I just wish to remind my hon. friends opposite who come from the West and who have been speaking about free wheat and the American markets, that if the people of the West want any aid, let them come to the province of Ontario, or to Nova Scotia, or New Brunswick, and

we will willingly hold out to them a helping hand. We have helped them hy building up transportation facilities for them, and in many other ways. Therefore, I say to the western members: Be careful never to introduce a policy that will sever the connection existing between the East and the West. We have assisted the farmers of the West by building interior and terminal elevators. This Government has gone ahead with the building of the Hudson Bay railway, the contract for which was entered into and signed by the late Government. I was disappointed to hear the hon. member for North Oxford (Mr. Nesbitt) say that if he had his way he would tear up the rails on that road. Was the hon. member in the House when this road was initiated by his Government? The hon. gentleman does not answer my question. If he sat quiet in his seat and allowed a proposition like that to go through Parliament' without protesting, he did a thing that was very wrong in view of the opinion he holds. And had I done so, I certainly would not come to this House to condemn that road and say I was in favour of having it torn up. I have better hope for that road and I hope that it will prove a benefit to the people of the West.
This Government has removed the duty on ditching machines. Under the late Government they were dutiable, but as so.on as this Government came into power they placed these machines on the free list, a decided benefit to the farmer.
Another very important matter is the reduction in duties on agricultural implements. This Government has reduced these duties from 174 to 124 per cent, giving to the people of the West a greater advantage than the late Government was giving under the Reciprocity Treaty of 1911. When cement became scarce in this country and the price was extortionate, this Government cut the duty in two in order to secure this article to the people at a reasonable price. This is an illustration of the vigilance exercised by this Government in maintaining the interests of our agriculturists.
The hon. junior member for Halifax (Mr. Maclean) asked what advantage it would be to the people of Canada to have a tax on wool. If these gentlemen were looking to the interests of the farmers, they would see what advantage it would be. The sheepraising industry of this country has been ruined; our farmers had to go out of the business, for they had to compete with the world, and prices .were low.


Mr. NESBITT:: May I ask the hon. gentleman is he sheep farming?


James Bowman: I was at one time.


Edward Walter Nesbitt: But you do not carry it on now?


James Bowman: No.


Edward Walter Nesbitt: Would the hon. gentleman be surprised to know that sheep-farming has been profitable within the past few years?	.


James Bowman: And this legislation will make it more profitable.


Edward Walter Nesbitt: So far as I am concerned, though I carry on sheep-farming, I do not think it will help me a bit.


James Bowman: Probably the hon. gentleman has no faith in protection. In speaking to his friends on the quiet, I think he will admit next year that bis profits have been greater than this year. It is strange that the hon. member for North Oxford should say that the extra duty on fertilizers and fencing wire will be a burden on the farmer because they will cause him to pay much more for the goods, and yet that it is no protection to the farmer to have a duty of 74 per cent placed on the wool he sells. If the hon. gentleman thinks that is a logical way of treating this argument 1 am satisfied.
While this Government has done much for this country, there is something else that can be done. If the Minister of Agriculture (Mr. Burrell) were in his -place I would throw out this suggestion: We have millions of acres of waste land in this country. We are talking about greater production, we are talking of back to the land. There is nothing that would give a greater incentive to greater production than giving the farmers cheap money to drain waste lands. We have millions of acres of these lands; and is it unreasonable for me to say that money should be given to the farmers at 34 or 4 per cent to carry on the work of drainage? In the province of Ontario we have a fund to assist tile drainage. But if a farmer wishes to take advantage of the system he cannot get the money, because the fund is so limited. This Government is giving assistance to agriculture. Why cannot they give assistance to the province to provide a fund that shall afford farmers money to drain their farms at a reasonable rate? Under the Drainage Act, for instance, the security is good and there is no obstacle in the way-our municipalities are the security under this Act. In one township municipality of my riding the amount ex-

pended in drainage is a quarter of a million dollars. Repeat that all over Canada and it means a very large amount. The farmers cannot afford to pay 5| or 6 per cent for money to be invested in the drainage of these waste lands. While I admit that the condition of agriculture is improving, I say that it can be still more improved. No people in this country are more deserving than the agricultural class. Theirs is the basic industry of this country, and they are certainly deserving of the attention of any Government.
In my opinion, the time for free trade or a revenue tariff policy in this country has gone by. There was a time when it would 'have been possible to treat on free trade lines with the United States. I refer to the time of the termination of the Reciprocity Treaty of 1854, and that termination, I believe, was brought about in 1866. The people of Canada, both Conservatives and Liberals, asked for a renewal of that treaty. It was of advantage to Canada at that time -we had no other markets. But we were turned down by the United States. As a result the fathers of Confederation met and in 1867 they laid the foundations upon which to build a great nation here in Canada. In accordance with the principles adopted at that Confederation we have built our transportation lines east and west and are developing trade along those lines. Are you going to enter upon a policy that would ruin the transportation lines of this country, disorganize trade and make us again subservient to the United States, the very party that turned us down when we wanted a favour? I say no. I say the people of Canada will never submit to such a policy; and any party that goes to the people making any such demand of them will be rejected at the very first opportunity.
In conclusion, it is to me a pleasure indeed to have the opportunity of serving under the leadership of Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Laird Borden. He is a man of whom this country feels proud; he is a broad-minded man, and a worthy successor of that great chieftain, Sir John A. Macdonald, who so loved this country that he said: "A British -subject I was born and a British subject I will die."
Mr. ARTHUR B. COPP (Westmorland, N.B.): In the few observations that I purpose making to the House this evening on the -subject matter of this debate, it is not my intention to follow the hon. gentleman who has just taken his seat (Mi. Bowman), 
in his attempt to defend the Government for the condition of affairs which is set out in the Budget laid before the House by the Finance Minister. I may -say, however, that I was extremely pleased after listening for a short time to that part of my hon. friend's speech which had reference to protection, to hear him at last admit that the policy laid down and followed by the Liberal party during the fifteen years they were in office, was the very policy that he himself advocated. He said he was delighted to be able to say that credit was due the present Government for reducing the duty on agricultural implements coming into Canada from the United States. If it is a good thing to reduce the taxation on agricultural implements coming from the United States into this country for the use of our agricultural classes, would it not be equally beneficial, I ask my hon. friend, to reduce the taxation which is now imposed on other articles and commodities which the farmer needs ?
I was somewhat afraid when my hon. friend offered his congratulations to the right hon. Prime Minister that he might place the right -hon. gentleman on a plane equally as high -as that which the hon. Finance Minister himself, according to his own statement yesterday, has attained. If the hon. Finance Minister had been here, I suppose the hon. gentleman would hardly have had the temerity to -say what he did in reference to the right hon. Prime Minister this evening.
My hon. friend argued this matter from many different standpoints. I should not have -asked the indulgence of the House to-night were it not for' communications which I have received from my constituents in the county of Westmorland and from persons in other constituencies thoughout. the province of New Brunswick in regard to matters affecting the agricultural welfare of this country.
I listened attentively to the hon. Finance Minister when he presented his statement to the House the other day, and I want to do him the honour of saying that I rather admired the ability and ingenuity with which he carried out the task of presenting to the House in a most optimistic manner the most pessimistic Budget or financial statement ever offered to any Parliament by any minister of finance since Confederation.
When the hon. junior member for Halifax, who, 1 believe, is called the financial critic of the Opposition, replied to the lion. Minister of Finance, I think I may be pardoned

for saying that he performed the task assigned to him with a very great deal of ability. In a calm, deliberate, dispassionate, but none the less emphatic and convincing manner, he laid before this House his ideas and his arguments with regard to the finances of Canada. He showed by facts and figures-and this has been admitted by all lion, gentlemen opposite who have spoken in this debate-that a serious condition of affairs prevails in Canada at the present time. It is not my intention to go through the Budget from beginning to end, with the intention of quoting figures or making computations or comparisons; that has already been done by my hon. friend the financial critic of the Opposition. I have listened day after day to hon. gentlemen on the other side of the House, with the hope of hearing some answer to the arguments advanced by the hon. member for Halifax.	.
The first hon. gentleman to volunteer his services in the defence of the Government was my hon. friend the member for South Toronto (Mr. Macdonell), who is not now in his seat. After some general arguments as to the public expenditure of this country, and an elaborate exposition of the made-in-Canada propaganda, he finally disposed of the argumnts of the hon. member for Halifax in the following crushing and trenchant manner:
I desire to say a word or two about, the Budget. I believe that this Budget has been received with more satisfaction than any Budget ever produced in the history of this country. There has been little criticism of the Budget so far as I am aware; we know that party criticism creeps to the surface at the slightest opportunity.
After a few sentences in regard to the wonderful Budget brought down by the hon. Finance Minister, he concluded by saying:
What does my hon. friend suggest in substi-. tion of the Budget that has been brought down?
Subsequently the hon. member for West Peterborough (Mr. Burnham) disposed of the arguments of the hon. junior member for Halifax in the following words:
It would be far better for him (Mr. Oliver), and better also for the hon. member for Halifax (Mr. A. K. Maclean) to have taken the Minister of Finance and the rest of the Government party into their confidence, and told them how to construct this Budget, and wherein they are in error.
These hon. gentlemen, if we take them seriously, think that it is the duty of the Opposition to instruct hon. gentlemen opposite how to construct their Budget and arrange their tariffs to suit the conditions as they exist.
The right hon. leader of the Opposition yesterday informed the House that he had not been consulted in regard to the framing of the proposed tariff schedules in any manner, shape or form. I do not claim that the right hon. leader of the Opposition had the right to be consulted on that occasion, but if he was not consulted, why do hon. gentlemen opposite ask hon. gentlemen on this side of the House to instruct them as to how to arrange their tariff legislation?
I would say further that if these gentlemen are sincere there is one way, the constitutional way, to get information from this side of the. House. In the first place, if they found themselves absolutely incompetent or unable to grapple with a question as they apparently have admitted they are, it is their duty to go to His Royal Highness the Governor General and hand him their resignations in a proper and constitutional manner. If that were done and my right hon. friend the leader of the Opposition (Sir Wilfrid Laurier) were recalled to office he would do as he did in 1896, when on assuming office he found a condition of affairs similar to what we find to-day, and he at once, by his ability, in a systematic and businesslike way, restored calm and confidence out of confusion and chaos. He did this in 1896 and he would do it to-day and do it without imposing additional taxation upon the poor people of this country. That is my argument in answer to hon. gentlemen opposite when they ask us on this side of the House to come over and tell them what we would do under the circumstances. It reminds me very much of a young physician who, shortly after commencing practice, being unable to properly diagnose a case, saw his patient becoming gradually weaker, until when the patient was in the last throes he called in a more experienced practitioner. The doctor thus called in said it was too late, that the patient was beyond recovery. The young physician then said:	" What
would you have done under the circumstances?" Our friends on the other side see ruin and bankruptcy in Canada, as they say in effect, and find that they have to impose a direct tax on the people to carry on the ordinary affairs of the country; and then they say to us:	What would you do
under the circumstances? I think that is not a fair proposition. While during the last year I was not a member of the House and do not know just what attitude members on this side adopted towards the appropriations of last year, I do not think that we should be held responsible for last year's

expenditures. That money was voted and that money and more has been expended. But when lion, gentlemen ask suggestions from this side of the House in regard to the ensuing year, our friends on this side have said again and again that they believe the proper thing for the Government to do is when they find themselves face to face with this unparalleled condition of affairs in Canada, to call a halt and consider where they are drifting and what they are doing. Every hon. member should be honest and fair with regard to this matter.
The hon. members for St. John and Halifax made the suggestion to my hon. friends that we believe the proper thing to do was to curtail the expenditure. The line of demarkation between the hon. gentlemen opposite and hon. gentlemen on this side of the House seems to be something like this: Our friends opposite say that it is the duty of the Government to spend money freely and lavishly, to go on with all public works to as great or *a greater extent than in the past for the purpose of keeping our men employed and at work throughout the country. To a certain extent that is a fair argument. We on this side of the House have suggested that instead of placing increased taxation on the people of this country for the purpose of keeping men employed by extensive public works in Canada the Government should curtail, not stop absolutely, the public works.
Hon. gentlemen oppfjsite have spoken as if we proposed to stop all public works. We would not stop all works but, instead of increasing the expenditure and taxation, we would curtail expenditure and keep taxation at the present level or possibly a lower level. That is the line of cleavage between the two parties in this House. The proper course for the Government would be to retrench and curtail rather than continue the lavish expenditures of the past two or three years, an expenditure which has rendered it necessary for them to levy direct taxation. I believe that in approving of such a policy as this I am voicing the sentiments of my constituents.
My hon. friends3 hearts apparently bleed for the workingman. I do not want to suggest the least trace of insincerity on the part of the hon. gentlemen; but I do say that the man who makes the most money out of public expenditure is not the man who uses the shovel or the pick or the man who goes down and does manual labour; it the contractor wrho holds the big contracts who makes the big money out of public expenditures in 
Canada. Therefore I say that the ordinary individual as a rule would be better off if the expenditures were curtailed to some extent, and thus save the workingmen the increased burden of taxation. I spoke of the workingmen not getting proper treatment at the hands of the contractors. I would remind the House, and the Minister of Railways particularly, that after the war had been declared in August last, when the manufacturing concerns in our town were closed and the workingmen were walking the streets without money to pay their rent or to buy succour and clothing for their families, the Government purchased or agreed to purchase a certain line of railway running from the town of Sackville on the Intercolonial to Cape Tormentine; a distance of 40 miles. I am not criticising that action, because I am in favour of the taking over of branch lines, and this was a branch line that it was proper to take over. But the road was in such condition that the Government had to start at once to make repairs on the same. And I want to tell the Minister of Railways, whether he knew it or not-I do not suppose he did-that while our local labouring men were walking the streets of Sackville, this Government brought in foreigners, a large proportion of them Austrians and Germans I am informed, to do that work. I think that was an unreasonable and unfair thing to do. Our local men were entitled to the work on that road, but instead of that they were put aside and foreigners brought in.
My hon. friend from East Lambton (Mr. Armstrong) in addressing this House the other night made what struck me as rather a peculiar criticism of hon. gentlemen on this side of the House. First of all he talked about a party truce; and I am not here to say anything for or against the truce except this. It has been said that a party truce had been arranged. Personally I know nothing about whether such a truce was entered into or not. I do know that before war was declared the leader of the Opposition had arranged to hold some meetings in large constituencies in the West in the interests of the Liberal party, and, incidentally, if they were in the interests of the Liberal party they would be in the interests of Canada; but immediately on the declaration of war the right hon. gentleman cancelled all these engagements. The war session of this House was called, and so far as I have been able to hear from hon. gentlemen on both sides of this House there was absolute unanimity in regard to the war measures brought down in that session.

Suggestions have been thrown out from both sides of the House that even during that period there was not strictly a truce, as literature was being sent out from the printing bureaus because it could be franked and go free. I do not know anything about that. Before the present session was called,
I presume that some truce was arranged in regard to filling the vacant constituencies, and as a result of that I had an easy way of entering this House, and I appreciate the honour of representing my constituency. But if I felt that in coming to this House in that way I was sanctioning any party truce, that my tongue was bridled, that I could not offer criticism in regard to the matters that I believe to be deserving of criticism, much as I appreciate the honour of representing my constituency, my conscience would not have allowed me to accept the nomination and a seat in this House. That is my feeling with regard to the party truce. Following the party truce still further, the question of an election arises. But I am not here to discuss the question of an election. I think I know enough about politics to know that the Government of a country are not influenced very much by what an Opposition may say as to the right time to hold an election. I do not expect this Government to take us into their confidence, or to be influenced by anything we might say in regard to an election. But I think I am voicing the sentiments of every hon. member in this House when I say that no one who has been through many campaigns is anxious to start on another one. We all fight rather shy of elections, the Government as well as the Opposition. Let me say further that I should not consider myself worthy of the honour of representing my constituency if I allowed myself to be influenced in what I believe to be proper criticism by the fear that my sayings might bring on or put off an election, or that the question whether there would be an election or not should influence me in refraining from offering what I believe to be just criticisms on the actions of the Government. Following the remarks of my hon. friend from East Lamb-ton, he said that hon. gentlemen on this side of the House were embarrassing the Government. Well, that is-an admission to begin with that the criticisms being offered are somewhat embarrassing. He went farther and said that hon. gentlemen on this side of the House were rising in their places and trying to embarrass the Government with their criticisms, at a
time when it was confronted with one of the greatest crises in the history of this country. I grant that. But I want to say that the Government are not the only ones concerned in that question; the people of Canada are confronted with the same question. I believe I am voicing the sentiments of every man, woman and child who knows what war is, when I say that every one in this country from the Atlantic to the Pacific has just as much at stake in this war as any member of the Government and fully realize that responsibility.


Mr. CARVELL:: Even including the
Finance Minister.


Mr. COPP:: Even including the Finance Minister. My hon. friend from East Lamb-ton painted a beautiful picture of our gallant soldiers marching to the front and going into thie trenches, while hon. gentlemen on this side of the House were embarrassing the Government by their criticism. If the hon. member had gone a little further he could have painted a better picture. He might have made it more explicit, more emphatic to the people of Canada. When he pictured our gallant soldiers going into the trenches., he might have said that they were clad in khaki uniforms bought from political friends at a very large profit, their feet encased in shoes made of split cowhide with shanks of wood and paper manufactured by unscrupulous dealers without proper inspection and making a handsome rake-off on the transaction. But my hon. friend did not go quite that far. He shed copious tears over the fact that we were embarrassing the Government. He might have shed a tear for our gallant soldiers who for months or weeks, whichever it may have been, were exposed in this class of boots to the wet and slush of the training grounds of Yalcartier and of Salisbury Plain.
The Montreal Daily Star, discussing the boots worn by our gallant soldier boys, says that it-is more than a scandal-it is a crime. That is the evidence and information we have in regard to this boot question. If everything in connection with the equipment, supplies, and munitions of war had been carried on in an honest and fair manner, then I say that the criticism we have to offer to this Budget should not embarrass the Government; it should be a distinct advantage to them, for it gives them an opportunity of explaining away all the suspicions which my hon. friends opposite say they have not heard of.
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Let me tell my hon. friends, if they have never heard it, that this country is seething with suspicion in regard to public contracts for materials for war purposes. We are not breaking any party truce, we are not doing any more than our bounden duty in pointing out to the people what has been done and what we believe has been done. We have voted $50,000,000, which has been expended during the past six months, and $100,000,000 more is to be voted by this House. I have not heard a single suggestion which would indicate that any hon. member of this House was not perfectly willing to vote $100,000,000 and, yea, more if necessary. My hon. friend from South Renfrew (Mr. Graham) hit the nail on the head the other night when he said that we are prepared to give millions for defence but not one dollar for graft. Yet we are told we are disloyal because we offer these criticisms and because we call upon the Government to show that there has been no graft in connection with these contracts.
So much in a general way. I said at the outset that I wanted to speak particularly for one or two classes of people. I am .sorry that I have not had the experience of the hon. gentleman who told us this evening that he was a farmer. He said that he believed that the Government had done more for the farmers of Canada than any Government has done for many years. I am not in a position to say whether they have or have not. I do not want to offer any undue criticism of the Government in regard to any matter in which they believe they are doing the right thing. I do not know anything about the farming industry in the province of Ontario, but I know something of the agricultural interests in the province of New Brunswick. I speak more particularly of this matter because I have been asked in numerous letters and telegrams that I have received from my own constituents to bring up the question of fertilizers and agricultural implements on which the duty will be increased by the tariff arrangements that have been brought down by the Minister of Finance. Many of the letters and telegrams I have received are not from political friends of mine, but are from very strong supporters of the Government, who,
I suppose, will continue their support.
I am not here talking politics. I want to draw to the attention of the Government as seriously as I can the condition of the farmers in my own province, especially in the county which I have the honour to

represent, and to point out how they are affected by this proposed duty on fertilizers. My hon. friend the Minister of Finance says they must have a certain amount of revenue, that they need money, that money is the backbone of the war and- of the country and that they must have it. I have no quarrel with my hon. friend in regard to that. I may have a tender feeling for the farmer, but I do feel that this proposed tariff arrangement places entirely too heavy a burden upon the agricultural industry of this country.
My hon. friend from St. John (Mr. Pugsley) the other night referred to the question of fertilizer. I want also to refer to this article which is so important to the farmer. I understood the hon. gentleman who preceded me to say that they did not use a great deal of fertilizer in Ontario, and that it was not in as general use there as it was in the maritime pro-inces. I am sure that they use very little of this fertilizer in the western provinces, because the peculiar soil which they have there does not require the use of large quantities of fertilizer for the production of crops. Those who are attempting to make a living on the farms, of the maritime provinces have to depend almost entirely upon fertilizers for plant food. The farmer in the maritime provinces has not the large acreage that the farmer in the west has. The farmer in New Brunswick with a farm of 50 or 75 acres is considered to have a large farm. The farmer who undertakes to make his living off 50 or 75 acres, or even less than that, must have a very large yield per acre; therefore he must use a great deal of fertilizer to secure that large production per acre.
An hon. gentleman who addressed this House a few days ago only told
11 p.m. half the story when he said that there had been only $45,000 paid in duty on fertilizers imported into this country during the fiscal year ended March, 1914. He referred only to the manufactured article used by the farmer. He left out the ingredients that go to make up this compound, and most of which ingredients have hitherto come into Canada free. The increased duty on compounded and manufactured fertilizer upon the basis of our importation during the fiscal year 1914 will be $46,438.55. Then, we must take into consideration the ingredients that go to make up the manufactured fertilizer that is imported and manufactured or mixed at home. The increase on acid phosphate alone will be $7,356.07. In

addition, there were free imports of blast furnace slag, phosphate rock, fish offal and refuse, crude bones, bone dust, and charred bone, guano and other manures, nitrate of ammonia, kainit and potash, chlorate of potash, potash muriate, and nitrate of potash, amounting to $1,008,539 on which the duty will be, under the 7J per cent increase, $75,640,.42.	The whole increase to the
farmers on fertilizer imported into this country will therefore be not $45,000, but $75,640.42.	The whole increase to the
is a mere bagatelle. In view of the fact that the largest quantity of this fertilizer is used in the maritime provinces it means quite a large bagatelle to the farmers in that part of the country.
That is not all the burden that has been placed upon the farmers and agricultural people of our country by the proposed increase in duties brought down by the Minister of Finance. Take the very question that my hon. friend spoke about with regard to the agricultural implements that are being imported into Canada. Take the customs returns for the year ended March 31, 1914, and take the different machinery, such as cream separators, ploughs, mowers, fencing, barbed wire, spring wire, threshing machinery, cultivators, seeders, manure-spreaders and other items, and you will find that the increased duty that will be imposed on the farmers of this country will amount to $701,727.37. It is really a direct tax on the farmers, although imposed on the articles indirectly. Seeds, which were formerly on the free list, are now subject to a duty of 7i per cent, and on seeds alone
the duty amounts to $15,705.71.
Let me recapitulate as follows:
Increased duty on fertilizer .. $130,435.04 Increased duty on farm machinery, wire fencing, etc	 701,727,37
Increased duty on seeds .. ..	15,705.71
Total	$847,868.12
The farmers of this country will have to pay that amount in excess of what they paid under the late Government for the things they must have for their farm work. It is more than a mere bagatelle to the farmer. That amount, however, is not the worst feature of the tax on the farmers. While the farmers are paying that amount to the Dominion Treasury, they are paying to my good friends the manufacturers of this country the sum of $2,543,604.36. I estimate that on the basis that, for every dollar's worth of goods that we import from foreign countries, we use three dollars' worth of goods manufactured in our own country. I believe the proportion is even greater than three to one. I have no
quarrel with the manufacturers. While I am referring particularly to the case of the farmers and agriculturists, I have never had occasion during my short political career, when referring to matters such a? this, to offer sympathy to the farmers. Sympathy is not what they want. They are not beggars. They do not want sympathy, they want fair treatment. You are treating the farmer fairly when you are giving him-as the old Government did- fertilizers practically free. Until 1913 he had his fertilizers absolutely free because the basic slag was brought in free. If I remember aright, during the session of 1913 the Government, or the Board of Customs, arbitrarily placed basic slag among the manufactured or mixed fertilizers with a tariff rate of 10 per cent. That was done upon the request of one individual who manufactured basic slag in Cape Breton, in the province of Nova Scotia, in order to assist this firm in maintaining high prices and thus sacrificing the interests of every farmer in Canada to that extent.
My hon. friends have spoken considerably and we have seen a great deal of advertising in the press supporting the Government in regard to the patriotism-and-production campaign. That is the splendid phrase and I think there is nothing that would so please the people of this country as to realize that this Government is giving them something in the way of patriotism and production. I find that my hon. friends from New Brunswick have beeh holding a number of meetings under that heading. Those meetings are held, as I understand, under the patronage of tne Minister of Agriculture of this Government, in conjunction with the Minister of Agriculture of the Provincial Government. In the county of Westmorland they have been telling the farmers how they can increase their production. I was somewhat sorry to find that the gentlemen who were going through the county of Westmorland telling the farmers how they could get a bigger production on the farms were a dental surgeon, Dr. Price, from the city of Moncton, and a merchant, Mr. F. B. Black, from the town of Sackville. I want to be absolutely fair. They had with them a gentleman by the name of Mr. Blair. I do not know what position he holds, but I suppose he is an agriculturist. I do not want to say anything that would be offensive, but it seems to me that the meetings held throughout the province of New Brunswick, under the patronage of the Minister of Agriculture, who has not been able to be in the House

for some time, and of the hon. Minister of Agriculture for the province of New Brunswick, instead of having as their object patriotism for Canada and greater production on the farm, they have as their object patriotism to the Conservative party and the greater proportion of Conservative votes in the province of New Brunswick. That seems to be more in keeping with the attitude of my hon. friends in the province of New Brunswick. The Government should consider well what it means to a -very great portion of the population of this country to increase the duties on the raw materials of the farmers who use them to turn out their finished product and give it to the people of this country.
Now, I wish to follow that line of argument for a moment, and I promise you, Mr. Speaker, that I will not draw it out too long. For every dollar of extra cost you make the farmer pay in carrying on his work of production, with a view to building up these great cities which, the hon. gentleman (Mr. Bowman) says, are built up by the protective tariff, you make the consumer pay on the goods that he and his family consume. There are to-day in this country many men who are not able to earn even the necessaries of life; and as soon as the duties are increased and it costs the farmer more to produce his bushel of wheat or oats, his ton of hay or his pound of beef, that extra expense goes to the consumer of that article. And the consumer for whom I speak especially, and speak with all sincerity, is the workingman of our country. When the Government levy taxation upon a class of people who are not able to pay it, they are doing injustice to the country, and I believe that they will regret in a short time that these taxes are imposed upon the people.
I have numerous letters and telegrams dealing with these matters. It seems very strange to me that hon. gentlemen who have spoken on the other side have declared that the farmers are absolutely satisfied, that they have not had a single comment to show that there is any opposition to these measures. I would not like to insinuate that these hon. gentlemen have had suggestions from the farmers, but I should like to know what the Acting Minister of Agriculture must have thought as his supporters one after another have arisen and declared that they have had no word from their constituencies with regard to this matter. Do the Government say they have had no protest from New Brunswick with regard to increasing the duty on fertilizers?' We have the

evidence of the Minister of Agriculture of the province of New Brunswick himself, who speaks officially for every farmer in that province, that he had sent in protest after protest to this Government in regard to fertilizers. Yet hon. gentlemen say that everybody is satisfied and everybody loyally willing to pay these taxes. No doubt they are loyal, and those of them who are able to pay are quite willing to do so. But you cannot get blood out of a post, and there are hundreds, and thousands, and tens of thousands of men in this country to whom the imposition of this unjust and iniquitous tax will prove a heavy burden and one, that 1 believe, they will not be able to bear. If hon. gentlemen opposite have heard nothing against this measure, I should like them to read the Farmers' Advocate, a farming journal published in the province of New Brunswick. Here is a long article-I do not propose to read it-giving a most logical and cogent argument against this increase in the duties.


George Perry Graham: That paper is published in London, Ont., too.


Arthur Bliss Copp: Yes.


George Perry Graham: Not by Liberals either.


Arthur Bliss Copp: of carelessness or laxity in respect of the Intercolonial railway. I do not believe that the hon. Minister fully realizes what this railway means to the people of the maritime provinces. Hon. gentlemen have heard this question discussed year after year in an abler manner than I can ever hope to discuss it, even if I had time. The Intercolonial railway was built by the Dominion of Canada as a bond of confederation between the maritime provinces and the great provinces to the West. Many things, perhaps, were done in the early days of our history that would not be done under the present conditions; many things are done to-day which would not have been carried out then, but if it were not specifically set out clause by clause it certainly must at least have been implied that the Intercolonial railway should be built and operated to give the people of the maritime provinces an efficient and up-to-date service. To-day the Intercolonial railway is not being operated in the interests of people who live along the line. The hon. member who represents the county of Colchester (Mr. Stanfield) as well as other hon. gentlemen who represent constituencies served by the Intercolonial railway, will agree with me in this assertion. The taking off of the Ocean Limited, the best train that ever ran from Halifax to Montreal, makes the Intercolonial railway subservient to the Canadian Pacific railway. It takes away the traffic, and the man going from Halifax to Montreal who in nine cases out of ten would take the Ocean Limited, to-day takes the Canadian Pacific railway because it saves time and is a better service. My hon. friend says that the Ocean Limited will be restored as soon as trade brightens up; but by that time travellers will have become accustomed to using the Canadian Pacific railway, and it will be difficult to induce them to change back. The people in northern New Brunswick and in Nova Scotia I believe are greatly dissatisfied with the present condition. The Minister of Railways and Canals has increased the freight rates on the Intercolonial railway and makes the excuse that he does this because he wants to make the Intercolonial railway, as far as possible, a paying institution. I would advise my hon. friend, instead of increasing the freight rates on the people who use that road, to cut down the salary of the manager of the Intercolonial railway from $20,000 to $10,000 and save money there, instead of increasing the salaries of the higher officials. The gentleman who to-day is living in Ottawa on a superannuation retiring allowance looked 
after and ran the Intercolonial railway as well as it is run to-day, and I think the largest salary he ever received was some $6,000 a year. For the same work to-day, if you figyre out the number who are employed as assistant superintendents and this, that and the other, you will find that where it formerly cost the Dominion of Canada fr im $6,000 to $10,000 it is costing now from $60,000 to $70,000 for the same service. While we pay the extra wages, we are not getting as good service as under the old arrangement from our old friend who for so many years so ably presided over the destinies of that railroad.
Many things have been said during the debate contrasting the administration of the present Government and the late Government. Taking the pledges and platforms of the two parties and reading them as they have been read during this debate, we find a wonderful conglomeration of platforms and promises, fulfilled and unfulfilled. But that is neither here nor there; the people of Canada hold the present Government responsible for the present situation of affairs in this country. They are the gentlemen who are responsible. My hon. friend may talk about the Liberals and we may talk about the Conservatives; these are the fashionable names for the parties. But we can go a little further, we can refer to the Liberal party as the revenue tariff party, believing in as much interchange of commodities with foreign countries as possible, at as low a tariff rate as possible and with as many items on the free list as possible while the other party believes in high protection. Go a step further down and it is nearer the truth to say that the Liberal party is the party whose main object is the interest of the masses of this country, white the Conservative party is the party who has the interest of the classes at heart. It is for the people of this country, comparing the record of the Liberal party for the fifteen years of their administration and the Conservative party for the three years they have been in power, to make their choice; sooner or later the record of these parties and the present condition of the country must be left to the jury of our country, and whatever their verdict may be the members on this side of the House will be satisfied to abide by it.
On motion of Mr. Ball, the debate was adjourned.
On motion of Sir Robert Borden, the House adjourned at 11.40 p.m.


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Aberdeen Association-franking privilege, 1370
Achim, Mr. Honore (Labelle)
Address in reply to Governor General's Speech
Trade of Canada, 11 Members at the front, 12 Canada and the war, 13 Defence by Belgians, 14 Experimental farm for Labelle, 2072
Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 4
Adulteration Act Amendment Bill (Maple Sugar), lr., 1644. 2r., 1790. Com., 1790. 3r„ 1993. See 2313
Adulteration of food-maple sugar, 1785 Aeroplanes, reported appearance of, 144 Ag ricultural implements. See Taxation Agriculture
Agricultural Instruction Act, administration of, 2107
Animals, health of, 611, 1286, 2053, 2087, 2108
Bulletins, 2083, 2088, 2092 Cold storage, 2084 Dairying industry, 2080, 2103 Department
Estimates, 1228-1242, 2055-2109 French language in, 2077 Salaries, 2055 Experimental farms, 2056 Hog cholera, 627
Horses, 1230, 2104. See War supplies
Insect pests, 2078, 2109
Live stock, 309, 348, 2087, 2092, 2093, 2104
Meat and Canned Foods Act, 2090
Potatoes
Diggers, tariff on, 1174 Embargo on, 719, 772, 991, 1229, 2078 Powdery scab in, 2078 Shipment regulations, 1229 Seed grain. See that title Seeds, improvement of, 2106
Aikins, Sir James A. M. (Brandon)
Boots, army, 2442
Food exports, government control of, 537 Recruits' attestation papers, 1988
Alberta
Military training area, 1557 Miners, unemployment of, 493 Oil leases, 48 Relief distribution, 242
Alert, revenue steamer, 1646
Aliens
Assistance to, 1218, 2053 Deportation of, 2122 Interned at Petawawa, 828, 998 Registration of, 48, 1147, 1733 See Criminal Code Amendment Bill
Allison. See War
Ames, Mr. Herbert B. (Montreal, St. Antoine) Canadian patriotic fund, 394
Amherst
Armoury, 389, 1395, 1977, 2035 Camp, 1290, 1395 Custom house, 1646 Post office, 436, 1396, 1975 Redstone Company, 1864
Ammunition, distribution of, 1652 Anderson, T. A., employment of, 605, 761, 996 Animals. See Agriculture Anticosti lightship, 309 Antigonish-Sherbrooke mail service, 46
Architect, Dominion chief, appointment of, 1958, 1961, 1966, 2184
Arichat mails, 1184
Armstrong, Mr. Joseph E. (East Lambton) Budget, 577
Record of the Government, 580 Reciprocity, 582 Naval affairs, 582 British preference, 584 Flax industry, 585
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Dominion elections-hours of polling, 1911 Inland navigation rates, control of, 43, 249 Taxation-gravel and sand, 1163
Arthurs, Mr. James (Parry Sound)
Canadian patriotic fund, 402 Dominion elections, 1919
Astronomical observatory, western, 1585, 1893
Atlantic and Lake Superior railway, 1468 Atlases
Dominion electoral, 2307 Immigration, 1576
Auditor General
Office of-non-employment of French Canadians, 2318
Australia, steamship service to, 1292 Aviation school, 1989 Bagot county mail service, 141 Baie des Chaleurs railway, claims against, 518
Ball, Mr. R. J. (South Grey)
Budget, ?55
Government expenditure and employment, 955'
War contracts, 956 Tariff and taxation, 956 The war and trade, 957 Dominion elections-hours of voting, 1914
Ballot, patent, allowance for, 1591 Bananas, tariff on, 1167
Bank Act Amendment Bill (loans for seed grain). Res., 1242. lr., 1246. 2r., 1349. Com., 1349.	3r., 1359.
Banks and banking
Borrowings from Government, 147, 476 Finance Act, 1914, continued, 477
Barker, Hon. Samuel (East Hamilton)
War supplies-horses, 2103
Barnard, Mr. Geo. H. (Victoria, B.C.) Submarines, purchase of, 107 Titles to real estate, fraudulent, 1223
Bathurst harbour, 46 Battlefields, historic, 1716 Bedard, L., dismissal of, 1652 Belgium
Emigration from, 632 Relief for, 1676
Bellemare, Mr. A. (MaskinongO)
Budget-agricultural production and the war, 809
Intercolonial railway ties, 309 Benjamin, H., employment of, 241 Bennett, Mr. R. B. (Calgary)
Bank loans for seed grain, 1356 Budget, 1089
Canada and the war, 1090 Fiscal policies, 1091 Expenditures on public works, 1094 Protection and free trade, 1096 Home market, 1097 British preference, 1101 Controverted elections, 1924, 2009, 2025 Dominion elections, 1899 Experimental farms, 2060 Ferguson, Mr. T. R., report of, on Department of Interior, 2592
Parliament, members of, and government contracts, 2141
Relief for western farmers, 73, 1336, 1338 Senate, the, 2336
Soldiers, votes for, 2233, 2261, 2274 Supreme Court jurisdiction, 2054 Taxation-insurance companies, 1179 War supplies-horses, 2096 Bennett, Mr. Wm. H. (East Simcoe) Canadian patriotic fund, 397 Freight rates, inland navigation, regulation of, 259
Grain shortages at elevators, 1946 Soldiers, votes for, 2257, 2475 Bickerdike, Mr. Robert (Montreal, St. Lawrence)
Capital punishment, 42, 127, 281, 1763 Immigrants, inspection of, 1574 Prison reform, 1761 Binders, imports of, 1649 Blain, Mr. Richard (Peel)
Budget, 794
British preference, 799 Trade of Canada, 800 Fertilizers, 801 War supplies, 802 Dominion elections, 1906, 1913 Blais, A., dismissal of, 1652 Blondin, Hon. P. E. (Minister of Inland Revenue)
Excise goods in bond, transfer of, 1644 Maple sugar, adulteration of, 1644, 1790 Inland Revenue Department
Appointment of temporary officials, 1644, 1868
Deputy Minister, pamphlet of, 1724 - Estimates, 503-513, 1717-1727, 2313
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Boivin, Mr. Geo. H. (Shefford)
Granby mail service, 905 LOvis dry dock, 767 Patent shovel shield, 437, 1235 Shefford mail service, 1287 Bonaventure
Mail service, 769, 994, 2297 Purchase of war supplies in, 994
Boots, army, purchase of. See War Supplies
Borden, Rt. Hon. Sir Robert (Prime Minister)
Address in reply to Governor General's Speech
Services of the Governor General, 20 Loyalty of Canadians of foreign origin
Decease of members, ,21 Army boot contracts, 21 Causes of the war, 22 Canadian contingent, 24 Aeroplanes, reported appearance of, 145 Aviation schools, 1989 British Columbia better terms commission 2316
Biitish North America Act, proposed amendment of. See Parliamentary representation.
Budget, 1058
Proposed war taxation, 1058 Conference with Opposition, 1058 Tariff proposals, 1060 British preference, 1061 Length of debate, 1064 Canadian High Commissionership, 2318 Canadian Manufacturers' Association, correspondence of, 2189, 2461 Canadian Pacific railway ocean services 749	'
Canadian patriotic fund, 395 Canadian representative at Washington 2315
Capital punishment, 140 Conservation Commission, 2324 Controverted elections, 1995, 2007	2014
2020 .
Copyright, 203 Divorce bills, 1988, 2187 Dominion elections, 2143 Dominion notes, issue of, 1537 Expropriation of lands for military purposes, 1549
External Affairs, department of, 2318 Farquhar, Colonel, death in action of, 1283 Pood exports, government control of, 551 Port Erie shooting case, 333
Borden, Rt. Hon. Sir Robert (Prime Minister) -Con.
Franco-Canadian steamship service, 718 Government buildings rented-alleged misconduct of officials, 2050 House of Commons
Bowles, Mr. W. C., resignation of, 1526 Business of the House, 206, 1187 Committees, select standing, 74 Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees, election of, 41
Representation in. See Parliamentary Correction of clerical errors in Act (1914), 1557, 1994
Intercolonial railway branch lines, 1543 Lake of the Woods Technical Board, 1394 Liquor manufacture, suggested suspension of, 2327
Medical Council of Canada, 1251, 2316 Ministerial changes, 207 Monuments, erection of, 1251, 1252 Mounted Police, Royal Northwest, 1249 2322, 2326
National Transcontinental railway, operation of, 2125, 2135 Newspaper attacks, 2190 Nickel, export of, 3 Nova Scotia
Military forces, 561, 612, 687, 720, 905, 1432, 1441, 1500 Postal services, 904
Parliament, members of, and government contracts, 2143-2146
Parliamentary	representation-proposed
amendment of British North America Act, 1460, 2327, 2340, 2342. See Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island, parliamentary representation of, 327, 1460. See Parliamentary representation Public Accounts Committee. See War supplies
Railway capitalization, 290 Reindeer, experiments with, 2315 Robertson, Lt.-Col. Struan. See Nova Scotia military forces Senate. See Parliamentary representation Shortt, Mr. Adam, speech of, 679 Soldiers
Comforts for, 293 Payment of, 2320
Votes for, 337, 2200, 2213, 2259, 2469, 2477 2537
Submarines, purchase of, 105, 946, 955 Taxation-liquor duties, 1154 Unemployment, 2320 Valcartier land claims, 1549
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Appropriations, 93, 1397 Canadian expeditionary forces-state-rnient of mobilization and organization, '2364
'Canadian troops in France, 204, 909 Engineering corps, 1525 Expenditures, statement of, 1397 '*Fair wages in war contracts, 38 INova Scotia military forces. See that title
Pensions, 1188, 1394, 1450 Supplies, purchase of Ammunition, 93, 1455 Binoculars, 2605	.
Boots, 21, 144, 204, 2450 British Government, for, 38, 2461, 2614 Carleton Drug Company, 2605, 2614 Committee of Council, 1246 Generally, 93, 945, 2461, 2538, 2602, 2610, 2614, 2617
Horses, 2098-2102, 2606, 2613 Shells, 38, 2614
Western farmers, relief for, 1330
Souiay, Mr. H. (Pdmouski)
Agriculture in Quebec, 2076 Anticosti lightship, 309 Budget, 984
French Canadians in Government service, 985
Judges' pensions, 987 Aid to agriculture, 988 [DOT]Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company, payments to, 1864
French language in Department of Agriculture, 2077
Immigration inspectors and the French language, 233 *intercolonial railway Bridges, 897 Cement posts, 309 Dining car employees, 1485 Passenger service, 1485 Mafia, waska postal service, 1388 Marine service in Rimouski, 1256, 2304 -Matapedia road, 2178 *Ore refined in United States, 309 Voters' lists, errors in, 2309 War supplies-horses, 898, 1455 'Bounties on lead and petroleum, 1936 Bourassa, Mr. J. Boutin (Levis)
Dismissals, 1652 Intercolonial railway
Chaudiere employees, 1785 XAvis station, 831
Bourassa, Mr. J. Boutin (Levis)-Con.
Lauzon dry dock, 1647 LOvis quarantine station, 241, 1290 National Transcontinental railway-Quebec terminals, 518 St. Romuald post office, 518 Telephone disinfectants, 2531 War supplies-horses, 830
Bowman, Mr. James (East Huron)
Budget, 930
Rival fiscal policies, 930 Development under protection, 932 Aid to agriculture, 934
Boyer, Mr. Gustave (Yaudreuil)
Levis shell factory, 519
Maple sugar industry, 513, 1794
Rigaud
Armoury, 631, 993 Dredging, 390 Wharf, 1786
Scales in cheese and butter factories, inspection of, 513 St. Zotique wharf, 390 War supplies Horses, 388 Saddles, 521
Bradbury, Mr. George H. (Selkirk)
Budget, 715, 772
Pre-election promises, 716, 776 Expenditures on public works, 717, 772 British preference and the tariff, 781, 782 Cement merger, 784 Hudson Bay railway, 786 Seed grain distribution, 789 Experimental farms, 2066 Pollution of navigable waters, 3, 118 St. Peter's Indian reserve, 1321, 1882
Bristol, Mr. Edmund (Toronto Centre)
Inland navigation freight rates, regulation of, 254
British Columbia
Better Terms Commission, 2316 Labour troubles, 497 Militiamen on active service, 151 Steamship services, 1300
British North America Act, proposed amendment of, 1459, 2327
Brooks-MacNally mail service, 994
Brouillard, Mr. Ovide (Drummond and Artha-baska)
Gilbert, R-, employment of, 1787 Stanfold model farm, 1993
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Coal industry, 492 Oil leases, 48
Relief distribution, 242, 2188 Bank loans for seed grain, 1244 Blood Indian reserve, 763, 1323 Brooks-MacNally mail service, 994 Coal imports, 521 Coutts quarantine area, 150 Experimental farms, 2066 Food exports, government control of, 540 Lethbridge
Customs staff, 521 Field battery, 1646 Immigration inspector, 150, 1567 Postmastership, 143, 769, 1364, 1367 Wool storage, 828 Medicine Hat Homestead inspection, 2123 Postmasters, 764 Rural mail service, 768 Mounted Police, Northwest, 1284 Oil and gas leases, 241 Railway charters, extension of, 724, 758 War supplies-horses, 631, 1146 Western farmers, relief for, 58, 947, 1244, 1340. See Bank loans Wrentham post office, 142
Budget debate, 80, 352, 404, 442, 562, 613, 689, 709, 772, 833; amendment (Sir Wilfrid Laurier), 841, 905, 955, 999, 1058; div., 1141. See Taxation
Bureau, Mr. Jacques (Three Rivers and St. Maurice)
Cap de la Madelaine wharf, 2120 Inland Revenue, Deputy Minister of, pamphlet of, 1724
Maple syrup, adulteration of, 1792, 1800 St. Maurice river slides and booms, timber for, 2184
Soldiers, votes for, 2288, 2491 Taxation-postage stamps and war stamps, 2539
Three Rivers Dredging, 2175 Harbour works, 2155 Public building, 1786
Burnham, Mr. John H. (Peterborough West) Budget, 404 Unemployment, 405 British preference, 408 Eastern peril, 409 German menace, 411 Free trade, 413
Made-in-Canada movement, 414
Burnham, Mr. John H. (Peterborough West>
Con.
Budget-Con.
Balance of trade, 415 Ethics and industry, 416 Civil service, old men in, 1871 Controverted elections, 2011 Dominion elections-hours of polling, 190T Grain shortage, compensation for, 1956 Immigration and old age pensions, 1573 Mail carriers, remuneration of, 1374 Naval service, 1660
Peterborough government employees, 1285
Burrell, Hon. Martin (Minister of Agriculture)
Agricultural Instruction Act, administration of, 2107
Agriculture, Department of Estimates, 2055 Bulletins, 2083, 2092 Cold storage, 2084 Dairying industry, 2081, 2103 Exhibitions, 2085, 2109 Experimental farms, 2056, 2058, 2072 Foot and mouth disease, 2088 Horse breeding, 2104 Live stock- industry, 2092 Meat, inspection of, 2091 Potato scab, 2078 Public health, 2108 Parliamentary representation, 1994 Seeds, improvement of, 2106 Cadwell Sand and Gravel Company, 1166 Calgary civil servants, 1184 Calmer-Telfordville mail service, 1187 Canada Grain Act Amendment Bill, lr., 1644. 2r„ 2030. Com., 2030.	3r., 2191. Sen.
amdt., 2532
Canada Temperance Act, referenda under, 1590
Canada Year Book, 1938
Canadian expeditionary forces. See War
Canadian Manufacturers' Association and
war supplies, 1667, 2189, 2461
Canadian Northern Railway Company, payments to, 150
Canadian Pacific railway
Capitalization, control of, 286, 726 Ocean services, 749
Canadian patriotic fund, 143, 1446, 1864
Canadian Patriotic Fund Act Amendment Bill, lr., 204. 2r., 393. Com., 393. 3r„ 404
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Canadian representative at Washington,
Canadian War Contingent Association, 2122 Canadian Wheatlands Company, 2188 Canadians in California, status of, 1189
Canals, 491, 632, 832, 1710, 1712
For individual canals, See their titles
Canning public building, 1979
Canso
Fish reduction works, 633, 767 Military guard, 1556
Cape Breton, customs service in, 222, 225, 227, 1650
Capital punishment, abolition of, 42, 127, 264, 1228, 1761
Cardigan-Annandale mail service, 1648
Cardin, Mr. P. J. A. (Richelieu)
Richelieu postal service, 1287
Cardin, D., employment of, 1993
Cardinal canal, 832
Carey, J. M., employment of, 993
Cariboo island breakwater, 308
Carleton retaining wall, 390
Carrick, Mr. J. J., M.P., service of, 561
Carroll, Mr. W. F. (Cape Breton South) Aliens, registration of, 1147, 1733.
Bank loans for seed grain, 1352, 1358 Benjamin, H., employment of, 241 Budget, 989, 1012 Party truce, 1013 Naval question, 1014 Free trade, 1015 Proposed new taxes, 1016 Manufacturers and prices, 1018 Labour and the tariff, 1021 Liberals and the war, 1021 Aid to Belgium, 1022
Canadian Pacific railway ocean service, 743 Canadian patriotic fund, 393 Cape Breton customs service, 222, 225, 227 Explosives in mines, 1601 Food exports, government control of, 550 Foster, W. G„ employment of, 898 Inland navigation rates, 255, 1687 Intercolonial railway-service of Mr. Gute-lius, 1483
Iron and coal imports, 244
Carroll, Mr. W. F. (Cape Breton South)-Con.
Kelly, Edgar, employment of, 241 Livingstone, C. P„ appointment of, 150 Miller, J„ patent of, 1990 Mines Department, 1600 National employment bureau, 484-490 New Waterford Postal service, 1360 Recruiting, 392 Customs service, 227 Nova Scotia
Fire insurance rates in, 1284, 1399 Postal service, 903 Patent medicines, alcohol in, 1717 Railway charters, extension of, 722 Smuggling, alleged, in Cape Breton, 222 Sydney pilotage commissioners, 1265 Sydney-New Waterford mail service, 1361 Sydney-St. Peter's railway, 608 Valcartier camp stores, 308 Vancouver Terminal Company, 1262 Voters' lists, preparation of, 1594 War supplies-horses, 607
Carslake Hotel purchase. See Montreal
Carvell, Mr. Frank B. (Carleton, N.B.) . Budget, 1066
The party truce, 106p Revenue and expenditure, 1068 Taxation proposals, 1071 British preference, 1079 Canadian Northern Railway Company, 760 Civil Service appointments, 1144, 1285 Controverted elections, 1924, 2151 Dominion elections Hours of polling, 1906 Voters' lists, 1897
Fraudulent titles to real estate, 1221 French, Field Marshal Sir John, 1444 Horse exports, 1234 Intercolonial railway
Fredericton land purchase, 168, 1475 Freight rates and trains, 156, 167 St. John and Quebec railway agreement, 1473
Militia-engineer services and works, 1513 Pollution of navigable waters, 124 Potato embargo, 719 St. John Valley railway, 46, 173, 1473 Soldiers Pay of, 2320 Votes for, 2352
Southampton railway investigation, 142 Taxation
Agricultural implements, 1174 Customs valuation, 1154 Fertilizers, 1076, 1166 Tobique Indian reserve, 187, 193
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Valley railway, 142 War supplies Hay, 140, 241
Imported munitions,' duty on, 1506 Motor truck tires, 1290
Casgrain, Hon. T. Chase (Postmaster General)
Aberdeen Association and the franking privilege, 1370
Montreal postal service, 1378, 2296 Parliament, members of, and government contracts, 2145
Pollution of navigable waters, 125 Post office
Contingencies, 1360
Department staff and salaries, 1359, 2295 Dismissals, 1367 Estimates, 1359-1394, 2295-2298 Letters for soldiers, 1419, 1422 Mail bag locks, 47, 1393 Mail carriers, payment of, 2297 Outside service, 1360, 1371 Parcel post, 1371-1375, 1384 Rural mail service, 1379 Stamps, sale and use of, 1391, 1393, 1422, 2297, 2624
Shortt, Mr. Adam, speech of, 661 Cattle. See Agriculture Censorship, 1264, 1448, 1496, 1506, 1618 Charbonneau, R., employment of, 610 Chesley public building, 1646
Chisholm, Mr. Alexander W. (Inverness) Campbell, Daniel, weights and measures official, 511 Cheticamp
Live-saving station, 1633, 1636 Marine medical service, 1269 Intercolonial railway branch lines, 1482, 1702
Inverness harbour improvements, 2052 McLeod, Mr., dismissal of, 1606 Navigable waters, removal of obstructions in, 347
Steam trawling, 246, 2306
Chisholm, Mr, William (Antigonish) Antigonish-Sherbrooke mail service, 46 Eastern Extension railway land damages, 1469
Fenian raid bounty, 1546 Immigration to Nova Scotia, 1558 Intercolonial railway
Abutment contracts, 895, 1286 Branch lines, eastern Nova Scotia, 1478, 1482
Chisholm, Mr. William (Antigonish)- Con.
Intercolonial railway-Con.
Bridges, watchmen on, 763 Coal contracts, 769 Nova Scotia Indians, 1308, 1310, 1312^
Inland revenue officials, 507 Postal service, 1380 Oil for fuel, imports of, 143 Taxation-postal rates and stamp taxes, 1413
War supplies-clinic thermometers, 307, 521 Civil Service
Appointments, 213, 218, 1144, 1285, 1591 Commission, 992, 1612 Dismissals, 213, 218
Militia service, civil servants in, 312, 522 Reform, 895, 1189
Speech of Mr. Adam Shortt, 213, 232, 471, 634
Clark, Mr. Hugh (North Bruce)
Agricultural reports, 2083 Prison reform, 1766 Soldiers, votes for, 2282, 2351
Clark, Mr. Michael (Red Deer)
Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 27
Made-in-Canada campaign, 28 Canada's paramount duty, 30 Spending of monevs. 31 Party literature, 31 Election talk, 32 Claims of the Empire, 32 Budget, 863
Submarines in naval warfare, 864 , Financial comparisons, 867 Home markets and the National Policy,
Borrowings or economy, 870 War and taxation, 872 Income tax, 872
British preference and made-in-Canada campaign, 873, 876 Effect of the new tariff, 875 Canadian patriotic fund, 404	,
Dismissals, 1366
Shortt, Mr. Adam, speech of, 640 Soldiers, votes for, 2201, 2217, 2468 Taxation
Income, 1197
Postage stamps and war stamps, 1415 See Budget
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Canada and the war, 1051 The Government's tariff policy, 1051 Revenue and protection, 1051 Western conditions, 1052
Coal. See Mines
Coast Guard, steamer, 1866
Coasting trade, 296, 1933
Cochrane, Hon. Frank (Minister of Railways and Canals)
Canadian Pacific railway ocean services, 746
Canals '
Soulanges, 1712 Staff, repairs, etc., 1713 Trent, 1712 Welland, 1710, 1713
Government purchase of railways, 1540, 1681
Hudson Bay railway, 1861 Intercolonial railway Branch lines
Eastern Nova Scotia, 1467, 1477, 1482, 1701
Chatham, 1492, 1686 Bridges, 1492, 1686 Cape Breton improvements, 1687 Fredericton land purchase, 171 Freight rates and trains, 164 General management, 1489 Halifax terminals, 1688 Highway protection, 1687 Moncton
Death claim-Mrs. O'Rourke, 1475 Improvements, 1691 Subway, 1397
Mulgrave car ferry, 1473, 1693 Operation, 1472, 1690 Quebec solicitor, 1708 Rolling stock, 1695 Safety appliances, 1698 St. John arud Quebec railway agreement, 1473
National Transcontinental railway Construction, 1859
Government operation, 1802, 1816, 2128 Montreal connection, 1711 Quebec Bridge, 1710 Terminals, 1860
Railways and Canals Department Estimates, 1467-1495, 1685-1713, 1859 Staff and salaries, 1471 St. John Valley railway, 184
Cockshutt, Mr. William F. (Brantford)
Food exports, government control of, 526, 556
Naturalization, 610 Soldiers, votes for, 2266
Coderre, Hon. Louis (Secretary of State and Minister of Mines)
Canada Temperance Act, referenda under, 1590
Dominion electoral atlas, 2307 Mines Department Electric smelting, 1602, 2313 Estimates, 1599-1612, 2313 Explosives in mines, 1601, 1604 Geological survey, 1607-1611 Investigations and experiments, 1603, 2313
Staff and salaries, 1599 Tar sands for road making, 1604 Printing and stationery, 1591 Scientific literature, international catalogue of, 1590
Secretary of State, Department of Estimates 1588-1598, 2307 Staff, salaries, etc., 1588, 1589 Vincent, Mr. J. U., pamphlet of, 1724 Voters' lists, preparation of, 1594
Colcleugh, F. W. R., employment of, 1648 Cold storage. See Agriculture Cole Harbour wharf, 517 Collingwood Ship Building Company, 519 Conservation Commission, 2314, 2324 Consolidated Fund expenditure, 1290 Contrecoeur public works, 1651 Cookshire post office, 1991
Copp, Mr. A. B. (Westmorland, N. B.) Amherst	.
Camp, 1290, 1395 Military buildings, 1395 Redstone Company, 1864 Budget, 936
Economy or taxation, 938 The party truce, 938 Tariff burdens on farmers, 940 Patriotism-and-production campaign, 941 New Brunswick and war taxes, 943 Intercolonial railway management, 944 Grand Trunk Pacific railway, labour conditions on, 498 Intercolonial railway Branch lines, 1685, 1706 Employees, enlistment of, 245 Management, 1487, 1491
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Intercolonial railway-Con.
Moncton
Death claim-Mrs. O'Rourke, 1475, 1713 Shops, 1696 Subway, 1397 Operation, 1708
Sackville, accommodation at, 606, 1693, 1706
Wages, payment of, 498 Mount Allison military instruction, 1524 New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island railway, purchase of, 152, 1685 Post Office
Employees, inefficiency of, 1392 Rural mail service, 1390 Sackville
Home guard, 1517 Pilotage, 1266 Post office, 153 War supplies Hay, 1289 Horses, 520 Seasickness cure, 152
Copper exports, 312
Copyright, protection of, 196, 1226
Corn imports, 152
Cost of Living Commission, 1395, 2625 Country Harbour gas buoy, 762 Courts. See Justice Coutts quarantine area, 150 Cream exports, 294
Criminal Code Amendment Bills, lr., 47,205. 2r., 284, 304. Ref. to select Com., 476. Com., 1218.	3r., 1291. Sen. amdts.,
Crothers, Hon. Thos. W. (Minister of Labour)
Cost of Living Commission, 2625 Labour
British Columbia, troubles in, 497 Department
Estimates, 481-498, 501-503 Staff and salaries, 481, 502 Disputes, settlement of, 494 Employment bureaux, 485-490 Farm labourers, distribution of, 490 Grand Trunk Pacific railway, conditions on, 498
Railway construction and labour, 502 Railway employees, voting of, 2504 South Wellington mine disaster, 207 Technical education, 495, 502
Crothers, Hon. Thos. W. (Minister of Labour)
-Con.
Labour-Con.
Telegraphers, conditions of employment of, 2532
Unemployment, 483, 493, 501 Wages
Payment of, 498 War contracts, on, 490, 503 Welland canal, on, 492 Cumberland rural mail, 1649 Customs
Agricultural implements, valuation of, 605
Alert, revenue steamer, 231
Department
Appointments and dismissals,218-222,228 Employees in war service, 217 Staff and salaries, 217-230 Fraudulent importation of horses, 229 Investigations, 611 Smuggling, alleged, 222 See Taxation
Customs Tariff War Revenue Bill. Res., 89, 1150, 1168. lr., 1217.	2r., 1400. Com.,
1400.	3r„ 1405. See Budget, Special
War Revenue Bill, and Taxation Dagneau, John, employment of, 1866 Dairying Industry. See Agriculture. Davidson, Mr. Avard L. (Annapolis)
French, Field Marshal, 1446 Davidson, W. W., employment of, 768 Delisle, Mr. Michel S. (Portneuf)
Dorion, C. N., employment of, 521 Government reports in French, 828 National Transcontinental railway Portneuf claims, 993 Quebec terminals, 993 Quebec county telegraph service, 1187, 2122 St. Gilbert de Portneuf postmaster, 307 War supplies Horses, 520 Motor trucks, 1186
Demers, Mr. M. Joseph (St. John and Iberville)
Allison, J. Wesley, services of, 1145 Horses, embargo on, 150 Adulteration of maple sugar, 1798 Montreal postal station, 1651, 2528 Descarries, Mr. Joseph R. (Jacques Cartier) Budget, 1022
Canada's share in the war, 1023 Expenditures and taxation, 1024 Devlin, Mr. Emmanuel B. (Wright)
Civil Service reform, 895
Dominion elections-hours of polling, 1911
Georgian Bay canal, 1971
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Inland revenue service, 1871 Post office repairs, 1985 Mica duties, 830 *
Ottawa-Hull Postal rate, 766
Town-planning commission, 766 Patent medicines, 1717 Shortt, Mr. Adam, speech of, 659
Doherty, Hon. C. J. (Minister of Justice) Aliens
Assistance to, 1218 Registration of, 1734 Canadians in California, status of, 1190 Canadian patriotic fund, 204, 393 Capital punishment, 264 Controverted elections, 1920, 1994-2030, 2148 Copyright, 201, 1226 Criminal Code amendments Aliens, assistance to, 1218, 2053 Bawdy house, inmate of-penalty, 1227 Committee, select, on, 476 Dramatic copyright, infringement of, 1226
Military stores, fraud in sale of, 305, 1226 Real estate titles, fraudulent, 285, 1220 Doherty, Hon. C. J., pension of, 209, 1727 Dominion elections Hours of polling, 1915 M. for select com., 205 Railway employees, voting of, 2499, 2501, 2502
Voters' lists, 1895 Dominion police, 1732 Exchequer Court Expenses, 1731 Reports, 1730
Expropriations at Valcartier and Three Rivers, 1739
Insurance companies-licenses, 1247, 1399 Judges
Additional, for British Columbia and Alberta, 1428 Militia, in active, 1728 Salaries of, 1732
Superannuations in Quebec, 1186 Justice Department estimates, 1727, 2186 Maple sugar adulteration, 1793 Parliament, members of Active service, on, 351, 440 Government contracts, and, 2143, 2145 Parliamentary representation, 1788, 1929, 1994
Penitentiaries
Kingston
Management, 1775
Release of Thomas Riley, 2259
Doherty, Hon. C. J. (Minister of Justice)- Con.
Peni ten tiaries-Con.
Prison reform, 1775 Ticket-of-leave system, 1736 Soldiers, votes for, 1643, 1874, 2195, 2229, '2259-2294, 2343-2364, 2462-2528, 25332538, 2625.
Solicitor General, office of, 1736 Supreme Court Expenses, 1730
Jurisdiction-appeal in provincial election cases, 1988, 2053 Winding-up Act amendment, 2121, 2195
Doherty, Hon. C. J., judicial pension of, 209, 808, 987, 1727
Dominion Controverted Elections Act Amendment Bill, lr., 1714.	2r., 1920.
Com., 1920, 1994, 2148.	3r„ 2154. See
Supreme Court Act Amendment Bill
Dominion Elections Act Amendment Bill, lr., 1714.	2r., 1895. Com., 1895, 2139.	3r.,
2148. Select Com., 205. See 1527, 1929
Dominion lands and parks, 231, 1894
Dominion Notes Bill. Res., 1528. lr., 1539. 2r„ 1653. Com., 1653.	3r., 1653. See
146, 479.
Dominion police. See Justice
Dominion Trust Company, 519
Dominions, overseas Peace terms, and, 2627 Status of, 439
Dorion, C. N„ employment of, 521
Douglas, Mr. James (Strathcona) Agricultural literature, 2082 Calmar-Telfordville mails, 1187, 1376 Camrose, public building for, 1979 Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia Railway Company, 723 Homesteaders' wood rights, 1560 Killam mail route, 244 Mclnnes, T. R. E., employment of, 1864 Nice, Mr., employment of, 1991 Oil lease, George McRae, 243 Pope land lease, 993 Ribstone, village of, patent of, 243 Seed grain distribution, 1281 Strathcona postal service, 1376 Wainwright park, 236 War supplies Horses 898, 1234 Overshoes, 762
Wetaskawin settlers, grievances of, 1560, 1565, 1566	'
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Dredging. See Public works Drill halls. See Militia
Duchemin, H. P., payments to, 604, 667, 948
Duck Mountain
Homesteaders, 992 Timber reserve, 1577
East Erinville post office, 519 Edmonton
Public building, 2044 Rifle range, 1552
Edwards, Mr. John W. (Frontenac) Barriefield military road, 1515 Budget, 458
Government dismissals, 459 Government administration and expenditure, 459
Trade conditions, 462
The United States market, 463
Tariff increases, 464	[DOT]
British preference, 464 Tariff .on agricultural implements, 467 The war crisis, 469 Cement duty, 469 Capital punishment, 136 Cheese inspection, 513 Dismissals, government, 459, 1366 Experimental farms, 2063 Farmers' relief, 1240 Hog cholera, 1286 Hughes, Major W. S., 435 Meat inspection, 2090 Parcel post, 1384 Patent shovel shield, 1236 Royal Military College, 1519 Penitentiaries
Kingston, 136, 515, 1740, 1773 Release of Thomas Riley, 2459 Stoney Mountain, 390, 1185
Electric smelting. See Mines Emigration to United States, 242 Employment bureau. See Labour Escuminac wharf, 1287
Estimates. See titles of departments and subjects
Eureka, steamer, 1265, 1268 Exchequer Court. See Justice Excise, 1717 Exhibitions, 2085, 2109 Experimental farms. See Agriculture Explosives. See Mines
External Affairs, Department of, 2314, 2318
Farmers Bank, depositors of, 391
Farmers' relief. See Western farmers, also Richmond county
Farquhar, Colonel, death in action of, 1283 Fenian raid bounty, 242, 1545, 1651 Ferguson, Mr. T. R., report of. See Interior Finance
Charges of management, 1715 Expenditure of Canada, 435, 764 Revenue of Canada, 152
Finance Act, 1914-proclamation continued, 476
Fish and Fisheries
Advisory board, 1270
American vessels, regulation of, 1650
Behring sea claims, 239
Bounties, 94
Breeding, 1278
Departmental'estimates, 1270-1280, 1643
Exhibit at Toronto, 1277
" Fish and How to Cook It "-booklet, 239
Grants to fishermen, 2123
jHerrings-regulation of prices, 1786
Hudson bay fisheries, 1280
Inspection, 48, 1271, 1279
Licenses, issue of, 1275, 2302
Lobsters
Close season, 45 Hatcheries, 1278 Seed, 309 Undersized, 1150 Officers, 1270 Oyster culture, 1275 Pickled fish, 48, 1278 Protection service, 1622 Quebec, in province of, 994 Reduction works, 633, 767 Shell-fish commission, 607 Steam trawling, 243, 246, 311, 312, 1622, 2305
Tidal waters, fisheries in, 116, 1270 Transportation, 80, 1494
Fisher, Captain E., employment of, 517
Fisher, Mr. J. H. (Brant)
Budget, 817
Expenditures on public works; 817	.
Made-in-Canada movement, 818 Indian Department, 819 Votes for soldiers, 819
Flour, Canada's gift of, to Great Britain, 1646 Food
Exports, government control of, 526, 556 Inspection, 2090
Foot and mouth disease, 611, 2053, 2087
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Forest reserves, 233, 1579
Fort Erie shooting case, 143, 332
Fort William harbour improvements, 19701975
Foster, Mr. Arthur De Witt (King's, N.S.) Shortt, Mr. Adam, speech of, 674 War supplies-horses, 629, 1033 Yarmouth harbour, 1289
Foster, Hon. Sir George E. (Minister of Trade and Commerce)
Belgian relief, 1676
Bounties on lead and petroleum, 1936
Budget, 999
The war and party co-operation, 999 Canada's finances, 1001 Protection or free trade and revenue, 1003, 1011
Financial inheritances of the Government, 1004
Methods of taxation, 1006 The tariff, 1008 British preference, 1009 Canada's part in the war, 1012 Canada Year Book, 1938 Civil Service appointments, 1872 Customs valuations, 1404 Freight rates, ocean, lake and river. 215 Gold and silver marking, 1875 Grain Act
Administration of, 1939-1954 Amendment Bill, 1644, 2191, 2532 House of Commons Easter adjournment, 1645 Government business, 1787 Nickel export, 1937 Pit props, trade in, 1934 Steamship services, 1291. See that title Trade and Commerce, 212, 1291, 1931. See that title War
Appropriations, 1664, 1670 Supplies
Committee of Council on, 1666 Communications from Canadian Manufacturers' Association, 1668 '
Foster, W. G., employment of, 898
Fournier, L. H„ employment of, 521
Fowler, Mr. George W. (King's and Albert) Controverted elections, 1925 Shortt, Mr. Adam, speech of, 669
Fraser river, removal of obstructions in, 2303
Fraserville harbour, 392
Fredericton land expropriation, 168, 1475
Freight rates
Lake and ocean, supervision of, 215, 351 Inland navigation, control of, 43, 249
French Canadians
Civil Service, in, 985, 2318
Military service, in, 1149, 1442, 1445, 2189
French language
Blue books in
Printing and distribution, 1596, 2310 Translation, 504
Department of Agriculture, in, 2077 War stamps in, 1205
French river improvements, 1991
French, Sir John, P'ield Marshal, 1443
French Treaty and war taxes. See Taxation
Fripp, Mr. Alfred E. (Ottawa)
Votes for soldiers, 334
Furois, E., employment of, 1993
Gallon, W. J., employment of, 831
Garland, Mr. W. F. (Carleton, Ont.)
War contracts, 947
Gas inspection, 508, 1720 Gaspe
Deferred elections in, 1903, 2147 Purchase of war supplies in, 994 Railways, 518 Salmon fisheries, 116, 2302 Steamer service, 307, 833, 1286, 1301
Gaspe Bay anchorage, 998, 1449
Gauthier, Mr. Louis J. (St. Hyacinthe) . Budget, 586
Criticism of the Government, 587 Party truce and the war, 588 Taxation and protection, 589 British preference, 589 St. Denis rural mails, 993 War supplies-waterproofs, 609
Gauvreau, Chas., employment of, 390
Gauvreau, Mr. Charles A. (Temiscouata) Auclair expropriation, 1729 Fraserville harbour, 392	.
Intercolonial railway'
Gutelius, Mr. F. P„ 141, 309 Hay, cutting of, 1710 Ice contracts, 79 Riviere du Loup shops, 141 Lake Temiscouata postal service, 79 Louisville Mails, 1288
Public building, 1288, 1459
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Maldcitd Indians, 1308 Menace newspaper, 991
Mousseau, P. A., employment of, 1992, 2122 Temiscouata postal service, 392 Genest, A., employment of, 767, 1185, 1368 Geological survey. See Mines Georgian Bay Canal commission, 1145, 2183 German, Mr. William M. (Welland) Admiralty court procedure, 1732 Bank loans for seed grain, 1245 Canadian patriotic fund, 1309 Controverted elections, 2000, 2010, 2016, 2152 Point Abino signal service, 1256
Soldiers, votes for, 2246, 2259, 2287, 2345, 2464, 2506
Solicitor General, office of, 1735, 1738 Taxation-patent medicines, 1423 War supplies Bicycles, 995 Boots, 315
Welland canal, wages on, 491 Gilbert, Arthur, employment of, 1787, 1993 Gillis, A. B„ employment of, 831
Girard, Mr. Joseph (Chicoutimi and Saguenay)
Agriculture in Quebec, 2073 Glass, Mr. S. Francis (East Middlesex) Budget, 913
Tremendous effect of the war, 913 Patriotism and production, 914 Credits for farmers, 916 Reciprocity with the United States, 917 Conditions of trade and finance, 919 Canada's share in the war, 922 British preference, 923 Immigration, 924
Dominion elections-hours for voting, 1910 Privilege-the member for West Lambton, 2460
Gobeil, A., employment of, 895, 1458, 1962 Gold and Silver Marking Bill, lr., 1645.	2r.,
1875. Com., 1875.	3r., 1876.
Gordon, Mr. David A. (East Kent) Wallaceburg customs collector, 766 Government Railways Purchase Bill. Res., 1539. lr., 1544.	2r„ 1681. Com., 1681.
3r„ 1685.
Graham, Hon. George P. (South Renfrew) Bank loans for seed grain, 1349 Budget, 1130
Party co-operation and the war, 1130 Public expenditure and the late Government, 1132
Graham, Hon. G. P. (South Renfrew)-Con. Budget-Con.
Railway obligations-Canadian Northern and National Transcontinental, 1133 Reduction of expenditure, 1136 War taxes or not, 1137 British preference, 1140 Cadet corps, 1518 Capital punishment, 136, 137 Cardinal canal Removal of houses, 832 Statistical officer, 832
Civil Service-temporary appointments, 1871
Coal imports, 633, 828
Collingwood Shipbuilding Company, 519 Dairying industry, 2081 Food exports, government control of, 554 Georgian Bay canal, 966 Commission, 2183 Horse breeding, 2105
House of Commons stenographers, employment of, during recess, 1360 Hudson Bay railway, 436, 631 Intercolonial railway Expenditures, 1492 Halifax terminals, 1689 Level crossings, 1688
Kingston penitentiary-employment of Mr. Begg, 828
Morris, F., employment of, 151 National Transcontinental railway Construction expenditure, 1859 Government operation, 1802, 1841, 2124, 2134	'
Quebec terminals, 606 Ocean freight rates, 751 Parliament, members of, and government contracts, 2144
Pollution of navigable waters, 124 Public health, conservation of, 2107 Railway capitalization, 289 Richards, James W., M.P., death of, 827 St. Thomas armoury, 1866 Shortt, Mr. Adam, speech of, 681 Soldiers, votes for, 336, 2262, 2274, 2350 Trent canal-claim of Cory & Laverdure, 1712 War
Appropriations, 1667 Canadians, enlistment of, 1447 Members of parliament on active service, 439
Supplies
Canadian Manufacturers' Association, communications from, 1667, 2189, 2461 Clothing, 2531 Salisbury Plain, at, 306
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Administration of Act, 1939-1957 Amendment Bill. lr., 1644.	2r.,	2030.
Com., 2030. 3r„ 2191.
Distillation of, 2624
Granby mail service, 905
Grand Trunk Pacific railway
Expenditures on, 437, 1864 Labour conditions on, 498
See National Transcontinental railway
Gray, William (London)
Canadians in California, 1189 Dominion elections-hours of polling, 1908 South Wellington mine disaster, 207 Transportation of Canadian forces, 763
Green, Mr. Robert F. (Kootenay)
Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia Railway Company, 721 Real estate titles, fraudulent, 1222
Gutelius, Mr. F. P., 141, 309, 1483, 1489
Guysborough
Branch railways. See Intercolonial
Fishery guardians, 313
Mail service, 519, 607, 633, 897, 1185
Half-breed scrip, 1287
Haliburton, recruiting at, 896
Halifax
Chartered steamers, 1647 Customs night watchman, 831 Military headquarters staff, 1514 Permanent force, supplies for, 2529 Public Works, 1458 Terminals, 764, 1688
Halifax and Eastern railway, 1466
Hall, R. P., appointment of, 763
Harbours. See Public works
Hawkesbury-Grenville bridge, 1648, 1992, 2176
Hazen, Hon. J. D. (Minister of Marine and Fisheries)
/ Cheticamp life-saving station, 1635 Dredging, 1252 Fish and Fisheries Advisory board, 1270 Breeding, 1278 Departmental officers, 1270 Exhibit at Toronto, 1277 "Fish and How to Cook It"

booklet, 239 Grants to fishermen, 2301 Licenses, issue of, 116, 1275, -2302
Hazen, Hon. J. D. (Minister of Marine and Fisheries)-Con.
Oyster culture, 1275 Protection service, 1622 Steam trawling, 1622, 1624, 2305 Tidal waters, fisheries in, 1270 Fraser river obstructions, removal of, 2303 Hudson bay Fisheries, 1280 .Hydrographic surveys, 1626 Navigation, 1627
Karluk, steamer. See Stefansson LeBlanc, seaman, 1642 Live-stock inspection, 348 Marine
British ships, transfer of, 1057 Coasting trade, 299 Government steamers, 312, 338, 1255 Hydrographic surveys, 1626 Ice breaking, 339, 1255, 1267 Life-saving service, 351, 1633 Lighthouse and coast service, 1256-1260, 1267
Maritime road, 1267
Masters and mates, examination of, 340 Navigation Aids to, 1258 Obstructions to, 347, 2303 Schools of, 346 Pilotage, 1265
St. Lawrence ship channel, 1252 Seamen, sick and distressed, 1269 Shipping casualties in 1914, 833 Signal service, 1264 Steamboat inspection, 1270 Unseaworthy vessels, 345 Wrecking plants, 349 Wrecks, investigations into, 342 Marine and Fisheries estimates, 338-350, 1252-1280
Naval service, 237, 1612, 1654, 2298 Navigable waters, pollution of, 121 New Brunswick shale industry, 1608 Northern waters, patrol of, 1631, 2298 Parliamentary representation, 2332 Prince Edward Island winter mail service, 348
Quebec Harbour Commission-resignation of Sir William Price, 1966 Richard, Mrs. Margaret, claim of, 1642 St. John custom house, 1982 Shelburne fishery inspector, 1271 ' Shortt, Mr. Adam, speech of, 642 Stefansson expedition, 1631, 1632, 2298 Submarines, purchase of, 100 United States flag, alleged flying of, on wireless station, 1617 Wireless telegraphic service, 1263
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Higenbotham, E. N., dismissal of, 1364 High Commissioner, Canadian, 391, 2318 Homesteaders' wood rights,. 1560 Horn, Werner, extradition of, 44, 79 Horses
Export to the United States, 150, 1230 Breeding, 2103
Fraudulent importation of, 229 See War supplies House of Commons Business of the House, 206, 687, 1187 Committees, select standing, 74 Deputy Speaker, election of, 41 Easter adjournment, 1645 Members
Active service, on. See Senate and House of Commons Government contracts, and, 1242, 2139 Indemnity of, 2309
Officials, appointment of, 144, 1526 1863 2258
Reading room, taking of papers from, 611 Representation. See ^House of Commons Representation Act Amendment Bill, Parliamentary representation, and Prince Edward Island Sessional employees, 2109 Stenographers, post-sessional employment of, 1360
Voters' lists, preparation of, 1594, 2111 2309
House of Commons Representation Act Amendment Bill (correction of clerical errors). lr„ -1557.	2r„ 1788. Com.,
1788, 1929, 1994. 3r., 1994.
Hudson bay Fisheries, 1280 Hydrographic surveys, 1626 Navigation, 1627 Hudson Bay railway Construction, 436, 1861 Cost of mileage, 631, 1148 Le Pas bridge, closing of, 606 Wages of employees, 1395 Hughes, Major W. S., appointment of, 435 Hughes, Mr. James J. (King's, P.E.I.) Brudenell wharf, 2114 Budget, 1027
Financial administration, 1028 Taxation, prosperity, and revenue, 1029 Governments and expenditures, 1030 Civil service administration, 1032 War contracts, 1033
Hughes, Mr. James J. (King's, P.E.I.)-Con.
Cardigan-Annandale mail sendee, 1648 Charlottetown Harbour, 2114
School of navigation for, 347 Controverted elections, 2013 Cost of Living Commission, 1395 Drill halls, use of, 2036 Earl Grey, steamer, sale of, 312 Enlistment from the active militia, 1456 Fenian raid bounty, 1545 Food exports, government control of, 543 House of Commons reading room, 611 Liquors and tobaccos in bond, 314 Little Sand breakwater, 2117 North lake harbour, 2114 Potatoes, exportation of, 1229, 2078 Prince Edward Island
Mail service, 348, 1378, 1385 Marine life-saving service, 351, 1637 Parliamentary representation, 316, 331 Public works, 2114 Railway, 1704, 1707 Shortt, Mr. Adam, speech of, 673 Souris life-saving station, 1637 Taxation-cheques, 1203
Hughes, Hon. Major General Sam (Minister of Militia and Defence)
Allison, J. Wesley, services of, 1145, 1452, 1508, 1669
Ammunition, purchase of, 1451-1455, 15061512, 1669, 1867 Aviation, 1989
Boots, army, purchase of, 2455 Cadet corps, 1518
Canadian troops in the firing line, 613 Censorship, 1448 Dominion arsenal, 1506 Duty on imported munitions, 1506 Edmonton rifle range, 1553 Engineer services, 1513 Enlistment. See Recruiting Fenian raid bounty, 1546 French Canadians, enlistment of, 1442, 1445, 1447	*
Haliburton recruiting, 896
Halifax headquarters staff, 1515
Home guards, 1516
Militia estimates, 1428, 1496, 1544
Motor trucks, purchase of, 1146
Nova Scotia military forces, 1396, 1436
Permanent force, Canadian, 1515
Prince Rupert Rifles, disbandment of, 1522
Recruiting, 438, 1680, 1989
Rifle ranges, 1553
Robertson, Struan, Lt. Col., 1396, 1436
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Royal Military College, 1522 Salisbury Plain, supplies at, 439 Schools of military instruction, 1524 Shooting by sentries, 2124 Training camps, 1457 Yalcartier
Camp, 1514, 1553 Land claims, 523, 1513, 1549 War
Appropriations, 1662	*
Supplies. See that title
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Inland revenue service, 1871 Post office repairs, 1985
Hydrographic surveys. See Marine
Ice-breaking. See Marine
Immigration
Agencies, 1558-1562 Inspection, 233 Officials suspended, 243 Oriental, 1576 Philadelphia agent, 522 Statistics, 1147
Indians
Blood reserve, 763, 1323	N
British Columbia, 1324, 1892 Department estimates, 1306-1328 Education, 1325 New Brunswick, 1317
North West Provinces and Territories, 1319-1324, 1876
Ontario and Quebec, 1306-1309, 1328 Nova Scotia, 1310, 1325 St. Peter's reserve, 1320, 1877 Tobique reserve, 187 Trust fund, 1327
Industrial disputes. See Labour
Inland Revenue Amendment Bills
Temporary officials, appointment of. lr., 1644. Res., 1868. 2r„ 1874. Com., 1874, 3r„ 1994
Transfer of excise goods in bond, lr., 1644, 2r„ 1868. Com., 1868. 3r„ 1868
Inland Revenue Department
Deputy Minister, 438, 1723 Estimates, 503-513, 1717-1723, 2313 Staff and salaries, 503, 1717
Insect pests. See Agriculture
Insurance
Amendment Bill (renewable term policies), lr., 351
Companies Extension of Time Bill. Res., 1246. lr., 1249.	2r„ 1399. Com., 1399.
3r., 1400. See Taxation Department, 1716
Intercolonial railway
Abutment contracts, 895, 1286 Atlantic sugar refinery site, 150 Bathurst spur, 46 Block signals, 1690 Boulay, Messrs., employment of, 2530 Branch lines in eastern Nova Scotia, 44, 519, 992, 1467, 1473-1483, 1700 Bridges
Strengthening of, 1492 Substructures of, 897 Watchmen on, 608, 763 Cape Breton facilities, 1699 Cement posts, contracts for, 309 Chaudigre employees, 1785 Coal tenders, 769, 1147, 1688 Courtenay bay spur line, 1698 Eastern extension land damages, 1469 Employees on military service, 217, 245 Envelopes, importation of, 896 Equipment, 1698
Estimates, 1472-1495, 1685-1704, 1706 Fish transportation, 80, 1494 Fredericton land expropriation, 168, 1475 Freight rates and trains, 156 French-speaking employees, 1485 German spy, suspected, 610 Ice contracts, 79, 311 L6vis station, 831 Management, 1483-1493 Moncton
Death claim-Mrs O'Rourke, 1475 Improvements, 1397, 1691 Mulgrave car ferry, 1693 Operation, 1472, 1706 Prince Edward Island car ferry, 1473 Pugwash spur line, 391, 1693 Quebec, solicitor for, 1708 Receipts and expenditures, 143 Riviere du Loup shops, 141,
Rolling stock, 1695
Sackville improvements, 606, 1693, 1706
Safety appliances, 1698
Shims, contracts for, 768
Ties, contracts for, 309
Union station culvert, 608
Wallace spur, 391, 1694
See Government Railways Purchase Bill.
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Interior Department
Estimates, '231-237, 1281, 1558-1585, 1893 Ferguson, Mr. T. R., report of, 2539 Staff, salaries, etc., 232, 1558, 1570
International railway service, 1470 Iron
Imports, 244 Ores, 309, 2313
Jameson, Mr. Clarence (Digby)
Unseaworthy vessels, 345
Johnston, J. W., employment of, 608
Jordan East breakwater, 390
Judges Act Amendment Bill. Res., 1428. lr., 1428.	2r., 1544. Com., 1544.	3r., 1544.
Justice
Admiralty court procedure, 1732 Department estimates, 1727, 2186 Dominion police, 1732 Exchequer Court Expenses, 1731 Reports, 1730 Judges
Militia, in active, 1728 Pensions, 765, 1727 Salaries, 1732
Superannuation in Quebec, 1186 Solicitor General, office of, 1735 Supreme Court Expenses, 1730
Jurisdiction-appeal in provincial election cases, 1988, 2053
Kamouraska lighthouse, 897
Karluk, steamer. See Stefansson
Kay, Mr. William F. (Missisquoi)
Cream exports, 294 Krans, J., employment of, 1185, 1286 Maple sugar, adulteration of, 1785 Philipsburg-St. Armand mail service, 249, 313, 995
Rural mail carriers, payment of, 2297 Soldiers, votes for, 2255 Stanbridge rural mail service, 995
Kelly, E., employment of, 241
Kemp, Hon. A. E. (East Toronto)
Dominion elections-hours for polling, 1908
Killam mail route, 244 Killarney and Manitowaning mails, 898 Kingston penitentiary. See Penitentiaries Kitsilano Indian reserve, 1892
Knowles, Mr. William E. (Moosejaw)
Exchequer Court reports, 1730 Experimental farms, 2057, 2061, 2071 Gold and silver marking, 1875 Homestead entries, cancellation of, 1868 Inland Revenue Department appointments, 1870
Soldiers, votes for, 2262, 2267
Krans, J., employment of, 1185, 1286
Kyte, Mr. George W. (Richmond, N. S.) Arichat mail service, 1184, 1372 Bank borrowings from Government, 147 Bourgeois river-Cannes mail service, 1389 Budget, 449
Canada and the war, 449 Government's financial record, 450 Economic conditions, 451 Cement duty, 452	;
Civil service, 452 Revenue and expenditure, 454 Fishermen and the tariff, 455 The war taxes, 457 Capital punishment, 138 Customs Department dismissals and appointments, 219, 222, 898 Dominion elections, 1912 Dominion notes, 146
Fenian raid bounty-claims of widows, 1545
Fishing bounties, 94
Food exports, government control of, 547 Gobeil, A, employment of, 895, 1458, 1962 Grandigne Ferry mail service, 1184, 1372 Haliburton recruiting, 896 Intercolonial railway
Atlantic sugar refinery site, 150 Eastern Nova Scotia branch lines and extensions, 992 Management, 1490, 1493 Johnston, J. W., employment of, 608 Loans, Imperial Government, to Canada, 146 Mail carriers, pay of, 1371 Nova Scotia
Indians, 1310, 1312, 1317, 1325 Military forces, 481, 561, 687, 1396, 1428 Postal service, 900, 1389 Parliamentary representation of Maritime Provinces, 325 Richmond county
Customs service, 219, 222, 228 Railways, 992
Robertson, Lt.-Col. See Nova Scotia military forces
St. Paul's Island life-saving station, 608
Squid imports, 244
Steam trawling, 1622
Trent Canal commission, 632
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War supplies Binoculars, 21S8 Medical, 149, 1866 West Arichat customs, 898
Labour
British Columbia troubles, 497 Department
Estimates, 481-498, 501-503 Staff and salaries, 481, 497, 502 Disputes, settlement of, 245, 297, 494, 501 Employment bureau, national, 352, 484490, 607
Fair wages in government contracts, 240, 391
Farm labourers, distribution of, 490 Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, employees of, 498
Railway construction, inspection of, 502 Telegraphers, conditions of employment of, 1786, 2532
Unemployment, 308, 483, 492, 605, 2320 Wages
Payment of, 498
War contracts, on, 38, 40, 240, 490, 503 Welland canal, on, 491
Lachance, Mr. Arthur (Quebec Centre) Foreigners, deportation of, 2122 Lauzon dry dock, 1866 Montmagny, wreck of, 1867 National Transcontinental railway-Quebec terminals, 1818, 1867 War supplies-sheepskins, 1866
Lafortune, Mr. David A. (Montcalm)
Budget, 1033 Nationalists, 1034 School question, 1039, 1049 Tobacco culture, 1041 Agriculture, 1041 Highways, 1046 Bankruptcy law, 1047 Exhibitions, 1047 Cattle embargo, 1048 Insolvency Act, 1048 Capital punishment, 276 Montcalm postal service, 1385 Privilege-report in Montreal Gazette, 1057 St. Jacques l'Achigan public building, 2322
Lake St. John hydrographic work, 896 Lake Temiscouata postal service, 79 Lake of the Woods Technical Board, 1394
Lancaster, Mr. Edward A. (Lincoln and Niagara)
Canadian Northern Railway Company, 708, 758
Lancaster, Mr. Edward A. (Lincoln and
Niagara)-Con.
Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia Railway Company, 705, 721 Life insurance-renewable term policies, 351
Private Bills
Senate amendments, 1371 Suspension of rules, 1527 Toronto Eastern Railway Company, 708 Van Buren Bridge Company, 709, 760 Vancouver Terminal Railway Company, 990
Lanctot, Mr. Roch (Laprairie-Napierville) Budget, 804
Canada's participation in the war, 804 The war taxation, 805 Government extravagance, 806 Expenditures on public works, 807 Payments to Mr. Bergeron, Mr. Ferguson and the Minister of Justice, 808 Doherty, Hon. C. J., pension of, 808, 1727 Furois, Eugene, employment of, 1993 Gauvreau, C., employment of, 390 Grand Trunk Pacific expenditure, 437 Judges' pensions, 1727 Laprairie protection works, 437, 2156 Laprairie-Napierville rural mail service, ' 1380
Montreal resident engineer, 437 Pelletier, Hon. L. P., trip of, 2529 Pettet, W. V., employment of, 2123 Quebec bridge, 437	.
Rhoda, steamer, 2531
St. Lambert post office, 1648
Land speculation. See Real estate
Lapointe, Mr. Ernest (Kamouraska)
Audette, L., employment of, 2122 Cardin, E„ employment of, 1993 Charbonneau, Rodrique, employment of, 610
French, war stamps in, 1204 lie de Kamouraska light, 897 Intercolonial railway-envelopes, imported, 896
Lake St. John hydrographic work, 896 National Transcontinental railway Bridgekeepers, 897 Station employees, 1143 Quebec
Post office revenues, 896 Grain elevators, electric power for, 2123 Roy, F. X., employment of, 992 St. Anselme government employees, 1993 St. Germain de Kamouraska wharf, 2163 St. Mathieu dredging, 2173 Soldiers, votes for, 2507
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Taxation
Cheques, 1202 Spirituous liquors, 897 Theberge, J., employment of, 2529 Yalcartier
Lighting, 2123 Lumber supplies, 2122 Vallde, L. O., dismissal of, 436
Lapointe, Mr. Louis A. (Montreal, St. James) Montreal barracks, 2035 War taxes, 1217
Laprairie protection works, 437, 2156 L'Assomption
Public employees from county of, 2528 Wharf, 1145
Last Mountain Lake dredging, 311
Laurier, Rt. Hon. Sir Wilfrid (Quebec East) Address in reply to Governor General's Speech
Progress of the war, 15 Significance of the struggle, 16 British sovereignty and the Dominions, 17
Conscription, 17
Canada's expenditure on the war, 18 War contract frauds, 18 Aeroplanes, reported appearance of, 144 Budget
Attitude of the Opposition, 834, 1065 Financial situation of the country, 836 The Government's financial policy, 836 Retrenchment and economy, 837 The new taxation-special taxes, 837 Taxation on railway travelling, 838 Customs tariff increases, 839 Taxes on British goods, 840 Proposed amendment, 841 Civil Service-speech of Mr. Adam Shortt, 634
Controverted elections, 1995, 2008, 2021 Dominion notes, 1536
Farquhar, Colonel, death in action of, 1283 Ferguson, T. R„ report of, 2568, 2620 Fort Erie shooting case, 332 High Commissionership, Canadian, 391 House of Commons	-
Bowles, W. C., resignation of, 1526 Business of the House, 206, 1188, 1787 Deputy Speaker, election of, 41 Easter adjournment, 1645 Intercolonial railway branch lines, 1540 Killarney-Little Current mail service, 898 Maple sugar, adulteration of, 1791 Ministerial changes, 208
Laurier, Rt. Hon. Sir Wilfrid (Quebec East) -Con.
National Transcontinental railway Construction, 1859
Government operation, 1813, 1842, 2127. 2138
Quebec terminals, 1860 Naval Service of Canada, 1661 Nova Scotia military forces-language of Minister of Militia, 1440 Parliament, members of, and government contracts, 2143, 2147 Parliamentary representation
House of Commons, 328, 1789, 1994 Senate, 1460, 2327, 2341 Pollution of navigable waters, 123 Privilege-Federal Press Agdncy leaflet, 2189
Railway employees, voting of, 2500 Seed grain, bank loans for, 1243 Shortt, Mr. Adam, speech of, 634 Soldiers, votes for, 2206, 2280, 2348, 2360, 2464, 2484, 2524, 2536, 2627 Supreme Court jurisdiction-appeals in provincial election cases, 2054 Taxation Bananas, 1167 Corporations, 1192, 1196 Customs valuations, 1404 French Treaty, articles under, 1215, 1422 Insurance companies, 1178 Money orders, 1205 Penalties, 1586
Postal rates and stamp taxes, 1415 Railway tickets, 838, 1198, 1200 Spirits, 1153, 1156 Telegraphic messages, 1192, 1194 Valcartier land claims, 522, 1546, 1739, 2621 War
Expenditures, 1142, 1398 Supplies, purchase of, 144, 2617 See Address and Budget Lauzon dry dock, 1647, 1866, 1971 Lavergne, Armand, Lt.-Col., 1517 Law, Mr. Bowman B. (Yarmouth)
Amherst
Armoury, 389 Post office, 436 Budget, 820
Favourable to war appropriation, 820 Taxes and governmental extravagance, 820
Conservative party platform, 821 British preference, 823 Duties on fertilizers and feeds, 823 Postal rates, 824 Prohibition, liquor, 824 Chaplain to oversea forces, 242
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Fish reduction works, 767
Fisher, Ward, fishery inspector, 1271
Indians, Nova Scotia
Claim of Dr. A. J. Deveau, 1314 Yarmouth agent, 1310 Jordan East breakwater, 390 Long Beach lobster pond, 309 Port Hawkesbury public building, 1981 Potato embargo, 719 Schools of navigation, 1260 Shelburne
Fishery inspector, 1271 Fog alarm, 389 Taxation
Fertilizers and feeds, 823, 1165 Letters and postcards, 1207 Newfoundland partridge berries, 1167 Toronto Home Guard, 243 War supplies-horses, 766, 898 Wrecking plants for Bay of Fundy, 350 Yarmouth
*Cattle purchases in, 309 'Fishery guardians, 313 Harbour, 607 Marine hospital, 832 Postal service, 313, 1361 Yarmouth-St. John steamship services, 1305
Le Blanc, seaman, 896, 1639 Lemieux, Hon. Rodolphe (Rouville)
Architect, Dominion chief, appointment of,
Aylwin irrigation tract, 2571 Copyright, 196
Emigration to the United States, 242 Farmers Bank depositors, 391 Gobeil, A., employment of, 1965 Labour unemployment, 308 Mail bag locks, 46
Pelletier, Hon. L. P., testimonial to, 211 Prince of Wales fund and government
loans, 244
Quebec and Saguenay railway, 2625 Quebec Harbour Commission-resignation of Sir William Price, 1965, 1966 Royal Society of Canada, accommodation for, 245 Soldiers
Free postage for, 338 Votes for, 2516
Taxation-patent medicines, 312 War supplies Boots, 48, 244 Canvas shoes, 389 Cartridges, 242 Medical, 308, 315 National Drug Company, 312 Slippers, 389
Leonardsville dredging, 312 Lethbridge
Customs staff, 521 Field battery, 1646 Immigration inspector, 150, 1567 Postmastership, 143, 769, 1364 Wool storage, 828
Levis
Dry dock, 767
Quarantine station, 241, 1290 Shell factory, 519
Life-saving See Marine Liquor
Bonded, 314, 897 Inspection, 1720
Manufacture, suggested suspension of, 2327 Live stock. See Agriculture Livingstone, Charles P„ appointment of, 150 Loans
Canadian Government, to banks, 147, 476 Imperial Government, to Canada, 146, 522
Lobsters. See Fisheries
Loggie, Mr. William S. (Northumberland, N.B.)
Budget
Reciprocal trade with United States, 925 Canada's part in the war, 925 Financial requirements, 925 Taxation proposals of Government, 926 Barbed wire, 927 Pork, 928
Raw materials, 928 British preference, 929 Chatham public building, 1982 Grain for distillation, 2624 Intercolonial railway
Chatham branch, 1493, 1685 Transportation of fish, 1494 Newcastle wireless station-alleged flying of United States flag, 1616 Soldiers, votes for, 2256
Longard, G E., employment of, 831 Longueuil, dredging at, 438 Louisville Mails, 1288
Post office building, 1288, 1459
Macdonald, Mr. Edward M. (Pictou) Address in reply to Governor General's Speech
Members of Parliament at the front, 36 Purchase of war supplies, 37 Fair wages and war contracts, 37 Newfoundland and Confederation, 39
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Alberta coal miners, unemployment among, 494
British Columbia militiamen on active service, 151, 1544 Budget
Criticism of Government, 1103 The Minister of Trade and Commerce and the Budget, 1105 Proposed taxation not for war, 1106 Borrowings, from England, 1106 Liberal administration, 110S The Minister of Finance, tariff and expenditures, 1108
National Transcontinental and Canadian Northern railways, 1111 British preference, 1111 Naval question, 1113 Political parties and the war, 1114 Canadian Pacific railway ocean services, 747
Canadian patriotic fund, 398 Cariboo Island breakwater, 308 Coal
Areas in Nova Scotia, 1609 Lands, government, leases of, 1611 Controverted elections, 2002 Dominion elections, 1908 Expenditure of Canada, 435 Fair wages, 490. See Address Fenian raid bounty, 242 Indians, Nova Scotia, 1310, 1313 Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, amendment of, 245
Inland Revenue Department, administration of, 503
Insurance companies-extensions of time, 1248
Intercolonial railway Branch lines, 1477 Bridge watchmen, 60S Claim of Mrs. Higgins, 1477 Coal tenders, 1147 Pictou harbour bridge, 1477 Receipts and expenditures, 143 Train service, 142, 167 Union station culvert, 608 Liquor manufacture, suggested suspension of, 2327
Macdonald, Win., employment of, 1288 McLeod, J. W., employment of, 896 McNeil, Wm., employment of, 1648 Members of Parliament on active service, 36, 439
Naval service, 1621.- See Budget New Glasgow
Dredge pontoons, cost of hauling, 1992 Mails, 517
Macdonald, Mr. Edward M. (Pictou)-Con.
Nova Scotia Coal areas, 1609 Indians, 1310
Military forces, 608, 1434, 1499 Parliamentary representation, 2338 Patents, renewal of, 1261 Pictou (county)
Fishery guardians, 245 Mail service, 244, 610, 995, 1288, 1458, 212«, 2188, 2297
Medical examiners for volunteers, 762 Pictou (town) winter freight handling, 246 Pictou Island telephone service, 143, 1258 Pit props, trade in, 1934 Prince Rupert Rifles, disbandment of, 1522
Real estate titles, fraudulent, 1222 Revenue of Canada, 152 River John customs sub-collectorship, 142 Shortt, Mr. Adam, speech of, 676 Soldiers, votes for, 2251, 2476, 2484, 2505, 2533
Stellarton public building, 763 Suckling, Rev. W. T., military chaplain, 1867
Taxation-cheques, 1409 Technical education, 245, 495, 496 United States flag, alleged flying of, at wireless station, 1618 Vale railway, 245 War supplies Boots, 2430
Fair wages and war contracts, 37, 490 Horses, 388, 520, 894, 994, 2123 Oliver equipment, 1992 Wireless stations, control of, 1618
Macdonell, Mr. A. C. (Toronto, South) Budget, 367
Answers to Opposition critics, 367 A satisfactory budget, 369 War loans and taxation, 371 Protection and British preference, 373 Public debt and expenditures, 375 Opportunities for Canada's trade, 377 Dominion elections-hours of polling, 1903,. 1914
Soldiers, votes for, 2249 Vancouver Terminal Company, 1262
Maclean, Mr. Alexander K. (Halifax)
Banks, Government advances to, 478 Budget, 352
The war supply, 352 Ordinary revenue and expenditure, 353 Government's pre-election pledges, 354 Expenditures by departments, 355 ' Methods of meeting expenditures, 360 Buy-in-Canada propaganda, 360
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Stalling imports and revenues, 360 'Tariff taxation, 362 British preference, 364 Wool duty, 365 "Cotton, 366 lESJtuminous coal, 366 Economy versus taxation, 367 Coast Guard, steamer, 1866 Controverted elections, 1923, 2012, 2148 Dominion elections	[DOT]
Hours of polling, 1903, 1916 Railway men, voting of, 1903 Voters' lists, 1896
Dominion lands, administration of, 232 Dominion notes issue, 1534, 1653 Dredge No. 7, 1866 Expenditures, public, 764, 1290 [DOT]See Budget Irish and fisheries
American vessels, regulation of, 1650 Modus vivendi licenses, 1275, 1277 Halifax and Eastern railway, 1466 Halifax
Chartered steamers, 1647 Customs night watchman, 831 Headquarters staff, 1514 Terminals, 764, 1688 Permanent force, 2529 House of Commons sessional employees, 2109
Humphrey Colonel, retirement of, 1514 Doans, Imperial Government, to Canada, 522
Dongrard, G. E., employment of, 831 Naval service, 1613 Niobe repairs, 151 Noreen, steamer, 1396, 2188 Petite Riviere fishery guardian, 1396 Privilege-newspaper misrepresentation, 688 Robinson, G., employment of, 831 Royal Print and Lithographing Company, payments to, 1864 Shubenacadie post office, 1866 Taxation
Insurance companies, 1184 Telegraphic messages, 1193 Trade and Commerce, 1292 Atlantic ports, 1299 Cuban trade, 1294	.
Tufts Cove dry dock, 1647 Tyrian, steamer, 1786 Wade, W. W., dismissal of, 1395 War
Appropriation, 1662, 1676 Expenditures-reference to Public Accounts Committee, 945 West Indian trade, 1295
Maclean, Mr. William F. (South York, Ont.)
Address in reply to Governor General's Speech
Parliamentary institutions and the war, 33
Menace to American democracy, 34 Evil of militarism, 35 Banking facilities in Canada, 1353 Dominion elections-hours of polling, 1905 Food exports, government control of, 544 Nickel, exportation of, 3, 78 Railways
Capitalization, control of, 78, 285, 726, 744, 756
Bridges, construction of, in towns and cities, 78, 285, 1150
Taxation-insurance companies, 1181 Transportation, 261
MacNutt, Mr. Thomas (Saltcoats)
Budget, 789
Increased taxation and the farmers, 790 Saskatchewan Grain Growers' Association resolutions, 792
Taxation of land values and income, 793 Objections to new tariff, 793 Customs valuation of agricultural implements, 605
Northwest coal leases, 1148 Peart, L„ employment of. 308
McCoig, Mr. Archibald B. (West Kent, Ont.) Budget, 622
Kent county mail service, 622 Tax on fertilizers, 623 Agricultural implements, 624 Horse raising, 625 Hog cholera, 627 Taxation
Fertilizers, 1162, 1164 Gravel and sand, 1163
McCraney, Mr. George E. (Saskatoon) Aberdeen Association-franking privilege, 1370
Alexander divorce bill, 1894, 1987, 2187 Bank loans for seed grain, 1352 Controverted elections, 2027 Customs tariff
Articles exempt from increased duties, 246
Valuation for duty, 605 Nova Scotians in the west, 1560 Public works, expenditures on, 1971, 2035 Real estate titles, fraudulent, 47, 284, T223 Rosthern customs, 79 Saskatoon
Customs collector, 79 Public building, 2043
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Schrader grazing lease, 1560, 1562 Western farmers, relief for, 56
McCrea, Mr. Francis N. (Sherbrooke) Barachois wharf, 2185 Genest, A., employment of, 767, 1185, 1368 Live Stock Commissioner Giard, 2084 Pickel, G. H., employment of, 831 Horses for the war, 830
Sherbrooke mounted rifles, supplies for, 314, 1512
McCurdy, Mr. F. B. (Shelburne and Queens) Intercolonial Railway-Sunnybrae branch, 1479, 1481
Nova Scotia military forces, 1503 War supplies-boots, 2419
McDonald, D. A., employment of, 1186, 1288 Mclnnes, T. R. E., employment of, 1864
McKenzie, Mr. D. D. (North Cape Breton)
' Alert, steamer, 223, 230, 1646 Behring sea fisheries claims, 239 Budget
Royal commissions, 975 Canada's share in the war, 976 Criticism of the Government, 977 The Government's financial administrn-tion, 978
National Transcontinental railway, 979 Canada's finances and the war, 981 Public works expenditure, 982 Controverted elections, 1922 Duchemin, H. P., payments to, 667, 948 Fenian raid bounty, 1546 Food exports, government control of, 645 French River breakwater, 2053 Gobeil, A., employment of, 1967 Grain trade, 1954 Ingonish
Fishermen, 350 Wharf, 2112 Intercolonial railway Branch lines, 1481, 1491 North Cape Breton requirements, 1699 Trains, 166
McDonald, D A., employment of, 1186, 1288 Masters and mates, examination of, 340 North Cape Breton
Bonded' warehouses, 1650 Customs service, 221, 225 Rented government buildings, 1288, 2049 Telegraph lines, 2180 North Sydney public building, 1981 Nova Scotia
Postal service, 902
Telegraph and telephone service, 2180
McKenzie, Mr. D. D. (North Cape Breton) -Con.
Parliamentary representation of the Maritime provinces, 321
Printing Bureau-pay of women employees, 1593
Shortt, Mr. Adam, speech of, 665 Soldiers, votes for, 2273, 2358, 2485 Smuggling, alleged, in Cape Breton, 223 Sydney Mines public building, 1981 Taxation Penalties, 1418 Stamp taxes, 1417
Witness, alleged improper detention of, 1555
Wrecking plants, 349
McLean, Mr. Angus A. (Queens, P.E.I.) Experimental farms, poultry on, 2056 Charlottetown, car-building for, 1697 Marine life-saving stations, 1637 North Lake boat harbour, 2114 Prince Edward Island parliamentary representation, 324, 1462, 2331 San Francisco exposition, 2086 Real estate titles, fraudulent, 1224
McLean, Mr. H. H. (Sunbury and Queens) Soldiers, votes for, 2256, 2259, 2268, 2276, 2472, 2487, 2535
McLeod, Col. H. F., command of, 561, 1441
McLeod, J. W., employment of, 896
McMillan, Mr. John A. (Glengarry)
Military training camps, 1456 Montreal- Carslake hotel purchase, 1289 War supplies-horses, 2100
McNeil, W„ employment of, 1648
McQuarrie, Major, resignation of, 2528
Mail bag locks. See Post Office
Maple sugar. See Adulteration
Marcil, Hon. Charles (Bonaventure)
Baie des Chaleurs railway, 518 Bonaventure rural mail service, 769, 994, 2297
Bouilton, E. A., employment of, 2121 Canada, steamer, stranding of, 344 Canadian Peat Society, 1865 Carleton, Que., retaining wall, 390 Civil Service Commission, 992 Promotions, 1959
Controverted elections, 2017, 2030 Dagneau, John T., employment of, 1866 Demonstration, farm for GaspO or Bonaventure, 2068
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Candidates having government contracts, 2143
Deferred elections, 1903, 2147 Drinking water, supervision of, 1600 Escuminac wharf, 1287 Farmers in Quebec, aid to, 291 Fish and Fisheries
Fisheries in tidal waters, 116, 994, 2302 Fishermen, grants to, 2123, 2300, 2301 French
Blue-books in
Printing and distribution, 1596, 2310 Translation, 504 "War stamps in, 1205, 1412 French Canadian battalion, 22nd, 1149 Gaspd
Deferred elections in, 1903, 2147 Purchase of war supplies in, 994 Railways, 518 Salmon fisheries, 116, 2302 Steamer service, 307, 833, 1286, 1301 GaspO bay anchorage, 998, 1449 Grain trade and flour prices, 1957 Immigration, 1572, 1575 Indians, Quebec, 1307
Inland Revenue Department, administration of, 1720,'1870 Insurance Department, 2372 Intercolonial railway Dumber contracts, 768 Matapedia, subway for, 1698 Diquors, inspection of, 1158 Maple sugar, adulteration of, 1794 Marine life-saving service, 350 Matapedia
Road, 1289, 2178
Water supply, 768	,
Montreal post office, 1377, 1986, 2296 New Carlisle, public building for, 1287, 1985	'
New Mills salmon pond, 2301 Parliament, members of, and government contracts, 2143 Paspebiac
Customs office, 633 Wharf, 633, 2161 Peat experiments, 2122 Port Daniel mail service, 1992 Postage stamps, sale of, on Sunday, 2297 Printing bureau, 1591 Quebec	[DOT]
Fisheries, 116, 994 Rural mail routes, 769 Superior court judges, 1186 Repatriation, 1571
M arcil, Hon. Charles (Bonaventure)-Con.
Restigouc-he river
Bridge, 1148, 1682, 2177 Dredging, 1289, 1648, 2172 St. Jean l'Evangeliste mail service, 833 Scoles, C. R., payments to, 1468 Soldiers, votes for, 2264, 2268, 2344, 2485, 2516, 2538
Taxation-telegraphic messages, 1406 War supplies, purchase of, 994
Marcile, Mr. Joseph E. (Bagot)
Bagot county postal service, 141 Budget, 1052
British navy and the war, 1053 Government's financial methods, 1055 The new taxation, 1056 German spy, suspected, arrest of, 610 Valcartier camp supplies, 149 War. supplies Boots, 149 Horses, 315
Marine
British ships, transfer of, 990, 1057 Coasting trade, 296 Department
Estimates, 338-350, 1250-1270 Staff and salaries, 237 Earl Grey, sale of the, 312, 339, 1255 Empress of Ireland investigation, 339, 343 Hydrographic surveys, 1626 Ice-breaking, 339, 1255, 1267 Dife-saving, 350, 1633, 1638 Dighthouse and coast service, 1256-1260, 1267, 2304
Maritime road, 1267
Masters and mates, examination of, 340 Navigation Aids, 1258 Hudson Bay, 1628 Obstructions, removal of, 347, 2303 Rates, inland, control of, 43, 249 St. Dawrence, 1057, 1252 Schools, 346 Pilotage, 1265
Seamen, wrecked and distressed, 1269 Shipping casualties in 1914, 833 Signal service, 1264 Steamboat inspection, 1270 Steamers, government, 312, 338, 1255 Steamship services. See that title Unseaworthy vessels, 345 Wrecking plants, subsidies for, 349 Wrecks, investigations into, 342
Martin, Mr. Mederic (Montreal, St. Mary's) Maisonneuve leased post office, 2050 Unemployment, 501, 2320
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Aberdeen Association-franking privilege 311
Advertising and printing, payments by Government for, 761
Anderson, T. A., employment of, 605, 761, 996
Bank loans for seed grain, 1355 Carey, J. M., employment of, 993 Coal royalties, 520
Davidson, W. W., employment of, 768 Duck Mountain timber reserve, 992, 1577 Food exports, government control of, 539 Gallon, W. J., employment of, 831 Gillis, A. B., employment of, 831 Homestead inspectors, superfluous, 231 Homesteads and pre-emptions, statistics of, 996
/Horses, fraudulent importation of, 229 Hudson Bay railway, 1148 Immigration, 1147, 1570, 1572 Indians-St. Peter's reserve, 13, 19, 1888 Inland navigation rates, control of, 253 Inland Revenue frauds, 512	v
Interior Department, administration of, 231 1570
Judges in active militia, 1728 Last Mountain lake dredging, 311 Maple Creek land office officials, 997 Militia separation allowances, 688 Real estate titles, fraudulent, 1225 Regina
Mounted police quarters, 311 Property purchases by Department of Public Works, 762 Customs ports, 228 Regina-Moosejaw Water supply, 311
Riding Mountain timber reserve, 1577 Sabistons-half-breed scrip, 1287 Saskatchewan lands, Indian and school, sales of, 768
Saskatchewan river water power, 235 Saskatoon land office officials, 997 Soldiers, insurance, 390 Swift Current land office officials, 997 Taxation-agricultural implements, 11691172
Western farmers, relief for, 49, 632, 720, 768, 1150, 1329, 1342, 1355
Masters and Mates. See Marine.
Matapedia
Road, 1289, 2178 Water supply, 768 Mattatall Lake post office, 832
Medical Council of Canada, grant to, 1251, 2316
Medicine Hat
Homestead inspector, 2123 Postmasters, 764 Rural mail service, 76S
Megantic county postmasters, 609
Meighen, Hon. Arthur (Solicitor General) Budget, 1115
The Opposition's criticism, 1116 War taxes, 1117 Diminished revenues, 1118 Retrenchment of expenditure, 1119 Industrial protection, 1122 Aid to railways, 1125 Taxation for revenue, 1127 Land tax and income tax, 1129 Ferguson, Mr. T. R., report of, 2573 Grain trade, 1955, 2030, 2193 National Transcontinental railway-proposed government operation, 1823, 1838
Shortt, Mr. Adam, speech of, 653 Soldiers, votes for, 2220, 2347 Solicitor General, office of, 1737 Western farmers, relief for, 68, 1332
Menace newspaper, 991
Merner, Mr. J. J. (South Huron)
Food exports, government control of, 536
Meteorological service, 1268 Metric system, 1785
Michaud, Mr. Pius (Victoria, N.B.) Edmundston post office, 1390 Herrings, exported, price of, 1786 Horn extradition case, 44, 79 Indians, New Brunswick, 1319 Intercolonial railway
Freight rates in New Brunswick, 165 Mail service, 1390
International railway service, 1470
Metric system, 1785
Oil for fuel, 294
Stamp taxes, 1210
War supplies-horses, 246
Middlebro, Mr. William S. (North Grey) Boots, army

report of special committee 2372
Middlesex county Indians, 518
Military stores, fraud in sale of, 205, 304, 476, 1226
Militia and Defence
British Columbia militiamen in active service, 151
Cadet corps, 1518
Civil servants in militia service, 312, 522
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Department
Coal supply, 2319, 2326 Estimates, 1428, 1496, 1544, 2319 Dominion arsenal, 1506 Drill halls, 2035
Duties on imported munitions, 1506 Engineer service and works, 1513 Fair wages clause in contracts, 240, 391 Motor trucks, 1145 Officers' allowances, 1447 Permanent force, 1515, 2529 Petawawa camp, 240, 1185 Railway engineering corps, 1525 Rifle ranges, 1553 Royal Military College, 1519 Schools of instruction, 1524 Training areas, 1556
Valcartier camp, 240, 391, 1514, 1552, 2122, 2123 See War
Mines and Minerals
Coal
Imports, 244, 521, 633, 828 Leases, 1148, 1611 Royalties, 520 Western industry, 492 Department
Estimates, 1599, 2313 Staif and salaries, 1599 Electric smelting, 1602, 2313 Explosives, 1601, 1604 Geological survey, 1606-1611 Investigations and experiments^ 1603, 2313 Oil. See that title Peat
Canadian Peat Society, 1865 Experiments, 2122 Radium-bearing ores, 1609 Tar sands for road making, 1604
Ministerial changes, 207 Mizonnette lighthouse, 46
Molloy, Mr. John P. (Provencher)
Fournier, L. H., employment of, 521 Hudson Bay railway bridge, 606 Winnipeg
Resident engineer, 765 Volunteers, 313
Moncton. See Intercolonial railway Montmagny, wreck of, 1867 Montreal
Armoury-fair wage clause, 240 Barracks, 2035
Carslake hotel purchase, 1289, 2528. See also Postal Station A Dismissals of public works employees, 1652
Montreal-Con.
Postal station A, 1651, 1986, 2186, 2528 Postal Station L, 2528 'Post office, 1377 Resident engineer, 437
Monuments, erection of, 1251, 1252
Moosejaw
Property purchases by Department of Public Works, 762 Water supply, 311
Morphy, Mr. H. B. (North Perth) Compensation to workmen by railways, 514 Controverted elections, 2003 Real estate, fraudulent titles to, 1225
Morris, F., employment of, 151
Morris, Mr. James (Chateauguay)
Maple sugar, adulteration of, 1794
Mounted Police, Royal Northwest, 1249, 1284, 2322, 2326
Mousseau, P A., employment of, 1992, 2122
Murphy, Hon. Charles (Russell)
Canadian Northern railway, payments to, 150
Canadian patriotic fund, 143 Canadian War Contingent Association, 2122 Dominion Trust Company, 519 Fort Erie shooting case, 143 French river improvements, 1991 Hall, R. P., appointment of, 763 Immigration officials, suspension of, 243 Marriage laws, 436 North Bay recruiting, 1991 Nottar, H., death of, 150 Ottawa and Hull town-planning commission, 241
Overseas dominions, status of, 439 Pollution of navigable waters, 123 Princess Patricia regiment, 391 Soldiers, votes for, 2204, 2470 Valcartier camp-payment of accounts, 312 Victoria Memorial Museum, 153 War supplies Boots, 2395 Canvas shoes, 763 Horses, 149, 314, 520 Overshoes, 315 Saddles, 632
National Drug Company, 312 National Gallery of Canada, 2182
National Transcontinental railway
Bridge keepers, 897 Construction, 1859
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Government Operation Bill. Res., 1802. lr., 1859.	2r„ 1894. Com., 2124.	3r„ 2139,
Investigating commission, expenses of, 44 Montreal connection, 1711 Portneuf claims, 993 Quebec
Bridge, expenditure on, 437, 1864 Terminals, 518, 606, 993, 1867 Station employees, 1143
Naturalization, 610, 1598, 2317 Naval Service
Department
Estimates, 237, 1612-1621, 2298 Staff and salaries, 237 Forces and expenses, 1613, 1614, 1654 Northern waters, patrol of, 1630, 2298 Stefansson expedition, 1630, 2298
Navigable waters
Pollution of, 3, 118, 204 Removal of obstructions in, 347
Navigation. See Marine Neely, Mr. D. B. (Humboldt)
Budget
Commercial depression, 959 Trade policy of the Government, 960 Decreased trade and revenues and the war, 961
The tariff increases, 962 Manufacturers and consumers, 963 The made-in-Canada movement, 963 Methods of increasing revenues, 964 Taxation of British imports, 965, 969 National Transcontinental railway, 966 Canadian Northern railway, 968 Hudson Bay railway, 969 Opposition alternative proposals, 970 German population of the west, 970 Live stock industry, 2094 War supplies-horses, 388, 2095, 2098 Western farmers, relief for, 61 Wood, E. C., land patent of, 151
Nesbitt, Mr. Edward W. (North Oxford) Budget
Hard times and the war, 593 Problems of the Minister of Finance, 594 Taxation of loan and insurance companies, 595 The new tariff, 595 Reduction of expenditures, 596 Soldiers, votes for, 2283, 2480 Taxation-insurance companies, 595, 1180, 1183
War supplies-boots, 2414
New Brunswick steamship services, 1301, 1304
New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island railway, purchase of, 152
New Carlisle, public building for, 1287, 1985
Newcastle wireless station-alleged flying of American flag, 1616
Newfoundland
Partridge berries from, 1166 Steamship services, 1295, 1301, 1303 New Glasgow Dredging, 1992 Mail service, 517
New Waterford
Mail service, 1360 Recruiting, 392
Nickel Export Regulation Bill, lr., 3. Ruled out, 43. See 78, 1937
Nickle, Mr. William F. (Kingston)
Canadian patriotic fund, 401 Kingston penitentiary commission, 1767 Shortt, Mr. Adam, speech of, 655 Soldiers, votes for, 2244
Niobe and Rainbow, His Majesty's Canadian ships, 45, 151
Noreen, steamer, 1396, 2188
Northern waters, patrol of, 1630, 2298
Northrup, Mr. William B. (East Hastings) Vancouver Terminal Railway Company 990
Nottar, H„ shooting of, 150
Nova Scotia
Coal areas, 1609 Electoral lists, 833
Military forces, 481, 561, 608, 612, 687, 720 905, 1396, 1428, 1496 Postal service, 900, 1380 Public works. See that title Steamship services, 1301, 1304
Nova Scotians in the west, 1559 Oil
Fuel, 143, 294
Leases, 241, 243	,
Oliver, Hon. Frank (Edmonton)
Alberta
Military training area, 1556 Public buildings, 2044 Animals, diseases of, 2089 Architect, Dominion chief, appointment of 1960	*
Athabaska Landing public building, 2044
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Oliver, Hon. Frank (Edmonton)- Can.
Athabaska river dredging, 2775 Banff and Calgary civil servants, 11S4 British Columbia public buildings, 2045 Budget, 378
An extraordinary budget, 378 The financial situation, 379 War loans, 380
Means for increasing revenue, 381 Tariff increases, 383 Western agricultural production, 386 Canada Year Book, 193S Canadian expeditionary forces, 2370 Canadian patriotic fund, 395 Coal, sub-bituminous, 1604 Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia Railway Company, 705 Edmonton
Public buildings, 2044 Rifle range, 1553 River bank, protection of, 2169 Explosives in mines, 1606 Ferguson, Mr.. T. R., report of, 2539, 2601 Grain trade, 1951, 2030, 2191 Homestead maps, 237 Homesteaders' wood rights, 1566 Hudson Bay
Navigation, 1627, 1629 Railway, 1861
Kitsilano Indian reserve, 1892 Kootenay bay wharf, 2171 Lethbridge immigration inspector, 1569 National Transcontinental railway-proposed government operation, 1850, 2136 National parks, Canadian, 236 Parliament, members of, and government contracts, 2145
Pigeon lake improvements, 2168 Prince George mail service, 2298 Printing Bureau and public printing, 1597 St. Peter's Indian reserve, 1876 Saskatchewan and Alberta government telegraph lines, 2179 Senate, powers of the, 2330 Soldiers, votes for, 2240, 2271, 2292, 2344, 2356, 2463, 2476, 2495, 2504, 2533 Stefansson expedition, 310, 1630, 1632, 2300 Sturgeon river improvements, 2170 Tar sands, 1605 Timber regulations, 1566 Valcartier camp, 1552 War
Appropriation, 1677 Pensions, 141
Supplies-horses, 766, 1867, 2102 Water-power investigations, 235 Weights and measures, inspection of, 511 Western farmers, relief for, 66
Ottawa
Buildings rented by Government, 148, 308, 2047
Dominion buildings, 1968, 2037 Victoria Memorial Museum, 153, 1969 Woods and Canadian buildings-cost of electric lighting, 1651
Ottawa and Hull
Postal rate, 766
Town-planning commission, 241, 766 Ottawa river storage works, 2181
Pacaud, Mr. Lucien T. (Megantic)
Megantic postmasters, 609
Papineau, Mr. Louis J. (Beauharnois)
Charge of corruption, 1144 Civil service, increase of, 1588
Paquet, Mr. Eugene (L'lslet)
Budget, 971
Nature of the war, 971 Patriotism and production, 972 The public expenditures, 973 The war taxes, 974
Pardee, Mr. Frederick F. (West Lambton) Civil service-dismissals and appointments, 218
Controverted elections, 1995, 2153 Dominion elections-hours of polling, 1913 Drill halls, expenditures on, 2035 Gobeil, A., employment of, 1964 Philadelphia immigration agent, 522 Motor trucks for Militia Department, 1145 Taxation-gravel and sand, 1160, 1163, 1164 Wrecks, investigations into, 343
Parks, Canadian national, 236
Parliament, members of, and government contracts, 1242, 1901, 2140
Parliamentary procedure
Bill, re-committal of, with instructions, 2195
Divorce bills, on, 1987, 2187 Member, having begun speech, temporarily yields floor to intervening speaker, by consent of House, 999 Previous debate, reference by members to, 1765
Printing of parliamentary documents, rule for, 1057	'
Private Bills-suspension of certain rules, 1527
Resolution
Affecting postage submitted by private member, 338 Moved after notice, 1159 See Speaker
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Parliamentary representation	Pictou (county)
British North America Act, proposed	Fishery guardians, 245
amendment of-address to the King,	Mail service, 244, 610, 995, 1288, 1458, 2123,
1459, 2327	2188
House of Commons Representation Act of	Medical examiners for volunteers, 762
1914, correction of clerical errors in,	Pictou (island) telephone line, 143
1557, 1994	
See Prince Edward Island	Pictou (town) winter freight handling, 246
Paspebiao	Pilotage. See Marine
Customs office, 633	Pit props, trade in, 1934
Wharf, 633	
Patent medicines	Pollution of Navigable Waters Bill. lr„ 3. 2r. 118. Ref. to special Com., 204.
Composition of, 1717	
Tax on, 1208, 1423	Pope lease on Knee Hill Creek, 993
Patent shovel shield, 437, 1235	Port Arthur
Patents, renewal of, 1261, 1284, 1989	Drill hall, 203S Harbour improvements, 1970-1975
Patriotic fund. See Canadian	Port Daniel mail service, 1992
Peace	Post Office
Canadian Centenary Association, 2815	Closed offices. 833
Terms of, and the overseas Dominions, 2627	Contingencies, 1360
Peart, L., employment of, 308	Department staff and salaries, 1359, 2295
Peat. See Mines	Dismissals, 1363 Estimates, 1359-1394, 2295-2298
Pecuniary Claims Convention, 1740	Franking privilege, 311, 905, 1370. 2296 Free postage for soldiers, 338, 1419
Pelletier, Hon. L. P.	Mail carriers, payment of, 2297
Testimonial to, 211	Mail bag locks, 46, 1393
Trip of, 2529	Motor cars, 1391
Penitentiaries	Outside service, 1360, 1371 Parcel post, 1371-1375, 1384
Begg, Mr., employment of, 828	Post cards, stamps on, 1205
Kingston, 136, 271, 515, 1740	Rural mail service, 1379, 1384
Prison reform, 1049, 1761, 1775	Stamps, sale and use of, 1391, 1393. 1422.
Release of Thomas Riley, 2459	2297, 2624
Stony Mountain, 390, 1185	
Tickets of leave, 1736	Potatoes. See Agriculture.
Pensions, 1188, 1394, 1450 *	Power, Mr. William (Quebec West)
	Salisbury camp, 1504
Perley, Sir George H.	
Acting Canadian High Commissioner, 2318	Prince Albert property purchase, 762
Speech of-status of Overseas Dominions,	Prince Edward Island
439	Car ferry, 1704
Peterborough, government employees in, 1285	Immigration officer, 1575
Petite Riviere fishery guardian, 1396	Mail service, 1378, 1385 Marine life-saving service, 1637
Pettet, W. V., employment of, 2123	' Parliamentary representation, 316, 1459,
Phillips-Wolley, Sir Clive, appointment of,	2327, 2331
	Public works, 2114
151	Railway, 1704, 1707
Philipsburg-St. Armand mail service, 249, 313,	Steamship services, 1303
995	Winter mail service, 348
Pickel, G. H., employment of, 831	Prince of Wales fund, 244
Picton armoury, 1145	Prince Rupert Rifles, disbandment of, 1522
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Pri son reform. See Penitentiaries
Private Bills discussed
Alexander, Charles Isaac, divorce bill, 1894, 1987, 2187
Canadian Northern Railway Company, 708, 758
Canadian Northern Ontario Railway Company, 560
Canadian Pacific Railway Company, 725 Casualty Company of Canada, 761 Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia Railway Company, 705, 721 Lohmann Company, patent of, 1261, 1284 Millen, J„ patent of, 1989 Montreal, Ottawa and Georgian Bay Canal Company, 966
Toronto Eastern Railway Company, 708 Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway Company, 967
Van Buren Bridge Company, 709, 760 Vancouver Terminal Railway Company, 990, 1262
Prostitution, houses of, 1227
Proulx, Mr Edmond (Prescott)
Aliens at Petawawa, 828, 998 Architect, Dominion chief, appointment of 1958, 1961	.
Dominion elections-candidates and government contracts. See Parliament. Dredge No. 7, 1647 French Canadians and the war, 1442 Furniture for government offices, 1868 Georgian Bay Canal Commission, 1145 Hawkesbury-Grenville bridge, 1648, 1992 2176
Home militia, 312, 522 Judges' pensions, 765 L'Orignal.post office, 1363 Minister of Militia and the war, 1517 Parliament, members of, and government contracts, 1242, 1527, 1901, 1929, 21402146
Petawawa camp, 1185 Picton armoury, 1145 Privilege-Ottawa Evening Journal, 991 Soldiers, votes for, 2291 Taxation-income, 1197 Telephones, free, for government officials, 1970
War supplies, purchase of Horses, 994 Housewives, 1650 Oats and hay, 1397
Public Accounts Committee. See War supplies-investigations
Public health, conservation of, 2107 Public works
Architect, Dominion chief, appointment of, 1958, 1961, 1966, 2184 Buildings Alberta, 2044 British Columbia, 2045 Manitoba, 2040 New Brunswick, 1981 Nova Scotia, 1975 Ontario, 2034, 2185 Quebec, 1983 Saskatchewan, 2042 Department
Engineering branch, 2181 Estimates, 1958, 1961, 2034, 2111, 2155 Dredging
Dredge No. 7, 1647, 1866 Maritime provinces, 1289, 1648, 1992, 2171 Ontario and Quebec, 1252, 2172 Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, 2175
Expenditures, 2035 (Harbours and rivers
British Columbia, 1970, 2170 Generally, 2155 Manitoba, 2166 New Brunswick, 1972, 2117 Nova Scotia, 2051, 2111 Ontario, 1970, 1975, 2164, 2184 Prince Edward Island, 1975, 2114 Quebec, 1971, 2119, 2155, 2185 Saskatchewan and Alberta, 2167 Slides and booms, 2184
Pugsley, Hon. William (St. John City) Allison, J. Wesley, services, of, 1451, 1506 Amherst post office site, 1975 Ammunition, purchases of, 1451, 1506 Architect, Dominion chief, appointment of, 1960
Bank loans for seed grain, 1244 Budget, 470, 562 .
Proposed taxation, 470, 563 Civil Service-statement of Mr. Adam Shortt, 471
Public works expenditures, 473, 564 Militia expenditures, 564 Stamp taxes, 569, 573 Coal tariff, 570
Farmers and the tariff, 570, 575 Duty on fertilizers, 571 French treaty imports, 573 British preference, 576 Canadian Pacific railway steamship services, 738
Censorship, 1448, 1496, 1506
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Civil Service
Appointments, 1873
War service, government employees on, 217	.
See Shortt
Controverted elections, 1922, 1997,	2008,
2017, 2151
Cost of Living Commission, 2625 Dominion elections-candidates and government contracts, 2140 Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia Railway Company, 722 Ferguson, Mr. T. R., report of, 2584 Inland Revenue, pamphlet of Deputy Minister of, 1725
International railway, government acquisition of, 1682
Leonardsville dredging, 312 Lobsters, sale of undersized, 1150 McLeod, Colonel H. F., battalion of, 561 Medical Council of Canada, 1251 Militia Department coal supply, 2319 National Transcontinental railway, 1829, 2130
Ottawa-buildings rented by Government, 2047
Palmerston public building, 2037 Parliament, members of, and government contracts, 2140, 2146
Parliamentary representation, 1461, 2333 Patent ballot, allowance for, 1591 Printing, government, 1595 Privilege-omission in Hansard, 689 Public works expenditures, 1362. See Budget Railway employees, voting of, 2503 Real estate, fraudulent titles to, 1219 St. John
Custom house improvements, 1982 Harbour improvements, 1972 Secretary of State, Department of, expenditure of, 1590
Seed grain. See Western farmers Shortt, Mr. Adam, speech of, 213, 471, 647 Soldiers, votes for, 2226, 2353, 2463, 2477, 2490, 2503, 2538
Submarines, purchase of, 94, 110, 946 Taxation Banks, 1195 Corporations, 1195
Fertilizers, 571, 1159, 1395, 1400, 1402 French Treaty, articles under, 573, 1212, 1216
Insurance companies, 1179 Postal rates and stamp taxes, 1419 Proprietary or patent medicines, 1425 Spirits, 1155
Telegraphic messages, 1194 See Budget
Pugsley, Hon. Wm. (St. John City)-Con.
Transatlantic steamship services, 1298 Vancouver immigration building, 2046 War
Appropriations, 91 Supplies
Agents, 40, 2461. See Allison Ammunition 1451, 1507, 1669 Bicycles, 767
British Government, 2461 Horses, 1230-1232
Western farmers, relief for, 1329. See Bank loans
Qu'Appelle postmastership, 436
Quebec (city)
Bridge, 437, 1710
Harbour Commissioners, 2123
Price, Sir William, resignation of, 1965, 1966
Harbour improvements, 1971 History of port, 1962 Postal revenues, 896 Terminals, 1860
Quebec (county) telegraph service, 1187, 2122
Quebec (province)
Aid to farmers, 291 Fisheries, 116, 994, 2302 Steamship services, 1301 Superior court judges, superannuation of, 1186
Quebec and Saguenay railway, 2'532, 2625
Radium. See Mines
Railways
Capitalization, control of, 78, 261, 285, 726758, 1150
Employees, voting of, 2498 Extension of charters, 706, 720, 758 Labour conditions on construction work, 502
Mail contracts, 1375 Wages, payment of, on, 498 Workmen's compensation, 514 For individual railways, see their titles
Railways and Canals Department
Estimates, 1467-1495, 1685-1713, 1859-1863 Staff and salaries, 1471
Rainville, Mr. Joseph H. (Chambly and Vercheres)
War supplies-boots, 2408
Real estate titles, fraudulent, 47, 284, 476, 1219
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Mounted police quarters, 311 Property purchases by Government, 762 2188
Water supply, 311
Reid, Hon. J. D. (Minister of Customs) Agriculture
Department estimates, 1229-1240 Farmers' relief, 1239 Potato embargo, 719, 749, 991, 1229 Civil Service-stenographers, 1472 Customs
Agricultural implements, valuation of, 605, 1170
Alert, revenue steamer, 23 Department
Appointments and dismissals, 218, 228 Employees on war service, 217-219 Estimates, 217-230 Staff and salaries, 217-230 Investigations, 611 Smuggling, alleged, 223 Spirits, valuation of, 1155 Duchemin, H. P., payments to, 952 Fraudulent importation of horses, 230 Patent shovel shield, 1236 Patents, renewal of, 1261, 1284, 1990 Shortt, Mr. Adam, speech of, 662 Toronto custom house, 2039 War supplies-horses, 1230-1235
Reindeer, experiments with. 234, 2315 Repatriation, 1571
Restigouche river Bridge, 1148, 2177 Dredging, 1289, 1648
Rhoda, steamer, 2531
Rhodes, Mr. Edgar N. (Cumberland)
Amherst Armoury, 1977 Car-building, 1696 Post office, 1975
Cumberland mail service, 1649 Intercolonial railway-Wallace spur line, 1694
Nova Scotia military forces, 1496, 1501, 1551
Ribstone, village of, patent of, 243 Richard, Mrs. Margaret, claim of, 896, 1639 Richards, J. W., M.P., death of, 827 Richelieu county mail carriers, 1287 Richelieu river wharves, 995
Richmond county, Quebec, farmers, relief for,
Riding mountain timber reserve, 1577 Rigaud
Armoury, 631, 993 Dredging, 390 Wharf, 1786
Rimouski (county)
Dredging, 897
Purchase of war supplies in, 994
River John customs sub-collectorship, 142
Robb, Mr. James A. (.Huntingdon)
Corn imports, 152 Drill halls, 2035
Flour, Canada's gift of, to Great Britain, 1646
Grain trade, 1346, 2032, 2192 Maple sugar, adulteration of, 1792 Rural mail service, 1384
Seed grain, purchase and distribution of, 1346
Taxation-Customs valuations, 1403, 1405 War supplies-horses, 249, 1232, 2099
Robertson, Struan, Lt.-Col. See Nova Scotia military forces
Robinson, George, employment of, 831
Roche, Hon. W. J. (Minister of the Interior) Astronomical observatory, western, 1585, 1893
Duck mountain timber reserve, 1578 Forest reserves, 1578 Homestead maps, 237 Homesteaders' wood rights, 1565 Immigration, 1558, 1569-1577 Agencies, 1558, 1564 Oriental, 1576
Indians, 1306-1328. See that title Interior Department
Estimates, 231, 1281, 1558 Ferguson, Mr. T. R., report of, 2551 Staff, salaries, etc., 233, 1558, 1570 Irrigation-refund, 1894 Lethbridge immigration officer, 1568 Nova Scotians in the west, 1559 Parks, Canadian national, 236, 1894 Schrader grazing lease, 1564 Seed grain. See Western farmers Shortt, Mr. Adam, speech of, 232 Timber protection, 233, 1565, 1578 Tree culture, 233
Water-powers, development of, 234 Western farmers, relief for, 53, 292, 948, 1281, 1329, 1344, 1348 Wetaskawin settlers, grievances of, 1561 Yukon placer mining rights, 514, 1868
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Architect, Dominion chief, appointment of, 1958, 1968, 2184
Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia Railway Company, 705, 720 Gobeil, A;, employment of, 1962-1968 House of Commons-business of the House, 1787
Militia Department coal supply, 2326 National Transcontinental railway-government operation, 1857 Public works
Buildings, 1961, 1975, 2034, 2185 Department
Estimates, 1958, 1961, 2034, 2111, 2155 Staff, salaries, etc., 1958, 2184 Dredging, 2171
Harbours and rivers, 1970, 2051, 2111, 2155
Miscellaneous, 2181 Roads and bridges, 2176 Slides and booms, 2184 Telegraph lines, 2179 Seed grain. See Western farmers Senate, powers of the, 2328 Shortt, Mr Adam, speech of, 471, 636 Telephones, free, for government officials, 1970
Victoria Memorial Museum, 1969 Votes for soldiers, 336 Western farmers, relief for, 62
Ross, Mr. Duncan C. (West Middlesex)
Foot and mouth disease, 611, 2053, 2087 Middlesex county Indians, 518
Rosthern customs receipts, 79 Royal assent, 2210, 2628
Royal Print and Lithograph Company, payments to, 1864
Royal Society of Canada, accommodation for, 245
Roy, <5ol. Alex., retirement of, 1516 Roy, F. X„ employment of, 992 St. Anselme government employees, 1993 St. Antoine de Richelieu wharf, 995 St. Armand rural mail service, 1289 St. Denis rural mail service, 993 St. Gilbert de Portneuf postmaster, 307 St. Jean I'Evangeliste mail service, 833 St. John, N.8.
Custom house improvements, 1982 Harbour, 1972
St. John Valley railway, 46, 142, 173
St. Lambert post office, 1648
St. Lawrence. See Marine
St. Mathieu dredging, 2173
St. Paul's Island life-saving station, 608
St. Peter's Indian reserve. See Indians
St. Romuald post office, 518
St. Thomas armoury, 1866	[DOT]
St. Zotique wharf, 390
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Home guard, 1517, 1706 Pilotage, 1266 Post office, 153
Railway accommodation, 606, 1693 Saskatchewan
Homesteads and pre-emptions, 996 Indian lands, 768 Land office officials, 997 School lands, 768
Saskatoon
Customs collector, 79 Public building, 2043, 2326 Public Woi-ks Department property purchases, 762
Rural mail service, 607
Schaffner, Mr. F. L. (Souris)
Bank loans for seed grain, 1355 Boissevain postmastership, 1369 Capital punishment, 136 Experimental farms, 2058, 2064 Food exports, government control of, 531 Freight rates, 258
Taxation-proprietary medicines, 1208,1211 Schrader grazing lease, 1562
Scientific literature, international catalogue of, 1590
Scott, Mr F. S. (South Waterloo)
Budget, 590
The late Mr. Clare, M.P., 590 Taxation of banks, 590 British preference, 591 Government railway expenditures, 591 The made-in-Canada movement, 592 Canada's opportunities, 592
Secretary of State, Department of Estimates, 1588, 2307 Staff, salaries, etc., 1588, 1589
Seed grain, distribution of. See Western Farmers and Richmond County
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L'Assomption (village) wharf, 1145,	2119
St. Lin public building, 1984
Senate. See Parliamentary representation and Senate and House of Commons
Senate and House of Commons Act Amendment Bills
Independence of members, lr., 1242 Members on active service, lr., 351.	2r.,
439. Com., 439. 3r., 441
Sharpe, Mr. Samuel (North Ontario)
Bank loans for seed grain, 1352 Canadian Pacific Railway Company's ocean services, 741, 757 Canadian patriotic fund, 1864 Ottawa-Woods and Canadian buildings- cost of electric lighting, 1651 War supplies Horses, 829 Ammunition, 1652
Sharpe, Mr. Wm. H. (Lisgar)
Binders, imports of, 1649 Pood exports, government control of, 547 Grain trade, 1954 Hudson Bay navigation, 1629 Shefford county rural mail service, 1287 Shelburne
Fishery inspector, 1271 Fog alarm, 389
Sherbrooke Mounted Rifles, supplies for, 314, 1512
Shipping. See Marine
Shortt, Mr. Adam, speech of, 213, 232, 471, 634 Shovel shield, 437, 1235 Shubenacadie post office, 1866 Sinclair, Mr. John H. (Guysborough)
Aliens, registration of, 48 Amherst
Custom house, 1646 Post office, 1396 Belgian relief, 1676 Budget, 889, 905
The party truce, 889 Canada's financial problem, 890 War expenditures, 891 Imperialism and nationalism, 891	_
Canada's period of hard times, 892 The Government's financial administration, 893
Political patronage and war contracts, 906
Sinclair, Mr. John H. (Guysborough)-Con.
Budget-Con.
The new taxation, 909 Fishermen and the tariff, 910 . Naval policy, 911
The member for West Peterborough, 911 Summing up, 912 Canning public building, 1979 Canso
Lobster hatchery, 2530 Military guard, 1556 Reduction works, 633, 767 Cole Harbour wharf, 517, 2051 Copper exports, 312 Country Harbour Gas buoy, 762 Wharf, 2114
Duchemin, H. P., payments to, 604 East Erinville post office, 519 Fenian raid bounty, 1651 Fish and Fisheries
American vessels, regulation of, 1650 " Fish and How to Cook It "-booklet, 239 Lobsters
Close season, 45 Hatcheries, 2530 Pickled fish, inspection of, 48 Shell-fish Commission, 607 Steam trawling, 243, 311, 312, 1623, 1625, 2306
Transportation, 80 Guysborough
Branch railways. See Intercolonial Fishery guardians, 313 Mail service, 519, 607, 633, 897, 1185 Halifax public works expenditures, 1458 Intercolonial railway
Branch lines, eastern Nova Scotia, 44, 519, 1467, 1480, 1700 Fish transportation, 80 Ice contracts, 311 Imported stationery, 1697 Mulgrave car ferry, 1693 Pugwash spur line, 391 Wallace spur line, 391, 1694 Isaac's Harbour lobster hatchery, 2530 Le Blanc, seaman, family of, 896, 1639 Marine
Canadian shipping registry, 45 Coasting trade, 296, 1933 Shipping casualties in 1914, 833 Mattatall lake post office, 832 Military stores, fraud in sale of, 205, 304 National Transcontinental railway investigating commission, 44 Naval Service, Department of, 238 New Harbour breakwater, 2051 Niobe and Rainbow, Canadian ships, 45
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Electoral lists, 833 Military forces, 1438, 1502, 1550 Ocean freight rates, 216
Phillips-Wolley, Sir Clive, appointment of, 151
Pit props, trade in, 1934
Post offices closed in Canada, 833
Printing, government, 2308
Public works, expenditures on, 2039, 2047
Richard, Mrs. Margaret, claim of, 896, 1639
Shortt, Mr Adam, speech of, 639
Soldiers
Cerebro-spinal meningitis among, 2529 Votes for, 2263, 2268, 2345 Taxation
Letters and post cards, 1413 Patent medicines, 1424 War supplies-boots, 48
Soldiers. See Militia and War
Soldiers Voting Bill. lr., 1874.	2r„ 2195.
Com., 2258, 2343, 2462, 2533.	3r.. 2538.
Senate amdts., 2625. See 334, 1643
Solicitor General, office of, 1735
Soulanges canal, 1712
Southampton railway investigation, 142
South Wellington mine disaster, 207
Speaker (Hon. T. S. Sproule), rulings and statements of Bills
To be introduced by resolution:
To increase salaries, 1644 To regulate exports, 4, 43 Questions as to details irregular on 2r., 2201
Motion for ref. to com. only after 2r.,
House not to instruct on Bill in possession of com., 387
Private bills-suspension of certain rules, 1527
Re-committal, with instructions, 2195 Blue books, printing and distribution of, 1596, 2311
Committees, power of, to administer the oath, 304, 306 House of Commons
Reading room, 611, 1863 Sessional employees, 2109 Irrelevancy, 1049
Members, irregular references to each other, 577
Patent medicines, sale of, 1718
Speaker (Hon. T. S. Sproule)- Con.
* Printing of parliamentary documents, rule for, 1057
Privilege, questions of
Newspaper articles not such, 991, 2460 Political pamphlet, statements in, not such, 2190
Question containing unadmitted allegation of fact, also referring to unofficial matter, irregular, 2532 Report from Com. of Supply not receivable on day resolutions have been agreed to by Com., 2323
Resolution affecting postage not movable by private member, 338 Voters' lists, preparation of, 1594 See Parliamentary procedure
Special War Revenue Bill. Res., 87, 1175, 1191. lr., 1217. 2r., 1405. Com., 1405, 1586. 3r„ 1588. See Budget and Taxation
Squid imports, 244
Stamp taxes. See Taxation
Stanbridge East rural mail service, 995
Stanfield, Mr. John (Colchester)
House of Commons
Members and government contracts, 2143 Sessional indemnity, 2310
Stanfold township, model farm for, 1993 Steamboats. See Marine
Steamship services
Australia and New Zealand, 1292, 1300
Canada
British Columbia, 1300 GaspO, 1301
New Brunswick, 1301, 1304 Nova Scotia, 1301, 1304 Prince Edward Island, 1303 Quebec, 1301 China and Japan, 1300 Cuba, 1294 France, 718
Great Britain, 1291, 1293, 1297 Newfoundland, 1295, 1301, 1303 South Africa, 1295
West Indies and South America, 1295
Stefansson expedition, 310, 1630, 2298
Stellarton public building, 763
Stevens, Mr. H. H. (Vancouver)
Budget, 599, 613
Expenditures on public works, 600, 616 Estimates for the year, 603
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Financial and trade conditions and the war, 613, 617, 620 French treaty rights, 614 The new taxation, 615 Canada's foreign trade opportunities, 617 House of Commons-members' franking privilege and war stamps, 905 Kitsiiano Indians, 1892 Militia Department coal supply, 2319 National labour bureau, 607 Vancouver Terminal Railway Company, 990
Submarines, 94, 107, 946, 955
Suckling, Rev. W. T., enlistment of, 1867
Supply, Committee of, 212-240, 338-351, 481514,	122S-1242,	1249-1283,	1291-1328.
1359-1394, 1428-1458, 1466-1525, 15441585, 1588-1643, 3 CSS -1714, 1715-1783, 1859-1863, 1S76-1894, 1930-1987, 20342053, 2055-2121, 2154-2186, 2295-2320. For details see titles of departments and subjects.
Supply Bill (for 1915, $14,766,499.39; for 1916 $156,496,333.73). Res., 2371. lr„ 2r„ Com., and 3r., 2372.
Supreme Court Act Amendment Bill, lr., 1988.	2r„ 2053. Com., 2053.	3r„ 2055.
Sutherland, Mr. Donald (South Oxford) Budget, 878
Made-in-Canada movement, 878 Protection and the reciprocity pact, S79 The political truce, SS0 Naval policy, 8S0, 887 Opposition criticisms,. 883 War taxation, 885 British preference, 886 Experimental farms, 2069 Food exports, government control of, 548 Horse breeding, 2106 Meat inspection, 2091 Soldiers, votes for, 2285
Sydney-St. Peter's railway, proposed, 608, 992 *
Tar sands. See Mines
Tariff. See Taxation
Taxation, War
Customs
Agricultural implements, 1169-1175 Bananas, 1166
Exempted articles, 246, 1151 Fertilizers, 1151, 1159,' 1162, 1395, 1400 Gravel and sand. 1160-1165 Newfoundland partridge berries, 1166
Taxation, War-Con.
Customs-Con.
Resolutions, 1168 Revenue, estimated, 1169 Silk, 1167 Spirits, 1152 Tea and coffee, 1168 Valuation, 605, 1152 Special
Bank circulation, 1191 Bills of exchange, cheques, etc., 11771205, 1407	.
Corporations, 1191-1197 Date of operation, 613 French treaty, articles under, 1211-1216 Department of Justice, opinion of, 1422 Insurance companies, 1178, 1191, 1405 Letters and post cards, 1206 Exempted postal matter, 1413 Loan and trust companies, 1191 Modifications, proposed, 1177 Money orders, etc., 1205 Penalties, 1411, 1418, 1427, 1586 Postal rates and stamp taxes, 1412-1421, 1586
Proprietary or patent medicines, 312, 1208, 1423 Resolutions, 1175 Revenue, estimated, 1208 Railway tickets, 1197-1201, 1406 Telegrajjhic messages, 1192, 1406 Vessel tickets, 1201 Wines, 1208-1216, 1422 See Budget, Customs Tariff War Revenue Bill, Special War Revenue Bill, and Ways and Means
Taylor, Mr. James D. (New Westminster) Hansard, omissions from, 689 Vancouver Terminal Railway Company, 1262
Technical education, 245, 495, 502, 1146 Telegraphers. See Labour
Telephones, free, for Government officials, 1968
Temiscouata postal service, 392 Terminal elevators. See Grain Act
Thoburn, Mr. William (North Lanark) Soldiers, votes for, 2270
War supplies and Canadian Manufacturers' Association, 1669
Thompson, Mr. Alfred (Yukon)
Aviation school, Canadian, 1989 Silver-lead bounties, 1937 Trade with Russia and South America, 1935
Yukon, the, 1580-1584	[DOT]
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Bank loans for seed grain, 1352. See Western farmers Budget, 811
Conditions in the west, 812 The new taxation, 813 Tariff increases, 814 Made-in-Canada campaign, 816 British preference, 816 Qu'Appelle postmasters, dismissal of, 436 Western farmers, relief for, 60, 1341, 1352 Three Rivers
Harbour, 2155, 2175 Public building, 1786
Timber protection, 233, 1560, 1566, 1578
Tobin, Mr. Edmund W. (Richmond-Wolfe) Colcleugh, F. W. R., employment of, 1648 Cookshire post office, 1991 iHorses, embargo on, 1235 Prices of feed and foodstuffs, 2080 St. Mathieu, dredging at, 2174 Richelieu river wharves, 995 Rimouski dredging, 8*97 Richmond county, Quebec, farmers, relief for, 1237
Vezina's Corners postmastership, 1991 War supplies-horses, 830, 1146
Tobique Indian reserve, 187 To ronto
Customs examining warehouse and postal station A, 2039 Harbour improvements, 1975 Home guard, 243 Post office building, 1970
Trade and Commerce
Commissioners and agents, 1930-1936 Department	[DOT]
Estimates, 212, 1291, 1931 Reports in French, 828 Staff and salaries, 212 China and Japan, 1931, 1932 Russia, 1931, 1935 South America, 1934, 1935 West Indies, 215, 1295
Trawling. See Fish and Fisheries Tree culture, "233
Tremain, Mr. H. B. (Hants)
Budget, 824
Opposition criticisms, 824 Protection and revenue, 825 Interest of the farmers, 826 Party co-operation necessary, 827 Trent canal
Commission, 632 Construction, 1712
Truax, Mr. R. E. (South Bruce)
Chesley public building, 1646
Tufts Cove drydock, 1647
Turgeon, Mr. Onesiphore (Gloucester) Bathurst harbour, 46 Budget, 700, 709
The war expenditures, 700 Financial conditions in Canada, 701 Taxation and British preference, 703, 712 Tariff and protection, 709 Economy of expenditure, 712 Encouragement of agriculture, 713 The war and a general election, 714 Controverted elections, 2024 Mizonnette lighthouse, 46 Parliamentary representation, 1465 Privilege-St. John Standard, 145 Soldiers, votes for, 2509
Turriff, Mr. John G. (Assiniboia)
Budget, 417
The war expenditures, 417 Ordinary expenditures, 418 The increased taxation, 420 The Civil Service, 423 Retrenchment and economy, 424 Farmers and the tariff, 426, 430 Taxation of British goods, 429 Canadian Northern Railway Company- extension of time, 759 Canadian Pacific Railway steamship services, 733, 754 Dominion elections Hours of polling, 1911 Voters' lists, 1898
Ferguson, Mr. T. R., report of, 2572 Fisher,. Captain E„ employment of, 517 Food exports, government control of, 542 Freight rates, proposed increase of, 351 Grain trade, 1944, 1947
Hudson Bay railway-wages of employees, 1395
Inland navigation rates, 253
Inland Revenue, Deputy Minister of, 438
Intercolonial railway-payments to Messrs.
Boulay, 2530 Dongueuil dredging, 438 McQuarrie, Major, 2528 Maple sugar, adulteration of, 1793 Nickle, export of, 1937
Ottawa-buildings rented by Government, 148, 308
Privilege-Toronto Evening Telegram, 4S0 Railway capitalization, 288 Regina property purchase by Government, 2188
Soldiers, votes for, 2269, 2274, 2518
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War supplies
Automobile tires, 1145 Comforts for soldiers, 292 Field glasses, 155 Pails, 152 Razors, 307
Western farmers, relief for, 71 Tyrian, steamer, repairs to, 1786 Unemployment. See Labour Union Life Assurance Company, 2317, 2372
Valcartier Camp
Accounts, payment of, 312 Fair-wage clause in government contracts, 240, 391
Land claims 522, 1546, 1739, 2621 . Lighting, 2122 Lumber contracts, 2122 Selection, 1513 Stores, disposal of, 308 Supplies, destruction of, 149 Vallee, L. O., dismissal of, 436 Valley railway, operation of, 142 Vancouver Harbour
Commission, 1875 Improvements, 1975 Terminal Railway Company, 990 Verville, Mr. Alphonse (Maisonneuve)
Belgian immigration, 632 Budget, 1081	*
The Government's taxation policy, 1081 Public works expenditures, 1083 The made-in-Canada movement, 1083 Taxation of coal and raw materials, 1084 Effects of high tariffs, 1085 War and democracy, 1088 Carslake Hotel Company, claims of, 2528 Contrecoeur public works, 1651 Dominion elections-hours of polling, 2498 Fair-wage clause in government contracts, 240, 391
First Canadian contingent, British-born in, 610
Food exports, government control of, 540 Laprairie government road, 2159 Montreal-dismissals of public works employees, 1652
Post office ,	.
Branch offices, 2296 Registered letters to members, 2296 Public works and industrial distress, 2040. See Budget
Railway employees, voting of, 2498, 2502 Soldiers, votes for, 2264, 2289, 2498, 2508
Verville, Mr. Alphonse (Maisonneauve)-Con.
Taxation-railway tickets, 1198 Telegraphers, conditions of employment of, 1786, 2532
Unemployment, 605. See Budget Winnipeg immigration officials, 392
Vezina's Corners postmastership, 1991
Victoria Memorial Museum. See Ottawa
Voters' lists, preparation of, 1594
Votes for soldiers. See Soldiers' Voting Bill
Wade, W. W., dismissal of, 1395
Wallaceburg customs collector, 766
War
Canadian forces-statement of mobilization and organization, 2364 Censorship, 1264, 1448, 1496, 1506, 1618 Cerebro-spinal meningitis among soldiers, 2529
Chaplains, 242 Enlistment, 438, 1456, 2531 Civil servants, 233, 312, 522 Expenditures, 1142, 1397. See War Appropriation Bill and War supplies First Canadian contingent, 610, 763 France, Canadian troops in, 204, 909 Home guard, 1516 Payment of soldiers, 2320 Pensions, 141, 1188, 1394, 1450 Princess Patricia regiment, transport of, 391
Railway engineering corps, 1525 Recruiting. See Enlistment Seeley, Colonel, command of, 1284 Shooting by sentries, 332, 2124 Soldiers
Cerebro-spinal meningitis among, 2529 Life insurance, 390 Mail matter for, 338, 1419, 1422 Payment of,"2320
Votes for. See Soldiers' Voting Bill Supplies
Agents, employment of, 40. See Allison Allison J. Wesley, services of, 1145, 1452, 1508, 1669
Ammunition, 91,	242,	1451,	1506-1512,
1669, 1867
Automobile tires, 1145 Bicycles, 767, 995 Binoculars, 2188, 2372, 2602, 2605 Boots, 21, 48, 144, 149, 204, 244, 2372, 2450 British Government, for, 38, 2461, 2614 Canadian Manufacturers' Association, correspondence of, 1667, 2189, 2461 Canvas shoes, 389, 763 Carleton Drug Company, 2602, 2605, 2614
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Clinic thermometers, 307, 521 Committee of Council, 1246, 1666 Corruption, charge of, 1144 Fair wage clause in Government contracts, 240, 391 Field glasses, 155 Hay, 140, 241, 1289, 1397 Horses, 149, 246, 249, 314, 388, 520, 607, 631, 766, 829, 894, 898, 994, 1146, 12301235, 1455, 1867, 1993, 2095-2196, 2602, 2606, 2613 Housewives, 1650 Investigations
Boots: notice of m. for special Com., 144; ref. to Com., 204; rep. of Com., 2372
Public Accounts Com.: ref. to Com., 945; announcement, 2538; rep. of Com., 2602
Medical, 149, 308, 315, 1526, 1866 Motor trucks, 306, 1145, 1186, 1290 Oliver equipment, 1992 Overshoes, 315, 762 Pails, 152 Razors, 307
Remounts. See Horses Ross rifle, 306, 439 Saddles, 521, 632 Salisbury camp, 306, 439 Seasickness cure, 152 Sheepskins, 1866 Shells, 38, 2614
Fair wages in manufacture of, 490 Shovel shields, 437, 1235 Slippers, 389
System of purchase, 2602, 2610, 2614, 2617 Waterproof garments, 609 See Militia
Taxation. See that title
War Appropriation ($100,000,000) Bill. Res., 91, 1397. lr„ 1399.	2r., 1653. Com.,
1653.	3r., 1681
Warnock, Mr. David (Macleod)
Waterloo lakes park, 236 Western farmers, relief for, 65, 1333
Washington, Canadian representative at, 2315	.
Water-power investigations, 234
Ways and Means, Committee of, 87, 1150, 1168, 1191; rep., 1217. See Budget and Taxation
Webster, Mr. John (Brockville)
Technical education, 1146
Weichel, Mr. William G. (North Waterloo)
Address in reply to Governor General's Speech
Tribute to Their Royal Highnesses, 4 Great Britain and the war, 5 Financial and trade conditions, 6	.
Made-in-Canada movement, 7 German-Canadians, 8 Unity of the Empire, 9 Deceased members, 10
Weights and measures, inspection of, 505, 510, 1720
Welland canal
Construction, 1710, 1713 Wages, rates of, 491
West Arichat customs, 898 West Indies, trade with, 215, 1295
Western Farmers Relief Bill. Res., 1328. lr., 1349.	2r„ 1544. Com., 1544.	3r„ 1544.
See 49, 632, 720, 768, 947, 1150, 1242, 1281; also Bank Act Amendment Bill
Wetaskawin settlers, grievances of, 1560, 1565
White, Mr. Gerald V. (North Renfrew) Pembroke drill hall, 2039
White, Hon. W. T. (Minister of Finance) Bank borrowings from Government, 147, 476
Bank loans for seed grain, 1242-1246, 1350, 1358
Battlefields commission, 1716 Budget, 80
Revenue and expenditure, 81, 82	-
Organization of oversea forces, 81 Debt and borrowings, 82 Special taxes, 85 Tariff taxation, 86
Economic conditions, actual and prospective, 90
Budget-amendment of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, 841
Reply to criticisms, 841 Expenditures of late Government, 841, 84S, 853
National Transcontinental railway, 841
Public works, 845
World-wide effects of war, 846
British preference, 849, 860
Public works and labour, 850
Proposed war taxation, 851, 854
Opposition alternatives, 855
Tax on railway tickets, 857
Postage, 857 ; t
Customs taxes, 858
Industrial and agricultural interests, 858 Taxation of banks, 859 Canada's share in war, 862
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French treaty and war taxes, 1211, 1422 Loans, Imperial Government, to Canada, 146	ij Sim
Shortt, Mr. Adam, speech of, 655, 682 Taxation, war Customs
Agricultural implements, 1169, 1173 Bananas, 1166 Exemptions, 1151 Fertilizers, 1151, 1160, 1401 Gravel and sand, 1165 Newfoundland partridge berries, 1166 Revenue estimated, 1169 Silk, 1167 Spirits, 1152 Tea and coffee, 1168 Special
Bank circulation, 1191 Bills of exchange, cheques, etc., 1177, 1202-1204, 1407 Corporations, 1191-1197 French treaty, articles under, 12111216, 1422
Insuranoe companies, 1178, 1181, 1191 Letters and postcards, 1206 Exempted postal matter, 1413 Loan and trust companies, 1191, 1405 Modifications, proposed, 1177 Money orders, etc., 1205 Penalties, 1412, 1427, 1586-1588 Postal rates and stamp taxes, 14121422, 1586, 2624
Proprietary or patent medicines, 1209, 1423
Railway tickets, 1198-1201 Revenue estimated, 1208 Telegraphic messages, 1192, 1406 Vessel tickets, 1201 Wines, 1211-1216, 1422 See Budget
Union Life Assurance Company, 2317, 2372
Wilcox, Mr. Oliver J. (North Essex)
Budget, 630, 689
Tax on fertilizers, 630, 695 Party truce, 689 Revenue and expenditure, 692 Obligations of Government, 693
Wilcox, Mr. Oliver J. (North Essex)-Con.
Budget-Con.
Hog cholera, 696 Political patronage, 696 What Government has accomplished, 697 Naval question, 698 Vital issues of the war, 699 Taxation
Fertilizers, 1162 Gravel, 1161, 1165
Wilson, Mr. Charles A. (Laval)
Capital punishment, 1228 Lavergne, Armand, Lieut.-Col., 1517 Real estate, titles to, 1222 Roy, Alex., Col., retirement of, 1516
Winding-Up Act Amendment Bill, lr., 2121.
2r., 2195. Com., 2195. 3r., 2195.
Winnipeg
Immigration officials, 243, 392 ' Public buildings, 2041 Resident engineer, 765 Sewage, 2167 Volunteers, 313
Wireless stations, 1263, 1616, 1658
Wood, E. C., land patent of, 151
Woodworth, T. C., employment of, 2123
Vyrecks. See Marine
Wrentham post office, 142
Wright, Mr. William (Muskoka)
Budget, 431, 442 Tariff policy, 431 Protection in Canada, 433 British preference, 434 Farming conditions in the west, 443 Trade and industry, 447 A non-partisan tariff board, 448 Experimental farms, 2072 Grain trade, 1952, 2192 Parcel post, 1385
Yarmouth
Fishery guardians, 313 (Harbour improvements, 607, 1289, 2113 Marine hospital, 832 Postal service, 313, 1361
Yukon Placer Mining Act Amendment Bill.
lr., 514.	2r„ 1218. Com. and 3r„ 1218.
Sen. amdt., 1868
Yukon territory, 1393, 1580
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