1916-04-17

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Hon. i. D. REID (Acting Minister of Railways and Canals) moved for leave to introduce Bill No. 91, to amend the Government Railways Small Claims Act.
Mr. GRAHAM:: Explain.


Mr. REID:: At present, under the Railway Act, when small claims are made against the Intercolonial railway, service can be made upon an agent, I think the station agent, instead of upon the general manager. That provision applies only to the Intercolonial railway. The members for Prince Edward Island have asked that it be applied to the Prince Edward Island railway, and I thought that while we were amending the Act, it would be as well to apply the provision to the whole Government railway system. It will therefore take in the Intercolonial railway, the Transcontinental railway and the Prince Edward Island railway. I do not think the Bill will be contentious; if it is, of course I will not press it.


Mr. HUGHES:: Does the acting minister intend to make the Bill retroactive, so far .as. the Prince Edward Island railway is concerned?


John Dowsley Reid: No. The amendment will take effect only when the Bill is passed.


James Joseph Hughes: I could point out the injustice of that.


Mr. SPEAKER:: It would be better to discuss that either on the second reading or in committee.


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Sir ROBERT BORDEN:: i beg to lay on the table of the House an Order in Council passed on the * 15th instant. As it relates to a subject that has been under discussion in the House recently it may be proper that I should read it:
Upon a memorandum from the Right Honourable the Prime Minister, dated the 13th day of April, 1916, touching a motion by Sir Wilfrid Laurier in the House of Commons on the 7th day of March, 1916, in the following terms:
" That a special committee of 

 member of this House be appointed to inquire into all purchases of shells or other munitions or goods by the Shell Committee formed by the Minister of Militia, as stated to this House by the Prime Minister on the 15th April, 1915, together with all contracts made or orders given by the said committee for any shells or other munitions or goods, with authority to the said committee to examine witnesses under oath and to require the production of any documents, books, letters or papers; and that such special committee be directed to report from time to time to this House in such manner as it may think advisable."
The Prime Minister calls attention to his own remarks in the House of Commons in speaking upon this motion, in which he made the following statement:
" Now, what course does the Government propose to take with regard to the motion which my right hon. friend has proposed to this House? As far as the Shell Committee is concerned- I shall speak afterwards of another matter- our proposal is this:	We shall direct the attention of the British Government in detail to every charge, allegation and rumour brought up in this House or elsewhere by my right hon. friend or by any of his supporters with regard to the Shell Committee. We shall further inform the British Government that if an inquiry is thought advisable, we are prepared to cooperate with them to the fullest extent, and to issue any commission, take any proceedings, pass any legislation, and do any other act for the purpose of making that inquiry as full, thorough, and complete as they deem advisable. But without their consent or approval, we do not propose to enter upon an investigation or inquire into such expenditures by the British Government."
The Prime Minister further observes that the expenditure made by the Shell Committee (so-called) was on behalf of the Government ol the United Kingdom, and was not on behalf of the Government of Canada; and that the Government of Canada did not fix or determine the prices to be paid for shells contracted for by the Shell Committee.
Having regard to these considerations and to the statement above quoted, the Prime Minister recommends that the Hansard report of the debate upon the motion of Sir Wilfrid Laurier be transmitted , to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, with the assurance that the Government of Canada is prepared to assist and co-operate, as stated by the Prime Minister in the House of Commons, in any inquiry or investigation into the transactions to which reference is made in the motion

of Sir Wilfrid Laurier and that so far as the Government of Canada is concerned there is no objection whatever to the fullest investigation that may be thought desirable at any time.
The Prime Minister further recommends that a copy of the Order in Council approved on the 3rd instant which authorizes the issue of a Royal Commission to the. Honourable Sir William Ralph Meredith, Chief Justice of Ontario, and the Honourable Lyman Poole Duff, one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada be also transmitted to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies for the information of the Government of the United Kingdom.
The committee concur in the foregoing recommendation and submit the same for approval.
(Sgd.) Rodolphe Boudreau,
Clerk of the Privy Council.



COLONEL DAY.

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On the Orders of the Day:
Mr. KYTE:: Would the Acting Minister
of Marine and Defence inform me if Colonel Day is still in charge of the 185th Battalion, at Broughton, N.S., where the regiment is at present training?


Mr. KEMP:: I will get the information
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THE MINISTER OF MILITIA AND DEFENCE.

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On the Orders of the Day:
Robert Laird Borden: I would like to say that the Minister of Militia and Defence (Sir Sam Hughes) returned yesterday, and he proposes to make a statement in the House to-morrow.



PRIVATE BILLS.


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Bill No. 78, respecting British Trust Company.-Mr. Morris.

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Consideration of amendments made by the Senate to Bill No. 29, respecting certain patents of the Pedlar People, Limited.- Mr. Smith.
Mr. NESBITT:: Will somebody explain what the amendments are?


Mr. PUGSLEY:: I have been favoured
by the Clerk with a copy of the amendments made by the Senate, and it seems to me that they are quite material.


Auguste-Charles-Philippe-Robert Landry: You had better refer them tq the committee.


William Pugsley: I think so. While there are not many words, they change the meaning materially.

On motion of Hon. David Henderson, the , amendments were referred to the Select Standing Committee on Miscellaneous Private Bills.
Consideration of amendments made by the Senate to Bill ivo. 32, respecting The Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway Company.-Mr. T. J. Stewart.
Amendments referred to the Select Standing Committee on Railways, Canals and Telegraphs Lines. -



SECOND READING.

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Bill No. 89, respecting the High River, Saskatchewan and Hudson Bay Railway Company.-Mr. W. M. Martin.
William Pugsley: In previous sessions
Senate Bills were distributed among the members, but during this session they have not be distributed; at ail events 1 have not received a single Senate Bill during the session. It makes it rather awkward.


Auguste-Charles-Philippe-Robert Landry: I think we should follow the practice of previous sessions.



QUESTIONS.

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[Questions answered orally are indicated by an asterisk.]

Mr. PACAUD:: 1.	Were there any persons in the county of Dorchester appointed to the Civil Service, permanently or otherwise, in the inside or outside service, since the 21st September, 1911?
2.	If so, what were those positions, and to whom were they given?
3.	What is the salary attached to each of these positions?


Mr. BLONDIN:: Department of Agriculture:
1.	Yes. .
2.	Dairy Recorder-Arthur Lavalee, Ste. Claire, Dorchester, salary, $1,200 per annum, outside service. Temporary inspection work in outside service of Live Stock Branch-Albert Morin, St. Henedipe; J. E. Royer, iSt. Bernard. Mr. Morin received $3 per day and travelling expenses and Mr. Royer received $4 per day and travelling expenses.
3.	Answered by No. 2.
Civil Service Commission:
1.	None in the office of the Civil Service Commission, but the commission has issued certificates for the permanent appointment in the inside service of three persons from the county of Dorchester.
2.	Two positions as packer and one as clerk in subdivision B of the Second Division, all in the Post Office Department. The packers' positions were given to Messrs. Georges A. Dussault, of Ste. Marguerite, and John iCaron, of St. Anselme, and the Second Division clerkship to Mr. Joseph L. A. Gagnon, of Ste. Claire.
3.	Messrs. Dussault and Caron, $500; Mr. Gagnon, $800.
Department of Customs:
1.	Yes.
2 and 3. J. A. Dumas, preventive officer, Morisset station, $200; D. Cardin, sub-collector, St. Anselme, $700.
Department of Inland Revenue:
1.	Yes, two; in the Outside Service.
2 and 3. C. H. Couture, assistant inspector of weights and measures, $600. J. E. Audet, food inspector, $200.
Post Office Department:
1.	Yes.
2 and 3. J. A. Nadeau, sorter, $500; J. L.
A.	Gagnon, clerk, 2nd division, subdivision
B,	$800; J. A. Jalbert, railway mail clerk, $500; J. E. Bissonnette, temporary clerk, $600; J. B. Morin, temporary clerk, $500; J. O. Dion, clerk, 3rd class, grade B, $500; P. E. Girard, temporary helper, $2 a day; J. B. Roy, temporary railway mail clerk, $500; Eugene Roy, temporary railway mail clerk, $500; Michel Cadrin, temporary clerk, $600; P. H. fCadrin, temporary helper, $2 a day; A. Bourgault, temporary railway mail dark, $500," left the service December 16, 1915.
Department of Public Works: J. E. Laro-chelie, from the county of Dorchester, mechanical draughtsman, Chief Engineer's Branch, inside service, was appointed 21st May, 1912, salary, $1,450 a year.
Department of Railways and Canals:
1.	Yes.
2.	Adelard Dion, brakeman, schedule; Napoleon Dion, brakeman, schedule; Thomas Wilfrid Boivin, operator, $60 per month.
3.	Answered by No. 2.


MINES DEPARTMENT CLERKS.
Mr. TURRIFF:: 1.	How many clerks are there In the Mines Department who belong to and are paid from the outside service vote and who work in the inside service?
2.	What are the names of said clerks?
3.	What salary is paid to each?
4.	How long has each been in the service of the department?
5.	Have all or any of these clerks passed any examination? If so, what examination and on what date or dates.


Mr. BLONDIN:: 1.	None.
2,	3, 4 and 5. Answered by No. 1.


NATURALIZATION OF ALIENS.
Mr. BICKERDIKE:: 1.	Do the existing: laws permit the naturalization of aliens of enemy nationality?
2.	If so, what number of such persons, if any, have been naturalized in Canada since the beginning of the present war?
3.	Is it the intention of the Government to introduce such legislation as will render it impossible for any person of enemy nationality to become naturalized during the period of the war?


Mr. DOHERTY:: X. Under the Naturalization Act of 1914, the granting of certificates of naturalization is discretionary with the Secretary of State. The policy of not granting such certificates to persons of alien enemy nationality in the exercise of that discretion has been adopted.
Under the Naturalization Act of 1870, continued in force for a period of three years from the 1st January, 1915, for aliens resident in Canada before that date, and under which exclusive Canadian nauraliza-tion is granted, the granting of certificates is in the hands of the judges. The decisions of the courts differ upon the question as to whether the state of war suspends the operation of this Act as regards persons of alien enemy nationality.
2.	As the entire list of persons of all nationalities naturalized since the beginning of the war has to be gone through to pick out those of alien enemy nationality, it will take considerable time before the information is available; it will be brought down* as soon as procured.
3.	At the outset of the war, the Government by proclamation, announced to persons of alien enemy nationality that so long as they quietly pursue their ordinary avocations they would be allowed to continue to enjoy the protection of the law and be accorded the respect and consideration due to peaceful and law-abiding citizens. In view of the large number of persons of alien enemy nationality who have proved themselves to be absolutely peaceable and not dangerous, and who had taken up homesteads under a law providing that upon the expiry of three years they would be entitled to the naturalization qualifying then to obtain patents to their lands, and of the fact that in the opinion of the Government, no serious injury is to be apprehended from leaving the Act of 1870 so temporarily in force, to such operation as

the courts may recognize it to have in the case of alien enemies, it is not intended to modify that Act.


EMPLOYMENT-ZEPHIRIN DAIGLE.
Mr. LACHANCE:: 1.	Is Mr. ZSphirin Daigle, of Charlesbourg, in the service of the Post Office Department or in any other department of the Government of Canada?
2.	If so, when was he appointed, at what salary, and upon whose recommendation?
3.	What is the nature of his work?


Mr. CASGRAIN:: 1.	Yes. Mr. Zephirin Daigle of Charlesbourg is temporarily employed in .the office of the post office inspector at Quebec.
2.	He was appointed on the 20th January, 1916, in a temporary capacity. The salary paid to him is at the rate of $83 a month. He was appointed on the recommendation of the Postmaster General.
3.	Certain difficulties having arisen in relation to the rural mail routes in the counties of Quebec and Montmorency as to the location thereof, the placing of the boxes and the deliveries made, Mr. Daigle, on account of his intimate knowledge of the district and the inhabitants thereof, was appointed to assist in facilitating in the preparing and marking out the routes, the inspection of rural mail boxes and other work incidental to the rural mail service. The work for which he was employed is just about completed when his services will be dispensed with.


LEASE OF MILITARY LAND AT LEVIS.
Mr. BOURASSA:: 1.	Has a portion of the land upon which Fort No. 3 at Levis is situated been leased?
2.	If so, to whom, at what price, and for how long?
3.	For what purposes, according to the terms of the lease, is that portion of the land to be occupied by the lessee?


Albert Edward Kemp: Corp. P. E. Corson, R.C.E., has been given permission to occupy, at a monthly rental of $6, a house on the north side of Fort No. 3 at Levis, on the understanding that he will keep and surrender the premises in good repair, insure the building and deliver possession upon demand. No other portion of the land upon which Fort No. 3 at Levis is situated is under lease.


METHOD TO IMPROVE SECURITY OF TRENCHES.
Mr. PROULX:: 1.	Has the Department of Militia authorized a test of a method devised by a Canadian Engineer for making Canadian trenches safer

against the attacks of the enemy, and for taking the offensive?
2.	Was the method investigated in Ottawa on behalf of the Imperial Government by Mr. John Platt?
3.	Has Mr. Platt reported to the Militia Department that he advised the method should be adopted, as " there certainly seems good reason to expect successful results"?
4.	In view of the importance of taking every possible step to make the lives of Canadian soldiers as safe and their fighting as effective as possible, has the department done anything to give effect to the recommendation of the British expert? If so, what has it done?
5.	Does the Militia Department take the ground that the question of making trench warfare of Canadian soldiers aggressive is entirely for the British War Office to decide?
6.	Has'*the Chairman of the Imperial Munitions Board expressed the opinion that the Canadian method should be demonstrated in Britain ?
7.	If so, has the Department done anything, -or does it propose to do anything, to further the matter?
8.	Has evidence been submitted to the department from any Canadian soldiers who saw the test made in Ottawa, favourable to its employment?


Mr. KEMP:: 1.	Yes.
2.	He was shown all correspondence on the subject.
3.	No, Mr. Platt hoped some apparatus would be purchased so that the test could be carried out, but nothing about adopting the method. The words in inverted commas are correct.
4.	Yes, by submitting a report on the subject by Professor Carr-Harris to War Office on 7th July, 1915, eight months before Mr. Platt arrived. Full reports, with drawings, have also been submitted to Munitions Board, England, by Captain Midford.
5.	Yes, and all inventions which may further this object and are considered of sufficient merit are forwarded to Munitions Inventions, England.
6.	Yes.
7.	As the matter is now being dealt with by Munitions Board, the department are not taking any further steps.
8.	Yes.


AMERICAN HOGS.
Mr. SUTHERLAND:: 1.	Are American hogs being killed and singed in the United States, shipped into Canada carried in bond and exported?
2.	If so, how many in the past six months?
3.	Is such product sold under a Canadian brand ?
4.	Are such hogs subject to inspection by the Health of Animals Branch of the Department of Agriculture?
5.	How many hogs have been exported into Canada during the past six months on which the duty has been paid?


Mr. BLOND IN:: 1.	Yes.
2.	Pork, fresh, chilled or frozen entered for warehouse: 279,944 lbs.
3.	Such products handled by Canadian Packers, operating under the provisions of the Meat and Canned Foods Act, are not permitted to be labelled in such a manner as would indicate that they were of Canadian origin.
4.	Such hogs are first inspected and passed by the officers of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry, and when presented for entay into an establishment under inspection in Canada, are very carefully reinspected by inspectors acting under the authority of the Meat and Canned Foods Act.
5.	Pork, fresh, chilled or frozen, entered for consumption and duty paid: 34,528,4P2 lbs.
C. S. MacINNES.


Mr. WALLACE:: 1.	What position does C. S. Maclnnes hold in the Militia Department in Ottawa?
2.	What are his duties?
3.	What salary does he receive?
4.	What rank does he hold?
5.	What rank had he when he was appointed to his present position?
6.	Was he ever on active service?
7.	Was he fit for active service when he was appointed to an official pos:tion?
8.	What was his occupation before he received this appointment? _
9.	When was he appointed?


Mr. KEMP:: 1.	Assistant Adjutant-General, headquarters staff, Militia headquarters, Ottawa.
2.	His duties include the following: Recruiting, peace organization and administrative arrangement, viz.: (1) peace organization, establishments and their preparation; (2) administrative arrangement in connection with mobilization; member Mobilization Committee; (3) distribution of units; (4) returns; (5) recruiting; (6) soldiers' services; (7) casualties, discharges, furloughs, etc.; (8) administrative arrangements connected with military training and education and with Royal Military College; (9) Education Warrant Officers, N.C.-O's and men; (10) regimental records of units, changes in title and honorary distinctions; (11) garrison and regimental institutes; (12) war medals; (13) administration of corps of Military staff clerks and staff orderly service. (14) promulgation of orders affecting the above.
3.	$3,500 per annum.
4.	Brevet Lt.-Colonel.
5.	Captain with Field Officer's Certificate,

and temporary rank of Major on appointment.
6.	Yes. In Canada, but not overseas.
7.	Yes.
8.	A King's Counsel, enjoying in the city of Toronto a very lucrative practice.
9.	29th July, 1915.


COL. SAMUEL SHARPE, M.P.
Mr. COPP:: 1.	Is Col. Samuel Sharpe, M.P., of the 116th Battalion, drawing pay as commander of the battalion or in any other capacity? If so, how much?
2.	Is there any separation allowance being paid in this case?


Mr. KEMP:: 1.	Yes, $6.25 per diem as Officer Commanding 116th Battalion.
2.	Yes, $60 per month.


SEPARATION ALLOWANCES.
Mr. TURRIFF:: Are the wives of officers in the militia service, who are still in Canada, drawing separation allowances? If so, at what rate?


Albert Edward Kemp: The wives of officers of the Canadian Militia are not entitled to separation allowance, and are not drawing such allowance. The wives of officers of the Canadian Expeditionary Forces, stationed in Canada, do draw separation allowance at the rates authorized, viz.: Lieutenant, $30; Captain, $40; Major, $50; any higher rank than Major, $60 monthly.


J. P. DIQNNE VS. THE KING.
Mr. GAUVREAU:: 1.	Did the Minister of Inland Revenue receive a telegram or other correspondence, confidential or otherwise, 1 from Mr. L6o Bt-rubA M.P.P., of RiviSre du Loup, regarding the production of certain documents in the case of J. P. Dionne vs. the King, laid upon the table of the House by the Minister of Justice?
2.	If so, is the minister prepared to lay it' or them on the table of the House?


Mr. PATENAUDE:: 1.	There is no official correspondence in the department with regard to the matter.
2.	Answered by No. 1.


SIR JOSEPH POPE.
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Mr. WM. CHISHOLM:
1.	Do the following items from the Auditor General's Report refer to the same individual:
Sir Joseph Pope, $5,000, page E-2.
Sir Joseph Pope, cab hire at Ottawa, $42.90, page E-3.
Sir Joseph Pope, commissioner, $1,000, page E-3.
Sir Joseph Pope, for papers of the estate of the late Sir John A. Macdonald, $5,000, page B-4.
2.	What is the explanation of the last three items?

3.	Is this individual a member of the Civil Service?
4.	Are the last two payments not contrary to the letter and the spirit of the Civil Service Act with respect to extra payments to Civil Servants ?
Sir ROBERT BORDEN:: 1.	Yes.
2.	The amount of $42.90 charged for cab hire was incurred by Sir Joseph Pope in the performance of his official duties.
In 1912 the Government appointed a. Royal Commission to inquire into the state of the Public Records. Of this commission, Sir Joseph Pope was chairman. The commission made a report which was considered worthy of special recognition:	The
Government accordingly recommended a payment of $1,000 to each commissioner, which was voted by Parliament in the session of 1914.
The papers of the late Sir John A. Macdonald, covering a period of sixty years, form an important, if not unique, collection of documents bearing upon the history of the country and of its public men. It was considered desirable to secure these papers for the Archives, and they were accordingly acquired for' the nominal sum of $5,000. The arrangements were conducted through Sir Joseph Pope as executor of the Macdonald estate.
3.	Yes.
4.	No.	[DOT]


UNOPPOSED MOTIONS FOR PAPERS.
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Mr. A. K. Maclean.-For a return showing the superficial area of, and price paid for all lands acquired from any persons, at Halifax, up to March 31, 1916, for the purposes of the Ocean Terminals at Halifax between Bedford Basin and Point Pleasant.
Mr. Turriff.-For a return showing how much overtime has been paid to men in the Printing Bureau from January 1, 1916, to April 1, 1916 ; the names of the men who were paid overtime ; which of the men were day and which were night men; what rate of overtime each man received, and how much at 1J day rate, and how much at double rate.

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On the motion:
That on and from Wednesday next, the 12th instant, and until the end of the session, this House shall meet each day at 11 o'clock in the morning; and that in addition to the usual intermission at 6 o'clock, p.m., there shall be an intermission from one to three o'clock, p.m.
Robert Laird Borden: I would propose to make this read Tuesday, the 25th instant, if my right hon. friend has no objection. However, we might let the matter stand until to-morrow, and consider the suggestion in the meantime.


Sir WILFRID LAURIER:: I should have thought the Government would be in a position to tell us whether or not they had any more legislation to bring down. If they have, I think the motion had better stand over.
Motion stands.


THE EASTER ADJOURNMENT.
Robert Laird Borden: I beg to move:
That when this House adjourns on Wednesday next, the 19th instant, it stand adjourned until Tuesday, the 25th instant,


Wilfrid Laurier: I suppose we shall adjourn -at six o'clock on Wednesday?


Robert Laird Borden: I have no objection.


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'Hon. W. J. ROCHE (Minister of the Interior) moved the third reading of Bill No. 67, relating to the St. Peters Indian Reserve.
Hon. FRANK OLIVER:: negotiations for establishing plants on these lands, and no community can afford to have obstacles in the way of actual development and the people feel strongly on this question. Should not we be able to secure these industries, it will undoubtedly set us back and the effort to secure others will be harder and possibly not attended with as good prospects -as we have at the present time. I sincerely trust your personal attention to this matter will produce the result of relieving the community of the incubus of retarded development, and thereby gain the profound gratitude of the people and of the Conservative party in Manitoba.
I have the honour to be.
Yours faithfully,
(Sgd.) A. J. Norquay.
The documents show that the letter in' acknowledgement of that was forwarded to Mr. Meighen under date of June 1, with the following remarks:	t
Ottawa, Ont., 1st June, 1914. Dear Mr. Meighen,- '
Herewith is a copy of a communication I have received from Mr. A. J. Norquay with respect to the St. Peters Indian reserve. I have Informed Mr. Norquay that the suggestions made would receive the careful and earnest consideration of the Government.
Yours faithfully,
R. L. Borden.
Hon. Arthur Meighen, M.P.,
Solicitor General,
Ottawa.
It is to be observed that this correspondence was dated May and June, 1914. I find nothing further emanating from the purchasers until February 2, 1915. Then I find a communication from Mr. Alfred J. Andrews, who, I presume, is of the firm of 'Andrews, Andrews, Curie, Burbidge and Bastedo, solicitors, of Winnipeg, who, I assume, is writing on behalf of clients. In this letter Mr. Andrews says:
I think the people whom I represent, and they are the largest number of the buyers, would consent to pay $1 an acre if all ques

 tions of title were settled within a reasonable time, say not later than the first of April, giving them a chance to get on the land and put in a crop this year. Of course the Government would have to undertake to settle all questions of security, so that titles could be issued without any flaw.
One of the most irritating circumstances in connection with the present situation is that one of the schools in the neighbourhood of Selkirk has had to be closed because the title to the land being in dispute they cannot sell any of the land for taxes, nor can they raise taxes in any other way. The feeling at Selkirk is getting more and more bitter.
Mr. Meig'bem acknowledges this o,n, February 9, and says in part:
Without prejudice to the position of the Government, we will be prepared to consider a proposal to relieve the titles of all claims on the part of the Government except the

charge of $1.50 per acre with interest thereon at 5 per cent, payable within a time that might be agreed upon. If your clients care to make an offer of this kind, I believe the Government would be prepared to do everything in its power to settle the question of security so that good titles could issue.
Yours truly,
Arthur Meighen.
There is included in these papers a resolution of the Selkirk Board of Trade in regard to St. Peters reserve. The resolution is so very lengthy that I will not trouble the House to read it all, but the introduction to the resolution, not being so long, I may be permitted to read it: Selkirk, Man., Feb. 11.
At the annual meeting of the Selkirk Board of Trade a week ago, a resolution 'on the St. Peters question, which was being concurrently passed by the municipal councils of St. Clements, St. Andrews, and the town of Selkirk, was laid on the table, and in accordance with a motion passed at that time, the new council of the board were instructed to prepare and pass a, resolution of endorsement, which they did last night as the first official act of their body.
Both the municipal resolution and that of the Board of Trade are uncompromising in their attitude toward the further delay that will be inevitable as a result of the motion now entered in the Exchequer Court by the Government, and the municipal resolution bluntly asks for a confirmation of the original surrender by the present Parliament.
People who are not directly interested in this controversy can hardly realize the disappointments the people of Selkirk have suffered in their eight-year effort to secure settlement of the surrender, which, the Board of Trade complains, has done far more damage in the community by reason of its delay, than the direct issue involved could ever amount to. The resolution of the Board is a striking resume of eight years of untiring effort met with fair promise, and balked by mysterious opposition.
A resolution by the St. Clements municipal council is included in these papers, and with the permission of the House I will read a portion of that resolution:
We emphatically protest against this suit. That is, the suit in the Exchequer Court.
In the first place, whether the final judgment of the courts be for or against the validity of the surrender, the great delay necessarily involved in securing such final judgment would be unfair to this municipality, intolerably unfair when added to the already unwarranted, delay in starting the suit.
Secondly, if the final judgment should set aside the surrender, then a further period of delay would be added for negotiating a fresh surrender and arranging and carrying out allotments and issuing fresh patents consequent thereon. After the past delay, we are surely entitled to some quicker mode of settlement than this.
In the third place, if this surrender is set aside, it is extremely doubtful if another surrender should be negotiated or secured at all,

and for this territory to again become, or to continue indefinitely as an Indian reserve, would be nothing short of a calamity to this municipality, economically and socially as well as financially.
Fourthly and lastly, the grounds set forth in the said suit (the writ of information in which has been read by this council) are purely technical in their nature and consists of alleged irregularities upon tlic part of the Government officials concerned in the surrender and in no way whatever charge any blame against the1 defendants, the present holders of the titles. Under the circumstances, even if the grounds of the suit are true in fact and sufficient in law (as to which, of course, we express no opinion), they are of such a nature as to clearly call (on public grounds) not for cancellation of the surrender, but the very opposite, namely, its confirmation. If such confirmation calls for compensation to the Indians (as to which we express no opinion) then the Governm nt, whose officials committed the alleged irregularities should surely make such compensation.
Now, therefore, for these reasons, this municipality in its corporate capacity, hereby urges and demands, as the quickest and most equitable and satisfactory mode of settlement of the question, that the surrender be confirmed by the proper governmental or legislative authorities without further delay.
I find also the following letteT:
Selkirk, March 30, 1915. Hon. A. E. Meighen, M.P.,
Portage la Prairie,
House of Commons,
Ottawa, Ontario.
Sir,-As secretary of a public mass meeting of citizens held at Selkirk, Man., March 29 th,
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called to protest against further delay and litigation in connection with the settlement of St. Peters Indian reserve surrender, I beg to hand you, by instruction, copy of resolution passed at that meeting attached to which you will find newspaper report of the same meeting.
That this public meeting of the citizens of Selkirk and district, assembled without personal interest or political affiliation, actuated by the acute realization of the gross injury that has been and still is being done to the district through the non-settlement of St. Peters reserve surrender, over a period of eight years;
Hereby resolves: that as a body representative of the entire community and district we are firmly convinced that the common injury and injustice being wrought by the hold-up of these lands from occupation, has created a situation, the continuance of which would be intolerable.
Further, that the Indians as a body are, and always have been, fully satisfied with the surrender and its terms.
And finally, as the only solution of the present deadlock, without still further delay, loss and expense, we hereby demand of the Government the confirmation of the surrender and the immediate issuance of titles to the lands. .
I have the honour to be,
Yours most obedient servant,
B. Campbell, Secretary.
There is also a letter addressed to the Minister of Justice as follows:	v
Winnipeg, Man., May 13, 1915. The Hon. C. J. Doherty,
Minister of Justice,
Ottawa.
Re St. Peters Indian Reserve.
Dear Sir,-Acting on behalf of William Frank, his wife, George H. Funk, the Selkirk and Northern Land Company, G. A. Muttlebury, James C. Simpson, Dr. O. I. Grain, Captain Pollack, Ernest Raynor, M. Hardman, and W. Overton, we beg to confirm the verbal proposals for settlement which our Mr. A. J. Andrews has previously made to your Government, as follows :
Our clients are taking the position that the surrender is perfectly legal and that their transactions in connection with the St. Peter's reserve have been free from criticism and that their titles ought to have been completed long ago. Yet, in order to get an immediate settlement of the matter and to set at rest all questions of legality and in order to prevent further retarding the growth of the district and its development, they are willing that a settlement should be made whereby all of the persons who have become purchasers of the lands in this reserve, save and except the Indians who have not yet disposed of their lands, should undertake by way of mortgage or lien or otherwise to pay to the Crown on behalf of the Indians the sum of one dollar per acre payable in ten years with interest in the meantime of 5 per cent per annum, which sums can be paid off at any time by payment of interest to date.
This letter is signed by "Andrews, Andrews, Curie and Company," and duly acknowledged by the Minister of Justice. Another letter dated Winnipeg, May 29, 1915, addreSiSed to the Hon. Arthur Meighen, Solicitor General, contains the following paragraph, which I bring forward as showing the merits of the original surrender on behalf of the Indians:
There is one other suggestion I would like to make, and which, I think, should be incorporated in the settlement, and that is that in order to induce the Indians to go to the new reserve it should be agreed that no moneys should be handed over to the Indians as the result of the settlement until they actually move to the new reserve. The Government should exert every influence in their power to have them moved there.
This letter is signed "Alfred J. Andrews," It is acknowledged by the Hon. Arthur Meighen, and in his letter the Solicitor General says:
Having reference to the second paragraph of your letter of May 29, I have to say that we deem its suggestion quite reasonable and in the interests of all concerned, and will act upon it in so far as is in our power.
I shall not trouble the House with any further extracts from the correspondence that has passed between the purchasers and the Government in this connection. I will point out, however, that it is evident from this correspondence that the original surrender was in the interests of the- white

people of that locality, and in the interests of the Indians concerned; that the Indians were satisfied with the bargain that was made which involved their removal to another reserve, and that the Solicitor General in his correspondence agrees that . that removal would toe so much in their interests that he proposes to withhold from them payment of money levied from the purchasers in order to compel their removal to the new reserve. The purchasers of the land state and reiterate that so far as they are concerned there was no fault of any kind or description, and their statement on that point is not challenged in any part of the correspondence. Notwithstanding that fact, I find that the pleadings accompanying the suit as entered in the Exchequer Court name all the purchasers of the lands, as well, I believe, as all the members of the Indian band, as defendants in the suit. But in the course of the pleadings from beginning to end there is not a suggestion by paragraph, line or word that indicates in any way any responsibility -on the part of the purchasers of these lands for any of the allegations or suggestions of impropriety that are contained in the pleadings. The pleadings are against the administration of the Indian Department, not against the purchasers of the lands. If that suit had been carried to a successful conclusion and it had been proved that the allegations made were correct, even then the Government would have no- warrant to turn to the purchasers of these lands and demand an additional payment of a dollar an acre. The Government is assuming an arbitrary right ot an arbitrary power that I venture to say no Government of Canada ever assumed before and no Government of Canada ever will assume again. A demand is made that people who have in good faith purchased land from the -Government, to whom title has been issued, against whom no charge is even suggested, although the validity of the surrender is questioned, should pay to the Government of Canada an additional sum over and above what the land was sold to them for, as a condition' of the Government's withdrawing action

against whom? Not against these parties, except in name, but against a former administration, the allegation toeing that that Government or its officials had acted improperly in securing the surrender. The effect of the motion that I make is simply to out out of the Bill that part of it which requires the payment ..of this dollar an acre and imposes the con-
ditions. It simply leaves the Bill in the form which, as was represented to the House, was its intent-simply confirming the titles that were issued. I contend that that is the only honest course, the only fair course, the only reasonable course for the Government to take, and I urge the acceptance of my proposed amendment on that ground. I received the other day a letter from a resident of Manitoba, a clergyman, in which he asks me what is the position of one of his parishioners, a widow, whose husband had purchased some of these lands. At the death of the husband his right to the lands passed to the widow; now the demand is made upon her for a dollar an acre, and she has no resources from [DOT]which to provide that money. I ask, is it reasonable, is it fair? What grounds can the Government allege for demanding a dollar an acre from this woman for property that her husband purchased in good faith, that he paid for in full according to his contract, when there is no allegation, not even a suggestion, of bad faith offered against him in all this correspondence that is brought before the House, or in the pleadings of the Exchequer Court? I do not wish to delay the House in this matter, but I certainly urge that the House should not be party to the injustice that is proposed to be committed under cover of an Act of Parliament toy passing the Bill in its present form.


Mr. G. H. BRADBURY (Selkirk):: Mr. Speaker, I thought the St. Peters Indian land question had been practically settled, so far as the hon. gentleman who has just taken his seat (Mr. Oliver) was concerned. I would have thought that he would have been the last man in this House to attempt to bring on a new debate on this question. I waited here for a week expecting to be present when the Bill was introduced, but I had to go West, and I was amazed, on taking up the Hansard, to find the reference the hon. gentleman saw fit to make regarding one whom I believe to be one of the most honourable, one of the most respected, men in western Canada, that is Mr. Macara, the Registrar General of Manitoba.


Frank Oliver: Hear, hear.


George Henry Bradbury: Mr. Macara, it will be remembered, was the Registrar General of Manitoba, and when this so-oallled surrender of the St. Peters Indian reserve took place patents were presented to him with a

view to securing Torrens titles. Mr. Macara refused to issue these titles. We are now told why Mr. Mcaara refused. Mr. Macara himself says that he refused them on the strength of the recommendation of two judges of the King's Bench, who had approached him and advised him not to issue these titles until he was satisfied that the Indians had been fairly and properly dealt with. Chief Justice Howell himself, who, I believe, was one of'these gentlemen, in his evidence before the commission, admitted that he had approached Mr. Macara and advised him not to issue these titles until such time as he was satisfied the Indians had been properly dealt with. In view of this fact, I was amazed to see that the hon. gentleman (Mr. Olivier), who was more responsible than any other man in-this House for the condition of affairs that existed in. connection' with those lands, should have used this language in connect tion with Mr. Macara, found at page 2414, Hansard:
This Government introduces legislation, which is not necessary to all and which is not effective in any way except as a notification that a certain action that the Government entered has been withdrawn, conditional upon the payment of an additional one dollar an acre by those men who bought land from the Indians.
Mark what *he says.
-if he were an honest man.


Frank Oliver: Hear, hear.


George Henry Bradbury: which I may say I do not think he is, or if he were moved by honest motives, which I do not believe-I take the liberty of saying so here-


Frank Oliver: Hear, hear.


George Henry Bradbury: I think the hon. gentleman who is saying " hear, hear " would not dare to go into any part of the city of Winnipeg and make this same statement. He could not do so without getting jeered and hissed at, because Mr. Macara is one of the most honourable men in Manitoba to-day, a trusted official of the present Government of Manitoba. The hon. gentleman (Mr. Oliver) continued:
-I would say that as an honest man he would be compelled by the action that is taken by this Government under this legislation to register all the titles presented to him for legislation, on the purchase price agreed upon in those titles having been paid.
I do not intend to labour this part of the question. I am sure that the hon. gentleman spoke hastily when he made these remarks concerning Mr. Macara. I think that if he had taken time for 4 p.m. reflection he would not have spoken in this way of this gentleman. However, assuming that the hon. gentleman was in earnest, assuming that he blamed the registrar general for not issuing those titles, the registrar general was well advised when he was advised not to issue these titles. He was so advised by two of the judges of the King's Bench, both of them Liberals, both of them friends, I presume, of the hon. gentleman, both of them supporters of the party responsible for this surrender, which was made during the regime of the hon. gentlemen. This advice was not given after the defeat of the Government in 1911; it was given when the Liberal Government was in poVer. So I say that the hon. gentleman has gone far afield to slander one of the most respected citizens of Manitoba, and he might just as well have .slandered the judges who gave this advice. Chief Justice Howell, who was engaged by my hon. friend to negotiate the surrender, the man who negotiated for five or six months in Selkirk, gathered these Indians around and got them to agree to the surrender, himself came forward with this advice after the surrender was made. It will be remembered that Chief Justice Howell was not present at those two meetings at which the surrender was taken, but he negotiated up to the time the surrender was made and then handed over all his information and all his authority, I presume, to the then Deputy Minister of Indian Affairs, Mr. Pedley, and it was Mr. Pedley who negotiated the surrender, on the authority and the advice and the instructions of my hon. friend (Mr. Oliver).-


Frank Oliver: Hear, hear.


George Henry Bradbury: So that, in view of the fact that Chief Justice Howell, who had been so prominent in connection with the negotiations, after the surrender had been made, should have found it incumbent upon him to advise the registrar general of Manitoba not to issue Torrens titles until he was satisfied that the Indians were properly dealt with; I say in view of that fact, my hon. friend should not have blamed the registrar general for being alarmed and refusing to issue those titles, because the registrar general was the custodian of the guarantee fund which exists in Manitoba to guarantee every title that is issued; and the registrar general knew his responsibility to tho Government and to the province; he



knew that if anything was found wrong with those titles; he knew that if they could be successfully attacked, the province of Manitoba would be responsible and would have to make good the difference between the price the lands were sold at and their proper value. In view of that fact, this was, to say the least, extravagant language for my hon. friend (Mr. Oliver) to have used in reference to Mr. Miaoara.
My friend harks back to the old ques-iton of the surrender-was it legal or not legal? That is the whole question, aside from the fact of the fraud being committed by the purchasers. That phase of the question has never been gone into, it has never been brought before the court; and it is not intended in the Bill now before the House to deal with that question. The whole question was the legality or the illegality of the surrender. If the surrender was legal, there would have been no doubt at all about the purchasers being able to force Mr. Macara to accept those titles.
Now, what took place? It was, I think, in 1907, that this surrender was taken. The matter hung from 1907 until 1911, the year of the defeat of the late Government. Time after time this matter was brought before Parliament, and I myself, from my place, urged the hon. gentleman (Mr. Oliver) to institute an investigation. I laid what I conceived to be the clearest possible kind of evidence. of wrong-doing in connection with this surrender before this House; but I received no encouragement from my hon. friend or from his friends. They refused even to investigate. My hon. friend answered that there was nothing to investigate, that the Government had accepted the surrender, that the lands had been disposed of, and that the surrender was final. According to my hon. friend, the Indians were perfectly satisfied with that surrender, but, as a matter of fact, they were the parties who drew my attention to the rascality of the transaction. Letter after letter, affidavit after affidavit were placed on Hansard from these men asking for justice, and showing the manner in which they had been treated, but I received no encouragement from my hon. friend (Mr. Oliver), and he would do nothing but state that there was nothing to investigate. A royal commission was appointed. Why was it appointed? It was appointed at the request of a large body of the Indians who petitioned the Provincial Government. They had exhausted their powers to induce the men who were in 
office prior to 1911 to intervene on their behalf to protect them. They had exhausted their patience in trying to get my hon. friend from Edmonton (Mr. Oliver), who was responsible, as Minister of Indian Affairs, for the care of those Indians, to intervene; consequently, they appealed to the Provincial Government. They claimed that they had been defrauded out of their lands, and the Provincial Government, for its own protection, and for the protection of the titles, so that the Registrar General might not be led into any mistake, appointed a commission. That commission consisted of three county judges, Judges Meyars, Prudhomme and Lock. These judges took volumes of evidence; they sat day after day in Selkirk, and day after day in Winnipeg, and every available witness who could throw any light on the question of the legality of the surrender was examined. The evidence was, as I have said, voluminous, and after it had been concluded and summed up, two of the judges, Judge Lock and Judge Prudhomme, reported that the surrender was illegal and void, and could not have been anything else from the beginning. Judge Meyars signed a minority report; he did not agree with the finding of the two other judges. But the fact that two judges decided that the transaction was illegal ought surely to have settled the question as to the legality of the transaction.
But one has only to read the Indian Act to find out that the surrender was illegal. The Indian Act provides that a majority of the male members of the band, over 21 years of age, are entitled to vote, and, it is the interpretation of that clause which has been in dispute between my hon. friend and myself. The interpretation placed upon it by the Indian Department during the regime of my hon. friend was that it meant a majority of the Indians who assembled at a meeting. That will strike every man as a most absurd proposition. I think there were some 250 or 260 votes in the band-I forget exactly how many-^but say there were only 50 Indians assembled; would it not be absurd to say that those 50 men could alienate all the rights and interests of the other members of the band who were not present? I put that question to my hon. friend when the matter was formerly under discussion, and his answer was that they would have the legal right to alienate the lands* but perhaps not the moral right. I am not going to argue this question; I do not wish to open up another debate upon

it; but it does seem to me that, in view of what has taken place, in view of the evidence that was taken by the commission, and in view of Chief Justice Howell's decision, the men who negotiated the surrender in going to Mr. Macara showed that they had doubts as to the manner in which the Indians had been treated. Nobody can read the evidence without seeing in every line of it a determined effort on the part of Mr. Pedley and those who were interested to secure that surrender by any means. There is no question about that. The meeting was called on one day's notice. I have gone into all this before. One day's notice was given to a band of Indians living on a reserve 50 miles square, many of whom were out on the lake fishing. The result was that when the meeting was called dozens and dozens of the voters were absent. Some of them did not hear about the surrender for weeks after the meeting had taken place. The meeting was held in a small building, and half of those in attendance could not get in to hear the terms of the surrender. That is brought out dozens of times in the evidence. Another important point is that the terms of surrender were not read to the Indians in their own language; dozens of the Indians who were present did not understand the terms. In view of these facts, it is not surprising that the commission was appointed to ascertain whether the surrender was legal or otherwise. If the surrender was not legal, nothing else attached to it meant anything. My hon. friend from Edmonton knows, as well as I do, that if the men whoi secured those lands in the first place had felt aggrieved and thought that they had good ground to stand upon in regard to the legality of the surrender, they would not have hesitated to take a case to court. I had a conversation with Mr. Macara himself in 1909-10, I think. The case' was dragging on, and people were urging a settlement, and I asked what he wanted to enable him to issue the titles. He said to me, " I will be satisfied either with an Act of Parliament, or with the judgment of any court in Manitoba." I told those gentlemen, I told Mr. Andrews, who was acting for them: " If you are so. sure of your ground why not take one of ,the cases to court and endeavour to compel Mr. Macara to issue a title. Macara says that when you do that, he will accept the judgment of the court, and will issue a title to every one of those patents." But they did not do that. Why? I do not think 184J
hon. gentlemen opposite need ask why, because they must know that these men had no case to face a court with. They knew well-Mr. Andrews knew, and the best lawyers in Canada knew-that this case would not have stood before a court for twenty-four hours-, because the thing was illegal from start to finish.


William Pugsley: Has the Registrar General issued certificates of title recently?


George Henry Bradbury: I am not sure, but if he has he has issued them on the authority of the Government. I do not know if he has, but he may have.


William Pugsley: It was stated that some time ago he had issued them.


George Henry Bradbury: He may have.


William Pugsley: How could he issue them if the transfer was illegal and there i3 no Act of Parliament yet?


George Henry Bradbury: Because he issued
them on the distinct promise that legislation such as is before the House now would be brought down.


William Pugsley: Who could make the
promise that it would be passed?


George Henry Bradbury: The Government of
Canada. I think the Government are strong enough to pass it.
Mr. PUGSLEY^:	They have not always
succeeded in passing their measures.


George Henry Bradbury: Well, they are going
to pass this one.


William Pugsley: They may or they may not.


George Henry Bradbury: However, the Bill that is before the House is more in the shape of a compromise than anything else. I want to be frank with the House and the country and I want to say that I do not consider-that I have never considered-it to be an equitable settlement of this affair. The Indian, I believe, to-day, just as I believed six or seven years ago, has been cheated out of a very valuable asset. There is no question about that in my mind. This is a compromise measure, and it is a compromise simply because the matter was allowed to drag year after year until dozens and hundreds of innocent people became involved. When I first brought this matter before the House and asked for an investigation, and for legislation, very few were affected who were not the original pur-

chasers, and the original purchasers were the people who ought to have suffered at that time if anybody ought to' have suffered. As time went on, dozens and hundreds of innocent people became purchasers of this land. I need not say that I was amazed at the statement made by my hon. friend, because I suppose my hon. friend wishes in the dying days of the discussion of this matter-probably this is the last time it will come before this House and the House will not be sorry-to justify not only his own act but the acts of the Administration of which he was not an unimportant member at that time. As reported at page 2147 of Hansard, the hon. gentleman says:
This question of the sale of St. Peters Indian Reserve has been before the House so frequently that I am sure hon. members will not care to hear it discussed at any great length on this occasion. At the same time, it is In order that it should he pointed out that the action now taken by this Government is a complete and absolute justification of the action of the previous Government and a denial of all the charges and allegations and insinuations that were made against the late Government by hon. gentlemen opposite, who were then in opposition, ant in particular the hon. member for Selk'rk (Mr. Bradbury), who, I observe, is not in his place to-day.-
There is a good reason why I was not in my place. I was discharging what I believe to be more important duties; I was discharging duties in connection with the defence of the Empire. I was doing what some members of the family of my hon. friend are doing, but what a good many of his friends have not seen fit to do. Some members are forced to be absent from this Chamber simply because they are discharging their duty to their country. I was not absent because I feared to discuss this measure; on the contrary, I was anxious that the measure should come before the House when I was here. I waited here for a week hoping it would come up, but I was called away in connection with my battalion. The hon. gentleman continues:

I cannot imagine how any other conclusion can be reached from the proposed action of the Government. If the statement made by the minister to-day is read in conjunction with the statements that were formerly made by members on the other side of the House it will We; seen that their contentions have been absolutely disproved on the Investigation by the Government now in power, or else the Government now in power is lending itself in every degree to the alleged injustice that was done the Indians and the alleged' mishandling of the public business of which the late Government was said to be guilty. The hon. member for Selkirk, and other members who took it upon themselves to make the contention, said that the lands dealt with were of a value of $15 an 	.
acre and upwards. These lands had been sold at an average price of $5 or $6 an acre, by public auction and by p-'ivate sale, and the con -tention was that the Indians had been cheated to the extent of a minimum of at least $10 an acre.
I do not think that what I am about to say will be news to my hon. friend, although it may be news to some hon. members of this House. When the negotiation? had reached a stage that legislation couid be promised by this Government to settle this matter on payment of $1 an acre, some of those big holders commenced to negotiate the sale of their land. I remember in particular the case of one purchaser. I will mention his name because it is only fair to him that I should do so. I refer to Mr. Hyland who owned about 12,000 acres of this land, some of which he purchased by auction and some of which he got, I presume, in connection with the sale of Indian lands.
I met him on the street one day and we talked this matter over. "Well, Mr. Bradbury," he said, "I have practically given away my holdings in St. Peters reserve." I smiled. "Now," I said, "the thing is all settled, let us he frank; what do you call giving it away?" He said, "I think I have got the sale completed at $24 per acre." This is some of the land which averaged $5.60 per acre and his holdings were not the best part of the land. There is land on the river front that you could not buy for less than $75 an acre and some are asking $100 and $150 an acre for it. I want to put this on record in reply to my hon. friend who would leave the impression that a price of $5 or $6 per acre was the fair value of the land.
I do not know that I have very much more to say in this connection. The thing is reaching a settlement, but I realize just as strongly as I ever did that a great injustice has been done to the Indian wards of this country. The Government, of which my hon. friend (Mr. Oliver) was a member up to 1911, could have protected these Indians even after this sale had taken place if they had only listened to my suggestion and been willing to investigate. That was the time to have corrected the evils which had taken place but after the matter had been allowed to drag on for about four years during the regime of hon. gentlemen opposite and for three or four years after the present Government came into power, you can well understand how ' it got mixed up, how it became entangled

and how innocent people became1 involved to such an extent that a grave injustice would have been done if it had been pushed to a conclusion in the courts, and if these people^ [DOT]had been made to pay to the Indians what these lands were worth. This compromise measure improves the position of the Indians to the extent of something like $40,000 which they never would have got if it had not been introduced by the Government.
But a more important phase of the question, as far as the purchaser is concerned, is this:	If this legislation was not
enacted, I contend-and I think every legal gentleman in the House will back me up- that the titles held by the purchasers of these lands would not be worth the paper they are written on; without this legislation they would toe absolutely worthless. This legislation legalizes the surrender, enabling every man who pays an extra $1 [DOT] an acre to get a clear title-a title about which there can be no dispute in years to come. If this were not done, in five or ten years from now any person might take proceedings and upset one of these titles, and perhaps upset the whole surrender; I believe that this is what would happen. This is a compromise that I am sure the men who secured the bulk' of these lands are very well pleased with; in fact, I have had messages from some of them telling me that they are well satisfied with this arrangement. They realize now that although I was, to use their words, the main mover and the one who, caused the trouble, it was lucky for them that I did so, because otherwise their titles would not have been considered a good asset. I think the Government have made perhaps the best settlement they could under the circumstances, without inflicting great hardships on a number of innocent people; although, to be frank, I do, not think the Indian is satisfied; he still feels aggrieved. My hon. friend, when he was speaking of the land bought at auction, touched upon this question of hardships done to innocent people. As I said on a previous occasion, nearly all the land that was sold toy auction was acquired by the same men who had purchased the lands; 15,000 acres was sold by auction, and of that 13,700 or 13,800 acres was acquired by the same men who had purchased from the Indians; consequently, when you remember the manner in which that sale was conducted, none of these men could be called innocent purchasers. The transaction bore on the face of it an attempt to deceive the public. If I remember rightly, notice of the sale was placed in six papers-in six issues of the Winnipeg Free Press, the Toronto Globe, and one or two Manitoba weeklies, notice appeared that the sale was going to take place on the 16th of December-in midwinter when the ground was covered with snow and intending purchasers could not see what kind of land they were buying. Consequently, there was really no competition for these lands, and the only men who attended the sale were those directly interested, jmd who had previously purchased , the lands, or secured them as best they otherwise could from the Indians have been compelled by every case purchased from the Indians. There have been several cases since this action by the Government was proposed where men who have acquired these lands from the Indians have been compelled by the courts to hand back the title. When men tell me there' was no fraud perpetrated on the Indians, they are telling me what I know to be absolutely contrary to fact. Dozeils of these poor Indians were actually robbed outright of their lands; some of them have told me that they received absolutely nothing for their land. You will remember, Sir, that the settlement was that each member of the Indian family got 16 acres. If a man had a wife he sometimes got 32 acres. Some of these Indians were induced by unscrupulous men to sign a document purporting to be an agreement of sale, and that, in many instances, constituted a statutory deed of the man's property. Time after time men have told me that they received nothing for their lands. There are cases where rather prominent citizens who have bought large tracts of these lands from the Indians have thought it wise to make restitution. I do not wish to recite all these things, as it is late in the day now, but in view of these facts I think my hon. friend from Edmonton, who is more responsible than any other man for this matter, was ill-advised to make the statement he did regarding the acceptance of these titles by the Registrar General of Manitoba. That official occupies a position of trust, and he could have done nothing else than he did. If Mr. Macara was an honest custodian of the people's money, and was protecting the province of Manitoba, I hold that he could have done nothing else but what he did, and I therefore regret that my hon. friend (Mr. Oliver) has seen fit to go as far as he did in this matter.
While I am not prepared to say that this settlement is doing the Indians anything

like justice, I do say that I think that perhaps it is wise, in view of all the circumstances, to accept the settlement provided . in this Bill. I think perhaps the Bill might have gone further and legalized other surrenders, because I am as certain as I am standing here that other surrenders taken by the late Government are just in the same position as the surrender of St. Peters Indian reserve.


Frank Oliver: Mr. Macara did not refuse to register those surrenders.


George Henry Bradbury: That may be quite true. His attention was never called to the fact; he did not have Chief Justice Howell and other men to warn him. But I will guarantee that no surrender of an Indian reserve in Canada will ever go through on that basis again. I take upon myself to say that no registrar general in Canada will ever issue a Torrens title on a patent issued by the Crown on such a surrender as was taken in this case On the authority of my hon. friend from Edmonton; and simply because there is serious doubt, to say the least, as to its legality. The Indian Department of this country, I am directly informed, are now insisting that a full majority of the band must be present before a surrender is taken; and that, to my mind, is the common sense rendering of that clause in the Indian Act which is put there to protect the Indians.


Mr. MEIGHEN:: The effect of the Bill, as it stands, is to legalize the St. Peters reserve surrender to those holders outside of actual Indians who effect a lien thereon jf $1 an acre or pay $1 an acre in cash. The effect of the Bill, if amended as suggested by the hon. member for Edmonton (Mr. Oliver), would be to legalize the surrender without regard to persons at all, and without the payment of anything. My first observation is this: The hon. member for Edmonton, when he spoke before on this subject, stated that in his judgment the effect of the Bill as it stands to-day is a direction to the Registrar General of Manitoba to legalize the surrender in every respect, and all titles that are based upon it, without the payment of anything; and that if he were an honest man-which he says he is not-lie would act in that way and would legalize the surrender and would ratify and make good all titles.


William Pugsley: I would like a clear understanding of this matter. The Minister of the Interior (Mr. Roche) stated, when he introduced the Bill, that the Registrar
	,
General had passed the title already. Is that true or not?


Arthur Meighen: I do not know what the minister said-


William Pugsley: I will read it.


Arthur Meighen: It will be true.


William Pugsley: I refer to page 2147 of Hansard, where the minister is reported as saying:
The Registrar of Titles in the province of Manitoba, after some correspondence last summer with the Solicitor General and with the Indian Department, decided that he would pass favourably upon those lands if the Superintendent General of Indian Affairs would give , the assurance that at the next session of Parliament he would introduce an Act to confirm the surrender.
I understand from that that the Registrar General has already issued certificates of title, relying on the assurance that the Bill would be introduced this session.


Arthur Meighen: What the hon. member
said the minister had informed the House was that the Registrar General had issued titles.


William Pugsley: That is what I understand.


Arthur Meighen: What he Teads-and it
is exactly as I recall the words of the minister-is that the Registrar General had stated that if the assurance of the Government were given that legislation of this character would be-introduced as a Government measure, he would be prepared to act as though it were passed and ratify the title. Whether or not there have been cases before him, and he has issued titles, I 3o not know, and consequently cannot state. But he did agree that if the promise were given by the Government to introduce legislation-and it was-he would be in a position to, and would, ratify the title.


William Pugsley: How could he do that? How could he give a legal title?


Arthur Meighen: Because it would become legal by this legislation; and because the Registrar General, like most people, ha. confidence that legislation introduced by this Government will pass.


William Pugsley: Does that follow?


Arthur Meighen: I say they have confidence that it will pass. And I think that the hon. member for St. John has learned in the past five years to have the same confidence, if he would only acknowledge it. It is for the Registrar General to de-

cide; and he had sufficient confidence,- doubtless backed by the confidence of the present' Government of Manitoba,-and the joint confidence of these two institutions brought them 'to the conclusion that they would be quite safe in acting upon the promise of the present minister to introduce legislation.


Frank Oliver: May I ask for information, does the Registrar General of Manitoba a< on his own responsibility in registering, or does he share responsibility with the Government of Manitoba?


Arthur Meighen: That is something which my hon. friend might appeal to the Government of Manitoba to answer. The Registrar General is not an official of this Government, but of the Government of Hon. Mr. Norris in Manitoba. How far they interfere with his administration of his office I have no means of knowing.


Frank Oliver: Then his office is not strictly judicial?


Arthur Meighen: In part judicial, I should think. I should, say that the Government under which he acts could make it his duty to register titles if they wished to do so, by means of legislation, and if they are not satisfied they could appoint somebody else.


Frank Oliver: And they could prevent him from registering, as the Roblin Government did.


Arthur Meighen: I do not know that the Roblin Government ever interfered, and never heard that they did, but I do know that the Chief Justice of the Court of Appeal of Manitoba made his recommendation, as did two other judges, which was acted upon.


Frank Oliver: Which, of course, was none of his business; he- had no interest in the matter, near or remote.


Arthur Meighen: I did not observe any action taken by the late administration to correct that judge in the discharge of his duty. What I set out to say was that the legislation as it at present stands makes the surrender legal, conditional upon the payment of $1 an acre, or the giving of a lien for that amount. The legislation as proposed to be amended would make it legal without any payment whatever. Now, the hon. member for Edmonton says that, even in its present form as introduced by the Government, it amounts to an instruction to the Registrar General to legalize the titles without payment.


Frank Oliver: I do not know that I understand it to te an instruction to the Registrar General. I think by the questions I asked my hon. friend (Mr. -Meighen), and the Minister of Justice (Mr. Doherty) it was demonstrated that the Registrar General for Manitoba was not under the instructions of this Government.


Arthur Meighen: What the hon. gentleman said was that the effect of the legislation as introduced made it the duty of the Registrar General, if he was -an honest man, to pass the title without payment.


Frank Oliver: Not as an instruction.


Arthur Meighen: Made it his duty, if he was an honest man. Then, why does the hon. gentleman introduce an amendment to make it his duty to pass the title without payment? There can be only one answer, and that is, that he has no confidence in the Registrar General.


Frank Oliver: The hon. gentleman insists on misrepresenting the expression I used in regard to the relationship of the Registrar General to the legislation proposed by the Government. He would make it appear that I had said that this legislation was a direction to the Registrar General, or that he was expected to act on it.


Arthur Meighen: What the hon. gentleman said is on record. He agreed with me that I interpreted it correctly when I said that its effect at present was to make it the duty of the Registrar General, if he is an honest man, to pass the title without-


Frank Oliver: Not as a direction.


Arthur Meighen: That is the way I represented it the last three times. Its- effect is to make it his duty, if he is an honest man, to pass the title without payment. Why, th(en, does the hon. gentleman introduce an amendment asking us to plainly say in the Act that he must pass the title without payment? That would make its effect in his view exactly as it is now.


Frank Oliver: Yes.


Arthur Meighen: Then, his amendment
is, even in his own opinion, no amendment at all, and merely brings out the reason why he moves it, which is, that he has no confidence in the Registrar General. Well, the Registrar Gfeneral can be made to do this by legislation of the Government of Manitoba. So the hon. gentleman's lack of confidence must cover both the Government of

Manitoba and the Registrar General. And that is the whole basis of his amendment.
However, the effect of the Bill at present is not at all to make it the duty of the Registrar General to pass the title without payment, but to pass it upon payment of $1 an acre, or upon the filing of a lien for that amount. I do not think it would be well for this House to consider an amendment ratifying the surrender and procuring in the settlement nothing at all for the wards of this Government. I think it is the duty of the Government to procure all we can for the wards of the Government, and to procure it from those who profited by the illegality brought about by the late Government.
It is cbntended that all the records show, and that the petitions read by the hon. member for Edmonton show, that the surrender in the first place was in the interest of the Indians themselves, and in the interest of the country. I do not argue and I do not think it has ever been argued, that the taking of a surrender, were it properly done, was not in the interests of the Indians and of the country.	The taking of a surrender may well have been in the interests of the Indians and in the interests of the country if such were properly and legally done and if justice were done the wards of the Government in the method adopted and in the general execution of the project. All that has been contended is this: That in the method adopted and in the execution of the project, the interests of the wards of the Government were not conserved. Now, we set about to remedy that state of affairs; we issue a writ in the Exchequer Court asking for the cancellation of the surrender. It is urged by the hon. member for Edmonton that there is nothing in the writ ascribing fraud on the part of those who purchased after the surrender was effected and at the auction sale. That is correct, but why would that be necessary in a writ such as this? The surrender is called in question; the whole method of obtaining that surrender is declared to' be fraudulent from the beginning, not merely illegal in that the majority did not consent, but fraudulent in that bribery was indulged in for the purpose of getting it-wrong pressure and wrong promises. If that is established; if the Government's contention is right, then the whole thing is upset and the auction sale falls down with it, and every-
[ Mr. Meishen.]
thing falls. Consequently, the information in the Exchequer Court goes the full length that it needs to go; to go further would be surplusage in the present action. It does not at all admit that in the auction sale which followed tfte wards of the Government were protected as they should have been protected by the Government of the day.
The hon. member should see that what the petitions urge is this: Inasmuch as all this, right or wrong, was done by a Government or by a Government official, the people of Canada should stand by it. That is what the petitions urge. They say that Mr. Pedley may have done wrong or he may	have done
right; he may have committed fraud or he, may have been an honest man. But whatever he did, he was your official; he was the official of the Government of Canada;1 consequently we call upon you to make good what he did.	That is the
attitude taken by the petitions, but that is far from arguing, as the hon. member from Edmonton did, that the methods adopted were right in themselves.
We have effected a settlement which means the restitution of about $40,000 to the wards of this Government; we have brought this penalty upon those who profited by the transaction. We cannot bring the penalty upon the late Government; the people of Canada are the only people who could do that, and they have done it in so far as it was in their power The late Government are the other parties who did wrong, and we cannot possibly compensate for their wrong; we cannot possibly visit any penalty upon them The only ones we can get it from are those who profited by it, and we do so to the'extent of the sum stipulated in the Bill.
I do not want to cover the ground again, but let me point this out: the hon. member for Edmonton read the contentions of the counsel for these parties, the defendants. To put forward the contention from the point of view of counsel that these persons bought in good faith, and all the rest of it, does not by any means say that his contention is correct or founded on fact; he is arguing that as lawyer for these defendants. It would have been fair, I think, had the hon. gentleman also put on record my reply, in which, while accepting on behalf of the Government the terms suggested, I clearly stipulated that it was no admission on our part that the surrender had itself been legal or that the proceedings that were

part of the surrender were not fraudulent. I do not wish to read the whole of the letter, as it is rather long, but I shall read one short paragraph. The letter is dated June 8, 1915, addressed to Messrs. Andrews, Andrews & Co., and signed by myself:
Such acceptance as is herein set out is not decided upon by reason of any change of view on the part of this department or of the Government as to the legality of the surrender now in question or as to the propriety of the proceedings that led to and that followed the surrender. We are disposed to view favourably a settlement by reason of considerations arising out of difficulties that are necessarily entailed by the unsettled conditions of titles to so large an amount of land and the consequent retardation of settlement in the district concerned. These results in turn affect many who are innocent of all connection with the original proceedings-affect indeed the Indians themselves and the public generally.
There is succinctly stated the position originally assumed and maintained by the Government, and, furthermore, the reasons why it is impossible to bring home to the parties the due penalty for the wrongs they committed. It is impossible to bring home to the Government of that day a penalty for the wrong it committed; for that I am very sorry. It is impossible to bring home to the parties who received the benefits of the wrongs committed the punishment that they deserve in each case.. To do so would involve the very disasters that are pointed out in the petitions read by the hon. member for Edmonton-the retardation of settlement, the closing of school districts, the holding back of land development and the penalizing of those who innocently secured titles afterwards. That is the whole basis and cause of settlement. It does not pretend to do full or substantial justice to the Indians; such is impossible by reason of the considerations that arose afterwards, and in the hands of which we were not able to do that substantial justice. It does not pretend to do that, but it pretends to go as far along the road of substantial justice as it is practicable and possible to go at the present distance of time.


William Pugsley: I think that my
hon. friend	has	forgotten to tell
the House one very important thing, and [DOT] that is that it was he himself who gave the assurance by letter that the Government would introduce legislation, and he gave that assurance with a view to inducing the Registrar of Titles to pass favourably upon the titles and to issue the necessary certificates. The certificates of title issued so far as those who
were paying cash was concerned would give absolutely good title, I may say to the hon. member for Selkirk, whether this legislation passes or does not pass, because under the Land Titles Act a certificate of title issued by the registrar is absolutely good and cannot be questioned by any one. Of course, if anybody should have a claim by reason of his title having been taken away from him, that claim -would be against the fund which is paid into the treasury under the Land Titles Act.
As I understand the hon. member for Edmontbn, what he complains of is this: the correspondance, beginning with the letter of Mr. Norquay, who is a leading Conservative in Manitoba, and who appears to be manager of an important real estate company, and the resolutions of the various municipal councils, show that there is no evidence whatever that there was an irregularity or any wrong-doing of any kind or description in connection with the disposal of the land in this reserve. This land having been disposed of away back in the year 1908 and this Government having now by their action admitted that no fraud was perpetrated, that no one was guilty of any wrong-doing, and that the matter should be settled and . the titles made * absolutely good, the contention of the hon. member for Edmonton (Mr. Oliver) is that it is entirely wrong, that these purchasers, who paid their money eight years ago into the treasury of the country, and who obtained what they thought was their title to these properties, should now be called upon to pay to the Government the sum of $1 per acre additional, in order to prevent themselves from being held up, and in order to secure their deeds. That is what my hon. friend complains of, arid is that not a correct position to take? Is this Government so much in need of .money that it must hold up these people, and, by pointing the gun at them, say to them: "No matter how innocent you may be, we are determined to carry this case to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, unless you pay into the treasury of Canada the sum of $1 per acre." My hon. friend the Solicitor General is compelled to admit that there are men who have bought the lands in this reserve who are absolutely innocent purchasers, who paid their money in good faith;, that there are people like the widow of the man to whom my hon. friend from Edmonton has referred, whose husband

bought this land .in good faith .and paid his purchase price to the Government. The Solicitor General is compelled to admit that the innocent and the guilty, as he calls them, are being treated alike, that these people are compelled to pay money which they have no right to pay; and this the hon. member for Edmonton says, and so do I, on the evidence we have submitted, is an injustice of the worst possible kind that is being inflicted upon innocent people.
I admit that this Government was standing between the devil and the deep sea when it came into power. There was the hon. member for 'Selkirk (Mr. Bradbury), who had been for years declaiming in this Parliament, for political effect-


John Gillanders Turriff: Nothing else.
Mr. PU'GSLEYthat a great wrong had been perpetrated against these Indians-


George Henry Bradbury: That is right.
. Mr. PUGSLEYthat an enormous wrong had been perpetrated against them. The Government came into power in 1911 when, if there had been this wrong, it was the duty of the Government to deal with it. But they did not deal with it, they took no step of any kind or description for the first three years they were in 5 p.m. office, until 1914, when people 'began to complain of the long delay, of the inaction of the Government, and of the fact that these titles were being held up; that industries were prevented from being started on lands in connection with this reserve. And then comes a letter from this prominent Conservative, Mr. Norquay, addressed to the Prime Minister, in which he says that the.Hon. Dr. Montague, the Minister of Public Works in the Manitoba Government, was running an election in this constituency, and that unless there was some assurance that this matter would be settled it would operate most disadvantageous^ to Dr. Montague and the Conservative party, both in Manitoba and at Ottawa, if the matter was not speedily settled. Mr. Norquay also says that it is going to affect Mr. Bradbury-


George Henry Bradbury: So it will; it will give me the biggest majority I ever had.


William Pugsley: It is going to affect Mr. Bradbury if it is not settled; and at last, in winding-up, he tells the Prime Minister that Liberals and Conservatives have both invested in these lands, that it is an enormous hardship. And then he separates the 
Conservative party from the people of Manitoba, and he says it is of great importance to tire people of Manitoba, as well as to the Conservative party. Let me read the letter.


George Henry Bradbury: It was of greater interest to Mr. Norquay than to the people of Manitoba.


William Pugsley: Mr. Norquay? Mr. Norquay's name is a good Conservative name in Manitoba. This is what he says:
This surrender was made under a commission issued to the hon. Chief Justice Howell.
A man whom I think the Government could fairly trust to do justice so far as the Indians were concerned. Then Mr. Norquay says:
To continue delay in settling this question, cannot but be attended with results inimical to our party here and in Ottawa, and in the interests of our member, Mr. George Bradbury, no better act could be done on his behalf than to place him in a position whereby he may receive the unanimous support of the party which at the present time is endangered by the fact that not only Liberals, but Conservatives as wen have purchased these lands and the monies are hid up until a settlement is effected.
And he winds up with an expression of his sincere trust that the Prime Minister will give personal attention to this matter, and that his personal attention will produce the result of relieving the Manitoba Government of the incubus of retarded development, and, thereby earning the gratitude of the people and the Conservative party in Manitoba.
The Prime Minister does not dispute these statements of Mr. Norquay. He apparently admits the truth of them, because if he had reason, after three years in office, to believe that Mr. Norquay was not stating what was true when he alleged that the grantees were entitled to their patents, that they had bought the lands and paid for them, and were entitled to get their deeds, the Prime Minister would naturally have replied to Mr. Norquay that there was fraud in connection with this matter, and that the Government could not act upon his recommendation. The Prime Minister writes to the Solicitor General, and he tells him that he has informed Mr. Norquay that the suggestions which Mr. Norquay had made would receive " the careful and earnest consideration of the Government." Those suggestions, of Mr. Norquay were very important to the Conservative party, very important to this Government, because Mr. Norquay is calling the attention of the Government to their inexcusable delay in

settling this matter. They had succeeded in 1908, apparently through their Conservative friends in their Manitoba Government, in preventing the Registrar General of Titles from issuing the certificates of title which it was his duty to do under the sales which had taken place. The matter had 'been held up for three years pending the coming into office of this Government, and for three years longer they remained inactive, and, Sir, we can only believe that they remained inactive because they felt that there was no ground on which action could be taken to set aside these sales upon the pretext of fraud or irregularity. But when at length the fact is impressed upon them by Mr. Norquay that this is of vast importance1 to Dr. Montague, the Minister of Public Works in Manitoba, who is running an election, that it is of vast importance to Mr. Norquay, who will not get a corporal's guard of the electors unless this is settled, and that it is of enormous importance to the Conservative party of Manitoba-this wakens up the Prime Minister, and he writes a letter to Mr. Meighen, in which he says he has assured Mr. Norquay that his suggestions, which are all along political lines, will receive the earnest and careful consideration of the Government. But see the position the Government were in in relation to their very warm supporter, their very loyal friendi, the member for Selkirk (Mr. Bradbury). They could not allow the thing to go by the board, they could not confirm the titles, because that would discredit the hon. member for Selkirk; that would be telling the people of Manitoba that he had no ground for making these charges, session after session, in this Parliament. So the ingenuity of my hon. friend' the Solicitor General is called upon to devise a way by means of which the people of Selkirk can be satisfied, and by means of which the political scalp of the hon. member for Selkirk may be saved to himself.


George Henry Bradbury: It is quite safe.


William Pugsley: And so they devised this extraordinary scheme, by means of which the sum of $1 per acre is to be paid by these people towards the .Indian fund, whose land, worth, as the hon. member for Selkirk says, from $75 to $100 per acre, was *'actually sold for $5 or $6 per acre. That is the salve which is to be given to my hon. friend from Selkirk, and the salve which is to be given to the people of Selkirk is that the titles are to be confirmed. It is a petty piece of business that the
men who bought the lands in good faith, who paid the Government of Canada for them in good faith, are to be held up, with a pistol placed at their heads, and told that unless they are prepared to pay a dollar an acre more for the lands, of which my hon. friend from Selkirk says the Indians were robbed, the titles will still be held up and the matter will be taken to the Privy Council. It is a pretty small business for a Government of a great and wealthy Dominion like Canada; it is a pretty small business on the part of this Government, and one of which they ought to be ashamed. The Solicitor General says: We are not going to distinguish between the innocent and the guilty, and we will make the innocent pay a dollar an acre, just the same as the people who, we think, are guilty; we will make the poor widow, to whom my hon. friend from Edmonton referred, pay a dollar an acre in order to enable her to hold this land which her husband bought and paid for in good faith, thinking that it would afford a home.


Arthur Meighen: The hon. member misrepresents what I said. I did not make any such statement as he has attributed to me. In the main, the innocent in this transaction are not those who were interested in the lands at all, but those who indirectly suffered, and who, consequently, are not called upon to pay anything.


William Pugsley: My hon. friend is reported on page 2149 of Hansard as follows:
There is another consideration still. While the surrender may have been invalid, while in my humble judgment it was invalid legally, and while I think that that would have been the ultimate decision of the courts, this is the fact, that there were some concerned with that sale who were by no means as guilty as others, and there were some whose interest subsequently arose, and in whom there could be no guilt at all.


Arthur Meighen: Hear, hear.


William Pugsley: And yet those men are being asked to pay a dollar an acre more.


Arthur Meighen: No, no, I did not say so.


William Pugsley: Oh, yes, they are to
pay in order to get their titles, because the Registrar General has held them up. What does the Solicitor General say further. He says in effect, as does the hon. member for Selkirk, that the sale of these lands was invalid, and that the Registrar General was perfectly right in refusing to issue certificates of title because the titles were invalid. But the Solicitor General writes a letter, which is to be shown to the Regis-

trar General, and in -which, as a member of the Government, he undertakes to introduce legislation in order to confirm the title; and he expresses the view that the Registrar General ought to act upon that assurance and issue the certificates of title. Since when has the mere promise of a member of the Government to introduce legislation had the force of law in this country? If this sale was void, if no title actually passed, if the Registrar General was right in refusing to issue certificates of title, I would like to know how a letter from the Solicitor General could make those titles good, and make valid that which previously had been void. The Solicitor General says the Registrar General was entitled to take his assurance that. he would introduce a Bill. He says that the experience I have had in this Parliament during the past five or six years should convince me that this Government could pass any legislation which it undertook to introduce. That has not been my experience, not always; indeed I have heard the Solicitor General himself complain that there is another branch of this legislature which has sometimes taken a different view from the Government.


Arthur Meighen: That was for the
Registrar General to decide.


William Pugsley: My view is that lie is
indeed a presumptuous individual who would undertake to say that Parliament will simply register the decisions which the Government of the day has arrived at. It is not treating the House of Commons with proper consideration, and still less is it treating the Senate, an independent branch of this Parliament', with consideration when a member of the Government assumes that Parliament will pass any legislation which the Government thinks fit to introduce.


Arthur Meighen: Will my hon. friend
read where I assume that Parliament will pass any legislation the Government may introduce?


William Pugsley: My hon. friend said today in his speech that he had no doubt they had confidence in the statement he made that the Government would introduce legislation, and I understood him to say that even I, from my experience in Parliament during the past five or six years, would not question the ability of this Government to pass any legislation it might introduce.. Otherwise, why did my hon. friend Tefer to my experience in Par-
liament during the past five or six years? I submit that the legislation is not necessary at all. The registrar general has issued his certificate of title; he is prepared to pass the titles and to pass favourably upon them, as the Minister of the Interior said when he introduced the Bill. Therefore, the titles are absolutely good. But if the Government does not think it desirable to pass legislation confirming the titles, let it do>
the manly and square thing by the people wlm bought and paid for the lands, and simply confirm the titles instand of taking the petty course, even to please, or to give some degree of kudos, no matter how small, to my hon. friend from Selkirk, of demanding and squeezing out of those people, who, as I have said, bought the land and paid for it and are entitled to their certificates, the sum of one dollar per acre. The course of the Government has been influenced, on the one side, by the expression of a. strong feeling on the part of the people of Selkirk that it has treated the matter wrongly by delaying a settlement of the question; and, on the other hand, by a desire to in some way take the hon. member for Selkirk out of the position in which he placed himself some years ago* by asserting that this property of enormous value had been sold for a mere trifle. The Bill is not necessary because the titles are good. The registrar general has passed upon them and issued the necessary certificates. But if any legislation is thought by the Government to be necessary it ought to take the form of a Bill validating the titles and so putting an end to this question which has been before this House for so>
many years. That would be an honourable course, a course worthy of the Government of a great country like Canada. The course which is being taken to-day is a petty course which will reflect no credit upon the Government, or upon this Parliament, or upon my hon. friend the member for Selkirk.


Charles Joseph Doherty: It seems to me quite manifest, particularly from the speech of the hon. member who has just taken his seat (Mr. Pugsley), that it is deemed necessary in some interests to surround this measure, which is in itself simple enough, with a great deal of matter tending to create confusion. It ought to be remembered that the matter that is being dealt with here is the settlement of a disputed question. Hon. gentlemen on the other side of the House have approached this question on the assumption

that there was absolutely no room for dispute. They have assumed that the titles of the people were absolutely good titles. That may have been the contention of the people who have these titles. That has been the contention of hon. gentlemen on the other side. But the fact remains that there has been entertained by competent people an opinion absolutely contrary to that. I do not propose, as we are dealing with this question of settlement, to go into an investigation of what the evidence was, pro and con, as to the facts so far as the validity of the titles depended on the facts. But what we have to remember when we approach the consideration of this legislation, what we cannot afford to overlook, is that it was contended that the titles were legally invalid because the agents and trustees of the Indians at the time of the transaction had not obtained from the Indians the consent that was essential to the passing of the title. If that contention is correct, the property of the Indians was parted with illegally and surely you have at the very outset, as we have heard so much about innocent people and about this Government grasping money apparently, as hon. gentlemen consider it, for the benefit of this Government at the expense of innocent people, to remember that the contention of the Crown in this case is that the innocent Indian had been deprived of the property without his consent lawfully given. Furthermore, it was contended that the Indian, by reason of this transaction, had received less for his property than he really should have received for it. ' So, we have one clearly innocent party on whose' behalf this Government is making no pretension of its own, and making no claim for money from anybody, for itself or for its own benefit. Here, we have the certainly innocent Indian who, if the contention is sound, had been deprived of his-property through no fault o' his own and had not received adequate value for it. Not only did the Government entertain that opinion but two of thre^ judges appointed to go into the question in Manitoba entertained the same opinion and arrived at the conclusion that the titles that were so given were not valid and were not effective.
It is easy to say that all this is done at the instance or at' the instigation of this Government or of some politician, but the fact remains that these two judges came to that conclusion and I really fail to see that anything has been advanced to . support the contention that. they did not arrive at that conclusion in the honest performance of the duty that was incumbent upon them.
Under this Bill it is proposed to settle what was the contention on the one hand that these innocent Indians had been deprived of their property and had received inadequate compensation for their land. On the other hand, we had a large class of persons who had acquired these properties with the knowledge not merely of the suggestion of legal invalidity but of very serious irregularities to say nothing more of the manner in which the property had been disposed of. In that situation proceedings were taken and it was the duty of the trustee for the Indian to take proceedings to rectify the wrong done to him. It is true that, where you come to deal with the rectification of a wrong resulting from the fact that in some way or other property has passed into the hands of persons from persons not capable of giving a valid title, it may happen that innocent purchasers may be made to suffer. It may be possible, although I am not in a position to say , that some one holding this land may say that he is an innocent purchaser and that he acted in good faith. Let us assume that there are some of those; in what situation do we find ourselves then? We find ourselves in this situation, that by the, what we believe to be, illegal action and not merely the illegal action, but, if the facts put before us are proved, as apparently the evidence does prove them, the grave irregularities of those who at the time of this transaction were the trustees of the Indians, a wrong was done to the Indian. We are to-day the trustees of the Indians and even if it were true that there should be some innocent person who, because he had dealt with people who themselves had dealt in bad faith, would ultimately suffer, surely that does not relieve us of our obligation to see that the absolutely innocent Indian is protected.
While we had strong grounds for believing that the title was invalid, such a contention and belief were contested by those people immediately concerned and it was further made to appear that a large part of the community where these lands are situate would suffer if this thing were left to be dealt with by more or less protracted litigation.	In face
of that situation what did we do? Hon. gentlemen talk of extorting money from innocent people, forcing innocent people to pay money. There is nothing in this

Act that does that. We assent to a settlement for those who desire a settlement. In * view of conditions as they are to-day, we assent to a settlement that, it is true, gives less to the Indian than if the transaction had been regularly carried out he would have received. It is true we compromised his claim, we accept a reduced amount, but we extort that from nobody. Nobody is bound to come under this Act. All we say is: there is our view, there is our belief; we believe the Indian is right. On the other hand, there is the defence put up that the people acquired the property in perfectly good faith. We realize the importance, not only to the people who hold the property, but, I may say, to the community there generally, of having this matter settled once and for all. We realize too, strong as our convictions may be, that there is such a thing as uncertainty in the law. In view of these considerations, we are willing to accept from those who want their titles validated, and who feel themselves that the case against their titles is sufficiently strong to ma*e it >at least doubtful, the payment of this fnoderate sum. This Government is not trying to grab money, but when this money is paid to it as the trustee of the Indian, there will be restored to the Indian some slight part of what we are convinced he lost by reason of the administration of tne previous trustees. I do not want to raise up old questions, or to malre cnarges, but our view is that by these illegal and irregular actions of those who were acting as t^e previous trustees of the Indian, he has incurred a loss. Now we say to these people; If you will compensate, to some extent at all events, for the loss to our wards, we will, in view of the conditions, agree to accept from you a settlement upon your paying this moderate sum and we will thereupon pass legislation to validate your title and remove the doubt. Nobody is being coerced into that settlement. Any one who believes he has a good title may go on and let the courts decide it. However innocent, as I have said, any of these persons may be, the innocence of the Indian, it seems to me, is unquestionable.
It is unfortunate for those who acquired this property in perfectly good faith to find that those from whom they acquired it had no valid title, or at all events were not able to give them a clear title; but any person who in perfectly good faith acquired that property under those conditions has recourse against the persons from whom he immediately acquired it; and ultimately, 
those who will suffer are the ones who were parties to this transaction which is attacked as not only invalid, hut as attainted with such irregularities-to use the mildest word-as to make their title manifestly invalid. It may be that, in the settlement, some innocent purchaser may pay a very small part of the excess value of this property in order to clear his title; that small part will go to the absolutely innocent Indian. In any settlement of a law suit in reaching a compromise some sacrifice is usually involved on both sides, and if anybody should make a email sacrifice in this settlement it is those whose titles are being made valid rather than the Indian. If of two innocent persons one or the other must suffer because of the illegal and irregular action of a previous Government- that is the view we take of it- surely it ought to be clear that our duty is to protect that innocent party who is our ward and under our tutelage, and to leave such other innocent parties as may have been led into a loss by the illegal and irregular action of the previous Government, and by the fact that they have acquired properties from persons who had previously obtained them with knowledge of the irregularity and illegality-leave them to take their recourse against those who are. responsible.
A great deal has been said about a letter in which it was represented that it would be good for the general public, as well as for the Conservative party, that a certain thing which itself was represented as a good and a right thing to do should, be done. Well, I should hope that public opinion in this country is such that every time this Government does a thing that in itself is right and- proper, a thing that in the general interests ought to be done, to that extent it will be good for the Conservative party to do it; but because a letter of that sort was written, saying that a certain thing was a right and an honest and a proper thing for this Government t'o dp, the conclusion hon. gentlemen opposite would have had us reach was this: because, in doing this thing, which is right and honest, and to the advantage of the community that we should do, we may be doing good to the Conservative party, therefore we must not do it. That is the conclusion they would have had us reach. Every time that we do something that it is right and proper and honest that we should do, we have an abiding confidence that it will also be a good thing for the Conservative party

for us to do that. After all, when you analyse the letter which was written, that is just what it said-that it would be a good thing for the Conservative party and a good thing for the hon. member for Selkirk that this Government should do the right and proper thing and have the matter settled. The reasoning of my hon. friend from St. John is that this Government.' should at once- have said: No matter how right and good it is for the community, no matter how proper it is that this should be done, it may do some good to the Conservative1 party and to the hon.' member for Selkirk; that is a conclusive reason why we should refuse to do it. I think that sort of reasoning only needs to be stated to be treated as it deserves to be treated.
Upon the whole, the argument made in support of this amendment-I am referring now more particularly to the argument of the hon. member for St. John-has manifestly no purpose other than to create a confusion with regard to a perfectly clear and a perfectly simple matter. A good deal was said about a letter which the Solicitor General is said to have written, but which it turns out he did not write at all, and wMch was supposed to contain certain things which it does not contain. It was said that the Solicitor General had undertaken to say to the registrar general that, upon the strength of his promise that legislation should be introduced, the registrar should go on and register titles. Let us see just what the registrar says:
Sir,-I understand that a proposition has been made in regard to the titles to lands in the St. Peters Indian reserve, the proposition being that if the purchasers of the lands in that reserve will pay in cash or give a lien or charge to the Indian Department of $1.00 per acre, the Dominion Parliament will pass legislation to confirm that surrender. I understand that there are some cases in which parties are anxious now to have some of these lands released and obtain certificates of title therefor under the Manitoba Real Property Act. I may say that this proposition would be quite satisfactory to me, and so far as the latter class of cases is concerned, that is to say, where the $1 is to be paid in cash,-I would have the money paid in my office here, to be held in trust, and I would then issue a certificate of title clear of all encumbrance, to the purchaser of the lands upon which the $1 per acre has been paid In cash.
I am willing to do this to relieve the situation provided you will give me an undertaking in writing that you will introduce in the next session of Parliament of Canada, a Bill as a Government measure, to confirm the surrender in question, and will use every effort of yourself and your colleagues to have the Bill passed.
If this is satisfactory to you, please write me at once, giving the above undertaking.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your obedient servant, v	(Signed) W. E. Macara,
Registrar General.
So there was absolutely no proposition of any undertaking on the part of the Solicitor General that the legislation would be passed. Whether the registrar general was wise or unwise in taking upon himself the responsibility to do what he did, upon his being assured that a measure would be introduced and every effort made to have it passed, was a matter for him to determine; and I do not see in what way that affords ground for any criticism, either of the action of the Solicitor General or of this Government. That is what the registrar general in his judgment thought proper to do. In answer to that letter a letter was written to Mr Macara, signed by the Minister of the Interior in whose department it was, as follows:
On behalf of the Government of Canada, I undertake to introduce at the next regular session of the Parliament of Canada, a Bill as a Government measure to confirm the surrender of the St. Peters Indian reserve, the validity of which is now in question on the information of this Government in the Exchequer Court.
After giving certain details, he goes on:
This Bill the Government will use every effort to have passed.
There is all that was said. And the hon. member for St. John waxes eloquent, and satirical with regard to an alleged undertaking by the Solicitor General that certain legislation would pass this House and would pass the Senate. There is not a vestige of any such undertaking in this correspondence. As I have said, whether it was wise or unwise for the registrar general to have such great faith as he ap- -parently had, that legislation so* introduced and supported by every effort of this Government would pass, is a matter for him to determine; and if there is Toom for discussion as to the wisdom of that course the hon. gentleman might discuss it with him. But when the hon. member is satirical against the Solicitor General upon the assumption that he made an undertaking which ihe never made, and when we turn to the letters to which the hon. member referred when he indulged in his satire, and find that they do not contain at all that upon which he based the satire,
I think it would he only fair and proper

for the hon. gentleman to withdraw those observations. Upon, the whole Bill and with regard to the amendment, as I said, the proposition is one of the simplest kind. It is to ratify a measure which removes a cloud resting on the title of land, as a result of the manner in which this surrender was dealt with and these properties were sold by the previous Government, and it gives to those who unfortunately hold that land an opportunity to get a clear title. Of this legislation they may avail themselves if they desire, but it leaves them absolutely free, if they feel themselves in the position claimed for them by hon. gentlemen on the other side, to go to the courts and have the matter finally adjusted. We do this in performance of our duty to the Indian who is our ward, and whom we believe -to have been illegally deprived of his property and to have lost, by the irregular manner in which it was dealt with, a substantial sum. I think no- more need be said, when one looks at the measure and -at the facts, than that this is a proposal for the settlement of a disputed question which does an injustice to nobody; which gives some compensation to the Indians and which offers to those who have acquired the property an opportunity to clear their title of the cloud left upon it by the manner in which this matter was dealt with by our predecessors.


John Gillanders Turriff: The Minister of Justice has expressed his great sympathy with the poor innocent Indians in this -connection. Does it not occur to you, Mr. Speaker, as strange that this Government should have been in pow.er for three or four years before the wrongs of the Indians, or the injustice to purchasers, had any effect upon them? But as soon as the seat of the late Dr. Montague became at all dangerous, on account of the lack of action on the part of this Government, and on account of the action taken by my hon. friend from Selkirk, and as soon as it began to be seen that the seat of the hon. member for Selkirk was (becoming endangered, then the Minister of Justice and the Solicitor General, and the Government, realize that the poor Indian is suffering as they -claim, and they immediately take action. It is as plain as anything can be that this action was taken, not in the interests of the Indian, not in the interests of the purchaser of the land, but purely and -simply in the interest of the Conservative party, and to try to make safe a couple 
of Conservative seats that were jeopardized. You can go through this correspondence that has been brought down here, and you will not find in it one single suggestion that- there was anything wrong in connection with the surrender. I am not referring to the pleadings, the vapourings during the ]%st eight years of the hon. member for Selkirk, which are practically all incorporated in those pleadings, but to the correspondence of the people interested. I say that there is not one single vestige of a suggestion that there was anything wrong in the surrender.


Arthur Meighen: Would the hon. gentleman expect that there would be?
Mr. TURRIFF [DOT] I can quite understand the Solicitor General (Mr. Meigben) making the point-and it was a fair point-that the solicitor of those applying for titles naturally would not point out that there was anything wrong. I think the same can be said of the letter of Mr. Norquay, who was writing practically as one of the leading purchasers, and also with the interests of the Conservative party in the local constituencies of Selkirk and St. Andrews at stake. I would not expect him to point out that there was anything wrong. But you have here in this correspondence the resolutions of the town of Selkirk and two other municipalities, made up of Liberals and Conservatives alike, and of the boards of trade, that there was nothing wrong in connection with the surrender of these lands. Let me point out to the Solicitor General and the Minister of Justice, that if the surrender of St. Peters reserve was not legal there has not been a legal surrender of Indian lands taken in Canada. The hon. member for Selkirk stated a little while ago that this matter had not been drawn to the attention of Mr. Macara, the Registrar General, and that therefore that officer had issued the title. What a reflection upon the Registrar General of Manitoba, that because some Indian, or some white man, did not go into his office and say: This surrender is not properly taken, he issued the patents; but that as soon as somebody said that the surrender was not legally taken, he refused to issue patents. As a matter of fact, there is not the slightest doubt that Mr. Macara was prevented from issuing these patents by the late Provincial Government, and that for political purposes and nothing else, for the purpose of trying to work out something against the late Dominion Government and to enable my hon. friend from Selkirk to make a great

splutter around through that part of the country. And my hon. friend has done that. But he saw that he was going beyond his depth, and he has done his best oi late to have the matter remedied, and I give him credit for that.


George Henry Bradbury: If the hon. gentleman is right, and Mr. Macara held these patents back at the instance of the late Government, why did not he issue them as soon as the Government changed?


John Gillanders Turriff: Did not the Registrar General issue these patents?


George Henry Bradbury: Not that I know of.


John Gillanders Turriff: The statement is made here that the patents issued in some cases.


Arthur Meighen: The Registrar General
does not issue patents, but he did not, up to this undertaking, issue titles. Now, the hon. member (Mr. Bradbury) asks: If he was prevented from issuing titles by the Roblin Government, why did he not start issuing them when the Norris Government acceded to power?


John Gillanders Turriff: Because suit had been entered by this Government.


Arthur Meighen: What difference would that make?


John Gillanders Turriff: Suppose it did not. I do not know whether the Registrar General did not take any such action, .but I know that in the same year this reserve was surrendered, another reserve was surrendered almost as near to Winnipeg as this, and the Registrar General never raised any objection whatever, yet that surrender was taken in absolutely and exactly the same manner.


Arthur Meighen: Were allegations brought in in connection with that also?


John Gillanders Turriff: My hon. friend has been arguing all afternoon that the surrender was not properly taken because a majority of the Indians did not vote for the surrender.


Arthur Meighen: That is only one reason. In all his argument, the hon. gentleman has made that point. That is only one reason, of a legal character, for determination; but other allegations are based on fraud, and these had just as much to do with the determination of the judges as had the bare legal point.


John Gillanders Turriff: My hon. friend says that the question of fraud had just as much to
do with the decision of the judges as did the other question raised. But the judges do not say so. Two of the three judges decided that the surrender was illegal because the Indians who voted for the surrender constituted a majority of a meeting of the Indians rather than a majority of all the Indians who were entitled to vote for. the surrender. Further, the Registrar General had refused to act before the judges had come to that decision and in view of the fact that the Registrar General did not wait for the judges' report, there is not much use in the hon. Solicitor General's trying to bolster up the action by the decision of the judges. The whole trouble is that this was a political move from the beginning, and it would have continued a political move but for the fact that the constituents of the hon. member for Selkirk were getting tired of waiting for their patents. The hon. Solicitor General now says: We are charging these men an additional dollar an acre. Why, the purchasers of these lands are out the interest on their purchase money for eight years. And who are asked to pay this one dollar an acre? Is it the parties that the Government themselves say are the guilty parties? Not at all. The innocent parties are asked to pay this additional sum. If anybody is to blame in this matter, it is the late Government; that is clear. The late Government took the surrender and authorized the sale, and the sale was carried out. If the Government of the day did wrong, and if this Government felt that the payment of an additional one dollar an acre was necessary to make the matter right, then the Government ought to have paid that amount, not the people who are not guilty in any sense of the word. Nobody has ever suggested that these persons are guilty, yet they are compelled to pay, and the guilty -parties, if there are guilty parties, are lef off. For my part, I do not see that there was any guilty party.
The member for Selkirk said a few minutes ago that this land was worth $24 to $150 an acre; he spoke of one man who had gathered in a lot of it and who expected	to make a sale at	$24
an acre.	I do not doubt that. I
have seen dozens of men who expected to make sales at $50 an acre. Thousands of men throughout the West bought land in 1907 at $5 or $6 an acre, and although four or five years later that land might have sold at $50 an acre, if it were offered for



.sale to-day it is just a question whether it would bring as much as it brought in 1907. My hon. friend takes the selling price at that time and then figures the value on the highest boom in prices that ever struck the country. Is that a fair comparison? I venture the assertion that if that land were put up for sale to-day only a very small portion of it would sell for any more than it sold for then, if for as much. I know of a good many parcels of land within 20, 25 ot 30 miles of Winnipeg-as near the city as the St. Peters reserve is, and some of it nearer-which is just as good land as the St. Peters reserve, if we except possibly a little strip along the river which i3 of some value for purposes of summer residences. I know people who have tried to sell that land within the last three or four years at $6, $7 and $8 an acre, and although they have offered it for sale in a number of offices in Winnipeg they have not been able to sell a dollar's worth of it. For the hon. member to come into this House and talk about land in a reserve being worth $24 to $150 an acre-well, it is simply bosh and nothing else.


George Henry Bradbury: The sale that I was
referring to, in which Mr. Hyland was interested, was supposed to have taken place within the last six months. There was no boom in prices then.


John Gillanders Turriff: It was supposed to have taken place. There have been any amount of deals in land and trades in land for apartment blocks in Winnipeg and for apartment blocks in Minneapolis in connection with which prices were put in at three times their value on both sides. I would not be surprised, therefore, to 'hear that land had been turned over at $24 an acre. If it was because something was wrong that the registrar would not registrar these titles,'it was wrong to the extent only of a dollar an acre. No matter what the land was worth, even if $150 an aq-e, it was sold for $6 an acre, and by making the price $7 an acre the surrender becomes - valid and the title good. That is exactly the argument of my hon. friend. The Minister of Justice stated just now that no one was coerced in this matter. I would like to know what coercion is. The minister says that a man who, we will say, has bought a section of 640 acres of this Indian land at the average price of $6 an acre is not coerced, although he cannot get his title unless he pays this one dollar an acre. Of course he could take suit against the 
Government and he could carry the case to the Privy Council, but if forcing him to do that is not coercion, I do not know what coercion is. It seems to me that it is the highest form of coercion.
This matter is being settled at last by punishing innocent purchasers of the land. It is being settled with the purpose of trying to help the Conservative party, and of trying to help my hon. friend and it is settled for no other reason. My hon. friend intimates that it will not help him; he is quite right. My hon. friend should have taken action earlier; he let it go too long. The case is now out of his control; the people realize what my hon. friend has had to do with this case all along. He kept it stirred up for political reasons, and when he came to the conclusion that it would not do to keep the matter going any longer, steps are taken to effect a settlement whereby the innocent purchasejs of the land are made to pay. Take the case of a man who purchased, not from the Indians, and not at the auction sale, but from some other man who purchased this land. The Minister of Justice talked about recourse, what recourse would a man in this position have? He had no idea when he purchased the lands, that there was going to be all this trouble. A large part of these lands changed hands two or three times after the sale, so that the innocent purchaser of the land has absolutely no recourse, and he can thank the hon. member for Selkirk (Mr. Bradbury) that he is in that position.


George Henry Bradbury: So he does; he is going to vote for me.
Amendment of Mr. Oliver negatived, on division.


[Stage Direction]
Motion agreed to, and Bill read the third time and passed. [DOT]
At six o'clock the House took recess.
The House resumed at eight o'clock.

[Stage Direction]
Hon. C. J. DOHERTY (Minister of Justice) moved the third reading of Bill No. 66, in aid of Provincial Legislation Prohibiting or Restricting the Sale or Use of Intoxicating Liquors.
Hon. GEO. P. GRAHAM (South Renfrew) : I would ask the Minister of Justice

a question before this motion passes. In correspondence that I have received, this query has been put to me: What provision, if any, is there in this Bill, to prevent liquor from being carried into a province which has adopted prohibition, to the extent of its powers, by the mail carriers, by parcel post, for example. I am not sure that there is any clause dealing specifically with that point. It may be that the general clause would apply to mail carriers. I am told by the ex-Postmaster General (Mr. Lemieux), that the situation would be controlled properly by regulations of the Post Office Department, but I would imagine that it would hardly be safe for the purposes of this Act to leave the disposition of the matter to postal regulations, and that it would be better, to have it enacted, if possible, so that there could be no misunderstanding.
Charles Joseph Doherty: There is no specific provision dealing with the carriage by mail, but I rather think it would be proper to have it made, as I think it would be made, a matter of regulation. I do not know that any mail carrier would on his responsibility, undertake to carry it in view of the provision which prohibits any person from carrying liquor. I think that the situation would be perfectly met if the Postmaster General made a regulation on the subject.


George Perry Graham: Suppose he did not make it?


Charles Joseph Doherty: If he did not, I am free to confess that I think the matter would be open to question. My own inclination would be to believe that, however exempt the Crown might consider itself from this provision of the law, an individual could not hide himself behind the Crown's immunity. However, we have already discussed that question on the suggestion of the hon. member for St. John .(Mr. Pugsley), and I conceded that there was enough to show that there might be a doubt. With regard to the Intercolonial railway, we did insert a clause specifically dealing with the employees. I do not think it is a very violent assumption that, once a general law was made, the Crown, acting through the Postmaster General, would see to it that the mails were not used in violation of the law. I do not know that it would be very rash to promise that. [DOT] Nor do I know that' there would be any very serious objection to including mail carriers in the Bill. We
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have provided that so far as any Government or provincial railway is concerned, its employees shall not carry liquor, and, except for the incongruity of it, I do not know that' there would be any special objection to inserting the post office too. I think, however, we can safely count upon the Postmaster General exercising his powers.


Frank Oliver: Before the Bill is read a
third time, I wish to take the opportunity of offering a measure of criticism. As a prohibitionist on principle, and an abstainer in practice, I am bound to recognize favourably any step that is taken looking toward the decrease of what I am compelled to consider the evils of the abuse of liquor, especially through the liquor traffic; and, to whatever extent this Bill meets that condition, to whatever extent it assists in the restriction of the abuse of liquor, I would be compelled to support it. At the same time, I do not feel that I would be warranted in giving it my support without pointing out how, in my judgment, it falls short of achieving that measure of influence in regard to the restriction of the evils of the liquor traffic which it should exercise.
Several provinces have undertaken to deal with this question within the limits of their jurisdiction. Amongst these provinces is that of Alberta. Alberta has adopted a law which, I believe, will come into effect on the 1st of July. That' law purports to prohibit the traffic in intoxicating liquor. It does not profess to prohibit the use of intoxicating liquor. The people of Alberta voted on that proposition, and carried it by a very large majority. I am not able to say how far the provisions of this Bill which, on their face, seem to contemplate a condition under which a province has absolutely prohibited the use of liquor, and which, apparently, were intended to meet a provincial condition which, in the case of Alberta, does not, I believe, exist, will meet the conditions in the province of Alberta.
It' appears to me that as the province has certain jurisdiction in regard to the restriction of the traffic in intoxicating liquors, and that as the Dominion has certain power and authority, it would have been well if, while the province exercised its rights, the Dominion exercised those rights which pertain to its authority. The Dominion has the right to prohibit the manufacture, importation or sale of intoxicating liquors; there is no question about that,.

and it does seem to me that, when the Dominion steps into what might be called the field of prohibition, it is not living up to its responsibilities, when, instead of exercising that authority, which undoubtedly rests in it, it assumes to supplement the authority of the provinces by means which may, or may not, be of value.
I would be inclined to believe that, in its present form, the Bill would be found to be of very limited value in supporting the prohibitory legislation that has been passed, or that is in prospect in the provinces. I am inclined to think that there is a possibility that the passage of this Bill will be accompanied 'by the assertion on the one hand that it is a measure for the forwarding of prohibition principles, and, on the other hand, that it is a measure which tends rather to protect the liquor interests from the establishment of prohibition on a Dominion-wide scale. I do not wish to criticise harshly but it does appear to me that the Bill has within it elements, whether intentionally or otherwise, that make a case for prohibition on the one hand and for the maintenance of the liquor traffic on the other hand. This would not be the case if the Bill frankly declared the exercise of the authority which unquestionably rests in the Dominion Government; that is the right and authority to prohibit ithe manufacture or importation of intoxicating liquors. That is what the Bill .most particularly does not do. Inasmuch as it does not do that, it is possible for the Government to claim on behalf of the Bill that it stands as a protection to the interests that are concerned in the manufacture and sale of intoxicants.
There is another feature of the question that I desire to draw attention to. It is a feature that, it seems to me, those who express an interest in prohibitory or temperance legislation, persistently shut their eyes to. This country has been a partner in the liquor business for many, many years. It has not only been a partner, but it has been the larger partner in the interests engaged in the manufacture of intoxicating liquor. If the figures I have received are correct, for every dollar the distiller receives for his product, the treasury [DOT] receives $2. In the partnership that exists between the country and the distiller the country has a two-thirds interest to the distiller's one-third, if you consider the question of profit. I have not been able to figure the share of the country in the 
brewery business, but there is no question that the country has an important share in the profits of the brewing industry, if it is to be called an industry. Whether it is a 50-50 share or a 60-30 share, I do not know, but it is a large and important share and we must not shut our eyes to the fact that as a country we are sharing in the profits of the brewing and distilling business. Is it a fair proposition that, having been, and being to-day in the brewery business, we introduce legislation which is supposed to supplement provincial legislation, the effect of which is to cut off the brewery business within certain provinces without' recognizing our responsibility in regard to that business? A brewery is established in a certain locality and it serves the demand of the population more or less immediately surrounding; in other words, the field of operations for the brewery is within the province in which it is located. The people of the province we will say, declare against the sale of liquor in that province. That is distinctly a blow at the breweries located in that province because a brewery cannot do business satisfactorily outside the limits of the province in which it is located. Speaking generally, it must sell within a radius of the place of manufacture and assuming that it is centrally located in the province, or approximately centrally located, if it is prohibited from selling in the province, it is practically put out of business. The Provincial Legislatures have no responsibility whatever in regard to breweries. They did not establish them, they get no revenue from them, they have nothing whatever to do with them and they are perfectly free to pass legislation that will put the breweries out of business within provincial boundaries. But I do not think that this Government of Canada is in the same position. I am prepared to say that when this Government undertakes to deal with breweries and distilleries so as to put them out of business it assumes a responsibility in regard to the investment in these enterprises that is not recognized in the terms of this Bill and I desire to draw attention to the fact that it is not the privilege of the Dominion Government and Parliament to step into this field of prohibition without assuming that measure of responsibility that properly belongs to them. The point is that when by this measure we undertake to deal with the question of prohibition of the manufacture of intoxicants we thereby render ourselves as a Dominion Parliament

responsible for the investments made in producing these intoxicants that are dependent upon their sale within the province of their manufacture.


Mr. MORPHY:: I have been following my hon. friend's argument and I would like to know if it means that he is in favour of compensation to the interests that have been established over the Dominion as a whole providing our legislation was direct and not indirect as in this case?


Frank Oliver: I would certainly say that I could not by any means see 'how this Government, Parliament, and country could relieve themselves from 'responsibility. .


Hugh Boulton Morphy: Without compensation?


Frank Oliver: Without compensation, I do not see how we could. We have shared in the profits of these several businesses during half a century, or ever since we have had a country, and I cannot see how we are entitled to wipe them out of existence by legislation without recognizing the fact that investments have been made in full accord with the law and not only in accord with the law but absolutely in partnership with ourselves as being responsible for the Government of this country.
In enacting this legislation, which to some extent, steps outside of the direct responsibility of the Federal Parliament and Government, and aims at supplementing by a more or less indirect method provincial legislation, I cannot think it is fair that we'should refuse to recognize our responsibility in regard to it. I have no hesitation in taking that position, although I am a prohibitionist and an abstainer; but a dollar is a dollar, and so far as I can see, the dollar that is honestly invested in a distillery or a brewery is just as honestly invested as if it were a dollar invested in a flour mill. I am prepared to vote out the brewery and the distillery to-morrow, but I do not think that is any reason why I should demand that the man who has invested his money legitimately in the brewery or distillery should lose it. A country which desires to iniprove its condition by wiping out this manufacture should assume the financial responsibility; I cannot see that there is any other logical conclusion, and my point in regard to this legislation is that inasmuch as it brings Dominion authority to bear upon the question of provincial prohibition, to that extent the Dominion Government, in equity, has assumed the responsibility of compensation
to those enterprises that are engaged in 1 the production of intoxicating liquor and are necessarily affected by the provincial legislation that this endorses and supplements, and is presumed to make more effective.
I am bringing this matter to the attention of the House and of the country because I think it should be realized by those who are in favour of prohibition as well as by everybody else, that there is a financial side to the question, and that when we undertake to deal with it we must have regard to that financial side. As to the propriety of introducing Dominion legislation at the present moment, prohibiting the manufacture, sale, and importation of intoxicating liquor as a beverage, in my humble judgment there could not be any question as to>
its propriety, as to its possibilities, or as to its timeliness. It is true that in a Confederation, such as Canada is, there are difficulties in the way that would not exist if we were not a Confederation, but my judgment is-I am only giving this personally, I do not wish to speak for anybody else-especially in view of the very strong expression of opinion that has been given by those provinces where public opinion on the question has recently been tested, my belief is that public opinion in this Dominion is ripe for that legislation, and that the legislation is called for by the conditions existing at the present time.
There may have been times in the history of civilization when the argument was held, and possibly believed, that the liquor traffic was of benefit as a producer of national revenue. I do not think that belief is seriously held at the present time by any one. I think it is conceded now- and the example of other countries is evidence to the point-that the expenditure on intoxicating liquors is an unwise and an improvident. expenditure, that it tends to the impoverishment of the country, and is not a desirable source of revenue; that this or any other country would be far ahead financially if it were possible to wipe out at a stroke expenditure on intoxicating liquors and raise our revenue by some other means. There can be no doubt that the loss of energy and the misdirection of effort that results from an undue consumption of intoxicants is a greater burden for a country to carry, and a greater detriment to its well-being than the more direct expenditure on the purchase of liquor, and that direct expenditure on the purchase of liquor is so stupendously greater than the small

amount of revenue derived from it by the State, that there can be no question that if it were possible to wipe out the vast expenditure on liquor, the country would be tremendously advantaged, and the treasury correspondingly better off. I do not wish to present my arguments as condemning the Government; I do not wish to be understood as making a partisan argument in any way; but in view of the financial and other conditions that have arisen because of the war, and in view of the public feeling that exists-and the people are realizing more and more every day the tremendously increased burdens they will have to carry by reason of the war-I am satisfied that this is a time when the people of Canada would accept, in place of this measure, legislation simply declaring that the manufacture, importation and sale of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes is prohibited throughout the Dominion.


Charles Joseph Doherty: I think the hon. gentleman will agree with me that, save in so far as he made some suggestion of obligation on the part of this Dominion, arising out of this legislation to compensate the manufacturers-and as to that I shall say a word in a moment-his address was to the principle of this measure, and would have perhaps been more in order upon the second reading. I do not propose to join in a discussion of that principle.
I would simply like to point out what the principle of this measure is. The underlying principle of this measure is to be found in the belief that the most important feature about legislation of this sort is that it should have effective enforcement, and that the best guarantee of enforcement of laws of this kind is that they should have the assent, as nearly as possible of the whole of the community called upon to submit to them. Starting with that principle, it seemed to us-and I think I may fairly say it seemed to this House as it has adopted the principle of the Bill, and moreover adopted the amendment of the hon. member for Calgary (Mr. Bennett) to the motion of the hon. member for Vancouver (Mr. Stevens)-and accepting what the hon. gentleman has pointed out, and which had been pointed out many times before, that we have evidence that the different provinces desire prohibition within their limits, it seemed to us that the best method for this Parliament to exercise its powers was to exercise them in aid-	-
ing that -which each particular province might deem to be best for itself upon this subject of prohibition. The hon. gentleman said that we might have legislation in general terms, and he thought it would have been better to prohibit absolutely the importation, manufacture and sale of liquor. I want to be quite fair; I do not dispute, and have not disputed, that there is power in this Parliament to do that; but the view I have expressed, and the view intended to be carried out by this Bill, is that, if there be that power, it is not the best means to prohibition legislation that will he effectively enforced. The present measure does not propose to impose on any province a larger measure of prohibition than it chooses to enact for itself, but it does propose to protect, and I venture to say that it will effectively protect, any province to the full extent of the prohibition which it desires to enact for itself. It will protect that province in the due carrying out of its enactments and against being interfered with in so doing by the bringing of liquor into that province from outside provinces. To that extent, it deals with the importation. It furthermore deals with the importation so far as it prohibits the importation from foreign countries of liquor into a province which has enacted a prohibitory law, but it only prohibits that importation to the extent that the province by its legislation has evinced a desire for prohibition. It only prohibits the importation of liqjior into the province to be used therein in violation of the law of that province. If a province is satisfied to prohibit the traffic and does not object to the use of liquor within its limits, this law will prohibit the sending in of liquor for the purpose of being trafficked in. If the province thinks that what it want's to prevent is the use of liquor and so enacts, then automatically under this law it will be an offence to send liquor in for a use which the province has prohibited. So it leaves to the provinces to say what prohibition they want, leaves eadh community to determine how drastic a law is desired; but whatever law the province may so enact, this legislation will prevent it being interfered with from outside.
Now, if all the provinces desire prohibition to the fullest extent that they may have it, each one of them in turn as it adopts it, will be protected from the effectiveness of t'he law being interfered

with by people sending in liquor from outside. The hon.. gentleman asked:	Why
don't you prohibit at one stroke the manufacture, importation and sale? We do not do this because if we did we should be imposing it upon provinces which by their legislation have shown that they do not want the full measure of prohibition, and so we should make a law that, so far as these provinces are concerned, would not be in accordance with the spirit of the people who are subjected to it. If it be true that all the people of the province want the fullest measure of prohibition, they can give it to themselves, each one within its own limits, and this legislation will protect each from outside interference.
The provinces can protect their respective people from the evils that follow from the use of liquor by dealing with the use of liquor. They can deal with the sale of liquor, each within its own boundaries. I have said, and I venture to repeat, that ,r they have a measure, at all events, of power to prohibit the manufacture. No province, so far as I know, has prohibited the use of liquor. Because the provinces have not prohibited the use of liquor, this Act will not prevent the sending in of liquor for beverage use. If the provinces say that they want the use of liqiior prohibited, this Act will protect them in that; if they say they do not want it sold, this Act will prevent liquor being sent into the province to be sold. When a province has exercised its full powers in that regard, all that will be left would be the fact that liquor was being manufactured within the province. Their law will protect their own people against its consumption, if they desire to enact a law to that effect. As I say, they have in a measure at least the power to prohibit the manufacture. When they have reached that stage, it' will be for us to consider whether it is necessary for Parliament to enact any further legislation, or whether the enactments of the provinces have not produced-are not effective to produce-the full desired result.
I venture to say there is a measure at least' within which the provinces have the power to prohibit the manufacture. The hon. gentleman (Mr. Oliver) has given us an exact instance of the case where, I am satisfied, there can be no doubt of the power of the provinces to prohibit the manufacture. He has done that in the branch of his case, in which he seems to have been speaking in the interests of the manufacturer of beer. He suggested that this Bill might be open to the suggestion
that, whether intentionally or not, it could be said to operate in the interests of prohibition on the one side, and in the interests of the liquor traffic on the other. Does not it occur to him that his speech can be characterized in the same way-as being in the interest of prohibition to some extent, and in the interest of the beer manufacturers from another point of view? The hon. gentleman finds fault because we have not absolutely suppressed beer, yet goes on to complain, though we have not done that, that we have not provided compensation to the manufacturer for what we have done, which does not touch his right to manufacture. But in his endeavour to create a situation in which there would be a moral obligation upon this Government to compensate the brewers, he has given us an instance of the prevention of manufacture that would be purely a provincial matter. He says that, as a rule, the sale of a brewer is confined practically within his own province. That makes the brewery a purely provincial or local concern; it is not doing business outside; it is manufacturing inside and selling inside. The provinces alone, without any aid or assistance from our Act, by prohibiting the sale, as the hon. member points out, destroy the market of that brewer, and the hon. gentleman's suggestion is that this Parliament, with whom he has found fault for not prohibiting that manufacture as a Parliament, should step in and compensate that brewer for the consequences of' that which the province alone did.
I rather desire to emphasize the fact that the hon. gentleman has furnished me with one very clear instance of a case where the power to prohibit manufacture would be in the hands of the province and no province that I know, even with regard to brewers of that kind, has thought proper to exercise its power to prohibit manufacture. They do prohibit the sale, and if there be no sale outside the province 1 presume that, in the exercise of a power belonging to them, they have destroyed the business. The hon. gentleman says that we ought to compensate a brewer whom in tne same breath he describes as our partners. He says this Government was a partner for two-thirds in the brewery. When the province destroyed the market of the brewery it injured for one-third the brewer and for two-thirds this Government, if the hon. gentleman's position is correct. Because the province has chosen to suppress what the hon. gentleman describes as the partnership business of

the Government and a brewer and this Government is bearing two-thirds of the loss, the hon. gentleman says this Government ought to pay the other third which the brewer suffers. This seems to me the clearest case of non sequitur that I have come across in a very long time. The case is put as one where the exercise of provincial authority causes loss to this Government and to a brewer, and it is stated that this Government should compensate the brewer. It is to be pointed out that in that particular case this Act does not affect the transaction in the slightest degree, because the hon. member's hypothesis is that this is a brewery in a province which sells its entire product within that province and this Act affects nothing but the sending of liquor out of one province into another. How this legislation can be said in the remotest degree to hit that brewer passes my comprehension. If it has any effect at all it produces for him this amount of consolation, at all events: if his province has prevented people buying his beer within that province, this legislation will prevent his competitor outside of the province sending beer in for the purpose of being sold under his nose. That is the one respect in which it affects my hon. friend's hypothetical brewer, so that I must confess that . I can see no connection between this legislation and compensation to a brewer who may be injuriously affected. If the day comes when it shall be necessary for this Parliament to prohibit the manufacture of liquor the question will arise-which I fully recognize to be a question deserving of careful consideration- whether compensation should be extended to those who may suffer by the legislation enacted by this Parliament, and if compensation should be extended, what the measure of that compensation should be.
I hope I have made it clear that this legislation in no manner affects the supposed case that has been put before us and that the loss of that supposed ibrewer, which the hon. gentleman points out as shared by this Government, is a loss resulting exclusively from an exercise by the provincial legislature of its powers.
It has- been made a serious matter of reproach that this Government has been, as the hon. gentleman describes it, a partner in the business of the manufacture of liquor. It seems to me a rather peculiar suggestion that by some method or other this Parliament and past Parliaments are
[Mr. Dolierty.J
open to reproach because they have authorized taxation on the manufacture of liquor. That may not be as good as prohibition, from the point of view of people who want to discourage the consumption of liquor, but surely putting heavy taxation on this manufacture is legislating to discourage the -consumption. To describe the taxing Government as a partner in the business does not, it seems to me, justify the suggestion that there is any responsibility upon the Government for the existence of the manufacture. Would it be suggested that if we took that taxation off there would be less manufacture of liquor? So far as it does operate to affect the manufacture or consumption of liquor it would seem to me fairly clear that it* must operate to discourage that manufacture and consumption. That, however, I say merely in passing. I do not tihnk that that method of putting it was intended to 'have or did have a material bearing on the argument of the hen. gentleman as he made it. So far as he suggested compensation, it was in the hypothetical case that I have- mentioned, and I hope I have made it clear that in that case, whatever might be the position in regard to any other case, it is impossible, to attribute the loss of that supposed brewer to any action of this Parliament and to this legislation that I have proposed in particular


Mr. HUGH GUTHRIE (South Wellington) :: Just a word, Mr. Speaker, in reply to some of the remarks that have fallen from the lips of the Minister of Justice. I think my hon. friend realizes the weak spot in this Bill as a prohibitory law in regard to the sale of intoxicating liquor. I think he must realize also that the Bill as framed, entitled an Act in aid of Provincial Legislation prohibiting or restricting the sale or use of Intoxicating Liquors, falls far short of being what one might call an effective aid. The weak spot in the proposal, -as pointed out by the -hon. member for Edmonton, is that the Bill does not seek to prohibit the manufacture of intoxicating liquors within provinces which have adopted laws prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors. I think every one recognizes that so long as you permit beer, whisky and other liquors to be manufactured at the various centres of population in the provinces of Canada which have adopted prohibitory liquor laws, a large portion of the output will be consumed in those provinces, no matter how stringent may be the enforcement of the provincial law. The

temperance people recognize that, from one end of the country to the other. The Minister of Justice has on more than one occasion in this House maintained that his purpose in this Bill is to go just as far as the Provincial Legislatures themselves will go. That at first glance would seem to be pretty fair ground to stand upon, but we must take into consideration the fact that the Provincial Legislatures, whether rightly or wrongly, believe that they have no power effectually to prohibit the manufacture of intoxicating liquor, and that is the reason why their legislation does not go that far. When this Bill was in committee, I brought this matter up, and after listening to the speech of the Minister of Justice and giving consideration to the attitude which he then took in regard to the question of manufacture, I examined the position taken by the Legislature of the province of Ontario upon the question of manufacture within that province and the right of the Provincial Legislature to prohibit manufacture.
I find that in the month of March, 1912, a resolution was adopted in the Legislature of Ontario. That resolution was moved by Sir James Whitney, then Prime Minister of Ontario, seconded by Mr. Foy, then Attorney General of Ontario, and it was in this language:	*
That this House recognizes the duty cast upon it to minimize as far as possible the evil effect of the drink habit by wise restrictions upon the traffic in intoxicating liquors.	,
That this House also recognizes that having regard to the decisions of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council as to the respective jurisdictions of the Dominion and of the provinces, it is impossible for the people of the province, through its legislation, to abolish or control the manufacture within, or the importation into the province of intoxicating liquors.
That is the considered judgment of the Legislature of Ontario; and in the Bill now pending before that Legislature there is no clause seeking to prohibit the manufacture of intoxicating liquors within that' province, simply because that Legislature believes it has not that power. If it had the power, I think we may fairly assume the Legislature of Ontario would enact that legislation. Now, if the Minister of Justice seriously seeks to aid in the enforcement of this law when it is passed in Ontario, or in any other province, surely he will favourably consider a clause which, when this Bill was in committee, I intimated, might be moved as an amendment when the Bill came to the House; that is a clause simply providing that in any province which has adopted a prohibitory liquor law no
license should be issued to a brewer, a distiller, or maltster under the Inland Revenue Act. To my mind that would give effectual aid to the provincial legislation now proposed in Ontario, and to similar legislation in any of the other provinces of Canada. It cannot be said that a brewer or distiller has any vested right in his brewery or distillery. It has been held that where a system of license exists no vested right exists. In asking the minister to consider such a proposal,. I may tell him that since I brought the matter up I have been informed that reputable men engaged in the liquor business heretofore, men in the hotel busi-' ness, men in the liquor store business, have expressed themselves openly to the effect that they want to see this measure made effective; they want to see the
9 p.m. manufacture stopped in the provinces which pass prohibitory liquor law's, while the provincial Act is in force. They want to see the matter fairly and thoroughly tried out. The Bill in the Ontario Provincial Legislature hits the hotel keeper and the liquor store keeper very severely financially; but these men are willing to see the matter tried out, and many of them have asked that, so far as possible, prohibition be made absolute. The way to make it absolute is to stop it at the spout, to stop the manufacture in the province while the provincial law is in force. As I intimated in the committee, I propose now to move an amendment as a substitute for section 2. Section 2 is better than no clause at all. It provides that a distiller or'brewer who three times breaks the law shall lose his license. My proposal will be that a brewer or distiller shall not get a license in a province that has adopted a prohibitory liquor law. I therefore beg to move as an amendment:
That Bill 66 be not read a third time, but that the said Bill be referred back to the Committee of the Whole House with instructions to amend the same by striking out section 2 thereof, and substituting therefor the following :
" No license shall hereafter be granted or renewed, under the provisions of the Inland Revenue Act, to any person to enable such person to carry on business as a distiller, brewer or maltster in any province wherein a Provincial Act is in force prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquor."


Charles Joseph Doherty: This amendment, which was suggested by the hon. member, was moved in committee, in his absence and was rejected. I am not suggesting that as - an obstacle to the motion now proposed. I am referrins to it only to explain why I

shall not go over again the reasons which at that time I gave as seeming to.me to justify the rejection of the amendment. I desire only to say that for those reasons, which will be found on Hansard, I do not feel that this amendment to the present Bill should be accepted. I do not know that there is anything to be gained by repeating it, but the hon. gentleman proposes that we should do something not merely to make effective provincial legislation, but to enact, on our own responsibility, prohibition of something that the provinces have not, in whatever measure they may have power to do it, thought proper to prohibit. The hon. gentleman says that the reason why they have not done so is because they think they cannot. Of course, I cannot undertake to constitute myself a judge as to what the motives of the Provincial Legislatures are in refusing to so enact; hut it does not seem to me that it is consistent with the principle of a measure that proposes to surround effective legislation by the provinces with safeguards against outside interference, that we should be asked to interject a substantial provision oif our own in the exercise of such power as the Dominion may have to deal with the subject of the ' manufacture of liquor in the provinces.
The House divided on the proposed amendment of Mr. Guthrie.
TEAS:
Messieurs
Alguire,
Bickerdike,
Boivin,
Boyer,
Brouillard,
Chisholm
(Antigonish), Copp,
Delisle,
Fortier,
Gauthier
(St. Hyacinthe), Gauvreau,
Hughes
(Kings, P.E.I.), Kyte,
Lafortune,.
Lanctot,
Lapointe
(Kamouraska),
Loggie,
Marcil (Bagot), McMillan,
Michaud,
Nesbitt,
Oliver,
Pacaud,
Proulx,
Sinclair,
Thomson (Qu'Appelle), Warnock,
Wright.-28.
NATS:
Messieurs
Ames (Sir Herbert), Ball,
Bennett Bennett Blain,
Borden Boulay,
Brabazon,
Clark (Bruce), Davidson,

(Calgary),
(Simcoe),
(Sir Robert),
Meighen,
Memer,
Morphy,
Morris,
Nicholson,
Paquet,
Paul,
Reid,
Rhodes,
Rochon,
Descarries,	Rogers,
Edwards,	Schaffner,
Fisher,	Scott,
Forget (Sir Rodolphe), Sexsmith,	
Girard,	Shepherd,
Glass,	Smith,
Gray,	Thompson (Yukon),
Hanna,	Walker,
Hartt,	Wallace,
Henderson,	Webster,
Jameson,	Weichel.-43.
Macdonell,	
	PAIRS:
Ministerial.	Opposition.
	Messieurs
Alguire,	McMillan,
Arthurs,	Truax,
Baker,	Kay,
Barnard,	McCraney,
Bristol,	Bickerdike,
Bradbury,	Cruise,
Burrell,	Douglas,
Casgrain,	Lemieux,
Chabot,	Beland,
Clements*	Knowles,
Cockshutt,	(Charlton,
Crothers,	McCoig,
Doherty,	Marcil ( Bonaventure),
Fowler,	McLean (A. A.),
Green,	White (W. H.),
Hazen,	Pugsley,
Jameson,	Power.
Kemp,	Robb,
McLeod,	Carvell,
Middlebro,	Guthrie,
Munson,	Boyer,
McCurdy, ,	McLean (A. K,),
Nickle,	Martin (W. H.),
Rainville,	Seguin,
Ross,	Sharpe,
Roche,	Douglas, x
Stanfield,	Pardee,
Stevens,	Buchanan,
Stewart (Dugald),	McKenzie,
Smyth,	Tobin,
Tremain,	Chisholm (A. W.),
White (Gerald),	Devlin,
Wilson (G. C.),	Wilson (C. A.),


Mr. MORRISON:: I was paired with the hon. member for Saltcoats. If I had voted, I would have voted against the amendment.


Mr. LEMIEUX:: I observe that my hon. friend the Postmaster 'General is not in his seat. I thought this was a non-party question, but I am under the impression that the vote on the third reading might be considered a party vote. Therefore, I beg to withdraw the vote I gave.


Mr. HAZEN:: I am in the same position as the hon. member for Rouville. I did not regard this as a party measure, and therefore I voted. I was paired with the hon. member for St. John. If it is to he considered a party vote, I will follow the example of the hon. member for Rouville and ask that my name be eliminated.

- Mr. MeCOIG: I -was paired with, the hon. Minister of Labour. Had I voted, I would have voted for the amendment.


Mr. DEVLIN:: I regarded this as a party vote, and I was paired with the hon. member for North Renfrew. If I had voted, I would have voted for the amendment.


Mr. PARDEE:: I was paired with the hon. member for Colchester. Had I voted, I \frould 'have voted for the amendment.


Mr. ROSS:: I considered this a Government measure, and I was paired with the hon. member for North Ontario. If I had voted, I would have voted for the amendment.


Mr. KAY:: I was paired with the hon. member for Brome. If I had voted, I would have voted for the amendment.
Amendment negatived.


Mr. SINCLAIR:: It appears clearly now that this is not a Government measure, that it is a non-partisan proposal which is before the House, and for that reason I wish to offer another amendment which I hope will be accepted by members on both sides of the HousA When the Bill was introduced, and discussed in committee a few days ago, attention was drawn to the advisability of having some provision for the enforcement of the law. It was pointed out that this is a peculiar measure in this respect, that every offence against that Act must be committed outside the province which has introduced prohibition; that is to say, that every offence, under this Bill, will be committed outside of the prohibition area and in some other province. The difficulties of enforcing the law by municipalities at a distance are so great that I think they will be recognized by everybody. I have drawn the matter to the attention of the 'Minister of Justice, and I have no doubt that he will be willing to accept the proposal I am about to make, which is not in the same language as the proposal which was substituted the other day. The proposal that was made the other day was objected to by the minister on the ground that it threw upon the Minister of Justice the responsibility of prosecuting cases within the province affected. That is not intended in this proposal. What is intended is that when an offence is committed outside the boundaries of a province which has enacted prohibitory legislation, the Department of Justice will take charge of the prosecution. I submit that that is a
reasonable proposal, and one which I think will be agreed to by the Minister of Justice, and by hon. members on both sides of the House. This Bill is not the kind of measure which the temperance people are asking for; it does- not satisfy the temperance people because it does not prohibit the manufacture -and sale of intoxicating liquor. At the same time, we all recognize that it is a step in the right direction, and, as it has been agreed to by both sides of the House, it is our duty to make it as effective ^s possible in the direction of stopping the liquor trade throughout the country. I move:
That this Bill be not now read a third time, but that It be referred to the Committee of the Whole House with instructions to add as clause 8 thereof, the following:
When it is brought to the attention of the Minister of Justice that an offence against any of the provisions of this Act has been committed outside the boundaries of any province which has enacted legislation prohibiting or restricting the sale of intoxicating liquor, he may, if the evidence put before him be in his judgment sufficient, take such steps as may be deemed necessary to prosecute any person charged with such offence.


Charles Joseph Doherty: While I cannot quite agree with all that the hon. gentleman (Mr. Sinclair) has said, I may say that he submitted to me this afternoon his amendment, and I am quite prepared to accept it. I would like to point out, however, that it is not on the lines of the suggested amendment which was discussed in committee in connection with the enforcement of this law. It was then argued that we should take upon ourselves the entire enforcement of the law, and provide a detective force, and so forth, throughout the Dominion. I gave my reasons for opposing that suggestion. It is probable that the Minister of Justice would have done what he is empowered to do under this amendment even if the section were not in the Act, but I am quite willing to accept the amendment as proposed.


James Joseph Hughes: I wish to make a suggestion to the Minister of Justice which I think he will accept. It is a very slight amendment, and will, I think, commend itself to his judgment.


Auguste-Charles-Philippe-Robert Landry: Does the hon. gentleman propose to move another amendment?


James Joseph Hughes: Yes,


Auguste-Charles-Philippe-Robert Landry: We had better first dispose of the amendment before the House.

Motion of Mr. Sinclair agreed to, and the House went into committee, Mr. Blain in the chair.
Amendment reported and concurred in.


James Joseph Hughes: I desire to bring to the attention of the Minister of Justice a slight amendment. When the Bill was introduced and discussed in committee it was agreed to add after the word " agent" in the first section the words " officer or employee of any other person or of any Government railway, whether Dominion or provincial." My suggestion is that after the word " railway " the words " or steamship " be added. The Government railway cannot toe a carried into Prince Edward Island, for the reason that it does not cross the Northumberland straits or the gulf of St. Lawrence.


Charles Joseph Doherty: Are there any steamships?


James Joseph Hughes: Yes, steamships owned
by the Dominion Government are engaged in the carrying trade between the mainland and Prince Edward Island.


Charles Joseph Doherty: I have no objection to that.


James Joseph Hughes: It is in the seventh line after the word " railway." I therefore beg to move:
That Bill No. 66 be not now read the third time but that it be referred back to the Committee of the Whole House with instructions to amend the first section by adding after the word " railway " in the seventh line, the words " or steamship."


[Stage Direction]
Motion agreed to, and the House went into committee on the Bill, Mr. Blain in the Chair.
On section 1:
James Joseph Hughes: That the section be amended by adding after the word " railway " in the seventh line, the words " or steamship."
Amendment reported and concurred in.
, On the motion for the third reading of the Bill:
Mr. DOHERTY": Mr. Speaker, before the motion passes, I would like to make one observation; it is in connection with much that has been said in regard to enforcement. I want to say that I have had made to me, and rather pressed upon me, the suggestion that we should insert in the Bill a provision making the fines and penalties payable to the municipality or province, or to such person or persons as may aid in the enforcement of the Act. The sugges-
	.
tion, I think, is an excellent one, but I find that there is provision in the Criminal Code whereby such penalties may be, by Order in Council, made payable to the provincial or municipal authorities or to the person or persons aiding in the enforcement of the law. It seems to me better that we should leave it to be dealt with in that way because in that way we shall be able to make provision to suit conditions that may vary in different places and at different times. If we were to put a hard and fast provision in this Act it would apply automatically, at once and in the same way to every part of the country, one and the same distribution of the penalties of the Act. We propose to attain the desired result, and I think in a more effective way, in the manner I have spoken of.
I should like, before the Bill passes through the House, to correct an answer to a question put to me by the hon. member for Bonaventure (Mr. Marcil). He put a question on the Order Paper inquiring by whom legislation on the lines of this Bill had been suggested. In the answer I gave the names of different persons, including representatives of the Dominion Alliance who had suggested legislation 'on these lines. By an oversight I omitted to mention the fact that Dr. Tanner of Nova Scotia was amongst those who had urged legislation in accordance with the principle of this Bill. His communication had not been addressed to myself personally and when I came to look the matter up I overlooked the representations he had made.


[Stage Direction]
Motion agreed to, and Bill read the third time, and passed.

[Stage Direction]
Bill No. 81, to amend the Canada Shipping Act-Mr. Hazen-read the third time and passed.

[Stage Direction]
The House in Committee of Supply, Mr. Blain-in the Chair.
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See Ottawa.\nQuebec, 2818.\nSaskatchewan, 3329.\nDepartment\nArchitectural Branch, 3319.\nClerks, 3096.\nEngineering Branch, 3319.\nEstimates, 663, 2808-2838, 2868, 2148-3188, 3312-3344, 3556, 3612, 3621.\nStaff and salaries, 663.\nDredging\nBritish Columbia, 1078, 3942.\nDredge Port Nelson, 2692.\nMaritime Provinces, 853.\nOntario and Quebec, 3186, 3627.\nSt. Lawrence ship channel, 722.\nVictoria, B.C., 546.\nExpenditures, 896, 2605, 2808, 2826, 3156, 3322, 3338.\nHarbours and rivers British Columbia, 3626.\nGenerally, 3152.\nManitoba, 3184.\nOntario, 3625.\nNew Brunswick, 3335, 3621.\nNova Scotia, 3149, 3615.\nOntario, 3179, 3338.\nPrince Edward Island, 3635.\nQuebec, 719, 3161, 3556, 3623.\nSt. Lawrence, 719.\nSaskatchewan and Alberta, 3313.\nVolume ii; 945-1968.\nVolume iii;\t1969-2972.\nxlii', 'Pugsley, Hon. Wm. (St. John City)\nAddress in reply to Governor General\'s Speech, 67.\nExtension of term of Parliament, 68. Transportation requirements, 69. Manufacture of munitions, 71-90.\nShell Committee, 71-92.\nShell contracts, 72-90.\nSubmarine investigation, 75.\nTaxation of war profits, 85. Contributions for machine guns, 92. Advertising, Government, 2436.\nBurleigh falls, lease of, 2582.\nCanadian Northern Railway Company Director, 2648.\nProposed loan to, 3581, 3940, 3944. Canada Temperance Act, 3298.\nCarnegie, Colonel, correspondence with, 1731.\nCivil Service-enlistments, 818, 1844. Coloured men, recruiting of, 235, 557, 2114. Davidson Commission, report of, 3189. Dominion Lands and Parks, 2865. Economic and Development Commission, 1640, 2999.\nExperimental farms, 2871.\nPish and fisheries Transportation, 2418.\nTrout fry, 2421.\nGerman-Canadians in military service, 683. Government expenditures, 973, 986, 1321, 3137.\nGovernment railways-small claims, 3304. Grain\nCongestion, 1713.\nElevators, 3059, 3082.\t,\nTransportation, 2857.\nGrand Trunk Pacific Railway Company, proposed loan to, 3581, 3940.\nHansard-correction of statement, 2399. High Commissioner, Canadian, office of, 963.\nHouse of Commons-morning sittings,\n2112.\nHudson Bay navigation, 2912.\nImmigration\t[DOT]\nAdvertising, 2436.\nExpenditure, 2093, 2099, 2436.\nIndians\nKitsilano reserve, 2681.\nSt. Peter\'s reserve, 2063, 2937.\nInsurance companies, life, investments of, 1612, 2401.\nIntercolonial railway-branch lines, 3434. Interior Department expenditure, 2090, 2431, 2435.\nInternational Joint Commission, 979. Kingston harbour improvements, 3182. Labour bureaus, national, 615.\nPugsley, Hon. Wm. (St. John City)-Con. Loans to farmers, 677.\nMarine Department estimates, reduction of, 2362.\nMotor boats, 2803.\nMount Royal Tunnel and Terminal Company, 3374.\t.\nNational Transcontinental Railway, Government operation of, 2399, 2588, 30363089, 3605.\nNaval service, 1683, 2888.\nNiobe and Rainbow, 2890.\nOttawa Journal-correction of statement in, 806.\t-\nParliament, extension of term of, 68. Parliament Buildings, reconstruction of, 2013, 4077.\nPensions to soldiers, 4131.\nPrison reform, 2846.\nProhibition of intoxicating liquors, 2486, 2551, 2561, 2697.\nPublic works expenditure, 2769, 2808, 3341. Quebec railways, acquisition of, 3616, 3998, 4008, 4011, 4051.\nRailways, location of, 2747.\nRailway Commission, powers of, 2747. Recruiting-coloured men, 235, 557, 2114. Royal Academy of Arts, 3142.\nRural mail service, 2729.\nSt. John\nHarbour improvements, 735-737, 3335. Post office, 2817.\nSt. John and Quebec railway, 3356, 3500. St. John Valley Railway, 1932.\nShell Committee, the, 71, 92.\n. Sherwood, H. Crossley, appointment of, 4088.\t-\n.Shipbuilding, 639, 701, 1616, 1643, 2892, 3001, 3110, 3336, 4056.\nSoldiers relatives, payments to, 3560. Solicitor General, remarks of, 151. Steamship service, 2530.\nSubmarines, investigation into purchase of, 75, 152, 2890.\nSupplementary estimates, 3137.\nSurf Inlet harbour improvements, 3185. Surveys, 2428, 2902.\nTaxation of apples, 2305; profits, 85. Technical education, 1642.\nTrade and Commerce, 2996. Transportation, ocean, 2857,\t3110. See\nShipbuilding.\nVancouver Harbour, 1604.\nVessels, Canadian, requisitioning of, 1969. War\nExpenditures, 39.\nSupplies\nAmmunition, 71-90.\nVolume i:\t1-944.\n" iv:\t2973-4155.\nVolume ii: 945-1968.\nVolume iii:\t1969-2972.']
John Douglas Hazen: The amount expended out of
this vote in 1914-15 was $549,288.75. The amount expended this year up to January 31 is $348,287.87, and to March 3 this year, $405,690.94. There is an increase tn the vote this year of $30,000, chiefly for three reasons: first, work in connection with bovine tuberculosis; second, new lines of

work; and third, preparedness. Bovine tuberculosis is now dealt with in a new manner under regulations put in force on May 14. These regulations provide for federal assistance in controlling and eradicating bovine tuberculosis from dairy herds which supply milk to cities and towns, and whose owners apply for assistance and comply with the necessary conditions The conditions are that the municipalities must provide a sanitary inspector, who must enforce satisfactory regulations with regard to sanitation. The department tests all cattle in the dairy herds free of charge, and provision is made for the slaughter of and compensation for tubercular animals. Although, as soon as this order came into force, all medical officers throughout Canada were notified, only one city, Saskatchewan, is receiving assistance at the present time. A few others have applied for it, but so far they have not made the necessary improvements to justify the department to take action. Some inquiries have recently been received, and it is quite possible that some cities may be added in the near future. The number of cattle tested in Saskatchewan dairy herds was 2,664, 80 of which were found to be tubercular. These were slaughtered, and the department paid in compensation therefor, $1,859.98, or about $25 a piece.


Mr. McCOIG:: When the minister's Estimates were up on a previous occasion, I asked whether it was the intention of the Government, in the event of another outbreak of hog cholera, to adopt the same measures as in the past, or to use the serum treatment, which I understand the department has been experimenting with more or less? Is the serum treatment giving satisfactory results? If it is, I am sure the farmers throughout the country would be glad to have an announcement from the Government that this new treatment was to be resorted to, and it would also mean a large saving to the treasury.


John Douglas Hazen: Serum is now being used, and with very satisfactory results. It is the intention of the department to use that treatment in the case of hog cholera.


Mr. WRIGHT:: Is bovine tuberculosis as prevalent as in the past, or is it disappearing to any extent?


John Douglas Hazen: It is still prevalent in
Canada, but not to any greater extent than in any other country.


Edward Walter Nesbitt: I was glad to hear the minister say that the department have adopted the policy of partially compensating the farmer for diseased cattle that are destroyed, and that the animals are tested free of charge. In our section of the country, however, $20 or $25 would not buy anything better than a ten-day old calf, if it belonged to a good dairy herd, and I am afraid that before the department will get the farmers to have their herds tested, they will have to pay a larger amount of money for the animals that are slaughtered.
I know of no city that insists on herds being tested before their milk is allowed to be shipped into town; in fact, quite the opposite, so far as I know, and I know something about the milk that is going into most of the cities in western Ontario. Unless the department pays a very much larger sum as compensation for destroyed animals, the farmers will hide in every possible way the fact of there being tuberculosis in their herds. Personally, I have no exact knowledge as to the extent to which tuberculosis exists, but I believe there is a great deal of it among The herds in Ontario. Our Ontario cattle are worth very much more than what the minister mentioned as being paid in Saskatoon. At a sale in our section the other day the lowest cow went for $94, and the highest for $114; those were dairy cows; when it comes to thoroughbred cattle a great many of the farmers around us have thoroughbreds running from $200 to $400. If only $20 is paid for a thoroughbred Durham or Holstein that is destroyed, I am afraid the farmers would not say much about the animals having tuberculosis, even if they knew the. disease existed in their herds.


John Douglas Hazen: The basis upon which
compensation is awarded is laid down in these regulations relating to tuberculosis. I understand that there is a considerable salvage in an animal that is killed for tuberculosis. In the first place, the hide is in all cases just as good as the hide of any other cow.


Edward Walter Nesbitt: Worth $7 or $8.


John Douglas Hazen: A considerable portion
of the meat is also quite fit for food; there is considerable salvage in that respect. The compensation that is paid for all cows slaughtered under these regulations is on the following basis: one-half the appraised value of the cow, if destroyed as a case of

open tuberculosis. I suppose that means a case of tuberculosis that is apparent.


Edward Walter Nesbitt: I think that means a
case where the meat is defective. Some times only a part of an animal is affected.


John Douglas Hazen: One-third is paid if the
animal destroyed is a re-actor, and is destroyed at the request of the owner; that is, an animal where you get a re-action when the tuberculin test is applied. The valuation is made by the inspector, and must not exceed the actual valuation for cattle as specified in section 6 of the Animals Contagious Diseases Act.
Section 6 of the Animals Contagious Diseases Act says:
The Governor in Council may order a compensation to he paid to the owners of animals slaughtered under the provisions of this Act; and in all cases, the value of the animal for which compensation is ordered, shall he determined by the minister or hy some person appointed by him.
2.	Such compensation may be withheld in whole or in part whenever the owner or the person, in charge of the animal has, in tht>
opinion of the minister, been guilty in relation to the animal of an offence against this Act, or whenever the animal, being a foreign one, was, in his judgment, diseased at the time of entering Canada.


Archibald Blake McCoig: Would that apply to animals slaughtered in the different abattoirs throughout the country? For instance a herd of cattle is brought to an abattoir and slaughtered, and it is discovered by the Government inspectors that they had tuberculosis. Would the owners be compensated?


John Douglas Hazen: It does not apply to cases of that kind, but only to animals ordered to be slaughtered by the Government inspectors.


Archibald Blake McCoig: The question is raised in different parts of the country whether the line should be drawn between animals slaughtered by the Government inspectors and those slaughtered at the different abattoirs. It seems unfair that if a man had a critter, in the rural parts of the country, and it was slaughtered by the Government inspector, he should be allowed for it, and yet that if that .same man brought that critter to an abattoir, and had it slaughtered, he should receive no allowance whatever.


John Douglas Hazen: I presume that the distinction would be that in one case they are slaughtered to prevent the spread of disease, and so for the general 'benefit, whereas, in

the other case, the owner takes the animal to be slaughtered for food purposes, and after being slaughtered the inspector detects that it is not fit for food.


Archibald Blake McCoig: Very often the man who bring it to the abattoir is not the one who raised the animal. The argument may be advanced that this system will not prevent the distributing of disease, and that is a point the department might do well to consider. The same is true of swine. The farmers say that over $100,000 beyond what is necessary is extracted from them on account of inspection. The minister kindly answered a question in regard to the inspection being paid for by the Government. The excuse is made that it is on account of the hogs condemned after going to the abattoir that this money is taken. The report of the veterinary general shows that 1,799,000 hogs were received in the different abattoirs throughout the country. Figuring what the buyers have been charging the raisers of the hogs, they would collect from them about $179,960 for animals condemned by the department inspector. But only 4,000 hogs were condemned, and at what would be a fair price for them, that would only amount to something in the neighbourhood of $65,000. So, you see, a great injustice is being done to the producer, by the Government not taking charge of the hogs condemned and so taking out of the hands of the buyers the chance to deal unfairly with the producers.


John Douglas Hazen: The hon. member refers to the drovers?


Archibald Blake McCoig: I refer to the buyers, the abattoir, or the packers; it is among them. According to the figures in the Veterinary General's report, all they could have any right to take from the farmers is $65,000-that is; allowing for the hogs con-demand at the abattoirs. So, injustice is being done, and I think the department should devise some means to overcome the hardship the farmers are having in connection with this matter.


John Douglas Hazen: I do not see how the department is going to prevent that, nor do I see in any way its responsibility for it. If I understand the hon. gentleman correctly, the drovers have the habit or practice of exacting a certain percentage from the men from whom the hogs are bought, to cover possible loss because of these hogs being discovered to be diseased when slaughtered. That seems to me a matter between the

packer or the drover and the man who raises the hogs. So far as the Government inspection is concerned, that is paid for by this Parliament; the farmer is not called upon to pay any portion of it. That is the information I gave my hon. friend in response to an inquiry he made in the House some time ago. If I understand him, the farmers throughout the country have the idea that the amount they are paying the drover is to he counted as the amount the Government charges for the inspection. But the Government charges them nothing. It seems to be a custom that has grown up between those who buy and those who sell the hogs. I do not know how that difficulty could be overcome.


Archibald Blake McCoig: On the excuse of the
inspection, they have been extracting this fee.


John Douglas Hazen: Who has?


Archibald Blake McCoig: The buyers. They have
even put in their advertisements that the reason they have retained that fee was the necessity for inspection. Without' the necessary publicity informing the farmers that they do not have to pay for the inspection, the men in the rural districts believe that the Government is collecting its fees for inspection through this channel. I think that should be corrected. It is not for a private member to do it, but for the minister or the department'. But if, by means of this representation, they wrong the farmers to the extent of over $100,000, I think that some course could be taken by the department' to stop that illegitimate way of dealing with this important industry. If the Government compensates for hogs killed because they have contracted tuberculosis, or other contagious disease, the Government should compensate for hogs condemned at the abattoirs and not take from the ' men who are producing healthy hogs a fee to make up for the losses caused through hogs of inferior quality. If one section of the country produces a healthy lot of hogs, why should the packers or the buyers take a portion off the price of every lot that the farmer brings in? If you are going to allow this practice to be carried on, by these people the only fair thing to do is to say to them: we will allow you, as we do under the Contagious Diseases Act, a portion of the loss, and settle it in that way. An amount could be put in the Estimates to cover such payments, and then the burden would fall equally upon
the producers in all parts of the country, and not unfairly on a few.


John Douglas Hazen: The Veterinary Director
General informs me that the department has caused; a statement to be published in the Agricultural Gazette and in the different farmers' publications throughout the country, pointing out that the farmer is not called upon to pay anything for the cost of inspection; that that cost is borne entirely by the country, and that there is no reason why the farmers should contribute anything for that purpose. That statement has been given wide publicity through tlje publications to which I have referred. He further informs me that certain packers throughout the country used to have a statement on their letterheads to the effect that a certain amount had to be paid to them for the purpose of covering Government inspection, and that they have been compelled to take that statement off their letterheads and cease giving these false statements to the farmers throughout the country. I entirely agree with my hon. friend that every possible publicity should be given to this fact. From what the hon. member for Kent says, the abuse is evidently rather widespread. I will certainly call the attention of the officials of the department to the matter, and if they have not taken all possible steps to make these facts public in the past I will give instructions that they do so in the future.


Edward Walter Nesbitt: If, as the hon. member for Kent says, only 865,000 worth of hogs were condemned last year, whereas the packers and buyers charged about $170,000 in this respect, I think that the Veterinary Directol General might take the matter up with the *slaughter-house people and intimate to them that if this overcharging continued they will get into trouble with the department. As a matter of fact I do not think that the bulk of the farmers have the impression that the charge referred to is for Government inspection. The slaughterhouse people, so far as I know, have stated that the charge is to reimburse them for *the swine that are condemned by the inspectors. That is really what it is for, and I suppose if the slaughter-house people were making a reasonable profit, their claim in this respect would be legitimate. Where they are making large profits, however, I presume the farmers, think they should make up the loss. These charges are not made in all sections of the country; ap-

parently they are confined to sections where the competition is not so keen.


John Douglas Hazen: After all, it is a matter of contract, is it not, between the packer and the man who sells the hogs?


Edward Walter Nesbitt: Very few farmers ship direct to the packer. In our section of the country there is a packer in Ingersoll, and the farmers take their hogs direct to the packers there. I do not think they exact that charge there; they may, but I have never heard that they did. I have never taken hogs there; so I do not 'know. In some sections of the country they do not exact that charge. They started to exact it, but the farmers refused to sell to them on that basis. I do not know what publicity the department give to the question of tuberculosis. Each year when the estimates of the Department of Agriculture have been up I have urged that we would never get rid of tuberculosis among the herds until the department paid compensation as they do in cases of hog cholera, or glanders. I have always been told, however, that this would be too expensive an undertaking. I take a good deal of interest in agricultural matters, an this is the first time I have heard that indemnity is paid to farmers whose tubercular cattle have been condemned. I would suggest that this be given full publicity. Bepresentatives of the Ontario Agricultural Department who are stationed in all sections of the country should be informed of this so that they may Ibe able to give the information to people with whom they come in contact. As to its publication in the Agricultural Gazette, I do not know what publicity it would get from that source., I know that this publication comes to members of Parliament, nine out of ten of whom, I think, throw it in the waste-paper basket. I occasionally read it, or parts of it, but I do not believe the ordinary farmer ever sees it unless it is sent to him by some member of Parliament. I do not know that as a fact, but I have never seen that publication in any farmer's hands, so that what publicity it gives to the fact that indemnity is now paid for condemned tubercular cattle is more than I know. It cannot he very large, or I would have heard something about it from my friends and neighbours.


Mr. GLASS:: I agree with my hon. friend from North Oxford that the municipalities who should he interested in the very

liberal provision that has been made under this Act do not seem to be well enough informed. Whether it is through their lack of interest or through their neglect to read the material that has been placed in their hands, I do not know. We are told by the minister that only. one city has so far availed itself of the provisions of the Act.


John Douglas Hazen: Since this report was published, Begina has come under the Act.


Samuel Francis Glass: That makes two. When we consider the large area of our country and the number of large cities and towns where milk from dairy herds is sold and distributed to the people for consumption, it does seem regrettable that the municipalities themselves, in the interests of health and of human life, should not have availed themselves of the opportunities of inspection by complying with the provisions of this Act. The member for North Oxford has suggested that a good deal of the literature that goes out from the Department of Agriculture does not get the necessary distribution or is distributed in such manner that it is not appreciated by the public. I think that too much dependence is placed on the distribution of pamphlets and literature of this kind, and too little advantage taken of the public press and agricultural papers for the dissemination of such information. For instance, in the Agricultural Committee a short time ago, we had a very valuable address which might have been circulated with great advantage through the public press. It was suggested that the information be circulated by means of advertisements in the agricultural press. But even that would not fully have served the purpose intended. I am convinced that some more aggressive, measures should be taken to stamp out tuberculosis and to prevent the use of tubercular cattle in dairy herds supplying milk for cities and towns. Wherever there are medical health officers, inspection of all such herds should be insisted upon. I would suggest that communications similar to those sent to medical health officers should be sent to the municipal councils. By a more thorough system of inspection a great deal of this communicable disease, which is doubtless spreading throughout the country, might be prevented.


John Douglas Hazen: My information is that every health officer in Canada and all boards of health have been supplied with this information. After all, it is a matter really for the

municipality or the board of health of the municipality to deal with. If they take it up, then the department sends its inspectors and aids them in every way. Saskatoon has been more progressive in this respect than most municipalities, and its example has been followed by Regina. These regulations only came into force in June, 1914, and it always takes time for a matter of this kind to become known and appreciated. We can only hope that, as the advantages of such inspection become more apparent, other towns and cities will avail themselves of the provisions of this Act.


Mr. ROBB:: I was requested to bring this matter to the attention of the department and of the country by a gentleman who for many years was veterinary director general for Canada, and who is now an honorary veterinary adviser. , I refer to Dr. McEacliren. He points out that the constantly increasing use of milk for human consumption, as well as for the feeding of small stock, is a great menace to the general health of the country. The greatest enemy of humanity is tuberculosis, and Dr. McEachren points out that in many countries the number of infected animals is often as high as 50 per cent. Happily it is very much less in Canada.


Edward Walter Nesbitt: I would not like to say that.


James Alexander Robb: I imagine that the discussion we have had to-night would be of interest to Dr. McEachren, because I inferred from his conversation and his correspondence that he was not aware of the progress made in the last year in respect to compensation for slaughtered animals. After all, it is only a half-way measure as compared to what we are doing in compensation for diseased horses. We are giving very much less as compensation for diseased cows, slaughtered for tuberculosis, than we are paying for horses destroyed for glanders; and I think it would be well for the department to sed if they could not do more to encourage the farmers in the stamping out of tuberculosis. As has -been pointed out by the hon. member for North Oxford (Mr. Nesbitt), there is an inclination now to hide cases of tuberculosis when they occur. For instance, it is well known that a drover going through the country and buying cattle to take to Montreal, may come across an animal that is condemned and sent to the tank. The drover gets the hide and then says to the farmer: "Your animal has been condemned, and unless you refund
the money I paid you I will give information that I obtained the animal from you." Often the farmer, rather than have it known that the diseased animal was purchased from him, will pay the drover the amount he received for the animal. Not only is that an injury to the farmer, but it may injure his neighbours through the spread of the disease from 'his infected herd. I hope that the Government will make a greater effort to stamp out this disease, which is such a menace to human life.


James Hamilton Ross: I desire to call attention to
the Canadian trade in eggs. We are building up quite an extensive trade in eggs with Great Britain, and the industry is one of great importance not only to farmers, but to others engaged in raising hens. I am instructed that the Canadian egg is in great favour in the British market, and that our prices are from 5 cents to 10 cents a dozen higher than the price of American eggs. My attention has been called, by men of reputation in the egg business in western Canada, to the fact that large dealers are importing eggs from the United States in bond. They take them to an inland city like London, or some other city near the border, and, under the bonding privilege, re-pack them, and, where the American eggs are defective, substitute Canadian eggs. Sometimes they even exchange cases. These American eggs are then exported from that point to Great Britain, the cases marked in large letters " Packed in Canada." The result is that the British consumer is deceived in the quality of the egg he is buying, and the reputation of the Canadian egg is depreciated. Consequently, the price to the Canadian producer is lowered. This results in a great loss to those interested in the production of eggs. I submit to the minister that very drastic steps should be taken by his department to see that this practice is not continued. If this is an abuse of the bonding privilege accorded to these large firms, the privilege should be either taken away or its use should be closely watched by the department. The Canadian egg industry must not be injured by such a practice. I place this matter before the minister -in order that he may draw the attention of his officers to it and that steps may be taken to avoid this injury to an important Canadian industry.


John Douglas Hazen: My attention was called to this matter a few weeks ago by my hon. friend from Dundas (Mr. Broder). I



understand that the department had a number of representations on the subject. The eggs produced in Canada have a value, I believe, of over $23,000,000 or $24,000,000, and they are increasing. As was pointed out by the hon. member from Middlesex (Mr. Ross), the Canadian hen is supposed to be superior to her sister in the United States, and to produce a better quality of egg, and it is most undesirable that eggs of an inferior quality should be brought into Canada from the United States, packed with Canadian eggs, sent to the markets outside, and sold as Canadian eggs. If they are of an inferior quality, our eggs do not get the credit that is due to them, and their price depreciates. The Customs Department has dealt with this question, I understand, and any eggs that are brought in from the United States or from any other country, have to be branded with a mark showing where they are from. The following is an Order in Council which was passed on the 27th April, 1915, and copies of which were addressed to the collectors of customs at different ports throughout Canada. It reads:
Regulations for the marking of packages containing eggs imported into Canada or passing in transit through Canada have been made and established by Order in Council of 27th April, 1915, as follows, viz.:
1.	Every package containing eggs imported into Canada or passing in transit through Canada shall have marked thereon in plain letters the word " produce " and the name of the country whence exported directly to Canada.
2.	The brands or stencils for such marking shall be supplied by the Department of Customs, in the form approved by the Minister of Customs, and the marking of the packages containing eggs shall be done at the expense ofj the importer or shipper, under, the supervision of a customs officer.
3.	It shall be the duty of collectors of customs, at ports where imported eggs are entered for consumption or for warehouse or for exportation, to see that all packages of such articles are plainly marked as prescribed by these regulations.
4.	Packages of imported eggs entered for warehouse, if not properly marked or branded, shall be marked in such warehouse under the supervision of the customs lockers in charge, who shall see that all such packages are marked according to regulations, before they are de>-livered from warehouse.
5.	Customs officers attending the delivery of imported eggs entered for consumption in Can' ada or in attendance when the same are being
laden in transit on board vessels or cars' for exportation from Canada, shall personally supervise and enforce the marking of all packages of such eggs.
That seems to ensure that any package of eggs coming into Canada will be marked so as to show where it comes from. Some one may take the eggs out of the packages,
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however, and mix them with other eggs that are being sent out. I understand that under the provisions of the Inland Revenue Act any person "who does so is liable to a very serious penalty. It is a criminal offence to do that sort of thing, and so there is protection in that respect. The only question is that of enforcing the law. If any person in Canada knows of anyone who has taken eggs that have Come from the United States, put them into other packages, and sent them out to the markets representing them to be Canadian eggs, and lays a complaint against the party so offending, that party is liable, under the Criminal Code, to a very severe penalty. But I think the egg dealers of Canada want to go much further than that. I think they want regulations passed for the standardization of eggs. They would have inspectors to go from place to place inspecting the eggs and standardizing them, so that they would be sold, say, as No. 1, No. 1 extra, or No. 2, according to different grades. That is what the Canadian dealers are agitating for, but to carry that out would involve a very considerable expenditure. I am told we would require a staff of inspectors all over the country, and that the expense would probably, amount to $40,000 or $50,000 a year, if a policy of that sort were adopted. Being only temporarily in charge of the department, and expecting the return of the Minister of Agriculture in a very short time, I did not feel like entering upon a movement of that sort. I felt that it should be dealt with by the hon. minister who is at the head of the department, instead of by one like myself, who does not pretend to have a very great knowledge of the subject, and who will cease within a few weeks to be the acting minister. But I made inquiry into the subject, and I know that it is one worthy of very careful consideration. The department, I think, realizes that, and will give it the	best consideration possible- A sum of $50,000 a year, when we consider the value of the eggs produced in Canada, does not seem such a large amount, and an expenditure of that kind might have the effect of further encouraging the business, and of putting it on an even better footing that it is on today. From my conversation with the officials of the department, I am satisfied that they are looking very carefully into the whole matter, and that they are alive to the importance of the question raised by my hon. friend.


James Hamilton Ross: Can the Acting Minister of Agriculture inform me what is the size of the letters used in stencilling the packages? I am informed that they" are very small and inconspicuous.


John Douglas Hazen: The Deputy Minister of
Agriculture tells me that the letters are branded into the wooden packages. They are not put on with a stencil, and they are good sized letters, probably an inch or an inch and a quarter in length.
Mr. MeCOIG: I would like to draw the attention of ithe department to the fact that the producers of com in the counties of Essex and Kent are being discriminated against in the matter of freight rates. I have a statement here which will explain itself. It gives a comparison between the rates paid by the farmers who are shipping corn from Essex and Kent to the Maritime Provinces, or to other portions of the Dominion where corn is wanted for feed purposes and those paid by the American farmer. The statement is as follows:
The rate that we are charged by the Canadian railroads is 23 J cents per hundred pounds to points in the lower provinces whereas our American friends across the border are enjoying a rate on corn shipments from Detroit to the lower provinces of 12J cents per cwt. Thus a discrimination against the Canadian shipper of 11 cents per hundred pounds, which practically kills our trade.
This statement is made by some of the farmers who want to ship corn from the counties of Essex and Kent. I am also informed that in shipping corn for feed purposes during a certain period of the year a much larger rate is charged for corn shipped for seed purposes, so that the farmer desirous of shipping corn to feed cattle in the other provinces has to pay an increased price compared with the Tate charged to an American farmer who brings it say from the state of Michigan. This is a matter which I think the department should endeavour to have righted, so that the American farmer may not be in a position to bring his corn into Canada at a lower rate than that paid by the farmers of the counties of Essex and Kent.


John Douglas Hazen: I shall be very happy to call the attention of the seed commissioner to the matter referred to, and to ask him to take it up with the Railway Commission. I think that is all we can do in regard to it.
Mr. MeOOIG:What ithe minister says only shows how unfortunate it is that the department is represented by an Acting
Minister of Agriculture instead of by the Minister of Agriculture. This is a matter in which the Minister of Agriculture would have	interested himself if he had
been	looking after the department.
We hear complaints coming from the producers and we naturally expect that the farmers will look to the Minister of Agriculture for relief in matters of this kind.
Mr. ROBB- Do we understand rightly from the minister that it is a criminal offence to put imported goods into cases and brand end export them as Canadian prods'.


Mr.   IIAZIN@: Yes; if you were to fate eggs from the United States and export them to England as Canadian eggs that wculd ne a criminal offence under Ue Criminal Code.


James Alexander Robb: Any man in the trade in
Montreal, Toronto or anywhere in Canada, will tell you that in 1914, when Canada contributed 1,000,000 bags of flour as a gift to the British Empire, a large proportion of the flour was milled from United States wheat in bond, put into bags provided by this Government, branded as Canadian product and shipped to England. I wonder if the minister has ever heard of that or read of it in the trade journals.


John Douglas Hazen: No, I never did.


James Joseph Hughes: I wish to get from the minister some information in regard to an agricultural product in which the people of Prince Edward Island are very much interested and that is hay. Will the minister tell me if the Government have any person in Prince Edward Island representing it in the purchase of hay for the British Government or for this Government, and if so, whom?


John Douglas Hazen: I understand that some
time ago there was a considerable quantity of hay bought in Prince Edward Island for shipment across to the British Government. I do not know whether at the present time any is being- bought but I do not think so.


James Joseph Hughes: I understood there was.


John Douglas Hazen: The hon. gentleman may
be right; I cannot tell offhand.


James Joseph Hughes: Could the minister give me the names of the parties who purchase the hay and the amount and price?


John Douglas Hazen: No doubt the hon. gentleman will remember questions of that so.-'

being put in the House which were not answered at the time on the ground that' it was not in the public interest at the present time that they should be answered. But I could not say offhand because I have not the information in my possession.


James Joseph Hughes: I am complaining because that is the answer that has been given to the members of this House. I find that in the provincial legislature members-have information in regard to this matter that' we cannot get here. I will read the information to the minister on this question. My hon. friend from Missisr quoi (Mr. Kay) put a question on the Order Paper in regard to the purchase of hay in the several provinces and the department gave this answer:
Mr. Hazen:	It is undesirable in the public
interest to give information on such matters at the present time.
In the Legislature at Charlottetown, Mr. Leonard Woo'd, one of the members speaking upon this subject, made the statement that Carvell Bros, of Charlottetown, acting as agents for this Government or the British Government, had purchased ha/ and that the price paid was $21.50 a ton which had been increased to $22.50. I would like to know if that information is correct.
Mr HAyEN : I would not venture to say whether it is correct or not.


James Joseph Hughes: I do not want incorrect information to go over the country. Then I understand that in Montreal and St. John the price paid was $24 a ton. It would be very desirable to know whether these statements are correct or not. Surely it would not be an injury to the Admiralty, or the Army, or to the British Government, for this House to know if this Government were purchasing hay for the British Government in Prince Edward Island and whether they were paying a certain price per ton for it. By no possibility could that information be of any use to the enemy. I do not see why it should be withheld. With other members of the House I have been trying to get some information in regard to horses. We have received the same answer, that it was not in the public interest to give such information, but we see that information is quite freely given in the United States. A short time ago I saw it published in the papers that the British Government had purchased some 500,000 horses in the United States at a cost of $125,000,000. Later on I saw it reported
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from Washington that the allied countries had purchased 678,443 horses and mules in the United States of a value of $132,000,000. That information is given out, anybody who wants it can get it and why it should be withheld from members of this House is something I cannot understand. Surely the minister could give some better explanation than merely to say that it is not in the public interest. There is some information of importance that I could readily understand that it would not be in the public interest to give to enemy countries but I cannot see how the statement that the Government had purchased a certain quantity of hay in Prince Edward Island, and paid $21, $22 or $23 a ton for it, would be giving information to Germany and other .enemy countries that they could use to our disadvantage. To refuse each information is not to treat members of this House with proper courtesy. It is not reasonable. I would suggest to the minister the propriety of looking into this matter and giving information of this kind to members who ask for it.


Mr. ROOH LANICTOT:: (iLaprairie-Napier-ville) (Translation.) Before the vote on this item is taken, I would like to make a few remarks concerning the embargo by which the Canadian Government prohibits the exportation of hay to the United States. I would not object to the Government putting on this embargo provided they were ready to take our nice No. 2 and No. 1 hay at the same price that we can get for it in the States. Number one hay brings $28 a ton in New York and all through New England.
What strikes me more than anything else is that the Department of Agriculture buys United States hay and has it re-pressed at Montreal. The hay is imported from Michigan and would hardly find a market in New York; for the last three months the price has varied from $12 to $15 a ton. You need nothing else to understand that such hay has suffered from unfavourable weather- conditions. How comes it, Mil'. Chairman, that the department, when in need of hay, goes to the United States, pays for No. [DOT] 3 hay $18.50 and $20 for ordinary No. 2 hay f.o.b., Montreal, when the same quality sells on the United States market, even i.n New York, at $10 to $15 a ton.
At the beginning of my remarks, Mr. Chairman, I stated that No. 1 hay was selling at $28 a ton in the United States; let us bring it down to an average of $27; take off the charges and the dealer is left with

$21.50 f.o.b. shipping place. I infer that the Americans know full well the value of the goods.
True it is that we have the Montreal market; but it is quite restricted. Montreal pays $21 a ton for hay No. 1. Take off the freight charges, say an average of $1.50 a ton, and you get for our fine hay only $19.50, $2 less than could be had on the American market. So, I wonder why the Government prevents the farmers of the province of Quebec from selling their good hay in the United Spates, which is the only market we have, except Montreal, where a few carloads may be sold now and then. You know as well as I do that the Department of Agriculture does not purchase everybody's hay. One must be on the so-called right side of politics to be able to sell hay to the Department of Agriculture, with the result that we are at the mercy of those who have secured contracts. So I claim, Mr. Chairman, that it would be a saving to the Department of Agriculture to pay $23 a ton at Montreal for No. 1 hay from the counties of Laprairie-Napierville, St. Johns-Iberville, Bagot, Mississquoi and all the counties along the south shore, rather than pay $20 for the cull from Michigan.
Mr. Chairman, I have much experience in that trade. I have been dealing in hay for the last twenty-one years. I have had dealings since last September with a New York man who tplls me that the' Michigan hay is worthless this year for the New York market on account of the hay having been damaged in the field by continuous ibad weather during hay time.
At the start, when the first shipments were effected from Michigan to Montreal, many tons of that hay were condemned by the inspectors and before disposing of it to local buyers in Montreal the duty had to be paid. So care was taken to have inspectors on the spot in Michigan, to examine the hay before shipping it to Montreal. The people of Quebec were not so leniently dealt with. In my remarks of the 22nd of February on the budget speech, I pointed out that a large number of small dealers had been ruined because their hay had not passed inspection and was left on their hands and they had to pay demurrage on it.
But since 1911 the Americans have seen a change of conditions. At that time, it was a crime to deal with the United States; but to-day, Canadians are prevented from selling their hay on the other side of the line; while the Government goes out and buys 25,000 tons of hay in Michigan and has it
pressed in Montreal. The Government today is not backward in dealing with the Yankees.
I urge on the minister the removal of the embargo on our No. 1 hay. Since the Government will not buy it, let them give the farmers of my district the opportunity of disposing of it on the American market.
Mr. Chairman, I do not wish to delay the committee any longer. The only purpose of my remarks is to help my constituents and the people of the south shore of Montreal who might have hay for sale.


John Douglas Hazen: In reply to my hon. friend from Laprairie, who I know is very much interested in the hay business, I may say that the Department of Agriculture in its purchases for the British Government bought hay from no one except Canadians. All the contracts were made with Canadians, and all the contracts specified Canadian hay. We believe that all the hay that was purchased was Canadian hay.


Roch Lanctôt: The department is not receiving hay at Montreal from Michigan?
- Mr. HAZEN: No, certainly not.
i Mr. LANCTOT: You are receiving many carloads of hay from Michigan.


John Douglas Hazen: So far as the Department of ^Agriculture is concerned, we are doing nothing of the sort. We are buying no hay from Michigan. All our contracts are with Canadians, and for Canadian hay. It may be that some hay from Michigan has been passed off as Canadian hay; I will not say that that is not the case; but in any event the quantity could not have been very large. I repeat, all contracts, without a single exception, were with Canadian firms and for ^Canadian hay, and they specified the proportion of timothy and clover there should ,be. All the hay purchased is subject to inspection. That is the information I have received, and I believe it to be correct. While it may be true that possibly some of these contractors have passed off hay from the United States as Canadian hay, the department does not believe that it has been done to any considerable extent.


Roch Lanctôt: (Translation.) Mr. Chairman, I must tell the minister that Michigan hay has been coming for a long time to Montreal, and it comes in bond, which shows that it is for export. .
The minister has thrown doubt on the story that hay was imported from Michigan. Let me tell him that after the Easter recess I will furnish him with the proof

that Montreal dealers ply that trade on a large scale and have been doing so for a long period. I shall moreover give him the number of carloads that were shipped to the Montreal docks every week billed to the Government. He will find that many more were shipped than he imagines.


John Douglas Hazen: I cannot follow my hon.
friend as closely as I should like, but I understood him to make the assertion that inspectors were sent by the Canadian Government to Michigan to inspect hay there. The Deputy Minister of Agriculture tells me that as far as he knows there is no foundation for that statement at all, and my hon. friend has been misinformed with regard to it. In view of what my hon. friend has said I shall certainly see Mr. Ruddick, the Live Stock Commissioner, tomorrow morning, and get him to ascertain if there is any foundation for the statement or not. I do not question my hon. friend's bona fides in making the statement to the House, but I am very strongly impressed with the idea that he has been imposed upon, and has received information which is not correct.
Mr. LANiOTOT: (Translation.) Mr. Chairman, at the outset of his remarks, the minister stated that no hay was imported from Michigan, and that the department had made contracts only with Canadian dealers. Yet, he added, it might be that Canadian dealers had bought hay in Michigan. In any ease, let me tell the minister that a large quantity of hay conies in by the Soo line at a special rate of $5 a ton for Montreal. I must state that I have a better knowledge of this question than the minister may suppose.


James Joseph Hughes: Can the minister give
me the information now with regard to hay purchased in Prince Edward Island?


John Douglas Hazen: I have already told my hon. friend that I cannot give him the information.


James Joseph Hughes: What public interests would suffer by my being given that information?


John Douglas Hazen: That is a matter of public policy for the Government, and I do not think my hon. friend ought to press his question further.


James Joseph Hughes: The matter is freely discussed in the legislature of our province.


John Douglas Hazen: They may discuss it on very incorrect information.


James Joseph Hughes: That is exactly why I want correct information. It is almost ludicrous to say that some public interests would suffer, or that Germany would be advantaged by my being informed how many tons of hay were purchased in Prince Edward Island, and how much was paid for it. That is carrying the privilege of refusing to answer questions to the limit.


Roch Lanctôt: Does the minister think it fair that the farmers of my locality should be prevented from shipping their No. 1 hay to the United States when the Department of Agriculture does not purchase any No, 1 hay? If the department was buying No. 1 hay I would not say a word, but as they are not, why should not the embargo be removed and our farmers be allowed to ship their No. 1 to the United States,,where they could get the best price for it?


John Douglas Hazen: If the hay is required for Great Britain or our Allies for the purpose of carrying on the war, as it is represented to be, it is a perfectly fair and proper thing for this department to put an embargo on hay. The very best hay that can be purchased in Canada is being bought for this purpose.


Roch Lanctôt: Does the minister think it fair that our farmers should only get for their No. 1 hay what the' department is paying for culls from Michigan?


John Douglas Hazen: I would not think that
fair; but we are not buying any culls from Michigan.


Roch Lanctôt: I say you are, and I
say it without fear of contradiction. I know what I. am talking about. In my speech on the Budget on February 22 last, 1 stated that some hay which I had offered to the department was refused by the inspector, and then stored with the Baillar-geon Company on Ontario street, Montreal. The hay was afterwards sold to a Tory, and then passed the Government inspector.


George Perry Graham: 
John Douglas Hazen: A great deal.


George Perry Graham: It has been suggested
that Russia might not have as great objection to allowing exports to Canada one of the Allies, as she would have in the case of neutral countries, and I am told by the Minister of Trade and Commerce that that view is being urged on the Russian Government at the present moment.


John Douglas Hazen: It has been arranged for.


George Perry Graham: Yes, for the United
States, but it had not been arranged for Canada two or three days ago, when the Minister of Trade and Commerce informed me a day or so ago that the Russian Government was allowing the export of a certain quantity to the United States, and that he was pressing the Russian Government to allow the rennet to be exported direct to Canada. Under the circumstances, Canada might well expect to receive preferential treatment over neutral countries. Has any progress been made in the matter in the last two or three days?


John Douglas Hazen: I understand that the matter has been practically arranged. It is, of course, a very important question, as rennet is a staple in the manufacture of cheese. The rennet that is used in our cheese factories nearly all comes from the United States, and they get it from Russia and Denmark. Owing to arrangements that have been made within the last day or two, the officials of the department feel sure that we shall have no difficulty in getting all we want from the United States. The deputy minister tells me he received information to that effect from Mr. Ruddick on Saturday.	[DOT]


Archibald Blake McCoig: A question of very great importance in our part, of the country is horses. If it is not disclosing State secrets, would the minister tell me whether an embargo will be placed on Canadian horses going into the United States this year? As the hon. gentleman knows, we have a large surplus of horses, and we should like to get rid of a lot of them. We have been able to send some through to Michigan and
other states. American buyers are coming in there now, and paying larger prices than our farmers can get from Montreal or Toronto, buyers, and I feel sure that if our farmers knew there would be a market for their horses during the present year, a lot more horses would be bred this season. It is extremely important that the farmers should be given every encouragement in horse raising. I should like to have the assurance of the minister that there will be no embargo this year on Canadian horses going into the United States.


John Dowsley Reid: The placing of an embargo on any article going out of Canada is a matter for the Customs Department to deal with. There is no embargo on horses at the present time, and I do not think there is any intention of placing an embargo on them this- year, unless of course we get further instructions from the British Government,.


James Joseph Hughes: The embargo has been taken off?


John Dowsley Reid: Yes.


James Alexander Robb: I should like the Government to consider carefully the argument advanced by the hon. member for La-prairie. He is in the hay business and knows what he is talking about. If it is true, as he says, that there are large quantities of No. 1 and No. 2 hay throughout the country, would it not be well for the Government to look into the matter, especially as we are on the eve of a new crop, and if the Government does not want the hay, raise the embargo and let the farmers sell it in the United States. We made a little mistake on .the horse business, and as a result horses were piling up until we did not know what to do with them. But the embargo, has been raised, and now there is a market The farmers of this country had to feed these horses when hay and oats were very expensive. It cost them a lot of money to hold these horses in stock for the British Empire, and one day we woke up to find that they were not wanted for the British Empire and so they sent them to the United States. Do not make the same mistake with regard to hay. If the hay is not wanted in Canada, then raise the embargo and let it go to the market where it is wanted.


Edward Walter Nesbitt: If, as stated by an hon. member this evening, you are not paying the same price for No. 1 hay as the owners of it could get elsewhere, you are not fair

to those owners. You are paying the same price for every other class of goods that is paid in the open market-where there is open competition, you have to pay. If you put on an embargo, and so stop competition, you say, in effect, that might is right. But, might is not always right, and it is not right to take the farmer's hay at a lower price than he can get for it in another market. I do not know anything as to the facts my.self, but the hon. gentleman who spoke apparently deals in hay and ought to know what he is talking about. I think the minister should take this matter into his serious consideration; I do not believe that he would endorse anything of the kind complained of. I would recommend that the department give greater publicity to the fact that they are paying a certain percentage of the loss upon cattle.that are slaughtered under Government inspection because they are affected with tuberculosis. I doubt that there are many farmers in this country who are aware of it. 'The acting minister says that the regulations came in 1914; but if I am not mistaken, I asked the Minister of Agriculture (Mr. Burrell) himself, the last time these Estimate? were under discussion as to that very point, and he told me that the Government could not afford to pay an indemnity in the case of bovine tuberculosis. I would certainly suggest that literature on that subject be sent to the resident representatives of the provincial Department of Agriculture, so that thiy could inform any farmers or veterinary surgeons throughout the country exactly what these regulations are.
Mr. H. BOULAY': (Translation.) I notice that we are voting large sums towards maintaining the health of animals. I deem it part of my duty to inquire from the hon. gentleman as to how these moneys are being spent. In that part of the province of Quebec which I have the honour to represent, I do not think the people are aware, as a rule, that the Dominion Government is concerned with the health of animals. Might I inquire from the minister who are the officers appointed by the Government to look after these matters in the province of Quebec, and where do they reside?


John Douglas Hazen: I have here a list of them. These are largely veterinary inspectors, and the most of them are employed in the western provinces where, of course, the greater production of cattle takes place. I see that we have a veterinary inspector at St. Johns, Quebec, Mr. J. O. Guy, salary

$1,500; Mr. J. Halle, at Point Levis-he is not a veterinary inspector; Mr. Beaudry, in Sherbrooke; Dr. Gauvin, in Quebec, also Mr. Couture, in Quebec; Mr. Samson, who is employed at Levis; Mr. Oromwell, at Coaticook; Mr. Deers, at Montreal; Mr. Devlin, at St. John.


Mr. COPP:: 1 wish to refer again to this question of hay. This was discussed some weeks ago, and I took part in that discussion. But, inasmuch as my hon. friend from Laprairie-Napierville (Mr. Lanctot) has referred to the matter, I desire to add a word. I have saved some hay myself, no great quantity, but my experience is sufficient to illustrate the point that is raised_here to-night. Early in the winter I had an offer of $13 a ton, and would not sell. Inside of the last three days I had an offer for my hay of $16 a ton, on condition that the embargo is raised between now and the first of June.
Mr. 'HAZEN: Is that highland or marsh hay?


Arthur Bliss Copp: Marsh hay, dyked land.


John Douglas Hazen: English -marsh?


Arthur Bliss Copp: Yes. My case is an illustration of hundreds of others; there are many who might dispose of their hay in the same way if the embargo were removed. If the Imperial Government requires this hay for the keep of their horses during the war, I do not think there is a farmer who would not be quite willing to keep his hay for that purpose. It is somewhat unfair to have him keep his hay on hand if it is not needed for the use of the Empire, when the market is calling for same. With the hon. member for North Oxford (Mr. Nesbitt) I would ask the minister to consider carefully whether or not this embargo could be raised and so give the farmers an opportunity to sell their hay at the highest price.


Hugh Boulton Morphy: I have a matter to bring to the attention of the Acting Minister of Agriculture that has affected the county I have the honour to represent. It has reference to horses. A gentleman came to me during the period when horses were being purchased and he asked me about a man named Robinson, of Toronto, who was supposed to be buying horses for Government. I had not heard anything about him, so I rang up Sir Adam Beck at London. He acknowledged that'the purchase of horses east of Winnipeg was entirely under his

control. I asked him to give me the place of residence and street address of this Mr. Robinson, but h,e did not know it, although I understood that Mr. Robinson was his appointee. My friend, a reputable farmer in the neighbourhood, sitting beside me in the office, was at a loss to know how to get the information. I wired to Ottawa, and in the course of two hours I got an answer to the effect that if I consulted Sir Adam Beck at London he would give me the necessary information. What was a representative of the people to do in a case like that? There was nothing to do but to feel that one was not representing the people. I put this forward in' connection with another circumstance. I was told that General Benson had charge of the purchase of horses for the British army. Upon endeavouring to see him I was referred to Colonel Benson, a brother, I think, of General Benson. He told me that the General was in Mont- -real, and that if I addressed a letter in his care it would get prompt attention. Having the impression that the Government desired to have reputable horsemen in the different parts of the country to purchase horses for the British Government, I addressed a letter in his care, sending the names of six or eight reputable men in the north part of the county of Perth. I got an acknowledgment, but, on inquiry, I find that none of these men were 'consulted at all. It makes a man feel a little bit as. though he weie out of touch with the people when he cannot make headway at all in a matter of this kind. I thought it was well for me to complain to the Government in connection with these matters, because it does not redound to the credit of the Government or strengthen the handling of the resources of the country when members cannot get this information when' they ask oblige those who are desirous of obtaining it. I merely draw attention to the matter so that in the future such a thing may not happen.


John Douglas Hazen: The Agriculture Departmerit has nothing to do with the purchasing of horses either for the British Government or for the Canadian forces. The British Government sent Major General Sir Frederick Benson here to attend to this matter, and the purchasing of horses for the British army was in his hands. If my hon. friend has any fault to find or any complaint to make with regard to the way in which Major General Benson fulfilled his duties, his complaint, should be made to 187	'
the British War Office. I understand that Sir Adam Beck was appointed by the Militia Department to purchase horses that were needed by the Canadian military forces on the other side of the water. It is hard for me to understand why Sir Adam Beck would not send a courteous reply to my hon. friend or to any other member of Parliament who approached him; I certainly think he should have done so. At the same time, Sir Adam Beck is an excellent horseman; he has given a great deal of study and attention to horses, and I have no doubt that the Militia Department in appointing him thought that they were appointing a man who would be as well qualified as any man in Canada to select horses required for the purposes of the military forces that were going overseas.


Edward Walter Nesbitt: It is too late to talk about it to-night, but we could give you a history of how these horses were bought.


John Douglas Hazen: That may be; fault is
generally found with all these things. I would have thought that a better man for the purpose could not have been selected than Sir Adam Beck, because he is one of the best horsemen in Canada. Moreover, he did the work as a labour of love, making,
I understand, no charge for his services. I regret that my hon. friend had this difficulty in regard to the matter. My hon. friend will understand that the Agriculture Department had nothing to do with this. Purchases of horses for the Canadian forces were made through the Militia Department as part of the equipment of those who were going overseas while purchases for the British Government were made through their direct representative who was sent to Canada for that purpose. I was almost going to tell about a little experience that I myself had in connection with a recommendation I put before Major Genera] Benson, but perhaps I had better not


Hugh Boulton Morphy: I think that the minister rather misinterpreted my words, judging from what he said with regard to Sir Adam Beck not giving me a courteous answer. I would not like it to go on record .that I charged him with any lack of courtesy or any act of discourtesy. What I intended to intimate was that apparently he did not know the man whom he himself was supposed to 'have appointed, and, consequently, could" not give me his name and .street address. I think it is worth while

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calling the attention of the Government ,to the fact; at least I thought that I could Jiave got the information at Ottawa.


James Alexander Robb: I would remind the hon.
minister that while the Department of Agriculture had not control over the pur-phase of horses for the British Government, or even for the Canadian Government, there was a matter in that connection over which they did have control, - and that was the rejection of diseased United States horses that were scattered broadcast throughout the country, spreading disease among the horses of Canada. When the member fori Missisquoi (Mr. Kay) brought this matter up in the House some time ago in the form of a question, the right hon. Prime Minister answered that it was not in the public interest to give any details. But the livestock commissioner had a bad half hour with the Horse Breeders' Association in Toronto, and there he did give some information that was published widely in the newspapers of the country. He said that some 300 horses had been rejected in Toronto and that 500 horses had been shipped back. The story we hear in Montreal is that 'these horses were not shipped back, but that, Toronto having refused the horses and having declined to have them scattered throughout the country amongst their herds, it was considered that the next best thing was to send them to the province of Quebec-we can stand for pretty nearly anything down there. I am told that the horses were shipped to the province of Quebec and there sold.


John Douglas Hazen: We are discussing an item under which this question does not arise. If my hon. friend will bring this matter up under the proper item, we shall have Mr. Bright here, and as he understands the facts of the case, I should be in a better position to give my hon. friend some information.


George Perry Graham: There will be a good deal of discussion on this item for the development of the live stock industry; it will take a good part of a day to consider. I may tell the minister t'h^t he is going to be asked innumerable questions, particularly with regard to the horse industry-I think I can say from both sides of the House. He is going to be pressed for information that heretofore the Government have intimated they did not desire to give, and I would urge on him as the part of wisdom to bring all the information that he possibly can on the question of horse buying in Canada.


John Douglas Hazen: If the hon. gentleman
means the buying of horses for military purposes, I am not the one to ask.


George Perry Graham: It is the development of the live stock industry.


John Douglas Hazen: The one to ask about it is the Militia * Department.


George Perry Graham: It is the Government.


John Douglas Hazen: You might as well ask for that information on the railway items as on the- agricultural.


George Perry Graham: It is connected with the development of the live stock industry, and horse breeding in Canada is a very live stock industry.


John Douglas Hazen: We have not bought, a horse.


George Perry Graham: Somebody ought to be .here to give the information which I know will be asked for. Why should the department aid the Horse Breeders' Association to raise good horses, when the men who raise them cannot find a market for them; and it is intimated that the-Government is responsible, in a measure, for their not getting this market. That matter will be discussed at great length on this live stock item, and I am warning the minister now that when the time comes he will be asked for a lot of information. The Government will have to have some one here to give the information as this question of horse-raising is a very live one all over Canada. I meet occasionally, particularly in Toronto, men who have spent their lives in the horse industry and I know that the horse breeders of all Canada are very much perturbed over the manner in which purchasing of horses for war purposes has been managed. I am not referring now to the purchase of old horses, or anything of that kind, but to something of a larger scope than that, although that may, perhaps, be discusse.d incidentally. The different live stock associations throughout Canada, who started on a very small scale and have been gradually extending their efforts until they have come to a point where they control one of the greatest industries on this continent, feel that during the past year or so they have not had an opportunity to supply all the needs that were being supplied through this Government, directly or indirectly, for war or other purposes. I would suggest that certain items be passed to-night, on

the understanding that members will be free to discuss any item on those that re-, main.


John Douglas Hazen: We will allow the large item to stand, with the mental reservation that we can discuss any minor item on it. We have always done that. I suppose I should thank my hon. friend for the warning he has given me, because they say that forewarned is forearmed. I am always willing and anxious to give the committee any information in my power, but it is hardly necessary to point out to an old parliamentarian like my hon. friend (Mr. Graham) that information should be-sought from the p-roper quarters with regard to estimates before the House, and if my hon. friend wants information about the purchase of horses for military purposes in Canada the Agricultural Department is not the one to go to for that information, because the Agricultural Department has not that information, within its possession in the same intimate way as the department that has purchased those horses. These horses have been bought for war purposes, and it would be as improper to ask the Marine Department as to ask the Agricultural Department, as neither of them had anything to do with the question.


George Perry Graham: You are speaking of the horse marines.
Mr: HAZEN: The horse marine used to be a very important element in the navy, but he does not amount to much now.


George Perry Graham: I would suggest to the
minister that he interrogate the Militia Department in order to get some information, because he can see that the development of the live stock industry depends on the sale there is for its product, and where the Department of Agriculture is encouraging the production of horses, it is hardly fair to the members to say that that Department is not in a position to give information as to the reasons for the horse breeders not being able to sell their horses. It is a case where the Government must be held responsible as a unit, and some member of the Government ought to give the information when money is being voted/ to develop the industry.


William Frederic Kay: Would the minister tell the
committee what is being done with the King's horse Amner? I am sure that the House and the country are all very grateful to His Majesty for presenting this horse to Canada, and it would be of great interest to us to know what is going to be done with him this year.


John Douglas Hazen: That horse has been placed in charge of the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society, under conditions that have been agreed on between the Department of Agriculture and this association. They keep him entirely free of charge for a period of one year, and the money received from his services, on a scale of fees agreed to, is to be devoted to prizes, to be given at different fairs throughout the country for thoroughbred animals, and horses suitable for use as remounts. The information can be given on the live stock item, or I can send it to my hon. friend.


William Frederic Kay: Where is the horse at present?


John Douglas Hazen: At present he is at Oakville, near Toronto, which is the headquarters of this breeders' association.


William Frederic Kay: He will be kept in Ontario?


John Douglas Hazen: He will be sent to different places. I presume he will be sent to Quebec.
Progress reported.
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Abbreviations.-lr., 2r.,	3r._ first, second, or third reading. Amdt. = Amendment. Com. z-
Committee. Con. = Consideration.	Div. = Division.	M. = Motion. Ref.=
Reference. Rep.=Report. Res. = Resolution. Sec. = Section.
Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 5.
Acknowledgment of, 1117.
Address to His Majesty the King, 636, 755. See Parliament, extension of term of.
Adulteration of food. See Food.
Advertising, government,
Homestead regulations, 827.	.
Immigration, 2436.
Payments for, 2299, 3095.
Post Office Department, 1164, 2739.
Agriculture
Agricultural products, export of, 345. Animals
Diseased, destruction of, 2957.
Health of, 1430, 2956, 2968.
Apples
Cost of production, 2312.
Duty on. See Taxation.
Bulletins, 1405.
Butter and cheese factories-taxation of, 1391, 1398.
Cold storage, 1427.
Dairying industry, 1391, 1398, 1420, 2966. Department Clerks, 2801.
Employees with diplomas, 2176. Estimates, 661, 1386, 1410, 2956.
Official of-remarks on apple duty, 1426. Staff and salaries, 661.
Development of, 1211, 1220.
Eggs, marketing of, 2961.
Exhibitions. See that title.
Experimental farms, 1386, 1409, 2871, 3160. 3407.
Flax. See that title.
Flax expert, 2348.
Fruit growing, 1407.
Grain. See that title.
Hay. See war supplies.
Hogs
American, 2923.
Cholera, 395, 1397, 2957.
Government inspection of, 1552, 1606.
Agriculture-Con.
Hogs-Con.
Slaughtering of at Amherst, 2174. Smuggling of into Canada, 4099.
Horses
Exportation of prohibited, 1329. Importations from United States, 2057. Purchases by Department, 3881.
Stallion-gift of by the King, 1398.
See also war supplies.
Illustration stations, 1387, 1397, 1399.
See also experimental farms.
Insect pests, 1412.
Livestock, 716, 886, 1390, 1393, 1398. Potatoes
Duty on, 1430.
Embargo on, 1412.
Export of, 1059.
Inspectors, 951, 1395, 1398, 1415, 1420. Powdery scab, 1413.
Prices, retail, 873.
Shipment regulations, 1412.
Tobacco industry, 394.
Wheat. See grain.
Wool
Embargo on, 393.
Exportation of, 2058.
Aitkin, Sir Max, duties of, 534.
Payments to, 2692.
Airships.. See Aviation.
Alberta
Contributions to war, 915.
Farmers, relief for, 532.
Purchases of war supplies in, 3232.
Seed grain, 886.
Alguire, Mr. Duncan Orestes (Stormont) . Soldiers, appointment of to Civil Service, 649.
Aliens
Employment of, 850.
Farm labour, for, 2649.
Government employment of, 1142. Naturalization of, 2922.
Registration of, 542.
Supervision over, 691.
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Allied Economic Conference, 2475, 2802. Allison, Colonel J. Wesley, 271, 290, 1343, 1345. 1355, 1358, 2012, 2245, 2276, 2291, 2476. See also Shell contracts.
American Club, Toronto, wrecking of, 856. Ames, Sir Herbert B. (Mont'l., St. Antoine) Budget, 1255.
The Patriotic Fund, 1255.
Amherst, N.S.
Canada Car and Foundry Company buildings, 1078.
Military barracks, 1435, 2300, 2600.
Postal revenue, 3561.
Troops at, 3269.
War supplies purchased at, 3266. Ammunition. See War supplies.
Annandale buoys, 1808.
Annuities, Government, 1437, 2735.
Anse a Beaufils breakwater, 3623.
Anticosti, Gaspg and north shore mail service, 536.
Antigonish Fishery officer, 552.
Post office, 552.
River guardians, 552.
Station flower garden, 2057, 3593, 3603. Apples. See Agriculture.
Archibald, Captain M. G., services of, 539. Arisaig lightkeeper, 1808.
Armstrong, Mr. Joseph E. (E. Lambton) Budget, 1015.
The duty on apples, 1016.
The duty on oil, 1018.
Production and consumption of gasolene, 1019.
Flax industry, 1287.
Gasolene, production and consumption of, 1019.
Niagara, St. Catharines and Toronto Railway Company, 2421, 2444, 2472. Railways, location of, 2746.
Railway Commission, powers of, 2746. Taxation
Apples, 1016, 1789.
Oil, 1018.	.
Armstrong lake bridge, 2692.
Army
Allowances
Disability, 105, 108, 110, 158, 2873, 3334. Separation, 109, 116, 550, 1021, 1098, 1256, 2176, 2924, 3098, 3232.
Subsistence, 550. See also Pensions. Amherst, barracks, 1435, 2300, 2600. Badges, 3509. See also Decorations.
Cadets. See Militia.
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Campbellton, accommodation at, 1162. Camps
Farnham, 1164.
Valcartier, 2174.
Canadian forces, 24, 31, 40, 60.
Reorganization of, 2015.
Canadian troops in action, 889.
Carson, Brigadier-General, Staff of, 2693. Casualty lists, 2841, 3029, 3280, 3293. Chaplains, 2171, 3097.
Clothing. See war supplies.
Commissions, granting of, 3509. Conscription, 19, 26, 59, 65, 103, 180, 592, 829, 1272.
Decorations, military, 1969, 3294.
Dental corps, 3237, 4129.
Enlistments
Civil Servants, of, 655, 817-826, 1044. Coloured men, of, 235, 557, 2114. Districts, by, 1350.
Foreign labourers, of, 2145. French-Canadians, of, 179, 1081, 3281. Generally, 104, 107, 360, 367.
Interior Department, from, 833,	2084,
2092.
Jews, of, 1550.
Minors, of, 3049.
Paquette, Edward, of, 2241, 2648.
Post Office employees, of, 1761. Provinces, by, 3025.
Royal Military College, from, 362.
See also Recruiting.
Equipment, military, 112.
Farnham, military camp, 1164.
First contingent, transportation of, 2693. French-Canadiana Battalion, 1373.
Medical
Corps, 3236.
Examination, 4069, 4125.
Officers
Black, Dr. J. B„ 1368.
Charlottetown, 1905.
Forbes, Dr. A. McKenzie, 3528. Freeman, Dr. N. P., 3097.
Ottawa, 1759.
Pay of, 1349.
Selection of, 3289.
Medicine Hat Overseas Battalion, 1435. Moosejaw military, 1651.
Officers
Canadian, in England, 949, 1377, 1551. Commissions, granting of, 3509. Muirhead, Major, charges against, 306, 398.
Political activities of, 3541.
Spidal, J. A., 3541. See also Spiddel. Training of, 289, 3533.
Unattached, in England, 1377.
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Orangemen in Army Service, 359. Overseas forces Equipment of, 3504, 3513.
Forwarding of, 3513.
Framing and disposition of, 2348. Parliament, members of, in military service, 949, 1328, 1550, 2168.
Pensions. See that title.
Prisoners from penitentiaries in, 2117. Promotions, system of, 1351.
Provisions. See war supplies.
Rations, expenditure for, 440.
Recruiting
Alleged opposition to, 1607.
Bellechase county, in, 1325.
Coloured men, of, 235, 557, 2114. Edmonton, in, 113, 3586.
Enrollment by districts, 1350.
French-Canadians, of, 3643.
Medical examinations, 440.
Methods of, 292.
Montreal, in, 4069, 4125.
Nova Scotia, in, 145, 1367, 3255.
Officers
Appointment of, 1350, 1373.
Fillimore, Major, 2477.
Kennedy, R. H., 4075.
Mullock, T. A., 2300.
Ottawa, 3586.
Spiddel, Rev. J. A., 3097, 3541.
Quebec, in, 479, 491, 498, 3281.
Unfit men, of, 3251.
Western provinces, in, 3550.
Rifle practice, 3517.
Soldiers Ballots for, 673.
Barbour, Private, death of, 3417.
Chute, Lieutenant A. H., 2476.
Civil Service-appointment of to, 642, 1276.
Curry, Private D., death of, 2987, 3049. Deceased, estates of, 4075.
Decorations, record of, 1969.
Dependents of, allowances to. See Allowances.
Disabled, provision for, 105, 108, 119, 158, 2873, 3334.
Discharge of, 3230.
Employment of
In England, 995, 1371.
On farms, 3589, 4129.
Equipment of, 3502-3528.
Private subscriptions for, 590.
Grenier, Private Adolphe, 3559.
Hayes, Joseph, charges against, 306, 400. Homes for, 1657, 1662.
Illiterate, 1904.
Insane, 1659, 1664.
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Intoxicating liquor, use of by, 756, 803. Kits. See war supplies.
Mail matter for, 532, 2051, 2053.
Medical examination of, 4069, 4125.
Pay of, 552, 1162.
Punishment of, 3051, 3099, 3230, 3257, 3525, 3537.
Railway fares, for Return, 2646.
. Single, 3594.
Special, 2549.
Relatives of, payments to, 3560.
Return tickets for, 2646.
Returned, provision for, 233, 237, 1638. Riots, participation in, 756, 803, 855, 2548.
Special railway rates, for, 2549. Stedman, Robert E., 3232.
Stewart, Corporal, death of, 2443. Technical training for, 1618, 1626. Voting of, 3511.
Working in England, 995, 1371.
Troops
Local, supplies to, 552, 851, 968, 1042, 1043, 1077, 1349, 2172.
Mobilization of, 288, 302.
Transportation of, 35, 58, 2693. Woodmen's Regiment, 1117.
13th C.M.R.-commanding officer, 1329. 40th Battalion, 1043.
68th Battalion, 2695.
101st Battalion, 3548.
102nd Battalion, 1041.
104th Battlaion-medical officer, 1161. 106th Regiment-supplies, 851, 1042, 1077, 1349, 2172.
109th Battalion-separation allowances, 2348.
151st Battalion, recruiting of, 1372.
159th Battalion, 1435.
163rd Battalion, 4152.
191st Battalion, 1329.
206th Battalion, 2167.
See also War and Militia.
Astronomical observatory, western, 2430, 2871.
Astronomical surveys. See surveys.
Auditor General, salary of, 657.
Aviation, 2895, 2898, 2900.
Baddeck, wharf, 548.
Badger, W., employment of, 1439.
Baleine, steamship, 3676.
Bank Act Amendment Bills Interest on deposits, lr., 2599.
Loans to farmers, Res., 674. lr., 681.	2r.,
924. Ref. to Com., 937. Com., 1611. 3r., 1714. Sen. Arndts., 3147.
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Dominion notes, advances of, 592. Nationalization of, 1834.
Paper currency, issue of, 1834.
Savings deposits, rate of interest on, 543. Taxes payable by banks, 2176, 2478.
Barnard, Mr. Geo. H. (Victoria, B.C.)
Pelagic Sealing Commission, 3025. Shipbuilding, 4057.
Bateman, Captain John, employment of, 545.
Battle of St. Julien-commemoration of anniversary, 3026.
Bay Fortune breakwater, 3635.
Bay St. Lawrence telegraph office, 1551.
Bear River, N.S.-public building site, 1164. Beehan, J. J., employment of, 3408.
Beland, Dr. H. S., detention of in Germany, 806, 1274.
Payment of sessional indemnity to, 3873. Beilemare, Mr. A. (Maskinonge)
Bilingual question, the, 3824.
Budget, 1034.
Canada and the war, 1034.
Our national security, 1035.
Intercolonial railway-sleepers, 549. RiviSre du Loup Dredging, 2477.
Wharf, 2543.
Bennett, D. D., 1759.
Bennett, Mr. R. B. (Calgary)
Bilingual question, the, 3812.
Canadian Northern Railway Company-loan to, proposed, 3945.
Grain
Congestion in the West, 3883. Transportation of, 3077.
Interior Department expenditure, 2091. Prohibition of intoxicating liquors, 2210. Saskatchewan Judges' salaries, 2071.
Seed Grain indebtedness, 510.
Shell contracts, 1565.
Technical education, 2206.
Bennett, Mr. Wm. H. (Bast Simcoe)
Mail contracts, 2615.
Niagara, St. Catharines and Toronto Railway Company, 2449,
Political patronage, 1363.
Shipbuilding, 3127.
War supplies-Securing of, orders for, 971. Woman suffrage, 1195.
Berlin, Ont.
Aliens, registration of, 542.
Disturbances at, 855.
Best, Mr. John A. (Dufferin)
Enlistment of Post office employees, 1761. Genest, Mr. S. M., employment of, 885.
Mail contracts, 2613.
Railways-passenger service, 3422.
Taxation of apples, 1786.
Bickerdike, Mr. Robert (Montreal, St. Lawrence)
Aliens, naturalization of, 2922.
Capital punishment, 39, 558, 1956, 1968.
Big Island mail service, 549.
Bilingual question, the, 482-490, 1206, 1810, 1833, 3618, 3676, 3734.
Blades, Captain Charles, employment of, 545. Blain, Mr. Richard (Peel)
Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada, 2907.
Ontario Niagara Connecting Bridge Company, 1891.
Toronto, Niagara and Western Railway Company, 2906.
Western Canada Telephone Company, 1888. Blondin, Hon. P. E. (Secretary of State and Minister of Mines)
Mines Department Estimates, 2326.
Reports, 2336.
Peat, 2329.
B! ue River M. & L. Company, 1076.
Boivin, Mr. Geo. H. (Shefford)
Bilingual question, 1206, 3808.
British Columbia Companies Act, 3561. Farnham Experimental farm, 3407.
Fenian Raid Bounty, 3231.
Hogs, smuggling of into Canada, 4099. Judges
Montreal, 2301.
Quebec, 2692.
Prohibition of intoxicating liquors, 2356. Quebec referee on butter and cheese, 3942. Victoria Memorial Museum, specimens for, 2343, 2345.
Bonaventure
Inspectors of weights and measures, 671. Mail service, 1438, 2172.
Boots, army. See War Supplies.
Borden, Rt. Hon. Sir Robert (Prime Minister)
Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 22.
Decease of members, 22.
Government expenditures, 23. Commandeering of wheat, 23.
The war situation, 23.
Canadian forces, 24, 31.
Conscription, 26.
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Address in reply to Governor General's Speech-Con.
War commissions, appointment of, 26. Visit to Great Britain, 27.
Production of munitions and supplies, 28. Transportation, 29.
Purchase of horses, 30.
Spirit of the Allies, 30.
Address to His Majesty the King, 636, 755. Aliens, supervision of, 690.
Army
Badges, 3509.
Canadian forces, 24, 31.
Casualty lists, 3280, 3293.
Clothing, 3527.
Commissions, granting of, 3510. Conscription, 26.
Dental corps, 3237, 4129.
Medical corps, 3236.
Military decorations, 3294.
Officers
Political activities of, 3541.
Training of, 3533.
Overseas forces, equipment of, 3504, 3515. Recruiting, 3289, 3587, 4125.
Soldiers
Civil Service-appointment to, 650. Deceased, estates of, 4095.
Dependents of, allowances to, 4105. Discharge of, 3230.
Employment of on farms, 4129. Equipment of, 3502, 3528.
Homes, for, 1662.
Pensions. See Pensions.
Punishment of, 3231, 3525, 3537.
Return tickets for, 2646.
Riots, participation in, 756.
Voting of, 3511.
Battle of St. Julien-commemoration of anniversary, 3026.
Beland, Dr., detention of in Germany, 806. Bilingual question, 3619, 3690.
Brantford, city of, 2664.
Cable and wireless rates, 672.
Cadet service, 3502.
Calgary, alleged disturbances at, 756. Canadian Northern Railway Company- proposed loan to, 3945.
Canadian Red Cross Society, 1325, 1492, 2014.
Canals, patrolling of, 3591.
Censored mail matter, 3029, 3050. Chairman of Committee, appointment of, 531.
Civil Service
Appointment of soldiers to, 650. Enlistments from, 822, 824.
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Civil Service Commission, 665.
Constitutional Documents, publication of, 976.
Currie, General, 2351.
Davidson Commission, 2399, 4006.
Daylight saving, 4006.
Economic and Development Commission, 3641.
External affairs, Department of, 1207.
Fair wages boards, 1277.
Government expenditures, 974, 976.
Governor General-Correction of press statement, 2443.
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company- proposed loan to, 3577, 3662.
Gratuities to public servants, 3535.
High Commissioner, Canadian, 664, 667, 956.
Home Guard, 3504.
Hospitals, military, 3236.
House of Commons
Ash. Wednesday adjournment, 1329.
Business of the House, 1208.
Clerk assistant, appointment of, 884.
Hansard, alleged omission from, 2648.
Mace, the, 762.
Morning sittings, 2111, 2924.
Two o'clock sittings, 3294.
Immigration-widows and children, 1330.
Imperial Munitions Board, 594, 804, 923, 1509.
Intercolonial railway-return tickets for soldiers, 2646.
International Joint Commission, 980.
Law, the late Mr. B. B., M.P., death of, 590.
Meredith-Duff. Commission-printing of evidence, 4130.
Militia and Defence Department estimates, 3502, 3537, 3586.
Minister of Munitions, 532.
Mounted Police, Royal Northwest, 686, 956.
National Transcontinental Railway, Government operation of, 2399.
Naval Service, 1689, 1763, 2545.
Nickel, exportation of, 2166.
Ottawa buildings, height of, 2166.
Parliament
Extension of term of, 622, 4077.
See also Address to His Majesty the King.
Independence of-subscriptions to Dominion loan, 755.
Railways, jurisdiction respecting, 947.
Parliament Buildings
Destruction of, 578, 582.
Messages of sympathy, 855.
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Parliament Buildings-Con.
Reconstruction of, 5'91, 663, 2013, 2014. Committee of members on, 3050. Pensions to soldiers, 1659, 1989, 4131, 4150. Political patronage, 3288, 3544.
Post Office Department expenditure, 1887. Prohibition of intoxicating liquors, 1441. 2351.
Quebec and Saguenay Railway, 2530. Quebec railways, acquisition of, 4048. Railways
Location of, 2750.
Oil for fuel on, 977.
Railway Commission, powers of, 2750. Remounts for Canadian forces, 950.
St. John and Quebec railway, 3502.
Shell Committee. See Shell contracts. Shipbuilding, 4052.
Solicitor General, 667.
Tupper, late Right Hon. Sir Charles, Bart. 39, 582.
Vessels, Canadian, requisitioning of, 1970. Vickers-Maxim Ltd., strike at, 1764.
War
Appropriations, 3233, 3287, 3533. Purchasing Commission, 1279.
War Supplies
Ammunition, 28, 106.
British Government, for, 957-973.
French Government, for, 973.
Horses, 30, 542, 652, 653, 758, 950, 1041. Issues of to Canadian troops, 968. Machine guns, contributions for, 3291, 3522.
Orders for, securing of, 957-973.
Ross rifles, 3505-3522, 4106, 4107.
Russian Government, for, 973.
Shell contracts-proposed committee of, investigation into, 1505, 2442, 2920, 2985, 3477.
Small arms ammunition, 2302, 3890. Water powers Control of, 556.
Ownership of, 760.
Wheat, commandeering of, 23.
Winnipeg, disturbances at, 2548.
Woman suffrage, 1203.
Boots, purchase of. See War supplies. Boucher, Dr., complaints against, 1550.
Boulay, Mr. H. (Rimouski)
Agriculture, 1395.
Budget, 1079.
Reply to Mr. Lanctot, 1079. Immigration, 1080.
Germans in the public service, 1081.
Boulay, Mr. H. (Rimouski)-Con.
Budget-Con.
French-Canadian and enlistment, 1081. Government expenditure, 1082.
Censors and decipherers, 2476.
Civil Service
Appointments to, 650, 666.
Examinations, 2478.
French-Canadians in, 1176.
Soldiers, appointment of, to, 650. Enlistment of Jews, 1550. French-Canadians in Civil Service, 1176 Gulf fisheries guardian, 548.
Haanel, Dr., employment of, 851. Intercolonial railway Dining car service, 2420.
Express service, 2420.
Operation of, 2595.
Passenger service, 3421.
Interior Department, expenditure, 2095. Life-saving stations, 2916.
Military Hospital Commission, 2347. Mining products, export of, 1161.
Ottawa Citizen-statements of, 807. Penitentiaries, 2121.
Pilotage, 751.
Political patronage, 1377.
Post office employees, 1906.
Potato inspectors, 951.
Quebec steamship service, 2852, 2855. Rimouski and Matane, enlistments from, 2301.
Rimouski harbour improvements, 3175. Soldiers, appointment of to Civil Service, 650.
Wheat, free, 1060.
Boundary surveys. See surveys.
Bo urassa, Henri, alleged disloyal utterances of, 356, 363, 379.
Bourassa, Mr. J. Boutin (LOvis)
Gely, Aurele, employment of, 1759.
LOvis
Drill hall, 2173.
Military property, lease of, 2922. Quarantine station, 2011, 3352.
Boyer, Mr. Gustave (Vaudreuil)	.
Dempsey, Ernest, stone purchased from, 3098.
Macdonald, Archibald, 2694.
Maple sugar industry, 2159.
Monpetit, Eleazer, 2694.
Nickle export, 2799.
Rigaud-Polnte Fortune mail route, 541, 595. Soulanges Canal, 1041, 1437, 1760.
Boys, Mr. W. A. (S. Simcoe)
Shell contracts, 2249.
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Political patronage, 1365.
St. Peter's Indian reserve, 2928.
Selkirk barracks, 1385.
Sweeney, Mr.-statement of Mr. Turriff, 1156.
Brandt, Peter, employment of, 832.
Breen's pond breakwater, 1438.
Bristol, Mr. Edward (Toronto Centre) Niagara, St. Catharines and Toronto Railway Company, 2470.
British Columbia
Goods shipped to via Panama Canal, 4092. Indian Commission, 852.
Labourers, importation of, 1329. Lighthouse service, 3352.
102nd Battalion, mobilization of, 1041. Public works-dredging, 1077.
Resources and production of, 3842. Sealers, claims of, 595.
British Columbia Companies Act, 3561.
British North America Act, proposed amendment. See Parliament, extension of term of.
British Remount Commission, 2799.
Broad Cove Marsh wharf, 3557.
Broder, Mr. Andrew (Dundas)
Shell contracts, 2519.
Bromptonville mail service, 3562.
Buchanan, Mr. William A. (Medicine Hat) Alberta farmers, relief for, 532.
Aliens, interned, as farm labourers, 2649. Army [DOT]
13th C.M.R.-commanding officer, 1329. 191st Battalion, 1329.
British Columbia copper refineries and zinc smelter, 2799.
Budget, 915.
Alberta and the war, 915.
Taxation, 916.
Duty on apples, 916.
Political patronage, 917.
Marketing of wheat, 917.
Western farm problems, 919.
Grain elevators, 920.
Carslake hotel property, 3562.
Casualty lists, 3029.
Experimental farms, 1407.
Farm labour, 1906, 2649.
Flax industry, 1293.
Fruitgrowing, 1407.
Grain
Elevators, 532, 920, 1609.
Marketing of, 917.
Shipments on Transcontinental railway, 1276.
Buchanan, Mr. William A. (Medicine Hat) -Con.
Grain-Con.
Transportation, 1308.
Wheat, commandeering of, 3222, 3226. Grazing leases, 847.
Iimmigration-Austrian and German, 547. Indian Lands Commission, 2057, 2867. Irrigation, 842.
Lethbridge,
Immigration agent, 2695.
Internment camp supplies, 2011.
Post office, 2800.
Loans to farmers, 550, 679.
Medicine Hat
Customs building, 1440.
Eagle Butte mail service, 534.
Overseas regiment, 1435.
Post office, 534.
Pre-emptions, payments on, 534. Prohibition of intoxicating liquors, 638, 2357.
Railways, guarantees to, 887.
Roseberg post office, 2474.
Seed grain,
Distribution, 2862.
Purchase of, '886.
Taber irrigation district, 2807.
Taxation of apples, 1775.
Toronto, Niagara and Western Railway Company, 2903, 2906.
Transcontinental railway-grain shipments on, 1276.
War supplies
Alberta purchases, 3232.
Hay, 2298.
Oats, 2298.
Purchasing agents, 3528.
Wool, exportation of, 2058.
Budget debate, 807, 889, 989, 1015, 1079, 1118, 1137, 1209, 1228. See Taxation.
Buffalo in parks, 845.
Bureau, Mr. Jacques (Three Rivers and St. Maurice)
Marchand, Zepherin, fuel purchased from, 3098.	.
Mines Department expenditure, 2341. National Transcontinental Railway, Gov* ernment operation of, 2593.
Ontario Hydro-Radial scheme and French Members, 1432.
Prohibition of intoxicating liquors, 1491. Burleigh expedition, 853.
Burleigh falls, lease of, 2583. See Water-powers.
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The Opposition and the war, 372-376. Nationalists, and political parties, 377. Statement of Mr. Armand Lavergne, 377. Civil Service, appointment of ex-soldiers to, 649.
Labour bureaus, national, 610.
Lavergne, Mr. Armand, 377.
Niagara, St. Catherines and Toronto Railway Company, 2458.
Peterborough public building, 2810. Political patronage in military affairs, 1363, 3253, 3542.
Post Office
Mail contracts, 2725.
Rural mail service, 2621.
Prohibition of intoxicating liquors, 2480. Railways
Departmental estimates, 3063. Nationalization of, 3364.
Recruiting, alleged opposition to, 1607. Soldiers
Appointments to Civil Service, 649. Illiterate, 1904.
Taxation of land, 2000.
Technical education, 1628, 2200.
Toronto Star-statements of, 555.
Trade policies, 1618.
Trent canal, 2580.
Burrell, Hon. Martin (Minister of Agriculture)
Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 313.
Canadians and the war, 313.
The Davidson Commission, 315. Purchase of submarines, 316-319.
Hay contracts, 320-335.
Printing-proposed reduction in cost, 4154.
Submarines, purchase of, 316-319.
Business Profits War Tax Act, administration of, 3638.
Business Profits War Tax Bill, lr., 2298. 2r., 2601. Com., 2636, 2649.	3r„ 2802.
Cables. See Telegraphs.
Calgary, alleged disturbances at, 756, 803. Campbellton
"Alleged disturbances at, 756, 803, 855, 945. Gaspe steamship service, 536, 3100. Proposed bridge, 3628.
Public building, 1162.
Railway superintendent, 535.
Soldiers' accommodation at, 1162.
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Canada Grain Act Amendment Bill, lr., 1603.
2r., 1706. Com., 1706, 1971.	3r., 1971.
Canada Peat Society, 2329.
Canada Shipping Act Amendment Bills.
Certificated motor boats, lr., 2346.	2r.,
2802. Com., 2885.	3r„ 2956.
Coasting, lr., 589.	2r., 1300-1305. Com.,
1305. Ref. to Com, 2496. Com, 4128. 3r„ 4128.
Pilotage, lr, 2542.	2r„ 2804. Com, 2804,
2885. 3r„ 2956.
Canada Temperance Act Amendment Bill,
lr, 2878.	2r, 3298. Com, 3298.	3r„
3303.
Canadian Associated Press, 3638.
Canadian Manufacturers Association and
war supplies, 159.
Canadian Northern Railway Company
Audit of revenues and expenditures, 3989. Director of, 2648.
Loan to, proposed, 3345, 3563, 3648, 3826, 3933, 3943.
Rates on oil, 3410.
Snow blockade on, 2647.
Subsidies and guarantees to, 1042. Canadian Pacific Railway Freight congestion on, 2742.
Subsidies and guarantees to, 1042. Canadians Red Cross Society Amendment Bill, lr, 1325.	2r„ 1493. Com, 2014.
3r„ 2015.
Canadian Transport Service, 2888.
Canals, 1712, 3609.
Patrolling of, 3519. For individual canals, see their titles.
Cap a la Roche channel, 761.
Cape Breton, dredging, 2172.
Cape Negro island lighthouse, 544.
Capital Punishment Abolition Bill, lr, 391.
2r, 1957. Div, 1968.
Carkner, W. Lloyd, employment of, 1169. Carleton Beach protection works, 536.
Carleton Drug Company, purchases from, 2542.
Carroll, Mr. W. F. (Cape Breton South) Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 363.	.
Nationalists and the war-Bourassa, and Lavergne, 363.
Loyalty of French-Canadians, 365.
The Shell Committee, 366.
Enlistments, 367.
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Address in reply to Governor General's Speech-Con.
Naval policy, 368.
Political patronage, 368.
Technical education, 370.
Divorce, 777.
Enlistments, 367.
Glace Bay mail service, 533.
Louisburg, censors and decoders at, 1808. Naval Service, 1693.
Political patronage, 368.
Shell Committee, The, 366.
Shipbuilding, encouragement of, 712, 4065. South Cape Breton, enlistments in, 2547. Sydney Pilotage Commission, 986.
Carslake hotel property, 3562.
Carson, General John, position of, 851.
Carvell, Mr. Frank B. (Carleton, N.B.) Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 236.
The financial situation, 236.
Provision for returning soldiers, 237. Naval affairs, 238.
War contracts, 238-275.
Davidson Commission, 266-274.
Political patronage and the war, 276. Allison, Colonel J. Wesley, 1355, 1358.
See also Shell contracts.
Army
Enlistment of minors, 3049.
Officers, Canadian, in England.
102nd Battalion, 1041.
Soldiers	.
Pay of, 1162.
Returning, provision for, 237.
British Columbia-102nd Battalion, 1041. Censoring of mail matter, 2880.
Cold storage, 1427.
Desks, purchases of, 1279.
Experimental farms, 1387, 1410.
Pish and fisheries-salmon, 2394.
Flax expert, 2348.
Fraudulent questions, 1492.
Hay contracts. See war supplies.
Indians, 2674.
Motor car-Pierce Arrow-purchase of, 1327.
Munitions inspectors, 2006.
Owen, James W., patent of, 1158.
Patent rights-extension of, 1158.
Personal explanation

shell deliveries, 2240. Political patronage, 276, 1353, 1361. Potatoes
Powdry scab, 1416.
Shipment regulations, 1412.
St. John and Quebec railway, 1433, 3015.
Carvell, Mr. Frank B. (Carleton, N.B.)-Con. St. John harbour improvements, 730-738. St. John Valley Railway, 757, 1908, 1945. Scammell, J. K., position of, 1157.
Stewart, J. H.-automobile seizure, 1438. Surveys, 1323.
Taxation Oil, 1804.
Profits, 1892, 1897, 1994, 1998.
Technical education, 370.
Victoria, B.C.-coal for dredges, 546.
War
Investigations, 265-276.
Submarines, 266.
Purchasing Commission, 1279, 1907.
War supplies Bandages, 1354.
Bayonets, 1761.
Binoculars, 1353.
Clothing, 1356.
Hay, 255-265, 1422, 2543.
Horses, 267-270.
Lumber, 1354.
Motor trucks, 1358.
Munition contracts, 235.
Pistols, 270-274, 1358.
Ross rifle, 1359.
Shell contracts, 238-255, 683, 803, 1523, 1552, 1609, 3404, 3464, 3498.
Small arms ammunition, 2168, 2881, 3908. Wheat
Commandeering of, 1278.
New Zealand purchases, 1278, 1438. Casgrain, Hon. T. Chase (Postmaster General)
Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 40.
Canada's war forces, 40.
Patriotic meetings in Quebec, 41. French-Canadians in active service, 42. Attitude of Le Devoir, 43.
Germanic aims, 44.
Heroism of France, 45.
Overseas Dominions and the war, 46. Annuities, Government, 2735.
Bilingual question, 3620, 3709.
Canadian military forces, 40.
French-Canadians in military service, 42. Montreal postal service, 2031, 2037.
Pilot, wreck of the, 106.
Post office
Censoring of mail matter, 2880.
Department estimates, 663, 2016, 2716, 3934.
Employees, 2029.
Letters for soldiers, 2051, 2053.
Mail service on the Transcontinental, 2051.
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Post Office-Con.
Parcel post, 2736.
Railway mail service, 2023, 2051. Revenue, 532.
Rural mail service, 2017, 2032, 2040, 2052. Quebec
Patriotic meetings in, 41.
Postal service, 2035.
Railways, acquisition of, 4001.
Soldiers' letters, postage on, 532.
Casualty lists. See Army Cattle. See Agriculture.
Censoring of mail matter. See Post office. Censors and decoders, 640, 851, 1808, 2476. Census-population of Canada, 127.7. Chairman of Committees. See Deputy Speaker.
Chandler wharf, 3161.
Chaplains. See Army.
Charlottetown, P.E.I.
Public works employees at, 2799.
Chatham, N.B.
Local freight at, 1705.
Train service, 3394.
China, Canada's trade with, 344. See Trade and commerce.
Chisholm, Mr. Alexander W. (Inverness) Cape Breton-dredging, 2172.
Eastern harbour-dredging expenditure, 760, 853.
Fish and fisheries Bait, 2387.
Dogfish, 2405.
Trawlers, beam, 760.
Halifax terminals, 885.
Indians, 2671.
Intercolonial railway-passenger service, 3428.
Inverness
Mail service, 2718.
Post offices, 1550.
Public works expenditures, 853. Margaree harbour Removal of wreckage, 717.
Wharf, 739.
Nova Scotia steamship service, 2854.
Port Hood wharf, 760.
Sick Mariners Fund, 752.
Temiskaming dam, 2546.
Chisholm, Mr. William (Antigonish) Antigonish
Fishery officer, 552.
Post offices, 552.
River guardians, 552.
Station garden, 2057, 3593, 3603.
Chisholm, Mr. William (Antigonish)-Con. Arisaig lightkeeper, 1808.
Breen's pond breakwater, 1438.
Broad Cove Marsh wharf, 3557.
Cape St. George lightkeepers, 727.
Coal mining, government control of, 719. Cribbin's Point wharf, 1438.
Ferguson, Mr. T. R., employment of, 885. Fish and fisheries Dogfish, 2408.
Fishermen, medical treatment for, 2414. Transportation, 2415.
Lobsters, 2370, 2391.
Indians, enlisted, 3407.
Intercolonial railway Fish on, 2479, 2415.
Locomotives, 3067.
Management, 3092.
Passenger service, 3421.
Nova Scotia public works, 3149.
Pope, Sir Joseph, 2924.
Public works, expenditure on, 3319.
Spidal, J. A„ 3541.
Tibbits, Archibald, employment of, 1439. Tracadie harbour improvements, 1438, 3149.
Civil Service
Appointments to, 948, 1148, 1149, 4089. Auditor General, salary of, 657. Commission, 664, 665.
Deputy Ministers, salaries of, 659, 983. Dorchester county appointments, 2921. Employees in Government Departments, 3674.
Enlistments from, 655, 817-826, 1044, 1761. Examinations, 2478.
French-Canadians in, 1176, 2006. Generally, 658.
Lower grade employees, pay of, 4079. Messengers, 2743, 2765.
Ministers, salaries of, 667.
Public Works Department clerks, 3096. Sherwood, H. Crossley, appointment of, 4079.
Soldiers, appointment of to, 642, 1276. Wives of enlisted Civil Servants, allowances to, 3232.
Clark, Mr. Hugh (North Bruce)
Bilingual question, the, 3796.
Printing-proposed reduction in cost, 4152.
Clark, Mr. Michael (Red Deer)
Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 32.
Tribute to Governor General, 32. Western production and prices, 33.
Free wheat, 33.
Question of a general election, 34.
Delay in getting troops to the front, 35.
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Government's war expenditures, 36.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier's patriotism, 37. Free wheat, 33.
House of Commons-morning sittings, 2112.
Loans-Dominion, $75,000,000, 1839. Political partyism in war time, 3275. Taxation of apples, 1765, 2308.
Troops, transportation of, 35.
War
Appropriations, 3275.
Expenditure, 36.
Woman suffrage, 1197.
Clements, Mr. Herbert (Comox-Atlin) Dredging, Victoria-graft charges, 2398. Coal. See Mines.
Coasting trade. See Canada Shipping Act Amendment Bills and Steamship service.
Cochrane, Hon. Frank (Minister of Railways and Canals)
Hudson Bay Navigation-Anderson report, 636.
Transcona railway shops, lease of, 636. Cockshutt, Mr. William F. (Brantford) Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 57.
Canada and the war, 57.
Transportation of troops, 58.	*
Achievments of British fleet, 58.
British forces, 58.
Conscription, 59, 65.
Canadians at the front, 60.
Great Britain's sacrifices for the war, 60.
Resources of Great Britain, 61. Australians and the war, 61.
India and the war, 62.
Ireland and the war, 62.
Present war conditions, 63.
Supreme efforts necessary, 66. Brantford, city of, 947, 1625.
Canadian Northern Railway Company, proposed loan to, 3850.
Conscription, 59, 65.
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company, proposed loan to, 3850.
Taxation of profits, 2002.
War
British fleet, 58.
British forces, 58.
Canadians at the front, 60. Transportation of troops, 58.
Cold storage. See Agriculture.
Cole falls water-power, 842.
Cole Harbour wharf, 758, 3150.
Coloured men, enlistment of. See Army. Commissions. See individual titles Committees. See House of Commons Conscription. See Army Conservation Commission, 977.
Constitutional documents, 976.
Copp, Mr. A. B. (Westmorland, N.B.)
Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 403.
The Government and the war, 403. Shell contracts, 405, 409.
The Minister of Militia, 407.
Recruiting and pensions, 408.
Selection of officers, 410.
Hay contracts, 410.
Extension of term of parliament, 413. Amherst
Military barracks, 2300, 2600.
War supplies, purchases of at, 3266. Burleigh expedition, 853.
Experimental farms, 1402.
Ferguson, Dr., 1042.
Fillimore, Major, 2477.
Fish and fisheries Gasolene, 2393.
Inspectors, 2392.
Lobsters, 2371.
Patrol service, 2413.
Hay compressing contracts, 537.
Hogs, slaughtering of at Amherst, 2174. Immigration, 2106.
Indians, 2679.
Intercolonial railway Employees, 3097, 3401.
Equipment, 3606.
Freight, handling of, 2742.
Operation, 3398.
Sackville spur line, 3611.
Train service, 3397.
Truro-Moncton section, 3352.
Militia, Minister of-trips to England, in 1914 and 1915, 2425.
Moncton-Main Street subway, 3024.
New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island railway, 3025.
Officers, military, selection of, 410. Parliament, extension of term of, 413. Penitentiaries, 2122, 2149.
Pensions, 408.
Political patronage, 1364, 1366, 3266. Potatoes, inspection of, 1419.
Prince Edward Island car ferry service, 3393.
Recruiting, 408.
Rural mail service, 2730.
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Sackville
Public building, 2816.
Wharf accommodation, 3160.
St. John Valley Railway, 1941.
Seffington, George, 1437.
Sharpe, Colonel Samuel, M.P., 2924. Stewart, Corporal D., death of, 2443. Taxation of profits, 1853.
War appropriations, 3265.
War supplies Hay, 410, 2968.
Shell contracts, 405.
Cost of Living Commission, 852, 1216.
Courts. See Justice Cribbin's Point wharf, 1438.
Criminal Code Amendment Bills
Abolition of Capital Punishment, lr., 39.
2r„ 1957. Div., 1968.
Bigamy, lr., 1040.
Crothers, Hon. Thos. W. (Minister of Labour)
Fair wages clause in munitions contracts, 3555.
Globe newspaper, statements of, 1811. Labour	[DOT]
Bureaus, national, 604.
Department estimates, 3555.
Soldiers returned, provision for, 1638. Technical education, 535, 1636, 2187.
White phosphorus matches, 989, 1493, 1615. Cruise, Mr. Robt. (Dauphin)
Elliott, Dr. H. H., employment of, 553. Free wheat, 1052.
Grain congestion in the West, 3882. Manitoba school lands, 3675.
Timber protection, 839.
Currie, General, at St. Julien, 2351.
Currie, Mr. John A. (North Simcoe)
Budget, 989.
The financial situation, 990.
Taxation proposals, 990.
Germany's commercial policy, 991.
The war and Imperial unity, 992. Mobilization and training of Canadian forces, 993.
Soldiers-employment of in England, 995.
Experiences in the trenches, 995.
Food and clothing of the soldiers, 997. Promotions in the army, 998.
The Battle of St. Julien, 999.
National service in France, 1002. Organization of our industries, 1004. Public printing-proposed reduction in cost, 3875.
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Rifles, 3518.	,
Rifle practice, 3517.
Soldiers
Employment of in England, 995. Punishment of, 3525.
Training of, 3517.
Customs
Agricultural implements, duty on, 4068. Bonding privileges, 4097.
Department Estimates, 661.
Staff and salaries, 661, 3644.
Free entry of goods, 3644.
Minister of-visit to New York, 2012. Smuggling, 642, 4099.
Customs Tariff Act Amendment Bill. Res. 1764. lr., 1842.	2r„ 2303. Com., 2303.
3r., 2361.
Daigle, Zepherin, employment of, 2922. Dairying. See Agriculture.
Davidson, Mr. Avard L. (Annapolis)
Apples, duty on, 1092.
Budget, 1088.
Party tactics, 1088.
Party policies contrasted, 1089.
The farmers and fishermen, 1091. Canadian Pacific Railway Company,
1091.
The tariff on apples, 1092.
Reduction of government expenditure,
1092.
Taxation features of the Budget, 1090. Dogfish, 2408.
Indians, 2670.
Intercolonial railway-branch lines, 2775. Prohibition of intoxicating liquors, 2223. Taxation of apples, 1092.
Davidson Commission
Appointment of counsel, 4006.
Printing of evidence of, 4130.
Report of, 3188. See also Shell contracts.
Daylight saving, 4006.
Debates. See House of Commons, Hansard.
Delisle, Mr. Michel (Portneuf)
Commercial agents, 1653.
Inland Revenue Department, appointments to, 2175.
Neuville lighthouse, 593.
Port Marcotte, 2171.
Valcartier camp, 2174.
Vallyfield breakwater, 2694.
Weights and measures, inspectors of, 2475.
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Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 529.
French-Canadian Conservative representation in the Cabinet, 529.
Hay contracts, 530.
Loyalty of French-Canadian people, 530. Ham, Mrs. Berlington, 949.
Hay contracts, 530.
Lasoski, Max, 949.
Dempsey, Ernest, stone purchased from, 3098. Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees (Mr. E. N. Rhodes), rulings and statements of Adjournment motion, 3405.
Amendments irrelevant, 1712, 1714.
Bills not to be introduced by resolution, 3617.
Committee of Supply, powers of, 3944. Irrelevancy, 975, 1645, 1834, 3548.
Motion for Committee to rise not in order, 2453.
Unparliamentary expressions, 4035.
Derby junction railway improvements, 3393. Descarries, Mr. Joseph A. (Jacques Cartier) Montreal island, bridge connection with, 3629.
Petroleum, 2648.
Quebec highways, 3169.
Whistling of vessels, 3612.
Devenish, Mr., employment of, 638.
Devlin, Mr. Emmanuel B. (Wright)
Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 337.
Purchase of submarines, 337.
Canada's financial and trade conditions, 339-346.
The Shell Committee, 346-350. Agricultural products, export of, 345. Berlin, Ont.-registration of aliens, 542. Bilingual question, the, 3684.
Civil Service, enlistments from, 823.
Fish, Canadian, in England, 2741.
Pay and Record Office, Canadian, 3024. Prohibition of intoxicating liquors, 2359. Public works-buildings, 341.
Shell Committee, The, 346-350. Submarines, purchase of, 337.
Taxation, 339.	-
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Transport, director of, 3096.
War supplies, director of, 3096.
Woman suffrage, 1203.
Digby Gap submarine bell, 1276.
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D'lsraeli government wharf, 3562.
Divorce cases, procedure in, 595, 762-792. Doherty, Hon. C. J. (Minister of Justice) Aliens, naturalization of, 2922.
Bilingual question, the, 1833, 3802. Canadian Law Library in London, 987. Canada Temperance Act Arndt., 2878, 3298. Capital punishment, 1956, 1967.
Divorce, 781.
Exchequer Court Act, 3404.
Gratuities to public servants, 3536.
Judges' salaries, 2319, 2323.
Judicial vacancies, Quebec, 924.
Justice
Department
Estimates, 983, 2115.
Staff and salaries, 983.
Indeterminate sentences, 2845. Penitentiaries Kingston, 2115, 2133.
Prison reform, 2841-2846.
Prisoners from in military service, 2117. St. Vincent de Paul, 2118.
Ticket of leave system, 2117.
Prohibition of intoxicating liquors, 1901, 2478, 2494, 2550-2569, 2696-2716, 27582765, 2882, 2946-2956, 4127.
Provincial legislation, reports on, 988. Ross, W. T., release of, 2302.
St. Peter's Indian reserve, 2065, 2318, 2940. Saskatchewan Judges' salaries, 2071-2078. Shell contracts, 3487.
Small arms ammunition, 3914.
Solicitor General, office of, 985.
Thompson, Mr., 922.
Vickers-Maxim Ltd., strike at, 1764.
White phosphorous matches, 1616. Winding-up Act, 1548, 1616.
Dominion Lands and Parks.
Administration of, 2079.
Estimates, 817-850.
Forest protection, 838, 850, 2088, 3412. Homestead inspectors, 828, 832. Pre-emptions, payments on, 534. Purchase of property, 2864.
Surveys. See that title.
Timber areas, 836.
Douglas, Mr. James (Strathcona)
Amherst barracks, 1433.
Banks, taxes payable by, 2176.
Canada Car and Foundry Company, 1078. Forest protection, 2087.
French-Canadian Battalion, 1373.
Killam, Alta., mail service, 1438.
Lands, western, survey of, 834.
Loans to farmers, 930.
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Officers, 1372.
Political patronage in, 1372.
Taxation of, apples, 1781.
Wetaskiwin settlers, grievances of, 2088. Drab, Max, employment of, 1439.
Dredging. See Public Works.
Duchemin, H. P., payments to, 1161, 1610. Dunvegan railway, 2081.
Dyes, shortage of, 3553.
Eastern Harbour dredging, 853.
East Gore mail service, 3353.
Economic and Development Commission, 1640, 2999, 3641.
Edmonton
Disturbances at, 8837.
Recruiting in, 3586.
Technical school, 649.
Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia railway, 2081, 3445.
Edwards, Mr. John W. (Prontenac)
Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 351.
War contracts, 352.
Enlistments by provinces, 360.
Churches and the war, 355.
Canada and Imperialism, 360.
The British Navy, 356.
Disloyal utterances in Quebec-Bourassa and Lavergne, 356.
Orangemen in army service, 359.
Army
Chaplains, 2171.
Enlistments, 360, 362, 3025.
Orangemen in, 359.
Bilingual question, the, 3747.
Hay contracts, 353.
Horses for war purposes, 353.
Immigration Department expenditure, 2109. Kingston harbour improvements, 3182. Lavergne, Lieut.-Col. Armand, 541. [DOT] Penitentiaries Kingston, 2118, 2123, 2146.
Portsmouth, 541.
Prison reform, 2845.
Prohibition of intoxicating liquors, 2223. 2494.
Rifles, 3507, 3522.
Royal Military College, 362, 2172, 2831. Rural mail service, 2043.
Trade and commerce, 3018.
Transportation, ocean, 703.
Electoral lists, printing of, 3099.
Electricity, export of, 671.
Elevators, grain. See grain.
Elliot, Dr. H. H., employment of, 553. Employment. See Labour.
Estimates. See titles of departments and subjects.
Supplementary, 2646, 2798.
Esquimalt dockyards, 2889.
Ethier, Mr. Joseph A. C. (Two Mountains) Automobiles for Militia Department, 2544. Budget, 1269.
Taxation of profits, 1269.
Compulsory military service, 1272.
Farm help, 1272.
Political patronage in war time, 1273. Germans in the public service, 1274.
Mr. Edwards and the French-Canadians, 1275.
Canada, population of, 1277.
Civil Service messengers, 2743, 2765. Conscription, 1272.
Paquette, Edward, enlistment of, 2241, 2648.
Secretary of State Department, translators in, 3231.
Evans, A. A.,
Employment of, 1439.
Payments to, 1653.
Exchequer Court Act Amendment Bill, lr., 3404.	2r., Com., 3502.	3r., 3502.
Exhibitions, 1429, 1432, 3026.
Experimental farms.. See agriculture. External Affairs, Department of, 1207.
Fallis, Mr., profits of, 1259.
Farmers
Compensation for destroyed cattle, 2957. Credits for, 1025, 1842, 2401.
Labourers, 1272, 1906.
Loans to, 463, 674, 681, 924-936, 1611, 3146.
See Bank Act Amendment Bill.
Relief to, 432, 760, 2860, 3938.
See Seed grain.
Rural credits. Sec credits.
Farmers Bank, depositors of, 544.
Farnham, Quebec Experimental farm, 3407.
Military camp, 1164.
Federal Plan Commission, 1603, 3135, 3640. Fenian Raid bounty, 593, 3231.
Ferguson, Mr. T. R., employment of, 885. Fertilizers-Dogfish, 2404.
Field kitchens. See War Supplies.
Fielding, P. M., employment of, 2175.
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Bonds, government, negotiability of, 660. Coin, American, 654.
Debt of Canada-interest, 654.
Department
Estimates, 653.	[DOT]
Staff and salaries, 661.
Dominion notes,.issue of, 1218. Expenditure of Canada, 807, 893, 1212, 1223, 1244-48, 2622, 3137, 4116.
Doans
Canadian Northern and Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Companies, 3345, 3563, 3648, 3826, 3933, 3943.
Dominion
Domestic war loan, 807, 811, 815, 891, 904, 1100.
$75,000,000, 1812, 1834, 1843, 1972, 2006, 2546. See also Public Service Loan Bill.
Farmers, to. See Farmers.
Recent government-$100,000,000, 659. War, 1023, 2546, 3233. See also War Appropriations Bill.
Munitions credit to Imperial Government, 1810.
Paper currency, issue of, 1834.
Revenue of Canada, 807, 893, 948, 1212, 1244. See also Budget and Taxation.
Fish and Fisheries
Advisory Board, 2010, 2361, 2368, 2389. Bait, 2386.
Boats, liscensing of, 2409.
Bounties, 2546.
Canadian fish in England, 2741.
Canadian troops, for, -1652.
Canning factories, 2368.
Codfish, price of in Portugal, 3560. Department estimates, 2404, 2901.
Dogfish, reduction works, 2404.
Exhibit at Toronto, 2376.
Fisher, Mr. Ward, 2379.
Fishermen-medical treatment for, 2412. Fishing industry, 2363.
Guardians, 2394.
Gasolene, 2393.
Hatcheries, 2373.
Herring, 551, 2475, 3439.
Intercolonial railway, on, 2415.
Inspection, 3438.
Inspectors, 1078, 2392.
Lobsters
Close season for, 950, 2368, 2375, 2382, 2385, 2439, 4077.	.
Export of, 2547.
Extension of open season, 4077.
Size limit, 2369.
Marketing. See Transportation.
Fish and Fisheries-Con.
Officers, 2379.
Overseer, appointment of, 535.
Patrol service, 2412, 2373.
Pickled fish, 1761.
Inspectors of, 2175.
Protection service, 2901.
Quebec, in province of, 638.
Robertson, Mr. A. C., 2379.
Salmon, 2394.
Shell Fisheries Commission, 2368. Shipments to Great Britain, 2411. Smelt-fishing regulations, 673.
Toronto exhibit, 2415.
Transportation and marketing of, 558, 582, 636, 2374, 2365.
Trawlers
Beam, bounty to, 760.
Steam, 640, 641.
Trout fry, 2421.
Fisheries Intelligence Bureau, 2411.
Fisheries Marine Biological Board of Canada, 3439.
Fisher, Mr. Ward, employment of, 1078.
Flax industry, The, 1279.
Food-maple sugar, adulteration of, 2159. Forest protection. See Dominion Lands. Forest Reserves and Parks Act Amendment Bill, lr., 2495.	2r., 2668. Com., 2663.
3r., 2663.
Forget, Sir Rodolphe Kt. (Charlevoix and Montmorency)
Quebec railways, acquisition of, 4020. Fortier, Mr. Edmond (Lotbiniere)
Quebec public works 3176.
Foster, Mr. A. De W., 949, 2175, 4075.
Foster, Hon. Sir George E. (Minister of Trade and Commerce)
Bilingual question, 3620, 3790.
Budget, 903.
The Balance of Trade, 903.
Domestic war loan, 904.
War expenditures, 905.
Capital expenditures, 906.
Political patronage, 907.
Government taxation proposals, 907. Taxation of Incomes, 908.
The war and economic problems, 908. Future immigration, 910.
Outcome of the war, 910.
Lessons from the war, 913.
Canada Temperance Act, 3298.
Civil servants, enlistment of, 655. Davidson Commission, 3189.
Domestic war loan, 904.
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Grain	«
Administration of Act, 3189. Commissioners, 1603.
Congestion, 1706, 1971.
Oats and oatmeal, embargo on, 653, 854. Storage and shipment, 532. Transportation of, 2080, 3069.
Wheat, commandeering of, 544, 610, 3192, 3224.
Immigration, 910.
Political patronage, 907.
Railway Department estimates, 3056. Shipbuilding, 639, 3106-3134.
Small arms ammunition, 3943.
Speaker, election of, 1.
Steamship service, 2531-2542, 2847, 3134, 3554.
Taxation
Incomes, 908.
Profits, 907.
Tonnage, shortage of, 3100-3134.
Trade and Commerce
Commissioners and agents, 3023, 3551. Department estimates, 664, 3022, 3120, 3551.
Statement on, 2989, 3100.
Trade Commission, 4076.
Transportation, ocean, 638, 2858, 31003134.
West Indies

syrup shipments from, 1970. Fox river breakwater, 1761.
France, fighting in, 1118.
Fraserville-river store repairs, 535. Fredericton experimental farm. See Experimental farms.
Free Wheat. See Grain.
Freight rates. See Transportation and Railways.
French-Canadians
Alberta and Saskatchewan Battalion, 1373. Civil Service, in, 1176, 2006.
Enlistment of, 179, 1081, 3281.
Military service, in, 42, 51, 177.
Fripp, Mr. Alfred E. (Ottawa)
Cable and wireless rates, 672.
Galops canals, 6310.
Gasolene. See oils.
Gaspe
Anticosti and north shore mail service, 536. Bonaventure lighthouses, 536.
Campbellton steamship service, 536, 3100. Inspectors of weights and measures, 671. Maritime road, repairs to, 746.
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Prohibition of intoxicating liquors, 1486. Gauvreau, Mr. Chas. A. (Temiscouata)
Blue River M. & D. Company, 1076. Devenish, Mr., employment of, 638.
Dionne, vs. the King, 2743, 2924. Fraserville-river store repairs, 535. Intercolonial railway
Saving of life and property on, 3458. Train despatchers, 2691.
Lighthouse keepers retiring fund, 754. Louisville
Post office, 546, 1077.
Postmaster, 2114.
Pilot, wreck of the, 106, 154.
Post Office Department-advertising, 1164, 2739.
Rimouski customs officer, 546.
Shell boxes, duty on, 2351, 2691. Temiscouata mail service, 2477. Victoriaville, P. Q.-Post Office Department advertising, 1164.
Geley, Aurele, employment of, 1759.
Georgian Bay Canal, 3182.
German-Canadians
Military service, in, 683.
Public Service, in, 1142, 1274.
German, Mr. William M. (Welland)
Niagara, St. Catharines and Toronto Railway Company, 2467.
Shell boxes, 543.
Girard, Mr. Jos. (Chicoutimi and Saguenay) Agriculture, 1388.
Bilingual question, the, 3822. Experimental farms, 1389.
Mail contracts, 2721.
Quebec railways, acquisition of, 4042.
Glace bay
Harbour improvements, 3154.
Mail service, 533.
Glass, Mr. S. Francis (East Middlesex) Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 277.
The war, 278.
War contracts, 279.
Liberal members and the war, 283. Canada's problems and prospects, 285. Animals, inspection of, 2960.
Flax industry, 1279.
Rural credits, 1842.
Shell contracts, 279.
Soldiers, insane, 1665.
Technical education, 1631, 2200.
Gobeil, Antoine, payments to, 1551.
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Acquisition of new lines, 1590.	SmalL claims. See Government Railways
Branch lines, purchase and operation of,	Small Claims Act Amendment Bill.
2789.
Divisions, 549.
Ferguson, Dr., employment of, 1042. Halifax terminals, 1597.
Intercolonial
Accident at Val Brilliant, 2058.
Branch lines, 2767, 3432.
Campbellton superintendent, 535.
Cars, 757, 1705, 2347, 3091.
Chatham, N.B.
Local freight at, 1705.
Train service, 3394.
Coal
Alleged expropriation of, 1762. Supply, 538, 2115, 2795, 3462.
Cold storage service, 2415.
Devenish, Mr., employment of, 638. Dining car service, 2379, 2420, 3093. Elevator, 3597.
Employees, 1040.
French-speaking, 2789.
From other railways, 3097.
Rates of pay, 2881, 3401.
Equipment, 2793, 3459, 3606.
Estimates, 2767-2798.
Fish on dining cars, 2415, 3093.
Freight
Congestion, 2742.
Rates
Coal, 548.
Forest products, 1652.
Lumber, 1435.
French-speaking employees, 2789. Halifax terminals, 2573.
Locomotives, 3067.
Lumber, rates on, 1435.
Management, 3092.	'
North Sydney terminals, 3425. Operation, 1590, 2595, 2792, 3398. Paradis, Mr. T., claim of, 2781. Passenger service, 3393, 3419.
Pay, rates of, 2881.
Pensions. See that title.
Pictou harbour bridge, 2785.
Pugwash spur line, 3024.
Return tickets for soldiers, 2646. Rolling stock, 2799.
Sackville spur line, 3611.
Saving of life and property on, 3458. Sleepers for, 549.
Train despatchers, 2691. Truro-Moncton section, 3352. Locomotives, lease of, 2546.
Rates on coal, 548.
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Government Railways Small Claims Act Amendment Bill, lr., 1900, 2919.	2r.,
3303. Com., 3303. Rep., 3308. Arndt., 3308. Div., 3311.	3r„	3312. Sen.
Arndts., 3884, 4039.
Governor General Speech, opening of Parliament, 4. Correction of press statement, 2443. Graham, Hon. Geo. P. (South Renfrew) Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 491.
Extension of term of Parliament, 492. Canada Foundries and Forgings, 493. War contracts, 494.
Recruiting, 498.
Collection and disbursement of Patriotic and other funds, 500.
Naval defence, 502.
Unity of the Empire, 504.
Allied Economic Conference, 2802. Armstrong lake bridge, 2692.
Army .
Barbour, Private, death of, 3417. Recruiting, 498.
159th Battalion, 1435, 2349.
Separation allowances, 2176, 2349. Bilingual question, the, 3785.
Brantford, corporation of, 1649, 1726. Bridges, construction of, 3164.
Budget, 1099.
Public expenditure, 1100, 1102.
Dominion loans, 1100.
The balance of trade, 1101.
Purchase of war supplies, 1102.
Proposed taxation measures, 1103. United States and the war, 1108.
Results of the war, 1109.
Canadian Associated Press, 3638.
Canadian Northern Railway Company- proposed loan to, 3574, 3649, 3827, 3962. Capita? punishment, 1966.
Censoring of mail matter, 2054.
Civil Service
Appointments to, 642, 4091.
Auditor General, salary of, 567. Commission, 664.
Deputy Ministers, salaries of, 983. Enlistments from, 656, 822.
Ministers, salaries of, 667.
Soldiers, appointments to, 642.
Dairying industry-rennet, 2966.
Dredge Port Nelson, 2690.
Dredging, 3186.
Federal Plan Commission, 3135.
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Government railways-lease of locomotives, 2546.
Grain
Elevators, 3597.
Transportation of, 1309.
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company- proposed loan to, 3574, 3649, 3827.
High Commissioner, Canadian-office of, 970.
Highways, 3164, 3168.
Horse raising, 2970.
House of Commons Saturday sittings, 3409.
Two o'clock sittings, 3295.
Hudson Bay Navigation-Anderson report, 636.
Hudson Bay railway, 543, 3376.
Immigration
Expenditure, 2100.
Inspection, boundary, 656.
Intercolonial railway Branch lines, 2767.
Elevator, 3597.
Halifax terminals, 2573.
Lindsay, J. T., 2349.
Loans, Dominion, 1100, 2006, 2546.
Lumber, rates on, 548.
Marine
Harbour improvements, 741.
Prescott depot, 724.
Wreck of the Mayflower, 727.
McNab, C. C., claim of, 4074.
Medical instruction, 978.
Mines Department expenditure, 2326.	'
Montreal postal service, 2037.
<Morrisburg, free entry of goods at, 3644. Mount Royal Tunnel and Terminal Company, 3374.
Munitions Works Commission, 2841. National Transcontinental Railway Government operation, 2569, 303S. Quebec terminals, 2569, 2584.
Rates on lumber, 548.
North Bay armoury, 2691.
Oil, freight rates on, 3411.
Ontario Niagara Connecting Bridge Company, 1648.
Paris agency, 982.
Patriotic funds, 500.
Prison reform, 2842.
Port Nelson
Dock accommodation, 2692.
Harbour improvements, 2838.
Live stock for, 2692.
Post Office Department, administration of, 2035.
Postage stamps, sale and use of, 2051.
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Public works expenditure, 2826.
Quebec and Saguenay railway, 3146, 3431. Quebec bridge, 3435.
Quebec railways, acquisition of, 3616, 3995, 4010.
Railway Commissioners, 3411.
Railways
Department estimates, 3054.
Fires caused by, 3412.
Location of, 2744.
Oil for fuel on, 977.
Situation in Canada-inquiry into, 3982. Subsidies to, 3445.
Royal Military College, 2831, 3881. Sherwood, H. Crossley, appointment of, 4091.
Taxation Land, 2000.
Oil, 1803, 2303.	.
Profits, 1103, 1854, 1978, 1991, 200, 2640. Toronto
Harbour improvements, 3338.
Post office, 2836.
Railway terminals, 3414.
Trade and Commerce, 3021.
Transcona railway shops, lease of, 636. Transportation, ocean-harbour facilities, 741.
Trent canal, 2575.
Naval policy, 502.
Parliament, extension of term of, 492.
War
Appropriations, 3284.
Munitions, manufacture of, 493.
Shell contracts, 494.
Supplies, orders for, 970.
United States contracts, 495. Water-powers, ownership of, 556, 760. Welland canal, 3455.
Yukon, the, 1309, 1318.
Grain
Administration of Act, 3189.
Amendment Bill. lr„ 1603.	2r., 1706.
Com., 1706, 1971.	3r., 1971.
Calgary elevator charges, 1609.
Canada Grain Act Amendment. See that title.
Commissioners, 1603, 3191.
Congestion in the West, 3882. See also Canada Grain Act Amendment Bill. Corn, freight rates on, 2963.
Elevators, 920, 3084, 3190, 3594, 3597, 3604. Alberta-petitions from, 2693.
Calgary, 532, 3223.
Quebec, 3058.
St. John, 3060, 3593.
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Grain-Con.
Freight rates on, 2795, 3058-3089, 3601-3604. National Transcontinental railway freight rates, 2795.
Oats and oatmeal, embargo on, 803, 854, 653.
Shipments on National Transcontinental railway, 1276.
Storage and shipment, 532.
Transportation of, 1207, 1306, 2857, 30693089, 3601, 3456, 3981.
Wheat
Commandeering of, 20, 23, 156, 168, .445452, 458-461, 544, 1278, 1434, 1609, 3192. Free, 33, 793, 802, 856-884, 1046-1096. Marketing of, 917.
New Zealand purchases, 1278, 1438. Storage of, 428, 445-452.
Winnipeg and Minneapolis prices, 857. Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company. * Audit of revenues and expenditures, 3989. Lease of by the Government, 1594.
Loan to, proposed, 3345, 3563, 3648, 3826, 3933, 3943.
Subsidies and guarantees, 1042.
Transcona terminals, 1595.
Gratuities to public servants, 3535.
Green, Mr. Robert F. (Kootenay)
Mining industry, 1873.
Pacific Northern and Omineea Railway Company, 1013.
Taxation
Apples, 1773, 2307.
Mining companies, 1373.
Western Canada Telephone Company, 1889. Zinc, bounties on, 3033.
Guest, Mr. S. M., employment of, 885. Guthrie, Mr. Hugh (South Wellington)
Prohibition of intoxicating liquors, 2356, 2481, 2563, 2952.
Taxation of profits, 1896.
Guysborough
Branch railway, 850.
Mail service, 2800.
Haanel, Dr., employment of, 851.
Half Moon fog alarm, 593.
Halifax
Coal shipments from, 1759.
Customs officers and revenue, 2169. Exports and imports through, 3734. Military hospital, 2114.
Ocean terminals, 885.
Postmaster, 2033.
Post office, 1651.
Railway terminals, 1597.
Ham, Mrs. Beriington, employment of, 949.
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Hanover public building, 1439.
Hansard. See House of Commons. Harbours. See Public works.
Hartt, Mr. Thomas A. (Charlotte, N.B.) Naval Service Department-travelling expenses, 2300.
Hayes, Joseph, charges against 306, 400.
Hazen, Hon. J. D. (Minister of Marine and Fisheries)
Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 184.
Mobilization of Canadian troops, 184. Ocean shipping conditions, 185-192. Lumber export trade, 490.
The Shell Committee, 193.
Shell contracts, 194-200.
Purchase of submarines, 200-211. Soldiers' pensions, 211-215.
Extension of term of Parliament, 215. Shell inspection and political patronage, 217.
Agriculture
Animals, health of, 1430, 2957.
Cold storage, 1427.
Department estimates, 661, 2956-2971. Eggs, marketing of, 2961.
Experimental farms, 1402.
Hay, 2963.
Hogs, government inspection of, 1606. Potato inspectors, 1398, 1415.
Apple duty-government official on, 1426. Aviation, 2898.
Canadian Law Library in London, 987. Coal mining, government control of, 719. Crosby, A. B.-hire of steamer, 727. Dairying industry, 1420.
Deputy ministers, salaries of, 983. Exhibitions, 1429.
Fish and fisheries	i
Advisory Board, 2389.
Boats, licensing of, 2409.
Department estimates, 2404, 2901.
Dogfish, 2404.	.
Gasolene, 2393.
Hatcheries, 2373.	'
Herring, 551, 3439.
Inspection, 3438.
Intercolonial railway, on, 2416.
Lobsters, 2376, 2389, 2441, 4077.
Officers, 2381.
Patrol service, 2373.
Protection service, 2901.	.
Shipments to Great Britain, 2412. Transportation, 2374, 2416.
Flax industry, 1295.
Harbour Commission, organization of, 740, 742.
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Hay contracts, 1424.
Health, public, suggested department of, 1172.
Heidman, Gustav, 681.
Horses for war purposes, 2969.
Hospitals, marine, 3437.
Hudson Bay navigation, 2908.
Live stock inspection, 716.
Lumber, export trade, 190.
Marine
Coasting privileges, 700.
Coast service, 723-728.
Department estimates, 2361, 3436. Government steamers, 693, 727, 751. Harbour improvements, 729, 741. Hospitals, 752, 3437.
Hudson- Bay-Anderson report, 726.
Ice breakjng, 723, 743.
Life-saving, 726, 2916.
Lighthouse keepers retiring fund, 754. Lighthouses
' Maintenance and repairs, 728.
Salaries and allowances, 725.
Supplies, 728.
Masters and Mates, examination of, 694. Mctfor boats, 2346, 2802.
Navigation Aids to, 728.	.
Obstructions to, 715.
Pilotage, 2542, 2804.
Pensions, 747, 750.
Schools, 695.
Ocean Transportation, 185, 740, 1681. Prescott depot, 724.
St. John harbour improvements, 729.
St. Lawrence ship channel, 719. Shipbuilding, 701, 2896.
Shipping conditions, 701. See also Transportation.
Sick Mariners Fund, 753.
Wrecks
Investigations into, 695.
Mayflower, 727.
Wrecking plants, 716.
Naval service, 1671.
Department estimates, 662, 2885, 2908, 3442.
Kecruits for, 2947.
New Brunswick-lumber exports, 190. Noreen, steamer, hire of, 727.
Owen, James W., patent of, 1157, 1159. Parliament, extension of, term of, 111, 215. Patent rights, extension of, 1158.
Pensions
Pilots, 747-750.
Soldiers, 211-215, 4131.
Hazen, Hon. J. D. (Minister of Marine and Fisheries)-Con.
Pictou-handling of freight and coal at, 953.
Political patronage, 217.
Prince Edward Island ferry service, 954, 1704.
Radiotelegraph service, 2908.
St. John post office, 2039.
St. John and Quebec railway, 3365.
Sealers, British Columbia, claims of, 595. Shell Committee, The, 193.
Shell contracts, 194, 805.	.
Shipbuilding. See Marine.
Stefansson expedition, 2914.
Submarines, 200, 2897.
Surveys, hydrographic, 2901. Transportation, ocean, 185, 1681. Vancouver Harbour Commission, 1604, 2078.
Vessels, commandeering of, 1608.
West Indies-syrup shipments from, 1762, 1809.
Wireless telegraph stations, 2909, 2913. Health, Public, proposed department of, 1065. Heidman, Gustav, 681.
Hepburn, Mr. B. R., (Prince Edward, Ont.) Shell contracts, 155.
High Commissioner, Canadian, office of, 664, 667, 956.
Highways, 3164, 3168.
Hjort, Dr., employment of, 1552.
Hog cholera. See agriculture.
Homesteads.
Entries by volunteers, 3529.
Inspectors, 828, 832.
Purchases, collections on, 3463. See also . Dominion Lands.
Horses. See Agriculture and War supplies. Hospitals
Marine, 752, 2918, 3437.
Military, 2114, 3236.
House of Commons Business of the House
Ash Wednesday adjournment, 1329. Easter adjournment, 2925.
Government orders, 2303.
Morning sittings, 2111, 2925.
Notices on order paper, precedence of, 1908.	.
Saturday sittings, 3409.
Two o'clock sittings, 3294.
. Wednesday sittings, 1208.
Chairman of Committees Appointment of, 531.
Rulings of. See Deputy Speaker.
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Committees Debates, 3143.
Internal Economy, 38.
Library of Parliament, 151.
Printing of Parliament, 151, 3875. Public Accounts, 2973.
Restaurant of Parliament, 161.
Select Standing, 5, 148.
Decease of members, 22.
Deputy Speaker, appointment of, 531. Electoral lists, printing of, 3099. Fraudulent questions, 1492.
Hansard-alleged omissions from, 2647, 2840, 3188.
Mace, the, 762.	>
Members Decease of, 22.
Military activities of, See Army.
New, 1.	'
Officials, appointment of Assistant clerk Orders and Records, 4079. Aubrey, Napoleon, 2300.
Chief of Committee Reporters, 4131. Clerk, assistant, 884.
Clerk Votes and Proceedings, 755. Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms, 77.
Editor of Debates, 4131.
Horton, Mr. Albert, transfer of to Senate Staff, 4127.
Library Accountant, 4152.
Reading room, 1706.
Reporting Branch, changes in, 2398, 4127, 4131.
Sessional clerks, 2799.
Speaker, election of, 1.
Vacancies
Bellechase, 3618.
Lincoln, 3404, 3410.
Restigouche, 3404, 3410,
Yarmouth, 3942.
See Parliament.
Hudson Bay navigation, 636, 726, 2908. Hudson Bay railway
Construction, 138, 543, 636, 1598, 3375. Government operations of, 3989.
Terminals, 636, 3375.
Hughes, Mr. James J. (King's, P.E.I.) Annandale buoys, 1808.
Army
Canadian forces, reorganization of, 2015. First contingent, transportation of, 2693. Mullock, Major T. A., 2300.
Officers Medical, 1905.
Unattached, in England, 1377. Parliament, members of in, 949, 1328 1550.
Hughes, Mr. James J. (King's, P.E.I.)-Con. Army-Con.
Troops, local, supplies for, 552.
Budget, 1118.
Public expenditures compared, 1119. Patriotic spirit of the people, 1125. Purchase of war supplies, 1122. Censoring of mail matter, 2880.
Coal mining, government control of, 718. Charlottetown-Public works employees at, 2799.
Coasting privileges, 699.
Experimental farms, 1409, 1411.
Exports to United States, 2057.
Fieldingj P- M., 2175.
Fish and fisheries Herring fishery investigation, 551. Inspectors, 2019, 2175.
Intercolonial railway, on, 3093.
Foreman, Dr. N. O., 2174.	'
Government railways-small claims, 1900, 3303-05.
Horses
Exportation of prohibited, 1329.
French Government, for, 950.
See War Supplies.
House of Commons
Members of in military service, 1328. Reading room, 1706.
Hudson Bay navigation, 2911.
Imports from United States, 2057. Intercolonial railway Car shortage, 3091.
Dining cars-fish on, 3093.
Labour bureaus, national, 620.
Little Sands Breakwater, 2175.
Wharf, 3154.	.
Navigation schools, 696.	-
Necklaces-duty on, 641, 758, 1329. Parliament, Members of in military service, 949, 1150.
Political patronage, 3261.
Potatoes Duty on, 1430. [DOT]
Export of, 1059.
Inspection of, 1418.
Powdery scab, 1418.
Shipping regulations, 1414.
Powder milk. See War Supplies.
Prince Edward Island
Car ferry service, 954, 1704, 3391.	,
Dredging, 853.
Hillsborough bridge, guard on, 1433. Horses, purchases of in, 672.
Judicial vacancies, 924.
Public works, 3152.
Steamship service, 536, 2850.
Telegraph and telephone lines, 3187.
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War supplies purchased in, 3406.
Winter communication with, 1433. Prohibition of intoxicating liquors, 1949, 2235, 2558, 2697, 2758, 2955.
Riverside Lumber Company, 2058.
Ships, purchase of for war purposes, 673. Souris rifle range, 2600.
Summerside
Post office building, 2010.
Rifle range, 2010.
Taxation
Pearls and diamonds, 641, 758, 1329. Profits, 1852.
War
Appropriations, 3261.
Supplies Hay, 2963.
Horses, 542, 652, 653, 672, 759, 1041, 1124, 1380, 1383.
Political patronage in purchase of, 3261.
Powder milk, 850, 1043, 1053, 2175, 3262. Prince Edward Island purchases, 3406. Rifles, 1328, 3506.
Shells, 1123.
Shovels, 156, 1123.
Wheat, free, 1058.
Hughes, Major-General Sir Sam (Minister of Militia and Defence)
Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 287.
Mobilization of Canadian troops, 288, 302. Militia officers in Canada, 288, 299. Machine guns, 289.
Training of officers, 289.
Purchase of pistols, 290.
Col. J. Wesley Allison, 290.
Location of Canadian troops, 291. Recruiting, 292.
The Ross rifle, 292.
Shell contractors, 293.
Militia Appointments, 294.
The Shell Committee, 295, 303.
Shell manufacture, 295-302.
The press and the war, 303.
Aitken, Sir Max, duties of, 534.
Allison, Col. J. Wesley, 1343, 1345, 1355.
See also Shell Contracts.
Allowances, separation and subsistence, ' 551.
Bands, regimental, 1044.
Berlin, Ont., disturbances at, 855. Campbellton, disturbances at, 855. Canadian troops in action, 889.
Civil Servants, enlistment of, 1045.
Currie, General, at St. Julien, 2351.
Hughes, Hon. Major-General Sam (Minister of Militia and Defence)-Con.
Currie, Lieut.-Colonel John, M.P., 1045. Edm,onton, alleged disturbances at, 888. Field kitchens, 547.
France, fighting in, 1118.
Fuses, 1345, 2979. See Shell contracts. German-Canadians in military service, 684. Horses, purchase of, 542, 685,- 1378. Inspectors of munitions, 544.
Lavergne, Lieut.-Col. Armand, 541. Lessard, Major-General, position of, 547. 670.
Machine guns, 289, 532.
Medical examiners, 1349.
Medical officers-Black, Dr. J. B., 1369. Militia
Appointments, 293.
Estimates, 1341.
Officers in Canada, 288.
Mobilization of troops, 288, 302.
Motor trucks, 1345, 1358, 2978.
Officers
Training of, 289.
Unattached, in England, 1377.
Pistols, purchase of, 290, 1343, 1346, 2977. Political patronage in war contracts, 1351, 1361.
Recruiting
Coloured men, of, 557.
Officers, 1350.
System, 292.
Ross rifle, 292, 1347, 1359.
Shell Committee, The, 295, 303.
Shell contracts, 295-302, 2974, 2979.
Shovel shields, 1347.
Small arms ammunition-sale of, 3902. Soldiers
Employment of in England, 1372. Enrolment of by districts, 1350. Equipmefnt, private subscriptions for, 590.
Payment of, 553.
Riots, alleged participation in, 803, -855. Southern rifle deal, 2981.
Thompson, Mr., 922.
Troops, local, supplies for, 552.
War contracts, 1342, 1351, 1361.
Wellington Barracks School, 558. Woodmen's Regiment, 117.
Huntingdon preventive stations, 641. Ice-breaking. See Marine.
Immigration	.
Advertising, 2436.
Agencies, 1440, 2096, 2435.
Austrian and German, 547.
Boston agent, 593.
Chinese, 2441.
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Co-operation of British Government in, 1164.
Department expenditure, 1245, 2606, 2628. Dominion and provincial government cooperation in, 1277, 1904.
Future, 910.
Inspection, boundary, 656.
Jewish, 1080, 1083.
Newfoundland, from-regulations affecting, 2441.
Stations, western, 2869.
Statistics, 540, 1436, 2093.
Widows and children, 1330.
Illustration stations. See Agriculture. Imperial Munitions Board, 594, 923, 1509. Indians
British Columbia, 2681, 2866.
British Columbia Indian Commission, 852. Department clerks, 2800.
Education of, 2690.
Enlisted, status of, 3407.
Kitsilano reserve, 1652, .2681.
New Brunswick, 2674.
Nova Scotia, 2666.
Okanagan reserve, 3144, 3676.
Ontario, 2665.
Prince Edward Island, 2681.
Quebec, 2665.	[DOT]
St. Peter's reserve, 593, 2316.
See also St. Peter's Indian Reserve Bill. Indian Land Commission, 2867, 2057. Ingonish harbour, ice breaking in, 2421. Inland Revenue Department Appointments, 2175.
Clerks, 2544.
Estimates, 661, 2157.
Officials of in municipal elections, 1759. Insurance Act Amendment Bill, lr., 1548. Insurance Companies Extension Bill. Res., 685. lr., 686.	2r., 937. Ref. to Com.,
938. Com., 1610.	3r„ 1714:
See also Life Insurance.
Intercolonial railway. See Government railways.	-
Interior Department
Enlistments from, 833, 2084, 2092. Estimates, 655, 817-850, 938, 1309, 2079, 2428, 2665, 2860.
Expenditure, 895, 2079, 2086, 2090, 2095, 2431, 2435, 2607.
Minister of in Chicago, 756, 829.
Orders in Council approved, 3347. Promotions, 836.
Salaries, 655, 817, 2079.
Surveys. See that title.
International bridge-guarding of, 1041.
International Joint Commission, 979. International Nickel Company, 1867. Inverness
Mail service, 2718.
Post office, 1550.
Public works expenditures, 853.
Irrigation
Staff and salaries, 843.
Works, 842.
See Taber Irrigation District Bill.
James, Mr. C. C<-question of appointment, 2477.
Jameson, Mr. Clarence (Digby)
Canadian Northern	Railway

subsidies
and guarantees, 1042.
Digby Gap submarine bell, 1276.
Fish, transportation and marketing of, 558.
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway-subsidies and guarantees, 1042.
Lighthouse Board, 1078.
Joliette
Government offices, 3562.
Post office, 3561.	[DOT]
Jewish people, The, 1242.
Jews
Enlistment of, 1550.
Judges Act Amendment Bill. Res., 2071. lr., 2078.	2r„ 2319. Com., 2319.	3r„ 2326.
Justice
Canadian Law Library in London, 987. Department
Clerks, 2801.	,
Estimates, 983-989, 2115, 2157.
Staff and salaries, 983.
Indeterminate sentences, 2844.
Judges
Montreal, 2301.
Nova Scotia, 685.
Quebec, 2692.
Salaries, 2071, 2319.
Judicial vacancies, 924.
Provincial legislation, reports on, 988. Solicitor General, office of, 985, 1076.
See also Penitentiaries.
Kastella, A., employment of, 1549.
Kay, Mr. William T. (Mlssisquoi)
British Remount Commission, 2799. Censored mail matter, 3029.
Farnham Military Camp, 1164.
Hay, 2694.
Horses, 542, 671, 1326, 2057.
Keay, R. H., fraudulent operations of, 836. Kemp, Hon. A. E. (East Toronto)
Canadian fish in England, 2741.
Canadian forces, reorganization of, 2016. Casualty lists, 2841.
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War supplies Clothing, 3592.
Kits, 1810, 2167.
Small arms ammunition, 2881.
Winnipeg, disturbances at, 2548.
206th Battalion, 2167.
Killam, Alberta, mail service, 1438.
Kingston
Harbour improvements, 3182.
Penitentiary. See Penitentiaries.
Kitsilano Indian reserve. See Indians.
Knowles, Mr. William E. (Moosejaw) Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 423.
Political partyism, 424.
Extension of term of Parliament, 425. Spirit of Canadian soldiers, 426.
Storage and transportation of wheat, 428.
United States and the war, 427. Commandeering of wheat, 429.
Seed grain indebtedness, 432.
Problem of production, 435.	_
Agriculture-illustration plots, 1397, 1400. Bilingual question, the, 3618.
Canadian Northern Railway Company- proposed loan to, 3933.
Fair wage clause in munition contracts, 1969.
Government railways-small claims, 3309. Grain
Congestion, 1708. ,
Freight rates on, 3058, 3065.
Gratuities to public servants, 3536. Machine guns, 2542.
Moosejaw customs office, 2171.
Parliament, extension 'Of term of, 425. Public works expenditure, 3315. -Saskatchewan judges' salaries, 2075. Saskatchewan river water supply, 3189. Seed grain indebtedness, 432, 505, 517, 1607. Soldiers, punishment of, 3051, 3099, 3537. Taxation Apples, 1770.
Land, 3934, 3941.
Wheat, commandeering of, 156, 428.
Kyte, Mr. George W. (Richmond, N.S.) Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 138.
Nova Scotia's contributions to war, 138. Necessity for economy, 138.
Government expenditure, 139.
Hudson Bay railway, 138.
Kyte, Mr. George W. (Richmond, N.S.)-Con. Address in reply to Governor General's Speech-Con.
The Shell Committee, 140.
Appointment of shell inspectors, 143. Political patronage in army service, 145. Allison, Colonel J. Wesley, 2276. See also shell contracts.
Black, Dr. J. B., 1368.
Civil Service, enlistments, from, 823. Crosby, A. B.-hire of steamer, 727.
Curry, Private D., death of, 2987, 3049. Day, Colonel F. P., 2920, 3028.
. Fisher, Mr. Ward, 2379, 2389.
Fishery inspector Fisher, 1078.
Fish and fisheries
Advisory Board, 2010.
Lobsters, 2379.
Officers, 2379, 2389.
Glace Bay harbour improvements, 3152. Gobeil, Antoine, 1551.
House of Commons-Saturday sittings, 3409.
Hudson Bay railway, 138.
Indians, 2667.
Intercolonial railway-passenger service, 3426.
Loans to farmers, 934.
Morrisburg, Ont., militia office, 1078. Noreen, steamer, hire of, 727.
Nova Scotia-its contributions to war, 138. Political patronage in army service, 145, 1366.
Railway mail service, 2025.
Recruiting, 1367.
Robertson, Mr. A.. C., 2379.
Rural mail service, 2020.
Schooner Two Brothers, 533.
Shelburne
Customs duties, 1762.
Imports, 1276.	[DOT]
Shell Committee, The, 140.
Spiddel, Rev. J. A., 3097.
Technical education, 2206.
War
Expenditure, 138.
Recruiting of officers, 145.
Shells, inspectors of, 143.
War supplies Fuses, 2274.
Machine guns, 2275.
Pistols, 2276.
Rifles, 2286.
Shell contracts, 2259, 2264, 3296.
Wheat, commandeering of, 544.
Woman suffrage, 1189.
L'Asspmption Mail service, 3881.
Wharf, 2174.
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Aliens, interned, farm labourers, as, 2469. Department	-
Estimates, 3555.
Expenditure, 1226.
Employment bureaus, national, 597.
Fair wage boards, 1277.
Fair wage clause in munition contracts, 1969, 3555, 3662.
Labourers
Farmers, for, 1906, 2469.
Foreign, enlistment of, 3145.
Importation of into British Columbia, 1329.
Munitions factories, in, 2549. Unemployment, 535, 595.
Vickers-Maxim, Ltd., strike at, 1079, 1763. Lachance, Mr. Arthur (Quebec Centre) Boucher, Dr., 1550.
Daigle, Zepherin, 2922.
Montreal Immigration agent, 1440.
Quebec Harbour Commission, 2347. Lafortune, Mr. David A. (Montcalm) Penitentiaries, 2156.
Laior, Mr. Francis R. (Haldimand)
Taxation of profits, 1852.
Lamarche, Mr. Paul E. (Nicolet)
Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 467.
Canada in the war, 468.
Attitude of Messrs. Bourassa and La-vergne, 468.
Principles of the Nationalists, 471.
The naval policy, 471.
Le Devoir newspaper, 474.
Aspirations of French-Canadian people, 475.
Extension of term of Parliament, 475. Bilingual question, the, 3758.
Ogilvie, Major G., R.C.A., 1162.
Renfrew wool contracts, 1436.
Lanctot, Mr. Roch (Laprairie-Napierville) Budget, 1035.
War expenditure, 1035, 1036, 1038. Canada's contributions to war, 1035. French-Canadians and the war, 1036.
Mr. Patenaude's speech, 1037. Expenditure and taxation, 1038. Purchases of hay, 1039.
Chaplains, Roman Catholic, 3097.
Foster, Mr. A. de Witt, 949.
Hay, purchase of, 1039, 2964.
Laprairie protection wall, 3164.
Lopassey, Major de, employment of, 1163. Quebec highways, 3164.
Recruiting, 3530.
Solicitor General's office fittings, 1076.
Lanctot, Mr. Roch (Laprairie-Napierville)- Con.
Taxation of profits, 1038.
War appropriations, 3530.
Lands. See Dominion.
Lapointe, Mr. Ernest (Kamouraska)
Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 377.
The war, 378.
Bourassa and Lavergne, 379.
Utterances of Cabinet Ministers, 381. War contracts, 384.
Agriculture, 1394.
Agriculture Department-employees with diplomas, 2176.
Bilingual question, 1810, 3618, 3676, 3678. Nationalism-Bourassa and Lavergne, 379. Ottawa Separate School Commission, 2456. Riviere Ouelle wharf, 1164.
War contracts, 384.
Lapointe, Mr. Louis A. (Montreal, St. James) Savings deposits, rate of interest on, 543.
Laprairie protection works, 3164.
Lareau, J. E., employment of, 950.
Lasoski, Max, government employment of, 949.
Laurier, Rt. Hon. Sir Wilfrid (East Quebec) Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 16.	'
Progress of the war, 16.
Attitude of Canadian people, 17.
The nationalist party, 17.
Canada's interest in the war, 18. Conscription, 19.
Rigid economy necessary, 20. Commandeering of wheat, 20.
Battle of St. Julien-commemoration of, 3028.
Bilingual question, 2974, 3619, 3697. Business Profits War Tax Act, administration of, 3639.
Censoring of mail matter, 2691.
Chairman of Committee Appointment of, 532.	x
Ruling of, 2453.
Conscription, 19.
Davidson Commission, 4006.
Dyes, shortage of, 3553.
Economic and Development Commission, 3642.
Federal Plan Commission, 3641.
Fuses, 1502.
Governor General-correction of press statement, 2496.
Gratuities to public servants, 3535.
High Commissioner, Canadian, 962.
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Con.
House of Commons Business of the House, 1208.
Hansard, alleged omission from, 2647, 2840.
Morning sittings, 2112, 2925.
Two o'clock sittings, 3294.
Immigration	,
Co-operation of British Government in 1164.
Dominion and provincial co-operation in, 1277, 1904.
Imperial Munitions Board, 804.
Insurance companies, life, investments of, 2399.
Mounted Police, Royal Northwest, 688. National Battlefields Commission, 3148. Nickel, exportation of, 2166.
Parliament, extension of term of, 629, 3943. Parliament Buildings Destruction of, 581.
Reconstruction of, 591, 2013, 3050. Pilotage, 2805.
Quebec railways, acquisition of, 4004, 4036, 4040.
Quebec sewerage system, 3557.
Rainbow, alleged capture by, 3943.
St. Amour, A. C„ 3408.
St. Peter's Indian reserve, 2070. Saskatchewan judges' salaries, 2073. Sealers of British Columbia, claims of, 595. Shell Committee, The, 923.
Shell contracts, proposed investigation, 1495, 2351, 2519, 2984.	[DOT]
Sherwood, H. Crossley, appointment of, 4084.
Small arms ammunition, 3898, 3943. Soldiers' equipment, private subscriptions for, 590.
Soulanges Canal employees-charges of partisanship, 3231.
Speaker, election of, 2.
Taxation of profits, 1847.
Trade and commerce, 3006.
Tupper, the late Right Hon. Sir Charles, Bart, 584.
Valcartier expropriations, 1300.
Vancouver Harbour Commissioners, 2078. West Indies-syrup shipments from, 1762, 1970.
Wheat, commandeering of, 20, 1434, 1609, 3197.
Winnipeg, disturbances at, 2548.
Winnipeg Telegram-statements in, 2973.
Laval lee, Mr. J. O. (Bellechasse)
Talbot, Lieut.-Col. Onesiphore, 1325.
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Law, Mr. Bowman B. (Yarmouth)
Bateman, Captain John, employment of, 545.
Blades, Captain Charles, employment of,
545.
Cape Negro Island lighthouse, 544.
Fish, transportation and marketing of, 571.
Half Moon fog alarm, 593.
Immigration officer at Boston, 593. Intercolonial railway-coal supply, 539. Nova Scotia, western, fishery inspector,
546.
Ross, Captain William, employment of, 545.
Shelburne
Bell buoy, application for, 543.
Fishery guardian, 545.
Mail service, 594.
Port physician, 543.
Steamer Starling, 544.
Yarmouth „
Dredging, 550.
Public works, 550.
Law, The late B. B., M.P., Death of, 590. Legion of Frontiersmen, 3507.
Lemieux, Hon. Rodolphe (Rouville)
Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 47.
The Diberal Party and the war, 47. Opposition's right to criticise, 48.
Our soldiers at the front, 48.
Common defence of the Empire, 49.	'
Britain's true glory, 49.
War against militarism, 50.
Unity of French and English in Canada, 50.
Traditional policy of Roman Catholic Church, 57.
Recruiting in Quebec, 51.
Government expenditures, 52.
Economy and retrenchment, 53. Problems after the war, 54.
Technical education, 55.
Canada in Imperial affairs, 55. Advertising, government, 2299.
Aliens, supervision of, 691.
Anse A Beaufils breakwater, 3623.
Bands, regimental, 1044.
Beland, Dr., payment of sessional indemnity to, 3873.
Bilingual question, the, 3715.
Budget, 1143.
Canada's part in the war, 1144.
United States and the war, 1145. Achievements of the British Navy, 1145.
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British aristocracy and French democracy in the war, 1146.
Partyism in war time, 1147.
Public expenditures compared, 1147. Civil service appointments, 1148, 1149. Departmental appointments and expenditures, 1148.
Tariff policies-reciprocity, 1157.
The government's taxation proposals, 1153.
Britain and France and the war, 1154. Cadet service, 3503.
Canadian Northern Railway Company

proposed loan to, 3586, 3655.
Carkner, W. Lloyd, employment of, 1163. Censoring of mail matter, 2840.
Censors in Rimouski, 851.
Chandler wharf, 3162.
Civil Service
Appointments, 1148, 1149.
Enlistments, 819.
Soldiers in, 1276.
Cost of Living Commission, 852.
Customs officers and revenue, 2169. Divorce, 771.
Dredging, 3186.
Electoral lists, printing of, 3099.
Farmers Bank, depositors of, 544.
Federal Plan Commission, 3136.
Forest protection, 850.
Fox river breakwater, 1761.
French-Canadians, enlistment of, 3281. Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company- proposed loan to, 3586, 3655.
House of Commons Officials, 2475.
Vacancies, 3618.
Indians, 2665.
Intercolonial railway
Car shortage, 1705, 2347.
Freight service, 2543.
Paradis, Mr. T., claim of, 2781.
Inland Revenue Department officers, 2158. Judges' salaries, 2319.
Labour bureaus, national, 597.
La Patrie, payments to, 2299. L'Evenement, payments to, 2298.
Loans-Dominion, $75,000,000, 1817. Magdalen islands steamship service, 3352. Mines, former Minister cff-travelling expenses, 2336.
Montreal Island, bridge connection with, 3163, 3628.
Monument of His late Majesty King Edward VII, 3324.
163rd Battalion, 4152.
Lemieux, Hon. Rodolphe (Rouville)-Con. Ottawa
Buildings, height of, 2165.
Departmental buildings, 2875.
Parliament Buildings, destruction of-alleged warning, 674.	,
Peat experiments, 2327.
Penitentiaries, 2144.
Pensions to soldiers, 4140.
Post office
Censoring of mail matter, 2840. Employees, 1651, 2010.
Parcel post, 2?37.
Revenues, 1651.
Salaries, 1651.
Printing-proposed reduction in cost, 4154. Prohibition of intoxicating liquors, 2491. Pulp industry-shortage of vessels, 638. Quebec
Judicial vacancies, 924.
Post office, 547, 672.
Recruiting in, 51, 3281.
Sewerage system, 3557.
Steamship service, 2852.
Quebec and Saguenay Railway, 2475, 2530, 3431.
Quebec railways, acquisition of, 4024, 4046, 4122.
Rainbow, alleged capture by, 3297. Recruiting in Quebec, 51, 3281.
Roman Catholic church-traditional policy of, 57.
Royal Society of Canada, 2875.
St. Bernard-St. Maxime mail service, 3560. Soldiers
Civil Service, in, 1276.
Disabled, provision for, 2873.
Steamship service, 3554.
Taxation of profits, 1336.
Technical education, 55, 535, 2177, 2209. Trade Commission, 4076.
War
Appropriations, 3281.
Supplies Kits, 1809.
Ross rifle, 4108.
Lesperance, Mr. David O. (Montmagny) Bilingual question, the, 3811.
Pilotage, 2805.
Lessard, Major-General, position of, 547, 670. Lethbridge
Immigration agent, 2695.
Internment camp supplies, 2011.
Post office, 2800.
Levis
Drill hall, 2173.
Military property, lease of, 2922. Quarantine station, 2011, 3352.
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lr„ 885.	2r., 1611. Ref. to Com., 1615.
Com., 2399.	3r., 2802.
Life saving. See Marine.
Little Sands
Breakwater, 2175.
Wharf, 3154.
Live stock. See Agriculture.
Loans. See Finance.
Loggie, Mr. Wm. S. (Northumberland, N.B.) Budget, 1126.
Parliament Buildings fire, 1126.
Political patronage, 1127.
Taxation of profits, 1127.
The Minister of Trade and Commerce and political .partyism, 1129.
Canada Temperance Act, 3300.
Chatham, N.B.
Local freight at, 1705.
Train service, 3394.
Commissions, granting of, 3519.
Derby Junction . railway improvements, 3393.
Dyes, shortage of, 3553.
Fish and fisheries
Canning factories, 2368.
Codfish, price of in Portugal, 3560. Transportation and marketing of, 576. Lobsters, 2368, 2383, 2391, 2547, 3441. Government railways, purchase and operation of, 2789.
Quebec railways, acquisition of, 4121.
St. John Daily Telegraph-statement of, 213.
Shipbuilding, 3130.
. Taxation
Apples, 1780.
Profits, 1127, 1338, 1849, 1859, 1891-1898, 1972, 1980, 1983, 1988, 2001.
Lopassey, Major De, employment of, 1163.
Lotbiniere and Megantic railway. See Quebec Railways Acquisition Bill.
Louisburg
Censors and decoders at, 1808.
Post office, 546, 1077.
Postmaster, 2114.
Lumber
Export trade, 190.
Freight rates, 1435.
Shipments, 1681, 1682.
Lunenburg county mail service, 3942.
Lyons, John, employment of, 3881. Macdonald, Archibald, payments to, 26!£4.
Macdonald, Mr. Edward M. (Pictou)
Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 218.
Canada and the war, 218.
Political patronage in war expenditures,
220.
Shell contracts, 221-225.
Cabinet ministers and the war, 226. Naval policy, 228-232.
Transportation, 232.
Provision for returning soldiers, 233. Problems after the war, 233.
Aliens, supervision of, 689.
Army
40th Battalion-supplies, 1043.
106th Regiment-supplies, 851, 1042, 1077, 1349, 2172.
Officers in England, 1077, 1551, 2172. Recruiting, 2987, 3255.
Soldiers
Disabled, provision for, 233, 2874. Homes, 1657.
Pensions, 1654, 1666, 4137.
Punishment of, 3257, 3525.
Special railway rates for, 2549. Technical training for, 1620, 1626. Voting of, 3512.
Bear River public building site, 1164. Beland, Dr., detention of in Germany, 806. Big island mail service, 549.
Bilingual question, the, 3819.
British Columbia, subsidizing of ships in, 1551.
Budget, 1243.
Record of the Government, 12*43. Increases in the Civil Service, 1243. Revenue and expenditure, 1244-1248. Immigration, 1245.
Public debt, 1246.
The taxation proposals, 1248.
Political patronage, 1254.
Canadian Northern Railway Company

proposed loan to, 3346, 3568, 3580. Carson, Brigadier-General, staff of, 2693. Davidson Commission, 2399. See Shell contracts.
Daylight saving, 4006.
East Gore mail service, 3353.
Eureka, railway accommodation at, 1043. Fielding, P. M., 1551.
Freeman, Dr. N. P., 3097.
Government railways Divisions, 549.
Freight rates on coal, 548.
Small claims, 3311. See Intercolonial railway.
Government steamers, 548, 950, 1076. Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company- proposed loan to, 3346, 3568, 3580.
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High Commissioner's office, organization [DOT] in, 957-965.	.
House of Commons-morning sittings, 2112.
Immigration .Expenditure, 2100.
Statistics, 1436.
Indians, 1652, 2668.
Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1161. Intercolonial railway
Branch lines, 2773, 2785.
Car purchases, 757.
Coal supply, 538, 2795.
Employees, 1040.
Equipment, 3460.
Operation, 2792.
Pictou harbour bridge, 2784.
Pugwash spur line, 3024.
Rates Coal, 548.
Forest products, 1435, 1652.
Kastella, A., 1549.
Law, the late Mr. B. B., M.P., death of, 590. Loans
Dominion, $75,000,000, 1824, 1830. Farmers, to, 931.
War, 3253.
Lobsters, 950, 2387, 2439, 4017.
Mines Department, expenditure, 2328, 2331, . 2344.
Mining industry, 1862, 1874, 1878. Munitions. See War.
Naval Brigade, 1671.
Naval service, 228-232, 1667, 1697, 2987. New Glasgow, shell inspectors at, 674. Niagara, St. Catharines and Toronto Railway Company, 2454.
Nova Scotia
Coal situation, 1609.
Judges, appointment of, 685.	-
Steamship service, 2853.
Patent rights, extension of, 1160.
Political patronage, 220.
Pensions. See Army.
Pictou (county)
Mail service, 549, 955.
Recruiting officers, 1165.
Telephone service, 549.
Pictou (town)
Freight and coal, handling of, 952, 955. Local troops, supplies to, 857, 1042, 1077, 1349, 2172.
Pictou Island life-saving station, 549. Political patronage, 1254, 1326, 1875, 3256. Port Howe, mail service, 1076.
Post Office
Department expenditure, 1875, 1885. Rural mail service, 2045, 2049, 2052, 2616.
Macdonald, Mr. Edward M. (Pictou)-Con. Prohibition of intoxicating liquors, 2359, 2478, 2554, 2760.
Public works, expenditure on, 2827. Railway mail service, 2047.
River John customs officer, 549.
Rural mail service. See Post Office. Saskatchewan Judges' salaries, 2073.
Shell Committee, the, 221-225.
Sherbrooke postmaster, 2033.
Shipbuilding, encouragement of, 703, 2115, 4052.
Steamship service, 2538.
Stellarton
Public building site, 1164.
Shell inspectors at, 673.
Taxation of profits, 1248, 1865, 1874, 1985, 1999, 2004, 2616, 2640, 2658.
Technical education, 1620, 1626.
Thompson, Mr. K. C., 921.
Transportation,' 232.
Vale railway, 3024.
Vickers, Limited-sale of ammunition to, 2695.
Victoria Memorial Museum, specimens for,
'	2331, 2344.
War
Appropriations, 3253.
Cabinet Ministers and, 226.
Munitions
Factories-labour in, 2549.
Imperial Government, credit for, 1810. Inspectors of, 544, 673.
Pay and record office, Canadian, 3023. Supplies Clothing, 4078.
Fuses, 2514.
Groceries-British	Columbia, 3097,
3733.
Machine guns, 3258.
Orders for-securing of, 957, 965. Ordnance, construction of, 2799. Pistols, 2510.
Rifles, 3510.
Shells, 673, 2509, 3491.
Small arms ammunition, 1551, 2302, 2543, 2546, 2695, 3297, 3923.
War Purchasing Commission, 2695, 2801. Wentworth mail service, 3353.
West Gore-Clarksville mail service, 2695. Wilson, Fred S„ 3353.
Woman suffrage, 1201.
Macdonald, Rev. D. R., claim of, 3675.
Macdonell, Mr. A. C. (Toronto South) Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway Company, 2663.
Bilingual question, the, 3780.
Prison reform, 2842.
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Toronto harbour improvements, 3344. Machine guns. See War Supplies.
Maclnnes, C. S., position of, 2923.
Maclean, Mr. Alexander K. (Halifax)
Black, R. Robson, 3144.
Budget, 889.
' Balance of trade, 890.
Domestic war loan, 891.
Revenue and expenditure, 892.
Customs taxation, 892.
Financial policy, 893.
Economy in public expenditure, 894. Political patronage, 895.
Expenditures by departments, 895. Government taxation proposals, 899. Tariff on apples and oils, 899.
Taxation of profits, 899.
Taxation of incomes, 902.
Domestic war loan, 891.
Dominion notes advanced to banks, 592. Dominion Telegraph steamer Tyrian, 1437. Exports to United Kingdom, 592.
Fish, transportation and marketing of, 572.
Halifax
Coal shipments from, 1759.
Postmaster, 2033.
Wellington Barracks School, 558.
House of Commons-morning sittings,
2112.
1 Immigration, 540.
Indians, 2669.
* Insurance companies, life, investments of, 1612.
Interior Department expenditure, 2607. Kennedy, R. H., employment of, 4075. Labour bureaus, national, 618.
Lunenburg county mail service, 3942. Mahone bay-Martin's brook mail service, 545.
Martin's river mail service, 3881.
Militia Department-political patronage in, 3248.
Navigation schools, 698.
Nova Scotia-coal shortage, 1608.
Political patronage, 895, 3248.
Population of Canada, 636.
Post Office
Department expenditure, 2609.
Mail contracts, 2610, 2720.
Public Works Department expenditure, 2605.
Shipbuilding, 701, 703.
Shipping, lack of, 700, 1608.
Soldiers' ballots, 673.
Steamer Starling, 540.
Maclean, Mr. Alexander K. (Halifax)-Con. Steamship service, 2537, 2538.
Taxation Apples, 899.
Income, 902.
Oil, 899, 1799.
Profits, 899, 1849, 1971, 2601, 2651.
Special revenue from, 948.
Voters' lists, 1915, printing of, 593.
War
Appropriations, 3247.
Expenditures by departments, 1161. Supplies-Windsor purchases, 3407.
Maclean, Mr. William F. (South York, O.) Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 461.
The wheat question, 461.
South York and the war, 461.
Effect of the war, 462.
Loans to farmers, 463.
Development of natural resources, 465. The nickel industry, 465.
Canada's part in the war, 466.
Airships, building of, 2895, 2900.
Banks, nationalization of, 1834.
Budget, 1262.
Canadian Northern and Grand Trunk . Pacific Railway Companies-proposed loan to, 3826, 3871.
Insurance companies, life, investments of, 2401.
Loans
Dominion, $75,000,000, 1814, 1834.
Farmers to, 464.
Railways to, 3826, 3871.
Nickel industry, 465, 1262.
Ores, refining of, 1265.
Railways
Location of, 2746.
Public ownership of, 3826, 3871. Railway Commission, powers to, 2746, 3629. Saskatchewan Judges' salaries, 2077. Shipbuilding, 2895, 3116.
Toronto, Niagara and Western Railway Company, 2907.
Transportation, 3114.
Wheat, free, 1067.
MacNutt, Mr. Thos. (Saltcoats)
Cable service, 759.
Duty on farm implements, 4068.
Steamship service, 3352.
Trench warfare, 2696.
Wheat, free, 856.
Mahone bay-Martin's brook mail service, 544.-
Maloney, Thomas, injuries to, 3390.
Manitoba School lands, 3675.
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Maple sugar, 2159.
Marchand, Zepherin, fuel purchased from, 3098.
M arcil, Hon. Charles (Bonaventure) Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 476.
Canada and the war, 476.
Loyalty of French-Canadian people, 478. Recruiting in Quebec, 479, 491.
The Nationalist movement, 479.
The Bilingual question, 482-490.
Allies, Conference of at Paris, 2475. Bilingual question, the, 482-490, 3297, 3734. Bonaventure
Enlistments from, 4078.
Inspectors of weights and measures, 671. Mail service, 1438, 2172.
Civil Service Commision, 665.
Campbellton
Alleged disturbances at, 945.
Gaspg steamship service, 536.
Proposed bridge at, 3628.
Railway superintendent, 535.
Carleton beach protection works, 536. Divorce, 778.
Dredging, 3627.
Fisheries overseer, 535.
Gaspg
Enlistments from, 4078.
Inspector of weights and measures, 671. Wrecking station, 718.
Gaspg-Anticosti mail service, 536.
Gaspg and Bonaventure lighthouses, 536. Government railways-small claims, 3307. Grenier, Private Adolphe, 3559.
House of Commons-Clerk Assistant, appointment of, 884.
Immigration, 2102.
Imperial Munitions Board, 594.
Inland Revenue Department-officials of in municipal elections, 1759.
Intercolonial railway Accident at Val Brillant, 2058.
Coal, 2115.
Interior Department, promotions in, 836. Intoxicating liquor in prohibition territory, 2169.
Judges' salaries, 2324.
Letters for soldiers, 2051, 2053.
Life-saving, 726.
Lobsters, 2386.
Maria beach protection works, 536. Maritime road, repairs to, 746.
Montreal Island, bridge connection with, 3629.
Montreal railway terminals, 3415, 3423.
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National Transcontinental Railway, government operation of, 3429.
New Carlisle wharf, 535.
New Richmond Mail service, 2174.
Post office, 1118, 1653.
Overseas forces, 2348.
Paspebiac wharf, 536.
Postmasters and municipal elections, 1653. Prohibition of intoxicating liquors, 1451, 2169, 2220, 2231, 2351, 2475.
Quebec
Fisheries, 638.	[DOT]
Recruiting, 479, 491.
Quebec and Saguenay railway, 3429. Recruiting, 479, 490, 3590, 3643, 5354.
Rural mail service, 2018, 2021, 2040. Rimouski	.
Harbour improvements, 3174.
Inspector of weights and measures, 671. Saguenay river improvements, 3674.
St. Alphonse de Caplan mail service, 1654. Soldiers' decorations, record of, 1969. Steamers, whistling of, 3375.
Steamship service, 3100.
Temiscouata county public works, 4077.
M aria beach protection works, 536.
Marine
Baleine, lease of, 3676.
Coasting privileges. See Canada Shipping Act Amendment Bill.
Crosby, A. B.-hire of steamer, 727. Department Clerks, 2801.
Estimates, 662, 692, 716, 739, 2361, 2530, 2542, 3436.
Law clerk, 2176.
Staff and salaries, 662.
Harbour commissions, 740, 742.
Harbour facilities, 740.
Hochelaga, Steamer, 950.
Hospitals. See that title.
Hydrographic surveys, 2901.
Ice-breaker contract, 1440.
Icebreaking, 723, 744.
Life-saving, 726, 2916.
Lighthouse and coast service
Maintenance and repairs, 728, 739. Retiring fund, 754.
Salaries, 725.
Supplies, 728.
Lighthouse Board, 1078.
Maritime road, repairs to, 746.
Mayflower, wreck of the, 727.
Minister of-visit to New York, 2012. Minto, sale of the, 723.
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M^ontmagny, repairs to, 751.
Navigation Aids, 728.
Anderson report, 636.
Coasting regulations, 699.
Masters and Mates, examination of, 694. Motor boats, certificated officers. See Canada Shipping Act Amendment Bills.
Obstructions, removal of, 715, 745'. Pilotage. See Canada Shipping Act Amendment Bills.
Pilots' pensions. See Pensions.
St. Lawrence, 719, 1906, 3437.
Schools, 695.
Noreen, rental of, 727.	.
Pilot, wreck of, 106, 154.
Sick Mariners Fund, 752.
Shipbuilding, encouragement of, 639, 701, 1616, 1643, 2115, 2892, 3001, 3106, 3336, 3608, 4052.
Shipping
Shortage of, 638, 706.
Total Canadian, 2175.
See also Transportation.
Steamers
Foreign trade licenses for, 2694. Government, 693, 723, 727, 751, 950, 1076, 1437, 3437.
Whistling of, 3375, 3612. See also vessels. Steamship service. See that title. Transportation. See that title.
Tidal stations, 2913.
Vessels
Canadian, net tonnage of, 1163. Commandeering of, 116, 1608. Requisitioning of, 1969.
Wrecks, investigations into, 695.
Wrecking plants, subsidies for, 716.
Martin, Mr. Mederic (Montreal, St. Mary's) Unemployment, the poor and, 595.
Martin, Mr. William M. (Regina) Advertising, 827.
Badger, W., employment of, 1439.
Bennett, D. D., 1759.
Brandt, Peter, employment of, 832. Criminal Code Amendment-bigamy; foreign divorces, 1040.
Drab, Max, employment of, 1439.
Evans, N. A., employment of, 1439, 1653. Homestead inspectors, 828.
Indians, 2688.
Keay, R. H., fraudulent operations of, 836. Labour bureaus, national, 612.
Militia Department, political patronage in, 1374, 3252.
Moosejaw examining warehouse, 1550.
Martin, Mr. William M. (Regina)-Com. Mounted Police, Royal Northwest, 691, 1439.
Political patronage, 1374, 3252.
Prohibition of intoxicating liquors, 2226. Recruiting, 3251.
Regina
Army Service Corps-accommodation for, 1652.
Assistant Receiver General, 553.
Inland Revenue premises, 1439.
Royal Northwest Mounted Police, 1439. Riding Mountain timber reserve, 640.
Ross, W. T,, release of, 2301.
Saskatchewan public buildings, 3329. Saskatchewan river, direction of, 841.
Seed Grain indebtedness, 512.
Stedman, Robert E., 3232.
68th Battalion-payment of wages, 2695. Swift Current post office site, 1041. Taxation of apples, 2308.
War appropriations, 3251.
Wheat, commandeering of, 3219.
Martin's river mail service, 3881.
McCoig, Mr. Archibald B. (West Kent, O.) Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 389.
Kent county and the war, 390.
Hay contracts, 392.
Embargo on wool, 393.
The tobacco industry, 394.
Hog cholera, 395.
Horses for the war, 396.
Taxation of farmers, 398.
Agriculture, 1401.
Corn, freight rates on, 2963.
Hay contracts, 392.
Hogs, government inspection of, 1552.
Hog cholera, 395, 1397, 2957.
Horses, purchases of, 396, 671.
Prohibition of intoxicating liquors, 2357. Tobacco industry, the, 394.
Wool, embargo on, 393.
McCraney, Mr. Geo. E. (Saskatoon)
Budget, 1259.
Peel provincial election and Mr. Fallis, 1259.
The Minister of Public Works and the West, 1260.
Farmers and taxation, 1261. Conscription, 592, 829.
Horses-Mr. Fallis, 674, 1259.
Immigration, 2442.
Interior, Minister of, in Chicago, 829. Loans to farmers, 678, 928.
Prince George, B.C., railway station, 637.
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McCraney, Mr. Geo. E. (Saskatoon)-Con. Railways Location of, 2755.
Stations, naming of, 2738.
Railway Commission, powers of, 2755. Reforestation, 2089.
Rural credits, 2401.
Saskatchewan-military district No. 12, 1903, 1971.
Seed grain, indebtedness, 761.
Taxation of apples, 1787, 1791, 2315. Woman suffrage, 1195.
McCrea, Mr. Fanois N. (Sherbrooke)
Cap a, la Roche channel, 761.
Rural mail service, 2042.
St. Lawrence ship channel, 1906. Sherbrooke
Drill hall, 3098.
Postmaster, 1906, 2032.
Steamship service, 2534.
Tan bark, embargo on, 3022.
Taxation of profits, 1852, 1858, 1981, 1986, 2005, 2639.
McCurdy, Mr. F. B. (Shelburne and Queens)
Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 398.
Charges against army officers, 398. Politics in Nova Scotia, 402.
Correction of statement in Ottawa Citizen 2548.
Fish, transportation and marketing of, 567. Intercolonial' railway-rates of pay, 2881.
McKenzie, Mr. D. D. (North Cape Breton)
Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 303.
Public expenditures, 304, 312.
Political patronage and the war, 306-312. The Minister of Militia, 307.
Purchase of war supplies, 309. Conservative administration, 311. Baddeck wharf, 548.
Baleine, steamship, 3676.
Bay St. Lawrence telegraph office, 1551. Budget, 1109.
The war, 1109.
Financial conditions, 1110.
Revenue and expenditure, 1111.
Taxation proposals, 1111, 1114.
Cost of living, 1112.
The country's finances, 1113.
The Minister of Trade and Commerce and political partyism, 1115. Constitutional documents, 977.
Dingwall, postmaster, 1160.
Divorce, 789.
Fish and fisheries
Development of industry, 2383.
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Fishermen, medical treatment for, Transportation and marketing of, 574. Ingonish harbour-ice-breaking, 2421. Immigration expenditure, 2606. Intercolonial railway Branch lines, 3432.
North Sydney terminals, 3425.
Passenger service, 3424.
Jamesville breakwater, 3615.
Loans to farmers, 934.
Magdalen islands cable, 759.
Mahoney, Thomas, 3390.
Meat Cove breakwater, 758.
Militia Department, 307.
Mines Department expenditure, 2333. Newfoundland-regulations affecting immigration from, 2441.
Political patronage, 306-312, 1370, 3543. Quebec railways, acquisition of, 4044, 4050. Railway situation in Canada-inquiry into 3988.
Rural mail service, 2054.
Shipbuilding, 4063.
Small arms ammunition, 3884.
Soldiers, employment of in England, 1371. Technical education, 1635.
Telegraph lines, government, 3328, 3634. Victoria county, N.S.-Government telegraphs, 548, 758.
Wellington harbour improvements, 2169. Westover county telegraph office, 2600.
McLean, Mr. Angus A. (Queens, P.E.I.) Divorce, 779.
Government railways-small claims, 3304. Horses, 1383.
Lobsters, 2382.
Political patronage, 3276.
Prince Edward Island public works, 3155. -Prohibition of intoxicating liquors, 1953 2560.
Shipbuilding, 713.
Soldiers, voting of, 3510.
McMillan, Mr. John A. (Glengarry)
Prohibition of intoxicating liquors, 2357. War supplies-transport trucks, 3676.
Me Nab, C. C., claim of, 4074.
Meat Cove breakwater, 758.	.
Medical instruction, government, 978.
Medicine Hat Customs building, 1440.
Mail service, 534.
Overseas regiment, 1435.
Post office, 534.
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Allowances to soldiers, 116.
Ocean transportation, 116-118. Commandeering of vessels, 116.
The Shell Committee, 118, 126, 128.
Shell contracts, 120-128.
Expenditure of war funds, 125.
The Davidson commission, 129, 137. Purchase of submarines, 132.
Budget, 1222.
Canada's trade and prosperity, 1222.
Our financial condition, 1222, 1241. British and Canadian expenditures compared, 1223.
The late Government and taxation, 1225. Duty on oils, 1227.
Duty on apples, 1227.
The farmers and taxation, 1229, 1242. Exportation of nickel, 1233.
Economy in the public service, 1240.
The Jewish people, 1242.
Canadian Northern Railway Company-proposed loan to, 3659.
Davidson Commission, the, 129-137.
Mount Royal Tunnel and Terminal Company, 3373.
Nickel, exportation of, 1233.
.Pacific Northern and Omineca Railway Company, 1014.
Quebec railways, acquisition of, 3996, 4012, 4032, 4039.
Railways, location of, 2752.
Railway Commission, powers of, 2752. Retractation of expression, 107.
St. Peter's Indian reserve, 2061, 2069, 2317, 2934.
Shell Committee, 118, 126, 128.
Shell contracts, 1737, 3494.
Soldiers, allowances to, 116.
Submarines, purchases of, 132.
See Davidson Commission.
Taxation
Apples, 1227.
Generally, 1255-1299.
Oils, 1277.
Transportation, ocean, 116-118.
Vessels, commandeering of, 116.
War expenditures, 125.
Wheat _	'
Commandeering of, 3207.
Free, 1068.
Mercantile marine. See Transportation.
Meredith-Duff Commission-printing of evidence, 4130. See also War Supplies, Small Arms Ammunition.
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Bridges, interprovincial, 3633.
Budget, 1097.
Problems arising from the war, 1098. Provision for returned soldiers, 1098. Future immigration, 1098.
National economy, 1099.
Campbellton
Accommodation for soldiers at, 1162. Public building, 1162.
International bridge, guarding of, 1041. Minister of Militia, travelling expenses of, 2171.
Mitchell, Moses, 3408.
Penitentiaries, 2123.
Richards, I. M., services of, 1653.
' Sabourin, Lieut.-Col., 949.
St. John and Quebec railway, 3371.
St. John Valley Railway, 1940.
St. Leonard, soldiers at, 640.
Soldiers, allowances to, 1098.
Middlebro, Mr. William S. (North Grey) Civil Service-appointment of soldiers to, 642.
Immigration, 2185.
Owen, James W., patent of, 1226. Parliament Buildings, reconstruction of, 2013.
Political patronage, 1377.
Shipbuilding, 708.
Transportation, freight rates, 708.
Milford Haven Bridge postmaster, 2173. Militia and Defence Appointments, 293.
Bands, regimental, 1044.
Cadet
Services, 3502.
Inspectors, 3144.
Censors and decoders. See Censors.
Chief Transport Officer, 1903, 1969. Conscription. See Army.
Department
Automobiles for, 2544.
Clerks, 2839.
Estimates, 1341, 3502, 3537, 3586. Expenditures, 897.
Organization, 3233.
Political patronage in, 3248, 3252. Dominion Arsenal, 3537, 3586.
Edmonton militiamen in active service, 114.
Fair wage clause in munitions contracts, See War.
Home Guard, rifles for, 3504.	[DOT]
Hospital Commission, 2347.
Military district No. 12, Saskatchewan, 1903, 1971.
Militia officers in Canada, 288.
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Military training, 3501.
Minister of
Travelling expenses of, 2171.
Trips to England, recent, 1117, 1915, 2012, 2646; in 1915, 2545.
Royal Military College, 362, 2172, 2831, 3528, 3881.
Wellington Barracks School, 558.
See also Army and War.
Military forces. See Army .
Mines and Minerals.
Coal
Mining, government control of, 718. Nova Scotia shortage of, 1608. Shipments from Halifax, 1759. Department Clerks, 2921.
Estimates, 2326.
Publications, 3883.
Reports, 2335.
Staff and salaries, 2337.
Geological survey, 2341.
Nickel, exportation of, 465, 1012, 1233, 1262, 1140, 1143, 2166, 2239, 2799.
Ores, refining of, 1265, 3021.
Peat
Canadian Peat Society, 2329. Experiments, 2327.
Tar sands experiments, 2340.
Zinc
Bounties on, See Zinc Bounties Bill. Duty on, 2839.	_
Mitchell, Moses, position of, 3408.
Moncton-Main Street subway, 3024. Montpetit, Elzear, payment to, 2694.
Montreal
Barracks, 2821.
Customs
Building, 2175, 2476. .
Officers and revenue, 2169.
Harbour, 740.
Immigration agent, 1440.
Inland Revenue building, 2822.
Postal station G, 2821.
Postal station A, 2821.
Postal station M, 2820.
Post office
Employees, 1651, 1906, 2010, 2036, 2820. Revenues, 1651.
Salaries, 1651.
Service, 2031.
Railway terminals, 3415, 3423.
Recruiting in, 4069, 4125.
Soldiers, medical examination of, 4069, 4125.
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Monument of His late Majesty King Edward VII, 3324.
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Customs officers, 2171.
Examining warehouse, 1550.
Military, 1651.
Morphy, Mr. H. B. (North Perth)	,
Bilingual question, the, 3769.	;
Cadet service, 3504.
Horses, 2968.
Immigration expenditure, 2108.
Intercolonial railway-operation, 3403. Justice-indeterminate sentences, 2844. Niagara, St. Catharines and Toronto Railway Company, 2459.
Prohibition of intoxicating liquors, 2762. Public works, expenditure on, 2829. Railways
Location of, 2754.
Passenger service, 3418, 3422.
Railway Commission, powers of, 2754.
Ross rifle, 4112.
Seventh Day Adventists Conferences, 2167. Soldiers, employment of on farms, 3589. Morris, Mr. James (Chateauguay)
Agriculture Department-horses purchased by, 3881.
Montreal island, bridge connection with, 3631.
Telephone Companies, 3327.
Morrisburg, Ont.-Militia office, 1078. Morrison, Mr. Alex. (Macdonald)
Free wheat, 1057.
Mounted Police, Royal Northwest, 686, 956,
1439.
Mount Royal Tunnel and Terminal Company Bill. lr„ 3230.	2r., 3372. Com.,
3373.	3r„ 3375.
Muirhead, Major, charges against, 306, 398. Munitions. See War Supplies.
Murchies channel piers, 1654.
Murphy, Hon. Charles (Russell)
Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 156.
Visit of Prime Minister to England, 157. Canada's status in the Empire, 157. Provision for disabled soldiers, 158. Canadian Manufacturers' Association and war supplies, 159.
' War contracts, 161-167.
Taxation of war profits, 168. Commandeering of wheat, 168.
The Shell Committee, 171.
Aitken, Sir Max, duties of, 534, 2692.
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Electricity, export of, 671.
Horses for war purposes, 1385. Immigration of widows and children, 1330. Munitions, supply of from Canada, 106. Ottawa Customs building, 1549. Parliament Buildings, reconstruction of, 806.
Shell Committee, the, 171.
Soldiers
Payment of, 552.
Provision for, 158.
Submarines, equipment of, 534.
Taxation of profits, 168.
Wallace Shipyards, Limited-payments to, 1077.
War contracts, 161-167.
Wheat, commandeering of, 168.
National Battlefields Commission, 3141, 3148, 3637.
Nationalist party, 471.
National Transcontinental railway
Coal for, 3463.	,
Equipment, 2799.
Freight rates, 1276, 2795, 3036-3089. Government operation of, 2569, 2584, 2399, 3036,-3089, 3429, 3605, 3980, 3985.
Grain shipments on, 1276.
Locomotives, 1596.
Operating expenses, 1596.
Police commissioner, 2696.
Quebec terminals, 2569, 2584.
Naval Service
Department
Estimates, 662, 2885, 2908, 3442. Expenditure, 2889.
Staff and salaries, 662.
Travelling expenses, 2300.
Esquimalt dockyards, 2889.
Explanation by Prime Minister, 1763. Naval brigade, 1671.
Niobe and Rainbow, 229, 238, 1684, 1701, 1667, 2890.
Patrol service, 1680.
Rainbow, alleged capture by, 3943.
Recruits for, 2987.
Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve, 228.
Schooner Two Brothers, 533.
Stadacona, 548.
Steamer Starling, 540, 544.
Submarines	'
Equipment of, 534.
Purchase of, 75, 132, 200-211, 266, 316, 337, 387, 2890, 2897.
Naval Service-Con.
Submarines-Con.
Transport service, 1681.
Vessels in service, 1667.
Navigation. See Marine.
Nesbitt, Mr. Edward W. (North Oxford) Animals, diseased, destruction of, 2957. Brantford, city of, 2664.
Budget, 1006.
* Government expenditures, 1007, 1012. Taxation proposals, 1008.
Immigration policy, 1011.
Political patronage, 1012.
Control of nickel industry, 1012. Canadian Northern Railway Company- proposed loan, 3662, 3979.
Civil Service-enlistments from, 825.
Flax industry, 1286.
Government expenditure, 4116.
Hay purchases, 2967.
Hudson Bay railway, 3376.
Mines Department publications, 3883. Nickel industry, control of, 1012.
Peat, 2328.
Pensions to soldiers, 1663.
Political patronage, 1012.
Prohibition of intoxicating liquors, 2360. Quebec railways, acquisition of, 4019, 4116. Railways
Location of, 2745.
Situation in Canada-inquiry into, 3979. Railway Commission, powers of, 2746. Soldiers,
Pensions, 1663.
Technical training for, 1618.
Steamship service, 2532.
Taxation	[DOT]
Apples, 1008.
Oil, 1009.
Profits, 1009, 1793, 1990, 2631, 2641, 2651. Technical education, 2208.
Water carts, 537.
Woman suffrage, 1201.
Zinc, bounties on, 3034.
Neuville lighthouse, 593.
New Brunswick Lumber export trade, 190.
Public works, 3159.
New Carlisle wharf, 535.
Newfoundland
Immigration, regulations affecting, 2441. Steamship service. See that title.
New Glasgow
40th Battalion, supplies for, 1043.
Postal revenue, 3561.
New Richmond post office, 1653.
Nickel. See Mines and Minerals.
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Nickle, Mr. William F. (Kingston)
Bilingual question, the, 3723.
Pensions to soldiers, 4140.
Quebec railways, acquisition of, 4125. Railways, location of, 2755.
Railway Commission, powers of, 2755. Shipbuilding, 714.	,
Taxation of profits, 1860.
Niobe and Rainbow. See Naval Service. Noreen, steamer, 727.
North Bay armoury, 2691.
Northrup, Mr. William B. (East Hastings) Divorce, 595, 762, 791.
Nova Scotia
Coal shortage, 1608.
Fenian Raid Bounties, 593.
Fishery inspector, 546.
Horses, purchase of in, 685.
Public works. See that title.
Recruiting in, 1367, 3255.
Soldiers voting in, 3510.
Steamship service. See that title.
Oats and oatmeal. Sec Grain.
O'Brien, Mr. A. H., superannuation of, 2131. Oil
Duty on. See Taxation.
Freight rates on, 3410.
Gasolene, production and price of, 885, 1019, 2393.
Petroleum, embargo on, 2648.
Railways, for fuel on, 977, 1550.
Okanagan Indian reserve. See Indians. Oliver, Hon. Frank (Edmonton)
Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 99.
Ocean transportation, 100.
Extension of term of Parliament, 102. War expenditures, 102.
Conscription, 103.
Enlistment, 104.
Provision for disabled soldiers, 105, 108, 110.
Provision for soldiers and their dependents, 109.
Patriotic Fund, 109.
Military equipment, 111, 112.
Our system of recruiting, 113.
Military forces in Canada, 114.
Alberta, enlistments in, 108.
Army
Casualty lists, 3280.
Conscription, 103.
Enlistments, 104, 108, 3279, 4076.
Military training, 3503, 3507.
101st Battalion, 3548.
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Soldiers
Allowances to, 550, 4102.
Civil Service, appointments of to, 648. Dependents of, allowances to, 4102. Disabled, provision ' for, 105, 108, 110, 3334.
Equipment of, 112, 3502-3528.
Insane, 1659.
Medical examination of, 4073. Pensions to, 1658, 4148.
Punishment of, 3539.
Technical training for, 1619. Astronomical observatories, 2430, 2434. Bilingual question, the, 3773.
Budget, 1209.
The Government and national conditions, 1209.
Agricultural development, 1211, 1220. Revenue and expenditure, 1212. Increasing taxation, 1213.
The cost of living, 1216.
Duty on apples, 1217.
Issue of Dominion notes, 1218.
Business corporations, government control of, 719.
Cadet service, 3503.	'
Canadian Northern Railway Company-* proposed loan, 3658, 3863, 3976.
Civil Service-appointments of soldiers to, 648.
Cold storage, 1428.
Cost of living, 1216.
Edmonton
Disturbances at, 887.
Militia, 114.
Technical School, 648.
Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia railway, 2081, 3448.
Experimental farms-bee-keeping on, 1410. Grain
Congestion, 1706. "	t
Elevators, St. John, 3594.
Freight rates on, 3074.
Oats and oatmeal, embargo on, 653, 803. Transportation of, 3074, 3085, 3456, 3981. Wheat
Commandeering of, 3201.
Free, 874-880.
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company

* proposed loan, 3658, 3863.
Homestead entries by volunteers, 3529. Hudson Bay railway, 3379, 3989. Immigration Expenditure, 2110, 2440.
Policy, 831.
Stations, westerrfj 2869.
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Indian Commission-British Columbia, 852.	War, Supplies-Con.
Indians Okanagan reserve, 3144, 3676.	Overshoes, 673, 886. Rifles, 595, 3520, 4105, 4107.
Saint Peter's reserve, 593, 2060, 2067, 2316.	Socks, 593, 887.
Intercolonial railway equipment, 3601.	Western Canada Telephone Company, 1888.
Interior	Western development, 2080.
Department expenditure, 2079, 2090.	Wheat. See Gram.
Minister of-speech in Chicago, 831.	Woman suffrage, 1608.
Orders in Council approved, 3347.	Ontario Public works, 3179.
Lac St. Anne improvements, 3313.	Orangemen in army service, 359.
Lands, western, survey of, 835.	
Legion of Frontiersmen, 3507.	Ottawa
Loans to farmers, 681.	Buildings
Mining industry, 1880.	Customs, 1549.
National Transcontinental railway	Departmental, 667, 2830, 2874, 3135, 3612.
Freight rates, 3074.	Height of, 2165.
Government operation of, 3980.	New drill hall, 2832.
Northern Alberta, enlistments in, 4076.	Recruiting offices, 3587.
Oats and oatmeal. See Grain.	Victoria Memorial Museum, 2331, 2343.
Pacific Northern and Omineca Railway	Military camp doctors, 1760.
Company, 1013. Parliament, extension of term of, 102.	Ottawa Separate School Commission, 2546.
Patriotic Fund, 109.	Pacaud, Mr. Lucien T. (Megantic)
Penitentiaries, 2154.	Budget, 1095.
Prisoners from in military service, 2117.	Canada and the war, 1095.
Pensions. See Army.	Government expenditure, 1095.
Political patronage in military affairs, 3547.	Quebec and the war, 1096.
Potatoes, duty on, 1431.	Civil Service-appointments from Dor-
Prohibition of intoxicating liquors, 2947.	Chester, 2921. .
Public works, expenditure on, 3313.	Papineau, Mr. Louis J. (Beauharnois)
Quebec railways, acquisition of, 4002, 4016.	Railway Act, consolidation of, 1276.
Railways	Soulanges canal, dredging, 1761.
Oil for fuel on, 977, 1550.	Paquet, Mr. Eugene (L'Islet)
Western, 2081. >
Railway mail service, 2045, 2050.	Agriculture, 1392.
Rogers, Colonel Maynard, services of, 848.	Address in reply to Governor General's
Rural mail service, 2044.	Speech, 11.
Seed grain indebtedness, 509.	Review of the war, 12.
Seventh Day Adventists Conferences, 2167.	Canada's part in the war, 13.
Spirit river-proposed forest reserve, 3529,	Extension of term of Parliament, 15.
3883.	Canada's economic conditions, 15.
Surveys, 1324, 2342, 2429.	Exhibitions, 3026.
	Government employees, 3674.
	Intercolonial railway-French speaking
Apples, 1217, 1792, 2306, 2310, 2315.	employees, 2788.
Profits, 1 880.	Mail service on the Transcontinental, 2050.
Telegraph lines, government, 3326, 3634.	Quebec (city), Transcontinental railway
Transportation	employees at, 1436.
Ocean, 3131.	Dairy inspection, 852.
Railway, 3980.	Live stock, 886.
War	Quebec (prov.)
Appropriations, 3277.	Panama Canal, goods shipped to Canada via.,
Expenditures, 102.	' ' 4092.
Supplies Canvas shoes, 595, 673.	Pardee, Mr. Frederick F. (West Lambton)
Field kitchens, 547.	Address in reply to Governor General's
Machine guns, 111, 595, 3522.	Speech, 453.
Orders for, securing of, 964. ' *	Canada and the war, 453.
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Address in reply to Governor General's Speech-Core.
Problems after the war, 454.
War contracts, 455.
Titles, 457.
Bilingual question, the, 3794.
Oivil Servants-separation allowances to wives of, 3232.
Dredging-launch Waldrondo, 3942.
Flax industry, 1292.
Frontier protection, 744.
Horses for war purposes, 1381.
Mail contracts, 2723.
National Transcontinental railway police commissioner, 2696.
Ontario Niagara Connecting Bridge Company, 1890.
Postage stamps, sale and use of, 2050. Prince Rupert Militia quarters, 3352. Separation allowances, 3232.
Shell Committee, the, advances by, 3528. Shell contracts, 757, 2243.
Taxation of profits, 1847i 2652.
War contracts, 456, 2243.
Paris
Agency, 982.	-
Allied Economy Conference at, 2475, 2802.
Parks, Canadian National, 844, 846.
See also Dominion Bands and Parks; Forest Reserves and Parks Act Amendment Bill.
Parliament
Committees of. See House of Commons. Extension of term of, 6, 15, 68, 97, 102, 181, 215, 413, 425, 437, 475, 492, 622, 636, 755, 1133, 3943, 4007, 4129. See Address to His Majesty the King. Independence of-subscriptions to Dominion loan, 455.
Bibrary of, 668, 755.
Members of in military service. See Army. Railways, jurisdiction respecting, 947.
Parliament Buildings
Desks, purchase of, 1278.
Destruction of by fire, 578.
Alleged warning, 674.
Architect's report on, 888.
Commission of Inquiry into-appointment of, 582. Report of, 4006. Messages of sympathy, 579, 587, 652, 669, 855, 885, 1276.
Report of Chief Commissioner of Police, 669.
Improvements to, 2833.
Bight on, 739.
Parliament Buildings-Con.
Plans of, 1969, 4077.
Reconstruction of, 591, 663, 806, 2012, 3049. Committee of Members on, 3049, 3613. Fair wage clause in contract for, 3622, 3464.
Plans for, 1969, 4077.
See also Ottawa.
Parliamentary procedure
Amendments, 1712, 1714, 2238.
Answer to question, discussion of, out of order, 652.
Bills not to be introduced by resolution, 3617.
Committee of Supply, powers of, 3944. Consent of the Crown, 2116.
Irrelevancy, 975, 1834.
Motion for Committee to rise not in order,
2453.
Point of order, discussion on, 3621.
Reading of unsigned letter not in order, 2743.
Subjects debatable by House, 3621, 3676. See Deputy Speaker and Speaker.
Paspebiac wharf, 536.
Patenaude, Hon. Esioff L. (Hochelaga) Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 521.
Quebec and the war, 521.
Attitude of the Biberal Party, 523, 525. Views of the late Mr. Monk, 527. Canada's part in the war, 527.
Haanel, Dr., 852.
Inland Revenue Department estimates, 661, 2157-2165.
Maple sugar adulteration, 2164.
Patents
Records, printing of, 1386.
Rights, extension of, 1157.	.
Patriotic Fund, Canadian, 109, 500, 1255. Patronage. See Political.
Peat. See Mines.
Pelagic sealing investigation, 2918. Penitentiaries
Industrial farms, 2841.
Insane patients, 2119.
Juveniles in, 2121.
Kingston, 2115.
Portsmouth, 541.
Prisons and reformatories, 2841.
See also Prisons and Reformatories Act Amendment Bill.
Prisoners from in military service, 2117. Ross, Walter T„ release of, 2301, 2302.
St. Vincent de Paul, 2118.
Ticket-of-leave system, 2117.
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European War, 3643.
Fenian Raid, 3642.
Intercolonial railway, 757.
Militiamen, 3642.
Pilots, 747-750.
Soldiers, 211, 236, 440, 1087, 1255, 1654, 1665, 1704, 1989.
Report of Special Committee on, 4131. See Army, allowances.
Perley, Sir George. See High Commissioner. Peterborough public building, 2810.
Pictou (county)
Mail service, 549, 955.
Recruiting officers, 1165.
Telephone service, 549.
Pictou (island) lifeboat station, 549.
Pictou (town)
Freight and coal, handling of, 952.
Troops at-supplies, 851, 1041, 1077. Pilotage. See Marine.
Political patronage, 145, 217, 276, 294, 299, 303-312, 368, 416, 895, 907, 917, 1012, 1032, 1127, 1254, 1273, 1326, 1351, 1353, 1361, 1363, 1366, 1370-1374, 1875, 3248, 3252, 3256, 3261, 3266, 3275, 3288, 3542. Pope, Sir Joseph, payments to, 2922.
Port Hood wharf, expenditure on, 560.
Port Howe mail service, 1076.
Pont Marcotte, 2171.
Port Nelson
Dock accommodation, 2692.
Harbour improvements, 1599, 2838.
Live stock for, 2692.
Navigation, 592. '
Post Office
Advertising, 1164, 2739.
Censoring of mail matter, 2054, 2691, 2840, 2880, 3029, 3050.
Estimates, 663, 2016, 2716, 3534. Expenditure, 1244, 1875, 1885, 2056, 2609. Finances, 895.
Mail contracts, 2610, 2720.
Motor cars, purchase of, 1327, 1328.
Parcel post, 2736.
Postmasters and municipal elections, 1653. Railway mail service, 2023, 2045, 2047, 2050, Revenue, 2173.
Rural mail service, 2017, 2032, 2040, 2044, 2050, 2052, 2054, 2616, 2621, 2716. Savings deposits, 543.
Soldiers' letters, 532, 2051, 2053.
Staff and salaries. See estimates.
Stamps, sale and use of, 532, 546, 2051, 2718. Powder milk. See War Supplies.
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Prince Edward Island
Car ferry, 1597, 1704, 3391.
Dredging, 853.
Fishery inspectors, 2010.
Hillsborough bridge, guard on, 1433.
Horses, purchase of, 672.
Public works, 3152, 3635.
Steamship service, 2851.
Telegraph lines, 3187.
War supplies, purchases of, 3406.
Winter communication with, 1433.
Prince Edward Island railway, 1594, 3035, 3051, 3074.
Prince George, B.C., railway station, 637.
Prince Rupert militia quarters, 3352.
Printing, government, 668, 3095, 3099, 3785, 4152. See also advertising.
Prisons and Reformatories Act Amendment Bill. lr„ 2690.	2r., 2841-2845. Com.,
2846. Rep., 2847.	3r„ 2847.
Prison reform. See penitentiaries.
Private bills discussed.
Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway Company, 2663.
Brantford, City of, 947, 1625, 1648, 1726, 2663.
Canadian Pacific Railway Company, 1013.
Eastern Canadian Union Conference of Seventh Day Adventists, 2167.
Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada, 2907.
Manitoba and Saskatchewan Bible Society, 3144.
Niagara, St. Catharines and Toronto Railway Company, 2421, 2444.
Ontario Niagara Connecting Bridge Company, 1647, 1727, 1890.
Owen, James W., patent of, 1154, 1228.
Pacific Northern and Omineca Railway Company, 1013.	[DOT]
Toronto, Niagara and Western Railway Company, 2765, 2903.
Western Canada Telephone Company, 1649, 1887.
Privilege, questions of
Boivin, Mr.-bilingual question, 1206.
Bureau, Mr.-Ontario hydro-radial scheme, 1432.
Burnham,	Mn-statement in Toronto
Star, 555.
Carvell, Mr.-fraudulent questions, 1492; shell deliveries, 2240.
Clements, Mr.-graft charges, 2398.
Crothers, Hon. T. W.-Globe newspaper, 1811.
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Hepburn, Mr.-shell contracts, 154.
Hughes, Sir Sam-Lieut.-Colonel John Currie, M.P., 1045.
Kemp, Hon. A. E.-Sheet Metal Products Company, 1646.
Kyte, Mr.-shell contracts, 3296.
Laurier, Sir Wilfrid-statement in Winnipeg Telegram, 2973.
Loggie, Mr.-St. John Daily Telegraph, 2113.
McCurdy, Mr.-statements of Ottawa Citizen, 2548.
Pugsley, Mr.-remarks of Solicitor General, 151; statement of Ottawa Journal, 806; correction of statement in Hansard, 2399.
Rogers, Hon. Robert-charges in Saskatchewan legislature, 1045.
Seguin, Mr.-statement of Ottawa Citizen, 2239.
Turriff, Mr.-statement of Peterborough Review, 414.
Prohibition of intoxicating liquors during the war. Res., 1441, 1918, 1949, 2210, 2351. Div., 2361. See also, 638, 2475, and Canada Temperance Act Amendment Bill.
Prohibition or Restriction of Intoxicating Liquors Bill. lr„ 1901. 2r., 2478. Com., 2479-2494, 2549-2569, 2696-2716, 27582765, 2882. Rep., 2885.	3r„ 2946, 2956.
Amendments proposed:	Mr. Guthrie,
2953. Div., 2954. Mr. Sinclair, 2955. Mr. Hughes, 2956. Sen. Arndts., 4127.
Proulx, Mr. Edmond (Prescott)
Allison, Col. J. Wesley, 2012, 2476.
Bilingual question, the, 3798.
Cabinet Ministers, visit to New York of,
2012.
Carleton Drug Company, 2542.
Carson, General John, position of, 851.
Chute, Lieutenant A. H., 2476.
Civil Service-pay of lower grade employees, 4079.
Forbes, Dr. A. Mackenzie, 3528.
Foster, A. De W., 2175.
Lessard, Major General, position of, 547.
Marine and Fisheries law clerk, 2176.
Motor car, Packard-purchase of, 1328
O'Brien, Mr. A. H., superannuation of, 2131.
Peat, 2328.
Penitentiaries
Kingston, 2116.
Sentencing of children to, 2122.
Prohibition of intoxicating liquors, 2358, 2882.
Proof spirit purchase, 2176.
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Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 67.
Extension of term of Parliament, 68. Transportation requirements, 69. Manufacture of munitions, 71-90.
Shell Committee, 71-92.
Shell contracts, 72-90.
Submarine investigation, 75.
Taxation of war profits, 85. Contributions for machine guns, 92. Advertising, Government, 2436.
Burleigh falls, lease of, 2582.
Canadian Northern Railway Company Director, 2648.
Proposed loan to, 3581, 3940, 3944. Canada Temperance Act, 3298.
Carnegie, Colonel, correspondence with, 1731.
Civil Service-enlistments, 818, 1844. Coloured men, recruiting of, 235, 557, 2114. Davidson Commission, report of, 3189. Dominion Lands and Parks, 2865. Economic and Development Commission, 1640, 2999.
Experimental farms, 2871.
Pish and fisheries Transportation, 2418.
Trout fry, 2421.
German-Canadians in military service, 683. Government expenditures, 973, 986, 1321, 3137.
Government railways-small claims, 3304. Grain
Congestion, 1713.
Elevators, 3059, 3082.	,
Transportation, 2857.
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company, proposed loan to, 3581, 3940.
Hansard-correction of statement, 2399. High Commissioner, Canadian, office of, 963.
House of Commons-morning sittings,
2112.
Hudson Bay navigation, 2912.
Immigration	[DOT]
Advertising, 2436.
Expenditure, 2093, 2099, 2436.
Indians
Kitsilano reserve, 2681.
St. Peter's reserve, 2063, 2937.
Insurance companies, life, investments of, 1612, 2401.
Intercolonial railway-branch lines, 3434. Interior Department expenditure, 2090, 2431, 2435.
International Joint Commission, 979. Kingston harbour improvements, 3182. Labour bureaus, national, 615.
Pugsley, Hon. Wm. (St. John City)-Con. Loans to farmers, 677.
Marine Department estimates, reduction of, 2362.
Motor boats, 2803.
Mount Royal Tunnel and Terminal Company, 3374.	.
National Transcontinental Railway, Government operation of, 2399, 2588, 30363089, 3605.
Naval service, 1683, 2888.
Niobe and Rainbow, 2890.
Ottawa Journal-correction of statement in, 806.	-
Parliament, extension of term of, 68. Parliament Buildings, reconstruction of, 2013, 4077.
Pensions to soldiers, 4131.
Prison reform, 2846.
Prohibition of intoxicating liquors, 2486, 2551, 2561, 2697.
Public works expenditure, 2769, 2808, 3341. Quebec railways, acquisition of, 3616, 3998, 4008, 4011, 4051.
Railways, location of, 2747.
Railway Commission, powers of, 2747. Recruiting-coloured men, 235, 557, 2114. Royal Academy of Arts, 3142.
Rural mail service, 2729.
St. John
Harbour improvements, 735-737, 3335. Post office, 2817.
St. John and Quebec railway, 3356, 3500. St. John Valley Railway, 1932.
Shell Committee, the, 71, 92.
. Sherwood, H. Crossley, appointment of, 4088.	-
.Shipbuilding, 639, 701, 1616, 1643, 2892, 3001, 3110, 3336, 4056.
Soldiers relatives, payments to, 3560. Solicitor General, remarks of, 151. Steamship service, 2530.
Submarines, investigation into purchase of, 75, 152, 2890.
Supplementary estimates, 3137.
Surf Inlet harbour improvements, 3185. Surveys, 2428, 2902.
Taxation of apples, 2305; profits, 85. Technical education, 1642.
Trade and Commerce, 2996. Transportation, ocean, 2857,	3110. See
Shipbuilding.
Vancouver Harbour, 1604.
Vessels, Canadian, requisitioning of, 1969. War
Expenditures, 39.
Supplies
Ammunition, 71-90.
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Binoculars, 1717.
Boots, 1716.
Fuses, 1735.
Horses, 1719.
Machine guns, 92.
Orders for, securing of, 963.
Ross rifle, 155.
Shells, 74, 79, 86, 154, 1714, 1725, 1727, 1731, 3842.
White Phosphorous matches, 1493.
Woman suffrage, 1044, 1185, 1204.
Yukon, the, 1312, 1316, 1320.
Quebec (City)
Bridge, 1596, 3434.
Customs officer and revenue, 2169.
Harbour, 743.
Post office, 672, 1651, 2823.
Employees, 1906, 2010, 2034, 2036.
Parcel post superintendent, 547. Sewerage system, 3557.
Transcontinental railway employees at, 1436.
Quebec (province)
Agriculture, 1389.
Dairy inspection, 852.
Fisheries, 547, 638.
Highways, 3165.
Judges, 2692.
Live stock, 886.
Public works, 3161.
Recruiting in, 479, 491, 498, 3281.
Referee on butter and cheese, 2942. Steamship service, 2852.
Quebec and Saguenay Railway, 2530, 3146, 3429. See Quebec Railways Acquisition Bill.
Quebec Harbour Commission, 2347.
Quebec, Montmorency and Charlevoix Railway. See Quebec Railways Acquisition Bill.
Quebec Railways Acquisition Bill. (Quebec, Montmorency and Charlevoix; Quebec and Saguenay; Lotbiniere and Megan -tic). lr„ 3616.	2r„ 3990. Com., 4007.
3r., 4052. See alio 4116.
Railways
Bond guarantees, 887.
Fires caused by, 3412.
Jurisdiction affecting, 947.
Oil for fuel on, 977, 1550.
Passenger service, 3418.
Port Nelson harbour improvements, 1599. Prince Edward Island car ferry, 1597. Public ownership of, 3826, 3871.
Quebec bridge, 1596.
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Situation in Canada-inquiry into, 3979. Stations, naming of, 2738.
Train service in the West, 618, 576. Transportation. See that title.
For individual railways, see their titles.
Railway Act, consolidation of, 1276.
Railway Act Amendment Bills
Powers of Railway Commission, lr., 2690. 2r„ 2743. Com., 2743.	3r„ 2802. See
also 3410, 3629.
Transportation of Grain, lr., 1207.	2r.,
1306. Com., 1306.	3r., 1309.
Railways and Canals
Department estimates, 662,. 1590, 2569-2599, 2769, 3035, 3051, 3074, 3375, 3410, 3445, 3593, 3345, 3563, 3648, 3933, 3943.
Staff and salaries, 662.
Rainbow, alleged capture by, 3297, 3943. See Niobe.
Regina
Army Service .Corps-accommodation for, 1652.
Assistant Receiver General, 553.
Inland Revenue premises, 1439.
Military camp, 1808.
Reid, Jack, imprisonment of for seditiion, 2007.
Reid, Hon. J. D. (Minister of Customs) Antigonish station garden, 3593, 3603^ Brantford, City of, 1626, 1648.
Burleigh falls, 2583.
Canadian Pacific Railway-freight congestion, 2742.
Canals
Galops, 3609.
St. Peter's, 1601.
Trent, 1601, 3581.
Welland, 1600, 3454.
Customs
Agricultural implements, duty on, 4068. Bonding privileges, 4097.
Department-staff and salaries, 3644. Huntingdon preventive stations, 542, Morrisburg-free entry of goods at, 3645. Smuggling, 642, 4100.
Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia railway, 3446.
Government railways-small claims, 2919, 3303, 3884.
Grain
Elevators, 3061, 3085, 3594, 3600, 3604. Freight rates on, 3063, 3072-3089. Transportation of, 1207, 1306, 3602, 3456. Hudson Bay railway, 1598, 3990. Intercolonial railway
Accident at Val Brillant, 2058.
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Branch lines, 2767.
Car shortage, 1705, 3091.
Coal
Alleged expropriation of, 1762. Supply, 538, 2115, 2795.
Equipment, 2793, 3607, 3459.
Freight congestion, 2742.
North Sydney terminals, 3427.
Operation, 1591.
Paradis, Mr. T., claim of, 3783.
Passenger service, 3419.
Rates of pay, 2881.
Train service, 3395.
Montreal railway terminal's, 3416.
Mount Royal Tunnel and Terminal Company, 3230, 3372.
National Transcontinental railway Equipment, 2793.
Freight rates, 2795, 3058, 3066-3089. Government operation of, 2584, 2593, 3036-3089, 3605, 3984.
Quebec terminals, 2584.
Niagara, St. Catharines and Toronto Railway Company, 2466.
Ontario Niagara Connecting Bridge Company, 1647.
Panama Canal, shipment of goods to Canada via., 4097.
Port Nelson harbour improvements, 1599. Prince Edward Island car ferry, 1597, 3391. Quebec bridge, 1596, 3434.
Quebec railways, acquisition of, 3990, 4007, 4122.
Quebec and Saguenay railway, 3430. Railways
Bridges, guards on, 1433.
Fires caused by, 3412.
Situation in Canada-inquiry into, 3983. Train service in the West, 518, 556. Railways and Canals Department Estimates, 2767-2798, 3035, 3051, 3074, 3375-3404, 3410, 3445, 3593.
Expenditure, 2769.
Railway Commision, powers of, 2745-2758. Railway Commissioners, 3411.
St. John and Quebec railway, 3052, 3352 3501.
St. John elevator, 3594.
Shipbuilding, 3608.
Soldiers
Barbour, Private, death of, 3418.
Railway fares, single, for, 3594.
Toronto, Niagara and Western Railway Company, 2904.
Toronto railway terminals, 3414.
Western Canada Telephone Company 1650.
Reindeer, experiments with, 839.
Rhodes, Mr. Edgar N. (Cumberland)
Amherst
Accommodation for troops, 3269. Purchase of war supplies, 3267.
Deputy Speaker, appointment as, 531. Political patronage, 3268.
Richards, T. M., services pf, 1653.
Riding Mountain timber reserve, 640. '
Rigaud mail service, 541, 595.
Rimouski
Customs officer, 546.
Harbour improvements, 3174.
Inspectors of- weights and measures,' 671. River John customs officer, 549.
Riverside Lumber Company, 2058.
Riviere du Loup Dredging, 2477.
Wharf, 2543.
Riviere Ouelle wharf, 1164.
Robb, Mr. James A. (Huntingdon)
Animals, compensation for destruction of, 2961.
Bilingual question, the, 3771.
Civil Service, enlistment from, 824.
Dundee mail service, 2722.
Grain
Elevators, 3601.
Transportation, 2795, 3601.
Hay purchases, 2967.
Horses for war purposes, 1382, 2970. Hudson Bay railway, 3387.
Huntingdon preventive stations, 641. National Transcontinental railway-freight rates on grain, 2795.
Quebec railways, acquisition of, 4002.
Rural mail service, 2731.
Seed grain indebtedness, 516.
Shipbuilding, 3608.
Roche, Hon. W. J. (Minister of the Interior)
Advertising, 827.
Aliens, employment of, 850.
Alberta farmers, relief for, 532. Astronomical observatory, western, 2430. Buffalo, 845.
Civil service, enlistments from, 817, 820, 823.
Conscription, 592, 830.
Dominion Lands and Parks, 2865.
Farmers, western, relief for, 2860.
Forests
Protection, 836, 837.
Reforestation, 2089.
Reserves and Parks, 2496, 2663.
See Dominion Lands.
Grazing leases, 847.
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Homestead
Inspectors, 828.
Regulations, 827.
Immigration Agencies, 2096, 2435.
Chinese, 2441.
Inspection, boundary, 657.
Newfoundland, regulations affecting, 2441.
Statistics, 540.
Indian Land Commission, 2867.
Indians, 2059, 2665, 2866. See that title. Interior Department Enlistments, 2084.
Estimates, 655, 817-850, 2428, 2860. Minister of in Chicago, 756, 830, 832. Orders in Council approved, 3347.
Staff and salaries, 655, 817.
Irrigation, 842.	*
Keay, R. H., fraudulent operations of, 837. Labourers, foreign, enlistment of, 2145. Parks, Canadian National, 844. Pre-emptions, payments on, 534.
Railways, western, 2084.
Reindeer herd, 839.
Rogers, Colonel Maynard, services of, 849. St. Peter's Indian reserve, 2316.
Seed grain Distribution, 2863.
Indebtedness, 507, 518, 760, 1607.
Spirit River Forest Reserve, 3883.
Surveys, 834, 836, 1320, 2428.
Taber irrigation district, 2806.
Taxation of land, 756, 2936.
Timber. See Forests.
Water-powers, development of, 840, 842. Wetaskiwin settlers, grievances of, 2089. Yukon, the, 1310, 1317.
Rogers, Colonel Maynard, 848.
Rogers, Hon. Robert (Minister of Public Works)
Civil Service -Appointments, 4082.
Messengers, 2767.
Edmonton, Dun vegan and British Columbia railway, 3452.
Experimental farms, 2871.
House of Commons-Saturday , sittings 3409.
Judges' salaries, 2325.
Labour bureaus, national, 615.
Montreal island, bridge connection with 3632.
Monument of His late Majesty King Edward VII, 3324.
Ottawa departmental buildings, 2874.
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Parliament Buildings Plans of, 4077.
Reconstruction of, 2012, 2833, 3049, 3613, 3622.
Public works
Department estimates, 2808-2838, 2868, 3148-3188, 3556, 3612, 3621. Expenditure, 2811.
Dredging, 3186, 3627.
Harbours and rivers, 3152, 3156, 3313, 3556, 3615, 3621, 3623.
Roads and bridges, 3163.
Telegraph lines, 3187, 3312, 3318, 3326, 3634.
Quebec and Saguenay railway, 3431. Quebec railways, acquisition of, 3616.
Ross rifle, 4108.
Royal Society of Canada, 2875. Saskatchewan, charges in Legislature of, 1045.
St. John Valley Railway, 1922.
Shell contracts, 3405.
Sherwood, H. Crossley, appointment of, 4082.
Soldiers
Disabled, provision for, 2873, 3334. Medical examination of, 4072.
Technical education, 2208.
Wheat, free, 880, 1046-1052.
Woman suffrage, 1202.
Roseberg post office, 2474.
Ross, Mr. Duncan C. (West Middlesex) Allowances to soldiers, 1021.
Beehan, J. J., 3408.
Budget, 1020.	[DOT]
Provision for soldiers, 1021.
The duty on apples, 1022.
Government war loans, 1023.
Taxation of profits, 1023.
Income taxation, 1025.
Rural credits, 1026.
Canadian ideals, 1028.
Middlesex county and the war, 1029. Government administration and political partyism, 1037-1033.
The spirit of France, 1033.
Eggs, marketing of, 2961.
Farmers' credits, 1025.
Political patronage, 1032.
Prohibition of intoxicating liquors, 2480. Rural credits, 1025.
Soldiers' allowances, 1021.
Taxation Apples, 1022.
Income, 1025.
Profits, 1023.
War loans, 1023.
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Royal Assent, 1495, 2073, 2807.
Royal Military College-clothing contract, 3881.
Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve,
2889, 2900.
Royal Naval College, 2889.
Royal Society of Canada, 2875.
Rural credits. See Farmers.
Rural mail service. See Post Office. Sabourin, Lieut.-Col., rank of, 949.
Sackville
Public building, 2816.
Wharf accommodation, 3160.
Saguenay river improvements, 3674.
St. Alphonse de Caplan, mail service, 1654. St. Amour, A. C., payments to, 3408.
St. John
Customs officers and revenue, 2169.
Freight exports, 3529.
Harbour improvements, 729, 3335.
Post office, 2817.
Employees, 1651, 1906, 2010, 2036, 2039. Revenues and salaries, 1651.
Terminals, 3593.
St. John and Quebec Railway Bill. Res., 3353. lr., 3372.	2r., 3500. Com., 3500.
3r., 3502. See also 1433, 3051.
St. John Valley Railway, 757.
St. Leonard, N.B., soldiers at, 640.
St. Paul L'Ermite wharf, 2174.
St. Peter's canal, 1601.
St. Peter's Indian reserve. See Indians.
St. Peter's Indian Reserve Bill. Res., 2059. lr., 2071.	2r„ 2316. Com., 2316.	3r.,
2925-2946.
St. Vincent de Paul penitentiary. See Penitentiaries.
Saskatchewan
Charges in Legislature of, 1045. Immigration-government co-operation in, 1277.
Judges' salaries, 2071.
Saskatchewan river water supply, 3189. Scammell, J. K., position of, 1157.
Schaffner, Mr. F. L. (Souris)
Grain
Congestion, 1712.
Freight rates, 3067.
Transportation, 2857.
Hudson Bay railway, 3384.
Mail contracts, 2615.
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Printing-proposed reduction in cost, 4153. Rural mail service, 2055.
Sunnybrae mail service, 1549.
Taxation of apples, 2309.
Transportation, ocean, 2857.
Scott, Mr. F. S. (South Waterloo)
Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 171.
Imperial relationships, 172.
War contracts, 172, 175.
The tariff and trade, 173.
Public finances, 174.
Shell contracts, 175.
French-Canadians and the war, 177.
Shell Committee, the, 175.
Sealers, British Columbia, claims of, 595Secretary of State, department of-translators, 3231.
War contracts, 172, 175.
Seed grain
Advances for, 510, 532, 761.
Amounts required for, 2861.
Distribution of, 2862.
Impurity of, 432.
Indebtedness, 438, 761, 1607.
Liens for, 760.
Purchase of, 886.
Senate
Members of-military duties, 1328.
Seguin, Mr. Paul A. (L'Assomption)
Joliette
Government offices, 3562.
Post office, 3561.
L'Assomption
Mail service, 3881.
Wharf, 2174.
Ottawa Citizen-report of, 2239. Prohibition of ^.intoxicating liquors, 228-. 2239.
Rural mail service, 2726.
St. Paul L'Ermite mail service, 2174.
Select Standing Committee. See House oP Commons.
Seventh Day Adventists. See Private Bills.
Sevigny, Hon. Albert (Dorchester). See Speaker.
Sharpe, Colonel Samuel, M.P., pay of, 2924. Shelburne
Bell buoy, application for, 543.
Customs duties, 1762.
Fishery guardian, 545, 546.
Mail service, 594.
Port physician, 543.
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128, 140, 163, 171, 175, 194, 221-225, , 238, 255, 295, 303, 366, 346-350, 420, 923, 1496, 1715, 1740, 2259, 2294.
Advances by, 3528.
Formal charges, 1715.
Formation of, 1500.
See Shell contracts.
Shell Fisheries Commision, 2368.
Shepherd, Mr. F. H. (Nanaimo)
Astronomical observatory, western, 2433. Taxation of oil, 1800.
Sherbrooke
Customs officers and revenue, 2169.
Drill hall, 3089.
Mail service, 2173.
Postmaster, 1906, 2033.
Post office
Employees, 1906, 2010, 2036.
Revenues and salaries, 1651.
Shipbuilding. See Marine.
Shipping. See Marine and Transportation. Shouldis, Mrs., employment of, 1328.
Shovel shields. See War Supplies.
Sinclair, Mr. John H. (Guysborough)
Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 414.
The war, 414.
Political patronage, 416.
Purchase of horses, 418.
The Shell Committee, 420.
Advertising, government, 3095.
Amherst, Sydney and New Glasgow postal revenue, 3561.	.
Archibald, M. G„ services of, 539.
Bonds, Government, negotiability of, 660. British Columbia lighthouse service, 3352. Canada Temperance Act Amendment, 3301. Censors and decoders, employment of, 640, 851.
Civil Service appointments, 948, 4089.
Coin, American, 654.
Cole harbour wharf, 758, 3150.
Duchemin, H. P„ payments to, 1161, 1610. Fenian Raid bounty, 593.
Fish and fisheries Bounties, 2546.
Canadian troops, for, 1652.
Dogfish, 2406, 2409.
Fishing industry, 2369.
Herring industry, 2475.
Lobsters, 2388.
Marketing of, 2367.
Pickled fish, 1761.
Shipments to Great Britain, 2411.
Smelt fishing regulations, 673.
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Transportation and marketing of, 567, 636, 2364, 2420. s Government annuities, 1437.
Guysborough mail service, 2800.
Halifax
Exports and imports through, 3734. Military hospital, 2114.	.
Hjort, Dr., 1552.
Horses for war purposes, 418, 1162, 1379. Hospitals Marine. 2918.
Military, 2114.
Hudson Bay navigation, 2911.
Hudson Bay railway, 636, 3384.
Intercolonial railway
Branch lines, 850, 2468, 2774.
Pensions, 757.
Law, the late Mr. B. B„ M.P., death of, 591. Machine guns, private contributions for, 532.
Marine
Coasting privilege, 589, 1300.
Department estimates, reduction of, 2363. Pilotage, 2805.
Sick Mariners Fund, 753.
Vessels, Canadian, net tonnage of, 1163. Milford Haven Bridge postmaster, 2173. Mines Department expenditure, 2335. Minister of Munitions, 532.
Motor boats, 2804.
Naval service, 2545.
Navigation schools, 696.
Nova Scotia steamship service, 2849.
Oil, freight rates on, 3410.
Parliament buildings, reconstruction of, 2834.
Pensions, Intercolonial railway, 757. Political patronage, 416.	[DOT]
Port Nelson navigation, 592.
Post office
Expenditure, 2056.
Parcel post, 2735.
Revenue, 532, 2173.
Rural mail service, 2019, 2041, 2048, 2732. Printing, government, 3095.
Prohibition of intoxicating liquors, 2357, 2479, 2490, 2560, 2702, 2759, 2882, 2955. Public works expenditure, 2815, 3155, 3322, 3338.
Quebec railways, acquisition of, 4040, 4049. St. John freight exports, 3529.
Shell Committee, The, 420.
Sherbrooke mail service, 2173. Shipbuilding, 709, 3122, 4058.
Shipping, total Canadian, 2175.
Soldiers
Letters, postage on, 532.
Punishment of, 3099.
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Taxation of profits, 2636, 2651, Transportation, ocean, 3122.
Trawlers, steam, foreign, 640, 641. Victoria, B.C., rifle range, 1549.
West Rochdale postmaster, 1551.	.
Whitehead, cold storage, 757.
Smith, Mr. Wm. (South Ontario)
Horses, 672.
Loans to farmers, 933.
War stamps, commission on sale of, 546.
Soldiers. See Army.
Soulanges canal
Dredge, 1761.
Employees-charges of partisanship, 3231. Stone for, 1041, 1437, 1760.
Superintendent, 3408.
Souris rifle range, 2600.
Speaker (Hon. Albert Sevigny), rulings and statements of.
Amendments, 2238.
Consent of the Crown, 2316.
Election of officers, 3.
Explanations limited to a statement of the words actually used, 2241. Expressions, withdrawal of, 77.
Point of order, discussion on, 3621. Privilege, questions of, 556.
Reading of unsigned letter not in order, 2743.
Sherwood, H. Crossley, appointment of, 4087.
Subjects debatable by House, 3621, 3676.
Spirit river proposed forest reserve, 3529, 3883.
Stamps. See Post Office.
Steamboats. See Marine.
Steamship service
Canada
British Columbia, 2541.
New Brunswick, 2538, 2540.
Nova Scotia, 2537, 2540, 2847, 3554. Prince Edward Island, 536, 2851.
Quebec, 2852, 3100, 3134.
China and Japan, 2540.
Cuba, 2534.
Great Britain, 2530, 2537, 2538, 2540. Newfoundland, 536, 2535, 2537.
South Africa, 2536.
United States, 2541.
West Indies and South America, 2535.
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Health, Public, suggested department of, 1065.
Stefansson, Expedition, 2914.
Stellarton, N.S., public building site, 1164.
Stevens, Mr. H. H. (Vancouver)
British Columbia, resources of, 3842.
Canadian Northern Railway Company, proposed loan to, 3839.
Capital punishment, 1965.
Enlistment of foreign labourers, 2145.
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company, proposed loan to, 3839.
House of Commons-Saturday sittings, 3409.
Kitsilano Indian reserve, 2683.
Mining industry, 1885.
Prohibition of intoxicating liquors, 1442, 2230, 2486.
Railways, public ownership of, 3826.
Trade and commerce, 3002.
Post Office Department expenditure, 1882.
Taxation Apples, 1777.
Income, 1884.
Profits, 1882.
Vancouver Harbour, 1605.
Western Canada Telephone Company, 1889.
Stewart, Mr. Dugald (Lunenburg)
Pish, transportation and marketing of, 570.
Yarmouth public works, 1905.
Stewart, J. H.-automobile seizure, 1438.
Stewart, Mr. Thos. J. (West Hamilton)
Ontario, Niagara Connecting Bridge Company, 1891.
Sheffington, George, employment of, 1431.
Submarines. See Naval service.
Summerside
Post office building, 2010.
" Rifle range, 2010.
Sunnybrae, N.S., mail service, 1549.
Supply Bill (for 1917, $99,458,597.41). Res., 2664. lr., 2r„ Com., 3r„ 2665.
Supply, Committee of, 653-669, 686-716, 716739, 739-754, 817-850, 938-943, 956-989, 1309-1325, 1341-1385, 1386-1409, 14101432, 1590-1602, 1616-1646, 2016-2057, 2079-2111, 2115-2165, 2326-2346, 23612398, 2404-2421, 2428-2442, 2530-2542, 2569-2599, 2665-2690, 2716-2741, 27672798, 2808-2838, 2847-2878, 2885-2903, 2908-2919, 2956-2971, 3022-3023, 30353049, 3051-3074, 3074-3095, 3120-3143, 3147-3188, 3190-3214, 3214-3230, 33123344, 3375-3404, 3410-3463, 3502-3528,
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3534-3559, 3586-3616, 3021-3674, 38263863, 3863-3875, 3933-3942, 3943-3990, 4067-4074, 4079.
Surveys, 1320, 2428, 2901.
Sussex, N.B.-104th Battalion Military officer, 1161.
Sutherland, Mr. Donald (South Oxford) Experimental farms, 1405.
Flax industry, 1291.
Hogs, American, 2923.
Niagara, St. Catharines and Toronto Railway, 2445.
Taxation of apples, 1772.
War supplies-Irish stew, 2014,
Swift Current post office site, 1041.
Sydney, C.B.
Pilotage Commission, 986.
Postal revenue, 3561.
Taber Irrigation District Bill. lr„ 2599.
2r„ 2806. Com., 2806.	3r., 2841.
Talbot, Lieut.-Col. Onesiphore, duties of, 1325.
Tan bark, embargo on, 3022.
Tariff. See Customs Tariff Act Amendment Bill and Taxation.
Tar sand. See Mines.
Taxation, War.
Customs
Apples, 811, 899, 1008, 1016, 1022, 1092, 1130, 1217, 1227, 1764, 2305.
Farm implements, 4068.
Oil, 812, 899, 1009, 1018, 1227, 1796, 2303. Pearls and diamonds, 641, 758.
Generally, 339, 1225, 1229.
Special
Income, 902, 908, 1025, 1086, 1884, 1982. Land, 829, 200, 2934.
Profits, 168, 813, 899, 1009, 1023, 1038, 1103, 1127, 1136, 1248, 1330, 1843, 1862, 1891, 1972, 1990, 2601.
See Business Profits War Tax Bill and Customs Tariff Act Amendment Bill. Taylor, Mr. James D. (New Westminster) Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 384.
Canadian expeditionary force, 384. Canada's share in the war, 385. Conditions of military service, 385. Naval affairs, 386.
Purchase of submarines, 387.
British Columbia affairs, 389.
Labour bureaus, national, 621.
Naval service, 386.
Submarines, purchase of, 387.
Taxation-war profits, 85.
Technical education, 55, 370, 535, 648, 1618, 1626, 1642, 2177.
Telegraphs
Bay St. Lawrence office, 1551.
British Columbia, 3318.
Cable and wireless rates, 672.
Government lines, 548.
Magdalen islands cable service, 759. _ Moosejaw, 3633.
Prince Edward Island, 3187.
Quebec, 3313.
Radiotelegraph service, 2888, 2908. Saskatchewan and Alberta, 3C26, 3637, Steamer Tyrian, 1437.
Vancouver, 3634.
Wireless stations, 2909, 2913.
Telephones. See Telegraphs.
Temiscouata mail service, 2477.
Temiskaming dam, 2546.
Terminal elevators. See Grain..
Thoburn, Mr. William (North Lanark) Divorce, 779.
Shipbuilding, 4064.
Thompson, Mr. Alfred (Yukon)
Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 5.
Extension of term of Parliament, 6. Canada's productiveness in war time, 7. Financial and trade conditions, 7. Fortunes of the war, 9.
Principles at stake, 10.
Mining industry, 1878.
Ottawa military camp doctors, 1760, Soldiers, insane, 1664.
Taxation of profits, 1878.
Trade and Commerce, 3023.
Yukon, the, 938-943, 1310.
Thompson, Mr. John K.C., 78, 316, 921. See Davidson Commission.
Thomson, Mr. Levi (Qu'Appelle)
Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 458.
Commandeering of wheat, 458-461. Foster, A. De Wit, 4075.
Grain congestion, 1711.	[DOT]
Loans to farmers, 680.
Moosejaw military, 1651.
Prohibition of intoxicating liquors. 1479 2557, 2883.
Regina military camp, 1808.
Wheat
Commandeering of, 458-461.
Free, 1062.
Thornton, Mr. Chas. J. (Durham)
Prohibition of intoxicating liquors, 1482.
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Customs officers, 2169.
Post office
Employees, 1651, 1906, 2010, 2036. Revenue and salaries, 1651.
Tibbits, Archibald, employment of, 1439, 2176. Timber. See Dominion Lands.
Titles of honour, 457.
Tobacco. See Agriculture.
Tobin, Mr. Edmund W. (Richmond-Wolfe) Bromptonville mail service, 3562.
D'fsraeli government wharf, 3562.
Tonnage. See Transportation.
Toronto
American Club, wrecking of, 856.
Customs revenue and officers, 2169. Military buildings, 2837.
Postal station A, 2836.
Post office
Employees, 1651, 1906, 2010.
Revenue and salaries, 1651.
Railway terminals, 3414.
T racadie
Harbour improvements, 1438, 3149, 3160. Lazaretto, 2800.
Trade and Commerce.
Agricultural products, export of, 345. Balance of trade, 890, 903.
Central America, 1653.
China, 344.
Commissioners and agents, 1653, 3022, 3551. Department	-
Estimates, 664, 2847, 3023, 3120, 3551. Expenditure, 906.
Exports to United Kingdom, 592. Publications, 2992.
Staff and salaries, 664, 3135.
South America, 1653.
Statements of Minister, 2989, 3100.
United States, 344, 2057.
West Indies, 1762, 1809, 1970.
Trade Commission, 4076.
Train service in the West. See Railways. Transcona railway shops, 636. Transportation
Ocean, 96, 232.
Admiralty transports, 1681.
Freight rates, 100, 116, 118, 1435, 2888. Harbour facilities, 741, 3100-3134.
Ships, 181, 638, 700.
\ See also Marine.
Panama Canal route, 4092.	„
See Marine and Steamship service. Railway, 1306, 3980. See Railways.
Troops, of. See Army.
Trawling. See Fish and Fisheries.
Tremain, Lieut.-Col., M.P., position of, 1652. Trent canal, 1601, 2575.
Trousers, purchase of. See WAr Supplies.
Truax, Mr. R. E. (South Bruce)
Hanover public building, 1439.
Tupper, the late Sir Charles, Bart.- resolution of condolence on death of, 39, 582.
Turgeon, Mr. Onesiphore (Gloucester)
Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 178.
French-Canadians and the war, 179. Patriotism Of British Dominions, 180. Conscription, 180,	.
Provision for wounded soldiers, 181. Extension of term of Parliament, 181. Bathurst harbour improvements, 3158.
, Breakwaters, necessity for, 3623. Conscription, 180.
Fish and fisheries Dogfish, 2404.
Lobsters, 2369, 2378.
French-Canadians and the war, 179. Hudson Bay railway, 3383.
Intercolonial railway
Paradis, Mr. T., claim of, 2783. Passenger service, 3419.
Rolling stock, 2799.
Navigation schools, 696.
Parliament, extension of term of, 181. Prohibition of intoxicating liquors, 2358. St. John Valley Railway, 1944.
Soldiers provision for, 181.
Tracadie lazaretto-firewood for, 2800.
Turriff, Mr. John G. (Assiniboia)
Address in reply to Governor General's Speech, 436.
The Government and the war, 436. Extension of term of Parliament, 437. Seed grain indebtedness, 438.
Canada's war loans, 438.
Expenditure for soldiers rations, 440. Medical. examination of recruits, 440. Pensions to soldiers, 440.
Shell contracts, 441.
Expenditure on public works, 444. Commandeering and transportation of wheat, 445-452.
Agriculture Department clerks, 2801. Agricultural implements, duty on, 4069. Apple duty-Government official on, 1426. Army
Allowances, separation, 2924, 3098. Officers, training of, 3533.
Overseas forces, forwarding of, 3512.
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Recruiting
Medical examination, 440.
Unfit men, 3253.
Soldiers
Pensions to, 440.
. Rations for, 440.
Voting of, 3511.
Assistant Clerk of Routine and Records, 1161, 4079.
Banks, taxes payable by, 2478.
British Columbia, resources and progress of, 3847.
Budget, 1130.
The duty on apples, 1130.
The farmers and taxation, 1032. Extension of term of Parliament, 1133. Government taxation proposals, 1132, 1136.
Postal revenue, 1133.
Economy in public expenditure, 1134. Naval policy, 1135.
The Opposition's attitude, 1136.
Taxation of profits, 1136.
The nickle industry, 1140, 1143.
Germans in government service, 1142. Buffalo, 845.
Cadet service, 3502.
Canadian Northern Railway Company- proposed loan to, 3579, 3657, 3847, 3941. Snow blocade, 2647.
Canals, patrolling of, 3591.
Chief transport officer, 1903, 1969.
Civil Service Appointments, 4079.
Deputy Ministers, salary of, 659. Enlistments from, 821, 824, 888.
Customs-free entry of goods, 3646.
Dairy Commissioner, report of, 1421.
Flax industry, 1293.
Grain
Congestion, 1712.
Freight rates on, 3063, 3072. Transportation of, 2857.
" Wheat
Commandeering of, 445-452, 3214.
Free, 793-802.
High Commissioner, Canadian, office of, 961.
Home'Guard, 3504.
Homestead inspectors, 829.	[DOT]
House of Commons Sessional clerks, 2799.
Sherwood, H. C., appointment of, 4079. Hudson Bay railway, 3376.
Immigration expenditure, 2109.
Indian Department clerks, 2800.
Inland Revenue Department clerks, 2544.
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Department expenditure, 2086.
Minister of, in Chicago, 756.
Justice Department clerks, 2801.
Lands, western, survey of, 835.
' Loans to farmers, 929.
Macdonald, Rev. D. R., 3675.	[DOT]
Marine Department clerks, 2801.
Militia Department clerks, 2839.
Mines Department clerks, 2921.
National Transcontinental railway-Government operation of, 3985.
Niagara, St. Catharines and Toronto Rail-* way Company, 2463.
Nickel, exportation of, 1140, 1143, 1871. Ores, refining of, 3031.
Panama canal, goods shipped to Canada via., 4092.
Parks, Canadian National, 845.
Parliament, extension of term of, 437, 1133. Peterborough Review, statement of, 414. Political patronage in military affairs, 3542. Prohibition of intoxicating liquors, 2234, 2559, 2568, 2706.
Public Works Applications for, 1807.
Department employees, 3155.
Expenditure, 2812.
Quebec railways, acquisition of, 4028, 4120.
Railways
Department
Clerks, 2839, 3096.
Estimates, 3056.
Locating of, 2747.
Mail service, 2023.
Situation in Canada, 3988.
Train service in the West, 518.
Railway Commission, powers of, 2747,
Ross, Walter T„ release of, 2302.
St. Peter's Indian reserve, 2944.
Seed grain Distribution, 2862.
Indebtedness, 438, 511.
Liens, 760.
Shipbuilding, 706, 708, 2894, 3017.
Taxation
Agricultural implements, 4069.
Apples, 1130, 1782, 2314.
Land, 756.
Profits, 550, 1136, 1870, 1976, 1984, 2649. Timber protection, 838.
Trade and Commerce, 3015.	.
Transportation, 706, 708, 2857, 3118. Vancouver munitions workers in England, 2743.
Victoria Transfer Company, 3144.
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Loans, 438.
Supplies
Clothing, 3592.
Orders for, securing of, 961.
Rifles, 3505, 3506.
Shells, 441.
Western farmers, assistance to, 3938. Wheat. See Grain.
Woman suffrage, 1200.
Women voters in Manitoba, 2301.
U nemployment. See Labour.
Valcartier
Expropriations, 1300.
Removal of refuse from, 2174.
Vale railway, 3024.
Valleyfield breakwater, 2694.
Valley railway. See St. John.
Vancouver
Customs officers and revenue, 1651, 2169. Post office employees, 1651, 1906, 2010, 2036.
Vancouver Harbour Commissioners Act Amendment Bill. Res., 1604. lr., 1606. 2r., 2078. Com., 2078.	3r., 2079.
Verville, Mr. Alphonse (Maisonneuve) Aubrey, Napoleon, appointment of, 2300. Budget, 1083.
Jewish people, 1083.
The cost of living, 1084.
Taxation systems, 1086.
Soldiers' pensions, 1087.
Fair-wage boards, 1277, 1438.
Fair-wage clause in government contracts, 3622.
Feller, Camille, 2348.
Ice-breaker contract, 1440.
Labour bureaus, national, 608.
Labourers imported into British Columbia, 1329.
J.y°ns, John, employment of, 3881.	.
Mines Department reports, 2339.
Montreal customs building, 2175, 2476. Pensions to soldiers, 1087.
Reid Jack, imprisonment of for sedition, 2007.
Soldiers
Medical examination of, 4069.
Pensions to, 1087.
Taxation systems, 1086.
Technical education, 2198.
Vickers-Maxim, Ltd.-strike at, 1079, 1763.
Vickers, Limited
Sale of ammunition to. See War Supplies, small arms ammunition.
Vickers-Maxim, Ltd. Strike of carpenters at, 1079, 1764.
Victoria, B.C.
Coal for dredges, 547.'
Customs, 2169.
Dredging, 546.
Rifle range, 1549.
Post office employees, 1906, 2010, 2036. Victoria (county) N.S., Government telegraph lines, 548, 758.
Victoria Memorial Museum. See Ottawa. Victoria Transfer Company, 3144.
Voters' lists, printing of, 593, 668.
Wallace, Mr. Thomas G. (Centre York) James, Mr. C. C.-question of appointment, 2477.
Maclnnes, Mr. C. S., position of, 2923. Wallace Shipyards, Limited, .payments to, 1077.
War
British forces, 58.	-
British Navy, 58.
Canadian forces. See Army.
Censors and decoders- See that title. Conscription. See Arms'.
Contracts
Letting of, 161-167.
Political patronage in. See that title.
See also Shells.
Expenditure, 35, 36, 39, 58, 102, 138, 807, 1167. See War Appropriation Bill, War Supplies and Budget.
Fair-wage clause in munitions contracts, 1277, 1969, 3555.
France, fighting in, 1118.
French Government, horses for, 761, 950, 1041.
Frontier protection, 744.
Hospitals. See that title.
Imperial Munitions Board, 594, 804. Investigatins. See Shells and Small arms ammunition.
Inspectors of shells, appointment of, 143. Loans. See. Finance.
Patriotic tFunds. See'that title.
Patrolling of canals, 3591.
Pay and Record Office, Canadian, 3023. Recruiting. See Army and Naval Service. Remount depots, 30.
Shell Committee, the. See that title. Transport, director of, 3096.
Trenches, methods for improving, 2922. Trench warfare, 2696.
Vancouver munitions workers in England, 2743.
Vessels, commandeering of, 116.
See also Transportation.
See also Army and Militia.
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3233. lr„ 3294. 2r„ 3530. Com., 3533. 3r., 3534.
War Purchasing Commission, 1441, 1907, 2695, 2801.
War Supplies
Alberta purchases, 3232.
Amherst Barracks, for, 2600.
Ammunition, 28, 71, 90, 106. See Small arms.
Bandages, 1354.
Bayonets, 1761.
Binoculars, 1353, 1716.
Blankets, 1436.
Boots, 172, 175, 1716.
British Government for, 957, 968.
Canvas shoes, 166, 595, 673.
Clothing, 1356, 3527, 3592.	.
Director of, 3096.
40th Battalion for, 1043.
Field kitchens, 547.
Fish, 1652.	.
Free entry of into Canada, 3645.
French Government, for, 973.
Fuses, 252, 1345, 1502, 1546, 1552, 1735, 1741, 1749, 2274, 2514, 2979, 3097. See Shells! Groceries-British Columbia, 3097^ 3733. Hay, 255-265, 320-335, 353, 392, 410, 530, 537, 1039, 1422, 2298, 2543, 2694, 2963. Horses, 30, 267, 270, 353, 396, 418, 542, 652, 672, 685, 761,	950, 1041, 1124, 1162,
1326, 1379, 1717, 2968.
Irish stew, 2014.
Issues of to Canadian troops, 968.
Kits, 2167.
Lumber, 1354.
Machine guns, 92, 111, 289, 2275, 3522. Private contributions for, 532, 2542 3258 3291.
Milk powder. See powder milk.
Motor trucks, 1345, 1358, 2978, 3676. Munitions.
Contracts, 235, 1277, 1969, 3555.
Credit to Imperial Government, 1810. Factories-labour in, 2549.
Imperial Munition Board. See that title. Inspectors of, 544, 2006.
Minister of,. 532.
United' States, 495.
Works Commission, 2841.
See Shells.
Oats, 2298.
Ordnance, 2799.
Overshoes, 673, 886.
Petroleum, 2648.
Picric acid. See Shell contracts.
Pistols, 270-274, 290, 1343, 1346, 1358, 2276, 2290, 2510, 2977.
War Supplies-Con.
Powder milk, 850, 1043, 2175, 3262.
Prince Edward Island purchases, 3406. Proof spirits, 2176.
Purchasing agents, 3528.
Remounts. See Horses.
Renfrew wool contracts, 1436.
Rifles
Lee-Enfield, 3562.
Magazines, purchase of, 1328.
Ross, 1347, 1359, 3505-3522, 4105, 4109. Southern rifle deal, 2286, 2981.
Russian Government, for, 973.
Shells, 74, 79, 86, 90, 143, 152, 154, 161, 175, 194, 221, 238, 279, 295, 405, 409, 420, 441, 494, 751, 803, 805, 1123, 1505, 1556, 1572. Advances for, 2979, 3097.
Boxes, 543, 2351, 2691.
Commission of inquiry Appointment of, 2920.
Resolution for, 1714, 1727, 2242, 2264, 2349, 2442, 2496, 2515, 2529, 3296, 3404. Scope of, 3404, 3464.
Statement by Minister of Militia, 2974. Shovel shields, 156, 1123, 1347.
Small arms ammunition, 2168, 2302, 2543, 2546, 2881, 3297, 3884, 3943.
Socks, 593, 887.
Southern rifle deal, 2286, 2981.
Trousers, 165.
Water carts, 537.
Wheat. See Grain.
Windsor, N.S., purchases at, 3407.
Water- powers
Burleigh falls, 2583.
Control of, 556.
Investigation, 839.
Ownership of, 760.
Trent canal waterway, 2575.
Ways and Means, Committee of, 1275, 1230, .	1764, 1843, 1862, 1891, 1990.
See Budget and Taxation.
Webster, Mr. John (Brockville)
Political patronage, 1363.
Weichel, Mr. William G. (North Waterloo) Prohibition of intoxicating liquors, 1470. Weights and Measures, inspectors of, 2475. Welland canal, 1600, 3454.
Wellington harbour improvements, 2169. Wentworth, N.S., mail .service, 3353.
West Gore-Clarksville mail service, 2695. Western farmers. See Farmers.
West Indies-syrup shipment from, 1762, 1809, 1970.
Westover county telegraph offices, 2600.
West Rochdale postmaster, 1551.
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White, Sir Thomas (Minister of Finance) Auditor General, salary of, 658.
Budget, 807.
Revenue and expenditure, 807.
War expenditure, 807.
Loan issues, 808.
Outcome of 1915-1916, 809.
Economic conditions, 809.
Fiscal year, 1916-17, 810.
Taxation and loans, 811.
Tariff proposals, 811.
Taxation of profits, 813.
Future borowings, 815.
Dominion debenture stock issue, 816. Insurance companies-investments in . Dominion securities, 815.
Bank loans to farmers. See Loans.
Bonds, Government, negotiability of, 660. Business Profits War Tax Act, administration of, 3638.
Canadian Associated Press, 3638.
Canadian Northern Railway Company, proposed loan to, 3345, 3563, 3648, 3830, 3964.
Civil Service-salaries, 4079.
Coin, American, 654.
Debt of Canada-interest, 654.
Dominion notes
Advances to banks, 592.
Issue of, 1218.
Federal Plan Commission, 1603, 3136, 3641. Finance Department salaries, 661. Government expenditures, 39, 807, 2622, 3138, 4117.
Grain, transportation of, 3981.
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company, proposed loan to, 3345, 3563, 3648, 3830. Immigration	,
Department expenditure, 2628.	.
Inspection, boundary, 657.
Insurance companies
Extension of charters, 685, 937, 1610. Investments of, 1611, 2400.
Live stock, advances on, 550.
Loans
Dominion, 659, 807, 811, 815, 1812, 1834, 2006.
See Budget arid Finance.
Farmers, to, 674-681, 924-936, 1611, 3146. Munitions credit for Imperial Government, 1810.
National Battlefields Commission, 3141, 3148.
Nickel industry, 1867.
Paper currency, issue of, 1837.
Pistols, 2290.
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Rural credits, 2401.
Seed grain indebtedness, 513.
Shell contracts, 2496.
Sherwoodj H. Crossley, appointment of, 4085.
Shipbuilding, 4061.
Taxation, war
Apples, 1764, 1791, 2312.
Income, 1982.
Land, 2001.
Oils, 812, 1796, 1806.
Profits, 813, 1330-1341, 1843-1862, 18641887, 1891-1900, 1972-1989, 1990-2006, 2469, 2646.
See Budget.
Transportation, railway, 3981.
Wheat, free, 861-874.
Zinc or spelter, bounty on, 2839, 3029.
White Phosphorus Matches Act Amendment Bill. lr„ 989.	2r„ 1493. Com.,
2r., 3r„ 1616.
White slave traffic, 981.
Whitehead cold storage, 757.
Wilcox, Mr. Oliver J. (North Essex)
Address in reply to Governor General s Speech, 93.
Extension of term of Parliament, 97. Policy of Liberal party, 94.
Shell Committee, 95.
Transportation of crops, 96.
Gasolene, 885.
Naval Service, 1697.
Parliament, extension of term of, 97.
Shell Committee, the, 95.
Transportation of crops, 96.
Willson, Mr. Beckles, position of, 1326. Wilson, Mr. Charles A. (Laval)
Surveys, 1321.
Wilson, Mr. Fred. S., services of, 3353. Winding-up Act Amendment Bill. lr„ 1548.
2r., 1616. Com., 1616.	3r„ 1616.
Windsor, N.S.-purchase of war supplies, '3407.
Winnipeg
Customs officers and revenue, 2169. Disturbances at, 2548.
Post office
Employees, 1651, 1906, 2010, 2036. Revenue and salaries, 1651.
Wireless stations. See Telegraphs.
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Wrecks. See Marine.
Wright, Mr. William (Muskoka)
Dredging, 550.
Flax industry, 1294.
Prohibition of intoxicating liquors, 1489.
Wright, Mr. William (Muskoka)-Con. Public works, 550, 1905.
Soldiers, medical examination of, 4073. Wheat, commandeering of, 3206.
Yukon territory, 938, 1309, 1312.
Zinc Bounties Bill. Res., 3029. lr., 3035. 2r., 3147. Com., 3147.	3r., 3353.

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