1917-09-20

CANADIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE.


Right Hon.   S@: The hon. member for Russell (Hon. Charles Murphy) made an inquiry in the House a few days ago. with respect to a press report that Australia had made arrangements to send 50,000 members of the original Australian Expeditionary Force to their homes for rest. I addressed a telegram on the same day to Sir George Perley in the following terms:
Press telegram reports Australia has made arrangements to send fifty thousand of original Australian Expeditionary Force home for a rest irrespective whether corresponding reinforcements are sent from Australia. Question as to this has been asked in House of Commons. Please report soon as possible whether press statement has any and what foundation.
To which I received a reply yesterday as follows:
Australian High Commissioner's office states question of returning original Australian Expeditionary Force was raised in Australian House but no instructions have come to Australian headquarters, London, regarding such return and High Commissioner's office not aware of any action taken to effectuate it.


Mr. MURPHY:: The other part of my
question was whether such steps as those suggested were to he taken with reference to the Canadian Expeditionary Force.


Sir ROBERT BORDEN:: No such steps have been taken.



QUESTIONS.

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(Questions answered orally are indicated by asterisks.)
.MATTRESSES AND COVERS.
['2139-3186.\n" VI: 5271-6094.']
Sir EDWARD KEMP:: Stand.


Mr. A. K. MACLEAN:: This question has been on the Order Paper now for several days. The facts to be ascertained must have been known for some weeks, even months. Why has the question not been answered?


Albert Edward Kemp: If the hon. member had asked how many mattresses and covers had been purchased by the Department of Militia and Defence, the question would have been answered in due course. But, as the question is put, it has been necessary to go to every department of the Government for information. The Militia Department have already answered the question,in the regular way and sent the reply to the proper officer of the Government.


Alexander Kenneth Maclean: The question refers to a specific tender for .the supplying of specific goods; there was no need of any rushing from one department to the other. Reference to the advertisement issued by the department would have indicated the officer possessing the information.


Robert Laird Borden: My hon. friend is mistaken about that. When a question is asked in this form it must go to every department of the Government, because it does not appear on its face to what department it relates. It is possible that the Militia Department had or had not such a tender, hut that does not dispose of the question by any means.


Alexander Kenneth Maclean: My attention mignt have been directed to that on a previous occasion, or I might have been asked privately to supply the necessary information. The question has reference to the Militia Department.


Albert Edward Kemp: Similar cases occur very frequently when questions are called.


Alexander Kenneth Maclean: I will complain no further if I have the assurance that the answer will be sent to my address.


Albert Edward Kemp: I shall be very glad to give my hon. friend the information

so far as the Militia Department is concerned.



Mr. OLIVER:: 1.	Is Lieutenant M. J. Howe, formerly of the 188th Battalion, still in the service of the Militia Department?
2.	If so, what are his duties, pay and allowances?


Sir EDWARD KEMP:: 1.	No.
2.	Answered by No. 1.


CAPTAIN DOUGLAS, M.P.
Mr. DAVIDSON:: 1.	Did Captain J. M. Douglas, M.P., enlist or receive a commission in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces?
2.	If so. when and where and in what branch of the service?
3.	What rank did he hold?
4.	Is he still a member of the Canadian Expeditionary Forces? If not, when did the term of his services cease?
5.	For what period and where was he in training, was his training completed and what time, if any, did he serve at the front in France or elsewhere?
6.	At what rate per diem has he been paid, and have any of his dependents drawn separation allowance?
7.	What amount has been paid to date on both accounts?


Sir EDWARD KEMP:: 1.	No.
2,	3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. Answered by No. 1.


LIEUTENANT CARROLL, M.P.'
Mr. DAVIDSON:: 1.	Did Lieutenant W. F. Carroll, M.P., for Cape Breton South, enlist or receive a commission in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces?
2.	If so, when and where and in what branch of the service?
3.	What rank did he hold?
4.	Is he still a member of the Canadian Expeditionary Forces? If not, when did the term of his services cease?
5.	For what period and where was he in training, was his training completed and what time, if any, did he serve at the front in France or elsewhere?
6.	At what rate per diem has he been paid, and have any of his dependents drawn separation allowance?
7.	What amount has been paid to date on both accounts?


Sir EDWARD KEMP:: 1.	Yes.
2.	March 4, 1916; Military District No. 6, infantry; 185th Battalion; 193rd Battalion
3.	Private, sergeant and lieutenant.
4.	Yes.
5.	March 4 to October 12, 1916, in Canada; sailed for overseas October 12, 1916; returned to Canada January 9, 1917
6.	Pay and allowances were diawn by Lieut. W. F. Carroll, at the following rates

lor the periods named: March 4, 1916, to March 31, 1916, as private; April 1, 1916, to July 20, 1916, as sergeant; July 21, 1916, to January 31, 1917, as lieutenant.
7.	Total pay and allowances drawn in Canada, $441.83. Cable sent overseas for total paid there. Total separation allowances from March 4, 1916, to January 31. 1917, $299.


CAPTAIN NEELY, M.P.
Mr. DAVIDSON:: 1.	Did Captain D. B. Neely, M.P., for Hum-bolt, enlist or receive a commission in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces?
2.	If so, when and where and in what branch of the service?
3.	What rank did he hold?
4.	Is he still a member of the Canadian Expeditionary Forces? If not, when did the term of his services cease?
5.	For what period and where was he in training, was his training completed and what time, if any, did he serve at the front in France or elsewhere?
6.	At what rate per diem .has he been paid, and have any of his dependents drawn separation allowance?
7.	What amount has been paid to date on both accounts?


Sir EDWARD KEMP:: 1.	Yes.
2.	August 13, 1915; Military District No. 10; 10th Overseas Canadian Mounted Rifles and Army Medical Corps.
3.	Captain.
4.	Yes.
5.	(a) Proceeded overseas immediately as Army Medical Corps reinforcement. (b) No.
6.	August 13, 1915, to January 22, 1917; March 1, 1917, to May 8, 1917. Pay of rank in Canadian Expeditionary Force at captain's rates.
7.	No pay drawn in Canada. (Cable sent overseas to ascertain total paid there.! Separation allowance at captain's rates for above mentioned period; total, $784.


CAPT. ELLIS, M.P.P.
Mr. DAVIDSON:: 1.	Did Captain J. F. Ellis, M.P.P., enlist or receive a commission in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces?
2.	If so, when and where and in what branch of the service?
3.	What rank did he hold?
4.	Is he still a member of the Canadian Expeditionary Forces? If not, when did the term of his services cease?
5.	For what period and where was he in training, was his training completed and what time, if any, did he serve at the front in France or elsewhere?
6.	At what rate per diem has he been paid, and have any of his dependents drawn separation allowance?
7.	What amount has been paid to date on both accounts?


Sir EDWARD KEMP:: 1.	Yes,
2.	8th April, 1916; Military District No. 6, Halifax; Army Medical Corps.
3.	Captain.
4.	Yes.
5.	Proceeded overseas with a draft'as reinforcement.
6.	April 11, 1916, to May 31, 1916, pay
and allowances of Captain, Canadian Expeditionary Force.
7.	Total while in Canada, $267.75. Proceeded overseas May, 1916. (Cable sent overseas to ascertain amount paid there.) Separation allowances, 11th April, 1916, to 30th September, 1917, at $40 per month; total to date, $706.


MAJOR RALSTON, M.P.P.
Mr. DAVIDSON:: '
1.	Did Major J. L. Ralston, M.P.P., enlist or receive a commission in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces?
2.	If so, when and where and in what branch of the service?
3.	What rank did he hold?
4.	Is he still a member of the Canadian Expeditionary Forces? If not, when did the term of his services cease?
5.	For what period and where was he in training', was .his training completed and what time, if any, did he serve at the front in France or elsewhere?
6.	At what rate per diem has he been paid, and have any of his dependents drawn separation allowance?
7.	What amount has been paid to date on both accounts?


Sir EDWARD KEMP:: 1.	Yes.
2.	14th January, 1916; Halifax, Infantry, 85th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force.
3.	Lieutenant, 27th September, 1915; Captain; Captain and Adjutant; Major.
4.	Yes,
5.	27th September, 1915, to 12th October. 1916, date of sailing. Reported wounded 28th June, 1917.
6.	September 27, 1915, to November 11, Lieutenant's pay of rank and allowances. November 12, 1915, to September 28, 1916, Captain's pay and allowances, September 29, 1916 to date-Major's pay and allowances.
7.	Total pay and allowances received up to time of sailing, namely, 1st October, 1916, $1,760.05; total separation allowance to date, $1,070. (Cable sent overseas to obtain total pay and allowances from 1st October, 1916, to date.)


MR. A. W. NIXON, M.D.A. '
Mr. PROULX:: 1.	Did Alfred Westland Nixon, M.D.A. for Halton, enlist or receive a commission in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces?
2.	If so, when and where and in what branch of the service?
3.	What rank did he hold?
4.	Is he still a member of the Canadian Expeditionary Forces? If not, when did the term of his services cease?
5.	For what period and where was he in training, was his training completed and what time, if any, did he serve at the front in France or elsewhere?
6.	At what rate per diem has he been paid, and have any of his dependents drawn separation allowance?
7.	What amount has been paid to date on both accounts?


Sir EDWARD KEMP:: 1.	No.
2,	3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. Answered by No. 1.


THE QUEBEC BRIDGE.
Robert Laird Borden: The following
memorandum has just been placed in my hands:
A Quebec despatch says the centre span of the Quebec bridge is in position, and is being attached to the cantilever arms.


Some hon. MEMBERS:: Hear, hear.


RECRUITS AND CASUALTIES.
Mr. SINCLAIR:: 1.	What was the total number of recruits enlisted in -the Canadian Expeditionary Forces since August 1, 1916?
2.	What was the total number of casualties in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces since August 1, 1916, classified as killed in action, died of wounds, died of sickness, presumed dead, missing, wounded, and prisoners of war?
3.	What is the estimated average percentage of wounded who subsequently return to active service?


Albert Edward Kemp: Stand.


Mr. SINCLAIR:: This is a very important question. Have I the assurance of the minister that the information will be given later?


Albert Edward Kemp: The information
will be forthcoming shortly.
CORRECTION-Mr. PUGSLEY.
On the Orders of the Day:
Hon, WILLIAM PUGSLEY (St. John City): I wish to correct a statement which I am reported to have made yesterday, and which appears on page 6384 of Hansard. I assume that the error occurred because my language was not clear. I read a resolu-

tion adopted by the Great War Veterans' Association, of Sit. John, and during the course of my remarks I referred to the fact that a certain number of gentlemen held positions-the report says "in St. John," hut what I intended to say-and what I think I did eay-was in "Military District No. 6."	.


Mr. REID:: I remember that the hon.
gentleman said "St. John."


Mr. PUGSLEY:: Did I? Then I made a mistake. I should 'have said Military District No. 6, in the Maritime Provinces. I wish to correct that error.


PRINTING OF ELECTORAL LISTS.
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On the Orders of the Day:
Alexander Kenneth Maclean: May I ask the Prime Minister whether the Nova Scotia voters' lists, as last revised by the province will be printed and furnished to candidates, including defeated candidates, as required by the provision of Part 1 of the Dominion Elections Act? It would be a -ery great advantage to all parties to have this information. It is true that the lists will be somewhat revised; still, a great deal of work would be saved, if the provisions of the law were carried out.


Robert Laird Borden: My hon. friend asked a similar question the other day. I oommunieated with the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery and expected to have a reply from him, I believe that .such a reply has been prepared', hut it has not yet reached me. Part 1 of the Dominion Elections Act is suspended for the purposes of thie election; therefore the provieions which requires the printing of voting lists are suspended because they are in that part of the Act, and are not elsewhere to be found. My hon. friend, however, has put it on the ground not of legal obligation, but of convenience. I should not care to give a definite reply at the moment, but I shall discuss the subject with the Secretary of State and give the best consideration that may be possible to what my hon. friend suggests.


NOVA SCOTIA ELECTORAL LISTS.
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On the Orders of the Day:
Alexander Kenneth Maclean: I would suggest to the Prime Minister that when the Military Voters' Act and the War-Time Elections Act are printed, a considerable number of copies he sent to the members

so that they shall not be obliged to write to Ottawa for them.


Robert Laird Borden: I think that is an entirely reasonable request.


Sir WILFRID LAURIER:: May I, in this connection, suggest to my right hon. friend that the lists which are now in force in the four eastern provinces of Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova 'Scotia and Prince Edward Island, should he distributed, because the number of those whose names will be taken off those lists is very limited. Apart from the number in one or perhaps two cities, the number of those who will be disfranchised can be counted upon the fingers of one hand. If we had copies of the lists of those provinces, it would be a great advantage to us.


Robert Laird Borden: I shall give my best attention to the suggestion of my right hon. friend.


EXEMPTIONS UNDER MILITARY SERVICE ACT.
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On the Orders of the Day:
Hon. RODOLPHE LEMIEUX (Rouville):: Has the Prime Minister had time to read carefully the letter written by the Deputy Speaker to his constituents an regard to the exemptions under the Military Service Act? If so, does his letter exactly represent the opinion of the Government?


Robert Laird Borden: 
Rodolphe Lemieux: As this is a matter of the gravest importance, because the people in my constituency, at all events, aTe led to believe that no sons of farmers will be called out, ana I to conclude, from what my right hon. friend has said, that nothing has been yet decided?


Robert Laird Borden: The regulations, as I have already stated, have not been presented to the Government by the Military Service Council. I do not know whether they have been placed before the Central Appeal Judge. Until they have been placed before and approved by the Governor in Council there is nothing authoritative about the matter at all.


MEDICAL EXAMINERS UNDER MILITARY SERVICE ACT.
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On the Orders of the Day:
Mr. EDMUND PROULX (Prescott):: Is it the intention of the Minister of Militia to appoint medical examiners in each constituency to examine men between the ages of twenty and thirty-four who wish to present themselves for medical examination?


Albert Edward Kemp: Medical examiners under the Military Service Act will be appointed at certain mobilization centres which are to be determined upon and which will cover the whole country.


STAFF OF OVERSEAS DEPARTMENT OF MILITIA.
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On the Orders of the Day:
Mr. E. M. MACDONALD (Pictou) :: Might I ask the Minister of Militia if he has not with him to-day the information I requested as to the number of officers, non-commissioned officers and men employed in the Department of Militia Overseas, if he would be good enough to send the information to me?


Albert Edward Kemp: There are 141 officers Employed or attached to the Department of Militia overseas in the various departments and offices. There are 492 noncommissioned officers and men, not including civilian employees, so employed. The total amount paid per month for salaries to such officers and men is not available at the moment.


DEATH OF THE SERJEANT-AT-ARMS.
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On the Orders of the Day:
Right Hon.   S@: I
have to announce to the House, with very deep regret, that Col. Henry Robert Smith, Serjeanit-at-Arms, died this morning. The son of a distinguished Speaker of the old Parliament of Canada, he was appointed Deputy Serjeant-at-Arms in 1872 and promoted to be Serjeant-at-Arms in 1892. He has, therefore, served as deputy and as Serjeant-at-Arms for nearly half a century. Col. Smith had also a very considerable military service, in 1866 and 1872 on the frontier, and in 1885 in the Northwest Rebellion. Those of us who have known him in the course of his important official duties have, I am sure, been impressed with the dignity and courtesy with which he discharged them. He was, in a word, a fine type of a gentleman of the old school and his passing away is a distinct loss to the public life of this country. He was a man of much culture, having a very wide acquaintance with English literature, and altogether he was a most interesting personality. I am sure all the members of the House will join with me in an expression of profound sympathy to all the members of his family.


Right Hon.   S@: It is with as much regret as that of my right hon. friend that I learned of the sudden death of Colonel Smith. To me, personally, who am now one of the oldest members of this House, the death of Colonel Smith causes me very keen sorrow. Too much praise cannot be given to our late friend. As every hon. member knows, he was one of the best servants we ever had. He was a man of the strictest integrity, of the highest sense of honour, and of unfailing courtesy. It is not too much to say that he had endeared himself to every member of the House who had anything to do with the management of public business.


THE CLERK OF THE HOUSE.
Right Hon.   S@: An intimation has been already conveyed to the House that the Clerk of the House pur-

poses retiring from the duties of his office, which he has discharged for some fifteen years. Previous to his acceptance of the office which he now holds, Dr. Flint, had a distinguished career in Parliament' and in the public life of the country, and since he undertook the responsibilities of the important office of Clerk of the House, *all of the members who have come in contact with him have appreciated the ability, zeal, .and industry which he has uniformly displayed in the discharge of his duties.
I desire to express my own personal recognition of his uniform courtesy and his unfailing attention to all matters which I have had to bring to his notice in the ten years which I served as leader of the Opposition, and in the six years which I have had imposed upon me the responsibilities of First Minister.
I feel perfectly confident that my right hon. friend the leader of the Opposition will join with me in proposing a resolution which I am sure will meet with universal acceptance by all the members of this House. It is my privilege to move, seconded by Sir Wilfrid Laurier:
That in view of the long- and faithful services of Doctor Thomas B. Flint, Clerk of the House of Commons, he be continued after his retirement an honorary officer of this House, and that he be allowed the entree of the House of Commons and a seat at the Table on occasions of ceremony.
Right hon. Sir WILFRID LAURIER: Mr. Speaker, in view of the fact that we are to lose the services of Doctor Flint, I second this motion with very great pleasure. I join cordially in everything that has been said by my right hon. friend in appreciation of the services of Doctor Flint, and I am sure that in his remarks he only expressed what is felt by everybody. Doctor Flint has been not only attentive but indefatigable in the discharge of his duties towards both parties in this House. As an old personal friend, I regret more than I can say that the condition of his health forces him to the relinquishment of the duties he has so well performed. I am sure that I reflect the feelings of all when I express the hope that his health may be restored, and that he may long be spared to move amongst us.


THE WAR-TIME ELECTIONS ACT.
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On the Orders of the Day:
Mr. F. F. PARDEE (West Lambton):: May I be permitted to draw the attention 
of the Secretary of State to something which may not have been intended in the last revision of the Franchise Act. Paragraph (g) of section 70 of the Dominion Elections Act provides that:	.
Every person accepting or holding any office, commission or employment, permanent or temporary, in the service of the Government of Canada at the nomination of the Crown or at the nomination of any of the officers of the Government of Canada,
-shall be debarred from offering himself as a candidate for the Federal House. By the Act of 1915 to amend the Senate and House of Commons Act it is provided that serving in the naval' and military forces of Canada and receiving emolument therefor shall not render a man ineligible as a member of the House of Commons. Now the question arises whether under the last revision of the Franchise Act any member or candidate to the House of Commons would be disqualified if he accepted a position on any of the tribunals and received his expenses therefor. I think that point ought to be taken into consideration, and the Act amended so ae not to disqualify any person undertaking that work.


Robert Laird Borden: My impression
is that there is nothing in the Dominion Elections Acts which affects the matter one way or the other. The statute to which my hon. friend alludes is the one relating to the Senate and the House of Commons. Therefore, I would not consider that any legislation passed, at this session has any bearing upon the question which my hon. friend has raised. However, his observations will appear in Hansard, and I shall direct the attention of the law officers of the Crown to the point which has been raised, and if there has been any omission or oversight it could probably be corrected under the War Measures Act, after consultation with my right hon. friend who leads the Opposition.


WAR-TIME ELECTIONS ACT.
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On the Orders of the Day:
' Mr. A. K. MACLEAN (Halifax): My attention has been called to the fact that under section 27, Part I of the Dominion Elections Act, the federal authorities had power to divide the constituencies of British Columbia into polling divisions. Part 1 of the Dominion Elections Act is now suspended, and it has been suggested to me that there is no power vested in any authority to divide British Columbia into polling divisions. I mention this to the Secretary of State now because it may be

important, and it will give him an opportunity of looking into the matter.
Hon. ARTHUR MEIGHEN (Secretary of State):: As I understand it, hy the WarTime Elections Act, it is made the duty of every returning officer to divide his constituency into geographical polling divisions. That '.applies everywhere throughout Canada.


Mr. CARVELL:: Would it apply to a province like New Brunswick or Nova Scotia where, by statute, the country is already divided into polling divisions?


Arthur Meighen: The Act covers the point clearly, I think. My recollection is that the discretion of the returning officer is exercisable only in the western provinces. I do not know whether it is exercisable in New Brunswick or not, but I do know that the returning officer is directed in every case to utilize the polling divisions already established, unless for some reason they cannot be utilized.


Frank Broadstreet Carvell: That was my view of it, but I wanted to have the opinion of the Secretary of State on Hansard. I did not imagine the returning officer would have the right to interfere with polling divisions in provinces like New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.



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On the Orders of the Day:
Sir HERBERT AMES (St. Antoine):: Is there anything in the War-Time Elections Act to prevent women from being appointed as enumerators?


William Pugsley: It raises the old question whether she is a person.
Mr. MEiIGiHEN: I do not think that the section relating to enumerators used any particular word, but whether it does or not, I do not hesitate to give the opinion- I know that it is generally unwise to give legal opinions on cross-examination in the House of Commons, but I feel sure of my ground in this case-that it would be quite within the law to appoint a woman as enumerator.



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The House proceeded, to the consideration of amendments made by the Senate to Bill No. 133, The War-time Elections Act.
Robert Laird Borden: Mr. Speaker, a number of amendments of a more or less important character have been made by the Senate to this Bill. I understand that so far as those amendments are concerned they are not likely to be of a controversial nature, provided the motion which I am now about to make should commend itself to the judgment of the House. There has been a conference with respect to those amendments between gentlemen on both sides of the House, and as the result of those conferences I now beg to move, seconded by Hon. Mr. Meighen:
That the Senate amendments to Bill No. 133 be concurred in, subject to amendment of such amendments as follow:
(a)	By striking out of paragraph 2 of subsection 5 of the new section 65A, provided by said Bill, the word "made" and inserting instead in each case the word "completed" as said word appears in lines 19 and 21 of page 1162 of Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.
(b)	By striking out of said paragraph 2 of said subsection 5 of section 65 A provided by said Bill the words "except the issuance in any necessary case of a certificate in form W3 under paragraph (g) of section 6T," which words appear in the 33rd, 34th and 35th lines of said Votes and Proceedings.
I shall ask the Secreary of State to make any explanation that may be desired of the other amendments. So far as these were concerned, they were brought to my attention this morning by the hon. member for Pictou (Mr. Macdonald) and by my colleague from Halifax (Mr. A. K. Maclean). I think there is very good reason for the amendment because, as was pointed out to .me the use of the word "completed" gives a definite date, whereas the use of the word " made " does not give a precisely definite date under the law of Nova Scotia in respect of which this amendment is made. In regard to the other amendment, it was represented to me by the hon. gentlemen I have mentioned that, under the special provisions which are made for the province o.f .Nova Scotia, it is neither desirable nor necessary that there should be any further action by the enumerators. I concur in that view. The result of that would Ibe that those lists having been revised under judicial sanction will stand and the enumerator will have no further duty to perform with regard to them. It seemed to me that amendment was a reasonable one, and, therefore, after the conference to which I have alluded, I thought we might accept the amendments made by the Senate, with the further amendments that are em-



bodied in the resolution I have just proposed.


Mr. SPEAKER:: Is it the pleasure of the House to adopt .the motion?


Wilfrid Laurier: I do not rise to a point of order, hut I would like to call your attention, Mr. Speaker, and the attention of the House, to .the fact that whenever an amendment is brought from the Senate to be concurred in by this House, the practice has been not to take it into consideration the day it is brought down. I will not raise the point to-day, as apparently there has been an understanding between the two sides of the House.


Alexander Kenneth Maclean: Government would have attempted the establishment of a Federal Franchise Act applicable to every province of Canada. At least it would surely have been applied to the province of New Brunswick and to other provinces where there is not, in whole or in part, something approaching a judicial revision of the list. Only one inference can be drawn; that is that this amendment was designed for the purpose of gaining a political advantage in the province of Nova Scotia, and why that one province should be singled out for this purpose is something I cannot understand. I register my protest against it. I say we have a system of revision of lists in Nova Scotia that is as good	as that
in any other province, if not better. That revision was last completed in March last. As hon. gentlemen know, it requires a great deal of labour on the part of members of Parliament and of 4 p.m. political organizations to obtain a revision- of voters' lists annually. That list in Nova Scotia was completed but a few months ago. Nobody in my province was complaining -about the revision. I venture to say that no protest or complaint was lodged with the Government by any responsible person living in my province against that revision. I say that this amendment does not originate from anybody except the members from my province supporting the Government, and their only motive in suggesting and supporting such an amendment in the Senate and its passage through this House is a political one. In December next we shall be obliged to commence a revision of our lists again, and concurrently with the forthcoming election members of Parliament in my province will be obliged to undergo the expense, anxiety and labour of carrying on a revision of the lists, something which has never occurred before. Where the system of electoral revision by enumerators is in vogue and where that has been the practice and the established system, it may not be so objectionable; but it is objectionable to-my province, and I believe that will be the judgment of everybody in it, both Liberal and Conservative. Therefore I say it entails an unnecessary amount of labour and expense upon everybody, after having undergone, just two or three months ago, a revision of our lists, to be obliged to undergo the same thing in the course of another month or two. And what for? Just to gratify the unwholesome, the unjust, desires of some hon. gentlemen opposite. Because they think they can gain some personal and political advantage in fMr. A. Xu Maclean.]
the forthcoming election we must go through a vast amount of work and incur a considerable expense. In the end very few names will be added to the electoral lists outside of women, and very few will be struck off outside of those -struck off for reason of alienage. I venture the prediction that when this Bill becomes law and the revision takes place under this amendment, hon. gentlemen opposite who are responsible for this amendment will' regret that they ever promoted such legislation. Further than that, I -say that it adds to the burdens placed upon candidates iin this election. There is that immense soldiers' vote to be taken care of, which requires -a vast amount of organization and expense on the part of all candidates. Then we have the enfranchisement of women voters in all the provinces, and that entails vast labour and expense. One would think that that would be sufficient additional burden to throw upon candidates and party organizations in this election, without introducing this further complication at this particular moment.
I understand that this legislation is justified upon the ground that in Nova Scotia the appeal from the work of the revisers is to the sheriffs, who are political officers appointed by the Government of Nova Scotia. Complaint is made that the appeal should be heard by a judicial officer and not by -such an- officer as a sheriff. At least I have heard that presented as a justification f-o-r this amendment. I -s-ay it is not a sound reason- and will not be received as suich in the province of Nova -Scotia by any con-sider-a-ble number on either side of politics. Our lists are prepared by municipal officers who are called revisers. These revisers are appointed by the municipal councils or county councils, because the municipality practically corresponds geographically with our county lines. In some of the counties the majorities are Conservative; in other counties, it is true, the majority in the municipal council may be Liberal. Three or four years ago tRe majority of the county councils of my province were Conservative. In the constituency which I represent, the majority of the municipal council are Conservative. In the counties of Guysborough and An-tigon-isih the majorities are Conservative and the lists are made up by officers appointed by these people. I have had more or less to do necessarily diu-rimg the last twenty years in connection with the revision of lists, and I do give it to the House as my opinion and my judgment that our franchise system is

satisfactory to everybody in our province. I do not say you will not find complaints. No franchise system is capable of construction which would be satisfactory to every person. Naturally, some person of doubtful qualification or without qualification seeks enfranchisement and is refused. He complains and is dissatisfied, as probably would be the candidate seeking the enrolment of that particular name. That, however, does not prove that the franchise system is wrong, or that it is in any respect open to objection.
With respect to appeals to the sheriff, the number of appeals' in Nova Scotia in any one year is altogether a negligible quantity. I do not pretend to speak accurately, but I venture to say that in many years, particularly in years when an election is1 not likely to take place, there are practically no appeals. In my constituency, where there is an electoral list of over 20,000, only 25 appeals were .asserted by my political friends at the revision last March, fifteen of which were allowed and ten refused, I think that 25 is as large a number of appeals as is usually asserted in any year in my constituency. In the county of Annapolis this year 28 appeals were made on both sides; probably 6,000 or 7,000 voters are enrolled in that constituency. Eleven men were struck off, seven were added, and ten were left on; that was the disposal of the 28 appeals, In the counties of Guysborough, Antigonis'h and Cape Breton-in the latter county the electoral list contains about 20,000 namesi-not an appeal was asserted last year.


Avard Longley Davidson: Would my hon. friend like to know why appeals were not made?


Alexander Kenneth Maclean: I do not know; I suppose it was because there were none to make. I should trust my hon. friend to make every appeal that he thought was possible.


Avard Longley Davidson: The reason is that it
has been found 'by experience that to appeal is absolutely useless.


Alexander Kenneth Maclean: Has my hon.
friend any objection to the sheriff of Annapolis county as an appellate tribunal in this matter?


Avard Longley Davidson: The objection I have
to the sheriff in Annapolis county is that he feels constrained to take the advice of the Attorney General, who represents the county in the provincial House. That advice is very bad, and, at times, very vicious.


Alexander Kenneth Maclean: When was the present sheriff of Annapolis county appointed?


Avard Longley Davidson: Two years ago.


Alexander Kenneth Maclean: The last revision was the first under which he acted as an appeal officer?	[DOT]


Avard Longley Davidson: No.


Alexander Kenneth Maclean: I think it was the first.


Avard Longley Davidson: It was not the first.


Alexander Kenneth Maclean: Does my hon. friend mean to say that the present sheriff of Annapolis county, sitting as an appeal officer under our franchise Act, would deal unjustly with the appeals?


Avard Longley Davidson: My hon. friend is aware that in 1911, when he was Attorney General of Nova Scotia, after the lists had left the revisers, the sheriff and the clerk, absolutely contrary to law, altered the list so as to make .a great change in the county of Annapolis. Appeal was made to my hon. friend as Attorney General, and he instructed the sheriff iby wire to remedy, in some particular instances, the grievances which he had caused. After receiving the wire the sheriff went to the Liberal member for the county, who is now Attorney General of the province. The Liberal member told him to disregard the Attorney General's wire ,and the lists stood as they were cooked.


Alexander Kenneth Maclean: Evidently as Attorney General I carried out the request made to me by the member for Annapolis. If he had eoime back to me and had shown that the sheriff of Annapolis county had disregarded my instructions, I should have punished the sheriff. However, that sheriff is dead.


Avard Longley Davidson: My hon. friend is not quite right. While my hon. friend was Attorney General I made complaint that a certain justice of the peace, a gentleman by the name of I. B. Whitman, who was an officer of the provincial Government, had forged applications for the adding of names to the list. My hon. friend merely appointed a commissioner who went down and whitewashed him.


Alexander Kenneth Maclean: I forget the circumstances respecting this particular justice of the peace, and I shall not take up the time of the House in discussing the matter. I venture the opinion that I did what I should have done. But my hon.


Avard Longley Davidson: Will my hon. friend
pardon me for a moment?


Alexander Kenneth Maclean: The hon. gentleman will have an opportunity of speaking in ia moment. As I have said, I realize how useless it Is for one to protest this afternoon against this legislation. But I do want to register my protest against it. There will tome a time when we shall have an opportunity of appealing to the sovereign power in the country, the people. We shall appeal to the people of my province against this iniquitous legislation. I feel sure that they will not approve the miserable, partisan course pursued by some members of the House in seeking at this stage to introduce an amendment inlto what is already a very cumbersome piece of legislation, the War-Time Elections Act-an action taken purely for base political and partisan purposes. We will take our appeal, Mr. Speaker, from this House to Philippi, and we will meet hon. gentlemen there on this issua
Hon. ARTHUR MEIGHEN (Secretary of State) -. The House will note that, while the hon. junior member for Halifax (Mr. A. K. Maclean) used the worst language and adjectives in his vocabulary in describing this amendment of the Senate, he did not, in ohe course of an address lasting three-quarters of an hour, give to the House the least indication of what the amendment was. No word of his will afford the least illumination to any hon. member of the House as to the nature of the amendment or what change it made. He gave the impression that, in some way, Nova Scotia was singled out and some peculiar method of list preparation applied to that province at the dictation of the Government in the Senate, which peculiar method was embodied in the amendment now before this House, which the hon. member discussed this afternoon, is an amendment prepared by his own side of the House and adopted by ourselves. I know, while that is the truth, it is not the whole truth, and I purpose giving the whole truth. The Bill introduced by the Government into this House provided, speaking broadly, two methods of list preparation. The one method applied to the four western provinces and Prince Edward Island and that method was, in the

main, the method heretofore obtaining in Alberta and Saskatchewan for twelve years gone by. The other method applied to the other four provinces of Canada, of which Nova Scotia was one. Why was the division made?


Alexander Kenneth Maclean: Why did you change your mind?


Arthur Meighen: I will get to that very soon. My mind is just where it always has been. I would like, in the first place, to get some of the facts before Parliament because the hon. gentleman was very short on facts and strong on adjectives. The four provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia had lists that were in force and that could be utilized. There is no question about that. Ontario, with the exception of the cities, had a list that could be utilized, although it was not altogether a desirable list, because, in some parts, that list is not as new as it should be. Consequently, in those four provinces i|t was proposed, in the original Bill, that those lists, so far as they went, should be used, and that the power of the enumerators should extend only to adding the names of women voters to the list and striking out the names of alien enemy voters and conscientious objectors. In the other five provinces the lists could not be used, for the reason that all the women were included in the lists. As four of those provinces were of the same nature and geographical character as Saskatchewan and Alberta, there was no reason at all to apprehend that the method which had heretofore been adopted and carried out in Saskatchewan and Alberta would not work out in the other three provinces as well. We set out to adopt, so far as they could be adopted, the lists in the four provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. In that form the Bill went through this House. After the Government brought down its measure and after the measure was explained to Parliament, hon. members from Nova Scotia took the ground that Nova Scotia should not be included in the same category as Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick, for this reason: whereas in Ontario they had a judicial revision of the lists under which all parties got fair treatment, which is always presumed to flow from the judges of this country, and whereas the same thing exactly obtained in Quebec, on the contrary, in the provinces of New Brunswick and Saskatchewan that did not obtain, and there
was no judicial revision whatever. In the discussion of the measure as it' proceeded then, because my hon. friends on this side did not have an opportunity of advancing their amendment or proposal in this House before the Bill passed


Alexander Kenneth Maclean: Why?


Arthur Meighen: Because hon, gentlemen opposite took up all the time.


Some hon. MEMBERS:: Oh, oh.


Arthur Meighen: And because furthermore, we were driven close to the end of this session and dangerously close to the seventh day of October in order to enable us to get this legislation through the Senate.


Alexander Kenneth Maclean: Does the Solicitor General (Mr. Meighen) not remember that, on the third reading, my hon. friend from Carleton (Mr. Carvel!) waited for an hour and a half for the conclusion of the debate in order to have an opportunity of moving another amendment?
(Mr. MEIGHEN:	That is quite true.


Alexander Kenneth Maclean: The members on the other side of the House were blocking the debate.


Arthur Meighen: An hour and a half was taken up by hon. gentlemen on this side before the conclusion of the debate on the third reading. But if my hon, friend's amendment had been agreed to, what would that have meant? We should have had to move to go back into committee on the Bill, and when we got back into committee, several days would have elapsed before the Bill could be sent to the Senate. To come to the point, while New Brunswick and Nova Scotia bad no judicial revision New Brunswick, as the matter came out in the discussion, was in a different position from Nova Scotia, because in New Brunswick the lists were made up by municipal officers and there was no revision of those lists and no final say on those lists on the part of any single officer of any party. Those lists were made up by officials who were not the officials of any single party in this House.


Frank Broadstreet Carvell: Will the Solicitor General permit me to correct him? Because he is in error, and I know he would not want to be in error. In New Brunswick the final say as to the lists on which we shall have to vote, rests in the hands of a prominent Conservative in every case appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in

Council, and no list was effective unless it was signed by that man as the chairman of the board.


Arthur Meighen: The lists were made
up by one official appointed by the provincial government and two officials who are members of the county council. There has to be a majority of those three men.


Frank Broadstreet Carvell: That is where the minister is wrong. No list is of any value unless it is signed by the political chairman appointed by the Government.


Arthur Meighen: My hon. friend knows that any list signed by the chairman is of no value unless it has the approval of at least one of the other two men.


Frank Broadstreet Carvell: Unless it is signed by
the chairman it is of no value. There is another provision, that the list might be made up by the secretary-treasurer.
iMr. MEIGHEN:	If the list is approved
by the other two, the chairman must sign it.
Mr'. CARVELL: That is just what he does not do.


Arthur Meighen: Could he not be made to do so by mandamus?


Frank Broadstreet Carvell: There is a special provision in the law that a list is of no effect unless it is signed by the chairman of the board, and that is the end of the matter.


Arthur Meighen: If the majority of the board says: That is the list, cannot the chairman be compelled to sign it?


Frank Broadstreet Carvell: No. There is another provision made-


Arthur Meighen: I know what my hon. friend is driving at. It is not the list until it is signed.	.


Frank Broadstreet Carvell: There is another official altogether. The secretary-treasurer of the county makes up a list after that.


Arthur Meighen: The acts of those men are official acts, and they must sign them, if the majority of the board say so.


Frank Broadstreet Carvell: That is not so.
Air. A1EIGHEN: Then the whole law of New Brunswick must be farcical.


Frank Broadstreet Carvell: It is farcical.


Arthur Meighen: My hon. friend the other day said the lists were all right.
Air. iCARVELL:	I would rather take
those partisan lists than the lists your enumerators will make over for us.


Arthur Meighen: My hon. friend is cornered now. It would be a farcical procedure to appoint two members of a board and say to them:	Your work does not
count, the list is only the list when it is signed by the chairman.


Frank Broadstreet Carvell: That is the fact anyway.


Arthur Meighen: I undertake to say it is not the fact, because that would be a spurious law for any province to make.


Alexander Kenneth Maclean: On what date did the Government decide to accede to the request made by the members for Nova Scotia on this side of the House, and secure this amendment?


Arthur Meighen: There was no formal
decision of the Government at all until today, when we are faced with this amendment from the Senate.


Alexander Kenneth Maclean: The hon. member told the House a moment ago< that the reason this amendment was not introduced on the second reading or in the committee was that the Government did not get a chance 'because we on this side of the House occupied all the time.


Arthur Meighen: That is the reason the hon. gentleman who intended to propose it did not get it in. They might have done so at the very last moment, but there was no time at all in which to- give it fair discussion. Now we are coming to the serious point of this debate, the point to which my hon. friend from Halifax does not want us to come. In the province of Nova Scotia, distinguished from every province of Canada, they have a system of making up the lists which, considered in itself-that is so far as the making up only of the lists is concerned-is fair enough, I presume. In that province *the lists are made up by county council officials, at all events not appointees of the provincial government or of this Government. But the lists are revised on appeal before an appointee of the provincial government, a partisan official.


Alexander Kenneth Maclean: That is vrrong. The sheriff does not revise the lists; he is not called a reviser. The revisers under our statute are the municipal officers appointed to do that work. The sheriff simply hears the appeals; that and nothing more.


Arthur Meighen: I do not care what you call it; he has the right to strike any name off the list.


Alexander Kenneth Maclean: Only on appeal.


Arthur Meighen: He has the final say as to whose name shall be struck off and whose name shall remain on. What would hon. gentlemen say if we proposed to this House a Bill that gave an official of this Government the final say as to whether any man should go on the list, or any man be struck off? That does not obtain under this Bill in any province, nor anything like it. But that was the condition of affairs in Nova Scotia. The official who had the final say was an official appointed by the provincial government, and at the mercy from day to day of the provincial government. That was the complaint urged against this *measure on behalf of members who knew conditions in Nova Beotia, and that was the complaint urged in the Senate by members representing the province of Nova Scotia in that House. As a consequence, an amendment was introduced in the Senate, but it was not at all to the effect of the amendment that is now brought down into this House. The amendment proposed in the Senate did not single out Nova Scotia in any way whatever. It simply put the province of Nova Scotia in the same category as the four western provinces of Canada and the province of Prince Edward Island.


Avard Longley Davidson: The amendment, as introduced in the Senate, included New Brunswick as well, but at the request of the non. member for Carleton (Mr. Oarvell) and other Liberal members from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick was dropped from the amendment.


Frank Broadstreet Carvell: I never asked the Senate or anybody else to drop New Brunswick from the amendment. I knew nothing about it, except that I was prepared to fight it to the hitter end, if it came here.


Arthur Meighen: It was originally introduced in that form, and finally, at the request of members on the other side of the House in the Senate, New Brunswick was dropped. I do not know whether the hon. member for Carleton had anything to do with it or not. The amendment, howeveT, as introduced in the Senate, did not single out Nova Scotia. It simply put the province of iNova Scotia in exactly the same position as the four western provinces of Canada and Prince Edward Island; it did that, and nothing more, and nothing less. In a word, it put the province of Nova Scotia in exactly the same position that the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan have been in ever since they were provinces, ever since hon. gentlemen opposite created those provinces and created
the machinery in those provinces under which elections are held. That was the great crime we were committing, and it was against that sin that hon. gentlemen apposite rose in protest, and proposed their method of making the lists. They would not tolerate that in the province of Nova Scotia the same principles of making the lists should obtain which they had themselves imposed twelve years before in regard to the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. That is all that we propose, and not even that. We proposed safeguards in Alberta and Saskatchewan which never obtained before, and which, though hon. gentlemen complain of them, they did not want to have removed at ail. We had to do without those safeguards twelve years ago. Hon. gentlemen opposite were not satisfied to have Nova Scotia put in the same category as the four western provinces and Prince Edward Island, and they rose in protest. At the conference threats were made. They would not stand for Nova Scotia being put in the same class with the four western provinces, even under the safeguards then existing, and unless Nova Scotia was put back wheie it was, and the final say rested with the sheriff as of yore instead of there being the judicial revision that obtained in the four western provinces, they threatened to do so and so. However, a proposal was made by way of amendment to the amendment in the Senate, along the lines of the amendment which is now embodied in the Votes and Proceedings, and comes down to this House, which in principle was the same as the amendment to the amendment, but worked out so as to make it fit in with the rest of the Act as to time. It did not differ in principle, however, in any way whatever. Hon. gentlemen opposite, in association with their friends in the Senate, would rather have had the Bill just as it went to the Senate.


Alexander Kenneth Maclean: We would have had none at all if we could have helped it.
Mr, MEIGHEN:	They would have had
no women voters and would have struck off no conscientious objectors, and no aliens. It is the alien vote they have been so solicitious about for many months now in this House. I know that. But rather than be put in the same class with the four western provinces they proposed the machinery that is now embodied in the amendment which comes from the Senate to the Commons. That is the origin of this amendment. .

GMr. A. K. MACLEAN:	I deny that
statement. The amendment now before the House originated with hon. gentlemen apposite. Tt is true there was a compromise by which we were represented at the conference endeavouring to make the Bill as unobjectionable as possible.


Arthur Meighen: ThaJt is not the point. Does not the hon. gentleman admit that the amendment to the amendment in the Senate was moved by an hon. gentleman on the Opposition side of the Senate? That is what is now embodied here.


Alexander Kenneth Maclean: There were many conferences at which both sides were represented, so that it cannot be truthfully said that the amendment was the work of any one person, or of any one party. I am surprised that my hon. friend refers to this at all.


Arthur Meighen: The hon. gentleman referred to it.


Alexander Kenneth Maclean: I referred to it,
yes.


Arthur Meighen: I do not know what
took place prior to the proposal of the amendment to the amendment. If there were conferences prior to that, 1 know nothing about them. But after the proposal of the amendment to the amendment there were many conferences, and that amendment to the amendment finally resulted in what is now before the House of Commons of Canada brought dorwn from the Senate.


Alexander Kenneth Maclean: I do not object
to the statement put in that way.


Arthur Meighen: That is the origin of
the legislation, be it good or be it bad. What is this legislation? What is it that all this disputing is about, and to which objection is taken? This legislation, described shortly, has this effect. It places the province of Nova Scotia in a position very similar, though not altogether the same, as the cities in the province of Ontario-very similar, let me repeat, to the cities in the province of Ontario. It provides that the list that are now in force there, shall be the basis of the lisfts that shall be made by the enumerators as the lists of that province. But those lists, so made up by the enumerators, go before the courts of that province-and I shall define the courts in a moment-for revision prior to the election.
Judicial revision in that province prior to the election is the principle of the amend-

ment to which hon. gentlemen object. Does it sound very strong logic in the mouth of the hon. member for Halifax to say: "I protest against the system embodied in this amendment, which means judicial revision of the lists-or, as he calls it, a judicial appeal of the lists-prior to the elections, and instead of. that I want appeal of the lists to stand as they are now, resting in the sheriffs alone"? What this amendment provides is in reality the substituting of the county court judiciary of the province of Nova Scotia for the sheriffs of Nova Scotia. That is what my hon. friend protests against. The women are added, and the aliens and others are struck off who are shown to have had no right to go on at the time the lists were made, any others are added who have the right to go on. The lists then come before the judges of Nova Scotia and are revised by them prior to election day. This was not made more general in this Act, because it was felt that in some rural parts of the country in particular, and in very many parts of the country not altogether rural, judicial revision was in its purest form an absolute impossibility if we were to have the election in any reasonable time. Therefore the method was confined to the province of Nova Scotia. It was suggested that to get over the difficulty the judges should do the work so far as they could, but that they should have the privilege of naming barristers of a certain number of.years' standing to conduct the revisions in other parts where they could not act, so that while the judges do not do it all themselves it is done by others named by the judges and in no way named by or appertaining to the party in power. That is the system of judicial revision which will obtain under this amendment in the province of Nova Scotia, and that is the system which we submit to the House as preferable to the system of sheriff revision which has obtained in days gone by. It is true, it was proposed to adopt lists that could be adopted at all, in so far as those lists were completed, and on that principle I submitted the Bill to the House including the Nova Scotia lists as adopted. When those matters were represented to us as they were, that Nova Scotia was not in the same position even as New Brunswick and in a much different position from the provinces Of Ontario and Quebec where there was full and complete judicial revision, it was not deemed unfair that that province should be given the advantage of judicial revision in place of sheriff revision. That is the purpose of this amend-

meat and it lias no other purpose. While hon. gentlemen opposite have a perfect right to object to the amendment, still I think the public of this country will come to the conclusion that an improvement has been made in the Act, and that there is no very great sincerity on the part of hon. members in arguing against a judicial revision in place of a sheriff revision in the province of Nova Scotia.


John Howard Sinclair: Before this measure is finally dealt with I wish to be allowed to enter my protest. I regard this move as a piece of partisan injustice, and I think it will be so regarded by every fair-minded man in the province of Nova Scotia. It is resorted to absolutely without any excuse. The Secretary of State has drawn attention to the fact that under this proposal he has substituted a judicial revision by the county court judges for the revision formerly carried on by the sheriffs, but he does not deal-with the question that he is substituting partisan officers to make the lists in the first place, instead of the revisers appointed iby the county council. We have in the province of Nova Scotia, as you know, Mr. Speaker, a system which has existed for the last thirty-eight years, and has given complete satisfaction to the people of the province.


Some hon. MEMBERS:: No, no.


John Howard Sinclair: It has been the boast of the Conservative party of the province of Nova Scotia that they originated the Municipal Council Act.


Avard Longley Davidson: Who introduced politics into the municipal councils?


John Howard Sinclair: This principle is found in the original Aot, which was passed by the Holmes-Thompson Government in 1879, and which gave to the province of Nova Scotia municipal government for the first time.


Mr. McCURDY:: If the system about which the hon. gentleman speaks has been so satisfactory in the province of Nova Scotia for all these years, will he tell the House why it was that the Attorney General of that province, who is the present junior member for Halifax (Mr. A. K. Maclean) introduced an amending Act in the Nova Scotia Legislature in 1909, providing that there should be judicial review in that province, and why, after introducing that Act, and giving it the first reading, he did not go any further with it?


Alexander Kenneth Maclean: It is very easy for my hon. friend (Mr. McCurdy) to ask the hon. member from Guysborough (Mr. Sinclair) that question, because he knows my hon. friend from Guysborough cannot answer it. I do not recall .all the provisions of the Bill I introduced in the legislature of Nova Scotia, but 'the main idea was to introduce manhood suffrage. Our qualification is exceedingly low now, and I endeavoured to establish the principle of manhood suffrage and registration.


John Howard Sinclair: I quite understand there are people in Nova Scotia who advocate a judicial revision, and I 'am not putting myself against the proposal, but I will make the statement that there has not been any injustice done in the province of Nova Scotia so far as the sheriffs are concerned. The responsible party is not the sheriff, but the municipal council. Each county is divided up into polling districts, a group of polling districts is called a revisal district, and the municipal councillor practically appoints the reviser for his polling division. He stands up in the presence of his colleagues in the council and proposes his man as reviser for that district. If he proposes a man who is not regarded as straight and honest, his proposal will not be accepted. The practice has been so satisfactory in Nova Scotia that it is a rare thing to have an appeal. Since this proposed change was suggested, I telegraphed to my county. I received an answer yesterday from the municipal district of St. Mary's to the effect that there had not been an appeal for many years against the lists made by the revising officers. I telegraphed to the other municipality, Guysborough, and I am informed that the year before last there were no appeals; last year there were twelve. In the county of Antigonis'h, which is not part of the constituency yet, but which I hope to represent, there were no appeals last year or the year before. No one will say the reason why there were no appeals was that they did not expect to get justice from the sheriffs. The reason was because every one was perfectly satisfied with the lists made by the revisers. The Prime Minister of Nova Scotia, Hon. George H. Murray, is well known throughout Canada as a candid and truthful man. It appears he has heard of this measure going through the House. I have a message sent by him to an hon. member of this House, in which he says:
I have a general knowledge of the revision of the provincial lists in the province of Nova Scotia for a period of twenty-five years, and I have no knowledge of any objection from either of the political parties to the fairness of the decisions of the sheriffs as court of appeal. I have consulted other officials of the Government, and they are all of opinion that our

sheriffs have always acted independently and without political prejudice. Our sheriffs hold office during good behaviour. I would regard a return to the preparation of lists by partisan temporary officials on the eve of a pending election as likely to develop a great amount of bitter feeling. You must understand that our provincial system provides for every measure of publicity by the posting of lists in public places, and ample opportunity is given both parties for every reasonable objection.
That, Sir, is the statement of the Premier of Nova Scotia who is known by every hon. member on both sides of this House to be an honourable and fair man and one who knows what he is talking about. The municipal councils are the responsible bodies and we propose to pass an Act which will cast a reflection not only upon the sheriffs but upon every municipal council in Nova Scotia. The conduct of the sheriffs has been been criticised by hen. gentlemen who have spoken but the Prime Minister himself has given a certificate of character to the late sheriff of Halifax, Mr. Donald Archibald. He said that he regarded him as a fair man. He was for many years sheriff of that county. He also stated the other day that the present sheriff of Halifax was regarded as a fair man so there has been no complaint in Halifax. I can say the same thing for the sheriff of Pictou There is no man who knows him who would venture to say that he would be guilty of any unfairness in regard to the revision of the lists. The same can be said of the sheriffs of Antigonish, Guysborough and Colchester. These are the sheriffs whom T know best. The statement that this amendment becomes necessary in order to avoid injustice on the part of the sheriffs of Nova Scotia is not well founded and cannot be supported by evidence.
Why does the Secretary of State depart from the policy that he laid down when this Bill was introdtieed? We all understood that the policy of the Government with regard to the four provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario and Quebec was that the existing lists were to hold and that no changes were to be made except those that were necessary to add the names of female relatives of soldiers and to strike off the names of aliens. That was the policy laid down by the Secretary of State for those four provinces. What justification can there be for singling out the province of Nova Scotia and adopting a different system. The only possible explanation is that it was done for the sake of obtaining a partisan advantage for the Conservative side. This is what the Secretary of State said when introducing the Bill. 
The lists so made up of male voters all judicially revised in Ontario and Quebec and revised by the provincial methods in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, are by this Bill adopted, so far as they go. The only requirement as to them is to add such of the women as toy this Bill are to be entitled to vote and to substract such of the men, if any, as, by reason of alienage, should not toe entitled to vote.
Then he goes on to say:
As regards these latter the lists are adopted and the enumeration only goes to the adding of the names of the additional women now entitled to vote and to the striking off of those who by reason of alienage, and nothing else, are disentitled to vote. That is the province and duty of the registrars or enumerators, whatever you call them, and that alone.
Why was not that principle followed out in Nova Scotia? It was simply for the reason that the Nova Scotia members of the Conservative side asked that this change be made in order to load the dice and gain a partisan advantage. That is the only reason that can be given. Under the provincial law of Nova Scotia practically every man who is entitled to a vote becomes an elector. The requirements are very low. The ownership of $150 worth of real estate entitles a man to vote. If he earns $250 he is entitled to be placed on the register as an income voter. If he owns a farm worth $600 he can qualify himself and four sons. Practically every man in Nova Scotia who desires a vote has it under the existing system. The county councils are primarily responsible and they discharge the duty well.
The Government propose by this amendment to adopt a system which is altogether different. The enumerators are appointed by themselves and are practically certain to be partisans. They will all be of one stripe. You cannot have that in the county councils. County councils and revisers appointed by them are bound to be composed or men of both political parties, sometimes Conservative and sometimes Liberal. In the county which I have the honour to represent the county council happens for the last term to be Conservatives, but I have no reason to complain in regard to their action in apointing revisers for making lists. Under this proposal the partisan enumerator does not even require to be a resident of the district. A stranger who never saw the district, and who is not known to a single inhabitant in the district may be sent in to act as enumerator.
If permitted I would like to make an appeal to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister is going to ask the people of Can-

ada for re-election, in a few weeks. He will issue a manifesto. In. that manifesto there will he a paragraph stating that he has made every effort to obtain a Union Government. He will ask the Canadian people to cast aside all partisanship and to unite with him, in helping to push forward the great enterprise that we all have so much at heart. That will no doubt be a part of his appeal to the people. But the people will ask him a (question and that question will be: "Did you forget partisanship yourself?" Let me say this, ,Mr. Speaker: the very last act of his Administration will be regarded by every liberal and fair-minded man in Nova Scotia as a piece of extreme partisanship and it will not read very well side by side with the manifesto which my right hon. friend will issue. If I had a right to make a proposal to him it would be this: Refuse to agree to this amendment of the Senate and leave the lists in Nova Scotia alone, except to add the names of the female relatives of soldiers and to 6trike out the names of aliens. Say to the Senate that it is no part of their duty to interfere with the lists for election of members of the House of Commons. Let the Prime Minister say to the hon. members for Annapolis (Mr. Davidson) the hon. member for Queens aud Shelburne (Mr. McCurdy) the hon. gentleman in the other chamber from Pictou Mr. John C. Douglas of Oape Breton, and all the other gentlemen who are pressing the Government in this matter that they must go back to their counties and win their elections in fair fight on the lists that are in existence now and as they have been fairly made by the municipal councils in Nova Scotia. I suppose my right hon. friend will not take my advice but it is my duty to offer it to him and it is my duty to protest with all the energy I have against this attempt to bedevil the electoral lists of my province and thereby gain a partisan advantage for the Conservative party in Nova Scotia.


Mr. G. W. KYTE (Richmond):: Mr. Speaker, the Electoral Franchise Act of Nova Scotia was based upon the Municipal Incorporations Act passed in 1879 under the auspices of the only Conservative Government that ever existed in Nova Scotia since Confederation. The Holmes-Thompson Government, in the first session after its accession to office, passed the Municipal Incorporation Act which established the county councils and made provision for the appointment of revisers to prepare the voters' lists at each annual meeting of these municipal councils. These revisers are appointed according to the political complexion of the councillor representing each polling district. Every municipal council is made up of councillors of both political parties and it is a fact that no matter what may be the political complexion of the majority of the councillors a Conservative councillor always has the right to nominate his own reviser.


Avard Longley Davidson: That is absolutely incorrect. In the county 'council in Annapolis, where the Liberals have a majority the Liberals appoint all the revisers and the Conservatives appoint none.


George William Kyte: I suppose there is no man
in public life who has more information that is not true than the hon. member for Annapolis (Mr. Davidson). I repeat that the revisers are appointed upon the nomination of Conservative councillors irrespective of whether the majority of the councillors is Liberal or Conservative.
That being the case, there is always a large number of Conservative revisers appointed in Nova Scotia. In the municipality of the county which I represent, there is a-majority of Conservative councillors, and the majority of revisers in that county is also Conservative. In the town in which I live, the three revisers are Conservatives. They held a revision of the electoral list on the fifth of March last, and after they had heard applications involving the adding to or striking off from the list of 25 or 30 names, only one appeal was taken to the sheriff of the county. In the municipality of the county of Cape Breton, where there are some 20,000 votes, the revisers held their court on the 5th of March last, and although they considered hundreds and perhaps thousands of applications to be added to or rejected from the voters' lists, not a single appeal was taken to the sheriff of the county of Cape Breton. I do not think that even the hon. member for Annapolis (Mr. Davidson) will undertake to say that the people of Cape Breton, whether Liberal or Conservative, have not confidence in Mr. George B. Ingraham, sheriff of the county. It is no answer to the statement I make that no appeals were taken to the sheriff last year to say that the people had not confidence in Sheriff Ingraham.


Avard Longley Davidson: Who would be better able to say that than Judge-


George William Kyte: If any person weie rash
enough to make that statement it would be indignantly denied by every one in

Nova Scotia who knows Sheriff Ingraham. But so fair was the revision, so eminently satisfactory was the work performed by the revisers in the various municipal districts, as well as by the registrar of voters in Sydney and Glace Bay, that every person was perfectly satisfied with the revision of the lists. The same thing is true of every county in eastern Nova Scotia. I cannot undertake to say what are the conditions in western Nova Scotia, but the onjy criticism that has been directed against the .appeals carried to sheriffs in Nova Scotia was the one case referred to by the hon. member for Annapolis, I do not know what conditions exist in Annapolis, but, judging from the choice of the electors of that county as witnessed by the present representative, I should say the electorate of that county does strange things on occasions. The point made by the Secretary of State (Mr. 5 p.m. Meighen) that this amendment had to be added in the Senate because there was no opportunity of doing so here, cannot prevail with members of this House, who know the circumstances so well. The hon. member for Halifax (Mr. A. K. Maclean) read from the speech made by the Secretary of State when introducing this Bill in which he said it was proposed to adhere to the lists in the provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario and Quebec. If, when this Bill was going through the House of Commons, it was intended by the Secretary of	State or by the
Prime Minister to make the changes that were afterwards made by the other body of this Parliament, surely the Secretary of State would not have committed himself to the principle that the lists in the province of Nova Scotia would prevail. The fact that the Secretary of State made that statement to the House of Commons is proof positive that no such change in the basis of the electoral lists in the province of Nova Scotia was in contemplation. The fact of the matter is that when this Bill got over to the Senate there was unusual activity on the part of certain hon. gentlemen representing constituencies in Nova Scotia who support this Government. Not only were they exercised as to the form and shape in which this franchise Bill should go back to the electors of Nova Scotia, and not only were they exercised themselves, but the assistance of certain other gentlemen who do not at the present time hold seats in this House was called upon. There was present in their conferences a gentleman prominent in public affairs in Cape

Breton for some years, who has exercised a most (baleful influence upon the public life of eastern Nova Scotia. That gentleman was in consultation with members supporting the Government in this House from day to day, and as a result of their combined wisdom, they came to the conclusion that the only chance they had of carrying the province of Nova Scotia was by loading the dice and imposing a franchise on the people of Nova Scotia that would give them an undue advantage. There is no gainsaying that. There is no other argument that can be urged which will meet the case. The result of the amendment that is being proposed by the other body of this Parliament is to deprive the workingmen of the large centres in the county of Cape Breton of their franchise. We have, as is well known, a large population engaged in industrial occupations in that constituency. In addition to the 6,000 men employed in the steel works at Sydney and Sydney Mines, there are 7,000 or 8,000 employees in the collieries of the Dominion Coal Company and the Nova Scotia Coal Company. These men exercise a large influence in public affairs in eastern Nova Scotia at the present time. The result of the voting upon the issues which will be submitted to these people in the present election is viewed with a good deal of apprehension by hon. gentlemen opposite and is greatly feared by the gentlemen who will be the candidates of the Government in the ensuing election. It is pretty well known that the labouring men throughout the country are opposed to this Government. They are opposed to this Government, not only on the subject of conscription but because the, Government has failed, when conscripting men, to conscript the wealth of this country as well. The workingmen of Cape Breton aTe opposed to this Government because the Government has failed to grapple with the great question of the cost of living. The working people of Canada realize that, while sacrifices are being demanded of men who are asked to recruit for overseas service and to give up their lives in the cause of the Allies and in defence of the principles of liberty, the sacrifice has been limited almost entirely to the men who enlist for overseas service, and that instead of sacrifices being made by men engaged in industrial enterprise in Canada, many of these men have taken the opportunity which the war gave them of amassing large fortunes. These are some of the reasons why the working people in Canada, and moTe particularly in the

island of Cape Breton, are opposed to this Government .
Hon. gentlemen who desire the Government to win constituencies in Nova Scotia and who realize that the sentiment of the working people is against them in this contest determined when this Franchise Bill went over to the other House of this Parliament, that they would introduce an amendment to the franchise which would result in disfranchising a large element of the population in the industrial centres of Nova Scotia and placing upon the electoral list a large number who are not qualified and would not otherwise be placed upon it. No person will realize that better than the workingmen themselves, and none will be readier to respond to the appeals for justice and fair play which will be made to them when the election comes in the course of the next few weeks. We in Nova Scotia have been singled out for special treatment by this Government. The electoral lists of New Brunswick are to stand as the basis of the franchise to be used in the coming election. The electoral lists in Ontario and Quebec are to stand as the basis of the franchise for the coming election. But the province of Nova Scotia-and I regret to have to say it, the province represented by the right hon. the Prime Minister-has been singled out for unfair treatment in order that this Government may get an unfair advantage when it comes to the elections in that province, the result of which they fear so greatly.
I should feel that I was not discharging my full duty to the people whom I represent in the island of Cape Breton if I did not make as strenuous a protest as I am capable of making against this iniquitous legislation, which was designed solely and exclusively to steal the election for the Government in Nova Scotia.


Avard Longley Davidson: Mr. Speaker


Edgar Nelson Rhodes: Order. The hon. member has no right to speak at this stage.


Fleming Blanchard McCurdy: Mr. Speaker, my observation of
discussions in this Parliament has not led me to the conclusion that condemnation by hon. members opposite of any proposed measure carries with it any assurance that that measure is without merit. The strenuous opposition of hon. gentlemen opposite to the Senate amendment of itself suggests to one's mind that there may be something wrong with the present lists.
I have talked with many members of the House from western Canada, where the systemensuring fresh lists pr evails. I listened to the discussions in this House of the Wartime Elections Bill and I failed to hear any objection or any criticism of the manner in which the enumerator system operates in the western provinces. Personally I should have preferred the extension of that system to Nova Scotia. It already applies to Prince Edward Island. I should have liked to see it in operation in Nova Scotia, but as a result of conferences which took place between hon. gentlemen opposite and Liberal members of the Senate, instead of having a uniform system for Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick as was proposed originally in the Senate we are now to have a system which applies to Nova Scotia only.
I cannot follow the argument of the member foT Richmond (Mr. Kyte) when he says that men will be unfairly disqualified by this amendment. He has failed to point out any unfairness in this provision or shown how it will work to the disadvantage of any portion of the electorate. Surely no hardship can result through enlarging the opportunity to correct previous errors and wrongs. Under the system which has prevailed in Nova Scotia, good Canadians have frequently been left off the list. Under normal conditions the average citizen is not much concerned about having his name added to the voters' list, and a great deal of care and attention is necessary to see that he is registered. Under the old system a person fully qualified to be registered would find his name omitted from the lists.
At this crisis, when the people are to pass upon an issue of utmost national importance every patriotic citizen should have the opportunity of voting. Every opportunity should be given for bringing the lists up to date. This is not a case where voters are endeavouring to get their names on the lists; rather it is an occasion where the greatness of the issue demands the expression of every loyal man's opinion.
Had no amendment been made to the Bill, if the name of a man was not on the provincial list last revised, he would be denied the right to vote. Every member from Nova Scotia knows of cases where people properly entitled to the vote have had their names left off the list. In some counties of Nova Scotia the lists contain thousands of names with no addresses at all; these names may or may not be fictitious.


Alexander Kenneth Maclean: In what county?


Fleming Blanchard McCurdy: In many counties.


Alexander Kenneth Maclean: Name one


Fleming Blanchard McCurdy: If my hon. friend wil I take the trouble to refer to the voters' lists as printed last year, he will find that in many counties this condition exists.
Only a few years ago a leading King's Counsel residing in the city of Halifax, the president of one of the largest banking institutions in Canada, had his name left off the voters' list and the first intimation he had of that was when he went to the poll to vote. He went to the poll as usual. His name was not registered under the provincial system and he was denied the right to cast his ballot on that occasion.


Alexander Kenneth Maclean: May I tell my hon. friend that I know-


Fleming Blanchard McCurdy: In any business concern that is honestly 'managed and where fair dealing is desired, there is never any objection to audit or revision. In Nova Scotia there has been no change in the administration of local affairs for thirty-five years. The same set of people have administered the provincial affairs of Nova Scotia during that period, and the revision of the lists as well as the conduct of other public business has been more or less running along the same groove. In a business concern, as I have said, no objection is taken by any person to a revision or a review of the work done. The very fact that my hon. friends object so vigorously to revision or audit under judicial review in the present case arouses a suspicion that there is something to hide.
One or two hon. gentlemen opposite have said that no complaint has been made in Nova Scotia in respect of the existing voters' lists. Well, that is not my experience. A few days ago I received a letter from a personal correspondent in Nova Scotia with regard to the enfranchisement of the relatives of soldiers. It was written 'before the particulars of the Military Voters Bill were published. I did not receive the letter until after that Bill had been introduced, and while the letter has particular reference to need of that legislation, it throws .some light on the results of the existing Nova Scotia system of preparing voters' lists, and, incidentally, may also account in a measure for the strenuous opposition of the hon. members from Oape Breton. My correspondent says:
In re proposed plan of giving votes to mothers, wives and sisters of soldiers, do not overlook the fathers. This may sound odd to you, but if you lived in a county like Victoria, you would know what voters' lists mean. I have been a county councillor for the past seven years, and I have never been allowed to appoint a reviser of voters' lists. In this district alone

I know of a number of cases of men, with sons on the firing line, who have no vote.


Air. McKENZIE:: Will the hon. gentleman give the name of his authority?


Fleming Blanchard McCurdy: It is my intention to support the proposed amendment, for the reason-


Daniel Duncan McKenzie: Does my hon. friend refuse to give the name?


Fleming Blanchard McCurdy: -that it is equitable, and that it will give to every person the right to vote who should have that right. It will invite a fuller and fairer expression of opinion on the part of the people of the province. It is desirable that every person who is entitled to the right of franchise should have the opportunity of giving voice to his opinion at this crisis iin the country's history, and this amendment gives every person that opportunity.


[Stage Direction]
Motion agreed to, and amendments concurred in.

Mr. R. B. BENNETT (Calgary):: Perhaps, before the House arises, I might avail myself of this opportunity to state that now that the Military Service Act has come into force and various Orders in Council have oeen passed, dealing with matters which have received the attention of the National Service Board, this organization has ceased to exist. The various directors have tend red their resignations which have been placed in the hands of the Government. I tendered my resignation on the introduction of the Military Service Act. I came into the position under very peculiar circumstances, and it might not be amiss if I stated them shortly. In September of last year I received a telegram asking me if I would act as Director of National Service for the province in which I resided. I agreed to do so if I could be of any service to my country. I came to Ottawa in October in response to a call issued by Sir Thomas Tait, Director General of National Service, for a meeting of the district directors. I attended the meetings on the second day of the conference. On the next day, Sir Thomas Tait resigned, and it was necessary to appoint a successor. I was asked to accept the position. I did so with very great reluctance, believing, as I did, that I should not accept that responsibility, having regard to the conditions that prevailed. But if I may be permitted to use the language of Mr. Neville Chamberlain,

who accepted a somewhat similar post under somewhat similar circumstances, I was impressed by the fact, perhaps improperly, by those who urged me, that it was a patriotic duty on my part to undertake this work, and I accordingly did so. I have no regret to offer except to indicate that, at that time, the policy of the bo rd had been settled and the question as to what the general duties were had been fixed by Orders in Council. Those orders contemplated largely that the work should be carried on by district directors and not from Ottawa, but owing to difficulties that arose at the very inception of the work, it became necessary that the largest part of the work should be carried on in Ottawa. We undertook the work and endeavoured to discharge the responsibility as best we could.
At the initial meeting which was held here and to which I have referred a resolution was passed that a man-power inventory should be taken and that the signing of cards which were sent out should be compulsory, and that a penalty should be provided for their not being signed. The resolution, which was passed before Sir Thomas Tait resigned was very explicit upon that point. Those in authority, however, thought that could not be done, and, we were compelled to endeavour as best we could to create an atmosphere sufficient to induce the people voluntarily to- sign the cards. In order to create that atmosphere, letters were sent to members of Parliament, senators, members of the local legislatures, labour unions, clergymen, boards of trade, fraternal organizations and practically 150,000 representative men throughout the country. Public meetings were held, advertisements were inserted in the newspapers and the first week of the year was proclaimed National Service Week. It is only fair to say that the response was much better than might reasonably have been expected, and one would hesitate to describe, except in the warmest terms, the spirit of co-operation and sympathy displayed by all those who were appealed to at this time. The result was that, by this voluntary effort, a very large number of cards were signed and returned. I ventured to point out at that time in public addresses, that this was the last great voluntary effort on the part of the Government, and the response as I have said, was everything that could be expected. The time for filling in cards was extended, but no penalty was provided and the Government did not think it advisable to make 385
it obligatory to complete the cards. It is highly important, nay, absolutely necessary that there should be at all times created and maintained in this country a proper atmosphere in relation to this great conflict. That atmosphere can only be obtained by appealing, through concrete means to the sentiment and reason of the people. It was believed that the carrying on of a campaign of thrift, a campaign in relation to the saving of money and food and other matters of that kind would have the desired result. I urged when the enthusiasm of the people was apparent that a general campaign of this character should be organized and vigorously prosecuted. Eor reasons best known to those in authority the matter was not taken up at that time, but it was taken up later on. The results have to some extent justified the effort, late though it was. The enthusiasm of the people by that time had in some measure waned. When the cards came in arrangements were made to classify them, and the classification was carried on in a most comprehensive manner. I fancy perhaps very., few people have an adequate appreciation of the work that was done. That part of the work was in charge of a young lady who is a graduate of Toronto University, and also of one of the largest universities in Chicago. I refer to Miss Grange, who undertook and carried on that work successfully. The cards were divided into military prospects and industrial prospects. We found 475,363 military prospects out of 1,549,360 cards, and those military prospects were subdivided into' Military Classes 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B, 3-A and 3-B, having regard to the men's married or unmarried condition, the number of their dependents, age, etc. I shall hand this memorandum to Hansard without taking time to read it all. Mr. Speaker, if you will permit me, as it contains a summary of the information thus obtained.


Edgar Nelson Rhodes: This is not according to the usual practice; but in view of the undoubted importance of the document, that might be done with the unanimous consent of the House., but only with that unanimous consent.
Some hon. MEMBERS. Carried.


Richard Bedford Bennett: I shall avail myself of the kind permission of the House.
(The permission of the House having been obtained, the following is printed:)


STATEMENT OF MAN-POWER INVENTORY OF CANADA TAKEN BY THE NATIONAL SERVICE BOARD, 1917
[Stage Direction]
V a f I r* Province.				Military Prospects.				
Mil-IA. Ages 17-30. Unmarried. No dependents. Not engaged in essential occupations.	Mm-l B. Ages 17-30. Unmarried. No dependents. But engaged in essential occupations.	Mil-2 A. Ages 31-45. Unmarried. No dependents. Not engaged in essential occupations.	Mil-2B. Ages 31-45. Unmarried. No dependents. But engaged in essential occupations.	Mil-3 A. Ages 17-45. Unmarried. With dependents. Not engaged in essential occupations.	Mil-3B. Ages 17-45. Married. Not more than 3 dependents. Not engaged in essential occupations.	Mil 1 Ages 17-45. Unmarried. With dependents. But engaged in essential occupations	-3C. 2 Ages 17-45. Married. Not more than 3 dependents. But engaged in essential occupationsAlberta	2,983	5,460	1,171	2,975	2,661	8,284	4,690	6,855British Columbia	3,134	875	1,865	630	4,256	12,265	805	1,050Manitoba	3,784	5,530	1,421	1,855	4,591	12,951	5,600	5,530New Brunswick	3,341	1,260	479	210	2,648	4,082	910	2,660North West Territories	6	1	2	7	Nova Scotia	5,880	2,730	963	445	5,628	6,269	4,340	1,820Ontario	29,487	17,150	5,566	3,290	25,324	69,935	22,140	22,645Prince Edward Island	785	1,120	129	210	571	1,125	1,505	1,225Quebec	14,912	6,020	2,827	910	7,660	19,266	3,360	5,460Saskatchewan	3,529	11,760	1,409	5,320	2,935	12,539	11,130	14,210Yukon	40	25	85	1	70	110	2	4Total	67,881	51,930	15,916	15,846	56,346	146,833	54,482	61,459
6088	COMMONS
STATEMENT OF MAN-POWER INVENTORY OF CANADA TAKEN BY THE NATIONAL SERVICE BOARD, nil-Concluded.
Summary of Military Prospects.
In Non-essential Occupations	
Farmers	 loo,///
Skilled Shipbuilding, Munition and Mine Workers.	4,660
Total	 475,363
General Summary.
Total number of Cards received	 1,549,360
Divided as follows:-	, ,,, ,,,
Visaed complete cards	 Ln
Incomplete cards	 J', 640
Blank cards	 108'965
Total	 1,549,360
	Industrial Classes.								
Province.	Trades Answer " Yes."	Trades Answer " No."	Not Working at Trade Answer " Yes."	Not Working at Trade Answer " No."	Unskilled Labour Answer " Yes."	Tool Setters, Tool Makers, Millwrights.	Soldiers.	Discards.	Totals.Ind-1A.	Ind-IAA.	Ind-1B.	Ind-IBB.	Ind-2.	Mun-1.	3,185	6,335	595	630	770	245	2,590	58,840	108,2694,795	5,145	1,015	770	1,675	420	5,075	24,465	68,1403,640	7,910	630	1,120	1,085	210	6,510	53,550	115,9171,750	2,590	210	215	700	245	980	26,250	48,5301 7,560	1	1	6	25North West Territories	3,780	315	455	350	280	5,810	47„320	93,94513,650	25,550	1,120	3,150	6,440	4,130	16,800	302,053	568,430280	875	45	105	140	12	770	8,470	17,3674,490	7,000	280	385	2,520	910	5,110	83,582	164,6923,430	7,910	648	630	840	105	4,830	74,550	155,775Yukon	595	175	35	4	70	3	21	425	1,665Total	39,595	71,051	4,894	7,464	14,491	6,560	48,496	679,511	1,342,755
Richard Bedford Bennett: Then it was thought it would he advisable to make an occupational survey of the country. If I had been charged with- the responsibility I should have done that in the first place, and then used the information obtained by the National Service cards in conjunction with it. The occupational survey was a survey to obtain from all -the employers in Canada the conditions in respect to employment now and what the conditions may be immediately after the war. That occupational survey seeks information by the aid of a very large number of questions with res-pect to (a) male employees, and (b) female employees. I shall avail myself of the privilege, if I may, of stating exactly what are the questions without reading them, by putting them on Hansard, and then indicate further, 'because I must (be very hurried, that, in response to certain instructions given to us, we endeavoured to -ascertain from our soldiers overseas something of what their views might be when they came back to this country with respect to agriculture.
I give, first, the form of questions for male employees; next, the form of questions for female employees.
(The -permission of the House having been granted, the following is printed):


CANADA-NATIONAL SERVICE- CONFIDENTIAL.
[Stage Direction]
Please fill in each blank carefully.
Form For Male Employees.
I certify that the information contained in this schedule is complete and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.
(Signature)	
Date	
Industry	
Name of person, firm, or company supplying
information	
Address	
Value of output in average normal year $.'....
1.	Classify in detail occupation of your male employees, including office staff.
2.	Number of each class employed? (a) Before the war? (b) Now? '
3.	How many workers of each class could you now employ?
4.	How long would such employment last?
5.	Tour closest estimate of number of workers required In each class within six months after end of war.
6.	What classes are skilled, semi-skilled or unskilled? (Please write the proper word in each case.)
I.	Present average weekly wage or earnings of workers? (Each class.)
8.	Would the following physical defects interfere with employment in your establishment? (Yes or No.) (a) Loss of one leg; (b) loss
fMr. R. B. Bennett.]
of one arm; (c) loss of one eye; (d) defective hearing.
9.	State number of workers temporarily laid off in normal year? (State for each class.) (a) How many? (b) In what months? (c) How many weeks in each month?
10.	Number of women workers now employed in each class where men were employed before the war?
11.	Do you expect to subsitute returned soldiers for present women workers after the war? If so, how many in each class?
12.	How many employees in each class have enlisted since the war began?
13.	Number of men workers whose places might be taken by women if necessary or desirable? Each class?
14.	Would you now advance all or part of railway fares to prospective workers? (Please answer-No, All or Part.)

[Stage Direction]
Please fill in each blank carefully.
Form For Women Employees.
I certify that the information contained in this schedule is complete and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.
(Signature)	
Date	
Industry	
Name of person, firm or company supplying information	
Address	
Value of output in average normal year $	
1.	Classify in detail the occupations of your women employees, including office staff.
2.	Number of each class employed (a) Before the war? (b) Now?
3.	How many workers of each class could you now employ?
4.	How long would such employment last?
5.	Tour closest estimate of number of workers required in each class within six months after end of war?
6.	What classes are skilled, semi-skilled Or unskilled? (Please write proper word in each case.)
7.	Present average weekly wage or earnings of workers? (Each class.)
9. State number of workers temporarily laid off in normal year (state for .each class). How many? In what months? How many weeks in each month?
14. Would you now advance all or part of railway fares to prospective workers? Please answer (No, All or Part.)
Richard Bedford Bennett: We circulated and have received back, up to date about 250,000 cards -from those who went overseas, such cards containing 18 questions. I will file the card with Hansard if I may. That will indicate the questions asked.
(The permission of the House having been granted, the following is printed):
Important.-This information is being sought only for the benefit of Canada's soldiers after the war, and the filling in of th'e card imposes no obligation whatsoever. It has nothing to do with taxation or rates of any kind.
/

Canada
National Service, Canadian Overseas Forces.
1.	Name in full.
2.	Age	 years.
3.	Unit and rank.
4.	Regimental number.
5.	P.O. address before enlistment	
Province	
6.	How many dependents have you?
State relationship, sex and age of each.
7.	Which are you, married, single or widower?
8.	Name and address of last employer before you enlisted?
9.	What were you working at?
10.	Have you a trade or profession? If so, what?
11.	Is your old position open for you on your return to Canada in fit condition?
12.	In what part of Canada do you propose to settle after the war?
13.	Do you wish to take up farming as an occupation?
14.	Have you ever worked on a farm? If So, how long?
15.	How much money do you expect to have at your disposal on your return to Canada?
16.	Do you desire to take advantage of any available scheme of assisted agricultural settlement?
17.	If so, what province do you prefer to settle in?
18.	And would you, if necessary to gain experience, work for prevailing wages on a farm after your return, provided your dependents were in the meanwhile given the same support as they now receive?


Richard Bedford Bennett: If the information thus obtained and still being obtained is properly collated and classified, it will assist those, who are charged with responsibility with respect to demobilization, to determine what should be done to meet a situation that, in my judgment, will be the .most acute with which the country has ever been confronted. The occupational survey will indicate the probable opportunities for work throughout Canada; the overseas cards will indi-ate what the peculiar fitness of each returning soldier may be for the work that will offer:
With the cessation of industrial activity, the result of the shutting down of munitions factories, and with the returning to these shores of three or four hundred thousand men, i:t is obvious that there will be a great displacement of woman labour, and a very great demand for employment which will not be forthcoming. One might say without being tedious, that the great problem that must confront this country is the problem that will arise when this conflict is over. The absorption into our civil life of those out of employment, as well as of those who come back, is a matter of extreme importance. The taking care of the adverse balance of trade in this country, the making provision for meeting the enormous charges upon our resources, with respect to interest both on our national debt and pensions, are matters of pressing importance. There is only one way by which that can be done, and that is by the creation of new wealth, and new wealth can only be created by increased production and the development of our vast natural resources. So it is of paramount importance that the great natural resources should be developed, and we must learn what is the desire and intention of those who are left and of those who are coming back with respect- to agriculture and other pursuits.
The great problem this State will have to deal with is the problem of how adequately to- encourage production and development. With the burden of taxation the people will have to bear, it is only necessary to say that new capital will not come here as willingly as some people seem to think. The great problem is how to induce capital to find here an opportunity for profitable employment while at the same time arranging that adequate provision is made for the state receiving its share of the profits that may result from any enterprise that utilizes our natural resources which the state holds as trustee for all the people. I shall not dwell longer on that point. I have not time this afternoon to do more than indicate the activities that have been undertaken by the board with respect to farm labour and increased grain production during the present year, the providing of men for specific undertakings, the Royal Flying Corps, railway, shipbuilding and many other pursuits, the advertising campaign for thrift and war savings. All these things we have endeavoured to do as best we could, with what degree of success it is not for me at the present moment to discuss. In my judgment, however, the language used by Mr. Chamberlin, the Director General of National Service in England, in dealing with similar conditions might aptly apply here. He said:
It is apparent that the rock upon which the department split was the fact that a local habitation and a loud sounding name were given to it, and that it was then launched with a roving commission to discover its functions and duties, but left without any statutory powers and no boundaries delimiting its sphere from that of other departments. My reluctance to accept such a vaguely defined post was natural, hut I accepted from patriotic motives and have done my best.
I think the language of Mr. Chamberlin's valedictory might well be the language 1 should employ as mine, and in so doing 1 desire to thank the press for the very great effort they have made at all times,

under difficult circumstances to insure so far as possible the success of the movement. The thanks of this country are due to the district directors who earnestly and sincerely laboured to make their work a success and particularly to Mr. C. W. Paterson the unpaid secretary of the board to whose zeal, patience, persistence and energy in no small degree the success of the work that was undertaken is due. Nothing, however, could have left with me a mere lasting or a more pleasant memory than the recollection of the sympathy which all who are in this House have extended to me in the work I was unfortunate enough to have been induced to undertake. I shall never forget the kindliness of their criticism, and their willingness to appreciate and understand the difficulties under which the work was carried on.


THE WAR-TIME ELECTIONS ACT.
Mr. D. C. ROSS (West Middlesex):: There is some difference, on this side of the House at any rate, as to whether an elector who is on the voters' list of the province of Ontario, who has left the electoral district, is entitled to vote. Section 32 of the Wartime Elections Act, provides that:
The qualifications necessary to enable any male person to vote at a Dominion election in any province shall, except as by this Act otherwise provided, he those established by the laws of that province as necessary to entitle such male person to vote in the same part of the province at a provincial election.
Under the law of the province of Ontario a male person, in order to vote, has to be a resident on the day of polling domiciled in the district in which he is voting. I should like to- ask the Minister of Justice (Mr. Doherty) whether that rule will still prevail under this Act.


Mr. DOHERTY (Minister of Justice):: I can only give my opinion of the interpretation of the provisions of the Ac-t, but I am very clear in that opinion. Under the first paragraph of section 32, it is made quite clear that the qualifications to vote, prescribed by -the law of any province are to be the qualifications of male voters under this Act, save in so far -as they may be modified by the provisions of - this Act. There are but two provisions which I have heard it suggested might be said to modify' what I understand to be the requirements of the Ontario law, that in order to be enr titled to vote a person must be a resident in the constituency at the time he voted. The two provisions that have been suggested as possibly modifying that are subsection 2 of section 32 and section 143.

As regards subsection 2, a perusal of it will make it perfectly clear, I think, that it deals with the subject of residence only from the point of view of the operation of preparing or adding to the lists. Its purpose is merely to fix -a date in relation to which the period of time required in any province for residence within the province and for residence within the constituency, shall be fixed, and it fixes the period of residence essential to entitle a man to be placed upon the list as one year within the provinces, as I understand the amendment of the Senate, and thirty days within the constituency, such periods to be fixed by reference ot the date of the writ of election. That d-eal-s only with the question of residence so far as it is to be considered in preparing or adding to lists, and its purpose and effect are merely to determine the period, and the date in relation to which that period shall be fixed.
Section 143, as I read it, is intended to-, and does, simply determine, not what is the qualification to vote, but the place at which a person having all the qualifications to vote shall be entitled to vote, and the only place at which he shall be entitled to vote. The section provides:
Except as otherwise provided in this Act, each elector shall be entitled to vote at the polling station of the polling division, or of one of the polling divisions, upon the list of voters for which his name is-*
There is a misprint in the Bill, but at all events the man's name figures on the list. I would point out that the section does not create the right to vote, -and I say that, because it deals only with a" person who is an elector, and the definition section of the Elections Act defines an elector as a person who is entitled -to vote. So that it means simply that any person- entitled to vote shall be so entitled at a particular time.


Frank Broadstreet Carvell: In connection with the subject under discussion, I would like to put a concrete case before the minister in order to have his judicial opinion on it. I take it for granted from what he has stated that under the provisions of section. 143 a man can only vote at the- place from which his name is upon the voters' list. According to the laws of the province of New Brunswick a man can only vote at that place in which he is a resident, but we have a very s-imple provision by which, if a man's name is properly added to the list, say in the city of St. .John, and he moved before the election to, say, the city of Moncton, his- name could be easily transferred from the list for the city of St. John to

that for the city of Moncton, and he would vote in the city of Moncton. Would the minister think that section 143 would override the provisions of our Act as to residence and the right of a man to have his name transferred from his former residence tc his present residence?


Charles Joseph Doherty: That question has just been brought to my attention. I have not had an opportunity of giving any thought to it, and I would not like to pronounce an offhand opinion on the point. I think my hon. friend will recognize that this is a different' question from the one put by the hon. member for Middlesex (Mr. Ross).


Frank Broadstreet Carvell: Yes, it is.


Charles Joseph Doherty: The hon. member for
Middlesex (Mr. Ross) had spoken to me about the question during the course of the afternoon, and thus I had an opportunity of looking into it.


Frank Broadstreet Carvell: In view of the great difficulties that may arise in our province, may I suggest that the minister give a decision or. this point, which decision should be made public. I am satisfied if this were done it would he in the interests of everybody.


Charles Joseph Doherty: I shall be glad to do so.


PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.
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Mr. SPEAKER read a communication from the Governor General's secretary, announcing that His Excellency would proceed to the Senate Chamber this, afternoon at 5.30, for the purpose of proroguing the present session of Parliament.
At that hour, a message was delivered by Lieutenant-Colonel Ernest J. Chambers, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, as follows:
Mr. Speaker, His Excellency, the Governor General, desires the immediate attendance of this honourable House in the Chamber of the honourable the Senate.
Accordingly, Mr. Speaker, with the House, went to the Senate Chamber.
In the Senate Chamber His Excellency the Governor General was pleased to give, in His Majesty's name, the Royal Assent to the following Bills:
An Act respecting the Minister of the Overseas Forces, the Parliamentary Secretary of the Department of Militia and Defence, and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs.
An Act respecting Game in the Northwest Territories.
An Act to amend The Meat and Canned Foods Act.
An Afct to amend An Act in aid of Provincial Legislation prohibiting or restricting the sale or use of Intoxicating Liquors.
An Act providing for the acquisition by His Majesty of the capital stock of the Canadian Northern Railway Company.
An Act to incorporate the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire and the Children of the Empire (Junior Branch).
An Act respecting Live Stock.
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (respecting Insurance).
An Act to authorize the levying of a War Tax upon certain incomes.
An Act to incorporate The Army and Navy Veterans in Canada.
An Act to amend The Companies Act.
An Act to amend The Dry Docks Subsidies Act, 1910.
An Act respecting Insurance.
The Military Voters Act, 1917.
An Act concerning the payment of salaries or wages of employees of railway companies, and to otherwise amend The Railway Act.
The War Time Elections Act.
An Act to amend the Judges Act.
An Act relating to War Charities.
To these Bills the Royal Assent was pronounced by the Clerk of the Senate in the following words:
In His Majesty's name, his Excellency the Governor General doth assent to these Bills.
Then the hon. the Speaker of the House of Commons addressed His Excellency the Governor General as follows:
May it please Your Excellency:
The Commons of Canada have voted the Supplies required to enable the Government to defray the expenses of the Public Service.
In the name of the Commons, I1 present to Your Excellency the following Bills:-
"An Act for granting to His Majesty certain sums of money for the public service of the financial year ending the 31st March, 1918.
An Act for granting to His Majesty certain sums of money for the public service of the financial year ending the 31st March, 1918." to which Bills I humbly request Your Excellency's assent.
To -these Bills the Clerk of the Senate by command of His Excellency the Governor General did thereupon say:
In His Majesty's name, His Excellency the Governor General thanks His Loyal Subjects, accepts their benevolence, and assents to these Bills.
After which His Excellency the Governor General was pleased to close the Seventh Session of the Twelfth Parliament of the Dominion with the following Speech:
Honourable Gentlemen of the Senate:
Gentlemen of the House of Commons:
Important measures for the effective prosecution of the war have engaged your close attention during a long session, and I am now happy to release you from further attendance.
Since your labours began, the high and worthy character of our cause has been confirmed by two significant events. Our allies,
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the Russian people, are engaged under trying circumstances, in establishing institutions which shall fully conform to their ideals of liberty and order. In the anidst of inevitable difficulties, which command our sympathy, they have affirmed their determination to remain faithful to the Alliance.
The United States of America, refusing to tolerate the arrogance and menace of Prussian Militarism have made common cause with the Allies and are vigorously .co-operating in the struggle for freedom and humanity. Already the Canadian people have given many expressions of the warm welcome with which they greet their great kindred neighbour as a comrade in arms.
The meetings of the Imperial War Cabinet and Imperial War Conference in the early part of the year have very materially facilitated the thorough co-operation of the Dominion, both in the prosecution of the war and in preparation for the future. They constitute also an important step in the development of constitutional relationships between the nations of the British Commonwealth.
Notwithstanding the increasing military strength of the allied nations, the stubborn resistance of the enemy in all important theatres of the war demonstrates the need of throwing our utmost effort into the struggle and thus hastening the day of abiding peace. In the western theatre the Canadian Army Corps, by its capture of the coveted Vimy Ridge and by its recent operations at Lens, has sustained its distinguished record and contributed in important measure to the ascendancy which the Allies have gained in that theatre.
In order to secure the reinforcements essential for the support of our forces further steps have become necessary, and the authority you have granted for compulsory military enlistment on a selective basis will meet the urgent need for reinforcements. At the same time it will provide the means for conserving more effectively the essential agricultural *hnd industrial activities of the Dominion.
You have recognized your duty in providing the best possible safeguards for enabling those engaged in the defence of their country to have their voice in the decision of national questions which vitally affect them. For this purpose, as
well as to give due recognition to service and sacrifice in the affairs of the State, the necessary adjustments which you have made in the legislation relevant to these matters will doubtless prove effective.
The legislation you have passed for the purpose of assisting returned soldiers to settle upon the land will not only aid materially in restoring these gallant men to their rightful status in the community but should greatly increase the agricultural production of the country.
The appointment of a Food Controller and of a Fuel Controller invested with important powers and duties is founded upon the impressive need of the utmost economy and saving in order that our national strength may continue unimpaired.
In order that our industries may be equipped to cope with the intricate problems of the future, provision has been wisely made for promoting scientific and industrial research.
Important progress has been made in solving our difficult problems of railway transportation, and the means have been provided whereby a great railway system shall become the property of the people of Canada and be added to their national undertakings;
Gentlemen of the House of Commons:
In the name of His Majesty I thank you for the liberal provision you have made for the needs of the public service and for the prosecution of the war.
HouHourable Gentlemen of the Senate:
Gentlemen of the House of Commons:
Although the stress of the War becomes increasingly severe, the people of Canada, resolute in the supreme purpose of achieving through victory an abiding peace, have not faltered; and I am confident that whatever further efforts are necessary will be unhesitatingly put forth in the stern determination that the vast sacrifices already made shall not be in vain.
The Speaker of the Senate then said:
It is His Excellency the Governor General's will and pleasure, that this Parliament be prorogued until Thursday, the 1st day of November next, to be here holden, and this Parliament is accordingly prorogued until Thursday, the 1st day of November next.

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Abbreviations.-lr., 2r„ 3r.=first, second, or third reading.	Arndt. = Amendment. Com.=
Committee.	Con. = Consideration. Div.=Division.	M.=Motion. Ref.-
Reference. Rep.=Report. Res. = Resolution. Sec. = Section.
Abbotsford postmaster, 608 Achim, Mr. Honore (Labelle)
Military Service Bill, 2873 Address in reply to the Governor General's Speech, 9, 47, 83, 119, 160, 195, 249 Address to His Majesty the King. See Parliament: Extension of term of Adjournment moved to discuss matter of urgent public importance Mr. Pardee, returned soldiers, 459 Mr. Eemieux, liquor in military camps, 806 Mr. Kyte, price of flour, 1039 Mr. Devlin, conservation of grain, 1176 Mr. Macdonald, German submarines, 1320 Mr. Oliver, removal of rails, 1820 Mr. Turriff, farm labour, 3504 Mr. Macdonald, munitions, 5517 Adulteration of food. See Food Advertising, government
Department of the Secretary of State, 656 Recruiting, 986, 3136 Aeroplane. See Air service and Aviation Aetna Explosives Company, 4508
Agriculture
Animals
Health of, 2271 Loaning of to farmers, 4152 Pure bred, purchase of, 2276 See, under this head, Live stock.
Apples, embargo on export of, 5776 Associations, 2276 Beans for seed, 671, 1473 Bulletins, 2062, 2274 Butter
Imports and exports of, 1573 Purchases by British Government, 899 Cattle. See, under .this head, Live stock Cheese
Imports and exports of, 1573 Manufacturing and curing of, 2265 Purchase of by British Government, 1774, 1863, 1971, 2197, 2257, 2265, 2267, 2557 See also Food
Agriculture-Ccn.
Dairy industry, 953, 2075, 2256 Department
Estimates, 654, 2062, 2255, 2924, 3744, 4677 French-speaking employees of, 2262, 2265 Publications 2062, 2274 Staff and salaries, 4924 Development of, 2578 Exhibitions, 2260, 2270	.
Experimental farms, 2055, 2063, 4682 Hay
Embargo on, 1222 Imports and exports of, 1574 Inspection and grading of, 3402 Purchases of by British Government, 5086 Hogs
Inspection of, 2271 Cholera, 2273 Insect pests, 2066, 2075 Labourers. See Labour
Horses, compensation for destruction of,
Live stock
British embargo on, 918, 987, 1535 Pure bred, purchase of, 2276 Shipments, inspection of, 1841 See also Live stock and Produce Bill Noxious weeds, 2068 Parcel post shipments, 2072 Plant diseases
Rust in wheat, 2063, 2067 Powdery scab in potatoes, 2269, 5991 Potatoes
Accumulation of on railways, 607 Duty, proposed removal, 703, 5274, 5777, 5982
Exports and imports of, 2267, 5982 Powdery scab, 2269, 5991 Prices and supply of, 936, 1087, 1189, 1437, 2095
Seed, 1473
Straw, utilization of, 4683 Veterinary Director General, 987 See also Cold storage, and Food
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Intoxicating liquor in, 535, 806, 1226, 1266, 1561, 1567
Petewawa land claims, 5241 Training, in Canada, 899 Canteen system in England, 718 Casualties
June 30, 1916, to June 5, 1917, 2201 June, 1917, 3719 July, 1917, 4151 August 16-31, 1917, 5901 Civil servants, in, pay and allowance to, 663, 713
Classifications, 2185 Commissions, granting of, 203, 207 Conscription. See Military service Demobilization plans, 3118 Dental Service, 31 Officers, 1574, 4009 Desertions, 338, 3111 Discharge
Purchase of. 3111
Regulations governing, 3096, 3098
Table of, 3096
Total to June 30. 1917, 4152
Work-pay, on, 457	'
Divisions, 459, 2186 Enlistment
Aliens, of, 4413, 4415. See below Persons of foreign birth British army, in, 385 Civil Service, from. See Civil Service Different units, in, 29, 245 Farmers, of, 4685 Figures
April 30, 1917, to, 1572 June 30, 1917, to, 4152 July, 1917, 4151
Generally, 2411, 2442, 2446-2451, 2454, 2463-2478, 2573, 2583, 2600, 2624, 2631, 2647, 2855, 2884, 2904 Moosejaw, at, 5122 Non-residents, of, 1476 Persons of foreign birth, 3356, 3759. See above, Aliens Provinces, by, 216, 221 Unfit men, of, 697, 3099, 3107, 4003 Urban and rural, 3135 Western provinces, from, 4685 Equipment, 23. See also War supplies Expeditionary force Command of, 28, 268
Conditions governing in respect of British Government, 1576 Control of by Canada, ?0, 39 Disposition of, 268, 1816, 2356 Holiday for, proposed, 5902, 6065 Status of, 259
Army-Con.
Terms respecting enlistment in, 1576 Fifth Canadian Division, command of. 459 Highland Brigade, 458, 552, 556 Hospitals. See that title Irish-Canadian Rangers, 458 Medical service. See Canadian Army Medical Service
Non-commisisoned officers, 1608 Officers
Alleged surplus of, 3102 Appointments, charges regarding, 98 Mentioned in despatches, 4062 Pay of, 1628, 1673, 5773 Reversion in ranks, 3997, 5773 Retention of on leave. 5902 Salutes to, 5424 Unemployed, 560, 3102 Wives of, passports for, 3996 For individual officers see their names Overseas Department Officers employed by, 6069 See also under this head Expeditionary force
Pay and Records office, staff of, 3104 Pensions. See that title Recruiting
Advertising in connection with, 986, 3136 Civil Service, from. See that title Correspondence between Prime Minister and ex-minister of Militia, 2446, 3086 Expenses, 1959 Folkstone Director of, 1226 Forestry battalions, for, 5703 Generally, 51, 69, 86, 98, 101, 269, 559, 2395, 3371
Irish, Mr. Mark, statements of, 2707 Medical examination of recruits, 3098, 3963, 3967
National service proposals, 360 Officers
Bonaventure county, 1675 Cape Breton, 5361 Quebec, 3135 Rimouski, 456
Orders in Council respecting, 2482 Provinces, by, 2511. See also under titles of Provinces
Retarding of, alleged, 3086, 3110 Statement by Prime Minister, 194 System of, 360, 372 United States
British subjects in, 2482 Canadians in, 3758, 3759, 3904, 4466 Regiments 104th, 1570 165th, 1725
Reinforcements. See Military Service.
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Certificates to, 5423 Disposition of, 3099 Rum, issues of, 535, 536 Soldiers
Age of on enlisting, 3577, 3993, 4001 Attendance of at political meetings, 4338, 5231
Deceased, estates of, 3805
See also Soldier Settlement Board
Employment of on farms, 1677
Former occupation of, 4685
Graves of, 1534
Leave of absence, 4005, 4055
Life insurance of, 3557, 3589
Mail matter for, 1263, 3644
Pay
Assigned, 383
Increases in, proposed, 2603, 5223 Promotion, in cases of, 5423, 5773 Working, 457
Personal requests concerning, 4203 Public meetings, attendance of at, 4338, 5231
Returned Badges for, 5953 Care of, 10, 67, 587, 1586, 1594 Committee on, 459, 524, 756 Employment of, 3846
Camp Kapuskasing at, 5422 Government service in, 491, 1127, 1850, 1858, 1884, 6054 Pensions, scale of, 1594 See also Soldier Settlement Board and Pensions
Reversions in rank; pay in such cases, 5423
Voting of, 87, 223, 452, 1383, 2403, 2557, 2651, 2850, 3727, 4406, 4688, 4693, 4740, 4792, 4874, 5195. See also Military Voters Bill and War-time Elections Bill
Widows of, 3805 Working pay, cessation of, 457 For individual soldiers see their names Soldier Settlement Board. See that title Substitutes, buying of, 3113 Troops
Alleged stoning of, 803, 2756 Despatch of to the front, 574 Local, supplies for
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Certificates to, 5423 Utilization of, 3099
Veterans. See Army and Navy Veterans Incorporation Bill Work pay, cessation of, 457
See also Military Service and War Army Act. See Military Service Bill Army and Navy Veterans of Canada Incorporation Bill, lr., 5421.	2r., 5541.	3r.,
Arthurs, Mr. James (Parry Sound)
Army
Officers, surplus of, 3103 Pensions, 3218 Rejected men, 3101
Soldiers, voting of, 4716, 4761, 4777, 4813, 4825, 4895
Immigration from the United States, 1750 Military Service Bill, 2654 Soldiers, attendance of at political meetings, 4338, 5231
Arthurs, Lieut.-Col.' James, position and pay of, 5914
Ashcroft-Fort George mail service, 668 Assyrians, franchise rights under War-time Elections Bill, 5421 Astronomical Surveys, 4917 Athletic Associations, incorporation of, 5922 Atholstan, Lord, dynamite plot against, 5360 Atlantic mail service, 452 Atlantic Patrol Service. See Naval Service Auditor General
Office of, 1791	'
Report of, 1469
Austro-Germans in western provinces, 1265 Aviation
Canadian fund, 5362 Corps, enlistment in, 1886 See Air Service
Babtie, Dr., report of. See Canadian Army Medical Service Baddeck mail contract, 1819 Bags, duty on. See Customs Balfour, Rt. Hon. Arthur J.
Announcement of visit of, 613, 1724 Reception to, 1766 Speech of, 1767 Bank Act Amendment Bills
1.	Bill No. 46, "Mr. L. A. Lapointe, lr., 1037
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3 Bill No. 65, Sir Thomas White,-loans on * farmers' live stock. Res., 1960; lr., 1971; 2r., (referred to Banking and Commerce Committee), 2149 Bank of Commerce, Canadian, 4686 Banks and banking Savings deposits, 4685 Unclaimed bank balances, 1001 Barnard, Mr. Geo. H. (Victoria, B.C.)
Judges' salaries, 1976 Railway Act, The, 3529 Barrette, Mr. Joseph A. (Berthier)
Gauthier, Mr. L. J., denial of statements of, 2570
Halifax Chronicle, statement in, 3352 Military Service Bill, 2521 Amendment proposed, 2524 Opposition to compulsory service, 2522 Referendum proposals, 2523 Bartlett, Major, position of, 4292, 4416, 5422 Bathurst harbour improvements, 3872 Baugh, Edward Levi Defalcations of, 1470 Release of, 2481
Baxter, Leslie E., employment of, 3418 Bawdy houses. See Criminal Code Amendment Bills
Bay State Fish Company, 2321 Beans. See Agriculture.
Bear River, N.S.
Indian agents, 1569 Post office site, 1378, 1569 Beland, Hon. H. S., M.P., detention of in Germany, 311, 341, 524
Belford, Major J. F., position of, 5703 Bell, Mr. Graham, pay of, 1129 Bell, steamer, 1377.
Bell Telephone Company, 3548
Bell Telephone Memorial Association, 5780
Bellemare, Mr. A. (MaskinongO)
Address in reply to the Governor General's Speech, 294
Military service, 294, 2823, 3573 Bennett, Mr. R. B. (Calgary)
Bishop of Mackenzie River, 868 Canadian Northern railway, acquisition of, 4566, 4627-4638, 5149 Civil Service salaries, 2248 Companies, incorporation of, 5924-5942 Government railways, rolling stock, 4931 Gwatkin, General, 4428
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Intercolonial railway Operation of, 786
Reply to Mr. Graham's statement, 805 Intoxicating liquors, prohibition of, 4402 Legislators, free transportation for, 4936 Live stock exchanges, 5506, 5509 McLeod-Tellier* Commission, 5252, 5259 Military Service Bill, 4664 Mounted Police, Royal Northwest, 4669, 4672
Overseas Military Forces, minister of, 4428
Pensions, 6023
Railways
Material for France, 1830 Private cars, 4937
Transportation for legislators, 4936	'
Soldiers, voting of, 1403, 4902 War-time Elections Bill, 5614 Woman suffrage, 1510 Bennett, Mr. W. H. (East Simcoe)
Flour, price of, 1048 Gordon Divorce Bill, 5499, 5904 Insurance Act amendment, 1037, 1157, 1524, 1568
National Transcontinental Railway-solicitor's fees, 454
W'ar-time Elections Bill, 5681, 5870 Berlinguet, Thomas F. X., employment of, 1381
Bernard, Lieut.-Col. E. S., position of, 5703 Best, Mr. John A. (Dufferin)
Rankin, Captain Ramsay, 987 Troops, alleged stoning of, 803 Bickerdike, Mr. Robert (Montreal, St. Lawrence)
Capital punishment Abolition of, 46, 325, 617, 1028 Proposed plebiscite, 1016 Russia, in, 1012
Spain case, the, 1018 Women and children, 1017, 1150 Cattle, British embargo on, 920 Dubreuil, Mr., dismissal of, 3635 Prisoners, proposed enlistment of, 1012, 1015
War-time Elections Bill, 5600 Bigamy. See Criminal Code Amendment Bills
Bigras, Gedfeon, dynamite plot against, 5360 Bills. See their titles Binder twine, 3233.
Blain, Lieut. Roswell, position of, 4245 Blain, Mr. Richard (Peel)
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Galt, Mr. Justice,'investigation into report of, 2056
Gauthier, Mr. L. J„ denial of statements
of, 2570
Gordon Divorce Bill, 5903 High Commissioner, Canadian, officeof,4l77 Hospitals, military, 464 House of Commons Business of the House .Morning sittings, 2619, 2775, 2833 Saturday sittings, 324. 2569 Wednesday sittings, 324 Mace, new, 1468
Members, tributes to deceased, 3 Officials
Appointments, 586
Clerk of the House, retirement of, 6069 Sergeant-at-arms, death of, 6069 Imperial Munitions Board, labour, 1986 Imperial War Cabinet and Imperial War Conference
Adjournment of House for, 117, 597, 603 Announcement re meeting of, 42 Correspondence respecting, 5, 24 Proceedings, 1525	.
Cattle embargo, 1535 Dominions overseas, constitutional relations of, 1528, 1531 Development and control of natural resources, 1532 France, visit to, 1536 Imperial preference, 1532 India, representation of. 1534 Minutes of, 2354 Soldiers' graves, 1534 Statements by British Prime Minister, 2354
Judges' salaries, 5955 Labour bureaus, establishment of, 118 Lake of the Woods water level, 2775 Landry, Mr. Justice, finding of, 3110, 3615 Lessard, General, 364 Mace, vote of thanks to donors of, 1468 Members of Parliament, tributes to deceased, 3
Military Service Bill Introduction, 1542, 2184 Amendment of Mr. Copp, 3078 Appeals, 2191, 3178 Army Act, regulations of, 3114 - Available men, 2390 Board of Selection, 5083 Canada's position in the war, 2184 Contraventions of Act, 3342-3351, 3361, 3588
Exemptions, 3208, 3363, 6068 Exceptions, 3559
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Boulay, Mr. Hermenegilde (Rimouski) Agriculture Department, French-speaking employes of, 2262, 2265 Army Medical Service, 3989 Bright, the late John, 987 Budget, 1085
Free wheat, 1085
Behaviour of soldiers passing through Quebec, 1086
Necessity for co-operation with the Government, 1087 Civil Service
Employment of men in higher offices, 1256
French-speaking employees, 2262, 2265, 2340, 2759 Salaries, 2239, 2251 Government railways Accidents, 1376
Operation and management of, 3389 Removal of obstructions, 595 Rolling stock, 594 St. Fabien crossing, 2226, 3389 Government Railways Act amendment, 4373, 4382
Interior Department, French-speaking employees, 2340 Mail service, 3640
McWilliams, Mr., dismissal of, 2167 Military Service Bill
Authority of Parliament, 2761 Classes, 3353 Exceptions, 3571 Exemptions, 3190, 3306 Quebec, position of, 2754 National Transcontinental Railway Express service, 595
Fitzpatrick yard and engineer's residence, 455, 456 Telegraph line, 456 ' Ottawa Citizen, statement of, 2776 Parliament buildings, destruction of-indemnities for losses, 4413 Pension Commissioner's staff, 60?
Quebec
Recruiting in, 2754
Troops passing through, insults to, 2756 Railway Act, The, 3435, 3511
Boulay, Mr. Hermenegilde-Con.
Rimouski
Government employees, 2-165 Recruiting officers, 456 St. Lawrence signal and telegraph service, 1471
Scientific and industrial research, 3957 Senate, proposed change in constitution of, 1145
South African war, 2200 Steamship services, 2323 Technical education, 1249 Telegraph and telephone lines, 5384 Troops, alleged insults to, 2756 Veterinary Director General, 987 Bo urassa, Mr. J. Boutin (L6vis)
Gravel, Lieut. Gedeon, 1674 Gravelle, Oscar, 1226 Levis railway station, 1129 Military Service Bill, 3069, 3147 St. Romuald public works, 1129 Boy Scobts Association, 2062, 3740 Boyce, Mr. Arthur C. (West Algoma) Military Service, 3147	v
Boyce, George H., position of, 1472 Boyer, Mr. Gustave (Vaudreuil)
Butter and cheese purchases, 899 Maple sugar-adulteration, 1958 Military service, 2931 Boys, Mr. W. A. (South Simcoe)
Address in reply to the Governor General's Speech, 90
Patriotism of Canadian women, 90 Simcoe county and the war, 90 Loyal Orange Order, 91 The Dorchester election, 92 National service, 93 Recruiting in Quebec, 94 Bradbury, Mr. George H. (Selkirk)
Army canteens, 811 Army and navy veterans, 5910 Capital punishment, 634 Dominion Lands Act amendment, 3799 Military service, 3190 United Grain Growers, Limited, 893 War affairs, Government administration of, 3383
Brampton-Palestine mail route, 590 Bran. See Grain Brantford moulders' strike, 2322 Breadner, Mr. R. W., position of, 3676 Bright, the late John, 987 Brindle, Mr. William, dismissal of, 3758 British Admiralty, recruiting in Canada for, 4159, 4163
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British Government- and Canadian Pacific Railway Financial Arrangements Bill,
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2061, 3r„ 2139
British Government, war supplies, purchases of in Canada, 4953, 5517, 5541 Bromptonville postmaster, 1129.
Brouiilard, Mr. Ovide (Drummond and Arthabaska)
/Etna Explosives Company, 4508 Military service, 3072
Bruce, Dr., investigations of. See Canadian Army Medical Service Buchanan, Mr. W. A. (Medicine Hat)
Army allowances, subsistence, 5915 Canadian Northern Railway, acquisition of, 5178	'
Coal mining, western, 119, 458, 523, 1266, 1372, 1616, 1723, 1725, 2526, 2570, 2653 Coutts quarantine reserve, 590 Economic and Development Commission, 1125
Farm labour, 3507 Fuel, 141*
Grain
Commission, 3711 Elevators, 986 Seed, advances for, 303, 305 Home guard duty, 336
Hudson's Bay Company lands, taxation of. 986
Hyde, Mr. J. W., 301 Indian reserves, 989, 2389 Judgments, uniform interest on, 900 Letter carriers' salaries, 1474 Medicine Hat military reserve, 301 Military service, 2600 Exemptions, 2607 Referendum proposals, 2607 Taxation of wealth, 2608 Mounted Police pensions, 5704 Oil-boring machinery, 301 Proportional representation, 913 School lands, western, 1378 Shaw, Mr. F. D„ dismissal of, 1847 Soldier Settlement Board, 1163 Soldiers, former occupations of, 4685 Taxation
Farm implements, 1686 Hudson's Bay Co. Lands, 986 Income, 1687, 4122 Wealth, 2608
Unclaimed bank balances, 1009 War-time Elections Bill, 5580 Woman suffrage, 1515
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Levis station, 2208 Maritime Express service, 8 Milford ballast pit, 2320 Obstructions, removal of, 1378 Operation of, 759 Passenger service, 2203 Peniac bridge, 2320 Pension fund, 1476 Rails, 1575 Rates, coal, on, 4292 Station accommodation, 2227 Stations, naming of, 3386 Traeadie siding, 2618	.
See also Government Railways Act Amendment Bill.
Intoxicating liquors, shipment on, 591 Level crossing, Pictou harbour branch, 304 Line improvements, 2204
Military and hospital trains, 2205 National Transcontinental Earnings, 2203
Engineers' residence at Fitzpatrick, 455, 456
Express service, 595 Fitzpatrick yard, 455 Freight rates, 2210, 3334 Operation, 657, 1573, 3411,
Expenses of, 2203 Portneuf claims, 1571
Rails, removal of to France, 1229, 1266, 2225
St. Malo shops, 1128 Salmon river viaduct, 2212 Solicitor's fees, 454 Telegraph line, 456 Ties, purchases of, 455 Traffic, 2209, 2218 Obstructions, removal of, 595 Officials, 657, 3390 Operation of, 2203, 3386 Passenger service, 2207 Prince Edward Island
Car ferry and terminals, 2205 Widening of, 3902, 3945 Quebec railways, 4948, 5452 Rails, 2224
Rolling stock, 594, 4928. See, under this title, Cars
Safety-first inspectors, 337 Ships, Duilding of, for, 4939, 5429 Valley railway, 13S0 Working expenses, 3410 See also Government Railways Act Amendment Bill
Canadian Northern Railway.
British Columbia, lines and works aided by province of, 4987
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Payments on interest account, 4338 Removal of rails from, 301, 3398 Canadian Northern Railway Company.
Financial statements respecting, 4058 Report of Drayton-Acworth Commission, 4011
Canadian Northern Railway Acquisition Bill.
Res., 4022, 4215, 4217, 4247. lr., 4293.	2r.,
4467,	4512,	4566. Com., 4590,	4622,
4835, 4960, 5015.	3r„ 5108, 5123-5194
Amendment proposed: Mr. Graham, 4477; lost on div., 4590
Closure applied, 5002, 5015, 5121, 5123 Canadian Pacific Railway. See British Government
Canadian Patriotic Fund, 595, 3078 Allowances from, 203, 207, 383, 3951 See also War Charities Canadian Press Limited, 3740 Canals, 3402, 3417
For individual canals, see their titles Canteen. See Army Cape Bold breakwater, 3873 Cape Breton Recruiting officers, 5361 Senate representation, 89 Cape Cove pier, 3879 Capital Punishment,
Plebiscite proposed, 1016 Russia's abolition of; proposed congratulations, 1012 Spain case, 1018
Women and children, in cases of, 1017, 1150
See Criminal Code Amendment Bills Caraquet and South Shore Railway, 2223,
Cardin, Mr. P. J. A. (Richelieu)
Canadian Northern Railway, acquisition of, 5175
Military Service Bill, 3058 St. Lawrence Flour Mills Company, 4509 Carleton beach protection works, 1128 Caron, Mr. Hector, employment of, 4151 Carrier, Emile, allowance to, 581 Carroll, Mr. William F. (South Cape Breton) Aeroplane service, 1331 Army Recruiting Officers, Cape Breton, 5361
Budget, 1424
Taxation of incomes, 1424 Government expenditure, 1425 So-called prosperity, 1426 Control of food prices, 1427
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Reply to statements of Mr. Edwards, 1430
Canada Temperance Act, 5244 Canadian Government Railways, private cars, 4933
Canadian Northern Railway acquisition of, 5140
Censors and decoders, 576
Customs Department, motor boats, 3759
Dental officers, 1574
East Bay wharves, 5315, 5317
Flour, price of, 1044
Food products, prices and control of, 1427 Indians-Sydney reserve, 1888 Insurance, 5203 Macdonald, Miss Jessie, 5361 McNeil, Lt. John D., 5272 .Military Service, 28-54 Nova Scotia steamship service, 2291 Shipbuilding, 1331	,
Submarine situation, 1329 Taxation Incomes, 1424 Wealth, 2859
Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway, 2613
Carroll, Lieut. W. F., M.P., position and pay of, 6066
Carson, Major General, position of, 986 Carvell, Mr. Frank B. (Carleton, N.B.) Agricultural instruction, 3755 Army, soldiers
Pay of, on promotion, 5423 Voting of, 4795-4834, 4874-4887, 48894914
Bear river, N.S.
Indian agents, 1569 Wharfinger, 1378 British preference, 1711 Canada Gazette, 3738 Canada Temperance Act, 1263, 3739, 5243 Canadian Government Railways Branch lines, 2230
National Transcontinental, Salmon river viaduct, 2212
Promotion of employees, 766 Quebec railways, 5464 Canadian Northern Railway, acquisition of, 4253, 4266, 5146 Companies, incorporation of, 5928-5942 Criminal Code amendments, jurors, 4301, 4318
Daylight saving, 3682 Desjardins, Lt. Col., 1818 Farm implements, duty on, 1708 Flour, price of, 1051 Georgian Bay Canal Commission, 989 Gordon divorce case, 5903
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Members, sessional indemnity of, 5790 Stenographers, 5789 Hudson Bay railway, 2230 Immigration agents, 1737, 1756 Indians,
New Brunswick, 1889 Reserves, cutting timber on, 18-89 . Insurance, 4388, 5202
Maritime Provinces, military affairs, 5226 McLeod-Tellier Commission, 5247, 5254 McNeil, F. C., payments to, 1380 Military district No. 6, 5226 Military service, 2709 Appeals, 3179 Referendum, 2711 Tribunals, 3152, 3161 O'Connor, Mr. W. F., report of, 3746, 3753 Parliament, railway transportation for members of, 3519 Potatoes, duty on, 5777
Proposed removal, 5274, 5982 Public works expenditure, 5348 Quarantine service, 3756 Quebec harbourmaster, 897 Railway employees, payment of salaries of, 5957, 5997	'
Railway Act, The, 3422-3453, 3516-3553, 3593, 3717
Ross rifle, 388, 412-434
Rural mail service, 3647
St. John harbour improvements, 5347
Soldiers, votes for, 1404
Sugar, colouring of, 1957
Surveys, 1346
Tariff revision, 1699
Taxation
Business profits, 1452, 4245 Income, 1452, 1701, 3768, 5884 Telegraph and telephone lines, 3543, 53635404, 5410
Unclaimed bank balances, 1007 Victoria breakwater, 1381 Valley railway, 1380
War Purchasing Commission inquiry re purchases, 340
War-time Elections Bill, 5660, 5676-5699, 5713
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Censors and decoders, 576, 3718 Louisburg, at, 4008, 4048 See "The Fiddlers"
Census
Male population of Canada, 2283 Western, 2336 C. E. Tanner, steamer, 5362 Chabot, Mr. John L. (Ottawa)
Civil Service
Appointments, 2020 Salaries, 2251 Military service, 2781
Enlistment in Quebec, 2784
Chabot, Et.-Col. J. L., M.P., position and pay of, 988
Chairman of Committees. See Deputy Speaker
Charitable and patriotic enterprises, organization and control of, 378, 462
Charlton, Mr. William A. (Norfolk)
Budget, 1304
Pulp and paper industry, 1304 Chicago drainage canal, 302 Chicoutimi, pure bred animals at, 4162
Chinese Immigration Act Amendment Bill.
lr., 843.	2r., com., 2139. Rep., 2149.
3r., 2285
Chisholm, Mr. A. W. (Inverness)
Economic and Development Commission, 2200
Fish and fisheries
Advisory Board, 2151 Dogfish, 2177
Inverness harbour, improvements, 5326 Margaree harbour improvements, 3867, 5330 National Service, provincial directors of, 2200
Nova Scotia public works, 5319, 5337 Scotch Hill post office, 3649 Steamship service, 2301, 2306 Telegraph and telephone lines, 5371
Cheese. See Agriculture: Dairy Civil Service
Act, administration of, 1791 Appointments
Order in Council, Jan. 1917, under, 3003 Regulations governing, 643 Returned soldiers, 643
See also Army: Soldiers: Returned Section 21, under, 607, 650, 693, 1023, 1351, 1937
Compulsory retirement from, alleged, 2059
Civil Service-Con.
Disfranchisement of civil servants, proposed, 2018
Dismissals, proposed, 3633 Employees, French-speaking, 2262, 2759 Employment of men in higher offices, 1256 Enlistments from, 192, 2014
Pay and separation allowances, 213, 663 Insurance, 3503 Mail carriers. See Post office Promotions, 2010, 2011, 2238, 4666 Salaries, 1791, 2008, 2238, 2946 Enlisted men, of, 1353, 2014, 2252 Proposed increases, 583 See Civil Service Act Amendment Bill. For departments see their titles
Civil Service Act Amendment Bill. Res., 2008. lr., 2024.	2r., 2149. Com., 2238.	3r„
Clark, Mr. Hugh (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for External Affairs) Mounted police, 4668
Clark, Mr. Michael (Red Deer)
Army, canteens, 811
Budget, 736	.
Problems arising from the war, 736 Necessity for economy, 737 Taxation of incomes, 738 Maintenance and extension of our foreign commerce, 739 Free trade, 740
Canadian Northern railway, acquisition of, 4867
Grain for brew'eries and distilleries, 1183 Military service, exemptions, 3367 Newspaper articles, correction of, 3617 Parliament, extension of term of, 3492 Political deadlock, rumoured, 1971 Referendum, 2665 Senate, appointments to, 934 Separation allowances, 1191 Soldiers, votes for, 1387 Taxation
Business profits, 737 Income, 738, 4639 Woman suffrage, 1518
Clarke, Mr. W. A. (North Wellington) Military Service Bill, 2861
Clergy as immigration agents, 5361
Clements, Mr. H. S. (Comox-Atlin)
Wharves, construction of, 5318 Cloakey, George, employment of, 1819 Closure. See Speaker, Parliamentary Procedure; Canadian Northern Railwray Acquisition Bill
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Recruiting among the French Canadians, 160
The fiftieth anniversary of Confederation, 161
*National government, 181 Political patronage, 162 Extravagance of present administration, 163
The ex-Minister of Militia, 164 National service, 170 Westmorland county and war profits, 171 Extension of term of Parliament, 172 The Dorchester election, 173 Alleged statement of Mr, Blondin, 173 Budget, 1307
Speech of Sir Sam Hughes, 1307 Winning of the war, 1310 Charges of extravagance against the Government, 1310 High cost of living, 1313 Revenue and expenditure, 1314 Taxation proposals, 1315 Intercolonial railway, operation of, 1316 Canadian Government Railways Construction and betterment, 3387 Intercolonial
Grand Narrows bridge, 2321 Management and operation, 773 Milford ballast pit, 2320 Peniac bridge, 2320
Government Railways Act Amendment, 4363
Canadian Northern Railway, acquisition of, 5143
Cape Bald breakwater, 3873 Cost of living, 2005
Customs duties payable by provincial governments, 2135 Dorchester county election, 173 Fisheries officers, 2164
Food products, price and control of, 1313 Government Railways Act Amendment, 4363
Indians, 1892
Inland Revenue Department estimates, 3843
Labour problems, 1173 Migratory birds, 3658 Military Service, 3075 Moncton armoury site, 4787 National service, 170
National Transcontinental Railway, removal of rails, 2225 Patriotic Fund, 3077 Pensions, 6031
Copp, Mr. A. B.-Con.
Proportional representation, 917 Railway Act, The, 3442 Sackville wharves, 3878 Soldiers, votes for, 1401, 4703 Taxation, 1315	[DOT]
Telegraph and telephone lines, 5382 War-time Elections Bill, 5610 Wilfrid C„ boat, 4062 Cost of living
See O'Connor, Mr. W. F., K.C., also Cold storage
Council of Indian Tribes of Canada Incorporation Bill, lr., 3902 Courcelette, steamer, 1377 Court, Pte. Harry Ivan, request for discharge of, 3295
Courts, See Justice
Coutts quarantine reserve, 590
Cox, John, position of, 1472
Criminal Code Amendment Bills
Alien enemies prohibited from voting (No.
59, Mr. Currie), lr., 1862 Capital punishment, abolition of, (No. 3, Mr. Bickerdike), lr., 46; 2r., moved, 325, negatived, 1028-1036
See Capital Punishment Contract prices, prohibition of, (No. 21, Mr. Knowles), lr., 386;	2r., moved,
1617; debate adjourned, 1627 Insurance (No. 54, Mr. Doherty), lr., 1773;
2r., 2104; com,, 4388; 3r., 4395 Jurors, (No. 97, Mr. Doherty), lr„ 2567; 2r., 4293; com., 4318; 3r„ 4383. Six months' hoist, moved by Mr. Lemieux, negatived, 4307
Non-support; foster parents; bawdy houses; insolvent traders; constables' fees, (No. 124, Mr. Doherty), lr., 4291; 2r., 4463; com., 4463; 3r., 4466 Racing meets, limitation of, (No. 2, Mr. Wilcox), lr., 8; 2r., 313-324
Cromwell, Mr. F. R. (Compton)
Live stock purchases, 2279 Railway Act, The, 3604
Cross point wharf, 988, 1228, 1571 Crothers, Hon. T. W. (Minister of Labour) Army
Camps, sale of liquor in, 831
Soldiers, voting of, 4702 Assistant Deputy Minister of Labour, abolition of office of, 686 Budget, 1267
The extravagant waste of time in the House, 1267
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Administration of Labour Department, 1269
The labour situation, 1270 The coal situation, 1275 Food prices, 1273 Coal
Questionnaire concerning, 1996 Sale, regulation of, 1275 Western mining of, 159, 614, 1266, 1372, 1616, 2295, 2570, 2653, 2776 Food	.
Control of sales and prices, 1273, 1989, 2083
Flour, price of, 1043 High cost of living, 695 Industrial Dicputes Investigation Act, 1112, 1168, 1270
Labour Department
Administration of, 1269 Estimates, 686, 1112, 1166, 1989, 3652 Landry, Mr. Justice, findings of, 5248 Le Canada, correction of statement in, 2571
Military Service, 2483 Referendum, 2487
O'Connor, Mr. W. F., K.C., inquiry and report by, 3652, 3925 Strikes, prevention of, 1270 Technical education, 1236 Thetford mines labour trouble, 1118 War-time Elections Bill, 5867 Yukon, cost of living in, 2199, 2481, 2525
Cruise, Mr. Robert (Dauphin)
Budget, 1432
Taxation of profits, 1432 Government expenditure, 1434 Free wheat, 1435 Proposed Highways Bill, 1435 Manitoba boundaries extension, 1435 Campbell, Duncan J., 758 Chabot, Lt.-Col., 988 Free wheat, 1435
Glen, Col. Joseph, payments to, 1377 Railway Act, The, 3520, 3550 Railway transportation for members of Parliament, 3520 Smith's Falls postmaster, 1570 Taxation of business profits, 1432
Cunningham, Frances Henry, payments to, 1125
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Companies, incorporation of, 5926, 5928 Criminal Code amendments, Jurors, 4299 Dominion Lands Act Amendment, 3801, 3805-3817
France, trade relations -with, 2310, 2316 Gordon Divorce Bill, 5498, 5905 Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company Branch Lines Company, 1375 Imperial Preference, 1584 Loans to farmers, 1965 Martell, Lt. L. A., 5914 Military Service Classes, 3293, 3356
Exemptions, 3221, 3228, 3279; 3304, 3367 General provisions, 3243, 3252 Great Britain, in, 2908 Regulations, 3316
Reinforcements, need of, 2904, 2915 Selective draft, 2916 O'Connor, Mr. W. F., report of, 3752 Packages, marking of-inspection and sale,-4069
Parliament, printing of, 5949, 5950
Pensions, 6008
Railway Act, The, 3548
Rifles, importations of, 1125
Rural mail carriers, 3643
Shipbuilding, 1584, 5449
Soldiers,
Parcels for, 3644 Returned, 1586 Votes for, 4775, 4832 Widows of, 3805 ' Steyner public building, 5412 Taxation, proposals of the Government, 2912
Telegraphs and telephones, 3548 War
Canada's part in the, 2906 Prosecution of, 1576	-
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Currie, General, despatch from, 4510 Customs
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Dismissals, 1844
Estimates, 643, 1843, 1881, 5098, 5777 Motor boats in use by, 3759 Motor car of, 1476 North Sydney officials, 1852 Staff and salaries, 643, 1843, 5908, 5777 See also Civil Service Drawbacks, payments of, 1818 Forms, printing of in French and English, 3133, 3134
Minister of, private car for, 5082 Preventive service, 1881 Revenue cruisers, 1881 Unclaimed goods, disposal of, 3743
Customs Act Amendment Bill
Duties payable on Crown's goods. Res., 1978. lr., 1985.	2r., 2119. Com., 2121.
Rep., 2136.	3r., 2137
Customs Tariff,
Alcohol, proposed free admission for hospital use, 5103 Apples, 1472, 1615 Bags and sacks, 1867 Beans for seed, 671 Bran and middlings, 1867 British preference, proposed increase, 1776 Crown, goods of the, dutiable. See Customs Act Amendment Bill Farm implements, 1686, 1708 Fertilizer, 1709
Food, proposed additions to the free list, 1776-1790 Gasolene, 1675 Hospital supplies, 5103 Imperial Munitions Board imports, 1978 Provincial governments, duties payable by, See Customs Act Amendment Bills
Dagneau, John F., position of, 1471 Dairying. See Agriculture Dalhousie, N.B., militia buildings, 454 Danis, Joseph Maximilian, employment of, 2618
Davidson, Mr. Avard L. (Annapolis)
Army, soldiers, voting of, 4709, 4712, 4772 Carroll, Dieut. W. F„ M.P., 6066 Douglas, Captain J. M., M.P., 6066 Ellis, Captain J. F„ M.P.P., 6066 Neely, Captain D. B., M.P., 6066 Nova Scotia public works, 5320 Ralston, Major J. D„ M.P.P., 6067 Schaffner, Mr. D. P., dismissal of, 441 Taxation, income, 4136 Telegraph and telephone lines, 5376 War-time Elections Bill, 5733, 5737
Davidson, Hon. Sir Charles, Kt., Commissioner
Payments to, 898 Report of, 249, 524
Davies Company. See Food: Investigation Dawson post office, 4952, 5313 Daylight Saving Bill, lr., 2C56; 2r., 2945, 3677; com., progress reported, 3687 Dean, Lieutenant R. I., position of, 5703 Decoders. See Censors
" Defeat or Victory," book, question as to prohibition of, 1473
Defence of Canada. See Militia and Defence
Delisle, Mr. Michel S. (Portneuf)
Chicoutimi, pure bred animals at, 4152 Desertions from army, 338 Dillon, Mr. G. A., 4061 Dorchester County Railway, 5361 Fiset, Theophile, 1959 Gazelle, Noel, enlistment of, 337 Grenier, Mr. Armand, 3757 Lacasse, Mr. Isidore, 5272 Lewis, Mr. J. H., 2944 Military Service Bill, 3064 Transcontinental railway, Portneuf claims, 1571
157th Battalion, 5272
Demers, Mr. M. Joseph (St. John and Iberville)	,
Auditor General's report, 1469 Canadian Northern Railway acquisition of, 5078
Military Sendee Bill, 2561
Authority of Parliament, 2561 Motives of the Government, 2563 Referendum proposals, 2567 Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees (Mr. J. H. Rainville)
Address to Mr. Viviani, 1361 Election of, 334	-
Rulings and statements of
Bills-Sections allowed to stand not discussable, 4752
Censored publications, quotations in Parliament from, 5493 Irrelevancy, 2362, 2374, 5235, 5237 Money vote, how amendable, 521 Ways and means, second amendment to motion for, 1319
Descarries, Mr. Joseph A. (Jacques Cartier) Address in reply to the Governor General's speech, 12
Tributes to deceased members, 13 The Allies' part in the war, 14 Conscription, 14	.
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Dominion Canners Company, 1105, 1289 Dominion Day; fiftieth anniversary. Sea Confederation
Dominion Lands Act Amendment Bills
General (No. 107, Mr. Roche), lr., 2832. 2r., 3793. Com., 3793
Patents (No. 12, Mr. McCraney), lr., 159. Withdrawn, 1157 Dominion Lands and Parks
Animals in, 1359 Estimates, 1344, 4917 Forest reserves, 1349 Officials, 1675 See Parks
Dominions, overseas, constitutional relations of, 1528, 1531
Dominions Royal Commission, 599, 2338 Donaldson, Mr. Samuel J. (Prince Albert) Army camps, sale of liquor in, 816 Dorchester county election, 92. Ill, 120, 146, 173, 208, 255, . 293 Dorchester County Railway, 5361 Dorchester, N.B.
Penitentiary. See Penitentiaries Wharf, 3874
Douglas, Mr. James M. (Strathcona)
Apples, duty on, 1472, 1715
Army, forestry battalions, 3950
Dominion Lands Act amendment, 3805
Flour, price of, 5211
Gasolene, duty on, 1675
Grain
Elevators, 3705 Wheat, fixing of price of, 3705 Military Service Bill, 3051 Patriotic Fund allowances, 3952 Tariff revision, 1714 War-time Elections Bill, 5604 Douglas, Captain J. M., position of, 6066 Drake, steamship, duty on cargo of, 4245 Dredging. See Public Works Dropped order. See Parliamentary Procedure Drummond, T. J., steamer, 669, 4925, 4939 Dry Dock Subsidies Act Amendment Bill. Res., 4455. lr., 5771.	2r., 5887. Com.,
5915.	3r„ 5918
Dubreuil, Mr., dismissal of, 3635 Dussault, Mr. Albert, employment of, 457 Dynamite outrages
Arrests in Montreal, 5423 Atholstan, Lord, 5423 Bigras, GedOon, 5360 East Bay wharves, 5315 Eaton, Ernest, enlistment of, 3419 Volume I:	1-1124.
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Edmonton, enlistments, 336. 3373 Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia Railway, subsidy to, 4925 Edson, Alta., population of, 1816 Edward VII, monument to His late Majesty, 3897
Edwards, Mr. J. W. (Frontenac)
Address in reply to the Governor General's Speech, 204 The war, 204
Political patronage in purchase of war supplies, 205
Patriotic Fund separation allowances, 207
Military appointments, 207 Maritime Province elections, 207 The Dorchester compaign, 208 Recruiting in Quebec. 213, 221 Statements of the leader of the Opposition, 218, 220
Naval policy of Liberal party, 219 Extension of term of Parliament-votes for soldiers, 223 National ideals, 224 Bran and shorts, duty on. 1875 Budget, 1209
The record of the Liberal party, 1209 Canada's trade, 1211 Free wheat, 1212 Vessels for carrying flour, 1213 Free trade, 1214 Scarcity of food, 121G Improvement of highways, 1217 The leader of the Opposition, 1219 Proposed general election, 1220 Cattle, British embargo on, 922 Censorship, 5943 Dorchester county election, 208 Experimental farms, 2055 Food, scarcity of, 712, 1216 Free wheat, 1212 Gordon Divorce Bill, 5500 High cost of living, 712, 1216 Highways, improvement of, 1217 Home defence recruiting officers, 3134 Horses, glandered, 2056 House of Commons stenographers, 5789 Immigration agents, 4914, 5361 Judges' salaries, 5799. See, under this head. Supreme Court
Lavergne, Mr. Armand, 2619	~
Mail clerks, French-speaking, 5272 Military districts Nos. 3 and 10, 455 Military service, 2715, 3221 National service cards, 667, 713
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Post office signs-language in which written, 5999 Potatoes, 5987 Pugsley, Lieut. J. A., 4895 Quebec and military service, 2719-2728 Recruiting, 213, 221, 569 Rural mail routes, 1959 Shipbuilding, 1213, 1670 Soldiers
Pay and pensions of, 3216, 6012 Voting of, 223, 4807, 4895 Storage elevators, 2099
Supreme Court-allowance to Chief Justice, 6049
Taxation of wealth, 2728 Unclaimed bank balances, 1010 Votes for soldiers, 223, 4807 War-time Elections Bill. 5570, 5678, 5742, 5873
Eggs, imports and exports of, 1573 Elaine, steamer, 1379 Elevators. See Grain.
Ellis, Captain J. F., position and pay of, 6066 Elrose, Sask., mail service, 899.
Elliot, Mr. George A. (North Middlesex) Soldiers, votes for, 1387 Emigration
Restrictions on Canadians of military age, 1726, 1775
United States, to, 987, 3285 See also Immigration Esquimalt dock yards, 5915 Estevan, Canadian Government Steamship, purchase of provisions for, 4923 Estimates. See titles of Departments and subjects
Ethier, Mr. J. A. C. (Two Mountains) Canadian Northern Railway, acquisition of, 5019, 5112
Food requirements, 2869 Military service, 2863	[DOT]
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Excise. See Inland Revenue Expeditionary force. See Army Experimental farms. See Agricult-ure.
Faguy, Gaudiose. dismissal of, 2284 False Creek dredging, 900, 1126 Farm labour. See Labour '
Farmers
Employment of soldiers by, 1677 Loans to. See Bank Act Amendment Bill Western, relief for. See Grain Farmers Bank
Depositors, proposed reimbursement of, 4508	[DOT]
Shareholders of, 301
Farming industry, development of, 1776, 1786.
See also Agriculture Fiddlers See "The Fiddlers"
Finance
Debt of Canada, 347 Department
Estimates, 578, 1790, 6289 Staff and salaries, 1796, 5289 Gold, handling of, 1796 Income and expenditure of Canada, 274, 718, 723, 745, 846
Interest. See Interest Act Amendment Bill Loans
Dominion, $100,000,000
Cost of issue, 342, 435, 4957 Proceeds from, 4416, 4621. See Public Service Loan Bill
Farmers, to. See Bank Act Amendment Bills
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, 5292 Quebec harbour. See that title Fiset, Theophile, payments to, 1959 Fish and fisheries Advisory Board, 2151 Bait, 2036
Bounties to fishermen, 457 Canneries
Licenses for operation of, 3399 See Meat and Canned Foods Act Amendment Bill and Fisheries Act Amendment Bill
Committee on supply of, 3400 Department
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Inspection, 2035
Inspector Fisher, 2170 Investigation of problems, 5288 Laws, violation of, 2389 Licenses, 2051, 2182 Lobsters, 2049, 2117, 2154, 4171, 5425 Marketing, 2037, 2042 Ministry of, proposed, 2026 Officers, 2151, 2157, 2161 Oysters, 2174 Patrol service, 2183 Protection service, 4163, 4166, 4170 Salt for curing purposes, 1027, 1319, 1373, 2044, 2290, 3556 Sardine fisheries, 4168 Telephone method of fishing, 2176 Transportation, 2031, 2042, 3392, 3556, 4933 Trawlers, steam, 300 Whitefish, 2159
Fisheries Act Amendment Bill. Res, 2116. lr„ 2118. 2r„ 2149. Ref, to Com., 2149. Com., 3399.	3r., 3400
Fisher, Mr. John H. (Brant)
Recruiting in Paris and Burford, 601 Soldiers, votes for, 1386 Flags on public buildings, 4146 Flavelle, Sir Joseph, letter from, 2956, 4010 See O'Connor and Food Flax industry, 4683 Flour. See Grain Food
Adulteration of, 2337 Bacon and lard, 3915, 5274 Beef, exports and imports of, 1574 Butter. See Agriculture Cheese. See Agriculture Control of, 108, 695, 1304, 1313, 1427, 1989, 2076, 2471, 2509, 2580, 3045, 3744 Australia, in, 963 Prices, 3918 Sugar, 1992 Controller
Appointment, 2433
Office and assistants, 3502, 4413, 4414, 4244
Powers of. 3943 See also Food Products Eggs, exports and imports of, 1573 Fish, committee on supply of, 3400 Flour, 700, 1868, 5207
Prices and profits, 1039, 1088, 5085
Food-Con.
Investigations of Mr O'Connor:
Report of, 3652, 3914; inquiry into, 3914, 3744, 4243
Maple sugar and syrup, 1958 Order in Council re sale of, 1273 Packages and containers of, 4065, 4070 Potatoes, 702, 2095. See Agriculture Prices and supply of Flour, 700 Sugar, 695
See, under this title, Control and Controller Scarcity of. 1216 Sugar, 695, 1957
Supply of, arrangements with British Government, 2260
See also Meat and Canned Foods Aci Amendment Bill; Grain; Inspection and Sale Act Amendment Bill Forestry
Poplar, conservation of, 3742 Timber, protection of, 1349 White pine, blister rust, 4677 Fortier, Mr. Edmond (Lotbinierc)
Burke, Col. Rev. A. E., 5704 Customs, private car for Minister of, 5082 McLeod-Tellier Commission, 3418 Military service, 3067
Public Works Department,-automobile purchase, 2480
Foster, Mr. A. De Witt, government employ of, 303
Foster, Rt. Hon. Sir Gecrge E. (Minister of Trade and Commerce)
Balfour, Rt. Hon. A. J., visit to Canada and to House of Commons, 613 Board of Grain Supervisors for Canada, 2236, 3692	.
Boards of Trade Act, 3657 Canada Temperance Act, 1263 Canada Year Book, 2337 Civil Service-employment of men in higher offices, 1260 Coal, supply of, 4064, 4788 Confederation, fiftieth anniversary of, 1865 Connaught, the late Duchess of, 609 Daylight saving, 2356, 2945, 3677 Dominions Royal Commission, 599, 2338 France, trade relations with, 597, 2309	.
Fuel controller, appointment of, 2235 Grain
Breweries and distilleries, for, 1185 Congestion in the West, 340 Elevators, 2334, 3707, 3710, 3689 Prices, fixing of, 3689, 4564 Hay, inspection and grading of, 3402 Industrial and scientific research, 5276 Joffre, General-visit to Canada, 613
Yukon, in, 2237 See also Grain.
Imports and exports of, 1573 Inspectors, 607
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Military service, 2404 Oil bounties, 2329
Packages, marking of,-inspection and sale, 4065
Parliament
Extension of term of, 3461 Sessions of, expenses of, 1262 Pay and Records Office, 1355 Pensions, 6007 Railway Act, 3717
Referendum on military service, 2410 Research Council Bill, 2357, 3905, 3957 Salt for fish curing, 2290 Scientific and industrial research, 3905, 3957
Secretary of State Department estimates, 3737
Shipbuilding, 1337, 5436 Soldiers, returned, care of, 1590 Steamship service, 2285, 2323 Submarine situation, 1335 Technical education, 1244 Trade and Commerce Commissioners and agents, 2326 Department estimates, 1835, 2285, 2323, 3687, 5205, 5275 United States Declaration of war by, 610 Tariff, changes in, 1264 Viviani, M„ address to, 1366 War
Charities. 5489 Prosecution of, 1583 Supplies-munitions contracts, 5529 War-time Elections Bill, 5853 Wealth, conscription of, 3462 Zinc bounties, 2330 Foster parents
See Criminal Code Amendment Bills Fotheringham, Surgeon General J. T., report Of, 4059 France
Exhibitions project with Canada, 2260 Food supplies for, 2310 Railway material for, 310, 335, 1229, 1266, 1372, 1473, 1474, 1615, 1628, 1690, 1820, 3407, 3409, 5293
Trade relations with, 597, 2307, 2309 Visit of Prime Minister to, 1536 Franchise <
See War-time Elections Bill; Military Voters' Bill; Woman suffrage Frank, Alta., moving of residences at, 4919 Fraser river channel improvements, 1126 Free wheat See Grain Freight rates See Transportation French Army manoeuvres, attendance of Canadian officers at, 6219
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Surplus, purchases of, 1126 Telegram from Non-Partisan League, on, 4512, 4564, 4661 United States tariff on, 1342 Grande Prairie immigration hall, 1575, 1817 Grand Trunk Pacific Branch Lines Company Bills
1.	Bill No. 33 (Mr. Currie) lr., 585; -withdrawn, 667
2.	Bill No. 41 (Mr. Currie) lr., 843; 2r., 896;
com., 1375; 3r„ 1445 Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
Financial statements respecting, 4058 Loan to, 5292
Removal of rails from, 5293 Report of Drayton-Acworth Commission, 4011
Gravel, Lieut. GedOon, 1674 Gravelle, Mr. Oscar, position of, 1226 Great Britain, military service in, 2908 See Army Act
Great War Veterans Association, 1574
Green, Mr. Robert F. (Kootenay)
Railway Act, The, 3514, 3542, 3545 Telegraphs, provisions governing, 3542
Grenier, Mr. Armand, employment of, 3757 Grey, Ambrose, employment of, 1818 Grilse, H.M.C.S., 4563 Grosse Isle quarantine station, 5306 Guthrie, Mr. Hugh (South Wellington)
Bags and sacks, duty on, 1873 Bran and shorts, 1874
Canadian Northern Railway, acquisition of, 5035
Coalition government, 2463 Enlistment, voluntary, 2454 Gordon Divorce Bill, 5502, 5903 Grain for breweries and distilleries, 1179 Military service, 2452
Personal, attitude respecting, 3721 Tribunals, 3300 Soldiers
Returned, care of, 470 Voting of, 4410 Tariff revision, 1780 Taxation
Income, 1783, 2453 Wealth, 2453
War-time Elections Bill, 5598 Windsor immigration officer, 2357 Guysborough public building, 5914 Gwatkin, General, administration of military affairs by, 4419
Halifax
Dry docks, 5915 Railway terminals, 2214
Halifax & Eastern Railway, contractors, 304 Hansard. See House of Commons Hants county apple inspectors, 1380
Harbours. See Public works
Hardy, Lieut. M. R., employment of, 4509
Harris, Capt. R. V., position of, 5422
Hay, inspection and grading of, 3402
See Inspection and Sale Act Amendment Bill
Hazen, Hon. J. D. (Minister of Marine and Fisheries)
Army	.
French front, visit to, 1563 Pensions, 1610 Wet canteens, 1561
British Admiralty, recruiting for, 4163 Coal, transportation of, 4791 Dry docks, 5887 Fish and fisheries
Advisory Board, 2151 Canneries, 2117, 3399 Department
Appointments, 2149 Estimates, 2149 Dogfish, 2176 Exhibit at Toronto, 2033 Herring, 2036 Inspection, 2035
. Lobsters, packing of, 5426 Ministry of, proposed, 2030 Officers, 2163 Transportation, 2031 White fish. 2159
Fisher, Mr. Ward, appointment of, 2170 Fisheries Act Amendment Bill, 3399 Gwatkin, General, 4426 Imperial War Conference, 1556 Lake of the Woods water level, 4178 Live stock, shipments, inspection of, 1842 Marine Department, estimates, 1815, 1836, 1881, 1912
Meat and Canned Foods Act, 2114, 3400 Minto, steamer, food supplies for, 2175 Naval Service Department, estimates. 4157 Ocean Telegraph Act, 2024, 2108 Overseas Military Forces, Minister of, 4426 Public Works Department estimates, 5890 Pugsley, Mr, statement of, 5274 Quebec harbour advances, 435, 577 Royal Naval College, 4163 St John harbour, 4187, 5892 Shipbuilding, 1557, 1665, 1912, 4164_______
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Carriage on government railways, 591 James Simmonds Co., 5122 Labourers from the United States, 1193 Machine guns, 452
Magdalen islands steamship service, 2302 McQueen, Lieut. W. A.. 4508 Military District No. 0, 5237 Military service, 2971 Referendum, 2977 Moffatt, Lieut. R. J., 5361 Potatoes
Marketing of, 5989 Powdery scab, 2269 Prince Edward Island Medical officers, 4563
Patriotism of men of the province, 2974 Railway, widening of, 3902, 3945 Steamship service, 660, 3954 Princess Louise Fusiliers officers, 5271 Quebec, recruiting in, 2972, 2977 Ross rifle, 235 Shipbuilding, 1335 Souris breakwater, 3871 Steamship services, 2326
United Mine Workmen of Nova Scotia, 802 War-time Elections Bill, 5664 Hughes, Sir Sam (Victoria, Ont.)
Address in reply to the Governor General's Speech, 253
Appreciation of British military assistance, 253
Personal attitude and policy, 254, 271 Col. Armand Lavergne, 256 Dorchester campaign, 255 Canadian troops in the South African war, 256
Troubles in administration of military affairs, 256
Status of Canadian forces, 259 Military equipment, 262 Appointment of General Steele, 264 Method of purchasing war supplies, 265 Disposition and command of Canadian forces, 268 Recruiting, 269
Canadian industries and the war, 270 Army
Badges of identification, 5953 Canteens, 808
Enlistment, voluntary, 2434-2449 Medical service, 537, 4199, 4466 Recruiting
Correspondence with Prime Minister, 3090
Officers in Quebec, 3135 Rejected men, 3099___________ __________
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Irish, Mr. Mark, statements of, 2707
Lesvsard, General, 368
Maclean, Mr. A. K., statements of, 2777
Military equipment, 262
Military service, 3135
Authority of Canada, 2435 Classes, calling out by, 3137 Compulsion, advantages of, 2438 Correspondence with Prime Minister, 2434, 2446, 2449 Labour, requirements of, 2441 Recruiting, alleged retarding of, 2442 Officers
Reversion in rank-pay in such cases, 5423
Unemployed, 573
Overseas Military Forces, Minister of, 4198, 4207, 4419, 4422, 4444 Administrative staff, 4956, 4959 Pay and Records Office, 3106 Recruiting, 269, 366, 379
Correspondence with Prime Minister, 2446
Lessening of, reasons for, 2442 Resignation of, 602 Ross rifle, 416, 480-493, 2451 Steele, General, appointment of, 264 Von Donop, Stanley, 523 War supplies, method of purchasing, 265 Hughes, Brig.-Gen. W. S., position of, 5361 Hyde, Mr. J. W., position of, 301 Hydrographic surveys, 4173 Immigration
Agents, 1737, 1754
Clergymen and priests employed as, 5361 Montreal, 5122 Quebec, 5122
United States, in, 4914, 5361 Chinese. See Chinese Immigration Act Amendment Bill
Department, estimates, staff and salaries, 4914
Deportation and rejection, 803 Figures, 803
Forms, printing of in French, 899, 3133, 3134
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French-Canadians in the United States, 4914
Hindu, 1763 Inspection, 803
Military service, exemption of immigrants from, 1572 Officers
Salaries, 2245 Windsor, at, 2357 Quarantine stations, 5306, 5312 Regulations, 372, 525 Regulations, Chinese immigration, 447 Rejection of undesirables at N. B. ports, 454
Rimouski, immigrants landed at, 4151 United Slates, from, 1739, 1747 See also Emigration
Imperial Munitions Board
Clerks, 305
Construction of ships by, 1661, 1663, 1913 Imports, 1978 Labour. 1985 Employees, 5271
Imperial preference, 1532, 1584
Imperial War Cabinet and Imperial War Conference
Adjournment of Parliament, 117, 596, 603 Announcement of meeting, 42 Attendance of Canadian Prime Minister, 597, 603, 1525
Correspondence with Colonial Secretary, 5, 24
Minutes of, extracts from, 2354 Proceedings of, 1525 Cattle embargo, 1535 Dominions overseas, constitutional relations of, 1528, 1531
Development and control of natural resources, 1532 Imperial preference, 1532 India, representation of, soldiers' graves, 1534
References to, 15, 24, 42, 148, 294 Statements by British Prime Minister, 2354 Statement by Mr. Hazen, 1556
Imperial War Graves Commission, 1534
Income War Tax Bill. Res., 3765. lr., 3793. 2r„ 4070. Com., 4070, 4102, 4124.	3r.,
4638. Senate amdts., 5475; no precedent, 5476, 5883; amendment proposed: Mr. Pardee, 4639; ruled out, 4648
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Mr. W. H. Bennett
Bill No 45; lr., 1037; -withdrawn, 1157 Bill No. 50; lr., 1568
Intercolonial Railway. See Canadian Government Railways
Interest Act Amendment Bill, lr., 2569. 2r.f 3401. Com., 3401.	3r., 3402
Interest on judgments, 900
Interior Department
Appointments to under section 21, 1351 Calgary offices, 668 Estimates, 652, 1344, 1735, 4916 Expenditure, 1344
French-speaking employees of, 2340 Orders in Council relating to, 6000 Political activity of employees, 2349 Internal Economy Commission, 45 International Fisheries Commission, 892 International surveys, 1735 Interprovincial bridges, 3888 Intoxicating liquors
Army camps, in See Army Manufacture and sale of, 454 Prohibition of, 2008
See also "The Fiddlers" and Canada Temperance Act
Prosecutions for sale of, 1575 Sale of. 3818
See also Provincial Prohibitory Legislation
Inverness harbour improvements, 5325 Irish-Canadian Rangers. See Army Jack, Mr. E. Bryden, position of, 4508 Jaffray, Mr. J. P., position of, 4062 Jails. See Penitentiaries Jameson, Mr. Clarence (Digby)
Fisheries, proposed ministry of, 2026 Military Service Bill, 2969 Soldier Settlement Board, 3784 Technical education, 1243 James Simmonds Co., The, purchase of goods from, 5122
Jamesville breakwater, 5328 Jenkins, Lieut.-Col. S. R., duties and pay of, 5422
J off re, General, 613
Judges Act Amendment Bill. Res., 1973. lr., 1978.	2r„ Com., 2136.	3r., 2137. Sen.
amdt., 5954, 6062 Judgments, interest on, 900
See Interest Act Amendment Bill Justice
Administration of, 1805 Baugh, Edward Levi, case of, 1814
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Department, estimates, 1805, 6097. 6794, 5896, 6033, 6049 Exchequer Court Cases, 335 Expenses, 1811 Publications, 5804 Judges
Appointment of, 1806 Provincial commissions, on, 593 Salaries, 1973, 5798, 5954 Saskatchewan and Ontario, 1973 Yukon, 5896
Minister of, payments to, 898, 1225 Provincial legislatures, powers of, 1807, 1811 Supreme Court, Chief Justice of, special allowance to, 6049 Kay, Mr. William F. (Missisquoi)
Ballots for overseas forces, 452 Food Controller's office,employees, 3502 Foster, Mr. A. De Witt, 303 Fuel Controller, staff of, 4245 Oleomargarine, prohibition of, 304 Parliament buildings, marble for, 2833 War profits and income tax-cost of collection, 4686
Kelly, Thomas, treatment of in penitentiary, and release of, 896, 4926, 5273, 5794 Kemp, Sir Edward (Minister of Militia and Defence)
Army
Camps, sale of liquor in, 815 Discharges, 3096 Enlistments Total, 3098 Voluntary, 3381 Forestry battalions, 3950 Medical service, 3967 Officers
Pay of, 1628
Retention of on leave, 5902 Salutes to, 5425 Surplus, 3103
Pay and Records office staff, 3104 Rejected men, 3099 Soldiers
Behaviour of, 5235 Personal requests concerning, 4203 Separation allowances, 4203 Civil servants, enlisted, pay and separation allowances to, 663 Expeditionary Force, disposition of, 2356 Home defence campaign, 2628 Irish-Canadian Rangers, 195 Lens, valour of Canadian soldiers at, 5195 Military service, 2620, 3239 Classes, 3357
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Canadians in Imperial forces, to. 4688 Prisoners of war, 666
Money orders and parcels for, 714 Recruiting, 562
British subjects in the United States, 2482
Quebec, in, 2626
War affairs, Government, administration of, 3381
War Purchasing Commission, purchases by, 341
156th Battalion, 523
Kentville armoury
Caretaker, 4509 Militia stores, 4510
Knight, Mr. N. H. R., position of, 4952
Knowles, Mr. William E. (Moosejaw)
Army
Officers' wives, passports for, 3996 Soldiers, votes for, 4690, 4806, 4877 Budget, 887 Free wheat, 889
Canada Grain Act, proposed amendment, 2954
Canadian Government railways Private cars, 4938
Intercolonial, appointment of officials. 659 Canadian Northern railway, acquisition of, 4637, 5022
Civil Service salaries, 2946 Coal, shortage of, 2294 Western supply of, 4621 Coalition government, 2901 Daylight saving, 3686 Farming industry, development of, 1787 Flax industry, 4683 Flour prices, 5214 Food control, 2002 Free wheat, 889 Gordon Divorce Bill, 549S Immigration
Chinese and Hindu, 2141 United States, from, 1742 Indians, British Columbia Commission, 653 Industrial and scientific research, 5277 Inland Revenue Department estimates, 2371-2381
Knowles, Mr. W. E.-Con.
Intercolonial railway, appointment of officials, 659
Interior Department employees, political activities of, 2350
Legislators, free transportation for, 4935 Military service, 2895 Date of second reading of Bill, 2322 Referendum, 2900 Senate amendments, 4665 Mining industry, 657 Moosejaw, enlistments at, 5122 Moosejaw News, patronage, 2708 Mounted Police, Royal Northwest, 4670 Postal clerks, salaries, 2708 Prices, contract fixing of, 385, 1617 Public works expenditure, 5333 Racing meets, limitation of, 324 Renault, Raoul, appointment of, 2371 Seed grain, 4678 Collections, 2351
Shipbuilding, British Columbia, 4940 Tariff revision, 1785 Taxation, income, 4075, 4105 Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo railway, 2614	[DOT]
Toronto Telegram, statement of, 5085 Trade and Commerce Department, estimates, 2338 War charities, 5493
War-time Elections Bill, 5637, 5658, 5721, 5810, 5818, 6083
Kyte, Mr. George W. (Richmond)
Address in reply to the Governor General's Speech, 195
Appointment of Senators for Nova Scotia, 196
The high cost of living-war profits, 197 National Service Commission, 200 Resignation of ex-Minister of Militia, 201 Canadian Army Medical Service, 201 Separation allowances, 203 Political patronage in military affairs, 203 Army
Medical service, 201 Soldiers' assigned pay, 3224 Bear River post office site, 1378, 1569 Budget, 956 Free wheat, 956 Business profits, 959 High cost of living, 961 Control of foodstuffs in Australia, 963 Taxation of business profits, 965 Canadian Northern Railway, acquisition of, 4041, 5010, 5165 Censors at Louisburg, 4008, 4048 Civil Serice appointments, 647


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Coal, 1998
Shortage of, 1919
Cost of living. O'Connor Commission report, 700, 961, 3914, 4010 Flour, 1039 Food control, 961, 988 Customs Department officials. 5101 Dawson post office, 4952 Dredge Cape Breton, loss of, 596, 1024, 3881 East Bay wharves, 5315 False Creek dredging, 900, 1126 Fish and fisheries, 2050 Advisory Board. 2152 Dogfish, 2179 Officers, 2157, 2161 Flags on public buildings, 4146 Flint, Dr., retirement of, 6044 Flour, price of, 1039 Food control, 1998
Fraser river channel improvements, 1126 Gordon Divorce Bill, 5904 Heals station rifle range, 1573	^
Imperial Munitions Board Labour, 1985 Inland Revenue Department officials, 2377 Intercolonial railway - improvement of grades, 456 Judges' salaries, 1974 Leblanc, Dr. B. A„ 2283, 4416 Lewis machine guns, 590 Louisburg
Censors, 4008 Pilot Commissioners, 3677 Wireless station, 5122 Macdonald, Dr. J A., 2283 Mail contracts, 3636, 3639 Maritime Provinces military affairs, 5228 Military District No. 6, 5228 Military Hospitals Commission, 4243 Military service Exemptions, 5271 Tribunals, 3158
Militia Department estimates, 5221 National Service Commission, 200 Naval Service officers at Halifax, 6000 Neilly, Dr„ position of, 2707 Nova Scotia public works, 5315, 5324 O'Connor report, 4010
Ogilvie Flour Mills Company, Limiter, 1818, 2389, 3677
Ottawa Journal-Press-correction of statement, 3759
Pacific Dredging Company, 1126 Parliamentary secretaryships, 4211 Pensions, 6018
Point Tupper mail service, 3502 Pommery, Mr. Samuel, 4952 Port Malcolm wharf, 3866
Kyte, Mr. G. W.-Con.
Proportional representation, 915 Rainbow, H.M.C.S., sinking of vessels by,
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Recruiting, 2482
Returned soldiers, appointment of to gov-eernment positions, 6055 Richmond county medical officers, 3758 Ross rifle factory, taking over of by the Government, 663 Salt, shortage of, 3556 Shipbuilding, 5434 Steamship services, 2325 Sydney industrial sites, 3956 Taxation
Business profits, 965 Income, 4115, 5291
Telegraph and telephone lines, 5336 Turner, Mr. Harvey, 1469 Urquhart, Mr. Hector, 5367 Vancouver drill hall site, 456 War supplies
Munitions contracts, 5526 Purchase of, 4053 Waterford explosion, 5775 Women munitions workers, 4063 Yukon
Administrator, 5122 Commissioner, 3677
Labour
Attitude of on military service, 2426, 2488, 2451, 2604, 2663, 2795, 2871, 2958, 3725, 3732
Australian labour troubles, 698 Bureaus, 118 Chinese labourers, 2139 Conditions on munition work, 2492 Department administration, 1269
Assistant Deputy Minister, abolition of office of, 686
Estimates, 686, 1112, 1166, 1989, 3652 Staff and salaries, 686 See also Mines and Minerals, Coal Fair wages and inspection officers, 3652 Farm labourers from the United States, 665, 1193, 1740, 1747, 3504, 4512 Government elevators, claims by employees, 386
Imperial Munitions Board, 1985 Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1112, 1166, 1270
Military service, attitude to See under this head Attitude Strikes. See Coal and Thetford Brantford moulders, 2322 Sorel strike, 1912, 1935 Yukon miners, 3086 Thetford mines. See that title
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Imperial Munitions Board employees, 5271 Intercolonial railway, damage claims, 2707 Judges' salaries, 5801 Laporte, Mr. Hormidas, 4510 Military Service, 2962
National Service Commission employees, 4787
National Trust Company, directors of, 4685, 4417
Plaxton, Mr. C. P., 4416
Postmaster General, recruiting by, 4415
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Immigrants, landing of, at, 4151 Medical officers, 4509 Public works employees, 4244 War measures, 525 War Veterans Association, 1574 Wealth, conscription of, 2965
Landry, Mr. Justice, findings of, 3109, 3609, 4512, 524S
Lapointe, Mr. E. (Kamouraska)
Civil Service employment of men in higher offices, 1260
Dussault, Albert, employment of, 457 Exchequer Court Act Amendment Bill, 1422 Inland Revenue Department estimates and officials, 361, 2364, 3825 Military service	.
Contraventions of Act, 3341 Exemptions, 3304, 6002 Voluntary enlistment, 2514 Referendum proposals, 2521 Provisions of the Militia Act, 2519 Quebec's position, 2515 Murray Bay railway service, 617 Quebec, available men for military service in, 3255
Riviere Ouelle-Murray Bay steamship service, 643
St. Roche Traverse light-keeper, 1378 Wrar-time Elections Bill, 5807 Women in the Civil Service, 1260
Lapointe, Mr. Louis A. (Montreal, St. James) Alcoholic liquors, revenue from sale and manufacture of, 304 Army-Soldiers, voting of, 4725 Bank Act amendment, 1037 Canadian Northern Railway acquisition of 5036
Grain, fixing of price of, 3704 Hansard, cfcst of, 607 Military Service, 2770 Exemptions, 2773, 3226, 3308
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Quebec electoral lists, 6002	.
Senate Hansard, cost of, 1571 War-time Elections Bill, 5621, 5639, 5722, 5741, 5759, 5865
Laporte, Mr. Hormidas, payments to, 4510
Latchford, Ont., plant and buildings, sale of, 5706
Laurentian, steamer, 4563
Laurier, Rt. Hon. Sir Wilfrid (Quebec, East) Address in reply to, the Governor General's Speech, 17
Canada's Governor General, 17 The war situation, 18 German peace proposals, 19 Our soldiers at the front, 20 Laxity of present administration, 20 Control of our military forces, 20 Equipment of Canadian troops, 23 The fiftieth Anniversary of Confederation, 24
Imperial War Conference, 24 Amqui-St. Leonard mail contract, 3903 Army
Camps, sale of liquor in, 813 Control of, by Canada, 20 Discharges, 3111 Equipment, 23 Recruiting
Quebec, in, 2395 Retarding of, 3094 Rejected men, 3101 Soldiers, voting of, 2403, 3727 Army Act, regulations, 3111 Balfour, Rt. Hon. A. J., address to, 1772 Canadian Northern Railway acquisition of, 4216, 4625, 4635, 5128 Capital punishment, 622 Coalition government, 3727
Correspondence with Sir Robert Borden, 2690
Confederation, fiftieth anniversary of, 24 Connaught, the late Duchess of, 610 Daylight saving, 3681 Defence of Canada, 358 Fisheries protection service, 4166 Galt, Mr. Justice Report of, 2057
Rogers, Hon. Robert, criticism of, by, 599 Government Railways Act amendment, 4384 Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Branch Lines Company, 1375
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Speaker's quarters, 5784 Imperial War Conference, 24 Adjournment of Parliament, 118 Visit of Prime Minister to, 1542 Insurance, 3848 Intoxicating liquor, 4397 Landry, Mr. Justice, report of, 4152, 5250 Mace, vote of thanks to donors of, 1469 McLeod-Tellier Commission, 2357, 5245 Members, deceased, tributes to, 4 Migratory birds, 3657 Military Service, 3111, 3254 Appeals, 3177 Board of Selection, 5084 Burden of Proof, 3319 Classes, 3132, 3140
Conscription, need of, considered, 2396 Contraventions of Act, 3324, 3337 Exceptions, 3559 Exemptions, 3207, 3362 Labour, attitude of, 3725 Men, available, 3724 Parliament, power of, 2392, 3723 Persons liable for service, 3116 Quebec enlistments, 2398 Referendum, 2403, 3721, 3728 Senate amendments, 4663 Tribunals, 3149, 3165, 3296, 3575, 5880 Votes for soldiers, 3727 Mounted Police, Royal Northwest, 4668 National Service Commission, 309 Newsprint paper, 757
Overseas Military Forces, Minister of, 4195 Parliament
Extension of term of, 2396, 3420, 3484 Printing of, 5950, 5952 Parliamentary secretaryships, 4195, 4206 Pelagic Sealing Treaty, claims under, 5972 Point of order-Hon. Robert Rogers' reference to Mr. Justice Galt, 599 Prisoners, proposed enlistment of, 1014 Quebec and Saguenay Railway purchase and completion of, 303 Quebec harbour advances, 435 Railway Act, the, 606
Railway material, removal of to France, 310, 1372
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Hindus, of, 1763, 2144 Japanese, of, 2144
Indians-Caughnawaga hospital, 1886 Inland Revenue Department Estimates, 3831 Officials, 3817 Montreal, at, 758
Insurance of war risks, 3557, 3589 Intercolonial railway, cars, shortage of, 1378
Intoxicating liquor Prohibition of, 4401 Sale of, 3819
Jack, Mr. E. Bryden, 4508 Kelly, Thomas, 4926, 5794 Labour bureaus, 118 Laval, steamer, 1470 Lessard, General, 363, 2055 Levis railway, station, 2203 Magdalen Islands Cable service, 5408 Steamship service, 2303 Mail matter, registration of. 668 Matane Harbour light, 1575 McWilliams, Mr., dismissal of, 2167 Military service
Burden of proof, 3318 Contraventions of Act, 3329 Enlistment - Canada compared with United States and France, 2463 Exceptions, 3560 Exemptions, 3131 Insurance of soldiers, 3557, 3589 Militia Act, provisions of, 2465 Persons liable to serve, 3117 Pledges of government, 2467 Quebec's position, 2473, 3137 Referendum, 2478 Regulations, 3316 Tribunals, 3158
Mining industry, development of, 4181 Mitchell, Private J. F„ death of, 1377 Montreal postmaster, 523, 581 O'Connor, Mr. W. F„ report of, 3746 Overseas Military Forces, Minister of, 4202, 4420, 4442 Parcel post, 2075
Parliamentary secretaryships, 4202, 4207, 4212, 4420
Parliamentary sessions, expense of, 1262 Quebec harbour advances, 577 Improvements, 3879
Quebec, Montmorency and Charlevoix; Quebec and Saguenay, and Lotbiniere and Megantic Railways, 4848, 5454 Railway Act, The, 3514, 3716 Railway company, advance to, 2100
Lemieux, Hon. R.-Con.
Ross rifle, the, 137 Rouville county mail carrier, 508 Ste. Anne bridge, 3888 Sainte Luce, changing of name, 673 St. Malo railway buildings, 1128 Soldiers, postage on parcels for, 1263 Soldier Settlement Board, 1165 Steamship service, France, 2307 Sulphur, embargo on, 4889 Taxation
Income, 3776, 4071, 4086 Wealth, 2469
Technical education, 1229, 1252 Telegraph service, 2108, 2113 Thompson, Mr., employment of, 4008 Vaudreuil bridge, 3888 Victoria bridge toil rates, 672 War. prisoners of, 4194 War-time Elections Bill, 5550, 5633, 5641 Washington Conference, Canadian delegates to, 1127
West Indies, promotion of trade with, 2289 Wharves, 1944
Lens, valour of Canadian soldiers at, 5195 Lessard, General, position and services of, 363, 365, 368, 2055 Levis railway station, 1129, 2208 Lewis, Mr. J. H., position of, 2944 Life insurance. See Insurance Life saving. See Naval Service Liquor. See Intoxicating liquors Little Bras d'Or dredging, 3886 Live Stock. See Agriculture Live Stock and Produce Bill. Res., 4287. lr., 4292. Ref. to Com., 4417. Com., 5503. 3r„ 5514
Loans
Farmers, to. See Bank Act Amendment Bills
Public. See Finance Lockhart, Mr. Hugh, employment of, 1265 Lookport Cold Storage Company, 2202
Loggie, Mr. William S. (Northumberland. N.B.)
Budget, 1280
Reply to Mr. Crothers, 1280 Canada's contributions to the war, 1282 Taxation proposals, 1282 Freer trade policies, 1283, 1287 Free wheat, 1286
The Dominion Canners Company, 1289 Reply to Mr. Edward's criticism of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, 1290 Coalition Government, 2988
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Development of industry, 2047 Lobsters, 2049, 2155, 5426 Free wheat, 1286
Government railways, branch lines, 2223 Military Service, 29S4 Referendum, 2986 Recruiting, 380 Shipbuilding, 1929 Soldiers, voting of, 4778 Steamship service, 2311 Taxation
Business profits, 1645 Income, 40*69
Lord's Day Observance Act
Suggested suspension of, 936 Lotbiniere and Megantic Railway Completion and operation of, 4948, 5452 Louisburg
Pilot Commissioners, 3677 Wireless station at, 5122 Louisville post office, 899 Lovett, James, dismissal of, 453, 759 Loyal Orange Order, 85, 91 Macdonald, Mr. E. M. (Pictou)
Address in reply to the Governor General's Speech, 47
The fiftieth anniversary of Confederation, 47
Imperial War Conference, 47 The War, 48
The present Government and the war, 49 Extension of term of Parliament, 50 Canada's participation in wars of the Empire, 51 Recruiting, 51 Political patronage, 52, 55 Conscription, 54
Conditions in military hospitals, 54, 59 Administration of military affairs, 54 Government expenditures, 60 Th'e winning of the war, 61 Aeroplane service, 805, 844 Army
Allowances, separation, 336,	383, 387,
Camps and canteens, 535, 820, 1266 Canteen system in England, 718 Conscription, 54, 893
Criticism of military affairs, duty of the * Opposition, 571*
Enlistment of Canadians in the United States, 3758 Hospital No. 8, 1674 Irish-Canadian Rangers, 195, 458
Macdonald, Mr. E. M.-Con-Medical service, 527, 3962 Pensions, 84i5 Recruiting, 51, 360, 3*72 Advertising of, cost, 986 State of, 936 Unfit men, of, 697, 4006 United States, in, 3758, 3904 Soldiers
Farms, employment on, 1677 Medical treatment of, 3962 Voting of, 4692, 4704, 4729, 4741, 478-6, 4792, 4834, 4876, 4887	-
Army and Navy Veterans, 5911 Assistant Deputy Minister of Labour, suspension of, 688	.
Babtie, report, Dr. Bruce's reply to, 669 Bull, Mr. Perkins, 1130 Canadian -Government Railways Cars, purchase of, 4928 Coal purchases, 664, 667, 3388 LTnited States, in, 592 Employees Magazine, 452 Level crossing near Trenton, 304 Quebec and Saguenay, etc., 5460 Safety-first inspectors, 337 Steamers, purchase of, 669 See under this head Government Railways Amendment Act and Intercolonial Railway
Canadian Northern Railway acquisition of, 4030, 4283, 4544,- 4606-4618, 4628-4632, 4864, 4996, 5124 Carson, Major General, 986 Coal, Western mining of, 159, 614 Criminal Code amendments, jurors, 4296, 4322
Customs duties on goods of the Crown 1979, 1982
Dominions Royal Commission, 2-838 Emigration of Canadians, 987 Food control, 2001, 3744
Supplies for Great Britain, 2260 France, tracfe with, 2312 Gordon Divorce Bill, 5904 Government Railways Act amendment, 4339, 4366, 4386 Grain, 4679
Gwatkin, General, 4419 Heals station rifle range, 1675 High cost of living, 695, 3935 Hospitals, military, 54, 59 Hudson Bay railway expenditure, 900, 5088
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Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1123 Inland Revenue Department Estimates, 3825, 3827, 3833, 2842 Expenditure, 3380, 2'3S4 Officials, 2360 Intercolonial Railway Cars, 2226
Employees, promotion of, 779 Operation of, 776 Judges' salaries. 5955 Kentville armoury Caretaker, 4509 Militia stores, 4510 Kitsilano Indian reserve, 1129 Loan ($100,000,000), 4416, 4621 Lobster fishing, 2155, 5425 Master mariners, 4416
Medically unfit persons, certificates to, 5423 Military bands, 4044 Military service, 2947 Board of Selection, 2954 Contraventions of Act, 3339 Exemptions, 2955 Labour, attitude of, 2958 Quebec, position of, 2959 Referendum, 2961
Minto, steamship-food supplies, 2179 Munitions contracts, 4928 New Glasgow-Mountville mail service, 1037 O'Connor, Mr. W. F., report of, 3935 Overseas Military Forces, Ministry of, 4417, 4442
Overseas Militia Department, non-combat-, ant positions in, 4786 Parliament, extension of term of, 3478 Pelagic Sealing Treaty, claims under, 5958 Pensions, 6005-6033
Canadians in Imperial Forces, for. 4662 Pictou
Freight, handling of, at, 303 Marine and Fisheries agency, 304, 596, 1937
Rural mail routes, 900 Post Office Department, estimates, 2352 Prince Edward Island Car ferry, 2305 Freight for, 1037 Steamship service, 3389 Prisoners of war, 666
Provincial governments, duties payable by, 2119, 2129
Provincial legislatures, powers of, 1807 Public works expenditure, 1038 Railway Act, The, 3426, 3439, 3441 Railway Department, steamers purchased by, 669
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Robb, P.A., 1572 St. John harbour works, 5894 Scientific and industrial research, 3912 Senate, appointments to, 932 Shipbuilding, 802, 1325, 1341, 1914, 1934, 1661, 5430
Soldiers, votes for, 1393, 1399 Stellarton	.
Public building, 4951 Postmaster, 669, 897, 3758 Submarine situation, 1320, 1339 Taxation
Business profits, 1641 Income, 1652, 3775, 5884, 5886 Wealth, 3480
Taxation measures; Senate's power to amend denied, 5477 Technical education, 1241 Trade and Commerce, South America; 2331 United States
Labourers from, 665 Tariff, changes in, 1264 Vancouver Harbour Commissioners, 1575 Victoria Sealing Company, 5958	:
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War charities, 5482	,
War supplies
Munitions contracts, 5517 Political patronage in purchase of, 4050, 4053
Ross rifle, 477, 479 Trenton, contractors for, 303 Wealth, conscription of, 3480	,
Yukon territory, 1736 Macdonald, Dr. J. A., employment of, 2283 Macdonald, Mrs. Jessie, separation allowances to, 5361
Macdonell, Mr. A. C. (South Toronto) Military service, 2847
Parliament, authority of, 2848 Quebec situation, 2852 Referendum, 2849 Reinforcements, need of, 2853 Railway Act, The, 3433, 3533 Soldiers, voting of, 2850 Mace, presentation of, 1468 Machine guns. See War supplies
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Army, soldiers' pay, 3217 Beans for seed, duty on, 671 Cold storage plants, 1628, 2078 Flour, price of, 1063 Food control, 2087 Grain, congestion in the West, 340 Henderson, Mr. Geo. F., K.C., 4243 Hogs, inspection of, 2271 Cholera, 2273 Loans to farmers, 1965 Military service, 2785 Exemptions, 3218 Potatoes, supply of, 936 Titus, Private John, 2237 Tractor engines, duty on. 674 Training camps in Canada, 899 McCraney, Mr. Geo. E. (Saskatoon)
Alcohol for public institutions, 5103 Army, medical service, 3993 Budget, 949 Taxation, 951
Policies, after the war, 953 Canadian Northern Railway, acquisition of, 4551, 4633, 5174 Coal, western mining of, 2184 Dominion Lands Act Amendment Bills, 1157, 3805, 3811 Elrose mail service, 899 Fuel, 1417
Homestead patents, delay in, 3759 Immigrants-exemption from military service, 1572
Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1166 Military service, 2558 Enforcement, 2560 Exemptions, 1572, 3221, 3369 Referendum, 2559
Parliament, railway transportation for members of, 3519
Provincial legislators, free transportation for, 300, 683 Railway Act, The, 3519 Seed grain indebtedness, 302, 1126 Soldiers, returned, care of, 475 Soldier Settlement Board, 1164 Taxation, income, 3778, 4075, 4094, 4099 War-time Elections Bill, 5559, 5643-5702, 5712
McCrea, Mr. Francis N. (Sherbrooke)
Budget, 1300
Taxation of business profits, 1300 The pulp and paper industry, 1302 Flour, price of, 1069 Horses, purchases of pure bred, 2279 Military service, 3035
McCrea, Mr. F. N.-Con.
Potatoes supply of, 1087 Pulp and paper industry, 1302, 1464 Railway Act, The, 3444 Sherbrooke exhibition grounds. 302 Taxation, business profits, of, 1463 War-time Elections Bill, 5862 McCurdy, Mr. F. B. (Parliamentary Secretary, Department of Militia and Defence) "
Army camps, sale of liquor in, 833 Military Service Bill, 2890 Parliamentary secretaryships, 4210, 4450 War-time Elections Bill, 6085 McCutcheon, Stanley, dismissal of, 306 McGee, the late Thos D'Arcy, monument to 3899
Mclnnis, Mr. M. A., assistant to Fuel Controller, 5422
McKee, A. J., steamer, 669, 4925, 4939 McKenzie, Mr. Daniel D. (North Cape Breton)
Address in reply to the Governor General's Speech, 78, 83
The attitude of Nova Scotia, 79 Mai-administration of the present Government, 81, 89
Canada's duty in regard to the war, 80 Militia Department affairs and the late Minister, 82
Loyal Orange Order, 85 Political patronage in recruiting, 86 Voting of soldiers, 87 Representation of Cape Breton in the Senate, 89 Army
Camps, sale of liquor in, 826, 1567 Enlistment of Canadians in British Army, 385
Forestry battalions, 4509 Recruiting, 86
Soldiers' votes, 87, 4729, 4759 Ba&deck mail contract, 1819 Bell, Mr. Alexander Graham, 5783 Budget, 1809
Record of the present Administration, 1090
Political patronage, 1092 Purchase of horses in Nova Scotia, 1093 Development and progress under late Administration, 1094
Canadian Northern Railway, acquisition of, 4039, 4521, 5032, 5162 Civil Service, promotions, 4667 Coal, 2005
Confiscation of by railways, 194
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Report of, 4291 Sittings of, 2322, 2357
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McMillan, Mr. John A. (Glengarry)
Cheese purchases by British Government, 1774
Dairying industry, 2256 McNab, Colin C., proposed allowance to, 578 McNeil, F. C., payments to, 1380 McNeil, Lt. John D„ promotion of, 5272 McQueen, Lieut. W. A., employment of, 4508 McSpadden, Lt.-Col., position of, 2618 McWilliams, Mr., dismissal of, 2165 Magdalen Islands, cable service, 5407 Magladery, Mr. Thomas, M.L.A., position and pay of, 4685 Mails. See Post office Manitoba,. County Court judges, 5083 Maple sugar. See Food products Marcil, Hon. Charles (Bonaventure)
Address in reply to the Governor General's Speech, 109, 119 Canada and the war, 109, 119 The Nationalist party, 109, 120 The Dorchester election, 111, 120 Recruiting in Quebec, 112, 119, 127 Quebec, past and present. 123 National service, 126 The high cost of living, 129 Army, Fifth Canadian Division, 459 BOland, Hon. Dr., M.P., 311, 341 Bonaventure
Breakwater, 988 County, mail service, 1126 Recruiting officer, 1675 Campbellton-Gaspe steamship service, 1126, 1228, 1959
Carleton Beach protection works, 1126
Civil Service, salaries, 2238
Court, Private Harry Ivan, 3295
Cross Point wharf, 988, 1228, 1571
Customs Department, dismissals from, 1844
Dagneau, John F., 1471
Daylight saving, 368 5
Dorchester county election, 111, 120
Elaine, steamer, 1379
Gascons wharf, 2055
Gaspe steamship services, 2325
Government Railways Act amendment, 4343
Hopetown post office, 989, 1474
Interprovincial bridges, 3891
Intoxicating liquors, 2008
Le Blanc, Maurice, 1816
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Military service Classes, 3354 Exceptions, 3564 Exemptions, 3219, 3307, 3364 Persons liable for service, 3129 Quebec situation, 2428, 3257. See under this head, Quebec	[DOT]
Referendum, 2432
Militia Department, employees, 312 Montreal, customs collectorship, 311 Nationalist party, 109, 120 New Carlisle, war expenditure in, 1575 New Richmond post office, 898 Overseas Military Forces, Minister of, 4209 Packages, marking of,-inspection and sale, 4067, 4070 Paspebiac wharf, 898, 988 Paspebiac-Hopetown mail service, 1126 Pratt Bros., payments to, 1570 Prisoners of war, exchange of, 341 Quebec and Oriental railway, 1674 Quebec, recruiting in, 112, 127, 213, 342, 2428 Railway Act, The, 3513 Read, Lance Corporal, 717	.
Renault, Raoul, appointment of, 2375 Restigouche river, bridging of, 988	1
Ross rifle, 422	1	;
Ruisseau le Blanc breakwater, 898 St. Charles de Caplan wharf, 898 Separation allowances, 386 Shigawake post office, 898 Shigawake East post office, 988 Shipbuilding, 1921, 1930 Soldier Settlement Board, 3626, 3789 Taxation, income, 4102, 4123, 4130 United States troops, training of in Canada, 2482
War-time Elections Bill, 5641, 5717, 5813 Wharves, 1944
M arcile, Mr. Joseph E. (Bagot)
Budget, 1292	^
Trade and financial conditions, 1293 The French-Canadian people, 1294 ' Recruiting, 1294 Transcontinental railway, 1295 Government appointments and dismissals, 1296
Canadian Northern Railway, acquisition of, 4998
House of Commons Accountant's office, lease of premises, 5703 Military Service Bill, 3053 Recruiting, 1294
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Persons liable for service, 3116, 3125 Quebec situation, 2536 Referendum, 2533 Regulations, 3314 Tribunals, 3149, 3295, 3574 Passports for women, 5783 Press statements correction of, 4889 Provincial legislators, free transportation for, 685
Senate, appointments to, 926 Soldiers
Returned, appointment of to government positions, 6058 Votes for, 1390, 3730
Transcontinental railway-removal of rails to France, 1229, 1266 United Grain Growers, Limited, 894 War charities, 6062 War supplies, Ross rifle, 479, 493 War-time Elections Bill, 5582, 5637-5702, 5708-5771, 6076
Merritt, Col. W. H., collection by for Aviation Fund, 5362
Michaud, Mr. Pius (Victoria, N.B.),
Blain, Lieut. Roswell, 4245 Canadian Northern Railway, acquisition of, 5028
Civil Service promotions, 2021 Dalhousie militia buildings, 454 Danis, Joseph M., 2618 Farm labourers from United States, 4512 Immigration regulations, 454 Intercolonial railway, 798 Mail service, 3639 Military Service Bill, 2808 United States, head tax on foreigners entering, 1266
Middlebro, Mr. William S. (North Grey) Army, soldiers' votes, 4894 Breidert and Mudge patents, 1199 Canadian Northern railway, acquisition of, 4512
Companies, incorporation of, 5939 Food control, 2509
Government Railways Act amendment, 4378 House of Commons-sessional indemnity of members, 6046 Military service, 2502	'
Exemptions, 2506, 3202 Parliament authority of, 2503 Provinces, recruiting by, 2511 Referendum, 2502, 2512 Pensions, 6010
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Postmaster, 523, 5S1 Post office sub-station, 596 Public building, 305
Montreal Trades and Labour Council, 2198 Monuments, erection of, 3896, 3899 Moore, Major Rev. A. H., 1265
Moosejaw
Enlistments, 5122
Moosejaw News patronage, 2708 Morphy, Mr. H. B. (North Perth)
Army
Soldiers, voting of, 4701, 4756, 4786, 4815, 4900
Cheese manufacture, regulations, 2265 Civil Service salaries, 2013 Companies, incorporation of, 5941 Criminal Code amendments, jurors, 4299, 4324
Gordon Divorce Bill, 5906 Insurance, 5196
Live Stock and Produce Bill, 4290, 5505, 5513	'
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Classes, 3142, 3284, 3291 Exemptions, 3193, 3364 Persons liable for service, 3118 National Gallery of Canada, 5301 Pensions, 6010
Telegraph and telephone lines, 5378
Morris, Mr. James (Chateauguay)
Budget, 973
Nationalist party, 974 Free wheat, 975
The record of the Government, 975 Military Service, 2978 Newspaper article, correction of, 1775 Woman suffrage, 1523
Morton, Dr. A., position of, 5706, 5913
Mounted Police
See Royal Northwest
Mount Royal Tunnel and Terminal, 4835 Matxom, Major, position of, 4415 Muchaboom wharf, 304 Murphy, Hon. Charles (Russell)
Address in reply to the Governor General's Speech, 225
Proposed committee of inquiry, 225 Charges by ex-Minister of Militia, 226 Army medical service, 227 The Ross rifle, 228 Armstrong, S. A., 802
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Rejected men, 3100 Soldiers, voting of, 4760, 4812, 4890 Baugh, Edward Levi, 1470, 2481 Canada Gazette, publication of, 3738 Canadian Northern railway acquisition of, 4593-4608, 4637, 4972
Cheese purchases by British Government, 1863, 2197
Civil Service appointments, 643, 648, 2021, 2238
Under Order in Council of Jan. 1, 1917, 3003
Promotions, 4666
Firearms in Quebec hardware stores, 5083 Flour, alleged profit on, 5085 Georgian Bay Canal Commission, 3901 Hospital on Parliament Hill, 1228 Inland Revenue Department, estimates, 2388
Latchford, Ont., plant and buildings, sale of, 5706
Lessard, General, 365 Marlowe, Lt.-Col. F. W., 1227 MeLeod-Tellier Commission, 5251 McSpadden, Lt.-Col., 2618 Military Service, 2538 Enforcement, 2545 Labour, attitude of, 2.543 Quebec, attitude of, 2543 Senate amendments, 4665 Montreal
Post office sub-station, 596 Public building, 305 Monuments, erection of, 3900 Ottawa, government land in, 1130 Parliament buildings Brick for, 337
Contract for construction of, 454 Stone for, 304
Parliamentary secretaryships, 4213 Public Works Department architect, 5104 Recruiting of British subjects in United States, 2482
Rideau canal, lighting of, 1939 Ross rifle, 228, 421
Substitute for, 1012, 1594 Valuation of factory, 1265 Taxation, income, 4131, 4649 War supplies, clothing, 3556 War-time Elections Bill, 5618, 5656, 5669, 5732, 5764
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National Organization for War, pamphlet,
National Service, 71, 93, 126, 170, 191 Cards, 2479
Distribution and return of, 361, 667, 713, 1376
Effect of on recruiting, 361, 374 Commission, 64, 200 Employes of military age, 4787 Expenditure, 3676 Officials, 309, 376, 3678 Purpose of, 370, 2413 Statement by the Director General, 5036 National Trust Company, 4417, 4685 National Transcontinental Railway. See Canadian Government railways Nationalist party, 109, 120, 143, 179, 1224 Statement by Prime Minister, 4564 Naturalization Acts, administration of, 3741 Naval Service Department
Estimates, staff and salaries, 660,, 4157 Statement by the Minister, 4157 Grilse, H.M.C.S., command of, 4563 H.M.C.S. Niobe and Rainbow, 4162 Life saving, 661
Master mariners at Halifax, 4416 Officers at Halifax, 6000 Patrol service, 4163, 4164, 4170, 5243, 5274 Recruiting for British Admiralty. 4159 Transport service, 4161 Wilfrid C., vessel, 4062 See Air Service Niobe
See Naval Service Neely, Mr. D. B. (Humboldt)
Mclnnes, M. A., 5422 Military Service Bill, 2778 Sifton, Sir Clifford, statement of, reply to, 5774
Tariff revision, 1730 Taxation, farm implements, 1730 War-time Elections Bill, 5587, 5643-5652, 5724, 5821
White, Rev. Ward, 3903
Neely, Captain D. B., M.P., position and pay of, 6066
Neilly, Dr., military position of, 2707 Nesbitt, Mr. Edward W. (North Oxford) Address in reply to the Governor General's
Nesbitt, Mr. E. W,-Con.
Economy in government expenditure, 95 Camp Borden, 96, 100 National Service cards, 96 Expenditure on public works, 97 Political patronage, 97 Military officers, 98 Recruiting, 93 Army
Medical sendee, 542 Soldiers
Pay, 3216, 5223 Voting, 4705, 4769, 5196 Bran, prices of, 4466 Brantford moulders' strike, 2322 Canadian Northern railway, acquisition of, 4501, 4609, 4632, 5131 Cattle, British embargo on, 920 Cheese purchases, 2197, 2258 Cold storage, 2255
Criminal Code Amendment, proposed, 1677 Daylight saving, 3684 Farm labour,'3510
Government Railway Act amendment, 4346 Grain for breweries and distilleries, 1179 Insurance, 3850, 5200 Live stock exchanges, 4289, 5503 Loans, public, 347	[DOT]
Military Service Classes, 3143
Exemptions, 3211, 3216, 3272 Quebec situation, 2594 Voluntary enlistment, 2592 O'Connor, Mr. W. F., report of, 3747 Overseas Military Forces, Minister of, 4208 Penitentiaries, 6036 Pensions, 6016 Political patronage, 97 Potatoes, 1437 Quebec railways, 5463 Railway Act, The, 3520, 3530 St. John harbour works, 5895 Scientific and industrial research, 3911 Taxation
Business profits, 1438, 1445, 1654 Wealth, 2597
Telegraph and telephones lines, 5400 Tractor engines, duty on, 677 United Grain Growers, Limited, 895 War charities, 5481 War expenditure, 541
New Brunswick Public Works. See Public Works
New Carlisle, war expenditure in, 1575 New Glasgow-Mountville mail service, 1037
Speech, 94
Canadian troops at the front,
New Hamburg postmaster, 6053 New Richmond West post office, 898
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See Pulp and paper
Nicholson, Mr. Donald (Queen's, P.E.I.) Address in reply to the Governor General's Speech, 238
Canada under Conservative rule, 238 Enlistments from Prince Edward Island, 241
Prosperity of Canada, 241, 243 Shipbuilding, 242 The French-Canadian people, 243 Military Service, 3001 Nickerson, IV. H., dismissal of, 1472 Nickerson, William C., employment of, 2283 Nickle, Mr. W. F. (Kingston)
Army
Camps, sale of liquor in, 833 Forestry battalions, 3951 Pensions, 1615
Canadian Northern railway acquisition of, 4587
Civil Service salaries, 2250 Industrial and scientific research, 5284 Military, Hospitals Commission, 473 Military Service Classes, 3290 Exemptions, 3203
Packages, marking of-Inspection and sale, 4066
Penitentiaries, officials, 6037 Pensions, 0011, 6033 Quebec railways, 5462 Railway Act, The, 3532, 3540, 3604, 3603 Royal Military College, 5310 Senate, proposed change in constitution of, 1141
Separation allowances, 382 Soldiers, returned, care of, 472 Taxation, income, 4074, 4107 Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo railway, 2611
War charities, 5488 War-time Elections Bill, 5753, 5837 Nixon, Mr. A. W., military position of, 6067 Non-support
See Criminal Code Amendment Bills North Battleford, government employees, 453 Northrup, Mr. W. B. (East Hastings)
Gordon Divorce Bill, 5497, 5904 Grain for breweries and distilleries, 1184 Parliamentary sessions, expense of, 1261, 2524
Racing meets, limitation of, 321 North Sydney customs service, 607, 1852 Northwest Game Bill, The. lr., 2569.	2r.,
3665. Com., 2605, 4659. 3r., 4661
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Canadian Northern railway, acquisition of, 4304, 4505, 4610-4619, 5180 Capital punishment, 630 Cloakey, George, 1819
Coal, western mining of, 2200, 2238, 2525, 2653, 2776 Cold storage, 2259
Conscription, statement in L'Evenement, 434
Customs Tariff Act, proposed amendment, 1685, 1689, 1727, 1776 Dominion Lands, officials, 1675 Dominion Lands Act amendment, 3793-3812 Drake, steamer, 4245 Edmonton railway bridge, 3892 Edson, town of, 1816 Elevators See, under this title, Grain Experimental stations, 2065 Fiddlers, the. See, under this title, " The Fiddlers"
Fisheries, Lac la Biche, 2158 Flour, 5209, 5212
Sales between Canada and United States, 5273
Free food, proposed amendment, 1686 Food control, 2081 Freight rates, 3715 Game in the Northwest, 3665 Government employees, political activity of, 2349 Grain
Board of Supervisors, 3697 Elevators, 2334
Transportation of, 1681, 3396, 3412, 3712 Wheat
Export, prohibition of, 3882 Prices and control, 3690, 4512, 4661, 4687, 4887, 5209, 6000 Grande Prairie immigration hall, 1575 Grey, Ambrose, 1818 Homestead regulations, 1747 Homesteaders, names of, 1819 House of Commons Estimates, 2359
Sessional indemnity of Members, 6047 Howe, Lt. M. J„ 6066 Hudson Bay railway, 5092 Immigration, 1764, 2140, 2148 United States, from, 1747 Indians
Kitsilano reserve, 1899 Lands, 1888
Okanagan reserve, 1378, 2341 Industrial and scientific research, 5280
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Exchanges, 5508 Improvement of, 2278, 2281 Mail service, 3638 Merritt, Col.-Aviation Fund, 5362 Military service
Authority of Parliament, 2419 Available men, 3371 Burden of proof, 3322 Classes, 3358
Contraventions of Act, 3328, 3351, 3360, 3579
Enforcement, 2416
Exemptions, 3195, 3227, 3234, 3311, 3364 General provisions, 2411, 3238 Mounted Police, Royal Northwest, 301, 335, 4674
National service, 71, 361, 370, 374, 2413 National Transcontinental railway, 2209, 2218
North Battleford government employees 453
O'Connor, Mr. W. F., report of, 3938 Oil bounties, 2329
Parliament, extension of term of, 3496 Patriotic Fund, 3079 Penitentiaries-officials' salaries, 6043 Pensions, 6005-6033 Poplar trees, conservation of, 3742 Public buildings Construction, 4181 Rentals, 4149, 5097 Repairs, 5106, 5304 Telephone service, 4147 Quebec and Saguenay railway, 1575 Railway material, removal of to France, 301, 310, 1473-1474, 1615, 1628, 1820, 3407-3408, 3398, 5293 Railways
Expenditure on, 2233 Operation of, 3412 Transportation of coal by, 3395 Recruiting. See, under this title, Army Rogers, Lt.-Col. Maynard, 1818 Ross rifle, 427, 432, 478, 510 Shore, George, suspension of sentence on, 1373
Soldier Settlement Board, 2780, 3625 Tariff revision, 1776 Taxation, 1677 Income, 4644
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3654, 3881, 5942. 5944 War
Charities, 3489
Government, administration of, 3371 Munitions contracts, 5532 War-time Elections Bill, 5553, 5638-5702, 5816
Ways and Means-amendment to motion for second reading of resolutions, 1677 Yukon
Judges' salaries, 5897 Miners' strike, 3086
Prices and cost of living, 2199, 2237, 2481, 2525, 2945
Orangemen. See Loyal Orange Order Ottawa
Government land in, 1130 Rents paid by the Government in, 4149, 5097 Outlook Publishing Company, payments to, 607
Overseas Minister of Munitions. See War Overseas Forces, Minister of the, 5
Non-combatant employees of Department, 4786
See Minister of the Overseas forces, etc., Bill
Overseas forces. See Army.
Pacaud, Mr. Lucien T. (Megantic)
Military Service Bill, 2916 Thetford mines labour trouble, 1113 Pacific Dredging Company, 1126 Packages, marking of. See Inspection and Sale Act Amendment Bill Palmerston post office building, 1127 Papineau, Mr. Louis J. (Beauharnois) Lefebvre, Major Alfred, 1037, 2618, 2003 Military service, 2997 Paquet, Mr. Eugene (L'lslet)
Budget, 1297
Union and solidarity of the Canadian people, 1297
The financial position of Canada, 1298 Munitions manufacture, 1299 Development of agriculture, 1300 Food products, imports and exports of, 1573 Immigration, 803 Military service, 2789 Public health, 992 Repatriation of Canadians, 803 Pardee, Mr. Frederick F. (West Lambton)
Pardee, Mr, F. F.-Con.
Budget, 1304
Investigation into cost of foodstuffs, 1304 Plea for better Canadianism, 1307 Canadian Northern railway, acquisition of, 5136	,
Drawbacks, payments of, 1818 Food products, control of, 1304 Georgian Bay Canal Commission, 452 Home Defence Force, 1038 Judges on provincial commissions, 593 Lavergne, Mr. Armand. 1038 Lewis machine guns, 2201 Mackenzie, Lieut. F. J. S., 986 Military service Exemptions, 3191
Personal attitude respecting, 3721 Persons liable for service, 3127 Tribunals, 3163 National Gallery, 5303 National Service cards, 1376 New Hamburg postmaster, 6053 Parliament, extension of term of, 3481 Pensions, 6007
Post office employees-salaries, 6051, 6053
Returned soldiers,. 459
Shipbuilding at Prince Rupert, 4787	.
Taxation
Income, 4118, 4638 Wealth, 2528
Traction engines, duty on, 680 War-time Elections Act-tribunals, 6070
Paris, Ontario, recruiting in, 601
Parker, Mr. R. G. M., salary and position of, 2201
Parks, Canadian National; Jasper, 1477 Parliament
Adjournment of - Imperial War Conference, J.17
Extension of term of, 15, 37, 157, 172, 175, 189, 223, 293, 2396, 3419.
Address to His Majesty the King, 3453, 3475; Div., 3501
Proposed amendment of Mr. Graham, 3461; Div., 3483
Statement by Prime Minister-no action, 3504 Members
Military pay of, 713 Railway transportation for, 3519 Printing of, 2007, 5901
Report of Committee on, 5949 Sessions-expense of
Motion for Committee to consider, 1261 Committee appointed, 1568
Joint action with Senate proposed, 2024 Reports, 2524, 5636
Army
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Pelagie Sealing Treaty, claims under, 5958 Penitentaries
Dorchester, 1813
Meat supplies for, 337 Guards, salaries, of, 5803 Kelly, Thomas, treatment of, 1813 See Kelfe-
Officials, salaries of, 5898, 6033
Portsmouth, 3418
Prisoners
Enlistment of, proposed, 1012, 1814 Labour of, 6036, 6040 Release of, for work on farms, 803 Report of inspector, 3419 Pennsylvania coal, embargo on, 2199 Penny Bank Act Amendment Bill, lr., 1773. 2r„ Com., 3r., 2059	.
Pensions
Military, 1594
Amount required for, 5899 Board of Commissioners and staff, 608, 4176, 4958
Canadian in Imperial forces, for, 4662, 4688
Dependents of soldiers, 4051 Erroneous announcement denied, 5423 European war, 6005 Militiamen, 6004
Patriotic Fund, agents in applications, 3S21
Proposed bill, 845
Inquiry concerning, 4293 Revision of scale, 5424 Naval, pilots, 6049
Royal Northwest Mounted Police, 5704
Perley, Sir George Halsey * Appointment as Minister of the Overseas Forces, 5
Petroleum. See Oil
Pictou (County)
Rural mail routes, 900 Pictou (Town)
Contractors for war supplies at, 303 Freight, handling of, at, 303 Marine and Fisheries agency, 304, 596, 1936 Plaxton, Mr. Charles P., position of, 4416 Point Tupper mail service, 3502 Political deadlock, rumoured, 1971 Political meetings, attendance of soldiers at, 4338
Political patronage, 203, 205, 287, 726 Recruiting, in, 86, 97, 154, 162 Pollution of streams, 454 Pommeroy, Mr. Samuel, position of, 4952
Poplar trees, utilization of, 3742 Port Hood wharf, 5336 Port Malcolm wharf, 3866 Post Office
Country postmasters, salaries of, 3634, 3642 Department
Estimates, 660, 2352, 2360, 3633, 5898, 6051
Staff and salaries, 660, 3633, 5898, 6051 Letter carriers, salaries of, 580, 1474, 1805,
Mail carriers, 2243-4, 2708 Mail clerks, French-speaking, 5272 Mail contracts, 3635 Mail matter for soldiers, 3644 Mails, misuse of, 893, 1027 Parcel post, 2072, 3634, 3639 Prisoners of war, to, 3958 Postal clerks salaries, of, 2708, 3639 Railway mail service, 2244, 3650, 4102, 6051 Registration of mail matter, 668 Rural mall service, 3634, 5898 Carriers, 2247, 3634, 3636, 3643 Routes, number of, 2247 Signs, printing of, in French and English, 5999
Potatoes. See Agriculture and Food pro
ducts
Power, Mr. William (Quebec, West)
Military Service, 2805
Pratt Brothers, payments to, 1570
Press censorship, 3503, 3654, 3718, 3881, 3995,
Prices, fixing of. See Criminal Code Amendment Bills, Food and Cold storage
Prince Edward Island
Car ferry, 2205, 2304 See also Steamship services Enlistments from, 241, 4563 Freight, handling of, 1037 Military organization, 5422 Payments to under Agricultural Instruction Act, 455
Public works. See that title Steamship service, 660, 3389
Prince Edward island Railway. See Canadian Government railways
Prince Rupert, shipbuilding at, 4787 Princess Louise Fusiliers, 5271 Printing, Government, 3737 Prison Labour, utilization of, 6036, 6040
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Private Bills, discussed Aerial League of the British Empire, 3633 Alliance Nationale, 1547 Bishop of Mackenzie River, 868 Breidert and Mudge Patents, 1199 Canadian Association of Stationary Engineers, 1198
Cascade Scenic Railway Company, 4365 Gordon Divorce Bill, 5496, 5641, 5902 Grain Growers Grain Co., Ltd., 1110 Grand Trunk Pacific Branch Lines Company, 1373
Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire and the Children of the Empire (Junior Branch), 5495	.
Mount Royal Tunnel and Terminal Co., 1110
Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo railway, 2590, 2609, 3865, 3955, 3980 United Grain Growers Limited, 893 Privilege, questions of Barrette, Mr.-statement in Halifax Chronicle, 3352
Blondin, Hon. P. E.-statement in Ottawa Evening Journal, 339
Boulay, Mr.-statement in Ottawa Citizen, 2776
Bureau, Mr.-statements in Montreal Gazette, 2709, 4730
Burnham, Mr.-correction of remarks in Hansard, 869
Clark, Mr. Michael-statements in the press, 3617
Descarries, Mr.-vote on Military Service Bill, 3846
Graham, Mr. 
statement of Mr. R. B. Bennett, 804, 869
Hazen, Mr.-statement by Mr. 'Pugsley, 5274
Hughes, Sir Sam
Statement of Mr. Mark Irish, 2707 Statement of Mr. A. K. Maclean, 2777 Statement of Mr. Currie, 5773 Knowles, Mr.-statement in Toronto Telegram, 5085
Lafortune, Mr.-Ottawa Journal-Press, 3085
Laurier, Sir Wilfrid-statement of ' Sir Clifford Sifton, 4009
MacNutt, Mr.-Ottawa Journal-Press, 3656 Mondou, Mr.-statement in Montreal Gazette, 3004
Neely, Mr.-statement by Sir Clifford Sifton, 5774
Oliver, Hon. Frank-statement in L'Evene-ment, 434
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Steamer C. E. Tanner, 5362
Taylor, Lt.-Col. J. D. M.P., 986
Tiemain, Lieut.-Col. H. B., M.P., 608, 1472
War supplies-hay, 338
War-time Elections Bill, 5623, 5669, 5829
Webb, Lieutenant, 4563 '
Wood, Lieutenant, 4563
Public Works

Con.
Ontario, 3883, 5355 Prince Edward Island, 3871 Quebec, 3879, 5353 See Quebec Harbour Advances Bill Saskatchewan and Alberta, 3884 See, under this title, Dredging Roads and bridges, 3888, 5360 Wharves, 1943
Provincial governments, duties payable by, 2119, 2129 '
Provincial prohibitory legislation. Bill in aid of, lr., 4192; 2r. and Com., 4395; 3r., 4405; Senate amendments, 5514 See also Intoxicating liquors, Prohibition and Canada Temperance Act
Public health, proposed department of, 992
Public Service Committee, recommendations of, 3633
Public Service Loan Bill. Res., 242. lr., 353. 2r., 435. Com., 435. 3r., 476
Public Works
Buildings
Alberta, 5312
British Columbia, 1126, 5312 Generally, 4147, 5314 Manitoba, 5311 Nova Scotia, 4145
Ontario, 4146, 5309, 5412. See Ottawa Quebec, 1935, 4145, 5309 Saskatchewan, 4146, 5312 Department
Automobile, purchase of, 2480 Estimates, 652, 1935, 3867, 3882, 4145, 4181, 5096, 5304, 5314, 5362 Staff and salaries, 3893, 5104 Dredging
British Columbia, 5359 Dredge Cape Breton, loss of, 596, 668, 1024, 3881 Dredge No. 6, 5404 Generally, 5096
Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, 3887
Maritime Provinces, 5359 Ontario and Quebec, 3886, 5359 See, under this title, Harbours and Rivers Dry docks. See Dry Docks Subsidies Act Amendment Bill Expenditure 1916-17, 1038 Harbours and Rivers
British Columbia, 3885, 5304, 5357 Manitoba, 5356
New Brunswick, 3872, 4185, 5347, 5411, 5890
Nova Scotia, 3866, 5314
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Address in reply to the Governor General's Speech, 286
The political situation, 286 Returned soldiers and political patronage, 287
Administration of military affairs under late Minister of Militia, 287 Utilization of our natural resources, 291 Shipbuilding, 292 The Dorchester campaign, 293 Canada's naval policies, 293 Extension of term of Parliament, 293 Imperial War Conference, 294 Army
Desertions, 3111 Discharges, purchase of, 3112 Enlistments, 2647 Soldiers
Returned, employment of, 3846, 6057 Voting of, 2651, 4689-4736, 4740-4786, 4808-4834, 4874-4887, 4889-4914 165th Regiment, 1725 Bathurst harbour improvements, 3872 Budget, 863, 870
Trade conditions, 863 Free wheat, 864, 870 The Minister of Inland Revenue, 879 Amendment of Mr. Turriff, 881 Canadian Government railways Branch lines, 2228, 2232 Cars for, 4928
Employees, promotion of, 762 Intercolonial railway
Coal, freight rates on, 3511 Maritime Express service, 8 Passenger service, 2207 Canadian Northern railway, acquisition of, 4230, 4248, 4486, 4837, 4990-5015, 5108 Capital punishment, 631 Civil servants, enlisted-pay and separation allowances, 664, 2252 Civil Service
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Customs, duties payable by provincial governments, 2121, 2133 Daylight saving, 2945 Divorced persons, re-marriage of, 46, 1383, 1524
Dominion Lands Act Amendment, 3796 Dredging, 5096 Drill halls, control of, 4146 Dry docks, 4455, 5772, 5888, 5917 Fish and fisheries Licenses, 2150 Lobsters, 4171 Sardine fisheries, 4168 Flint, Dr., retirement of, 6044 Food control, 2091 Free wheat, 864, 870 Fuel, 1421
Game in the Northwest, 3670 Grosse Isle quarantine station, 5306 Hansard, correction of statement in, 6067 Members' sessional indemnity, 6048 Morning sittings, 2619 Stenographers, 5788 Hudson Bay railway, 5086 Immigration, 2143, 2146 Imperial Munitions Board, imports, 1973 Imperial War Conference, visit of Prime Minister to, 1551 Indian lands, 1908 Insurance, 3849, 3864, 4138, 5198 Landry, Mr. Justice, findings of, 3109, 3609 5265
See under this title, McLeod-Tellier Lighthouse keepers' salaries, 6049 Live stock exchanges, 5504 Loans to farmers, 1962 Loans, public ($100,000,000), 342 - Mail contracts, 363-5 McLeod-Tellier Commission, 5245, 5265 See under this title, Landry, Mr. Justice Military Service, 2642, 3254 Appeals, 3175, 3181 Classes, 3144, 3287 Definitions, 3111 Enforcement, 2651 Enlistments, voluntary, 2647 Exemptions, 3209, 3213


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National Service Commission, remuneration to officials of, 309, 457 .
Newspaper reports, correction of, 5273 Order of the day, reinstatement of, 2877 Ottawa public buildings Rents paid by Government, 4149, 5097 Telephone service, 4147 Overseas Military Forces, Minister of, 4446 Packages, marking of-inspection and sale,-4065 Parcel post, 2072
Parliament, extension of term of, 3468, 3475 Parliamentary secretaryships, 4452 Peace proposals, 300 Potatoes, removal of duty on, 703 Provincial legislators, free transportation for, 684
Public Works Department Estimates and expenditure, 3871, 5414, 5306, 5413
Quebec, railways, operating expenses of, 5452
Railway Act, The, 606 Railways, material for use in France, 1826 St. John harbour improvements, 3875, 5349 5413
Shipbuilding, 665, 703, 1371* 1551, 1775, 1912-192)8, 2293, 5432-5452 Soldier Settlement Board, 3618 Steamship services, 2292 Supply, voting one-sixth for 1917-18, 2946 Supreme Court, allowances to Chief Justice, 6050 Taxation
Business profits, 1636 Income, 4089 Wealth, 3471, 3475
Telegraph and telephone service, 5364, 5401 Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo railway, 2616
Toronto News, statement of, 4959 Vancouver harbour improvement, 5304 Volunteers to operate trains in France, position of, 5123 War charities, 5482 War supplies Munitions, 5527 Ross Rifle, 501
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Wealth, conscription of, 3471, 3475 Woman suffrage, 309, 672, 759, 1482, 1521, 1594 1627, 4958
Pugsley, Lieut. J. A., position of, 4895 Pulp and paper
Newsprint, fixing of price of, 1302 Quarantine service, 3756 Quebec (City)
Firearms in hardware stores, 5083 Harbour master, 897 Immigration agents, 5122 Quebec (Province)
Bridges, 3889 Electoral lists, 6002 Judges' salaries, 5798 Military districts Nos. 3 and 10, 455 Public Works. See that title Recruiting in, 94, 112, 119, 127, 147, 160, 185, 213, 221, 342, 363, 2398, 2424, 2515 Officers, recruiting of, 3135 See Military Service Bill and French Canadian
Quebec Montmorency and Charlevoix Railway, completion and operation of, 4948,
Quebec and Oriental railway, 1674 Quebec and Saguenay railway Bondholders, 669
Completion and operation of, 303, 668, 1575, 4948, 5452 Expenditure, 1658
Legislation concerning, proposed, 458 Quebec Harbour Advances Bill. Res., 435.
lr., 438. 2r„ 577. Com., 577. 3r., 578 Quebec Harbour Commission, 436 Racing Form, The, exclusion from mails of, 306, 336, 896
Racing meets, limitation of. See Criminal Code Amendment Bills Radiotelegraph service. See Telegraphs, also Ocean Telegraph Act Railway Act Amendment Bills
1.	Bill No. 13, Mr. Cochrane, general, lr.,
194; 2r., 602; special committee, 602; motion to amend, stands, 605; com., 3420, 3511, 3592, 3716; 3r., 3740
2.	Bill No. 18, Mr. McCraney, free transportation for provincial legislators, lr., 300. 2r„ 685. Ref. to Railway Com., 685 Railway Commission, 1862, 3407 Railway mail clerks. See Post office Railways
Alleged advance to Company, 2100 Bridges, 3889
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Imperial Munitions Board imports, 1978 Montreal collectorship, 648 Revenue cruisers, 1882 Dredging, 5096 Dry docks, 5771 Flint, Dr., retirement of, 6044 House of Commons-sessional indemnity of Members, 6047
Naval Service Department estimates, 660 Pensions, 6004, 6533
Public Works Department estimates, 5104, 5304, 5314, 5362
Railway Act Amendment Bills, 5997 Sehaffner, Mr. L. P., dismissal of, 440 Shipbuilding, 5440, 5453 Spittal, Major, dismissal of, 646„ 651 Telegraph and telephone lines, 5362 Reid, Lance Corporal, allowances to, 717 Renault, Raoul, appointment of, 2361 Repatriation of Canadians, 803 Research Council Bill. lr„ 2357.	2r., 3905.
Com., 3909. 3r., 3957 Restigouche river, bridging of, 988 Returns, complaints of delay in bringing down, 1373
Rhodes, Hon. Edgar N. (Cumberland). See Speaker
Richmond county medical officers, 3758 Rideau canal Lighting of, 1939 Pretoria Avenue bridge, 4926 Rimouski
Medical officers, 4509 Public works engineer, 4244 Recruiting officers, 456 Riou, Mr. C. S., payments to, 3904 Riviere du Loup-Tadoussac ferry, 452, 2358 Riviere Ouelle-Murray bay steamship service, 643
Robb, Mr. James A. (Huntingdon)
Bags, duty on, 1867-1881 Bran and middlings, duty on. 1867-1881 Budget, 969, 1317, 1319 Tariff changes, 969, 971 Free wheat, 970 Duty on mill feeds, 971 Canadian Northern railway, acquisition of, 5055
Farm labour, 3509 Fiee wheat, 970	.
Grain for breweries and distilleries, 1182 Harbour facilities, 4190 Live stock exchanges, 5507 National Transcontinental freight rates. 3394
Rural mail service, 3641 Taxation-income, 4106
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Authority of Parliament, 2703 Enlistment in Quebec, 2704 Telegraph and telephone lines, 5380 Robinson, Captain J. T., appointment of, 1377 Roche, Hon. W. J. (Minister of the Interior) Agricultural labourers from the United States, 1194
British Columbia Indian Commission, 653 Dominion Lands Act Amendment Bill, 159, 2832, 3793-3817 Farm labour, 3507
Frank, Alta., moving of residences at, 4919 French-Canadians in the LTnited States, 4914
Game in the Northwest, 3665, 4659 Homestead regulations, 1741, 1747 Immigration Agents, 1738 Chinese, 843, 2139 Department estimates, 4914 Regulations, 449, 525 Indians, 2340, 2349
Department estimates, 1886 Sydney reserve, 3663 See Indians Interior Department
Employees, political activities of, 2350 Estimates, 652, 1344, 1735 French-speaking employees of, 2341 Orders in Council relating to, 6000 Migratory birds, 2525, 3657 Seed grain collections, 2352 Soldier Settlement Act, administration of, 4917
Soldier Settlement Board, 686, 1157, 2653, 3618, 3779
Surveys, 1345, 1735
United States' head tax on Canadians, 892 Rogers, Lt.-Col. Maynard, salary of, 1818 Rogers, Hon. Robert (Minister of Public Works)
Dry docks, 4456, 5915 Ottawa Citizen, statement of, 599 Public works Buildings, 4145, 4181 Department: estimates, staff and salaries,, 3866, 3882, 3893, 4145, 4181, 5104 Harbours and rivers, 3866, 3882, 4187 Roads and bridges, 3888 Resignation from the Cabinet, 4736 Ross, Mr. Duncan C. (West Middlesex)
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Assistants to Food Controller, 4244 Industrial and scientific research, 5284 Military service, 3041	.
Army Act regulations, 3113 Exemptions, 3224 Persons liable for service, 3126 _ Tribunals, 3170	_
Taxation
Income, 4652 Wealth, 3045
Unclaimed bank balances, 1001 War svrpplies, horses, 453 War-time Elections Bill, 5677, 5687 William Davies Co., 4151 Ross rifle. See War supplies Rouville county mail carrier, 608 Roy, Judge L. R., payments to, 1130 Royal Assent, The, 603, 3766, 5084 Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, 5304 Royal Military College, 5310 Royal Mint, Ottawa branch, 1474 Royal Naval College, 4163 Royal Northwest Mounted Police Pensions, 5704
Salaries and contingencies, 4147 Saskatchewan and Alberta, duties in, 301, 335
Subsistence, etc., 4667 Ruisseau le Blanc breakwater, 898 Russell, Mr. T. A., purchase of motor trucks by, 266, 280 Salt. See Fish
Salter, R. J., payments to, 1472 Sand Point wharf, 5316
Sauve, Pte. James, application of for pension, 5776
Savings banks, deposits in, 4685 St. Charles de Caplan wharf, 898 St. Charles river dam, 2525 St. Jerome post office, 899 St. John and Quebec Railway Act Amendment Bill. lr„ 2433.	2r„ Com., 3r„
3401	.
St. John harbour improvements, 3875, 4185, 5347, 5411, 5890
St Lawrence Flour Mills Company, Government contracts with, 4509 Sainte Luce. Changing of name, 673 St. Maurice river improvements, 1381 St. Peter's canal, 3406
St. Pierre-Miquelon mail service, 3649 St. Roch Traverse lightkeeper, 1378 St. Romuald public works, 1129 Schaffner, Mr. F. L. (Souris)
Army, enlistment of unfit men, 4004 Canadian Northern railway, acquisition of, 5061
Cattle, British embargo on, 918
Civil Service, 2246
Daylight saving, 3683
Flour prices, 5214
Grain, rust in, 2067
Military service, exemptions, 3365
Ottawa public buildings, 4150
Public headth, 1001
Rural mail carriers, 2247
Taxation
Farm implements, 1713 Income, 4096
Schaffner, Mr. L. P., dismissal of, 438 School lands, western, 1378 Scientific and Industrial research. See Research Council Bill Scotch Hill post office, 3649 Scout, motor boat, 5271 Scott, Mr. F. S. (South Waterloo)
Budget, 884
Canada and the war, 885 Free wheat, 885 Present prosperity, 886 Secretary of State, Department of the, estimates, 655, 3737, 5242
Security Life Insurance Company Bill, lr.,
2479. 2r., 2592. Com., 3r„ 2857 Seed grain, 302, 303, 305 See Grain
Seguin, Mr. Paul A. (L'Assomption) Enlistments, 1476, 1572 Military Service Bill, 2765 Senate
Appointments to, 924 Hansard, cost of, 1571 Proposed change in constitution of, 1131 Taxation measures, precedent in amendment denied, 5480, 6883 Sevigny, Hon. Albert (Minister of Inland Revenue)
Army camps, sale of liquor in, 837 Inland Revenue Department Estimates, 2360, 3817 Expenditure, 2379 Military service, 2636 Exceptions, 3572 Quebec, recruiting in, 2638, 3256
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Privilege-statement concerning effects removed from Speaker's chambers after Parliament Buildings Are, 2058 Renault, Raoul, appointment of, 2361 Telegraph and telephone lines, 5385, 5391 Sexsmith, Mr. John A. (East Peterborough) Agriculture and Colonization, report of Committee, 1956
Railway Act, The, 3443, 3543, 3546, 3605 Telegraphs and telephones, 3543, 3546 Shaw, F. D., dismissal of, 1847 Sherbrooke exhibition grounds, 302 Shigawake post office, 898 Shiga wake East post office, 988 Shipbuilding
British Government, for, 4164 Canadian-built ships, 591 Prince Rupert, at, 4787 Railway Department, for, 4939, 5429 See Marine
Shipping. See Marine and Transportation Shore, George, suspension of sentence on, 1373
Sinclair, Mr. John H. (Guysborough)
Address in reply to the Governor General's Speech, 150
The fiftieth anniversary of Confederation, 150
The winning of the war, 151 Canadian soldiers at the front, 152 Military record of the Government, 152 The Ross rifle, 154 Political patronage, 154 Commandeering of ships, 155 Small arms ammunition, 156 Extension of term of Parliament, 157 Army
Casualties, July, 1917, 4151 Enlistments, July, 1917, 4151 Medical service, 3969 Officers, surplus of, 3102 Recruiting, 2884
Soldiers, age of on enlisting, 4001 Canada Temperance Act, 5243 Canadian Government railways, ice for, 301 See, under this title, Intercolonial Canadian Northern railway, acquisition of, 4600, 4872, 5061
Civil servants, enlisted, pay and separation allowances to, 663 Civil Service, 649
Appointments under sec. 21, 607, 1023, 1351, 1937
Coalition government, 2887 Customs Department staff, and expenditure, 649, 1845
Sinclair, Mr. J. H.-Con.
Dredges, 668, 1025, 5405 Fish and fisheries Advisory Board, 2152 Bounties, 457
Development of industry, 2040 Exports, 454
Investigation of problems, 5288 Laws, violation of, 2389 Lobsters, packing of, 5427 Marketing, 2042 Salt, 1027, 2044, 2290 Telephone method, 2176 Transportation, 3392, 4933 Trawlers, 300 Food inspectors, 607
Government Railways Act amendment, 4371 Grain, seed, 4680
Guysborough public building, 5914 Heatherton mail contract, 1817 High cost of living, 707 Hudson Bay railway expenditure, 596 Immigration regulations, 312, 525 Inland Revenue Department officials, 758 Intercolonial railway Appointment of officials, 658 Branch lines, 3386 Tracadie siding, 2618
Intoxicating liquors, prosecutions for sale of, 1575
Manitoba County Court judges,, 5083 Margaree harbour improvements, 5332 McCutcheon, Stanley, dismissal of, 306 Migratory birds, 3661 Military District No. 6, 5236 Military service Appeals, 3179 Classes, 3141 Referendum, 2881 Tribunals, 3157
Military Voters' Bill, 4694, 4726, 4728, 47584786
Navigation, training in, 1839 Nickerson, W. H., 1472 Nova Scotia judges, 6003 Ottawa Journal, statement in, 4927 Overseas Military Forces, Minister of, 4445 Parliament, extension of term of, 157 Pensions, 6030 Political patronage, 154 Pollution of sti earns, 454 Public Works Department estimates, 3868, 3874
Quebec and Saguenay railway, 668 Quebec harbour advances, 437 Railway Act, The, 3526, 3529 Railway Commission, appeals from, 1863 Rainbow, steamship, 1472


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Returns, delay in bringing down of, 137J Ross rifle, 154, 425, 451 Rural mail service, 5898 St. John harbour works, 5896 Salt for fish curing, 1027, 2290 Sand Point wharf, 5316 Savings banks deposits, 4685 Shipbuilding, 1671, 1923, 5434, 54o2 Small arms ammunition. 156, 2480 Soldiers, returned, appointment of, 6059 Soldier's Cove w'harf, 5337 Sonora preventive officers, 4244 Steam trawlers, 300 Steamship services, 2288, 2300 Steele, Arthur, dismissal of, 338 Submarine situation, 1328 Superannuation payments, 595 Technical education, 1247 Telegraph and telephone lines, 5371 Toronto water-borne traffic, 454 Tracadie Inland Revenue officer, 1817 War-time Elections Bill, 5567, 6081 Welland canal, 3404 Wells, Clarence, 2480 White, N. W., payments to, 1038 Whitehead life saving station, 1469 Small Arms Ammunition. See War supplier Smith, Pte. J. I., discharge of, 3418 Smith, Mr. William (South Ontario)
Army, casualties, 2201	,
Cattle, British embargo on, 923 National Service cards, 2479 Railway Act, The, 3442 smith's Falls postmaster, 1570 Soldiers. See Army Soldiers' Settlement Board Advances to soldiers, 4918 Commissioners, 4917
Soldier Settlement Board Bill. Res., 1157, 2653, 3618. lr„ 3630.	2r„ 3779.	3r„
Sonora preventive officers, 4244 Sorel, strike at, 1912, 1935
South African War-Canadian contingent, 2200
Speaker (Hon. Edgar N. Rhodes), rulings and statements of
Adjournment motions, when in order, 5517, 5547
Amendments ruled out not subsequently debatable, 1686 Bills
Not debatable in detail on motion for leave to introduce, 4410 Printing of in both languages, 5550
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Censored publications, quotations from in Parliament, 5944 Closure
Bill reported amended, amendments not debatable; Rule 17A overrides Rule 56, 5771
Concurrence in resolution of Committee of Supply not debatable, 5095 Crown property, Bills to dispose of, must have Crown's consent, for third reading, 1157
Flint. Dr., retirement of, 6044 House of Commons Estimates, 2359, 5784 Officials, 5786 Interjections, 2596 Irrelevancy, 444, 5478
Language reflecting on the Chair to be withdrawn, 2567
Letters from persons outside referring to House proceedings not to be quoted,
Member must take his seat when Speaker addresses House, 4410	*
Motions dealing with questions already before House, 1017, 1022, 1150 Motions, irregular
Repetition of matters disposed of, 1867 Substantial repetition of notice of motion standing on order paper, 1490, 1508, 1523
Taxation, to levy, without recommendation by the Crown, 3078, 4648 Order of the day, reinstatement of, 2878,
Orders of the Day, on, extended remarks irregular, 665, 804
Petitions, form for presentation of, 2284 Privilege, statements under to be confined to denial of matters complained of, 599, 3612, 3614, 3616 Questions and answers Answers not debatable, 4959 Questions not to contain allegation of fact or inuendo, 4834 Quorum, absence of, 2877 Reply, privilege of, confined to mover of substantive motion, 1880 Order of speakers varied by unanimous consent, 1015
Rules, lenient interpretation not to establish a precedent, 3078 Saturday sittings, Committee of Supply, how constituted (Rule 17C), 5891 Senate proceedings, regularity of not to ba questioned in House, 5498


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"A man who was ashamed, Sir, of what he was doing," 5587 "Vile motives," 4313
Votes and Proceedings, error, not immediately discovered, referred to special committee, 2880 Ways and Means, amendment to second reading of resolution reported from Committee must be relevant. 1686 See also Deputy Speaker and Parliamentary procedure
Spence, Andrew, position of, 1472
Spittal, Lt.-Col. C. D., dismissal of, 645, 651, 1127
Spotten, Judge, 1127
Stanfield, Mr. John (Colchester)
Army
Camps, sale of liquor in, 823 Medical service, 3984
Government railways, promotion of employees, 765
Stayner public building, 5412
Steamers utilized by British Government,
the C. E. Tanner, 5362
Steamship services
Australia and New Zealand, 2285 Canada
British Columbia, 2299 Magdalen Islands, 2302, 2326 New Brunswick, 2292, 2297, 2323 Nova Scotia, 2286, 2299, 2300, 2304, 2319 Prince Edward Island, 2303, 2319, 3389, 3945
Quebec, 2299, 2318, 2325 China and Japan, 2298 France, 2307
Great Britain, 2285, 2291, 2297 Ireland, 2292 Newfoundland, 2286, 2291 South Africa, 2291 South America, 2287 United States, 2299 West Indies, 2287
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Army, soldiers, voting of, 1383, 4825 Canadian Association of Stationary Engineers, 1198 Cheese purchases, 2258 Coal, shortage of, S3 Cold storage, 2079 Gordon Divorce Bill, 5496 Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire, 5495
Public health, proposed department of, 992 Railway Act, The, 3442, 3452 Scientific and industrial research, 3909
Stefansson expedition, 4173
Stellarton, N.S.
Postmaster, 669, 897, 3758 Public building, 4951
Stevens, Mr. H. H. (Vancouver)
Address in reply to the Governor General's Speech, 62
Our troops at the front, 62 Reply to criticisms of Mr. Macdonald, 62 The Ross rifle, 63 National Service Commission, 64 The smelting and refining of ores, 66 Care of returned soldiers, 67 Army, soldiers, voting of, 4749 Canadian Northern Railway acquisition of, 4965
Enlistment, 2421-2428 Fisheries, proposed ministry of, 2029 Grain for breweries and distilleries, 1182 Indians, Kitsilano Reserve, 1902 Military Service, 2421 Enlistment, interference with, 2421 Labour's attitude, 2426 Quebec's attitude, 2424, 2428 Referendum, 2427 National Service Commission, 64 Ross rifle, 63 Shipbuilding, 5445
Telephone lines, 5402	-
Wealth, conscription of, 2427 Woman suffrage, 1522 Stewart, Mr. T. J. (West Hamilton)
Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo railway, 2590, 2609, 3865, 3955, 3980 Tractor engines, duty on, 680 Submarine situation, 1320
Sulphur, United States embargo on export of, 4889
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5890, 5892-5900, 5948, 5997, 6004-6060 For details see titles of departments and subjects
Supreme Court Act and Exchequer Court Act amendment Bill, lr., 2568;	2r.,
Com., 3r., 3630
Surveys, 134'5, 13'57 Astronomical, 4917 Generally, 1345, 1357, 3898 Geological, 4179 Hydrographic, 4173 Indian Lands, 1894 International, 1735
Sutherland, Mr. Donald (South Oxford)
Army camps, sale of liquor in, 829 Coalition government, 2690 Flour, price of, 1080 Live stock purchases, 2280 Military service, 2682 Classes, 3-282
Quebec, recruiting in, 2685 Referendum, 2692
Railway Act, The, 3545, 3547	^
Railways, government operation of, 2234 Rural mail carriers, 3636 Soldier Settlement Board. 3786 Soldiers, behaviour of, 5234 Soldiers, votes for, 1395 Telegraphs and telephones, 3545 War-time Elections Bill, 5685, 5860 Women Suffrage, 1477 Swiss Army manoeuvres, attendance of Canadian officers at, 5219 Sydney
Harbour improvements, 5342 Industrial sites, 3956
Tanner, C. E., teteamer or Motor Boat, 5362 Tariff. See Customs and Customs Tariff Act Taxation. Senate amendment of taxation measure no precedent, 5476 Special
Business profits, 719, 727, 7-37, 745, 750, 959, 965, 1432, 1437, 1447, 1628, 2107 Comparative statement, 2508 Cost of collecting, 4686
"faxation-Con.
. Returns of business concern, 4245 See Wealth, Conscription of Income, 719, 738, 1424, 1441, 1631, 1687, 3760, 3767, 4070, 4102, 4124, 4638 Cost of collecting estimated, 468f See also Income War Tax Bill Land, 1630
Hudson's Bay Co., lands, 986 Patent medicines,-3-63 Use made of funds obtained by, 4177 Wealth, 2453, 2469, 2508, 25£8, 2576, 2587, 2597, 2608, 2671, 2728, 28*59, 3045 See Wealth, Conscription of Taylor, Mr. James D. (New Westminster) Army
Medical service, 3981 Non-commissioned officers, 1608, 3999 Officers, employment of, 565 Recruiting, 5 6-5 Soldiers
Pensions, 1607 Voting of, 4703, 4757-4786 Fraser river dredging, 5357 Hindu immigration, 2145 Military service, 3145, 3275 Thomson, Mr. Levi, reply to statement of, 1370
Taylor, Lt.-Col. J. D., M.P., payments to, 986
Technical Education, 1229
See Industrial and Scientific Research. Telegraphs, telephones and radiotelegraphs
Government lines
Alberta and Saskatchewan, 3892, 5393 British Columbia, 3893, 5365, 5395, 5410 Manitoba, 5411 Magdalen Islands cable, 5407 New Brunswick, 5379 Nova Scotia, 5362 Prince Edward Island, 5407, 5411 Quebec, 5384 Telephones for, 4147 Ocean service, 2024, 2108 Provisions governing, 3542, 3546 Radiotelegraph service, 4159 Subsidies, 3892 West India cable, 2339 Temiscouata mail contract, 335	[DOT]
"The Fiddlers," circulation of forbidden, 3503, 3654, 3718, 3881, 3955, 4059, 5942
Thetford Mines, labour trouble at, 590, 606, 1113
Thoburn, Mr. William (North Lanark) Gordon Divorce Bill, 5909 Military service, 3358 Postmasters, salaries of, 3642 Technical education, 1238
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Thompson, Mr. Alfred (Yukon)
Game in the Northwest, 3668 Yukon, cost of living in, 2571 Thompson, Dr. Alfred, M.P., employment and
salary of, 5083
Thomson, Mr. Levi (Qu'Appelle)
Army, soldiers' pay, 3216 Budget, 976
The duty on farm machinery, 977 Inequalities in the tariff, 979 Free wheat, 982
Canadian Northern railway, acquisition of, 5146
Dominion Lands Act amendment, 3811 Free wheat, 982 Military service, 2993 Exemptions, 3193, 3225 Railway transportation for Members of Parliament, 3521, 3523 Soldier Settlement Board, 3629 Thornton, Mr. Charles J. (Durham)
Packages, marking of,-inspection and sale,-4066
Railway Act, The, 3544 Telegraphs and telephones, 3544 Three Rivers
Harbour improvements, 3879 Public buildings, 668 Titus, Private John, 2237
Tobin, Mr. Edmund W. (Richmond and Wolfe)
Bromptonville postmaster, 1129 Canadian Northern railway, acquisition of 5052
Horses for war purposes, 1123 Military service, 2810	[DOT]
Militia Department motor cars, 2525 Ross rifle, 2054
Telegraph and telephone lines, 5388 Wool, exportation of, 1130 Toronto water-borne traffic, 454 Tracadie
Inland Revenue officer, 1817 Railway siding, 2618 Tractor engines, duty on, 674 Trade and Commerce
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The fiftieth anniversary of Confederation, 175
Extension of term of Parliament, 175 National government, 177 Taxation of war profits, 178 The Nationalist party, 179 Recruiting in Quebec, 185 Enlistment of Canadians, 187 The manufacture of munitions, 188 Cost of the war to Canada, 189 Extension of term of Parliament, 189 Increased production, 190 National service, 191
Recruiting from the Civil Service, 192 The Ross rifle, 193 Aliens, naturalization of, 3814 Anderson, Mr. Daniel, 1265 Army
Officers, surplus of, 3f03 Rejected men, 3099 Ashcroft mail service, 668 Assistant Deputy Minister of-Labour, suspension of, 687 Beans for seed, 1473 Blow, Dr., payments to, 668 Budget, 746
Trade relations with Great Britain, 746 Free wheat, 747, 750 Government expenditure, 747 Taxation of business profits, 750 Revenue of Canada, 755 Canadian Northern railway, acquisition of, 5026
Civil Service
Disfranchisement of Civil servants, proposed, 2020 Recruiting from, 192 Daylight saving, 3684 Dominion Lands Act amendment, 3798 Farm labour for western Canada, 3504 Flour, price of, 1070 Food Control, 1999, 3751 Fuel, 1414 Grain
Breweries and distilleries, for, 1180 Commission, 1381 Elevators, 3707 Grading of, 1265 Rust in, 2063 Wheat
Free, 747, 756
Surplus, purchase of, 1126 United States tariff on, 1342 Hobbs, Mr. Hugh, 1228 Loans to farmers, 1968 Lockhart, Mr. Hugh, 1265
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Saskatchewan coal miners' strike, 3237 Senate, proposed change in constitution of, 1137
Smith, Pte. J. I., 3418 Soldier Settlement Board, 3779 Spotten, Judge, 1127 Taxation
Business profits, 178, 750, 1458 Income, 1463
Tractor engines, duty on, 678 National Transcontinental railway, operation of, 657 War
Prisoners of, parcels to, 3958 Prosecution of the, 1591 War-time Elections Bill, 5711, 5836 Woman suffrage, 1518
Turner, General, appointment of, 268, 279 Turner, Mr. Harvey, position of, 1469 Union Government
See Coalition Government; National Government
United Mines Workmen of Nova Scotia, 802 United States
British subjects in, recruiting of, 2482, 3904 Declaration of war by, 610 Exodus of Canadians to, 3285 Farm labourers from, 665, 1740, 1747, 1193, 4512
French Canadians in, 4914
Head tax on foreigners entering, 892, 1266
Tariff
Changes in, 1264 Wheat, on, .1342
Troops, training of, in Canada, 2482
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Volume II:: 1125-2138.
" V: 4243-5270.


Volume III:: 2139-3186.
" VI: 5271-6094.


INDEX-1917 Ixv
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War-time Elections Bill-Con.
Amendments proposed :	Sir Wilfrid
Laurier, 5576; lost on div., 5628. Mr. Pugsley, 5629; lost on div., 5635. Mr. Neely, 5650; lost, 5659. Mr. McCraney, 5659; lost on div., 5660. Mr. Lapointe, lost on div., 5770. Mr. Neely, 5824; lost on div., 5879
Senate amdts., 6071	.
War-time Elections Act
Female enumerators, 6071 Polling Divisions, 6070 Qualifications of voter, 6092 Tribunals, candidates for federal elections serving on, 6070
Washington Conference, Canadian delegates to, 1127
Waterford, N. S., explosion at, 5775
Ways and Means, Committee of, 584, 1436, 1445, 1628, 3760, 5242, 6061 Amendment, Mr. Oliver, 1677 See Budget and Taxation
Wealth, Conscription of
Amendments to address for extension of term of Parliament, Mr. Graham, 3641, 3471, 3480
Statement by Finance Minister, 3187 See Taxation
Webb, Lieutenant, position of, 4563
Webster, Mr. John (Brockville)
Army, 122nd Battalion, 5083 Budget, 953
The dairying industry, 953 Canada's part in the war, 956 Cheese, manufacture and sale of, 2268 Packages, marking of-inspection and sale, 4068
Weichel, Mr. William G. (North Waterloo) Military Service Bill, 2801 National Transcontinental Railway, ties, 455
War-time Elections Bill, 5832
Weights and measures, inspection of, 2383, 3842
Welland canal
Construction of, 2206, 3402, 4925 Dynamiters of, 4926
West Edmonton forest rangers and homestead inspectors, 1476 Western Canada, farm labour for, 3504 Wheat. See Grain White, Rev. Ward, position of, 3903
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White, Sir Thomas (Minister of Finance) Address in reply to the Governor General's Speech, 272
Reply to statements of Sir Sam Hughes,. 272
War expenditure, 274 Proposed Minister of Overseas Services, 277, 279
Appointment of General Turner, 279, 280 Purchase of motor trucks and transports, 280
Canada and the war, 282 Army
Camps, sale of liquor in, 818 Medical service, commission of inquiry into, 542
Soldiers, life insurance of, 3589 Officers, unattached, 563 Beans, duty on, 671 Bran and shorts, duty on, 1870 British Government and Canadian Pacific Railway Financial arrangement Bill, 1369, 2059 Budget, 718, 937
National income and expenditure, 718 War expenditure, 718 Income taxation, 719 Taxation of business profits, 719 War loans, 720 Trade of Canada, 721 Free wheat, 937 Amendment of Mr. Oliver, 949 Business Profits War Tax, 5290 Canadian Northern railway, acquisition of, 4011, 4217, 4247-4287, 4467, 4595-4620, 4622-4638, 4835-4873, 4960-5015, 5154 Canadian Pacific railway-Bill to facilitate financial arrangements, etc., 1369, 2059 Civil Service
Enlistments from, 2014, 2253 Promotions, 2010 Salaries, 2008, 2238
Civil Service Act amendment, 2008, 2238 Customs Tariff Act amendment, proposed, 1689
Enlistment, voluntary, 2583 Finance, Department of, estimates, 1790, 1796
Flour, price of, 1053, 1088 Fuel, 1419
Grand Trunk Pacific railway, loan to, 5292 Rails, removal of from, 5296 Hughes, Sir Sam, reply to statement of, 3110
Military Service Bill, 2582 Voluntary enlistment, 2583 Progress of the war, 2584
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IXV1 COMMONS DEBATES
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White, Sir T.- Con.
Canada's position, 2584 Our duty to the men at the front, 2585 Conscription of wealth, 2587 Referendum proposals, 2589 Income War Tax Bill
See, under this title, Taxation Inland Revenue Department estimates, 2381, 3832
Insurance, 1724, 2100 Life insurance of soldiers, 3589 Insurance Act Amendment Bills, 3848, 4138, 5196
Loans to farmers, 1960 Loans, public, 720
$100,000,000 for Public Service, 342, 435, 4957
Amount received and commission paid, 4957
McNab, Colin C., 579 Members, deceased, tributes to. 5 Motor trucks, purchase of, 280 National Gallery of Canada, 5301 Newsprint paper, 757, 1646 Penny Bank Act, 2061 Pensions, 845
Denial of erroneous statement, 5423 Proportional representation, 908 Quebec and Saguenay railway, 1658 Railway, situation in Canada, 4011, 4058 Recruiting, retarding of, 3110 Senate, appointments to, 930 Shipbuilding, 666
Imperial Munitions Board contracts, 1661 Soldier Settlement Board, 3788 Supply, vote for three months, 2946 Tariff revision, 1689
Taxation measures; Senate amendment no precedent, 5476 Taxation
Business profits, 178, 719, 1438, 1635, 2108 Returns by business concerns, 4246 Income, 719, 1441, 1449, 1631, 3760, 3768, 4070, 4102, 4126, 4638 Wealth, 2587
Toronto Globe, correction of editorial in, 2707
Unclaimed bank balances, 1004 United Grain Growers, Limited, 894 War charities, 5424, 6481 War expenditure, 718 War finance, vote of $500,000,000, 542 War supplies for British Government, 4953, 5522
War taxation
See, under this title, Taxation
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Wealth, conscription of, 3187 See, under this title, Taxation
Whitehead life-saving station, 1469 Will iams Head quarantine station, 5312 Wilcox, Mr. Oliver J. (North Essex)
Racing meets, limitation of, 8, 313 Toronto Globe-correction of statement in, 47
Tractor engines, duty on, 676 Wilfrid C., vessel, 4062
William Davies Co., 4151 See Food Investigation Wilson, Mr. Charles A. (Laval)
Canadian Northern railway, acquisition of, 5069
Criminal Code amendment, jurors, 4300, 4326
Military Service Bill, 2925 Contraventions of Act, 3328 Exemptions, 3303 Quebec, recruiting in, 2926 Penitentiaries, salaries of guards, 5803 Potato consignments, 607 Railway Act, The, 3444, 3447 Ships built in Canada, 591 Soldiers, voting of, 4722 Taxation, income, 4073 Wilson, Mr. Gordon C. (Wentworth)
Address in reply to the Governor General's Speech, 9
Canada and the war, 9 Tribute to deceased Member, 10 Provision for returned soldiers, 10 National service, 10 Canada's financial stability, 11 Fiftieth anniversary of Confederation, 11 Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo railway, 2610
Windsor, N.S.
Tribune building, 1380 Wharf repairs, 1380
Windsor, Ontario, immigration officers, 2357 Windsor Junction, N.S., mail service, 5913 Wireless telegraph. See Telegraphs Woman suffrage
Enfranchisement under War-time Elections Bill, 5416
Pugsley, Mr., motion and amendments by Notice stands, 309; postponed, 672, 759 Amendment to motion of Mr. Sutherland, 1488
Ruled out by Mr. Speaker, 1490, 1508 Amendment to amendment of Sir Robert Borden, 1522


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Woman suffrage-Con.
Sutherland, Mr., motion of, 1477, 1627 Borden, Sir Robert, amendment of, 1508 Inquiry by Mr. Pugsley, 4958
Women
Atlantic passports for, 3996, 5783 Munition workers, 4063
Wood, Lieutenant, position of, 4563 Wool, exportation of, 1130 Wright, Mr. William (Muskoka)
Grain, 5208
Wheat, fixing price of, 3694, 3703 Live stock exchanges, 5512 Public Works Department estimates, 5335 Railway Act, The, 3514
Wright, Mr. W.-Con.
Railway transportation for Members of Parliament, 3521	,
Soldier Settlement Board, 3629 Woman suffrage, 1479 Yarmouth harbour improvements, 3870 Year Book, Canada, 2337
Yukon territory, 1736	[DOT]
Administrator, 5122 Commissioner of, 3677 Expenditure, 592 Judges' salaries, 5896 Miners' strike, 3086 Population, 593
Prices and cost of living, 2199, 2237, 2481, 2571, 2954
Zinc. See Mines and minerals