Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-03-27
ATTACK ON THE JESUlTS
A Hot Debate in the Canadian
 Parliament.
MIR. O'gRIEN'S STRONG LANGUAGE

He Says The Order Is Menace to Lib
 erty, and Appeals to the Governor
 General to Disallow the Jesuits' Estates
 Hill.
 OTTAWA, March 27-The galleries of the Donlintcn house of commons were crowded yesterday as they have never been crowded before. The special interest was centered in Col. O'Brien's anti-Jesuit resolution, which confidence vote in the Dominion government for having refused to exercise their preroga- tive and disallow the Jesuit estates bill, passed by the Quebec legislature last session, and by which the Jesuits were to receive the sum of S4OO, GOO in lieu of their property, valued at $2OO, ,00O, which had been confiscated to the crown at the time they were declared an ille- gal order during the last century. It is nnpossi- bic to es. innate the extent to which religious controversy throughout the Dominic between extreme Catholic and Protestant bodies has been raised by the attempt to secure the dis allowance of this bill, and the motion of Col OBrien was anxious:y awaited. Fully 5000 people occupied seats in the galleries, among them Lady Stanley and several members of the viceregal household while hundreds were turned away, unable to obtain standing room.
 At 3:3o o'clock Col O'Brien rose, and in a clear voice moved the adoption of a resolu- ton setting forth in strong terms the posi- tion of the anti-Jesuits, and calling on the governor general to disallow the act.
 In supporting his resolution Col. O'Brien went into a history of the early arrival of the Jesuit Fathers in the country, where for some time they labored faithfully. Later, not only had thu order been declared illegal by nearly every government of Europe, but his holi- ness, the pope, had suppressed them and re- pudiated the order as having no connection with the Catholic church. They were a menace to civil and religious liberty, and by re-establishins them the Dominion govern ment was committing an act that must in the end threaten the welfare of the country. He asserted that they had no legal claim to the property in question, and the indemnification for the loss of this property was unconstitu- tional He questioned the right of the pope to interfere with the legislation of the coun- try. Yet the government, by sanctioning the Jesu.ts estates bill, has acknowledged this right.
 Rykert followed, defending the govern ment's action in refusing to dislilow the bill Although he was an Orangenlan he had to indorse the course folI ,wed by the govern- ment, and was not afraid to return to his constituents for reelection on that platform.
 Baron and Wallace, as Orangemen, con- demned the governments action, following mainly on tho same lne of argument as O'Brien. It is believed that the debate will last until tomorrow, nd that the vote on the resolution will not be reached before.
 ROME, March 27.-Accel,ng to the desire of the Canadian ep scopacy, the pope has issued a br,ef designating the manner in winch the property to be res.ored to the Jesuits in tho Dominion is to be divided viz, $l60, 600 to the Jesuit,, SlO0, ,OoO to the Catho- lie bishops and S14o 900 to the Montreal uni verSty.