The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-03-27
THE mANIroBA SCHOOL QUESTION.
The Ottawa Message Read and Considera-
ton Postponed TIL ThnrsdnY

ST. PAUL, MINI March GA Win
nlpeg, Manitoba, special to tho Pioneer
Presa ssys: The first step in tho ra-
moved fight over parochisl schools in
Manitoba began in the Legislature this
| afternoon, when tho full message was
presented from the Dominion govern
mont OF Ottawa ordering the Manitoba
Legislature to give tho Catholics their
rights ao they existed before the aboli-
tion OF rarochial echools In 1890
Tho reading of the Ottawa message
occupied over an hour, end, all YER biage
! removed, 1t amounts to tho request as
above Htased. Mr.. Martin, French
Catholic member of the legislature,
urged that the government should take
Immediate action, but Premier Groen-
way protested, saying that the message
should be printed in order that all mem.
bers might know what they were DEAL
Ing with. Hero tho matter restad, and
the discussion will now probably not
take place sill Thursday.
Meanwhile the situation grows more
complicated. The Catholics and their
friends say that Greenway and his fol-
lowers, If they reject the order from
Ottawa. are rejecting document or
dered and signed by her majesty, the
queen, and such acs would BIO equiva-
lent to open rebellion. They say they
|
ernment could do otherwise than mako
the formal request they have ade, as
shey arc bound, so far nj in their power,
| to take immediate action upon the de-
| clsion OF the hfghese court and gee that
the grievances Of her majesty's subiac g
OF the Roman Catholic faith IN MANI
tooa received redress at the earliest
| possible moment.
The Greenwsy government contends,
| on the other hand, tnat the present
school law Is satisfactory 20 many
Catholics if it were not Tor the agitation
by the priests Of the church. They say
that IL Manitoba is coerced into re-
creating dual System, dualiam both IN
| language and education Will be OK
tended to the territories as we'll, and
thus there would be perpetuated in tho
West the evils which have caused dis.
gatisfsc lion and stagnation in the East
ern provinces. Among the m em bers of
| tho government to night. il seems 10 be
mastor of opinion that the rem edial
order will be disposed Of during the
coming week, and without any great
amount OF speaking. Premier Green
way denies that he will com promise the
matter By Introducing bill making
| the schools entirely secular.
the Government View,
| OTTAWA, Ont, March 26.-Tho news
from Winnepsg that Premier Green
way has d. Clarad that Tho governor.
| genersl's order will b rejected in it's
entirety" (meaning the order 10 grant
remedial Legislation TO the Catholics in
| tho matter OF separate sch oois) whilo
no5 unexpected he's creased great ex-
element in Official circles II is, OF
course, possible that the Manitoba leg,
islasure may snelve the quaetion for 4
| aG lnaF n1r
| jurisdiction till Tho government OF the
province ncss or refuses to act on the
remedial order. But this seems haydly
likely to happen.
The British North American act ia In
many ways An elastic affair, and it will
be difficult M alter for the Dominion
government to decide that it has Or has
not the right to interfere in the edu-
cational legislation of the provinces.
80 far the action OF the government has
resulted in stirring up feeling in On
tsrio very hostile to itself. while in
| Quebec it mas had an entirely contrary
effect The independent journals, with.
out exception, cry out against inter.
ference by the Dominion in the school
affairs OF the province, and there is no
doubt AZ 90 that being the sentiment of
the greas m sjoritY Of Protestant asario
Quebec Deeply Interested.
MONTREAL March 26 The excite
! men' in Quebec over the school cues
| tionois none the less real because 1t is
in measure subdued for the time
being. Tho tone OF the French press,
| however, distinctly indicates Whist will
happen If "Orsugeism" as they term it,
triumphs. Considerable additional i'll
| feeling among the French Catholics
has been created by q paper read yes
tar I'd no Lo
| ial Association by Raw. w Y Graham,
| in which Mr.. Graham made u bitter al
tack on the Jesuits, and demanded their
eviction from Canada. Mr. Graham
closed his address with the declaration
thai tho right OF Manitoba to enact her
own school laws must ba preserved
Submarine Torpedo Boat to lie Built.
WASHINGTON, March 26 "A contract
was signed to-day by Secresary Her
bert with the John P. Holland T1rpedo
Boat Company for the construction of
submarine torpedo boat for the use
of the navy. This contract may mark
radical departure in naval construc.
ton. The length will be so feot,
diameter II feet. displacement (total
when submerged), l3SH tons. All parts
OF the vessel and the steel to be used
in her construction, are to be of do
mestic manufacture She Is to be com.
pleted within twelve months from date
under time penalties.
Public School Buildings Granted.
LOUISVILLE, KY, March 26.-The
Louisville school board, by vots OF II
to Q, last night granted the use OF about
forty public school buildings for the
Grand Army OF the Republic eucamp-
ment next September. The buildings
will be controlled by the lo,ol com,