The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-03-27

ST. PAUL, MINI, March CA Winni.
pec, Man.. special to tho Pioneer Press
SAWS: Tne frs. stop in the removed fight
ov,r parochial schools iu Manitoba ho.
c,u in the legislature this afternoon
vhsu the full message was presented
from the Dominion government at
Ottawa, ordering the Manitoba lcsis.
l..ure to give the Catholics their rights
Is they existed before the abolition OF
ps,ochial schools in 1890.
The reading OF tho Ottawa message
occupied over IN hour and. all verbiage
removed, it amounts to the reques. as
above stated. Mr.. Martin, n French
Catholic member OF the legislature,
urged that the government should take
immediate action. but Premier Green
way protested, saying that the message
should be printed in order that all mem.
bsrs might know what they were deal.
us with. Here tho matter rested, aud
the discussion will now probably not
take place I'll Thursday. Meanwhile
the situation grows mere complicated.
Among the members on the govern.
ment side tonight it seems to be mat
ter Of opinion that the remedial order
will be disposed Of during the coming
week and without any great amount OF
speaking. Premier Grcenway denies
that he will compromise the matter by
iltroducinga bill making the schools
entirely secular.
CAUSED EXCITEMENT.
A dispatch from Ottawa savs: The
usrs from Winnipeg. that Premier
Greenway has declared that tho gov
e,nor generals order will be rejected in
its entirety" (meanipg tho order to
grant remedial legislation to the Catho-
lie, in the matter OF separate sch ools).
while not uneI pected, la, created great
excitement in official circles. It is ad-
nitted that the situation is pregnant
With critical possibilities and that much
depends upon the action OF the Domin-
ion government.
It is, Of course, possible that the Man.
i.oba legislature msy shelve the ques.
tion for year, a, tho federal parla.
ment has no Jurisdiction sillthe govern
ment oil the province acts or refuses to
act on the remedial order. But this
seems hardly likely to happen, judging
from the reports OF the feeling among
majority oi tho people OF Manitoba.
Assuming, however, that the order-in.
council OF the Dominion government ls
ignored, what will be the steps taken
5T the government to enforce its COM
mands? This question may be de.
termined by the outcome OF two bye.
elections. ono in Quebec and the other
IN Ontario, which are shortly 10 be held.
WHERE ELECTIONS WILL he HELD.
Fercherres, an old Liberal district in
Quebec, is vacant. The government
will bring on an election there, and il
Conservative candidate is returned, the
soreFnmens Will be encouraged to in-
'roduce bill into parliament at the
coming session to re-es!ablish the Cath
olic pHrochial school system in Manito-
ba. The other vacancy is in Halde-
naniaD, which went Conservative at
the last election by small majority.
Should the result OF the contest hero
show, as 1t is expected it will. large Lib
eral gains, it will be evident tina. what
the government has gained in the
French and Catholics constituencies it
mas lost in tho English and Protestant
districts, and the government will have
10 choose between the two or endeayor
10 appeaso both By some intermediate
couree.
The British North American nc. is in
many ways nn elastic affair, and it will
be difficult matter 70: tho Dominion
government to decide that i. has or that
It has not the right TO interfere in the
educational legislation OF tbs provinces.
II it should decide to Interfere, it ia
probable that such interference would
make the political divisions OF Canada
coincide with its great religious division,
or would lead to series OF appeals to
the courts. the end OF which can scarce
!y he soresecn.