The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-29
PAR0CAIAL SCHOOL MATTER
Premier Greenway Makes an
Official Statement
THE MESSAGE FROM OTTAWA
It Is Now Proposed to Adjourn the
Legislature Until May
Sir Charles Tupper's Resignation and His
Attitude on the School Matter
Causes Some Comment

WINNIPEG, Manitoba, March 2S.-
Premier Greenway made an official state
ment to the Manitoba Legislature late this
afternoon on the separate parochial school
question. He commenced by stating that
his Government saw no reason whatever
why it should change its position in re-
gard to the school system of Manitoba
national schools for all and no separate
schools.
The receipt of the message from Ottawa,
with a copy of the remedial order made
by the Dominion Government raised con-
stitutional questions exceeding in gravity
and Importance to his mind, any legisla-
tive question that has heretofore arisen in
any legislative assembly in Canada since
the day when the Canadian provinces
were coniederated. These questions
affected not only the Province of Mani
toba. but every province in the Dominion.
In view of these facts the Government
had decided to ask that the Legislature
adjourn until May 8 in order that ample
time may be given for full and deliberate
consideration of the whole matter.
The Premier's remarks were received
with cheers and the motion to adjourn
will be agreed to tomorrow.
The Catholics charge that this is an at
tempt to shirk the issue, but it is denied
by the Government. They say that the
order from Ottawa is an unprecedented
one and must be well weighed or there is
danger OF a disruption OF the confedera-
ton.
The Premier was asked by the Associ-
ated Press correspondent whether the
Dominion Government would be likely to
take this proposed adjournment OF the
local house as refusal on the part of the
province to act IN the matter of the order.
He replied that no such construction
could be put upon the adjournment. mas
much as the provincial government was
taking the order into consideration and
there was no likelihood that the Do
minion Cove rnment, having clear three
weeks of session before the Provincial
house meets again, and send its answer,
will act in the matter before hearing from
Manitoba.
Sir Charles Tuppers resignation and
his attitude on the school remedial order
is the subject of much approving com
ment here. The Premier said that his
course was a sound and honorable one
and was evidence also of profound politi-
cal sagacity. Briefly stated, Sir Charles
Tuppers contention was that the Domin-
ion Government should have gone to the
country on this important question and
should not have called a session at all.
The government has now opened commu'
ncation with emienent constitutional
lawyers and has submitted to them for
their advice some of the chef poin is
affecting the jurisdiction of the legsa
ture.
The Orange lodge of Manitoba in session
here today adopted the following reso
luton:
Resolved, That we view with the greatest
alarm the present state OF affairs which exists
between the Dominion and Manitoba. And we
desire to express our approval of the stand
taken by our repres natives in the Provincial
Legislature in Manitoba our rights and priv
ileges brooking no interference by the central
government in our educational affairs and we
call upon all Protestants to support no candi-
dates for the House OF Commons or the Legis
lature who do not openly and unqualifiedly
pledge themselves to determinedly oppose any
and all attempts towards the closing of our
public school system and the imposing upon us
and our children the accursed system OF
separate schools.
Resolved, further That on account of Man
tobias central location in the chain of prov
inces which compose the dominion, and nav
ing naught to bind us to either, save religion
and language and that inherited desire to
maintain the connections between the colo
MES OF British America and the mother land,
it must be apparent to any statesman, British
or Canadian, who Will endeavor to check Man
itoba by illegal interference, either in the
management of its schools or other internal
affairs by breaking the central link of the
chain, it must naturally divide, if not endan
ger confederation.
The Orange Grand Lodge also passed
resolution declaring it was advisable that
a public convention, representative of all
grades of religious and political opinions.
be held in Winnipeg at an early date, to
voice the sentiment of the electors on the
maintenance of the public schools.