The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-03-27
The MANITOBA MUDDLE
The PdrOChial School EiiCt From Her
Majesty be Queen.
WILL 1T BE REJECTEDa
That Is the Question That Is Now
Stirring the Dominion Cow
ernment From One End
to the other.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, March CA winni-
peg, Manitoba, special to the Pioneer
| Press says: The first step in the renewed
| light over parochIal schools IN Manitoba
began in the Legislature this afternoon
when the full message was presented from
the dominion government at Ottawa,
ordering the Manitoba legislature
TO give the Catholics their
rights as they existed before the
abolition of parochial schools. The read
ing OF the Ottawa message occupied an
hour aud. all verbIage removed, it amounts
to the request as above stated. Mr.. Mar
tin, French Catholic member of tho legis-
lature, urged that the government should
take immediate action, but Premier
Greenway protested, saying that the mes
sage should be printed in order that all
| members might know what
they were dealing with. Here tho
matter rested and the discussion will not
take place until Thursday. Meanwhile
| the situation grows more complicated.
The Catholics and their friends say that
Greenway and his fellow members, il they
reject the order from Ottawa, are reject
ing an order signed by her majesty, the
queen, and such an act wot.ld be equiya-
lent to open rebellion. They say
they cannot conceive how the do
minion government could do otherwise
than make the formal request they have
made, as they were bound, so far as lay in
their power, to take immediate action
upon the decision of the highest court and
sec that the grievances of Her Majesty's
subjects of the Roman Catholic faith in
Manitoba received redress at the earliest
possible moment. The Greenway gov
ernment contends on the other hand that
the present school law is satisfactory to
many Catholics If it were not for the agi-
tation by priests of the church. They say
that IT Manitoba is coerced into recreat-
ing dual system, dualIsm both in lam
guage and education will be extended to
territories as well, and thus there would
be perpetuated into the West evils which
have caused dissatisfaction and stagna-
ton in the province.
OTTAWA, March 26.-The news from
Winnipeg that Premier Gresnway hasde-
clared that "the governor generals order
would be rejected in its entirety" while
not unexpected, has created great excite
ment in official circles. 1t is admitted
that the situation is pregnant with
critical possibilities and that
much depends upon the action of the do
minion government. 1t is of course pos
sible that the Manitoba legislature may
shelve the question for a year, as the fed
eral parliament has no jurisdiction until
the government OF the province acts or
refuses to act on the order. But this
seems hardly likely to happen,
judging from the reports of
the feeling among most of the
people of Manitoba. Assuming then that
order in the council of the dominion gov
ernment is ignored, what will be the steps
taken by the government to enforce its
commands? This question may be de-
termlned by the outcome of two elections,
one in Quebec and the other in Ontario,
which are shortly to be held.