Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-27

Edward has a suboverseer in each of the
Canadian provinces, who goes by the title
of lieutenant governor These men are APP
pointed by the governor general of Canada
in council, the council being the cabinet,
which really rules the country from .Otta-
wa. The lieutenant governor of the new
province of Saskatchewan Is Mr.. A. h.
Forget pronounced For-zhay) He occupies
the same position as to the provincial legis-
lature as Earl Gray holds to the federal
parliament. He Is King Edwards personal
agent and fgurehead All laws passed by
the legislature are presented TO MIN
and he can veto any act he sees 1T: l
doubt, however whether he would dare
veto many. These Canadians are proud OF
their independence and will not toler-
ate any directions from their imperial
bosses and subbosses except upon extraor-
binary occasions. If the state legislature
should pass bills which were evidently not
the will of the people the lieutenant COVER
nor might veto them and be safe Otherwise
he would probably only act as to bills which
he thought might directly affect his i'm
perial majesty. Even in such cases the act
might be again passed over his head and
he would hardly dare veto it second time
Governor Forget at Home.
The lieutenant governor is the best paid
official in Saskatchewan. His salary is
So 900 a year and he has the govern
ment house TO live in. This is by all odds
the finest residence in the Canadian north
west territory. 1t Is big two-story man
sion about mile and a half from Regina,
situated in the midst of the prairie. Its
rooms are large and suited for entertain
ing At one end of 1t is a conservat tory,
where the flowers bloom when Jack Frost
has bitten off all other vegetation with his
forty degrees- below-Zero teeth" The gov
errors house has double windows 1t is
heated by steam and it is always summer
there.
1 thoroughly realized this yesterday after
noon when / rode over the prairieS to visit
his eXcellency. | was wrapped in buffalo
robes and l wore a coon-slSin coat and
cap and was almost frozen, notwithstand-
ing. Entering the mansion was like jump
ing from winter into the lap of summer, or
like taking a flying leap from the north
pole to the temperature of Los Angeles or
New Orleans.
A French Canadian.
1t is necessary for the lieutenant COVER
nor to have a good house. He has to uphold
the dignity of the British empire. He is the
| social leader of the province, and such he
has much entertaining to do. Gov Forget
Is well fitted for this in that he is a French
Canadian. He has. however been more
than a social figure. He is noted as an ac-
tive working statesman, is a man of force
and has had considerable influence upon alt
| things connected with Saskatchewan. He
| has for years been one of the leaders of the
1 HOTlHWtSl ISTTltO1ltS anu Is lllOEOuS ny
posted on all going on in them.
Born of French Canadian parents, Gov
ernor Forget was educated IN Quebec. At
| ter his graduation he spent some time in
| the United States learning English He
| lived for year at Montpelier, VT, anc
| while there heard ablest lecturers III
| the persons of such men as Henry Ward
Beecher, Wendell Phillips and Theodore
| Tilton. About the time of his admission
| to the bar a rebellion of the half-breeds
| broke out near Winnipeg. Soldiers were
sent to the front from eastern Canada and
| the rebellion quelled. In the trial of the
| traitors which ensued young Forget was
| sent out from the east as an assistant to
| one of the lawyers He arrived here in
/ brightest garb; he fell in love with it, and
| determined to return and make it his home.
| After the trial was over he went back 70
| Quebec but short time later accepted an
| official position in the territorial govern
| ment. This brought him again to Mani
| toba and he has been here from that time
to this, having spent twenty-nine years in
| the territories. During that period he has
| been advanced from one prominent place
| to another. For long tim, he was COM
missioner of Indian affairs and later still
| was the representative of King Edward as
! lieutenant governor of the whole northwest
| territories a tract many times the size OF
| Great Britain and Ireland. Now that a
| part of these territories has been made Into
states he has been appointed governor OF
| Saskatchewan.
Governor Forget is type of the best of
| the French Canadians. Tall, slender and
/ fine looking, he is dignified and cultured
| He speaks English fiuently. his talk show
/ ing all the force of the westerner added to
| the polish eff the F'renchnan.
/ Discovered by Americans.
I Upon my presentation as an American
new spaper correspondent the lieutenant
governor said that he thought Saskatchewan
| owed much to Americans. Said he: Your
| people to certain extent hold the place
| that Columbus did as to this continent in
respect to our province. We owe our dscov-
4 cry largely to you. We knew we had q
vast extent of land here, but we did not
| appreciate its real value until syndicate
of American capitalists at the suggestion
OF Mr.. Sifton, our former minister of the
interior, came here and looked over the