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,, my." ._....... mmmtuomw ( Wage Dorian, declaring anathema “Shot (1 be cona'tructed m no other way, add- '>1ing to the rSwittwg the words “ and not "otherwise,” the, object of Which was to make {flimpoggfble for any Government to secure awe construction of the road in any other mode than through the agency of a private ’compgpy aided by a. "an 'oflandsand money. iInd wlifl'e the resolution moved by Sir George :Chrbigér, deqlqring that the work should be my. : â€":â€" -5-v-v_.â€"-- II- “I" ruin of Wation. w 1hr ‘ eulon am he résblutiop f in IE. ' was the or- 51na1 motion as 0mm. hon. goatlemu: 111 agree with uh that it embodies the mede in which the PM thank! ho construct- «33- Now, sir, “thong: hon. gentlemen in film House, although 1; two great Miss re- Epresented in this Hon. .y Min dif- gferences of op‘nion as tn tho construction of icuuse hpn. ganth’meu than-nopuunflng the r Qppgsition fix this one suppoysed a iIutfon Hroduged 9.3 an amendmmtoougg h“ “6' 1A- , a . - . . I need not remind the House that w] my Bight Hon. friend the leader of Government occupied in 1871 the smnm w v,“ .:.,V vvwn nuuluu UU boast-riveted in that Way, received the support 9!? egg-y gentleman on this side of the House, the still stronger _aflirma.tion moved by Mr. 11:33:, flat the work should be done in no .I 'a‘... _-A_L-.I cv- u. ‘Govarnment occupied in 1871 the same posi- Lizion. which he now occupies, the policy of Egonstructmg a great. line of Canadian Pacific faiIWay, that would connect the two great pagans, which form the eastern and western. ‘jgoundaries of the Dominion of. Canada, re- ‘ ived he giypproval of this Home; not only g t pol 6y of accqmplishing that. grant '15?th rgcoiv’e the 'ondorntion of a large ma- ‘bflgy i‘ 6119 Parliament of this country, but 11.31050 terms the 132% by which than: “" _ shank? be ”con: won embodied he form of a reso 11:19:; and submitted :3 ”by commutation a? . It was am by the Iage 1mm else Our- ,‘i ’2?th th , may _ ‘ _ to in the ad- gigs“ 'mwmma i _ so on Sunday, Liag‘A‘pa-fl M: nil n “manhunt: nail The House thefi resolved itself into cam- :mifiee, er. Kigkpatrick in the chair. Sir CHAS. TUPPHB moved the House into committee of supply upon the taflway reso- lutions. S' HAS. TUPPER said that if there was we or fuller discussion, it would be bad When in committee. The Past History of the En- term-no. Hon. Mr. BLAKE thought the Ministerial statement should be made before the House and got in committee. ITS PROMISES FOR THE FUTURE 526 000,500 CHEAPER THIN THE MACKENZIE SCIEIE. A PROFITABLE ARRANGEMENT FOR THE COUNTRY. Complete Vindication hi. Policy; The Government Bar- J gain Unfolded. The Railway Contract. Great Speech of Slr Charles Tupper. EARLY P0110! 0' m MEIER}. , V-.. away an 5 recefvcd, I bélieve; tie support-g; SUPPLEMENT TO THE RICHMONL HILL HERALD. and. money, and inasmuch I! in the resolution embodying that. ointment, as the hon. leader of the Opposition has correctly reminded me, is en- bodied that it should not increase the ex- isting rate of fixation, and,inasmnch as the Finance Minister of the Government atonce announced to Parliament the fact that there wees. grout impending deficiency between the revenue and expenditure, and it therefore become apparent that no progress could be made exceptin contravention of both those propositions,Ihove said before, and I repeat now, that in my judgment the hon. leader of the then Government would have been war- ranted in stating that he was obliged to leave the question of the construction of the Can- ada Pacific Railway in abeyunce. The pres- . ent hon. leader of the Opposition has difl‘emd ‘ with me on that point, as occasionally weave ‘ compelled to differ on matters which. are submitted to: the consideration ofthis House, lid I am he to confess that, although I do not hold so strongly as the present leader of Ibo Opposition opinions as to the duty which 1 devolved upon the hon. member for Lambton as leader of the Government of 1874, that the opinions he formed, the policy he W, . and the statements he made in and out of this House as to his position regarding the construction of the Canadian Pacific Bail- way were eminently patriotic, to the great credit of that hon. gentleman. Tun n’uuzm POLICY. But, air, he did commit himself in the most formal: and authentic manner to the con- struction, notwithstanding the dificnlty which had occurred; notwithstanding the apparently insnpemble difl‘leultiee which presonmd themselves, the hon. gentlemen went to his constituentsâ€"I will not say he went to his constituentsâ€"he appealed toei’l Canada; he appealed to the people of this country in the most formal manner in which it is possible for a First Minister to state his policy. and that wcs by a manifesto over his own signature. The House will perhaps alL low me to draw attention to- some very im- portant stltements contained: in the mani- festo. The hon. gentleman seidzflwem'ust meet the difficultyimposed on Canada by the reckless arrangement of the late GOT- ernment with reference to the Pacific Refl- Way, under which they pledged the hand and resources of the country to the commence- ment of that gigantic work in July £873 ’and to its completion by Jul , P8813} The lion. gentlemttn’ will no fur tarm' occasioh he expressed his Ignitionâ€"c hope that these gentleman would aucceed in obtaining the capital ggguired upon these terms. M, air, they did not succeed, as everybody knows. After having exhausted every eflort in their power they were obliged to return and surrender tho charter under which they received authority to endeavor to obtain money for the construction of tho greet work. Well, sir, a. very unpleasant ream followed, and the then Govern-ant of this country not withalike dam The we placed st their disposal to incur. the con- struntien of the great work which these con. tlemenhm in hand having proved. inade- quate, the Gevumentdso succumbed to the pressure from the hon. gentlemen opposite. It is not a pleasant topic, and Iwill not dwell any longer upon it than is absolutely necessary to introduce the Administration which followed us, ably led hythe hon. member for Lamhton. New, sir, I have said on more than one occasion that, in my judgment, inasmuch as the only authority which Parliament had given for the construction of the Canada Pacific Pu'lway requires it should he done by a private company, aided by a. grant of land That gentleman, with lome of his associates. (I need not a We period remind the House that the: Company embraced a number of the most able; leading sad in- fluential men in this country fimncblly and commercially) proceeded to England, at first time,“ all event», the grant may whet oftheworld; ImigM-Imoeteaythetflwae then the only money market in the world. They proceeded to England and exhausted everymeane in their power to obtain the support of the financial men, in web a. way as to enable them to carry that contract to completion. 1! my recolhch‘on doee not fill me, the hon. leader of the late Government on more than one occasion expressed the hopefiaat it would be successful. He always :3prde his strong conviction that the means were altogether inadequate to seem me object in View, 1}“ I think that on more then one every gentleman on the other side of the House ; therefore I think I may say the policy of Parliament, not the policy of any one party, was distincly afiirmed in the reso- lutions placed upon the journal in 1871. Well, sir, in 1872 it became necessary to state in distinct terms what aid the Government proposed under the authority of that resolu- tion to offer for the construction of the rail- way. The journals of 1872 will show that Parliament, by a deliberate vote and by a very large majority, placed at the service of , the Government $30,000,000 in money and . 50,000,000 acres of land for the construction of the main line, and an additional amount of 20,000 acres of land per mile for the Pem- , bina Branch of 85 miles, and of 25,000 ‘ acres of land per mile for the Nepigon branch of that line. Sir, I may remind the 3 House that it was expected, as may possibly prove to be the case yet, that the line of the Canada Pacific Railway from Nipisslng west- ward would run to the ‘north of Lake Nepigon, and provision was therefore made for a branch by a vote of 25,000 acres of land per mile for 120 miles, to secure connection between Lake Superior and the main line. Now, sir, these terms became the subject or very considerable discussion in this House and out of it, and the Gov- ernment having been sustained by a majority placing at their disposal that amount of money and that amount of land to secure the construction of the Canada Pacific Railway, and the term of Parliament having expired, Parliament was dissolved and the country appealed to, and, sir, after that ques- tion was placed beibre the country a very sufficient working majority was returned to support the Government, and confirm the policy which the House had adopted, both as to the mode in which the work was to be constructed, and as to the public money and public lands which the Government were an- thorized to use for the purpose of securing the construction of this work. Well, air, under the authority of this House, in 1872, and under the authority of the people of this country, confirming what the House had done, the Gov- ernment entered into a contract with a num- ber of gentlemen who subsequently selected Sir Hugh Allan as the president of the Company, for the purpose of constructing the Canada Pacific Railway on the terms that I have now mentionedto the House. OAUII 0’ m mu l‘AILURE. m GMTIONB 0! 118‘]!- COUNTRI. ( In 1874, the hon. gentleman introduced a bill for the purpose ofptoviding for the con struction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and in the course of a very able and exhaus- flve'epeech, he placed very fully on record the opinions which he held, and which em- bodied the opinions of the Government at that time. He stated, as will be seen by re- ferencetoHanmrd of May the 12th, 1874. that “the duty was imposed upon Parliament of. providing a great scheme of carrying out the obligations imposed upon us by the sol- emn action 0! Parliament in this matter. Thee; gigiml‘ scheme 1'?“ one that L mosem” M“.- ter of the country and. ment. means or the country. The hon. gentleman himself, on the floor of this House, stated H Let me. say, so far as the work is concerned, that I have always beennn advocate of the «construction of a railway across this conti- nent, but I have never believed that it was within our means to carry it out in anything like the period of time to which the hon. gentleman bound Parliament and the coun- try. Now, I think that the work ought to be prosecuted in the most vigorous form, but time is an important element.” I have given the House some of the» extraâ€"parliamentary utterances of the hon. gentleman, and I pro- pose now to invite its attention to some still more formal and distinct statemens of policy in regard to the important question, state ments made in the capacity of Prime Minirs~ ter of the country and on the floor of Parlia- _n A“; z “may. Nothing «no he inning: fmn the truth. Mr. chkenzie's speech at: iSamia intimated distinctly what was the: course which he proposed topmfindwb ssequent, statements‘havv all explained, and, developed the ideas than suggested. There? is no question as to whether the; Bacific Railway will he built or not. That ques- tlon has been settled irrevocably in the af-: Mn, and than: is no statesman. in Cana- da. who would commit himiwlf to any nega- tive on such a. point. On this all we agreed. Canvass the Dominion over and two things will be proved. as settled points. One is that? the railway must be built at wear-1y a per riod as possible, and that everything thatcan reasonably help that raikoadto a eompletion must be done and given. These two points are emphatically undersea hy‘ )the new Ministers, and entirely mmoved from the raglan of controversy.” Now, sir, I have shown not only that the House affirmed ‘ that we should have a Pacific Railway, but. I ‘ have shown that the Government that suu- l ooedied that of my fight Hem friend com- mitted themselves in the fullest and most eomplete manner not only to the construc- tion of that greatwork, buttoitsconstruction as rapidly as it was possible within the means of the country. The hon. gentleman Nov, lit, than are other means of chain. in; the policy of an Administration beside: the “prelim: of the lending mam-v bend MW“, and one is the nuthenflo declaration o: the organ of the Adminéatmtion If my hon. Magus loaderof the Opposition vii} not permit me to construe the language of the then leader: of the Government, pumps he will not object. if I show him what consa'mtinn. the: organaffiw Government pissed upon the words“ their leader. I mad man editorials inthe'l‘omnto Globe newspaper that it hads' been snorted ‘4 tint Mr. Macknnxids cabinet and the Vesta-n slope. If we finish make these regions accessibleâ€"that is British 00- lumbia and the Northwest territoryâ€"we must effect this commuhiéation.” I do not think. it requires any argument to show that the hon. gentleman proposed to construct. a road in British Columbiu. and one on the prairie on thin at“, nd M Hun Would be nodifimltyintboqnlkufionof them. nunicsfing sections. He son: "It will be many to complete on: great Mural highw across the continent, and I think it wfllbetbeduty, uitwm be ihe desire of the Government to denim: any plan by which these results can be Wished.” ion mt development cannot take place. It will be the duty of the Adminls‘ nation, in thefim placefio seen» the oppor- mnyier communication from lake Supe. rior tome Rocky Mountains, and it the name that (and this Ipeukg for itself), .__1 AL __ A A @011 the Administration, and what was likely to bewpttained by pursuing that course. Then, sit, the hon. gentleman, in a. speech at Samia, followed up the policy hm foreshadowed still more strongly, still more emphatically, than he had done in his manifesto. He said : ‘6 You are aware that: during the discussion on the bill I object- ed to the provisions as to the buildâ€" of the railway within‘ ) ten yearn," (nepxly three yean 01 that to bob. bound by a contract to finish it within Man you: and three months; it was sleuth! for the :06th for the purpose of opening up the districts, where we have great. riches undevelo ” Ipre- sume that he was referring to the undoubtn edly rich minoml districts of British Columha "Without that communica- , 9,“, fl, ..- cw...” said, is incapable of literal fulfilment. We must make amusements with British Columbia for such a relaxation of the terms as will give time for the completion of the surveys and subsequent prosecution of the work with such speed as the resources of the country would permit of, and without too lurgely increasing the burden of taxation upon the people.” Hon. Mr. Humanâ€"Hear! heerl Sir Guns. Wile“, hear. The non. gentleman went on to say that “ they must, in the meantime obtain some means of commu- nication across the continent, and it would be their policy to unite the enormous stretches of magnificent water communication with lines of railway to the Rocky Mountains, thus voiding for the present the construc- tion of 1,300 miles of railway, costing from sixty to eighty millions oi dollars, and ren- dering the resources of the country available {m- the prosecution of these links; they should endeavour to make these great works auxiliary to the promotion of immigration on an extensive scale, and to the settlement and development of these rich and fertile terri- tories on which our hopes for the fu- ture of Canada. are so largely fixed.” Now, sir, I am sure that the House will excuse me for placing before firem in the strong, and emphatic and eloquent terms of the leader of that Government, the opin- igi be entertained as to what was incumbent “reckleu arrangement” is confined and limited. This strong expression is limihd by the hon. gentleman to the short time which we had allowed ourselves for the construction of the work, and not the » work itself, The hon. gentleman further 'fiaid: ‘That contract has already been broken; over Imillion dollars has now been spent in surveys, and no particular line has yet been located; the bargain, as we always .._.'.I :_ _~_ ,, ,, inn sch ' ‘ "' ““‘A'acres oflaud‘per mile but also r mug” m m” that mm???“ in mm m mustard 1. {Ekrmh'tag railway within‘ ) ten :2ny three years 01 that been then @311“on _“_and ‘to’ the' Pacific Cemii Huvmg obtained power from the, House to give not only $10,000 of money‘ per mile for every mile between Lake Nipis- ‘ sing and the shores of the Pacific, and 30,000 mares ‘of'laud‘per mileibl‘n alsgiggi’vefime h: ._1. ..._. .4“. m.- and as soon as the work could be placed under contract, we would expend a- million and a half a year within the province. I do not. know whether the ofl’er will be ac- cepted V‘ or not, and in the mean- time it is absolutely necessary that ,the Government should have authority to proceed with the commencement of the works in such a way as they should think will meet with the acceptatizon of the coun- try generally and the reasonable people in l British Columbia.” New, I need not remind ,the House that this question was made the subject of reference by British Columbia to _ the Imperial Government, and Lord (Jamar- von submitted for the consideration of this Government his view of what should be .done. That was that not less than’§2,000,- 000 in addition to the railway bit 'Va’nL“ oouver Islandâ€"the telegraph line, the wagon road and all these other considera- tionsâ€"should be extended annually by the Government within the Province of British Columbia. ' When the hon. gentleman submitted, his resolution in 1874, as I am now submitting my resolutions, he said :-â€"-u We propose in these re- solutions to ask the House to agree to these general propositions. In the first place we have to ask the house for complete power to proceed with the construction. of the road, under the terms of the union with Britlshl Columbia, because we cannot throw off that, obligation except with the consent of the contracting parties, and we are therefore bound to make all the provisions that the House can enable us to make to endeavor to carry out in the spirit, and as far as we can in the letter, the obligation imposed on us bylaw. The British Columbia section will, of course, have to he proceeded with as fast as we can do it, for it is essential to keep. faith with the spirit and as far as possible .with the letter of the agreement. I attribute a very great deal of importance . in- deed to being able to throw in settlers to all parts of the country and fill it with population, which is the only thing which can give ultimately commercial value to the road or prosperity to the country. It will be observed, sir, that in the resolutions, as I have mentioned, the Government provide for the submission of these contracts to Parlia- ment; they provide also that in case were- ceive no proposals for the building of what are called the sections in the bill, that is of the four great divisions, the Government takes power to issue proposals. to build the road by direct Government ency.” Tho hon. gentleman said that t e Canadian Pacific was only to be built by direct gov- ernment agency in the event )f there being no proposals, and of there being a failure in carrying out the policy of Parliament that it should be done by private enterprise, aided by a grant of money and lands. In 1875 the hon. gentleman having had an opportunity of considering the proposals which were in- troduced. in his bill, to which! shall“ inm‘e' the attention of the House more specifically at a later period, obtained authority from this House to go on with the immediateconstruc- tion of the railway by the direct may of the Government, for he could not 0 “in it in any other way. was a fair representation of the opinions of the country which had to pay for the; con- struction of this enormouswo‘f‘E,"we infltuct. ed Mr. Edgar, who was appointed to repre- sent the Government in the matter, to say that the Government would be pupal-0d to undertake immediateiy tho commanccmot of the work upon the Island, traversing it northward in the direction of the point of crossing, prosecute the surveys on the uni)- land, construct a passable road along the ridge, erect a. telegraph line along the road, ‘ my mind, thenseemed impracticable within ll”; time that was proposed, and impractic- nble also within the means pro osed to be used to accomplish it." I wis to invite the attention of the House to the formal de- r'inmtiun made on the floor of Parliament by the late Prime Minister, that the means that Parliament had placed at the dis- pose! ‘of the Government of their predecessors, $30,000,000 in money and 50,000,000 acres of land, were utterly inadequate to secure the construction , of the work. Then the hon gentleman ‘ continues :â€"-“I have not changed that opi- nion, but being placed herein the (intern- ment I am bound to endeavour, to the ut- most of my ability, to devise such means as may seem within our reach to’eccom- plish, in spirit if not in letter, the obliga- tions imposed upon us by the treaty oinnion, for it was a treaty of union with British Oo- lumbia.” I am sure that British Columbia will be very glad to be again reminded that the leader of the Opposition maintained that this was an absolute treaty of union with British Columbia. Then he continue”â€" “ We had to undertake to vindicate the good faith of the country and do something which Would enable this Parliament to carry out, in spirit, if not in letter, the serious undertaking of building this raiIWay as far as the shores of British Columbia. The legal terms are exact. We are bound, within a specified time, to construct a road to con- nect with the railway system of Ontario on the east, to the Pacific coast on the west. There are moral obligations as well as legal obligations. We thought in the first place, after having had time to consider what should be done, that the best course to pur- sue in the meantime would be to confer with the local Government of British-Oolurhbia, and to endeavor to ascertain from them if any means could be arranged whereby an. extension of time could be procured for the prosecution of the work which {we Were bound to undertake. With that ~View a gen- tleman was sent as representative‘iof this Government to that province, and in the course ot his negotiations with the local Government it became apparent, as it had been apparent in this House from there- marks of several members them the Island of Vancouvor, that it was an exceedingly im- portant matter in their estimation that the road should be commenced at once at Enqui- manlt and traverse the Island to that point where the crossing of the Narrows was ulti- mately to be. I for one was quite willing, if the local Government were disposed to make some terms for the extension ofv time, to un- dertake the construction of the Island por- tion as rapidly as possible, but if it became apparent that the local authorities were de- termined to adhere rigidly to the terms of union and demand the whole terms and nothing less, this House and Domin- ton of Canada, I was and am stroneg of opinion, would on their part con- redo, to them the terms and nothing more. Proceeding’ upon the belief that this, Tn LIBERAL 60mm! TIIIB. Finance‘ Minister waurcnmpellod' to comm to Parliament year after year and ask permits-a sion to increasolargely- the taxation of the ‘ country, in order to» meet the ordinary ex- ‘ penditure, notwithstanding all this, the hon. gentleman heid that theg honor And good him of the country were pledged to the con. Junction of this great work, and hi came to {fill mm mmw Elie “that"! 61 PR1 right at All to listen to thorappeal o! the hon. lumbar rfor Cumberland and to enter into n confidant-ion whether that policy, upon which the 00le opinion was asked“, tin, and which: opinion we were «at her. to enforco, Ibould: be altogether req- vmcd. I do not confide: it would he who for an hint to consider any such propodib tion. I do not belluortint any othur' policy in its general «fiesta thou that which: wow so proponod “the occupied. in It 311 Mullah” New, sin, I ventured to my in tho ant-ct of my mks, that. we had the. mom 0! show- ing to. heinous. not only that Parliament, on health.“ great occuiona, hid distinctly duel-rod the policy of- oomtruoting the (Inland: Pacific Railway, but that the people, I stated by tho present leader of the Oppodtlon, had. gun on aflirmuflu to that, proposition, and. lady as‘ M hon. gentlem- avurred, put it without the powu of thin Fulfilment 430- charm: that policy. I muu‘umind'thelmouu that tho ‘bircnfiihlm of the country were ‘very dif- ferenti- 1876 from the circumstances of this country at this time at which the previous Government under-took the contraction of thoCnnan-oiflcfihilwuy,but,notwithlhnd. in; that ohnnged: condition 0! oironlutmm, That hon. gontloman is reported in the Hanan-dot March 5, 18-75, to have used these woxie ;.__.u The general policy of the the country upon the subject of the Pacific Railway was spread. before this country anterior to the late general election and pracâ€" tically and flail-1y stated.” I have to read to the House the words in which the Premier of. that day, as, the hon. gentleman said, “ pmtically and fairly," stated his policy, and Ignite agree that it was so stated. The hon. memberlor South Durham continued»: --“ In some of the minor details of that policy the hon. member for Cumberland has indicated mote or loss of change, but the broad feature. of thet policy “no, u I have Bid, plainly stated to this country anterior to the late general, election. The verdict of the country was taken upon it, And the result was adocldod acceptance of it. It ll not to Feasible by I. We have no mudote to re; verse it. Upon tho- tost enlarged consider: etion of {taxis-Me of members of Parliament; 5 cannot conceive mt'we could hue» the BIFIRENOD T0 LORD OARNABVON, and he proposed that $2,000,000, and not $1,500,000, should be the minimum expen-, .diture on railway work wit/bin the Provinde’ from the date at which the surveys are suf-v ficiently complete to enable that amount to, be expended on aonstrnotion. In naming this amount His Lordship understood, in the, language of the memorandum, “That, it beingi alike the interest and the wish of the; Dominion (internment to urge on with]! all speed the completion of the works now to be undertaken, the annual expenditure will be as much in excess of the minimum of $2,000,000 as in any year may be round practicable; lastly, that on or" before the 31st of December, 1890, the rail- way shall be completed and opened for traffic from the Pacific seaboard to a. point at the western end of Lake Superior, at which it will fall into connection with ex-i isting lines of railway through a. portion of' we United States, and also with the navigs-f- tionon Canadian waters.” These terms, sir,i, it is true, included a considerable extonsioné i of the time .within which the road was origl-i ‘ nolly to have been completed, but they fixedl a definite and distinct limit within which a} large portion of thePacific Railway should be! constructed and put in operation. The hon. gentleman himself in referring to these tar-l used this language 3.1 “We shall always endeavor to proceed with the work as fast as the circumstances at the country (circumstances yet to be de-‘ volopod) will oneblae us to do, so u to obtain is soonu pI-iblo couplets railway com-- municction will in. Pacific Province. How soon thet tine mey come I cannot predict, but 1 have no room to doubt that we shell be able to keep our obligation to British 00- lumbieas now amended without seriously interfering with the march of prosperity.” (Laughton) That is, that by 1890, the hon. gentleman hoped to complete the work, “ without seriously interfering with the march ‘ of prosperity.” I am glad, notwithstanding the difiiculties which the hon. gentleman en» countered, to be able to submit to his con- sideration the means by which we are to do that to which he pledged himselfand pledged the honor and faith of his Government and his party, so far as the leader of a great party can pledge that party, to the accomplish- ment of a great national undertaking. But, sir, I am glad to be able to give not only the authority of the leader of the late, Govern- ment, but thtxoi the honorable and learned gentlemen who is leader of Her Majesty's constitutional opposition at the present mo- to Penbine, and 20,000acres per mile ofland, end 310,000 per mile and 20,000 acres per mile for the Georgian Bay branch of 120 miles long, end else to give the further sum of 4 per cent. interest for twenty-five years upbn snob sun: as might be found necessary, in order to secure the construction of the work. Now the hon. gentleman, the leader of the late Government, stated frankly to the House at the outset that the terms previously provid- ed in 1872, and embodied in the contract made with the Allen company in 1873, wore utterly inadequate, and that it was necessary to the good faith of the country, and that its honor and interests demanded that the railway should be proceeded with. He asked and obtained from Parliament a large addition to the means that had been previously passed .by Parliament for the construction of the work. In 1875, after having a year’s experi- ence, he came to the House and said :â€"-“ We only let the grading upon this line (Pembin‘a branch), because we thought it advisable, while proceeding thus far, not to proceed any farther until we could get a general contract let tor the entire line, where we propose to build it now, which would cover all the more expensive parts of construction. For the some reason we are only letting the grading and bridging from Fort William to Sheban- down, and the same from But Portage to Red River.” Again it will be seen that the hon. gentleman puts forward as his policy and the policy of the Parliament of 1874, as it had been the policy of the Parliament of 1871 and 1872, that the work should be prosecuted by the agency of a private com- pany, aided by a grant of money and land. As I have already stated, the subject was made a matter, in 1875, of THE PIOPLI’S APPROVAL 0' CONSTRUCTION. vvmv .- v; vuvunu ml, Wdfng that the hon. gentleman’s fgvonyble gas in ance-pfi the Weak- tiolsttending muway enterprise: all through the would, and can perm. b0 hirly con,- sidered as one not very fortunate for issuing or proposing. the prospectus at (thug-renter- prise like this, in a comparatively unknown country, or- I-migm say a wholly unknown country; The Government wewnotabhas Iv statedutovhave the profiles I“ ready in gynuaroyfiv £113 were5 bggwo‘ai W rs, tut m hopcd, about January, 1877, be 3.1516 to ddurtine {or tenders tad tb‘ mfpi‘y compute profl'oa offihe fine. “ ‘ " think, quite only in Jury, gr eat. 1101'. _ I think it must huvo Been in Jung, At :11 events, we desiréd‘ to song” Hut adverâ€" tiu’monfi to the public in Orde? that if infalit mm intindihg" cmtmcfio'rs £0 vfafé .t ' countr‘y' fbr t‘fi‘ems'eiv’es. 1' Was oraomi y satisfied that an examination of e prime countries, if not‘tho county out of the prai- ries. to Lako‘Supoviot, would show to intend- inflcOhfl‘lChOl‘l; in- tho first placerthatr there was a large quantity of (cod 'landwndy in the second phcerthat the physical ditficul» ties to be overcome were noise sonious an paeplo might ummblo unfleipm to exist. in tho cam of tho- GoMinent.« I do not think the advertisement produced- very much. of that particular result. ~ Some parties, I believe,ham vinited the sonar}; the menu 01' tome. English companies huve visited Ottawa; some» have visited me agency of the Government it; London, with a View toenmino tha plans and: profiles, and the Railway Act under which the com- tractu will be let ; blithe'soason was an un- I mentioned last year, in introducing this item to the Committee Suppl that We ind than advertised, or propos to“ advertise I forgét which, tn English and Canadian pa- Sir Cass. Tennâ€"The hon. gentleman willnot. I think, and any ground for inlking that statement. I think he will, bu‘haps, dlov no to shte tht the; would have been equally useful, if they hid not lain Quite lo long in British Coiurnbia. The hon. gentleman continued: “There are five thousand tons in British Columbia, and if we erred in sending them there, we have simply erred in our earnest desire to show the peo- ple of British Columbia that We are desirous oi keeping faith with them, that our speeches were not mere empty promises, and that we were resolved to place ourselves in a position they could not misunderstand." Well, sir, in 1877, after another year's experience, the hon. gentleman again stated the policy that still was the policy of his Administration in re- ference to this work. He said: “ The Iate Administration in enterin into the agreement for bringing Brit sh doiumbia. into the confederation, had an ex ress obli- gation as to the building of e railway across the continent from Lake Nipiu'lng on the east to the Pacific Ocean 0n the west“ within a specified number of y‘e‘flx‘s‘.‘ When, the present Adminstr‘ation acceded to power,] they felt that this, like all treaty obligations, was one which imposed upon them certain duties of administration and government which they had no right to neglect, and that they were bound to carry the scheme practi- callv into effect to the extent that I he - n- dicated. The whole effort of the Adminisâ€" tration from that day to this has been directed to the accomplishment of this object in the Way that would seem to be most practical and most available, Don'- sidering the difficulties to be encountered and the cost to be incurred. ‘ ' ° The Railway Act of I87" provides that 20,000 acres of land should be given nbeolutel as part consideration for the contract, and 10,- 000 per mile of actual cash, the land to be subject to certain regulations as totwoâ€"third‘s of it‘which are provided (Or in the Act, and that tenderers should be invited to sttto the additional sum,if' any, n on which a guar- antee of 4 per cent shoe (1 be given by the Dominion for 23' years afterwards. 'f ‘ ‘ Hon. Mr. Mmmnnâ€"The concurrence comes very late. liament for the prosecution of his scheme. III mentor RI 197.. In 1876, after lon or experience, after having found that the nancial difficulties of the country had certainly not decreased, the hon. gentleman was still undism ed, for in 1876 from the h h and authoritative position at a Prime inister submitting the policy of his Government to the country, after full and deliberate consideration he enunciated the following views :-â€"“We we felt from the first that while it was utterly impossible to implement to the letter the engagements entered into by our predecessors, the good hith of the country demanded that the Ad- ministration should do everything that was reasonable and in their powerto carry out the ledges made to British Columbia; if not t e entire obligation, at least such parts of it as seemed to be within their power and most conducive to the welfare of the whole Dominion, as well as to satisfy all reasonable men in the Province of British Columbia, which Province has fancied itself entitled to complain of apparent want of good faith in carrying out these obligations. In endeavoring' to accomplish Ihis result, we have had serious difliculties to contend with, to which I will shortly allude. The Act of 1874 prescribes that the Government may build the road, on contract in the ordinary way, or it may be built on the terms set forth in section 8, which provides that the Government may pay $10,000 in money, and grant 20,000 acres of land per mile, with four per cent for 25 years upon any additional ‘ amount in the tenders, to a company to com , struct portions of the line. The intention of the Government was, as soon as the surveys were in a sufficiently advanced state, to in: vite tenders for the construction of such por- j tions of the work as in the judgment of far. liament it might be considered desirable to go on with, and that in the meantime the ,money that has been spent in grading should he held to be a part of the $10,000 amile re-v ferred to in section 8. Whether the Govern; ‘ ment would be in a position the coming sea-1 son to have contracts obtained and submitted! to Parliament for the whole line at its next session, is perhaps problematical.” Be that the hon. gentleman in 1876 not only cone templated going on steadily with the pro-v secution of the work or very important sections of the work, but he had it in Cull-4 templation to invite tenders for the construe: tion of the whole Canadian Pacific Railway on terms which, as I shall show more speci- fically hereafter, were largely in excess of any authority we ‘ever obtained from Parliament, and terms that, as I have said before, he him-v self held, and I suppose, conscientiously held,- to be utterly inadequate. The hon. gentle; man went on to say ; “If we are able to; commence the work of construction thisi coming year in British Columbi these rails will be required. It may be said to be im- possible to commence the construction or the road in British Columbia without having nails on the spot.” Andin that I concur with the hon. gentleman. m aim“ or hnmsmnmx. Mlfl'fl volt knownru change of Adminis- tration m 11th in 1878, and the homgentle mn van and! ofllad upon to deal with the questing. ‘Ed had» that test of patriotism applied to him whiehdq involved in consider- ingnpolioy Item the Oppolition‘ benches as wet! mania-om thn‘Govemmmt bonuheg, and I will read to tho House the remarks which the hone ”Mammy as leader of the Opposi- tion, made to this House, wet tho change of Gonemmeut in 1879. He said: “Wu recognize the obimtiona mating upon-us u, Canadians, and, while I “Gem. it the most positive manner, that nothingreouid hsve been dono‘by any Ad- ministration during our temn of ofioe that-we did not 1199 or try to do; in ordo'rflow mflilhy-Of malit‘e thong expectations which wmganomd‘hy the Government of km. mum oppofitopim their admission of Bmiih 001mm. into the Confederacy, I scant that same-time,.that we: endeeweumd, not-newly bah-gap the-national obfiguti‘ons, but we voutumfyto ngrea‘t extent, our own politiqalv exiotenm as udmdnistmtm's; we riskedéonr political position for the salve of carryingnlttwoomplation, in the best way fiessible, the course which hon. gentleâ€" man opposite had promised" lhould EbB takom" The- hon. gentleman al- vso dwlamed after his five years’ term ”9901304; had-Mod, that nothing that had Kggfim Maggyfindm be'e ‘lefiz thndoug queifion. , B on the hon. gentleman stated, the‘rqmsfion 0 construction, the question of the we“)? prosecuffon' and completion of the Gmaditn Pacific fiai‘lw'ay Was not an issue tMVient to fire country at the last elections. That had been submitted on We occasions by Mo Fix-3t Ministers, representing both the great partial of'thd country, and on both oo- cuious 11M meeflod' {he afirmation of a Very large mafority of the people. to support a plan by which what ho da- sig'nates “deserted plains" may become the abode of an industrious population, not only furnishing a comfortable living to themselves and their families, but increasing greatly the national Wealth of Canada, and flpon terms which come quite within thOSe which he has approved as offering . no obstacle to the‘ progress of this Work. Tho hon. gentleman added :‘ “And so with regard to this Western and more gigantic work, a Work which cannot be estimated uri- less We hat/o giVen some thought to it, such in its magnitude; a. road which is {our times the length of the Grand Tm from Montreal to 8min, which" is five time: the length of the round from Edinburgh to London, which trnve‘rs o‘fi‘r whore territory. Nothing can p‘ousihy e‘i- ceed the importnco that is to be attach to tho building of mch a gigantic work, eit‘ or as regardt the ultimate prosperity of the country or its baring upon our sweat reit- tionsto each other in the united Provinces.” It requires no oommerit of minc,sir, to cause a «stem-mt ftom such an authentic” source to- myconfiction to the mind of eV’ery hon. gon'flem present as to‘ tho obligation that rent“: 11 :11 parties, bothin this House and out oi t, to realm mt tho hon. gentleman has indicated coui‘d be tainted by the con- struction ofthis work. 'I'hnt, sir, a I have said before; Was, the hou. ‘mtleniin’ thinks no doubt unfortunatefy for the country, the lust amnion air which it became his duty to speak with the authority of the First Minis- ter of Omit!“ i‘n‘ rotation to this great sir Gnu. Tarynâ€"The hon. gentIem'an continued :aâ€"“ On the other hand, it is taler. ably evident that the walth of the countr will be much more rapidly increased t We no Able a throw as large Opulent-m hm thou kittens dam-d pl; 118 which; admin-o much ha It for hub‘ihtion, M which mm but wholly tn productive in the commercin int’ereitt at our country." Again, I invite the hon. gentleman’s atten. tion to the obligation that rests upon him Hon.‘ Mr. Manama-I shah 'cmisider n byand.bvc. me'cdustmcfion ofthat which he has declared to be; not only a muttdr of honor, to which the country mu bound, but a matter of the deepen necessity to the development, of this century, upon arms that will notimpose any iumienmla burden) on aha ate-Rants. A is able to do it without imposing burdens upon the present rate-payers, vhic would be intolerable.” I quite agree with the hon. gentleman in that statement, and I am proud to be able to stand here to-day and ofi'er for the hon. gentleman’s considerations, and I trust, after full consideration, his support, a. proposition that will secure to this coun vry 20TH PAB‘I‘III 00"!”le '1'0 OOHITEUOTIONa In 1878. the lust occasion on which the hon. entlemsn, with the authority of the Prime lnister, discussed the question; he said :â€" I‘ There can be no question of this: that it was in itself a desirable object to obtain rail- way communication from one and of the Do- minion to the other, traversing the continent from east to west ; so far as the desirability of obtaining such a connection may be con. corned, there can be no real diflerenae oi opinion between any two parties in this country or amongst my class of our cpuls-, tion." So '.hat I am very glad, on t is im- portant occasion, in submitting resolutions of such msgnitude for the consideration of this House to have the authority of the leader of the late Government, after years of close and careful examination of this question, given to the House and the country, that it: was a matter not only of Vite] importance to the countr but upon which both parties Were agree not only in this House, but out- side ofit.‘ In wit the hon. gentlemen also said :â€"-“I have to shy, in conclusion. that nothing hes given myself and the Govern- ment 230:6 concern thin the matters con- hected. with the Pacific Reilmty have given. We are alive to this consideration: That it is of vusi importance to the country that this mod should no built as soon as the country completed to the Railway Dilice in London. ’fhey have been on exhibition in the Railway omen here for many months, and the whole of the profiles from Lake Supe- rim- to the Western Ocean is, I presume, either completed or very near it, at the present moment; that is, taking the hive route: already completed through British Oolumbiu. The Government pro used, as soon as these are entirely complete , to heme advettleemonta issued, calling for oifers, giving ample time, no that tenders that are toothed m be received shortly before the ”opening of atliment at its next sessima, in order that Pullement may haVe an opportu- nity of deciding upon whatever scheme may be than proposed by the Government under the offers to be received." 80 that, down to 1376 the Home will see the hon. cntleman still remained true to the obligat on of the rapid construction of the Canada Pacific Railway, and of it: construction by the agency of e printe company and grant of land and money.