CANADA, PARLIAMENT OF. 



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Prince. P. E. I James Yeo, L. 



Prince, P. E. I S. F. Perry, L. 



Prince Edward, Ont J. M. Platt, L. 



Provencher, Man Joseph Royal, C. 



Quebec Center Q V.O.B. Langelier, L. 



Quebec, East, Q Hon. W. Laurier, L. 



Quebec, West, Q Thomas McGreevy, C. 



Quebec County, Q Sir A. P. Carnn, C. 



Queen's, N. B". G. F. Baird, C. 



Queen's, N. 8 J. N. Freeman, C. 



Queen's, P. E. I L. H. Davies, L. 



Queen's, P. E. I W. K. Welsh, L. 



Renfrew, North, Ont Peter White, C. 



Renfrew, South. Ont Robert Campbell, L. 



Restigouche. N. B R. Moffatt. C. 



Richelieu, Q Capt. Labelle. C. 



Richmond, N. 3 E. P. Flynn, L. 



Richmond and Woifo W. B. Ives. C. 



Rimouski. Q Dr. Fiset, L. 



Rouville. Q G. A. Gigault, I. C. 



Russell, Ont W. C. Edwards, L. 



St. Hyacinthe, Q N. E. Bernier, L. 



St. John, N. B J. V. Kills, L. 



St. John City and County,N.B.L. H. Skinner, L. 

 St. John City and County,N.B.C. W. Weldon, L. 



St. John's, Q. F. Bourassa. 



St. Maurice, Q F. L. Desaulniers, C. 



Saskatchewan, N. W. T D. H. McUowall, C. 



Selkirk. Man T. M. Daly. C. 



Shefford, Q A. Audet. C. 



Shelburne, N. S Thomas Robertson, L. 



Sherbrooke, Q R. N. Hall, C. 



Simcoe, East, Ont H. H. Cook. L. 



Simcoe, North, Ont Dalton McCarthy, C. 



Simcoe, South, Ont Col Tyrwhitt, C. 



Soulanges, Q J. W. Biiin, C. 



Stanstead, Q C. C. Colby. C. 



Sunbury, N. B R. D. Wilmot, Jr., C. 



Temisconata, Q P. E. Grandbois, C. 



Terrebonne, Q Hon. J. A. Chapleau, C. 



Three Rivers, Q Sir Hector Langevin. C. 



Toronto Center, Ont G. R. R. Cockburn, C. 



Toronto, East. Ont J. E. Small, C. 



Toronto. West, Ont Col. Denison, C. 



Two Mountains, Q J. B Daoust, C. 



Vancouver, B. C D. W. Gordon, C. 



Vandreuil, Q Hugh McMillan, C. 



Vercheres, Q Hon. F. Geoftrion, L. 



Victoria, i<. C E. C. Baker, O. 



Victoria. B C Noah Shakespeare, C. 



Victoria, N. B Hon. John Costigan, C. 



Victoria, N. S J. A. McDonald, C. 



Victoria, North, Ont J. A. Ban-on, L. 



Victoria, South, Ont Adam Hudspeth, 0. 



Waterloo, North. Ont J. C. Bowman, L. 



Waterloo, South, Ont James Livingston, L. 



Welland, Ont Dr. Ferguson, C. 



"Wellington Center, Ont Andrew Semple, L. 



Wellington, North, Out James McMullen, L. 



Wellington, South. Ont James Innes, L. 



Wentworth. North, Ont Thomas Bain. L. 



Wentworth. South, Ont F. M Carpenter, C. 



Westmoreland, N. B Josiah Wood, C. 



Winnipeg City, Man W. B. Scarih, C. 



Yale, B. C J. A. Mara, C. 



Yamaska, Q F. Vanasse, C. 



Yarmouth. N. S John Lovitt, L. 



York, N. B Thomas Temple, C. 



York, East, Ont Hon. A. Mackenzie, L. 



York, North, Ont William Mulock, L. 



York, West, Ont N. C. Wallace, C. 



On April 14, the Governor-General delivered 

 the following speech from the throne : 



Honorable Gentlemen of the Senate : 



Gentlemen of the House of Commons : 



It is my pleasing duty, on the opening of a new Par- 

 liament, to congratulate you on the general prosperity 

 of the country, and on the prospect of a coming season 

 of peace and "progress. 



You will, I am sure, gladly join with the rest of the 

 loyal subjects of the Queen in offering her Majesty 

 your sincere congratulations on her having reached 

 the fiftieth anniversary of her accession to the throne, 

 and in giving expression to an earnest hope that she 

 may belong spared to reign over her vast dominions. 



The prominent position taken by Canada at the 

 Colonial and Indian Exhibition recently held in Lon- 

 don, has made the Dominion more widely and favor- 



ably known than before, and will, I have no doubt, 

 contribute largely to its material progress by calling 

 attention to the advantages offered by our country to 

 the agriculturist, and by attracting tne capital neces- 

 sary tor the development of its great natural resources. 



Negotiations between her Majesty's Government 

 and that of the United States on the fishery question, 

 with respect to which my Government has been fully 

 informed and consulted, are still in progress, and will, 

 we may be permitted to hope, result in an arrangement 

 honorable and satisfactory to both nations. 



Meanwhile the necessary provision has been made 

 for the protection of our inshore fisheries. The papers 

 on this subject will be laid before you. 



Your attention will be invited to the expediency ot 

 establishing a department of trade and commerce 

 under the supervision of a responsible minister. 



You will also be asked to consider the propriety of 

 making such improvement in the organization of the 

 departments of Justice, Customs, and Inland Revenue, 

 as will provide greater facilities for the dispatch of the 

 large and increasing volume of business with which 

 those departments are charged. 



A measure will be submitted to you giving repre- 

 sentation in the Senate to the North west Territories in 

 addition to that which they now possess in the House 

 of Commons. 



Other measures will be laid before you, and among 

 them will be found bills for the amendments of the 

 acts relating to government railways, for providing a 

 better mode of trial of claims against the Crown, for 

 the improvement of the procedure in criminal cases, 

 and for the further amendment of the Chinese Immi- 

 inigration act. 

 Gentlemen of the House of Commons : 



You will be asked, in order to provide against the 

 possible interruption of the navigation of our great in- 

 land waters for an appropriation in aid of the con- 

 struction of a canal to connect the waters of lakes 

 Huron and Superior at Sault Ste. Marie. 



The accounts for the past year will be laid before 

 vou, as well as the estimates for the ensuing year. 

 They have been prepared with due regard to economy 

 and the requirements of the public service. 

 Honorable Gentlemen of the Senate : 



Gentlemen of the House of Commons : 



I commend these important subjects and the others 

 which may be laid before you to your best considera- 

 tion with 'full confidence in your earnest desire to pro- 

 mote the development and well-being of Canada. 



Much of the early part of the session was oc- 

 cupied in the discussion of resolutions moved 

 by members of the Opposition with reference 

 to the Queen's County election ; and the con- 

 duct of the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, 

 who was accused of improperly and illegally 

 giving priority to supporters of the Govern- 

 ment in gazetting the returns of members 

 elected to the House of Commons. 



The returning officer in Queen's County, 

 N. B., John R. Dunn, received two nomina- 

 tions for that constituency; George G. King 

 (Liberal), and George F. Baird (Conservative). 

 He accepted the two nominations, received 

 the deposit of $200 from each candidate, and 

 held a poll at which 1,191 votes were cast for 

 King, and 1,130 for Baird. He then made a 

 return that Baird, the minority candidate, was 

 duly elected; declaring all the votes for King 

 to be null and void, on the ground thnt King 

 had never been legally nominated, because his 

 deposit had been paid by some person other 

 than King's duly authorized election agent. 

 This, notwithstanding the fact that he had ac- 



