CANADA, PARLIAMENT OF. 



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13. That by an act passed by the local Legislature of 

 Manitoba on June 3, 1884, entitled " An Act to amend 

 an Act to incorporate the Manitoba Central Railway 

 Company and Amending Acts," power was given to 

 the Manitoba Central Railway Company to construct a 

 railway as follows : " From the town of Morris souther- 

 ly to the boundary-line of the said province between 

 tne Red River and the first principal meridian within 

 the said province," and providing that no portion of 

 said railway should be built in the portion of terri- 

 tory added to the said province in the year 1881, in 

 such a way as to contravene the terms in which said 

 territory was added to the said province. 



14. That the authentic copy of said act did not 

 reach the Secretary of State for Canada until after the 

 first day of April, A. D. 1885, about ten months alter 

 its passage. 



15. That the said act was, notwithstanding the 

 premises, disallowed in or about April, 1886. 



16. That discontent has been created by reason of 

 the said policy of disallowance ; and that the rights of 

 the provinces, the interests of Manitoba, and the de- 

 clared policy of the Government all point to the pro- 

 priety of no longer persisting therein. 



17. That a humble address be presented to his 

 Excellency the Governor-General, setting forth the 

 preceding resolutions, and praying that his Excel- 

 lency will be graciously pleased to effectuate the 

 altered policy stated to the House of Commons on 

 Feb. 5, 1884, as in the 10th resolution set forth ; and 

 in pursuance thereof to leave to their operation any 

 acts of the local Legislature, not otherwise objec- 

 tionable, which have been or may be passed for the 

 construction of railway lines within the original 

 province of Manitoba. 



He reminded the House that upon this ques- 

 tion of disallowance the Legislature of Mani- 

 toba was unanimous. The policy of the 

 Dominion Government had been the means of 

 ruining certain portions of the province of 

 Manitoba. He characterized the rates charged 

 by the Canadian Pacific Railway on wheat 

 carried from Manitoba as exorbitant ; and in- 

 stituted comparisons between the rates charged 

 by that company for various classes of freight 

 in Manitoba, and the rates for the same classes 

 of freight for corresponding distances in eastern 

 Canada. He accused the Manitoba supporters 

 of the Government in the House of party sub- 

 serviency on account of their not withdrawing 

 their support from a government persisting in 

 the policy of disallowance. 



Sir Charles Tupper said the principle of dis- 

 allowance had been originated by the Liberals 

 in 1878. He explained that the various pledges 

 uiade by members of the Government with 

 reference to abandoning the policy of protect- 

 ing the Canadian Pacific Railway from com- 

 petition in Manitoba were but frank expres- 

 sions of opinion as to what, under the then 

 existing circumstances, they expected to be 

 able to do. But at that period nobody con- 

 templated the possibility of an insurrection in 

 the Northwest. Nor that at the present mo- 

 ment Canada would find herself in a posi- 

 tion that gave greater importance than any- 

 thing else in the world could give to its own 

 line of intercommunication. Then the older 

 provinces of the Dominion had some interests 

 in the matter, having spent no less than $71,- 

 800,000 for the construction of the Canadian 



Pacific Railway. He deprecated as unfair a 

 comparison between the freight-rates charged 

 in the newly settled districts of the Northwest 

 with the rates charged in old settled districts, 

 where population and traffic were abundant. 



The motion was negatived on the following 

 division : 



YEAS Armstrong, Bain (Wentworth), Barren, Ber- 

 nier, Blake, Borden, Bourassa, Bowman, Brien, Bur- 

 dett, Campbell (Kent), Sir Richard Cartwright, Casey, 

 Casgrain, Chishplm, Choquette. Daly. Davies, De St. 

 Georges, Dessaint, Doyon, Edgar, Edwards, Ellis, 

 Fiset, Fisher, Gauthier, Geoffrion, Gillmor, Guay, 

 Holton, Kirk, Landerkin, Lang, Langelier (Mont- 

 morency), Langelier (Quebec), Laurier, Lavergne, 

 Lister, Livingston, Lovitt, Macdonald (Huron ),Mc- 

 Intyre, McMillan (Huron), Mallory, Mills (Both well), 

 Patcrson (Brant), Perry, Platt, Prefontaine, Rinfret, 

 Robertson (King's, P. E. I.), Ste. Marie, Scarth, 

 Scriver, Semple, Somerville, Sutherland, Trow. Tur- 

 cot, Waldie, Watson, Weldon (St. John), Welsh, 

 Wilson (Elgin) 65. 



NAYS Audet, Bain (Soulanges), Baird, Baker, 

 Bergeron, Bergin, Bowell, Boyle, Brown, Bryson, 

 Burns, Cameron, Carling, Carpenter, Sir Adolphe 

 Caron, Chapleau, Cimon, Cockburn, Colby, Coughlin, 

 Coulombe-Coursol, Couture, Curran, Davis, Dawson, 

 Denison, Desaulniers, Desjardins, Duchesnay, Du- 

 pont, Ferguson (Leedsand Grenville), Foster, Freeman, 

 Gaudet, Gigault, Girouard, Godbout, Gordon, Grand- 

 bois, Guilbault, Guillet, Hale, Haggart, Hall, Hesson, 

 Hickey, Hudspeth, Ives, Jamieson, Joncas, Kirk- 

 patrick, Labelle, Lacrosse, Landry, Sir Hector Lan- 

 gevin, Sir John Macdonald, McDowall, McCarthy, 

 McCulla, McDonald (Victoria), McDougald (Pictou), 

 McDougall (Cape Breton), McGreevy, McKay, Mc- 

 Lelan, McMillan (Vaudreuil), Madill, Mara, Masson, 

 Mills (Annapolis), Moncreiff, Montague, Montplaisir, 

 O'Brien, Patterson (Essex), Perley ( Assiniboia), Per- 

 ley (Ottawa), Pope, Porter, Reid. Riopel, Robertson 

 (Hastings), Robillard, Roome, Ross, Royal, Rykert, 

 Shakespeare, Skinner, Small, Sir Donald Smith, 

 Smith (Ontario), Sproule, Stevenson, Taylor, Tem- 

 ple, Th^rien, Thompson, Tisdale, Sir Charles Tup- 

 pr, Tupper (Pictou), Wallace, Ward, Weldon (Al- 

 bert), White (Cardwell), White (Renfrew), Wilmot, 

 Wilson (Argenteuil), Wilson (Lennox), Wood (Brock - 

 ville), Wright, Yeo 113. 



Chinese Immigration. On motion of the Hon. 

 Mr. Chapleau, a bill was passed, providing: 

 That no duty shall be payable under the Chi- 

 nese Immigration act of last session in respect 

 of any woman of Chinese origin who is the 

 wife of a person who is not of Chinese origin : 

 That persons of Chinese origin may pass 

 through Canada by railway in transitu from 

 one port or place out of Canada to another 

 port or place out of Canada without payment 

 of the entry dues payable under the Chinese 

 Immigration act, subject to regulations to be 

 made by the Minister of Customs ; And for the 

 granting of certificates authorizing Chinese 

 residents of British Columbia to visit their na- 

 tive land and to return within three months. 



Threats and Intimidations. On motion of the 

 Hon. Mr. Thompson, a bill was passed to amend 

 Chapter 173, Revised Statutes, by substituting 

 for section 11 the following: 



Every person who unlawfully and by force or threat, 

 or any other means, hinders or prevents, or attempts 

 to hinder or prevent any seaman, stevedore, ship-car- 

 penter, ship-laborer, or other person employed, to 

 work at or on board any ship or vessel, or to do any 



