LOG 



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OF. 



British. >d 8 American. Theprrtmums 





in ihr latter mount of $ l< 

 according to nationality. i* -diown 



i - - 1 . . I.'- 



IhmnglNW 1* Canadian ltf.-iniimnci (Com. 

 , tcTl a bosinesi of $3h 



A tt*l4.-'irt: i" * 



|sm,fi:.'.. .-amount in force is 



respectively *i: A, I - 



70i-<i liul of $308.161.436. The asset* of the 

 Canadian companies were $32.4H.s7:t : their 

 liabilities, $S?50M4T MCOIII.-. $7,295,- 



609: their expenditure^ $4.225. 



x.,, i.,l xtuiMir*. \ ording t,, the 1M-. 

 prv-pared hi accordance with the Kleetoral l-'ran- 

 chise act, there were in 1805 1.353.735 voter- in 

 Canada for Dominion purj>oscs. compared with 

 1.ISM01 in 1891. and 903.914 in IKS?. Then 

 were 18 asylums f. -r t ill Mpported by 



the Government, and maintaining at the end of 

 1896 1918 males and 4,597 f The convic- 



tions for drunkenness in 1890 were 14,045; in 

 1891. 1&997. in 1*X>. 11.415: in 1893. 11.651: it. 

 1894. 11,558 * steady reduction. The number 

 ..f d i forces granted by 1'arlinmcnt in 1W4 were 

 6. and in the 8 provinces which retained that 

 privilege on entering the confederation :i. Al- 

 together Sll divorces have been civen in the 

 *inoe 1868. of win* from 



I'arliainetit and 1"7 by the provincial courts re- 

 ferred to. The newspapers at the end of \w, 

 numbered 919 66 in i . 'in (icrman. and 



1 in (ia/dic. 1 m S. Andinavian. and 1 in Ice- 

 landic. The number of com ids j n the jeniten- 

 tiarics was 439. of whom only 11 were women. 



Liquor T raffle. A roval - n was 



appointed on March 14. 1892, with Sir Joseph 

 lltckson as chairman, to investigate and rej...rt 

 upon thi traffic and the various measures sug- 

 gested for iU control i- hdd i::n 

 pohlic sittings, and heard l.i:: 1 .' i' nesses, whose 

 testimony filled 4,988 pages. A report was pro- 

 efnted on March 29. 1895. after the ., llm 

 havl vbtted all the Provinces and many of the 

 , States, The report, with one dis- 



1. That the buying and ^llin_ 

 mn hanllr be said of it-^-lf t.. pp-luce injurious 

 c-ffertA. Such evils as do arise flow fr.m mi-u-M. 

 of the article b. 



1 That legislation aiming at restrict i 



trrde m.oroontumptionofjirjuor. 

 if it is to be at all e(Te< t i\e. must h\ 

 and continued rapport of a very lar^e maj<.rity 

 of the community in whieh it i .reed. 



N >where, so far a* the commission has been 

 tory laws had the 



pftVrt of stopping the use of ale. ,v ,; \^ lnn as 

 a beverage. The commissioners do not believe 

 the social condition of the people of the Iv.min- 

 ion would U improved by the enactment of * 

 general prohibitory law. 



4. It would adversely affect the agricultural 



interest - .-f tin- country, ami would can- 



B "f it- industrial, comnn-r. lal. 

 and titiiincial affair-. The -\>li-in of licmsw ami 

 i- ion i-. UJHIII the whole, best. 



jiiiion al>o makt-.s certain r. 

 mendationSf among which TB: A homini. 



' all man --ll.-rs ..f liquor 



and a Dominion fee and certificate; the . -t.il.- 



li-him>nt of a place for n-.-l raining and ti-eatm^ 



drunkards : the uholitiou of -.a loon liren-cs : t he 



'it <>f adulteration : the imposition of high 



with thorough rnforccment : making the 

 illegal purcha-i-r r.jually guilty with the ; 

 \i-ndor; the tniinin<; <'f tl" 1 femal. 

 the population in a kii'>ule<l^i- of domestic econ- 

 omy and household duties 



< npyrlgllt. A copyright in Canada may lu- 

 red 1-y any per--n iLunicilrd in the coun- 

 try or in any part of the Hriii-h po>es-i 

 "any citi/en of any country that has an inter- 

 national copyright treaty With the I'nited Kiiiu r - 

 dom." I'.y the interpretation of the lepartment 

 of Justice.' thi> latter clause is held to exclude 

 the United >; & i, 1,'eprintsnf Mriti-h -ip- 

 works not copyrighted in Canada are admitted 

 by the terms of the Canadian and imperial laws, 

 nnd large numbers of such reprint- are in 

 qiience imported from the I'nited States. Partly 

 on this account, an net was passed in 1889 by 

 Canada containing a provision that if a linti-di 

 author does not register his work in Canada 

 within one month of publication in the country 

 of origin, any printer in the Dominion may ob- 

 tain a license to reproduce it on payment of 10 

 per cent, royalty to the author. The act ha-- not 

 been assented to by the imperial authorities be- 

 of this and other provisions. 



Tin- long dispute over the Canadian Copyright 

 a-t of 1889 has been settled, to all ap; 

 least. Mr. Hall Caine spent some time in Can- 

 ada, and after many negotiations with local iul>- 

 li-hers and the Canadian ministers, in behalf of 

 the Knglish authors who had objected su< < < 

 fully to the imperial sanction of that act. etTect- 

 ed a compromise. What t hat arrangement i-an 

 not be better described than in his own words : 



There will be nn amended net. t> lie called the 

 Copyright act of 1896. At the (.ntVn-nce with the 

 Minister* of .lustier jiiid Agrioultore, which i. 

 league, Mr. Duldy, ami myself, together witli 

 nadian Copyright Association and ranndian ]'uKli.--h- 

 6HL Were permitted to hold in Ottawa, a draft measure, 

 which forum un agreement U-tweeii m\>elf a* tliedd 

 egate of KriLflish authors and the interested parties in 



i. WJLH Hiibmitteii and reoommflnded t-t the 



uiini-ters; and w< IM.JM- that it 



will \H- n-t'iirded s the probable general t ; 

 Miimr l-irislati'.ii. Fiy 



within which oopyrightholder can |uhli.h 

 adu an an ul.solute cojiyriL'ht i- extended 



fp'in thirtv to sixty days, with u |>os.Hi! 

 of thirtv daya mon- at the discretion of the authori- 

 ties. Also, by this agreement the liei /ranu-d 

 I a hook that has not fulHIh-d the 

 eondit ii;in coiiyrifht law i* limited t",ne 



. and tlii* Hinulc- license i- only 



with the eojyriifhtholdcrV ktio\\ ':'-tion. 



Further, tin- copyrightholder, who han an independ- 



'iiiLr eopyriirlit for himself within a 



-ond cliancc 



of nocurintr it after it has been challenged, and before 

 it can be d'j*fKic<l of J,y lier-n.se. This i~ the irround 

 of the draft hill, which the Canadian < '"p.\ rL'ht Asso- 

 ciation has joined with me in recommending. 



