498 



M \NITolJA. 



of settlement hare already been made public, and a 



bill to amend till- school' latt .!!' therc- 



xvith will immediately U> laid before you. I 

 as an 



ment in n ; uith tin- 



to make the provisions effective in e\tendn 



'iiiminity. 



vy o f mini -nil region- with pussibil- 

 lopmcnl within tin- boun 



of Hi, III). 'lit nf 



ton if mining law* applicable t<> lands 1 1 

 .f tin- province. You will IN- al-- a-ked to con-ider 

 codifying an-! g the law relating in 



I woman's 



id lulu to amend the Queen's Bench, t) 



tort fund act. 

 .d other llli'MMi: 



re Was no material change in the political 



Mr. (treen- 



way held his Government wi-11 in hand. <>nl 



change occur ring, when the H.-n. Charle- .1. Mickle 



; a member in place ..f Mr. SifN.n. who had 



joined thi> I).. minion dovernment. Mr. Micklc was 



re-elected, and t\\o other vacated seats returned 



.: members. One other constituency, how- 



rurtle Mountain, <! . and 



j.ve that party the first provincial victory in 



a by-election during many years. An important 



pointed matter was the acceptance of the |, 



ship of the Oonserratirea in provincial p<.lit 



l.m. Hugh .John Macdonald. late Dominion 

 Minister of the Interior. 



The chief subject discussed by the legislature 

 'ie so-called settlement of the Manitoba s.-hool 

 question. The LiU-ral government- at Ottawa and 

 Winnipeg had arranged a basis for common action, 

 and the situation was thoroughly reviewed in the 

 following extract from a speech made by Hon. .1. D. 

 Garner 1 1. Attorney-General in the Assembly (March 

 18), supporting' a i>ill to r- i;nder 



the term* "f the new agreement : 



"The bill." h- :i bodied in almost identi- 



:t lenient that had been arrived at 

 by the local government and the Dominion (iovern- 

 inent in November la>t. He proposed to review the 

 -which had led up to the M-tt lenient. It 

 had been referred to the Supreme Court, and after- 

 ward to the .Indicia! Committee of the British Privy 

 il to define the JKIWIT of the Governor General 



in Council and the Dominion Parliament regarding 

 jK'llant clauses of the Manitoba act : and the 



Iudi-ial C(.mmittee had found that, in their judg- 



iin privileges had been taken away from 



-inority: and that then-wa- jurisdiction on 



irt of [be Governor Geoenl in Council and 



'minion Parliament to deal with tin- matter. 

 The Dominion Cabinet and Parliament shortly 



vard took the |K.-ition that the decision com- 

 manded the restoration of separate schools as nearly 

 as possible as in 1800. The L-^i-Iature adopted a 

 series of resolut eir.-ct that it could not 



accept the responsibility of carry inu' out th- man- 

 date of the Cab: Ottawa, Shortly afterward 

 it Ottawa, and .vernment 



HI order in Council as a 



municat ion, asking thi- (i-vernment to state upon 

 what lines they would ad.pt amendments. It was 

 not until Ih* . . at an order in Council 



was passed, that this (iovcrnmcnt firmly adhr : 



:*! expressed in July of last year. No other 



I be come to than* that what was 



demanded was a Mate-aided senarat> 



and thi< QoremmeDt declined and then and there 



positively and definitely rejected, once and for all 



idea of a separate and sectarian school 



u. Parliament met at Ottawa shortly after- 



ward : r a month or -Medial bill 



wasintr..<i the Minister of JuMice. Three 



conn; from tta\\a to see il 



way could not be found of avoiding the impending 



->mith. the II, ni. 

 Qatar Dc-jardin-. They -uU 



mitied a memorandum to Hon. Mr. Silton and him- 

 OID \\hich conti-niplat. .1 a \ery 



111 applicable to . 



and towns, but not to rural di-Mii<i-. Il pr-' 

 that, not at the request of pan-nt- or b\ adionof 

 municipal council-, but as soon as there should be 

 a certain number of children, there mn-t be -. ; 



He and Mr. Mfto M contriided that 

 this u Iy what they could ,| to; 



that by resolutions of the llouse.aml b\ ^tat, incuts 



before the they had committed' th.-msolve* 



to the principle that there should not be wpai 

 of the children by religion-*; and that it \\a- utterly 

 impossible for them to assent to what \\a- proposedlJ 

 After proloiige.l debate the bill was killed by time. 



Parliament ha\ d. The question then be* 



all I --lie be I Wee|| the t WO parties all 



-ult was that "ii .hit, imin- 



.'n >o long in ; - Mtawa wa dc|. 



Almost immediately after that time it became tin- 

 duty of the Hon. Mr. Laurier to open \ ( , 

 with the Manitoba <Io\vriimeiit. The 



the ettlemenl published in November ];. 



Then follow- a summary of the mea-uiv it-elf: 

 The first section L r i\c- authority for rd;. 



iiig in the schools, to take jdace. cither if aii- 

 th'i-i/ed by re-olution of the majority of thetru^- 

 tees, or pet it ion of the parent .;aiis of H> 



children of a rural district, or parent- and iruardian* 

 of -,'"> children in a city or town. The principle of 



ption remains; (here is nothing OOmpa 

 Section ii tixes dftlnitely the hour at which re!:. 

 instruction shall take place; that is. only be: 

 3.30 and 4 -.'dock. Thi-i-th .id. .pled in 



-outh Wales and in New Zealand. 

 provide* that in towns or citie- where there i- an 



ige of 40 Roman Catholic children or upward 



in a school, or in rural district- where then 



i U r e of 25 or upward, at lea^t 1 Ijoinan Cat holic 

 teacher shall be employed if required by petition of 

 the parent- or guardian*. The object i* that, if 

 then- is to be religious teaching, it be ma<i 

 Section ? provide* that there shall le no separation 

 by religious denominations during the secular 

 school work. Section provides that no pupil shall 



Miitted to be piv-ent at any religious teaching 

 unless the parent- or guardian- of such children 

 desire it. section LO prorides that when lo pupils 

 in a M-ho.,1 -peak any language other than Knglish 

 as their native language the teaching of such -hall 



iducted in such other language and in i:n-_'- 

 lish. UJM.!! the bilingual system. 



The nica-ure passed by a large majority, though 

 it wa* followed by a vigorou* protest from the 



men. on the ground that it conferred I. 

 and a special status upon the Roman Catholics. 

 M. of Winnipeg, denounced it 



rmanent the abolition of their 



Then came the \i-it of a papal 



:...rt to the Vatican, and a period "f 



nting by the Roman Catholic- tot the 



Ii nances. The budget speech wa- delivered by 



90IL D. H. McMillan. Treasurer. <.n Man-h ^. 



\penditure for 1896 had been $780,- 



583; the actual amount was $769.8.-)7. The actual 



d was only $0<M. ">:{. Ib- showed 



that for agriculture the expenditure, had been 



.".JT..-,!: for immigration. $16,492.16 ; for the dairy 



^8,045.81 : \.-ar the dairy school was 



opened in \Vinrii|x;g. and about 97 attended either 



