APPENDIX 



THE REQUEST 

 (Hansard, p. 1912.) 



RUSSELL THEATRE, OTTAWA, 

 May 14th, 1918. 



THE HON. E. N. RHODES, 



Speaker of the House of Commons. 



SIR, 



On behalf of several thousand Ontario farmers I beg to transmit 

 to you the following resolution just passed, and to say that, 

 encouraged by the reception recently accorded the President 

 of the American Federation of Labour, we are confident the request 

 will be granted. 



"That this meeting instructs the chairman respectfully to 

 ask the House of Commons to receive him, and two delegates he 

 shall name, at the sitting of the House this afternoon, to hear 

 their address upon 'the situation in the country, and asking that 

 democracy be honoured in the prosecution of the war, and all 

 other matters of government." 



The messenger who brings this will respectfully await an answer. 



(Signed) R. H. HALBERT, 



Chairman. 



THE REFUSAL 

 (Hansard, p. 1937.) 



SIR ROBERT BORDEN: Under the circumstances, I do not feel 

 that the House ought to interrupt its proceedings for the purpose 

 referred to. If these gentlemen would like, between the hours of 

 six and eight o'clock, to address any members of the House who 

 would wish to be present to hear them, there is not the slightest 

 objection to it. 



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