paid the value of their whole undertaking as | mittee, reported the Bill without amendit now exists, when that value has been as ment, and it was then read the third time certained by arbitration. and passed on a division. I do not propose to add anything to what was so well said by the hon. gentleman from Richmond before the Recess, but I think that some such amendment as was indicated by the hon. gentleman ought to be adopted-something to this effect : "And nothing herein contained shall have the effect of depriving the Windsor and Annapolis Railway Company of any of its rights without compensation." I contend, as the hon. gentleman from Richmond has contended, that this Bill does propose to transfer rights without compensation. The first section of the Bill really means that as it stands now, and if this amendment is made to the Bill, it will simply contain a provision that I think the Government ought to have put in it to protect the rights of the Windsor and Annapolis Railway Company. If the Government are willing to accept some such amendment as that I shall resist the Bill no further; if not, I think, the Opposition have a right, under the rules of the House to prevent the Bill from taking the necessary number of stages at this period of the session. HON. MR. POWER-There are just two points about this grant that I wish to call attention to. Since the matter was before the House I have had an opportunity to read the speech made by the Finance Minister in the other Chamber when introducing this measure. remark one has to make is this; that the measure is altogether vague and indefinite. It simply appropriates $150,000 as a bounty for fishermen, and it gives no idea whatever as to the conditions upon which this bounty is to be appropriated. HON. SIR ALEX. CAMPBELL-I think it was stated to be in reference to the tonnage. HON. MR. ALEX. CAMPBELL-I do not think the amendment should be entertained by the House, for two reasons. The object of the amendment seems to be HON. MR. POWER-In the early part to provide for some supposed interference of the session when notice was first given with the rights of the Windsor and Anna- by the Government that they proposed to polis Railway Company, therefore nobody appropriate this sum, they were asked how can be affected but the Windsor and the money was to be distributed, and in Annapolis Railway Company, and as an reply to that question the Minister of understanding was arrived at by parties Finance stated that the details of the interested in the Bill that such an amend-measure would be given when the Bill ment was not desirable, I hope that the hon. gentleman from Halifax will not press his mention. HON. MR. POWER-I was acting entirely on my own responsibility in proposing the amendment. The Bill was read the second time. came down. Now the Bill comes down and the Minister of Finance says that the details will be regulated by Order-inCouncil. I think that is one objectionable feature in this Bill; but apart from that objection, and taking the speech of the Finance Minister in the other Chamber as an indication of the way in which this money is to be distributed, it will be found that the money will not be such a boon to the fishermen as has been represented. The Minister stated that there was assumed to be 42,000 tons of shipping which had HON. MR. CARVELL, from the Com- a right to share in this grant, and he pro HON. SIR. ALEX. CAMPBELL moved the House into Committee of the Whole on the Bill presently. CHIGNECTO MARINE TRANS- AMENDMENT RECEDED FROM. A message was received from the House of Commons returning Bill (167), "An Act to provide for the granting of a subsidy to the Chignecto Marine Trans posed to give $2 a ton to all the vessels engaged in fishing. That makes $84,000. Then he said there were 10,000 boats of a large size to which he proposed to give $4 each; that makes $40,000. Then there were about 12,000 boats of smaller size to which he proposed to give $2 each, which would make $24,000-a total of $190,000. He further indicated that an appropriation that was estimated at one-port Company," objecting to the amendhalf of the total grant should be given to the owners of the vessels and boats, and that the remainder was to be given to the men in the boats-the actual fishermen. Now, hon. gentlemen, it is estimated that there are about 60,000 fishermen in the Dominion, amongst whom $32,000 is to be distributed, so that this measure proposes to give, as far as I can make it out, the munificent sum of fifty cents per man to the men actively engaged as fishermen. HON. MR. MCKAY-That is rather a fishy story. HON. MR. POWER-I am taking the figures given by the Finance Minister, but if we say the whole amount is to be divided equally $148,000 between the vessel owners and the men, then we would have something over $70,000 to be distributed amongst the men-a little over $1 each-that is the outside figure, so that probably the actual figure will be found between the two, and the fishermen of this country are to be compensated for what they suffer from the present system of taxation, and for the loss of their share of the Fishery Award, by the Government by the gift of a sum varying between fifty cents and $1 per man. What we would really be entitled to if that Fishery Award which was paid over to the Government shortly after they came into office had been distributed as it should have been, the interest on that $4,500,000 at five per cent. would have been $225,000 a year. It is now four years since the award was made, so that the fishermen are at this rate really entitled to $900,000 instead of this beggarly allowance of $150,000. My contention is that the Government, in passing this measure, instead of doing justice to the fishermen, are really paying them only a very small instalment of what is due to them. The Bill was read the third time and passed. ment made by the Senate requiring any contract made with the company to be submitted to Parliament at its following session, on the ground that it would create difficulty and delay in the organization of the company and the procuring of capital to carry on the work. HON. SIR ALEX. CAMPBELL-I confess that when the amendment was before the House I did not quite appreciate the effect of it, and I apprehend that the reasons given by the House of Commons are substantial. I move that the Senate do not insist on their said amendment. 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House of Commons addressed His Excellency the Governor-General as follows: "MAY IT PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENCY, "In the name of the Commons, I present to Your Excellency a Bill intituled: "An Act for granting to Her Majesty certain sums of money required for defraying certain expenses of the Public Service, for the financial years ending respectively the 30th June, 1882, and the 30th June. 1883, and for other purposes relating to the Public service." to which I humbly request Your Excellency's assent." To this Bill the Royal Assent was signified in the following words: "In Her Majesty's name, His Excellency the Governor-General thanks Her Loyal subjects, accepts their benevolence, and assents to this Bill." |