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THE LEADER, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1903.
THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.
Gets Down to Business With
Little Delay.
Address in Reply to Speech Passed.
—Premier Haultain Declares There
is no Change in Position of Demand
for Provincial Autonomy. — Had
Pressed For It and Must Continue
to Do So. — Time for Decentralisation of Work Had Arrived and
Some Simple and Economical System of Rural Municipalities Must
Be Provided. — The Territorial University. — The Game Ordinances.
TUESDAY, Nov. 3.
DR. PATRICK IS INQUISITIVE.
Dr. Patrick gave notice that on Friday next he will inquire of the Honourable the Commissioner
of Public
Works whether under date of 16th of
June, 1903, he addressed from the Executive Council, Regina, to the Rt.
Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, G.C.M.G.,
Premier of Canada, a letter advising
him among other things that he, the
Hon. the Commissioner of Public
Works, had "advised the federal members representing the Territories" that
if the "general representations" made
by the said federal members to his (Sir
Wilfrid Laurier's Government) were
adopted it would reasonably satisfy
the general public in the Territories
and would put his (Sir Wilfrid
Laurier's) candidates in the coming
election in a position in which they
could "fight with zeal;" and if so,
(2) Whether the "general representations" referred to in the said letter as
having been made by the federal members representing the Territories were
such as may fairly be inferred from
the general tenor of the speeches made
on such of the federal representatives
from the Territories as took part in
the debate on the amendment to the
motion to go into Committee of Supply made in the House of Commons on
the 13th day of October last past; and,
(3) If such may not be fairly inferred
what were the "general representations" referred to? and,
(4) What was meant by the reference in the said letter to provincial
autonomy as an alternative, and,
(5) Whether the said letter was written and forwarded with the knowledge
and consent of the Honorable Commissioner's colleagues on the Executive
Council? and,
(6) Whether the general tenor of the
letter was "strongly approved" over
the signatures of Geo. W. Brown, L.
Geo. De Veber, J. W. Woolf, W. T.
Finlay, C. W. Fisher, A. D. McIntyre,
Charles Fisher, A. S. Smith, P. Talbot,
B. Prince, R. A. Wallace, J. A. Simpson, A. S. Rosenroll, Thos. MacNutt
and Alex. C. Rutherford, members of
this House?
