House went into committee to consider
the following proposed resolution:
Resolved, That section 2 of chapter 4 of the
Revised Statutes, intitled : An Act respecting
the salaries of certain public functionaries, and
other annual charges on the Consolidated
Revenue, be amended by adding at the end
thereof the following words and figures :
 The Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan,
$9,000.
 The Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, $9,000.
Mr. FIELDING. This resolution is to
make provision for the payment of the
salaries of the Lieutenant Governors of the
two new provinces. It is proposed to fix
their salaries at $9,000, the same as is paid
to the Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba.
and other provinces.
Resolution reported. read a first and second
time and agreed to.
Motion agreed to. and Bill read the first
and second times and House went into committee thereon.
Bill reported, read the third time and
passed.
SUPPLY—COMPLAINT OF D. G. SEYMOUR, OXBOW, ASSA.
Mr. FIELDING moved that the House
go into Committee of Supply.
Mr. R. L. BORDEN. Before you leave
the chair, Mr. Speaker, may I bring to the
attention of the hon. Minister of the Interior (Mr. Oliver) a complaint I have received
from a settler in the west who says that
he cannot find out the reason why he is not
able to procure a homestead, Northwest
sections 22 to 25, 1 west 2nd meridian? He
seems to have complied, according to this
statement, with all the requirements of the
law and he attributes his non-success to the
political partisanship of some person or persons unnamed. He is very earnest about
it
and I thought I would like to bring the matter to the attention of the Minister of
the
Interior, because it is not desirable that
these settlers should have any ground for
complaint of this character. This one may
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seem trifling at first blush to bring to the
attention of the House, but I do not regard
it as too trifling to bring to the attention
of the hon. Minister of the Interior and to
ask him for some explanation later on after
he has had an opportunity of looking into
the matter.
Sir WILFRID LAURIER. Might I ask
the name?
Motion agreed to, and House went into
Committee of Supply.
Civil government—Department of Trade and
Commerce—contingencies—additional amount
required, $1,200.
Mr. R. L. BORDEN. Would the hon.
Minister of Finance state why this additional amount is required?
Mr. FIELDING. I cannot speak as to
the details, but I may say that I have been
urging my colleagues to have the supplementary estimates contain a sufficient sum
of money to close up the accounts for the
year rather than to carry balances forward
into the next year. In conformity with my
request several have sent in additional appropriations. In this case it happens to
be
a small amount of contingencies.
Ocean and river service—maintenance and repairs to government steamers and ice-breakers.
$60,000.
Mr. PREFONTAINE. This item is to
cover the repairs to two steam ice breakers
under the control of the Department of
Marine and Fisheries. The 'Champlain '
was one of the ice-breakers secured by the
department last fall and put in commission
in the month of November. She maintained
the ferry service between Murray Bay and
River Ouelle. Two accidents happened to
her. She first collided with another steamer,
but fortunately was not wrecked and she
continued the service during the winter.
Then she was damaged in reaching the
wharf at Riviere Ouelle due to the mismanagement of the mate, who has since been
dismissed. In May or June this steamer
was put in the dry-dock and thoroughly
overhauled. The damages were ascertained
and the repairs which are now finished cost
$30,000. The other ice-breaker the 'Montcalm' was severely injured in the bow
while breaking the ice at Cap Rouge, she is
now being repaired and made stronger than
when she came off the ways after being
built. She will be in good condition to
cope with the ice next winter.
Mr. PREFONTAINE. In the dry dock
at Quebec. but the work was done by
Messrs. Davis & Son, under the supervision [...]
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