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This wa.s done with a fidelity not Boon to be forgotten by lion, members, and an earnestnees which shewed the trust (iovernment supiwrtei-s bad in their lenders ; (m the eighth day of the .same month, the Right lion, the first Minister in his place in rarliameut, moved and caused to bo carried a roBolution appointing five hon. gentlemen, prominent members, to act as a committee for the mvesligiition of the charges made by the hon. member for Shefforcl. Ministers were »up|)ortod by a majority df thirty, and tliere- fore as a reiiection of ths house, the Com- mittee of five was C'lmpowed of a majority in favor of the (iovernmejit, viz : three support- orfl i^gainst two oppositionists. This wad not the result of chance, but of ciu-eful delibt.'ra tion, the raemberf being selected with a view to each party having as near as .could be their relative streoglh in the house represented upoQ the Committee. The house by that act reveaieaite will, made known its wisher;, ob- clared tjie deliburato rt>sult qI' its judgmoat, viz : that the Cnurt then conatituted to ifi- vestj^te.iiad partially pronoifnce upon, the, charges alioufd not be wholly compose^ of those predisposed /w or ayrtw.vf the accused; but SiQuld be 80 composed that at all events full opportimity would be offami to eliminate every jjortion of the evidence u I prevent to a (SMtttjnty the perpetration of any wrong. Th0^ Cojmmittoe was the offepring of the House iti C'opubons. II w»e crtjttwju ivv iuiu wiioeni- ing a, matter brouKht b«fore thlp houae, a ma^teri^ot hnmAii before or »*ibmittjBd to therefore cognizable by this house and by this house alone. fCheors.) The Committee wii« so strong in ni mbers in favour of the (Jov- eniment tliat Ministers should have hatlnoth ing to fear by allowing it to proceed, vigor- ously with it^ labors. (Cheers.) The charges were of such a nature us to di rectly or indirectly implicate every support*"* of the Government in the Hou^e, and there fore, to subject the votes and nets of lion. gentleman to a wrong, or even a false inter pretation, e^ery act, every vote was pointed to as the result of some interested motive, lience th(» gi-ojiter reason for promplnenu in the rendition of the proofs with a view not tv a preliminary, not a partial, but » complet* expurgation of matters which had apparently taken such deep hold upon the public mimL The subject wa,-, one not only of importaucti to the iiidividul membera of thiii House, l)iH of the utmost importance to Canada. Important, sir, because of the great' inter- ests involved, interests which Poeme<:l to }6<> pardiscthe social, political and financial hopeo of the Iiominion. Therefore, when th** sub- ject was brought before the House and Coun- try, it created u sensation thi-oughout every city, town and hamlet from St. Jolm on the .Ulanlic to Victoria, away over on the l'ai?iflc, a sensation which partook not of excitement but of soleum wonder. Won- der at the enormity of the chargo and solemxl because of the consequences which must fol- low if the ciiarge could in an.y dogi-ee be sds- tained' by evidence. (He-vf, baar.) Those V ho were wont to believe ill Of tine Gpvem" ment toll readily into the belief that the , charges were ti'ue, while the sup'prti-tars of thtj, tiovernment stoutly denied the truthfulpesa of thorn. AV'ith tlys in view and to this end^ every motion on tho subject V/as cnorvied ' strongly in t^ivor of the (tovernraent. Never was there a more generous, loyal, honest sftp- jKjrt niven to a Government in qm^r to, main- tain the reputation of ministeffl "before ttii? country ; and further, to j}ve unmistabat)!* ' eviij^nro Tfriar. riio Kpirii; r*i j^uucrxTUi* UvUiJMgk i with tho aanised d1^'elt as surely lathe Bi-itfaSi heart Uffre : wiRt (H««r, h*(p-.) Tb© dj»rg» wiRi *,?'*?■•, %Pm H ,.*#■'« ■■•■'■■ ■' •nd therefore, the greater necessity for some Trt«m^«'^^''?'° P'"^P^'-« '<"• tL deS i , ^'J"? r»»ff'^'8n notslu^giahly, not crude ne^^i' tti:"'^' '° ""««■• that ICS^. vSullii^af ""JiPO'-to'-smi^.ht bocomplotolv nniicutM bnfore tho wmitry. (Ileiir heai-'i imes It w.ia suggested by the fir.f M nia er fmi-""'''.'?.r" "" objection t. ', Uoyal oonded b7 any I.on. member, and. (berofore House wa«n^fr '\^« ^ra^n v^as that the (L^neers.) And therefore the apDointmenf nf a CommiHsion received no favm-trr^i its wish, tiiat wish Toidd T^r^ '"5"''*t^°n of .;».> t,J..„ diverse tHZ aiZfataf t S t order to show, amonmt oth«r tv.-^^ *°v'° have been SSr Is e%«„?hP'**'"°'^' ""'* the report o5Sd not take i£L'^%"^" °^' « ;?^,V' of members SS^rSnr^Ci -^ master of its own «.f!^'"L*'ifl««' ^«"'d be , «««« we Kigbl Hob. the Leader of the ! Oovernment, that the House would meat "uro {ZT^JV^'^ V^*^ '^^'»"^*' ^ receive the w S'fh^Mha*" ''« P/o'-oP^'ed was sufficient? VVill this be nwepted ns the Jinul action of the I Uaf b3 tlint statement the mindn of bo c:r„wn. tlio thirteen meinbers o? the (.overnment the .Senate Chamber .nd the ^hoie House of Commons would be Li l-'*'^"'*'?r ^•'"^"'^ paralysed and their hands tied If it is pretended that all p'r- sons in autherity would bo powerless for «- tet^'i?? Pi*' "P*"' *»•« Statement of the I he first A mister, I oannot but think it U> h^l (Chlrf^''nf and unjust interpretation. (Cheers.) Only one state of facts could jus- t£ r//'^ '^^Sree a literal carryinf. out' of that statement. That one state of ft,' K ^^ beercom^Ued!e" confirm n'n''^ ^ ^^« (rovemment and to confirm all the ohargas made against it. wf» It be pretended that the Government ta«if would have wished to remain in office to the following year, and that the peo^e^rep™^ sentativosin the Commons should have E peremptorily sent away from the Canitell^ brood'o'rt,?™ -'/^ their consUtCi: ConsViS„ I VT'^^'^'^u""" feebleness of the constitution .■' to have heaved up unon thn an;Xltrml^ "^ "t"""" wrori^wShoS aSnlTe^'dignft? o MiTIZi' 1 "~'* ^A^m^^^^'f^^e^ S^ras-deSH Kut?A?°°^ "" *l° "°"««- ("ea'-. hear.) this n»5 'l"""^ '^"^ '^"^ '" »"> eiigencTof this nature, some executive authority would terra's ^"'^.i^r^?*^ «o S In iS jusiite, would have taken immediate atana «« Jh:fW*^« tS: wSw we*U'a t^ss- that the Commona would have bean in^nvfS' and its heartfelt advicSat oSaStir°*^ neasoi such a procedure, knowini? also fW the whole press of the countr7 wlJther^S th:fcte3'i^''"A*^'- ^'^■'^^* it 5J»K?J tnat the I3th of August should not bealloi^ r.^-,~:•T^ ,»':" '™»'» instructions to tlut Committee which had prevjouslv^^^ tl»« mtecarriaifs of that iSll waT w ^^SiSji ') lid mMt ''pro Bceive the re- an sufficient}' action of the be pretended mindH of ibers (.r the ber and the would be d and their hut tt)I per- ■less for ac- 86 of the in- aent of the nk it to be 8 ierpretation. could ]'U8- iif,' out of F facts if it at the coio- ince would t Ministen »• In fact , discufiflion lace. ThiB ^r had io nent. But this caM. )en receiv- of it how- mpelled t« It nnd to nit it, will tent itself ce to the e'a repre- liave been ^iipital to ituents to ess of the upon the without , a wron^ I a wrong g:islaturc, ainst the bjects in injustice era.) In ve been be madd tear.) rency of 7 would >t an iO' lt«|WOO opinion ich im- ountry. lecase, ivoked 1 B*. aound- 90 that her for boldly Uowed liavi&g yZiiii m to the ip«m> ethat DTtenl » ttn exiKem-y as ('"uld have aris.m if the C om- mittee had reported the coudomnatjon of the (ioveminent, and should have been iiR.ortniii- Iv and as spcodily actott upon. (tMiPcrs.) •rhon we say, boliovins; tliif, waa it to he won derodatthat the fourteen who had prior to that time awarded a i,'onerous support to the aovemment, should have availed theiusi'lves of the opportunity offered of aisnitiR ii tnemo- rial to His Kxceliency the (lovernor-iipnernl, praying His Kxceliency not to allow the ses- 8ion of Parliameutthen sitting to be proroRUiul until it would have an opportunity of takinR such Btepa aa in its judgment micht be proper to puree itself from the charges aRainst it, to throw off the cloud then like a funeral pall resting upon its nameV (Choerf>.) For it was not in fact a charge nganist the Government alone, but against the House of Commons it- self, a majority of Nvhose members were jx'r- j sonally implicated in the general prostitution i of the country to tho iwwer of money. Thesie fourteen meii were not needy, crafty politi- cians, whose well being depended upon the | smiles or frowns of any government. Speak- ! Ing for myself, I can say, that during the | twelve years 1 have given a constant and »in- ; wavering support to the coalition govern- ; ments that have existed during that tirao, I | have never asked for ii personal tavor, ; and therefore have np\er been refused | anything. Certainly these fourteen mem- , hers are greatly wronged by that part j of the public press which charges them . with having some porsonal purpose to j serve. For my own part I entirely disclaim i anything of the sort, and challenge the gov- ernment, as I also do the opposition, to point out where, in any degree, I have been moved to my present action by interested motives. (Cheers.) I have no doubt the other hon. members acted from equally disinterested motives. 1 take this opportunity of saying that while the press— free and enlightened HS it is, while that press— the great tower of civil liberty- has cheerfully acceded to it all reasonable and sometimes unreasonable lati- tude, and claims to have accredited to it hon- esty of purpose, should award the same free- dom and honesty of purpose to others. Some of the leading journals have acted fairly upon this principle, but the bulk of the Min- isterial papers in Ontario has acted most un- fairly, if not in puolishing their own edito- rials, in reproducing remarks of Opposition journals, published in 1872 in the heat of an election contest, as though opinions then ex- pres.sed had anything whatever to do with the issues now before the House and country. (Hear, hear.) Those who exercised an hon- est discretion on the thirteenth of August have had coarse epithets heaped upon them. They have been held up to the ridicule of their constituents; they have been charged for signing a paper couched in the most res- pectful terms, with being "Traitors," "Betraj - era of Confidence," "Paltry Fools," "Deser- ters." These are samples of the choice epithets hurled into li.e faces oi those who, ia the discharge of their public duties, have thought proper not to insult any one in au- thority, not to condemn any one charged, not to pronounce any opinion upon the subject of the mftttor for investigation. No ! they did not think proper to do any »'f tbew? thiii>;ri. but they did think proper notwlthstandiriK fho terrors ot the press to employ their own minds, to exercise their own juilgments; they felt that av Canadians, as denizens of thin young Doininion.neither the frowns of .Minis t era or the terrors of the press shouUl deter tliem from what tboy believed to be an inde pendent discharge of duty. (I.oud cheers ) But, Mr Speakw, wo were told that th.' House could not proceed to business on the 13th August, because the Hon. Member for the City and Countv of St. John could not be. and in'fiu-t would iiot be, ))ro8ent, and there fore the business of the country must stop. This was a little awkward for the country, but no matter; the Hon. Member had put Ins foot down, and when he did, this was not to be despised even physically, but much more 80 whon looked at morally and politieall) The reas(m for this dead lock in the national affai-s is stated by the Hon. Member in a letter to the press, in which ho allege.^ that he perfectly understood it ; and in fact it wn>t perfei'tly understood at the time of the ad , journmout in May, that the meeting in August I would be a pro foniia one, and that he anfl ; others left the capital relying upon this. Nov., I after such a letter, the country will be much surprised to know that the hon. member had 1 not been at Ottawa at all for some time j prior to tlie ii'^iournment of the Hou.«;e j in May. That several days prior to the dis i cussion of the matter of adjournment on the I 22nd of May, he (the hon. member) had hied j himself away from the halls of the Legisla- I turc nd when that question was under con- I sidfe. v n, no doubt his stately form might I have b on -loen laving itself in the Bay of ; Fundy, (gi'eat laughter and cheers) or per ' haps with his usually softened visage ho might have had his mind bent upon how the great tides would ultimately effect th'a Bay Verte Canal. (Laughter and cheer-j.) But (jertainly I know of my own persona! know- ledge that when that question of adjourn- ment came on, the hon. meiuboi was not in the House and had not been for several days before. But, Mr. Speaker, if it were true that the adjournment in May was upon the under- standing that the meeting in August should be merely to receive the report of the Com- mittee, when as early as the 3rd July it waj* found that no satisfactory report could or would be made to the House in August, con- sidering the gravity of the charges, the num- ber of persons implicated, and the credit of the country, I maintain that it was the duty of Ministers not to allow Augusi to pass without having adopted such means as would secure a full meeting of the house. (Hear, hear.) But it is replied that the house or the Committee could not examine witnesses on oath. This 1 do not believe to be true. 1 behove means could have been adopted to examine the wit- nesses on oath ; but whether or not, this is a subject to which no power out of the House *! *'. v,rt« o wirvl.f fr. qrutab- nnH until Ul V^^ILIIU^-'ll^ r}f*r- ««- ' *5* ,. njjr: . ...i— ^ this house declares its incompetency, inter- ference with its prerogative and especial func- tions should be deprecated by all and by none more severely than by those who for t£<» time being are the sworn niiniaters of tb« Crown, Uie pledgefl |.rnlO(tMr.-.(-) iIkvsuciv.I ii;;lil.s iJ ' thep«oplo. ((iront rlioor.-i. ) rbfrfloro, lie ^ queatioii of wli.'tlior un oiil.li iniild be adm'i , iHtoi'fd or not, siionltt I'.ovor be mibmiltci lo | tho oi>inion of ii coUM-y ,of Jioii. incnili'T.-, wlifllher niiiiisliTS or privalo iiU'Mib. rs, wli" i may IheniHflvcs b) I'.oeply iiitiiv.-ti'd ii» tlio matter lit. i.-':iUO. V>nt n> ixa.iiust tlm-o who , sijjnud tlio meniborw' iiK'iiK.rial to tho ; trovonior, it, is bp>;iillv iilli'KCiI Mui iidjouro- iHont ill May w:n iip.'a tli.'. iu;rfcomci:! Un't. | tiiemctl.in;.: in Aiuiu-t i'hdiild !>'> infrt Iv ;/,(i I'orniti til rocoivt) tho ropcrt of f lui CoimiiittiH- imd t)!on j^rop'.riie. Tlii.-j I ilii^sont from. In proiif of aiy opinion, wlion tli^' C'oiiimittco rnet jit .Montreal on tlin-'nd .Inly, iinil it, was foimd that thiMhvrlis Hill hiidbcun disibowed, whut was tlio first tlHni;,'lit, and ;iclion of hhi' (.fO.ornnMiiii. '^iip|ioi-fovs on t)i" Coiionttter .' It VMI8 to dfchirs! and jiiit on rfcord ft toi-m I rcHobilion lliat that ('o:u!nitti' • siididd coioi' Ivick to r-nrliament o:' th" Jltlli Amrint for rrcsh instruction;!. 'I ii.it rt'.-riluti )n was cnr- rierument ciLHtinL,- tlioir voti's in a .-^olid block in favor of coini,);,' bark to I'arli.uiiHnt on the l.'itli Auy;ii.-:t for further authority. (Tlie hon. ••pntleinan then read tlic resolution.^ .Now, otTtainly thfi.>-o tjcntli-nua on tlio C'oniniittpi* woro not of opinioii that im aci.ion could b.> taken in Au^u.st,or tiicy cart.iinly n«;\-cr wiaild >¥) far lia\e stultifovl tliRrasclvos as to }m\t» pL'Kvd on record a rcsolu'i >n iiointini; to that day at Ottawa as bcini,' tho time and place when they could alone receive fresh life and authority. (Hear, tib.ir. ) On tiie third day of July tho (,'ommitteft wore unmimnisly of opinion th.'it it, would bo hi;,'hly indl•corou.^ lo the Houi^e to alliW any intcrl'ert nco with tho (Committee to lako placo (xceptiiiif by Miii House it.^olf. .-Vnd tliata Koyal Ciunmission lippointed by (ioverinncnt would not givo satisfaction to tho House and the t!Ountry. (.Air. Uiass liore read tlie re- jwrt of tho luoetinf; of Committoo>.') It i;i therefore quite char that when the \ Ck)iamitteo iuijourned at Montreal on t!ic Hrd I of .July to meet at Ottawa on tiie Kttlj Au- | j;iiflt foUowinj;, it was the full intention to i come back to I'arlia'neut on that day for | o^her and more complete directions, rart of i (V^mmittoe wa^ in favor of aohvj, on with the \ reception of tho evi(lonc(! without an oath, dm ] had been done in tfreat Hrilain and Ciinada j for a hundred yea r.s before, but tho majority i of the committee, the three (.iovernnio.ot hup- iwrters I have i.amed, carried tho resolution to adjourn to t};e ]3rh Au^u t a!, Ottawa. .No one will deny that tlie.'^;' lion, si'ntlemen were quite .-lincere in that resolurion. They put: it on rec *u« .1.1.. jj..,j..v,. '-'m ■••».'}•■-.■ ^f*'** lit ttic general desire for a common purilieaiion. To fortify and materially .strengthen the position taJcen by them they had the encouragement and support of the whole AliniRterial pre«8. all quoting the resolution and, point!!i(< t.o the 13th August as the time when " the Hnuse would meet, and a^kint^ for a sus- |wn«iou of judKiuenl until that liiue. — |:ut did they, uccordin^; to tlieir resolve on tho :ird of July, come bi'foro tlie House on the lllth of AU!,'Ust,? Hid tliey ask for frcnh in structioii.s? Were they here to fulfil their prtirui.-e mado a fuw weeks previously if a promise ni.ide to me, to every n ciuhcr of this Jloue, to the country ^{enerally. No, they wenMiot hell'; thore wa.s no report he.re, there wus no hon. niembei- here to .stand forward and cxtilaio to the House the action of thn ('ommitteo and to ask for further directions, lilt, ."^o-, there were fourteen n. embers preHent on that llUh il;iy of Aujjust, who had hereto- fore acted withtho majority of that Oommit- te', and because thesis fourteen respeotfully asked tlitit the plodi;(« of this Committee, the lileduje of the |)ubltc pre.s.-!, the dictales of Tea- s'. n iiud jii.-tiee, .-should be fulhllod, they must, be branded as mere /w/,v, as tniiicr.i uih\ di ■ fcii-'i-s. I'lUl, tiiir, 1 for one am quite wiHin^ t» allow ;ny fellow-country ukiu lo be the judijeH of where the deception is to be found. (Cheers.) Talk of Liberal Conservati.sni ! tilk of tho supi)orter;t of coalition ({overn ments ! Where is the Liberal i.sm i-" I.et uh see a lltlte moro of practieil ios\ilts of it than has found its way itito the pulilic pre.ss for the laat few week«. I'.y .some of the untliiukint; of my constituents I have been upbraided, and even coarsely insulted, because 1 thought propel- ti> u.-.'^ my own judgment in this mat tor. .^inc' mv return irom (Ottawa in August last, my answer invariably has been that none of tho.-'.e who were loud in making complaint-- woul ! be c.illed upai to assume any j)ortion of till* re.'ipon.sibility of my conduct; that while I was jiroiid of being their reia'esentn five in Parliament, 1 thought still more highly of my own self-respect (applause), thatmy seal wa:^ at their disposal at any moment, for I would not remain in I'arliamort one liou'* longer than 1 C' uld bo permitted to exerciso a free, untrammeled judgment iipon every point noon which 1 might bo called (ni to vote. (Hear, hear.) I have shown that, on the 3rd of Julv, when tho (.'ommittee adjourned, it was upon the express agreement that it would come back to the fountain of if s authority on the Lull of the mouth following. I p to that time no evidence h.ad appeared as to the na- ture of the charges ; but, sir, on the \-ery day after, viz., the 4th of July, the country was startled by developments then Inirried into public notice. A sheaf of letters, written by iSir Hugh Allan, was given to the press. The letters developed an astounding state oi immorality. The whole country was pnnit> stricken ; people looked at each other in silent amazement ; all the frientis of (jovernraent, after recovering their balance, settled down into the opinion that the letters were false, gotten ui) for the ocoa.sion. ]!ut, sir. the sus pense vvris not long ; the next blow was more severe. The very Jne.Kt day iifter the ;ie,blic;itir>n of tJie, l.-^ltrv^, .*;•!• Ho-h hiir- self came out over his own signature and un- der tho solemnity of an oath, with some slight discrepancies, declared tho wuole of the let- ters to be true. He swore that in the autumn of 1871 he obtained from Sir Francis Hincks the name.H of MoMullen and Smith, and opened negotiations w iih them with a \iew I i to form ft conM..my for l.« ' <>"«l"'r^ y^," " , Uie I'ncifi'- I'^uhvivy. and -nterM into a i | ^Xomont with thorn for that purpose. IUm t^rtier shewKl l.in, a tel-RPun tro.n the ftr Mini-ster. in v^lmh Hir llu.h v^a. pn.uu. d I the uresklency (.t the Pa.-itir Kail.vay. U.' Ht^arthatmombor.wh.> had .h.nvn thorn- l>lvofl favourable to th.« enforprH.> >»ore a. that in those w.iyn h« ...xpondod nrarlj S-MV (VV> ll0Mtntestl>a1 f^ir Fninr.s Hinoks oi r'gov.rntnont. had at fn-s. ^''K'od that he i •ontrart should b,^ i though, this a "wasto of p.-vvder ar.d shot. „"« Btat- i-rt that tho rro.u-h f actio:.. MS he .calls then, had kopt the entire (iovirnmor.t in "7<;. ^^'"^ 1 fivayear.s. liestatod thai .n a .short time. , through the five use of money he fontro ed , twenty seven mombers of Pa.-baine..t %vh cl .■omtwllod the (iovcrnmont to mve h.m the contract with all tho advantages the .<", ol rarliament can conlor. Hohtatos hnally, as a1ea*The I4th Sept.. 1^71'. f^^'^l^;^^;^ were all over, to his rteiir .■imid ^^'^Jl'^"; that ho had paid ,„it Sol'.l,')'*'^ witii SI-MR more to pay. Thi^ • 'ho way matter.s stood on the fou/th day o, ,1 .iv last, ''ff!' the pul> lication of the letter; and the makn,- o the affidavit of the now somewhat ronowijed Siffht of Ravenscrai-. Ve'-. th,s w.w the ^siHon of al^airs f,;om fe lou.-tb d y ol July up to the moriuns ot thu 1 8tb ot t be S month, when George W, McMu len, the Kr friend ^f Sir Hugh Allan, pubhshed what he declared to be an authentic hi^jtory of t e , whole transaction, whu-b narrative he al- Iwred he was prepared to prove. , Before proceedinp further, a low rae to ask ■ who is this Oeor-e W. McMuUen f I have I never spoken to him. The press seems miiob Sd^ipon bis j,ood qualities. Onethin^' we do know,-a matter upon whicball ixgre^ St in March, ISTl.he with others const.tut- ins a deputation from Chieap;o, visited Ottawa in the matter of the enlargement ot the Canals. Ue was therefore introduced at our Capital under favourable auspices. Ue wa.s on« of a delegation from Chicago, the grea 'Jueeii City of the West, tho purposes ot that deputation beins to confer substantial benehts upon Canada iby settling upon some ur.itod action for the enlargement ot the Canal^ Chicago, the proud, ambitious, commoreial centre with its LW,0O(> people, constituted McMullenone of its '•^n'r^sfraativc.^ .or tbe performance of this very delicate business. I know nothing personally of the man. but cer- tainly his coming amongst us was at a tii^i; and under circumstances calculated to in jrn^e respect. Ue had been introduced to bu Hu^h AllaTby Sir Francis Hinck^, Finance Mini.- .. of tho IVominion of Canada He Iwame the isom friend of Sir Hu'-.h. (Hear, hear., Hrw^s therefore the ac-cepted /"ond of som^ mombors of our (h.vernm.Mit. the alley and " rtner of American capitalists ';;'P'-e*« tj J^ 'over one hund.-ed millions o. '1'^""". '£ lookink' at .McMullen. surrounded b> this b /e of rocomiuondation. fortiftod by this trii>le row of ktiights and honorable men. . eors) ,M.tto.l, tlauored and cillod af^.vtfoti ate names by th^ groat mogul of llavonscra.g. 1 rJrmt cheers and laughter > aU ays b.ing a 1- 1 in'sodns-mydear M--^'^'''*"'^- ;j"Jl^„ i" 1 this time they ha,o in no way par ed friend ship ^ sav then looking at M'-M;'"';'? "Ill' I by the.e ..n-roundings, '.orne up by ;1"« f «» ■ nower of gold anom U.srepre.sentative body or from any 1 K.f our^H^ople whose opinions carry woL'htatall intlio country. (Cheers... We I 1^4 -wish to ov.«rlook the fact that hundreds lofthouiuidsof our most wealthy c.t./.eDs empU^ving millions of capital w.^e at on, time citizens of the great ""Pub be to the South of us, and, therefore, any at empt t draw distinctions in nationality should b» fowneddc naston.lingto bigotry and ex- •luriveness. which a young •'n'l,/^^' Jjttleroountry like Canada should be the S to encouri-e. (I-oud cheers., On the 18th ol' July last this Mr. McMul'en brought ii?dluelnari.tive bef..rethe pubh^^^ showed by vouchers that S.W,0 » ad been dra^'n bv the (iovernroont from Sir Hujli fo,' eS«ttoi. purposes, and the vouchers being : TZZtiy supplementary, the inference seem- , edm,sist^blo that about double that, anaoxin ' Z\ b.ea so drawn from tbe same ^o"''^^- ""'• : from any genera! f.ind. ""* ^iT ^-^ cKTore tee but from !*ir Hugh, and that S2.J,tH30 more .Tdbeen paid to the Hon. X'ulT^'i^l , Militia, with various otner details as to the i in' 1" .i'on- nvoffress and the termination ot his I conneclion with Si^ Hugh ami the i.ovorn- mer-t The main t>atures of his narrative wore and are corroborated by Senator Poster, 1 Ueieforo the force of Mr. McMullen snarra- tvedeiiends much upon the "edibility ot I sinatoi »-'oster, I find that he was elected to ParliMncnt in 1».5{iglative Council, aud tliat an a <" >"- M«rvativotriend()f Sird.Cnrtiorlie wanby Koy- ftl F'roolanmtioii railed to tli« Senate in 18(17. In addition to thin, be appoarH to have rilled many offices ol' trimt and responHibility. Therefoni it is fair to ossi.mo that ho is a man of probity and honour; nri such, iii» co?itirmu- tion ol AleMulltin'rt narrative is very materi- al indeed. That narrative saw tho lijfht on the 18th July, noarl;^ four we»'k8 prior to tlio I3th August, to which time rarliamont hn.i adjourned. And, therefore, even then, there was abundanro of fiine to havp had a full nieetiDjf of the Home, if Government had so wished it; but from some strange, mystorious cause, utterly inexplicable, the development.s see'nod rather to returd tho meoting of the Ho-se than to hurry forward itn asHomblir.j,'. Well, «ir, the 13th of Augu.st camp, and with It the peculiar 'ixoitemont attendant upon un- certainty m matters of much moment. On tho morning of that day ninety-six memlwrs of the House ventiirerl to approach His Excel- lency by i»6tition. Tho whole ministerial press at once sounded loud in its denuncia- tion of those who hud thus presumed to np- proacJi the Throne. Not fo, however, with the distinguished stntosman v.ho filKs the Vice- Regal chair. lie at onco acknowledged tho right of the petitioners, rnceivcd thfir depu- tation wifh the consideration due to their important mission, and deeply regretted that, under the peculiar circ'jm9tan<'es, he wa« unable U> comply with the wishes of the memorialists. This, abstractedly, was no doubt tho re.il sentiment of the high-mind- ett nobleman, who has ever held *ho scale of jiistice betweea parties with an oven hand But, sir, tho official reply to that memoriai which ftp{)eared the following day was i ot the act of the Crown, but of the responsible advisers of the Crown. I make this .state- ment with a view to pn-tinlly correct a popu- lar fallacy which has { require iwsj- tlve evidonco to dinpUce il, aud it will bo foi tbie Uouee to eay «heu the ox idetice is stn.nj; eaouiih to di«i)«l that pr^aurnvtirn of ii«»« cencJ. (HeaV; hear.) 1 aa, m pre.«c. of this House, of my country, that prw"™V: tion iH removed. Th"., et all ^^ho wou d Btandintbe pathway of the country's honor be removed «ther -than that th* Jonor of the country should be removed. (Hoar. boar. Hiid continued applause.)