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The arrangement of the pages shov Id be as follows 1. Petition from pp. 2 to 29. 2. Lieutenant-Q-overnor's answer from pp. 36 to 40. 3. Reply irom pp, 30 to 36. To an A coi IIo of Qu Clo Ch par Depart Pkov To Jlis E> tho M ol' the Joeep Assembly Church, ol Province c of Quebec, Jlespe That ( Q.uoboc, iui trovernor ( Honor tho RETURN (19) To an i\DUKE.ss of the House ok Commons, dated 20th February 1879 -For copies of the Petition addressed to the Governo: in Council by the lo,. Messrs. Chapleau, Church and Angers, praying for the dismissal oi His Honor Luc Letellier, Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Quebec ; of the answer made to the said Petition by the said Lieutenant (.overnor. and of the reply made by the said Hon. Messieurs Chapleau, Church and Angers to the said answer, and all correspondence and papers relating to the subject. 13y Command. Department of the Secretary of State, 27th February, 1879. C. AIKINS, Secretary of State. PETITION. CANADA, ) Province op Quebec. J In Council. Quoboc. iidnr^teX :{,': r:;Vr.!!j.^^?',i^° Legislative AssemWy of the PrDrmoo oi Governor Gonei-ai of danadrS th^ZZ '^ ^« P^«««°ted to His Excellency "the Hono..the_LieutenaL'rvt^ro5thri^;:;ir^^^ -^ ^' "Is Exhihit No. 1.—" Tho humblo address of tlio LegiNlative Assombly of tiio Prov- ince or Quebec reHpcctfully Hhewetb : "That it appears from tho oxplunations/L'ivon by tho Honorable Mr. Aiifrors jmd from tho olilcial corroHpondenoe commur>icatod to this House, that His Excellonov the Lieutenant (Governor acl y^nj " That whilst expressing its loyalty and devotion to our Gracious Sovereign, and Its respect for tho Lieutonant-Governor of this Province, this House is of o union • Ihat the dismissal from office of tho DoBouchervilie Cabinet having taken place without sufficient cause, constitutes an imminent danger to tho maintenance of n^ponsible Govcrnmont in this Province ; is an abuse of power exorcised in contempt t the mjMonty of both Houses (whose confidence they possessed, and still possess), aj. I a violation of tho rights atid will of the people." t ''>'. That the circumstances under which tho Legislative Assembly and tho Le Council of the Province ofQuebcc adopted the above resolutions are contained 11. the Minis erial explanations given to the Legislature on tho 8th March 1878 of wf.ic!. the following is a copy extracted from tl;., Votes and Proceedings of tho 0th < .' 'ill' same month : m >" « m t.^./fr'*'^^^"*^;""-^^^- ^^cBoucherviUo had received permission from tho Liou- t...unl-{.ovornor to give explanations respecting his dismissal from office at the uVIocf- Ji'\,^«"''«.^'/l>^,<^"'-th. March, instant. Between half-past one and two o clock of the same day ho received from His Excellencv a notice not to ffivo inv i-xpianations until the now Cabinet had been formed. ^ ^ r.> '.^^'^^•^"t having been announced, the lato DoBouchervilie Government has H 'usot /: to tho'country . P"'"""" '' "^^'""''' '' ^''' ''' ^^P'-^tions to tho '•It is my duty to announce to the House that the DeBouchorvillo Govcrnmont vl!l f]' ^ ^o^'f;»"io"t possessing the confidence of tiio great majority of 1.10 representative assembly, and of almost the whole of tho Legislative Council has ao nghtto resign if it has really at heart tho interests of the countrrandT respect of llio Prov- Ir. Angora, Excolloncy Jouchorville rovorn'^'ont >on without and their vince, thid llo Cabinet oxistonceof apt of the i, und is 11 I'ovitico of the Gover- Ilonor the ivo Council uclicrville, Excellency Duchorvilie nd to the n his part reign, and ^ opinion : ken place tenance of I contempt I possess), e Legisla- contained 1, 1878, of f the 0th the Lieu- ce at the and two give any iment has ons to the vornmont lajority of uncil, ha« a respect I • &<• » ^'. • Thm Government waHdismisnod from office by the Lieutenant-Governor The facts which preceded and followed thlH event are entered in a .'ournal Sfrom day to day and from hour to hour, under the dictation of the ox iCS- and tho following 18 an oKact and faithful recital thereof ; »omiei, ana the ." O'' the 26th February, 1878, at about half paHt four o'clock i. m the Premier lotTe'r'i " '" L.outenant-Governor. througll his Aide-de-Caip^uIrfoliring " OovzriNMENT House, " Quebec. ii5 Kobruarv, 187i!. To the Honorable C, B. l)EnouciiEaviM-E. " Premier of the Province rf (iuobcc "The Lieutenant Governor desires the Executive Council to nrenaro for hiH cons.derafon a factum, including u copy „f the following documents --^ " 2. A copy of the Acts of the Legislature of the Province of Quebec resnoctin.. "4. A statement of the amount of the grant paid by each of those coroorations and a c.py ol the corrospc.ndence exchangc^l between the Gove nment thi I^ailwav Cumm.s.>oners,orthe Contractors of the said road, and the said Smiic pal CorDor ations, with respect to their said grant or subsidy ^uunicipai uorpor- road.s ''' '^ '"'^^' *'^ ^''" '*''''"'"' ^""^'''''^^'' «'»tered into for the construction of the said " f- A copy of the omcial or confidential rej)orts of the I-ln.rincers to whom w-is entrusted the location of these linos of railway, In whole or in mrt 7. A copy 01 the Keport of the Jiaiiway Commissioners, 'laid before both Hou.es during the present Session, respecting the said roads V,.,. /• -T' / 1'' I'op'-osentations made to the Government by the Municipal Cor- " [>. Copy of the resolutions proposed to the Provincial Le HI will of certain municipalities, shown by some in their neglect to comply with thi' requests of the Treasurer, by others in their forma! refusal to pav, and in certai-i cases 1.3^ resolutions adopted asking new conditions respecting the aoreemea('. which they had made with the Government. r>^^^mtw „K- ', T''f ^o^"«i"" •;"l of these municipalities would have been either to necessitate a new loan by the Provinc and consequently to cau.o a burden to be unjustly imposed upon municipalities vhicn had entered into no engagements and which would derive no iminediatc beneht from the construction of the road, or the complete stoppage of the works .ready begun together with the inevitable loss of interest on the enormous capital alieady laid out upon this enterjjrise, and the other damages resulting therefrom ,1 o /he Government, while undertaking, in the tirstplace, by the^aid law, tofullil !f ?n r;.'!-'"\."^ had agreed upon with the said municipabties, considered vt'ouv '"^'^•t"V"S **''• .P,»« ordinary courts, the Lieutenant-Governor, with an l.socutive Council responsible to the Legislature and to the people, it otiei'ed to the- paries interested a tribunal which attbtded as many guaiLt'ee.s as tt ordinary "I would also take the liberty of calling Your Excellency's attention to the fa.t that similar provisions arc already in our Statutes. " I wouid cite to Your Ex. , ile.uy Chapter 83 of the Consolidated Statutes ..i Cuna._a, and also Chapter 47 of ;Jt! Victoria of the Statutes of Citario ^ '" '* ' lavifi' " I humbly eubniit to Your Excellency that a law devised for the bettor socurin.' oltl.eoxc^'.ution of a contract cannot have a rotro-activo effect. It enactn *or the I'.ituro and its objects are the respective interests of tho parties /Ti ',\T''T' ^ ^^^'7^'^'' i^xcellcncy to note, that while you wore at Riviere Ouello / if':! 1 't""'''*'^'''?"?'^'"^' y«i"' authorization to lay tho question of Finances " ' 'f. m1.l ''''''''. f^ ^''m -'"^ ■ T"'^ ^'"'^ ^"""^''^ *° '■^P'>' that you sent me a blank form by nan, and I ccms.dered this, at the time, as a great mark of confldenco on • ?!' ^m ^''■'' "' *^^^^^' '"^^'O'^'^ 'I blank form with your si&^ •'I must admit that with this aujhonV.ation and the conviction in my mind ' o .nlo. wh'^'h'''"'^ ^'fP^'-^ ^^° '^''-^asuror's Budget Speech, in which ho announced '.'0 taxes which were afterwards proposed, I considered I had a right to inform my V^leagues that I had your permission for all questi, ns respecting money ^ t . .fe ^^."'i ^-^^t''^^^^^ t'^ believe that 1 never had any intention of arrogatin-' to myself the right of having measures passed without your approval, and that under existing circumstances, having had occasion to speak to Your Excellency in rofer- t'oce to the law rospecting tho Provincial Railway, and not having received any <.rder to suspend it, I did not think Your Excellency would discover in this measure JZ/?'!". r '"' "^l P^';^ ^V'!^'*"^ ^""''^ prerogatives, which no one is more disposed Mian 1 am to respect and uphold. ' " Your, &c., &c., (Signed) '•' C. B. DElioL-cnERviLr.K." •' After some conversation, the Lieutenant Governor having heard M DoBouoh- crv.lles explanations, admitted that, if there had been any misunderstandini? it was .•ri good faith or, tho part of tho latter in authorising his colleagues to say that they were authorized to submit the legislation in reference to money matters ^ .1 ffl.'nu *^^^«'".'^?'"^« t<^'d h'™' if^ '-oply to his question on tho subject, that tho only >S1^ rnTjI'Tf ^"^ ^^' ^"''''^° "^^^^^ Quobec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental J.ailwa> and that he would give an an.wor on the following day, tho 2Sth February. u R I n "^t'' l^cbruary, at r.bout half past seven in tho oveninff Mr )oBouchervi lo went to S|.encorwood to convoy to the Lioutenant-Govornor Z; documents a.sked form tho letter of the 25th (which documents wore prepared by f he Jlonorablo tho Secretary, and wore accompanied by a synopsis). Ho asked him .1 he would soon give his answer. The Lioutenant-Gofernor told him he would March"'' ^«^'""«"t« "nd probably give it to him on the following day, tho 1st "On leaving, Mr. DeBouchervillo said : ^ K I understand you rightly you are hesitating between giving your sanction to tho Railway Bill and ro.e°ving it.' IIo '• On tho 2nd of March, at five minutes to one in tho afternoon, tho Aido-do-carao " »b« Lieutenant-Governor handed to Mr. DeBouchervillo the letter given horeaftoi^ " Boforo tho Aide-de-camp loft, bo was asked how His Excellency was Tho Aide-de-camp replied that he was not 80 well, and then asked when we intended .•losing the Session. Mr. DeBoucherville replied that he could not say^ismany icaitera wore iH ariiear. ^^ many " Tho following is the letter in question : — "GovjjRNMENi House, Quebec, Ist March, 18T8. " To the Honorable C. B. DeBoucherville, Premier, Quebec ;— " Tho Lieutenant-Governor, taking into conKideration the communication made to him verbally (on tho 27th February) by the Premier, and also taking into con- sideration tho letter which the Premier then gave to him, is prepared to admit that; there had been no intention on the part of the Premier to slight the prerogatives of the Crown, and that there was only on his part an error committed in good faith in tho interpretation that ho gave to words used by tho Lieutenant-G()vernor in the interview which they had on tho 19th February instant; words which did not imply tho authorization attributed to them by tho Premier. " With this interpretation and the instructions given in consequence by the Premier to tho Honorable Messrs. Angers and Church, these gentlemen did not willingly, do anything against tho duties of their office. " As to tho blank, which the LieutenantCrovcrnor addressed to him fi-om liiviore Ouello, the Lieutenant-Governor knew that such blank was to be used for the purpose of submitting the Estimates to the House. " This act was a token of confidence on his part, as stated by the Premier in hi ; letter of tho 27th, but it was confidential. "The Lieutenant-Governor deems it hisduty to observe that in his memorandum of tho 25th February last, ho in no way expressed the opinion that he thought that the Premier ever had the intention of arrogating to himself the right of having measures l)assod without his approval, or of slighting the preroiratives of the representative vi the Crown. "But the Premier must not lose sight of tho fact that although ho had not so intended, tho fact remains as he was told by the liieutenant-Governor. "Tho fact of having submitted sever.ii now and important measures to tho Legislature, without having previously, in any manner, consulted tho Lieutonont- Governor, although without any intention of slighting his prerogatives, gives rise to ono of those false positions which places tho repi-osentativo of tho Crown in a difficult and critical situation with relerctices to both Houses of tho Legislature. " Tho Lieutenant-Governor <^annoL admit that tho responsibility o'f this state f.f things rests upon him. " So far as concerns a Bill entitled " An Act respecting Iho Quebec, Montreal Ottawa and Occidental Railway," the Premier cannot apply to tho measure tho pretended general authorization mentioned by him in his loiter, for their interview took place on the IDth February and tho Bill hnd tnoti been before the Jloaso for several days, without the Lieutenant-Governor having been in any manner informed ^)t It by his advisers. " The Lieutenant-Governor th(Mi told the Pi-o.nier how much he i-e(^rotted such legislation ; he represented to liim that ho considered it to bo conU-ary to the principles of law and justice. ^S'olAvilhstaiuiiug this, the measure was pushed on> until it was adopted by both Houses. " It is true that tho Premier gives in his letter as one ol' his reasons for so actin'' that this permission of making use of the name of the representative of tho Crow! had boon, moreover, always allowed him by tho predecessor of the present Lieulenani- (rovernor, tho late lamented Mr. Caron,' "This reason cannot avail with the Lieutenant-Governor, for by so doino- he would abdicate his position as ropiosentative of the Crown— a proceedin*-- wliich neither tho Lieutenant-Governor nor tho Premier could reconcile with tho duties of tho Lieutenant Governor-towards tho Ciown. "The LioutonanL-Govei-nor ivgrots being compelled to state, as ho told tho Ircmicr, that he has generally not been explicitly informed of tho measures adopted , 1878. lion made into con- admit that; ogativod of )d faith in rnor in the not imp :co by the n did not^ 3m Kiviore hepi'rpoee lier in hi ; moranduni ht that the L( measures sntative of ad not M> •03 to the jioutonont- .'es ri.so to own in a ture. is Stat© f»r Montreal, jasure tbo interview Jloase for !• informeil stted siK'h ly to t!ie pushed oir • so at'tiii:,', he Crown .ieulenanl- doiniij he n^ which duties of D told the s adoptf.'d by the Cabinet, although the Lieutenant-Governor often gave occasion therefor to the Premier, especially during the course of last year. " The Lieutenant-Governor, from time to time, since the last meeting of the Legis- lature, drew the attention of the Premier to several maiters respecting the interests of the Province of (Quebec, amongst others : — " 1. To the enormous expenditure occasioned by very largo subsidies to several railways when the Province was burdem.-d with the construction of the branch line of railway from Quebec to Ottawa, which should prevail over all others; and that at u time when our finances compelled us to raise loans^disproportionate to our revenues, "2. On the necessity of reducing the expenses of the Civil Government and those of Legislation, in place of having recourse to new taxes, with a view of avoiding financial embarrassment. " The Lieutenant-Governor, although with regret, expressed to the Premier the opinion that the Orders in Council, for the increase of the salaries of Civil Service emploj-ees, seemed to him inopportune at a time when the Government had effected with the iiank of Montreal a loan at the rate of seven per cent, for half a million, on condition of increasing this loan to ono million, and, in fact, to-day even (1st March) the Lieutenant Governor was obliged to allow an Order in Council to bo passed .i'j secure the last half million for the Government, without which the Governi would bo unable to meet its obligations, as stated to hira by the Honorable Treasurer, by order of the Premier. " The Premier did not either then or since inform the Lieutenant-Governor th.if the Government verein so impecunious a condition as to require special legislali|n to increase the public burdens. ' "The Lieutenant-Governor therefore stated and repeated these facts to the Premier, and now deems it his duty to record them here, in order that they may serve lis a memoruulum for himself and the Premier. It results therefore : — "1. That although the Lieutenant-Governor had made several representations, in his quality of representative of the Crovii, to the Premier on those various subjects of public interest, his advisei-s have taken administrative and legislative steps contrary to such representatiotis, and without having previously advised him. " 2. That the LieutenantGovernor has, without evil motives, but in fact, been placed in a false position, by being exposed to a conflict with the desires of the Legislature, desiies which he acknowledges to be paramount, when expressed in a constitutional manner. " The Lieutenant-Governor has attentively read and examined the memorandum and documents which the Premier was kind enough to bring him yesterday. " In the record are pctitioiis from several municipal corporations, and from citizens of different localities, addressed to the Lieutenant-Governor, against the resolutions and the Government Bill respecting the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa tfc Occidental Railway. " The Lieutenant-Governor was only yesterday in a position to take communica- tion of some of those petitions, inasmuch as they had not been transmitted to him before the lecord. " The Lieutenant-Governor, after mature deliberation, cannot accept the advice of the Premier in reference to the sanction to bo given to the Railway Bill entitled 'An Act relating to the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa tS: Occidental Railway.' " For all those roasotis, therelbro, the Lieutriant-Governor cannot consider tins memorandum wilhuiit: expressing to the Premiei- tiio legrot which he feels in being no longer able to retain him in hn position, contrary to the rights and prerorog: lives of the Crown. " (Signed) L. Letellieh, TAevt.-Governor. ■ Wood "rto ° lfiJ^^]:f:'^2SiiJ';!^' "'•• ""B"'!.!"":'!'" --t to Sponce,- " QrEOEc, 2n(l Miireli, 1878. " Tc His Ex,Mcn,-y tlu- Limtmmt-Gai-ermr of tlie Pmince of Quebee : .ctaiu mo in my poaitton m Promir ^ concl,i„on that yoD cannot f.o.;o'ffltrr;;ra."e3 b^w'^^ixsr fest's "' ■"^;"'-^''- " I have the honor to be, " Your Excellency's &c,, &c , " (Sigucd) c. B. DEBoucnEaviLLE." 'tI?T ^'"," """f .'"° A"">orizntion liosolation .■ospoetiii.' Kr.nnco,? ' i..Bo^!ci„^vi;\i""''".'-£r;s,:jL'i'?''"iT's> '"° ^«"*' ""s^^-oc. to «... Fridav.' ^'anKmauccJto-da^. If prenenco necessary, telegraph. Keturn lloJo^/:rl^'SS:^:7!::^^t^^''S^^'' ^al^way we., submitted totho J^ieutenaulGovernor that a ?o J,' silned n blanKlTf ^"^ *'"?". '''^r'^ *''^™ ^^^ viile in reply to his despatch of t^ pre vii'ufd",' salT' ''rnn^" ^°«<>"f^-'- Authori..tion Ilasolutions respecting Fmanir?'- On Z^Oth ?„ ^""^ T'*.'"^ resolution was rc;vMto.;l(W,mCnmmittef.r,?t>"W}- ^^l« -^h January, the first hy the House ^ -mmiuec nt tu« . „ {„,[„. Qq the olsL it wius adopted fit to Spencer lant-Governor 1 that day, he rotation t'vom I will be found orao remarks a:ht lie had no Vhon ho had eturn, having planations to ^•ence of the make known hiraastotbo pon himaolf, iio, although it ho had had mstances ho while in the > delay the ndcd to the vn interpro- 1, 18Y8. twledge the you cannot ly dismissal B time my devotion to '■tLLE." Excel loncv telegraphic lod to Mr. h. Itoturn tod to the I from the )oBoucher- 1 send me the first lus adopted "' On tho 1st lobruary, the House aj^uin went into Committee of the Whole and roporte.. Iho other reaoluLions on tho same siibjeot. But it was on Iv on the 5th that the adoption of tho Ropoi-t of tho Committee w;., carried, iho Iloirso throwioff out tho motion ot non-contidoiico on thi.s point by 3.S to 21. "On the nth Fobru'iiy, ti Bill based on those resolutions was introdu-rod; the .socond readm- was dolaye I until tho 18th of February; the third rcadin<' took place on tho l!)th during all this time tho Lioulonaiitdovornor, to whom tho voten and proceedings were sent dail\', remained wilont. " On tho l!Uh February, Mi-. De Boucherville met the LieulenantGoveriior and m the convorsaLion which took place on the subject of tho tneasuro, thought he had satiHhed him as to its legality aud the urgency < fits being passed. The Lieulenant- rovernor wan 80 far fioni being explicit as to his intention that Mr. DoBoucherviUe left him with the impression that ho was authorized. 1 '^l^f ,f''*"'^t^"'»"f-f^overnor does not contend in his memorandum of the Ist -March, 18Tj\ that Ik; !i;id given orders to suspend the legislation. "' Sent up to the Legislative Council, this Bill had gone through its third reading f)elore the hrst letter was received from the Lieutenant-Governor, dated tho 25th J^ebruary last, but only delivered at 4.30 p.m , on the 26th. In fact, the Lieutenant- (..overnor ui his letter of the Lst March, admits that he did not in anv way in his mem()randum of the 25th February, express the opinion that he considered tho iremierhiid intended to arrogate to himself the right of getting measures passed without ms approval or of slighting the prerogatives of the representative of the Crown. " Jlaving ascertained that a misundersianding existed as to the interpretation of the authorization asked by telegraphic despatch on tho 23rd Januaiy, and anrwered on the 29th, by a message stating that a form signed in blank was sent, and in view ot the impressions left by the conversation of the llUh Februar- in Mr. do Boucher- vdlesraind, should the Lieutenant-Governor have waited to make known for tho first time the existence ofthismisundoi standing until tho 26th February, at which date the whole of %c legislation of which he complains had been discussed and voted in the athrniativc by both Houses. ''The confidence shown by the Lieutenant-Governor on the 2lith January in Mr. do Boucherville by forwarding the form signed in blank was calculated to justify him m interpreting tho silence of the Lieutenant-Governor at least as not moaning dissent. .. u "lAf^^*"^'**'''" ''^^^^^''^^•■*^^'''^ ^'^^^ February the silence observed until the Kith February was aKso of a nature to lead him to believe that he had a general Jiuthorization to submit to the House all measures which the public service required. "On tho 3. (st of January, 26 days previous to the first memorandum of tho Lieutenant-Governor, the Honorable Treasurer made his budget speech, in which ho announced tho new taxes which it would bo necessary ta levy to meet the obligations <)t tho Province, obligations contracted during several previoutf years and resulting from tho policy then inaugurated on IJailways, and which had received tho conour-^ i'once of several members belon<,riiig to the party opposing the Government. " Can this speech, published in extenso bv the Fre.-<3 of the whole coiintrv, have OHcapod tho notice of tho Lieutenant-Governor ? '• On the 19th of February, tho resolutions demanding tU(f(^e taxes, but at a lovver rate than the one mentioned by the Treasurer in his speech, vveie i)rescnred, and on the 0th were adopted by a vote of 39 against 22. 1 '^^^ Lieutenant-Governor in his memorandum of the 1st March comiilains that Mr. De Boucherville did not let him know thut tho Government was in an impe- cunious condition requiring special legislation to increase the public taxes." "The Premier would have formed an erroneous idea of tho situation if he had !-o qualified the temporary embarras.sniont, caused by the ill-will of the municipali- ties which had sub.scribeJ for the construction of the Provincial Uail vay in neglecting to faithfully fulfill thoir obi ixrul ions. TT(« wonlil Knvn fnfmnj nn n..i.rj.,«o!"> :'^"•' of'Ka situation m presence of tho results obtflicied m tar without any burden having boon imposed III order to obiiijn thcci; 10 III th« k-'oif" the 22nd Fehruiiry iiolice was given of msoliitions respectinir Railways the Eastern Townshipn an.l on the 8o,ith shore of Iho St. Lawrence. " '^^"^^^^^ Ij adopted t a vo?o otTlT^'?""^ "'' ^^•^^'"".^"^ r'"" introduced and subsequon',- ij^ auopceu D3 a vote ot 41 to 16. Tnose resolutions do not in any wav incrpi^n tUn Tm < Th f .?' ^'■""'"''?- 'r^^ Lieutenant-Governor said in h^e Z/o J.emla over thl?of ottr^Tl'ir '''V ^fp^^e Railway from Quebec to Ottawa shouS^^^^va 1 «Jtahr 1 other llail ways.' The legislation of many years past on this subioot Cw.tinThriS^J"/'^'";-"' "". ^'''\"'''' ^''^'''y '- the'detHVenX'r «nv™ \ I^a«tcrn Townships and on the South Shore. The DeBoucherville ^he matte' ''' ' ^'^' contrav.red the law if they had adopted any ofher vtivv of accept U>e'^'jv?i« ,1. 1 T-P'-''"- '^' ^^''^"- Monfeal, Ottawa and Occi- IfiTnnnn 1^^ •^" . • • ^.^^'''''^''''^tion IS premj-.ture, the Premier never havin- been cal- S,v.vlfh;.VV ' Jl^'i^'' circumstances, have recommended that it be ^vlersonhX'VfnL^'th ' Ccovernment is responsible to both Hou.es, ,.h the Lleuten- n( \ ™^^.^^^ ^^ '"'^ ^'^'^^" ^"^ the question of prerogative raised by the coriu'o ' :.Hv:r.t'l^^'^rl"lv' .' "''T' •? ^'^'^ mcmor.lndum as reasons ft,^ DeBouchervin. , hL in •^ ^^^ ^r^^e'lc'icy that ho cannot continue to retain Mr. budget speech ^hI'^co tf ro^s^ll^ihu'^is^:"''''''' ^''' '" ^'''^ "'^''^^ ^^^^^'"^ ^^ ^^- ihol]l:Z!!!lctt:or f:"''\';"7 ^>''"^i^«i?"s contained in the last moniarandum ot ir.trndiico rev, ntion. t\^s,wti' / nMn. -^^"""' l'^^''^''" ^ '^'^King his authorization to (ioyoruovn^.U^Uoi()ul^nSvTTu' ^^"'' ''T^ ^ho silence of th. Licntenan,- the will of the majority of this House, and of the country. " Tho Legislative Assembly believes it, moreover, their duty to exjjross their rogroi, that they have been put to the necessity of suspending the passage of the S;ip[»ly Bill until justice has oeen extended to tho majority' of this House. "The Legislative Assembly desij-es respecif'ully to represent to Vour Exoellency that there exists in tho House a political party possessing the confidence of th; country, and having a large majority in the Hoiiso, that this party is competent t.» iidminister the public business, and that the prorogation of the Legislature present!}-,. would be prejudical to the legislation and to the interests of the country. "The Legilativo Assembly desires to represent to Your Excellency that the fact of the minority having a control over public affairs is the cause of the embar- rassment under which the Province labors through the suspension of the Supplv Bill ; and that a prompt solution of the difficulty may be arrived at by acting in unformity with tho Constitution. "The Legislative Assembly desires also to represent to Your Excellency that, inasmuch as there oxists in the House a political party strong enough to command a large majority, •here is no necessity for a dissolution of the Legislature, a step which will cause considerable and useless expense to the Province, and seriously threatea tlij peace and trami^uility of the people of this Province." 12 woro^n o!Hm'w? ''"^^ ^'"^'' thcrosolutions above mentiore ' U^l ono eSutoSJr'^''^ intorrnpted boloro their adoption by n ^o^y Ive'.iHve Council S/h^^^^ request ng the attondanc-o ofll.e JIouso in^h,: Thnf «K T • ' ^"®" ^"^ '^^''« ^^='^ •>>' hi'" pi-oroL'.iee«oueborvu^- l)eB;;u;h:"iH:'?';,reb:forrtLflll^^ "'^■•^'' Uuthorized M "From the d-J ih^fX I ^?.' *^"'^ ^'^'^^ »''« hereunto annoxeti. present an my p ;ite elSstiSVhf ''^''1"^^'? '^^' '" t'^^ P^^^'^-" ^ ««'"Py ^^^ their dismissa f?on office vveT rmus LlT?^"'' ""^ u^ P^*"'*' "P ^'^ ^^o timo"^ of underiljin ^j;;r& huvin^tKr ii;';crd'that feliSiJc? i'^'. ^'^ "^'^"•^ '' ot'^PHH-ince. after r^oretnd more ne J "a^/fi cfj d u^n 1.1'^'"' w^ '"''' ^'^"^"'"'"^' a,M-eate8t possible diHCTetionthSn^nTaHtf/'''^'' moderation, and with tho iho realization or lb tXd I d^^^^^^^^ O'-^or to obtain Province. ^ ^^'''^'"''^ ^" ^« <^f thj greatest advantage to tho .n n;;Jt'S::;j;^;!;;:^, J^^;:^ M De BoucherviHe, did, nevertheless, almokaivvavH acted ai thou h^f^ I?? S«"'^"''ly approved of it, ho -'■ar from using my authoSy to obstr m.^.^ be had riever received it. Nevertheless, him with great i/du^ce "^is will 1^^^^^^^^^^ p" "'Yi ^^^\ ^ ^"^"'•'^biy treated lHt.-During th.rSeSon o7l87?a Rll TH' '^■"^^«"f"fy ^y tho following facts: l^niti -Kill, beaiing ail the oe "" ^iievethat'it;ha;rbj;^;;i;;;:;.f^',;i^^J««;j'^;;^ necos.a.y to induce me to Preniicr for my w.rotion ^ ^ adopted, wa.s submitted to me by tho .anciiine^Sn?:'"''""^'^^'" ignonnco. of these fi.ct. "Not long afterwards I was informed of the irrec 8 by my advisers, ] irregularity, and I immediately jo Logislati Irliticate ol 10 of tho si '' 'You f {gislative ( lislake, om fror in iho " ' Whil Iction of th fis latter in fvered anot msider fatti " Tho P " 2nd. — DurioL-- * auction. tho • ■ -'-'^'i un;;lli;r d.h was submitted to mo for my lirit which "3rd.— pointmont |agny, unde ,d taken pi " Tho w plain to Y' "Alter cuments n him not tc uiieillor fo " I poin1 id that in s " I addci lace, iho du )ur8e of la\\ " I then altera cogn leir organ iz d of evidei ;eci:tive for " Tho Pi in confc itice. Ho tho subjoc " I at on ts conn Oct rmunicate Lioulonai E" Shorth ts of tho c " In the I consequen 13 ibovo montioricl by u message <>\ ic JIouso in till (fovci-nor-Genj Thij (locuracntj forming him o;| to rotuin him iin examining W, I pcrccivoii u blank which had not boeii filh'.l u|>, which I j)ointe luilowing loltor: — Priva:c. "■'QuEBF.c, 27lh Docombor. 187S. '' ' My Demi Prem[ek,— A Dill (lijwhich onginiitod in tho C^oiincil was insscJ by Logishitivo A.s8ombly, wiihoutumendmonL; upon reading it before adding m'v (rliticate oi Hanction, I noticed that a blank had not boon tillo:l ii]) in tlic Htwonth "10 of tho sixth section. '' 'Yoii followed tho usnal practice in not Qxing the amount of tho pou:ilty in tJic jgi.slative Council; but the matter passed nnporcoived. or tho olliners, through some istake, omitted to insert tho amount fixed by the House, or it may have been an [ror in tho proof-sheets. _ ' While on tho subject of these mistakes, you will find anoti)or in tho second ction of the same Act, wherein tho woi-d umender is in the iidinitivft mood. I notice lis latter inaccuracy, to which I do not attach much importance, only because I dis- U'crcd another in an Act in which T had to point out to you— ar) omission which I insider fatal. •' ' Yours very tiuly, " ' (Signed) L. LETBLLIER.' ' The Premier came to mo and said that ho regretted the omission; ho requested mo to give my sanction to tho Bill in tho state in which it wan. The conciliatory authorized M.i|irit which I showed in granting my consent seemed to pleaso him. "•^•l*-"^*- "3rd.— In March, 1S77, (vide appendix A,) my advitiers caused mo to mako an on 1 occupy nt (tt»pointmont of a Municipal Councillor for tho South Ward of tho Village of Mont- to tho time of ||agny, under tho pretext that there had been no election, or that if such election )lo nature; b;it jpd taken jilaco, it was illegal folt that I did "" " ' " ' ntof a cordial .s. I'ovince, after ?'oro becoming md with tho Jor to obtain ntago to the herville, did, 'ed of it, ho Novortheloes U.SE, Marcii, 1878. C. M. G.. * consideration from which it jBouchorvilleV ^ " Tho Avholo of the circumstances connected with this case, L deem it my duty to- ^plain to Your Excellency, en account of tho important principle involved Uierein. • "After duo personal examination of tho petitions and other accompanying documents relating to that election, 1 called on tho Piemiei-, at his own ofHco. to' bog fhim not to hurry tho appointment, which he was asked to make, of a Municipal )nncilior for that locality, before receiving more ample information. " I pointed out to him that it appeared that a muiiicipal election had taken place^ and th.it in such case, as a principle, the Executive Council should not interfere. " I added that from tho moment that a legal, or oven an iliiigal election had taken Ipace, the duty of deciding it rested with tho courts, in accordance with the ordinary liburse of law, of which they are tho interpreters. -. „ -■ " I then intimated to M. DeBouchorville that I maintained, on principle, that all lably treated »attera cognisable by the judiciary should be invariably left to the courts, which from llowing facts: »eir organization aro better fitted than tho executive to enquire into matter of fact n ono of the flbd of evidence, and that 1 would never allow thosiib.stuution of the jiowors of the oxocrtive for those of tho courts, when the latter had jurisdiction, tiduce nie to "Tho Premier admitted that that opinion, and the principle on which I basotl it, ) rao by tho Were in conformity with his ideas, and necessary for the proper administration of jastice. ILa asked mo if I would consent to see Mr. Angers, th-? Attorney-General. '■ advigere, I tm tho subject. " r at once consented, and the Attorney-General was immediately sent for ; the immediately l*C'ts connected with that election difftculty-and my views regarding them, woretlieii Id entail too (»uimunicated to him. Ho promised that before any appointment should bo made by tho Lioutenant-Govornor ho would mako enquiry. " Shortly afterwards he reported to mo that he had made an enquiry into tho facts of tho case, and, at his suggestion, I appointed .Jules Belano-or to bo Councillor. "In the beginning of March, 1877, difficulties and quarrels arose at Montmagny, in consequence of that election. r legislation mo for my I u f r^®'',}*!?*' appointmont those quarrels broke forth afresh in the municinal ♦ ouncil Itself, from whinh the Oounciiloi- whom I had thus been caused to flnnomt was expe led w.th violonoo. That appointment I was recommended to malTo not withstanding the fact that an election W taken place ; that it had been held and pre- Hulcd over by the Mayor, that fiuon held and pre- by acclamation, time when tho j IhiiH elected had I 1, as appears by | ^ tho Premier, I 1 had thus been ; justice of which j .laturo, as euchj f. Angoi-B, bin to prepare a! igain intimated rmity with the I t'or in matterH' made. lived any from opy: — arch, 1877. on tho subjccti to perform an I bo within the! cannot but be^ 9 parties inter ELLIER' Ixcelloncy that lit, and should 3gi8laturo, any , to substitute Ihout advi,Hintf , " 5th. — Under date of tho Hth of Novombor last,! arldrossod to tho IL)norab!o M. DoBouchorvillo tho lottor of which tho following is a copy : — " 'QuEBKo, 6th November, 1877. " ' fPrivatoO " * My Dear DeBoucuerville,— In tho last Official Gazette were published, tinder my signature, two proclamations which 1 had not signed. " ' One was for tho summoning of Parliament, which I had resortrol tho House. " M. DoBouchervillo is not unaware that I thereupon told him that it was better to save the Province than a Orovernmont ; and that if his Administration was not strong enough to resist those infiuences, it would bo better for him to form a combi- JKition of honest and well-meaning men from both sides of the House, rather thaw submit to the dictations of those ' Rings' and to tho control of those combinations. '• When ho made no attempt to escape from that deleterious influence, after l>i« ( vvn avowal that tho l/cgislature was controlled'by those ' Rings,' when, by his legis- lation, he sought to favor them anew during the last Session without having previously udviso'J. with me had I fot the ri'^ht as the ro^rssontativo of mv Soveroifn Xn believoand to be convinced that M.^DoBouchorville did not possess a con.stitutional majority in the Legislative Assembly? 1 I k; Ultl II I '''^'..'' /'' m"""'"''^'^' J.rod.iced with that l.lar.k si.Mialuro ^ ' foll„wn.g ,.s ;t -(lovornor, as follows:— " ^"^ J^-^^-^t-'l'tMicj' the l.ioutesi- L. Letellieb, "*Tho Lioutenant-Govonior oi' th.^ I'i./.,t,««^ l /v ■ I<^islativoA«8omblytho8.M> leL.lrvo^t:^^^^^^^^^ ^'"""^'"'^ *•> »'»^^ tiBoal year ending 30th 3nulr\m2\X'^^^^ ^^."^ '"''-'T"^ •>'«''••' ""^ '«'■ ^^^^ the 54th Section f>f the J3ntish 1' ^tir An cm- oa Acf^T^h^T T"'^ *'*' '"'^^''^'^'"'^ ^^* Li^gislativo Assembly. ^vmciica Act. 1867, ho rccommond.s to tho "MIOVEENWENT IIODSE, *' ' Quebec, 30th January, 1878.' =.0 f^'J^^[;JStr^^/'^ti;^S-r:^7;:7' ^^y 0^-uthori.ation fron. Hignaturo above montiono.l, in uhiih n^?. "o J7f '^.'1 7r«''»t'«n« than tho blank will be noticed that tho rai wa^ resoluUo.t wo . f ^^them. Besides which, it whereas the message is dated the 30th '"troducod on the 20(h Janualy, '^-r^^^^l^^lo::^^^ k.>w^edge all theAvcts and vdle and his colleagues. iciations which I have had with M. DeBoucher- " Wci-e tho controversy with me al mo 'i^ ,• •,...;,. .. • i- ■ , , JVom any remonstrance ag.dnst t^r^n^st cV 'f t/'^ ^ ^ ^^'"'^'^^ ^'^^^^In -f tl,o i-oproscnlativo o.-the Crow.' wh tl. y have 'h ,''""■ ^ "•''°" ''^« ^'^"^"^"^ but ,n this matter the maintenance of the - ^titui. t't's,. '£>'"" '' '''"" '"^^' ^ House. r:;pccung .hL']; T;;^./t:^r;:;r:St:d^"""'^'^'^" '^'-y --^ ^'- ■ It IS tu'cauhc as (he representative of mv tj .,..." • •, shame/ully .Iragged before the public ih-it I nii'^ L ^'^"'' . ^^'''^ ^""^^ ""justly and M.C performance of my duty as Jlor k! tent.Uvo . T V" Tu"' '"^^ ^^^"•^' ^''^^ '" prot«K;t the dignity of my office, but t, aHbd o%l ^ V '''J' ""^ ''"'^^ ^"'^^ t^'' opportunity of knowing that, under exi'tin'. e re, n'\ ^'"''^'^' ."^ ^'''^ "^'-^^'^^^ ^^ Prerogative has not been hostile to Ih..ir const utri''"iT' / '^ ^T'"^'"'« of Royal contra.^, it has ati-ordci them the moans ofCdTev d^^ ?"' '^'''' "" ^''^ ;; l^herc results, n.y Lord t.on. what I ha^i^^^'^t J-"""''"''^''"^"'- did notre;:;i^t'^;;'ssi[o;;:^;^h']r;;u:!r^^ --^^^ ^« -y ^^^^^^ . " ->rul.-That my uame has been sed v t o n. ''r""'^^f'''^ ''^' ^^'« ^'•^'^^■ «.gnatu,e ,,!■ ,],>.ur„4t which / !md never s^n "'""'^"'•« ^^^^^^ tvovernmen^t i» the. " 3rt I Ojficial G ' hud boon " 4tli ■under win "5th I letter of J this Prov Ijurisdictic land withe Montreal, 1 for that o "6th lation of a [tho LegisI Itransuctio lasked for "7th, Ifiiiled in i Id ay, differ Iprcjudicin " 8th. Inecessary iPremior t( lAsserably, iuthority inswer to Bxplanatio February i |the 2nd an " 8th.- tbe Legisli |were conti the Premi( " 10th con versa tic fto tho Cro\ Jimve placec :pi your Ex Translatioi "Sumn be south w ull and vo preside t " On tl ayor of th " Tho r " Eug^ii j|he mooting Inended, at 19—: •i 17 23th February ill violation 6t iltorof the 4tli I lopoit of pre- »iii'ty(ifwhicJi liifHM and that xjdaoations of viilodoHpatch- nsiioncorninL,' led II 1 1 by my attributed to roliowin^ is n ' the l.iouteii- '3nl.— That a Prochimnl imits to (ho ', and for tho )roviHion.s oi* ends (o tho ization from n tho blank es which, it, (l» January, lie facts and DeBouchor- uld abstain le conduct ;heir duty ; hed \vhich amo io Uitt ijustly and 'I'd, that in ily boon to i-ovinco an of Royal I'lt, on the at. y Cabinet ^vown. ftn>. in the- Official Gazette wah>nit my being consulted < ) informed had boon attached thereto ion, Hummoning the LogiHlature, was publinhed in tho ot it, and before my signature for that of tho Judiciary • ^''^' '^ «"b.st.tute the power of the Executive |«8ked for this object, Tr signed Z me to A.ffh' ^ -t """ '""''•''^'^ ^'■*"" '"« *"»^ b««» '< •^tl, Thnf «ft«l. •. I- . ^^^.'^^.to authorise its proposition to tho Houses. Pi-^min,. <« ti;,. 1 • I .• !l '^^'^'"ot, in tho explanations wh ch were eiven bv tho .firmbiy both :f '?ll' ™'Jr"1';°"'* ''y 'i'^^''""°y•»^ Ta,nhoritv'wh«?J. ,„ „ "l '° P,™"'"'leJ oonv.-reatioM which they ha<' no ,Hhe Premier conditions agreed upon between the Lieutenant-Governor and lUnvl^sSji^^;;; T^exSairZl"'' ^""^ H" colleagues, by making use of protended private i'trtho Sown • nd to wh«f t^^ °^ '^'r ^'«™'««»J. i° contravention to their duty ^^We nW«d th?^.^ what th.- had pledged themselves to observe with regard to it •' I have the honour to be, my Lord, " Your Excellency's most obedient servant, " (Signed) L. LETELLTER, IAevtenant-Govemo>:" UTranslationO APPENDIX A. #unSvrdbvthrrIa!!t.H ^*5'"'r^!'^', ^^^^ "''^''^'«" ^^^^'"^ boon declared lfay<^^?l5l;r£,i^;;^^t^"?f"' Hamond, refusing to preside, Na.. Bernatchez, Esq., ,^ayor ot tne Municipality the senior Magistrate pres«nt, presided. v| " The meeting elected Eugene Fourimjr. , j csiueu. Jhe™e„,n«-;^tb„-„taddi;g;bVi:^^^^ I' 18 ' Engdne Fournier, elected at the meeting of the 19th February, took the oath of office and look hin aeut on the 23rd February " On iho 3i-d 31ar(.'h the Attornoy-(Jenoral (Mr. Angers) recommended the appointment of Jules Bul.inger, who was accordingly appointed on the 7th of the same tnontli. "On the 10th of Miuch Mr. Bernatchez, Mayor of Montmagny, addressed to the Lieut.-Governor u nioniorial setting forth the facts, and praying that the anDoint ment be cancelled." ^ ^ o if " On the 15th March, the Attorney-General made a report, recommending that! the appointment of Jnles Bolangor be maintained. " On the 27th March, the Lieut.-Governor revoked that appointment on a report of the Government." (Translation.) APPENDIX B. Quebec, 4th March, 1878. '' The Liout.-Governor desires that his two memoranda of the 25th February^ and 1st March, addressed to the Hon. M. DeBoucherviUe, and the answers made £ those memoranda by the Hon. M. DeBoucherviUe (of the 27th February and 3rd of JMarch) oe not now communicated to both Houses. XT ",'Thiit communication authorized by the Lieut.-Governor at the request of the ±ion. M. i)eBoucherville, should be made as soon as the arrangements for the for- mation of a new Executive Council are completed. "' The Hon. M. DeBoucherviUe may communicate to the Houses that the adjourn- ment trom day to day is rendered necessary by the last mentioned cause. Tl Ion tain ed ind I resp lowever t " ' 1.- letellier, Ixcellenc;; loney ma lermissior Caron.' the pan le says : — " 'It he did, • lad alwayi 'le lament "'Th ould huv( #10 Lieutei ajicutenant fl. Caron h " ' My (tatesman \ ►y which I lis position Caron a gretful si; " ' 2nd iUi the Li it, I have " ' The ent was ii lublic taxai preceding ten) ion lo •tare, insle issment. " ' f acl state of pr " ' The at the ord enied to h " ' Upo thori/ed I " ' Ottawa, 2nd April, 1878. J, jjjj [rl""'^ Af t'!.}}.'''^'''^^!'—'^^'' explanatory case addressed to your Excellency by his Honor »^o Iho iX M. Lct.lher and acconipay.ng the documents and details whi,,-h related to my rocen S 187 a dismissal from office, and by you transmitted to the Senate and IhZl f Common" containing as it does statements of facts, the accuracy of which I resncctfullv dZ Jo'f'win.:'^"" "'" '^' '"'^' '' '"^'"^*'^"^' ''' y'""' information and con'SSeSn tb /"As your Excellency is doubtles.; aware, M. Angers laid upon the table of thf Legislative ANsomhly on the 8th i^ir-h !- t '>-v--;-^ i.i'un mo iiiuio oi me ^^ i„ t,, oxplaual.on. by h.m made at my request relating to'J.he dismissal frmnffice of t 1 •' ' N >t i )lce of it (< fious oonso 1!)— 2i " ' To the Hon. C. B. DeBoucherviUe, "'Quebec.'" (Translation.) (Signed) L. LETELLIEE, 'Quebec, 4th March, 1878. tnH.^'.^l^ti f T 11 fCT^M ^'o°^«';°»'ty with your wish, expressed in a letter oi to-day b date, 1 shall withhold until the formation of a new Executive Council the explanations I was authorized by your Excellency to communicate to the Houses." " ' I have the honour, &c., (Signed) C. B. DeBOUCHERVILLE.' His Px.H n nov // r April, 1878, he Honourable M. DeBoucherviUe addressed U His Lxco Imicy the Governor General the following despatch, with an extract of the Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly, No. 42, io wif- rn^j r \ - ^'^cel|ency the Kight Honorable the Earl of Dutforir, K.P., K.C B G.C.M.G., Governor General of Canada, Ottawa. uro, and o " ' This iove that 'cniier fur " ' In CO ~ I .-.■'...- .jj mill iumju at DcBouchurvillo Government. 19 , took the oath of j oommended the the 7th of thej ny, addressed to| that the appoint-! •mmending thati ipointment on a^ [arch, 1878. 25 th Pehruary, iHwera made to lary and 3rd of e request of the Its for the for- lontainc^lt c 3" f'ThrVote'Sp'"'^ T'"" T^ ^^"^^-"^ of his own are nd I respectfully fc^to be'pI^Ttt^Jl^ ^nTx Znl^ ^'"" '' '""^ '''^ ^^-'^ owevert,,ad-- loney matters which your Excellency ^arrn^wuV ^^nse "neas^ves concerning Permission, T may say, had always beon SnnfT ^''"'" «»'^'"ary courtesy. Thi! t Caron.' i do^not^think Se m^^ n" o 7.J T' ^''^'^'^'or, the iL^ented . t.^p.ag,.aph in his Honor's lettrto"'^;:^^'^,^^^,,^ J^^ -d-d « hJd'ii: tt[™hi!f plrnllTo^Zl^Jh'e nimrof^^H" ^^ °' *^^ ^'^^^^ ^^ -"ng J^ulilL^^SJed^S^^^^^ acting, ho he Lieutenant-Governor or the PrernJ LZZ'Il^'.L^^lS'o^'' ^^\«h act neither gation of the hat the adjourn- use. lELLIER, irch, 1878. in a letter oi ?-e Council, the the Houses." VILLE.' •' lie addressed U extract of tht ,K.P.,K.C.B, pril, 1878. '■ by his Honor [ to my roccn: ) of Commons poctfuUy deny isideration tin e table of th pondouue am a office of tilt "^^^^t:^^^:^^^ til |-4;^St"^^^^ .y, that the late |atesm^t<^1^^;; a^^^'m^^^^Sfc^ ^'^^ ^'^-s and distinguished Jy which I urn made 'to intim^lf Zt the deceS^fSZ lis position us the representative of the Crown %l °" ^'J'^ abdicated to me if. 6aron and his high legal and constitu ^0^^! I ^^ Person who know the late |g.-etn. .irpn.^^^^ ^ ^^ Lh th;ilut'nan't G^vtZ? xtprtirX^ ^ ^^^ hst, I have no remarks to make upon tLll '^if "'^^''^''^i"^:"*^^ 25th February t " ' Tiie Premier did not let til C^^^ paragraph, wherein it is stated :— ^ %ent was in such a sUiTe of penury t to nec^^Tv'*^'" '' T'"' '^^' ^^>« G^'^^ern- mblic taxation; unless it be tefhirstlUerrdof.' T"'"' ^^g'^^^^'^n to increase preceding paragraph wherein it L s a^ld that th« J T"" '?r^' '^ ''''ovd with ^ten.ion to ihc necessity of reducinl thoP^nlV !« .V^"*^"^"^-^^"^^'-"'^'- ^rew my fccind t„ hira il,,p,,oitun6 "■""' ""^ ""'"'■"»' »' «'" Service .onaiito ♦ak '""°' "'"'■ •<"' coiivmiioiiai «iko, I f »7«. a ..nri;,,,! iC ,.oM h"r, t";";; '™r„T';i'""r ' Y- ^';""''' "'- «-»'- htuie, M.l „„lv- twice in tlio othoi- '° '"'^ '"■'»"'''«» "1 ili» logis- B-c-inior for my sarction. '"'^ P''^«^'l 'i"'* adopted was submitted to me by the " ' In coiiseqiionco of boiii.r Inft in i-i-»-ino^ c ,u r . , aniieiioned tiie Hill. "^ "" 'o'^ i'lntu oi those tacts by my advisers, i 20 passed over this instance of irregular leg! " ' As a favor to him, however, I lation, which was then irreparable.' " ' In relation to thin, the facts will furnish a sufficient answer. The Act question was a Bill entitled : " An Act to authorize the formation of Societies for tlij improvement of country roads and for the destruction of noxious weeds in the Pn vince of Quebec' ' It was introduced in the Legislative Council duly passed ihr, House and was sent down to the Legislative Assembly for its concurrence. " ' Apparently in the hurry of the last hours of the Session, after it had beej read twice, the Clerk by mistake, certified it as passed without amendmen andi was thus sent back to the Legislative Council. His Honor came down on the follow ing day to prorogue the Legislature, and his assent was given to this Bill along wit others. " The error was immediately discovered by the Attorney General whi made a report for transmission to Ottawa, stating the error and suggesting that tli Act should disallowed. " ' The Hon. Mr. Blake, then Minister of Justice, reported in reply that thi was unnecessary, that the Act not having received all its stages, was but blank pape| and as a consequence it was not printed in the statutes. " ' In view of this fact it is difficult to understand the statement of His Honor Lieutenant Governor that ' as a favor ' to me, he ' passed over this instance irregular legislation, which was then irreparable.' " ' 2. During the same session another Bill was submitted to me for my sanctic On examining it I perceived a bla.ik which had not been filled up. which I point out to the Premier in the following letter : — er the pi ce, it wa< " As to t it had r ed. " Whotl t in a cer ouncillor from the ommendi do by Hif s Honor t ilo seeing ntment w " " 4th. days, I by tellin n to me " ' M. r e him m^ before si| " ' I lea " It woi appears to ai I have reasoi I may say, h to had relatii by the Legislative Assembly without araendmenr; upon reading it, before adding -|^|;(°|Jfp[gj |^^ (Private.) " ' My Dear Premier " ' Quebec, 20th December, 187C. -A Bill (E) which originated in the Council was pass up in the seven 5th. I DeBouch( \ivate.) " ' The " ' My certificate of sanction, I noticed that a blank had not been filled line of the sixth section. "' You followed the usual practice in not fixing the amount of the penalty the Legislative Council, but the matter passed unperceived, or the officers, throUij some mistake, omitted to insert the amount fixed by the House, or it may have be an error in the proof-sheets. " 'While on the subject of these mistakes, you will find another in the seco: '| section of the same Act, wherein the word amender is in the infinitive mood, i notice this latter inaccuracy tc which I do not attach much importance, only becaii [ I discover another in an Act, in which I had to point out to you an omission whi-o|er my sign I consider fatal. " ' One i . , XT . , 0#^fer with '« ' Yours very truly, rf^'ing. " ' (Signed) L. Letellier , " ' Thes( cl|l(tive, apar " ' The Premier came to me and said that he regretted the omission ; he * quested me to give my sanction to the Bill in the state in which it was. | " ' The conciliatory spirit which I showed in granting my consent seemed 4 please him. In relation to this I have to say that the .4i.ct in question was 'an } | to provide for the safety and protection of the public in theatres, edifices and pul halls. ' As stated it was past first in the Legislative Council, where the blank, bci the amount of the penalty, could not be inserted. By inadvortance it passed Legislative Assembly in the same form. After its passage the omi.ssion was i covered, and a short Bill was introduced to remedy it. The Act in which omission occurred is numbered 19, and the Act supplying the omission is numbe 20, of the statutes of 1876, and both were sanctioned by His Honor the Lieutena Governor ;iL the same time. ■' ' 3. in March, 1S77, {vide Appendix A,) my advisors caused mo to roako an; pointment of a Municipal Councillor for the South Ward of the village ofMontmagi " ' The f th M. Del rocevoivec t it was n( t tolerate n document less inform the course 21 )f irregular leg! rev. The Act f Societies for th' reeds in the Pji luly passed thuj rrence. ler the pretext that there had been no election, or that if such election had taken Ice, it was illegal, &c ' 'dfted "As to the third complaint of Ills Honor, it is difficult to understand, seeing t it had no relation to the dismissal of myself and my colleagues, why it is intro- " Whether wisely or not the municipal code of the Province of Quebec, provides It in a certain contingency the Lieutenant-Governor of the Province shall appoint Councillor. In the opinion of the law adviser of His Honor, upon a petition sent Ifrom the village of Montmagny, that contingency had arisen, and he made a report bmmending an appointment. That report was approved and the appointment ido by His Honor. Subsequently other information was received which induced Is Honor to urge the revocation of the appointment, and (jut of deference to him, lile seeing no reason to change its opinion, the (jrovernmont yielded, and the ap-' fintment was cancelled. " " 4th. On the 19th of March, 1877, being on the eve of absenting myself for a days, I wrote to the Hon. M. Chapleau, and in a postcript I said : Please oblige by telling the Premier that if he needs any concurrence, M. Gauthier may bring Iwn to me the documents requiring my signature. " ' M. DeBoucherville should have understood from that, that if I was ready to ^■0 him my concurrence, it was on condition of having all documents submitted to ) before signing them. " 'I leave you my Lord to judge in what manner my views were interpreted." " It would seem somewhat remarkable that a statement to which His Honor Mpears to attach so much importance, should have appeared as a postcript to what V, . iSTf l'^''^^ reason to believe was a private letter, in no sense relating to public bnsiness. emoer, ihto. Itnay say, however, that a reference to dates will shew thac the documents referred ancil was pass;j )efore adding ii| p in the seven ' liter it had beejj mendmen and wn on the follow is Bill along wit! ney-General wbi ggesting that tli reply that thi 1 but blank pape^ of His Honor til this instance i for my sanctic ^ which I point ^^ fthe penalty officers, throU;, it may have be' er in the seco' finitive mood, lice, only becau omission whi^ L. Letellier ho had relation to the Montmagny Councillorship, which was at the time a subject of cussion and was not intended to have, and had not any such signiticanco as that ompted now to be attached to it. " 5th. Under date of the 6th of November last, I addressed to the Honorable DeBoucherville the letter of which the following is a copy :— ^rivate.) " ' Quebec, (Jth November, 1S77. I " ' The Honorable C. B. DeBoucherville, Premier. % " ' My Dear DeBoucHERViLLE,— In the last Official Gazette were published Ifer my signature, two proclamations which I had not signed. One was for the summoning of Parliament, which I had reserved in order to Confer with you ; the other, which I did not even see, appoints a day of Thanks- giving. , " ' These proceedings, the natui-e of which I shall not characterize, are pro- ductive, apart from their impropriety, of nullities, which you will easily understand. " Yours very truly, " (Signed) L. LETELLIER." omission ; vas. )nsent seemed ion was ' an .- lifices and pul the blank, he' ce imihsion Let in wnich lilt tolerate my name being used when necessary for any duty of my office, unless don is numiio the documents re-iuiring my signature had been previously submitted to me. and il^icNs information was afordod to me, which M, DeBoucherville assured me woul. •top the course followed in future. to make an i „. ,. x t .r e ofMontmagi J (S'g°«d) L- L." ^ " ' The following are the notes which I took of the conversation which I had •mth M. DeBoucherville on the subject:— M. DeBoucherville came on the same day it passed he rocevoived the letter, to tell me that he regretted that the thing had occurred, and ssion was i W^}\ ^»» no ^""It of his. I accepted the excuse, and 1 then told him that I would the Licutena 22 It 18 a sufficient answer to it is complaint, to say (hat the proclamation for the Humraojun^ of the Lo iHlature for the despatch of business, was not published until ^e^ith ^ovemoer, a.id it could not, therefore, be that proclamation to which His Monor relerred m the letter of the 6th November. The proclamation to which he refers was the mere formal one by which the meeting of the Legif^laturo is further postponed from time to time, and J am informed that the Order in Council for the particular proclamation to which His Honor re.c/ved was signed by him, and is of record, so signed, with the pi oper officer. "Ah to the proclamation tixing a day of Thanksgiving, I have to remark that ims was tJio result of a communication from the Premier of Canada, the Honorable Alexander Mackenzie, to the Lieut..Governor, and handed to me by His Honor with the request that i would carry out the suifgestion. Jt will appear sufficiently stran-^e i undei- these circumstances that I should be accused of acting .vithouthis kiiowled-e I even it the clerical duty ol obtaining his signature had been omitted, lam intbrmed however, that lu this case also, the Order in Council, as well as the proclamation,' the pm ,er offi^ler '^ '' '""^''""'' ''*' '''''''"'''' ^""'"''"'^ ^'"' "'^'"^''»*"'^' '" ^^e office of " (ith. Jiut, my Lord, there is another point still more important, which I can- not any longer re rain from mentioning. From the conversations which I have held Zllu> .H^ ■«;;"^Jiei-ville, there results a fact, which, if it were known, would of itself ,^1':';^''^]'^^^^^^^ not possess the confidence of mo people or tins rrovince. that 'mHii/.'''V''i'f'''"''''''V''^'"'''''^^*''"^^^"*^"'''^"^ ^f ^S^^> ^ pointed out to him ZVdlT'^^^^^^^^ "* ^"^'« ^ ^^^i'^*^ expenditure in was ill. V 1 'TTT" ""^l^^f "'^'"fe^^ particularly as apart from that, our credit OccidentarK:fi/wa>f "" '^ "*' '^'' ^^'''^''' ^^'>"t'-oai, Ottawa and ODeinlnJ^nfT{p'''''''^'''''rfV''''^ *hese grants, though thoy were for the dcvel- Smtthim H.« '';^^\''""" neoessiiated by political considerations ; tnat .^ilw^^V. ,'.^'"P''"'"^^* the members whose counties were traversed by those Tav ^a r:;^itTth". n ^"-"•"'^. '" ^«^-'^'— t ; that there would be n<, UTof flouics ^^ ^' ' members formed combinations-rings-to co rol the better to':.?.' H?P^''-'''\'u""^"?^'^^''''^^ ^ thereupon told him thu . it was bettd to sa\e the Province than a (iovernment, and that if his administration was not strong enough to resist those influences, i.. would be better for hm to form i combination of honest and well-meaning men, from both sidesof he House ^'atW tlum submit to the dictation of those 'rings. 'and to the control of tl^rcon^blna! his ownTvow-iUh"-''?!? T ''^^T^'^ *° "'"^i^" ^'"^"^ *^'^<^ deleterious influence, after U^i l! ? f/^".^''^'"'^'^'"''' '^'^^ ^""trolled by those 'rings'; when bv his S; ad;;.^d Ztml" '7r ^^"\— ;J---g the lie session, without iThig^vc^ ousiy adMhed with me, had I not the right, as the representative of my SovereiL'n n^a.^'i ! ^'""r^ "^ '^f^""'' l"" """"■ '"^'^ '' di.scusrsion as to the precise conversation^ that The general elections took place subsequent to that session and whe her rn^T^ ' ation was good or bad, it was sustained by a v.^v birtre m- ior itv nlul. ? ^ t ■ - —'v '•I'gt- m,.joiuj oi tlio j'ooplo, and ^ 23 mation for the [tubliahed until II to which I [is t)n to which he ituro is f'urtber 2!outicil foi- the him, anci in of remark that .he Honorable is Honor v, ith iently strange lis knowledge, L am intbrmed, proclamation, 1 the office of , which I can- ih I have held would of itself contidence of 1 out to him our finances xpendiluro in at, our credit Ottawa and or the dcvel- rations ; taut tied by those no neans of ) CO i-ol the L thii . it was istraiion was m to form u rloune, ratJier ose combiiia- itionce, after when by his having pic vi- \y Sovereign, i a constilu- 3rsatioHs that it intercoiiiv-ic s imputation, Iway legishi- :; facts : — ntroducod to of raihva}-.i ; :oan increase Jolj--, voted, er the logis j'ooplo, and , therefore, no longer a proper subject of discussion in the cennection in which .18 Honor introduced it. At the first session after the elections, the Government ,t the request of the municipalities of Montreal and Quebec, assumed the task of onsti-ucting the North Shore and Northern Colonization railways, now known m he 'Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Eailway.' Great pressure was brought to bear upon the Government ta increase the subsidies to the other roads t that tune, but this pressure was resisted. As a matter of fact it is not true that millions have been voted to aid railways in general ' at a time when ' our credit ^as so heavily pledged towards the building of the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and iccidontal Kailway.' On the contrary, since our credit became so pledged, not one ollar has been added to the debt or liabilities of the Province on account of those railways in general.' ''Ill the session of 1876, a measure was introduced authorizing a portion of the ubsidy on some of these railways, from the unbuilt portion, to be used on that which ^ vas under construction to enable them to be carried lo particular points which it was Sfi^'n nn /""^''"'^^^"^ '" *^® P"^**^ interests should be reached, and a lapsed subsidy #t »zuu,UUO was divided among other roads of a similar class, the Bill passincr the ii^egislature without division. f a ^ ''In relation to this Act, Hit Honor M. Letellier, in proroguing the Legislature ised these words : ' I trust that the result of your labors will be to give a new irapetu* the great im])rovements which have boon undertaken in this Province' Durin.«- Ihe last to^sion this progress of ' doubling up ' of the subsidy was again adopted, bu? .fvithout adding to the public liability. This Act was carried throu^'h its final stages in the Legis ativo Council, after the change of Government, and was assented to bv tlis Honor the Lieutenan^Govcrnoi. ^»!'' ^^^ <^tJinmunicating to both Houses my memoranda of the 25th February and 1st March last, the Premier and Mr. Attorney-General Angers, in violation of tlieir duty, over-stepped the authorization which I had given by my letter of the 4th March last lor that purpose. They added to that communication a '-eport of pre- tended ooiivorsalions, the correctness of which 1 contest, and the impropriety of which 1 maintain, &c." ''As this roiatos to what occurred after the dismissal of the late Government it ©an hardly be held to justify that dismissal It is sufficient to refer to the corrcs- fondenco, which ^hows that there was no stipulation on my part as to the precis© form of explanations to be made to the House j and in view of the fact that we were J dismissed Ministry, I must claim that we had a duty, not only to ourselves, but to too majoriiy of the representatives of the people whose confidence wo enjo^-ed to make too exp anations as full as possible. As to the introduction, without authorization of toe Kai way and Finance Bills, I conceived myself to have been fully authorized, and toe explanations which I offered to His Honor on this noint, and which were accepted |y him, do not reiiuiie to be repeated. ' ," To Slim u|» after the manner of His Honor :— " ItiL. That ill general the reconaraendations which I made to my Cabinet did not ^^'^'.TV ' *^'^"*^i''^'"''^'<>n which is due to the representative of the Crown." "As responsible Ministers we consideied it to be our duty to advise His Honor jot to be bound to act upon advice fiom him. At the sut e time, as is seen in the cas» « the Monim.igny Coiincillorship, we wore disposed, as far as possible, to pay uroi.er «teferenco to his views and wishes. > i J i' I '' 2nd. That my name has been used by the members of the Government in the Wgnaturo of docnnnsnts which 1 had never seen." " I have simply to say that I know of no such case, unless it refers to the Procla- mations montioiiod in the 'explanatory case,' and the answer on that point is suffi- 0|ently di-itiiu't. |-3rd. That a Proclamation summoning the Legislature was jmblished in the m^'ial Cazettc with ,ut ray being consulted cr informed of it, and before my si:;:td' l';™! "°™ °° ■"''' ™''^"''"'» "Si^ct upon betweea the " lOlh. Tliat the Piemiei- and hia colleagueB, by making n«e of i,i-r.tonrio,l then Amy to the C.-o^Yii, unj to what ihey b,ul pledged themselves to obaorvo witi, 25 fact not sum- •nor'a letter of also published aself, and the ly fdvice and it the inhabi- ve in matters ut my parti ci- ating for the power ot the authorization proposed to iry contracts from me had osition to the the reply of ting finances, the Govern- )Boucherville i House from omier, at the >wn." Legislative that House, nment of the as respecting t given this )n being Bub- ch rendered jivon by the ' Legislative hey had no r had, by his limited his of the 25th abruary and and, for the ig the expla- the Premier Legislative Lieutenant- between the 'f pretended •avontinn to bservo witii regard to it, have placed, the Lieutenant-Governor under the necessity of bringing under the notice of Your I' xcellency all the reasons for their dismissal." "The conversations reported by me were not 'pretended' but real, of which notes were taken immediately after they occurred, and which were necessary to explain fully the circumstances preceding my dismissal. If they have compelled His Honor to state ' all the reasons for that dismissal,' I venture the opinion that it would have been more respectful to the Legislature, whose confidence I enjoyed had ^ all the reasons ' been communicated to it. " The observations I have made upon these additional reasons, will, I hope serve to convince Your Excellency that they wore not such as to strengthen the position of the Lieutenant-Governor. '• I have the honor to be, my Lord, " Your obedient servant, " (Signed) C. B. DEB0UCHE2VILLB, M. L. . That the Senate on the 16th April, 1878, adopted the foUowini; resolution by a vote of 37 against 20 :— raj ^ Debates of the Senate, pp. 595 and 676.—" To Eesolve,— That the messages of Hi^ Excellency the Governor General of the 26th March and 8th April, be now read' and that it be resolved that the course adopted by the Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Quebec towards his late Ministry, was at variance with the constitutional principles upon which ' Responsible Government should be conducted.' That on the 11th April, 1878,the Right Honorable Sir John A. Macdonald, moved the following resolutioa before the House of Commons:—- Debates of the Commons, p. 187;?.—" That Mr. Speaker do not now leave the chair, but that it be Resolved that the recfint dismissal by the Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec of his Ministers was, under the circumstances, unwise and subversive of the position accorded to the advisers of the Crown since the concession of the prin- cipel of Responsible Government to the Britiwh North American Colonies." The then Government opposed the same as inopportune, seeing that the electorsof the Province of Quebec within a few days would pronounce its verdict upon the events which made the subject of the above iosohition. Here is the veidict pronounced by the Province, of Quebec after the general elections which followed the coup d'etat. The Legislative Assemb.y on the 11th of Juno, 1878, amended the last paragraph of the resolutions proposed in answer to the speech at the opening of the Session, by adding at the end thereof the following words: — Exhibit M. 7. — " That this House, while expressing its firm determination to insist on the strictest economy in every branch of the public service, and on the closest supervision over the expenses of the administration, regrets that the present advisers of His Plxcellency the Lieutenant-Governor should have persisted in remaining in power without having been supported by the majority ot the Legis- lative Assembly upon their taking office, and without yet being supported by such majority." o i r j That, on the 14th June, 1878, the Honorable Lei?islative Council adoptetl the following resolution, by amending the ninth paragraph of the resolutions pro- ])0.>ed in answer to the speech at the opening of the Session : — Exhibit No. 8. — " But that this House desires to express anew its regret that His Excelleucy the the Lieutenant-Governor was advised to dismiss his Ministers in March last, at the time they enjoyed the confidence of both branches of the Legislature and of this Province. 26 was advined'^^ontrar'? to the .^cSLZ'i^^^^^ ™l?°'"''^' ^'« Excolloncy " That to complete and JorSiatnTT °^ ^'^^PonHiblo government. ^ Boucherville to the < explalto^ c^s« • * n Tu TH ^^ 'he Honorable M. De- Excellency the GoverTrnem^TwhSr: a eV^'iaf "T'^r^'-"°'^ '^ ^^« inoning the Legislature was Dublifihod in ih„ n/^ ; ,; ^^^ ** Pn)clamation sum- «Mlted or informed of it andC '".^ho 0/?f«a^ Gazette without my boin^ con Jike Pi-oclama^on, LiV'a dat^f tL?^"''"'"'^'^^ been attached thereto §,at a circumstances.' " ' ^ ''""^ ^^ Thanksgiving, was also published under similar Reference may be made to— ber, S^'IKpfoVedTv u;; Llif " ""'.''J ^" ^"""^"' ^^*«<^ ^»^« ^^th of Novem- thataProdamatiSSVe IpJr SanS^^^ ^^^ -«^'^' -commending of buHinoss for the 19th December 1877 'nd A Xtl ^^^J?''^*^ ^'^'" '^^ ^''P^^^^ bor, 1877, registered the same day and nnhH hi ^Tk« n^^'f "' ^^'^^ ^ord Novem- the 24th November, 1877 ^ published in the Quebec Official Gazette, on . ''<^?7<^l^^Z''l^^Z'^^^ "^- ^^tollier." dated IDth NovemW, 187?, apTZved bv th« ^^''T^^' ?« Executive Council, November, 1877. No. 37"?. **PI""^«^ by the Lieutenant-Governor on the 20th '' The'^Tonn'"fl ^""^u'h ""^ '^^ Parliament of the Provinoe Memoil!rduL'Z:f^l^9t ^No^eXrS;.^^ ^orks, in a be prepared and publishercamng^CtC'tieV'o^^'Tf'"'"^'' \^'' '' Proclamation ^patch Of bu.ness, t.r tbenine^S^^I^^^S^: ^^^^^l^o for^th^ of th': It^n^eTa^Jari^r " '" ^''" -commendation, and submits it to the approval " Certitiod. " (Signed) FELIX FORTIKR, " To the Honorable " ^^"'^' ^^'^'"^'^^ ^^""^'^^ C^^nada. " The Provincial Secretary, &e., &c" " Canaba, " Province of Quebec. > "(L.S.) j L. LETELLIER. ""^"^M tXt%?y;;;.,2::if^'-'^ ^ ^-- ^r^ain an, Province, and summoned and calU to ^\i;etfef/rT^''r ^'^ ^f Our said Province, at Our City of Quebec, on the Third dl^fftt «^' ^^''^'fr^ ^f Our said 10 have been commenced and held-Greeting • ^ "'^''^^ ""^ December, next, PROCLAMATION. certam <•„,«» and oonsi-icrallon,, Wo hTo thllrrf""",', "°"'' ^'''O'tholoss, for to Wednesday, the Nineteenth day of the Monrif n ""r'' '" l"'°'»S"» ">» »ani» you, no., any of you, „„ ,,, 3 J %^Z Z" lo'^^J.lit'-rM T """, r'?''^"^ '""^^ ne^t, at uur said Cily ot (( fr 2T isin^ hia Min- i Excellency rieiil. rable M. De- ernor to His nation sutn- y being con- i-eto; that a lUor similar 1 of !N"ovem- ora mending he despatch an] Novem- Gazette, on lotollier." ■'e Council, I the 20 tU 'orlcH, in a oclamation ICC for tho i soventj- le approval nada. lER. 'itala and r)vince of Our said Our said :>or, next, c stands >loss, for he sara« neither I City of (Quebec to appear are to bo hold and constrained, for We do will that vou and eacli, di/o7t"e n'lonl'orn '''?^'"'' '""''''''''^ ^'^"^' ^ Wodn^lday'th^o N oteon 1 ay ot the nionth of December, next, at our said City of Quebec, nersonailv vou bo th LFv.Z.h\-n ou,'??f ,'/^' business to treat, do,^act Id confide u!j:n'^?hose of Om.T..; P • ^<^^"-^l^ituro ot the P.-ovince of Quebec, by the Common Council of Our sai.i Province, may by the favor of God be ordained 1 ^, ^° ^«^timony whereof, We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent ot Tr. r"' «r' «^ O"'- «-id P'-ovince of Quebec to be ho.eun o affixc 1 V^'nes ' Our TruHty and Well Beloved, The Honorable Luc Letellier do Saint Just L^al tenant.Governor of Our said Province of Quebec ' f wnnfwj P^.^o^^i'^fient House in Our City of Quebec, in Our said Province this tweuty-th>rd day of November, in the year of Our Lord one thousand oi!/ht hundred and seveniy-sovon, and in the forty-first year of Our Reign,' nunaied "By command, " (Signed) L. H. HUOT, " Clerk of the Crown in Chancery" to if'^^l*'"^<:J^:^;?^-4«''''^^ for the same purpose • mwecf b. th. \ ^,^""^'1 ^^^«d the ;^Oth October, 1877, a.,d the same day appioved b> the Lieutenant-Governor, recommending that a day of Thanks.rlvin/ hT\l\h \\\T y^ ^t"""^- '° ^^^ ^''^^^^ Offlcial Gazette oniho 'dv<\ of Novem- Letellier.'' ^' ^'''° ^^''^''^ ^^^ «'S"^ture of His Honour the LieulenantGovernor " L. "^''owf/ ^^'iSf'"^ ""^ "" Committee of the Eonorahle the Executive Council, dated 30th t;6j)6er, 1877, approved by the Lieut enatit-Governor on. the 30th October, 1877 with^n'xr.iTh'atiir'''" """' ""'"' "'""- """"'"■ """ '■"™°^ "'' "°"""'- " That it is the duty of the inhabitants of this Province to reeoffni/.e bv public ^:^::!; ^n^:^;^:^^!''- ''-" ^-^ ^^« --^^ --^^ be^teriiXirS i.snJl'lIv ?r"T^'l,^*""?u'''T-"''" therefore recommends that a Proclamation be issued by His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor making the twenty-second of ^ZZJ "'f ' ^^P' "^ Thanksgiving to the Almighty, t? thank Hin/fueen, Defender of the Faith, ii-c, dec, dc. -GreoT^ngl *° ""^'"^ "'"^" P'"^«"'« «^^" «0"»«. or to whom the name may concern "a proclamation. Al,ty^S^M W^^^K^^^f ^'^ Almighty l.as been pleased in His divine which afflict othorr/ations a1,d to b?es« th?"""' ^f'"' ^^' ^T'^^^ '^« calamitien whereaH it is the du y oAl^e?ahabitalnro'''""^^^^^^ '"^ ^^''"^^'^' ^^'"^^^t; and to Divine Providence^for such a s^InaJ favo?"' '"'"' ''"''''''' P"*^''^ '^^°^« Oouncfo7oarp"ow;.eeo\o^ued W^^^^ '^l'^ ^^"^^'^^ ^^ ^»^« '^-«-tive and appoint Thursrv tha fi«nft ' i'Y' fixed and appointed, and do hereby fix Thank^nvini^o Sn thaZtT November next, as a day of pj^blic pleasedlogSnttor^ht^^^^ favors which he has been concern a USyTjJ'redi la^j'''';-""^ f others'whom these presents may " In Testimonv wlereof W« t °"'''" '^"'^ /" govern themselves accordingly. ^ a..d the Great S^ofOurHjd^JovLVo^^ 'h'^'. ^k'" ^"^'"^ '' ^' ""^^^ ^^^'^'> Our Trusty and Weli-BGloZl fjf/w m %^''^''r ^"^ ^® hereunto affixed ; Witness Governor of the l^ovincto? Q^^^^^^^ ^"'^ ^'''^^^''^ ^' Saint Just, Lieutenant! QuebeftSrSrhTaySolL^ ^^^T' l"" ?-• ^'^ P--«- of hundred and -venty.seve^n,l?het;ty' fi^s'V^^^^^^^^ -« ''^--"^ -^'^t " By ^omroaud, " (Signed) PH. J. JOLTCCEUK, " Assistant-Secretary." by th^pTeserGtrnrntTQult' '"" ^'^ "••^""'^'«' -'^ '^^'^ ^^^ore the House explafn"ho^ffi«L^„o';7hetic?tJn^.nt^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^-' ^^ - impossible to an official despatch to ffis W Ic ijl th^^ ?' "'"' ^^^""^ '^^*"-^ ^'^^ accuracy, in 6umn.oning thi Legislature, and ifsh^ tn Ih«T^- ''r^''' " ^'"^^ '"^ P'-oclamation consulted or informed of i and h^Ynl ^ ^-^'-^^^ ^'^^^^«' ^vithout my being that a like Proclamation fixing a d^rof^vS''"''' ^^^^ been attached thereto^ similar circumstances." ^ ^ ^ -Thanksgiving was also published, under Lieu^tn^Gtei-no? waf cSXed' an"d ll'''\ '''''^''^'' ''''' ^^ows that the Legislature, and the originalSaml-on Z 'S^Z^'V'^ ^^' ^^'""fe' of the signature " L. Letellier," as shown bv the oonvi f^f November, 1877, bears his Government. ' ^^ ^^ *^^ ^^py lu.d before the House by the present Lient?n:n'?S;i"norT^ S^ed ^nitfo'.^o?^*^'^"' ''''' ^^^^ «»- ^^at the giving, and the original Procla3ion Hntl i •^mt'^.^^°"?^'*°'"" ^^e day of Thanks- "L. Letellier," as «hown by th^ ' ^v 1 .if ?" P'^'^f ' ^^^^' ^ears^is signature Government. ^, ^''^ """"Py ^'''^ before the House by the present 1 * I 29 JAER. ind Ireland, ay concern His divine calaiuitieH •vest; and )Iic thanks Kxecutive hereby fix of Public has been lents may ■dingly. le Patent, Witness, eutenant- ovince of and eight All the documents above referred to are authentic, and are contained partly in Votes and Proceedings of the Senate and of the House of Commons of Canada, and in the Sessional Papers, and partly in the Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Quebec, official copies thereof are hereunto annexed. Prom the foregoing, it results that the dismissal from office, by His Honor the Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec, of the DeBoucherville Government was, under the circumstances, unjustifiable, unwise and subversive of the position accorded to the advisers of the Crown since the concession of the principle of responsible govern- ment to the British North American Colonies; and that in his communications with His Excellency the Governor General respecting the aforesaid dismissal, and the reasons which he alleges as having raoveu him to make such dismissal, he has made statements unsupported by, and contradictory of, the official documents to which they relate. And that, in the opinion of the undersigned, such erroneous statements as appear from the foregoing details, could not have been made 'y mistake or failure of memory. Wherefore, the violation of the principles of responsible government committed by the Lieutonant-Governoi-, and his actions as above represented, are of a nature to imperil the peace and prosperity of the Dominion of Canada, and to bring into dis- respect the dignity of the Crown, and should be dealt with under the authority granted the Honorable the Privy Council of Canada by the 59th Section of the British North America Act, 1867. And your Petitioners, as in duty bound will ever pray. Montreal, 7th November, 1878. (Signed) J. A. CHAPLEAU, L. EUGGLES CHUECH, " A. E. ANGEES. ^ry. le House Jssible to uracy, in laraation ny being thereto ; id, under that the : of the ears his present that the Thanks- g nature present No. 1.- No. 2. No. 3. No. 4. No. 5.- No. 6.- No. 7.- No. 8.- No. 9.- LIST OF EXHIBITS. -Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec, 8th March,1878. -Journals of the Legislative Council, 8th larch, 1878 -Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly, Province of Quebec 9th March, 1878. -Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly, Province of Quebec. 7th March, 1878. '^ » -Mec^sage from His Excellency the Governor General to the Senate and House of Commons, 22nd and 26th March, 1878. -Message from His Excellency the Governor General to the House of Com- mons, 8th April, 1878. -Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec, 11th June, 1878. -Journals of the Legislative Council, Uth June, 1878. -Eeturn to an Address of the Legislative Assembly. I II k {Tramlatloa.) 80 Department of twe Secretarv of State, ^2n(l Novombor, 1878. I have the honor to bo, Sir, Your obedient servant, (Signed) EDOUARD J. LANGEVIN, His Honor ^^^i^r-Secretary of State. The Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Quebec, Quebec. REPLY OF PETITIONERS. Canada, \ Pb )ViNCE uv Quebec. J ToH of ,ho most A„cf„'„t and most & 1' oZ c,< 2"'^°.^'^^ ^""""'I. K^^feht Cos, o. .he most dis.i„,„i.h,a 0,.e,.?/'srM^ht, ^it'fS.Jo.t'l'^ti In Council. November ]a«t, respectfully ^^l^"— " '" ^ouncH, on the twenty-«eeond'da7;f Znutc^ t . T "^' '^-P'^'" ^« *h^^ unde.ltn^ that tho^r''""^""'^' '"^ "^^^ ^^«" monhtia.o thai tiie petitioners had the ri-atea " -ihis intorprotalion of the British \-m.f>, A • ^ = • -n, .. _ a.,>ea ... .He Z^a,' ;Sto;=„to;tro-;r 2^^^^^^ Gove uiidei posit i beuau Counc Li'^ut of the andC fornii' such Hon tat the m lier tc has de T of his inipor never N Bouch accept Prime O the L to the subscr the es Treasu most d was an the pii days t throug res peel Goverr exprosi way di .staiidiii thuKo t Ginorii tliut le; Govern piaoo h House, of all tl known prevent lioUtil'Sj it necos the 18t; De one of I 81 •or, 1878. otition of tho , dutod 17th 'our romarka IN. 'y of State. Campbell, f^il, Knight iffht Grand ■tc, &c., &c. A.ngers, by ) l>y them niunicated 'iid day of Dr-Goneral ■< not well :^ acco,danco with the practice which thoy lullowed aHExe uUvo Councilh.rs towards the Lieutenant-Governor." It will aui.ear stranL^o tl.Mt ♦».« T.Vutenant^Govornor should have indulged in these comminrs^'Xen i fow^^^ of ho iHt March, 1878, to the Hon. M. JoBoucherville, reforr ng to Mo srs A "^ors and Churrb be udm.ts that " those gentlemen had done notbing^willi ,lVv not ■ con fornuty with t..e duties of their office." The undersigned can only ^rote f a ainsi Huch insMum ions against their loyalty and devotioT, to the Cn.vvn -md tl e iCre Hontatiyo of the Sovereign, whilst they resent the unfair and untrue suggest ons of ho motive, which It IS claimed actuatod them. Tho ability of hi. Honor MLotel .or to interpret the Constitutional Act majt bo judged of by the manner in wl ich he has dealt with the question of jurisdiction. '"'"h.oi m wnicn ho nf.-'^M'^''!''""^"'''^'"?,'''''"''? I^y tb • LieutonantGovernor to justify the dismissal pfhis Ministers .s rea ly reduced to this: '•! have never beon consultof^nortm, T^.nn'?''^ ''n'^'/' ^i'" F;«t«"«i«» contested, but ttle explanations given by Mr De- BouchcrvUle to the Lieutenant-Governor, in his letter of the 27th of Mardrwe, o accepted and considered by h. m as sufficient to establish the po.-fect good M^hoTZ rrime M.nistor and his colleagues. ^ What are the facts ? On tho 28th of January a general authorization respecting finances is asked from S thrivnf U-T"'""i,'" '^^ "^'^ '^''' authorization it transmitted in blank to the Pr.mo Minister; tho resolutions concerning the collection of the municipal subscriptions to the Government Railway are introduced on the ;^Oth ; on tl e 3l8t Tr^Z^TT r .^^^i.^^^^^'^ th« House, with a complete financial '^U bv the Treasurer explaining his ways and means for the next year, an.l annouucinL^'in th« most distinct manne.- the new tax requi.-ed for the public^serWco and ?ui wS a biM was announced. A lively debate is immediately engaged both in the House an tho public pics on the subject of those two finLcia^ §uestior^^. Onlhe to ovv^^ days the Hu.lway B.ll, affecting mu.ucipal subscriptions, is introduced an Toe« thi-ough Its various stages. On tho 19th of February a conversation takes nl- ce witE respect lo the Railway Bill, between the Prime Minister and 1 e L^eimnt Gov^rno, The latter, as ho himself admits in his letter of the 1 st^" iJ^rcrS ex pressed it ,s true, hn regret at seeing that measure before tho House, but n no w J. does ho domund that It should be withigned refer to the letter of foundatOttawa ' '^'*'"^"^^^^^"™°^- ">" the subject, which may bo they had not been laid tw^tvlfoL g^l bZ; tho^H'^'r''^.^^ '7 ^^■''^^"^^ were communicated to the Lieutenant-Gove^.r^r '''"''"' ^"""^'' ^^^^ ^hey J-he -Lieutenant-Governor stntp« nfr..;., +k„«^ +u i Angers to the House were urauttiSed^irreftUatio^f explanations given by Mr. It is only necessary to refer to M rSn, V . V^ ' ''"'^ ^"^ "^''^'^'^ this point clear, he was\-erbally Uhoted t^'eomm^^S^^^ Jl! -^i^^^be affirm^ exchanged between him and the L^e^an pil-. ?"'''. *^^ correspondence also to the written answei^made bv M 7^"r \ """"i'. ^"'^ ^.° ^'^^^ explanations, and ietter on the 4th day oPKch last ^'^^^^"^'^^"''l^ to the Lieutenant-Governor's ^t^^^S'^i^:^^'ji^:;:::!^r^^^^^ discrepancies botweenthe reading the latter's explanatioas trthTLeiktit a"'' f . ^^^'I'u ^"^'^'"'^ ^y «'"^Ply not quote the Hon. Mr. DeBouche^ville hnt i Assembly, they show that he did occurred, reference may be had to Mr n^Rn !i ^'''^„^ "V" ^^ich inaccuracies had to the Governor (Jeneral. ifcomp^ d^ dln^^^^^ 'lf^'" ^^ ^^e 2nd April last, cherville requested the LieutenantSenu 7to nv h' ''»"^-'«t'«" that M.^ BoBou-' vide for tlie safety of the public in tlZtres W ^ h" ''"''^'°" ^" ^ho Bill to pro- coneiliatory • pirit which \ showed -'TadktV-^ '\^n '" "^^'^'^ '^ ^^^•^. "the my consent seemed to please him."' Th^^ st t^m nf ?'" '^""^'"""r' " '° ^''^nting the Statute Book of 1876, can 20 amP Hnl? o '" f^'''^" to be erroneous by the pretended consent to pS.the' BU n "§ie in't!' in'U'"/"""^ "« ^^^^^'-' ^- ular^sSt^lJS^JS^^fSr^rr irr ^^«^- ^'-^-tanceof irreg^ improvement of country roads T is also c.ln^, i ^^T^^'"'" of Societies for the Mr. DcBoucherville of the 2nd'Anri j-fsf '^" P *" >''^'''u"''^''^ '" ^^e same leiter of of the Atton.ey-General of Quebec ndoKb^^^^^^^^ '""'' '" "'' ^""^'^''^^ **ubject, and then it will appear m J stra.e ^.^^''f « ^^''-'^ter of Justice on this Bay : " as a favor to him (AUDeB^ lo.vi f r .?!. '/' I^'«'lte"ant-Governor should Ba/: ''asafavor^^h ;(aSZ; ^rr.'^'^ ' Jegislation which was then ii-n^pli^^JIble;' ' ^'"''" 1 over tins instancoof irre.-ul HTcgular Tl Nfio, n !)ther, ^nd thi shewn iative ^ the vie -ioutei Ministe sfiimself cancel t yninibtc ^enant-( ||tjuicsce( ?^imo su( »Th( ceept t ^!0t hav( |(:'')mposi ■io advis( i' irreguhir thor the intontion,, to »ub3t tuto ,™;o„nri,r "'''?'"■'''' '" "■'" ■=»». or in fSy -Lieutenant-Governor not as i^ ..»^,.- i i ' '^"^ ^'^oy corresponded wifl. fhl. Minister.s,butwithlHn" person 111 ^O,?/^ ^^' constitutional prac ce h-ou'h his 1-nselfover to external ^ndlnlej;^^:,^^^^ ''^f";;" P- <) thereby deUvSrin n the advice n?h; t.nant-Governor on th^f iu^S iSl^'^t^. ir'i /'" P--tono; of ^ J i^^ ^ ^« f^>™«^l out of the mrtv to advise him on the perso^for whom he li nl.l'^^'.'''f '"'^ ^^■^"^'■^^'•'» had dec'^i^od m.,lle being dismissed could no otte^: y a vice u'- '' P''"^'" '''''' '^- ^-^-^■ iiUlo importance M. -DeBouchcrville'snH. « . i" ^^ '■* ^''^^^ to foi>ee of what r';otost of the House on the subi c f .v '?"'^ ^'^''"« ^^«"' ^vhen the advice and i^ieutenant-Governorfrom see in?' his f^ '\''' ''^^''''' did not pi eve t 'he fact entailed the necessity and e Lni to ZV " '^'' '""'" '^' '^' "^inorit;, vfa eh The Lieutenant-Governor savs'rKn ,^'«^'"^« "^ >^ dissolution. ^ ' ' y the members ofhis own party ^""^'^^ «^ '»> .)"<^g'nont has been acknowledged Ihoose u\:^^tnZ L^^SS^l Z^n lT^^?r 'Y i'^^ <^— tive party should lions of the Utof^]:::Xl^^S^^^^lonU.of.f that at the general olc.- •md majority supported him in ZuJirTu^'^T^ ^^>'.^ "^^J-^^-i^y. a,)d that the 1^ ^'"'^hinetotMr. Joly, and ev4 iron fl.rS'''" "''^^'^ P"'''»^'iP« he invoked |>'ee< him that a mirist^l^uiS Ir^ 1 « v-tl^^ I- u^'r*^""^^ ^"^•'^ ^° have c^ Jlece,, hy mini.sterial influence iL^tco^s^^^^^^^ the Speaker alone, chosen and I Uio parhanujntary acceptation o^tjloZ^'^o^ h:?"!^ ^',^'^11^"^''^"'^' "^^J^^'-'tv |^e Her san.-t.on to acts passed in a Britis rol/n/ '''^' f '" ^^''"''^7 '-o^''^^^ to S" preponderating vote of the Speaker an in ^^' '"'^'^''^ ^'"^ ^'*^'^ '^«"" carried bv |fl eonnoction with the electionTtt Soe^ - n « '^'T"' ""'"'^ ^^^'^ well-known fact« # <-n;a«o the importance of his ^'ote ^ "' '^'' "^'""^^ «''*^ ^''^''-Ifj of a nature to |n-;>|C:n:1;;S;'C ^l-^ A,rmation Of the new # e circumstances. ""^ "^'""^ '^> . had a peculiar tiignitication under -In decreeing a dissolirnn r.f »i r • ■ I-nnelf declaredlhat h^t ir^ t^f know tft''''' ''" ^'-'t'^'-^t-Govcrnor had lents of the peoj.le of ibis Prov ce m t /I n T constitutional manner the sonti- m.^torial changes which had ju tall"n n Vco Th'1' ''\ ^'^^' '''^''''''' '^"^ «" the le olectoial campaign by an appeal to teebwn.r ,','''^ Minister had also opened #l»e.tod their appn.l.ati,.,, -f iCr-.n • '''*'^ '"« «^ the Province, in whi-'h h-^ i . The majoriy of the member oHho'f"'- T '^' '"'^ ^^' ^*^''^'1>' 1 •^t:v'-^--'--^t::^^^,}s^z^-;^i^-^^;^ ( I 34 consider themselves justifiod in refusin;? to concur in a general ami indeDondciif. manner with the measures of the Government. It is well known that the Session had been called together chiefly to obtain -i vote of supply, and no legislation ot importance, with the exception of a measure oV the late bovornment for handing over to the Minister of Public Worlcs tho construe tion ot the Provincial Railway, was passed. It was with this view that the supplies were voted, but not wit!io;it the so'oinn protest contained HI the direct motion of want of contidcrK^o which nrecodod' th.« granting of tho supplies. ' At all events this majority cannot bo invoked by the Lieutenant-Governor to justifV hiB conduct— 'Le succes ne fait jamais le droit." Su.-cess is not justiticuiion, al'u th.' electors would learn with consternation that afonctionary of the Federal Government (when neither the people of the Province nor their repicv^enlatives can constitntionallv puni.h nor even censure) is to bo protected from all .■en.Miro and all punishment from those to whom alone he is directly responsible, provided that by his violation of th.- constitution i:e can procure a majority, all tiie more easily obtained, that one is le>. scrupulous as to the means of obtaining it by his certitude o) absohilo impunity ]r his nicmorandum o the 18th March, the Lieutenant-Governor tells His Kxccilm, c that he IS reluctantly compelled to malve revelations eonceri.ii.g tho conduct of h" Minis ers, to maintain the dignity of his ollice, to prove that his object has a!wa>^ been to pro ect the constituti.mal liberties of the penple, and tinally, "because ti I existence of the Constitution is at stake." We. on the contrarv, m st respec'fu - hold hnt never ha. the Constitution received a more .severe blow! The reJ, J ^ i i of the .\I n.sters for all the acts of the ho ui of the .State, and the abso|;,t,o immuni ; of t bVsocnirn? ^V.'''T'''''''' f ''"^''■•? '"'ip'-ocal confidence, and the inviol.bilitv of the ^eciecy of their advice an d'H^ef'^t'dLi'Ts''"^'*^^'^'"^^^"- "^ '^'^^'^'^ neither r^l^clsi so: Minijpi-:-^,^'- — lenrv^WH^'^'^'t'''-" !''•' '•''"*'''*' ^^'^ Lieutenant-Governor forwards to His EkcoI- T to tho gthcir I A Ifititute J T ging le> Mliavinj 9§- actini 'finallj sign CI I. These 1st. T confidence J!t- m unil ln«lej)cn(Joiif. >fly to obtain ;i 1 of a mcjisure o( ks tho construe 'lOiit ilio 8o!oinr< h precodoJ thc^ oye^no^toJ^I^sti^y iticalion, aiiU tli.' irul (jiovcrnmeii: coristitiitiorially tiinislnnerit t'vorw violation of tlur tliat one is lov-. inipunily. L His Kxcc'ileticy conduct of ii:\ iocL has alway- , " because tii.- )st re.S])octfuil\- e responsibility il;it,o immunitv he invioi.LLiliLv this rule witli- 1 of tlio Slat. House by ihr acted Ihronj^li i- • »f • jng less than havin;^ yielded to di I.' • j I ' nbin r''^''' ''"'^ •''''^ ^-^^Hoaii-ucs of noth- hav,n<. KH-ant^l .onMdei-ab.'e s.ims o nonlvs^ ,.•'•"* '''" "'''"^'" '" ^^e House of ucting under their |,erni,:i.>Ms inC ^ md ,1 ■^'k'"' V*, ''•''' '^'^■>' ''^'"'I'^nn-es, while aUempt to eseapo i^'.,.. ,hat deb eH ^h i H-.o "" -u? ^''^f^ ^-" ^^''- ''o m^de^ o Legislatu.v was controlled bv tho... ,•;,.. '":^''>'"^?': ^""^ '^■'^'" •avowal (hat the iavorthen.anew(lun^Mr,|HM:^s I J';' "■';'''''.' ^'^ '"^ l^'^^islat.ion J,., sou -ht to had I not the right, .^ 1 1:^ :::z;:'^^^^^^^ convmced that M. I>cno„eI,e.fvit'. ',:;;, ^^s "''■"^■'- ''' ^'^'"''^•^' "" ' ^'"^ Jvegislative Assembly." ' "<)t pos>ohs a conM.tutiorial mai^)nty in the In other words.'ihe Lieut. M,Mn( r ,. orately intrudueed en.i«lariorvvH ''"''"'; '^l': "^'^« i'^^ Ar.nistcrs of havin.Ml.Iib J.av.ng re>isted the b.^. ic nn^ 'h H,'l';''' ?''^'"^' ^^' ^•^'•'"'''"^ pHvatep 'tie of wa« giving then., and <>t-^ t'^^u^ '^^^^^^^ the Lii.tenantll^omJ «l.on Of (he said dishonest ie. sla ^ ^^^ ';": ''''ll'^ '^V'''^ ^''^^'"'V' t'^<" cont r?^! bis former advice. " ^^''-''-^ut^ consulting hmi b.)ro,ehand and a-iin" .;,sEsss;~3- ;;. ,, ..:: t'ntere. n.lo at the outset with tin- i' ilw :^ ''" =S'^'^<\gate of th. obh\.ations Hiev oppo.t.on (wh.eh the J.ieutcna ;>'!;/:;!;:?'''"•,• '''l ^'"^ <-'>"^'-'"y. when E y;n),was asking, while in opposi,i , /ne; -o';' "V"' ^''^'''•'"^^^t to adviso i a u-ay as a con.pensation for' the ani^^u, , p ,,-7 T ' '" '"'*"'" '"'• "'^' '^""t''^''"" 2;;i.::!:!:^!:"':^'-.'>''A''vJ*'--nciai V<^^^tj^ to His Excel- lieh alono we ant Governor. Crown, tho i confidential 'oign him.solf. t (Joven.ment of M. f)eli;; ' !^ , ' ^7='^ ^'-re of tl.o S:. Lawrence. Ijotonety tbatf,.e,,uent and num.,-o s let n : i '"'"l'^-, ^"'^ ^' fac'^'of publie f V ow oi ,;ett,ng s,>,„e adva.,t.i,es Uy way i^ -l '^ '"^r^f '^'' '''•""' ^li»i«'e,-. in prises ,n wlucj, th(jse delc-aVions" we S . V. •'^^' '^"'i^'- ''»• tl.o railway ento.- OJTOsition to him <,n a.-.-onn. f . ^'ilu :7^''^'\ ^"'' ^'^''^ ^l.ey erealed o^i e mo ^ ^ But a still more remak^rf iVttr .* ^'' >'''''''''''-'''• ^^^''"'^'^"^^^^ b<'«^relastbytheJ)eI]ouX^noi^il';:i, !^^^ ^"^^^^^'-'^ introduced the Session "measure o.,,„„ino. „o new 8ub Sies I^^ ,n '"•"' ''^"^'^'•"'"^ '"ailway enterpnj^:. J nob the Companies were erl^U^'a^w^S "ll" r^'^''^ ^^•^^^' ^''« nublJidiis-to Ji>t-(xovernor alludes in the passa-e of J.h t J P''''""'"^ *^ ^^''"'^•^i the Liouten- J'as adopie,| and carried throu-rwithou .n ?-''r'^'. '" ^""'^ ^"«^^'^'' ^d.at n.easn v Afterwards sar.ctioned by the S;u;;:an"Gov ^ ""'""^ ''' '''" "^"^ ^Ii"i«try .nd - Iheumiersigned respectfully c.>ntendstl.?< h- foverno. against his Ministers is s .c, i viol r ''!. ""'"^'^tion of the Lieutena.t- |iv.sers.. and such a mi- 'prosentati frir '". "' ^^"^ ^'""fi'lt-neo I., owes t. i is |.M.-iblo the service of ^^onX^'^i^f''^''T^ '/.'^'^"^^"' ^"••'^ it .el' f ^le.Himg tho honor of his Ministers '"'''' *'^"' ^'"'^'^ ^^ destroy instead of itho -^^^SK^arL^^Ji^!,^;;, t:^T''*"'^^'^" ^^ ^""" ^-«"e-y, are bnt th. |.r exist bet^voen th. chief of the executive m^ Ms The undersigned have u A. attempte-l to l,.ll.,v and discuss all tho matters rofor- od (o ,n the on^i^.nal memnnal, nor in some instances to re-adduce proofs and refloc t.ons therein contained, ui.ich answers explain or or.travert allegations made from nnic to tune and HI dilierent documents \ly the I.ieutenant-Clovernor The ni.is 1,0 considered as a whole, and from it, and in it will be found ample .HtK«yhavc advanced and asserted against the Lieutenant-Governor, whilst it tSrCl^li^Si;::^''^'' "-'''' ^^^^^^ - '-^ ^'- constitutional rights of U.^ 'to^t^ The record grounds for 31 (Signed) J. A. ClIAPLEAU, L. EUGGLES CIIURCiJ, A. R. ANGERS. oNTBE.Ai., 1!) Decombor, 1S78. LIEUTENANT-GOVEUNOK'S ANSWER TO PETITION. GOVKHNMENT IIOUSR, (Quebec, Dth -Docember, 187?. Su{_L have had under consideration Mr. Under Socretarv's Inft.... nf n o^, i represented, should be dealt with und.^M . wL . ""."^ ','" ^"'^'^"^ ^^ '»^o^'« attention to a verv extrnoniin^,, n . . , J . ?^ Quebec, 1 must call youi a.o members'.; Ui!, i^afo'l'^ir ':;!;r'J"^!l:^ '^^^ ^^'^ memorialists, all of Jiotn the eference to tho i- ^^,...K.. .snan no.o omec "during the pleasure of the Gov' "''' ^»^'^ T,;..„.„ ^.«^^. to.anJs ^:: J^^^^^lZiZ^;;:^'^^^ "'^^' '^""-' ■if sible that undei also t ] inent, pies ( J to be Crow men c A on th( rity ll rcspoi him oi I Provir the 63 U8 " th what t MoBtC Ii which It were i and th It suited U; Th Treasui is that In telegrai „ asked n ance wi accomp ; oontaim ' as a tril J| which t f In * tho pro] i/ meusurt when til to the SI Im DeBoucI on the p ••': M. l)e\U i Hiich bill '" took pi a 11, • I- J va 11 way general h 37 the prerogative dismissal of his reference to the )rization to these Gd upon in the irds his advisors hi* Excellency rate vin-sion anil lontiiiity of pub- hu'l long before or ihut mutual ctitivo and his 3 matters rofor- •oofs and refloc- )ns made from 1'. Tiio record plo grounds for '1101-, whilst it of the people itionand praj RCIJ, S\ her, mP. • of the 22nd 1, Ciiurch and the Governor to which Ihoy :akeor faduro es of re^poii- ions as abovo )nourable tho Ameri'-x Act )' throe mcm- xat call youi' , all of whom neral. In tho to the Frii'ii ) Lioutonant- loral," whost' ance which I iiey (bllowc'l m.nf^''r''.'.""^n"'^"'^''' ^''«A'''^« difference between the powers of tho Imneri-il r..rli., ment, of he DominTu Parliament and of the Prov ncial Le Trc JitS'R?/!'''? ^^ ^^" ^^'"'- ?^- -DeJ^-^^i^'horvillo is, '• that I ought to have .ead M,. ^ Lthlt'fV ^fifl 'PT*'' '" "^^''^^ he announced the proposed ti^es," and mt^-cpJv >8 that I .hould have been consulted " before the delivery of that speech ! ^ ^ ' in regard to the Hallway Pill, the Hon. M.. Do Bouchervi o cConds that . telegram addressed to me during a brief absence at Riviere OuelK^ in wh oh h SomnanvfL iV,'''" "'^''^''■'"'"?^^'"^^'-^^'^*" Secretary for the message to accompany tho Estimate., was a*, adequate consultation on a Railway Pill whiH. ara ;-ibu,S't:,'1Tt'"''^V*"/;"T^? '!'' J"^'^"'"->^ '"^^ Lieutenant£oS,r in Cound X^tty dJ^ptfef ^ " '' '''' "^^'"">\^^' --"-l-'i^i- ^o^' the payment of mor:ey 1 roaltirm in tho most unequivocal terms thtit I n.>ver was consulted either as t., h.J\l?F • ,? "''^l'". " '■^"^'^'•'^'i'^'^^ '''^^'^.''"'''^'«J^ sanction such uiier, wasron- no- admi„^,t,.;zrhV,'X2;cot', '?:;:? -. ''Will „|,,,oa, ,|,at I ,„,„o el iLil™ V ',."<''''",'''' "r,""'" ''""^•'"« "'<' ">omoria , IhelJon. M. npR.>,r.l,o..,,;n„ ., , . . J> bally, a I . filX'lUTOt 'Miaiins t( lie used ' ,^ Whi t^ords IK 39 wtions respecting mth my repeated 01% in order to I iangna^re fjom -equfred." > conHult mo at i their Bill, at an to the Hon. M. Ji-cs, and to the had cognizance that thoi'o was a ) 'ntinicipalitios sanction such •eniier, was ron- iibl.r, that I did OU.SC to form a ? the memorial, tlio person for • of tlic Opj)08i- ho party com- t, fiiiled in his my confidence- ignient was in It I have been embers oi the lOKo s'gnaturo 10 correctness rty. may j-efor to ^' "ly present adopted by a the following iid an addition ■ the present 1 independent ;h it j)ropa.scs ifon. M. De- >f Asseinblj^ >e, while the kvoi'c adopted lint, yet it is i to in strict 1 only hold a'lstfl, r may lias boon by- It has been assumed that mv obioci i"n tl,nf i^f*^ Against the Uon. M. DeBoucEviili «n . • n ^ ' '^''" ^"^ P'"^'«^ nowcharg.s aTsmissal. Such wa ih^^^-^m b iirmvfnten'iion 'TT' "" T'^^ ^ '^""''^^'^ ^'« nth the practice ibllowodTy th^aZ •nr(C\-«l w^ ^^'^^ in accoi dance lily with the Imperialauthori iVsonTl . ? i-'-'^?'''''''""'""'^^*^^ freely and MaifyaftertheuuLthorS'^u n Icl^tr lo appri..e the Governor Geror-dnf nh;,^"^;.^^ ''^^ ^^"^® ^f^«"«'»bly, Uismiisalof■theHon^M kS^^^^^^^^^^^ circumstances preceding the l.lteJSat'XAtr, \[ lu, , . ^""^ .'''"- '""^ "=''"*^ ^^''thout my special sanction. i.- -y me^uo a diim ve '"::^^^^ J"<' Proclamations mentioned v.Mired to cre-iio . imn.t -^ \' ^ '^^ the mine iune to state whn, has endoa- pr^^bu St tte non Tt T"!? ' !'''' '""'' "^^^^ement is incorrect; I must re-allirm my l^^^^TX:^ mi^^,^l proclamations referred to "were published witli " In 1 th ?•■ sL r .; f^''~ ■^^''; ^^efore my signatu.'e thereto was given." a. V i ro^ nh .; ? \ ^r^ "''' prodamations after their publication, so as to prevent While rnfnri'iiur tn fhrv-.,. ,^,.^r.\„-^.,^: t 40 pvoc£ Jlir l";,'C"l>:;;;i^,:iTi::;> '-3; ^^-ato Soc..ota..y to t,. ,., that the.. 8ont my letter of the OtI. ^^ ve^b;r;>^t^^^ P«;oc-lamations ^voro H.Vnod onco to my office. wl,ere my l> ^^e sL' e^a, v^Iv?' ^; '>«^""^'''«'-ville, who cLo n (the one of the 3rd Novembe 1877^ .^ "^ ^'^^ "" ''^'''•>' ''^ ^ho O/:^-^-^/ 6^^,.,;,, and it was only then, aftertr;xpffat,onsX7 ;r^/^^"'■'='"^' pn>clamaUon the preser.ce of the.se ^^ontlenfen ! th To^;' ^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I -p""^ ^''^' ^"•'-"■"^^'•^ ' ' i uin not aware th-it fh«..o ; . i '*^''''*7"^ alreadj' aIhi(io( to. 'J'atlhavonotfuly^et tti^r{'''-T^" ^''""■^'''^' ^^*''^^^^"1 '•>' the mcmoriali., J'ght by others, ami I the -efoirdeem i^r' '"'''"'" ™^ uable than they do to me f will tK !- '"'^'^ '""J appear to others moroVn..m: statement in my letter to llhEledr;5''''.r.'^''^. ''^'■'^ ^'>« correctnerof eveTv I have the Jionor to be, Sir, Your obedient servant ■ru H„„. „„ rec..,, „„„,„ , .. ,,„,^,^^ ^*'«°^^ ''■ ^■'TE.UEn. Ottawa. I gjg T J. J 2th December, J S78 A=«o,,, a eop, of .Me. ... „.„- ^ Ar^ ".t^^ J-P^i -£„f I bave the honor to ba. Sir, Vour mcst obedient .servant (S.^'nod) EDOVARD J. LAnJeVJN, To His Honoe f^n, that those ■» wore Hignod, 1 lie, who cumo lu Official Gazett- 1 pi'oclamation/-, 1 fhe onginul.i \u ho niornorialirtts fi'lei-lako. on it.s uoriah'.stsdonoi t charges mad.; ■«d inudiiforcfu. I may have th- > vvai'i-anted i,y linst mo in th) ' as tho natur.' i-gcs of the me ify them, and I rs more formi- tno.ss of evci-y 10 18th Marclj hem, or of any tho change of ■xplanations. ELLIER. ADA. 'er, 1878. tch of tho Oii) , Church an.l 1 ultimo. 5VJN, y of State. Bbi-artmbnt of the Secretary ok Statk, ( .'an-ad.v, 17th Doccmbor, 1878.- ,JueKe, in answer to tho mlmmM^I ™li'r""i"' ;''";?' '""' ,"' "'" ''^"^i"'" '^'f ^na .n«o., „ copy Of wMsrr;','..irsi'„ ^;^ ^^z'^^^2^:^'^ I have the honor to be, Sir, Yonr obedient servanf, (Signed) EDOUAIIDJ. LANGEVIN, m„„ ir ^'''nder-iSecrttnnj of State. iUE IIONOUAHI.E J. A. CiiAi'LEAr, Montreal. Kchibil No. 1. No. 41 VOTES AXD PROCEEDINCS op THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMJBLY OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC. QUEBEC, FRIDAY, 8th MARCIT, 1878. The following petition was received and read, namely — -».e»t?to^thTnTaHart"if ^""' °' ^'- ^'■^'^^'^^' ^^""^^ ^' ^^-'"i l>->-K amend- tion-that iiis Excellency received him graciously and gave tho following reply I J. Letbll'er, Gentlemen of the Legislatlce Assembly ■ Government House, » Quebec, Tth Maicli, 1878. | Thn/fi^MT^^'^Q?,'';.^'''^'"'*'"^.^'"''' ^^-^^o^'IcJ by Mr. Watts, moved Ihat Bill [No 90] tor granting to Her Majesty certain sum^^of monev romnr.l for defraying certan expenses of the Civil Govirnment for the Hscal Z^^^S or tho th.rtioth day of June, ono thousand eight hundred and seve„ty!:i.^hrL"t^th^^ -.^iruuih day of Juno, one thousand ei-rht hundred and sovontv nino'' n i 7 *u purpo.ses connected with tho Public SoAmco'To not ;ll'ricS;rtTmo ' '"' '''''''' Ai I His Excellency the u:^:^:::^^;::::^i^;^-{:!^7^::^' '""^'^' -"^^ *'^ pcct Jy^Hhewo't:^''''"" "' ''" '"^''"*''"'"^'° ^^^-"'»>'>' of the IVovi,.co ofQuoboe. res- ^he Lieute" n -0^0 ni^ to thin Mo..«e, that His l4ollency ^^^'i^'ri!;::^'::^;:!:-^ .u^ing taicon place '>rnmont i„ this Province- is unw .r n"?J '" f''^' «-^'«'<'^"^'e of responHiblo Gov- ■llouso, whoso confidence \h V puss" 0^ ^'^i^n '""'""^'^ "^^'^'^ '"'^''^^'^^ ^^ ^^is ''iberlic ^ and will of the people; ' '" J'^'"'"'"' ""'-' ''"^ " violation of the A nd youi- ,.ei : tioners vvj 1 1 over h urn bl v pray " i C'lnseiiiK'nllv he u «,:d^ri.r;hoTi;^sr,i;:;'::=,:^-;;;'!^». •'-' •>- -.« ..n,., „ ™,.„,.„ Mr. Spealvcr ruled : ' ' It i in coiiseqence out of order, the >c,,t case the reproaches contained in the moUon J'.xcd ency the Lienlenant-Governo,- air. Speaker, under tli \>uebcc, 31st Victori:i, 4ibsence. quo^^tion. lu the pre 1 i.Miou to talce the Lhairdurin^^ his temporary Th!w/on^r''"^'' ^^'■- ^i'^'^'^«r '-o^umed the Chair i he Jlou^e h:u-M,g continued (o sit until t. VI vi o'clock niidni-'ht. The question on Mr ollowing division : Saturday, [)th March, IS 78 '""■■'"««r. „,«i.,„, ,,,,,„„ ,„„„ |,^^_ ^^^ ^^^ ^_^_ Jvr. ■13 rovcinor General CuriucJa, unci to nant-Gocemor of L3 ofQuoboc, roi- [i-. Ancjers, and His Excolioncy OoBotichervilie Grovernnoent to upon without 1(1 their respect is IIouso is of ng taiccn pluco Bponsiblo Gov- iijovity of this iolation of the ill Older, inas- l»osii8|)onde(l gi'. j.nd must ) fcnsuro the 1 commit no ;>turo. It in, inil the fjicii- ibiiity whicii bo a solution vornor " are constitution > the Ifotuso. In the pro •isers of Ilj.s Province of s temporarv YEAH. !78. 1 to on tr.c Ao Cavalier, Lo,-a, .«,- Lvncli E i ,' \'uu' J/' P"'^"' J^^'-"«holIe, L u'all(5o, NAY.-t. tran^ittcd to the Sonate and iio;;;;;.F^;;;-- ^If u;;;!: " V\ hich motion was adopted or. the same division. M.je^y c':^;i;':r\f m^^'^::;^^^ (^- ««) '>•■• .--m. t.> nor «<.vernmoraforthetisca V i^.H nrl oxpen>o.s of the Civil ^i^l.tlHuul.vdandse^^tVei^hVS 1''^ ''^' ''""*■' ^"^^ 'hou.an.l ^ighthundmlandsexmttm'nrand ;^ '^''^ "^' •'"/'«' ''"« ^''^''^^'^^ Service, be now HMd a socXltimo '''-'"' ^^^""«^'^«'* ^^'i^h the Public all tli!i'^,'nra;^:'^'!^,:;^"^;tr -^;^' ^r"'f' '^^ ^^'^ Honorable M. Chu.-ch, that " f'e not novv .t uV but a tte .v-^li ' T'^^T ""^ '""''''^'^^^^ *^>' ^''« '"^'"'^^ving : justiceshailha^eb;: 'n ^,r&, -r^ "'"" ^'^ '--^ ^« resolutions upon wliitd. the s-,i,i i I L h. '' ^ ^ ^^?"?' '"'»«"'"^J» «« when the tho public bilsine^ on oyod he o o iX.^e (^' Z'h ''''''^' ^''^,Cf i"«t ch.u-god with tbM-entAdn.m.ti^;:;t;n;;tX"tharcSie^^^ '' ''' ^"""^'^-^ ^-''«^ WiiK-n amo.idment was ngrcod to <.„ the following division :- VK.vS. MM. Alieyii, Angers. lUka NAYS. ratt rr 'S» mV • *!•/"'''"' f ^■'^"^^'* l»y -M '■• Champagne, moved, i^o Crown in rli^? ' '' r' *'"'"^'^i^^t^^'y,>Hie his warrant, addressed to the Clork of wc Uiown 111 Chancery for the new wr ts tor the oU^otUm nf \r .,«k . . ^^ioik or iescn^Parliamont .or the Electoral Division oflo Wn" J^ 11^ ^K u i;::!^^;" '^' f St. llyacinthe, for the Electoral Division of St. Jo 's for , iI^m ^^^^^^^^ m^Maichand, Ks.pure, and Alexandre Chauveau, Esquire who sinc.» ih,M,. ,/. .. Tf #ctK>ns as representatives ot the above n.entioned Sulr^i:^^^''^^:^^ filvcbeconHVva'ca;;',- ^ ^ ^^ ""' ^'''^'^ '" ^^^^''^'''^"^i ""^ Alexandre Chauvoau 44 Tilt! ironurnbloMf. An-crs, hei-ondoil l.v iho iloiiorabio Mr. (.'Iiiiivli. iiuivoii iji amendtaoiit to tin naid motion. , That tli.i words "ai„l this iroiHo. whilst ordorin^' the issue of tho >aid wrilx Uoem It to U) thou- duty to dtcluro that tho Adminihtration whoso formation croat(».i tuoce vacantMi's does not posboss the coiiHdonco ofthi.s IIoii.sc, nor that of tho country ' bo fiddod to tho ond thLMoof. ' Which aiiuTidmotit was agreed to on tho following division. YEAS. ..l,..n?!^n^'i''"''"'f»^"'^T'L?^''''''"' ^'''■»'nP"g"<^. Chaploan, CharloboLs, Church, l)o«- .^hcnos, J)ulaf, Dupout Fort.n ((Jaspo), Fradetio, (Jurncau, Gauthior, lloudo' NAYS. Molk^f P.!nu.i'7.7r"; /■""''},.^?''"\'"^^^"P- J^''^•^^'•«^^ J^afontaino, I..framboi«c, Mollu ., I a.juc't, I icluntauo, I?,nfret ditMalouin. fShohyn, Sylvcstrc, and Watts ~\i J he main motion as amended was then carried on tho same division. iJlT'T'x^ ^^^ """•"■"'J'« Mr. Lafrainboi^e, seconded by Mr. Wattn, it was o'idocfp S^'7.l'":/'^"" ^'"^ "^^"•^" "'J'^"'-"'^ '^ ^^<' ^^""'> -Ji«"'-"» until throe A mosHagc was roceivcd Iro .. tho Legislative Council agreeing to c,, /, "/ T* -'0 'r'titulod: "An Act to amend Chapter 77 of tho Consolidated Stotutcs for Lower Canada, respecting the Court of (Queen's Binch w th Tn arao„^^^ ment to which they desire the concurrence ot this House Also the following Bills wilhoiit. amendments. an... «t i ^'^ '?^'^"i«^; "^" ''^«t i-especiing the notitication for and tho attend- nnce at the removal jf Seals and Inventories " f pScfoVQlebf^' " """ ^'=' '" """"■"' ^■■'"'" "'■'''""» "'■ "«' M'-'-iP'" C"!" .»leSb/^';i,S;":,';eto,.s''*''^°''" ^"""'^ '"'■ "'" «'''"S notice of ShoriflW LOULS BEAUBIEN. Speaker. Mxhibtt No. FRIDAY, Stu MAKCK. 1878. Tl;e Honorable Logisiative Councillors corivono.l, wore : 'Iho Honoralli llonry Starnes, Speaker. The Jlonoj'abio Mes8iours An hamboault, t m ■ J>oucho,-villo, do LoMa.ro, JJijson .l^'T' ^" Dionne, Panct Bostaler, Gaudet, Gingras, J learn, LaBruore, do Laviolette, Proul: Prudhommo, If OSS, iJoy, Wobh, Wood. To lit, 45 iircl). UKivtsi ij' Iho fol owing potit.oiH vvoro severally brought tin ati.l laid on the t;iblo • liy tlio hr>noniblo Mr. H„hs, of tho Sistccs of Frovldonco of the C'o(o-St. Jmm Hy tiio honoi-ablo Mr. lU-iuii, of the Board of TraJo of Quebec. Tho following potilion.s '.vcro read and rocoived: Of tho inhabitants of tho Towa-.hi|) of WooJbridgo. CSunty of Kamoiiratka l.raj'mg for the refund of tho am )unt duo by them to tho Govorrirnont on thoir lotd ' ,. ■, ^''".V^^f'l ^''\ rrudo of Q'lobec, oppasing tho (iuoboc, Montroal, Ottawa and' OccKioiital Kailway Act. Hon. Mr. do LaBruOro, soeon lod by II >n. Mr. \Vl3- Jicsolved in the affirmative. Then, on motion of the Hon. Mr. do LaBrutu-o, seconded by tho Hon. Mr. Webb, Ordt'rere.scnllv. lie said IJill w:is Uien accordingly rend a third time. J lie (juostion Avas put whether this Bill ^hall pass ? it was /tfw/m/iii tjie jdlirmative. »rtido, of llH. «l„„i,.i|,:,l a,d„ „f ,l,oV,,;vhHVof (iuebo'c " ' """""' ""'""'' Whole '"" '"'■'■""'"""' ''"""" I''""""-"' "'"' «M'»I ii.l" CmmUloo of tho After some time tho lloine was io> 1^1.1 was then accordingly read a third timt. I ho que.non was put whether this Hill shall pass? It was /.V.Wm/.ii thcidlirmative. ' • ^' "'*=* .i"'«.yi..,- n..,i„. ,,,;s,K.nrs „„„. ,. i,;,.,,!,:.™',; "'I'll;! .. '"■ ^"' •" '^■•""■'^ f- Whou';"""""^ '"'■ ""' •'"'■'"« l''''»»"'". "'"I"- Pnlin.o (^„„„,i„o„ of ,h. After some time tho House was resumed ,ono'unJ|;;;'Zti,n;;,^';i;;d\„;;'^:;^i:/^i;;i.'i-;;"'<- ve,,oH.i .h„t .ho,- had ment. uiicctta him to report tho same without amerd- On motion of the HonoraMo Mr. do LaBruore. it was Odend That the said Bdl be read a third time pre'entlv that 1^:: tinSlo' LoS:baiv: %;!;;:;i v^,^'':f:^^'^^r'^'^y ^-i aequauu ment ^ ^ " ""^*' l''^-""^"' this Bill without any amend- x^},JX'^:.^^r"'^*'^l^f Bay was read for puttin.^ tho H.u!> . the Consohdated Statute, for L.wer Canada, respecting building; societiis in the Province of Quebec. •' The House adjourned durin.- pleasure, and was put into Comn.i!(oo of tho vviioie. After some lime the House was rehumod. The lIoHorabie Mr. Archambeault, from the said Committee, roF)ortod that ihev had gone through the said Bill, and directed him tj report the s:,me without amen/l- menl On motion of the Ho:iorab!e ilr. Ileiini, it was Ordered, That the saitl Bill be read a third time presently. The said Bill was then accordingly read a third time. The question was put whether this Bill shall pass ? It w:is Jiesolved in the affirmative. Ordered, Thai the Clerk do go down to the Le-islative Assembly and acunuinu that House that the Legislative Council have pa.Hsed this Bill without amendment** wi f''«<^';^»t'of th« i% was ivad for putting the IIoiiso into Committee of iho Whole for the consideration of Bill (Ko. 109) intituled : " An Act to further amend the law respecting subsidies in money made to certain railway companies ' On motion of ihe Honorable Mr. DcBoucherville, it was' Ordered, Thai the said Order be postponed until to-morrow. A MesBa^ of the correspondence and explanations relating to the dismissal from oflTico of the DeBoucherville Government " were laid unon the table : ' Quebec, 8th Marcli, 1878. To the Ilonorab'e tlw. Speaker of the Legi.^lativc Assembly. Sir,— I have the honour to firwan! you, to be laid before the House, copy of the ■crrespondonce and explanations relating to the dismissal from office of the DeBouch- •crvi!!.' (iovernment, which [ road and communicated to the House. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient .servrnt, A. R. ANGERS, Ex-Attorney General, ,, ^, , Member for the County of Montmorencv- ylr. iiipeakt'r, •' •' "Mr. DeBoucherville had receive 1 permis.sion from the Lieutenaiittiovernor to ^nvc explanations re«pecting his dismissial from office at the sitting on Monday, the fourth March instant. Between half past one and two o'clock of tl,e same day he /'nKinntkorii ;;;<)•'■ —■'^^•■'-^•'^^ ^« n'^c -.iny r.'sp;anations until tiio now 1 aoinet bad heen formed. 49 Clork, with a notes, and on of this Hpu8e. [loiTow at 11 was iHo adjourned era given to mbers in the that he was > Government itions relating aid upon the fh, 1878. ), oop3' of the tlie DoBouch- L>ral, [ontmorency. ttiovornor to Monday, the |1 ime (lay, he | ntii tiio now Thia event having, been announced, the late DeBouchciville Government h.s th« [In^d loThrrntfy''^ ^^^^^^^^^^ obtained, to ,ive it« explanations i^^^^th^'irol's: I It 18 my duty to announce to the House that the DeBoucherville Govornmflnt I did not resign A Government, possessing the confidence of he gleat m^ iorUv of the Eepresentative Assembly anJ of almost the whole of the Le? slati e *^CoiLS relect^ ts7v?v^"'TL«Mr^"^ ^^^ '"^--^^s of tfe co'mtV^rd'k resijcct 101 us uuuy. ibis Government was d smissod fvnm nffioo i«r a.^ t y /*"" ** I Governor The facts which preceded and folWed tw'it ^^^^^^^ kept from day to day and from hour to hour, under the dictation of Te Ex pSor ! and the following is an extract and faithful recital thereof ' I On the 26th February, 1878, at half-past four o'clock,"p.^., the Premier received |from the Lieutenant-Governor, through his Aide-de-CWp^ the follow™^^^^^ GoVKRNMENT HoiISE, , Qlkhec, 25tli February, 1878. I To the Honorable C. B. DeBouchervillo, Premier of the Province of Quebec. The Licutcnunt-Goyernor desires the Executive Council to prei.are for his con- I sideration a factum, including a copy of the following documents - ' 1- A copy of the Acts of the Dominion Parliament authorizing the construction the raihv.iy now known under the name of the " Quebec, Montreal, tawa and Occidental Railway," as well as a copy of the Acts of the Legislature of Quebec respecting the same railway. ^ ^' '^f !'j« ^cts of the Legislature of the Province of Quebec, respecting t «' r^rsio^ ^^^i;::;;:^"^ ^"^^-^^ ^^-^- -^' ^-'•-'' ^---'> '<-wn^ 3 A cop3- of the By-laws of each of the Municipal Corporations by which they agreed to assist ill the construction of the said road. ^ 4. A statement of the amount of the grant, paid by each of those Cori)orationH and a copy of the con-espondcnce exchanged between the (;overnment, the llailwav Commissioners or the Contractors of the said road and the said Municipal Corpora- tions, with respect to tlieir said grant or subsidy. road Jorpoi 5. A copy of the .several contracts entercd^into for the construction of the .said 0'. A copy of the official or tw;//V/,7i//aZ reports of the engineers to whom was j entrusted the location of these lines of railway, in whole (u- in part 7. A copy of the report of the JRailway Commissioners, laid before both Houses during the piusent Session, respecting the said roads. i 8. A copy of the representations made to the Government by the Municipal Corporations interested or by the rate-payers of these municiiialities. respectintr the {conditions of their grant or subsidy. i a 9. A copy of the Eesoliitions proposed to the Provincial Legislature, tlurin-^ the present Session, respecting the said subsidies, and to facilitate the payment and Irecovery of the same. ' -^ . , ^^- A copy of the Bill, based upon the said Re8olution,s, which was introduced jinto tiie House during the present Session. J ,}\- ^ 1^''"* ^"^^ ^'"» ^^^^ locations of each of the said railways, or of any portion 12. A detailed statement of 1 tie reasons which induced the Provincial Govern- Iment not to content (homselvos with the provisions of the statute and common IJaw, and with those of the Civil Code of this Province, foi the recovery of the sums ■nt money which might become duo by the said Corporations, but, without havin? in 1 . . i-i-r} ,j < on!^.,ii-Dv. Wiin tnc JjiuUiunant-uovcrnor, to pvoposo ai) ex m facto legislation to compel them thereto. 19—4 50 AuutlKTveiT important inoasuro, to provide lor the imposition of new taxes, wasals similarly p'-oposed to the Legislature, without having been previously sub- mitted to the Lieutenant-Governor. ,;.,.„.„+ The Lieutenant-Governor is perfectly aware that measures of secondary impoit- ance, whiJi have previously been sufficiently explained to Iiim, may be, as a matter of routine, proposed to both Houses, without an express order trom himsel , but he cannot allow the Executive to communicate to the Legis ature, on his behalf, any important or new measures, without his s])Ocial order, and without his having boon previously fully informed and advised thereof. JjY/niLJAER Lkut. •Governor. The Premier lu-opared his answer during the night of the 2Gth and 2nh .Fobru arv. This answer was delivered by him, in person, to the Lieutenant-Governor ai Spencer Wood, about ten o'clock a.m., on the 2Tth '^ —' "" ^•-"""- — at It road as follows :- QuKiiEC. 21th February, 1877. To His i'Lxceilcncy The Jlon. L.'Leteli.ieu de St. Ji st, Lieuteiitant-Governor of the Province of (^lebcc. Mav it in.EAsE Your Excellencv. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the memorandum sent mo yester- day atlernoon bv Your Excellency, thiwudi your xUde-de-Camp, who, at the same time, infurmod me that you were ill in bed. 1 submitted this memorandum to the Exocutive Council, and i shall see, as Your Excellency desires, that all due diligence bo usedMn order that all the documents required may bo transmitted to you as soon as possible. ,, ,, i • i -n In anticipation of the factum desired by lour l.xcellency, which will contain a more detailed statement of the motives which induced the 1 ro- vincial (iovcrnment to l>rin<>- in the measures to which you draw my attention, I consider it mv duty to represent that the reasoll^*. which, amongst others, caused the Government * to submit to the Legislature a law^ obliguig the mu wa} in nicipalitics to pay their subscriptions, for the construction of the Provincial rail- .y, on the decision of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, afier a sworn report, ....id'o bv a eoiupetcnt enn-ineer, and alter a notice of hfteen days, to give such inuni- cipalitiosan opportunit3''of being iieard,— are the ill-will of certain municipalities; shown by some in their neglect to com])ly with the requests of the Treasurer, by others in their formal refusal to pay, and in certain cases, by I'osolutions adopted asking new conditions, respecting the agreements which they had made with the Government. p i • v. The Government was of opinion that without such legislation, the object of wb:jh is to avoid tiie delays of ordinary legal proceedings, the result of the ill-will of these raunicii-alilies would have been'eithcr to necessitate a new loan by the Province, and conseiiuent'y to cause a burden to be unjustly impo.sed upon municipalities^ which had entered" into no engagements and which would derive no immediate benefit from the construct ion of the road, or the complete stoppage of the works alreiidy begun, together with the inevitable loss of interest on the enormous cupilal already laid out upon this enterprise and the other u. images resulting therefrom. The (iovernnient, while undertaking, in the first place, by the said law, to fulfil the conditions which it had agreed upon with the said municipalities, considered that, in substituting for the ordinary court, the Lieutenant-Governor with an K.xecutiye Council responsible to the Legislatun; and to the peo])le, it otl'ered to the parties interested a' tribunal which afforded as many guarantees as the ordinary courts. I would al-o take the liberty of calling Your Excellency's attention to the fact that similar provisions are already in our Statutes. I would cite to Your Excellency chapter 83 (jf the Consolidated Statule.i oi Canada, and aNo chapter -IT ol'.i'i Vict, of the Statutes of Ontario. 51 m as soon Trca u,er,wi;,had itm,»d:^,;;';:j.;'i|;,i;,:'t„^^;:-'''^^^^ -'-» ' "anl-d .» the gc„eJ;,iir.oTa,U";;;'u:iix;„L';trs:;;^::.T,.if^::;^ wilh your „s„„l condescension. This ncra^so/ nilv!, k , '■'''■'■u?'''';*"''' accorded n;ol,yyourprodocc..or,,l,c|a;ril:2VS;' . '^ '"" """"-"">' '''" t.™ which wc^-c aftcrwa,dH .ro^o"; 1 '^ S o?^;?' r h;d tri '-hT ^7"'^ ""■ collejgucs that n,ad your pcr!,ui„nHor all que':, „l.e^i.;„'J*Si„^"^ order to suspend it, , did' not think Y,;ur'£,™,,u''rs;Vis"„,':;T„«[,":'r,:;:;.^ Your, &c., &c., C. B. DeBOUCHERYJLLE. • After some conversation the Lieutenant-aovrrno,-, huvint. hoard Mr deBouoher- v.llesexplanuhons, admitted that, if there had boon any nMsuTi.lorstar, Jin Tashi good faitJi on the part of the hitter, in authorizing^ hi.sc.oli.a..aus to «■ v 'thVt thav wore authorized to sub^ut the legi.hifion in refc^n.-o to nw;^^ "naUe?-' it aS ward« told him ,n reply to his question on iho sul-jor-t, that the only diffieultv re- maining was the question of the Quebec, Montreal, Oltuwa and O.ci.tontal R alwav and tiiat he would give an answer on the following dav, the 'jath February On the 28ih February at about half-pust seven in" the evening, Mr. DeBoucher- VI le went to bpencer Wood to convey to the Lieutenant-Governor the .lociments asked for in the letter of the 25th (which documents were prepared by the Honour- able the Secretary, and were accompanied by a synopsis). He asked hi.n if he would soon give his answer Itie Lieutenanl-dovernor told him that he would examine the documents and probably give it to him on the following day the 1st March On leaving, Mr. DeBoucherviUe said: "Jf I understand youWhtly" vou are hesitating between giving your sanction to the iJailway Bill and reservino- it " Ho replied, "That is it." '^ ' On the 2nd of March, at five minutes to one in the atYernoon, the Aide de-Camp of the Lieutenant-Crovernor handed to Mr. de Bcnicherville the letter given hereafter Jiefore the Aido-de-Camp left, he was asked how Ilis Excellency was. The Aide-de- camp replied that he was not so well, and then asked : when we intended closing the Session. Mr. DeBoucherville replied that he could not say, as many matters were ia arrear. The following is the letter in question : — GoVRRVMKNT IIOUSK, rn ., TT^ .. ^ ,. ^ QUEBKC, 1st March, 1878. To the Hon. C. B. DeBoucherville, Premier, Quebec. The Lieutenant-Govornor, itaking into consideration the communication made to him verbally (on the 27th February) by the Premier, and also taking into considera- 1 9 — 4 J 52 V °J? *^® letter which the Premier then gave to him, is prepared to admit that there n»d been no intention on the part oi the Premier to slight the prerogatives of the Crown, and that there was only on his part an error, committed in good fiaith, in the interpretation that he gave to words used by the Lieutenant-Governor, in the inter- view which they had on the 19th February inNtant^words which did not imply the authorization attributed to them by the Premier. With this interpretation and the instructions given in consequence by the Premier to the Honorable Messrs. Angers and Church, these gentlemen did not wittingly do anything against the duties of their office. As to the blank, which the Lieutenant-Governor addsesscd to him from Eividro Ouelle, the Lieutenant-Governor knew that such blank was U> be used for the purpose of submitting the estimates to the House. This act was a token of confidence on his part, as stated by the Premier in his letter of the 2Tth, but it was ccJnfidential. J^he Lieutenant-Governor deems it his duty to observe that, in his memorandum of the 25th of February las-t, he in noway expressed the opinion that bethought that the Premier ever had the intention of arrogating to himself the "right" of * having measures passed without his approval.'or of slighting the prerogatives of the representative of the Crown." But the Premier must not lose sight of the fact that, although he had not so intended, the fact remains as he was told by the Lieutenant-lTOvernor. The fact of having submitted several new and important measures to the Legis- iature, witiiout having previously, in any manner, consulted the Lieutenant-Governor, although without any intention of slighting his prerogatives, gives rise to one of those Jalse positions which ]. luces the renresentative of the Crown in a difficult and critical situation, with reference to both Houses of the Legislature. The Lieutenant-Governoi- cannot admit that the responsibility of this state of thingo remits upon him. i j So xr.r as concerns the Bill intituled . - An Act respecting the (Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Eailway," the Premier cannot apply to the measure the pretended general authorization mentioned by him in his letter, ibr their interview took p ace on the 19th February, and the Bill had then been before the House for several days, without the Lieutenant-Governor having been in any manner informed 01 it by his advisers, The Lieutenant-Governor then told the Premier how much he regi -tted such legislation ; he represented to him that he considered it to be contrary t'o the nrin- ^l^^^^^'^nT'"^'''^''"'' ''^- '" "^^^""'^ "'" P"^^^^^ ^"^ -''^ '^ «< tl^JA'^^''"^ that the Premier gives, in his letter, as one of his reasons for so acting h.H h. Pei™i«sion of making use of the name of the representative of the Crown lad been, morever, always allowed to him by the predecessor of the present IJouTe uant-Governor, the late lamented Mr. Caron." i "a^ n^ -i^iouie This reason cannot avail with the Lieutenant-Governor, for by .so doim? hn wouW abdicate his position as representative of the VAmvn-l'Xee'^Tfhi^h lerther the Lieutenant-Governor nor the Premier could reconcile witirtho duUe i the Lieutenant-Governor towards the Crown. Prefer ^nTiTl'n^^'''^^'T ''''^T^*' ^"'"^ eompolled to state, as he told the brthrc^i^net nUl'rT'f^' r^' ''''" '^l^''^'^'^ '"^'^™^«^> '^^' ^^e measures adopted tLpL^- ' "^^^P^^li the Lieutenant-GovernQr often gave occasion therefor to the Premier, especially during the course of last year. ^nueior to Ihe Lieutenant-Governor, from time to time', since the last meetintr of the LA«y.-« ,.„■! ^" '''^ th« <^^0''^ous expenditure occasioned by very larffe subsidieH tx^ ^flr«,.nl nier in his ^ The Lieutenant-Governor alth^n^k -.l " opinion that the Orders in Counc 1 fo? tiTJ -^ '''^'^^^ expressed to th Premier the employees, seemed to him to h« , ' . increase of the salaries of Pi r i i q • effected with the Bank o?MonteafaTa?art>f' " ^'"'^ "'-" tho\te ^^e «t'had MaSf ttV T''''''^ ^^^« "- tiTne'UilPr a'n ? ''' T'' ''' ^alf Sitn' Jaarch; the Lieutenant-Governor wna ^u- "}''"<^"; and, in fact, toBn.K-horvillc rcpliod tlitit in his pro.sont position he thought he had no opliii.)!. to ex\nx',^< on llio siil.JL";!. llo thou bowoJ liinisolf out. When ho had pro- ceeded a ^hoi't di.slaiK'0 iVuin tiie hou.so he emised the vciiiclo to return, having forgotten to iisic permission tVotn the Lieutenant-C^overnor to give exphuiations to the House. After liuviiw-- l,een a second time admitted to the presence ot the Jjieu- tenant-fiovenior, he aslced permission to give exphuiations and to maico known the inemoriiudum of ihe Lieiiteuant-Go\ criior and his replies thereto. + +1, The Lientenant-a,.vernor told iiim ho had no ol.joction, and asked him as to the person he should send for. M. DeBnitdierville replied that he looked upon liimselt — havitii.-- been dismissed— as being in a ditterent position from a Minister who, althoiigii defeated in the House, still retained the contidenco of the Sovereign ; that he had had a majority of tvv. nty-tive in one of the late votes ; that, under these cir- cumstances, ho (iid not think he could advise him in the matter. Ho then lott.^him, and while in the anto-room, the Lieutenant-Governor recalled him and said, • 1 lease delay the explanations until Monday." 1 1 . .u "The following is a copv. if the letter which M. DeBouchervillo handed to the Lieutenant-Governor, wheii the latter told nim ho was to take his own inteiprotation of his memorandum. QiTEBEC, 2nd March, 1878. May it i'i.e.vse Your Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your memorandum, in which you come to the conclusion that voii cannot retain me in my position as Premier. 1 have, therelbre, no olhei duty to ])erform beyond submitting to my dismissal from office, communicated by Your Excellency, reiterating at the same tiine my pro- found resjject for the rights'and prerogatives of the Crown, and my devotion to the interests of our Province. 1 have the honor to be, Your Excellency's, &c., &c., C. B. DeBOUCIIERVILLE. To His ]'Lcccllency The Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Quebec. '■ On the 28th January, 1878, M. DeBouchervillo had sent to His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, who was then at Hivieie Oiielle, the following telegraphic j^'-^-f^ of th ovei'iior jukI, in mcasu.-o, tlioii,-i,t ho had Mard>,1878,(hathehaci^Wv4oX"tos'il*:''i;,'^ momorandnm of tl,o l.t «o.it up to the Logi.lativo ciun • I tl iniVV '^"^i^'^tion. bofo,-e the iii-st letter wa.s received -1 It- f' ^^■'''' "''"'^"^'h it.s third roadiuir February hist, but only dolive^d at 4-hVm ^'«? «";^"V^«^-ernor, dated tho25 fe Governor, in his letter of the 1st M in";. .. i" ' "". ^''"^ ^*'^''- -f" ^^^, tho Lieutenant memorandum of the 25th l^ob n,^ ' ' "".f '''"^ *^« ^'^' "^'t. i" any w.v iuTiJ mier had intented to arrogate to h^ mo 'the t^T'' ''^''' ''^ con.-1-od " h pt" out h.s approval or ofnli/hting tirp •« 1 ,'? 'L' ,;f "'"^- '"f'^^'-e-^ Passed wilil Having ascertained that a rai^undersf- n . n- 1 ? 'JP»-«««ntative of the Crown. on tile X'rf ""'^'"'' '^^ ^^''<^.y-M>hic 1 S I^oH^^^^ interpretation of on ho 2.)th by a message stating that a form s L" i rf ^ V"'"''''>" '^'^^^ answered of ho impressions left by the conversaH n o ifo nn r 'f"'' ''^^^ ^^'^"^' ^'"^ i" ^iew W r '""'n' ''^''"'^' ^^^'^ -Lieutenant.G vernor Im o u- •, f f"^"'^ ."' ^^'- '^^Boucher- fij-st time, the existence of this misnnXM.!^ , I "" ''^.^"^^■<* ^^ "lake known, for the date the whole of the legi ht on of w^^^^^^^^^^ ""'" '^'' -"'^'^ i'^ebruary, at vvh ch "^ the uffirmativo by both Ss / ^'" ^"'"plams, ha. been discussed'and voIeS foBo^:^::^l:^;t::^.Z:^^^^^^ on the 20,h ..anuai^ ^Mr ;;-n interpreting the silence of the L" ..^^Uo^S ^tS^t^^S^l^S ^ tion U, submit to the Jlouse all me-mirwhich Ih? ^n-^' ^"^' "'^ S«"«™' ""^hori^a! . On the ;{ist of January twentv s v '^'^''^ =»''i '■^""Iting ix^nceofsoveralMeinbevs^eiom m to lov..:.H ''"•"'' ^''' ^'^^^'^'^'^^^ ^he concuS Can this .speech, juiblishe '/) "'^v.Im. f ^ opposmg the Government.. caped th, notii of tiil Lie.u^nantSl^^i^^SJ'" ^'"" " '" "'"'^ ^■-^»"^- ''-« - tbaiu;;et;^!j,;;|.^::i'';;j'^;^^.-:;;;-:oBc^;;i;;!;^r;udr i:;Timin;r u^'zi^ "^^ '^^ ^^'^^^"^ --p'^^'- ^^^^ qualitied theSp;,' V embu ;^^^^^ ? ""'■""?'":-^ '"''^^•'^ ^^^'^h' «itaationJf he had ho wl.K-h bad subscri^d i^^e ;r;u" onTtl e'K'" '" 7'''f ^''^ '---1-5' i" ia.thfully fulfil their obligat o ns llo w?n?d . ^ '?^''»^''f • '''''Ivvay in neglecting to The L tion oft! Th cutenant-Guvei'Mor said in th 10 i-ailway from Quebec toOlt le same memorandum, "That the construo- luvashnuld legislation of many years past on tliis sul prevail over that of oti ler railw iiys. ijcct establishes no priority in favor of 5f the rroviiicial railway to the detrimont of railways in the EuHtorn TownshipH and on the South Shore. The DoBouchorvillo Govcrnmont would have contravened the law if (hey had adopted any other view of the matter. In the same memorandum (ho Lieutenant-dovernor] declares, " That he cannot accept (ho advice of the Premier in roforenco to the sanction to bo given to tho Eailway Bill, intituled: 'An Act respecting tho Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway.' This declaration is premature, (ho Premier novor having been called upon to give his opinion as to the sanction to bo given ; and, if had he been called upon to do so, ho would, under the circumstances, have recommended that it bo roserveii for tho decision of the Governor General, being in doubt as to tho Lioutcnant-Govevnor having (he right, of his own accord, ex propria motii, to exercise the prerogadvo of veto, and thus to decide finally on tho fa(eofa measure passed by both Houses, when tho HrKish Nordi America Act of 1867 seems to leave such power to tho Governor General, Tho memorandum of His Excellency refers to petitions of several corporations and citizens of different places, addi-essed to the Lieutenant-Governor, against the resolutions and the measures of the Government concerning the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidontid Railway. It is siiflficient to consider that those petitions came] from debtors, from whom the law intends to force payment, to arrive at the correct conclusion that the opinion of both Ilouses should prevail over that expressed in such petitions. The Lieutenant-Governor, in the same memorandum, refers to acts of Adminis- tration which date from before the Session, and to which ho has given his assent. As he alludes to matters for which the Government is responsible to both Houses, as advisers of the Crown, and as thoy are foreign to the question of prerogative raised by the Lieutenant-Governor, thej- cannot be adduced in this memorandum, aa reasons for the conclusion, arrived at by His Excellency, that ho cannot continue to retain M. J)cBouchcrviIle in his position aguin.st the rights and prerogatives (jf tho Crown ; llierefore, to avoid being carried away by this side i.ssueor horsd'wuore, there is no reason to question them now. The Lieutenant-Governor further expres.ses the opinion "that the state of our finances forced us to make loans disproportionate to our resources." The necessity of here repeating this phrase is to bo regretted ; but the credit of the Province requires that it shoidd bo contradicted.^ [_Tlio more reading of the Budget Speech will suiJice to reassure alarmists. Fioni nil the above facts, from admissions contained in the last memorandum of the Lieutenant-Governor, from the transmission of the form signed in blardc and sent by him in reply to a request from M. DoBouchervillo, asking his authorization to introduce " resolutions respecting finances," and from the silence of tho Lieutenant- Governor up to the 2Gth February last, it results that no measures have boon intro- duced into the House in opposition to tho prerogatives of tho representative of the Sovereign. Nothing more i-omains now for mo to do but to ivitci-alo the declaration made in commencing these explanations; tho DeBouchervilJo Cabinet has not resigned; it has boon dismissed from office by the Lieutenant-tiovei-noi-. J The Conservative party is no longer in power. But it is, in this Houio, tho power, a (^uiditiod powei-,— a majority in the Opposition. The majority here, the majority in the Council, the majority in the country. The Conservative party has boon dismissed from office ; but it stands uncomproraisod, without compromise without division,— devoted to the Constitution and to the welfare of tho country. ' (Signed) A. R. ANGEKS, Ex- A ttorney-GencraJ, Member for the Electoral District of Montmorency.' A Mossago was rocoivod from tf.« t • . ■ ''^^'^"-^■^^^^^ ^-- --^^^--r-- ships." • ^" -^^^^ospoctinxr the nroof r»r TT-,- i- rclunded to th« promolor, of the said Bill ^"""'"'"J "f 'be Pronnco of Quebec," bo ^„,£,ob „„.o„ .. .i,bd,.a„,„ .bo „o™. no. .„,,., obtained U,o consent of tbo To m R„Uenc, ,ke Lieutenan,.Go.emor of ,ke Province ofquelc. : ate of our | ^^^ ^'^ Please Your Excellency ; advisors ofl4E^xcelIoncyS the ex ^^r^Smt'^^^^^ '?''^^ ^«<^» disregarded by the j;es.-ot that U,;- haveten ' ft to n''' *'' "^''''''''''^ '^«"- ' «f tJ»"« House, that tbero exists in the IIou.4 a i oHtie ;? nn . ^ ^"^ i<3present to Your Excellency country, and havin;. a lar^^e m' jor h tl L nf^'' P^ff^^^'"^ the confidence of S administer the pul, c busi^.ess nn ?l.o? ./ ^"'^' ^^'""^ this party is competent to would be prejudicial to ^^l^X^S^l^rf^^'^ f V^e /ogiilature jiresTntly The Legislative Assemblv d s ro«TI interests of the country. ^ of the nunority having a c^n o ro" tS'T ''^T ^^'^^^^-^/^hat the fact 2. under which the Province Jaioi^ Ziu.f^^^^ " t^'^^'•^»«r^ ''^^^ ^-^barrass- and that a prompt solution of the d fficuhv^ .. i '"^''P^.""'^" «f the Supply Bill ; lo'-mity with the Constitution. ^^^^ ™"^ ^'^ ^""^^^^ ^t by acting in con- ina.na.di^hel'^i^^rS'H^r.^;!:^,^^' /"^P^-t to Your Excellency, that tec^i:;;^!;-f--^'^^ 58 tulion amuUia bo oon.Uloroa out ot ordoi. Mr. Speivkei- ruled : . ,ifi,.i,lo(l vohI onlay." n Tlml tho point of order wuh nuscd u d ^Jf ^ «'^ >^ j^,,.,,;^^,,. And appeal l>avi.>g ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ t t\fct ve on the following dtv.H.on :- Tho ciuo«tion was put and earned m the ami In favor of Mr. Spcaher'sllecision. MM. Alloyn, Anger. Bauer, Cl.ann.agne.Wcun^;^^^ Du«on( Fortin (Ga. .e), Fradotte, Gurneau, <- '^^ ' ^'n^. LeCavulier, Loranger, Thornton and Wurlele.— 3... Against Mr. Speaker's decision. _ T V T 'ifont'iine Laframboise, MM DeBeauieu, Fortin (^Io''tm«gfiy)' "^SSn Svlvestre, m Moll^-I^net, i^relbntaine, Jlinfret ^|^^^^ -i^^^^,^^\l^Ue.^nt-Governo,^ b AMe.«tge was received ^7.'^ .f 'J^, "us^^, Jf the Black Kod, desiring the M» ».>••« name, to sivo ;l'^«''yf 'l'^' T,°. • o S A,fd,„;., ClmVch, Mont.-oal, All Act to oiiobic the Miiiistoi- and J "'^'""„°' ,?, (.i,„re|,. to bor ow money »ml liy,,o.lie<=«te 1''° l»'>P";^y "^^J^^ b ' iig is to nueco.sion». t i:i 'to t^ :;;;::Lnt A^ri: "r^A^Heauiite aiia ntbt. wo,.. (3. ^'^;ri;^ri;:;;ne;;;ra;:i""S'^ueb.iv;mei,.in, the .». ..espectm^ pubnc "■"'rreUo'rSrtt (^l^et-^-S^r s'Thc ;.,eo,.po,.ati„. of .Mnt StoeU Com- *trA'i''i'e;oelSbe^oti,i«i.io„ for and tbc atte„aa„ce at the femoval of »al. and inventories. ,, . , . i:; ift loT-'S r- 'Cii:' ofulo xHit or i,iii..ieti„i, U, co,.ta-,o oa»., and to ™«t:ritti:amorav;iS^"tl7^'^trc„d ot ClVi, Pi-«...ed.„.e. lelatiiigtosuit. "«"''XVI'cr;o,u™C'""°tiroBoai..]of Notailcs to admit Lot,i» Tliomu. Lai-oche, to Iho iiiatticc ot tho Notarial I'lofossioii. vnia.-o of Sto. Ho«, certain lands .„i.i:i ;rf,.^=ci;:;[y if tlleTttLfsKtTn tbe C^^ """irUto^SiCirBai- of the Piovinee of Q.obec to admit Michael J. V. ^''Tif-^tSr od "IJti:3^t:;";'4"'?Siu,.e,. ,.. An Act t„ incorporate tho ^n-li-A'c'ttiXlilae U^ ^^'r^liri!:: 'ot Latirentien and Sagnomiy Eail- ""^'auTT incorporate the Society of ■■ Union St. Joseph, de Notre J)ame d. Beauport." r^t ,.f '^7 Victoria Province of Quebec, intituled: " An | An Act to amend chap. 51 of 37 Victona ^-^o™ Montreal and the various ^ t!;t^,:s;:ixt^rin'»ls^':»1^:™^-""r.'oporfy «.«-*.. -i Mount lioyal Puik." Lho Const'i- livirtion : — 3nos, Dulao, ;e), Houde ' Loranger, Ion, Tarto, laframboise, Wattd— 1 ovci'Mor, b desiring the Legislative used, in Her 1, Montreal, :cssions. Works, (32 cling Public t Stock Com- loval of seals 1 cases, and to ating to suits IS Laroche, to certain lands 'Laval, for all Michael J. F. icorporate tho ^aguc!Uly Rail- ^otrc Dame d« j iti tilled: "An nd Liio various | Y adjoining thoj 69 t 111 fo ;;;:;;;:;;s t t;z:;fr! : Y'^r' «^- -^"-i-^ ^'^ j^-'---" i3apti.to (iuc.nol. *'" '"'" "^ ''"'"ovabio proj.or.y «ubHlituled by tho late Jean An Act to a.ue /d 1^ Ac^ros ttin' M '"'\l ?'\':* ^''"'^"^"^ Asnuciation." chap. 60.) ^"-^ iOHpecting tho Methodist Church of Canada (38 Vici An let lo JZK'w ' CeroleCatboli.ue de Quebec." Montrea^;.:.^\:'^S^tl'r;.^:;^;3'•p;;;^un^ of bapiisnis, marriages and buri'us "'''''""" ''^ ^^^•^''^"«' ^^ '^^"P '-^ai^ter^ in Ac[ fo int;x:^^^4t^3;t^:;.^'"^^'"^ %^rT •^^-^• An Act to incur pcate " L Unh.n 5 " ^'u'^'f"^' f \H*^ ^ ™^''"^« ^^ Quebec." in the Parish of St. t'i^Lde Na^uL^'e- '"' ^'''^'''''^ '^'' Village de Buckingham," chap^l^^'"' '" """"'^ '''' ^^^- ^^' i'-'oi-poration of .' ^ City of Three Rivers. 3« Vie., in tl^ci^Jt^^t"'?^ "let''Sh!t.!!f; trr' "'""r ^r^^V^^^^^^ -J parishes of Nicdot, tho port o s of t .r n ' ':»'"'iio"d. ur.d to include m the County therein. P«'t'"ns oi those mu.ucpaht.es ai.d parishes not now included An W In ir^'^rP^^-'-^t^ th« 0''^<^'d ^'ickle a.id Copper Company Fire h u^^fe:;;:::;,^^;;;:^'" I-''-i--s in theVncorporitioJW the '^Mutual Bame of tho said Co!;';^^,;' '^' "^""'^'^^ "^ ''''^"'"^'^ ^"'^ ^'•-»^"." ^'-^cl to change the An Acl WT'if '■''''? ^^'^ "^- ''^^^«^« "^ Civil Procedure. Quel.;..^'' *" "'"^^"^ ^"'-^'^"^ "'"^'^'^^ «^the Municipal Code of the Province of cldcri';;i^WmbmPei:r?^^^^ «f ^he late William Pet.y, the tbere;u.Jer, to chang^ c^^l^n ^l^eSm^uis^ no!^^^,:;:!:""'' ^^ ^'^^ ^'^'^"^^^'"" ^^^^^ h,g 4;;|;i^.f ^tii;-:;; ?--•- jii^;s--h:;- h ;^sr^ -- I l^te^l.l;:^;^;'^ mJ:;^!!:,^^^ incorporating the Trustees of the American P.os- I^^^AnActto incorporate the municipality of the Village de St. Louis de Mile |r<^b,tuet oVZXi?''' "^r n 't''"" \'ri!'' ^""'"'^'^ Assurance Associations of the jtroalXl St H^'ie^nJhe ' ^ " '"'^ ^^"''^ ■^^'''"' ""^ ''' '^'' ^'''''''' ^^' ^^on- An Aol In lTT!T^\^^''' municipality of the Parish of Cote St. Paul. |tnulo;\stui ca^es "^''^■"^"^^'"^' Commissioner's Courts for the summary Inlituk^^'' iVAc""^ chapterTO.of the Consolidated S-itutes for Lower Canada, and 'nlain ofhm worS^'^'"^' "^^^'"^ ^^^^'^ Companies for the construction of roads f \l '•4i An Act respecting tlio sale of lands for fnao, amending the Act 32 Vic, chap. 11. the w orking of mines of phosphate of 1 I 60 An Act to amend the Act of the late ^^^^^^^^^^^^^l^ ots?.' S' incorporatinff " La Comraunaute des Sceurs de btc. Cioix, in ine x a rent, in the District of Montreal to.; Educational P";-po«««- ^ profession of Medi- An Act to amend the Act 40 Vic, chap 2b, lelating to xnt r cine and Surgery, in the Province of Q"«bcc. amendments. *°^\n Act to authorize the Y. H-lori Cotton M^^^^^^^^^^ appoint Trustees to insure ita property, for the P'ot««tion debentures of the said Company, and lor other purposes. An Act respecting the Registers of ^ivil bUitus. instruction in this Pro- An Act to further amend the laws respecting 1 uDiic insiuK t ^'""\n Act to amend the Act of this Province, 32 Vic, chap. 51, respecting rail- ""'^ An Act to amend chapter 69 of the Cc^solichded Statutes of Lower Canada, respecting building societies in the J'';^^"^?.'?^,;^ Xi'd of this Province C40 Vic, An Act respecting the ConsolidaLod Railway l^una oi mis '"^'^n^ct to amend Sub-section 31 of Section one, of chapter 75 of the Consolidated '^^T^^^I^cS^^t indemnity to potty jarors in criminal c^ An Act to furthci amend the law rcspeaing subsidies in monej made to certain "'7i T™^;rim;nd the Act 20 Vic, chap. 125, respecting the Quebec North Shore '^"Tftcr wTifch His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor was pleased to reserve the following Kll for the signification of His E.colleucy the Governor General s plea- ""'"l^rAcrrespectin^r the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa, and Occidental Railway. i;;^wSms^Lcellincy the Li-^--^^^^-?-, JI^J ^^^ li^^ U^^ u Third Session, the Third Parliament ot the Province of (iuebec, with tlic loliowiu, spee'jh : Honorable Gentlemen of the Legislative Council : Gentlemen of the Legislative Assembly : Being desirous of ascertaining, in a «on^titalionnl manner, the feelin^^^^^^^^ the T^eonle ot^ this Province, reganling the present stale ot Public Atlaus, and the ELlchLgJ^whicUia^ejnsrtaken place niavedetorm.n.1^ the Legislature of this Province, willi a view to ,ts W.uctn vicLom, and it.s pei. .;. submission to the Con- MeJ^vVm.tel^fe''Slf 'V Select Committee composed of I And objection having been taken that this motion was not in order in-.s^nni, „. Jall,i.,on ,s made to the dismissal of the Members of the GovXnmei t Ad ihTi h lai-o no documents relating to that subject before the House ' ^""^ ^^^'^ bnie; H ^wnl!;" > ^•^'f"''" ^'^"'''^ ^■'''^ ^''^ ^^'^'^^^ ^^at the mdn motion was not in louiei, as two days notice was not given ; ■ Mr, Speaker ruled : Onthe tirst objection: " That the matter is before the House- that if wn« SmoZcy ;•'" ""^"^ "'' ''^ '^"'^^ ^^^'^^ ^"^^^"*' ^y the HcSoSe mIIL-^ Ami, on the second objection, " That a motion to adjourn is always in order " Dut ,ff"^ *f ^"'■^.^^«^- objection having been taken that the motion in amendment was ^ot:t'kZ:r" '' " """" '" '"'"'"""' "" be made ^ a ZlonT Mr, Speaker ruled : Mr. Speaker ruled : A ^i*^t ^® ^*^^ already given his decision on that objection." And the motion in amendmont hfluitur Viopn ,^nf n ,„„.,,>.,.. „^.i ., .^ ,, ^„ Dg division: ^'" " "b'®®^ ^" *>s ^"e follow- G2 YEAS. MM. Alloyii. Ani.-oivs Bukor, Champa^^-iie, ClKiploaii, Uharlebois, Church, Dos- clieneB, Dulae, Diipont,' Fortin (Gaspe), Fradette, (Jarncau, Gatithitir, Hondo (Maski- non"-e), Houde (Nicohjt;), Kennedy, Lacerto, Livlonde, Lircxdielle, Lavallee, LoCava- lici-.'^Loranger, Lynch, Martin, Matliieii,, iVIeflaiivran. I'elliei', PicarJ, Sawyer, St. Cyr. Tfdllon, Tarte, Turcotte and Wurtele.— 35. NAYS. MM. Bachand, Cameron, Chaiiveaii, DcBeaujeti, Fortin (Montmagny), Lal)erge, Lafontaine, LatramboiHe, Marohand, Molleur, LVuiuet, Prefontaino, Eintrot dit Malouin, Shehyn, Sylvestre and Watty. — 16. Tiio que.stion on the main motion, a.s amended, was then put and carried on the same divission. And objection being taken that this Coramitteo Las been named during the sitting of the House, and not having adjourned to allow the Committee to meet, the Committee cannot report ; Mr. Speaker ruled : " That inasmuch as Committees appointed to dral't Addresses in answer to Speeches from the Throne are accustomed to report at oncC; without suspending the proceed- ings of the House by adjourning, therefore, the same proceetling can be allowed in this instance." And appeal having been made from Mr. Speaker's dccisioi:, The question was put and the decision maintained on the following division . Jn favor of Mr. Speaker's de(Usion. MM. Alleyn, Angers, Baker, Champagne, Chapleau, Charlobois, Church, Deschones, Dulac, Dupont, Fradette, Garneau, Gauthier, Houde (Maskinongc^), Houde (Nicolet), Lacerte, Lalonde, Larochelle, Lavalee, Le Cavalier, Loranger, Lyneh,l Martin, Mathieu, McGauvran, Peltier, Picai'd. Sawyer, St. Cyi-. Taillon, Tai u- ainll Wurtele.— 32. Aqain&t Mr. Spcalar's deci-ion. MM. Bachand, Cameron, Chauveau, DeBeanjeu, Fortin (Montmagny), Ron-! nedy, Labei'ge, Lalonlaine, Laframb<'i>e, Marchand, Molleur, I'aquct, Prefontaine, Rinfrct dit Malouin, Shehyn, Sylvostrc, Turcotte and Watts.— 18. Mr. Lynch then reported the draft of an Address to jHis Excellency the Lieu- tenant-Governor, and the same being read a second time, on a division, was agrccd| to. aiid is as followeth : — " To His Excellency the Honordble Luc Letellicr dc St. Just. Lieutenant-Governor of 1k\ Province of Quebec. "May it L'leask Your Fjxcellenoy: " Wc, Her Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjecis, the Legislative Assembly oil Quebec, in Provincial Legislature assembled, 'desire to reitei ate tne expression off our loyalty and attachment to Her Majesty (^ueen Victoria,' and our perfect submit] sion to the Constitution. I " We I'onew the declaration of our conlidence in tlic DeBuuchcrville AilniitiH tration, so often and decidedly expressed during tlic present session. " We desire firmly and emphatically to deelare that we have not and can w have confidence in any Administration which maybe substitul \1 loi- the one ili' missed, inasmncli as such dismissal oceiu'i'cd whilst the DeHonchoi ville Admini-!!':i! tion enjoyed the entire confidence of the large majority of the re]»rosentativos oi'llil carried on the 1 bo allowed 63 peop e, in Provincial Le<,'islatnre asHcmbled ini!o« ^,„.i. a i • • . .■ appointed bo a strong and efficient c^io rhntn f ^l Administration to be majority in this Housl" ^' ''''^'^" ^'"^"^ ^^'^ P^''^^ represented by the On motion of Mr. Lvnch sofoiKlrxl hi- m,. r Ordered— Th-it tliA «nll f ^^"'^°'V^ ^^'- I^orangor, it was, on a division J.OULS BEAUniKN. Speafier. Exhibit M. 5. MESSAGE FH0,M HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR GENERAL. DUFFERIN. The aovernor General transmits to the Senate and House of Commons an Address from the Legislative Council of the Province of Quebec to the Senate and House of Commons ; Also, an Address from the Leo-islative Assembly of the Province of Quebec to the Senate and House of Commons j— oil the subject of recent Ministerial changes in that Province. I Government House, Ottawa, 22nd March, 18t8. '-Governor of tkl I'villo Adiiiiiii: LEorsr.ATivR AssKJinr.v, Friaay, Slii Muivh, 1878. JGov laiK Hesoloed, That tlie tolhnving Address bo presented to His E.xi'elloiu'v the ►•ernor General of the Dominion of Canada, to the Senate and Commons of Canada tH Ills h.xceliency the Lieutenant Governor ot the I'loviiice of f^neboc ' Attest, E. 81MAKD, i). C. L. A. 64 Legislative Assembly, Friday, 8th March, 1878. Resolved, That the said Address be engrossed and signed by Mr. Speaker, and that it be transmitted to His Kxcellency the Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Quebec, with prayer that he tninsmit the same to Ilis Excellency the Governor General of Canada, and that the said Address bo also transmitted to the Senate and House of Commons of Canada. Attest, E. SIMARD, D.C.L.A. To the Honorable tke Members of the Senate and of the House of Commons of the Bominion of Canada, in Parliament Assembled. The humble Address of the][Legislativc Assembly of the Province of Quebec respectfully sheweth : — ' That it appears fi-om tlie explanations given by the Honorable M. Angers and from the official correspondence communicated to this House, that His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor acknowledges that the Members of the DeBoucherville Cabinet have acted in good faith in the discharge of their duties ; That His Rxcellency has allowed the measures submitted by his Government to this House, and to the Legislative^Council, to be discussed and voted upon without order on his part to suspend them ; That, whilst asserting their devotion to our Gracious Sovereign, and their respect towards His Excellency the Licuten.'i-it-Governor of this Province, this House is of opinion : That iho dismissal from office of the DeBoucherville Cabinet has taken place with- out reason; constitutes an eminent danger to the existence of responsible government of this T loyince, and is an abuse of power in contempt of the majority of this House whose con hdencc they possessed, and still possess, and is a violation of the liberties and will of the people. And your petitioners vviirever pray. [L.S.] LEOtSLATIVE ASSE-MBLY, Quebec, 8th March, 18V8, LOUIS BEAUBIBN, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of ^jaehec. Government House, Quebec, 18th March, 1878. Sm — I have the honor to forward you an Address to the Honorable the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, voted by the Legislative Council of the Province of Quebec, on the 8th instant. ii> iriovinco 1 have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, The Hon. R. W. Scott, Secretary of State, Ottawa. 65 Leqisi^ative Council, B i^riday, 8 th March 1878 Attest, BOUCIIEE BbBOUCHERVILLB, rp^^, rr , ^^^^^' J^ejislative Council. Queb|%XSlt/t:l^:^^ the Legislative Council of the Province of J^^r-^^=^ .d . the its 4:^t'^!;SSS:i^^-t:!^ to our Gracious Sovereign, and . , That the dismi.«al from officio? thrn.R ^^^"P,?' this House is of opini m without sufficient cause, c'r^Stutet I'u fn minent'dl ' Cabinet having tJken ^lace responsibe government in this Province ITmauLnT^'' '^ '^'' mainteuanie of of the majority of both Houses whose confidelef hi P^^^^ exercised in contempt a violation of the rights and will of the poopfe ^ P«=^««««ed, and still possess, and Leqislative Council, Friday, Sth March, 1878. HENRY STAENES, Speaker, Legislative Council. i 19—5 6« MESSAGE FROM HIS EXCELLENCY THE aOVERNOR GENERAL. DUFFERIN. The Grovernor G-eneral transmits to the Senate and House of Commons a Memorandum from His Honor the Lieutenant-Grovernor of the Province of Quebec, with accompanying documents, containing explanations in reference to the recent Ministerial changes in that Province. Government House, Ottawa, 26th March, 18Y8. ( Translation.) GOVBRNMENT HouSE, Quebec, 19th March, l&TS. To His Excellency The Right Honorable The Earl of Duff erin, K.P., KC.B., G.C.M.G., Governor General of Canada, Ottawa. My Lord,— The annexed explanatory case which I now addi-ess to Your Ex- cellency, will, I am persuaded, have the effect of showing that I have always acted towin-ds M. DeBoucherviUe and his colleaguon with ^^ood will, and with every desire 01 attording to them co-operation during their teniii-e of oHice. What might have tended to prcduee unfortunate conflicts between myself and my Cabinet was almost invaiiably smoothed over by my friendly desire to overlook the irregularities which I have noted in the present statement of facts I hope my Lord, that the difficult position which 1 have beeircompelled to occupy will be justified, not only because it is constitutional, but also because the conduct of my Cabinet endangered not only the prerogatives of the Crown, but also the most important interests of the people of this Province. I have the honor to bo, v\y Lord. Your most obedient servant, (Signed) T.. LRTKLLIKIJ, Lieutenant-Governor. iTranslathn.) rry GOVEUNMKNT Il0Us|.; 10 the Right ITonornble Quebec, lyth March, 1878 Ue Larl of D^^erm. K.P , R.O.B KCMG Gouernor General oj Canada: ' Ottawf"^-' use, or it ity in the ttic-ors throuirh may have 68 '• Wliilo on the subject of these mistakes, you will find unothor in the second secuori ol the ^aine Acl, wherein the word 'amerukr ' is in the in/initive mood. I tiatice tim latter inaccurancy, to which I do not attach much importance, only boc'au>;o I (li-covoiod anotjior in an Act in which I had to poii;'. out to vou an omis- " Yours very truly, *'■ ■fXoxx whirh I consider fatal. (Signed) " L. LETELLIER. The Premier came to me and said that he regretted the omission ; he requested me to give my sanctioii to the Bill in the state in which it was. The conciliatory spirit which J showed in granting my consent seemed to please him. 3rd. In March 1877 {vide Appendix A), my advisers caused me to make an appointment of an Municipal Councillor for the south ward of the Village of Mont- magny, under the pretext that there hud been no election, or that if such election had laKen phice, it was illegal. The whole of the circumstances connected with this case, 1 deem it my duty to explain to 1 our Excellency, on account of the important principle involved therein After uue personal examination of the petitions and other accompanyint' fiZllo^f^TT^i ^''T';.'^'"^"^ '"^•'^h h« '^^« ''^'''^ to make of a Municipal Councillor for that locality, before receiving more ample information. ^ «n,i ,f' ■'1^'''' '^f *« h'™ ^hat it appeared that a municipal election had taken place and that HI such case, as a principle, the Executive Council should not interferi. ' T.HeP th! ,1 ,/',■''"?,• *" ™"'"«"V^''''' ^ '''S'^'' •''■ «^^" ="' i"<^fe''^l el^'C^on had taken £set 1 1^^.; vu- f ^i^' '' ''''l^ ''>'^ ^'^^ ^^"'■^'^ '" accordance with the ordinary couise ot law, of which they are the interpreters ^ I then intimated to M. DeBoucherville that I maintained on prlnchle that all matters cog,,i..abie by the Judiciary should b. invariably left to the Coifrts, which fiom then organization, are better fitted than the Executive to enquire into n7at em of [he Fx n '"f'"??' ^"^.^i^^Vl ^«"'^1 ^^«ver allow the substituLn oHhe no ve s of the Executive for those of the Courts, when the latter had jurisdiction. ^ were in co.i?onn!Vv withf ■ -h' '^'' "P/'""" ""^ '^' Vnnn\^>^., on which I based it Juiice Uei^ LT -f r iT' '''"'^ necessaiy for the proper Administration of the subjeca ""^"^'^ '""''"' ^" •^'' ^- ^"S«'-«' the Attoi-ney-General, on I at once consented, and the Attorney-General was immediately sent for- flip facts connected with that election difficulty, and my views veJ£xSn7ihZJ^L\t been justice of which 69 The Pi-emioi- answered tKnf fu ===r subject. '"'"^''^ ^y «*^y^ng that he would Kothim tn'r.t^'''"' ^''" ^^^^^'''^J- I received that renor. , ^ P""'"' ^ ""l^*^^"^ «" ^^« toM-Mouchc^^meTalir^^^ After havin. read it I « • • • IH-incipJe that Ejrn, ./ • L "^ ^^"^ "itereats of noacfi fi • ' . S*"" intimated within the p^ovf^rofH .""'^ ""' ^^'^ «"bHt tuK fbr JudVo- ^"^'""'"'^^ ^^''^h the "(Pnt-a^e and Confidential.) following is a copy :- ^ vom (lie "Mr Dear DeBoucuervill.. t k " ^''^^^''' ^^*^ ^^«''«b. 1877. «J to «ght i. ouUef„,.e\hX;r'"' "^ ■"I'l>oi.t.„„,_allow the panics m.o,.,.. Yours very truly, , Tf, my Lord, I insist unon fV ,.. ^^'^'"""^^ I^- LETELLIER." rass;;:;:..-:,; A^^^^ , 4th. On the 19th March 1S^7 i • , "^ «ive my o„„e:;.,t™ !^ tZZ cStSrr ■ '■'■"■"„ ";»'■ "-' '" „a. ..ady to before ,,j;„i„g ,|,^^ ' condition of having all documcDls submitted to mo ^ , Sth." Dnffd^e ot°'th'e'6ti"of 4" ""'f T""'' "y "«™ ""'-e in(„,.n, „ted ^t^i^r ''° ' ''"' "'efoi^-^'nti/a^i;™'!!" '» '"» « --^'•e JT. "My Dpar Di^R „ Quebec, 6th Nov., 1877. vyiii, was lOl tllO Hllnininninn. ^*' D....ir„ . A 7 '. Ono W.-4 f^.. /i '""'^'"■'"^'^'""s wnicn 1 had not sitrnet -^witKyo,t,;;.cr.;L;'.'s:;r^;----„;r:^-S^ Yours very truly ne Hon. C. B. DeBoucoerville, Premie^f"^'"''^^ ^- I^R=1''^^I^T.IER." to The following are the notcn which I took of the conversation which I had with M. DoBotichorvillo on the Hiibject. " M. DoUoiichorville came on the same day he received the letter to tell nio that ho regretted tliat the thing had occuired, and that it wa.s no fault of his. 1 accepted tlio cxcui-e, and J then told him thatl wouitl not tolerate my name being used, ■when necoKsary for any duty of my office, unleHs the documents requiring my fiignatuio had lieeii jireviousiy submitted to me, and iinkwu information was afforded tome; which M. Dolioucherville assured me wou . bu 'lii- I'.rse followed in future. (^Signed) L. L." 6th. But my Lord, there is another point still more important, which I cannot any longer refrain fV' frankly avowed that these grants, though they were for the develop- ment of the Province, had been necessitated by political considerations ; that without them, the support of the members whose counties were traversed by those railways would cease to be secured to Government ; that there would be no means of having a majority; that those members formed combinations— " Eings" — to control the House. M. DeBoucheiville is not unaware that I thereupon told him that it was better to save the Province than a (Government, and that if his Administration was not strong enough to resist those influences, it would be betteifor him to form a combinar tion of honest and well meaning men, from both sides of the House, rather than sub- mit to to the dictation of those " Rings," and to the control of those combinations. When he made no attempt to escape from that deleterious iufluence, after his ■own avowal that the Legislature was controlled by those " Rings," when by his legislation he sought to favor them anew during the last Session, without having previously advised with me, hud I not the ri-^'ht, as the Rei)resentative of my Sovereign, to believe and to he convinced that M. DeBouchervi lie did not possess a constitutional majority in the Legislative Assembly? • 7th. In communicating to both Houses my memoranda of the 25th February and 1st March last, the Premier and Mr. Attorney-General Angers, in violation of their duty, overstepped the authorization which I had given by my letter of the 4th of March last for that purpose. They added to that communication a report of pretended convensations, the correctness of which I contest, and the impropriety of which I maintain. " i. r j 1 sliall point out. my Lord, one fact alone to prove that incorrectness and that impropriety The Hon. Messrs. DeBoucherville and Angers, in their explanations ^the two Houses, lay great stress on the telegram which M. DeBoucherville dispatched to me at Riviere Quelle, to ask my permisnon to introduce resolutions -.» - ,• , . , , , — -.^i.y..^.,, ^.,v. iw.iw.. ing IS a coov Message produced with that blank signature;- " Mr. Treasurer Church presented aMessage from His Excellency the Lieutenan ■(jrovernor as follows : — ■^ h I had with ich I cannot >Lieutenant- Queboc . " The Lieutenr i; Governor of the Provinc lai.vo A8.cmUy tho Supplementary Est male" yonronclinK30(hJ,n.e. 1871), which in .oS,..;,., •„ V,"-*'^'". ' "*" "»^»' Section o( the Bnti^h Norih Amo -ica Act fs^^^^ '''" provlB.ons of the 54th AHsembly. ''^^™'^»''''* Act, I bb7, he recommends to the Logidutivo " Government House, " Quebec, 30th January, 1878." rnef^^l^Kj^Jltl^'^f'^J/J^^^-nadn^ other authorization from signature above mentioned in Uicl?/f ^^^ ^^^^^^^ ••osolutionH than the blanlc will be noticed that tl e Ttailwnv ?i ?• * "^^'"^ "'.'^"'^ "^ t''^'"- Besides which, it wherea.theMestgei:diTeteS^^ '"^'"'"^^^^ ^" *he 29th January! details whrcVal^rnnekTd^wUh'^hr'l^ ^b« ^-^^ -^ chervilleandhisconeagucH ' ''^'''"' which I have had with M. BoBou- f.oml7rl7^trc:':l;at^hT^ ^ --^^ «b«tain the l{ej,resentative of tii^S^wn wh?ih thl f/'"'"" '"f'^^^^'^"? »P«° the conduct of '"' \V';itKr- ^^^^ '"F^"^"- ^^^^^ "' '''"' '''' ' never si JneTi^irsm;"-HinyTha^^ p.oclamutions have been published which I Houses;cspect1n7X;r\^;i^'fev^^3:oZrter"""^^ ^" "^^ "'^^^ '^ '"^^ shamef'ilvXTgeTbl^Sre'^tr^^^^^^^^^^^^ my Sovereign. I have been unjustly and i^p£Sr£tSH»^ There results, my Lord, from what I have now stated ^^^^ t'^^ir judgment. isc. iiiat in general the recommendations which I made to mv nahinflt out having received authorization 01 any so t whatever trom me, the Government of M. DeBoucherville proposed to ami t..?.f ''"'■'' "" I"w'"'® of almost general taxation upon the ordinary contracts been a k d r''' '' * ''^t'-*''*"'^'''' ""^ ^^"'^ "^''«''' *^'' '^^"« "« Message from me had 1^: H, ouses. object, nor signed bv me to authorize its proposition to the 12 I 7tli. Thai, after i(s diHraiHsal, tho Govornment of M. DoBoHchorville again failed in its duty by asKigriing icusoiih for (he adjournment of tho llou8o from day to day, dirt'eront from thoHo si/i^M-eed on between myself and tho Premier, at tho risk of prejudicinii public opinion against tho llepreHcntative of tho Crown. 8tli. That at tho time of tho communication of tho causew which rendered oecesHary tho diamisHal of the Cabinot. in tho oxplanationLS which wore given b}' tho Premier to tho Legislative Council, and l.y tho Attorney-Gonerul to the Legiwlative Afesomldy, both of them referred to pretended convertiations which they had no authoiity whatever to communicate to tho Legislature, since the Piemior had, by hi& answer to the letter of tho Lieutenant-Ciovornor of the 4th March lutst, limited his explanations to tho communication to both Houses of my memoranda of tho 25th February and 1st March, and the aniswers of the Premier of the 2nh February and of tho 2nd and 4th March, instant. 9th. That, therefore the additions and the comments made by the Piemier before tho Legislative Council, and by the \ttorney-General before the Legislative Assembly, wore contrary to the conditions agreed upon between the Lieutenaut-Govornor and tho Piemior. conver lOLh. That tho Premier and his colleagues, by making use of pretended private ersations to explain tho causes of their dismissal, in contravention to their duty to the Crown and to what they had pledged themselves to observe with regard to it have placed the Lieutenant-Governor under tho necessity of bringing under the notice of Your Excellency all tho rea.sons for that dismissal. I have tho honor (o be, my Loid, Youi- Escollency's most obedient servant, (Signed) L. LLTJ«:LLIE11, Lieutenant-Gov ernor . (^Translation) APPENDIX A. Summary of Official Eecokd. In January, 1S<7, an election had taken place for tho South Ward of the Village ofMontmagny. Ibat election having been declared null and void by the Court, it ordered a fro.h election, and appointed Eugene llamond to preside thereat. On the day hxed Eugdne Hamond refusing to preside, Naz. Bernacchcz, Esq., Mayoi- 01 the Municipality, tho Senior Magistrate present, presided. I he meeting elected Eugene Fouinicr. Eugene Hamond wrote to the Lieutenant-Governor that he had not presided at the nieetmg without adding, however that there had been no election. He recom- mended at the same time, that Jules Belanger bo appointed. Eugene Fournier, elected at the meeting of the 19th February, took tho oath of office and took his seat on the 23rd February. On the 3rd of March, the Attorney-General (M. Angers) recommended the appointment of Jules Btnangor, who was accordingly appointed on tho 7th of the same wlX\^ LI V 1 1 • Ti.„2!;.f'?r^^^''^^^''^'-^^'>?''""'^^'^^'^-^^'^>'°^' "fMontmagnv, addressed to the th. «^" •*'? ^^^\ "f f "'"'^i^-^ Attorney-Gcnoral made a report, recommending that the appointment of Jules Belanger be maintained ^ponV'theXoLmS' ""^ ^i°""""»'-«-ornor «voko,i .hat appoi„,„,ont, o„ a 73 jrville again from day to It tho risk of ich rondorod given b}' tho Legislative hoy had no Triior had, by t, limited hia 1 of tho 25th February and emier before ve Assembly, overnor and ndod private to their duty regard to it, ^ under the EK, -Governor ['the Village the Court, it at. atchez, Esq., presided at He recom- tho oath of mended the 1 of the same jHsed to the tho appoint- lending that itmcnt, on a {Translation.) APPI4 fv,„# u- i and 1st March), addresscTto the Jon j5 } :;,^\"^«'^.'^,'-'"Ja (of tho 25th February those memoranda by the lo M DM^' \ ""'-^ '''''^'- ^^'^^ ^''« '^"^wers made to Mareh), be not now > ommuScf tot>^:iw'-'os" ^"' "" ''^^ ^^''"''"'y ""'^ '''^ Ihat communication. authr)ri7nil K,- tK^ t • - ^ the Hon. M. DeB,>ueherviC.l^^^^,t'nado^;; T''L"V.'''' *"?'■'"' "/ ™"«d«" '■^^P'^i'ts of the Engineers who have been, oideied (o hx^ato those lines of railway in wli.,le or in part duriJ,; it.?"''-"^' "^!l^ '""^'"'^ ""-'^^'^ ^^''""'='^' <'«mmi8sioners submitted to the Houses, duung the ],resent Session, with regard to tho said railways S. A copy of the representations made to the Government by the munieinal condif io,*;^ ]^T-'"u' "'■ *''" '-fTy''' °^ *h^«^ municipalities, with regard to the conaitioiis ot their bonus or subsidy. turodn.!;;^?;'' "* ^^'' resolutions v^hich have boon proposed to the rrovincial LoKisia- hft ll;^ ^ ''i ?, ^^^''''l"' "^'^ '"'S'"'^ ^° the aforesaid subsidies, and to facil.iato mo payment and collection thereof. 74 10. A copy of the Bill based on those vosolutions which has been intj'oduced in the Lcisliiturc of Quebec during the present Session. . , ., r, llT A plan showing the soi'oi-al locatings of each of the said railways or of any part ot ^Ij^^'l;'-.^^^^^^^^ ^^ ^j^^ ^.^.^^^,^3 ^^,,.^1^ ,^.j the Provincial Governmont not to bo satistiod with the provi^^ions of the statutory and pui)lie law, and of the Civil Code of this Piovincc for the recovery of any sums of money which may be due by those coZralions, but, without previously advising in anyway with the Lieutenant- Governor, to propose ex po^i facto legislation, to compel them to pay. Another very important Bill, to make provision for levying new taxes, has also been proposed to the Legislature, without having been previously submitted for the consideration of the Lieutenant-Governor. _ . The Lieutenant-Governor quite understands that propositions of secondary im- portance, and on which he has been previously officially informed, may be as matter of routine, proposed to the Houses, without a special order from himself ; but ho can- rctin any way permit that the Executive should make communications in his name to the Lo-nslaluro, with regard to measures which are of a new and important charactei-r without his special authorization, and without his having been pioviously fully informed and advised in respect thereof. (Signed) L. LETELLIEE, Lieutenant-Governor. (Translation.) ^ ..» , t^ , io>»o ^ ^ Quebec, 27th February, 1878. To His E.xcellency the Lieutenant-Governor of the Province ot Quebec. Your Excellency,— I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of the memoran- dum which your Excellency caused to be handed me yesterday afternoon by your Aide-do-Camp, who informed me.atthe same time that you wore ill in bed. I have submitted that memorandum to the Executive Council, and will see, as your Excellency desires, that diligence is used to cause all the documents asked for to be transmitted to you as soon as possible. Anticipating the factum which your Excellency wishes to have, and which will contain a moie detailed statement of the motives which have induced the Provincial Government Lo propose the measures to which you draw my attention, I doom it my duly to represent to you : That, amongst others, the reasons which led the Governmont to submit to tlie Legislature a law compelling the municipalities to pay their subscriplions towards building the Provincial Railway, on the decision of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, under a swurn report of a coinijelent engineer, and after a fifteen days' notice, to give those municipalities an opportunity of being heard, are iho manifesta- tions of bad faith of certain municipalities, shewn in certain cases by their neglect to respond to iho calls of the Treasurer, in otiiers by their formal refusal to pay, and in certain cases by resolutions adopted demanding now conditions in respect to the agreements they had entered into with the Governmont. the Gtjvernmcnt believed that, without such legislation, tho object of which l^^ to avoid tho slowness of ordinaiy judicial proceedings, the result of the b.ul faith of the municipalities woukl have been either to necossitat;e a new loan l)y the Province, and therefore an unjust charge upon municipalities who had entered into no agree- ment, and who are to derive no immediate advantage from tho construction of the road, or lo put a complete stop to tho works begun, with tho inevitable loss of tho interest on the enormous capital already invested in the enterprise, and tho other dainnges which would result. The Government, first'" -'-'■'•"- :^-" '-" +'■•>♦■ '"" IliTl n siio- to fnltii the conditions agreed upon with thoso municipaliiies, boilevod thai i stituting for the ordinary Courts, the Lieutenant-Governor with an Executive iti'oduced in rti or of any it not to bo ; Civil Codo lue by those I Lieutenant- xes, has also littod for the icondarv im- bo, as matter '; but ho can- 1 in his name d important sn piovioiisly Governor. uary, 1878. :he memoran- looa by your )od, [ will see, as jnts asked for nd which will ho Px'ovincial I doom it my lUbmil to tlie )ti()ns towards .-(jroveriior in tilteon days' he manifostti- loir neglect to 1 to pay, and i 11 respect to it of which h> 13 b.id faith of I ho Province, nto no agree- ruciioii of the lo loss of tho ind tho other by tliat law .1 LhaL in siio- SpSJ"? n -f ^'^ f'' *K- J^«g'«'«t"'-« and to the people, they were offering to parties Courts '"'"''"'^ ^^^"^ ^' ^^""y g"a^-a»tees as tht ordinary r^at.nVTrilwf^'^'- T ^'"'"^ "^""^^^ ^''''' Excellency s notice that provisions of a similar r«n fiq^.f 1 1 ^^P^^^^}Z ^ft '^•''"''^ ^" ''''' ^*'^t"t^^- I "^^y c>te to your Excellency SutfsofOntSiT ''^''*''''^^''"^^^^ """^ also Cap. 47 of 36 Vict, of tho ..JJT^T^''\^''^!^'^ ^"^ y""""'' ^'^cellency that a law framed to better assure the execution of a contract cannot produce a retroactive effect; it enacts for the future, and has for its end tho respective interests of both parties. 1 would now beg your Excellency to observe that while you were at Riviere UueUe, I had the honor to ask your authority to put the question of finance before tbo House, and that you kindly answered, stating you were forwarding through the mail a blank, which act I took at that time as a great mark of confidence on your part. 1 received, in fact, a blank, with your signature, and 1 gave it to the Trea- surer who had It filled up by your Aide-de-Camp. Later I had tho honor to ask your Jixcellency for a general permission to submit to the House measures concerninff money matters, which your Excellency gave me with your ordinary courtesy. Ihat permission I may say, had always been granted mo by your predecessor, the lamented Mr. Caron. I must a'mit that with that permission and being con- vinced your Excellency had read tho Treasurer's speech, in which he announced the taxation subsequently proposed, I considered myself authorized to tell my colleagues that i had your permission for all money measures. I beg your Excellency to believe that I never had the intention of assuming the rigfit of having measures partsed without your approbati.m, and that in this case, having had occasion to confer with you with regard to the law respecting the 1 rovincial Railway, and not having orders to suspend it, I did not think your Excellency would see in that measure any intention on my part of disregarding your prerogatives, which nobody is more disposed to respect and uphold thtiu myself {Translation) I have the honor, &c., Ac, (Signed) C. B. DeBOUCIIERVILLB. Government House, Quebec, 1st JMarch, 1878. To the Hon. C. B. DeBoucherville, Prime Minister, Quebec. The Lieutenant-Governor, taking into consideration what the Prime Minister l,t»0(),a()(). iit a rate ofinteiest of 7 per cent, ; and indeed, even to-day (1st of ''larch) ihe Lieutenant-Governoi- is obliged to allow (hat an Order in Council be pa-'sod to obtain the lasthalf million for theCovernmcnt, without which the Government would I e unable 10 meet its obligations, as 1 was informed by the Hon. the Provincial Treasntec today, by order of the Prime Minister. The PiemieiMJid not let the Lieutenant-Governor know, then, or since, that the »-! !!!.•!!. .\,.,.. ),: .-5!!^;. .J ctttic ui jrcjiuiy as lu nucuoSilaie fc^pocial lugisiaiiun li> increase public taxation. many rec on these ( administi having p 2nd. in fact, II Legislatu is expres The and docui Ther citizens o tions and Oocidentt The these peti in the rec The: advice of '■ An Act For a without ( continue t Crown. (Translati Your rnndum, ii tain me in but to sub declaring j Crown, an To His Ex of 11 this state of was carried f the Crovvu^ t Lieutenant- and ,^'srrii';rait£in?c3ttZtr.hTtr '^"^^^ himself and for the Premier. ®' ^^^^ ^^^^ may serve as memoranda tor It therefore results : Ist. That nlfhnn^i, ^u r- . many recommendations, in his position at Si t ,^^«"^f"'^^t-^ovornor has made on these differont .ubjoc s of ^Uc SesHLl^H^ ^^'"'".^^ '^' ^?^"' ^« '^' ^'^^^^'^^ administrative and legislative actVcSv ' thir'" ^^'' "'^l^^'t^vkeD a course of having previously advised with him ^ ^ recommendations, and without in fa^ Ja'lt^ ^pSLT^^'bel^^'ex'" ^^^^^ evil intention, but Legislature, which he recoiniaes as bdn?r.ll In ^'''^ '^'^'^ ^^e will .,f the is expressed in all constitufiS ways ""^ '^''' '^^P''"'"^' '^ '^"S ^« that will The Lieutenant-Governor hn^ i-pqH or.^ «^„-„' j and documerfts which the Premier w'skinS^n^^^^ '^'■"?"^' *^« memorandum There are, in the record pet'Unsf rim severffm^^ l'^''" ^''*'-''''^^^- citizens of differont places addressed to tb? r ;I? '^Tr?'V'''^ corporations and from tions and the GoveriLeS Bflt with r^ard t^ ?hf " 0. 1"""^ ^■' ^S^i^^t^he resolu- Oocidental Railway." ' ^ *" ^^^ ^''«^'^^' Montreal, Ottawa and The Lieutenant-Governor was only vesfprda^r oKio +^+ t these petitions, as they had not been VmmuSt^dl^^^^^^^ of some of in the record. communicated to him before he received them advic?omrSe?;itr^^^^^^^ 'fl^-^-'' --not accept the witho^u^; ei^^^^ngTt ; Piir tL^r ^efh^^l eonclu^t'tSr'Sorandum cont^e toietain &m in his pSn,t^S^l^?b^t;; ^^ ^i^^it^^lS: (Signed) L. LETPJLLIP]R. {Translation.) Quebec, 2nd March, 1818. Your ExcELLENcr,— I have the honor to acknowledge thp iw-^nt r.e ^^. rnndum, in which yea come to the conclusion that y^u S no lonS conZL'^o'^r tain me in my posit on as Prime Minister ThnrA i« nn ^fi ^<^"p* continue to re- but to submit ti the dismissal fi^moSe which your E.cellenev iS^ Zi T, '' ^''^f declaring at the same time my profound resDectfoitlf«,ic it ^^ i m^^'^ T ?^' Crown, ^nd my devotion to th^e fntSs of ZpSvince! ^ ' P""''^''' "^ '^^ I have the honor, &c., (Signed) C. B. DeBOUCHERVILLB. To His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Quebec. 78 MESSAGE Exhibit No. 6. FROM HIS EXCELLENCY THE aOVERNOR GENERAL m DUFFERIN. The aovernor General transmits to the House of Comirons a letter from the Hon. C. B. DeBoucherville, having reference to recent Ministerial changes in the Province of Quebec. GrOVERNMENT HoUSE, Ottawa, 8th April, 1878. Ottawa, 3rd April, 1878. Sir— I have the lionor to inform, through you, His Excellency the Governor (ieneral' that I have this day transmitted to the Hon. the Secretury of btate ot Canada a letter or memorandum with annexed document, addre.>,8ed to liis hxce ency with request that it may be put in His Excellency's hands, and that His Exoe lency the Governor aencral may be pleased to lay that letter and annexed document betore both Houses of Parliament , . ^ , , i u* • + My letter or memorandum being an explanation of the charges brought against me and my colleagues by the Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec, 1 believe that it is due to mo and my colleagues that our explanations may bo communicated to both Houses ofParliamentin the same way that the Lieutenant-Governor's memorandum was communicated to them. I have, therefore, to respectfully reiterate my request, And remain. Sir, ivc, CSigncd) C. B. LeBOUCHERVILLE, ^ "^ ^ M.L,C. Hon. Col. Littleton, &c., Ottawa. ^^'^P^-^ Ottawa, :{r(l April, 1878. SiR,~l have the honor to transmit herewith a letter, with annexed document, addressed to His Excellency the Governor General. I have the honor to request, through you, His Excellency to bo kind enough to lay the abo\-e-nicntioned letter and documents before both Houses of Parliament. 1 have the honor to bo, Sir, Your most obedient and humble Servant, (Signed) C. B. DEBOUCHKIiVlLLli;, The Honorable M. W. Scott, Secretary ol' State, Ottawa. 19 3ns a letter ; Ministerial iril, 1878. the Governor y of State of Lia Excellency js Excellency eu men t before :)uglit against ) that it is due .0 both Houses norandam was LLE, M. L. C. |)iil, 1878. ced document, nor to request, ontioned letter iiint, .LE, 31. L. C. To His Excellency the Right Hmorable the Earl of Duff erin, KP KC.B GO MG (Governor General of Canada, Ottawa. ' '' ' ' ' "" Ottawa, April 2nd. 1818. M T.«tIllioTkTJ*l!. " explanatory case " addressed to Your Excellency by His Honor L^^fdi'liUrfrorSe^ilSV^ which ^.ellted to .^| Commons, containing .. it does irnts^TrcrL^VctacroTwhTch nZ'ecf ^l^:i'ZZ^^'''''''^'y^'-'-'^^^^ f- yo- 'nWa'tioVa,rd^c;t Sanations by hma made at my request relating to^ the dismissalTom office of the DeBouchervjlle Government. This correspondence and explanatons with some Hourof th '/.hX-crVTl'"'' 'Vl^ T^ ^^^^^ ^«^- '"^ PrcLe'di^gs'of ?hat fbirn^mrthL^rr'hr^ permitted to annex" them as f^wo?d^up?nro^uiject: trr;-"' '^ ^'' '^ ^^^^^ explanations of M. Angers a ..1 the inemorandum which 1 had the honor to address to His Honor M fI , i^n^v ?^ ■ ^""'^ ^^l^ ^'^•^'^''■>'' ^ '''^--" ^'^''' I ^^ the honor to ask yw Excoiiency for a general permission to submit to the House measures concerning money matters, which your Excellency gave me with your ordinary coutes# Tm^iTerrSonr'^"^''''''^"'^"'^"" ^'"^''^ ™° '^ your predIcessor%' I do not tJbink that the meaning of these phrases is correctly rendered in the paragraph in His Honor's letter to me, und.r Jate the 1st March, wherein he says - It IS true that the Premier gives .n his letter as one of the reasons for acting as he did, that this permission of using the name of the Representative of thS Lrown hud always been grunted him by the preaecessor of the present Lieutenant- (rovernor, the lamented M. Caron. " This ro^ason cannot be one for the Lieutenant-Governor; for in so actintr. he would have abdicated his position as Representative of the Crown, which act neTther the Jjieutenant-Governor nor the Premier could reconcile with the obligation of the Lieutenant-Governor to the Crown." It is manifest that I desired to say, and that, in fact, I did say, that the late M. t aron h-'.d given me that authority for money matters only. My Lord, I respect too highly the memory of that virtuous and distinguished statesman, to allow any such misinterpretation of my meaning to pass unchallen'reu by which I am made to intimate tha;. the deceased M. Caron had abdicated to'me his position as the Representative of the Crown. Every person who knew the late M. Caron and his high legal and constitutional attainments, will share with me my regretful surprise, that any such imputation should be cast upon his memory. 2nd. That, not havhi^ kept any memorandum of such conversations as I had with the Lieutuimnt-Go^'erncr, except thoce which took place since the 25th February last, I have no remarks to make upon the paragraph, wherein it is stated :— "The Premier did not let the Governor know, then or since, that the Govern- ment was in such a state of penury as to necessitate special legislation 'o increase publ^ic taxation," unless it be that this statement does not seem to me to accord with a preceding paragraph, wherein it i« stated that the Lieutenant-Governor drew my attention " to the necessity of reducing the expenses of Government and of the Legislature, instead of having recourse to new taxes in view of avoiding financial embarrassment." I acknowledge that I never did inform the Governor that the Provi.ice was in a state of penury, simply because I was convinced of the contrary. " The LioiUenant-Governor expressed dso, but with regret, to the Premier, that the Orders passed in Council to incroaso the salaries of Civil Service servants, soi^mnil to him inopportune." 80 a Upon thin mutter I merely dosira to remaik that these Ordons in Council were authorized by a law passed during the Session of 1876. I pr.^poi now, my Lord, to deal with the specific allegations made against mo by His Honor M. Lclellier, in his explanatory case, and, for conveniouce sake, I take thelibertv to quote from His Honor's memorandum :— Ist. "During the Session of 1876, a Bill had been read three times in one of the two branches of the Legislature, and only twice in the other. «• This Bill, bearing all the certificates which were necessary to induce me to believe that it had been regularly passed and adopted, was submitted to me by the Premier for my sanction. n j. x. t • t "In consequence of being left in ignorance of these facts by my advisers,! sanctioned the Bill. . . , .^ . t • i- ^ i " Not long afterwards I was informed of the irregularity, and I immediately spoke of it to the Premier. 1 made the observation that such an Act would entail too serious consequences to allow of its being passed over. i -i " As a favor to him, however, I passed over this instance of irregular legislation, which was then incpurable." ,„, , ^ . , , In relation to this the facts will furnish a sufficient answer. The Act in question was a Bill entitled : "An Act to authorize the formation of Societies for the improve- ment of country roads, and for the destruction of noxious weeds in the Province of Quebec." It was introduced in the Legislative Council, duly passed that House, and was sent down to the l^ogislative Assembly for its concurrence. Apparently in the hurry of the last hours of the Session, after it had been read twice, the Clerk, by mistake, certified it as passed without amendment, and it was thus sent back to the Legislative Council. His Honor came down on the following day to prorogue the Legislature, and his assent was given to this Bill along with others. The error was immediately discovered by the Attorney-General, who made a report for transmission to Ottawa stating the error, and suggesting that the Act should be disallowed. The Hon. Mr. Blake, then Minister of Justice, reported in reply that this was unnecessary, that the Act, not having received all its stages, was but blank paper, and as a consequence it was not printed in the Statutes. In view of this fact, it is difficult to understand the statement of His Honor t!ie Li'Mitenant- Governor that, " as a favor" to me, he " passed over this instance of irregmar legis- lation, which was then irreparable." 2nd. " Lurin;,' the same Session another Bill was submitted to me for ray sanction. On examining it 1 perceived a blank which had not been filled up, which 1 pointed out to the Premier in the following letter : — " (^Private.) " Quebec, 27th December, 1876. "My Dear Premier,— A Bill (E) which originated in the Council, was p.assed by the Legislative Assembly without amendment; upon reading it before adding my certificate of sanction, I noticed that a blank had not been filled up isi the seventh line of the sixth section. " You followed the usual practice in not fixing'the amount of the penalty in the Legislative Council, but the matter passed unporcoived, or the officers, through some mistake, omitted to insert the amount fixed by the House, or it may have been an error in the ])rooi-sheets. " While on the subject of these mistakes, you will find another in the second section of the same Act, wherein the word 'amender' is in the infinite mood. I notice this latter inaccuracy, to which I do not attach much importance, only because I discovered another in an Act in which I omission which I consider fatal. had to point out to you an (Signed) Yours very truly, L. LETELLIEE. iouncil were against rae •sake, I take ri one of the induce me :o me by the ■ advisers, I immediately Youid entail r legislation, it in question the improve- Province of t House, and id been read t, and it was ho following along with I, who made hat the Act reported in s stages, was es. In view ! Lioutenant- •eguiar legis- ray sanction, ch 1 pointed or, 1876. 1, was passed re adding my the seventh OKulty in the hi'ough some lave been an n the second iiito mood. I )ortance, only it to you an SLLIEE. 81 me to gWe mniS to^'thTfim^^ -"-T^" ^> °-'--n ^ ^e requested .pirit which.f showed ^.^^^ '^y'tZZ::^.',^!^^^^^^^^ -^^'^^^-^ lat ve Assembly in the same fo m: IFteMts Z1^TT.T-'^- ^^''''^ *•?« ^'S^'' and a short Bill was introduced to itmedv if E the omission was discovered occurred is numbered 19, and the Act sirnlvin!."t)«n ^'^ '" ^^''^. ^^« ^"^'^^'^^ >lown 10 mo tl,o document. ic,„i,iag ray »ig,?atu"o ' ' "' '""*' '"''"» "M. DcBouoherville should have undcwtood from thai that iff was loadv to appears to attach so much importance should have appeared as a p st crip? to wEa . have reason to bol.cye was a private letter, in no sin«o relating to Tube business 1 may say, however, that a reference to dates will shew that the documents reC'ed o had relation to the Montmagny CounciUonship, which wa atth^time fs^h ec of ^^:^7:]:t;:i^\i'-''''''''-^ ^-^--'^ signiacancrs^j 5th.;' Under date of the 6th of November last, [ addressed to the Honorabb M. DcBouchervillo, the letter of whioh the following is a copy ■■(Private) (Quebec, 6th November, 1877. "MvJ)£AKDEBoi,THKRvn.LK,--ln the last Official Gazette vere published over my signature two proclamations which 1 imd not signed. " One was for the summoning of Parliameat, which! had reserved in order to conter with you ; the other, which 1 did not even see, appoints a day of Thanks-'ivinff 'These proceedings, the nature of which I shall not characterize, are prodTictive apart trom ihoir impropriety, of nullities of which you will easily understivnd. " Yours very truly, Ti ri Mn«n« . .,. "(Signed) L. LETELLIER." The Honorable C, B. IX'Bouchorvjllo. I remier. 19- 6 ri 83 M. DoBoucherville on the subject :-- received the letter, to tell me that « M. DeBoucherv.llo carno on the ^a'"^ W^^^ \^\l[^ „^ f„„it of his. I accepted he regretted that the thing had occurred and th.^ ^^^^^ being used, Uie excuse, and I then toUi h.nv ^^J^^^J^^^^f^.^the documents requiring my signa- ^hen necessary, for any duty o my office, ^^l««« ^^ information was afforded to r S T KrhJrv^iife'^^^^^^^^^^^ be the cour.e followed in future. ' Cl/ai^r^n.W r . Tj." "(Signed) Honor referred in h,s letter of the 6th NoNC^^^^^^^ Ihe Leg-slaturo is further refers was the mere formal one by ^^^^ J^^^.^^J' ^^^ the Order in Council for th. i;:S:i JSSSr i^^hiSfl^ nolSr^n-ed was signed by him, and is of was the result of a «<^'«'"^"^?''^^'7„tTfv!vernor a nd handed to mc by His Honor Alexander Mackenzie to ^^^^^^^^^C. It will appear"^ sufficienlly with the request that I would can J out ^ ^^ J^^ without his strange under these C'^-^r^^J^'.^J^ifltaininL^iis signature hud been omitted. I knowledge, even if the clerical duty ^J^fX^^^^e Order in Council, as well as the S.£^i::^.w::^^briS^^.^S-->^ record, bearing his signature, " '^!t^t!i^j^rltor^\s another pointlstill more imporUnt, which I cannot any longer refrain from mentiomng M. DeBoueherviUe, there " From the conversations which ^ !^''^\^ JY/ w> , sufficiently justified m? results a fact, which, if it were ^^own, ^vould of .tsc f h^^^^^^^^ thif Province, in believing that he did not PO^««^«J '^ ^ 4ss on of 1870 I pointed out to hiiu .< On two occasions, sometime ff^^!' ^^^\,^^? f^ '^t a time when our linance. that millions had been voted to aid ^;"l3''^J'i'tin?^a lavish expenditure in did not appear to me in a ««"f 'J"! .'^J^^ ^ "iJi^'n^ from that, our credit ^^^^^l^^^Sy avowed thaUhesegrantjthou^ ofthel^-ovincehadbeenne^^^^^^^^^^^ |,i„„,io., of lioncst ...Kl "5'/;"'^f?Si^'a.,J to tho control of those combinations. „„ai that the ^'^z:;::'^^x^^^^'^^' ^f^ lationhe sought to favor ^'^'f" /'p . the -iLMit as the Kepresontative of my Kr^t„''h'>to":;jHrho';:i,Lr;f M^t, Acho...i„.'aia not po.^:. oonstiuaional majonty in tho I-«'f ^-» ^t™t fo .!,« ,..o,:iso convention, .!«. ,,,,,;,/,;;!rtaUcn?U:c" Sul^n 'iL^ilono,. ana n,y.cif; in 'the .,.o,uont in.cco, IS. 8a vhich I cannot which wo had together • hut TnnK.^* "that I confessed to bei^J^.l^.'SLl^n^^rr^'' lathis most serious imputation, 'islatioa IncreaHeiheHubsidioH^ranted br,ZTnn« n 1^'-'' '"'''''"'•' ^"« introduced to Several amendmenlH were moved to nr^ni^^'"''*''^^ ""'"^«'' «^' railway... in the grant8, and A.r theL f h« n "\«r«'^o'»^'«n«, all of them looking to an increase The Ge^neral Elections oTk pto Suentt' ?h\?5 ''"'°"'"''? '''^''- ^^'^^^ -"" lation was good or bad, it was " ust i^S l?f « ^^\ '^''"'°"' ""^'' ^'^«t'^«'' ^I'o logis- ie, therelorc, no longer a nmnG^^lhllf.^^r "'^'"-^ ^''i*'''^ maovhy of the people, and Honor introduced it^ AWrst & In h^'^h '""/" '''« ^^«nnection in\vhich 7iis request of the Municipidiiiesof CntieZ.nlrT l" ^'^^^'^''^^^^ Government, at th. the North Shore and xN^rthern Col^^^^ ""''T'"^ '^' ^^"'^ of const.' uctin,. real, Ottawa and Occidental EaUwT'WV^^^^^ '"'^r" ^'^'^° "^"^^ec, Mont- Government to increa e the s bii^S^o^^r.t'i''''"''', ^""^'^''ght to boar uj^n the was resisted. As a matter orf^ctilfnitf fuTl^;'*'V^^' *''"«' ^ aid railways in general" at a t^V '>'^^« ^'^'^ ^'^'^^ '" the building of the QuebcfMmronToM^^ contrary, sPnce our c^^idirboru e 'o nle^l o^^Lf^^ Occidental Ilailway?' On the (Icbt or liabilities ofthisPriv re on tS^ '"'■'• ^'''^ ^^Idod to tJ.o In the Session r.f iq-r n ''ccount ot those " railwaj^s in general." subsidy on soroflsouitwTs'r:r.r"'^^^^^ authorizing abortion of the was under construction to enXtLm to t^^ IV'"' '" ^'^ "^^^ ^" '^^' ^^^'^'^^ was considered important t^thonS ?'"?'^ ^^ particular points, which it subsidy of m)'oX4sdi-klc^.^m^^^^^^^ ^■^*'^^^^^' ^"'^^ l^P««'l the Loi.i.sIatureVithout divfsl ""'"" "'^''' ''''^' "^ ^^ «"«ilarcla.s,. the Bill pasL.g used't^eSi't^lls:^'! t^Il uin!^:;^;^^^ '"■' "l ^''^^^^""'^ '""^ ^««-'-^--' K-t^ete:-~ErS^^^ adopted, but without adding to the public Ihb 1 v" 'tIh. 4 ." '"''''^"' • ^1^ ^'S'"" ami 1 ^ra{yrt"''ri',rp'^' '" '»"',"';""■'? '"y """""'■Md'' of tl- 2511, February a ion nffhi^"'l''°"' "','^"J '"^ l''^^^'^''«- ^^'^ *« the introduction, without''?uthort uera'nd the fv';^^'"'^ F. nance Bills, Iconceivedmysolf to have been fullyauS- v!ri on *^.^«?^P'«P»t'on3 which I offered to His Honor on this point and which were accepted by him, do nut roqniio to be repeated. ^ ' lo sum up after tJie manner of His Honor.— not ..«„«• *i ^ '" general the recommendations which I made to my Cabinet did receive the con.sideratiar, uhich is dii, to the Representative of the^Crown •' As resnonsih (> M n cf.ii.u ,„-» .,:.! i :.. .l. l' . . , . "v • As responsible Ministers, we considered it to bo our duty to ad vj^ His" Honor ' ot to bo bound to act upon advice from him. * -"- ^ • xiis jionor I Honor to my request for an authorization for resolutions respecting finances, and my explanation.^, as is seen by his letter to me, were accepted, and the Government ro liovedfrom all imputation of intentional discourtesy. " 7th. That, after its dismissal, the Government of the late M. DeBouchervill again failed in its duty by assigning reasons for the adjournment of the House from (lay to day different from those agreed on between myself and the Premier, at thi risk of predjudicing public opinion against the Eepresentative of the Crown." No reasons were assigned by me for the adjournment of the Legislative Council neither the Speaker nor myself being present at any sitting of that House during the critiis, and the reasons assigned by M. Angers for the adjournment of tho Legislativo Assembly were in these words: — "The Lieutenant-Governor signified his desire that the explanations respecting the dismissal from office of the Members of the Executive Council be not given this day, but only after a new Cabinet shall have been formed ; " that reason being sul)- .stantially that given in the letter of His Honor of the 4th March. "8th. That at the time of the communication of the causes which rendered ne cessary the dismissal of the Cabinet, in the explanations which were given by the Premier to the Legislative Council, and by the Attorney-General to the Legislative Assembly, both of them referred to pretended conversations which they had no authority whatever to communicate to the Legislature, since the Premier had, by his answer to tho letter of tho Lieutenant-Governor of the 4lh March last, limiteJ his explanations to the communication to both Houses of my memoranda of the 25th February and 1st March, and the answers of the Premier of the 27th February and of the 2nd and 4th March instant." My letter of the 4th March makes or accepts no such limitation, and, for the reason I have already stated, I considered myself fully justified in making the explon tttions that were made. " 9th. the Legisl sembly, w nor and th As I J lenan^Go' "lOth conversati duty to tl: irard to it under the Thee notes won explain fu His Honoi would havi ■ all there Tbeo 10 con vine ihe Lieutc \'OTES A Thefo to the dism table : To the Ilorii Sir,—] oorrespond( (.herville Gi Mil. Sp irovernor to Monday, th iiay, ho rec< new Cabine )rnmcnt in the rs to tho Pro- n that point U iMished in tho iforo my signa- d, without tho tnothummonol s lottor of com i also publishol iraself, and tho my advico, ami to protect tho Executive in proper without , in Logislating itute the power d authorization ille proposed tc inary contracts ge from mo hml position to the he reply of Hi< inances, and my Government re DoBoucherville the House from Premier, at thi Jrown." slativo Council !ouse during the tho Legislativo tior.8 respecting e not given thii" ason being sub' ch rendered ne re given by tbe ) the Legislative ch they had no 'remier had, bv rch last, limiteJ moranda of the e 27lh Februui', on, and, for tbe kingtheoxplan 85 the Leg.8 aUve Couti Vrfd ?fv CVtfo ''' T'"^"^^'^^ ^^ ^'^^ ^^^-^^^ before sembly, were .^on^trary to Thecc^^^^ ^^^""'^ ^^^ Legislativo As- nor and the Premier!'^ conditions agreocf upon between the Lieutenant-Gover- tenanl^cVv^rr^nd mjt^^ °^ ^"'^^ ^°'^^^^'«- «g'-«<'d "PO^ ^^'tweon the L^eu- convZllTtex;iSnte7a"u'^ duty to tho Crown and to whTtLJKnf,'^^^^^^^ "' contravention to their .'ard to it, have placed tL Lieu onYnfrJ'''^*^'"'' themselves to observe with re- noioIt:7ZT^:r.:ZTXZ^^^^^^ -'^^ r P-tended '-XTLi, of which 1 have the honor to bo, my Lord, Your obedient Servant, (Signed) C. J3. DeBOUCIIERVILLE, M. L. C. No. 42. EXTRACT FROAI THE VOTES AND PJtOCEEWNGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OP THE PROVINCE OP QUEBEC. /A Photographic Sciences Corporation 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, NY. 14580 (716) 872-4503 ,\ iV ^^ o % v i^ \ Is ^ Pl> .' 9f"tbe by-laws of each of tho Municipal Corporations by which thoy Ji-rced to assist in the construction of tho said road • •n.d « "nfnv n?r"* ""^ ^^^ "T''""' ^^^''^ ^'^"^ P'^*^ ^^ «'^^'^ ^^ ^^080 Corporations, .uid a copj, of the correspondence exchanged between tho Government, tho Eailway t^tll'^ZpTt^ T^' contractors of the said road and the said Municipal Corporations^ with respect to their said grant or subsidy. ^ roads' ^ """^'^ ""^^^^ "^''*'™' ^''"*''''^^' *^"^®''<^^ >n*o ^«'' ^^e construction of the said .MrM ihKl^^^ ""f^l^ ""r"^ confidential Reports of the engineers to whom was eiitiusted the location of these lines of railway, in whole or in part • ... A copy of the Report of the Railway Commissioners, laid before both Houses dunng the present Session, respecting the said roads ; Aioust,^ 8. Copy of the representations made to the 'Government by the municinal 9. C'opy of the Resolutions proposed to the Provincial Legislat- re durinir the i:rver/:rtho°'sa'r"'"^' ^'" '''' '''''''''' ^"^ ''' ^-'^'^^'^ the%ym:nt and intoJh;Ssj:d^^^ho^:iKstir'' ''"^'"'^"' ^''^' ^"^ •"*^"'"^^' thereof; ^ ^'''" ''''''^'"^' ^^^ locations of each of the «aid railways or of any portion 12. A detailed statement of tho reasons which induced tho Provincial Govorn- l^l"^^^t!r.V"^l!'^7r^\«l"Jii^.^^ statute and Common Law tilCiuiu. ment has the to tlio Houso vernmont did ijoriiy of the iincil, has no a respect foi- mt-Governor. al kept from lior, and the , the Preoiier ;he following vy, 187S. For his consi- construction Ottawa and ) of Quebec, specting the lown as the which they ;!orporations, the Eailway Corporations, II of the said whom wat* both Houses e municipal peeling the during the ayment and 1 introduced 'any portion ial Govorn- ommon Law the 8ums of aving in any ex post facto 87 Another very important measure, to provide for the imposition of new taxes, Avas also similarly proposed to the Legislature, without having been previously submitted to the Lieutenant-Governor. The Lieutenant-Governor is perfectly aware that measures of secondary importance, which have previously been sufficiently explained to him, may bo, as a matter of routine, proposed to both llouses, without an express order from himself, !>ut he cannot allow the Executive to communicate to the Legislature, on his behalf, ;iny important or new measures, without his special order and without his having been prcvioui^ly fully itjformed and advised thereof. LUC LETLLLIER, Lieutenant-Governor. The Premier prepared his answer during the night of the 26th-27th February. This answer was delivered by him, in person, to the Lieutenant-Governor, at Spencer Wood, about ten o'clock, A. M., on the 27lh. It reads as follows : — QcEBic, 27th February, 1878. To His E.Kcellency The Hon. L. Letellier de St. Just, Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Quebec. May it Please Your Exoellevcy, — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the memorandum sent me yesterday afternoon by Your Excellency, through your Aide-de-Camp, who, at the same time, informed me that you were ill in becL I "submitted this memorandum to the Executive Council, and I shall see, as Yonr Excellency desires, that all due diligence be used, in order that all the documents required may bo transmitted to you as soon as possible. In anticipation of the fjictum desired by Your Excellency, which will contain a Tuoro detailed statement of the motives which induced the Provincial Government to bring in the measures to which you draw my attention, I consider it my duty to lepresent that the reasons which, amongst others, caused the Government to submit to the Legislature a law obliging the municipalities to pay their subscriptions for the construction of the Provincial Railway, on the decision of the Lieutenant Governor in Council, after a sworn report, made by a competent engineer, and after a notice of fifteen days, to give such Municipalities an opportunity of being heard, — are the ill will of certain F nicipalities, shown by some in their neglect to comply with the requests of the Treasurer, by others in their formal refusal to pay, and, in certain cases, by resolutions adopted, asking new conditions respecting the agreements which they had made with the Government. The Government was of opinion that, without such legislation, the object of which is to avoid the delays of ordinary legal proceedings, the result of the ill-will of these Municipalities would have been, either to necessitate a now loan by the Province and consequently to cause a burden to be unjustly imposed upon Municipal- ities which had entered into no engagements and which would derive no immediate benefit from the construction of the road, or the complete stoppage of the works already begun, together with the inevitable loss of interest on the enormous capital already laid out upon this enterprise, and the other damages resulting therefrom. The Government, while undertaking in the first place, by the said law, to fulfil the conditions which it had agreed upon with the said Municipalities, considered that, in substituting for the ordinary courts, th«i Lieutenai t-Governor with an Executive Council responsible to the Legislature and to the people, it offered to the ])artios interested a tribunal which afforded as many guarantees as the ordinary courts, I would also take the liberty of calling Your Excellency's attention to the fact that similar provisions are already in our Statutes. I would cite to Y'our Excellency Chapter 83 of the Consolidated Statutes of Canada, and also Chapter 47 of 36 Victori'a of the Statutes of Ontario. «8 I humbly submit to Your Excellency that a law devieed for the better securing of the execution oi' a contract cannot have a retroactive effect. It enacts for the future, and its objects are the resi^ectivc interests of the parties. Now, I beg Your Excellency to note that, while you were at Tuviire Quelle, I liad the honour of requesting your authorization to lay the question of linaoces before the House, and that you were kind enough to reply that you sent me a blank form by mail, and 1 considered this, at the time, an a great mark of contidence on your part. 1 did, in effect, receive a blank form with your signature, which I handed to the Treasurer, who had it filled up by your A.ide-de-Camp. Later on, 1 had the honor of requesting Your Excellency's authorization generally to lay money questions bef?re the House, and this Your Excellency granted, with your usual condescension. This permission, moreover, had invariubl'v been accorded me by your predecessor, the late lamented Mr. Caron. I mus* admit, that with this autho'ization, and the conviction in n)y mi.id that Y'our Excellency had read the Treasurer's Budget speech, in which he announced tho taxes which were afterwards proposed, I considered 1 had a right to inform my col- leagues that 1 had your permission for all questions respecting money. 1 beg Your Excellency to believe that 1 never had any intention of arrogating to myself the right of having measures passed without your approval, and that, undo.!- existing circumstances, having had occasion to speak to Your Excellency in refer- ence to the law retspecting the Provincial Railway, and not having received eny ordei- to suspend it, I did not think Your Excellency would discover in this measure any intention on my part to slight your prerogatives, which no one in more disposed than I am to respect and uphold. Yours, itc, &c, C. B. DeBOUCHERVILLE. After some conversation, the Lieutenant-Governor, having heard Mr. DeBoucher villos explanations, admitted that, if iherc had been any misunderstanding, it was in good faith on the part of the latter, in authorizing his colleagues to say that they were authorized to submit the legislation in referorce to money matters. He after- wards told him, in reply to his question on the subject, that the only difficulty re- :nmning was the question of the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway and that he would give an answer on the following day, the 28th February. On the 28th February, at about half-past seven in the evening, Mr. DeBoucher viUe went to Spencer AVood to convey to the Lieutenant-Governor the documents uaked for in the letter of the 25th (which documents wore pi.'.aied by the Honor- able the Secretary, and were accompanied by a synopsis.) He asked him if ho would soon give his answer. The Lieutenant-Governor told him that he would examine the documents and probably give it to him on the following day, the Ist March. On leaving, Mr. DeBoucherville said : " If I understand you rightly, you arc hesitating between giving your sanction to the Railway Bill and reserving it." He replied : '• That is it." -^ On the 2nd of March, at five minutes to one in the afternoon, the Aidc-do-Camiv ot the Lieutenant-Governor handed to Mr. LeBouchervillo the letter given hereafter. Before the Aide-de-Camp left, ho was asked how His Excellency was. The Aide-de-Camp replied that he was not so well, and then asked , '• When wo intended closing the Session. Mr. DeBoucherville replied that he could not say, as many matters wore in arrear. The following is the letter in question — , To tlio Honorable C. B. DEBouciiEaviM,E, Premier, Quebec. GorEKNMENT HoUSE, QuEBtd, 1st March, 18t8, '^}l-M°^}^"'t^'^'^^''^^'!}S\' ^?.'^!»g '"^f> consideration tho communication made into is prepared to admit ,— --«--..."i-«v/yviiiui, uiiviug iiiu) consiueraiion tno to him veri)ally (on the 27th February) by tho Premier, and also taking into eousiderauou ino letter wiiich the Premier then gave to him, 89 jr securing t8 foi* the Quelle, I nces before lank form ) on your handed to horizatior! excellency invariublv mirid that ounced the a my cul- iiTOgatin;^ hat, undci' in refoi-- t'ny order isiire any i disposed LLE. >eBoucher- ;, it was in that they He after- Bculty ro- ll Railway •eBouchor iocu mentis le Honor- f h(i would examine arch. , you are ,' it." He c-do-Camp hereafter, was. The 3 intonderi as mari}' 18t8. ion made kintr into to admit Sfhf S:w^:,'a'n7th" Itr^'lTonfvTh^* "' ''l^ ^""^«'' *^ ^^^^^ ^'^ P-.-ogati ve^s in the in eroretation fha? /! * ^ °",^'^ P*^*"^ *" «"""'•' committed in good faith intorvirw'hrch hVhad o^Te^?t^^^^^^ by the Lieutenant-Governor, in the the authorization att^ribSL'to'thomVt pSml':!"^'' ""*'-^ "'"'' '''' "^* '"^^'y totbrnLta^rZsTA^'ta^^^^ any thing againstThTdu^it^tm^i r'offl^^^^^^ ''"' ^^"^'^"^^ ^'^ "^*' ^^^"•"■?'^' ^'> Ouelt%^L^n«nl?n^' 7n '^ ^''^ ^r"^®"""'-^«^«'^ from Riviere lettei^^nS^^^nsi^rssr^'^^^'"''^^^^^^^^ ^'--'^ '-^ ^^^^ " :^;^=sr:;!;^:^r.^^^ ^^^^--'' - of ^nghtin/i^^erogi^ :^ into^iTri^^L^rf^''^^'^''''}^'''^''^^^''^^^^ fact that, although he had not so Th« Vio? nA ^•«"^^'" V^rhe was told by the Lieutena^Gove "nor. iature withon? h.^n"^' """f '"''''■^' °"^^ ^"'^ important measures to the Logi..- ikhnno-h 1>K having previously, in any manner,con8ulted the Lieutenant-Governor ?i se uiitTo 8 wLrio? *;r P '^^^'^^'"^ •'^'^ prerogatives, gives rise to one of ho^J things .^s'^ruTn'hSm''''^ responsibility of this state of So far as concerns the Bill intituled: " An Act respecting the Quebec Montreal Ottawa, and Occ.denta! Railway," the Premier cannot' applj to the miie the pretended genei-al authorization mentioned by him in his Er, for theT intevview took pace on the I9th February and the Bill had then been before the House for TfTbyliradTSr"' ''' ^^'-^--^^^-'ernor having been in .uy]nZorZrI:i l«„i Jt-^ Lieutenant-Governor then told the Premier how much he regretted such legislation; he represented to him that he considered the principles of a?v an n H^usr' ' '"^ '^•'' '^' "'"""■'^ was pushed on unLl it ^was adopted by " thi' lH'Ill *^ • ^ • ^'^ ^/'"""i*'-'' S'""^"' ^" ^'^ '«"«'•' ^^ «"« «f his reasons for so actin-r, that this permission of making use of the name of the repre-sentative of the Crown had been, moreover, always allewed to him by the predecessor of the present Lieu- tenant-Governor, the lata lamented Mr. Caroii." P'^^ent xjieu wnnM^Kr''^"^K-''''"""^ ''''''" .7*^'' ^h® Lieutenant-Governor, for, by so- doing, he would abdicate his position as Representative of the Crown -a proceodin- which neither the Lieutenant-Governor nor the Premier could reconcile with the duties of the Lieutenant-Governor towards the Crown. ikn^^^^ii""^"'^''*'?,*'''**''"''.'" ''''^"■°^" ''^'"g co'npelled to state, as ho told the Premier that he has generally not been explicitly informed of the measures adopted by the cabinet; although the Lieutenant-Governor often gave occasion therefor to the I remier, especially during the course of last year The Lieutenant-Governor, from time to time, since the last meeting of tho Ijegislalure, drew the attention of the Premier to several matte -s respecting the interests of tho Province of Quebec, amongst othc <*,— 1. To the enormous expenditure, occasioned bj very large snbsidies to several rai ways when the Province was burdened with the construction of the trunk line of railway irom Quebec to Ottawa, which should prevail over all others ; and that at a time wnfln nnr finnnr'Au n-i.nnpll/^H tia ir\ -"i""" l.^^-- j; ^•- ■ . n — iiptiHui It;:} I'? joicc iuaua uiopiupuriiuuoj lo ourreveFiuew. 90 I 2. On the necessity of reducing the expenses of the Civil Governmeni, and those t.f legiHJation, in place of having recourse to new taxes, with a view of avoiding tinan- ' ial ombarrasBinent. The Lieutenant-Governor, although with regret, expressed to the Premier the opinion that the Orders in Council, for the increase of the salaries of Civil Service employees, seemed to him to be inopportune at a time when the Government had effected v/ith the Bank of Montreal a loan at the rate of 7 per cent, for half a million, V? ''°"^*'^'"" o^"i"C''oa»'"g this loan to one million; and, in fact, today even (1st March), the Lieutenant-Governor was obliged to allow an Order in Council to be ])a8sed to secure the '.ast half million for the Government, without which the Govern- inent would bo unablo to meet its obligations, as stated to him by the Hon.irable the Treasurer, by order of the Premier. The Premier did not, either then or since, inform the Lieutenant-Governor that the Government were in so impecunious a position as to require special legislation to increase the public burdens. The Lieutenant-Governor therefore stated and repeated these facts to the I remier, and now deems it his duty to record them here, in order that they may Nerve as a memorandum for himself and the Premier. It results thorefbro, — 1. That although the Lieutenant Governor had made several representations, ir. his quality of Representative of the Crown, to the Premier on those various subjects ot public interest, his advisers have taken administrative and legi,\lative steps con- trary to RUf;h representations, and without having previously advised him. 2. That the Lieutenant-Governor has, without evil motives, but in fact, boon placed in a false position, by being exposed to a conflict with the desires of the Legislature ; desires which he acknowledges to be paramount, when expressed in a constitutional mannei-. The Lieutenant-Governor has attentively read and examined the memorandum .nnd documents which the Premier was kind enough to bring him yesterdaj'. In the record are petitions from several Municipal Corporations and from <'.itizens of different localities, addrosaed to the Lieutenant-Governor, against the resolutions and the Goi-ernmont Bill respecting the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Kail way. i .t. v , The Lieutenant-Governor was only yesterday in a position to take communica- uon of some of those positions, inasmuch as they had not been transmitted to him before the Eecord. ' 4' /^T? •'^'<^"^®"^'^t-Governor, after mature deliberation, cannot accept the advice ol the Premier in reference to the sanction to bo given to the Kailway Bill, • fituled •An Act relating to the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Kailway. lor all these reasons therefore, ♦he Lieutenant-Governor cannot conclude this memorandum without expressing to the Premier the regret which he feels in being f'O loug^A' uhlQ to retain him in his position, contrary to the rights and prerogatives of the Crown. ' ^ Jo L LSTELLIER, liieutenant-G'overnor. xtr ?" \',M 2"'^' ^^^'■^'h, about two o'clock, p.m., Mr. DoBoucherville went to Spencer wood. When ho arrived he was admitted to the presence of the Lieutenant-Gover- nor, and told him "that according to the memorandum received from hira that (lay, he understood that he was dismissed from the oflSce of Premier." The Lieutenant-Governor told him he was to take his own interpretation from the letter. Upon this Mr. LeBoucherville handed him the letter,which will bo found lurther on, as being his answer, 1 Ti.® Ii-'outenant-Governor, without o|)oning before him, made some remarks on ihe dilhculty on which the legislation hud placed him. 91 and those ing tinan- imior th o il Service ment had a million, even (Ist icil to be le Govern- »rable the irnor that legislation 9 to the hey may Ml-. MouchorviHo replied that in his present position ho thouL'ht, ho hud no o,nn,on to express on the subject, lie th'en bowed bi.nseir out. ^When he had C^''f''^;''^?'^^^''r^^ vehicle to return, having Klml a'^^^ to give explanations tt Inf -1; '^^^''l' ^''\'"^^««"^8«f=ond time admitted to the presence oi the Lieu- nemo^inm nr\ '*" T . ^ "^^''^« J^»«>vn the niemoiandura ot the Lieutenant-Governor and his replies thereto the Jw.n h?'T!;"'/;^'''''f"r' ^"'i'^'",' ^^^ ^"^^ "° objection, and asked him as to limEfl ? T'''' T^.^^'' Mr. DoBouehervillo replied that he looked apor. irif^irr^ '' ^^'^^«'-«"' P««ition from a Miniiter Mto although defeated in the House, still retained the conUdence of the Sovereign • !r.™ K^??r'"'''*^.'?^*'^^"^>'^^«'"""«'^^ that, under those ncuraslanccs, ho did not th;nk ho oould advise him in the matter. Ho then left !'?u? I , M" ^''^ ?"*^''"''''"' ^'^^ Lieutenant Governor recalled him, and said: 1 lease delay the ex|)!:mations until Monday." T • ?^^ f^>i;owing i.-^ a copy of the letter which Mr. DoBouchervill j handed to the Jiieutonant-Governor, when the latter told him he v/as to take his own interpretation ot riis memorandum. ' ationa, in I subjects teps con- ict, boon js of the ^sed in a orandum md from »inst the awa and amunica- to him, lo advice titulod: lude this in being rogativen rnor. i Spencer it-Gover- him that on from be found arks on Quebec, 2nd March, 1878. To His Exu'kwy the Licutenant-Gooernur of the Province of Quebec. May IT Pleask Your PJxosllency,— I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt ot your memorandum, in which you come to the conclusion that you cannot retain me in my position as Premier. I h^ivo therefore no other duty to porlorm beyond submitting to my dismissal from office, communicated by Your Excellency, reiterating at the same time my profound respect for the rights and prerogatives of the Grown, and my devotion to llio interests of our Province. 1 have the lioiior to be, Your Kxccllenoy's &c., .tc., C. B. DeBOUCHP^RVILLE. On the 28lh January, IS78, Mr. DoBouchervillo had sent to His Excellency the Jjieutenant-Govoriior, who WiM then at Eiviere Oiiolle, the tollowinject of the measuro, thought ho had Hatisfied him as to its legality and tho urgency of its being passed. Tho Lieutenant- (rovernor was so far from being explicit as to his intentions, that Mr. DeBouchorvillo loft him with tho impression that he was authorized. The Lieutenant-Governor does not contend, in his memorandum of tho 1st March, 1878, that he had given orders to suspend the legislation. Sent up to tho Legislative Council, this Bill had gone through its third reading before the first letter was received from the Lieutenant-Governor, dated the 25ili February last, but cnly delivered at 4.30 p.m., on tho 2Gth. In fact, the Lieutenant- Governor, in his letter of the 1st March, admits that he did not, in any way, in hi,s meaiorandura of the 25th February, express the opinion that he considered tho J. remier had intended to arro^rato to himself the right of getting measures passed without his approval or of slighting the prerogatives of tho Representative of the Crown. Having ascertained that a misunderstanding existed as to the interpretation (if the authorization asked by telegraphic despatch on tho 28th January and answered on the 2!)th by a Message stating that a form signed in blank was sent, and in view of the impressions left by tho conversation of the TJth February in Mr. DeBoucher- yillos n-iind, should tho Lieutenant-Governor have waited to make known, for the lirst time, the existence of this misunderstanding until tho 2Gth February at which date the whole of the legislation, of which he complains, had been discu.ssed and voted in the affirmalive by both Houses. The coiitidonco .shown by tho Lieutenant-Governoi on the 29th January in Mr. DeBoucherville, by forwarding the form signed in blank, was calculated to justify him in interpreting the silence of the Lieutenant-Governor at least as not meanin^c dissent. " ^^^■'♦■■i' ^hese interviews of the 19th February, the silence observed until tho 26th i3 lU 7h«°P^^''*'""''r^^r"^ ^'"T P*"' ^" *'•'« «"*^J«ot establishes no prionty in favor of ?uJ-f .1 t J^ , TKoBoBoachorvilloGovornmont would have contravoood Iho law :f they had adopted any ollu,- view ot cl.o raattor. accent" t'ho aZco"" ofT'^r '^" ^^.'""^^"'^"t-O^vernor declares : " That he cannot rSwav Bill iS^iI^I ''^«, ^ ?™"''- '" '[eforenco to the sanction to be given to the yrntTll^l^ ' TK- /", '^'5 '^^P^^t.ng the Quebec, Mont.eul, Ottawt and Occi- dental Eailway. This dec amtion ,,s premature, the Premier never having been oa ed upon o g.ve h>8 opinion as to the sanction lo be given ; and if he had Zn called upon to do so, he would, under the circumstances, have recom re Sed thaMt be reserve;! tor the d.ci.ion of the Governor General being in ^oubt a. to thn Lieutenant-Governor having the right, of hia own accord ex propria mot u, to oxevcL hoth^ Hn.ff .f "^^ ?.' ""I *'-"r 'V^'1^' ^"^">^ ^'^ '^^ ^'^^'^oi'i measure plei b^ ^ov.r^nH rn " ''f- ^^"^''^ ^"'""^ ^^"^^''^^'^ ^^^ ^^" '^^^ seems to leave such power to tho Governor General. «n,l ^wl-*" "^^'7''}"^!"'" '^1 ifi« JOxcellency refers to petitions of several Corporations and citizens of d.floront places, addressed to the Lieutenant Governor against the Ottnlvl'T'^Wl'TrpT"'^'^'^ Government concerning the Quebec, ^Montreal! ■•Jttawa ano Occidental liailway. o «- > , It is sufflciont to consider that these petitions came from debtors, from whom the law n|tends to force payment, to arrive at tl,e correct conclusion that the opinion of both Houses should prevail over that expressed in such petitions. Iho Lieutenant-Governor, in the same memorandum, refers to acts of adminis- tration which date from before the Session and to which he has given his assent. As ho alludes to matters for which the Government i. responsible to both Houses, as advisors of the Crovvn, .,iui as |hey are foreign to the question of prerogative raised by the Lieutenant-Governor, they cannot be adduced in this memorandum, as reasons for the cone usion arriml at by His J^^xeelienoy, t.ha he cannot continue to retain Mr. iJ^eliouchorville in his position against the rights and prerogatives of the Crown • therefore, to avoid being carried away by this side issue oi- hors dmuvre, there is no reason to question them now. The Lieutenant-Governor further express the opinion "that the state of our tinancos forced us to make loans disproportionate to our resources." The necessity of here repeating this phrase is to bo regretted ;' but the credit of the Province i-eqmres that it should bo contradicted. The mere reading of tlie Budget speech will suffice to reassure alarmists. From all the above facts, from admissions contained in the last memorandum of the Lieutenant-Governor, from the transmission of tlie form signed in blank and sent by him in :-eply to a request of Mr. DcBouchervillo, asking his authorization to iatro- dace "resolutions respecting finances'' and from the silence of the Lieutenant- Governor up to the 2()th February last, it results that no measures have been intro- duced into the House in opposition to the prerogatives of the Pepreso: tative of the 'overeign. Nothing more remains now for me to do but to reiterate the declaration 1 made in commencing these explanations ; the HoBoucherville Cabinet has not resigned, it has been dismissed from office, by the Lieutenant-Governor. The Conservative party is no longer in power. But it is, in the House, the power —a qualified power— n majority in the opposition. The majority here, the m.ajoiity in the Council, the majority in the country. The Conservative party has teen dismissed from office ; i)ut its stands uncorapromi-sed, without compromise, without •.livision— devoted to the constitution and to Iho welfare of the countiy. A. R. ANGEES, Bx-Atiornry- General. Member for th-, Ji;!entoral Dictrirt of Montmorency. 94 . Mr. Lorangcr. Boconded by Mr. Lynoh, moved that the following address, affii'- ming the privileges and immunitioH of the TIouho, bo presented by Mr. Speaker to His Excollency the Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Quebec, at thoBoroftho Legislative Council, ut the prorogation of the Legislature. To His Excellecy the. Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Quebec. May it tlbasb Your Excellency. The Legislative Assembly of the Province of Qieboc deem it their duty to humbly represent that the Cabinet of which the Honorable Henri Gustftvo Joly is the chief, was defeated three different times, at the sitting of the eight of March instant, by majorities varyin^ from twenty to twenty-two votea. And they j-egret to state that the consl'tution has been disregarded by the advisors of His Excellency to the extent that thoy pf^rsist in retaining power against the will of the majority of the House and of the Country. The Legislative Assembly believes it, moreover, their duty to express their regret that they have been put to the necessity of suspending the passage of the Suppl}' Bill until justice has boon extended to the majority of this House. The Legislative Assembly dosi-es respectfully to represent to Your Excollency vhat there exists in the House u political party, possessing the confidence of tho Couutiy, and having a large majority in tho House; that this party is competent to adminiMtcr tho public business, and that tho prorogation of the Legislature presently would be prejudicial to the legislation and to the interosts of the Country. The Legislative Assembly de-'ires to repre(-ent to Your iGxcellency, that the fart of the minority having a control over public alfairs is the cause of tho embarrassement under which tho Province labors, through tho suspensionof the Supply Bill ; and that a prompt solution of tho difficulty may bo arrived at by acting in conformity with the constitution. The Legislative Assembly desires also to represent to Your Excellency, that inasmuch as there exists in the House a political party strong enough to command a large majority, there is no necessity for a dissolution of the Legislature, a step which will cause considerable and useless expense to the Province and seriously threaten the peace and tranquillity of the people of this Province. And your Petitioners will over pray. And objection having been taken that the said motion is contrary to the consti- tution and should be considered out of order; .. Mr, Speaker ruled : — "That the point of order was raised and decided yesterday.' And appeal having been made from Mr. Speaker's decision ; The question Avas put and carried in tho affirmative on the following division: — In favor of Mr. Speaker's decision. MM. Alleyn, Angers, Baker, Champagne, Chapleau,Charlebois,Deschenos, Dulac Dupont, Fortin (Guspe), Fradette, Garneau, Gauthior, Houdo (Maskinonge), Houdo (Nicolct), Kennodj', Lacerte, Lalonde, Larochello, Lavallee, Le Cavalier, Loranger, Lynch, Martin, Mathieu, McGauvran, Picard, Sawyer, St. Cyr, Taillon, Tarto, Thorn- ton, aod Wurtele. — 33. Against Mr. [Speaker's decision. MM. Le Bouujeu, Fortin (Montmagny), L;ibergc, LafonUiine, Laframboiso, Mollour, Piiquet, Prefotaine, Kinfret dit Malouin, Shehyn, Sylvcstre, and Watts. — 12. rtn*tf'.'^xr^-:' 95 Exhibit Ni). 7. No. 7. VOTES AND PK0CEKDING3 OF TUB L R G 1 8 L A T I V K ASSEMBLY OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC. QUEBEC, TUESDAY, 11th JJNE, 1878. Mr. Bortiand, socondod by Mr. Roblllard, introduced a Bill (N'o. 4) (o amend cov tain articles of the Civil Code of the Province of Quebec. Second reading to-morrow. Mr. DoBaulnicra, seconded by Mr. Caron, introduced a Bill (N6. 8) to amciui article 775 of the Municipal Code. Second reading tomorrow. The order of the day for resuming the adjourned debate on the amendment movcu on Thursday the 6th instant to the amendment to the motion made by Mr. Gagnon, respecting an address to His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, in replv to his Speech in opening the present Session, and which amondntcnt was concoivod in these terms : "That, after the last words in the closing paragraph of the resolutions contained in the proposed motion, the following words bo added." " That this House, while expressing its firm determination to insiston thestrict- eet economy in every branch of the public service, and on the closest supervision over the expenses of administration, regrets that the present advisers of ifis Exceliencv tho Lieutenant-Governor should have persisted in remaining in power without hav- ing been supported by the majority of the Legislative Assembly upon their ti.king^ office, and without yet being supported by such majority. Which said amendment was : That all the words after " that " in the motion in amendment be struck out and replaced by the following words, " This House entirely approves of the policy of eco- nomy and retrenchment inaugurated by the Government and hopes that it will con- tinue to put it energetically into practice." And the question on the amendment tojthe said amendment having been put it was negatived on the following division. YKA8. MM. Bachand, Blais Boutin, Bronsseau, Cameron, Chauveau, Dupuis, Flynii,. yortin, Gagnon. Irvine, Joly, Laberge, Lafontaino (Shefford), Lafontaino (Napier- villo), Langelier (Portncuf), Langelier (Montmorency), Lovell, Marchand, M(;- Shane, Meikle, Molleur, Murphy, Nelson, Paquot, Poirier, Eacicot, I?infreL die Ma- louin, Eoss, Shehyn, Watts. — 31. NAYS. MM. Audet, Beaubien, Boi-govin, Bertrand, Caron, Champagne, Chapieau, Charle- bois, Church, Desaulniers, Daschenes, Duckott, Duhamel, Gauthier, Houde, Lalonde, Lavalleo, LeCavalier, Lorangcr, Lynch, Magnan, Martel, M-Uhieu, Peltier, Picard', Robertson, Robillard, Sawyer, St. Cyr, Taillon, Tarte, Wurtele. — 32. And the question on the amendment to the main motion, having bsen put it wa.^ carried on the following di'-ision. ) I 9€ VBA8. MM. Audot, IJeuubien, Borgovin, Bortrand, Caron.Champagno, Chaploau, Charle- bols, Church, Church, Desaulniors, Doschfinos, Duckott, Duhamel, Gauthior, Houdo, Lalondo, Lavalleo, LoCavalior, Loranger, Lynch, Magnan, Martol, Matnieu, Peltier, Picard, liobortson, IJobillard, Sawyer, St. Cyr, Taillon, Tarte, Wurtolo. — 32. NAYS. MM. Bachand, Blain, Boutin, Broussoau, Cameron, Chauvoau, Dupuis, Flynu, Fortin, Gagnon, Irvine, Joly, Laborgo, Lafontaine (Shctt'ord), Lofontaino (Napior- vilio), Langelier (Portneuf), Langolier (Montmorency), Lovoll, Marchand, McShaiio, Mciulo, Molleur, Murphy, NeJHon, Paquot, Poirier, Kacioot, RinfretditMalouin, Ross, Shchyn, Watts.— :}1. And then the main motion as amended having been put. Mr. Watts moves in amendment seconded by Mr. Ivatiicot. That after the hist word of the said resolutions as amcftidod the following words bo added : That, nevertheless, under present circumstances this House believes it to bo its duty to givo a general independent support to the Government, in such a manner, that the measures, which it proposes, may bo submitted to the judgment of this House. Mr. Loranger, seconded by Hon. Mr. Chapleau, moved in amendment to the said amendment ; That nil the words after, " that " in the amendment bo struck out, and that the following bo substituted : " Moreover this house isof opinion that the principles of the constitution of responsible government require that the cabinet entrusted with the administration of public affairs bo supported by the majority of the House." Ar.d a debate arising. Mr. Speaker, under the provisions of the Act 31 Vict. Cap. 4, of the Statutes of the Province of Quebec, called upon Mr. Rinfret dit Malouin, Member for the Elect- oral Division of Quebec Centre to replace him in the chair, during his temporary absence. And the House having sat until after twelve o'clock, midnight. Wednesday, 12th June, 1878. After some time the Speaker resumed the Chair. Afld the debate continued. On motion of Honorable Mr. Chaploau seconded by Honorable Mr. Church, it waa ordered that the debate be adjourned. And then the House adjourned. ARTHUR TURCOTTE, Speaker. Exhi > ( ( an 01 " ame Provi howe^ effect. T amond resolu Lieute was CO theHc au, Charle- 3r, Houdo, lu, PoUior, 12. uia, Flynii, ) (Napior- , McShano, ouin, Ross, nn^ words t to bo its a mannor, ent of this to tho said d that tho iples of the d with tho :itatut03 of the Elect- temporary , 1878. Church, it peaher. Exhibit No. 8. Fndiy, 14th June, 1878. Tho Honorable Legislative Councillors convened wore : Tho Ilonorablo Henry Starnes, SpoHkor. Tho Uonoiable MosHiourB. ArcliambeauK, r ,, . •- ' JjoMairo, Lery, do f Beaudry, Bouchervillo, do BryHoii, Dionno, Dontaler, I'oi-rier, Gaudot, Gingras, Hoarn. JjaBrudre, de Laviolette, Punet, Proulx, Prudhomme, Beinillard, ROHH, Roy, Savage, Webb, Wood. S"."''!S'Z''l^u'' Honorable Mr. DoBouchorvillo it was uraered, Ihat tho minutes of proceodine-s of ihi> fKi,.f««„fU • 4. . an error be corrected hv addini tn H!!^ !?■ '""^^^^^'h instant, containing- " amendment" the Slowfng worfs :- "^"""'^ ''"« ^^ P%« ^. after the wo,§ " T^f llH 0^1'"^ paragraph bo struck out and replaced by tho following • Provir^^^^^b {f';;^^|;^^Lrt^.:!^f;^ rV^^^ anit^;^ the h^p. gi4 an ou/atti^tio^t r iini^'^ihSr:!;,^ t.tJS ^\z S amon^dmeK;^:d[J-^aion!'MVSl^^^ ^«^'^*« - the resolution relative to the address n answer to hJ V u^'T^ paragraph of the Lieutenant-Governor from trSrono a thLueilcfffn? ^'" \^''^^^^^y the was continued, and the question of co/.curenceTn^^ put on ttr'.^' "''^ '^'^''' the House divided, and ?he names being caled fo ?e.| C do'^nT'fS^^'r *' Archambeauit, Beaudry, Boucherville, De, Bryson, Dionno, Dostalor, Feri'ier, Gaudet, Gingras, Hearn, LaBruere, de Contents : The Honorable Messieurs Laviolette, LeMfiire, Lei-y, de Panot, Prudhomme, Ross, .Roy, Savage, Webb, Wood.— 21. NoN-CONTENTS : The Honorable Messieurs 19-7 Starnes, Proul.x, Pemillard. — 3. 98 So il was I'csolved in the affirmative. Tho ciirhtli paragraph of the »aid resolution being again read, and the question of concurrcneo Iteinfj; put thereon, it was Ecsolvcd, in tho affirmative. , , , , The !iii)iii jiaiagrapli of the «aid '•esolution being again read, and the question of concun-eiieo being put thereon, The Hen. Mr. Boaudiy, wecondod by the Hon. Mr. Webb, moved That at the end of the said ninth paragraph the following words be added : " But that this House desires to express anew its regret that His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor was advised to dismiss his Ministers in March last, at the time they enjoyed the contidence of both branches of the Legislature and of the Province. "That this House is of opinion that in acting on this advice, dismissing his Ministers, and apj)ointing a new Cabinet from the ranks of the minority, His Excellency, was advised to follow a course contrary to the recognized principles ot responsible Government." i * After debate, the question of concurrence being put on the said amendment, the House dividod, and the names being called for were taken down as follows. Contents : The Honorables Messieurs Beaudry, LeMaire. Boucherville, de Lery, de Dostaler, Prudhorame, Gaudet, Roy, Gingras, Boss, Hearn, Savage, La Bruere, De Webb Luviolette, Contents : The Honorable Messieurs Wood.— 16. Archambeault, Eemillard, Bryson, Starnes.— 5. Proulx, So it was, resolved in tho affirmative. The" said paragraph was adopted as amended. The tenth paragraph being again road and f;he question of concurrence being put thereon, it avus ' HesolveJ in the affirmative. On motion of the Honorable Mr. Starnes, seconded by the Honorable Mr. llemiliard, it was Ordered, That the Honorable Messrs. Proulx, Eemillard, and the mover be appointed a committee to prepare an address batied on the said resolution. TheHoubO adjourned during pleasure. After some time the House' was resumed and tho Honorable Mr. Eemillard reported un addrcbs prepared by the said committee as follows: To His Excellency the Honorable Luc Letellier de St. Just, Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Quebec. May it please Your Excellency, We Her Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects the Legislative Council of Quebec,, in Provincial Legislature assembled, humbly, thank your Excellency for your Gracious Speech from the Throne at tho opening of this Session, and further to assure your Excellency: " Who sees m, with pleasure met together, for the despatch of tho business of thif-; Province, to rest sifjsured that "" ' '' '"'^ business XXTfk Wl 11 irivpi then oTflfttoet atteatlou to suoh question ded : lency the . the time Province, issing his rity, His iciples ot ondment, ws. With Your •'?;i;t;c'-^''"^^*'^ fiancial ' consider. im- nce being •rable Mr. Qiover be Rerailiard -nor of the ., .our ^;.vcellencv w -'-'"«r. """"^'"^^ *^ ^^ ^^^ most im- since last session tv w! r,"-™" *» "■ecommimicatio^ „<■.,, • . artitration bet won tZ £^MVy in Her R.?;;"°>"°ft''e judgment rendered ^ ."Your sZV;^::';'^°'(i''<>^<^ and O^Lfo." °"' °° *" I"™""" "f 'le That this House i"of™tJ°^,«f«'»lure and of the A^^^ ^'^ "W^d tt. Which a,ldress boinR read hv ,),. , , P™spei.ty of the inhabi- .^ ^ On motion or the ^fon^ui ^H iZ'^^-^^^^^^i^ adopted. , Or,W. that the „id ad I ^ ^ °°°'"''"''° **'•■ I"™"'^- Sl-caker of this Ho,«e. ""' """"'^ "» ™g"»»3od and signed by the Ho„„ K, u On motion of it vvas " '''''''''^\^^,'^ZJ^'^^^^^ despatch of the Lieutenant-Governoi to liis^^^^^^ ^^ the Pro- respecting the dismissal ot ^^^ ^^^f^^X.h J cespS^^^^ on the 19th clatnation convening ^^^^ ^/g^^ ^^^^^^^^J^'^^^^^^^^^ people of this Province ^^^Si::^^^r^^^^^^^y council of theVminion concerning such Thanksgiving day. By order, (Signed) F. G. MARCHAND, Secretary. Secretary's Office, Quebec, 5th July i8<8. PaoviNCB or Q^««j\%3,,^2l8t November, 1877. No. 1416?77. Council approved on the Sir -I have the honor to inform you that ^> ^J^^V^J ^.^^^^o^e-nor has been 20th November instant (1877) "'^^ '^ r^ ^"'^^^^ ''''' ^'"' ?ir^o/Qi^rrtLC/s^^^^^^^ I have the honor to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, (Signoa), ^^g^gocrelary. 101 praying ikl before ency the iBoacher- eutonant- n's of the e said dia- ler att'air, jr for the the Lieu- >f the said abject,and py of the bject, and addroshied de in the ir-Genei-al, f the Pro- n the 19th 9 Province of all cor- •y of State, 3 Dominion retary. i>, 1877. oved on the r ha» been , of the Pro- ass. !UB, crelary. November, 1877, approved by the L^eute'AM i^ovtm , On the calling together of the ^;^^'l^^,^J^^^l ^arT Public Works, in a ---The Co™.iUeo e„,.eu. i,> Chi, ..ec„n,™e.a.ao„ an.< .ub,ni. io the approval of the Lieutenant-Governor. Certified, (Signed) Felix FoRTiEE, Clerk Ex. Council. To the Honorable the s „ Hm Jto Provincial Secretary, &c., &c., &c. ] L. LETELLIER. CANADA, Province of Quebec [P-^-^ ^ , . ^,„/ -Rrifain and Ireland. A Proclamation. Nineteenth day of the month ot ^ business, to treat, ^o, act ai iitt ^'on be and appear lor the UEsiAii^" " Province ot i^ueocL,, ujr zi£l^ "=- r ^^'^' ^— -™™' of Our said Province f^.^^^J^J"" ^^.^^ i^ Qu, said Province this year of Our Keign. By Command, Clork of the Crow. -• ma'--- J I 102 Copv 0/ the Report of a Committee of the Honorable the Executive Council, dated 'dOtk October, 1877, approved by the Lieutenant-Governor, on the 30fA October, 1877. No. 348. The Honorable the Commissioner of Agriculture and Public Work^, in a report dated 30th October instant, 1877, seta forth that Divine Providence having protected this Province from the calamities which atlect other nations, and favored this country with an abundant harvest, That it ia the duty of the inhabitants of this Province to recognize by ])ubhc thanksgiving Uiat all good comes from God, and that the earth would be sterile without the assistance of His Divine Will. The Honorable Commissioner therefore recommends that a proclamation be issued by His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor making the twenty-second of November next a day of Thanksgiving to the Almighty to thank Him for having protected our hearths from calamity and for having blessed the labors of the people of this Province by granting to it an abundant harvest. The Committee concurs in the above report and submits it to the approval of the Lieutenant-Governor. Certified, (Signed)] Felix Fortibr, Clerk Ex. Council. To the Honorable the Provincial Secretary, &c., &c„ &c. L. LETELLTER. CANADA, ) Province of Quebec. >• rL.s.] ) Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Bntam and Ireland,. (^UKEN, Defender of the Faith, &c., dec, i • e At Our Government House, in Our City of Quebec, in Our said 1 rovince ot Quebec, this Thirtieth day of October, in tlio year ot Our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventy seven, in the forty-first year of Our Reign. Bv command, PH. J. JOLICCEUR, Assistant- Secretary. 103 CANADA, ) Province of Quebec, > District of Montmagny. ) District Magistrate's Court for the County of Montmagny. Ex Parte:— Jules Belanger, guardian and proprietor of a bridge, la the village of Montmagny, in the County and District of Montmagny, ^^^ Eugene Fournier, diver, of the Village of Montmagny, ^^^^^ The thirty-first day of January, eighteen handretl and seventy-seven. Present : James Oliva, Esquire. The Court after having heard the parties in this cause by t^eir J'^f ff [7^ Counsel and the (leclaration made in this cause by the Respondent, and filed in the record and his admiswions before the Court. . , , , ♦• „ ^p +u„ nino+nr^ Considering that on the eighth of January instant, at a meeting of the e ectorn ot the So^h wf rd of the Villale of Montmagny, held at the said p a(=e for the ejection ofaCoundll^^^ ^^'^ rominated namely: Eugene ^'"Colldlnif^ nominated than there were coun- '^^^'consid'erShatthe presiding officer of such meeting granted a poU on the requSn of a^umber of^electurs^required by law, ^-'1';-^^^.^,^' ^""^ '^''^ to register the votes of the electors present in favour of two candidates. Co. s der'ng that such presiding officer, after beginning to regis er the votee on thesaWeiSdayofJanuaiy, Without waiti^ that an hour should have elapsed wfthoit Storing a vote, closed the said election and proclaimed the said Eugene ^'^'^^^X^^^of such election and such proclamation were illegal. ^'''^^::^ZS:^:^:^^^;r^SS^ s^ Eugene F.^er illegJl annuls and cancels them, and ordlrs that on M-dajj tl^ rCtma^ny in Fahruarv next at ten of the o'clock in the forenoon, at the village ot Montmagny, in prSnt. i^SZ &rt appoS^ for .u.h purpo,. Eugene H.mond, e.„uu-e. of th« ii^Sh hf S'lays fol- costs against the said respondent, but w.thout costs. ^^'^""'^^ A. Bender, C. C. C. M. & C. D. M. C. M. In the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy seven, on the nineteenth Montmagny, and residing theiom. 104 I, tho undersigned, notary public, for the Province of Quebec, residing in the parish of St. Tliomas, in tho County of Montmagny. Went for that purpose, to tho residence of Captain Eugene Haraond, situate in the said Village of Montmagny, and being there and speaking to him, I did on behalf of the petitioners, say and declare as follows, to wit : — That in virtue of a judgment rendered by James Oliva, enquire, stipendiary magistrate, in January last, and duly served on him, he had been appointed to preside over the election of a councillor, in tho South Ward of tho said Corporation of the Village of Montmagny, which is to take place this day, the nineteenth of Feb- ruary, for the purpose of electing a councillor in tho place of Eugene Fournier whose election was set aside by the said judgment. That the said election would be useless and of ro effect or avail other than to give rise to lawsuits and cause considerable expense to the ratepayers of tho corpor- ation of the Village of Montmagny, for tho following reasons, to wit: because no public notice was given within the delay -equirod and provided by the Municipal 'CJode, namely : seven clear days between tho publication of the notice and the day of the election. Wherefore we have protested and notified, as, by these presents, we do protest and notify tho said Eugene Hamond, not to preside over the said election ar.d that in default of his complying herewith, the said potitionorp intend to hold him per- sonally responsible for all costs and expenses which may be incurred and for all against which we should and may protest in such cases. And speaking as aforesaid we left a copy of these presents with him at his domicile so that he cannot plead or pretend ignorance thereof. Thus done and notified under number eight thousand two hundred and ten, at the domicile of tho said Eugene Hamond, on the day and on the year first aforesaid, on being required so to do and after its having been read. J. S. (Signed) F. X. GENDEBAU. St. Thomas, Montmagny, 19th February, 1811. Sir, — I have the honor to forwai-d you a copy of a judgment of the Magistrate's Court for the County of Moutmagny, authorizing me to preside over a public meeting which w:.s to have been hold to-day, the 19th day of February, for tho purpose of electing a Councillor for the South Ward of tho Municipality of Montmagny. In accordance with the copy of the judgment which had been served on me as provided by article 361, I did not preside over such meeting because the legal notice, as required by article 362 of the Municipal Code, and in virtue of the enclosed judg- ment, was not given. I also enclose herewith tho protest served on me this day, the 19th of February, and ; therefore recommend that Jules Belanger, ratepayer, elector and proprietor, be appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the setting aside of tho election of Mr. Eugene F'ournier, as appears by the said judgment. I have tbe honor to bo, Sir, Your very humble servant, (Signed) EUGENE HAMOND, President \ !fo the Honorable Luc Lkteli-Ibr dr St. .Just, Lieutenant-Governor, Quebec 105 ng in the ituate in on behalf ipendiary pointed to rporation th of Feb- ier whose ar than to ho corpor- ecauso no Municipal 1 the day lo protest arid that him per- ind for all lim at his id ten, at aforesaid, EAU. 1877. agistrate's c meeting )urpose of y- on me as E;al notice, osed judg- February, troprietor, ion of Mr. ident Montreal Telegraph Company, Quebec, 7th March, 1877. By telegraph from St. Thomas Village. To A. E. Angers, The public notice for election of councillor in question, ca nineteenth February last, was posted up by the Mayor on the evening of the seventeenth February. As secretary I was not aware of it. (Signed) Pbovince op Quebec, J. S. Vall^e, Secretary- Treasurer. Quebec, 9th March, 1877. Sir —I have the honor to inform you that His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor has been pleased to appoint Mr. Jules Belanger, Municipal Councillor for the South Ward of the Village of Montmagny, in the place of Mr. Eugene Fournier, whose election is sot aside. Please notify that gentleman of his appointment. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, (Signed) J. S. Vall^e, Esquire, Secretary Treasurer. St. Thomas Village, Co. Montmagny. Ph. J. Jolicceur, Assistant-Secretary. Secretary's Office. Quebec, 27th March, 1877. The appointment of Jules Belanger, as Municipal Councillor for the South Ward of the village of Montmagnj, is hereby revoked. By order, J. A. Chapleau, Secretary. Approved 27th March 1877. (Signed) L. Letellie?.. Province op Quebec Quebec, 27th March, 1877. qiR -T have the honor to inform you that His Excellency the Lieutenant Gover- kontmagny. ^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ j^^^ gi^. Your obedient servant. rtjigned) Ph. J. Jolic(Eur, ^ ® As3t. Secretary. Jules Belanukb, Eeq., Montmagny. 106 Canada, Province of Quebec. Municipality of the Village of Montmagny. At a meeting of the municipal electors of the South Ward of the corporation of the Village of iMontraagny, held on the nineteenth day of February instant, at tea o'clock in the forenoon, in accordance with a judgment rendered by the Magis- trate's Court for the county of Montmagny, ou the thirty-first day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, which said meeting was held in the house of tljo Pont Eegent, situate within the limits of the aforesaid South Ward ; Eugene Hamond, esquire, the person appointed by the Court to preside over the said meeting, having refused to preside ov. the said meeting although called upon to do so by the electors present; The undersigned, Mayor of the said municpa- lity of the Village of Montmagny, acting as magistrate e.r-o^ao, and as such the senior magistrate present at the said meeting, presided over such meeting, Bugone Fournier, having been proposed by Louis Dion, Hermenegilde Bou- langer and other electors of the said South Ward of the Corporation of the Village of Montmagny, as councillor for the said quarter, was nominated and as no other person was proposed by the said meeting in opposition to the appointment of the said Eugene Fournier, during the space of one hour after the said motion, I pro- claimed the said Eugene Fournier, m councillor duly elected for the South Ward, of the Village of Montmagny, In faith of which I have signed these presents at Montmagny, on the 19th dav of February, 1877. (Signed) True copy, (Signed) N. BERNATCHEZ, Mayor. Magistrate ex-officio presiding over the said meeting. N. Behnatchez, Mayor, Montmagny, 19th March, 1877. To the Honorable J, A, Chapleai', Provincial Secretary, Quebec. SiH,— I regret to learn from your letter of the UUh instant, that His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor has been advised not to revoke the appointment of Mr. Julea Kelangei-, as municipal c'^uncillor for the South Ward, in the Village of Montmagny. Article ;^>()2 of the Municipal Code says that " The omission to give this notice pro- vents a meeting of the municipal electors from being held," but there was no such omission .since notice was given on the 17th February, as you have been informed by the ex-Seeretary-Treasurei'. Article 2\^b says that in the case of every general election " The omission to- give such public notice does not prevent the meeting of the municipal electors from being held," The rate-payers have the same interest in either case ; it was evident that it was only by inadvertence that Article 302 was not amended in the same manner as Article 295 by the 36 Vic, cap, 21, s, 7. Article 16 says: "No objection founded upon form, or upon the omission of any formality even imperative, can be allowed to prevail in any action, suitor pro.^oediiig, respecting municipal raati^rs," An undisputed fact exists, and that is that on the nineteenth of February, eighteen ^hundred and seventy-seven, a meeting of the rate payers of the South Ward VU.X3 ptt» puou vi dcuttiu^ a iju.uuit_ipai. of the V. Councillor hlcro ctf — a^- -• was 107 magny. oration of nt, at ten le Magi 8- Januaiy, house of iside over igh called municpa- such the ;ilde Boii- le Village I no other )nt of the an, I pro- Jth Ward, ) 19th day EZ, Mayor. 1 meeting. 877. xcellencjr Mr. Julea ntmagny. lotice pro- 8 no such iafornied nission to- tore from, lat it was as Article ion of any ro. needing: February, ithWard lunicipal That the Haid mooting was held in virtue of a juJgmont rendered bv the MagiM- trate s Uourt. jo , & That a public notice of the said meeting was posted up at the church door, and on the houbo in which the poll was hold for the said South Ward ; and the said notice was read in a loud and intolligiblo voice by tho undersigned, at the church door after (^rand Maws, on Sundaj-, the eighteenth of February last, as appears by a certificate under outh hied amongst the archives of the Council. That the i)roHiding officer appointed by tho said Court, having refused to preside over tho said meeting, I was called upon to preside. That Mr. Eugene Fournior having been nominated, and no other candidate hav- ing been proposed to oppose him, after tho delay fixed by law, ho was declared elected by acclamation. That Mr. Eugene Fournior has been duly sworn in as Municipal Councillor, and has exercised and still does exercise tho functions of such municipal office as appears 7 the copy of the proces-verbat of the votes and proceedings of tho Municipal Council ot the yillage of Montmagny of the meeting held on the iwenty-third February last, which 1 have the honor to transmit you to be laid before His Excellency with these presents *^ You will ob(.orve by the copy of the said proc6tverbal that all tho members of the- council were present at the said mooting, and that not one of them made any objec- tion to Mr. Fournier taking his seat. I am informed by distinguished lawyers that the election of Mr. Eugene Fournier, ts""" -^-'-.....v/. A.v..<^.T uio ovtiL \ji iiiuuiuiJJUl VyUUIHJlllor, ills JLXCOIIOUC ht-Governor has no right to appoint another Councillor in his place. That His Excellency tho Lieutenant-Governor having appointed xMr. Belanger to replace Mr. Eugene Fournier before the election of the latter had been set aside, the appointment made by His Excellency is altogether null. Notwithstanding the profound respect which the Municipal Council of tho village of Montmagny has for His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, and for all the orders issued in his name, being convinced that tho appointment of Mr. Belanger as Council- lor, was made irregularly and illegally, and that to submit thereto would be to wiive the rights and privileges secured to every citizen by the constitution and laws of this country, the majority of the Council opposes, and will firmly oppose, the admission of Mr. Jules Belanger into its midst. 1 have the honor to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, (Signed) N. BERNATCHEZ, Mai/or^ Department of the Law Officers op tiie Crown. Quebec, 15th March, 1877. Having taken communication of the petition of N.JBernatchoz, Mayor of Village of Montmagny, dated 10th of March instant, and received on the i3th of the f«ame month, praying for the cancelling of the appointment of .lulos Belanger as Municipal Councillor for the South Ward of the said Village of Montmagny, and repre- senting (hat [lis I5xcollency the Lieutenant-Governor has been deceivyd and led into error, and that the said appointment was made on false representations, I have tho honor to report as follows : The record on which I based my opinion when I recommended the said appoint- ment to His Excellency, establishes that the notice required bylaw for tho calling together 01 the meeting Oi municipat ei6C'tor.T for the new election ordered bj' the Court, was not given. A telegram from the secretary-treasurer of the said muiuci- (, 108 palitv ostablishos that the notice of the mo'>ting which was to be held on the nine- teenth ot Fol)r«aiy last, wa» only posted up on the evening of the Hovontoouih by the Mayor, N. Bornatchez. , _. ^,. ... Tiio rec.»rd also i-ontuins a protest calling upon the presiding olhcer appointed by the judgment not to hold the election, owing to the notice of the mooting required by law not having been given. • < i i tu All these documents, with a letter from the presiding officer appointed by the iudgment establishing, that he had not presided over the meeting, have beeri sub- mitted to His Excellency witfi my repoit recommending the appointment of Jules Article 362 of the municipal code requires that in the case of an election ordered by a judgment ot the Court, a public notice be given of the holding ot a meeting called together for such purpose. , , . r ^u i By article 238 such notice must bo given at least seven clear days before the day fixed for the meeting. ^- c Article 362 says that the omission to give this notioe prevents the meeting from being held. „. ,. ., n- e*v. The petitioner Mr. Bornatchez, in support of his request for the cancelling of the said appointment does not allege that the notice required by Article 362, without which the meeting could not be held, was given ; he does allege only, in support of his request, the fact that, on a certain occassion (on which a meeting of electors conld not even be held) ho proceeded to make a pretended election. .... A party cannot derive any advantage or create any presumption in his favor, from the fact ihat he contravened Article 362. The pretended election held by the petitioner Bernatchez on the day on which a meeting of electors could not take place, is not only liable to be cancelled, but it is of itself completely null. i. t i nx\ I a.a of opinion that the appointment made by His Lxc ;llency of Jules B6lan. ger, a:^ municipal councillor for the south ward of the village of Montmagny, was legally made and should not be set aside. A. E. ANGERS, (Signed) Attorney-General. Province op Quebec, Secretary's Office, Quebec, 16th March, 18*77. SiK —In reference to the petition forwarded by you on the 10th of this month re- spp^ting the appointment of Mr. Jules Belanger, as Municipal Councillor for the south wti.d of the village of Montmagny, I have the honor to inform you that the appoint- ment nade bv His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor cannot be cancelled. It has been shown to His Excellency that the notice required by law, for calling together the meeting of municipal electors for the purpoi?e of holding the election ordered by the judgment (^'the court was not given. A telegram from the Secretary-Treasurer of the said nninicipality ebtublishes that the notice of the meeting which was fixed for the nineteenth of February last, was only posted up in the evening of the seven- teenth by yourself. . „ There has also been |)voduced a protest calling upon the presiding officer appointed by tho judgment not to hold the election, as the notice of the meeting had not been given at* required by law. • <. i All these documents, toijother with a letter from tho presiding officer appointed by the judgment, establishing that he had not presided over the meeting, have been submitted "to His Excellency with a report recommending the appointment of Mr. Jules Belanger. Article 3(52 of the municipal code requires that in the case of an election ordered by a judgment of tho Court, a prblic notice be given of the holding of such meeting called together fov 3uch purpose. 109 '^^;;X^;;l^i;^noti.emu.tbo ,Wen «>voo clo.. Jay. bofuro tl.o .lay n..d '"■• *A,.S'S"ay- that the omtaion of »ueh notice prevent, the holding of th. meeting. ••• " -'^ ^-..^fr^^nt vnn do not .liege that tl.« "ot.ce .■equu-ea_by Art.tlo 3b^ w^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ „ , P-'tpt.t™-ot derive any advantage or create any presumption inh,» favor -^t rtriX^iy^r-r^^^^^^ ""' Xt; j;'r fe'^ltrC" UrSS'not ^ cancel tie appointn^ent of M. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, (Signed) J. A. CHAPLEAU, Secretary. N. Bernatchez, Mayor, Montmagny. FiVtofjfe of Montmagny. At Which .noeting of .» twentythird of robraary, one thousand eight hundred and seventy seven, were present. „ Gendreau, Joseph Miuhon, Godetroi on Sunday next, at the fose o ^J^^-^^^..^^: ^^ now until Monday next, acconhng niera of the Eegent Bridge will be leceiveui^^^^^^^^ rtLBpecitic-ation to be furnished by the Sec^^^^^^ t,,a ,t be Mr^Louis Letourneau moved, ?«X, at thrfiVst sitting of this council, Jean resolved and ordered by tl"« ^^^JJ^^/'' '^^^^^^ the Municipal Council of the StanislaB Valleo, Esquire, M P., S«cretai>^lieasuie ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^^ showing ViUage of Monimagny, do give to his counci^ a legal «^^ ^^ ^ ■ EUGENE FOURNIER. NAZAIRE BERNATCilBZ, Mayor. J. S. VALfiE, Secretary- Treasurer. Certitiod a true and faithful copy of the register of the votes and proceedings of the Council of the Village of Montmagny. (Signed) NAPOLEON BEL ANGER, Secretary- Treamrer. Montmagny, 17th March, 1877. Montmagny, 10th March, 1877. To His Excellency The Honorable Luc Lbtellibr db St. Just, Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Quebec. May it i>lease Your Exoellsnot: I take the liberty of respectfully informing you that on the 19th day of Feb- ruary last, Eugene Fournier, of the Village of Montmagny, was elected by accla- mation municipal councillor for the South Ward of the said Village of Montmagny, at a meeting of the municipal electors of the said Ward, held in accordance with a judgment rendered by the Magistrate's Court for the County of Montmagny, dated the 31st January, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, as appears by a copy of the minutes of the said meeting, which I have the honor to enclose herewith. Tliiit, the r^aid Kugeno Fournier has been duly sworn in as municipal cuuncilloi*, and that he has already exercised and still oxeicisos the duties of the said ofUco. The Council learns with regret that Yohr Excellency has been doco' ■ • 1 and 1-4 into error, uiid that in consequence of false loprcsentations. Your E.xcellency being under the impression that the said seat was vacant, has appointed Jules Bolangor as the per'^oii lu fill the place of Municipal Councillor for the said Ward. Under the circumstances we respectfully hope, that in consideration of the facts elsewhere set forth, Y''our Excellency will be pleased to cancel the appointment of the said Jules Belanger, so as to avoid the inevitable trouble to which this conflict of authority will give rise. I have the honor to be. Your Excellency's very humble servant, (Signed) N. BKENATCHEZ, Mayor. Ill (Translation.) GoVIRNMliNT IIoUHK, QuJBBSC, llHh March, 1878. To lliR Excellency the Right Ilonorabie The Karlot Duffbrin. K.P., K.C.B., O.C.M.G., Governor Gone- >.l of Canada, Ottawa. MyLohu,— The unnf»xod explanatory case which I now addrOHfl to Your Excellency, will, I am persmulod, have the ott'ect o( hhewing that I have always acted towan's M. DoBoucherville und hln collcagucB with good will, and with every desire of atfordiiig to them co-operation during their tenure of office. What might have tended to produce unfortunate conflicts between mynelt ana my Cabinet was almost invariably smoothed over by my friendly desire to overlook the irregularities which I have noted in the present statement of lacts. I hope, my Lord, that the difficult position which I have been compelled to occupy, will be j.istitied, not only because it is constitutional, but also because the conduct of my Cabinet endangered not only the prerogatives of the Crown, but also toe most important interests of the people of this Provmce. I have the honor to be, My Lord, Your most obedient servant, (Signed) L. l1':tellier, Lieut. -Governor. (Translation.) ^, ir ^ Government House, Quebec, 18th March, 1878. To the Right Honorable The Earl of Dufferin, K.P., K.C.B., G.C.M.G., Governor General of Canada, Ottawa. Mt Lo^d— I have the honor now to submit for Your Lordship's consideration documents and details wL.ch I could not lay before the public but from which it would have been more clearly understood that the dismissal of M. DeBoucherviUe s •Cabinet was ibrced upon me by circumstances. ..,„K^,.p,«d M ' These details ar-^ not contained in the correspondence which I authorued M. DeBouchervillo to place before the Houses, and which are hereunto aniioxed. From the cUivth-vt I was, by Your Excellency, raised to the position I occupy at present all mv private relations with the members of my Cabinet, up to the time of S e 1 disn is -a tVom office, wore, 1 must admit, genei-ally of an 'Vgreeal.o nature but n those of an official character, with the Premier, I almost invariably felt that I S it enjoy that er.tire confidence on his part, which is the ch,o element of a cordial uiuleistanding between the Representatives of the Crown and his a. v.sers. Aftei h I i..^ the general state o the affairs of our Province, after having become convinetTd thai legislative and administrative changes were beoommg more and more necessary, 1 decided upon using with moderation, and with the greatest SsiMe discretion, ho influence attached lo my position, in order to obtain the Fealix lion o t at which I deemed to be .: the greatest advantage to the Province. J ig^t to state to Your Excellen^^^ that, although M. ^^Bouchemlle did, on most occasions, take my advice in good part and generally approved of it, he never- XelLaTmos always icted as though he had never received it. Nevertheless far ftom usin7n y authority to obstruct^'his action in any way I invariably treated him S S indulgence, as will appear to Your Excellency by the following facts :-^ M iirSlie Session of 1§^76, a Bill had been read three times m one of thft two branches of the Legislature, and only twice in the other. 112 This Bill bearing allthe certificates which were necessary to induce me to believe that it had been regularly passed and adopted, was submitted to me by the Premier for my sanction. „ , i • i ^n consequence of being left in ignorance of these ft^cts by my advisers, 1 ''"''Stontr''afte"wards 1 was informed of the irregularity, and immediately spoke of it to the Premier ; I made the observation that such an act would entail too serious consequences lo allow of its being passed over. , , • ,„,-^^ As a favor to him, however, I passed over this instance of irregular legislation, which was then irreparable. . . , , n *• 2nd During thi same session another Bill was submitted to me for my sanction On examining if, I perceived a blank which had not been tilled up, which I pointed out to the Premier in the following letter :— «' i^Privaie.) <' Quebec, 27th Dec, 18tG. " My Dear Premier,-A Bill (E) which originated in the Council was passed by the Legislative Assembly without amendment ; upon reading it ^jefore adding my certificate of .unction, I noticed that a blank had not been filled up in the seventh line of the sixth section. , o ^\ u -^ "You followoil the usual practice in not fixing the amount of the penaUy in the Le-nslativ^ Council; but the matter passed unperceived or the officers, through some mistake, omitted to insert the amount fixed by the House, or it may have been an error in the proof-sheets. ^v. ■ ^u „„„„„^ "While on the subject of these mistakes, you will find another in the second section of the same Act, wherein the word 'amenrfer' is m the inhintive mood I notice this latter accuracy, to which I do not attach much importance, only because 1 discovered another in an Act in which I had to point out to you, an omission wh"ch 1 consider fatal. " Yours, very truly, " (Signed) L. LETELLIER." The Premior came to me and said that he regretted the omission ; he requested me to give my sanction to the Bill in the state in %vhich it was The conciliatory spirit which 1 showed in granting my consent seemed to please him. 3rd. In March, im, (vide Appendix A), my advisers caused mo to make an appointment of a Municipal Councillor for the South Ward of the Village of Mont- magny, under the pretext that there had been no election, or that if such election had taken place, it was illegal. ., ,. ri •. ™ i ,^„ The whole of the circumstances connected with this case, I deem it my duty to explain to Your Excellency, on account of the important principle involved ^' After due personal examination of the petitions and other accompanying docu- ments relating to that election, 1 called on the Premier at his own offio« to beg of him not to h.vry the appointment which he was asked to make of a Municipal Councillor for that locality, before receiving more ample information. I pointed out to him that it appeared that a municipal election had faked place, and that in such case, as a principle, the Executive Council should not interfere 1 added that from the moment that a legal, or even an illegal election bad taken place, the duty of deciding it rested with the Courts in accordance with the ordinary course of law, of which they are the interpreters. .^. , • • i u . „n 1 then intimated to Mr. DeBoucherville that I maintained, on principle that all matters cognizable by the Judiciary should be invariably left to the Courts, wnich from tboir orLrani/ation, are better fitted than the Executive to inquire into matters of fact and of evidence, and that 1 would never allow the substitution ..I tbo powers of the Executive for those of the Courts, when the latter had jurisdiction. 118 rae to e by the ivisera, I )ly wpoko sntail too sgiHlation, sanction. 1 pointed 1876. as passed re adding ip in the lenalty in e officers, or it may lie second ve raood. nc3, only > you, an ER." requested mcilialory ) malce an ;e of Mont- ;h election t my duty ; involved ying docu- ), to bog of Municipal ilccd place, tcrfore. hud talven ordinary 3le that all ir(s, which ito matters the powers The Premier admitted that thi.s opinion and the principles on which I based it were in (■()tif(n'inity with liis ideas, and nocess;iry for the proper adininistralion of justice. He asked nio if 1 would consent to ^oe Mr. Anger;, the AtU)iMioy-(Tonoral, on the subject. 1 at once consented, and the Attorney-General was immediately sent for ; the facts connected with that election difficulty, and :ny views regarding them, were then communicated to him. Ho promised that before any appointment should be made by the Lieutenant (} vernor, he would make inquiiy. Shortly afterwards he reported to me that he had niUilo an inquiry into the facts of the case, and, at his suggestion, I ajjpointed Jules Belanger to be Councillor. In the beginning of March, 1877, difficulties and quarrels arose at Montraagny in consequence (;f that election. Aftei- thai appointment those quarrels broke forth afresh in the Municipal Council itself, from which the Councillor, whom I had thus been caused to appoint, was expelled with violence. That appointment I was recommended to make, not- withstanding the fact that an election had taken place ; that it had been hold and presided over by the Mayor, that Eugene Fournier had been returned by acclama- tion ; that he had been sworn in according to law, and that, at the very time when the appointment of Jules Helanger was recommended to mo, the per-on thus elected had in fact taken his seat, had been sworn, and had sat at the said Council as appears by the Minutes of the Council. When 1 afterwai'ds learned these facts, I communicated them to the Premier, ■whom I requested to prepare a revocation of the appointment which 1 had thus been caused to make, contrary to the principle above set forth, and the justice of which he had himself admitted. The Premier answerel that the matter was of a very delicate nature, as such a proceeding wjuid be contrary to the recommendation of Mr. Angers, his Attorney- General ; he concluded by saying that he would get him to prepare a report on the subject. I received that i-eport some days later. After having read it, I again intimated to M. DeBoucherville, that in the interests of peace, and in conformity with the principle that the Executive should not be substituted lor Judicial power in matters within the province of the latter, I insisted upon the revocation being made. After waiting several days for an answer, and not having received any from the Premier, I addressed a letter to him, of which the following is a copy ; — " {Private and Confidential.) " QuEBEO, 14th March, 1877. " My Dear DeBoucherville, — I have not received any answer on the subject of the appointment of a Councillor at Montmagny. " Those who deceiv d the Government in order to induce me to perform an Executive act in connection with a question which they then knew to be within the Judicial power, do not, in my opinion, deserve consideration which cannot but be injurious to the Government and myself. rested " The remedy is very simple— rescind the appointment— allow the parties inte ed to fiacht it out before the Courts. Yours very truly, '• (Signed) L. LETELLIER." If, my Lord, I insist upon this lattei' point, it is to siiow Your Excellency th;ii the Prime Minister \vu>, then perfectly aware of my views on that point, and should not, in consequence, have introduced, during the last Session of our Legislature, any legislative measure or performed any administrative act tending t > -ubstitute Execu- tive for Judicial power, without notifying me, and especially without atlvising mo ( n the subject. 19—8 114 convorsalions wl.icl, I had w.th .^ " ' ' ,fj\"»' .^^ (,„ Magna Charla; that Iheir '^::;::/Z^t,,:l<>'V^£:r:ti:^X^'" '!«- of a.iu.lgme„t renamed by Iho tri>"'""'» »'■ '''^r'^'T'TOT- Iwlii.r.mtlio ovo of absontiiis niysolf for a few ' 4th. On Iho 19 h March, \f '•'«''•«, ,'f, ", ,, i„ ., „„,t3onpt t said, « Pltaso day.. I -r»'«J° ,l''t,i';ir;S^, t in ''S» my conc„';.,.c„ce,':Mr. Gn biex-may '^ZX^^'^^^r'^'^T'S'lC^^ that ,f 1 wa. ready to mo before signing 'hom- , j „„„„„,. niy views were intorproted. iri?£\hi;^ L'et^hlS mvtmbe,. las,, I Jdressed to the Hono.-a.le M. DeBoti,e^vme 1 letter of winch .he foUow.ng ,s a copy .- «' (Private.) « (Quebec, 6th November, I87t. . Mv DEAE DEBouoiiERViL.K,-.In Iho hv.t ODlcial aazette were published under my signature, two 170«l^'«^^^^>';';,^;;';'^lj,!;,t;;ienT which [ had reserved in order to elf;;.":ur yc^^;- 1 ^:;:Xh^ '^i'l - -^'^ -> ^^p^'- ^^ ^-^ «^' ^^^"^^- giving- ,. ,, tKp nitureot which 1 shall not characterize, entail, apart " Yours very truly, " (Signed) L. LETELLIBK. ''The Hon. C. B. DeHoucuerville, The Iblll^inr-e the notes which 1 took of the conversation which I had with Mr. DeBoucherville on the subject. i.eceived the letter, to tell mo "Mr. DeBoucherville came on the "^'^,,f^7.;\^^^^^^^^ his. ' I accepted that he regretted the thing ;- --^ o^ .^"udt^It^ ^y n..n. being used, when the excuse and ^^^/^^/^f ''!",, ^ji;:^ unJss the documents requiring my signature necessary tor any ^ ''^y ;'' > 'f^*"^' ;'", ^ ,i unless information wa« afforded to me ; l^lU^M. K^S.^t;l;'a";^e.i^r would be the --- ioUow^d in M^e^^ _ „h. But, my Loni, there is another point still more important, which I cannot any longer refrain 1'0"^.'"^";;';"'"«; . ..,^ held with M. DeBoucherville, there results ^ From the conversations which I h.ue ^^^eiu wrh ^„ffi,,i,,nUy justified mo m , tact, which, if it were ^^^^^'^-;,;^^:^l^^'^'l^^^J^ believing that he did - .PJ^^f^ ^J^^Xth tJS^ of 1876. T point<^l out to On two strong enough to resist ;><>■'" '"«^^^'>^'^:' ^Xn'^'.^^^^^^^^^ binution of honest and wd meun>n,Mne.., ^omhon. side t . ^^^ combinations, submit to the dictation of those " lungs, „^""i;' ,^^^^ influence, after his When he made no attempt to escape ^'^^..^^f ^^^'/^^^^ when by his own avowal that the Legislature was «;"troled by those K.^^^^^^^ legislation he .ought to Oiv.r U.mu anew ^P';^ ^^ ^.^^v^ ^.r .ny Sovereign, ±?;^irlri^'co;:iine^AS t.'&n;£^ not posses^ a const.tu- and 1st March last, the Premier and ^t- • A o ne ^( u e.a Au^^^^ ^.,^^^_ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ their duty ovei-stepp.! "- -^^'-^ ^ ^^1^' i ,i^'<;;;;:umi.Llion a report ot^ pre- lSt^.^£';r:JS-^':;- o'^'^^'' l contest, and the impropr.ety of ^^^tiJ!i1::;rout, my L.>rd, ^'- fa^tal.. t. p.w^ t^^ impropriety. Tiie Hon. Messrs. ^»^«« ''^,f„'^^ ;^X.,,f^^'vhich M. DeBoucherville to/ the two Houses lay t^};«^^„^tie... '" llu. ^« «= .ntroducc resolutions dispatched to me at R.viore Quel e fo aA n^^ .^^ ^^^,,,,,, ^^ u. concerning the rtnunces, and on the blank ^ f 'jj^^^^ ''natra-e til cd up by my private But these gentlemen ^ f '^^^^ ^ad ,h. t 1 Ui^^ ^^^^^.^^^1^^ ^^ .^^ Governor as follows :— " '■ .^t" L;:r,a„t Gove,.nor o. tho ^^^^^^ ^tS^^^^^^^"^^'^^ lative A»«mbl / tbo Supplemou ary ' ^^ ™£^ V «.^«, U'o provisions of tl>e 6itl, SLT\7r''i«S Z^'.t^oA;: 'Acrwivfho .«„.nL.i, to the Leg„lat,ve Assembly. "GOVEENMKNT HoUSE, "QdEBEC, aOth .lauuary, 187S. My Ministers never had, by their c>^> ^ilf-^-r^-^^lSir ^^^^ ^ me for the intmluct.orM.t tlHMj- ralwa> a '^;;^^ -^^^^^^ l,i,h, „ signatuiv. above mentH.no.l ni ^^^^'i^^' ^"J,' '"'' ,^ i„,,oduced on the 2Uth January, will be noticed that the nuUyay resolution, wc.c n..,K whereas the message is dated the .JOtb knosvledge ail the fiicts and It is for this reason, my Lord that '- ^,\>, j ,^^^,., luidwith M. DoBoucher- details which are connected with the relations whu h viUe and his colleagues. j individual, 1 would abstain Were the controversy with me .«^'?''^;^,f, ,*\ ,,, ,etlcctio>is upon the conduct of n-om any ^emonstran-v .g.nist^ he mji^t - oi^ ^^^J,,, ,, their duty; the Kej.rcsentative ol the C .-own, ^\^.'V;^^'"fJ •,,,,;,,,, is at stake. , . , , but in this matter tlu. niamtenance •;f J'>^ ;^^ ^ ^ „ i,,ve been published which 1 If, with.uu. any --^^}-^^'y '':^;V^^J^^ in' my name to the novor Kiirned is t surprising taut Mcssagt^s w^'"- ^ili^r^^iclingwh ch Ihad ''-or been,c...u od ^ ^^^^^^ ,^^^^^ ^, , It is because, as the lioir-^^;;!?^\^; T. ,4o known' to you, my Lard, that, in shamefully dragged ^-'-^1^^^ il^f ^t^nJativc, my object has not. only been to the pertbrmatice of my duty as Her Ftcpr protect the dignity of' my office but to a ttbrd to the people of this Province an oppor- 116 tunity of knowing that, under existing circumstances, the exercise of the Eoyal Pre- rogative has not been hostile to their constitutional liberties; but, that, on the contrary, it has attbrded them the means of freely exercising their judgment. There results, my Lord, fi-om what 1 h^i\o now stated: — 1st. That in general the recommendations which I made to my Cabinet did not receive the consideration which is due to the Eepresenlativc of the Crown. 2nd. That my name has been used by the members of the Government in the signature of documents which I hud never seen. 3rd. That a Proclamation summoning the Legislature was published in the Official Gazette without my being consulted or intormed of it, r.;id before my signature had been attached thereto. 4th. That a like Proclamation fixing a day of Thanksgiving was also published under similar circumstances. 5th. That, although 1 had intimated to the Premier by my advice, and by my letter of the Uth March, 1877, my tirm deterniination to protect the inhabilants of this Province against the arbitrary decisions of the Executive in matters within the jurisdiction ol the courts of Justice, he thought proper, without my participation and without advising me, to propose to both Houses, in legislating for the -'Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Eailway," to substitute the power of the Executive for that of the Judiciary. 6th. That, without having advised me, and without having received authoriza- tion of any sort whatever from me, the government of Mr. DeBoucherviUe ])ropo9ed to the Legislature a measure of almost general taxation upon the ordinary contracts and transactions of life, transfers of bank stock, &c., while no Message from me had been asked for this object, nor signed by me to authorize its proposition to the Houses. 7th. That, after its dismissal, the Government of Mr. DeBoucherviUe again failed in its duty by assigning reasons for the adjournment of the House from day to day, different from those agreed on between myself and the Premiei at the risk of prejudicing public opinion against the Pepresentative of the Crowi 8th. That at the time of the communication of the causes whic rendei-ed neces- sary the dismissal of the Cabinet, in the explanations which wo j given by the Premier to the Legislative Council, and bv the Attorney-General to the Legislative Assembly, both of them referred to pretended conversations which they hsul no authority whatever to communicate to the Legislature, since the Pi-emior had, by his answer to the letter of the Lieutenant-Governor of the 4tli March last, limited his explanations to the communication to both Houses, of my memoranda of the 25th February and 1st March, and the answers of the Premier of the 27th February and of the 2nd and 4th March instant. !)th. Q'hat, therefore, the additioiu; and the comments made by the Premier before the Legisliidve Council, and by the Attoiney-Gencral lielore tiie Legislative Assembly, were contraiy to the conditions agreed upon between the i.ieutenant- Governor and tne I'lemier. loth. That the Premier and his colleagues, by making use of pretended private conversations to exphiin the causes of tlieii' dismissal, in contravention to their duty to the Cj'own and to what they had pledged themselves to observe with regard to it, have placed the Lieutenant-Govcrnoi- under the necessity of bringing under the the notice of Your Excellency all the reasons lor that dismissal. 1 have the honor to be, my Lord, Your Excellency's most obedient servant, (Signed) L. LETEI;LTEP. Lieutenant -Gov ernw. I (^Translation.) lit APPENDIX A. Summary of Officfal Recohd. In January, 1877, an election had taken place for the South AVard of the Village of Montmagny. That election having been declaied null and void by the Court, it ordered a fresh election, and apijointed Eugene Hamond to preside thereat. On the day fixed, Eugene Hamond i-oi'using to preside, Naz Bornatchez, Esq., Mayor of the Municipality, the Senior Magistrate present, presided. The meeting elected Eugene Fournier. Eugene Hamond wrote to the Lieutenant-Governor he had not preside.! at the meeting, v?ithout adding, however, that there had been no election. He recom- Imeniled at the same tii-ie, that Jules Belanger be appointed. Eugene Fournier, elected at the meeting of the 19th Febri rvflRr»£fc Qnrl i/-\r\\r liiu wno^ f\ri tlio 9'il'rt h^* JirilJl.W. itingofthe lUth February, took the oath of office and took his seat on the 2:Jrd b'ebruary. On the 3rd of March, the Attorney-General (Mr. Augers) recommendoa tlio ap- pointment of Jules Belanger, who was accordingly :ippointcJ on the 7th of the same month. } A ii On the 10th of March, Mr. Bornatchez, Mayor of Montmagny, addressed to the Lieutenant-Governor a memorial setting forth the facts, and praying that the ap- i)ointment be cancelled. ,. ., , On the I5th of March, the Attorney-General made a report, recommending that the appointment of Jules Belanger bo maintained. , , ,, • , , ^„ Onthe27thofMarch, the Lieutenant-Governor revoked that, appointment, on a report of the Government. APPENDIX B. (Translation.) Quebec, 4th March, 1878. The Lieutenant-Govei-nor desires that his two memoranda (of the 25th February and 1st March), addressed to the Hon. M. DeBoucherville, and the answers made to those memoranda by the Hon. M. DeBoucherville (of the 27th February and .k-d March), be not now communicated to both Houses. That communication, authorized by the Lieutenant-Governor at the request ot the Hon. M. DeBoucherville, should be made as soon as the arrangenrents tor the formation of a new Executive Council are completed. , ■ ,. The Hon. M. DeBoucherville may communicate to the Houses that the ajourn- ineni from day to day is rendered iiecessaiy by the last mentioned cause. (Signed) L. LETELLIEK. To the Hon. C. B. DeBouciieeviule, Quebec. (Translation.) Quebec, 4th March, 1878. Your ExoBLLENcy.-In conformity with your wish expressed in a lottei of to- day's date, I shall withhold, until the formation of a new l\^^'^;'^''^*^^,^";i"^''' ;^^ explanations 1 was autho.ized by Your Excellency to commnmeato t<, the Houses. i have the honor, &c., (Signed) C. B. DeBOUCHBRVILLE. (^Translation.) Government House, Quebec, 25th February, 1878. The Lieutenant-Governor desires the Executive Council to prepare, for his con- sideration, a " factum " containing a copy of the following documents, viz : — 1. A copy of the Acts of the Federal Parliam' :it authorising the construittion of the railway now known under the name of •' Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway," as well as a copy of the Acts of the Legislature of the Province ot Quebec respecting the said railway. 2. A copy of the Acts of the Legislature of the Province of Quebec, respecting the building of the railway between Quebec and Montreal, which line is commonly designated by the name oi " North Shore Railway." 3. A copy of the by-laws of each of the municipal corporations by which they undertook to help in constructing the said railways. 4. A .statement of the amount of the bonus paid by each of those corporations, and a copy of the correspondence between the Government, its Commissioners o)' the contractors for the said railways, and the aforesaid municipalities, with regard to their bonus or subsidy. 5. A co])y of the various contracts entered into for the building of those several roads. 6. A cop}' of the official or confidential reports of the Pjuginoers who have been ordered to locate tliose lines of railway in whole or in part, 7. A copy of the report of the Railway Commissioners submitted to the Houses, during the present Session, with regard to the said railways. 8. A copy of the representations made to the Government by the municipal bodias so interested, of the ratepayers of those municipalities, with regard to the conditions of their bonus or subsidy. 9. A copy of the resolutions which have been proposed to the Provincial Legis- lature during the present Session, with regard to the aforesaid subsidies, and to facilitate the payment and collection thereof 10. A copy of the Bill based on those resolutions which has been introduced in the Legislature of (Quebec during the present Session. 11. A plan showing the several locatings of each of the said railways or of any part of tlicm. 12. A statement of the reasons which led the Provincial Government not to be satisfied with the provisions of the statutory and public law, and of the civil code of this Province lor the recovery of any sums of money which may bo due by those corporations, but, without iircviousl}'- advising in any way with the Lieutenant- Governor, to propose ex post facto legislation, to compel thoni to pay. Another very important Bill, to make provision for levying new taxes, has also been prOi)Osed to the Lugislature, vvithout having t)een pri'viously submitted for tiie consideration of the Lieutenant-Governor. The Lieutenant-liovernor quite understands that propositions of secondary importance, and on which he has been previously otlicially informed, may be, as matter of routine, proposed to the Houses, without a special order from himself; but he cannot in any way permit that the Executive should make communications in his name to the Legislature, with regard to measures which are of a new and important character, without his special authorization, and wilhoiU his having been previously fully informed and advised in I'espect thereof. (Signed) L. LETBLLIER, .Lieutenatit-Governor. 1878. !• his con- cuiition of tawa and I Province •especting ;ommonly lich they [wrations, lers or the regard to je several lave been e Houses, municipal Eird to the !ial Legis- es, and to oduced in or of any not to be civil code 3 by those itutenanL- s. has also 3d tor tlie secondary may be, as msolf ; but ions in his important )i"cviously overnor. lit) (Translation). To His Kxcellency the Lieulonant-Govornor of the Province of (Quebec. Quebec, 27th F'ibruary, 1878. Your Excellency, — 1 have the honor to acknowledge receipt of the momoran- diim which your Excellency caused to be handed me yesterday afternoon by your Aide-de-Camp, who informed mo at the same time that you were ill in bed. I have submitted that memorandum to the Executive Council, and will see, as your Excellency desires, that diligence is used to cause all the documents asked for to be transmitted to you a^ soon^jas possible. Anticipating the factum which your Excellency wishes to have, and which ill contain a more detailed statement of the motives which have induced the Provincial Government to propose the measures to which you draw my attention, I deem it my duty to represent to you : That, amongst others, the reasons which led the Government to submit to the Legislature a law compelling the municipalities to pay their subscriptions towards building the Provincial Eailway, on the decision of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, under a sworn report of a competent engineer, and after a tifteen days notice, to give those municipalities an opportunity of being heard, are the manifesta- tions of bad faith of certain municipalities, shown in certain cases by their neglect to respond to the calls of the Treasurer, in others by their formal refusal to pay, and in certain cases by I'esolutions adopted demanding new conditions in respect to the agreements they had entered into with the Government. The Government believed that, without such legislation, the object of which is to avoid the slowness of ordinary judicial proceedings, the result of the bad faith of the municipalities would have been either to necessitate a new loan by the Province, and therefore an unjust charge upon municipalities who had entered into no agree- ment, and who are to derive no immediate advantage from the construction of the road or to put a complete stop to the works begun, with the inevitable loss of the interest on the enormous capital already invested in tho enterprise, and the other damages which would result. The Government, flrstl} obliging itself by that law to fullil the conditions agreed upon with those municipalities, believed that in substituting for the ordinary courts the Lieutenant Governor with an Executive Council, responsible to the Legislature and to the people, they were offering to parties interested a tribunal whicii insured them as many ^-uarantees as the ordinary courts. 1 would further bring under your Excellency's notice that provisions of a similar nature to this legislation exist already in our Statutes. I may cite to your Excellency Chap. 83 of the Consolidated Statutes of Canada, and also Chap. 47 ot 36 Vict, of the Statutes of Ontario. I respectfully submit to your Excellency that a law framed to better assure the execution of a contract cannot produce a retroactive etfect; it enacts for the future, and has lor its end the respective interests of both parties. I would now beg your Excellency to observe that while you were at Eiviore Ouello, 1 had the honor to awk your auth'^rity to put the question of finance before the House, and that you kindly answered, stating you were forwarding through the mail a blank, which act I took at that time as a great mark of confidence on your part. 1 received, in fact, a blank, with your signature, and I gave it to the Ti easurer who hud it tilled uj) by your Aide-de-Camp. Later J. had the honor to ask your Excellency for a general permission to submit to the House mea^ure^ concerning money matteis, which your Excellency gave me with your ordinary courtesy. That jjcrmission, 1 may say, has always been granted nic by your predecessor, the late lamented Mr. (^aron. I must admit that with that permission, and being convinced Your Excellency ha^l read the Treasurer's speech, in which he announced tl'.c taxation subscquenlly proposed, 1 considered myself authorized to toll my colleagues that 1 had your permission for all money measures. .1 be^' yoni- P^xcelloncj' to bolicvo that I iievor had tho intention of assuming the right of havintf nieasiires passed without youi- approbation, and that in this case having had occasion to confer with you with regard to tho law respecting tho Pro- vincial Kail way. and not having orders to suspend it, '. did not think your Excellency ^yould see in tli; t measure any intention on my part of ilisre<,'arding your preroga- tives, which nol ody is more disposed to respect and uphold tliiin myself. I have tho honor, &c., &c., (Signed) C. B. DeBOUCHBRVILLE, (Translation.) Government House. ^ , ^^ (Quebec 1st March, 1878. To the Hon. C. B. DEBoucnERVJiiLE, Prime Minister, Quebec. The lieutenant-Governor, taking into consideration what the Prime Minister communicated to him verbally (liTth Feb.), and taking into consideration the letter which the Premier then handed to him, is ready to admit that there was no inten- tion on the part of the Premier to disregard the prerogatives of the Crown, and that there has been on his part only an error committed in good faith, in inter- preting, as ho did, tho words of the Lieutenant-Governor in their interview of the 19th February instant— words which did not convey tho sense of authorization which the Premier attached to them. With such an interpretation, and tho instructions which were in consequence given by the Premier to tho Hon. Messi-s. Angers and Church, those gentlemen have done nothing, knowingly, not in conformity with tho duties of their office. As to the blank which the Lieutenant-Governor sent him from Riviere Quelle, the Lieutenant-Governor knew that that blank would be used to lay the Estimates before the House. That act was a mark of oo.ifidence on his part, as the Premier characterises it in his letter ot the 27th , but that act was confidential. The Lieutenant-Governor deems it right to observe that, in his memorandum of the 25th February inst., ho in no way expressed the opinion that ho believed that the Premier ever had the intention of taking upon himself the right "of having measures passed without his approbation, or of disregarding the '^Moroo'atives of the Representative of the Crown." ' " But the Prime Minister cannot lose sight of the fact that, although there was no intention on his part, in fact the thing exists, as the Lieutenant-Governor told him. The tact of having proposed to the Houses several new and important measures without having ])roviously in any way advised the Lieutenant-Governor thereof, although the intention of disregarding his prerogatives did not exist, does not tho loss constitute one of those fiilso positions which place tho Representative of the Crown in a critical and ditRcult position with regard to the two Houses of the Legislature. Tho Lieutenant-Governor cannot admit that tho respongiblity of this state of affairs should rest with him. With regard to the Bill intituled : "An Act respecting the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway," the Premier cannot claim for that measure the asserted general authorization which he mentions in his letter, for their interview was on the 19th February, and that Bill was before the Legislature several days before that date, without the Lieutenant-Governor having boon, in any way intbrmed of it by his advisers. ' J j ■> Tho Lieutenant Governor expressed, at that time, to the Premier, how much he regretted that legislation ; he represented to him that he crjnsidered it contrary to the principles of law and justice; notwithstanding that, the measure Ma. carried through both Houses until adopted. 121 It is tvuo that tlio Premier gives in his letter, as one of the reasons for acting ns he di;!, "that this permi.vsion of usin.^' the name of the Representative of the Crown, hud, besides, always been granted him by the predecessor of the preseat Lieutenant-Governor, the late lamented Mr. Caron." This reason cannot be one for the Lieutenant-Governor, for, in so acting he would have abdicated his position as Representative of the Crown, which act neither the Lieutenant-Governor nor the Premier could reconcile with the obligations of the Lieutenant-Governor towards the Crown. The Lieutenant-Governor regrets having .to state, as he told the Premier, that he has not been informed, in general, in an exj.licit manner, of the measures adopted by the Cabinet, although the Ijioutenani-Governor hud often given the Premier an opportunity to do so, especially during last year. From time to time, since the last Session of the Legislature, the Lieutenant- Governor aas drawn the attention of the Premier to several subjects regarding the interests of the Province of Quebec, amongst others: 1st.— The enormous expen- diture occasioned by very lai-ge subsidies to several railways, while the Province was burdened with the construction of the great railway from (Quebec to Ottawa which should take precedence of the others; and this, when the state of our finances obliged us to undertake loans disproportioned to our revenue. 2nd. The necessity of reducing the expenses of the Civil Government, and of the Legislature, instead of having recourse to new taxes, in view of avoiding financial embarassment. The Lieutenant-Governor expressed also, but with regret, to the Premier, tliat tiie Orders passed in Council to increase the salaries of Civil Service servants seemed to him inopportune, at a time when the Government were negotiating with the Bank of Montreal s, loan of half a millon, with power to increase that loan to $1,000,000, at a rate of interest of 7 seven per cent. ; and indeed, even to-day (Ist of March), the Lieutenant-Governor is obliged to allow an Order in Council to be passed to obtain the last half million for the Government, without which the Government would be unable to meet its obligations, as I was informed by the Hon. the Provincial Treasurer, to-day, by order of the Prime Minister. The Premier did not lot the Lioutenant-Govornor know, then or since, that the Government were in such a state of penury as to necessitate special leo-islation to increase public taxation. ° Therefore the LieutesantGovernor said and repeated these things to the Premier, and he deems it advisable to record them here, that they may serve as memoranda for himself and for the Premier. It therefore results : 1st. That although the Lieutenant-Governor has made many recommendations in his position ae Representative of the Crown to the Premier on these different subjects of public interest, his advisers have undertaken a course of administrative and legislative acts contrary to these recommendations, and without having previously advised biro. 2nd. That the Lieutenant-Governor has been placed, without evil intention, but in fact, in a false position, by being exposed to a conflict with the will of the Legislature, which he recognises as being, in all cases, supreme, so long as that will is expressed in all constitutional ways. The Lieutenant-Governor has read and examined carefully the memorandum and documents which the Premier was kind enough to bring him yesterday. There are, in the record, petitions from several municipal corporations and from citizens of different places, addressed to th(3 Lieutenant-Governor, against the resolutions and the Government Bill, with regard to the "Quebec, Montreal Ottawa and Occidental Railway." The Lieutenant-Governor was only yesterday al)le to take cognizance of some of these petitions, as they had not been communicated to him before he recived them in the record. The Lieutenant-Governor, after having maturely deliberated, cannot accept advice of the Premier with regard to the sauotiouiug of the Railway Bill intituled : "An Act respecting the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway." 19—9 ^ 122 For all these causes the Lieutonant-Govornor cannot conclude this raeraorandum without expressing to the Premier the regret he feels at being no longer able to continue to retain him in bin position, contrary to the rights and privileges of the Crown. (Signed) L. LBTELLIER. QiJEBKO, 2nd March, 1878. (^Translation.) To Hi& Excellency the Lieui enant-Governor of the Province of Quebec. Your Bxoellenct,— I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your memorandum, in which you come to the conclusion that you can no longer continue to retain me in my position -.is Prime Minister. There i« no other dut|r for ine to fulfil but to submit to the dif^raissal from office, which Your Excellency has notified me of, declaring at the same time ray profound respect for the rights and privileges ot the Crown, and my devotion to the interests of the Province. I have the honor, &o., (Signed) C. B. DjsBOUCHEEVILLE. 4^ ■ :^