Mr. R. L. BORDEN.

I would like to inquire of the Prime Minister whether or

not he is prepared to bring down the further documents that were asked for on two or three occasions in connection with the correspondence with the Rev. Dr. Shearer. A letter of the 31st of 'May refers to other correspondence. It is of course desirable that the correspondence should he complete.

Sir WILFRID LAURIER.

I am sorry to say that having been absent from the city this matter escaped my attention. I shall at once look into it.

Mr. R. L. BORDEN.

I inquired yesterday as to the dates when we might expect the further legislation already alluded to by the Prime Minister, and also the date when we may expect the supplementary estimates. We are approaching the end of the seventh month of the session, and I think we should know when these measures and estimates are to be brought down.

Sir WILFRID LAURIER.

With regard to the legislation, what we have to bring will be brought at a very early date, probably in the course of the week, though I would not like to confine myself absolutelv to that.

Mr. FIELDING.

With regard to the supplementary estimates, we cannot fix the precise time when they will be brought. There is a considerable proportion of the main estimates not yet disposed of, and therefore there has not yet seemed any urgency with regard to the supplementaries. However, we are reaching a stage of the session "when all public business will be a matter of urgency, and all these things may be hoped for at a very early day.

Mr. LENNOX.

I desire to ask the Minister of Finance if he is prepared to answer the question which I asked yesterday about the judges' salaries?

Mr. FIELDING.

The salaries of the judges of the Yukon are arranged for by annual appropriation, and In the absence of a vote it was impossible to pay them in the usual way; but the salaries of all other judges are fixed by statute, so that there has been no difficulty in their case.

Mr. LENNOX.

It was with reference to the judges of Ontario that I spoke.

Mr. FIELDING.

If my hon. friend will give me, either in the House or personally, any c-ase^ in which there has .been any difficulty, I will investigate the matter.

Mr. LENNOX.

I saw a memorandum that in one case at all events there was a failure to pay.

Mr. FIELDING.

There must have been a misunderstanding. I am informed that the difficulty in regard to the Yukon judges was not in reference to salaries, but to liv-Mr. R. L. BORDEN.

ing allowances. There ought not to be any difficulty anywhere in regard to salaries.

Mr. LENNOX.

The memorandum said : ' This cannot be paid because the money has not been voted.' It referred to the portion of salary due on the 1st of May. There was also another case in which the matter was referred to.

Mr. FOSTER.

I would ask the Minister of Agriculture if he can set a time when the Civil Service Bill will be taken up ? '

Mr. FISHER.

There will be some resolutions with regard to the financial part of the Bill. These are now being prepared, and I hope to be able to put them on the Order Paper to-morrow, and on the day after or the next day I hope to be able to move the second reading of the Bill. I wish to do so at the earliest possible moment, probably on Thursday.

Mr. FISHER.

My hon. friend the Minister of Marine and Fisheries answered a question the other day in regard to ships built in Canada. At that time I had not given him the fact that the Department of Agriculture had obtained since 1900 the bnilding in Canada by public tender of two ships-the ' Alice ' for Grosse Isle, at a cost of $83,000, and the ' Madge ' for William Head, B.C., at a cost of $44,250.