FIELDING (Minister of Finance) moved that on Friday next the House do go into Committee of the Whole to consider the following proposed resolution:

Resolved, That it is expedient to authorize the Governor in Council to advance by way of loan to the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway

Company a sum not exceeding ten million dollars for the purpose of aiding the company in the completion of the construction of the prairie section of the western division of the National Transcontinental Railway, the sum so advanced to bear interest at the rate of four per centum per annum, payable half yearly, and to be repayable in ten years from the time the loan is made, or if advanced in instalments, then in ten years from the time the first of such instalments is so advanced; and to provide,

That such sum, whether advanced in one or several instalments, shall be advanced upon the pledge of an issue of bonds, bearing interest at the rate of four per centum per annum, payable half yearly, to be made by the company as collateral security for the payment of such sum and interest, the principal amount of the bonds received in pledge to equal the sum advanced, such bonds to be secured, subject to any prior lien or charge, by a mortgage, or deed of trust by way of mortgage, of the prairie section, and of the undertaking, equipment and property, tolls, rights and franchises of the company in respect of said section, and to be guaranteed as to the payment of the principal and interest thereof by the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada; the form and provisions of such mortgage and of the bonds to be secured thereby, and of the guaranty thereof by the Grand Trunk Railway Company, to be substantially as set forth in the schedule of the Act to be founded on these resolutions;

That His Majesty, in the event of default in the payment of half yearly interest, or in default in the payment of the principal sum advanced under the provisions of such enactment, in addition to and without prejudice to any right or remedy against the company in respect of such default, and in addition to and without prejudice to any right or remedy His Majesty may have as pledgee of the whole or any part of such bond issue, shall, for the purpose of remedy, be deemed to be the holder of such bonds and entitled to all rights and remedies available to bondholders arising according to the terms of such mortgage when default is made in payment of interest or principal of such bonds; and that default in payment of interest on, or principal of, any advances made under the provisions of such Act, shall be deemed to be default in payment of the interest on or principal of such bonds to the amount accrued thereon according to the tenor thereof.

That the Governor in Council may, in addition to the sums now remaining unborrowed and negotiable of the loans authorized by any Act of parliament heretofore passed, raise by way of loan, in accordance with and under the provisions of that portion of chapter 24 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1906, relating to the publio debt, and the raising of loans authorized by parliament, such sum or sums of money not exceeding ten million dollars, as may be required for making the advances contemplated by these resolutions.

He said: His Excellency the Governor

General, having been made acquainted with the subject matter of this resolution, recommends it to the consideration of the House.

Mr. FIELDING.

Mr. T. S. SPROULE (East Grey).

Mr. Speaker, I observe in Monday's ' Mail and Empire ' and in other papers, the following item:

Limited to Catholics-Emigration Agent in England says he was so Instructed. (Canadian Associated Press Cable.)

London, March 14.-Speaking on church prospects in Canada, Archdeacon Renison, of Moosonee, yesterday told how, travelling in England lately, he met an emigration agent of the Canadian government. This man was a German, who had built up a prosperous homo in Canada, and asked the Canadian government to appoint him as an agent. For the lest few years, he had been working in his native country, bringing out bands of emigrants and settling them in Alberta and Saskatchewan.

This man told Bishop Renison he had instructions to bring out only emigrants of the Catholic faith. Hundreds of German Roman Catholics were being planted year after year by the Canadian government in the great western prairie lands.

I wish to ask the Minister of the Interior whether there is any truth in that statement?

Hon. FRANK OLIVER (Minister of the Interior).

As far as I am aware there is none whatever.

Mr. E. GUSS PORTER (West Hastings).

I have received a communication of rather urgent importance. My correspondent writes on behalf of himself and a large number of others living along the line of the Trent canal, pointing out that in the construction of the dams on the Trent canal no provision is made for fish slides. He further points out that large quantities of food fish pass up the river and the construction of the dams in this way will have the effect of entirely excluding the fish from the river. If that is the case the minister's attention should be given to it at once.

Mr. A. B. CROSBY (Halifax).

I am

credibly informed that the militiamen and soldiers in Halifax have not received their last pay which is long overdue. I would like to know why this is so and when the men may expect to receive their money.

Mr. FIELDING.

I shall be glad to call the attention of the minister to it. I am unable to give the hon. gentleman the information at the moment.

Mr. SAM. HUGHES (Victoria).

On the 11th inst. I put a question regarding the

Port of Oshawa, which both the Minister of Customs and the Minister of Public Works attempted to answer, I asked who was the collector of customs at Oshawa Harbour and what was his salary. Oshawa Harbour is not Oshawa town, and while the customs regulations may statte that the port of Oshawa includes both the town and harbour, my question was so framed as to require an answer only for the harbour. I asked also what revenue has been collected at the port of Oshawa each year since it was taken over by the government and from what source was the revenue derived. I presume that, in giving the answer he did, the minister was technically correct, because the port of Oshawa includes both the town and the ' harbour. But what I want to get is the return from the Minister of Marine (Mr. Brodeur) or the Minister of Public Works or the Minister of Customs or the minister of any other department of the government showing what has been collected at the harbour of Oshawa-not the official port. I want a return of what comes in by water into the harbour at Oshawa, and not what comes by rail into the town. If necessary,

I will repeat the question in another form.

Hon. WM. PATERSON (Minister of Customs).

I do not know whether we will be able to divide the two and give the harbour distinct from the town.

Mr. SAM. HUGHES.

It will be very easily done. There is nothing.

Mr. FOWKE.

I can help the hon. gentleman out of his difficulty. He asked for information as to the amount expended by the government since taking over the port.

I think what he meant to do was to ask who was the harbour master. The revenue through that officer.