Mr. BOIVIN:
Does the minister think it right to spend $8,000 on a wharf where there are only three or four families-$2,-000 per family?
Mr. SMYTHE:
That is nothing; the
late Government built a wharf where there were no families at all.
Mr. BOIVIN:
A timber wharf was built there by the late Government, but to spend $8,000 for a wharf at such a point-I could not let the item go through without calling attention to it. I do not want to move that it be struck out.
Mr. ROGERS:
I have given the hon.
gentleman the information, and I assure him I will look into what he says.
St. Croix-extension of wharf and removal of boulders, $5,000.
Mr. FORTIER:
Is that to be done by
contract or by day work?
Mr. ROGERS:
By contract.
Mr. FORTIER:
Both the extension of
the wharf and removal of boulders?
Mr. ROGERS:
Yes.
Mr. FORTIER:
Have the plans been prepared for the extension of the wharf?
Mr. ROGERS:
Not yet.
Mr. FORTIER:
Will the minister call for tenders for that work?
Mr. ROGERS:
Yes.
Mr. FORTIER:
This spring?
Mr. ROGERS:
Yes.
Mr. FORTIER:
I am very glad, for the locality greatly needs that wharf. It was commenced five years ago. This is a very important place, and the farmers only have this wharf to carry their products by boat to market at Quebec and Montreal.
Public Works-chargeable to income-harbours and rivers-British Columbia-Fraser river-North America-improvements, $200,000.
Mr. ROGERS:
I move that the item be amended by striking out the words ' North Arm.'
Mr. GRAHAM:
Will not that be ' changing the destination of the vote?' It changes it from the North Arm to some other part of the river. I am not going to insist on it, but if I did, Mr. Chairman, you would have to rule it out of order.
12132i
To provide for making good the full sessional indemnity of members of the Senate -days lost through absence caused by illness during the present session-notwithstanding anything in chapter 10 of the Revised Statutes, an Act respecting the Senate and House of Commons, $11,840.00.
Mr. SINCLAIR:
Does this cover the case of Dr Robertson of Prince Edward Island?
Mr. STANEIELD:
I cannot speak for the Senate, but in connection with the members of the House of Commons all those who have been sick are provided for. I presume the same .rule applies to the>
Senate.
Mr. MACDONALD:
My deskmate, Mr. Bickerdike, has been ill; will he be provided for?
Mr. STANFIELD. Yes.