Sir ROBERT BORDEN:

I beg to move that the recommendation of the Honourable the Speaker, laid on the table of the House on the 27th instant, relative to the yearly increase in salary to certain officers, clerks and employees of the House, pursuant to section 37 of the Civil Service Amendment Act, 1908, be approved.

Mr. GRAHAM:

I suppose this does not include any new appointments?

Sir ROBERT BORDEN:

No.

1. What amount of money has been advanced

to the Quebec Harbour Commission since the 1st October, 1911; on what dates, by whom, and in virtue of what authority were such advances made ? -

2. What is the amount of the interest due or in arrears on such advances since the 1st October, 1911?

3. What amounts of such interest have been paid by the said commission since the 1st October, 1911, and at what dates?

1. Total authorized for advances on loan by 3-4 George V, Chapter 41, $3,500,000; total authorized for advances on loan by 4-5 George V, Chapter 47, $2,000,000; making $5,500,000.

Advances made on account of above as follows:

June 5, 1913 $220,000July 8, 1913

218,000July 26, 1913

286,000Aug. 27, 1913

293,000Sept. 22, 1913

448,000Oct. 16, 1913

432,000Dec. 1, 1913

186,000Jan. 13, 1914

272,000Mar. 9, 1914

257,000April 11, 1914

225,000May 18, 1914

123,000June 22, 1914

235,000July 13, 1914

111,000Aug. 5, 1914

100,000Aug. 12, 1914

100,000Aug. 23, 1914

100,000Sept. 1, 1914

220,000Sept. 17, 1914

256,000Sept. 30, 1914

92,000N6v. 3, 1914

147,000

Dec. 11, 1914. Mar. 2, 1915 June 11, 1915, Aug. 21, 1915, Aug. 25, 1915. Sept. 18, 1915 Oct. 16, 1915. Nov. 6, 1915 Dec. 29, 1915.

57.000

229.000 8,000

243.000

52.000

46.000

48.000

85.000

59.000

Total $5,148,000

2 and 3. Interest on these advances is due on January 1 and July 1 in each year. On July 1, 1915, the interest due was $217,660. This amount was paid in full on the 29th October, 1915. On January 1, 1916, interest to the amount of $85,744.68 became due. This amount has not been paid.

Mr. LEMIEUX:

How many freight cars are at present out of repairs on the Intercolonial railway between Ste. Rosalie, P.Q., and L6vis?

Mr. REID:

The Canadian Government

railways own 14,860 freight cars, of which 60 are' stored between Ste. Rosalie and Levis, awaiting their turn for repairs in shops at Chaudiere and Riviere du Loup.

1. Are the members of the different military hospital commissions, established by Order in Council of the 30th June, 1915, throughout the different provinces of the Dominion, paid by the Government?

2. If so, what is the salary of each of them.

Mr. KEMP:

1 and 2. Order in Council No. 1540, dated June 30, 1915, created the Hospital Commission, appointing twelve gentlemen as members of the Commission. Order in Council No. 2412, dated October 12, 1915, changed the title of the Commission to the Military Hospitals and Convalescent Homes Commission and appointed four additional members. As a result of an Inter-Provincial Conference held in Ottawa, October 19 and 20, 1915, each of the provincial governments has appointed a commission to act in co-operation with the Federal Commission. .

No members of the Military Hospitals Commission receive any remuneration for their services. They are entitled, however, under the Orders in Council, to $10 per day, plus actual railway fare, while attending the meetings of the Commission or while otherwise specially engaged in the conduct of its affairs.