Mr. KYTE:

What amount has been paid to the Sydney Daily Post, newspaper, by all the departments of the Government for printing and advertising, since the 1st day of November, 1911?

Mr. SINCLAIR:

What is the gross amount paid to the Halifax Herald, the Evening Mail, Halifax, and the Royal Print and Lithographing Company, Halifax, by all departments of the Government for printing, advertising and all other services since November 1, 1911?

1. Who are the censors employed at Louis-burg, N.S., and what is the pay of each?

2. What are their hours of employment?

3. Are deductions made from their salaries on account of absence from duty?

4. What are the ages of the censors?

5. Have the services of S. P. Challoner, as censor, been dispensed with?

6. If so, for what reason?

Sir EDWARD KEMP:

1 and 4. Censor, R. J. Macdonald, $7 a day, 41 years; assistant censor, D. S. Hooper, $5 a day, 37 years; deputy assistant censors, N. F. Cooke, $4.50 a day, 29 years; W. T. Hayden, $4 a day, 24 years.

2. The work of the station continues for the whole twenty-four hours, and during Sundays and holidays. Each assistant censor or deputy assistant censor works for fifty-six hours in the week, a proportion of this time at night.

3. Members of the censorship staff are entitled to two weeks a year leave with pay, and to reasonable sick leave.

5. Yes.

6. To promote the efficiency of the service.

1. Has a Mr. Thompson, of Winnipeg, been recently appointed a plumbing and heating inspector for the West, in the Public Works Department?

2. If so, was he recommended by the Civil

Service Commission? .

3. What is his salary?

1. Yes, appointed July 12, 1916, as a plumbing and heating inspector for the West. '

2. No, the Civil Service Commission has no jurisdiction over appointments to outside staff of Public Works Department.

3. $2,000 per annum.

1. What officers are on duty in Dental Corps in Military District No. 6?

2. How many, and what are the names of officers who are devoting their whole time to said duty, and what are the names of those who are attending private practice?

3. Who are receiving separation allowance for their wives, and what date did separation allowance commence?

4. What are the dates on which the married officers of this corps went on duty?

Sir EDWARD KEMP:

Mr. Speaker, I rise to a question of privilege. The House is aware that I very seldom notice any attack made upon me outside of this House, in the press or otherwise, but I find a report of a speech by Sir Clifford Sifton, delivered two days ago, which I cannot allow to pass unnoticed. Sir Clifford Sifton is reported in the Globe of yesterday as having addressed the Canadian Club at Winnipeg, and as saying, among other things:

Sir Clifford did not think that the people of Canada had any call to find fault with Laurier on the war until the day that the conscription policy was announoed in Parliament. Sir Wilfrid now said that he was unable to endorse fully the policy of conscription. His attitude was taken because he believed that it was his duty to the province of Quebec. In other words, Laurier abrogated his title to leadership. The plain, unavoidable and inevitable fact was that if Sir Wilfrid Laurier were to win this election Canada would go out of the war.

I have to say in reference to this, Sir, that from anything which I have ever said in this House or out of it, Sir Clifford Sifton

could not draw the inference that any attitude which I have ever taken was in deference to the province of Quebec. Neither on this occasion, nor any occasion in my public life, did I ever take an attitude in deference to one province alone. The policies which I have opposed were not opposed from the point of view of one province, but from the point of view of Liberal principles and with respect to all the provinces of Canada and irrespective of race or creed. This is my position to-day. I have stated before, and I repeat, that my attitude to-day, on the 1st of August, 1917, towards the war is the same as it was on the 19th August, 1914. I am in this war to the end, but I am in this war not upon compulsion, but upon the voluntary principle of enlistment.