Mr. SPEAKER:
I have the honour to inform the House that the Clerk of the House has received from the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery a certificate of the elecJ tion and return of Alfred Thompson, Esq., for the electoral district of the Yukon.
Mr. R. C. Henders (Macdonald) presented the following report from the Select Standing Committee on Agriculture and Colonization: Your Committee have had before them for further consideration the question of labour in connection with agriculture, and how it best can be applied until the end of the war. Sub-committees appointed to consider the matter have gone very carefully into it, as well as other matters of equal importance, and have made their several reports which your Committee adopted and agreed to report the same herewith for the information of the House.
Sir GEORGE FOSTER moved that the Orders in Council laid on, the table of the House on the 2nd April, 1918, be concurred in. He said: The Orders in Council which have been issued and laid, on the Table form a long list of two pages. They are formal to a certain extent, but the law requires that these Orders in Council when passed shall be laid on the table of the House within a certain time. I think they are not law until they are so laid on the Table of the House, and thereafter if approved by the House.
Sir WILFRID LAURIER:
These Orders in Council, as I understand the law, have
to fee submitted to the House and ratified by the House.
Sir GEORGE FOSTER:
Yes.
Sir WILFRID LAURIER:
So I would
suggevst that my hon. friend allow his motion to stand until to-morrow.
Mr. SPEAKER:
Stand.
Sir GEORGE FOSTER moved:
That the recommendation of his honour the Speaker, laid upon the Table of the House on the 21st instant, respecting the appointment of Mr. Marcel Gabard to the position of official reporter of the Debates of the House of Commons, be concurred in.
Motion agreed to.
Copy of Order in Council P.C. 1129 dated 11th May, 1918, Amendments of Defence of Canada, Order 1917, section 22A re Ships' Lights.-Hon. Mr. Ballantyne. Copy of Order in Council P.C. 1102, dated 10th May, 1918, Amendments of Defence of Canada, 1917, section 23C, rc Fitting and Supplying Vessels registered in Canada with defensive armaments.- Hon. Mr. Ballantyne. Annual Report of the Trade of Canada, 1917.-Sir George Foster. Return of amounts paid the Toronto Globe and the Toronto 'Star respectively from January 1, 1917, and April 1, 1918, for all services between said dates.-Hon. Martin Burrell. Return of quantity of bran, shorts or mill feed exported to the United States by and without license between August 1, 1917, and February 2, 1918; also the firms in Canada to which licenses have been granted and the quantity in each case.-Hon. Martin Burrell.
On motion of Hon. Hugh Guthrie, Bill No. 112, respecting the election held in the electoral district of Yukon, was introduced and read the first time.
Mr. SPEAKER:
When shall said Bill be read a second time-now?
Sir WILFRID LAURIER:
No.
Mr. SPEAKER:
Next sitting of the
House.