Mr. ARCHAMBAULT:
What will be the tariff of solicitors as a result of these amendments?
Mr. GUTHRIE:
Under the Act, five per cent of the estate will be the maximum amount that can be charged.
Mr. ARCHAMBAULT:
I understand that the Act comes into force on the 1st of July. Have the necessary trustees been appointed?
Mr. GUTHRIE:
I could not answer that question; the administration of the Act is in the hands of the 'Secretary of State.
Mr. SPEAKER:
That question has already been submitted on two or three occasions on the Orders of the Day. I do not know that it is in order at this stage of the proceedings.
Mr. ARCHAMBAULT:
I was under the impression, Mr. Speaker, that the amendment of the 'Senate referred to the appointment of trustees.
Mr. GUTHRIE:
It does not refer to the appointment of trustees but to their remuneration.
Mr. ARCHAMBAULT:
The question I
asked was whether the trustees had been appointed.
Mr. SPEAKER:
The Government has already answered that very question.
Mr. ARCHAMBAULT:
The information is not very precise.
Mr. McKENZIE:
Do I understand that the action of the Senate restores the old sections?
Mr. GUTHRIE:
The Act will remain as it passed last session with respect to the. two sections in question.
Motion agreed to.
Hon. ARTHUR MEIGHEN (Minister of the Interior) moved concurrence in the amendments made by the Senate to Bill No. 152 to amend the Yukon Placer Mining Act. He said: The amendments of the Senate are not at all material; indeed the word "clerical" could be used to describe them. I am prepared to recommend the acceptance of the amendments. Motion agreed to.
On the order for the House to again go into committee on Bill No. 12 respecting the election of members of the House of Commons and the electoral franchise.
Mr. GUTHRIE:
May I ask the consent of the House to refer back to the committee of the whole the report made on Thursday last in respect of clauses 19 and 76. I beg to move:
That the report of the Committee of the Whole on sections 19 and 76 of the Electoral Franchise Act, Bill No. 12, received on the 24th of June, he referred back to the committee for further consideration and amendment.
Mr. SPEAKER:
This motion, of course, can only he made by unanimous consent..
Motion agreed to, and the House went into committee, Mr. Boivin in the Chair.