Right Hon. ARTHUR MEIGHEN (Prime Minister) :
I beg to lay on the Table a further telegram from the Prime Minister of Ontario, and my reply, relating to the Lake of the Woods Regulations Bill.
Hon. HUGH GUTHRIE (Acting Solicitor General) moved:
That a message Ibe sent to the Senate to inform Their Honours that this House agrees to the request of the Senate to give leave to the proper officer of the Senate to make the necessary correction as desired in their message of the 23rd instant, respecting Bill No. 118, an Act to amend the Bankruptcy Act.
Motion agreed to.
On the Orders of the Day:
Mr. S. W. JACOBS (George Etienne Cartier) :
A despatch in the Journal of yesterday declares that three British seamen are being detained at Grosse Isle, said to be suffering from typhus fever. Is the Government able to give the House any information on the matter?
Right Hon. ARTHUR MEIGHEN (Prime Minister):
The Minister of Immigration and Colonization has not yet arrived. I have not heard of the matter myself, but I shall ask him to deal with the question, if opportunity is given, when fee does arrive.
On the Orders of the Day:
Mr. J. W. EDWARDS (Frontenac) :
A resolution was passed by the Ontario Legislature at its last session, introduced by the
hon. member for Lennox county, petitioning' this Government to ban the Hearst publications from entrance to the Dominion of Canada. I wish to ask the Minister of Justice if that resolution has been received by the Government, and if so, what action if any, it is proposed to take?
Right Hon. C. J. DOHERTY (Minister of Justice) :
I have just come in and did not hear the beginning of my hon. friend's remarks. Did I understand him to say that the resolution had been passed by the legislature of Ontario?
Mr. EDWARDS:
Yes.
Mr. DOHERTY:
I am strongly under the impression that it has not come to my knowledge; I think I would have recalled it if it had. I will look into the matter.
On the motion of Right Hon. Arthur Meighen (Prime Minister) Bill No. 212, to amend the Dominion Lands Act, was read the third time, and passed.
Right Hon. ARTHUR MEIGHEN (Prime Minister) moved the second reading of Bill No. 216, respecting the lake of the Woods and other waters. Mr. JACQUES BUREAU (Three Rivers and St. Maurice)) : There is a resolution on the Order Paper with reference to this Bill, which has come from the Senate with one clause blank. As we have not yet discussed the resolution would it not be better to deal with that first and then go on with the Bill?
Mr. MEIGHEN:
I think the hon. member is right. I think it would be better to take up the resolution first, and then go on with the Bill.
Motion withdrawn.
House in committee on the following proposed resolution-Mr. Boivin in the Chair:
Resolved, That the following provision be inserted as clause eight in Bill A6 from the Senate, entitled "An Act respecting the Lake of the Woods and other Waters," now before this House :-
"8. The expense of administering this Act and the regulations made thereunder may be paid out of any unappropriated moneys of Canada."