Hon. Mr. REID:
Only a few more items are left in the Supplementaries.
Mr. BELAND:
If it is understood that all contentious items will stand over until the next sitting of the House, I am willing that we go on.
Hon. Mr. REID:
Yes.
Mr. BELAND:
When an item is contentious, why should the minister not immediately move that it stand over? That will be the end of it; otherwise we have been sitting here for almost eighteen hours continuously without any necessity.
Hon. Mr. REID:
That is what we have been doing right along.
Mr. BELAND:
The minister never moved that an item stand over.
Hon. Mr. REID:
We have been doing
that.
Item agreed to. Public Works, chargeable to capital, Marine Department-River St. Lawrence ship channel, maintenance and operating dredging fleet-further amount required, $85,000.
Mr. LEMIEUX:
Will the Minister of Marine and Fisheries (Mr. Ballantyne) kindly lay on the Table, at the opening of the House in the morning, the Order in Council passed by the Government at his instigation cancelling the contract with the Dominion Steel Company for plates?
Mr. BALLANTYNE:
I shall be glad to
do that.
Item agreed to. To provide for increases in salaries due to the application of the re-classiflcation of the Civil Service, both Inside and Outside Services, for years 1919-20, 1920-21 and 1921-22, and to provide for the permanent status of employees under Order in Council P.C. 2958 dated December 16, 1920, and the salaries and increases resulting therefrom, and to provide for increases in salaries of employees on return to Civil duty from Military Service, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Civil Service Act, the whole to be determined by the Civil Service Commission and approved by the Governor in Council, $1,500,000.
Mr. POWER:
Is there any intention on
the part of the Government to increase the pensions of retired civil servants?
Sir HENRY DRAYTON:
The matter
has been considered and there is no present intention of increasing them.
Mr. DECHENE:
Nearly all the civil
servants .thought that the reclassification was for the purpose of increasing their salaries, but as a matter of fact they are complaining that their salaries have been diminished. I wonder which it is. I do not think this item is justified.
Item agreed to. Resolutions reported.
The House proceeded to consider certain resolutions reported from Committee of Supply. Resolutions concurred in. On motion of the Hon. Mr. REID, the House adjourned at 5.20 a.m. Saturday. Saturday, June 4, 1921.