Mr. FRANK CAHILL (Pontiac) presented the sixth report of the select standing committee on Railways, Canals and Telegraph Lines, as follows: Your committee have considered Bill No. 38, an act respecting the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Company, and have agreed to report the same without amendment. . Your committee have considered the following bills and have agreed to report them with amendments, viz., Bill No. 30, an act respecting the construction of a Canadian National Railway line between Rousseau and Laurent, in the province of Quebec. Bill No. 46, an act respecting the construction of a Canadian National Railway line from Lloydminster, in the province of Saskatchewan, northwesterly 45 miles. In compliance with the order of May 12, your committee have further considered Bill No. 40, an act respecting the construction of a Canadian National Railway line to Mile 41 of the Melfort branch near Nipawin in the province of Saskatchewan, and have agreed to report the same with further amendments. With regard to the last mentioned bill, your committee beg to recommend that the title be changed to read as follows: "An act respecting the construction of a Canadian National Railway line either to Mile 41 near Nipawin or in a northeasterly direction to a point in Township 48, Range 13, west of the second meridian, in the province of Saskatchewan." All of which is respectfully submitted.

COMMITTEE ,

Mr. THOMAS VIEN (Lotbiniere) presented the fifth report of the select standing committee on Banking and Commerce, as follows: Your committee recommend that leave be granted them to sit while the House is in session. All of which is respectfully submitted. Mr. VIEN moved that the report be received and concurred in.

Motion agreed to.

Petitions were presented from certain members of the following congregations, severally praying that the proposed legislation incorporating the United Church of Canada be not enacted:- Almerite Presbyterian Church,-Mr. Duff. Presbyterian Church, Little Narrows; Presbyterian Church of Middle River and other places; Kennetcook Cor.; Presbyterian Church of Shubenacadie; Presbyterian Church of Gore and Kennetcook; Presbyterian Church of Elmsdale and Nine Mile River, all of Nova Scotia,-Mr. Martell. Petitions were presented from certain members of the following congregations and bodies severally praying that the bill now before the House to incorporate the United Church of Canada be passed during the present session:- Methodist Church, Allison, Ont.; Grace Methodist Church, Brampton, Ont.; Union Church, Foam Lake, Sask.; St. James Methodist Church, Peterboro, Ont.; Westminster Presbyterian Church, Saskatoon, Sask.; Methodist Church, Parry Sound, Ont.; Presbyterian Church, Cape John and Caribou, N.S.; Salem Church, Tupperville; Yonge Street Methodist Church, Toronto,-Mr. Hubbs. Presbyterian Church, Rockwood, Ont.; Union Churches, Dinton and Gladys; Methodist Church, Mount Pleasant, Fairmont and Cavan, Ontario; Rivers Union Church, Pettapiece, Man.; Methodist Church, Kingston Mills, Ont.; Methodist Church, Selby; Union Church, Rossland, B.C.; Methodist Church, Renfrew, Ont.; Presbyterian Church, Grand Bend; Gray Church, Ricetown, Sask.; Methodist Church, Leamington; Methodist Churches, Clandeboye and Lucan, Ont.; Burns Presbyterian Church, Ashbum, Ont.; Union Church, Russell, Man.; First Congregational Church, Ottawa; Methodist Church, Bluevale, Ont.; Methodist Churches, Belgrave and Sunshine; Union Church, Macklim, Sask.; Methodist Churches, Bensfort, Baifeboro and Fraserville, Ont.-Mr. Halbert. Quebec Association of Ministers and Churches of the Congregational Churches, Cowansville, Que.; St. John's Methodist Church, Winnipeg; College Avenue Methodist Church, Woodstock, Ont.; Presbyterian Church, Granum; Union Church, Lethbridge, Alta.; Methodist Church, Waterford, Ont.; Presbyterian Church, Kagawong, Ont.; Methodist Church, Caledon East, Ont.; Presbyterian Church, Fergus, Ont.; Presbyterian Church, Coniston, Ont.; Methodist Church, Beachburg, Ont.; Gordon Methodist Church, Winnipeg, Man.; M. Hackney and 65 others, Zephyr, Ont.; Methodist Church, East Angus, Que.; Presbyterian and Union Church, Ellis-boro and Weldon, Sask.; Wesley Methodist Church, Selkirk, Man.; Methodist Church, Roblin, Ont.-Mr. Brown. Presbyterian Churches at Cyde, Pibroch and Westlock, Alta.; United Church, Edson, Alta.; Highland Park Presbyterian Church, Edmonton South, Alta.; Methodist Church, Salmon Arm, B. C.; Union Church, Minitonas, Man.; Methodist Church, Oak Bay, N.B.; United Church, Gallivan and Rockhaven, Sask.; United Church, Topley and Foresdale, B.C.; Union Church, Smithers, B.C.; Union Church, Peachland, B.C.; Presbyterian Church, Pelly and Norquay, Sask.; Presbyterian Church, Bellmuir; Methodist Church, Dauphin, Man.; Union Church, Lillooet, B.C.; Presbyterian Church, Success, Sask.; Questions United Churoh, Estevan, Sask.; Methodist Church , Cloverdale, BjC. ; Hartney Hall Union Church-Mr. Charters. Dunleath Congregation, Sask.; Presbyterian Church, Norland and Dongola; Congregational Church, Kingsport, N.S.,; Methodist Church, Macleod, Alta.; Hale Street Methodist Church, London, Ont.; Wesley Methodist Church, Galt, Ont.; Bell Street Methodist Church, Ottawa; Presbyterian Church, Murray Harbour, P.E.I.; Methodist Churches, Little Briton and Valentia, Ont.; of Wm. P. Wright and 14 others of the city of Toronto; Cameron, Trinity Methodist Church; Methodist Church, Stoney Creek, Ont.; Presbyterian Church, Windsor Junction; Presbyterian Church, Flesherton, Ont.; Methodist Churches, Ebenezer and Bradford; Union Church, Foxwarren, Man.; Methodist Church, Pleasant Forks; Methodist Churches Portreeve and Lancer, Sask.; (Presbyterian) Union Churches, Magrath and Spring Coulee, Alta.; Methodist Church, 'Maple Creek; Sask.; Union Church, Elstow, Sask.; United Church, Kelowna, B.C.; Union Church, Days-land, Leith and Rosalind, Alta.; Union Church, Elk Point, Alta.; St. Andrew's Presbyterian Churcsh, Langley Fort, B.C.; Union Church, Monitor, Alta.; St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Boissevain, Man.; United Church, Okotoks, Alta.; Congregational Church, Eatonia, Sask.; United Church, Grandview; Methodist Church Mono Mills, Ont.; Methodist Church, Moulinette, Ont.; United Church, Orrville, Ont.; Methodist Churches, Hawthorne, Bowesville and Leitrim; Ont.; Presbyterian Church, Joliette, Que.; and of W. A. Hanna and 25 others of the Methodist Church at Port Carling, Ont. -Mr. Stewart (Leeds). On the petitions being presented: