Mr. DUGAiLD DONAGHY (North Vancouver) : With the consent of the House I should like to move that the Duncan report be laid on the table of the House.
Mr. SPEAKER:
According to the rules
of the House, two days' notice must be given.
Mr. DONAGHY:
Is it not in order to
make the motion with the unanimous consent of the House?
Mr. SPEAKER:
Bourinot says:
The documents laid before parliajment are presented either by message or by command of His Excellency the Governor General, or in answer to an address or order of the House, in pursuance of an act of parliament.
In such cases two days' notice is required.
Hon. H. H. STEVENS (Vancouver Centre):
Speaking for myself and with the authority of my ri^ht hon. leader, we would have no
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objection at all to the unanimous consent being given, but with one proviso-that is that the report, evidence and exhibits complete, should be laid on the table.
Mr. DONAGHY:
That is the way I have drawn my motion.
Mr. SPEAKER:
The motion is:
'Moved by Mr. Doneghy, seconded by Mr. Jenkins:
That the interim report of Walter Duncan, dated December 10, 1925, and the report of Walter Duncan dated February 8, 1926, mentioned in the proceedings before the special committee investigating the Department of Customs and Excise, together with transcript of evidence referred to in the report of February 8, 1926, and all exhibits mentioned in said evidence, and alii enclosures accompanying said report or referred to therein, be laid on the table of the House.
I have stated that two days' notice should be given, but if the motion is made by unanimous consent the motion may be put.
Motion agreed to. Hon. GEORGE H. BOIVIN (Minister of Customs (and Excise): I hope I may have the unanimous consent of the House to lay the documents on the table during the course of the afternoon, as soon as I can get them.
Mr. MEIGHEN:
I understood the motion was to lay them on the table now.
Mr. BOTVIN:
Just as .soon as I can get
them. I was unaware that this motion was to be made.
Mr. MEIGHEN:
I do not know how the motion to lay them on the table can be passed, unless they are laid on the table at once.
Mr. BOIVIN:
They will be laid on the
table in the next ten minutes.
The House resumed from Thursday, June 24, consideration of the motion of Mr. Mercier (St. Henri) for concurrence in the report of the special committee appointed to investigate the Department of Customs and Excise, the proposed amendment thereto of Hon. Mr. Stevens, and the proposed amendment to the amendment of Mr. Woodsworth.
Mr. M. N. CAMPBELL (Mackenzie):
Mr. Speaker, we as members of parliament are now being called upon to adjudicate on what, I think I am safe in saying, is one of the greatest moral and political scandals that ever besmirched the fair name of Canada. The details of the doings of high officials are so disgustingly immoral that the committee 14011-318
through a sense of public decency refuse to allow them to be incorporated in the evidence at all.
Mr. DONAGHY:
May I make a remark and ask a question here?
Keep quiet for once.
Sit down.