Mr. LAFLECHE:

How many requests, in connection with unemployment works, were refused in the county of Riehmond-Wolfe?

Mr. GORDON:

All requests for unemployment relief work forwarded to the Department of Labour by the provincial authorities of Quebec were approved and duly authorized by the governor in council.

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1. Will the government provide immediate means to expedite hearings of soldiers' pension cases before the pension tribunal and the presentation of appeal cases to the Court of Appeals?

2. If so, what improvements to the present machinery for dealing with pensions have been or will be immediately put into effect?

Mr. BENNETT:

This question is not in proper form: "Will the government provide," so and so. It is not a proper form of question.

Mr. SPEAKER:

Question No. 23 will be dropped for revision.

1. What salary was paid to each employee of the fish hatchery in Restigouche county, New Brunswick, for the years from 1925, to December, 1931?

2. How much was paid to each person for securing salmon spawn during the period above named?

3. AVhat amount was paid each year for car hire, giving names of persons to whom amounts were paid and amount paid each?

1. How many are on the force of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and what are their names ?

2. What are the dates of their appointment?

3. Where do they reside?

4. What salary is paid to each?

5. What are the names of those who recommended each of them?

1. How many prisoners are detained in the Canadian Penitentiaries, prisons or reformatory schools?

2. How many prisoners are there of eaeh nationality?

1. Did Mr. Alphonse Garon preside as commissioner in an inquiry held in connection with Johnny April, postmaster of Gironde, county of Temiscouata, Quebec?

2. If so, fa) on what date was this inquiry held; (b) how many witnesses were heard; (c) who swore them in; (d) on what date did said Alphonse Garon forward his report to the department; (e) what amount was paid by the department to said Alphonse Garon as fees and expenses in connection with this inquiry?

3. Was the postmaster above mentioned dismissed on the report of said Alphonse Garon?

Questions as Orders for Returns

4. Did said Alphonse Garon preside over this inquiry as commissioner previous to being sworn as such?

5. If so, (a) by virtue of what authority were the witnesses sworn in; (b) did the department request said Alphonse Garon to return his fees and expenses, and order a new inquiry?

1. Did Mr. Alphonse Garon preside as commissioner over an inquiry held in connection with Joseph Michaud, postmaster of La Riehardiere, county of Temiseouata, Quebec?

2. If so: (a) on what date was this inquiry held; (b) how many witnesses were heard; (c) who swore them in; (d) on what date did said Alphonse Garon forward his report to the department; (e) what amount was paid by the department to said Alphonse Garon as fees and expenses in connection with this inquiry?

3. Was the postmaster above mentioned dismissed on the report of said Alphonse Garon ?

4. Did said Alphonse Garon preside over this inquiry as commissioner previous to being sworn as such?

5. If so: (a) by virtue of what authority were the witnesses sworn in; (b) did the department request said Alphonse Garon to return his fees and expenses, and order a new inquiry?

1. Did Mr. Alphonse Garon preside as commissioner over an inquiry held in connection with David Lebel, postmaster of Montagne Ronde, county of Temiseouata, Quebec?

2. If so: (a) on what date was the inquiry held; (b) how many witnesses were heard; (c) who swore them in; (d) on what date did said Alphonse Garon forward his report to the department; (e) what amount was paid by the department to said Alphonse Garon as fees and expenses in connection with this inquiry?

3. Was the postmaster above mentioned dismissed on the report of said Alphonse Garon?

4. Did said Alphonse Garon preside over this inquiry as commissioner previous to being sworn as such?

5. If so: (a) by virtue of what authority

were the witnesses sworn in; (b) did the department request said Alphonse Garon to return his fees and expenses, and order a new inquiry?

1. Did Mr. Alphonse Garon preside as commissioner over an inquiry in connection with Mr. Antoine Landry, postmaster of Notre Dame du Lac, county of Temiseouata, Quebec?

2. If so: (a) on what date was this inquiry held; (b) how many witnesses were heard; (c) ivho swore them in; (d) on what date did said Alphonse Garon forward his report to the department; (e) w-hat amount was paid by the department to said Alphonse Garon as fees and expenses in connection with this inquiry?

3. Was the postmaster above mentioned dismissed on the report of said Alphonse Garon ?

4. Did said Alphonse Garon preside over this inquiry as commissioner previous to being sworn as such?

5. If so: la) by virtue of what authority

were the witnesses sworn in; (b) did the department request said Alphonse Garon to return his fees and expenses, and order a new inquiry?

1. Was Francois Michaud heard as a witness in an inquiry held in connection with political partisanship in which Joseph Michaud, postmaster of La Riehardiere, county of Temis-couata, was the person charged?

2, Was the said Francois Michaud appointed postmaster to replace Joseph Michaud?

1. Did Eugene Lepage lodge a complaint against David Lebel, postmaster of Montagne Ronde, county of Temiseouata, Quebec?

2. Was said Eugene Lepage heard as witness in an inquiry held, in connection with political partisanship in which David Lebel was the person charged?

3. Was the said Eugene Lepage appointed postmaster to replace said David Lebel?

1. Did J. T. Yoisine lodge a complaint against Antoine Landry, postmaster of Notre Dame du Lac, county of Temiseouata, Quebec?

2. Did said J. T. Yoisine bear witness in an inquiry held in connection with political partisanship in which said Antoine Landry was the person charged?

3. If so, was it on the evidence of said J. T. Voisine that the commissioner based his report against said Antoine Landry?

4. Was said J. T. Voisine appointed acting postmaster to replace said Antoine Landry?

1. Did Alexandre Lebel lodge a complaint against Andre Beaulieu, postmaster of Raudot, county of Temiseouata, Quebec?

2. Was said Alexandre Lebel a witness in the inquiry in connection with political partisanship brought against said Andre Beaulieu?

3. Was said Alexandre Lebel appointed postmaster to replace said Andre Beaulieu?

4. Did the Postmaster General receive a petition signed by a number of persons to the effect that only one man, Alexandre Lebel. *wanted to change the site of the post office?

1. Did Mrs. Emile Ouellet, widow, lodge a complaint against Omer Sirois, then postmaster of Riou, county of Temiseouata, Quebec?

2. Was said Mrs. Emile Ouellet appointed postmistress to replace said Omer Sirois?

3. Was she appointed after a regular inquiry?

1. On what date did Alcide Beaulieu, postmaster of St. Benoit de Packington, county of Temiseouata, Quebec, resign?

2. Who replaced him?

3. On whose recommendation was his

successor appointed and on what date?

1. Was Mrs. Emma Rioux. alias Mrs. Joseph Rioux, widow, heard as a witness in an inquiry held in connection with political partisanship in which Johnny April, postmaster of Gironde, county of Temiseouata, Quebec, was the person charged?

2. Was said Mrs. Rioux appointed postmistress replacing said Johnny April?

1. Did Pierre Fortin lodge a complaint against Joseph Morneau, postmaster of Ivry, county of Temiseouata, Quebec?

2. Was said Pierre Fortin appointed postmaster to replace said Joseph Morneau?

3. Was he appointed after a regular inquiry was held?

Unopposed Motions for Papers

1. Did Isidore Ouellet lodge a complaint against Narcisse Ouellet, postmaster of Lamy South, county of Temiseouata, Quebec?

2. Was said Isidore Ouellet appointed postmaster to replace said Narcisse Ouellet?

Mr. CAHAN:

Some of these questions relate to the Post Office Department, but they involve civil service as well. I would suggest that Questions Nos. 6 to 19, both inclusive, stand as orders for returns.

Mr. MACKENZIE KING:

In regard to Question No. 19, I rather think the Secretary of State included it inadvertently. I suggest that it had better stand.