Mr. BLAIR.

My hon. friend from North Toronto mentioned this particularly to me and said that if it came up he would like to have it stand over.

Ron. Mr. BLAIR.

All they would have to give us or all that they might give us.

Then a gentleman of the name of Talbot says :

.hut suppose they were not anxious to give u to you ?

Hon. Mr. BLAIR.

I have to make suitable acknowledgments to my hon. friend (Mr. Gourley) for his kind and compli-mentai'y reference to myself personally.

Mr. GOURLEiY. They were the truth, Sir.

Hon. Mr. BLAIR.

While I do that and may avow at once that I have very strong sympathy with the policy of providing a pension system for the employees on the

Mr. GOURLE7.

Intercolonial, I confess that I do not at the moment see any very close relevancy between the subject of the Quebec bridge and the subject of a pension system for the Intercolonial.

Hon. Mr. BLAIR.

Lest there be any misapprehension, I may be permitted to say that the House of Commons managers agreed that amendments 5, 6, and 7, of the Senate should be accepted. There was a modification, however, agreed upon by the Senate, accepted by the managers on behalf of this House, that section 5 of the original Bill was to be restored with some slight verbal alterations. That will appear in the report which the Minister of Justice will submit to the House in writing.