Mr. COLE.

Mr. Galt has proposed six members for Prince Edward Island. I approve that rather than Mr. Browns motion, because it allows us to give our counties two members each. .

Mr. BOLE.

Then I will read the rest of it :-

I remember on the 7th day of March, the election day, and on Sunday prior to the 7th dav of March there were delivered to me at my house by Jos. Makarski and Theo. Jestremski three kegs of beer in a sleigh, and when they gave the same to me they told me to give this beer to parties who would vote for Mitchell.

Mr. DAVID W. BOLE (Winnipeg).

Mr. Speaker, it is not my intention to attempt to controvert the speech delivered by the hon. member for Prince Edward county (Mr. Alcorn) last night. I sat attentively for two and a quarter hours, listening to the speech of the hon, gentleman, and I must state, without any intention of offence, that the speech did not contain very much that can be answered.

Mr. BOLE.

I find in ' Hansard ' this morning that 40 pages are occupied by the hon. gentleman, 35 of these pages being quotations from the Election Acts of the Dominion, of Ontario, of Manitoba and of British Columbia and letters which have appeared and which a good many of us have read in the public press. But I think I am voicing the sentiments of a good many members when I state that the substance of the hon. gentleman's speech is contained in the last paragraph in which he says :

Under these circumstances and subject to what the leader of the opposition (Mr. R. L. Borden) may say, but voicing I believe the sentiment of every hon. gentleman on this side of the House, I will observe that if these sections to which I have directed attention, sections 1, 13, 17 and 28, be maintained, the opposition will exhaust their constitutional rights in opposing this Bill before this House.

I have no doubt that an hon. gentleman is within his constitutional rights in spreading 35 pages of extracts upon * Hansard,' but if you allow me to suggest I cannot see that it adds much to the dignity or the value of the debate.

Mr. BOLE.

Yes, unless he has been seven years in the country.