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OTTAWA : PRINTED BY MacLEAN, ROOER .t CO., WELUNGT»)N STREET. ^■ .V r\ ;. , ;;'''^.<^'.;v<^' E T 2. \ f I O^N^A.Di^L. < BUDGET SPEECH DELIVERED BT HON. SIR CHARLES TUPPER, C.B., G.C.M.G., &c., MINISTICK OF yXNA-NCE. — IN — THE HOUSE OF COMMON'S, THUESDAY, 12th MAY, 1887. OTTAWA: PRINTED BY MaoLBAN, ROGER & CO., WELLINGTON STREET. I INDEX. Colonial and Indian Exhibition «...,< 9_;3 Qinnfiian Pariti'^- Riiilway 19-21-!:: CharM red Buiks— Deposits .j2 " " J>i-.countH , , 2;{ Cui^lufiis Reveniio 2b' 28 '"xn'.r'a <>y "Kxci i^ccoi))lH E:,tiiTmtes, lHfi7-88... Finflffial Suitement. >'L\i1nror* Ki'-hi-r fi, P.otefii(.n of ''!ii IJeniuik» Trnperiji! Ii >t.i»uu.i 3!^!'»|'»iirts .... Jp'^munce- L;*'^ " t, Fire Immigration Iron lodurtliy National Policy Public Debt Presont Position of Canada .. KeceiptB and Ezponditure, 18S6.. " " 1887.. Bailways— Mileage " Tons carried Savings Banks — Deposits Siiipping Spain, Negotiations with , Trade with United States " China and Japan..... Tariff Changes (See Appendix).., United States— -trade iutercourse. 2b', 2'- 7 2Fi-.SH 1-4 9-!. 2.^ 38-.'); 37 16-19 21 5 7 24 24 23 24 34-36' 28-3. 36-37 63 28-33 S i ^5 i BUDGET SPEECH DELIVEIIED IIY HON. SIR CHARLES TUPPER, C.B., G.C.M.G., &c., MINISTER OF FINANCE, — IN — t,h:e house OF" commons, THURSDAY, l^th MA.Y, 1887. Sir CHARLES TUPPER. In riHing to movo that you leave the Chair for the purpose of going into Committee of Ways and Means, and taking advantage of this opportunity to make a statement to the Hou^e, I wieh to say' in the outeot that, recognising as I do the great ability of the hon. member for South Oxford (Sir Richard Cartwright), and the manner in which ho was enabled to discharge the duties of Finance Minister during the period that hon. gentlemen opposite were in power, and recognising as we all do, the great ability of the gentlemen who, on this side of the House, have served in the same capacity under the right hon. gentleman who now leads the House, I must ask for the considerate indulgence of the House on this, the first, occasion that it has become my duty to occupy that position. I do not propose, on the present occasion, to go over the ground that has been so fully occupied by the hon. gentlemen on this side of the House who have preceded me. It will be recollected that, under a comparatively low tariff, Canada enjoyed a very marked degree of prosperity daring the first seven years of Confederation, but it must not be forgotten that during that periDd tho industries of Canada enjoyed the groat protection which arose from the dislocation of the labor market in the great Republic to the south of us, and which placed ua in a, very different position to that which at a very early period afterwards we occnpied. When that change came, and when the languishing industries of Canada embarrassed the Finance Minister of that day ; when, instead of large surpluses, large deficits succeeded year after year, the Opposition urged upon that hon. gentle- man that ho should reconsider the position and that ho should endeavor to givo increased protection to the industries of Canada which would prevent them from thus languishing and fi-om being destroyed. We were not successful, I will not say in leading the hon. gentleman himself to the conclusion that that would bo a sound policy, for I have some reason to belicvo that ho had many and strong mis- givings on that qoostion, bat, at all oveutH, wo woro not able to change tho policj- of tbo gcDtlomon wbu tbon rulod tho do^tir.icN of Cai.uilu. As it* wull Unown, tbiU beoanno tho gi-oat i'hnuo at tho Hubncquont gonoral olootioti of 187S, auJ tbo Confoi- vativo porty, being roturnod to power, pledged to fontor and promote tbo iridu'strioa of Canad:i ns fur jis they woro ubio, brought down a policy through tho haiidrt of [ my honored prodocohsor, Sir Leonard Tilloy, whoHO ubsonco from this Houho I urn euro gontlcmon on Loth Kidi-H all dcploro; and 1 have no bcHitntion in Hnyin^; that tho BUcccHs ol that policy thus propounded and matured from lime to time, bus been Buch an to command tbo hupport and contidonco of a largo portion of tho i)co. plo of this country down to tho present day. Aa I have .said bclbro, with ample matorial under my hand to .show by contrast tho groat advantage that rooultoi from tho adoption of that policy, 1 do not propose to tako that courno on tbo pro- Bont ocoaBion. Tho elaborate Htatomontn made by Sir Leonard Tilloy, and tho exhanstive Htatoment made by my hon. friend who occupied tbo position ot Minis- ter of Finance a your ago, I think, render it entirely unncoo.s-ary thai I should occupy the time of Iho House in goirg over the same ground. Jt MiniN- . 1 8h..iild st bo por- ipgo that ■y on thirt nd public ken place . Stato-* of r held, to anything ?, a great 1,'owiclf, a (lilosophy 10 British in which j1 at that of politi- House in of public araont to the gen- try; but inghigh gly com- : of what led, how- question d a very Dwn, the hon. gentleman wh"), with »uch di«tingui(»ho I ability, loads Elor Majosty'a loyal OppoHtion in this 11 )ino, hat, in the prosonoo of thj groat olootorato of Canuda, announced hin nntiro convoretion to tho prinoiplo that wo huvo no long maintainod from thii wido of Ian Houho. Tho ro-oloction of that hou. gontloman to tho pooltion of lo'idor of Ihut i^'tcal paily in thin Honno and in this country, is viowod with ani- lorm Hatittfuclion on this Hide of tho IIouso for two reasonH : first, bocauHO of tho hon. gentleman's evident (lU-Uitlcations for that distingiiishod post; leoondly, bouauso wo rogard hJH roolojtion to that high position art an affirmation by hon. gontlomen opposite that at last the timo has como whon thin country may congrat- ulato itself upon tho fuct thiU tho great capitalists of Oanadu who arc interoatod in developing tho resources of tho country can put their capital into those gi^oat Can- adian industries without any four of disturbance arising from a chango of Admin- istration. Under tho.^c circumstances I feel it would bo wasting tho timo of the House, and perhaps more than wasting tho timo of tho House, for mo to do more than express tho gialitication f feci that tho timo has come whon we are nil at one upon thia great and important question, and when tho only issuo can bo how best to carry out and how best to make tho principle suooossful that has commended itsolf so o'ltirely to tho satisfaction of tho great bidy of tho pooplo of this country. Now, Sir, I will pasd at unuo to a brief notiou of tho financial position that Canada occupies at present. KiNAN \h StATEMEMT, ^ With regard to the receipts and ezpondituro for th« year ending 30th Jano, 188G, it will bo found that tho late Finance Minister, in his up 'cch drtliv^red in this HouBO on tho 30th March, last year, estimate'' that tho to/<;:»l i-ti.v-l, ' on ac- count of Consolidatoi Fund would amount to *'"^'on of the Customs yield was realised W'thin Sl5ii,0U(i, ''it tho main difforenco «fo '^ from tho rowoipts from Excise, waich did not como up to ^xpor'tutions. li, must bo roalsied, howovor, that all throagh that yoar Canada *aff>orcd particu- larly from other causes, in addition to the ordinary depression of trade fc't ali over the world. J may remark just here that although it was tho bad fortu, of hon. gentlemon opposiio to bo in power at a timo when a vory marked and soi iou* depression in tra lo existed, not only in Canada, but iu all other countries, there has been, recently, an equal depression of trade in (4reat Britain, in tho United States and in muit oi-hor countries of tho worll, Canada has sufVoa'd more or loss from that depression ; but tho fact that sho has withstood that period of depression and emerged from it as sho has done, is the bo^t evidence of tho wisdom of the policy t*^ at tho Govfc-^raent had adoptol and the peoplo endorsed. Now, Sir, in the ear! lart of tho y jar tho'effoots of the rebellion ia tho North- Wost wore se- verely li- and ao al >>;jtoor unantioipatol calamity took placo that produced a very sonsib oflfoct upon lut the year. 3t that things ircumstances Q the (general ;iTen to trade jtatistican, 10 estimate cise it was yield was becoming i Bovenue Department that the income from this source will be more than $t),000,000. The miscellaneous items will be about as estimated, viz., $7,300,000, making a total of $3S,300,000. Sir BICH ABO GABT WBI6HT. Tou are now speaking of the present year ? Sir CH ABLES TUPPEB. Yes. Turning to the expenditure side of the state- ment, we find that the whole sum expended to the 30th April last, as shown by the returns submitted to this House, has been $26,985,548.30, from which as has been mentioned before, it is proposed to deduct and charge to capital $210,085.52, miscellaneous charges in connection with the North- West rebellion. The further charges on the Consolidated Fund services will probably be : — ^To complete interest payments, $4,500,000 ; sinking funds, $600,030 ; and for miecellaneous services of all kinds and descriptions, $4,760,000. It is probable, therefore, that the expendi- ture may be about $35,600,060, leaving an apparent deficit at the end of the year of $300,000, and I have no doubt it will be found when the year has expired, if the revenue comes ifp to the expectations formed ,that this estimate will be about cor- rect. I think, in view of the position in which we unfortunately found ourselves a year ago, it will be a matter of sincere congratulation to this House, as I am sure it will be to the people of this country, to know that we will close this year under existing circumstances with a deficit of no more than $300,000— practically one acojunt balancing tho other, because that is so small an amount the slightest change will affect it one way or the other. I now come to the pr-jbable outcome for the year 1887-88, on which we must leave the ground upon which we have stood up to the present time of having tangible data as a basis and deal to a con- siderable extent with what wo regard as probabilities. As to the probabilities for the year commencing 1st July next, which are purely a matter of estimate, the Government believe that if the present state of trade continues, and they see no reason from present appearances of any diminution, and taking into account the changes in the tariff, the revenue from Customs will amount in round numbers to $22,500,000. I am informed by the Commissioner of Inland Bevenue that after close calculation, tho result next year from Escise will be a revenue of $6,400,000, of which, in round numbers, spirits will yield $3,600,000; tobacco, $1,600,000; cigars, $710,000; and malt and malt liquors, $400,000, the balance being ncade up of receipts from licenses and from miscella- neous sources. From miscellaneous revenues, including post office, railways,, interest on investments and all other incomes, it is safe to assume that the amount realised will probably be $7,500,000, making in all an estimated revenue during 1887-88 of $36,400,000. Hou. members have before them the estimate of the expenditure likely to be made for the several services of the year 1887-88, and unless the hon. tho Minister of Public Works should require further grants to com- plete services under his control, or to satisfy the requirements of the country, it is not likely that the Supplementary Estimates, to bo brought down, will add largely to the sums therein shown to Failiament. Under these circumstances, the surplus 8 that is shown by the comparison of tho amount of rovonuo, which I have jaat esti- mated at 8i6,40C/)00, will give a very fair sarplas for the coming year 1887'88, nnlesa, an I have said, tho Minister of Public Works should prove too strong for ns, and obtain a larger amount than I hope he will find it necessary to ask. It is usual to enter into details explanatory of tho variations in the several estimates of expenditure, and for the information of the House this plan will now be followed. Taking the capital expenditure during tho year, it will be seen on ezamToation o£ the Estimates, that as regards redemption of public debt, a sum of over $870,000 will be required to take up bonds issued by the Province of New Brunswick prior to Confederation, which bear interest at the rate of G per cent., and which mature during the coming tiscal year. It will be found that so far from that being a cause of regret, it will be a source of advantage to the Government, because they will oe enabled to reduce the charge for interest on those bonds from 6 per cent, to a much lower rate than we are now obliged to pay. With regard to the expenditure undor the charge of the hon. the Minister of Kailways and Canals, it will be noticed that, in connection with tho Canadian Pacific Eailway, Parliament is only asked to vote $180,000 to cover expenditure in British Columbia, against an authorised expenditure during the current year of $922,000. For the Intercolonial Railway, there is an increase of expenditure required of about $260,000; for construction account this House will be asked to vote less than last year, but in nonseqaence of the estimated large increase in the traffic over the line, new rolling stock will have to be purchased to the extent of $318,000. As will be seen on reference to the Estimates, Parliament will be asked to vote the sum of $800,000 for the construction of the Cape Breton Kailway, against an authorised expenditure for the current year of $500,000. Coming next to the question of canals, an increaue has been asked of about $330,000. While the older canals require less money to complete the necessary works at present under construction, a new vote is asked for $1,000,000 towards the construction of a canal at Sanit Ste. Marie ; and I may say that, so far as can be judged from the information in onr possession, I believe that sum will bo found entirely adequate for the construction and completion of that work. The amounts chargeable to capital, under the control of the hon. the Minister of Public Works, will be reduced in consequence of the completion of the Bsqui- malt graving dock. The sum asked for the Public Building, Wellington street, is $200,000, against $110,000 for this year; for tho constructioon of Port Arthur harbor and for Eaministiquia River, $90,000, against $70,000 ; and a revote will be required for Cape lormentine harbor, $100,000. The hon. tue Minister of the Interior will require an extra sum of $45,000 on capital account to provide for the payments for surveys, &c., in connection with Dominion Lands. Turning now to the several items of Consolidated Fend expenditure, and taking first, interest of public debt, it will be found that an increased amount of $380,000 is asked for. In round numbers this sum will be about what is required m avejastesti- ear 1887'88, trong for as, o ask. It IB eati mates of be followed, amfnation oi ver $870,000 QBwick prior hioh raatare eing a caase they will be it. to a much ) Miniater of ho Canadian expenditure rent year of expenditure be asked to rease in the 10 extent of 7ill be asked on Kail way, i^>ming next )00. While I at present straotion of ed from the >y adequate be Minister 'the Bsqui- n street, is Jrt Arthur evote will iter of the ide for the liture, and amount of 3 required for interest 6n deposits received and to bo received from tho savings banks. The sinking funds require an addition of abont $30,000, which, in fact, is tho natural increase owing to the investment of tho interest of tho funds now held, and which is otfset by tho addition of that amount to the interest on investments. For Charges of Management there will bo a small decrease, chiefly made up by tho abolition of certain offloos, the maintenance of which tho requirements of tho Dominion no longer domand. In Civil Government tho increased charge is 039,875, the major portion of which is n.ado up of increases to tho Department of the Interior and to tho Post Office Department, Those will be fully explained when tho eoparato votes are under copsidoration ; but it may bo mentioned hero that tho services nnior those Departments are continually growing with tho growth of tho country, and cannot be kept at stationary figures as in tho case of tho other Departments. In Adminis- tration of Justice tho total increase is 8 iB,lOO, made up of new services, as follows : — Maintenance of Prince Albert jail, $5,000; new junior judge, County Court of Ontario, at $2,000 ; five judges of Superior Court, North-Wost Territories, $20,000, instead of $12,000 as previously required, and tho salaries of five sherifr:!^, at $500 each. In Penitentiaries, t\"^ service having boon thoroughly overhauled by my hon . friend^tho hon. tho Minister of Justice, there will bo found a saving of $3,356 ; and it is believed that when tho scale of salaries which tho House has been asked to sanction, is put into force, the service will bo put on a bettor footing, and in the end a saving will be effected of some thousands of dollars. In Legislation there is an increase of $102,375, almost the wholo of which is to meet oxpanditnre in connection with tho Franchise Act, which it is estimated will j^equiro during tho coming year $200,000 against a vote of 8100,000 asked last year. In Arts, Agricul- ture and Statistics tho increase asked for is 882,333. 3#. Hon. members, on look- ing at tho estimate for this service, will find that tho sumol $60,000 voted last year in connection with the Colonial and Indian p]shibitionisdropped out, and similarly is omitted the $15,000 to cover tho oxponsoa of tho census of Manitoba, no further gum being required for those purposes. On tho other hand, tho hon. tho Minister of Agriculture will require to sot in operation and maintain tho experimental farms, which it is expected will be in full working order during tho coming year. For this service tho sum of $90,000 is asked, as against 830,000 in tho previous year. Parliament will also be asked to vote,and that it will do so most cheerfully I have DO doubt, £20,000 sterling as tho contribution of Canada towards tho Memorial of tho Jubilee of Her Majesty's reign, viz,, tho Imperial Institute of tho United King- dom, tho Colonioa and India. I wish to say just hero a fow words in passing with re- ference to both those subjects, the great Colonial and Indian Exhibition and the pro- posed Imperial Institute. It would bo impossible for mo to find any language in which I could adequately do justice to tho doop interest, tho unwearied assiduity and tho unfailing support given to tho Colonial and Indian Exhibition by HisBoyal [ Highness the Prince of Wales. It is well known that tho proposal to have a groat Colonial and Indian Exhibition in London during tho past year originated with his £oyal Highness, and that ho threw himsolf into that work with all tho ardour and w \ 10 asbidaity that the most enthuaiastio colonist coold exhibit or desire. Thatozhibition was purely a Colonial and Indian Exhibition.^ No British exhibitor could find place in it for any British product whatever. The entire exhibition was confined to the display of the products of India and the Colonies, and when it ia remembered that noblemen, private gentlemen and capitalieta in England, subscribed no less than £150,000 sterling, &s a guarantee for an exhibition in which no British exhibitor could exhibit anything belonging to the United Kingdom, the best possible evidence, I think, is afforded of the deep and abiding interest that is felt in England in regard* to the Colonies and India. I need not speak of the success of the exhibition, because the Minister of Agricultore, under whon I had tho honor ot acting, has already laid on the Table of this House, a report which I made in regard to it, and in which will be found clearly and euccinctly stated everything connected with the exhibition, which I thought would bo of interest to the House. I may say, however, that out of the success of this greAt exhibition grew the proposal on the part of his Boyal Highness the Prince of Wales, for the establishment of a permanent Colonial and Indian Institute. But I must not paiis away from the question of the Colonial and Indian Exhibi- tion without, in the first place, tendering my warm thanks to my old colleagues, who gave such a warm and enthusiaatic support to that measure, to the Parliament of Canada who sustained them in giving that support, and I also wish to tender my equally heartfelt and sincere thanks to the Governments of Ontario, Quebec, Now Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Manitoba and British Columbia for the zealous and hcirty manner in which they cooperated^with me and with the general Government in maki ng that exhibit ion as thoroughly successful as it proved to be. And I feel it espeoiaffy due to theHon.Mr. Mowat, to the Hon.Mr.Fielding^ and the Hon. Mr. Blair, as gentlemen representing Governments which were not supposed to be exactly in harmony with the general Government, to say that I received from them and their colleagues just as hearty and enthusiastic support as I did in any other part of the country. I desire also to express my cordial thanks to the people of Canada — to the exhibitors, without whose hearty cooperation, and the zeal and assiduity with which they threw themselves into the work, that great exhibition could not have been attended with the beneficial and lasting results to Canada that I believe will attend it. In many cases they had a direct interest in doing so, because they had reason to believe that their exhibits would have the result of extending their trade and developing the industries in which they were engaged. But in many other cases, when no such hope existed, there was the patri- otic desire, thoroughly exhibited and heartily carried out, of making this exhibition, ii respective of the expionse involved to the exhibitors, all that the most enthusiastic Canadi..._ could desire that it should bo. I say that I believe that lasting beneficial results will accrue to Canada from that exhibition. It was found that we were enabled to take a high position, not only in the estimation of England, but I may say in the estimaJon of the world ; for that exhibition was visited by hundreds of thou- flarda ( oolonij prodnl that t1 theLd in regj I believl of its aften advanl attitu^ Canad tionall attrac thep< valua m^ 11 'hat exhibition ould find place on fined to the nombered that no less than tish exhibitor sible evidence, land in regard' »e exhibition, t acting, has ard to it, and sctod with the say, however, the part of his inent Colonial Qdian Exhibi- i colleagues, e Parliament to tender my Quebec, New Columbia for od with the las it proved Mr. Fielding- ih were not ] ' say that I support as I ial thanks to tion,andthei r, that great ig results to interest in I have the they wore Qsthepatri- exbibition, (nthusiastic g beneficial t we were I I may say ids of thou- I flardH of people, not only from the continent of Europe, but from the great Australian colonics and all the outlying portions of the Empire ; and an impression h^.s been produced that has tended to elevate Canada in the eyes of the world to a position that th' i country has never before occupied. The best evidence of that fact is that the London Times, which we do not always consider the most enthusiastic journal io regard to the interests of Canada, but which some of us have been inclined to believe has been more pro- Australian than pro Canadian, covered a whole broadside of its isBue with a minute and admirable account of the Canadian Court ; and it has afterwards filled its columns again and again with statements showing the greatly advanced position Canada has attained. I say the best evidence is afiorded by the attitude of that paper and other loading British journals, of the great advance Canada has made in connection with that exhibition. Wo had, of course, the addi- tional advantage of the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, which has attracted the attention of the people of England and the people of all countries to the position wo occupy to an extent that has alsoproducud the most widespread and valuable influence upon our best interests. I am able here. Sir, to ask for a reduction of $50,000 a year in the vote for the immigration service. My hon. friend the Minister of Agriculture and Immigration feels that, in consequence of the great advantage that Canada has secured in connec- tion with that exhibition and in connection with the construction of the Canadian Pacific Bailway and the efforts made by that company to disseminate information in regard to Canada, in which thoy are, of couree deeply interested, all over the world, it is not necessary to aek for so largo a sum, and we have reason to believe that the reduced amount will be productive of greater reeults, in connection with the influ- ences to which I have referred, than would the larger a,mount. But, Sir, I want to say a single word in reference to the Colonial and Indian Institute. As is, 1 dare say, known to many hon. members of this Houso, I felt it my duty to visit this country in connection with that subject, when it was being actively pressed by His Boyal Highness the Prince of Wales and the parties interested in it. I visited this country for the purpoeo of obtaining support and co.operation for that undertaking, and I must thank my old colleagues for the manner in which thoy responded to that application, by the pledge to ask Parliament to vote £10,000 sterling towards that Institute as a memorial of the Queen's Jubilee. It was found that Her Majesty pre- ferred that ihe memorial to celebrate her reign should take the form of a Colonial and Indian Institute rather than any other form; and under these circumstances it was believed that no difficulty would be found in raising an adequate sum of money to permanently endow that institution, andtoretain to India and the Colonics in the Institute the benefits which to some extent they enjoyed in connection with the exhibition then being held. And here I must repeat my thanks to all the Local Governments which I visited for the hearty manner in which they co operated in the nndertaking. They were satisfied thvit great benefits had accrued to Canada from the exhibition, and they were prepared to give the warmest support to the proposal for a Colonial Institute. 11 Tho iMV)pt>!al, as propouadol by His Royal Highnosfl, was, as yoa ar awaro, ihU it should bo purely a Colonial and Indiua Institato. Tbat idea ha3 bo'jri riomowhat extended and enlarged. It was found tbat tho commercial claesoH of England, tbe city men and others, felt tbat it was necessary in founding a memorial to liar Majesty in tbe form of an Institute, tbat the United Kingdom should bo ombracod as well as tho colonies. I am a'>t quite oartain, Mr. Speaker, that wo woro not ourselves somewhat responsible for that ohango. I am afraid that our exhibition was a little too good. I am afraid tbe eflfact produced on tho minds of a ^roat many of tbe commercial and manufacturing classes in England was that Canada was becoming a rather dangerous competitor, and it was desirable that wo should not have the field left entirely to oursolvos. But, at all events, from whatever cause it arose, tho rosalt was tbat the committee appointed by His fioyal Highness tho Prince of Wales to revise tho pi'oposal as originally made, composed of tho leading men of all classes and parties in England, decided that it was necesttary tbat tbe United Kingdom should be embraced, and that it should be an Imperial Institute of the United Kingdom, the Colonies, and India ; and here I propose to take tho House into my confidence on a subject in which some little interest has been raaiilfosted. I was in communication, as I shall point out at a later period, with tho Government in logard to a proposed treaty with Spain; and having received a lottor from the Finance Minister on that subjoct, as well as a communication from my right bon. friend who loads tho Government, in regard to the proposed Imperial and Colonial Institute, I felt tbat it was desirable tbat wo should have persona! communication on both of these questions. Under those circamstances I cabled to my right bon. friend to say that if he approved of it, I would take a run out to Canada so as to have an opportunity of discussing those two questions fully with him and his colleagues before proceeding any further. I received promptly bis approval of my visiting Canada ; and when I landed in Now York I learned for the first time that a general election was to take place in this country. I not only learned it for the first time, but I will my with all frankness to tho House that I was surprised at that information. I had previously learned the result of tbe Local elections that had just been bold in tho Province of Ontario; and while down to that period 1 thought it not unlikely that there might bo an appeal to tho people this season, after those elections I folt it was unlikely that any appeal would bi made until after this Session of Parliament. I mention that in order to show that this important question was receiving my attention. "Well, unhappily for myself, I may say, I visited this country; and after I arrived here my right hon. friend laid an embargo upon mo, and I was obligad to leave all those enjoyments which have been so much descanted upon in this House and elsewhere; 1 was obliged to leave my com- fortable residence in London and go into the campaign without that health or strength that I required for such a service. I may say that, notwithstanding the changed position of this question, so far as tho colonial interest is concerned, I have no doubt every member of this House will bo only too glad to vote the sum ^of£ jKinj ;DatU i oord I but jarig ' durii i ] but : 1 man jontl i som( > I tool I any ! as ti I best I frici I safe I gresi foun I Btitc I Esti: 1 incK ] he V will whe oat and agri mes the est: and Pri ms, as yoa aro tato. That idea . tbo commercial ly in founding a Jnited Kingdom in, Mr. Speaker, ;o. I am ufraid produced on the in England was was desirable all events, from )d by His Hoy a I nade, composed it was necessary be an Imperial re I propose to Itle interest has t a later period, having reseived dunication from oposod Imperial i have personal noes I cabled to e a ran oat to 8 fally with him tly bis approval or the first time r leai-nei it for vas sarprised at sctions that had eriod 1 thought BOD, after those until after this this important I may say, I lid an embargo have been mo leave my corn- that health or thstanding the is concerned, I > vote the sum 13 ^of £20,000 sterling as our contribution to the Imperial Institute for the United j Kingdom, Ihe Colonies and India. Not only in consequence of the interest that wo )' naturally feel in an institution of that kind, and which, I hope, will receive the j cordial support of all clagees of the people in this colony and in all other colonies, the i but because wo foel that if there is a portion of Her Majesty's dominions that has 'a right to be thankful for the blessings which have attended Her benoficient reign • during the past fifty years, it is the people and Parliament of Canado. I So far, it may be said that all the estimates I have touched indicate increases, bnt I will just sny here that I have naturally perused, as I suppose the hon. gentle- man opposite UHcd to peru8e, the comments of the press, when he laid his estimates on the Table. I perused them with some interest, in the hope not only of finding something iutcrestiDg but instructive ; but while I have often found a dispositicin to criticise on the ground of extravagance, I have failed to see in a single instance any enggestion on the part cf ary portion of the press criticising these estimates, as to where the estimates as brought down could bo reduced without injuring tho best interests of the country* I can only Fay I shall be grateful to any of my hon. friends opposite or on this side who will point out any instance in which wo may safely and judiciously pare down these estimates without interfering with that pro- gress and development of the country which every person knows lies at the very foundation of Canadian prosperity. Mr. MITCHELL. Will you pare them down if T make the suggestion ? Sir CHARLES TUPPER. Certainly. It is one of the privileges our Con- stitntion gives to members of this House, that they may propose reductions in the Estimates; but, wisely and fortunately for ua, they are not permitted to propose increases, or if I rightly recollect and know anything of my hon. friend, I am afraid he would propose an increase rather than a decrease. Mr. MITCHELL. I am afraid it would not be aocedod to. Sir CHARLES TUPPER. Coming now to the estimate for Immigration, it will be found that there is a decrease of $50,000, as we believe the time has come when this saving can be effected without detriment to the public interest, and with- ont at all interfering with what is the great object of the Immigration Department and the Government, namely, to limit the immigration brought to this country to agricultarists, to farm laborers, domestic servants, and capitalists who have tho means of entering upon the possession of land and its cultivation. In Quarantine, the same estimate is asked as was voted the previous year. Taking next the service Pensions and Superannuation, the amount required is estimated at $13,000 in advance of the provisions made in the previoas fiscal year, and this increase is chiefly dae to the new item for pensions to Moanted Police, Prince Albert Volunteers, and Police Scouts in connection with the rebellion of 14 1865. I was not bore whon tho discasoion on that subject took plaoo, bat I bave no doubt that tho House arrived at tbe wise dooision that tho servioes of tbese parties were entitled to recognition on tbe part of tbe House, in the same way as recogDition has been given to the forces sent out specially to that country, for tbe purpose of suppressing tbe insurrection. An increase of 857,000 is asked for Militia, of which 847,000 is required for tbe batteries and tbe cavalry and infantry sobools. A Hun of 810,000, a new vote, is asked for a barracks in British Columbia, which tho hon, tho Minister of Militia and Defence, when the House goes into Oommittee of Supply, will explain fully. Tho House will now coir.o to a series of estimates in connection with services in which it in propo^sed to eiToct a saving. And I hope I shall not meet with any oppoHition on the part of hon. gentlemen opposite in carrying out those intentions. Tboro is first, Hallways and Canals chargeable to income, where a saving is pro- posed of 82:^,000, which is moro than accounted for by the completion of tbe road I'.ystom and bridge accommodation of tho Lachine Canal. In tbe voluminous ser- vices under tho control of the hon. the Minister of Public Works, it is proposed to silToct a general saving, and it is hoped that as tho works under that Department are now gradually arriving at completion, there may be a permanent saving under this head, One new item, however, for 830,000 is introduced for buildings and fencing in connection with the Experimental Farm. The House wisely, I think, althoagh I had not tho pleasure of taking part in that discussion, arrived at the concluHion that tho groat farming interest of tho country, that most vital and important interest, was entitled to tho expenditure of a certain amount in connec- tion with experimental farms, and I have no doubt that, wisely and judiciously tulminihterod, this expenditure will be a source of great profit, not only to tbe older portions of tho Dominion, but esponially to the new portion now being opened up for settlement. Tho decrease in the amount asked for Mail Subsidies and Steam- Khip Subventions, jirisos from two items, tho discontinuance of the votes for subsidies for steam services between tho ports in tbe Gut of Canso, and between Now Bruns- wick, Prince Edward Island and Great Britain. It is but right to state under this head that tenders have been invited for steam service between Canada and tho West ladies, and it may be that a vote will also bave to bo submitted to Parliament in this connection. With regard to Ocean and Biver Service there is an increase of 881, .550, of which maintonance and repairs of Government steamers require 819,750, whilst ♦be expenses in connection with tbe Canadian registration of shipping, including print- ing, require tho balance of 81,800. In Lighthouse and Coast Service, the net increase is $3,500 on a service requiring over 8570,000. The increase is in tbe salaries and allowances of lighthouse keepers, and is spread all over the Dominion; and I am quite certain no one will recognise more than tbe hon. member for Northumberland mark mark 'ji vanti West ■St I inter I the < lande How thep ioent. mscd mainly by nd maintonanco to rocoivo with n' tho Intorcolo- • of Railways ii- for that Borvicc awaDdincro:isod lo to show to the 10 Intercolonial I dovolopmont of Lho Intercolonial Mk that a dollar 10 House will be 3 freight carried • evidence of tho emont contained for maintonanco Edward Island 'ice, is duo to an canals. Public I sum of $20,000, mbia by $28,000. ked, and taking rtraent which is lent is c3mpara- nt of tho late a year ago, and in tho mileage L. complete jus- dy progress and xins an increase n of Eevenuo, by the hon. the i especially out 10 House a few the debt of the OS. On the first It I of this month the gross debt of the Dominion stood at $2'70,072,P35.27, and tho not i debt, |22S,10&,9G1.08, being a decrenho of net debt in the month of April of I |7fi9,870.01. 1 may Bay, at once, that I would deduct from both the groHH debt and tho I net debt, for all practical purposes, $10,000,000, and that because it ie represented by : a thoroughly good and available asset, in the shape of the lands obtained from tho ; C>iDadian PjKiti.! Hallway Company in payment of $10,000,000 of their debt, i Some hon. MRMBKRS. Hoar, hoar. \ Sir CH^.TiLES TUPPBIt. I am glad to find that that statement niootf with tho I approval of hoi. gentlemen opposite, and I knew it would meet with their approval, Ibecautie, when 1 am able to congratulate myself and the Government arul I ho country on tho fact that we had been enabled to make an investment of $10,000,000 in ^ the purchat'O of IuihIb at $1.50 an acre, which these gentlemen estimated u fow ycur.-^ ago at $:^, $4 or $5 an acre, tho House will see that I am not only justified in striking off $10,000,000 from our debt, but also in congratulating tho country on making a very excellent bargain. There is this great advantage also, that one of the most formidable charges made against tho contract between the Government and the Canadian Pacific Bailway Company, and a charge which I always felt had a great deal of force in it — perhaps I felt it even more strongly upon that occasion than I expressed to the House— was tho fact that that oontract handed over twenty-fivo mUlion acres of the dcmain of Canada— a great country of itself- to a single com. pany. Therefore, we not only had the good fortune, by making this arrangement, to obtain this land from the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, reducing tho p.-incipal objection which I think could be brought against that contract in regard to the largo monopoly of land in the hands of one company, but we obtained it on terms which I am sure will result at no distant day in replacing all that money and more in tho Treasury of Canada. I may say that the Canadian Pacific Railway Company did not receive $1.50 an acre for tho land. It cost tho Government $1.50 an acre nomi- nally to obtain it, but it must not be forgotten that a part of the arrangement required the payment by the Canadian Pacific Railway Campany of 820,000,000 in cafeh, that the Government could not call upon them to pay for fivo years ; and that it was at the time of this unfortunate insurrection in the North-West, as my hon. friends opposite will fully recognise, very undesirable to go back to the English market and ask for a loan of $20,000,000 only one year after we had been to that market, very undesirable that wo should go to that market under such very disad- vantageous circumstances, with a falling revenue and an insurrection in the North- West, circumstances that were likely to be made use of by all parties who were interested in depreciating the securities of Canadni Not only was that the ease, but the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, in order to secure the purchase of their lands by the Government at $1.50 an acre, had to provide that $20,000,000 in cash. How did they do it ? They had to do it, Sir, by substituting 5 per cent, bonds for the payment of a debt of $20,000,000 on which they were only obliged to pay 4 per cent, for five years. The Government^were, under the arrangement, only entitled to 4 !,J 18 por cont, bat to raii!,(>89.36 ; and, Sir, no person would bo found at the present day who will question that sum as a wiso and judicious expenditure. Eastern Extension Railway, 8 1, 28(i,551. G8 ; tho Intercol- onial, SJ1,22«,318.15 ; the Canals, 832,132,280.73 ; tho Miscellaneous Public Works, in which are included the Public and Departmontal buildings Otiawa, thoBsquiraalt Graving Dock, the land and cable telegraph line!-, and tho harbors at Cape Tor- mentine and Port Arthur, 82,947,723.65 ; tho North- West Territories, cost and organisation, 8^,920,000 ; tho Pacific Railway, $60,864,430-61, to whioh should be (I i It Railway had to or cent, bonds, ra in intoront in eoeivod by ibo , which waa all» But, Sir, I havo I increuHO which than aocoimted timntoJ a very } an aero, and I woro roaliaod. $75,728,641.37, 17 of ail9,;i77,- sauHO I nood not iw fur tho d( bt, England ropro- obt I >i' tho great iouH cauHo to bo an incrcaHO in war, instead of roprcsonta vaki- jrpoHO, bat are proHpcrity, nnd )r tho oxpcndi- io for alarm, no snfoiieration to ,0 tho oxtont of 'orny horo, for ovorwholming igont moraborn ill bo talcon to nesH, bocauHO it tlio Dominion. , and. Sir, no as a wiso and tho Intorcol- Public Works, , thoBoqairaalt at Gape Tor- rios, cost and ich ahoald be 4Mldod ihe amount ofdobt oanoellod by roturn ofhindd, $10,183,521.33, or, la all for tho Vu'-Mh Railway, $71,053,051.91; tho Prinoo fiJward luland irvtiilway, $212,288.27, imd tho Short Lino Railway, $l8i,80l.8?. In addition it may bo montionod that varloim ruilwayu havo roooivod HumdioH in aouordanoo with tho ".ovoral ActH pannod by tho Dominion Parliamont, to tho oxtont of $3,312,494. All thoHo uhargvH so far aH Hhuwn, aro to tho uloao of tho laat flHoal year ; uinuo that dato and to tho tlrHt of tho proHont month further suias havo boon paid for the boforo montionod HorviooH to tho oxtont of $4,70fj,062.46. The aggregate of tho sovoral Humi^ Junt montionod, to tho Ui May, in 818.^292,584.76, and tho net [dobt to tho Humu i>oriod Hhowcd an incrcnsoHinoo Confederation, an boforo stated, of $14'),377,319.71, from which it will bo uoon that in addition to making due pro- vision for all ordinary oxpondituro, in addition to building cuHtom houttea, post olHuoH and other public buildingH throughout tho Dominion, in addition to providing for an ofEc-iont lighthouBO nyHtom, Canada has paid for the several capital oharges ainco Coufudoration tho largo sum of $33,915,265.05 beyond tho increase in the net debt. Or, if wo tuko these figured in another way and exclude from tho increase of tho not dobt $149,377,319.71, tho Hovoral allowancos to the Provinces $.30,743,392.69, and taking tho i)alanoo $118,^33,927.02 as for public workt^ only, it will be foand that for the three largo services before mentioned namely, the Paoifio Railway, the Intercolonial Railway and the canals, tho cost has been $134,412,630.82, or $15,778,653.80 more than the whole not dobt exclusive of tho allowances to the Provinces. So, Sir, I think, in viow of tho Htatomonts I have made to tho Houso, hon, ^^ontlomcn oppoaito will bo roliovcd, and ovory person who has rofloctod upon this mutter will bo roliovcd from tho approlunsion that tho Govornmont of Canada are rockloHsly plunging tho country into indebtodnoHs for anything of an unjustifiable iiaUiro, and that for all cur not dobt, there aro largo and most valuable public works^ works of such value and of isuch importance to tho country, that I am quite sure that my hon. friend opposite — if ho has a rocoUoction of tho speech that ho delivered, statiding horo in 1S74, when ho conjured up boforo our imagination an outlook as to tho liabilities in connection with tho Canadian Pacific Railway in the face of . which this entire increased indobtodaoss would sink into insignificance — will now iifeol that ho may congratulate tho House and congratulate us upon occupying tho * position of having accomplished that groat transcontinental highway, having not only completed tho Intercolonial Railway, but extended a groat lino of intercom- munication f'.'om sea to sea, linking all those Provinces together, and accomplishing fthat which at no distant day will be a groat highway of intorooramunication between 'Europe and tho Bast — I say ho will congratulate us upon occupying a position of a Ivory enviable character. There is this also to bo borne in mind that, great as is this ioxpenditare, it is all for works that onoo done never require to bo repeated. Transcontinental RAawAY. There is no man in Canada, there is no man in this House or oat of it, who ^will not say that it ia not of the most vital importance to Canada, that it is not a 2J 20 matter of absolute necessity at this hour, that wo should have a great iron band oi' intercommunication binding all those various Provinces together, an J giving us tho moans of free and rapid and easy intercourse from one portion of our country to another. In order to acoomplish that gigantic work— vhich wo have aviom- plishod, and far below tho expenditure which hon. gentlemen con tern pliitod would bo involved by Canada — in order to complete it oven at a remote period, tlie boldest of us felt that, necessary as it was to engage in it, there was a danger that it would Btrain the credit of Canada. Wo all felt Ihat it was a gigantic undertaking for the Government of Canada, representing as it did a population of only five raillions of people, to carry out that which is now regarded, in connection with our popula- tion and the time occupied in its construction, as tho most marvellous and wonderful work of tho age. I repeat that the boldest of us felt that it might strain tho credit of Cac«ida, but wo felt also that thero was no alternative; that if this country was to bo bound together, if we wore to make Confederation a fixed fact, it was necessary to bring the remotest Provinces into easy and i-apid communication with the centre of tho country. Wo all felt tho vital importance of opening tho enormous fertile North- West Territory for settlement and for population. Wo all felt tho vital importance of developing tho trade and commerce of Canada, and bringing all the trade and commerce through Canada that it was possible to bring. But as I. have said we had our misgivings as to whether it might not strain to some extent tho credit of tho country. What is the fact ? Tho fact is wo have this gigantic work in full progress, we have tho earnings rolling up in millions from year to year, Altogether exceeding anything that tho most sanguine man in this House contem- plated in connection with tho project; and wo find ourselves in this position, that instead of the cref^it of tho country being strained, it is now standing at tho very highest point it ov n- attained. When wo proposed to undertake grappling with this great work, my hon. friend opposite (Sir Eichard Cartwright) knows that our three and a-half per cents were selling on tho English market at about 90. Today I am in a position to congratulate this House ani tho country, that, so highly favored aro the securities of Canada, so eminently has the position of Canada advancedin tho estimation of tho capitalists of tho world, our three and a-half per cent, flccuritiee have already changed hands at par. Before passing away from tho Canadian Pacific Kailway, and what it has done foi' tho country, I shon Id like to allude to tho fact, that during the fivo months of last year — I am now speaL'ing of it as a through lino of intercommunication— although tho line was only open ic five months of last year, during that period seven cargoes of tea and other commodities wore brought over tho lino from China and Japan to the principal cities of Canada, and to St. Paul, Cliicago, Now York and other points in tho United States; and that only from seven to eight days were consumed in delivering freight from Vancouver to Montreal and New York. Not only so but thero ha-;- been a most gratifying incicase in tho development of traffic over the road. As indi- cated in the following comparison of earnings for tho past three years, the growth rrov •I pn *tho I wor have * com iproi Idoin I ent 1 I posi refoi I an: 21 1884. Paaaengers $1,980,802.30 Freight 3,410,365 39 Mails 85,736,83 Exp. ,88 95,671.69 Parlor and sleeping cars 43,492.60 Telegraph and miscellaneous 134,352. i7 1885. 1886. 2,859,222.03 3,170,713.69 4,881,865-18 6,112,379.89 137,151.92 205,024.18 172,303.01 206,872.41 73,533.55 118,658.99 244,426.08 263,154.43 8,368,493.12 10,031,803.69 ')f tocal traffic has also been most satisfactory, and thoro is over j proapoct that this great iron band of jgrowth will bo even more rapid in the future and giving us tho 1 of out- country wo hwo an.iom- itomplaloJ would oriod, tho boldest gor that it would j Total $5,750,521.27 lertaking for the ij presumo it is not necessary to add another word in order to show this Houso and jrily five millions >tho people of Canada tho advancod position wo have roachod in onnection with this with our popula- xvork. us and wonderful Present position of C.4.nada. strain tho credit , j no^'- propose to say a fow words in regard to tho poiition C mada hasattained. I Lhis country was Jiavo ».l ready stated to tho Houso that I do not propDso to institute any invidious , it was necessary * comparison between the Administration of hon. genilemon opposite and ourselves. I cation With the ^propose to take a wider range. I propose, and I shall occupy but very little timo in ig tho onormouB I doing it, to give to this IIjuso tho ovidcnco that the position of Canada at the pres- VVe all felt the |ent moment is one of which wo might bo justly proud. I havo referred to our and bringing all ^ position in connection with tho construction of iliat great national work, and I have bring. Jiut as I |roforred to the very important condition of our credit in that relation. But to some extent . j jj^a happy to bo able to say that I do not expect to bo oi^liged to use that credit, :ivo this gigantic j ijjgii and groat as it is. I am happy to bo able to toll tho Housa that at this moment am year to year, | .^y^ have no floating debt, that there is not one dollar of floating loan chargeable to Houso contem- | Canada. I am also able to give the gratifying assurance to this House that tho lis position, that | Govorinnent have no expectation of being obliged to resort to tho capitalists of luing at tho very | England for any new loan for a long period to como ; and I am quite sure that this is pplmg with thi.s i ^ statement which no Finance Minister has had tho good fortune to be able to make knows that our * j^j. a very long time past. The groat works that wore essentially necessary to fho it 90. Today I ,; progress and developmont of Canada have boon completed, and wo anticipate thattiio that, so highly t income fiom the savings banks, tho money deposited by ibo savings bank depositors ition of Canada , -^yith us, will be quite equal to meet the capital required to take up tho New Bruna. and a-half per f wick loan, which shortly becomes due, and moot any other incidental capital charges ■ that may fall upon tho Government. 1 havo been asked by many parlies to consider tho question of a reduction of tho rate of interest wo pay depositors in the savings banks. I do not propose to cnteitain that pioposition, and for this reason : That gratifying as that might bo to the banking institutions, there is something still more important to which the Govern- ment are bound to look, and that is, tho giving of due encouragement to the wage- earners, to tho working classes of this country, tho giving to them tho strongest incentive to save instead of spending their earnings. I may say that tho result of tho reduction of the rate of interest payablo by the Government to them would not bo warranted, for the reason that, although wo might obtain money at a somewhat lowei t it has done fov Qths of last year a— although tho oven cargoes oi nd Japan to the lor points in tho od in delivering but thoro ha^-' road. As indi- ais, tho growth 22 rate than the 4 per cent, we pay to the depositors, when all the cliargos incidental to? it are taken into consideration, I do not think that the btilanco would bo such as at ] all to justify the Government in taking a step that strikes me as being ono that would \ be greatly prejudicial to the great mms of the working classes of this country. < \ Sir RICHARD CARTWRIGHT. Will the hon. gentleman permit me to ask j him a question ? Sir CHARLES TUPPER. Yes. Sir RICHARD CARTWRIGHT. I would ask if in those statements, which I ! suppose include a statement of the savings banks, there is given the amount held, J over the sum of $S0O, and those over the sura of $1,000. I Sir CHARLES TUPPER. No, I have not gone into tLat statement, although I ] shall be very glad to discuss the matter with the hon. gentleman, because I am t dieposed to think there is a point in it, and, as the Government are not anxious to I draw money from any source, I am inclined to think that the time lias come when \ it may be worth while to see that the savings banks are usoJ for the proper aud 1 legitimate objects for which they were instituted. | Now, in order, as I have said, to save the time of the House, and avoid going over the rather tedious details of these comparative statements, showing the position we occupy, I have had diagramb* constructed — not diagrams to illustrate the position of public affairs on these questions, as between the two political parties of the country, but taking a wider range, going back to the commencement of Confederation, the time when in the interests of Canada the great step was taken of uniting those Provinces together, and showing the progress Canada has made. Now, I may say that the first of these diagrams bhows the deposits by the people in the chartered banks, commencing with Confederation, and giving the eighteen years from 1868 to 1886, inclusive. These figures, which may bo seen at a glance in the diagram, make a very gratifying exhibit of how steadily and rupidly the country has advanced, as Ehown by the evidence of the deposits of tlio people in the chartered I banks of Canada : DiroSITS BY THE PEOPLE IN THE CHARTERED BANKB OF CaNAUA. 1868 (June 30) $32,808,101 1869 38,823,333 1870 60,767,100 1871 66,763,067 1872 53,986,818 1873 65,547,607 1874 66,991,047 1876 68,367,942 1876 63,320,858 1877 63,241,128 1878 (June 30) 560,603,767 1879 63,635,952 1880 77,891,498 1881 ?e,507,671 1882 99,100,729 1883 99,364,750 1884 92,413,313 18S5 99,383,673 1886 103,883,95{> and ' from *See Appendix for Diagrams. riMWi argca incidental to lid bo such as at •Dgono that would is country. >ormit me to ask omenta, which ij ho amount hold,! 'raont, although I an, because I am not anxious to lias come when the proper and 23 Then the deposits in the savings banks cover the same period : DiPosiTs IN Savinos Banes of Canada. 1868 (Jnne 30) $ 4,360,693 1869 6,7a3,B67 1870 7,591,978 1871 9,367,941 1873 10,526,376 1873 12,933,894 1874 15,101,195 1876 14,125,477 1876 13,833,201 1877 13,391,014 1878 (June 30) $14,222,074 1879 14,702,715 1880 18,237,496 1881 24,331,202 1882 31,098,718 1883 35,189,426 1884 38,003,116 1886 41, m ,776 1886 45, 72,886 Also the Discounts given by tub Chartered Banks of Canada. 1868 (June 30) $ 50,500,316 1869 53,572,307 1870 62,252,569 1871 83,989, 756 1872 107,354,115 1873 117,646,219 1874 133,731,260 1876 123,786,038 1876 128,645,238 1877 126,169,677 1878 (June 30) $124,88 .. 62 1879 122,50J.537 1880 118,916,970 1881 144, 139,875 1882 177,521,800 1883 177,222,669 1884 160,469,183 1885 158,209,174 1886 166,044,608 and avoid goictf ' rir, . 4L •,. i Then I give the total imports iu'.o Canada, in the several years from 1868 to 1886 nng tho position ' , , , . , „„. ., . . i and they show a most satisfactory morease, notwi'-hstandinc: Uie large decrease arising rate tho pcsition ! .^ > & & e 8 of th • I ^™™ of the active condition of so many great industries in Canada: oration, tho time Total Imports op Canada. those Province*. its by tho people g the eighteen n at a glance in dly the country in tho chartered 60,603,757 63,635,952 77,891,498 86, .507,671 99,100,729 39,364,760 Ji,413,313 )9, 383.673 )3,583,950 1868 (June 30) $ 73,459,614 1869. 70,415,165 1870 74,814,839 1871 96,092,971 1872 111,430,627 1873 128,011,281 1874 128,213,682 1876 « 123,070,283 1876 93,210,346 1877 99,329,962 1878 (June 30) $ 93,081,787 1879 81,664,427 1880 86,489,747 1881 105,330,840 1882 119,419,500 1883.. 132,254,022 1884 116,397,043 1885 108,941,486 1886 - ~.. 104,424,661 Total Exports or Canada. 1868 (June 30) $57,667,883 1869 60,474,781 1870 73,573,490 1871 74,173,618 1872 82,639,663 1873 89,789,922 1874 „ 89,361,928 1876 « 77,886,979 1876 „ 80,966,436 1877 75,876,393 1878 (June 30) - $79,323,667 1879 71,491,255 1880 87,911,458 1881 98,!»90,823 1882 ~ 102, 137,203 1883 98,085,804 1884 91 ,406,496 1895 89,238,361 1886 86,261,314 Then, Sir, we have the tonnage employed in the shipping of the country, showing an increase of over one million of tons, notwithstanding, as every person knows, how very depressed that industry has been : 24 SbiPPINQ EmPLOYKD, hot IMaLUOINC} OOABTINO VE3SGL3. Ton' Register. 1868 12,98i,825 1869 10,461,044 1870 11,415,870 1871 13,126,028 1872 12,808,160 1873 11,748,997 1874 11,399,857 1875 9,527,165 1876 9,911,199 1877 11,091,244 ' Tons Kegister. 1878 12,054,890 1879 1 1,646,812 1880 13,577,845 1881 13,802,432 1882 13,379,8ia 1883 13,770,735 1834 14,359,026 1835 14,084,712 1886 13,969,232 For the coasting trade I huvo no data earlier than 18*76 : Coasting Thadk— Tonnaob Employed. Tons. 1876 10,300,939 1877 8,968,862 1878 11,047,661 1879 12,086,633 1880 14,053,013 1881 16,116,766 Tons. 1882 14,791,064 1883 15,683,566 1884 15,473,707 1885 15,944,421 1886 16,368,274 The railw. y mileage is another evidence — and oaoof the most marked and striking evidences that possibly any country in tlio world can show — of the rapid and steady progroiss that Canada has made, and in that rospiict, as the House knows, we are still rapidly and .steadily increasing : Railways in Canada. June 30. Miles. 1868 2,522 1869 3,680 1870 2,679 1871 .« 2,950 1872 3,018 1873 3,609 1874 4,022 1875 4,826 1876 5,167 1877 ..^^ 6,574 June 30. Miles. 1878 MMM- .• 6,143 ie79 6,265 1880 6,891 1881 7,260 1882 7,630 1883 8,726 1884 9,676 1885 > 10,7T3 1886 11,618 The next table shows the number of tons carried, and with respect to it I havo only data which enable me to go back to 1876 ; but as will bo noticed, botwocn that year and 1886, the tonnage of freight carried has considerably more than doubled, so that my hon. triend the Minister of Railways will not be alone in the ability to boast that iu. tonnage on hia roads has more than doubled since 1876, for the tonnage of the whole of the railways of Canada has a good deal more than doubled during that period : Railways iv Canada— Tons Garbibd. Tons. 1876 6,331,757 1877 6,859,796 1878 7,883,472 1879 8,328,810 1880 9,938,858 1881 ~ 12,035,325 Tons. 1882 13,675,787 1883 13,268,255 1884 13,712, 269 1885 14,669,271 1886 ~ 15,608,128 ( 25 Kegister. 12,054,890 11,616,812 13,577,845 13,802,432 3,379,882 13,770,735 14,369,026 14,084,712 13,969,233 Tons. 14,791,064 15,633,566 15,473,707 15,944,431 16,368,27^ od and striking >id and steady knowa, we are Miles. .... 6,143 ■■•• 6)256 .... 6,891 .... 7,260 .... 7,630 ... 8,726 ... 9,675 ... 10,773 ... 11,618 3t to it I havo botwccD that an doubled, so ibility to boast tonnage of the ig that period : Tons. 3,675,787 3,266,255 3,712,269 i,659,27l 3,608,128 Then, Sir, there is another indication, and perhaps one of the most conclueivo of 10 condition of the great mass of the people— and I am not speaking of the working lassos, merely, but of the great body of the people who reo lire to havo some regard iir the future — and that is life insurance. I am only repeating a very trite obsorva- lon, the originality of which is certainly not due to myself, in saying that there are ^w indications of the condition and the prosperity of the people which surpass that the ratio of life insurance. It is found that just in proportion as a country ispros- lorous and the people well off, they naturally and prudently in/est their savings in ife insurance, and the figures in regard to Canada are, in this respect, very striking iideed : Life: Tnsdramce in Canada— Xbt Amount in Foncs. 1869 $35,680,082 1870 42,691,712 1871 - 45,825,935 1872 67,234,684 1873 77,500,898 1874 85,716,325 1876 81,660,752 1876 84,344,016 1877 » 85,687,903 1878 - $84,761,937 1879 86,273,702 1880 90,280,293 1881 » 103,290,932 1882 116,042,048 1883 124,196,875 1884 135,453,726 1885 149,962, 146 1886 , ril,309,688 Fire insaranco is not, perhaps, an equally strong tost, although it also is a very bouolusive one, for although people ought to use fire insurance in proportion to Iheir poverty, we find, as a matter of fact, that the rule is just the reverse — that they insure in proportion to their ability to do so. The figures in this respect are also ^ery gratifying, indicating that the Canadians are not only a prosperous, but a krudent people, as regards fire insurance : FiHii! Insurancb in Canada— Amount at Risk. 1869 (Dec. 31) $188,359,809 1870 191,694,586 1871 2?8,463,784 1872 251,722,940 1873 278,754,836 1874 306,848,219 1875 364,421,029 1876 454,608,180 1877 420,342,681 1878 (Dec. 31) $409,899,701 1879 407,357,985 1880 411,563,271 1881 462,210.968 1882 626,856,478 1883 672,264,041 1884 605,607,789 1885 611,794,479 Then as to business failures I have no data which go back beyond 1873 ; BusiNKSS Failuris in Canada. 1873 (Dec. 31) ..$12,334 000 1874 7,696,000 1875 28,843,000 1876 26,617,000 1877 26,623,000 1878 23,908,000 1879 29,347,000 1880 (Dec. 31) $ 7,988,000 1881 6,761,000 1882 8,687,000 1883 16,872,000 1884 18,939,000 1886 8,743,00* 1886 10,387,000 I thiuk, Sir, I need not detain the House longer to show, and I am quite sure 3very member of the House will agree that these statistics afford the most roliah!<) [data for ascertaining the condition of the country, and that the present outlook o£ janadBL is one of the most gratifying character. 26 astoms- 1885-1 1886^ I have already alluded to the courses which wore drawing an increased numboiB O of immigrants into this country. I may say that the total arrivals, from the Ist o: January to the 30th of April, 1886, were 22,'7;i3, while during the same period i 1881, the number has run up to 30,864. Of those the total number who settle i Canada was, in 1886, 12,666, against 17,609, in 1S87, or an increase of over 5,00i settlors as compared with the same four months of tho previous year. The tota number of passengers to tho United States through Canada, and I state this, becauso while we prefer immigrants, ospocially those with agricultural capabilities and those with capital, to remain in the country, wo have no objection to any nurabor of persons j ,j^jg_ who are going to the United States, making use of Canadian channols of comma ' 1M6- nication to get there — the total number of passengers to United Slates was 10,057 ic that period in 1866, and 13,255 in tho same period in 1887. lliscellai Then, Sir, I will refor tor a single moment to another ovidonco — which will jggg probably he regarded by the House as more conclusive than all of those to which I ' have alluded — of tho fact that we have passed tho poi'iod of serious depression which Canada has suffered in rooont years, and that tho outlook for tho future is all that we can possibly desire. I speak of it as a serious dopression, and I notice that some hon. gentlemen opposite look almost incredulous, and why ? Not because thai same depressing causes and influences have not boeii in oporation in Canada that ^^^fs have been in England, the United States and all other countries, but because here depression has boon almost unfelt. Instead of suffering as the country suffered duricy the previous period of depression which visited Canada, wo have passed througl:| a period of almost equal depression without scarcely knowing it, and why ? Because, I Sir, tho changed policy of the country, tho activity of our industries, tho employment given to our own people, tho keeping of the money in the country and distri- buting and expending it among our people, and the great expenditure in connecLion with tho Canadian Pacific Eailway have onf.blod Canada to pass through what would otherwise probably have boon as uerious a depression as existed before, with jut hardly knowing that such a thing as depression existed. Now, Sir, with regard to revenue, I am able to state to the House that the Customs rovenne, the Excise revenue and the miscellaneous revenue all show ii eteady, marked and valuable increase for the last ten months of the year; and com- paring 1885-86 with 1886-1887 the only exception that will befound in the following j table — and its perusal will bo most gratifying to every member of tho House — refers to those periods in 1835-86, when the anticipated changes in the Tariff led to a very inordinate amount of revenue being collect'^d in one or two months. That, however, of coarse does not affect the general statement, because it was simply discounting the revenue. oul Re 188^ 188& 188S nstomi 188t 188i zcise- 1881 18W lisoelli 188 188 'otall 188 18S 18f 18i 2t creased numbo rom the let o lamo period in ir who settle ia e of over 5,000 oar. The tota^uatomd- to this, becautio litios and those rabor of persoEe<( nols of commu ; J8 was 10,05*7 in GoHPARATiVE Statimbnt of Recoipts for Years 1885-86 and 188S-87. Service. i 1886-86 1886-87. July. - ;xdae — 1880-86. 18S6-87.. iscellaneoaa— I886-86 1886-87 ico— which wilf lO.so to which I uprosHJon which turo is all that i I notice that Tot becaufio thoi in Canada that ^KKref'te Rerenue- 1885-86, ut because hei-i ' suffered durini,' passed through j why? Because, i the employment ! intry and distri- ro in conneclioi! ugh what would; before, withjut: House that the 3nuo all show ii ^ year; and com- ? in the following House — refers ff led to a very ' That, however, ply discounting 'ot»l Revenue — 1885-86 1886-37 188S-87. $ eta. 1,687,706 24 1,703,973 90 + 1M,267 66 30! 1, 346 47 361,763 69 + 43,407 22 436,638 62 447,325 17 + 10,686 66 2,332,691 23 'i,fi03,062 76 Augaat. $ eta. 1,739,696 62 1,861,';28 29 -f 121,532 67 305,107 18 476,152 90 71,045 72 468,073 68 6i8,983 84 + 190,910 26 + 170,361 53 2,502,876 3P 2,086,365 03 -(- 383,488 65 4,835,667 61 5,389,417 79 -f- 553,830 18 September. $ eta 1,744,469 64 2,274,244 79 October. + 629,785 26 353, V42 20 420,019 29 -f 66,277 09 402,970 31 403,940 8J 4- 970 61 2,501,172 05 3,098,204 90 + 697,032 86 7,336,739 66 8,487,622 69 -}- 1,160,883 03 $ eta. 1,680,142 37 1,868,116 40 -J- 177,973 03 442,794 14 497,950 64 4- 65,166 40 695,777 00 616,395 38 -f 20,618 38 2,718,713 61 2,972,461 32 + 253,747 71 10,05!!,4?3 17 11,460,084 01 -f 1,404,630 84 November. $ eta. 1,294,879 37 1,618,614 36 -f 223,734 99 471,123 35 625,668 82 + 64,445 47 631,618 84 875,641 40 44.022 5G 2,397,621 56 2,1l'J,Hii 68 + 322,203 02 12,453,074 73 14,179,908 59 -f 1,726,833 86 Service. nstoma— 188646. 1886-87. December. Sxciae— 1886-86. 1886-87. liacellaneona — 1885-86 1886-87 'otal Revenue — 1886-86 1886-87 iKSreK^te Revenue — 1886-86 1886-87.., $ eta 1,308,901 84 1,756,916 27 + 448,043 43 525,214 20 5t7,129 99 + 41,916 79 468,614 20 623,914 60 + 65,400 40 3,302,630 24 3,847,989 86 + 646,359 62 14,766,704 97 17,027,898 46 + 3,272,193 48 January. $ cts. 1,269,606 80 1,590,811 48 February. + 321,234 68 407,079 68 452,423 76 + 45,344 18 907,636 12 664,140 04 — 243,496 08 2,58 ',322 50 2,707,405 28 -f 123,082 78 l'',340,027 47 19,735,303 73 + 3,396,276 26 $ cts 1,545,849 30 1,729,408 95 + 183,559 65 493,796 80 429,502 78 — 64,294 02 — 1,377,891 92 448,546 89 300,732 30 — 147,814 69 2,488,192 99 2,469,644 03 — 28,648 96 19,828,220 46 22,194,947 76 + 2,366,727 30 March. $ cts. 2,669,094 83 2,055,497 22 — 61.3,597 60 1,917,359 0? 5J9,467 10 750,677 93 299,454 77 — 451,123 16 5,337,031 77 2,894,419 09 ' 2,442,612 68 26,165,252 23 26,089,366 85 — 76,886 38 April. $ cts. 1,393,627 67 1,851,571 61 + 467,944 04 157,088 94 541,825 43 -t- 387,738 64 691,606 27 675,172 33 + 83,566 06 2,142,322 7S 3,071.569 42 4- 929,248 64 27,307,575 01 28,160,936 27 + 853,361 26 -f Increase in 1886-87 over 1885-86. —Decrease in 1886-87 over 1885-86. Th 28 In tho month of Pcbniaiy thoro is a dooroaso of 828,5 tS and in Maroh a deoreas of 82,n2,(J12, duo to tho cuuio I huvo raontionod, of an anticipated chango in th *°'^ Tarili; iind in tho month of April wo have again an increaeo of $929,246; o '* _ doduciing tho itomsto whicli I havo alluded as abnormal, and not fairly to bo takoi ^*"" into coiihidoi'Htion, a tottil agyrogato incroaso during thoso ten months— a stead] '°*» Gonntaiit, regular incroano, from tho last of July up to tho end of April — of no lo(| than $"^53,361.26; and I :itu Huro, Sir, I can give tho House no more complol^ ovidonco than that, an to llio pouilion tho country oocupiea. Now, Sir, I think it will not bo nocoBHary for rao to detain tho House a moraoni longer in painting out tho cvidoncos which exist on evory hand — evidences that hjj who runri may ruud — and ovidoncos of tho most conclusive character, that Canada ha pasicd tho period of dopression which she haasufforod, and that we are again enterini upon a career of very marked and considerable prosperity. TuE Cloud on the Horizon. There iH, however, Sir, a >>inglo cloud on thohorisson, and it is right that I shoal fipond a moiiiont in giving that a passing notice— that is, tho question of threatenoi iion-intorcourse on the part of iho great liopublic to the south of us. Now, Sir, need not say to tho House that tlio question of the protection of our fisheries has noi ei, to i boon u parly question in this IIduso. The protection of our fisheries was urged by jghts ( hon. geiitlomon oj)j)OHito and thoir press throughout tho period since the abrogatioi hat du of tho Waahiugtou Treaty, probably with more vehemence than it was urged by the md fr mcmbiirp, and proiss supporting tho Government. All parties were at one, upon the )artio8 quoslion that it was the duly —a duty from which no Government in Canada could for fiichac a MioinontsliriLk— that wo should maintain tho admitted — I will not say tho rights— vas in bui 1 will my the coucoJcil ri^'hts that, by long prescription and through a long )£Elce, course cf yep.rs, had boon iVankly admitted by the highest authorities in tho United jualifit States as belonging to Cuimda. Tho time has not yet come, and I trust it never will^ were t' ■when any Government in Ihis country will bo permitted by this House to shrink for rf botl a Hiu^^'lo instant from temjiorately and judiciously maintaining in a fair but unflinch-Jn Eng ing manner the admilted rights of the people of this country. lietern I need not loll tho House that, oven at the risk of exposing this Government tdP'S"^ the obloquy and attack, to a certain extent, of hon. gentlemen opposite, we said tol I tho Guvcinmont of the U.'iiled States, so anxious are wo that this question should befcow e ecllltid amicably, if you wll undertake tosubnait to the Congress of tho United StatoMGover a proposal for an interna' ional commission to dispose of it in the manner in whichlBngla enlightened nations are accustomed to dual with controversies of this kind, wo willlto wh allow your fishermen to enjoy the privilege of fishing in our waters throughout the ^ season without inlorforonco or obstruction. And that was done although our fisher- ^^^^^ mt:n did not obtain the corresponding right of taking tho fiah caught by them into' the American market free of duty. But it was felt by this Government that while ^ wo wero bound to protect tho rights of Canada, we must uso every effort men "**®'^' 'd : i.ilj.. : Hou8o a moraon ovidencoB that hi , that Canada h e again entorin f 29 Maroh a deoroaj tod chanffo in th '"'^ ^^ ^ obtain a fair and fa7orab!o rociprooal arrangomont with tho United of $929 246 ■ 01 ''^^'^b* ^ ™'^7 ^7 ^^^^ ^^^^ ^ ^^*^ ^^° honor of being sent on a confidcnliul raisnion to 'airly to bo takoi ^a*bington by tho Governor (ronoial previous to assuming ray duties in EngUind in aonths— a stoadi ^^'*' *°*^ ^'^'^ * longund intorobting conversation with tho lato Hoorotary Frolinghaj'Hon April— of no lo8 Q that subject. 1 may say I regard it as a misfortune, that tho lulminintratiun of 10 more complol ^^^^^ ^^ "^^^ "^ member had not been returned to power, and that his life hud not eon spuT • ^ to carry out what, I am certain, he was prepared to carry out. The ijBuii was inat a Democratic president wag elected in tho United States and a Dcmo- ratio administration was formed, but that administration had not, as hon. ger.tiomcn now, a majority in tho Senate ; and although the Government of the United Slates good faith carried out tho engagement with the Government of Ciinadji, and Hont own a proposal to ditiposo of this matter by an international comralHsion, their pro- K)Bal was rejected by tho Senate. It was for that reason, and not because 1 wisli to izpresB any preference for one party or tho other in tho United Stalcf, that 1 said I ght that I shoul ^'"'' ^^ ^^* ^ misfortune that tho recommendation of tho Democratic President and on of throatono government had to bo noted upon by a Kepublican Senate. us. Now, Sir, That proposal was rejected, and Canada was forced, aa you all know, ex necessitate nsheries has noi ei, to adopt tho policy of temperately and judiciously, but firmly, protecting tho 08 was urged by ights of Canadian fishormon in Canadian waters, and I am glad to bo able to slato e tho abrogatioi hat during ray term of office as High Commissioner in London, whore I had constant ms urged by the md frequent intercourse with the groat statesmen of both of tho political at one, upon the jartiea in that country in relation to this question, whether Lord Granville or Sir Canada could for Hichaol Hicks Bcach,'or Lord Derby was in tho Colonial Office— whatever party say tho rights— lyas in power, whether Lord Iddosloigh or Lord Kosoberry was in tho Foreign through a long Office, or whoever might be ropresonting the Govornment — I mot tho firm and un- 08 in tho United qualified desire, on tho part of Her Majesty's Government, to istudy carefully what ;8t it never will^ were the undoubted rights of Canada and the Empire ; and I speak^ not of one but ISO to shrink for- )f both parties, I speak of tho Governments which represented both the grout parties »ir but unflinch-: n England, when I say I found on their part tho steady and uniform desira and lotermination firmly to maintain Canada in tho assertion of her just and legitimate I Govornment to "glitfi- ►site, we said to I believe that anxious as are Her Majesty's Government, and ovorybody knows astiin should bei low OKtremoly anxious they are to avoid the blightest cause of difference with tho le United StatoslGovernment of tho United States, the time is far distant when tho Govornment of lanner in whichlBngland will shrink in the slightest degree from giving fair and candid consideration lis kind, wo will, to whatever the just claims of Canada in lelation to that question. throughout the: „ , , , . . r , .-. , fit Under these circumstances, I think wo had a right to expect from tho CoDgresfi . , of the United Stj^tes a different course to that which they pursued. I by them into nent that while When the President of tho United States sent this appeal to Congress for an iry effort men international commission, what did tho people interested in the fisheries say ? They «aid : « We do not want to have anything to do with Canadian waters ; wo want no 80 intoriiationnl commission ; tho fish have all turned Bouth, Ihoj arc all coming intooArs fr< waters ; we do not require to go into Canadian waters at all ; wo want no conll8fi6 mirirtioD, no international arrangement, but simply to keep ourselves to ourselves, anftm **» Jot tho Canadians do the same." I think that is very much to bo rogrottod. karate think the interests of that groat country and tho inloroats of Canada alik*de o require close commercial relations and extended reciprocal relations. I havo nAlicy hesitation in saying so. It would be in my judgment a great misfortano ile time anything wore to prevent reciprocal trade arrangements with tho United StatotJ which would be, as they wore when they existed before, alike bonofioial to both oounJ *rioH. We know we were satisfied with reciprocity, but we do not conceal Iror ourselves, because tho statistics of their own country prove it beyond question, thai advantageous as was the Reciprocity Treaty from 1864 for twelve yours to tho people of Canada, it was infinitely more advantageous to tho people of tho United States We know that, satisfied as we were with tho arrangements made by my right hon friend in connection with the Washington Treaty, that, advantageous as tho« arrungomenta wore to the people of Canada, the statistics on both sides of the line prove that they wore infinitely more beneficial to tho groat Ropnblic to tho south o ns. But, as I say, wo w>ro met by the proposal to arm tho President with tho power of declaring non-intercourse. I do not bolievo he will put that power into force, and 1 am strengthened in that belief by the letter which the President of the United" Stutos addressed to tho parties who communicated with him on the subject, and which btiowod that that gentleman, armed with this tremendous power, fully recognised tho enormous interests that had grown up under that peaceful intercourse betwoen Canada and tho United States, and that ho was fully alive to the momentous respon- sibility that would rest upon his shoulders if bo should put it in operation. Hu might well feel that ; when tho statistics of his own country prove that during tho, GO yours to which tho President alluded as having boon expended in creating between tho United States and Canada an enormous commerco and strong ties and relations, the people of the United States had sent into Canada no less than $1,200,000,000 worth of products of tho farm and manufactories and various indus- tries uf the United States, and that, in addition io that 81,200,000,000 worth of American products sent into Canada, they had also eont in $200,000,000 of foreign ^ products, whereas Canada, during that 50 years, had sent into tho United States but ' $1,050,000,000 products in all ; leaving a balance of trade during that 50 years of no less than $350,000,000 in favor of tho United States. Now, these figures show that, large as are the interests which Canada has, tho United States has a still larger v interest in maintaining those friendly reciprocal relations that have enabled these two i countries, tho great Eepublic to the south of us and this rising Dominion of Canada, to steadily progress as friendly rivals in commercial enterprise, and in developing as ! best tboy could the resources of the two countries on both sides of the lino. I hold in my hand a statement showing Canada's trade with tho United States for a period of fifty years, comprising three periods, the first period of thirty-three 11 Jl coming into c wo want no co I to ourselves, am bo rogrottod of Canada aliki United States of thirty-three '. Canada's Tuadb with United Statks. lat period, 33 years, 1821-63— United States ezpartj to Britiiih North Aaierica — Home prodacts $ Foreign products 110,152,314 27,061,495 TotM exports to Briiiaii North America. United States imports from do .* 1(37,116,709 67,794,426 Balance in favor of United States $ 99,321,283 Average annual balance in favor of United States $ 3,009,736 2nd period, 18') 1-66— United Slates exports to British North America — Home products $ 300,808,370 Foreign products 63,379,718 rs from 1821 to 1853, prior to the Rociprooity Tioaly, thosooonl period froi i 18S^ 1866 under the Beuiprocity Treaty, and the third period from 1867 to lb19, that in m the date of Confodoration to the adoption of the protective policy. I have arated the Inttor, not in order to draw any party diHtiiiction, but to show how tho do of tho United States is aflfectcd by tho revenue turiff, und by the protective ons. I havo n( licy which whs afterwards adopted. Then there in tho fourth period, embracing at misfortune i o time since tlie protective policy was adopted. Tho statement is as follows :— ho United Stata* cial to both ooan not conceal Iroraj nd question, thai tars to the peopi be United StatoH by my right hon ageous as thosi sides of the line ic to tho south oi t with the power >r into force, and int of the United ibjoct, and which Y recognised tho rcourse between mentous respon- operation. Ho I that during tho: led in creating strong ties and a DO loss than id various indns- 100,000 worth of '0,000 of fbroigni nitcd States but ; t 50 years of no ' ures show that, las a still larger \ lablod those two )n of Canada, to n developing as * I line. Total exports to British North America $ United States imports from do 363,188,088 267,612,131 Balance in favor of United States $ 95^575,957 Average annual balance in favor of United States $ 7,361,766 3rd period, 1867-79— United States exports to Canada- Home products Foreign products 477,164,790 34,653,810 Total exports to Canada $ United States imports from Canada. 511,818,600 309,423,686 Balance in favor of United States .*. $ 112,395,014 Average annual balance in favor of United States $ 8,645,770 4th period, 1880-86— United States exports to Canada- Home products Foreign products 297,542,282 16,332,229 Total exports to Csnada 5 313,874,611 United States imports from Canada 274,9^,511 Balance in favor of United States $ 33,927,000 Average annual balance .» .....$ 6,661,000 I 8S Tln'HO figures arc iriHtructivc, becuiiso tlicy hHow tliut our Amoricin nci^hbi)iri, far fiom having uriy rottson to complain of tho cIohohI commorciul rolutions wlii hnvo cxistoJ bolwcon us, havo boon vory largely gaincrH under every nyn'om whi huH opoiutod during tlio lant fifty yonrn. Tliut irt tho Holitary oloud upon tho horizni but it irt not without itH Hilvor lining,'. Had thin throatonod non-intorcourso bcor carried out, had any ProHidcnt, armo 1 with such a power, under any cinmniHtance been induced to put it in operation, what would liuvo been our position aH we Htoo half a duzjn yoaru agoV 1 aek thiH JIouso what would havo been our po-,itiori undo; Huch a condition of tliingH if this (rovorntnont had not carried out tho policy o completing at tho oarlioHt possible moment a groat tranHCOntinoiilal railway fron tho port ot Moiitreal to the hhorcH of tho Pacific Ocean ? J)uring tho lut jnHurrcction the value of that jjolicy wuh OHtahliHhod boyoiid controvcrny. Oi that occasion it was nhown that Canada had saved in blood and tro.iHuro, by the fact of being able to utilise that line of communication in order to send tho gallant yeomanry of tho older Provinces to tho Hcone of tho troubloH, more than would cov* tho SliO,000,000 which I anke i the Uouso to grant as a loan, even if it had been made » gift, and wo had never received a dollar of it back again except in the Hcrvico which wo received from tho advanced position to which that company was enabled to carry that groat national entcrjirise, and which enabled us to ncnd our forces over th:r. line. But what would bo our position to-day if wo stood with this threat of noi iotorcouri^o flaunted in our fuces and know that wo were dopondont on Amcriciin channels of communication for our connection with the rising city of Winnipeg, tbi capital of tho Province of Manitoba, and tho groat Norlh-Wost of this country '. What would have boon our position if tho Canadian Pacific Kiiilway had not pene- trated tho l\ock}' Mountains, if tho policy of hon. gontlomon opposite had bee adopted, and there wjis no line north of Lake Superior or through tho Rocky Moun- tains to connect us with British Columbia ? In that case we would have been at the feet of our American neighbors, instead of, as wo are to-day, though only five millions of people, being nblo to say to them, that deeply as wo would deplore so mad and so UDJubtifiablo an act on tho part of a great country like this great Uepublic of the United Slates adopting taich a barbarous policy as that of non intercourse with a friendly power, wv stand in the proud position of knowing that if that policy were adopted to-morrow, we havo perfected our own lines of communication and have tho most complete means of communication from tho furthe.t and most remote aeotioi. of our country down to the sea. As I gaid Dcfore, this cloud, this only cloud has its silver lining. Nou- intercourse would not bo an unmixed evil. I would deeply deplore it; every member of the House and every intelligent Canadian would deeply denlore any interruption of the commercial relations which exist between this country and the United States, but I cannot forget that, if this policy of non- interconrco were adopted, it would load to tho development of those channclt: of communication between ourselves, and that the commerce of Canada, which to-da to-du C/ana St. . (• in polic the I ontlj the t out 1 adhe kind polic suga Thai GoV' bein inte Am< cour WOtJ oxp< banj oft tho deri intc whi Wf)l Bri to be ) ado wil No as bot tioi the the !in nci^hboirt, 1 rolutioiH wl»i ry Hyn'om whici ipoii Uio horizfir ntot(!Our80 beer ly cinjurnrttftnccs ion UH wo Ktoo 1' l)^,•^itior( undo; nit tho policy o tul railway fron )urin^' tho lati )ntrov«rHy. Oi tro.iHuro, l»y the 'onti tho galliiii: han would cov(u had boon made ho Horvic'o which 'nablod to carry ['orcoH over that 1 throat of noi; t on AmcricM; Winnipoi::, tli. )f this country ; had not ponc- ipoHito had beci Rocky Mouri- lavo boon at the nly flvo million:- •0 HO mad and .sc ! Ropublic of tht r course with : at policy werr; ation and have t romoto soctioi . ' lining. Non- ploro it; ovorj deeply donlorc n this country lolicy of non-; those channels Canada, which to-day in building up New York— I am spoaking of tho through traffic— which to-duy iH building up lioston und Portland, would bo carried through cxclusivoly Canadian channels to Canadian portH, and would build up Montreal, Quebec, St. Andrews, St. John and nulifax with a rapidity which tho pooplo of iHh cjntry can scarcely understand. Still (\irther, I say that I bolievo that, if that policy of non int( rcouruo wero cart iod out, strong us is tho sentiment of free trade in the minds of tho Imperial Government and tho Imperial Parliament, still, consist- ently with tho policy which Lord Salisbury laid down whon ho wa-* intorviowoJ by tho BUgor refiners and wns shown by ihem thit tho bounty-fod sugar was crushing out the industries of the United Kingdom, and when ho said that, strongly us ho h;id adhered to tho policy of free trade, he considered that a condition of thiuga of that kind would warrant the Imperial P'^.rliamunt, without departing from their present policy of free trade, in retaliating by imposing a duty equal to tho bounty on tho sugar which came into competition with that of tho refiners of the United Kingdom. That policy has only to bo carried a very short stop further to leal flor Majosty'H Government to the concluhion, that they would owe it to dnada and to themselves, a;* boing the power under which Canada is happy to serve, to moot that policy of non- intercourse by such a difforont mode of treating tho grain from tho United States of America and tho grain grown in Canada, as would vivify tho industries of linn country, especially tho great farming industry of this country, to an exlont which would mako the most marvellous chango in this Dominion. Sir, I never expect the time will come when nonintorcourso will bo adopted ; but I am sanguine from my own knowledge of the growing aentimont of public men in England of the vital importance of Canada to tho Empire, and thoir duty to give us all tho support to which wo aro entitled, that if such a policy wore adopted we could derive that benefit from it, and it could be done without any injury to any interest in the Empire. Tho competition between the wheat of India and that which could be grown in Canada under such an enormous impetus to that growth, would bo sufficient to prevent any material advance in the price of broad to tho British consumer. So, looking at this question in all its bearings, while I felt bound to give it a passing notice, and while I most earnestly hope that no such policy will be adopted ; while I have not the slightest idea that it will, I say that should it be adopted, great as is tho American Republic, enormous as is their population, they will find that Canada fcols that she has as great and as valuable a portion of this North American continent under her management and control and to bo developed, as that lying to the south of us; and they will find the people of this country, on both sides of politics, a united band of patriots who, sinking every other consideru- tion will say that whatever Government is in power they owe it to their country, they owe it to themselves, to show that there will be no faltering in maintaining to the utmost the undoubted and admitted rights that belong to tho people of Canada. Now, Sir, I may say that I recognise the fact that under the protective policy that wo have adopted, and which, as wo know beyond poradvonturo, tho country most 3 84 heartily approves and endoreos, the groat stimnlas that has boon given to Canadia industries has enabled them largely to overtake the consuming power of the country, We know that the result has been that which wo all apprehended it would bo, a fall] in prices, and that the people of this country would enjoy as the result of that dovelopment of our industry by a protective policy, an opportunity of obtaining everything that they required as cheaply as they would if that policy had nevti .been put into operation. Negotiations with Spain. Now, under these circumstances, what we must especially do, what I think it behoves any person charged with the responsibility of governing this country to do what it behoves this Parliament to do, whether hon. genilomen sit on ono side of the House or the other, is to adopt all the means in our power of developing tho trade and business of our country. The efforts of the Government have been directe to that end. I may say, Sir, in that relation, that in 1879 Sir Alexander Gait, beforo his appointment un High Commissioner for Canada in London, was charged with thu duty of endeavoring to negotiate with Spain a treaty of advanced commercial trade relations with Cab:* and Porto Rico. That treaty, bon. gontlomon know, Sir Alexan- der Gait was not able to carry to completion, and when I had the honor of succeeding him in the office of High Commisiiionor, ho loft for ray information and perusal a document in which he said that he found himself greatly hampered in discharging tho duties imno!!cd upon him by tho Govornment of Canada, because ho only stood in tho position of a commercial commissioner, and it was necessary that all his negotia- tions with the Government ol Spain should bo filtered through Her Majesty's Minister at tho Court of Madrid! At a subsequent period I was instructed by tho Government of Cunadi., when Sir Leonard Tilloy was Finance Minister, to take up that question and endeavor to arrange for improved commercial relations. It became more impe- ratively necessary for Canada than over, because the United States' Government hud succeeded in arranging a modus vivmdi with Spain, which placed all their expoi'ts, their ships, and everything they hud to send to Cuba and Porto Rico, upon infinitely more advantageous terms than tho products of Canada. I addressed mydolf to tho discussion of this question with Her Mujesty's Government — and I may say that the Colonial Office at once put me in personal communication with tho Foreign Office, and I Wits instruc'.ed to take tho subject up with thora — and tho result wan that sifter a lull discussion of tho whole question, the Foreign Office communicated to tho Colonial Office not only that they had decided to allow Canada to ncotiato such treaty with foreign countries as her own interest required, in conjunction with| their own Minister, but they had decided that the reproseututivo of Canada must bos clothed with plenipotentiary powers, and bo placed upon an oquMl tooting. Although I have not boon able to U-ing down the correspondence moved tor by t'.o senior member for Hulifax (Mr. Jonos) for tho reasons stated, that iliis matter not being torminatod, tho correspondence cannot, with advantage to tho public, bo laid upon tho Table until a conclusion is arrived at, I will, however, road to this House an! en to Canadian of the country, ivoald be, a fall result of that of obtaining' licy had never hat I think it country to do, )n one side of developing the '^o been directed dor Gait, boforo larged with tho mmorcial trade ow, Sir Aiozan- or of succeeding n and perusal a in diechargini,' ho only stood in L all his negotia- ajesty's Minister tho Government iip that question amo more im pe- es' Government placed all their orto Rico, upon ddressed mydelt -and I may say nth tho Foreign tho result was communicatod la to nc'otiatoj JODJanction with | Canada must bo ^ :ing. Although r by t'.o senior I natter not being lie, be laid upon this House an 35 extract from a letter sent by the Foreign Office to the Colonial Office, dated 26th July, 1884, and forwarded to me for the information of the Canadian Government : •' If the Spaniah Government are favorably dispossd a full power for these negotiations will be given to Sir Robert Merrier '- Who was then Ambassador of Her Majesty's Government at Madrid — "and Sir Charles Tnpper jointly. The actual negotiation would probably be conducted by Sir Charles Tupper ; but tlie convention, if concluded, must be signed by both plenipotentiaries, and be entered into betwenQ Her Majesty and the King of Spain, with the special object of regulating Cana- dian trade with the Spanish Territories specified in tho convention." I am quite certain that tho House will appreciate tho great importance of that arrange- ment, and thoy will fool that the discussions that have taken place in this Houso have nc .loubt done good in relation to that question. Thoy will feel that another step has boon gained by the concession from Hor Majesty's Government in this matter of trade nogotiations, and that Canada is to have the freest and fullest scope. But raoro than that, while thoy are prepared to give plenipotentiary powers to the ropresonlativo of Canada, whoever ho may be, as selected by the Government to negotiate those treaties, wo are to have this vantage ground — and I dra^ tho attention of the Houso to it as avory important one — we are to have all tho aid and sym- pathy and support of Hor Majesty's Government, through Hor Majesty's Minister at whatever placo those negotiations may bo carried on. Now, I may say that subse- quontly tho Govornraont of Spain intimated that they would like us not to proceed with these ncicotiations at prcs'.nt until an elaborate treaty which was arranged between Spain and tho United StPloa, had ooon passed upon by the American Senate. Wo wore anxious to comply with that recommendation, and for this reason : If our proposition to Spain woro accepted, it would be found to be utterly worthless if the advanced and oxfondcd troaty botwoen tho United States and Cuba and Porto Rico had boon carried into offoct, Hon. gentlemen aro aware that tho Senate of the United Statorf roji'ctcd that treaty, and J may say that subsequently Her Majesty's Government wore onabloJ to negotiate a treaty with Spain as between England and Sp'iin horsolf, tho colonics not boing included. I at once drew the attention of the Colonial and Foreign Officos to tho great injury that would result from Canada not being included in tho treaty. I took up tho question with Hor Majesty's Government. I pointed out what woro our requirements. I communicated with Sir Clare Ford, and showed out what Canada required, not only that she should bo placed under the most favored nation clause in Cuba and Porto Rico, which Germany and France enjoyed, but that sho should obtain tho advantage which the United States had obtained by tho abolition of tho 10 per cent, specific duty. Sir Claro Ford entered BiOst lieartily into that question, and I am glad to bo able to say that without the concession of anything — and I point this out to hon. gentlemon who have discissed this subject a good deal, for it is a mo.4t important feature that a dependency ot the Crown, a portion of the British Empire without any concession on our part (and we were prepared to make considerable concessions) —obtained from the treaty negotiated by Her Majesty's Government and from concessions given by Her Majesty's 3J .m 36 Government in relation to wine duties there, and which do not affect us in tli© slightest, everything the United States enjoyed under the vwdus Vivendi which had been negotiated between Spain and the Government of the United StatoH. I point that out as evidence, not only that great liberty was conceded to us, but that every advantage was given to us, and our interests were promoted by Her Majesty's Government in treaties arranged between Groat Britain and foreign countries. Since that period I am glad to bo able to inform the Ilouso that the Government of Spain approached myself through the Spanish Minister at London, and approached Sir Clare Ford through the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Madrid, stating that they were now ready to take up the question of an enlarged arrangement between Canada and Spain as touching the trade between Canada and Cuba and Porto Eico. So important do 1 consider this question that I proposed to the right hon. gentleman (Sir John A. Macdonald) to allow mo to return to C;inada and dificuBS with him before going to Madrid the whole question of this proposed arrange. ment from which I believe the trade of this country may receive a groat and valuable impulse in connection with those important Spanish Jshind.s. As tho House is aware, I received permission from the right hon. gentleman to return hero, but it appears he had other duties for me to perform before I sliould turn my face towards Madrid. However, I do hope that, when Parliament rises at a very early day, the right hon. gentleman will allow me to return to London and proceed at an early day to Madrid, where I believe there is an opportunity of advaiicing tho interests of Canada in a very marked and important degree. Now, Sir, T say that, consistent with that policy, we propose to aid in developing trade — I should not say we, because the Government had anticipated mo before my return— and I found tenders were invited for steam communication between tho West India Islands and Canada, and as will bo gathered from the report of Mr. Wyldo, who was sent as commercial commissioner to ascertain what opportunity existed for oxtonding our trade, there is an opening for a very large and extensive trade, especially provided we can succeed in negotiating such a treaty as I have every reason to believe will now be found procurable* Canada now enjoys, to a very largo oxtcni, the fish trade with Cuba and Porto Rico. Our fish is just what thoy roquiru, .i'. ■ 1 believe they obtain from the United States Canadian fish which passes thro u^^.l Aoiorican hands. Not only so, but there is a large flour, lumber and potato trade lo bo built uj) and business done in a number of articles of general consumption, and this business is open to us if a favorable arrangement can be made. In order to show that this Government are alive to tho importu'.ico of developing intercommunication, and to show how they estimate the importance of developing Canadian trade through every possible channel, I may say that tentlers have been invited by the Postmaster General for a rapid steam service across tho Atlantic in order to utilise our great transcontinental highway, for we think tho time has come when in the interests of the Dominion as fast and as good a Fcrvioe should exist between France and England and Canada as is to bo found between either Germany, 37 t UH In the which had [oh, I point IS, hut that led by Hor and foreign uso that the r at London, '8 in Madrid, [arrangement d Cuba and to the right Cunuda and tpod arrange, a groat and id.s. As tho ' return here, irn my face a very early )rooecd at an Uvaiicing tho II', r spy that, -I uhould not —and I found a Inlands and was sent as xtonding our ally provided bcliovo will fcnt, the fish U'l' i believe gli AD^orican bo built up thiH busincBe) )f developing )f developing rs have been o Atlantic in ho time has should exist cr Germany, France, England and Now York. If by any means wo can succiocd in establishing such a lino of rapid steamers on the Atlantic we will not only ^ako this a great tranboontinontal highway and rapidly develop our trade on tho Pacific, bat I believe wo will bo able to deliver the mails in Boston and New York, certainly in Chicago and all western cities, a very considerable time before they could be delivered through any other channel. I can only say that Canada will be delighted to do that work fur the Eepublic, and we shall be most happy to Lave this Dominion made a channel of communication either for their commerce or their mails or their paeaen- gers. 1 am quite sure there is a great field hero for Canadian development, and that subject is engaging the attention of the Government. Wo have at this moment a commercial agent in A usti'alia, where there is alsfo a wide field for tho develop- ment of Canadian industries. Tho gentlemen chaigod with tho duty of administering tho afl'aii'S of the various Australian Provinces at tho Colonial Exhibition, were deeply impressed with tho enormous strides made by m in tho various branches of manufactures, and again and again thoy said to me: "Why cannot wo obtain from British Provinces the goods wo require, and carry on with them the trade we now do with a foreign country, the United States.'' Tho Governraont of Canada, as has already been stated to tho House, with a view to ostablioh a great traffic in the east, and intercommunication with China and Japan, have agreed to give £15,000 yearly, out of £G0,000 required, provided Her Majesty's Government furnishes the additional £15,001, to ensure a rapid service from Vancouver to Yokohama and Shanghai, and Hong Koag in China. Tho Canadian Government have further agreed to give £J5,000 per annum, provided £160,000 per annum, the amount required is raised in England and the Australian colonies, in order to have a rapid line of steam communication between tho terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway and all tho islands of Australasia, including New Zealand. it being six o'clock, the Speaker left the Chair. After Recess. Sir CHARLES TUPPER. I am quite sure. Sir, that the House has listened with very great pleasure to tho evidences I have been able to lay before it, of the undoubted condition of progress and prosperity that Canada enjoys. I am quite sore, Sir, that no member of this House can fail to be gratified at tho indisputable evidence, fur- nished by everything that can indicate a condition of progress and prosperity in a country, that Canada is at this moment in an exceedingly prosperous condition, ani that the outlook for tho future is all that we can desire. But, Sir, I may ask the House for a single moment, to what do we owe that con- dition of progress and prosperity, upon which we are all able to congratulate our- selves at this moment ? I am quite certain that tho answer will bo found in the words— National Policy. It is the National Poll sy which has lifted Canada out of the position that it occupied a few years ago ; it is the National Policy that has enabled it to pass through what otherwise would have been a period of great deprea* I 88 sion, without seriously feeling it ; it is the National Policy that had vivified every industry in this coubtry, that has furnished employment for Canadian hands on Cana- dian soil, that has kept the money of the country within the country, and that has diffused prosperity from one end of this country to the other. But, Sir, I drew attention to the fact that production had, to a considerable extent, overtaken con- sumption, and that the necessity was imposed on the Government of endeavoring to find outlets for the industries of Canada, by extending and developing our trade with other countries. I referred to the efforts wo were making in connection with lines of steam communication, but I omitted on that occasion to refer to the fact that the sanction which was obtained from this House to establish a line of steam com- munication with France has, as you know, Sir, not been successful up to the present moment. But I am glad to be able to say that the appropriation phieod by Parlia- ment at the service of the Government for that purpose is about to bo utilised, and that a strong French company are prejiaring to put on a line of steamors between France and Canada that I have no doubt will render that effort on our purt as successful as the others. Now, Sir, I intend to invito the attention of the House to a new field for tho development of the National Policy. We have applied it to tho great cotton industry j •behave applied it to tho woollen industry; wo have applied it to innumerable industries all over Canada, and with marvellous success. The Iron Industry. But, Sir, there is a field, perhaps the most important, still untrodden. There is a field still unoccupied that presents greater possibilities and greater opportunities thiin any other for developing Canadian industry, and it lies at the very root and fouiida- tion of the National Policy in all countries where it has been adopted. I refer to tho iron industry. I say, Sir, that while we have adopted the National Policy with reference to other industries, while we have taken a leaf out of the book of our great neighbors to the south of us — and we are alwaj's delighted to avail ourselves of their experience, in order to benefit ourselves — while we have adopted to a certain extent their policy in reference to other great industries, in relation to this, the greatest industry of all in this country and in all countries where iron and coal are found to abound, we have neglected up to the present hour to do justice to this great Cana- dian industry. £'r, tho Government of the United States after "the most careful and elaborate consideration of this question, after appointing a commissrion to go from one end of the Union to the other, to collect information and investigate tho subject to tho very root in all its bearings, adopted a thoroughly sound, rational, and scientific policy. They adopted the cardinal principle at which wc are aiming, and that is tho applica- tion of the prinf^'^Ie of protection in reference to the amount of labor consumed in the production of the article. Now, Sir, down to the present hour there has never been an effort made, such as I believe can be made, to adopt in all its bearings that fiod every a on Cana. id that has ir, I drew akcn con- ideavoring our trade jotion with fact that steam com- he present by Parlia- lilised, and rs between ur part trn old for the n industry j Dnumerabio , There is a, unities thiin and fouiida- I refer to Policy wilh of our great Ivos of their rtain extent be greatest ire found to great Cana- >d elaborate I one end of to the very tific policy, the applica- umed in the never been irings that 89 Hciontific application of the principle of protection to the labor involved. What we have already aimed at — what we have to a large extent attained — has been the dovolopraent of the industries of the country, by protecting the industries of the country. But, Sir, in relation to this, the great industry of Canada, the great industry of Great Britain, the groat industry of the United States, of Germany, of Belgium ;. one of the greatest industries of France and one of the greatest and most important industries of all the groat countries that possess iron and coal, we have down to the present time ignored that fundamental principle of the application of the system of protection in proportion to the labor involved. What have wo done ? The United States adopted in regard to the iron industry, the policy of applying a certain Tariff to pig iron. They imposed a duty of $6 a ton ; they have imposed a duly of 8(j, 87, 88, 89 or whatever number of dollars a ton was necessary, in order to establish the industry within their borders. At the pre sent moment, however, their tariff is 80 a ton, imposed on every ton of pig iron coming into competition with a ton of pig iron produced in the United States. And, Sir, they have graded that duty — not with mathematical exactness, but to a large extent graded accurately their tariff upon the iron industry of the country, just in proportion to the amount of labor, the numbor of days' labor, required in order to produce a ton of any particular quality of iron. What have we done ? Why, Sir, we have at this moment a bounty of $1.50 a ton on pig iron and $2 a ton duty upon pig iron. What then ? Giving that protection to the pi-oduction of a ton of pig iron, we have a duty, instead of three times as great, as the United States have adopted— or from twice to three times as great— on the puddled bar, we have a duty of $1.70 per ton. So that while we protect the inferior article, the lowest form in which iron is presented, we have so constructed our tariff as to make it utterly impossible to utilise j*nd derive a benefit from it, by grading our tariff in proportion to the amount of labor involved. Now, Sir, if there is a country in the world to which the iron industry is important, it is Canada, and why ? Be- cause we possess the coal and we possess the iron 6re and we possess the fluxes ; having everything necessary to develop the great iron industry within our borders, and yet down to the predont moment we have left almost untouched, this enormous, this almost illimitable field for the extension of our National Policy. The national importance of the iron industry is seen at once when we take into consideration the fact that it furnishes the material necessary for agriculture, for commerce, for manufactures, for offense and defence, and for all other manufactures, with scarcely an exception. It becomes, for these reasons, the most important of all the industries of the country. So valuable is it regarded, that all nations who have the means of developing that industry, have addressed themselves to that work as one of prime importance. The means of developing the iron industry of a country depend, first, upon the poeseBsion of the ore ; second, upon the possession of the coal or other fuel that is re- quired to utilise it ; third, upon the possession of the fluxes, and fourth, upon the proximity of these articles to each other, and of the facilities for transporting the 40 product from tho points whoro it is manufactured to tho groat centres of the country, •whore it is to bo used as an article of eomraorco. Now, Sir, Canada occupies in this regard a vantage ground over almost overy country in tho world, England possossoM coal and iron ore to an almost illimitable extent; but tho House will perhaps bo (surprised to learn that oven England, with all its ore and alljits coal, imports from Spain, a thousand miles away, more ore than is required to manufacture the entire production of titoel in England. Tho United States possess almost unlimited quantities of iron ore and coal ; but they have no such advantage as Canada enjoys. Their iron and coal are widely separated from eaoh other — no widely separated that the ores of Wisconsin and the Lake Superior region are sent a thousand miles away to Pittsburg to tho coal area to bo manufactured into iron. In tho southern States they ha7o coal and iron in close proximity, but with this drawback, that they are over a, hundred miles from tho seaboard, over which distance the manufactured article has to be transported by rail. France, which has developed a groat iron industry, has to import both iron and coal. That country has both ore and coal to somo extent, bat no loss than 35 per cent, of the oro manufactured in Franco is imported from a long distance. Belgium has plenty of coal, but imports iron oro from Germany. A largo amount of iron oro manufactured in Belgium, which has become so powerful a competitor of England in iron, is manufactured from oro imported from Luxem' bourg; but it sends all the way to Spain for the oro used in the manufacture of Boseomer steel. If these countries, without tho advantage of having iron ore and coal in close proximity, can import, ono or the othor a thousand miles and carry on the manufactures of iron, what can Canada do, which has the great advantage of pos- sessing illimitable coal fields and illimitable stores of iron ore in close proximity ? England and the United States both form notable examples of what can bo done in the development of a great industry by protection. I need not tell this House that the most extreme protection that ever was adopted in any country in the world was adopted in England in connection with tho manufacture of iron. England not only imposed high duties on iron coming in from abroad, but when it was discovered how coal could be used instead of charcoal and th® manufacture of the steam engine was brought into play, it actually prohi!. ' 1 the ■workmen who were acquainted with those processes from leaving the country in order to retain the industry within their own borders. The United States recognising that the manufacture of iron within their own borders lay at the very foundation of that protective policy that has made that great oouniry as flourishing as it is to-day, at tho very foundation of that great policy that has enabled them to grapple with a gigantic war debt and sweep it away by hundreds of millions until to-day they are only embarrassed by the difficulty of knowing how to get rid of the revenue that is furnished by that policy. I say, Sir, recognising that this question of the iron industry lay at the very foundation of their national policy, they adopted a high protective tariff, and after the most careful, the most scientific, and the most elabor- ate investigation, they graded the tariff in relation to tho diflferent branches of tho ho country, ipiofj in thitt 1(1 pOS808flOH porhapa bo aporta from e the entiro )d quaDtitios joys. Thoir ed that tbo iles away to States they loy are over id article h&s ustry, has to extent, bat jrted from u rermany. A 3 so powerful rora Luxem' anufactaro of 1 ore and coal carry on the ntage of pos- > proximity ? in bo done in hat ever was tion with the ming in from ircoal and th^ >rohi!. ■ 1 the intry in order ognising that lation of that t is to-day, at 'apple with a •day they are venue that is 1 of the iron lopted a high I most elabor- anches of the 41 on ti'udo in order to furnish just such protetjtion as the amount of labar entering into the creation of any article of industry involved. And thus, Sir, recognising the gioat principle of protecting first and above all the labor of the country, thoy have built up an iron industry that has astonished the civilitiod world. Germany imported 100,000 tons of pig iron in 1860 ; and it exported 1,000,000 in 1881— how ? By adopting the policy that has prevailed in Canada of giving a feeble protection to th(f production of iron in its lowest stage, and leaving all the others unprotected to como into competition with it? No, but by adopting the true principle of protecting the labor that entered into the production of iron in all its departments ; and thus usload of being dependent, as it was, upon other countries for its iron, it has booomo ji groat exporter, as you see, of that commodity. The produi tion of pig iron in the world in 1865 was 9,2.50,000 tons ; in 1883 is IniJ gone up to 21,000,000 tons, showing that all that is necessary in order to extend to an unlimited degree the use of iron is t') be able to produce it, and showing also that it affords a fiold for the application of the sound principles of the National Policy that no other industry in the country affords. The result of this policy may bo briefly stated that during last twenty-one years, from 1865 to 1885, the increase iu the production of pig iron in Great Britain has been 76 per cent. In the United States, 456 per cont. ; in Germany, 237 per cent. ; Prance, 64 per cent.; Belgium 64; Austria and Hungary, 152 per cent. So has the iron industry, under a natioaa policy adopted for its development and its protection, flourished in all those coantrioH Of course, England when she became, under the most rigid and determined system of protection ever adopted in any country in the world, so advanced as to outdistance all other countries to such an extent that she thought she could adopt the principles of free trade, she adopted those principles; and she adopted them under the delasioii, propounded by Mr. Cobdcn and sincerely believed in by that distinguished man, but proved by the result to be utterly fallacious, that if England, with her advanced position of mirttross of the industrial arts of the world, adopted the policy of free trade, all other countries would be obliged to follow in her wake. And what is the result? It is that instead of following in her wake. Franco and Germany and all ^hese countries have held fast by the national policy of piotecting their own Indus- trios, and the consequence is that they aro at this moment in a position to paralyse to a large extent the industries of England with all her advantages of iron and coal in close proximity. By their protective policy they aro developing and advancing their industries in a way that England flnds horself incapable of keeping up with, and the result is that Belgium and Germany aro keen competitors on English soil with the great English industries.- The time is not long since, when charc9al iron was ono of the most important industries in Ontario and Quebeo. I have no hesitation in saying that if the protection we have given to cotton and woollen and all other industries of Canada bo applied to iron, to-morrow will show what the past history of Canada has «hown, that those charcoal iron industries will again be in full blast, and that ia 42 Ontario and Quoboc they will bocomo most epscntial and important industries in I ho future as thoy woro in days gono by. Every porson knows that charcoal iron is the mont valuable product of iron ; every poi'soa knows the increase of value of charcoal iron; every person knows that the groat dilHculty is the cost of prodacing it, but there is no country in the world that has such a field for the production of charcoal iron as the Provinces of Quoboc and Ontario. What have you, Sir, in theno Provinces ? You have the ore in illimitable quantity, you have a boundless field for the production of the ore, and you have, running along through the same tract of country, magnificent forests adapted to furnishing the charcoal. At present what aro the people obliged to do? Those who go into the wilderness to mako a farm have lo spend their valuable labor in cutting down this timber, and consuming it on tho ground without receiving anything from it. Vivify, give protection to the iron industry, as you have given it to cotton, woollen, and everything else, .'ind what will ho the result? It will bo, that when a man goes into tho forest to m:iko a farm in Ontario or Quoboc, tho most valuable product under his hand will bo that which he has to spend all his labor and capital now in wasting. You will have colonisation extended in Ontario and Quebec as nothing else could extend it. Tho experiments recently made by some of tho groat lines of railway in tho United Slates have shown, 518 tho result of scientific analysis, that the modo of making the life of a rail infinitely ij;reator than it is, is to have incorporated in tho rail a largo portion of charcoal iron, and under this recent discovery, there is a field for the development of charcoal iron, that will go far to make it one of the loading industries of Canada. There is at pro- Bont, as you know, in Ontario, running through a largo number of counties and townships, a most valuable deposit of iron ore. A railway has been built tho Central Ontario, over 100 miles long, to carry this ore to Wellor's Bay, to bo shipped acrosH tho lake to Chat-lotto, Oswigo, and other points on the American side. Well, from O-iwogo and Charlotte on tho American side to tho anthracite coal field, is onlj' 1.^0 iiiilos, and I say that, under a policy which will givo iron tho protection we give to everything else in Canada, undor the National Policy, you will have tho ships that convey the ore to Oswego or to Charlotte, or to any of those ])la'3cs from Kingston, Oobonrg and Woller's Bay, bringing back the anthracite coal, and you will h" --o the ©stablishraont of blast furnaces at Cobourg, Kingston and Welter's Bay, that wilt. I^ivo the iron industry of Ontario a bettor position than it occupied years ago. I may attract your attention. Sir, for a single moment to the relative importance of these industries. We have given to the manufacture of sugar, and tho manufacture of cotton, and the manufucturo of woollens, a large protection with the result we anticipated, of building up thoso industries and rendering them flourishing. In addition to that, we have from 18()8 to 1834, admitted $2,950,000 worth of machinery froo into Canada, in order to givo increased protection and development to those industries. Now, Sir, the relative importance of these industries may be shown by tho following figures, compiled in regard to the United States. It will bo found that in the refining of sugar and molasses in the United States, there are forty-nine estab- 48 limonts omplojod. Tho capital invoBtod in those is 927,432,600 ; tho number of aloB employed over 16 years of ago, 6,832 ; tho number of children and youths, 25 ; |u amoant paid in wages during the year, $2,^75,032; tho valuo of materials, 144,698,499 ; and the valuo of tho product, $153,484,915. So much for sugar. In |e roanofacturo of cotton goods there are 1,005 ostablishmonts, in which tho capital [iploycd amounts to 1219,000,000; number of males omployoJ 64,000; fomalen, 1,000 ; and 30,000 children. Tho total amount of wages is $45,61 1,119 ; tho value materials, $113,765,000, and tho valuo of tho product, $210,000,000. Of woollen lods, tho number of establishments is 1,990, $96,000,000 of capital is employed, ^,000 males, 29,000 females and 10,( 00 children are engaged ; $23,836,000 is paid in Dgoe ; tho value of tho material is $100,OviO,000 and tho valuo of tho products [60,000,000. Now, como to iron and Btoel, and you will see at a glanco by tho corn- prison how entirely the iron and htcol industiy distances all the other industries of lut great country, in regard to tho amount of capital employed, of poople engaged, id the result. Of iron and stool industries there are 1,003, tho capital employed i-s 630,000,000; the number oi males abovo sixteen years of ago engaged, 133,000; of Imales, 45 ; of children, 7,730 ; tho wages paid out are $55,476,875 ; the valuo of laterial is $191,000,000; the value of tho product is $296,000,000. So you see that, l-eat as are tho cotton and woollen industries in tho United Staton, as regards the tiployment of a vast population and the support of a great body of people in connec- jn with these various industries, the iron industry far outstrips and leaves every- king else in the rear. Now, charcoal iron from bog iron ore was formerly an aportant industry both in Ontario and in Quebec, and charcoal iron was also made in rleton, N.B., where to-day, under a policy of fostering this industry in tho same lay as tho cotton and woollen and other industries have been fos^torod, that blast kmace in Carleton would again bo lighted up and would bo tho foundation of a now nd extensive industry in the Province of Now Brunswick. The following table lid tho diagrams in tho appendix which I have had sent to every member, in order make tho matter more distinct, will show the Canadian ii-on trade at a glance: — pOBTB OF Iron and STSKI, and MANCPAOTCKBa TIIKUKOF INTO TUB DoMI.NION FOli HOMB CONSUMPTION rOR YKAR8. 1868 $ 6,885,365 1869 7,386,780 1870 „ 7,760,867 1871 10,808,645 1872 „ 16,913,179 1873 „ 26,436,020 1874 20,700,387 1876 18,199,198 1876 « 12,965,117 1877 ^...^ 11,082,321 1878 „ 9,398, 306 1879 $ 7,962,295 1880 10,128,660 1881 12,965,855 1882 17,499,488 1883... 20,080,274 1884 14,790, 727 looo • ••• *•••»«••«••••••••• 11)415)713 1886 11,053,365 Total $253,210,512 This large amount of $263,000,000 was paid out in hard cash by tho poople of lanada to support the iron industries of other countries while our own country emed as no country in tho world teems with all the materials necessary to manu- I 44 faoturo in^ri, ibo coal, Iho oro, tlio fluxes, overythinif that in nocosnary, nnd with lh« l:ii)or of our country unomplojed. Of this ismount S3>,8;9,63() wui* froo ami 8ir>?,3no,882 iluliublo. Thoi o id also a tablo showing the balunco of trndo, and hoJ mtc'i ;,s ;iecouiUod for by the imjwrtution of iron and stool and the manufooture tlicrcof. You liuvc only to look at that in ordor to hoo that tho balance of trudj a:i;nini-t Canad i is largely unJ at onco uccountod fur. If you sabtract tho amount iirporfs paid by Canada for iron to sustain tho iron industries of other countries, you will fl'id that il is nearly equal to tho amount by which our imports havo oxcoedcii oar exports, ami, if you want to balance tho trade of tho country, if you want lo huvJ no outLjoing l)oyond tho incoming of the country, cut the Gordian knot, put tm iron industry upon tho same footing and foundation that you havo put all tho oi Ikii industries of CunJtda, and you will sweep away to a largo extent tho balance of ti\io ■which stands roeotdod against Canada up to tho present time. The imports h u amo'nitod to fVom fourlecn to fifteen millions annually since Confodoration. Ai shall show you directly, ihoro is no country in tho world that la consuming iron t a greater extent than this Canada of ours. Tho consumption of iron in tho while world \a 3'^ \h^. per capita. In Canada tho consumption ia 260 lbs. ;9er 3. 1863 714,893 1869 636,704 1870 860,630 1871 862,217 1872 1,227,653 1873 1,398,403 1874 1,494,6.16 1876 1,362,363 1876 1,460,631 1877 1,751,031 Y Net ton? of **•"• 9,000 11.3 1878 1,665,814 187l> 1, 748,101 1880 2,0t»t,RU 1881 2,260,<;80 1882 2,708,654 1883 3,085,6S8 1884 3,556 673 1886 3,439,745 1886 , 3,618,769 Tho total production of coal for tho Dominion is whown in this IhIjIo Total Produrtion or Coal in thi Dominion. Years. Net tons of 2,000 lbs. 623,392 687,637 734,265 804,431 Years. Not tons of 2,000 Ibj. 1868 1869 1870 » 1871 1872 1,038,349 1873 1,228,852 1874 1,068,166 1876 998,104 1876 950,483 1877 1,0J0,876 1878 1,109,695 1879 I,iri2,783 1880 , 1,450,795 1881 , 1,514,542 1882 1,845,548 1883 1,831,810 1884 - 1,997,369 18f5 1,973,987 1886 2,104,170 I may say that an unlimited ir.creaHO, so to spoak, is quite within tho posHibilitios lof tho legislation of this House. I need not to'' "he House that, notwithstanding Ithat groat increase in tho production of coal . "''nada, a large nutnbor of tho coal Imines of Canada — take, for instance, those in Pictou, those in Capo Breton — which Idopend on the soa, are closed for something like six months in the year ; und that Inpon a safe calculation it may bo s:ud that an enormous amount of io^s of working I power is caused by the fact that thoy aro only able to work half timo in con-setiueoce I of a want of demand for the urticle itself. Now, tho protection of iron in this country will giye to tho coal industry of this Icountry such a development as will enormously increase tho demand for labor iu I connection with the mining of coal and of ore. Tho manufacture of charcoal in the I timbered country I have already referred to, and to tho enormous amount of labor it rill involve. Tho principle of tho American tariff I have already ozplained. They I have created this great iron indus> try in the United States by giving to tho labor I employed protection just in proportion to the amount of days' work consumed in producing the article, whether it wns a ton of pig iron, a ton of puddled bars, a ton of ' mC iron, or tho manufacture in its very highest state. Our policy, as I have shown, is diametrically the revorao, and the result is that while they have boon building up this magnificent iron industry in the United States and at the same timo steadily I and enormously reducing tho cost of iron in that country, wo, with all that nature 46 hai4 done for uh in tho most anboundod and uimtintod manner, furniabod with all ihj taw maloriul iiocoHHury to mako our ooantry grout nud prosporou^*, uro allowing J jmsH uwny thin golden opportunity of reaping a hurvout by orouting groat nationi; iiiduMtrios, giving incroaHod labor to tho pooplo, and thuti building up groat unJ thriving communitioH, and furnishing profitable otnploymont to thouHandM and tonni IhoUHandH of additional inhabitants to our country. Wo aro allowing other coantri«| to reap tho bonotit, other countries not half ho well riituutod an wo aro for tho produl tiun of iron — reap this golden harvoHt that lioH unconttidored at uur feet. Now, 8iJ thJH was done in the United States by following a policy tho very rovorsoi ours. I may just suy before passing away from tho quostion of coal, which wo havJ developed m HucoortHfully, that instead of increasing the cost of coal to tho pooplo this country, 1 hoi a ton on cast iron scrap and old shell ; in Canu(li[ it irt free. Thoy put $16 a ton on puddle bars, blooms, &o. ; ours is 10 per cent., ?1.70 per ton. Thoy put $6 per ton on wrought ticrap; under tho Canadian tarilViJ irt free. Tboy put 816 and $22, according to sizes, on bar iron, spike, rod, &o. ; oa| duty is 17^ per cent., about equal to $5 per ton. They put $20 a ton upon thick hoops and bhoets ; ours is 17J por cent. They put $28 ton upon thin shcotil ours is 12J por cent. On out spikes thoy put $25 por ours is equivalent tcl 813.45, more nearly assimilating to thoire. Now, it is impoHsiblo to road those twJ tariffs of tho United States and Canada without seeing at a glance why it ia thai while thoy have made the iron industry tho most succossful and most importanl industry in that country, wo aro standing still at the threshold, looking idly on, and! leaving all those undeveloped treasures to lie at our foot, and only wanting tho ado[>l tion of a sound and rational policy, tho adoption of that National PuUcy that hul placed Canada in tho proud position it occupies to-day, by applying it to ether induJ tries ; waiting, I say, to have that same policy applied to tho iron industry of thil country to give us an increased dovolopmont that will, I believe, bo found to surpasj all the other industries of our country, just as tho figures I have road of tho woolloil and cotton industries of the United States shoves that they have boon surpassoll trauscondontly by tho iron industry of that country. Sir, imagine tho helplosjl position Canada would bo in in the evont of war. What could tho country do wilhoutl iron ? I do not believe the child is born that will witness a war in Canada, ll regard the position wo ocoupy as ono that gives tho best possible assurance that wel will have peaceful progress within our borders. But while that is the strong proba- bility, is it not worth while for us to consider what a country would do, that isl consuming 260 pounds of iron per head of tho population, if they were cut off withl no iron industry within the country to moot tho ecnorgency, and to give us that sapplyl 19 0(1 with ail thj I'u allowing' i| groat nation^ up groat an(| iiJm and torii i other countriJ or tho proiluc >ot. Now, yir ory rovorsoi ivhioh wo huvi tho people a in tho oity oi 1886 tho eam< paduating thoi 80' a ton on pj^ loll ; in Canad 10 por cont., o tnadian tariin 0, rod, &o. ; oa ton upon thirl on thin shoots is oquivalont tc road thoHO tw why it la that ■nost importan; \g idly on, and nting tho ado|> i?oIicy that has to cthor induH. industry of thit bund to surpat^: 1 of tho wool lot boon surpasHel 10 tho helplosj itry do without in Canada. I uranco that we strong proba' oald do, that is Jro cut off with ) us that supply which is al)Holutcly nccosHary for tho progroH« and adrnncomont of every other induHtry within our bordor. Wli}*, Sir, our position is a holplcHS ono at pronont. lio\i;'iVLm, (iovmany and England corabinod to put up tlio |)rico of hIooI raiirt in Canada $5 a ton, and you hud to pay that iricruaHo in conHoquonco of tho faut that you had no iron induHtricH in your coantry, and today you aro paying for wrought iron pipo onorinouhly above wliut tho article cohIh, bucauHO IhoHO countries lit thirt moment have agreed to put u|) the prioo to tho uonsumorHof wrought iron pipo in this country. Now, I Hiiy it was only a short time ago that England, Belgium and Germany combined, and Canada had to pay, and did pay, 85 a ton more for every ton of rttoel railH imported into tho country than wo ought to have paid, hcoauHO wo, in our present condition, with our country tilled with iron, tilled with coal, lillod with limoHtftno, and all in clo-to proximity to each other, have not had tho .-ifigiicity, we hnvo not had tho courage to adopt the name rational policy in regard fu tluH induHtry thut we have adopted with regard to olhorn. Why, Sir, in this very (v)unty of Ottawa, tho country toomH with iron ore as rich as any in tho world. All through thin region there are unbounded foroHtH to furnish charcoal, and all that \^ wanted iH fair and logitimato protection to vitaliso and dovolop tho industry and ^'ive employment to tho people, and aid at tho Hamo time tho (ioioniHation of thoHo rich tracts of country by furniMliing to the |)oor mon who go into tho forests tho tncuns of getting a fair prico for tho timber ihoy aro now obliged to waHto, in order that thoy may cultivate tho land. IIow do you suppose tho combination between i"]ngland, Germany and liolgium was broken up, un lor which wo were paying 85 a ton rnoie for our rails ? Strange as it nny sjem, it was broken up by moans of tho United States. The Canadian Pacilio Knilway Company broke it up by giving an order for r-toel rails to tho United States, innleail of to that combination, teaching iho poo|>Io in Kngland, (iormany and Belgium that we wore not so prostrate as thoy mpposod, not quite ho helpless as thoy sup]»osod, and that led to breaking up tho combination, because thoy became alarmed at the fact that in the United SLaLos, where rails woro §15!) a ton only a few years ago, tho price has boon brought, down to 8-6, showing tho influenco of this rational policy. Sir RICHARD CAHTVVIIIGUT. That is now. Sir CHARLES TUPPEH. It is not only a National Policy, but it is a rational policy. It is a policy that is national bocauso it ib rapidly making Canada a nation, it is a rational policy because tho very foundation of reason is in a Govornmont, a Parliament, a country furnishing employment to tho mass of tho industrial pooplo. Well, Mr. Speaker, twenty years ago iron rails were mado in Toronto and Ilamilton, and within tho next ton years wo will make all our own rails. I do not propoao to ask" this House to adopt tho policy, tho Govorjiracnt does not propose at this moment, regarding tho increased railway development of tho country as ono of tho vital essentials of progress and prosperity, to include in this arrangement what tho United States has done, and done with Buch success, and that is to apply it to steel rails. We propose that thoy shall come in free as they havo done in tho past, because 48 wo consider tbal Bbould bo mado an ezceptloOi I do not beBitato to say that tbc adoption of this policy will, in my judgment, place Canada in a position where she will bo able to provide her own rails, and that at no distant period, at as reasonable u rate as any country in the worW. Why should wo not do so ? Show mo anj- country po-isesBiiig as many miles of railway as Canada does that docH not manufac- ture its own rails ? It cannot be done. There i^ no country in the v.-t^rld with 12,000 niilos of railway in operation that does not manufacture the rails used thoro- Why should we not at no distant day under the application of this protective policy for tho iron industry of Canada, be in a position to manufacture our rails (•uccossfully and efficiently ? Now, as to car axles. There are several places in tais country where they are now made. As showing that there is no want of skill in Canada, thiu Canadians are equal, without any outside assistance, to deal with manufacturing mat- ters, I can point to a foundry in Montreal where moht excellent steel castings aro turned out. Go to Now Glapgow and you will find a steel industry built up by local capital of from $300,000 to $400,000 invested by Nova Scotians, or by Canadians, at all events, whore they aro turning out the very best articles that can be produced. All that is wanted is fostering protection in order to make the quantity as great as the quality is good. In those works there in not a man employed who \> not a Can- adian. Tho ready intelligence which Canadians possess enables thorn wiihin a short time to master the most intricate processes in connection with any industry. In the county of Pictou, iron, coal and limestone are found in the closest proximity ; within a radius of ton miles there is everything ".ecessary to build up a great and successful jndustry ; and this mineral wealth is found on tho seaboard so that the products of the industry can be cheaply transported by water to tho head oi Lake Superior if required. All descriptions of iron ore are found in this country, so that when wo are told by persons engtigcd in the iron founding industries that they require other iron to mix with Londonderry iron because it is too good, that they requii-o to import Scotch pig iron, tho anh>wer is that we possess within our own borders every variety of iron oi'o, so that any mixture desired can be made. Wo have specular iron ore with 68-33 percentage metallic iron, compact limonite 57'71, fibrous limonite 59-50, red hematite, and also fossiliferous hematite 54*36, and spathic ore with 43*56. In New Brunswick there is hematite iron ore ; in tho county of Carloton ore and coal are to be found, also in different districts of that Province. Bog ore in QueenV , Sunbury, York, Charlotte, Bestigouche and Northumberland counties, in close proxi- mity to tho Intercolonial Bailway. It is specially applicable to the manufacture of charcoal iron. There are iron ores in Quebec. Magnetic iron ores aro found moio or less throughout tho Laurentian range of mountains along the Ottawa Eiver. At the Hull or Baldwin mines, wobt of the Gatineau River, tho ore analyses 67 per cent. The quiintity is estimated at 100,000,000 tons. Tho Haycock mine ore ranges from 64 to 68 per cent, metal. Bristol mine 58 per cent. iron. In Three Eivers ant Drummondvillo there is both bog and iron ore in abundance, and unlimited timber 49 ay that tho n where slio IS reasonable ow mo anj- not wanufac- world with 8 used thoro' cctive policy fcuccossfully t'ais country Canada, thuc icturiug mat- castings aio It up by local Canadians, nt be produce(i. ty as great ai> irt not a Can- wilhin a short astry. In the iraity ; within and successful he products ci iko Superior if m we are told other iron to 1 import Scotch ery variety of ' iron ore with nite 59*50, red -h 43-56. In >n ore and coal are in Queen's, in close proxi- manufacture of iro found moro : wa Eiver. At es 67 per cent, re ranges from ree Eivers ant limited timber for making charcoal. In the Eastern District of Ontario, back of Kingston, Belleville, Trenton and Cobourg, between Lake Ontario and tho Ottawa Biver ; in tho townshipa of Marmora, Hastings, Tudor, Bedford, Madoc, WoUaston, Palmerston, Bagot, Bel- mont, Darling, Barrie, Galway, Snowdon and many others, there is magnetic ii'on in abunJarce. This district is served by the Ontario and Quebec, Kingston and Pem- broke Railways, tho Central Ontario, Cobourg and Petorboro', and Grand Trunk Bailw.iys, and by the Rideau and Trent Canals. There is plentyof timber all through this district. I had a conversation with a surveyor who had explored these lines for a hundred of miles through these districts, and away up 130 miles further, to tho inter- section of the Canadian Pacific Bailway, and J was assured that not only was there an unlimited quantity of iron through that district, but that tho forests along that line of communication could not bo surpassed in any country in tho world for tho production of charcoal. Now, I have si»own yon that the Lake Superior ores of .he United States are carried one thousand miles to tho 3oal, for the purpose of manufacturing the pig iron. If that be the case, what is to prevent tho policy of the ship that carries tho ore from Weller's Bay, Kingston and Cobourg, across to tho United States ports, bringing back a cargo of tho anthracite coal which is within one hundred and fifty miles from tho point of shipment ? There is nothing to prevent it but one thing, and that is the duty upon the anthracite coal ; and what I propose to ask this House to do, in adopting the policy of vitalizing this great industry tor Canada, is to take tho duty off anthra- cite coal and make it f:ec. The moment that is done we shall have blast furnaces at Cobourg, Weller's Bay and Kingston, at all events, served by anthracite coal, making that description of anthr. to iron which is so highly valued by gentlemen connected with foundries. Tho dis -co between Weller's Bay and Charlotte, in tho United States, is about sixty miles, and from Eochester to tho anthracite mines is 150 miles ; and, I think, when I give those distances and give what is accomplished every day in the United States, where coal and iron are 1,000 iiiiles apart, I shall have settled tho problem that nothing will bo easier than to establish blast furnaces in tho Province of Quebec and the Province of Ontario, by which you can not only manufacture unlimited quantities of charcoal iron but manufacture tho iron by the use of anthracite coal. Now, Sir, you may asl< me what about the great North- West. Well, Sir, it is well known that you have in tho North-West tho most boundless supply of coal that is to be found in any part of thi? Dominion. One of tho great advantages we have over the prairie country to tho south of us, is tho ualimitod supply of fuel furnished by nature in the form of lignite and bituminous coal. And you have not only 50,000 square milet> of this lignite and bituminous coal in tho great North- West, to furnish enormous quantities of fuel for generations to come, but you have on Big Island, in Lake Winnipeg, a valuable deposit of iron ore, and any quantity of timber to make charcoal to convert it into iron. All it roqaires is the adoption of this policy in order to establish at an early day industries for the manufacture of iron in the North- West as well as in the other portions of the country. And what moro ? 4 60 Across tlio Eockj- Mountains, need I tell you that in British Columbia you have ono of the most magnificent deposits of iron ore— on Tezada Island (30 miles long and 5 miles wide) —that is to be found in any place in the world, rich in the higbebt degree in iron ; and that you have the Nanaimo coal fields to furnish fuel to put blast fur- naces in operation at au early day, lying within thirty miles of Texadn Island. I say, that with the prospect of opening up trade with Australia, with China and Japan, although I am not a prophet nor the son of prophet, I believe that at no distant day you will have in the Province of British Columbia an iron industry built up which will compare favorably with that of any other industry in this cnun'.y. Now, Sir, you will ai-k mo to give you a little more cloi>ely than in tuo g' "1 terms I have employed, what would bo the result of Canada entering upon ihiL ^ lonal policy of manufacturing her own iron, and I will give you briefly my calculations on that point. And, though I base my estimate on our past consumption of iron, giving this industry the same protection that is given to others— I say that wo need not base it on the past consumption of iron, for, with the dovelopraont which is opening up our industries, a very feeble glance at the past furniBhos an indication in regard to what the result of adopting such a policy would be. Wo are maiiiiig rapid strides, and if you take these diagrams, those graphic illustrations which'I have placed before you, and look at what we have done in the last eighteen yoar.s, tell mo if you can, the measure of what the progress of Canada will bo in tlio next ten or tweniy years. We are only opening up this great question of developing the indus- tries of our country, and I havo no h^ijitation in saying that a more moderate calcu- lation could not bo made than the ono I shall now otfor tlio llouso, basing my calculation on the present consumption of iron. Our present consumption Ih oqu. . alent to 250,000 tons of pig iron, leaving steel rails out of the iiuostion allogollicr. To make this quantity of pig iron, you require 750,000 Ions of iron ore. You rciiiiiio 120,000 tons of limestone and 750, OJO tons of coal to make it into iron in its lirst stugo, pig iron ; and the "reight required for the moans of intercommunication in bringing these materials together, amounts to not less than 1,625,000 toni-i. To manufncturo it into puddled bars, merchant bars, and the various shapes and sizes into which it is made* it would require an additional quantity of 750,000 tons of coal, making a total con- sumption of 1,500,000 tons. It'is on the ground that the development of the iron industry of Canada will tax the coal industry of this country to its utmost capacity, in order to furnish the addi- tional output that will be required, and with all the advantages connected with that increased development, that I am enabled to say to the House that although making anthracite coal free will take $497,000 away from the Government in revenue which it is now receiving, we would be perfectly justified in doing it, because the develop, ment of this iron industry would be giving to the coal-mining industry a greater advantage and boon than that which would be taken away by the removal of the duty. Now, Sir, what does this involve ? Take the diagram of Sir Lowthian Boll — the highest authority in the world — the man who in England is considered head and 51 you have ono !B long and 5 igbobt degree put blast fu!'- sland. 1 Bay, and Japan, > distant day lilt up which Now, Sir, term 6 1 have mal policy of itions on thai 1, giving thin d not base it opening up )n in regard naifing rapid ivhich'I have oiirH, toll mo ) next ten or ig tho induH- dorato calcu- baHing my iH cqu.,alont or. To make iiiio 120,000 i>t ^'ago, pig ringing these lU'-turo it into h it iH made» ; a total oon- lada will tax ish tho addl- ed with that ugh making venue wbioh the develop. y a greater aoval of the thian Boll — ed head and fchoulders above every authority on these questions. Taking his diagram, wbioh I have sent to ever^ hon. gentleman in the House, you will see the price of Scotch pig iro.i and the earnings of tho colliers in Scotland in comparison with Westphalia, and it follows that just as the production of iron increases or decreases, so tho prod action of coal increases or decreases. Now, Sir, the result is that by tho adoption of this policy you will give permanent oraployraont to an army of men numbering at least 20,000, increasing our population from 80,000 to 100,000 souls, and aflfording tho means of supporting them in comfort and prosperity. I say. Sir, that if there is any- thing in the National Policy, if wo have not been all wrong from tho very start, if tho history of Canada shows that this National Policy has achieved for Canada what wo said it would achieve— and I have given tho most abundant and irrefragable evi- dence on that point — if there is any question on which there ought not to be any doubt in tho mind of any hon. gentleman, it is that tho application of the same sound policy which wo have found so admirable and eticcossful in relation to all other indus- tries, wi'll have tho same result in regard to the groat iron industry of this country. Now, this estimate of an increased population of 100,000 souls does not take into account the manufacture of castings and forgings, cutlery and edged tools, hardware, machinery and engines, or steel rails. Were we to manufacture thope articles now imported— and there is no reason why wo should not steadily progress to that point — the population I have mentioned of 100,000 souls would be no less than trebled. I may briefly give to tho Houso the effect of the resolutions which 1 i)ropose to lay upon the Table ; and I may say that tho Government have given tho mo-iL care- ful attention to tho proposals that havo boon made to us in rcferenco to changes in the Tariff. Wo havo found that in order to carry to its legitimate conclusion the policy we havo applied to the various industries established in tho country, it is desirable to make changes in tho Tariff, which in all will involve an increase in round nurii'ors of something under 8500,000 a year. In regard to iron, the increased reve- nue w 'xpect to receive this year will not be over half a million from the changes propose, in those resolutions; :itii( while wo havo no reason to doubt that tlioy will bo entirely effectual in bringing rapidly into this country all tho capital that is necessary to vitalise this great industry and put it into a flourL-^hing condition, all the increased taxation that will be involved over the whole of Canada, from sea to sea, will be something fike half a million dollars a year. That increased taxation, however, will all bo swept away and given back to the people by the one resolutiori which makes anthracite coal free ; and the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec, which largely pay that duty, will be greatly benofltod instead of oppressed or burthened hy the adoption of the policy that is now proposed . I do not think it necessary, Sir, to occupy the time of tho House at greater lencfth in making these explanations, and I am anxiou<» to close at such aa hour as will give an opportunity for the fullest criticism from the other side of the House. In this proposed tariff we have not followed exactly the American eystcm. Wo have based it upon the principle of applying two-thirds of tho American rate. There is 52 at present provided by law a bounty of $1.50 a ton until the 30th June, 1889, on every ton of pig iron manufactured in the country ; and alterwards that bounty is a Sl.OO a ton, until it ends in June, 1892. We of course leave that as it is ; and in the meantime, instead of adopting the American tariff of $6 a ton upon pig iron, wo propose to adopt two-thirds of that tariff by raising the duty from 82 a ton, as it is at present, to $4 in addition to the bounty. And thti; we have applied as a general principle — modified in certain cases according as wo felt it desirable in the interest of the country, a little more or a little less— that two-thirds rate to all the branches of the iron industry throughout the country. We do not propose to increase the tariff on sheet iron, hoop iron, or the lower kinds of round iron, which are left at the old rate at present, because these I do not expect at an early day to be manufactuied in the country. The duty on steel worth 4 cents per lb. and under is placed at 30 per cent, or on an equal footing with the iron duty. On steel worth over 4 cents per lb., we leave the revenue duty of 12J per cent., because we do not expect that high class of steel at an early day to be manufactured in the country; so that miners and others using a high class of steel will not bo affected adversely by the change. On wire rods, wire rope and wire fencing the duty is not proposed to bo increased. The duty on boiler plate and locomotive tubes remains, for obvious reasons, unchanged, as we wish to do all wo can to develop the manufacture of engines in our own country, and to furnish all the aid we can to railways. The highest ad valorem rate, therefore, on them, under the proposed tariff, would bo about 35 por cent. Tho unenumeratod articles, embracing hardware stores, edge tools, cutlery, &o., will come in at 30 per cent. duty. And now, Mr. Speaker, thanking the House very much for the kind indulgence with which they have listened to my very lengthened statement, and my efforts at making these explanations, and regretting that tho con- dition of my voice has not enabled me to do better justice to the subject, I will submit tho resolutions which it is proposed to offer for the consideration of the House. Noxa.— The resolations, as fiaally adopted by the House, will be fouad in the appendix. li APPENDIX. TarifF Resolutions as finally adopted by the House : GOODS SUBJECT TO DUTIES. 1. Advertising pamphlets, not illustrated, one cent each Ic. each» 2. Advertising- pictures, pictorial show- cards, illustrated advertising periodi- cals, illustratt'd jnice lists, advertising calendars, advmti^ing almanacs, and tailors' and miintle-makers' fashion plates, and all chromos, chromotypes, oleographs and other cards, pictures or artistic works of similar kinds produced by any process other than hand paint- ing or drawing, and being for business or advertising purposes or not, printed or stamped on paper, card board or other material, six cents per i)ound and twenty 6c. per lb. per cent, ad vn/orem and 20 p. ct. 3. Barrels containing salted meats, twenty cents each 20c. each. 4. Blacking, shoe, and shomiakers' ink, thirty per cent, ad valorem 30 p. ct. 6. Blueing, hmndry blueing of all kinds, thirty per cent, ail valorem 30 p. ct. 6, Braces or suspenders, thirty-five per cent. ad valorem • '^-^ P- ct. *l. Brass in bars and bolts, drawn, plain and fancy tubing, ten per cent, ad valorem... 10 p. ct. 8. British gum, dressine, sizing cream and enamel sizing, one cent per i)ound Ic. p. lb. 9. Buttons of vegetable ivory or horn, ten cents per gross and twenty-five per 10c. p. gross cent, ad valorem •• and 25 p ct. 10. Bixttons, all other, not elisewhtne speci- fied, twenty-live per cent, ad valorem... 25 p. ct. Carkiaoes : — 11. Buggies of uU kinds, farm waggons, farm, railway or freight carts, pleasure carts or gigs and similar vehicles, costing less |10 each and than fifty dollars, ten dollars each ; 20 p. ct., costing fifty dollars and less than one hundred dollars, fifteen dollars each, and in addition thereto in each case, twenty |15 each per cent, a// va/orem and20p. ct. 5 54 12. All such carriages, costing one hundred dollars each and over, thirty-live per cent, ad valorem 35 p. ct. 13. Cigars and cigarettes, two dollars per pound and twenty-live piT cent, ad va- lorem, the weight of cigarettes to in- $2 per lb. elude the weight of the paper covering and 25 p. ct. 14. Clay tobacco pipes, thirty-five per cent. <«/ z:^^ valorem 35 p. ct. 15. Clothes wringers, one dollar each and $1 and thirty percent, ad valorem 30 p. ct. 16. Cocoa matting, thirty per cent, ad valorem 80 p. ct. 17. Clothing made of cotton or other mate- rial, not otherwise provid(>d for, includ- ing corsets and similar articles made up by the seamstress or tnilor, also tar- paulin plain or coated with oil, paint, tar or other com])<)sition, and cotton bags made up l)y the use of the needle, not otherwise provided for, thirty-live per cent, ad valorem 35 p. ct. 18. Collars of cotton or linen, twenty-foitr cents ]>er dozen, and thirty i)er cent 24c. p. doz, ad valorem and 30 p. ct. 19. Colored fabrics, woven, of dyed or colored cotton yarn, or ]n»rt jute and part cotton yarn, or otlier material, ex- cept silk, not elsewhere speciiied, twen- ty-live per. cent, ad valorem 25 p. ct. 20. Combs, for dress and toiU't, of all kinds, thirty per cent, ad valorem 30 p. ct. Cottons : — 21. Bed comforters or cotton bed quilts, not including woven quilts or counterpanes, thirty-live per cent, ad valorem 35 p. ct. 22. Cotton sewing thread on spools, twenty- five per cent, ad valorem 25 p. ct. 23. Jeans and coiatilles, when imported by corset-makers for use in their luctory, twenty-live per cent, ad valorem 25 p. ct. 24. Printed or dy<'d cotton fabrics, not else- where speciiied, thirty-two and a-half per cent ad valorem 32J p. ct. 25. Cuffs of cotton or linen, four cents per 4c, per pr. pair and thirty per cent, ad valorem. and 30 p. ct, 2G. Drain jjiix's and sewer pipes, gla/ed, thirty-five per cent, ad valorem 35 p. ct. 27. Eartheiiware and stoneware, namely, demijohns or juus, churns and crocks, three cents per liallon of holding capa- city 3c. p. gall. 65 28. Earthenware aud stouewaiv, brown or colored, Koekingham ware, white, gran- ite or iron istoueware, C. C. or crtnim colored ware, decorated, printed or sponged, and all earthenw^are ]iot else- where speciiied, tliirty-iive per cent. ad valorem 35 p. ct. 29. Flag stones, sawn or otherwise dressed, two dollars per ton |2 per ton. 80. Flasks and phials of eight oniic-es capa- city and over, telegraph and lia-htning rod insulators, jars and glass bails, and cut, pressed or monlded tablewar(>, live cents per dozen pieces, and thirty per 5c. p. dozen cent, (id valorem and 30 p. ct. 31. Gas meters, thirty per cent, ad valorem.... 30 p. ct. 82. Glass carboys and demijohns, bottles and decanters, liasks and ]>hials of less capacity than eiglit ounces, thirty per tent, ad valorem 30 p.'ct. 33. Glue, sheet, broken sheet and ground, three cents per pound 3c. per lb, 34. Gold and silver leaf, thirty pi-r cent, ad valorem 30 p. ct. 35. Gooseberry bushes, two cents each ' 2c. each. 36. Grape vines, costing ten cents and less, three ci'nts each 3c. each. 3*7. Harness and leather dressing, twenty- live percent, ad valorem 25 p. ct. 38. Harness and saddlery, of evrry descrip- tion, thirty-live per cent. (I'l valorem 35 p. ct. Iron and Steel, MANrKACTUitKs uf, viz.: — 39. Wrought scrap iron and scrap steel, being- waste or refuse wrought iron or steel that has been in actual use and is Ht only to be re-manufactured, two dollars per ton $2 per^ton, 40. Ferro-manganese, ferro-silicon, spiegel, steel bloom ends, and crop ends of steel rails, for the manufacture of sttM-l, two dollars per ton $2 per ton. 41. Iron in pigs iron kentledge and cast .^ scrap iron, four dollars per ton $4 per ton. 42. Iron in slabs, blooms, loops, puddled bars, or other forms less linished than iron in bars, and more advanced than pig iron, except castings, nine dollars \)er ton $9 jier ton. 43. Bar iron, rolled or hammered, compris- ing Hats, rounds and squares, and bars and shapes of rolled iron, not elsewhere specihed, thirteen dollars per ton §13 per ton. 56 44 lion and steel wire, galvanized or not, fifteen gauge and coarser, not elsewhere specified, twenty-five per cent, ad valorem 25 p. ct. 46. Wire of spring steel, coppered or tinned, number nine gauge or smaller, not else- where spei'ified, twenty per «;ent. ad valorem 20 p. ct. 4(), Boiler or other plate iron, sheared or unsheared, skclp iron, sheared or rolled in grooves, and sheet iron, common or black, not thinner than number twenty gauge, not elsewhere specilied, includ- ing nail plate of iron or steel, sixteen gauge and thicker, thirteen dollars per ton 1 13 per ton. 47. Sheet iron, common or ])lack, smoothed or polish(f(l, and coated or galvanized, thinner than number twenty gauge, • Canada ])lates, and plate of iron or steel not less than thirty inches wide and not less than one-fourth of an inch in thick- ness, twelve and a-hiilf per cent. ad. rdliirem 12i|f p. ct. 48. Hoop or l)and or scroll or other iron, eight inches or less in width, and not thinner than number twenty gauge, thirteen dolhirs per ton $13 per ton. 40. Hoo]i or band or scroll or other iron, eight inches or less in width and thin- ner than number twenty gauge, twelve and a-half per cent, ad vitlorem 12J p. ct. 50. Railway fish plates, twelve dollars per ton $12 per ton. 61. Kolled iron or steel angles, channels, structural shapes and special sections, weighing less than twenty-live pounds per lineal yard, not elsewhere specified, half a cent per pound and ten per cent. \ c. p. lb. and ad valorem 10 p. ct. 52. liolled iron or steel beams, girders, joists, angles, channels, structural shapes, and spticial sections, weighing not less than twenty-live pounds per lineal yard, twelve and cme-half per cent, ad valorem. 12 J p. ct. 53, Kolled iron or steel beams, girders, joists, angles, channels, eyebar blanks made by the Kloman process, together with all other stru(!tural shapes of rolled iron or ste(»l, including rolled iron or steel bridge plate not less than three-eighths of an inch thid for, valued at four cents or less pi'r poiind, thirty per cent, ad valorem, but not less 30 p. c. but than twelve dollars i)er ton, except in- not less than gots, cogged ingots, blooms ami slabs 1^12 per ton. upon which th«' specilic duty shall be not less than eight dollars a ton $8 per ton. 57. "When of greater value than four cents per pound, twelve and a-hall' ])ev cent. ad valorem 12J p. ct. 58. Plate of iron and steel combined, and steel not specially enumerated or pro- vided for, thirty per icnt. ad valorem 30 p. ct. 69. Provided that on all iron or steel bars, rods, strips or steel sheets, of whatever shape, and on all iron or steel bars ol'ir- regiilar shape or sec^tion, cold rolled, cold hammered or polished in any way in addition to the ordinary process of hot rolling or hammering, there shall be paid one-sixth of one cent per poiind in addition to th»' rates imposed on the ^c. per lb, said materials additional. 60. Provided further, that all metal pro- duced from iron or its ores, which is cast and malleable, of whatever descrip- tion or form, without regard to the per- centage of carbon contained therein, whether produced by cementation, or converted, cast or made from iron or its ores by the crucible, Bessemer, pnevima- tic, Thomas Ciilchrist, basic, Siemens- Martin or open hearth process, or by H 58 the t'quiviilt'iil ol'cithor, or by the com- hiuatiou ol'two or more oi'tln' pvort'sst>s or their cqixivali'iitN, or by any rusiouor other process whieh produces IVom iron or its ores a metal either aruiiuloUH or librous ill structure, which is cast and uialleal)le, »>xcept what is known as manoabh* iron eastings, sii ill be classed and denominated as steel. 61. Provided further, that all articles laled as iron or manui'acture of iron, shall be chargeable Avith the same rate of duty if made of steel, or of sleel and iron combinc^d, unless otherwise speci- ally provided for. 62. Malleable iron castings, and steel cast- ings not elsewhere six'cilied, tweuty- llve dollars per ton. provided the dtity i$!25 per ton shall not be less than thirty per cent, but not less ad valorem thau 30 p. ct. 63. Cast iron vessels, plates, stove plates and irons, sad irons, halters' irons, tailors' irons and castings of iron not I'lse where speeilied, sixteen dollars per ton, jiro- sJilG per ton vided the duty shall be not less than ])ut not less thirty per eent. ai/ valorvm- thau 30 p. ct, 64. Cast iron pipe of every descri]>tion, twelve dollars per ton. provided that |12 per ton the duty shall not be less than thirty- but not less live per cent, ad valorem than 35 p. ct. 65. Axles and springs of iron or steel, parts thereof, axle bars, axle blanks or forg- ings for carriaues other than railway and tramway vehicles, without refer- ence to the stage of manufacture, one cent per pound and thirty per cent, ad Ic. p. lb. and valorem 30 p. ct. 66. Iron or steel car axles, ])arts thereof, axle bars, axle blanks or fornin'is for axles, and car springs of all kinds, and all other sprint's not elsewhere si)ecilii'd, without reference to the staiie of manu- $30 p. ton, facture, thirty dollars per ton, but not but not less less than thirty-live per cent, ad valorem, than 35 p. ct. 6t. Fire engines, thirty- live per cent, ad valorem 35 p. ct. 68. Locomotives and other steam engines, boilers and machinery composed wholly or in part of iron or steel, not elsewhere specified, thirty per cent, ad valorem ; 30 p. ct. provided that any locomotive w^hich with its tender weighs thirty tons or 69 over, shall piiy a duly of not loss than two thousand dollars'. |i2,000 each. ^9. Portablo machinos, p()rtiil)li' stciun en- gines, thivshors and st'panitors, htn-si* powers, portable saw mills and i)liininaf mills, and parts thereof in any Htaye of manufacture, thirty-live per cent, ad valorem 85 p. ct. to. Boiler tubes of wrought iron or steel, fifteen per cent, ad valorem 16 p. ct, •71. Tubes not welded, nor more thon one nnd one-half inch in di!nnet(>r, of rolh'd steel, fifteen per cent, ad valori-m 15 p. ct. 72. Lap-welded iron tubing, threaded and coupled or not, one and one (juarter inch in diameter and over, but not over two in(dies, lor use exchisivcly in artes- ian wells, petroleum pijie lines jind for petroleum rclineries, tvvenly per cent. ad va/ornn 20 p. ct. 73. Wrought iron tubing, threaded and coupled or not, over two inches in diameter, lifteen per cent, ad valorem 15 p. ct. 74. Other wrought iron tubes or pii)es. six- tenths of one cent jx-r pound and thirty to^. p. lb. percent, ad valorciii andSO p. ct. 75. Safes, doors for safes and vaults, scales, balances and weighing beams of iron or steel, thirty-live per cent, ad valorem 35 p. ct. 76. Skates, twenty cents per i>air and thirty 20c. p. pair per cent, ad valorem and 30 p. ct. 77. Wire rope of iron or steel, not otherwise ]>rovided for, twenty-live per cent, ad valorem 25 p. ct. 78. Screws, commonly called " wood screws," two inches or over in length, six cents per lb. ; one inch and less than two 6c. p. lb. inches, eight cents per lb ; less thiin one 8c. p. lb. inch, eleven cents jier lb lie. p. lb. 79. Hardware, viz. : — liuilders', cabinet milk- ers' and carriage hardware and locks, tinsmiths' tools and harness makers' and saddlers' hardware, including crirry- combs, thirty-live per cent, ad valorem.. 35 p. ct. 80. Muskets, rilles and other lirearras, and surgical instruments, twenty pi^r cent. ad valorem 20 p. ct. 81. Iron or sU^d rivets, bolts with or wdthout threads, or nut or bolt blanks, less than three-eighths of an inch in diameter, one and one-half cent per lb, and thirty IJc. p. lb. ]^ev cent, ad valorem and 30 p. ct. 1 1 60 82. Nails and spikos, wioujiht and prossi-d, galvaniz«>d or not, horso shoe nails, hob nails and wire nails, and all other wrought iron or steel nails, not else- where specilied, and horse, miale, or ox shoes, one and a-hnlf cent jx'r lb., but IJc. p. lb. not less than thirty-live per eent. ad but not le8§ valorem than 86 p. ct. 88. Cut taeks, brads or spriiis. not exeeedinur sixteen ounces to the thousand, two cents per thousand 2c. p. 1000. 84. KxrcM'dinii' six>'«'n ounces to the thousand, two cents jier uounil 2(V p. lb. 85. "Wrouiilit iron or steel inits jind washers, iron or sl<'el rivets, bolts with or with- out threads or nuts and bolt l)lanks, and iinished hinues or hinii'e blanks, not elsewhere specilied, one cent ]»er lb and Ic. p. lb. twenty-live per cent, til/ rd/ornii and 26 p. ct. 86. Cut Uiiils iind si)ike.s of iron or steel, one cent per pound Ic p. lb. 87. Swedish rolled iro)i nail rods, under a half inch in diameter, lor uiauuracture ol' horse shoe nails, twenty i)er cent, ad vnlurtm 20 p. ct. 88 Iron or steel railway l)ars and rails tor railw.iys and tramways, ol" any lorm, pixnched or not punched, not elsewhere specified, MX dollars per (on |6 p. ton. 89. Manutiuturi s, arii. leb or wares not spe- cially enumerated or i>rovi(led lor, com- pos cd wholly or in yvirt ot'iiou or steel. and wlieth( r niriiy or wholly niamd:i<- turcd, thirty per cent, nd valorem 30 p. ct, 90. Labels lor IVuu, vegetiiMes, meat, lish, conleetionery and other yoods, also tickets, posters, advertising bills, and folders, iift(H'U cents ])er pound and 15c. p. lb and twenty-live per cent, ad valorem 25 p. ct. 91. Leather, sole, a half cent per pound and Jo. p. lb. fifteen per c»'nt. od valorem and 15 p. ct. 92. Leather, belting leather, and all upper leather, including kid, lamb, sheep, and calf, tanned or dressed, but not color*. (i, waxed, or glazed, fifteen per cent, ad valorem 15 p. ct. 93. Leather, japanned, patent or enamelled, twenty-live per cent, ad valorem 25 p. ot. 94. Linseed or flaxseed oil, raw or boiled, thirty per cent, ud valorem 30 p. ct. 01 95, Liquorice root, paste extract of, two cents per pound 2c. p. lb. 96. Maccaroni and vermicelli, two cents per pound 2c, p. lb. 9*7. Marble in blocks from the ouarry, in the rough or sawn on two siaes only, and not specially shapen, containing. 15 cu- bic foet or over, ten per cent. «rovided I'er, live cents per square yard, and lilt ecu per cent, ad 5c p. sq. yd. valorem and 15 p. ct. 106. Opium (druii) one dollar per pound $1 p. lb. 107. Oranges and h'mon.s, in boxes ol'cai)a<'ity not exceeding two and one-half cubic feet, twenty-five cents per box ; in one- 25c. p. box. halfbox.es, capacity not exceeding one and one-fourth cubic feet, thirteen cents 13c. p. half pt'r half box ; in cases and all other box. packages, ten cents per cubi(j foot hold- ing capacity; in bulk, one dollar and 10c, p. c. f. sixty cents per one thousand oranges or lemons; in barrels not exceeding in |1.60p. 1000 capacity that of the one hundred and ninety-six pounds Hour barrel, fifty-live cents per barrel 55c. p. brl. 108. Paper hangings, or wall paper, in rolls, on each roll of eight yards or under, and BO in proportion for all greater lengths of the following descriptions, \va. : — a. Brown blanks, two cents 2c. i 02 b. "Whito papers, frroundod ptipers, and satins, three cents 3c. c. Siug'le print })ronzes, seven cents To. d. Colortjd bronzes, nine cents 9c. e. Embossed bronzes, eleven cente lie. /. Colored borders, naiTow, eight cents. 8c. g". Colored borders, wide, ten cents 10c. h. Bronze borders, narrow, fifteen cents... 15c. i. Bronze borders, wide, eighteen cents... 18c. J. Embossed borders, twenty cents 20c. 109. Paper of all kinds not elsewhere specified, twenty-five per cent, orf valorem 25 p. ct. 110. Manufactures of paper, including ruled and bordercnl papers, papeteries, boxed papers, envelopes, and blank books, thirty-five per cent, oif valorem 35 p. ct. 111. Paper, tarred, one-half c(>nt per pound.... Jc. p. lb. 112. Peach trees, four cents each 4c, each. 113. Photographic dry plates, iifteen cents per square foot 15c. p. sq. ft. 114. Pianofortes, sqiiare, whether round corner- ed or not, not over seven octaves, twenty- five dollars each ; all other square piano- $25, fortes, thirty dollars eaih ; upright piano- $80, fortes, thirty dollars each ; con* ert. semi- $30. concert or parlor grand pianofortes, fifty $50 dollars each, — and in addition thereto twenty per cent, ad valorem and 20 p. ct. 115. Pickles in bottle, a specific duty of forty cents per gallon ; s'xteen half-]>int. eight pint, or four quart bottles to be lield to contain a gallon: In jars, ])ottles, or other vessels, the qiiantity to be ascer- tained and the saiiic^ rate of duty to be charged thereon, the duty to include the bottle or other package 40c. p. gal. 116. Pickles In bulk, in vin<'gar, or vinegar and mustard, thirty-five cents per gal- 35c. p. gal. Ion, and in brine, twenty-five cents per gallon 25c. p. gal. 117. Plated cutlery, namely, knives plated wholly or in part, costing imder three dollars and fifty cents per dozen, fifty cents per dozen and twenty per cent, ad 50c. p. doz. valorem and 20 p. ct. 18. Plated ware, all other, electro-plated or gilt, of all kinds, whether plated wholly or in part, thirty per cent ad valorem..., 30 p. ct. 119. Plumbago, ten per cent, ad valorem 10 p. ct. 120. Plumbago, all manufactures of, not else- where specified, twenty-five per cent. ad valorem 25 p. ct. ct. 63 121. Potatoes, fii'tcen cents per bushe 15c. p. bush. 122. Printing presses of all kinds, folding- mn- rhines and paper cutters, ten per rent. ad valorew 10 p. ct. 123. Raspberry and blackberry l)ushes, one cent each ••• ^, 1^- ^^^^y 124. Rice, one and a quarter cent per pound... lie. per. ID. 125. Rose bushes, live cents per plant oc. p. plant. 126. Salt, coarse, ten cents per one hundred pounds (not to include salt imported from the United Kingdom or any British possession, or salt imported for the use of the sea or gulf iisheries, 10c. per 100 which shall be free of duty) lbs. 12t. Salt, line, in bulk, ten c-ents per one hun- 10c. per 100 "•VJ i dred pounds •••• 1"^- 128. Salt in bags, barrels or other packages, lil- teen cents per one hundred pounds, the bags, barrels or other packagt>s to bear 15c. per 100 the same duty as if imported empty lbs. 129. Sand paper, glass. Hint and enn-ry paper, thirty per cent, ad valorew rfO p. ct. 130. Sauces and catsups, in bottle, forty cents per ffallon, and twenty per c»Mit. ad valorem; sixteen half-pint. (Mght pint, or four quart bottles to be held to contain -lOc. per gal. a gallon ;• and 20 p. ct. 131. Screws of iron, st(>el. brass or other metal, not otherwise provided for, thirty-live per cent, ad valorem ^^ P- °*- 132. Seedling stock for grafting, vi/. :— riuin, pear, peach and other fruit trees, ten per cent, ad valorem 1^ P- ^^' 133. Sewing machines whole, or heads or parts of heads of sewing machine;^, thre.» dollars each and twenty per cent $3 each and advaUmm ■■•• ^^ 20 p ct. 134 Shirts of cotton or linen, one dDllar per ^^ V^^ ^^z. dozen and thirty per ci'iit. ad valorem... and 30 p. ct. 135 Slates, sehool and writing slat(\s, one eont each and twenty per cent, a^/ Ic. each and , 20 p. ct. valorem • .■;■; ^ 136. Slates, roolinu' slate, black or blue, eighty eent; per square ..••.•■•■• 80c. p. sq. Red, tfni'U, and other colors, one dollar pel- square ■•-■-■ *^ P- «<1- In each (>ase wh»ni split or dressed only. 137. Slates of all kinds, and manufactures of, not els(>wh«'re sjieciiied, one cent per square foot and twenty-five per cent, fl^/ Ic. per sq. tt. miorem and 25 p. ct. 64 138. Sooks and stockiug:s of cotton, wool, worsted, the hair of the alpaca goat or other like animal, ten cents per pound 10c. per lb. and thirty per cent, ad valorem and 30 p. ct. 139. Spectacles and eye glasses, thirty per cent. «(/ valorem 30 p. ct. 140. Spectacles and eye glasses, parts of, unfin- ished, tweuty-iive per cent, ad valorem.. 25 p. ct. 141. Tomatoes, fresh, thirty cents per bushel 30c. p. bush. and ten per cent, ad valorem. and 10 p. ct. Tools and Implements: — 142. Axes of all kinds, adzes, hatcheis and hammers not elsewhere specified, thivty-fiA'e per cent, ad valorem 35 p. ct. 143. Chopping axes, two dollars per dozen $2 per doz. and ten per i'cnt. ad vatortun and 10 p. ct. 144. Garden rakes, two and three-]n'onged forks of all kinds, and hoes. Uvt' cents each and twenty-five per cent, ad 5c. each valorem md 25 p. ct. 145. Hay knives aiul four, five, and six-pronycd forks oi all kinds, two dollars per dozen S2 per doz. and twenty per cent, ad valorem and 20 p ct. 146. Mowing machines, self-binding har- vesters, harvesters withottt binders, binding attachments, reapt'rs, siilky and walking plotighs, and all other agricnltiirai machines and implements, not otherwise provided for, thirty-five per cent, ad valorem 35 p. ct. 147. Picks, mattocks, blacksmiths' hammers, sledges, track tools, wedges, atid crow- bars of iron or steel, one cent per pound Ic. p. lb. and tw^enty-five per cent, ad valorem and 25 p. ct, 148. Shovels and spades, and shovel and spade blanks, one dollar per dozen and |1 per doz. twenty-live per cent, ad valorem and 26 p. ct. 149. Trunks of all kinds, pocket books and purses, thirty per cent, ad valorem 30 p. ct, 150. Valises, satchels, carpet bags, cases for jew^els and watches, and other like arti- cles, of any material, ten cents each and 10c. each thirty per cent, ad valorem and 30 p. ct. 151. Varnishes, lacquers, japans, japan driers, liquid driers, collodion and oil finish, not elsewhere specified, twenty cents per gallon and twenty-five per cent, ad 20o. per gal. valorem and 25 p. ct. 152. Vegetables, not elsewhere specified, in- cluding sweet potatoes, twenty-five per cent, ad oalorem 25 p. ct. 6& 221 p. 9; ct p. ct. 163. Veneers of wood, sawn only, ten per cent. ad valorem 10 p. ct. 164. Watch actioni or movements, ten per cent. ad valorem 10 p. ct. "Woollens : — 165. AU fabrics composed wholly or in part of wool, worsted, the hair of the alpaca goat, or other like animal, not other- wise provided for, on all such goods costing ten cents per yard and under, twenty-two and a-half per cent, ad va- lorem 156. Costing over ten and under fourteen cents, twenty-five per cent, ad valorem.. 157. Costing fourteen cents and over, twen- ty-seven and a-half per cent, ad valorem 2t| p. ct 158. As regards items 155, 156 and 157, the halt-penny sterling shall be computed as the equivalent of a cent, and larger sums in sterling money shall be com- puted at the same ratio. 159. Clothing, ready-made, and wearing ap* parel, of every de.scription, including cloth caps and horse t-lothing, shaped, composed wholly or in part of wool, worsted, the hair of the alpaca goat, or other like animal, made up by the tailor, seamstress or manufactiirer, not otherwise jirovided for, ten cents per pound and twenty-live per cent, ad 10c. p. lb. valorem , and 25 p. ct. FREE GOODS. 2. The duties of Customs, if any, imposed by the Act hereinbefore cited on the articlt^s mentioned in this section are hereby repealed and they may be imported into Canada or taken ait of warehouse for consumption free of duty, that is to say : — 160. Articles imported by and for the use of the Dominion Government or any of the departments thereof, or by and for the Senate or House of Commons, includ- ing the following artith's when imported by the said Goverinncnt or through any of the Departments thereof for the iise of the Canadian militia : — Arms, military clothinff, musical instriTmeuts for bands, military stores and munitions of war. 161. The following articles when imported by and for the use of the Army and Navy: — Arms, military or naval clothinsr, musical instruments for bands, military stores and munitions of war. 66 162. Books, educational, imported exclusively ',by and for the use of schools for the deaf and dumb and blind. 163. Brick, fire, for use exclusivi'ly in processes of manu- factures. 164. Coal, anthracite. 165. Cotton yarns, liner than No. 40, unbleached, bleached or dyed, for use in the manufacture ol" Italian cloths, cotton, worsted or silk fabrics. 166. Grannister. 167. Gums, amber, arabic, Aiistralian, copal, damar, mastic, sandarac, shellac and trafjacanth. 168. Iron or steel rolled roxind wire rods under half an inch in diameter, when imported by wire manufacturers for use in their factories. 169. Locomotive tires of steel in the rough. 170. Quills in their natural state or unplumed. 171. Red\'\'ood planks and boards, sawn, but not further manufactiired. 172. Rolled rods of steel under half an inch in diameter or under half an inch square, when imported by knob or lock manul'al, old and lit only to be re- manxifacturt'd, ])i'ing part of or recovered from any vessel wrecked in waters subject to the jurisdiction of Canada. 176. Steel bowls for cream separators. 177 Steel for the manufacture of liles, when imported by file manufactur(?rs lor use in their factories. 178. Veneers of ivory, sawn only. 179. Wire of iron or steel, galvanized or tinned, number sixteen gauge or smaller. EXPORT DUTIES. 3. Item 816 in st'hedule Eto the Act hereinbefore cited is hereby repealed, and the following substituted therefor : — "816. Shingle bolts of pine or cedar, and cedar logs capable of being made into shingle bolts, one dollar aad fifty cents per cord of one hundred and twenty-eight |1.50 per 128 cubic feet cubic feet." ITEMS IN OLD TAIUFF REPEALED. 4. The items numb(>red 1, 31, 32. 30, 37, 3S, 30, 43, 44, 48, 51, 57, 72. 82, 83. 101, 105, 116, 121, 124, 125, 120, 132, 133, 135, 137, 138, 143, 144, 145, 14ij, 147, 154, 161, 171, 181, 192, 204, 6t 213, 214, 215, 210, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 234, 235, 230, 237, 238, 240, 241, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 250, 251, 252, 254, 255, 275, 278, 282, 290, 291, 292, 293, 310, 317, 318, 319, 32!>, 330, 331, 332, 333, 334, 338, 389, 344, 340, 352, 354, 350, 305, 300, 308, 309, 871, 380, 381, 383, 403, 404, 400, 409, 439, 447, ^.>3, 455, 456, 458, 462, 474, 475, 532, 533, 549, 551, 599, 039, 002, 607, 093, 694, 767, 110, 797, 805 and 800 in scheduk's A and C to the said Act attached are hereby repealed. ^VHEN CHANCiES COME INTO FORCE. 5. The foregoing provisions of this Act shall be held to have come into force on the thirteenth day of May iu the present year one thousand eight hxindred and eighty-seven, and to apply and to have applied to all goods imported or taken out of warehouse for consumption on or after the said day. 4 PURCHASES BEFORE ISlII AIAY, 1887. O. All goods actually piirchased on or before the said thirteenth day of May at any place out of Canada, for importation into Canada, on evidence to the satisfaction of the Minister of ("ustoms of the purchase having been so made, and all goods in warehouse iu Canada on such day, may be entered for duly at the rate of duty in force imme- diately before the said day ; but the provisions of this section shall cease to have force and effect on the first day of July in the present year, excepting that goods from the United Kingdom or any British possession, carried by way of Cape Horn, may be tMitered in British Columbia under the provisions aforesaid, until the first day of November iu the present year. Deposits Ijy^thePEOPLEmtheGRARTERED Banks ofGanaoa, ^ Jime30^^ 18- ■ r; c<-- --T5 r 68 Hi) 10 I «^ ■r> t> "V; — \f ' '\ , I > r?" 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Arnount at Tisk Dec. 31^.^ W69 ^^ I i 8 s ^ ^ s ?s ^ ^ :^ i § i :^ I §§ §• ^ :^ i§ I ^" I -^ ^ i^' ^ >.^ ^ ^ ^ S *< BUSINES S EOLURES IN GaNABA. r Year 18- CO 23 S ^ ^ {^ S ^ ^ ^ ^. ^ r< ?^ ^ 23i '^ ^ ^ ?2 ^ 25 S^ '=^ K 'j^ oo Oi rC c»:i / %- 1 / Imports op Iron & STEEL.&MAi\uiiACTi'RESTHERi.30F intotKeDomiriioji for Tloivie C cm sumption £or years /S - W W\70 % '7f '72 'X3 yfff^f^ '7A pM, '7J^'76 '77 '7S '7^ '80 COMPILED FROM J.H.BARTLETT'S STATISTICS OF THE COAL & IRON trades; Or THE DOMINION. 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'S'/j\^6 "S "S N >;>nVV>s'n:nS>>;cV % BAI.ANCE or TraDK AQAllVST C^V>r^r)A aricbVvoportwiv thereof diie to Imports of Iron, Steel & Manufactures Ibr yeaTS ending .Jiuie30^f^i8- ^" ^^ ^ ^ ?$ §^' ^ ^' ^ ^ ^' §■ '- ^' ^ ^ s ^^ ^ Balajwe of TixccUin Dapk. ShmUruj. CVS I 04 d ITS CO ^# r Duties Pald p:e:r Capita. xtpcniBu:poTts of rTOTi& Steel intjo C(mjadch(mdmto th&lTrutedStates for ^w yearn ending JiawW^^IS- '68 '69 '70 '7f 72 '73 7/t '7$ 76 '77 '7^ I '79 '80 COMPILED FROM J.H.B.»flTLETT'SSTATiSTICS OFTHE COAL & IRON TRADES OF THE DOMINION. 'SI '82 'S3 '8Jt '83 '86 :§ ^ 1 § ^^- S ^- ^- ^ % ^ ^ vl: ^ ^ § ^ ^ 1^ II I '^' ^ ^« ^ ^ ^ ^ ^; ^" §i §5 s ^^ ^- ^ s S If ■'^ ^ ^ ^' ^ N $i Jo" <^ N CK *S *^ ■'ri '-ci >s !^ ?<> ^ ^ c^ , Butu^s Paid per Gaptta up U J> in Dark SlwuUng. i : I I u