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The Mail claims that eight liberals will support the remedial bill. La Minerver (Conservative) says: ‘The government by its law restores not a quarter nor a third, nor a half of the privileges en joyed by the minority before 1590; it restores them in their integrity. It fulfils proudly and nobly the duty of all human authority and of all civil power.” An explosion of 20 tons of dynamite at Vredersdorf, near Johannesberg, South Africa, killed 120 people and injured 400 others. The Transvaal government has granted £ 25,000, the Netherlands railway company £ 10,000, and the dynamite com pany £ 5,000 for the relief of the victims. The railway company was in charge of the dynamite when it exploded, and had not looked after it properly. The Toronto Works’s Ottawa despatch of Feb, 27th, says: ‘It is certain now that thirty conservatives will vote against the remedial bill.” Also: The remedial bill will never be carried this session, nor will any general supply bill get through. The talk is that Bowell will retire from the premiership within four weeks. There is also a rumor that ‘Tupper may shortly re sume the high commissionership. A Free Press Ottawa despatch of Feb 29th says: “Dr. Weldon and Mr. Lariviere met this morning and selected each six men to form a committee to crystalize the suggest ions made in caucus yesterday and submit the result to the government with a view of seeing if the remedial bill cannot be modified sufficiently to allow all factions of the party to give their adhesion to the pro posed measure.” This seems to indicate that the government is getting into a corner on this question. Winnipeg Tribune: Considerable kicking has been indulged in by delegates to the immigration convention from provincial and territorial points. They say they came prepared to speak and to suggest practical lines of work, and when they got here found the programme cut and dried, and no room for men to speak who were well qualified by ability and long residence in the country. It is also claimed that the convention was used to boom Sir Charles Tupper for premier. It is claimed the whole business will fall to pieces in six months. The Mail Empire Ottawa correspondent wires on Feb. 27th, regarding the remedial bill: ‘* Liberals are most anxious to inspire the idea that there will be a great conser vative slump on the bill. Admittedly a large one is threatened, but up to the present time there is no authority to assume that it is of sufficient dimensions to endan ger the government. It may come perilously near defeat, but if the judgment of the most cool-headed men in the Conservative party counts for anything, the danger point can be successfully passed without relying on desertions from the opposition. If the govern ment meet with a reverse on the school question they would not surrender to the opposition, but would claim the privilege of consulting the people so that the matter would be transferred from the high inquest of the nation to the people themselves. Much depends upon the debate, which will be remarkable in one respect in that speech es will be made for the purpose of convinc ing the house, as on both sides there are many who are undecided. Doubtless appeals will be made to them from both sides of the question, just as at the present moment personal pressure is being brought to bear upon the doubtful.” Foster, in the house on Feb. 21st, moved that the remedial bill be taken up and the debate on it be made con tinuous from Tuesday, March 3rd, until it was disposed of. This was agreed to by Laurier, who suggested that Monday alone be reserved for private members. Joster agreed to the latter suggestion. 4. Montreal despatch to the Free Press says: It is reported in political circles that the Catholic bishops are about to issue a collective letter calling upon all senators and members of parliament to vote for the remedial bill as a matter of conscience. Such a step will be in line with the letters of Arch bishop Fabre, Bishop Moreau and Bis hop Labrecque at different times, and also that which Abbe Paquet, with the Archbishop of Quebec’s approval, wrote a few days ago to L’Electeur.
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Edmonton Bulletin
Edmonton, Alberta, CA
Thu, Mar 05, 1896
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