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Date: 1905-07-20
By: Canada (Parliament)
Citation: Canada, Senate Debates, 10th Parl, 1st Sess, 1905 at 935-937.
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SENATE

Ottawa, Thursday, July 20, 1905.

The SPEAKER took the Chair at Two o’clock

Prayers and routine proceedings.

THE PROROGATION

The Senate was adjourned during pleasure.

After some time the Senate was resumed.

His Excellency the Right Honourable Sir Albert Henry George, Earl Gray, Viscount of Howick, Baron Grey of Howick, in file County of Northumberland, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, and a Baronet ; Knight Grand -Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, &c., &c., Governor General of Canada, being seated on the Throne,

The Honourable the Speaker commanded the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod to proceed to the House of Commons and acquaint that House that,-‘ It is His Excellency’s pleasure that they attend him immediately in the Senate.’

Who being come, -with their Speaker,

The Clerk of the Crown in Chancery read the Titles of the Bills to be passed, as follows:-

An Act respecting a patent, No. 69772, of the Underwood Typewriter Company.

An Act respecting the Huron and Erie Loan and Savings Company.

An Act respecting certain patents of the Underwood Typewriter Company.

An Act to Amend the Act respecting the incorporation of live stock record associations.

An Act respecting the Farmers’ Bank of Canada.

An Act respecting the Ontario, Hudson’s Bay and Western Railway Company.

An Act respecting the Interprovincial and James Bay Railway Company.

An Act respecting the Great Northern Railway of Canada.

An Act respecting the Vancouver and Coast-Kootenay Railway Company

An Act respecting the Kalso and Lardo-Duncan Railway Company.

An Act to incorporate the Fessenden Wireless Telegraph Company of Canada.

An Act respecting the Ottawa Electric Company.

An Act respecting the Ottawa and New York Railway Company.

An Act respecting the Northwest Coal and Coke Railway Company, and to change its name to ‘The Great West Railway Company.’

An Act to amend the Act respecting the Royal Military College.

An Act for the relief of Philip Vibert.

An Act for the relief of George Pearson.

An Act respecting the inspection and sale of seeds.

An Act to incorporate the Northwest Telephone and Telegraph Company.

An Act to incorporate La Compagnie du chemin de fer électrique de Trois-Rivières, St. Maurice, Maskinongé et Champlain.

An Act to incorporate the Title and Trust Company.

An Act respecting the Dominion Atlantic Railway Company.

An Act respecting the Manitoulin and North Shore Railway Company.

An Act respecting the Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway Company.

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An Act respecting the Port and Pilotage District of Quebec.

An Act respecting certain patents of the Ideal Manufacturing Company.

An Act respecting Gillies Brothers, Limited.

An Act to amend the Government Railways Act.

An Act to incorporate the Monarch Bank of Canada.

An Act to incorporate the Sterling Bank of Canada.

An Act to amend the Act of 1899 respecting the city of Ottawa.

An Act to amend the Acts respecting Naturalization and Aliens.

An Act respecting the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company.

An Act respecting the James Bay Railway Company.

An Act to amend the Act respecting the Canadian Yukon Western Railway Company.

An Act to amend the Census and Statistics Act.

An Act respecting certain patents of David Thomas Owen.

An Act respecting a certain patent of the Metal Volatilization Company.

An Act respecting the Canada Central Railway Company.

An Act respecting the Brandon, Saskatchewan and Hudson’s Bay Railway Company.

An Act for the relief of Isaac Pitblado.

An Act to amend an Act respecting certain patents of William A. Damen.

An Act respecting the Canadian Northern Railway Company.

An Act to incorporate the Edmonton Boom Company.

An Act to incorporate the Provident Financial Association, Limited.

An Act to amend the Bank Act. An Act to amend the Dominion Controverted Elections Act.

An Act to amend the Northwest Irrigation Act, 1898. An Act to amend the Seamen’s Act.

An Act to amend the North-west Territories Representation Act.

An Act to provide for the Regulation of Wireless Telegraphy in Canada.

An Act to amend the Revised Statute respecting the salaries of certain public functionaries and other annual charges on the consolidated revenue.

An Act respecting the Pacific Bank of Canada.

An Act respecting the St. Maurice Valley Railway Company.

An Act respecting the Vancouver, Victoria and Eastern Railway and Navigation Company.

An Act respecting L’Union Saint Joseph de la cité d’Ottawa, and to change its name to L’Union Saint Joseph du Canada.

An Act respecting the Joliette and Lake Manuan Colonization Railway Company.

An Act to amend the Grain Inspection Act as regards the selection of commercial grades and samples.

An Act to amend the Inland Revenue Act.

An Act to amend the Land Titles Act, 1894.

An Act to amend the Franchise Act, 1898.

An Act to incorporate the International Bridge and Terminal Company.

An Act for the relief of Agnes Hedevig Helga Salusbury Trelawney.

An Act respecting the salary of the First Minister.

An Act to establish and provide for the government of the Province of Alberta.

An Act to establish and provide for the government of the Province of Saskatchewan.

An Act respecting the powers of the Harbour Commissioners of Montreal.

An Act to amend an Act respecting an Arbitration between His Majesty and the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada.

An Act to amend the Act respecting the Northwest Territories.

An Act to amend the Militia Act.

An Act respecting Roads and Road allowances in the provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta.

An Act respecting the Inspection of Water Meters.

An Act respecting the Superintendent of Insurance and the Director General of Public Health.

An Act respecting False Representations to Induce or Deter Immigration.

An Act in amendment of the Criminal Code, 1892.

An Act to amend the Criminal Code, 1892, with respect to appeals from certain summary convictions.

An Act respecting the Senate and House of Commons.

An Act to amend the Supreme and Exchequer Courts Act.

An Act to amend the Customs Tariff, 1197.

An Act to amend the Act respecting the Judges of Provincial Courts.

An Act respecting Annuities for certain Privy Councillors.

An Act respecting the South Shore Railway Company and the Quebec Southern Railway Company.

An Act respecting the Ontario and Minnesota Power Company, Limited.

To these Bills the Royal Assent was pronounced by the Clerk of the Senate in the following words:-

‘In His Majesty’s name, His Excellency the Governor General doth assent to these Bills.’

Then the Honourable the Speaker of the House of Commons addressed His Excellency the Governor General, as follows:

 May it please Your Excellency :

‘The Commons of Canada have voted the supplies required to enable the government to defray the expenses of the public service.

‘ In the name of the Commons, I present to Your Excellency the following Bill :-

‘” An Act for granting to His Majesty certain sums of money for the public service of the financial years ending the 30th June, 1905, and 30th June, 1906.”‘

Then, after the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery had read the Title of the Bill,

The Clerk of the Senate, by His Excellency’s command, did thereupon say :-

‘In His Majesty’s name, His Excellency the Governor General thanks His Loyal Subjects, accepts their benevolence, and assents to this Bill.’

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After which His Excellency the Governor General was pleased to close the First Session of the Tenth Parliament of the Dominion with the following Speech :-

Honourable Gentlemen of the Senate :

Gentlemen of the House of Commons :

In relieving you from this laborious and long protracted session, I desire to express my hearty congratulations on the passage of the two important measures providing for the entry into the confederacy of the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.

The unparalleled increase in the population during the last three years, of the areas the new provinces embrace, affords the strongest evidence that at no distant date they will be the homes of many millions of prosperous and contented people.

The fair prospect of an unusually abundant harvest, not alone in the three prairie provinces, but also in other parts of this wide Dominion will, I trust, under a kind Providence, be fully realized, justifying the hope that the stream of immigration now flowing into the Dominion will continue for many years to come, adding wealth to this highly favoured land.

The addition to the number of the permanent force which you have authorized will enable my government to relieve the taxpayers of the United Kingdom from the burden of keeping up the garrisons at Esquimalt and at Halifax.

It is very gratifying to note that the revenue of the Dominion continues to maintain the high level it had reached two years ago, thus enabling my government to meet the increased expenditure chargeable against consolidated revenue, leaving a surplus to apply on capital account.

The numerous private Bills for industrial objects to which I have assented point to the existence of many new enterprises.

Gentlemen of the House of Commons :

I thank you, in His Majesty’s name, for the supplies you have so liberally voted.

Honourable Gentlemen of the Senate :

Gentlemen of the House of Commons :

In returning to your several homes, allow me to express the hope that you will find abundant evidence of the growing prosperity, and that before we meet again at another session some progress may have been made In the work of constructing the National Transcontinental Railway so soon to become a necessity for the transportation of ‘the annually increasing products of the West.

The Speaker of the Senate then said :

Honourable Gentlemen of the Senate :

Gentlemen of the House of Commons :

It is His Excellency the Governor General’s will and pleasure, that this Parliament be prorogued until Tuesday the twenty-ninth day of August next, to be here holden, and this Parliament is accordingly prorogued until the twenty-ninth day of August next.