The daily witness, 29 mars 1897, lundi 29 mars 1897

[" SRR] .te \u2018al (ps art Colon?£ 59% 16, Teal Eon QW * Twe Pages.TEREST TR ENCRES SR EAN RE Br t Last Edition.\u201cVor.XXXVIII., No.74.MONTREAL, MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1897.PriCE ONE CENT.THE PAPAL ABLEGATE.le Will Leave New York For Mlontreal To-Night.F PROGRAMME FOR ACTION STILL UNDEVELOPED.sinebee, March 20.\u2014 10.icially learn- ei that the papal delerate, who arrived New York, will strrieht here from New York, arriving He wil! c clustastical aulhorities SU tender a reception, Anti Aep Langevin arrived here last :ipht to awalt the coming of the papal vie terday an come to-morrow uiternnen at two.Lo muet hu the séogute.He :s necompanied by Fathers Ii ante and Leaue and is staying at tue Archbishop's Palace.A STRANGE RUMOR.A mest extraordinary rumor has been roiatirg here since vesterday morn- :2 regarding Archiishop Begin, but it + together «6 wild and improbable that ov scarcely posable to attach any cre- su vnateter foot.Yet 1t seems io ts ju every one\u2019s mouth, lt is to the Lu che Mure Heuin has been discip- a toe Pope.wha has ordered him : \u201cre ir 0 Une to à Inonastery in Le oo Franc.Or course, no confirma- ni ties con Le ovtained from any STIVE ROUTES.THE ABLEGATE S MISSION.\u201caw York, March 20 \u2014Mgr.Merry del \u201c \u2026 the abiegate to Canada, recently c+ oanied by the Pope, was seen by a Tuorter tUlus morning.He said:\u2014 I = a +, + pion ena or SRGRIORIRE CE i ; RACINE ER prime oA era wait SACQUE SUITS, LE eme pe dit JTE THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS.4 Weekly Calendar Weekly Calendar Monpay, Marc 20.JOURNEY THROUGH THE BARREN LANDS.a LECTURE =~ With Lime Light Views, \u2014BY- J.BURR TYRRELL, M.A, B.8¢, F.G.S., UNDER THE AUSPICES OF \u201cTHE KING'S DAUGHTERS,\u201d SYNOD HALL, University Street, MONDAY, March 29, at 8 o'clock p.m.ADMISSION, 25 Cents: 94 MADAME Teresa Carreno, The World Renowned Pianist.CRAND RECITAL Yrindsor Hall, MONDAY EVENING, March 2th, at 8.13.Reserved Seats, 50 cts., 75 cts.and 81.00.Plan opens at Shaw's Music Store, St.Catherine street, apd Willis & Co.'s, Notre Dame street, Monday, March 22.at 3 o'ciock.N ONTREAL AN PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.FESTIVAL CONCERTS.Tickets can be obtained by subscription on and after THURSDAY, 25th March, at 9 a.m., at Nordh-imer's, 213 St.James st.Subscriptions can be pald in advance to the Treasurer.or at Nordhelmer's, when gelecting seats.Sale of Seats to General Public will commence on WEDNESDAY, 31st March at 9 a.m.A.BROWNING, Sec.-Treas, 1724 Notre Dame street.Tuespay, Marcy 30, ((ONFEREACE OF CHRISTIAN WORKERS, Christian workers are cordially invited to attend a series of meetings, to be held in the Evangelistic Hall, 2424 St.Catherine street, on TUESDAY AFTERNOONS, at 3.30 o'clock.The following subjects will be taken up: \u2014 March 30\u2014'To Every Maa His Work.\u2019 April 6\u2014'Inasmuch as ye did it not.\u2019 The meetings are open to all.Iss OR PRINCE OF WALES REGIMENT.The Regiment will parade a ot the Armory at 8 p.m., on R TUESDAY, the 30th, and every subsequent Tuesday, until further orders.Uniform\u2014Drill order.By order, W.L.BOXD, Captain, Adjutant.ARN COURT UNITY TRIN ne No.7043, D ANCIENT ORDER of FOZESTERS.The members of tha #19 above Court are requested y to attend the funeral of the late wife of Brother J.Plamondon.from h's residence, 230i Panet street, \u2018 on TUESDAY, 30th inst., x at TP am.à Members of sister courts ¥ invited.No regalia.JNO.McDOWALI, Secy.ALL MEMBERS of this Order are respect'ully requested tn attend the fun- oral nf our late Bro.Alexan- Jer Robertson, of Court Tay, Perth, Ont.from his late re- J dence.691 Dorchester atreet, TO-MORROW (Tuesday), at 2 p.m.M.MARKUS, D.D,H,C.R.WM.RENSHAW, P.D.D.H.C.R.MONTREAL =~.DISTRICT, I.O, O.F., M.T.® Drathren of Lodges in this District are requested to at 7 Rad» tend the funeral of the wife of Bro.Jos.Plamondon of Loyal Montreal Lodge, to take place TO-MORROW (TUESDAY) MORNING, at 7.30 sharp, from her late residence.2801 Panet street.By order, G.W.HARDISTY, Prov.C.8.WEDNESDAY, Marcu 31.Y M.C.A.HALL, Dominican Square.BY REQUEST the Entertainment of LIVING PHOTOGRAPHS by the ENGLISH THEATROGRAPH will be repaated WEDNESDAY.March 31st.at 3 p.m.Admission, 20e; children, 3e.FRIDAY, APRIL 2.Mec MONTREAL.The Annual Public Meeting of Convocation for the conferring of Degrecs in Medicine will be held In the Queen's Theatre, on FRIDAY, April 2nd, at 3 p.m.mbers of Convocation will meet in the Quesnrs Hall Assembly Rooms, at half-past Two p.m., for the Leading of Minutes and rlostng the ballot for the Election of Fellows.N.B.\u2014The Friends of the University may obtain Tickets O at the offce of th rE -commodation 8 ed.us be strietly confined to members of the University and holders of Tickets.LS W.VAUGHAN, Secretary.1797.2 ¢ undersigned.and as the 94:h March.EE SA \u2014\u2014\u2014 CNT FOR SALE t admiesion on application , admission must, ART ASSOCIATION, Phillips Square.GALLERIES CLOSED Preparatory to the SEVENTEENTH SPRING EXHIBITION.Reading Room open to members, 9 a.m.to G6 p.m.24 Furure MEETINGS.YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION HALL.TUESDAY, APRIL 6th, 8 P.M.¢ Greece of To=day and Yesterday.\u2019 ILLUSTRATED LECTURE BY \u2014 REY, G.ABBOTY- SMITH, M.A.Dr.T.G, Roddick, M.P., will preside.PROGRAMME: 1.YYM.C.A.ORCHESTRA.2.Classical Greece: Its Legends, Heroes, Temples and Works of Art.3.Harp Selections\u2014\u2018Mignon\u2019 .Mrs.PARRATT.4, Recitation\u2014\u2018Greece: Past nd Present\u2019.Verdi \u2014Byron Miss HENLEY.BE.Song\u2014\u2018Maid of Athens\u2019 .Ascher Mr.WILLIAMSON.6.Greece in the days of St.Paul.Corfu : the little island that defled the Turks.Greece and the Greeks of to-day.7.Greek National Song.BY A NATIVE GREEK.GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.Proceeds for Indian Famine Fund, 27 NJ ONTREAL M HAYDN SOCIETY.\u201c MESSIAH\u201d GOOD FRIDAY, April 16th, 1897.Plans open for subscribers on 3ist March, and for general public on 1st April, at Nordheimer's, Shaw's and Pratte's Music Stores.\u20ac, H.FINLDAY, 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MARCH 29, 1897.The facts and arguments in favor of the feasibility of the Hudson's Bay route are very ably sel forth in Mr.Fenseca's With all that he says about the industrial letter.rapidly-growing and commercial importance to the rest of the world of the Canadian and American North-West, we heartily agree.All appreciate the facts in regard to the im- agricultural, mense saving of distance and the consequent cheapening of transportation which would be effected were it possible to open up the Hudson's Bay route as a commercial channel between the Canadian North-West and Great Britain.But in regard to the feasibility of the regular navigation of Hudson's Straits and Hudson's Bay the facts cited by Mr.Fonseca are of little value.Because the straits and bay have been navigated in the month of May in 1615 or 1616 it cannot be argued that it can be navigated every year in that month.One year it 1s possible to go through in Tune and in another not until Angust.Vessels, even steam vessels, have to watch for their chance to get in, and once in they have to hurry out for fear of losing a chance to get out, failing which they may be detained all winter.Even were the route opened up the crop of one year could not be moved by it until the following year, as the harvest is gathered just about the time the bay and straits certainly close up with ice for the year.However, the government has sent an expedition to investigate and report upon the time of opening and closing of the straits and bay this year and its conclusions, together with those of the last expedition for the same purpose, ought Lo provide a basis for a final decision.0 THE DYING TIGER.Tennyson bids us \u2018let the ape and tiger survive in us.We may stoutly refuse credence to the theory that men are evolved from lower animal forms by ordi- pary generation, but none will question that there has been an evolution of type, structure and propensity.We find all our members written in God's book of stone in the lower parts of the earth when as yet there were none of them.There seems to be more of man in the ape than in the tiger, but there is in man more of the tiger than of the ape.The tiger survives not in the savage man only, but in the civilized man.Man remains a hunting animal long after his necessities have ceased to force him to precarious conflict with his poor relations.It has been remarked that the greater part of an Englishman's sport lies in the line of taking life.Still, the tiger is dying out of him and the sport of taking life is having every year new limitations put upon it.The Prince of Wales used to be a great pigeon-shooter, waiting with a cigar in his mouth for the birds to fly up from their coops and \u2018potting\u2019 them before they had the stiffness out of their wings.This sport years ago died out of His Roval Highness, and will not likely be revived in his posterity.The pheasants of Britain have all grown too tame to make a pheasant battue anything better than a poulterer\u2019s butchery.So that sport also is fast disappearing from the Englishman\u2019s pastimes, and now we hear that Her Majesly has signified her displeasure at the annual chase of the tame deer in Windsor Park by the roval buckhounds, a race of dogs cultivated for that_ceremonial, and that the performance, which has ceased to be a sport, will henceforth be discontinued.The office of Master of the Buckhounds will probably, like many other ornamental court offices, long survive the last vestige of the function it once fulfilled.Whether the old practice of men battering each other out of shape with their fists is to be attributed to the tiger in man, or whether that would be a slander upon the tiger, we do not know, but the process has evidently lost the respectability it once had, and now no civilized nation will harbor it\u2014that is the thing iteelf\u2014though they still gloat over accounts of it.We are inclined to think that man will be no less, but much more, a man when the tiger is dead and he ceases to delight in needless pain.MR.LAURIER AND THE JUBILEE.Mr.Laurier's sagacity as a parliamentary leader is clearly manifested in the course he has pursued with regard to the invitation to attend the Queen\u2019s jubilee celebration in London.Those who have read the Prime Minister's speech of Friday do not need to be told that he appreciates the occasion and enters heartily into the spirit of the celebration of the sixtieth year of Queen Victoria's reign.But when he received the invitation for the twenty-third of June he immediately perceived that it did not depend altogether upon his own wishes whether he would be able to attend, but upon the will of parliament, which in the ordinary course of things would sit throughout June in order to pass the supplies necessary for the new fiscal year, which begins on the first of July.There are some very important matters to be dealt with by parliament this session, among others the school settlement, which may be debated at great length if the Opposition care to divide the House and itself on the question.The government had promised the repeal of the iniquitous partisan Franchise Act by which the government of the day has been enabled for years to choose and pack the national jury which shall try it.This act provided for the framing of Dominion electors\u2019 lists and their revision by barristers appointed by the government.The cost of each revision of the list is, if we remember aright, about two hundred thousand dollars, and though by law there should have been ten revisions since it was enacted, only four have taken place, and the elections have taken place on lists which were not only stuffed and partisan, but out of date.The declared die\u2019 out of us, implying that both of them ' policy of the Liberal party has always been to use the provincial lists, which are prepared at small cost by the municipalities and provinces, and, being prepared by local authorities, are less likely to be partisan, while also they are always up to date.The hundreds of thousands of dollars thrown away upon the preparation of separate Dominion lists in accordance with the Franchise Act cannot be justified even by the Conservatives, who vet are determined to oppose its repeal.Besides these two most important matters, there was also the reformed tariff to get through pariiament.The Opposition may be expected to fight the battle of the protected combines and trusts to the death and to use any and all means to delay or defeat reforms.By debating any of these questions at great length and offering numerous amendments in committee to the tariff proposals of the government, the Opposition could make it impossible for the government to get these measures through parliament by th: middle of June, as would be necessary if Mr.Laurier were finally committed to being in London by the third week in that month.This necessity would have placed it within the power of the Opposition to compel the government to drop the repeal of the Franchise Act or perhaps modify its tariff prcposals.Sir Charles Tupper was good enough to declare both in England and in Canada that the Opposition would not stand in the way of Mr.Laurier\u2019s going to England at the proper time, but of course that was on the supposition that the government did not attempt to do more than the Opposition would be willing to consent to.Mr.Laurier would not place his party at a disadvantage in its first contest in parliament for tariff reform or endanger that policy.and he declined to commit bimself further than to use his best endeavors to be present.Now the wisdom of his caution is very apparent.From Ottawa the Opposition correspondents are sending out the word to all the Opposition newspapers that the Opposition will not stand in the way of parliament getting through its business in time for Mr.Laurier to get away to London, on certain conditions.These conditions are that the bill for the repeal of the Franchise Act be dropped and that the tariff proposals shall not be put off beyond a certain date, namely, that of the holding of the provincial elec- ticns in Nova Scotia, which the Conservatives hope will be influenced in their favor by a reduction of the duty on coal.These are the conditions at present on which the Opposition will allow Mr.Laurier to attend the jubilee, and new conditions will be put forward from time to time, according to the partisan needs of the Opposition.Mr.Laurier is apparently rather indifferent to the personal honor of the mission and to the splendid opportunities it would give him for the display of his genius for the most graceful and eloquent public oratory, though he has given evidence of the importance he attaches to all manifestations of the loyalty of British subjects to Her Majesty, and to all occasions for drawing closer the bonds which unite the different parts of the empire.The Opposition will hardly dare incur the additional opprobrium of standing in the way of Canada being represented at the jubilee by a premier who even they are bound to admit will right worthily represent her at the gathering of the nations of a mighty empire in loving loyalty to the most beloved of sovereigns.SUBURBAN SCHEDULES.\" be summer schedules for the subyrban business of the C.P.R.and Grand Trunk will shortly be issued.These will set forth the number and destination of trains, the accommodation allowed as to furniture and baggage\u2014the usual information for the benefit of the country residents along the river front.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 CROW\u2019'S NEST RAILWAY.Sir William Van Horne and Sir Donald Smith left this forenoon by special train for Ottawa.It is supposed that the visit has something to do with the building of the Crow\u2019s Nest Pass railway, which the company have commenced, with the confident expectation that the government will come to their assistance.\u2014\u2014 THE NEW G.T.R.BOATING HOUSE The repairs to the old Grand Trunk Boating Club house, which was partly destroyed by fire a few months ago, are being speedily pushed forward in order to be in readiness for the opening of the boating season.The repairs when completed will give the boat house a much improved appearance._\u2014\u2014\u2014 A MEMORIAL SERVICE.A memorial service was conducted by the Rev.Mr.Hamilton, pastor, in the Congregational Church, Point St.Charles, last evening, out of respect to the late Mr.David Blackburn.LIQUOR SELLER JAILED.THREATENED TO KILL ANYONE WIIO INFORMED ON HIM.The difficulties in the way of a thorough enforcement of a prohibitory law is one of the reasons often advanced against the enactment of such a law.But these difficulties can be overcome if the officials in charge of the enforcement of the law are in.sympathy with it.The public is familiar with the maity and varied devices by which it has been sought to evade the prohibitory law in force in the county of Richmond.Iach new method has had its day, but its day was short.Every attempt to get round the law or to openly defy the law has been an utter failure, and the perpetrators have had to suffer the just penalties of the law.Of the more recent cases the most flagrant one was that of George Dagher who on Wednesday last, at Sherbrooke, before Judge Mulvena, met the\u201d punishment which he so richly deserved.Dagher is an Assyrian and has been in this country for over five vears.He was a pedler, and having travelled through the country very considerably, was familiar with the operations of the prchibitory law (the Dunkin Act) and also the various unsuccessful methods of evading it.He thought out a new plan, or rather one that had not been operated to any extent in Richmond County.His plan was to peddle lignor around, and then terrify any one who might possibly inform on him, by brandishing his revolvers, bowie-knife and policeman\u2019s baton; declaring repeatedly that if any one dared to attempt to arrest him, they would succeed only after at least three had fallen, as he would shoot them down on sight.This \u2018 reign of terror\u2019 had the desired effect, and for a while, the neighborhood of Asbestos, in which he prosecuted his new business, was \u2018 held by the enemy.\u2019 It was, however, not for long.County Prosecutor Wentworth of Danville at once set about securing the necessary evidence to \u2018convict Dagher of illicit liquor selling.This at first was not an easy task, as all seemed frightened to give evidence on account of his desperate threats.However, evidence was secured and cases entered against George Dagher, Wilfred Rergeron and G.Dan- cose.On Feb.24 last the cases were heard at Sherbrooke and convictions secured against each one of them.The defendants did not appear in Court, but Dagher and Bergeron came to Sherbrooke searching for the witness who they suspected was going to give evidence against them.They secured from Harkness\u2019s livery a horse and sleigh and started, they said, for Brompton.Instead of driving to Brompton they went direct to Asbestos.Here Dagher entered the telephone office and made threats that he would kill the witnesses if then, displaying his club, and saying if that would not do, he had something in his pocket that would do it much quicker.He then went to the widowed mother of one of the witnesses, an elder- lv woman, and asked for her son, threatening again to kill him.Not finding the witness, he returned the following day with Bergeron and again enquired for him, and again repeated his threats.Dagher, Bergeron and Dancose then started back to Sherbrooke.At Bromp- ton, Dagher left the party, and the other two drove on, arriving there about 1.30 am.The two were arrested by the officers who were awaiting them at the livery stable.High Constable Moe immediately started for Brompton to arrest Dagher.He found him at the station, lying on the floor of the depot, waiting to catch the train to get away.Dagher was arrested and taken back to Sherbrooke.When arrested he had on his person a loaded revolver, knife and baton.The prosecution against the prisoner was delayed on account of the difficulty in securing all the necessary witnesses at the same time.On Wednesday last the cases were heard before Judge Mul- vena.Dagher was arraigned on a charge of having a revolver on his person and for threatening to do grievous bodily harm to certain persons.Mrs.Church, the post-mistress, and manager of the central telephone office at Asbestos, gave very clear and positive evidence regarding the threats Dagher had made in her office.Mrs.St.Martin, mother of one of the witnesses, also gave evidence establishing the facts of his re: peated threats, and the display of his revolver, as stated above.Her evidence was corroborated by her son Baptiste.For the defence Bergeron, the prisoner\u2019s companion, was examined with a view to contradict Mrs.St.Martin's evidence.He admitted that he was in the room with the prisoner at the time, but would not swear that no threats were made by the prisoner on that occasion.Dancose was also examined, but neither would he swear that no threats had been made by Dagher, claiming that he did not hear all the conversation.Both these witnesses, however, swore positively that the prisoner had no revolver upon his person when he left them at Brompton.Yet within two hours afterwards he was found by High Constable Moe with a loaded revolver in his pocket.Dagher was examined in his own behalf by his lawyer, Mr.L.C.Belanger, and denied what had been deposed against him by Mrs.St.Martin and her son.He did not attempt to refute the positive evidence of Mrs.Church, nor did the lawyer for the defence attempt * fence which he found: MonpAy, Marcu 29, 1897.any cross-examination of Mrs.Church, allowing her testimony to go unchallenged.Judge Mulvena in giving judgment, said the evidence revealed the fact that a much more serious offence had been committed than was contemplated by the clauee in the statute under whicl the prosecution had been taken.The prisoner had denied under oath the state- | ments made by the witnesses, Mrs.St.Martin and her son, and as the evidence of Mrs.Church, which he had not contradicted, corroborated the statements of these witnesses, he was forced to the conclusion that the prisoner had added the crime of perjury to the other of he had committed.His Honor impressively remarked that it was well the prisoner did not find the witness whom he was searching for.or his crime might have been murder, instead of the present charge.He then imposed the severest penalty which the law allowed and sentenced the prisoner to two hundred dollars fine or six months in jail.Dagher was also sentenced to fifty dollars fine or three months in jail for having firearms concealed on his person at the time of his arrest.Thesa two terms of imprisonment.added to ome term for liquor-selling.will make a vear, which he will have to serve in jail, after which he will be al i lowed his liberty on condition that he immediately leaves the country and keeps away.If he should be found thereafter iin Canada he will he again arrested and i made to serve still further imprisonment on account of a number of other convie- | tions for liquor-selling already recorded ; against him.| \u2014_\u2014 A PASSENGER SERIOUSLY HURT.| Mr.Daniel Allan, for many vears a conductor on the C.I.R., met with a \u2018terrible accident last night.When the outgoing St.Paul train reached Outre- mont Mr.Allan, who was on board, got off to speak to some friends on the platform.In the act of getting on again his hat flew off, and in stooping to get it he placed his right foot on the rail.The train moved forward\u2014the wheels cut the i foot completely off by the ankle.The spectators were horrified : the man him: self never lost consciousness or presence of mind.The Notre Dame ambulance quickly responded to the call, and the unfortunate man was conveved to the hospital.Mr.Allan was well known to the travelling public.Since his resignation he had made use of his talents of mimicry and sleight-of-hand by giving entertainments in country towns, assisted by his daughter, who is a proficient musician.While on the C.P.R.he was immensely popular, and in his new \u2018sphere of work he was making Lis way into general favor.J COTE ST.PAUL TRANSIT.One of the results of the increase in the suburban rates, as agreed upon by the C.P.R.and Grand Trunk, is that most of the residents of Cote St.Paul now make use of the Lachine electric cars, which stop close to the canal.The Grand Trunk made an arrangement with the council of Cote St.Paul to build and operate a line from the city for the term of twenty years.The first year the company lost over three thousand dollars by the new road, but latterly the business was picking up.Tt certainly was capable of expansion, as, with the promise of drainage, there was a disposition to buy property in the municipal ity.The increase in the rates, however, has had the effect of throwing most of the patrons of the road into the arma of the electric company, who give a transfer from the Cote to any part of the city for the single fare.The business thus appears to be practically killed.ard it is likely that some modification of the arrangement as to the duration of the agreement would be sought for.MISSIONARY SERVICES.Missionary meetings were conducted yesterday in Dorchester Street Methodist Church.In the morning the Rev.W.H.Sparling occupied the pulpit.At the Sunday-school in the afternoon the Rev.Mr.Madge, a former pastor of the church, addressed the children and par ents.In the evening a platform meeting was held.Addresses were delivered by Messrs.J.W.Downs and A.D.Al exander of the Methodist College.and Dr.F.C.Stephenson of Trinity Medical College, Toronto.The pastor, the Rev.IE.Richardson Kelly, presided.The ger vices werc largely attended.As a result of the addresses it is expected the missionary contributions will be largely in advance of former years meer MADAME CARRENO.This great artiste arrived in the city this morning, and is in readiness for the grand recital this evening in the Wind- gor Hall.Madame Carreno\u2019s success in all the American cities has been phenomenal, and standing room has been at a premium wherever she has appeared.This will be the last opportunity to hear Madame Carreno for a long time as she is about to return to Europe to fill a series of engagements in London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna and other Continental cities.> POST-OFFICE DISMISSALS.After May 1 next some twenty-five temporary clerks in the post-office wil) find themselves bereft of government employment, as it has been decided by the department that their services will ba dispensed with.Some of the old ser vants of the department will, their time of service having expired, he placed upon the superannuation list, but in the per manent staff it is not expected that amy changes will take place. » Moxnay.Marcn 29, 1897, THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS ON BORROWING POWER.nients without a corresponding extension of its borrowing powers.This so alarmed the Council that it, in turn, petitioned the Legislature to be relieved from the carrying out any further street improvements for which it had no iunas on hand.This was granted, but with the proviso that the city would ba liable for any actual damage entailed on proprietors in whose cases proceedings had been com- Jmgenced, Here, thon, was a further liability imposed on the city without an equivalent extension of its borrowing power.It is now neceksary to explain another item which musi be borne in mind in order td a clear appreciation of our financial positicn.In addition to the one million dollars of liabilities, which formed the first charge against the issuable balance of $3.500,000, the city was carrving a special floating debt on \u2018revenue account,\u2019 representing the accuinulated excess of expenditure over revenue for a number of years, and which at the close of 1895 amounted to over $770,- (O\u2014forming part of the $1,881,532 owing to the Bank of Montreal, as shown by the \u2018balance sheet\u2019 of that date\u2014and more fully set forth in the Comptroller's statements on page b of the appendix to his 1595 renort.It had been customary to make the over- expenditure on this account the first charge against the appropriation of the following year, in the hope that it would gradually \u2018 be liquidated in that way, but when, in 1895, it was found that after providing for ME Roi IN MIS ANNUAL RE- TOUT, TETLLS MONTREAL'S POSITION.Me Wilhou Robb, city treasurer, has completa ns annual report for 1896, which shows that the total receipts from ail sources, Jurmg the year, amounted to 30560607 27, and the disbursements te ¥3505.030.709, leaving a balance of AAO AT ron general account) to be carnet forward to 1897, as shown by the Doiovang figures: Ur.Balance on hand lst January .$ 45,318 Hevenue of the vear AR .2,860,061 | Frocevds #2 wo ce loan.2,101 00U Floating d-bt collection 648,316 $5,660,507 Cr.Administration .32.865, 644 Loan expenlitur.135.29 Rederyrron of debs 11 22.451,686 rary loans retired \u2026 .1,881,532 cating debt disbrs.229.958 Faiane .95,680 $5,660,697 From this it will be seen that current exgpenditurs was kept well under control.and that the redemption of debt exceeded the amount of permanent loan issued dur- fog the vear, For various reasons great difficulty was experienced in collecting spectal assessments for street improvements.Out of about yi ota disbursed on this account, the city !s st:il without assessment rolls for st.James street .$403,000 Inspector street .193,90 Cathedral street .2.132,000 Ste.Catherine street (Harbor to Desery) .12 .910m Notre Dame west (supplementary) 45.000 £t.Lawrence street (supplementary) 39,007 Lagauchetiere street ce ee 22 27,000 Annuals ee 55,000 $988,000 While of the remainder, for which rolls have been received, the following are coutested in court: \u2014 Notre Dame street west Notre Dame street east .$247,000 144,000 Milton streat .2.22 22 24 .05.000 Lagauchetiere street (between Cathedral and Windsor) .51,050 St.Nicholas street .Ce ee ee ee Beaudry Street .vv vv vr vn on on Stazliey street .30,600 28.000 8,UUU $564,000 Necessitating the carrying of a large floating debt on this account and consequent loss of interest.During the year 1,764 seizures for arrears were made: but 1,750 were settled before the day of sale.Tha report refers to the Increasing suffering resulting from the turning off of water and favors the adoption of some new system of collecting water rares.It then speaks in the following interesting manner of the present condition of the city's borrowing powers: \u2018Do unique is the present atate of the citv's borrowing power.and so important is it, in view of its future consideration, that it should be clearly understood that I regard it necessary to give a brief outline of fits more Tecent history.\"By the Act 52nd Vie., cap.79, assented to 21st March, 1889, the city was empowered to fssue permanent debenture stock to an amount not exceeding 15 percent of the value of the immovable property within its limits, as established from time to time by its assessment rolls, and bearing interest at a rate not exceeding 4 percent per annum.proceeds (after providing for the redemption or exchange of outstanding issues) to be ap- pHecable to the extension of (1) the water works, (2) drainage, (3) street opening or widening, (4) street paving and sidewalks, (3) fire and police stations, (6) public markets, (T) permanent works to prevent inundations, (8) hospitals for epidemic diseases \u2014to which list was subsequently added (by rhe 18th sec.of the 55-56 Vic., 1892), (9) cer- tala street gradings and (10) the establishment of Incinerators.The details of the issue were made sub- \u2018ect to by-law which was passed (No.160) 5th December, 1883, and flxed the rate of intarest at 3 percent per annum.By the Act 55-56 Vic., chap.49, sec 3, passed on the 24th June, 1852.however, the city was authorized to issue either perma- rent or terminable debentures, and in 1894, bv the 56th chapter of the 37th Victoria the iimit of issue was fixed at 15 percent on an established value of $160,000,000, exclusive \u201c the special loan of one million dollars ;-eviously authorized for harbor improvements.Thus the total borrowing power at this date was as under: .5 percent on $160,000,000 .$24, 000,000 Srecial loan for harbor .1,000,000 Total .2.22 22 42 ee ae.$25,000.000 TT\u201c.total lssue tn that date was 21,500,000 \"saving a balance to issue of .$ 3,500,000 Ths harbor loan was already issued.al- 11 ough not all expended, and the portion of i Eien was not required at the moment wai, deposited in court for proprietors\u2019 «+ _rea of street improvements, from which tr would be re-collectable as speedily as re- a'i.«ed by the progress of the work.T-ere was, therefore, the balance of 83,570 500.alone.to be dealt with, and the- was specifically allotted as follows:\u2014 1st\u2014 To meet then existing engagements .vv ce ve .$1,000,000 2nd\u2014For Ergst End Depot .1,000,000 3rd\u2014For permanent work for the years 1894-5-6-7, 4 years at $375.000 per annum .1,500,000 $3,500.090 The cne million of then \u2018existing ergage- ments\u2019 consisting of the liabilities incurred for the Chateau de Ramezay, Logan's Park property.St.Jean Baptiste Society property, Gere 2+.Louis debt, emergent Water works r2pairs, Incinerators, Disinfectors, ete,, which were ther due, in progr3ss, or formed per: of Temporary Bonds,\u201d which had teen \u2018seued for them, was paid off.Tie $' 009,000 pertaining to the ratlway.an tha :1,500,000 reserved for *he \u2018Perma- enn Wark of 1804-95-96-97, was in great part raised by the two million dollar issue of J+ the work having been carried cn by mers nf emporary loans till then.Tha unused portions of these were (simi- ta-!v with the harbor loan funds) invested, far \u2018he toire belng.In proprietors\u2019 shares of \u2018Streets Improvements, which, being a lie; an the real estate, and reasonably cal- lated to be re-collectable as speedily as we ill he reauired for the progress of the PF 15/5\", w-