Bird, Mr. T. W. (Nelson) Address in reply, 131. Hudson bay railway; selection of Churchill as terminus, 131; Manitoba and return of natural resources, 132; pulpwood; water powers; tariff advisory board, 133; stabilization of the tariff, 134; immigration into Manitoba, 135

Blasphemous libel bill, press report, 746 Budget, 1113. Emigration to United States; unemployment in United States, 1113; sub-amendment and Progressive principles, 1114; budget and the income tax; tariff schedules; expression in house of views of manufacturers, 1115; tariff and the cotton industry; economic group representation; domination of economic conception in British political life; early politics in England, 1116; growth of the party system, 1117; rise of the labour party; European multi-party countries; political conditions in Denmark; party system in Italy and Spain; disadvantage of two-party system in United States; oppression of working-men and farmers; privileged classes and the party system; economic difficulties of Canadian western farmers, 1118

Criminal Code Amdt. bill (blasphemous libel) 365, 746

Federal district commission bill, 2332 International bible students, radio, 3669 International peace, M. (Miss Macphail)

1698

Member, voting inadvertently, 3064

Bird Sanctuary, Quill Lake, 470

Bisaillon, Mr. J. A. E., customs investiga

tion, 3538

Bissett, Mr. E. D. R. (Springfield) Manitoba Paper Company, 3794

Bituminous Coal. See Coal

Black, Mr. George (Yukon)

Black, Mr. George-Con.

Revision of the statutes, qu., 378, qu., 2600
Royalties on minerals, 2241
Silver fox-breeders' association, qu., 2597
Soldier Settlement Act. Amdt. bill, 2809
Yukon Quartz Mining Act Amdt. bill, 2241

Black, Hon. W. A. (Halifax)

Admiral Beatty, schooner, seizure, 3593 Antigonish-Guysborough harbours, 2947 Bedford Basin powder magazine, qu., 2622 Building fishways and clearing rivers, 3699 Canadian Govt. Merchant Marine, 1758 East river dam, 3699

Fisheries commission report, legislation, 3301 Halifax county wharves, 2956

Halifax harbour commissioners bill, 2407,

2423, 2427

Hudson bay expedition supplies, qu., 2595,

3601

Hudson bay railway, 2731
Expenditure, 4126
Supplies, qu., 2863
Indian river dam, 3700

Inspector of hulls and machinery, 3592
Nova Scotia

Parks and historic sites, 3303
Public buildings, 2914
Public works, 2956

Railway wharves, 2947, 3129
Ottawa

Dominion expenditure on, 2915 Post office square, 2678, 2681 Quebec harbour commissioners bill, 2168 Railway mail clerks, salaries, 3796 Root Vegetables Act Amdt. bill, 2285 St. John harbour commissioners bill, 2389 Steamship services, 2757 Sub-chaser Baroff, qu., 2599

Vigilant, steamer, sale of, 3588, 3637

Black, Dr. W. J., Immigration department.

3892, 3917

River) 1829

Blasphemous Libel. See Criminal Code

Amdt. Bills

Blatchford, Mr. K. A. (East Edmonton) Alberta government railways, 1926 Budget, 1215. Western Liberal members; speech of Mr. McRae; homestead regulations, 1215; building railways to the coast; terminal facilities; terminal elevators in the interior; assistBlatchford, Mr. K. A. Con.

Budget-Con.

ing immigration into western Canada;
repatriation of Canadians; opening
up of the Northwest territories; de-
veloping and surveying the territories
for minerals, 1216; oil regulations;
the Alberta oil field; coal transporta-
tion rates, 1217; the Minister of Im-
migration; population and the rail-
ways; density of population; develop-
ment of the Northwest territories,
1218

Blind River, Ont., dredging, 3368
Blue Cove, N.B., breakwater, 3123
Blue Rocks, N.S., wharf repairs, 2936

Board of Appeal. See Pension Act Amdt.
Board of Audit

Audit Act, federal district commission, 2349 Powers, 2196

Quebec harbour, report, 2377

Board of Customs. See National Revenue

Board of Grain Commissioners. See Grain and Grain Trade

Board of Pension Commissioners. See Pension Act Amdt. Bill; Pensions

Bonaventure County, public works, patronage, 1361, 1365

Bonne Entente, 89

Bonshaw, P.E.I., freight shed, 2957

Bonus. See Bounties; Coal, Alberta, Transportation; Iron and Steel; Industries Books, undesirable, suppression, qu., 379. See also Publications

Booth Farm. See Ottawa, Central Experimental Farm

Bootlegging. See Liquor; Smuggling

Boots and Shoes. See also Address; Budget Competition from United States, 713 Imports, 991

Rubber footwear, duties, 703

Borden, Right Hon. Sir Robert

Canadian Constitutional Studies, 57, 95, 125 Reading out members of party, 738

Versailles treaty, 3485

War administration, 95

Washington disarmament conference, 3485

Borden Milk Company, 1185

way Commissioners

Boats. See Canadian Government Merchant Marine; Marine and Fisheries; Shipping and Shipbuilding; Steamship Services; Vessels

Bock, Mr. W. G. (Maple Creek) Address in reply, 172. Influence of celebration of diamond jubilee of confederation; visits of Their Royal Highnesses and Mr. Baldwin, 172; Hudson bay railway; constituency of Maple Creek; agricultural conditions in west; the wheat pool, 173; wheat rust research work; Hon. George Spence; Maple Creek not contested in recent by-election, 174

Boivin, Mr. P. E. (Shefford)

Cotton schedules, buckram, 1441
Customs tariff items, 1668

Settlement of western lands, M. (Mr.

Boulanger), 1343

Bolshevists, Communists and Anarchists May day processions and meetings, 1235 Schools, 1194

Toronto, in, 3450

Border Residents, danger to. See Liquor, Illicit Traffic; United States, Volstead Act

Bothwell, Mr. C. E. (Swift Current)

Address in reply, 244. Diamond jubilee of confederation; early pioneers in the west, 244; necessity for branch lines; Hudson bay railway; Flin-Flon mine, railway facilities; Swift Current district, 245; salaries of rural postmasters; comparative table of salaries paid to postmasters in Canada and United States; railway mail clerks, 246; transfer of postal officers from province to province because of health; federal grants to highways, 247; immigration from across the line; strike of railway shopmen in 1908; pension status of Canadian Pacific employees who took part in strike, 248; railway construction in western Canada, 249

Grading of wheat, M. (Mr. Millar), 535
Amdt., 536

National system of banking, 402
Postmasters salaries, 246

Volume I: 1-1241

Volume III: 2673-41.76

Bouchard, Mr. Georges (Kamouraska)

House of Commons staff, returned soldiers, qu., 1093

Boulanger, Mr. Oscar L. (Bellechasse)

Immigration, 3974

Settlement of western lands, M., 1337 Transfer of Canadians to other provinces,

3974

Boularderie, Cape Breton, telegraph, 3414 Boundary Treaties. See International Joint

Commission; Treaties

Boundary Waters. Sce Chicago Drainage Canal; Great Lakes Levels; International Joint Commission

Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909, 555-7, qu.,

1686

Bounties. See also Address; Budget; Coal,
Alberta, Transportation; Iron and
Steel; Steamship Services; Trade and
Commerce

Coal, for steel manufacturers, 3263
Coking plants, 1087

Copper, 524, qu., 793, 3138

Copper rods, 2900

Crude petroleum, 1864

Fishing, 3701, 3705

Hair seals in tidal waters, destruction, 3608 Hemp, qu., 793

Iron ore industry, 219, 220, 982-3

Nova Scotia steel industry, 273, 1058, 3249

Sheep-raisers, to, 1197

Steel industry, 1058, 1087, 3249

Wolves, on, 3830

Bourassa, Mr. Henri (Labelle)

Address in reply, 234. Indications of prosperity; immigration; necessity for review of our economic system, 235; Quebec not bound to a policy of high protection; immigration and the population difficulty; equal facilities for Canadians as for Europeans, 236; repatriation of Canadians; British immigration, 237; success of small settlements rather than wholesale immigration; settlements at Gravelbourg and St. Paul de Metis, 238; equality of status; making peace permanent; the League of Nations; appointment of foreign ministers, 239; minister to France, 240

Budget, Amdt. (Mr. Cahan) 1094. Progressives and labour groups; Liberal party and Conservative principles, 1094; effect of budget on social and economic life; taxation

Bourassa, Mr. Henri-Con.

Budget-Con.

system; the tariff; unsoundness of protection; objection to taxation of families; large families and indirect taxation; effect of protection on quality and efficiency of manufactures; comparison of Canadian and foreign standards of living; artificial industries and the tariff, 1095; the cotton and rubber industries; woollens, sugar and pulp and paper industries; need of markets for by-products of wood; encouragement to small industries; protection of industry, 1096; over-capitalization; economic absorption of Canada by the United States; condition of the labouring people; changed conditions since twelfth and thirteenth centuries, 1097; specialization of labour in industries; population problem; higher tariffs would not remedy emigration; fiscal policy must be adapted to Canadian conditions, attention to rural problems and maintenance of farm population; Progressive party and British preference, 1098; proportion of empire labour content and British preference; Geneva economic conference and the tariff question; imperial or national preference and the world tariff reductions; income tax, and invalid dependents,

1100

on

Main motion, 1328, 1331. Right of every member to express his views motion for committee of ways and means; consequences of the rules of debate established by the house; enforcement of the fortyminute rule, 1331; limitation of all but leaders of the two "historical" parties to forty minutes; the Prime Minister and party evolution; the province of Quebec and the elections of 1925 and 1926, 1332; inconvenience of group representation; principle of free representation of all classes and groups; the two-party system; vindication of the recognition of the needs of all classes; evolution of representative government, in Great Britain; British system of government, 1333; rise of the Tories and Whigs in England; services rendered to modern England by newly-risen parties; the labour party, 1334; tumbling down party system of govBourassa, Mr. Henri-Con. Budget-Con.

Main motion-Con.

ernment; preserving the essential characteristics of a nation; 1335; doing justice to all classes; representation of classes, 1336

Civil service, returned men, preference, 3066 Egyptian question, 3453

Eleven o'clock rule, suspension of for

division, 1320

Foreign consuls, standing, 3452, 3496
Grey, Sir Edward, foreign policy, 3455-6
Historic sites, Nova Scotia, 2652

Imperial and foreign relations, amdt., 3445

50, withdrawn, 3504

International peace, M. (Miss Macphail)

1717

Judges' salaries, M. (Mr. Lapointe) 1512 Liquor, customs and excise duties, 3574 Literature, immoral, entry from United

States, 3575

Mexican situation, 3452

Morning sittings, 3550

National defence estimates, 3339

National Revenue department

Bill, 3065

Estimates, 3574

Peace treaty, signing of, 73

Prison labour, 73

Private and public bills, consideration, 2341
Quebec

Citadel, Governor General's quarters, 2652
Harbour commissioners bill, 2374

Russian trade agreement, 3062, 3349, 3447
South African war, 3455

Bourgeois, Mr. A. E. (Kent, N.B.)

Budget, 743. Administration of the Minister of Finance; stable government elected in 1926; moderate tariff policy; adequate protection for manufacturers; wider markets; reduction of national debt; factors in favourable trade balance, 744; New Brunswick agricultural products and the tariff; West Indies treaty; New Brunswick field crop production, 1927; dairying industry; Australian treaty; fishing industry; lobster season; maritime freight rates; Kent railway; royal fisheries commission, 745

Prisoners in penitentiaries. qu., 1550
Bovine Tuberculosis. See Live Stock
Bowen, Mr. Fred (Durham)
Port Hope, Ont., lighthouse, 2214

Boys, Mr. W. A. (North Simcoe)
Agricultural inspectors, 463
Agriculture dept. estimates, 463
Anticosti island, Ellis bay dredging, 3356
Athabaska election, M. (Mr. Garland, Bow

River), 1817

Budget, 1000. Immigration permits; case of deportation of child; prohibited classes, 1001; admission of feeble-minded; reduction of income tax; desirability of abolishing sales tax; Home Bank depositors, 1002; Canadian National Railways and the Conservative party; free trade and the tariff; Hon. Mr. Drury and the tariff; elections of 1925 and 1926, 1003; binder twine and cream separators; argument that tariff is a tax and raises prices; binder twine industry; imports and total production, 1004; closing of binder twine plants; Consumers' Cordage Company; Plymouth Cordage Company; Brantford Cordage Company, 1005; cream separator industry, imports and production; rubber industry, the manufacturer and the tariff;

prices of tires, 1006, 1007

Czechoslovakia, treaty with, 2072
Electricity Inspection Act Amdt. bill, 2083
Excise Act Amdt. bill, 1992-3
Federal district commission bill, 2353
Forty-minute speeches, 1007
Manicouagan river, wharf, 3361

Naturalization Act Amdt., 2559, 2582, 2595
Ottawa post office square, 2682, 2685
Patent Act Amdt. bill, 433

Pension Act Amdt. bill, 2972, 3051
Pensions and National Health dept.. bill,

2451, 2453, 2785, 2787

Public buildings

Applications for, 2634, 2682, 2908
Policy, 2634

Quebec harbour commissioners bill, 2138,

2143, 2155, 2157

Railway Act Amdt. (grade crossings), 2443
Russell house property, 2353
St. Clair Transit Company bill, 1682-5
Seeds Act Amdt. bill, 1985
Select standing committees, 480

Soldier Settlement Act Amdt. bill, 2791,

2978, 2803

Special War Revenue Act Amdt. bill, 1988-9 Supply, amendments, procedure, 2871 Toronto Terminal Railway Company, 2229 Vigilant, steamer, sale of, 3585

Boys, immigration of. See Immigration