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Excerpt from Constitution of the Senate
As regards the Liberal party, I say that the Liberal party ought to have no doubt at all that the Senate requires to be reformed, and least of all those mem bers of the Liberal party who happened to hold office in the period from 1873 to 1878, and from 1896 down to 1901. As it happens the Liberal party have been in possession of o?ice, since Confederation, for some fifteen years. Of those fifteen years, ten were passed with a hostile partisan majority in 'he Senate, and, in my judgment, although I admit ti s a matter of dispute, very considerable injury to public interest resulted therefrom. What did we find when we took o?ice ten years ago? And here I want the earnestattention, not merely of this House, but of parties out side this House - what did we find the situation in 1896, when we came into o?ice with a decisive ma jority on the ?oor of the House of Commons? Of the twenty-four representatives from Ontario in the Senate, there was one gentleman, my hon. Friend he side me, to represent the Liberal party, which, during all that time, had had at least half the votes in the province of Ontario. There was but one man left in Quebec, if I remember correctly, to represent as among the twenty-four from that province - one Liberal out of twenty-four in 1896. He represented the Liberal party here from the province of Quebec, and my hon. Friend from Halifax will correct me if I am wrong, in saying that he and he alone stood for the Liberal party in the province of Nova Scotia.
Hon. Mr. Lan dry-i think the hon. Gentleman is mistaken regarding Quebec. There were others.
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