PARLIAMENTARY.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2330, 21 September 1881, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY.

[PBEBS ASSOCIATION TELEGBAM.J HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Wednesday, Sbptbmbbb 21. MORNING SITTING. The House met at 11 o'clock. LEASEHOLD QUALIFICATION BILL. Sir Geo. Obey said he wished to make a personal explanation upon the subject of the Leasehold Qualification Bill which the House had ordered to be discharged. He had consented to the committee being 'got rid of by reporting progress on the understanding that the Premier had promised Mr Saunders and Mr Seddon that he would accept the three votes for property holders. He thought the Premier ought to give eff ecojjto the promise eo made. Mr Batjndf.es said he first heard it from Mr Seddon that the Premier intended to accept the three votes, and that what the hon. gentleman alluded to was what the Premier aaid to him (Mr Saunders). The Premier denied that he made an unqualified promise to Mr Seddon. Mr Sbddon said he went to the Premier and asked him if he would not be prepared to accept the three votes whioh Mr Saunders was prepared to move. The Premier said he saw no objeotion, and it would perhaps be well to do it. Subsequently the Premier said he wished for time to consider the subject. The Pbbmieb again denied that he had made any unqualified promise. Messrs Sbddon and Sattndbbs said they had no doubt that Sir George Grey dropped further opposition believing the Premier had made that promise. dbath op pbesidbnt gabpibld. The Pbemibe said —Bir, before proceeding to the Orders of the Day, I think it is only right that some allusion should be mado to the information contained in this morning's newspaper of the death of the President of the United States. I am sure that we all feel that this is a most melancholy event. We should not pass over in silence the death of the head of the first American community, whioh we all agree is associated by ties of kindred, and community of interest, and large sympathy in the working of free institutions. Sir, there is perhaps no country in the world in which the British empire ought to have, and, I believe, has a more deep sot sympathy than with the United States of America; and an event of this kind is calculated to draw that bond of sympathy closer. We deplore this event, not only in the loss of our kinsman in the United States, but because it brings to an untimely end a great career by a most cruel fate. He was a most distinguished man, not only for his great natural talents, but for that quality which distinquish men in the United States when they have raised themselves by their own ability, Dy their own conduct, and by their own hard work from the lowest step of the social ladder to the highest. That is a feature among the statesmen of the United States more than in any other country, and we have no more distinguished instance of this than in the case of President Garfield. Therefore we join with our kinsmen of the United States in sympathy for the 'loss they have sustained. These few words have been said without reflection, |but they will, I am sure, express the feelings, not only of members of this House, but of all the colonists. [Lef a sitting.]