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 MEKTINi; AT OTTAWA, .lANUAKV, 1876. 
 
 
 HALIFAX, N. S. 
 1876. 
 
REPORT. 
 
 The undersigned proceeded to Ottavvu, where it was 
 arranged that he should meet his co-delegate, the Hon. 
 Robt. Boak. Unfortunately Mr. Boak was prevented by 
 illness frjm attending the meeting of the Board, and thus 
 the delegation was deprived of the large business experi- 
 ence of that honorable gentleman — a loss most sensibly 
 felt. 
 
 Your delegate would reiterate the recommendation 
 made in last year's Report of Delegates, viz. : "That un- 
 less the commercial interests are kept before the public, 
 thej^ suffer, and there is no way they can be so well ac- 
 credited and brought to the notice of the government, as 
 by the plan of Boards of Trade." Cabinet Ministers do 
 not hesitate to confess the interest they take in those 
 meetings of representiitivo men, and the importance they 
 attach to their deliberations. During the discussion of 
 the question of a Canadian Lloyds, and also during the 
 debate an the Tariff, the Board was visited by the Honor- 
 a!ble Minister of Customs, the Honorable Minister of 
 Marine and Fisheries, and the Honorable Dr. Tupper. 
 
 CA:N^ADIA]Sr LLOYDS. 
 
 A very animated debate occurred on this subject. It 
 appears that owing to the legislation in England conse- 
 quent upon the Plimsoll excitement, much inconvenience 
 and loss has been experienced by Canadian ship-owners. 
 To get rid of the operation of these laws is a very difl&cult 
 matter. It is advocated by some that we should ask to 
 be placed, as regards our ships in English waters, upon 
 the same footing as the ships of foreign nations. While 
 Canadian ships receive the protection of the British Flag 
 in foreign ports, it is thought by others not just to ask to 
 
be wholly exempt from British supervision in the ports of 
 Great Britain. And while England is engaged in the 
 great work of wise legislation, it is deemed by many 
 more worthy of Canadians to help hold up her hands, 
 that such a system may be perfected as will recommend 
 itself to all nations, and be nltiniatcly universally ad- 
 opted. The establishnient of a Canadian Lloyds, wliich 
 your delegate favored, it is thought will be a means of 
 securing to Canadian ships special immunities, while it 
 will in no way weaken the efforts of British statesmen to 
 bring about the general system so much desired. For 
 more detailed information on this subject, your delegate 
 would refer to the exhaustive speech made before the 
 Board of Trade by Mr. Marshall, of St. John, who takes 
 a deep interest in this question. 
 
 BILL STAMPS. 
 
 A motion recommending a repeal of the law relating 
 to Bill Stamps was lost. Not because there exists any 
 growing liking to the system, but on account of the needs 
 of the Government. Your delegate voted for doing 
 away with the tax, believing that in so doing he repre- 
 sented the views of a majority of your Chamber. It 
 must be confessed, however, that there are a great many 
 to be found, even among the commercial class, who think 
 it a judicious mode of raising a respectable amount of 
 revenue, and who favor the system notwithstanding its 
 inconvenience in operation. 
 
 INSPECTION. 
 
 Your delegate w^as pleased to hear it stated at the 
 Board, that the Inspection Act, in so far as it relates to 
 the compulsory inspection of fish, was working well. It 
 is desired, however, that salmon and oils from New- 
 foundland and Labrador be exempted from compulsory 
 inspection, aiid Mr. Lo'-d, of Montreal, carried a motion 
 in that direction. Since the adjournment of the Board, 
 
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 Lord's motion. 
 
 MARINE TELEGRAPHY. 
 
 The Quehec Board of Trade, through one of its dele- 
 gates, (Mr. Grant,) submitted an elaborate scheme of 
 Marine Telegraphy, whereby it is proposed that a part of 
 the coasts of the River and Gulf of Saint Lawrence, with 
 the islunds therein, should be united by a sjstem of 
 telegraphy. Your delegate suggested that Sable Island, 
 and a portion of the coast of Nova Scotia, should be in- 
 cluded in the system. The scheme will go up to the 
 Government with the extension aui^u^ested. 
 
 RECIPROCITY. 
 
 Tlie question of Reciprocity with the United States 
 emanated from the London Chamber of Commerce. 
 Your delegate was ])repared to vote affirmatively as re- 
 gards the desirability of improved reci[>rocal trade 
 relations with that country; but the Board unanimously 
 decided by resolution, introduced by Major Walker, that 
 the United States should initiate any future negotiations 
 to that end. 
 
 COAL. 
 
 Your delegate found that it tvould be difficult to carry 
 a resolution having reference to any legislation whereby 
 the Coal interest would be served. The question was 
 pressed upon the attention of prominent members when- 
 ever opportunity offered. Your delegate was also 
 prepared to advert to the depressed state of the Coal 
 Trade, when speaking on the Trade Resolutions; but on 
 learning that Mr. Halliburton was present, he asked that 
 that gentleman be heard as one familiar with, and much 
 interested, in the Coal question, which privilege, although 
 somewhat irregular, was accorded, testifying to some ex- 
 tent the interest taken by other parts of the Dominion in 
 
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 this special matter. Your delegate would suggest that 
 the coal owners should send a duly accredited delegate 
 to represent them at the sittings of the Dominion Board 
 of Trade, in order that their views and wishes may get 
 before the country. 
 
 TEA AND COFFEE. 
 
 A lively debate occurred on the motion to recommend 
 to the Government to charge a duty of ten per cent, on 
 Tea and Coft'ee imported into Canada under certain con- 
 ditions. It reads as follows, viz. : — 
 
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 Moved by Mr. Adam Browm, of HumiUon, seconded by 
 Mr. J. Stewart, and Resolved, that in the year 1872 tho 
 American Congress, luiving passed an Act abolishing tho duty 
 on tea and coffee, a similar Act was passed! by tiie Parliament 
 of Canada; tiiat, in view of the policy of tho American 
 Government imposing a special ad valorum duty of ten per 
 cent, upon all imports of tea and coffee from countries lying 
 west of the Cape of Good Hope, the Canadian Parliament in 
 the same session passed an Act am.cnding that before referred 
 to by adding to it tho following proviso : 
 
 " ' Provided, always that if at any time any greater duty of 
 Customs should be payable in the United States of America 
 on tea and coffee imported from Canada, than on tea and 
 coffee imported from any other country, then the Governor in 
 Council may impose on tea or coffee imported into Canada 
 from the said United States a duty of Customs equal to the 
 duty payable in the United States on tea and coffee imported 
 from Canada, provided that tea or coffee imported into 
 Cauda from any country other than the ^aid United States, 
 or passing in bond through the United States, shall be free of 
 duty.' 
 
 " That under the operation of this Act a differential duty of 
 ten per cent, was charged upon all tea and coffee imported 
 from the United States, and to this extent a premium was 
 given to the direct importation and encouragement to foreign 
 trade, at least, equal to that, which, under privious legislation, 
 had been conferred by the mixed specific and ad valorum sys- 
 tem of levying duty. 
 
 '' That, by the Customs Act of 1874. the duty was re-imposed 
 upon tea and coffee, upon the specific system, to the extent 
 at least equal to the ten per cent, authorized by the Act be- 
 fore quoted, thus acting as a practical repeal of that Act. 
 
 " That the effect of this legislation, by making the duty the 
 
samo, whothor Iho tea or coffoo is imported from the place of 
 growth or from tiio United States, has seriously injured the 
 direct tea trade of Canada, without any conpensating advant- 
 age to the consumer. 
 
 " That, in the opinion of this Board, the policy adopted by 
 the Act of 1872 was a wise and patriotic policy, and that its 
 abandonment has resulted in transferring the direct import 
 trade to the United States' merchants. 
 
 " That the Executive Council be requested to memorialize 
 the Government, praying for the restoration of the ten per 
 cent, diffetential duty on tea and coffee imported from the 
 United States." 
 
 Under present arrangements Americans can use the 
 Canadian market lor the (listribution of their surplus im- 
 ports )f tea and coffee, while Ounadians are met with a 
 differential duty of ten per cent, should they desire to 
 use the American market for the same purpose. This 
 is cotiriidered by many as one-sided and unfair, and for 
 the encouragement of the foreign trade of the Domin- 
 ion, and the employment of its shipping a policy should 
 be adopted tending to subserve those ends. 
 
 TARIFF. 
 
 The chief debate of the session was on a resolution 
 introduced by Mr. Brown, of Hamilton, which read as 
 follows : 
 
 " Resolved, That the depressed condition of the manufactur- 
 ing industries of the Dominion, calls imperatively for such 
 legislation as will afford protection to the capital already in- 
 vested in manufactures, encourage further investment and 
 afford employment to the people in the workshops of Canada. 
 
 " That whil(j recognizing that the depression referred to 
 may be due to some extent to over-production, it is in the 
 opinion of this Board mainly owing to the competition of 
 American manufacturers who make of Canada a slaughter 
 market for their surplus production. 
 
 " That there is no reasonable ground for anticipating that 
 this system of unfair and unequal competition will, without 
 Canadian legislation to meet it, be lessened in the future ; but 
 on the contrary, this Board is of opinion that the gradual re- 
 covery among the people of the United States, from the 
 effects of the civil war, promises to increase it in intensity in 
 the future. 
 
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 " That in tho opinion of this Board, tho true and patriotic 
 policy for tho Canadian Govornmont would be to adopt a 
 thoroughly national commorcial policy, and with that view 
 that in any rcadjuHtmont of tho tariff, reciprocal duty with 
 tho United StatOo bo adopted. 
 
 *' That tho Executive Oommittoc bo requested to momoriul- 
 ize Parliament in tho Honso of these resolutions; and, further, 
 that tho products of tho soil, the forest and the mine, and the 
 manufactures thereof be considered." 
 
 Mr. Wj'lde, of Halifax, moved in amendment, second- 
 ed by Mr. Thomas White, of Montreal, that the following 
 words be inserted before tho last paragrapli of the 
 resolution : 
 
 '' That tho system of foreign nations granting bounties, oi I 
 drawbacks equivalent to bounties, on tho ex|)ortation of man-f 
 ufactured articles to this Dominion most seriously injures the 'i 
 manufactures of the country, and that this Bostrd urge upon i 
 the Government tho advisabilit}' of ])nssing an Act of Parlia- 
 ment whereby tho Governor General in Council when satisfied 
 that such bounty or drawback has been granted, may have 
 the power to add adnitional duty to such articles equal to 
 such bounty or drawback." 
 
 This amendment was ado[)tod. 
 
 Mr. Thomas White moved, seconded by Mr. Mr. W. 
 W. Oglevie, of Montreal, that the t<aid resolution be 
 amended by adding after the words "United States," in| 
 the fourth paragraph tliereof the words "on such articles 
 as enter most severly into competition with Canadian in- 
 dustries by striking out all the words after the word 
 • adopted ' in the said paragraph." 
 
 This amendment was adopted. 
 
 It will be observed that the mover of this resolution 
 was careful not to state even approximately what in his 
 opinion should be the changes desired in the Tariff, so 
 that it could not cause much embarrassment on the part 
 of any delegate to support it. It seems to be a foregone 
 conclusion that the advalorum duty will be advanced ; but 
 it remained to be seen whether to a sufficient extent to 
 satisfy high protectionist theorists or not. Although the 
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 momorial-f Your delegate voted with the majority on tliis ques- 
 1, further, tion, feeling that our full developement as a country 
 0, and the depends materially upon mutual concessions and forbear- 
 
 !ance, and aiiy example that could be given in connection 
 with this question of trade, would not be lost upon the 
 great controlling body of intelligent Canadians. 
 I oi me I ii ^iii |)y observed that your delegate succeeded in 
 I introducing the resolution containing the views of your 
 ountics, or I Chamber on the subject of drawbacks, liaving special 
 
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 of Parlia-lthe Dominion Board, and the Trade Resolution, will go 
 
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 \ witliout expressing his high sense of the honor done him 
 
 r. Mr. W. I ^^ being selected for this mission; and further, his regret 
 
 )lutioii bel^^^* *^® interests of your Chamber had not been en- 
 
 States." in ' trusted to abler hands. 
 
 eh articles | Respectfully submitted. 
 
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