Dominion Parliament.

Notes of proceedings in the national legislature.

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Railway bill.

Mr. Blair introduced a bill to amend the Railway Act. He explained that it provided, among other things, for the exemption of street railways and electric railways, under certain conditions, from operation of some of the clauses of the General Railway Act the bill also contained a cause similar in purport to that in the bill of last year, providing that the Railway Committee of the Privy Council may, on due application and on being satisfied that certain conditions exist require a railway company which had received aid from the Federal or a Provincial Government to locate its station or stations at points which in the judgment of the Railway Committee might be necessary. The measure also proposed to ensure uniformity in the rules as respects all railways under the legislative authority of the Parliament of Canada, that is, rules governing workmen employed on the line. Another section provided for the sequestration of railways, the to compel a railway which had received a subsidy to operate not merely a part of its line, but the whole of it.

The bill was read the first time.

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