ment had already been forced to impose direct taxation, to reduce the grants to schools and to agricultural societies, and to unload many other additional burdens on the municipalities. Dealing with the finances of the Province he declared them to be in a deplorable condition, owing to the "incompetency and extravagance" of the Government. He pledged himself and his Party to continue more vigorously than ever the fight for the possession of the public domain-an asset whose value was said to be almost incalculable. There was, practically, no meeting of the Legislature during 1910, the House not being called until Dec. 15. The chief political event of the year was the agitation of the Grain Growers Association for Government ownership and control of internal Elevators and the policy of the Government in that respect. On Feb. 10 the Grain Growers had rather angrily discussed the Government's alleged inaction in the matter of its promised Commission of Inquiry into the Elevator business and the Association's proposals. On Feb. 28th the Commission was appointed with Prof. Robert Magill of Dalhousie University, Halifax (Chairman), George Langley, M.L.A., for Redberry, and Fred W. Green, Secretary of the Saskatchewan Grain Growers' Association, as members. The selections were made after careful consideration and the Commission itself was the result of an unanimous vote of the Legislature and of a petition from the Grain Growers claiming (according to the Order-in-Council published by the Governemnt) that "the storage facilities for grain at initial points throughout the Province are practically all in the control of Companies who buy or sell, or who buy and employ in manufacture and sale, that commodity"; and alleging that the operation of such storage facilities by powerful Companies for private gain had proved detrimental to the prosperity of the growers of grain throughout the Province in lowering the general level of prices for this pivotal product. The Association, therefore, asked that the storage facilities be owned by the Provincial Government and operated under an independent Commission as a public utility; and their petitions prayed that legislation be enacted providing for the acquirement, or creation, of Government-owned storage facilities, at initial points throughout the Province for grain shipment, which would be sufficient for the requirements of the farmers in marketing their grain. The Elevator Commission commenced its Sittings at Moose Jaw on May 17, and between that date and July 8 visited Weyburn, Carlyle, Wapella, Wolseley, Indian Head, Regina, Prince Albert, Kamsack, North Battleford, Rosetown, Saskatoon, Perdue, Lanigan, Hanley and Lumsden. Sessions were later on held in Winnipeg; Minneapolis, Kansas City and Chicago were also visited. It heard individuals and officials, millers and graingrowers and Associations, and on June 15th received the formal and detailed proposals of the Grain Growers, whose chief suggestions were as follows: 1. That the Government build Elevators for forwarding and storage purposes where the farmers demand them. 2. That if the farmers be requested to assure patronage the extent of this be defined by the Government but that the Grain Growers do not want this provision enacted. 3. That provision be made whereby the identity of car-lots be preserved till they reach their destination. 4. As to the sort of Elevator required, it must be provided with bins which will preclude the possibility of mixing the grain and have the most up-to-date apparatus installed. 5. That the certificate of the Elevator be made negotiable by legislation the same as a bill of lading or warehouse receipt and that, if this be found impossible to provide, the Government should itself finance the certificates. 6. That a Commission of management be appointed by the Legislature to be controlled by a three-fifths vote, and that the Grain Growers be allowed to nominate at least a part of the Commissioners. The Report of the Commission was submitted to the Premier on Nov. 15th and was a bulky document of many pages. It reviewed all the schemes and proposals locally presented and discarded each in turn as faulty in some important particular and declared that Government competition with trading companies in the Elevator business would be disastrous to the former. The conclusion was as follows: "The Commission are unanimous in holding that a solution of the Elevator problem satisfactory to the farmers must give the farmers full control of the system. And they are unanimous in holding that no storing and handling Elevator is likely to be a financial success unless a considerable number of the growers of grain have a direct personal interest in and responsibility for the Elevators. The Commission, therefore, are unanimous in holding that the solution must be sought along the line of co-operation by the farmers themselves, assisted in the matter of finance, by a Provincial loan. The Commission consider that special legislation should be enacted providing for the creation of a Co-operative organization of the farmers on the principle of (1) the maximum amount of local control consistent with (2) ownership by the whole body of shareholders and management through a central board of Directors." An important matter of the year was the Local Option struggle. In June and July certain enthusiastic advocates of Prohibition campaigned through Southern and Eastern Saskatchewan in automobiles, and by November the fight area included the whole Province. All the cities, Regina, Moose Jaw, Saskatoon and Prince Albert, were to vote on Local Option, and in addition there were 17 towns, 82 villages, 31 rural municipalities and 40 Local Improvement Districts involved. It was felt that the contest was a crucial one and the Temperance workers took all possible measures to secure a favourable verdict. In Regina the King's Hotel was secured by some wealthy Temperance men and run as a non-license House. On Sept. 1, Dr. Newnham, Bishop of Saskatchewan, and President of the Provincial Alliance, issued a stirring appeal to vote against "the vicious state of things" involved in a License policy while the Regina Leader fought enthusiastically for Local Option. On Dec. 12th the results were far from being a Temperance triumph. Regina, Indian Head, Saskatoon, Weyburn, North Battleford, Prince Albert and Yorkton, with many other ambitious towns, voted down the proposal; the only large place supporting Local Option was Moose Jaw. Out of 32 places heard from on Dec. 13, the By-law was carried in 11 and out of 159 licenses involved 27 were cut off. The new University of Saskatchewan made decided progress during 1910. On Mch. 5th President W. C. Murray issued his first official statement. In the projected Arts College provision was made for nine departments while the College of Agriculture provided for ten. By June, 1909, four of the Arts Professors, besides Dr. Murray, and three of the Staff of the School of Agriculture had been appointed. Fifteen scholarships and ten exhibitions, of $5 to $100, were offered for competition to students for the current year. Dr. Murray hoped that in two years the Staff would be completed, plans for future development perfected, buildings erected and the principal machinery in order. The President stated at this time that 70 students were already enrolled. New buildings were proceeded with during the year, including those for the College itself, the Students' Residence, Agriculture, Engineering and Live-stock pavilion and power-house, at a total cost of $600,000; with D. R. Brown and Hugh Vallance of Montreal as the architects. In May the Provincial Normal School and Collegiate Institutes, the Theological Colleges in the Province and various incorporated Professional Societies were admitted to affiliation; on July 29 Sir Wilfrid Laurier, amid imposing ceremony, laid the corner-stone of the University Building; F. Hedley Auld, Provincial Superintendent of Fairs and Institutes, was, in April, appointed Professor in the Faculty of Agriculture and Director of Extension Work; during the year James Clinkskill of Saskatoon was appointed Chairman of the Board of Governors and A. J. Bell Vice-Chairman; the College of Agriculture took over the Extension Work and arranged hundreds of meetings to be addressed by practical farmers. The Methodists decided in January to establish a College in Regina and a campaign for $250,000 was started for building purposes, while a Board of Governors was at once selected composed of E. N. Hopkins, J. W. Sifton, J. A. M. Patrick, G. W. Brown, Rev. J. H. Oliver and others; in April George W. Brown (afterwards Lieut-Governor) was elected President of this Board with Hon. J. T. Brown, Treasurer; in October Dr. W. W. Andrews, Dean of the Faculty of Science at Mount Allison University, accepted the Presidency. Efforts were made by the Anglicans in Regina to revive Emmanuel College and replace its poor structure with a new building-$35,000 was subscribed but $125,000 was needed. Of Education in general Mr. Premier Scott gave a picture in speaking at Herbert on July 7: "The total outlay from the general revenue in aid of Education has increased from less than $200,000 in 1904 to as much as $465,000 in 1910; the number of common schools has increased from about 800, when the Province was erected, to nearly 2,200 to-day; a new High School system has been created and under it 13 collegiate institutes are in operation which every farmer's boy or girl may attend without hindrance or fee; the Agricultural College and University are well under way." The Educational figures for the year in Saskatchewan were as follows: The estimated Revenue of the Province for the year ending Feb. 28, 1911, was $2,754,600, of which the Dominion Subsidy totalled $1,276,850, School-lands Fund $83,500, Supplementary Revenue Fund, or taxation of vacant lands, $300,000, Liquor Licenses $98,000, Land Titles Office fees $216,000, Re-imbursement of advances on Butter, Eggs and Poultry $123,300, Revenue from Telephones $175,000. The estimated Expenditures were $2,742,455 on Current account including interest on Public Debt, $131,200, administration of Justice $457,500, Civil Government $237,082, Public Works $576,737, Education $743,600, Agriculture $232,350, Telephones $120,000 and Bureau of Public Health $73,500. The amount charged to Capital was placed at $2,262,253 of which $1,355,253 went to construction of Public Buildings, $247,000 to sundry Public Works, and $660,000 to Telephones. The Debt of the Province at the close of 1910 included $7,266,379 made up of 1909 and 1910 Loans in London, less a balance of Loans in hand and cash in hand, or to be received, of $1,508,709. The net Debt was $5,757,670. Provincial Appointments of the Year. Member of the Educational Council. Member of the Educational Council. William Grayson. Acting Deputy Minister of Public Works.. Harry S. Carpenter. Superintendent of Highways. Deputy Minister of Agriculture. Harry S. Carpenter. Alberta's Government, For five years the politics of this Province had been placid, uneventful, one-sided and, in administrative matters, reasonably progressive and undoubtedly honest. In 1910 the Rutherford Government was overthrown, the Provincial Liberal Party split in twain, political divisions dislocated and the Province disturbed to an extraordinary degree. The year began, quietly enough, with the announcement that the C. P. R. tax exemption issue, involving $26,000,000, would be carried at once to the Privy Council; with the statement by Mr. Premier Rutherford on Jan. 19 that a Government-owned pork-packing plant would be established provided the farmers would guarantee the necessary animals to keep the plant running; with the appointment of C. S. Hotchkiss of Claresholm as Publicity Commissioner for the Province and the promotion of immigration, &c., as his work; with the Attorney-General's announcement on Feb. 3rd that future Government printing in Alberta would be Union printing; with the statement that Hon. W. A. Buchanan would, after the Session and the creation of the Portfolio, be Minister of Municipalities and the appointment, in February, of R. W. Jones as Provincial Engineer. The first Session of the Second Legislature was opened on Feb. 10 by Lieut.-Governor G. H. V. Bulyea with a Speech from the Throne in which he described the foundations of the Government of the Province as well built and truly laid by the preceding Legislature; spoke of the bountiful harvest and increasing prosperity of the people; referred to the great incoming population, to the responsibilities which this involved and stated that "a very large part of the time of my Ministers has been taken up by the work of carrying into effect the policy of Railway expansion which was authorised by the last Assembly"; mentioned the steady progress in construction of necessary public buildings and the new Legislative Building; stated that during the past year there had been a gratifying expansion of the schools of the Province, both in number and in attendance, while higher education had not been neglected and special attention had been given to the work of the primary schools; promised legislation which included four municipal bills, a University measure, and a variety of other measures to improve and organize local institutions. The Address was moved by George P. Smith, seconded by L. M. Roberts and passed after a brief debate on Feb. 14th. Mr. C. W. Fisher was reelected Speaker. With the exception of a few private and unimportant Bills the whole of the Session, until prorogation on May 26th, was occupied with the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway question and the accompanying political crisis. The simple preliminaries of the issue were that since 1905 J. K. Cornwall, M.L.A., for the Peace River country, had been struggling to obtain by personal, financial |