The Daily News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2019-07-29
issued: 1905-06-23
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/nelsondaily/items/1.0381640/source.json
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note: JI JI Ji„A __Jr\ 11 y Y ^""^iiativ. At2\ m ■%_ *v JUN 261905 -^ Provincial Library. VOL. 4 BILL AGAIN TALKED OUT Henderson's Amendment Lost on Vote of the Chair NELSON, B. C.f FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1905 Close Fight Over the V.V.&E. Bill Now Before Railway Committee for the Fifth Time-Strong Opposition (Special to The Dally News) Ottawa, June 22.—At tlie railway committee today, the discussion of the Victoria, Vancouver and Eastern Railwav Bill was resumed by.Mr, Drinkwater, who opposed the bill. He said that it waa a case of J. J. Hill and the Canadian Northern against the Canadian Pacific and the interests of the Canadian people, The plan was to divert the business of the southern part of British Columbia to the United States. Mr. Macpherson (Vancouver) made ono of the most forcible and effective speeches which lias yet been delivered on the subject. He saiii he wanted to consume as little time as possible and at the same time to put tlie case as fJlirongly as possible, and he suceeed- t ed In doing so. He declared that the ' people of British Columbia wanted to have competition with the Canadian Pacific—-would the committee refuse that? The case should be treated fairly and squarely, and the people of British Columbia were desirous of seeing another road reach the city of Vancouver from the Boundary creek district. The people of that province were in favor of tiie Victoria, Vancouver and Eastern Hallway so as to afford ailili- ■tlonal railway facilities and additional competition. For the last eight years the hope of that people had been upon the building of this railway. So much has this been the case that the British Columbia legislature, on two different occasions, offered a bonus of $1,500,000 tor tbe building of this road. The legislature of British Columbia recognized the necessity of this road so much that thore was perfect unanimity for Its being built. The province of British Columbia was a large one, but it was numerically small, and lie as*ked the committee …
note: The Nelson Daily Miner was purchased by F.J. Deane in April of 1902 and renamed The Daily News. It changed hands again in May 1908 when it began to be printed by the News Publishing Co. managed by W.G. McMorris.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Nelson (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0381640
language: English
lat: 49.493333
long: -117.295833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Nelson, B.C. : F.J. Deane
rights: Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art and History: https://touchstonesnelson.ca
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text