228 THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [PART II

interest of 7 (seven) per cent.; and indeed, even to-day
(1st of March), the Lieutenant-Governor is obliged to allow
an Order in Council to be passed to obtain the last half
million for the Government, without which the Government
would be unable to meet its obligations, as I was informed
by the Hon. the Provincial Treasurer to-day by order of the
Prime Minister.
The Premier did not let the Lieutenant-Governor know,
then or since, that the Government were in such a state of
penury as to necessitate special legislation to increase public
taxation.
Therefore the Lieutenant-Governor said and repeated these
things to the Premier, and he deems it advisable to record
them here, that they may serve as memoranda for himself
and for the Premier.
It therefore results :
Ist. That although the Lieutenant-Governor has made
many recommendations in his position as representative
of the Crown to the Premier on these different subjects of
public interest, his advisers have undertaken a course of
administrative and legislative acts contrary to these recommendations,
 and without having previously advised him.
2nd. That the Lieutenant-Governor has been placed,
without evil intention, but in fact, in a false position, by
being exposed to a conflict with the will of the Legislature,
which he recognizes as being, in all cases, supreme, so long
as that will is expressed in all constitutional ways.
The Lieutenant-Governor has read and examined carefully
the memorandum and documents which the Premier was
kind enough to bring him yesterday.
There are, in the record, petitions from several municipal
corporations and from citizens of different places, addressed
to the Lieutenant-Governor, against the resolutions and the
Government Bill, with regard to the ‘ Quebec, Montreal.
Ottawa, and Occidental Railway ’.
The Lieutenant-Governor was only yesterday able to take
cognizance of some of these petitions, as they had not
been communicated to him before he received them in the
record.
The Lieutenant-Governor, after having maturely deliberated,
 cannot accept advice of the Premier with regard to
the sanctioning of the Railway Bill, intituled * An Act
respecting the Quebec. Montreal. Ottawa. and Occidental
Railway’.
For all these causes the Lieutenant-Governor cannot