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 recom- 
mendations, 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 deliber- 
ated, 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