VETERAN LEGISLATOR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19626, 3 May 1927, Page 12

VETERAN LEGISLATOR.

LATE SIR CHARLES TUPPER. LONG AND NOTABLE CAREER. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] VANCOUVER, April 6. The last survivor of the Cabinet of Sir John Macdonald, first Prime Minister jf Confederate Canada, has passed away, ,n the person of Sir Charles Tupper,- who died at Vancouver, after a brief illness Sir Charles gained some international note through representing Great Britain, as Canadian Minister of Fisheries and Marine, at the arbitration conducted in Paris in 1893, respecting the Bchring Sea seal grounds. The contentions of the Dominion of Canada, in respect to the conservation of the fur seni industry, were upheld, and h.-ighthood was conferred on Sir Chaiies, in recognition oj his services. It was Sir Charles Tupper who, as Minister of Justice, made the celebrated "remedial order," directing the Manitoba Government to set up separate schools. The Privy Council had found that the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba was suffering under a grievance in its claim for denominational schools, under the terms of the British North America Act. When the Manitoba Catholics exercised their right of appeal to the GovernorGeneral for remedial action, Sir Charles Tupper took the Ministerial responsibility for granting their requests. The issue became of major importance in the ensuing general election m 18d6 ; when the Tunpers, father and son, and members of the same administration, too* the responsibility for tins policy, as a matter of honour, thereby sacrificing nruo of the Protestant Orange support which the Conservative Party had hitherto beeu accustomed to receive. Ihey vrere swept out of office, after being at the helm for thirty years, since the inauguration ot the Confederation, except for a brier interim. Sir Charles Tupper came to Vancouver, and retired from public h e. Sir Charles was accustomed to tell good story against InmseL. The est member of the Macdonald Cab.ne* a Ottawa, he was als° captain oi trie Ottawa Cricket Clob. On one occasion, when the Philadelphia team was at the capital for a two-days match. Sir Chant* said to the Prim" Minister: *nn will excuse me. I hope. ?rom the Cabinet Council this afternoon, Sir as we are finishing our mitch with Philadelphia." "Certainly. Charlie. said the Prime Minister. 'T.v all means finish the match. Great ?anv», Done more for the British Emmre than anything I know. Bai-'lon t bother to come hack to the CaHn®*- The cr.c. e v ...K public never know for n quarter/f a century vrhv the popular captain o. Ottawa did not -'irn up on the secorvt day of the match.