Mr. R. L. BORDEN. At what price would it be made?

Mr. PERLEY. In the United States, as the hon. member for South Grey (Mr. Miller) has said, they say the ordinary alcohol can be made for 15 cents a gallon. That is to say, if the corn is worth 30 cents a bushel alcohol can be made for 15 cents a gallon. To refer to Dr. Wiley, whom the hon. member for South Grey has already quoted, he claims that if the whole stalk is used you can make ethyl alcohol at one half the cost of the alcohol made from the grain alone. He says:

At the time the starch, the hardening, makes the complete grain, the cornstalk by analysis contains quite as much fermentable matter as the corn itself; and if that is utilized, as I have utilized it experimentally, it yields practically the same amount of alcohol from the stalk as from the grain. If you allow the cornstalk to dry up, then it will only contain a trace of fermentable matter. If the whole

stalk should be used at that period, it would yield about twice as much alcohol as it would when dry.

In other words, if the whole stalk was used, the alcohol would only cost one-haif as much as if it was made from the ordinary corn. It is for these reasons, which I have already stated, that the United States government sent these men to Germany to try and find a cheap denaturing agent, and also to try and find some method by which farmers and the people of the country generally could be allowed, with safety to the revenue, to make this alcohol on their farms in small quantities, so that the cost of transportation back and forth would be avoided, and they might get the utmost benefit from being enabled to make this alcohol themselves and use it where it was

made. For these reasons, I have great pleasure in supporting this resolution, and I trust the government will take it up as soon as possible, and try and find some praetical method of giving to the people of this country the great benefit that would accrue to them from cheap alcohol.

Hon. WILLIAM TEMPLEMAN (Minister of Inland Revenue). As I desire to make some observations on this question, particularly to present the departmental view on denatured alcohol, and as it is hardly possible to do it before six o'clock, I would move the adjournment of the debate.

Motion agreed to.

MOTIONS AGREED TO WITHOUT DISCUSSION.

For copies of all documents and all correspondence concerning the erection of the Ross rifle factory on the Plains of Abraham, at Quebec. Mr. Armand Lavergne.

For a copy of all correspondence and written communications between judges of the provincial courts and the Minister of Justice, or any member or official of the government, since the passing of Dominion Act 4-5 Edward VII., chapter 31, in reference to section 7 of said Act, or in reference to judges acting as executors, administrators or trustees of estates, directors or managers of companies, corporations or firms, or arbitrators, umpires or referees in matters of controversy, or engaging in other extrajudicial work; and including a copy of a circular letter to judges issued by the Minister of Justice, and referred 'Hansard' for first session to by minister in of 1906, at page 869, and of the answers of the judges to this circular.-Mr. Lennox.

For a return showing: 1. All sales of Dominion lands of 160 acres and upwards, in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, which have been made by the government, exclusive of school lands, since the 1st January, 1905, with the prices obtained, and dates of sales.Mr. Lake.

For a copy of all correspondence, with the papers and reports made by superior officers of the Department of Marine and Fisheries, or by Captain Wakeham, or any other person regarding the dismissal from the service of R. P. Dubé, second mate on board La Canadienne', also for a copy of the report made by the said R. P. Dubé to the Department of Marine and Fisheries regarding the fire on the 'Aberdeen,' on the 10th November, 1905.-Mr. Gauvreau.

For a copy of all applications for the lease of grazing lands within the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan, between the 1st day of February, 1905, and the 1st day of August, 1905.-Mr. M. S. McCarthy.

For a copy of all papers, correspondence, reports, plans and profiles, and estimates of costs, at any time received by or filed with the commissioners of the National Transcontinental Railway, or with the Department of Railways, respecting: (a) That portion of the

route of the said railway between the Quebec bridge and the vicinity of the Maine boundary. line, as the route for such portion has been approved or adopted, or respecting any suggested variations of the location of such portion of the railway; (b) respecting another suggested route for the said portion of the said railway between the points aforesaid, but passing by way of Lake Etchemin, and sometimes known as the Morin route.

2. For a copy of all orders in council approving, adopting, or such respecting any routes between the points aforesaid. Mr. Morin.

Mr. R. L. BORDEN. What business will be taken up to-morrow?