Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1884 — ANTI-MONOPOLISTS. [ARTICLE]

ANTI-MONOPOLISTS.

The Manitoba Troubles—The Dominion Authorities Threaten to Dispatch an Expedition Which Will Quell All Disturbances. [Ottawa (Canada) Dispatch.] Manitoba members are threatening serious consequences, if the Government does not accede to their demands for the cancellation of the monopoly clauses in the Canadian Pacific Railway bill. They had a secret convention to day; at which It was announced that unless the Federal Government relieved the province Premier Norquay would dissolve tbe local Parliament and form a coalition government with Greenway, leader of the opposition. The Ottawa Government has forwarded instructions to the Manitoba authorities that if any bloodshed or serious disturbance of any kind should arise out of the existing discontent in the Northwest the local government would be held accountable for such. The local government has replied that the- Dominion Government is responsible for all troubles that exist. Heretofore little attention was paid to the reputed discontent tty legislators, but it is now bieved With much alarm. In the event of any disturbance, the federal authorities will dispatch an expedition to the scene of action to quell it, the cost to be deducted from the provincial subsidy.