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0F LORD DUWWRRIN. 
upon the report of the Committee, the. pressure upon 
*he ministry becanıe so great, that the Premier, Sir 
Tohn A. Macdonald, was obliged to resigen. The Hon. 
Aloxander Mauckenzie was then called upon to form a 
ministry. The new Premier, in order to test public 
opinion. in regard to what had taken Place, asked the 
(Governor-General to dissolve Parliament,  Tho request 
Was granted, and another general election held in Jan- 
wary, 1874, which resulted in the return of a very large 
majority for the new ministry, 
4. In the session which followed it was provided that 
the Pacific railway should be Proceeded with by the Gov- 
ernment, and that those Portions mare necesssary for the 
opening of the North-West should be built first. A law 
Was passed which changed the manner of taking votes at 
elections, "The ballot was to take the place of the old 
System of “open voting,” Louis Riel had been 
veturned for county in Manitoha, and coming to Ottawa. 
took the outh of memhership of the House of Commons, 
He was, at the Same time, a fugitive from Justice, for a 
“rue bil!” had already been found against him by the 
yrand Jury in his OWN province, as one of the murderers of 
Thomas Scott, Riel was thus an outlaw, and debarred 
from takinı his senß in Parliament. A motion was there- 
fore passed °Xxpolling him from the House. Riel Acd the 
Country. Lepine, however, was tried for the murder of 
Scott and SONtencad to death, but in answer to petitions 
which were Presented for his reprieve, the (overnor- 
General changed the aeNtence to imprisonment, and sub- 
sequens banishment from the country ; and Riel and 
öthers were included in tho deeree of banishment. ©. 
his latter yenr 1 Ta Ihm Crawford, Lieutenant- 
Governor 1. = = "oranto, and was sucesedec 
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