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The Conservation Commission was established that very year, with wide duties of investigation and recommendation. Under Sir Clifford Sifton as chairman and Mr James White as secretary it has performed valuable and varied service. The sea was given thought as well as the land. The fishing bounties already established were continued.
Recognizing that a backward and stagnant west meant failure for his administration he placed the department of interior, which had become a veritable circumlocution office, under the direction of the ablest and most aggressive of western Liberal public men, Clifford Sifton.
Clifford Sifton, then Minister of the Interior and Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs, during the winter of 1898-9, and a plan of procedure and basis of treatment adopted, the carrying out of which was placed in the hands of a double Commission, one to frame and effect the Treaty, and secure the adhesion of the various tribes, and the other to investigate and extinguish the half-breed title.
"Where are the law-abiding citizens of the town?" he asked of Sifton, who remained in the saloon. The dry little whisp of manhood had some spark of life in him, for he said: "In their beds, the cowardly hounds!" "They must know that this gang of hobos is threatening me." "Certainly they do; but they don't intend to endanger their precious hides. They would be well pleased to have you disabled."
It was never settled and comes up again to this day; but the point was the champion of Manitoba, Clifford Sifton, entered the Dominion Cabinet just as the Klondike boom broke. He saw the backwash of disappointed gold seekers. He realized the enormous possibilities of free advertising for Canada, and he launched such a campaign of colonization for Canada as the most daring optimist hardly dreamed.
Sifton and the government was advised that their support for the measure could only be secured if clauses were substituted for the provisions in the act to which objection was taken. To make sure that there would be no mistake that the substituted provisions should merely continue the territorial law as it stood, they insisted upon drafting the alternative clauses themselves.
These were: Sir Oliver Mowat, William Stevens Fielding, Andrew G. Blair prime ministers respectively of Ontario, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick and Clifford Sifton, attorney-general of Manitoba, who joined the Ottawa Ministry a few months later. Mr Laurier's administration was formed as follows: Prime Minister and President of the Council, WILFRID LAURIER.
The proposal was received with enthusiasm; yet, though its advocacy was continued by Lord Strathcona and Mr Sifton, little progress was made towards its adoption. After the Conference of 1907 preferential trade ceased for a time to be a living issue.
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