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cur defray the ambit WW0"! chargeable 'I, l ed thin Province. butin t1elritt '0. would prei . l thin not at 1"itpleie with the etatement 3 out of account laid if". them. He would l prefer not to recast" that account " all an , had part of the traaaotiott, for he conceived I , there were in titat "aumest very many g?" charger which could MI by any poaeibility i ' rr beniaintatmsd. Be "Milt it untenable, P, ' oi however, that the GOVIIIIment ehould elk . ' l " the Home to give I '0'. for the full amount "is one claimed by the Dominion Government, and M, . not hethought they ought tonetthet amount, Ns". ' l ' and airerwarda account iorittcthe houee. r md (Hear) m desired to make two oheerve. " ' iiortaonthamthnat" new before the home. ' in d One of there had ItClarence to the aum L'h"2 "' charged ae'payment foe education. That an tt amount war no lee" Mutt than nearl 8260,. an 't 000. Now the whole utimateoi that gala-aid! - t C', the name clear of education for the yearin m- r which they were entered, amounted to 301,- _ o 000, So that lot a halt yea the Dominion - . Government charged Iluroet at much an " 'Cd appeared that target s."p,tgt',,', Ir, during :- ' thewhcle ear. necom ecno . , hewae inclined g1'lllll"'lt'l1'l'lti,fn'gi. ' . ernment mutt have charged the Province a with euma " paid "lathe let July, which . were really applicable to armor: oi tne eer- l Moopeeeadinit that date. he eecond point , w, toiihiahttisiahsdttt reierwae the T J undrawn balanoee in the hande of the , '. . Dominion Government. Atanearlypericdoi F the eeeaion the Treaeurer had made a atate- - [l ment thattbeDomieion Governmentwouid "t pay intereet at the rate ot 6 per cent. per f annum on there undrawn baianoaa. thttiio. , t qutntly thie intimr'oiou had beenendoreed _ [j, by the Government, but ruddenly the other Cl, " day the Attorney-General admitted there ' had been no oorreporuUnos " all with the Dominion Government on thin eubject, and . that he wee ot opinion the Dominion Govern- ment would not allow the Province intereet q ' atall. Bothat it appeared the Provincial m Government had at tirat tuned to the 'ae .. generoeity of the Dominion Government with I regard to thin interest. No negotiations had to . been entered Into regarding it, and . , now it would probably be teat. From ', '" . . January, he found. there balancee amounted " to about $760,000, and for the I U", two monthe which would in a few . . u ' days 'Tptm,tuhttsreatonthtatuatwottid have C ' tl t been about $7,600. Looking at the lent halt 2 year'e eubeidy of 8760000, and aeauming . " tohavo been lying in their hande three [', _ montha, Ihe intereet from both there eouroet would have amounted at preeent to $19,000, " ' That wee not, in his eyee, an unimportant f, ' rum, and it wet tobe regretted thin Province thtt had not had the Nntiit ot it. By proper ar- " j', rangement before with the Dominion Gov- h' " f ernment the Government ot Ontario might . have tenured thin rum and had to much r . towarde the reduction of the item beiore the r " e hcute. ' . 2 ' Hon. J. S. chONALD maintained that I" 2 " from the relation in which they atood to the r 3 ' Dominion Government-aim ruddenneee with I I which they had been thrown into a etate of , 1nd-ndeiaoo.-it wan impoeeible for the Government to have paid greater attention A 3 to thin matter. lint the intereete oi the _ t' I country wereaa dear to the Government " 2 1 2 to "o member of the Home. and would u A, ' . tot 1tortegietrted. Negotiation would econ tt F becarried on in reierence to the amounte of? apoken of, and thou remaining in ithe hande m ot the Dominion Government. The Provin- 7 - oial Government would inaut--attd he hoped pr " rr not ys!tilr-ta getting fair remuneration for 2 3 J, the balancea which have been. and may be " J" q held by the Dominion. There were other tri " iteme. beeidca thoee alluded to by the ban , member for South Bruce, which It war ot 01 equal importance the Provincial Government t , ehould look to ; but an they were not going ti " to negotiate about there mattere pieoe- " meal, but en Ile, the matter in = " queeticn had not yet been taken t ', up. The Dominion Government mutt e unqueetionably yield the juet righteoi the b . .. Province; and, among otner thinge which y c. 'd would undoubtedly be inaieted on. would be ex ' that the Government of Ontario ehould ' , receive intereet on there undrawn balancee, w (Hear). The queetlon, an brought up by the b: , "/ hon. member for Bruce, war a email one e Indeed. ro Hon. Mr. WOOD raid that the name idea = thunk him, in relation to the amount ior agriculture, at had been mentioned by the al 1- hon. member for South Bruce, that on the ' let July large more would fall due ' but he fvAl found that the some mentioned were for the i 'f 3 current year and not for the previone year. An to the payment on account of education, '" ll," Bunyan 'Mgtttt that they ought a, opacn mu latnex more" r $801,300. From d;'l%t tiii L' next. we . ought not to pay out where than the amount ' w ot he mtimate before taken. ' yAr9.9r-'ryatuter, the balance r , paid by the Dominion Government plaeee ,W: the tuna! $50,000 to anawer all the demand. Ji T up toJcly, and the vote to be given by thin 3' 'f, Iagielature will be up to the let July aiter 1',- next t 2 '