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D 3 he ut Do £0 34 38 (L t geaX 4 of the surplus, on stated ; st leass half s million. would £° , the credit of the surplus after providiag r all expenditures. 'Thoe fack was that arly & million had been added to is T8® | ,,?em'utu re upon capital accouat dmring t3 jro.and--a half years of the QGoverament of | vis Province footed up 4o a very large $1"4 !; i0 ©509,8066,83. _ The entire expenditure of | i; Government for the half--year 1867, and | . 1805 69--70, ali told, would be, $4,775,015; | gd out of that largs sum, embracing thre0 us expoences of Government, nearly & jllion bas been laid out on capital account. i; would row call the attention of tis fouse to the statement of the appropriations . ', the year just closed, the actual expsadi-- . wre, the anexpended sums, and the over--CX-- «ndisures. W hilstheappropriations amount» ;1 009,550 08, theactualex penditure was 1,575,787 78, leaving unoxpended $409,« 5274, and over experded only $44,133 63. Je would also refer the Houss to the state nent in which the expenses of the Govers yert for_the last thres years woere com mred, -- In the year 1868 there was ex: sepded $1,183, 852 77;in i1869 the amount yas $1, 444,608 88; and last yoar, $1,575,-- §78,. Now, if hon. gentiemen or any 'er persons had taken the trouble to make icomparison of the expenses for the civil 'overrment of the country daring those ce years, they could hardly fail to observs thit cach sear they were necessarily in-- wessed, The Governor's office salaries te first yosar awounted to $1,106 65; the «wcord year to $1,200; and last year to $,200. Take the Government House ssintenance. -- The first yesr it was 2836 C0 ; the second. $2,459 46 ; ht year, $3,234 33. Take at ran im ary of the officcs--the Attorney-- General's for instance,. JIn 1868 the ex-- ppse of that office was $8,286 46. zon, \r. MACDONALD--No, no. Hor. \r. WOOD--I mean tho Executive Ccuneil office, the first year it was---- Mr. BOYD--I thirk the hon. Treasmir sas right, if the statement submitted to us @ to bo reliecd on. The exponditure tor sa-- vies of the Attorney--General's offics for §:9, asccording to it, is $3,286 46. tioa: M.. FOCD thought so, but it was which it was * «appropriations for the year | close of gh:a dkel;y would lapse before she | to place + financial year, but it was bektor | 'hey dif .tese sums in the estimates, for yend, _« not know how much might bo ex-- xo .d underthem during the year,. He _ ald venture the assertion, however, that e the end of the year, rotwitstanding, the | extravagance which was charged againg', k«e Covernment, without entrenching on the surples, which supplied a large revenue, that avother half million would be sdded to tha | a.rples, 'It might be sa'd that most of the i revenue that was to be received was unque:«-- tionable, and he would say thst it had been l made a study tozee what would be recaived | Of that coming from the Dominion thera .'O}l!.ld, beveral &V covld be no dougt. Deducting what the Dominion Governmenat would bave & right :o rs'ain, it would amount to $905,206, Ths son. Treasarer then read tho follo wing state ment of the estimated receipts for the yoar : Approvriation . per estima )c'l'r ++ * % «e ae aa e e wa # ® t Bal--nce cari? :d down....... The state ment showed that skhould the wholo amount beexpended there would be sufficient derived f zom revenus to dischu;{.;.!e all ha?ili ties wilihout entrenching e surpius Comparisions had been m:d?':S to tha asti. mates of last year, by those who had not carefully stadied the matter,_He would now HITCB. . +« 1¢«r ¥ w edtbn «eisw Cucks s a'snce due by D Jmini n .....+ ash Balance Sist December, 1879 cere 3 IP( 1 at tT. To Palance per tit matr c0o U. C. Buildis g 6 per cent io : yeatrs imteres Xrtion of Cebt m( paymest for the 81.472 5 In't 'orfgiltures Liceuses ... on Tity of Hamilton ar2,09f 4X ~...... 101 #choo' . Fund, cent, $9V 1,2416 93 nd Forests ccrmung or sale of Etatutes .. ...... t* Ontario Guzet te .... ef A gomd THXW ; ...... rivate Bills L Asser ibly.... sceived on Secretar y's Office Lavesatmeonts :-- it on $500 000 ' g30 000 00 «« 350,000 21,000 00 e £150,000 36,501 00 ept. 1,450,000 58,009 00 x 90,174 . 3,632 00 »*,5 per' cent i $312.70 ) or GO ! sXPENDITURE, 1871. _ per estimate for the ing from funds in the Domiloion -- Goverament, . Gramt t:mates for the current yoar, nt of the estimated receipts 74, ond the estimated ex seu-- car was, as a'ready shown, ving a balance to be carried M _ Thero were, it would bs jenue : snds M sarrrurririxsrs ++ %2 of Stututes .. ...... Intario Guzet te .... k'goms Tay ; .... .. ills L Asser ibly.... RECEIPTS, «.. .. $ $9 900 00 sx««x'X,11G. 874 80 Fund serest $1,106,872 80 on .. 201,6066 66 @ 50,000 00 60,CCO0 060, 5,000 C .9 75,(00 00 400,000 o0 $15,639 45 $8,343 48 45. 112 34 Debeon-- 2s . . +» $2,052,444 47 8,091 27 $K.5,226 2, 10 15,000 * 000 $2,0660,588 74 $2,0600,5383 74 6990,' W» 00 2 006) 00 85 ®0 0o #@;000 0) 2,500 00 20,000 0d 3,000 00 3 000 00 1,500 0) 25,030 50,000 €0,000 149,182 09 149,034 27 40,000 00 225,009 00 199,0086 33 1,0090 00 $8,001 27 000 90 500 00 | year. AuCtt $146,194 68; 497 87. But ' was $75,615 : | this ypear wad | ence of $4,911 {| in apite of th i ) oU 0) <\/ uM c'tlm'te" yotes 20 of the, © be Vop, T. Y UCILE ELE VJE d N L 11 1N e crease, but it would be found that thare was, in the salariecs and contingencies of the veveral Departments in Toronts this year, only about $1,000 difference from tho sala il:s of last yesr, 'This sum of $1,000 was occasioned by new services Then there was legislation, -- {There had been amost disouge-- reous comparison in this matter, Hr. BLAKE--May I ask to what the Treacurer is alleding? Hcn. Mr, WOOD said that he knew his Hon. Mr, WOOD said that he knew his businees, and if the gublis papers misrepre» sented matters, he bad a right to expiarn them, -- The estimatesg on the wholo hiu buen reduced in the mat'er of legislation this vyear,. There was asked for the present year ©146,194 69; there was paid in 1870,; §37,. 497 87. But what was asked for in 1870 was ©"5 G15 and what was to be askel for was .0,ti0 and wDas was vo0 06 askKO i i0n this year was $71,375----thera being a difer-- cnee of $4,019 in favour of this year. Yet, in spite of this fact, the Hoass was told that the experses ~of legislation this year would execed those o! last year by an cnor-- mous gum. -- The only new sams included in the vote for this year were some few iterms, such as stationery ard -- election exvecses £$30.000. --As to the admin's-- expenfE8, QoU,.UUU,. . £S 19 tration of -- justice, -- it seen that for some gervices the be fourd on page eght of the e:timnates jOr 1871. 'The administration of criminal jus. tice, for instance, in Algoma, Nipissing, and Parry Sound had been put down at $29,000 last year, while there bad been actually paid $15,000. Last year the estimate for the adi. ministration of justice kad been $194,059, while therse had been actually expealed £100,000. . As regarded the qpublic works and | buildings, there had beon a ro--vote of $300,-- | (00, leaving the Government ©500,000 for * zow works. Amongst the new works he [ might mention tie London Lunatic Asyium. |. 1t was a little remarkable that when the en--» tire vote for the public works now was com--« poered with the entire vote for the same || pmpose lsst session, $698,800, the increase all to!d, with all the re--vote, would only be ©51,708, There were some new works this | yesr; for instance, the Agricultural Colleys, | and a vote of $100,000 would be asked :or || this; and then there was the Collegs of Technology, which would cost $5,000; and | the ventrai prison, which would cast $1530,-- | CCO. Thsre was an item of $20,000 to cu« | coursge settlement on the Free Grant lands, which was $3,000 more than was asked for last eecsion. _ Then . there were the Lunatic Asylums, The cost for 620 patients in the upatic Aeylum, Toronto, was 2ut down at on'y $129 21 per head, ancually, while in 1868 it was $150 08. In the London Lura tic Asylum, for 500 patients, the estimate for the year was $56,000, or 122 a haad if the reverus were not deducted; il deductsd, * €1(8 per head. The cost in the London Asylum would be considerably dimiaished 2s the farm began to be developed, With regard to hospitals and charitles, the | Government had not felt justified in increas-- \ ing the amount voted to theso in:titutions; | in fact tho total had been decreared nyp ©2,250, the sum paid on account of the Ds 4 azrd Demb Asylum at Hamilton, which had © been substituted by that of Bellevilie, The Government regretted that it could not give \ creater encouragement to theso instita'lions, | A suggestion made last year that the grant:s should be made only on condition that the | respective secretaries should furnish informa-- | tion in the prescribed form, had been moss | successful in its results, in almost every institution sums far exceeding the Govern-- ment gravut had been contributed from local )| sources; ard this constituted to his miad )\ cnse of the most <~pleasing featurcs of '| the exhibit, Any one wio had visited )| any of theso institutions--the Housa of ) | Providence, the Roys'or the Girls' Home for ) | instance--would be interested in observing , | the fack that for a very smali outlay a large amount of good was being done, not only morally, but in training up physically the inmates of those institutions,. -- In feduca-- tion, there had been a small increase; but it ation of justice, it -- wou'd be en that for some gservices there had been a :y considerable reduction, and these would was thought by the Goverament that the progressive feeking of the psople with regard to e€ucational matters would amply justily such increass. The vote for the pre-- sent year was $380,305, while the total sum voted last session was $337,475, which was not ali expended; in some services there . being over--expenditures and in some under, expenditures, _ The chisf subjocts of in crease were an increased rate for high school education, a small increase in common schoo's, a vote of $5,000 for the en couragement -- of _ agricultural _ instrac«. ticn, an increasse of $3,000 in the | pormal schools, an increase o'° $22,500 | for inspection of public echools, on coli-- | leglate institutions $7,500, and for the rcouragement of what might be called high sehools an increase of $12,500; showing a total increase of about $40,000 in the year, as com» pared with the preceding one. With regard to unforeseen ard unprovided, such a fand was nocessary in this country. The purpose of it was to meet an over draft of auy ordi-- vary estimate ; it was impossible bo provent | an estimate being over--drawn sometines, Objections, he was aware, had been taken to this fond, but he could not se how they f | could get along without it. . Where it was Ei not provided, officials grew n:lto ttzfic%;iolofi ing his imates i er aAl of fixing high estimates in Ord@r «U 2010 0 the e:timates for of criminal jus-- | ed, ar d not a sbot left in the locker &t the end ' of the year, But under the S;ifeig Bhoegd 8 ~ | force, there was an inducement to rei«!} \RL3 & | experditure as much as possible ii'"ce the ||. | mistake to £099086 thit thore was ag io. || | vJeage in the Crown lanf's e-'ip:'hd;?ui?" s9 :n. { . eatim«to this year was $115,400 ,11&18 j{'w t 51 £80.465 for the year 1870 | The coucanmen | propescd of arrearages on Crown» ;!::-wyak.neflf' [ c , g cmmer c;h:;!ldlal)ds sould hare to l;ey'::*". 3 sidered, and additional expens i i curred. The total vote forpetheem;mr::ztbe in. | :. was $134,100. -- Ho had now gone throu hy: wl | -- estimates ; and in his endeavour to ogu is attention of the Houge to purfi;ulu;tetho j it was more with a view to diraest necd attention thereto that with a view t tf;-ew \ light thereon. His aim in drawing up tho . estimates aad placing them and thegc e th!e sons he bad before the country wa.soevll%;r y view simply to é)lace before the countr m true and correct state of the facts of ::h' l care, nothing being concealed, and the whole truth being given with regard to every st tee ' ment, whether it had been successfulyor ; 40 t He might say that he had never seen wuch comfilete'!nformation with regard to ev ":?1 { smallest item of expenditureb placed fin o . bsfore || ; the country, and he would never have d ' | it if bo had not felt that it was thege det,millg | which made up the grant azgregrise, ® _ Mr. FERRIER called the at'centi ' } hon, Treasurer to the fact vdafi,?ffi;(',ffif i( | ?'ed any reference to thq 'iniscellaneous' K md' ' i fin;{)::' ement and Mxpicipalities Ernd esti-- Hov. Mr. WOGOD said with firsat item in Cae mlscellanzouériizfia:? ts sum of $1,§%97 46 to reiviburse Jahn ML.S[--a 1 for cosks incurred by bm in ye Hamauo: ({'y they were incurred in contesting ce:g in { | qu stiong which he did not think ths Houss | wrould refuse to reimburse Mr. M L oov. Fio was . McLay for. as sorry that the voto of $1,000 to wards dofraying the expenses of the V::lun"eers at» | + tending the Wimbledon Rifle Match 'Was not \ larger. -- The vote of $500 in aid of the On-- | tario Rifle Association would be agreed to whils the aid 'proposed to be given t the ' Oitawa and Saguenay sufferers needed no j remark, Theitem for expenses of arbitration --$1,500---- was for assistance in making up re-- turns, &o. He would makethis further I'Gn?az-'v __] in referenceto the arbitration: tnatin a matter __| requiring iuch protracted investigation, it ap-- peared to him that there had been no undue ~\ expenditure, _ The amount involved was __| large, and involved grave consequences. The _ arbitrator for Ontario was paid, and the ser-- __ vices of the Dominion arbitrator had also . . been paid, but Ontario would have & claim | ; acainst Quetec for part of the expenses of | -- |_ the third arbitrator, and the Lower Province s | would at course have to pry its own arbitra-- > | ) tor. With regard to the Municipalities l Fund, the matter need not appear in the A |e9&1mates at a'il, but he thought it better . || that ali sums which bhad to be pald by the . ) || Government should come before the House. | ) _ In the caso of Land Improvements, tha sum ) _ ssked for was $290,385, which would be dis ; | tributed in the mauner indicated. He did , | not think that there was anything elso to -- ; which be need refer. The general position t \| tbat the Province cccupled 'was that |there i .| had been patd away--the Govarnmsnt not . !| having in fact conducted the government in . || trat. parsimonious way in which they were , || sometimes charged with conducting it-- > || nearly five millions of dollars, rearly a mil-- c || lion of which had bean expended on capital g || account; and while all that had bosn done, . || the Government had laid aside a consider. ; || able sum of money. Tho investments showed ,. || that in 1869, the sum of $350,000 was in L || vested, in o || 1869 the sum Of...............}}« $ 705,471 68 % do. Special deposite...... _ 687, 194 06 m 1870, do., . do............ 852,980 25 d mepapaprarkir 1. Making a total of.... $3,095,6415 99 1e \\ Tho Special Funds boaring interest, and s* | which might be considered as surplus, were wl | m # M opammmmmme officials and subordinates did mot care h )w much was expended #so long ag kept within t'l:e el:timnte. B6 Bsd, kno /4 ises where the whole sua s had g | o Th ooo n ug in Ao fif\??f{_bequpend_ 1 Making a totsl at the end of | w the year Of.., cce parese se rikints | In addition to this there was | depcsited on 18th January, | And the Premiums on Stock ' and Debentures held by the Government amounting t>... as follows:---- Patl art gave a grand _ surplus amounting to not less than $6,748,415 (Hear, hear ) The question of courso aros0 88 t> whas should be done with this large surplus? Some no doubt would thisk, and perhaps wiss> 1y, that a largo portion of the fund should be pormanently invested, which would give, as he bad stated in bis former finzocial speech, with other revenues which were not fluctusting, at least two millions of dollars annually for the public services of the country. Hse & ntended that on that sum all the needful services of the conutry could he performed, and £500,000 expanded annual-- \ ly on capital accountfor public works, Soms S OM 4CY' s«hat a large portion of legt'mient'of the su vlv)-o---Anea.m of interost ... * O 0 yplus withous $3,082,.769 04 Mr. BLAKE wiched to offer o remarks beforo the House went ni:tgrc?;: mittee. He regretted that the hon, Frea. surer had not pointed out at sreatsr longsh the present position of [this proviacs with the Dominion, and its position with reference to the public debt. In order t» have been made acquainted with this in. | formation it was necessary that they should have heard from the hon. gontloman wh: was the present state of theso special fands and the proportion of public debt which the 4' Province was called upon to pay, and tha; | they should know how that important bran :h stood in his estimation, There was another subj:ct on which he thougbt more informa tion might reasonably have been vouchsafod to the House--ho referred to that portion of the estimates respecting the increased sums propo:ed to be expenised in publ'c works, But the hon. gentleman had besn content with giving the House the bare figures. This would no doabt have been in terertizg if they had not alrsady road it, but as it was, the explanation was not very | mnovel and did not add very much t> tke stock of information already in | pessession of the House, (Hear, hoa: | snd ]auéhtcr ) As the hon. gertleman had | observed a degree of reticence with regard to _ this proposed experditure, ho (Mr, Bigke) did not intend to discuss it at length, \| though he thought it would have l\ been well if the hon,. Treasurer had enterecd \' tpon some explanation with regard to the sibject, With rsegard to the pfeasa.n': cons | irsst presented by the hon, gentleman as to the over--drafts and unrder--drafts, the Govern-- ment bad urged upon the House each sesston , their claim to its praise, on accounmt 6f this 1 non expenditurs of money grauted to thean | for public werks, but he was unable to dis 4 cern any just ground for lavdation, It | ceemed rather an cvidencs of mismacagome:; and misca'culsalion. one dollar upon its c&pz'!al. (Hear these observations, he begged to m the hon. Spsaker do leave the chair Atty. Gen, MACDONALD--What ha| that got to do with it ? Mr, BLAKE said that thoy all know that thke money came out of the pockets of the | [i z?tep'ayera; alldL'this attemps on the park of | thke Government of the Proviace was just as \ improper as it would be if the people pr> . posed to levy additional taxation, The hon. \ Treasurer kad prepared a comparison of the year's estimates, and had prided himself on it He (Mr. Blake) had taken up one of the items intr--Juced into the comparison, in | order to test it. He referred to the item \ well known amorg economists as " contin« geries" This item be found sot down at $21,883, in the expenditure for 1869, and es timated at $15,541 for the current year. He felt somewhat amazed at the statemeat, ard felt satisfied that this could not be so, On ' exsmination, ho fousd that the statemesi® was delibsrately cooked, the contingensiss for 1870 not including thoss of the @duc«-- tion office, which were included in those fos the previous year with which the compart-- on was mace. The total of the dopartment's 1 contincensies in 1870 was $15,541, white the | sire items is 1889 amcouated to $12,539 | being in point of fact $3 000 less than it was | last year. Ard yet this was this procious comparative statemen't. e n mcE e Je L aloy t o o CAKKE: wtren aainkail Atty,. Gen, MACDONALO --] though we were imposing the t Mr. BLAKE asked if the rey.General reslly thought any -- difference, -- it was that the Government did not lav but it was none the less true th bad to be levied, 'They were a the toxes wore levicd at Ottawya did sout duppbrevapdy ty ~OC C Y Mr. WOOD said this matter was poiate3 out by himself in his finsucial speech. P Mr. RLAKE--Where ? Mr. WOOD--In my financial speech. . Mr. BLAKE--Why the hcu. gentlaman has scarcely finished his Enancial speschi,and | has not pextioned it. | Mr. WOOD--Does the hon. gontlaomai | mean to cay to say that 1 did not say tha'> | the educsiional contingencics were Includsd | in the calculation for one year and cnot in tho | other? i We\ Nens n in l t at d Akask U Mr. BLAK rever kesrd t guch statemet never msda presence, '3_55 € --the unforeseen fund was ® the present way in which it He observed an increas> in ture of the Governor's Houss. try was not only put to A 12 construct this building, 'bat pay large sums annually f'(;_rt 1 Eu. O1~ LenondifV er mido ary oul sence, and, so far as With regzard to t t at ACDONALO--It is not as | imposing the taxes. asked if the hon, Asto~« My thought this mrvie . Tt _ was quile> trie zent did not lavy the taxes, the less true that the taces & _ 'They woere all aware that svicd at Ottawa. LACDONALD----What hy e ol Ee ons n td I mean to say that he y such statemeut in my far as I am aware, not at 1 to the comonrative state mean to sa en, gontloms d I mean to such staten to move e increassd 1 in publ'c n had besa e the bare V¥q mact! L3 "MeUn % i B oi :t n y Sss