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-_----, "r""-'-----.- W ..__- --r_--, m _ " LEtll8LATttgt 0F ONTARIO ----_---.-.- Second Parliament -Reeond 3638101 I - . - -- - --- Tucson, March i?',. ' Mr. SPEAKER took the chair at or, o'eiook. SUMMARY (JUNVICTIONS. On the motion of Hon. Mr. CROOKS th, order of the bill respecting summary 00, victions was discharged. MUNICIPAL LOAN FUND. Hon. Mr. MOWAT moved the, House int. Committee on the resolution respecting tin Municipal Loan Fund. He said if th, Government had failed to, please everybod '. they had failed because absolute hog loses was impossible. Mr. Blake's id, wmstotrurtri1iutrthe surplus according t., I . population, a $1.50 or $2.25 per head. "in; l the Government now thought that $2 a his"; was enough. He wished it to be distincth understood that the Government did mi? recognize any moral claim of the indebtw municipalities to have their indebtedness struck off. He believed that' the Governors": scheme had somewhat tended to weaken tin moral standing of the indebted munigimi, tics. He went on to recapitulate the Ch. planations and arguments which he ho i "rule on the introduction of the scheme I The, reductions made by the five cent and ' two cent rules, whether necessary or not were made by Governments supported In l hon. gentlemen opposite-Holi, ou-r-ar.', therefore the prrsent Government could 11-1 bccharged with the diiiiuulties growing out 1;! those reductions. The substantial flucstln" involved in the solution oi this matter was the extent of the ability of indebted muniui» polities to pay. As with individuals, their. was great 1 iiferencc of opinion among maul cipalitics as to their respective abilities to pay. As a rule it was conceded that muniui, politics were. not able to pay more than two cents on the dollar of assessed value over and I show what is required to be raised to mort i vulru t local expenses. Hc contended thd 1 thc, Government Were doing their whole flu-L} i when they applied to the solution of tin: i problem the five cent and two cent wales, an l, i that by the appl:c.uion as proposed of tire, l rules, the but measure of justice would 2...; I meted out to municipalities. The basis oi; aid to railways was fixol at $2,000 per mile, i with the exception of the Welland Railway, I which seemed to call for especial oonsidera. tion, and $3,000 per mile was tired as the proper ollowance to make in respect ot that railway. it was argued, with reference to thebonu,es given by municipalities to aid railways before the passing of the Railway Aid Act,that there was no doubt that had that Act been in force those bonuses would have been much less; and the Government lai como. to lib: conclusion that 81,000 per mile would be sutfrreient to allow under such cir- cumstances. With reference to the allow some to be made to municipalities who in? Income indebted by reason of public improvements of various kinds, their was much dilliculty in contriving an equitable arrangement. The deputy, tions which had waited upon him with reference io this scheme bad nearly all pressed ann him the necesaity of making i due allowances to municipalities who ba-l i crmstraeted gravel roads. But there was. this insurmountable difficulty in connection l therewith-that if an allowance were, made i to those who had built these roads, a simir I hr allowance would have to be made to I others in order to enable them to build, 1 and so to all the. nmnicipdities of the Pvc. i Vince. One advantage-he claimed for thei scheme was that thisittleturnt, Would be I lino]. (Hear, heal ) The debentures would 3 have to be redeemed, and at no futon ; eriod would the application of the 'P'" l, he required. The Government proimsro . I modify the scheme, as at first explairod in ', . this-that municipalities would not be ru- ' quired to accept debentures at more Him 1 their market values. Swine exceptional re 3 het was intended to be extended to Port" Hope and Birlin. It was proposed also lr, l modification of the scheme, as at first Iwo- i jected, that. power should be given tn 3 Utettecrtartt-Governor in Council to sell tl c ' debentures and hand the money over to the municipalities, if it was found that such a course would be expedient. lie eonclui.d ; his remarks by expressing a hope that the I scheme, as modified, would prove accepfm ble to the House and country, and that . thus this embarrassing problem would be