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it pté is?! Ill," " we; WE ur- miles" hid been opened, and Ptobnhly some eight millions would be re- quired to complete the work tn prowl no the u ht he could consuming". members "Id 51., country upon the old position Which he had been sailed upon to explnin. They he: met this union without knowing Whevher some portion. of their domestic funds mlaht not be required to meet the calls made Ttpon them with respect to railway aid, but they found that they had quite enough eur- pluis to enable them to meet those drafts, a hich . would otherwise have liters taken from their invested funds. Since this Province had acquired s "punts Grverranent in 1867. our expenditure hod 1ye.e my large and increasing, but the wat. '/ef1cy, id our linnncinl condition entitled Government to usist the public! institutions and nuke ample provision for other heads of the public service. The administration of Blithe and ttusvymnygPysrtt of ednontionel affairs tuning been ili'ii in our own hands, 1 " was thrown on our own resourcol to find moans adequate to meet the require. ments of the country in than 'respeots. They were now fully prepared to meet all Ike de mud: that would he made Enronhhem, and had a large surplus on hand. comm od the right of "ioruritu1atittg the Home and. the country upon the tstatement he had inst vtmutted, and said he could not, perhaps, better close tl on bysimplraakittg them to re. 22 he! that Mr Diseadi laid It down in one of " Ipudm nanny mm tn the Joe' of (bum-u in Buiasd, that the panama of all Gown: ts atsould be that the "Con- Iolidued n5 is .8 to be out up in p be: tnd never Hood for any purer. It 5." our "V -eb""'" -_-- l .gance its the Crown Lends Deputment. He the: ed that in 1869 the remsf.r.rtMqrydlt.trn sland- proper were #353,225; in 1870, 8552.- l 387; ia 13715 $676,193; and in 1872, by (what he termed the extrevagent ales of Crown Lands by Mr. Scott, it wu increued to $1,109,000, and be contended that this item was incoeaed by $280,000 from the and of land». He argued that instead of the expondihn'e forthe, wtyusf'mn'g the:: ul'ulll' ""r""""err"'"" ,Vwi- Ne He thought the Tron-are! ohonld hove com- tttl the income and expenditure with thst tte, the you! when the tuniituid Mao. do d Government was in power. m oon. I tendcd that the surplus was being yeuly decreased. During the exietenoe of the (in rnnient which preceded the present, the b was pus over three millions; now, as he was View to show, it had grown ss little as 8l?,Cht'00. The Trenurer had last you 601633;." no other Finance Minister had out done, when he took $359.000 out of the huh and classed it as first receipts. He had ' repeated the same. thing this you, by ,uking $277,000, and told the House that they Would "hove #100,000 to the good. ' Be clmrged, Mr. 'Ecottn with tpt, >i: the countFy should know that we 1nd 0 be, mount of exacts; it we: also right that tG oonntly should know the mount of our obligations as against those mote. H. chargcd hon. gentlemen opposite with sending garbled statements to the coun- try. While he admitted that the Province hid prospered, Stall not so much as it did some seen ego, it ad eleo to be remem- bered that hon. gentlemen had increased our expenditure to on enormous exam. m quite agreed that the cost ot public build- ing: for mnintemce and erection would otptarallr increase to some extent. but not no ducted tron It MI 95ml agdyducted, there would onlt rqmalg Si,085,7 O. ' " w_u right , He enormously " they had don: t? . tow you: past under the iiininisstrarMm, o hon. gantlm men. On the whole, .ho could not odngrat. ulato the country on its iinamsiat prospects, " - L- a... More: tn " WU "Duv- -- __ men. Onthe whole, he could I "late the wnntry on in tinnmsial u had been done by the Trw Ipeech, because, although they Ipend " much money as they I " - -2L'n thv miaht IN! I. Dy an. "'""'-l" not?!) was; although they tshut WM aiao pomblg guy .guj mini: is: the 7 h; CAMERON meaning: of _tle, Mr. UAunlhv'u "CT'-" meaning of the anoint of. $25,000, " appeared on page 19 ot the uhmetes, for the l Phrpole of being paid out P'! nuance to emigrants who hid arrived In 1873. Hon. Mr. CROOKS aid it was mounted for by the fact that some emigrants arrived I In 1873 who were not entitled to be psid their bonus until 1874. This item van to meet that expenditure, and I iunilar one appelrcd in the altimete- of Int year. He also explained, In reply to quantum by Mr. Cameron, that the emulate for the Central Prison was for the whole year of 1874. AA - -. '!A_ LA 'Ln h,. [1130]! WI! Lu: - "5.-" . Mr. LAUDER culled uttention to the ia. crease of the expenditure md the duct-cue of -- n,-__ 1 "ml. finmrtment_ crease of the "PEP""""" ..... -__ __ income in the Crown lands Deportment, showing that the t't,tttt of income to expenditure in that epsrtment hid ins.trrsyei,1 in n greet degree, and arguing that instead of a falling off in the expenditure In thnt pertioulu' for the coming yenr being at all probable, ea had been eetlmeted by the Treasurer, there would again be An incmse. Be contended that there was really no nut-- plus on land, but that the Province we! real. ly in debt. He else asserted that the pro- posed expenditure in the Crown Landa De- partment was $367,483, exclusive of Colo. 'iiAtionpoad.t, and would actually come " si_-..a Anna-e: hf thn asti- parhnent was Wuhan", -..--"__, - nizationiBouds, end would actually come within . few thousand dollars of the astl. mated income in the Department. He asked the Treasurer if he'wn not correct. l Hon. Mr. CROOKS enid .tut the hon. ( member did not appear to understand the effect of the figures in the eatimatea, and he showed that the eetimted expenditure was actually $27,000 lean than hut year, He also took occasion to remark that he did not any that the surplus at'the end l of the year would be only $1,600,000 il what he (lid say was that that amount of Invested capital would remain nt the credit of the country, even if ever} claim now outetanding were aid up. That is to any. alter paying more tEnn three million' to q the municipalities in peyment of the Munici- pal Loan Fund distribution, aid the full amount due from the Reilway and, there ( would still he $1,600,000 in the bunk in a. r, vonr of the Province, and two millions lying l in the fund: of the Dominion to the credit ot Ontario at interest. (Hen, hear.) l Mr. LAY DER complnined that the items l l had been changed end plnced under new i headf'in-hleh mode it wry dufieult to under- i etanlet' the elfect of the figures really } Md- we: unfortunate (hear, been): end. 1 ' such a. change enema not have, been made. The items should hove been left in the order in which they had appeared tor meuy years pet, and which members fully under- stood. . . . ' - It being nix o'clock, the House rose for i recess. l After recess the debAs we: resumed. l Mr, CAMERON Isld that, in the Absence of tho hon. Commissioner of Public Works, perhepe the hon. Treasurer could infdhn the Home if the $29,000 which eppeered to heve been void to Mel-re. Dickey, Neill & Co., and the $23,000_whioh had been paid to the Cumin Ger Company, were for work for which tenders were received. .' Hon. Mr. MVKELLAR (who just then the tered the House) aid that' the work thet that Messrs. Dickey, Neiil & Co. did we! not edvertiecd, but tendon were received for it, and that the work given to the We Car Company wee not tendered for, but they egreed to do it.,fttr the amount which was in the utimtenend the Govern. '. ment let them have h,tt the contra"? for the work me getting bind, end the Gov- ernment were enxionl to get the work done so that they conld deliver the buildings over to the Company "cording to. "moment. - -- _ a-...:l_ -- Be thou ht that when. the details were brought down it would We found that the work was done us chenply us it could pos- titsly hove been got done. ' Mr. WAMER0.N-Ao I understand that tenders were received from n number of. er- tl",.' or only from Messrs. Dickey, Nell: & o t Mr. McKELLAR said tut there - two tenders for the work referred to. Mr, Currie trudercd for the boilers only, while Messrs. Dickey, Neill, & Go. tendered tor both boilers nnd engines, nnd their offer bring tho_loweet the whole of the work was I give; to them. mama Wm . I .0 HVI Dun-w h"'""'". --- .. nah a change should St made. The items en left in the order had appeared tor may hick member: fully under- a few you: W" thes