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4 / n 1 L 0 2 0. .. _** papor, and so o~. The itom Of advertising was one which the peogle would make no complaint about, for the value of extonsive advertising was {fully re-- wognized in every dopartment of trado in ths country,. The hon, member for Lincoln hai | stated that he would carp at the Pablic As. counts ss much as possible. Ho (Mr. Par ; doe) would rathor that the hon. member ; would point out any items of expenditure to which he tock exception, and have the n | discursed before the House :gon their morits. : instead of taking an unfair vantage of tha Government by sending statements before ' the country 104 in accordance with the facts, (Cheers.) Mr, SEXTON thought the camparigons 'institnted by the hou, member for Souta Grey were most unfair and altogethor unten. able. To compare the expenses of Gov-- ersment in 1870, when the syatom was first _ _being initiated, with 1873, when the busi-- Mr. CAMERON said that implied that romo member upon that (the Opposition) side of the House had done so. It was very unbecoming in any hon, momber to cast & reflection o? that kind upon the character of any hon gertleman in the Chamber, and then try to got out of the difficaity in that wmanner. If the hon, gentleman reiterated his statement that some hon gentlemsn had been cuilty of an action of that descriptioa, the Bouso should know to whoam hs rafer. red. _ ,. Mr. BOULTBEE spoke at some leagth, ob jecting to the argument of the membor for South Victoria, and holding that if any hon gentleman saw an item in the Pablic Acsounts which required explanation, he had a right to dcmard it upon the floor of the House All members were not members of the Pab-- lic Accounts Committes and kad not the opportunity of investigating these itoms, Ron. Mr. PARDEE defended the houn. meomber for South Victeris, who had only said that members of the Committes of Pab lic Accounts should not bring up itexs in the House which were under discussion and inveatigation before the Comumittee, He di1l zot gay that those who wore not members of the Committee should not discuse items in the Accounts, Asto the charges of increasing the expenditure preferrol against the Gov: erament by hon. gentlemen opposite, he was p:?ned to show that the increass of work had beon largely in excess of it. In the first place, he pointed out that in the Patont Oflice a very large increase l.a1 taken place in the work. In 1870 ths number of patents issued was Cll ; in 1871, 1,923; in 1872, 2,673; and in 1873, 3 402 (Hoar, hear ) Such an increase in the amount of the work must necessarily entail a very great incroasa in the expenditure under that head, which he would have hon. tfient.lunen to know was actually $344 more than it was in 1870. That increase was in the interesst of tho country, and accounted for fully onc--Giith of the additional stationery required in the Crown Lands Dcrutmont. Then with regard to the number of letters registerad in tho Crown Lands Department--and all lattor were zo registered--in 1870 . thore wer: 15,478; in 1871, 17,380, in 1872, 21,614; i 1873, 24 618--showing an increase of 9,60) in 1873 over 1870. Ffia hon. frionds opso aito might draw all the comfork thay could out of that exhibit. (Hear, hear) Hon. gentlemen could never expect that such an | imcreese of business as that r:prosont:d could have been carried out withous a large increase in the ataff of workers asd goncral expenditure, and the only thing that astna-- ished him was that it was not much larger, (Hear. hear.) Then there was postage, which f 1869 was $448 96 --and he made no charge of / exravagance against the Governmen of that day upon that score--was in 1873 only $450 ----(hear, hear)--$1 04 more than in 18059, when hardly half the amount of business was done in the Department. He might go on in the same way,and show how every spssiss of work had increased in similar proportioni throughout the whole Dapartmnt. Then, so far as colonization roadg were concerned, in 1869 there were 83 miles of new roai made, and 47), repaired ; in 1870, there wara 79 nvles of new road mado, and 203 repairod ; and in 1873 there were 235 miloy of néW@ Yoia mait, and 357 repaired, (Cheers.}) This showed more than three times the rumber of miles of now road built in 1873 as compared to 1870, with a vast in-- crease in the number of miles ren~'~* pases * neu«--® gil;;;::;' Elsetrll?f ve been * giu85 n'L.ub_g_l: of. Atd Hop. Mr. McKELLAR said he had n said what was attributed to him by the hon. member for Esst Toronto. What he hai eaid was, that they could find no chqu against him in tho Pablic Accounts that he had sold himself to one railway comiany for $14,000 and afterwsrds transfcrred his allo-- giancs to anothar for $5,000, expended upon education was $351,000; in 1873 it amounted to $463,000, or an exsessof $111. -- (Hear, hear) Upon colonization roads, an item which hon. gentlemen would not condemn, tho present yerr thero were $145,000 :Icnt as compared to $55,000 by the ' Macdonald Administration in 1871, (Hear, hear.) In the four items to which he had referred, there was an increase of $427,000, as compared to the sums ex-- pended for the same purposes by the former Government, and he nyoinbeg out that the Estimatos for 1874 o y excooded thoze of 1871 by some $35.000. (Cheers.) On *the other hand, he would like to havo saen the Treasurer show the likelihoo4 of a Jdarge surplus instead of an actual deficioncy of revenue. aw compared to exg:m_liture, which was the practical result of his exhibit, From their past historg, howevar, he had no reason to think that hon. gentlemen opposite would do better, or, indeod, quite as well, or that, if they had the opportunlttl{, they would be one whit more careful as to the oxpenditure of the public money,. (Chears.) _ Mr, CUMBERLAND could not rafrain from mfllying to tho statement of the previ-- ous speaker, that hon, gentlemsen on that «ide of the Housas had never bsen advo: _cates of economy and retranchment, Ho rs-- _ garded the fact of theirhsving supported the %ovemmeut of Mr. Sandficld Macdonald as sufficient proof of their advocacy in this res-- pend: ceeded that of 1871 by $31,000, and last yoar exceeded that of 1872 by $612,000. This, bowever, would be accounted for by the increase of work in the departmeonts, and the greater amounts spent upon publis works, For instance, the Sandficid Macion ald Government in 1871, spent $430.000 upon public works, while the present Gov-- erament, in 1873, spont $544,000, an exsass of $123,000, (Hear, hear.) In the former year the expenditure upon Immigration was $57,000; in 1873 it was $159,000. (Hear, lhear.) In 1871 the amount scesed of a horse, cart, and harness. He congratulated his hon. friends upon their newgbom zeal for economy and retrenchment, for he had sceen other days with them. Notwithstanding all their professlons, however, he foubted their sincerity, for they were in hearty accord with, and gave hearty support to,'a Government which when in power at Ottawa was the most corrapt and extravagant we had ever seen in Canada. (Cheers ) When did these gentloemen show a dosire for retrenchment or economf 1 (Hear, hear.) They made a great deal of c?ita.l out of their short connection with Mr. John SandGeld Macdonald, who was certainly a most prudent "financier; but the days were when these gentlemen wero viclently opposed to Mr. Mac«fonald when he proposei tgl:ntke some reforms in that direction. (Hear, hear--) Notwithstanding Mr. 'Macdonald's pru-- dence, however, he found that the diference between the expenditure of his Government in 1868 and 1871 amounted to no lsss than $632,000, while the expenditure of 1872 ex Hon. Mr. CURRIE commonted upon the petty.character of the charges which hon. 'gentlemen on the other side of the House.were continually bringing urfi against the Government. They had act y found that somebody got a card table ; that the trave: ing expenses of the Commissioner of Publi : '%'o:rs amounted to so much per an num; and that the country had become pos-- pect, Ho condemned the comsuming of the time of the House by entering ujpon insignifi-- cant details and paltry mattsra, to the aban-- donment of morse important matters, The policy the Government condemned in their opponents was pursaed by them whilst in Opposition. He regrotted that the accounts of the Treasurer were so deeply embarrassed, arnd felt that a portion of the surplus should be put by, for with our hcrAdng expendi-- ture he thought the country might uitimately be brongh&to direct taxation. -- The Goverp-- ment oug)it so to limit its expenditure that each year th':ly might reserve an amount with which to reduce the debt by which the country was oppressod, He hoped the time w t U