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money nor a st tion hereafter. | __Mr, LAUDER contended that the motios | of Hon. Mr, Blake with reapsct to the dis ! tribution of the surplas was a procadent fo | the motion it was endeavoured to prove on | of order. _ Hop. Mr. FRASER quoated a case in th ' British Parliament boaring npon the subjes* and contended that the motion was out o We are compelled to hold over the ra-- mainder of the report. PUBLIC ACCOUNT3 COMMITTITEG day at ten o'clock. Mr. N. F., Dickey, of the firm of Dlokey, . Neill & Co., contractors on the Canteai o. son Works, was tho ouly witness examinsd In reply to questions, he satated that his firm had a contract at the Lanatic Asylam under the Sandfic'd Maclonasald Goveram:1t, as well as for tho new Hospital The amvint of the latter contract was $2.509, an1i tha former $23.500. The contract on the Hos pital was entered into previous to Confedara-- tiop, ard the work was in progress when the Sundfield, Macdonald Gorsornment . was formed. The $23 500 contract was for iran materisl and castings conuected with the Asylum, and,'so far as ho was aware, thare never had been any advertisoment for ton:-- dors. _ The firm were doing work at the has-- pitals of the Asylum at the tims, and wit-- ness spoks to Mr. Carling about being allowod to do the work on the wings at tic]sams prlees as were being paid t> his firm for other work,. 1t was afterwards arranged ba tween Mr. Carling and witness that the prices should be modified with regard to the particular item of verandah bars, and that they should be at sight instead of ten cents per pound. 'The iron required was arrangsd to be purchased in Enagland by spacl i1 agreo. < ment, and was of the exact size. EE; cour!d Hop, Mr. FRASER sald it woul! be absaurd to _ suppose that _ this reeointion could pass and no logialatian abou'd follow. The case quoted from ths records of the Dominion Parliament wou'!ld have an entirely different effest, and would result in the stoppage of proceedings ty ap-- propriate money, instead of leading to the appropriationapf any,as in this case. Mr GIFFORD contended that the mation was out of order, Mr, CAMERON said this moation was mere expre--+ion of opinion, upsa which hoa gentlemen opposite could act or not as thay pleased, and it was neither appropristin« money nor a step in the direction of legisla Mr. RYKERT roferred t» a casoin th Dominion Parliament where the Sosike: roled a motion in order of a simiiar kind, on the ud that it was a more expresaiin 0 opinfi and did not presums to approoriat aby money or was a step in the dirsction o' legislation bures{tor. aof Confederation the recessity Of 210 CulS n had cited was recognized, and that provi«i was made to mest it Ha considered ta: order overcame the one referred to by th-- hon. member for Lincoln SedMreei SEOEaRET OOEA NOs P Pn a k not tell exactly what parsentage of profit | was made upou the work in r\ues'.i'm; thought the castings and iron were laid dowa at tha work for 24 cents per pound, as fron was cheap at the time ; aud at any rate the | purchase was a very fortanate one. There was no tender put in for the work ; thore | was a verbal agreoment with M:,. arling, | and afterwards a contract was entered into 'The contracts were in writing, and could he produced if required. By Hon. Mr. Fraszr.--The firm at that time got 4c per pound for castings, and foc | the window bars and sashes 12}c per pound. |\ He thought this was corrast, but%eea did not | quite recollect,. Sash weights wers got for | 3c per gonnd, but they were ol the vory | cheapest material. They finished the $23,500 \ contract in the fall of 1870, ho thought. ' 'gznayalco built a steam engine for the Sind-- | Macdonald Governmeont, which was used \ for the purpose of pumping at ths Asylum | That was not included in the contrast ro-- | ferred to, and was advortissd for terder. | He believed the tonder of his firm was the | lowest, being about $900. Hs had from | time to time been accustomed to do general |\ jobbing work on that building, and was paid WroxEsoaiy, Maroch 11. The Committee of Pablic Ajsounts met t It being six o'clock, the Houss took by the day and by the hour. He first did work under the presont Government in the fall of 1872. It was work in connection with CROOKS nldhth\t. at the tim ity of tre culs h nd that provi«i | cations .coonp_mfl; it, asking them to . | furnish a tender forlfiu steam--boilers, cast-- | ings, and other works in connection. The latter was official, from Hon. Mr. McKellar. The firm to which witness belonged gave in a | tender, and so did Mr. Carrie. _ tie believed | his firm tgendered lowest[ and they got the work | accordingly. Mr. Carrie was & bailer--maker, ; but did not make castings himself, Witness | was under the impression that ho must take | estimates from those who did make castings before heYwould be enabled to make his ten-- der. -- The firm of Diokex, Neill, & Co. did | other work on the Central Prison besides the | engine reforred to. _ They built some iron columns necessary for the alteration of the buildings; they also fired the han%ers and shafting in their places, That would have heen tendered for along with the other, but the building being incomplete it was impos-- sible to say what would be requirad. It was therefore agreed that they should do it under the suporvision of the Government Inspector of Machinery, and was considered in the same category as ordinary repairing and job-- "ha Central Prison, and they had also contin-- uned to do gononl jobbing work at the Ag- lum as under the preceding Government, He 'houglrl't.:he first work they did on the Cen:-- tral Prison was under the contract for the al-- toration of the buildings.-- They also con:-- tracted to build the steam--engine, shafting, and some other work of the same nature, There were tenders called for'in respact of the ltoam-eu&ingwignels having received & . lotter from the Dopartment, wm% the apecifi-- bing. He believed, now that the work was finished, that it amounted to about $20,090 altogether. He was unable to say what amount of that had not baon tendered for The Government Inspector, Mr. Banks, kept the time of the men on the portion of the work not contracted for; he reported the time to the firm; the men were paid accord-- ingly, anrd the amount charged to the Government. Witness and his part-- pers did work in connection with the water aupply at the Oontral Prison to the amount of $9,000 or #10,000 ; the total amount for that work and the other to which reference bhad ijast been made woald be about $29,000. The work in comnection with the water supply was done under ten-- der; he could pot say whether they had been advertised for or not, but he rather thought not. It was an extcusion of the existing system of supply, and was given to them because they h.g been doing the work and bad the patterns of the on}hul system They did not build 'the original engine, but | they replaced it before Confederation, same seven or eight years ago he thought The contract price for castings was 80 par pound at the Central Prison works Most of: thein were epecial castings, and the price of mak ing the patterns had to be insladed. Taay were getting 10;0 per pound for wrought iron work, and the engine, boilera, shaltins &o, -- wore -- similar to _ the sam: articles _ enupplied _ to the. Sanifiald Macdonald Government at the Asylanmn Thns price of iron was lower whea they took the contract from Mr. Oarling than ever it hai been before or gince, in his experienss Wi nees then produced a statement of pricas of the varicos materials used in his busicsss during the fall of 1868 and the beginning of ' 18069: i~g teon $22 t> $22 50 per tm, bar iron. $2 20 to $2.25 per 10) parinds; b aier plates, 3 centa pr pound;sh--ots $#3 2# per 100.pour dx; L--high coal, $7 50 per con; a=d wages $1 5) to$1 60 por day -- Ha.a's>r <u'>-- |\ mitted th -- follown v state nent of prices dar ' mgflthe f_a'l_ of 1872 and the baznaing of | 1873:--Pig iron, $16 to $50 par ton; ba-- iron, 84 to 4 cents per paun'; plates, 5} ga 51 | cent. par prund; shats, 6) sants par pouad; hh"ub_coal $3to $9 per ton; and wages $185 | to $2 25 per day _ Any advanrce in thoir ton-- ders were accounted for by tha in~creasoi prices shown by a _ cogaparison of the -- above _ statem»nts The -- pricas . charged to the Government wors the | regular trade prices, waish were charge1 to all their customers--sven those wh» were in the trade themsalves They hai done work for several railway compani», {jaad e--pecially (or the Northern -- Extcusion Raid-- 'my From this latter|Gomprany they charg-- ed six cents per prmn1, anl eight of the gieces weighed 8000 pounds Ha hi rought the account copy bank of tha firm along with bim to show to any m--m>sc s the Committeo who might dasire it that h» was correct in stating that the Goveramei; were only charged trade p ices and in many cases less. This applied to all it--ms of wa--k d meso far as he kaew _ Witness than suh-- mitted a long list of well kaowa firm: for whom ho and his partuors in business hi done simiar work. and to whom they s1p plied similar articles to thaso faraishad for the Central Prison at the saime pricas Among others there were Taansoa, S nith, & Sons, J. B @mith, Mc Murray & U)., 'Ml_m__d;e & Ca, John Ross, & Janss