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°$ "akane * _ ul y '.' eeagale 2 o0 © ' (\ tw P y encR L" 7 f y e e o They had been endcavouring, however, t'; Je _ . 7 4 e s | xry on the business of the country with a oys thought that the question of whether or not f ooni tl:;xdlv,r n.l:o(ll."se'l' ;. lt'l;e interests of the } K | we h;dfl: sn:glnl was not so important a one * req e r the busine as whether their administration of affai $, the larger thecost of the s:g:fl' req:ix:d. 1'].,; been wise and economical; an?l it w:: lxlx::: ; ' :::tb'o':n mi't o:;o the lllll:rovementg which tll;e pl:soto:h the Treasurer to be so carefual to A -- e as shown show that there 1 1 end of his statement of 187:!." t:}';l:r:t :}:; if correctly given',':o;i(lll:%:'.v' t!l'::.tl.m fiHg;ug;é % j been conltl}lcfid and completed since the 1st not think that the Government should claim | . 14 of Jal 7 T d July, 1867, no less than 1,110 miles of rail. credit because tl;e resources of the coun-- | : :l"i.' which were estimated by Mr. _trrg were producmi large sums of money. | # wi(t'h e:::rt_h :: flOOIt $26,282,709, Not . ° dit:&u::t:gn whas w etlliler the normal expen-- | the ons dhifichitles mhish ht suscotaded cryaaeat" Whe repsizer "had. lott ous of his ' & urrounde s ut 0 | railway enterprises, it appeared that duri calculation some of the expenditure on capi-- | 1875 upwards of 186 miles of railroad h:g talaccount and extraordinary expenses, but p been completed at a cost of $3,806,163. The these were nearly always the same in the U | r':lhb.e showed that since Confederation there tsfp P::"g':lt"'y Estimates, always constant ; f sJ been su incroase . in tho :mil ey ways to be accounted for. It | Province of up wards of 1,390 mil QE: lo:v:lhv.- was not fair to make out a small surplus ing an expenditure of $30,000,0000. _A large | f;;'lm :h'"PPO'Gd reduction of these expenses, proportion of the prosperity of the Province f en they were very likly to reach theamount P since 1867 was to be attributed to the large of the income. He thought thatfrom the state-- $ un;un: of money brought here from abroad i';fi:'b'zf'm" 5;"1- Tr::;urerul;t ;aould :ot be 0 , and put into circulation. The influence of ' e coun@ay WO ve_ to To ' that expenditure had been felt enrywl:r:; sort to direct taxation, _ He contended that i it had been felt in the increased capital of ubrens proparey shon as na t poirn Leuds the banks, in all departments of busi-- ment property, such as the Crown Lands, lfleu.so ti'm' his election as member :h',m;'%h&"t) t:l' 1;"""'"' had just as good -' or South Oxford, he had bsen 1 rig e placed as assets as some of those ; understand more tl'loroughly tnen pr:ire:: which the Treasarer had so included. He con-- | that had been made during recent years in sidered, too, that it was very unfair to reckon : the products of the dairy. While depreszion as an asset, or in making out a surplus of [ has prevailed in the country during the past the Prov3noe, funds in the hands of the Do« ? tim years in the lumber trade, a good deal of :;""n ('z;'ch"mo °t:rti°"l':"§h" '({" in m:l"ufv ¥ the financial difficulty which had ari vendive 4 paid in and was 4 been overcome, An;y mat:ly 070!"0'0::: h:d getting "f"m back again, Nothing should be | the increased product of the d:nr)z :'d:ft m:; c:in nste tthexoept oo o tlage 6 the large _ harvost, and th fai onest productions of the country, Many > price which cereals had re:liz(od. 'l'lexe Ho:al; | things which had hitherto been large sonross |ap might, indeed, coincide with the remark of l of revenue were now nearly, if not quite, un £ hiz flomour the Licutenant--C:overnor, that productive, such, for example, as the Crown A W although we have been suffering equall ; with Lands. It was now costing more to open up & 6 the United States from a de;rossed state of To m oie minrrids 'Tor ks Spiiiive god ' trade and other industries, th: Province had and Otlh erwise provide for the comfort and 4 been bleaged with anabundant harvest, an 1 had f;"e:;'fi';d of &0" selttlerl 1 than -- could ' | thereby been relieved to a considerable extént | HMagdt "in mthe -- Hook e isbrICUs of ¢ ':fih IP | from an equally suffering condition, A good Province. The fimberyof 5, i: vl:o a | [ deal of our present favourable condition aiso f o ue teooare M 4W P j o rapidly disappearing, and #o the incomg ) y might be attribated to the increase in our from that source would soon be at an end. | U cereal and dairy products, and he was aston-- He next referred to the timber sale made b & tahed to find the extent of the new progres: the Covernment, saying that as the sal eh.g P sive industry in dairy products, The ex-- been _ made Cader . Tsite rg '-el:nts:ionl } Korts of cheese alone through Montreal and that many of th E* i t i F Au y o e purchasers intended (if 6 ew York amounted to $4,000,000 annually. they had not already done so) getting the & l,arge returns were also obtained from the ~ _ Court of Chancery to quash the sale. He be-- t proc uction of butter, and upon those sub-- lHeved,and the Attorney--General as an equity t jects he was now qualified to speak, for he lawyer and an ex--equity judge knew, that £4 reprerented a county which was not ex-- | these purchasers would have a good ground y ceiled in dairy products. He was afraid he | upon which to get the transaction undone, 4 fg had somewbat wearied the House by the He differed entirely from the policy of the |° J length of his financial statement, but it was Government with regard to immigration, H necessary to oifer the remarks he bad doue, s 'They were paying expensively for getting I| and as he did not often exhaunst its imm{crants to come into the Provincs,and no f patience he hoped the House would pardon care was _ afterwards _ taken g:, en-- o him on the present occasion, He had en-- sure their actual settlemont in it, '? deavoured, as Treasurer of the Province, to or to keep them from going into the United & present such a statoment of its financial af-- States. where he believed many of our bonus-- & fairs as ho hoved would enable all hon. ed immigrants were going. . He did not 1P members to fully understand it ; and he think the arrangement bet ween the Province 1 hoped no member of the House, and no and the Dominion, with regard to immigra-- ? elector who was called upon to give a verdict tion, was favourable to the Province of On & cither for or against the present Administra-- tario, as it placed aflairs too much in the tion, would do it in future under any appre: hands of the agents for the Dominion. -- The X hension that, so far as regarded the financial Agent Ceneral in Lendon for Canada, though § affairs of the Province, thex"e had been im-- he was a mantor whom ke had the highest g:oprlety with which the CGovernment could respect, knew little, and cared less,about the a be charged,. . If the Administration of the interests oi Ontario, and was altogether in-- I 8 financial agmrl by the p(\l-gsent t; -o:fimmt:l;t fmor:i so f;dr alu) fair, sq'ix';re work was 033 were understood according e e cerned, to Mr, Dixon. e omigration build-- ' facts, and according to the proper Inter« ing in London was very expensive, it was no' 6 prctation which should be given to their, in a good locality, and there was not a clerk | action, he was thoroughly cony inced that in it to look after the special interests of Oan-- 3 they would desire not only to ratify the con-- tario. --He didn't believe in taking the money t fidence they had reposed in the CGovernment, of hard working settlers to pay bonuse t | but to extend their iniluence in the different to immigrants who pmd through the Pro W | constituencies, 1e could not, as Treasuror "vince into the United States. _ The Treagur | ;:1 | of the Province, and responsible for the ad-- er's statement upon the whole was less un | ministration of its financial affairs during favourable, considering the late financial de | $ :zme ye:rl:ix g::x:!u;:k'tg; 2;"?:1% rc:p;;:rtx;tlx:z &nq{;m,fl(x(?: et;h:y) might reasonably have ex ; pass . r & before the Houre and the country the truth . M 5 K. & in regard to the correct position of the finan« ":(r"ho&r th":l &m:g :l:,.hf::. 3 clal affairs, -- On no cccasion had he yot heard member for South Simcoe. _ He (Mr. Mac-- ) E that any measure proposed by the Govern-- dougall) had first found fault with regard to | $ ment had not been for the promotlon of the the rule of the House in regard to the Bud-- & best Interssts of the country, or that the pre-- get--and had said they should follow the | f sent Administration had been in any dogroe Practice of the of House Commons. The hos. | if neglectful of the public interests, _ He thank-- tleman bad been so longi;Sosnd!uvh .. w i; ed the House fiml'x th:ta g:;}en:l:' ':ll;h tin:::?rl tf:i he had E{;lmtly forgotten the practice 1t they bad heard his ent on of both the ish and the Canadiau Houses 3 } nB cedE CD ATL sid e dusired tone ot Commons, . They . were now following . b DOUU : n aglslature, wi rogat % | press his satisfaction at the full and clear this very mautter, the example set bafora & explanations 3! the l;ont.h'l'renntterr of go them by both those bodies. } financial condition 0 e country. 6 s [ t:ought, however, that instead of having the fm?lhit gtl}n(;?e QU(':':LJ'. tfim fh& could not | c miteee o Soptaly lellowing " the Sts. CBOUOKS sitd he would give the hou f | ; edh ollo 60 # > SAL e wou g ve a hon. i %:dg::':plz::h, ?i.:'pmticz of th'ed?nglhh gontleman shortly a reference that would a House of Commons should be followed. He convince him that the Attorney.Ganeral was 3 us < 43 ioi L. .. 0. S pamonrrronifrerrenanenrerrreremmrrr C' A