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©9 --/ eeeem 8 C * \ ' w A'%{yA' & > x :" p ; years. _ Unless, indeed, the House in m\ children as he is interested in the educa-- | _ fi wisdom should see fit to enter upon the | . tion and lnef.lth of mine. (Hear, hear,) ; e« erection of new Parliamentary Buildings, In the year 1868 $441,891 was paid for (fclxool- , F4 Ihere is o reason why we should come houses and sites; in tl:c year 1871 $611,819 h down anothor year and nsk for a vote was paid; but in 1876 (the last return)} s y m o es $1,168,161 was paid for school sites 1 9 larger than our estimated receipts, I am |ch" 1 buildi P anu -- | sorry that I cannot give much information | Lo 1 l_"gs' i | on the subject of our drainawe expenditure. Mr. CAMERON--Does that mean the cost | I can simply state that so far as the re-- of structures ? ; i ceipts are concerned they have reached the Mr. WOOD--It mceans money expended. | | sum of $327',0003 that is for those that are Mr. CA MELRON--It is nearly all borrowed \ g_'lldc(li the direction of the Government, money 3 g ie drainage carried on under the deben-- l ho A ture B)'shfl;l' has reached mnoarly $200,000. | be?ll:: W OOI)-Tligt all, as I will show you ' 5 Over that we bave no control ; ore I get through. but under the Carlinsg Act_ and ' Mr. CAMERON--It is so in this city. § other Acts the Government have levied | Mr. WOOD (continuing)y--Another large ' assessment, and constructed -- drains ; and . and increasing item is that of asylums, In 1 as we have reports from our engineers on the year 1868 $152,186 19 was expended for i f that subject, it may be intcresting to know | this service. In 1871 $171,423 17 was paid, I what bas been done with tho money. 'The | and in 1877 $427,344 74. 'The number of | length of dr_nius in miles constcnueted x'xm!ur | patients, pupils, and prisoners was 1,165 in i these Acts is 260% miles ; the upprnxnu.:lu| 1868, 1,556 in 1871, and 2,941 in | @ arcas now unwatered are 203,100 acres, and 1877.. Several petitions have been present-- 3 f i * _ the approximate average $1 64 per acre. 1 ed to the House, Mr. Speaker, asking further $ P % propose now to refer to certauin large and aid to agricultural societies, and represent-- & / | constantly increasing items of expenditure,. ing that those socicties comprised the a WOE t | Take, for instance, the itera of Education. largest classes in this country. It was hard a P : lu 1868, the vote for that item was $327,-- to refuse that aid. Iam not in a position 3 3 } 487 51, while in 1877 it was $549,192 27 ; to gay that aid was promised by any means : i 1 f and the question has not only become but I think it is desirable to see what t.host: M WB i ' a scrious one on the foor of Pasliament, but men are doing themselves for this particular d 0 | l R : \| on the part of many outside, whether \\'v| interest. 1Ido not mean by their crops I §~i | f f have not advanced faster in Parliament than or improvements in stock, but by 1k | ' the psople have; whether we have nult their own gifts in the snape of premiums f i. 9B voted money to the people for educational | and _ subscriptions. _ When . you _ look B | purposes imnfich more liberally and rapidiy at the great improvement in our Provincial I | \| thim they themselves have applied their Exhibitions, and in the minor ones held in t 'ii F i local taxes for the same purpose; and there» | London, Guelph, Hamilton, and other places l f £ | fore it may be interesting to hon members | --almost equal to the Provinctal--when you d t to kuow what the people have really done consider that everything arises from what s 6 | as regards the expenditure for school pur-- the farmers have done, or the greater part of § poses. In the year 1868, as 1 have it, the result is highly satisfactory to the i P stated, we grauted _ for _ these pur-- Province, (HMear, hbhear.) The amount | t 1 | poses ;$327,487 51, and in that yeatr given for agriculture, arts, and sciontific in-- | | the local contributions for school purposes stitulions in 1868 was $69,034 ; in 1871, i 8 amounted to $1,603,610. _ Our grant in-- $76,277 90 ; and in 1877 it was ' | 4 NR creased in 1877 to |$549,792 27, while the $97,234 35. The number of members | { taxes contributed by the people in( reased in subscriptions in 1868 did notreach o P 1876--the last year for which we have re-- the Government graut; it amounted to TB tarns--to $3,123,078, or nearly three times $41,275. In 1871 it was still bchind the a ! that for 1868. Another feature which it is Goverument Qrant, amounting to $52,670, i/ t important to notice, and to which I desire and in 1876, $60,537. -- The record we have J : : y to call the attention of the House, is that of | regarding premiums is much better than | { i this $549,729 we paid a large portion for that. In 1868 we had offered as premmums l CACS ' a Public and Scparate Schools, and that we --1 am now spealing of the Provincial Ex.-- JIV, M paid the money directly to the teachers---- hibition, the Riding Societies, and the M Py f for it cannot welil be applied in any Couniy Societies--$78,445; in 1871, $120,-- t a , other way, I was curious to know what 869 ; and in 1878,$146,317, Another item Cha in J effect the legislation of this House had on assuming large proportions is the an-- f & 4 | that subject,. A good many years 4§O, nual vote given to hospitals and charitics, "' | when I was a teacher, our salaries were low and I am aware that there is not a divided ; 4. 1| indecd ; in fact, so low that the stua of $200 opinion in regard to that on the floor of the ' ! | or '&Z',),' was considered a very liberal b.i|.ll_'.'. llo\;se. ("Clll', hL'ZlF.) I am inclinea mny» ) ' A great improvement, however, has taken | self to think that the proper course is to ' place in that respect, and it wili be interest-- continue that grant, I think those institu-- E ing to the House to know what the extent ; tions, sustained as they are by theo free gifts f ' ' ! of that iinprovement has been ; for it must of a large class of the community, are furly . | be remembered that increased salaries mean ' entitled to aid out of the funds | increased qualifications. (Mear, thear,) It of the Province, (Hear, hear) But f c % means that our childron are taught by abler | thisg grant hbas _ increased _ somewhat PS 'j" | aud better men,. 'Taking the year 1863 1 | rapidly. _ In 1868 we _ gave $39,000; \% \ find that the amount paid for tcachers' | iu 1871, $40,260 ; in 1877, $64,151. _ When ER U i0 ' | salaries was $1,146,543 ; in 1871 the amount | we come to consider the amount of good z | l. ' was $1,191,476 ; while in 1876, the last year | done by those institutions, we find that the © ' tior which we have returns, the figures were number of inmates cared for in 1870 was $1,8393,320, or very close upon two millions 4,578, and in 1877 it reached 8,198. It is \€ t | of doilars. (Hear, hear, ang cheers.) Some | gratitfying in considering the increased grant 3 [ years ago there was great complaint as to '\to know that the good work has increased s 5 the character of our school--houses and sites. , in the same proportion,. (Cheers.) Rince p | The school--houses were small, badly venti-- | 1871, since the Reform party came into m lated, ill.constructed, cold, and comfortless. * power, we have expended on public 33 TMM It was not at all an uncommon occurrence ] buildings -- and works . $1,870,992 40, / p that the children contracted diseases which | and on colonization roads $583,681 83. D1 ff ._ caused death owing to the defective char-- I will riake no remark in regard to those U \ acter of these constructions ; and it was items, but will simply call the attention of ' %, » certainly a wise step on the part of the Gov» | the House to the distribution of the surplus. f ernment of Mr. Sandfield Macdonald to ap-- '| When it was first proposed to distribute puintinspcctors\\-ho should see tothe quality that surplus amongst the people of this Pro-- of the school--houses throughout the country, ' | vince, I was opposed to Sl.lch a scheme, fear-- K Though some objections have Leqn taken | ing that }he older counties would get more . by hon, members on the floor of this House than their share; and I spoke stroungly $ A against the conduct of some of the in-- against the pri:sposa.'l of the Government. l0 spectors, I have not so fu-r seen any But I admit that when I saw that 'scheme P f reason _ to raise my voice -- against )vorked out, I came to the conclusion that p J these officials. Some years ago I stated my it was .f'f"f .calculatcd to give very gen-- f k 5 belief that if it was necessary to ha_\jg-) our eral satxata«.pon. (Hear, hear.) I found, ; ; i public institutions well ventilated ; if }t\vns too, t'hat in my own county, where i K | necessary that our dw clling-}xousus ghould I had reason to believe that the people were M | be warm and comfortable, it WAS equally of my °"'nt_ 011'1111011 on the matter, the dis-- - zs | necessary that similar comforts shpuld be tribution of the surplus under the scheme f 6 extended to our children attending thci i Public Schools--that J am mtcrestf.'d in U{}« oo d education and the health of my '!'?'gl'bf)"' 8 § w I & ® ® C i | U P PE * _