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mdns De io 1791 1 .+ 3 preall Sai s 20. 52i ie d **e . 2: rospPmly . & ¥ 1X *Am' s # se ) kevetommizn n totmtece toutammepame & t Tauurspay, Fob. 28. * " The Speaker took the chair at three o'ciock. REPONRTSs OF COMMITITTEES. Mr. GG1BSON presented the seventh report of the Standing Committee on Private Bills, l Mr. PARDEE prosonted ithe sixth report of the Standing Committeo on Railways, Mr. BAXTEIL presented the second report of | the Committee on Printing, | ' FIRST READINGS. | | _ Mr, DRYDEN--Bill to prevent the spread of | contagious diseases among horses and other domestic animals. Mr. MOWAT--Bill respecting the property oi married women. | THIRLD READINGS. * _ The following bills were read a third time :-- To Incorporate the Dawn 'Tramway Company and to authorize the townof Collingwood to issue corta'n debentures. PRIVILEGE, + --'Mr. OCCONNOR, on a question of privilegs, | stated that in Ius Groms ot Toursday ho was .__| made to quote the Bruce Herald im speaking of | the peopie sent to Walkerton us follows:--*'*Were | a respectable looking and intelligent Jot of peo-- ple. They were mostly, or ali, evicted tenants from the west coast of Ireland ; not a poorhouse man, woman, or tluld in the whole lot," 'The quotation should have ended at the word * Ire-- | land," the statement * not a poorhouse man, wo-- man, or child i1 the whols iot" being Mr. G'Con-- nor's own words, DEBATE OX THE BUDGET. Mr. WOOD, in resuming the debate on the BDudget, said he was much impressed pwith the clear statement of the hon,. Treasurer, _ Me could not, however find two gentlemen in the Hoeuse who fully understood the question of the forty-- | year debentures, He asked where they wore | dinancially, Were they drifting from year to year just as they received money from Crown Lands to supply the wants of the Province ? e thought thoy were drifting. _ HMe dwelt on the different increases of expenditure, and chiefly referred to the expenditure on Colomzation Hoads, He was satisfied that the Govermment could save one--haif it the diiferent grants werse placed under the control of the Counals of the local municipalities,. -- The Governinent had made a serious mistake when they authorized two series oef school books for the Province. -- The defence ot the Minister of Educatton' was a most ingemious one. 'The Minister of Education had a great task be{ore him. Me had to deal with different retforms in his department, such as the superan-- nuation question, the Reader question, and the equitable distribution of Government grants. lie would need ail the assistance his colleazues and the House could give him. Me thoaght the mnoendment submitted by Mr. Carnegie would meet the case. Mr, MEREDITII thought it would be just as woell for the hon, gentlemen opposite to consider the statement of the tirst Treasurer of a Reform Government in Ontario,. He objected to com-- parisons made between Ontario and Quebec. I lle quoted the stateiment of Mr. Macken-- zie im Ohis Budget Spzech in 1872. In Qusehee there were two languages, which increased the cost of _ civil government. Mis hou. friends had not said that the expeadi-- tura of the Province should not increase, but they did clsim that the expenditure had increas-- ed too fast, and sooun the expenses of the Gov-- erninent wou'd have to be paid by divrect tax-- ation. Mo attemnted to rtdicule the arguimment of the hon, member for West Durham, when he | compared the cutting of timber to the farmer | cuttuing his wheat, in order to show that the pro-- ceeds of this tiunber were rec:ipts and not capital. The hon. gentloman had jloectured the House on the Cavadian Pacific resolutions, but he did not know whether it was a discussion for this House, Ho would teii the hon. gentleman j opposite that the course his party had tiken was | i course inimical to the interests of this Province. | W hlle they were preaching about monopoly in | Manitoba with iss population of 100,000 souls, and whils they were so anxious about their | friends hundreds of miles away, they were | | not thinkig 'of the people of the -- large t \ Province of Ontario whom these gentlemen' were )\:ulur_: to tind hand and foot to the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada,. And these | gentiecmen talked about a monopoly for twenty | years of the Canadian Pacific Raulway, and thay ; wore prepared to shatwer the whole commerce otf ) the Province of Oitztio for years to come. The . | bon, genticmen in order to mset the difficulties | | which the finances were preventing, had attempt-- | ed in two ways to make a departure. One was | the increass of the Provincial licenses. This would not promote the cause of temperance at Lall, but would take away from the municipali-- 'I ties of the Province of Ontario funds they were | now receiving and put them into the Provincial t treasuty, -- 'Tnere was no subject of graver char-- | acter than the proposition of his hon. friend--to | establish for the first time a Provincial debt. We doneunesd im strong terms the policy of the Government with regard to the now railway de-- bonturs scheme, and asserted that the Govern-- « mout were proposing to create a Provincial debt for this murpose, as well as for the erection of Parlktament Bui.dings. The excuse for this was that the Government said posterity were con-- cerned and therefore should bear a portion of