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chie occur, l.k!w that many houw. | , § SA o § which ooo R from the Instihgs of x yeneru.l is another sum which the Provinee of Quebec members fresh from the instisgs fhe SeZCl=' | has received, and which under the award election have heard it stated on the piatform | of th iirAtOP e ded : that we had no surplus, thatit was a myth, | e arbitrators must be deducted from the e gome L ithont aubstance. . However ;{ sums held by Ontario in order to show the pragowy antd wilholl AIEUITL able us to checque j U2, available surplus, 'The. sums collected Vis of sufticient reality to enable us to cheque j U 1c Sf, iss cuge f eP 5. A oet " occasional shortaze of OB the sale of grammar school lands, though upon it to meet any occasonal sn 3 in the hand I the Provine ist . be Bal es fed with expenditure,. and ands o ie Province, must be paid _receipts as compared with expenditure, | : over to the Dominion on a final settlement of forg thi i cplus defensible tuiemer for that purpose only is a surp * ) these accounts to be held and futerest paid : slad -- to onable us to draw upon es 'counts to be held and rmuterest paid as | and 1 am glad to say to enable < P°" 4 with Oe othor fund. | The Tresfnger itted j y t m x f 'obable ex erditure ! und,. 1e lreasurer admitie it for the small suim of probable exp thit $362,000 of. this money must be paid to over revenue for 1887, without affecting in any Quebes 01" s etHichicnt being " Hhade but}l)xe did degree its substantial | proportions. . Mtr-- 20) ooo that the whol % (t o be held Sneake 1 ¥e tI t'"}""'th'-'»("l'lil' anid D ay e whole ha o be heid as a Speaker, 1 move that you ieave alr, I v ' h We ht : P n wl Ive itself i 0C it trust by the Dominion. This is plainly that the House resolve itself into ComNHEECE <mns gecigion of the arbitrators. . Mr. Conrtuey of Supply. _ (Loud and proionged cheering.) + $s fraougy Mi "t' i Firknos® Lodic t o td Mr. CBEIGHTON, after preluaiinagty 'rc. it PEputy mMuusSler oriingwnes, Lobhk Mif Mill® @ marks admittnle ®Hat hiad'1 &n said by the» YVIC®» awshown by his statement, We have = marks admifting what had been said Py 15¢" nus $9,111,340 which ought to be deducted 'hon. the Treasurer, respecting the neces-- e s o ght to V s he noints to be dealt with in from the sums supposed to be in the hands of d sary sameness of the points fto 49 COMUC 42 22 the Dominion in order to show what our avail-- e! relation to the finances of the Province, pro-- mord ' all | ceeded :--Thougch 1 somewhat | anticipated able surplus is. There are one or two points i 1+ 1O ® iC WV C NSE vC + + & + o ind ont tuo sn iarf T wius .__-- to which I would like to call attention which what would be said on the subject, 1 imust ex-- _ spento me to show the tler. snrebabliity $f press my |~e_gx-ot, th:'lt'. u.no'fl:fi yt.tl. 31;34 p:w*.'«.!;t.l the figures which year after yoar are given to without o ol Yae w ')omg,l o o da or)gntm._u. Md us by the Treasurer as indicate the surplus. \ ?:h,ll;uz n;_.'.:ic qgl':':tl('»il;:i)":?'v:;l:)(l"e!l ('ll; a;:o 32", In the statement made 15th December, 1884, $ t aney 2 lgee o anne Neeb Confedera--. _ W® have as part of the assets drainage deben-- | nearly twenty | years | since -- Confedera-- o . n oo t s § oi f H I, was : festablished and -- we _ must . b9re8 to _ the amount of ©241,802, During the ; on iL is i%. nof dital he year 1885 we invested in drainage debentures E | agree that it is not creditable to the ; M on in Bo* 1of o ESS s | CCovernments which have been in power in the < !" qddition $40,223, That would make our in-- 3e m aren a id Pracvince tha o crey :. _ vestmens as in 1885 in drainage debentures of : | Dominion and Province that a matter of this Frras en t A BC P 2 f & I kind has remained unsettled for so great a $291,825, But during the year we had paid in 4 lm:'.'_b "of" fime. ~ I am not now secking to: §07,100, how much on interest and how much P gen'the biams [ dare say the Treasurer of | Principal there is nothing to show. _ But sup-- ) | assign the blame ; I dare say the 'Treasurer o ie i o imnt"" Way t 386 we ind Whor THni# > blame 9 heay, ) , pose it was all principal, yet in 1886 we fim I | this Province is not to blame. (HMear, hear.) | icfi dn i Pug 3 is only 9E mhnia : ter in which differ toip,}:. | our investinent in drainage debentures is only ? | This is a matter in which diferent municipali-- | 278 720. or $5.000 lese than last yoar, 'Thefd 3 | ties throughout the Province take a decp in-- | is hother )f'u'r'n i 4 aLua( (s 'to x;hi.'c'x $ife" hon 4 | terest, because they aro expecting great benefits | 18 ® w hk s % Elt % .t'.r,' > 'N? of the .;,-'.',[(.l,,,\.,,f " TH course, so | gentleman has devoted considerable attention, 6T ,r,L,-{' : Land Improvement Fund aud the | that of drainageassessments, Hou, gentleimnen T | Peonsx, Sehool. Fund + ave. oneerned,t thp ' will understand that this drainage assessment 8 | k""'.'"':,"_1'1;1'-\"'1\"'l.,n' c, by -- their persistent | is a drainage tax undertaken by the Province g | mnunterpaiiti bers of the House have alveady | bnd repayable by the municipalitics in instal-- q | effort sf members of the liouse have ait y | + i x M PM « wl p is als thor | ments runaing over twenty--two years, | The 1 | reseived the principal. There is .ll:-o uz'n.. rer i ceagiiFor nRunns Lhowm "A¢ Abots "3t the < K [mprovement Fund on Crown MiVSs BMb y badht s 4 .'); fead, the Land Inprovement I'ss "* _ Province, and cartainly the present value of s is mtlyial # ramnat sls wwill nas wat | those assesaments could be claimed as assets. !, mov qi 0 m"h.""" muntcipeiiiips Wl nou 54| Mr. Creighton then quoted figures to show ! 51 until this settlement is made. Some intpici-- l Bif. C ie is | | palities are looking eagerly from year to year that prior to 1883, when Nir. Ross hecame ho S (*"% ".'"A ';"' * a. . t i + v 8 1a V ® : ' for this settiemont, and it is disappointing to | lreatsutr]or, -l-thw":f 'ifl?g::;ini':g-'mt:t (t?'l;qt-h:'? _] them as year after year passes by and nothing N C ?h 10 "'t_w"' ssoss ® ? re | is accomplished. | 'The hon. the Treasurer has | 9* such counting. I re'erred to the stateoments of account of ths SOME ONE HAD BLUXDERED, & % » > hi 1 % % + Dominion in comncetion with his at'-vu']}'\-' either the present Treasurer or his predeces-- surplus, and as this ija a _ now Parlia® | sop, Last year he had called attention to the o ® f © * > _ meont and seme of theo x..c'.::}::-:'x:.l.s v¥c NO | fact that the CGovernment, behind the back of heard the question discussed in tht ""'";~;- the House, had beod giving eway the moneys I 1 uit : * + 0+ fu + * it may be proper to inake some remarks WItH $ of the House to certain municipalitiee in j respect to the surplas,. 'The account of th¢ | which drainage works had been undertaken, j Dominion shows $4,175,870 as in the bhands 9 | Phag is to say, they had, by Order in Council, ' that Government, being £579,001 lesa 't'n.zm t | been writing off the debt of the municipalities | ~¥ Treasurer claims. And he does not claim, 80 | io the Province and never bringing it | "l far as 1 nnuerstu::#, that this stateoment ol 4C | pefore the House. Bnt while every year the, "} count is very mu®h wrong, except in one PAT | (foyvernment were making statements of their ticular, HMe refers to the fact that in this b nssots, they had never made any reduction for statement the Dominion Government the amount of the debts they had so written poEs XoT GIvR THR PrRoYINCE CREDIT . ofl. (.\pplamsg.)q ' for what is known as the Common School | _ Hon, A.M. hl()"':q--'r{'?w do yon kr.mw the ; fund, and ahe claims this, about & million ~"'~"'1'1"'"°"3 "tm'e""'t_"'mer years were not | 1 R ¢ § s | made on that amount * | dollars, as part _ of the _ surplus, efi im amznd o s s 4 i kaSs'. s + + °t + C , This is calculated to mislead the people and Mr. "R,}',',g,f,"'l,-.i.;(:'m sm«l_'w.hat [',n. 1?'5;'1 the | s + x y $ p Suta R Y woulid mislead members of the House, Lut ?'"'O""t of ¢ it A \\;\)s t"'l"'"'" olf in debts of that they had more closcly stwdied the matter, | She muuilcipatitios ; Dut Ole ASSCLS; . C'"]d'"'r'.' I have before given the reasons why this sum j to the "'}"' ernment s ?[:}t'ém';'_gf, ;'_(-'N n-«.m-ed i is not available, but I may be permitted to do | only to the extent C'.l.i]' ,04'~. which was ex-- , »v! so now. -- This is not an asset in the ordinary I 5l._ctl.y' the amount ll){m( y tf\e nlxlumc)pahtu..-:«. i r 4 sanse of the word, but is simply a fund held in | The Trcusmex too cix edit i or }':. these dmm: , trust by the Dominion CGovernment, the in-- | %8° a.ssessmen'ts, u' though they woere not terest of which is to be paid to the Province, | }),'"'5'3_"t1)' paya )_1"' {l_"_'t he "'_f'}sed to davit the but the principal of which they can never | Province w '}th labilities which were not pre-- touch. In proof of this I need only refor to sently payable. The P"'IW".h"'--"'{'"-"-"'*" way | the demand of the arbitrators on these nc-- $ WaSs to give a statement 'of the . present | counts between Ontario and Quebec. 'l'h(erel""l"m of both assets and -- liabilitiss, If