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- . "rw"*" _ . I it: " , I_w:5 7? "5.34 Province'u emu; dud the annuitieé' and ' ' Mr.'A. F. Wood protested to "new: H." railway certtticutsa, mounting to 8.249,: , that Mr. Conmee't-i language warring F 759 20, against it. or a. deficit of $749,160. order. and Mr. bpeaker "ere N <30" J, Mr. Marter then contended that the Blake o' this View. Mr. (30mm?e Sand he "Stalin . , overnment was not by any means bound it he halt exceeded Rfl1,i)",1,edit"i,"f, f (its: - 0 start Into the expenditure on railways ? but he wanted to be very pla n am' -e. hich the Government represented as en. . _ ti 'ic.' . oiled on them by the Bandtieltl Marlow , . midi. C?onmee then proceeded very Itil overnment. Comparing the expendft . s.' l to arena the general ttnancial course a - n public buildings, the Sandfleld M " pcg'hion of the Government, and to f/ti id Government in two years spot-@943." L f . various statemmts and arguments o 697. or an average of $235,924, while the lb" . 03:15 mambers of the opposition. form Government hat spent tn public J CLOSING SPEECHES- 'buildings $5,634.5tr7, or an average ot $281,- -. . I. , _ . ' th next B ak- '72s. not much greater than Ihe average of Mr..A'. F. campbcll "as we t'J,'xa'ti','Ge,'i le i'itJ1,til/,i, Macdonald Government. As er, and, pr an_te.e..f.'C'2f"' . "a or t e claim that there were no eytrns the osvelnmerptTdi7, their policy. He ridi- 1'lg,t,,hethe,uy,1uratou.1,,tte s2fitao"t',"t,.,.tgfig.' culed the surplus as a. myth, and insisted then, it rose to $750 Go thenoto 3163.000. that a'propcr 'sy1tyrn of bookkeeping and . then to $1 "50 000 and now is bl .iCd/il"' ,'_ l of setting of legitimate liabilities ngainst expenses a" furniture Il'.'.'"'?;' t- " I'l legitimate assets would show the Govern- bring the expense up to over 51 id) (fl, 3:1" ment to be deeply in debt. It was argued Minter then took up the Jiiii ', .f . by 501119, he said, that the people of Qu- r travagance and eited r L: ets f" 0 ex- tarlo must have confidence in the Admits- ' in civil governmc 'te"th1'yl','d.'iC,'..tl1yT,',e,bt, istration of 1lr.ollvt'r Mowat, and must been from 3114 mg": $41 This" have _ believe tho attrritm of .the Pr ovittee to be cent I ' 0 C. .bel. or 150 per I econcmicaiiy and judiciously administered, y . n sessional clerks and pages the or they would not retain them in power; Jli'fUl,a'tu,"ig',thig,' t,'r'.'/'l'u,ouf?iriirc'enti; but, urged Mr. mm»: the people had isman" but he 'cr,u'l7.a's's'il1f,""llltl, 'cg,,; :42: ' not cotAidence in the Government, and it . ' t . - wculd not he in power now but for the un- .mdny men had been bought over to the fair manner in which thcv had gerryman- Uovcrnmcnt by these expenditures, and dered the Opposition out of the proportion that the pcoplv of the buck townships ot seats to which their numbers in the I 2313:2021! tt/trgt"'titr'y'ati,e, of the ad. f, Province entitled them. (Opposition ap- i . .'. x t. und. H" hcld that plause.) Mr. Campbell then touched on Mr. , timber oerths had been forced on the mar- Hardy's spoech, and charged that there " :3: i)1i'ht:innt,',.y (If: yeitr,tha,t,g'get": My; had been no ','ypfC'Ptn,t on colonization ' be saving in many ways in recl.::fng0t'lie t £3321); iRubs] 'is/,e'Jar1ssl1nte, it? his 8w: ' fe - ' _ , e Fra s e ec o , Imimber if 'Mini'sters and their retinucs. . but grants were being made l Etna yi the salaries of officials, in now that an election was pend- 'le,' s inu perquisites. in cutting down ,' init. The timber policy of the _p'.vrt Lind agents who got 3300 a your Government has lit-(n oppressive and mi '-r, for locating two or three persons in the to the settlers, und has retarded their pro- , year, in reforming the business manage gress. There are good markets for farm- _ ment of the Central Prison and in the , erg amt": the miners, and yet the Govern- )r'lr','rif."g1/,uh"ot, of Education. In favoring i mum's groigdinexs in getting every dollar ubilc Schools as opposed to High Schools . without adequate return has defeated its - and Collegiate Institutes. lie thought he own ends, and has regulttd in the present , .had pron-d his points, that more was iid) lack of progress. Mr. Campbell also charg- surplus, that the Gorurrmuen: but] been cd that the license system is used as u sit, 'extrnvugunt, and that great suvmgs could huge political nmchine, nsod tor its own ' pe ettected. ends. Yen's ago the municipalities had the f i MPs. CQNMEE, licenses as their own, but the Govern- " l At 9.15 o'clock Mr. ('Qllnli'u rose. He twit- mom. with its surplus decreasing. had to ': ted Mr. Morn-r with not halving made any and") "m "Wu" sldvs to get money, and ' fattempt to substantiate rirtirln ot his inuk control oi the licenses. Mr. Campbell " 'statcant,,, made during tux-5.x. He also cotnvntltul that Cnr: returns from the Agri- notcd that the hon. gonth-nmn had failed cultural (THUR. have not been commensur- r.-', to grapple with any of the tirtuttcl:tl proh- ate with Pt' Immcnsu expenditures upon . le-ms that lil'om'lllml thcnis't-lw-s for con- it, sonn- m which "I," reckless.' As for sidelution in u buiget dilute. Now this the tuberculosis unoV-stion, Mr. Campbell wns the occasion when he should havc road " "um from Prof. Wm. Saunders of made Knoll Sum\' of his charges. Notably ttle Ottawa farm showing: that the charge he should hm," lnutic good his ohm-gee in or Cit-rult'srllt-SS against the Dominion in, a spew" in l'wl, where, "Irwin": to The .ptittition was unfoumio-j. He referred to the Empire's report. ln- had Cl"|l'gtd that it the annuity 'lvm' and corusltulud by declaring balance sltcct of " business concern was his in'm "PM"! "1th Tsiilt in the coming drawn on the same principle as that of ryftice: o1 inc spirit of unrest in the coun- Ontario was dr:rwn by (hr Provincial try. iho handwriting was on the wall. "Preusurer, the Htitlt who in"; 1tw balante nnd tho (low-rmncnt had been weighed Ellen! would be twld criminally l able. Now and found watt),,". the hon. K'ntlcmnn had not made unv Mr. ""5"" (li'lrmw spoke briciir. Up nttempt to sulrAtu.utiut" this very scrioul; tusrrttuul to tleo SMMHCM Mncdonnlnl sur- churxrc that last )'n-ur':= linunclnl statement pinr, holtlinur tlrat Mr: M'demld hau put was fraudulent. lie should have made the: a million "nd a halt of that surplus. in stuttmcnt to-night if it was trma such it position that it could nut be spent Mr. Marte-r-So it is. [or anything also but milwny assistance, My Conmetr-rrin why did the hon. whiltt Limit» iMl'llons of tho nib-gal ",utrlus gentleman not say so ? He had not chal- the" ind claim»; upon it which would pre- lenxed a. single item in the statement. Sin'. ltr, "in." i"otrsilittstl mum". portions Mr. Murter. amid cries of "Order." said of tho surplus. (if the whole $3800.00". the he had challotror,csi the whole $1,tXJo,ow mun of $3,2ilnlllltl0 could Sl'lLl'ijply be Consid- claimed as arihits. out! as legitimate surplus and the rcst Mr. Conttuse tculd that was merely a dis- ""94 rrolly mwustod to railway extension. pute tustwven Mr. Marti-r and the' Thus» Irr. Gibson then t'efurrud to the part the urcr. and thls was not the May Mr. Mann-r ()lil'rrsitirm had played in criticizing ex- put it in l't't'l. Air. Conmce proceeded io pcndltnros, and hcld t,"nat thrO "OUR"? in rend extracts from Mr. Marter's speech "530mm": to the grunt majority of tho on the occasion in (nu-stint). He said it items of c'xl"unlituprs incurred made them cc ntnined no rewt r than twelve absolutely cqnully 1iuble with tho Government to the false and groumdrss statements, which he country. As for the administration ot the Uertied the ht n. member to substantiate. sums "rrrrr'opt'iuted, Mr. Gibson stated that! He could have a committee of the House, the exponditure ':u'r head per year in the witmsm-s or anything else he pleased. but "whims ttttder Mr. Sundileid Macdonald he doth-d him to prove these assertions. was $134, under the Mowat Government it Mr. Mal-tor rose in reply to Mr. Coiimoe's Wfl.b' 3135' only $1 difference. In other items pointed chullcrtre. and for tt few moments the sumo continuance of the economy of there "(is tome vcry heavy cross~ilring the Sund'leld Macdonald retrlmo could be bouncy) the two lu n. mcmbcrs. amid cries seen. Fir, denied that the license system of order from various other was used politically as far as his own nu-mbers. Mr. ('onmcc':' voice was ccunty mm 1'otu'r'rned,atrd he knew of Con.. heard abort. the rust challenging Mr. servntivc botclkm-pers who told him that 1"th to my whether or not certain of they would prefer tho present system to his statements in Peel Were correct. and that fovorml by Mr. Meredith. Mr. Marie: ut last, tcm,'d some laughter, Mr. Cleland moved the adjournment of 'rvsked the Speaker to dircct Mr. Conrneo, 3h? debate, and the House adjourned at not to midwss his remarks so pointedly C1.50 p.m. to himself (Mr. Marten. Mr. Conmwe, procco'iin-r. enumerated the twelve stalw' moms which he allowed to be false. and then said in Very emphatic terms that Mr. Martyr had to substantiate these stpctc- ments or to be recognized as a fnluihcr. There was no midway. He must do the (no thing or submit to the other. He had made hi4 position for himself. Mr. Con- mep n lrnlttc-d that his words were strung, but not so strong, he urged. as the charge of criminal liability proferrcd by Mr. Mar- ter against the Treasurer. He did not want to hurt Mr. Morter's 1ialitttrs--tlautrh-. terr-hut he wanted to use -uch language that unam- could be no doubt about the position held by the hon. mmnbor.