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" . a 1mm PART. ' . , G . td made his maiden . .3} KMiG%Ui as one of the new ', ' " . he said he had not expert- ' , \of the proceedings ot the House a to the merits or demerits of the re- . ' which they were to adopt upon l, ch short notice. When he was elect- " U' he had supposed he had been elect- _ d for serious business. The most seri- _ one business he supposed to be the con- P sideratior. of the public accounts of the 3 Province. They had had a discussion . B' with regard to whether the House _ " should meet every year or every other . T." year. and the chief argument advanc- Lu. ed by the Government against biennial . sessions had been that " was best that . . the public accounts should be examined every year. He did not think the pre- . sent proposition to curtail the oppor- ' tunity of discussion was consistent f with that position. He likened the bud- i get debate to an audit, and asked where 'r, the tinaneittl or monetary institution ? could be found which, having an annual ts expenditure of millions of dollars, would require an audit of it to be made in two k days. or in even a week. It was im- possible that a House of 94 members should be able to make itself acquaint- ed with the public accounts in tmydays, l and he hoped the Government would reconsider its decision and allow them rh, (r, t' more time. 'J . Hon. Mr. Gibson closed tho debate b: t with a few remarks. From what Mr. l t Howland had said. it seemed that he Fthought that the budget debate would g' be the final settling of the public ac- counts, whereas the contrary was the tense. The comparison to an institu- l tion whose accounts were being audit- ; T (ed was not proper, for the budget t speech was nothing in the nature of an audit. A laige part of the time of the . sessiou was taken up tr, the Public Ac- L t counts Committee, wh ch if anything _ was the public audit, for it was an ex- 3 haustivo inquiry, and the estimates 3 were considered In detail in Commit- I tee of the Whole from day to day. The budget debate, on the other hand, sel- l dom dealt with particular items, but _ with general principles. Moreover, he had a distinct recollection that it had not been unusual for the public ac- counts to he brought down the day be- fore the delivery of the speech. and It had not been thought to be a matter of complaint. The public accounts, In any case. did not vary much from year to year. except in matters of minute de- tail. This', terminated the discussion and the liousi- adjourned.