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siri acc.: hon. friend under- {The qtvtetee t takes credit for the i 1tgit IEadie! " much as I could 'flllll ot. mm from away back in i . them. tApp1tuu'e0 . F - :Publig Accounts. too, Dr. Mea- i Discussing the expenditure on pub- "continued. were not made out lie institutions, Mr. Miscampbell main- at they could be understood by tained at some length that the expen- ~publlc. He concluded by tuwintr dlture in them institutions is going t thd' Government was unreason- up while values generally are going le in objecting to comparisons with down. Since 1871 the cost per head sister Province of Quebec. had gone up $12. MR Miscampbell _" , calculated that the loss to the Pro.. " MR. STRATTON S REPLY. rsigice gem this source had been $55.- ' st. of a lause greeted Mal , an he charged that the salaries , utut,',r'it,, he mg: to reply. He was had been steadily increasing. He then i unlined he said, to give the h0n.i spoke ot the educational system. ' ' oat credit for their In- claiming that more attention should n.lemen opp te l omitable courage in attacking the be paid to tho Public Schools. which overnment stronghold. They were like should not be treated as a stepping- e British tsoldier-they did not know stone to the High Schools. The 95 hen they were defeated. The reply to per cent. of the pupils who got all _ e attack of increased expenditure their training at the Public Schools "was that the supply was given for the should leave them with a good educa- ttemand. The demands of the Province. tion. The system was dominated by required it. and that was what kept the High School idea. he said. In- _' ibis hon. friends on the Opposition deed, in some ways the High Schooii; ', ibenches. The Conservatives criticized were becoming a curse to the country, the expenditures on the pioneer and a burden to the people, and it agricultural farms, the asylums, agri- was time some legislation should cultural matters in general, and colon- he put into {once whereby some cheek . as"... roads, but he was willing that should be put on the 'building of these t , a adopt these as planks in schools. Mr. Miscampbel1 concluded atform. and the Government his speech ihy discussing the timber ' won :' tN by) theircsult. (impparin guessing. t',1d,Ti),t,i/e,'te,tt, lag-go areas of Born' . . no ec n rl-spec 0 ex- pine a I n urn over, ut claiming pemtttvrd"wore unfair because of thel that that was not an argument for C; fe,e,1tyr, 1h gogigntlon. 11,heg, had sellingdit, tt dtim'bler ha; in this last few "' en a mar-e erence n e PX- years on e um uairu le in value. all pendlturc in various departments. The He thought that qthe 'll,',',',?,?,-,, of the "expenditure tor education in Ontario sales should be taken from the Crown '. for the year was $693,000,compared with Lands Department and the consent of t 3369.000 in Quebec: for hospitals and the House asked ibefore a sale was f. charities, Ontario $190,000, ilztltld Que-bet; made. 342.000; for repairs and ma n enance o ' ( while buildings and public works. On-I MR. CRAIG S SPEECH. ' tal'io $470,000, and Quebec $491,000. In Mr. Craig of East Wellington follow- . Ontario the expenditure per head wa'., ed Mr. Misrmmpbem dryiy remarking l 81 79, while in Quebec it was " ill, and t that lwhlie hon." gentlemen ropposlte f Ontario had given $2 for education to were remarkably sensitive over refer- .f every dollar given by Quebec. Besides i'nccs to the Ottawa Government, the . these expenditures a good deal had Liberals in the Ottawa. House had no Bone toward defending the attacks'nf objection whatever to have references f the friends of the Opposition on air made to the Ontario Government. As outed territory. Regarding the assets for the claims that the cost of keeping ot the Province. the new 1dtSr,lltyty-1t,tl the inmates of public institutions had $113258], this blew Mimieo, f,'J11iu,e, l gone up since the Mowat Government r e sy ums were muc had come into lower, the inmates were valuable than forests of timber in the far awn"- fpd_1m,.ed tor, treated and i north country. The Ontario A-gricui- looked after. than twenty yt'al'S ago. tural College was a very useful institu- l Mr. Craig then dealt with Col. Mat'lle- l 4 tion, and was as good as a University, l Son's rcmm'ks regarding the purchase backing the classical eduoation. at supplies, combating from his own get? were only 184 square miles ot 1 experience the statement that live cat- ti er limits disposed ot POP year, and i tle would be bought for $2 50 a hun- wenid tbhe practfica dizcontlnged p,re,,t l drodweight: such cattle wcro stockors. . wou 9come 0 .e ousan S o e he said. and not beef cattle. Mr. Mis- . {the no":i (53"?me JJ,"): t, Tiling: i campbell's strictures upon 1the indium] I er iwoo s. As o e requeB _ 8 st 'm came n for consii orat m b . trevious speaker for a sheet showing Air. \Craig, who pointed out it)rl'v'i,)ii' 1th: tir"'iit,i', of Aht Jig,' \{incm 1'1:th truth. ilcal dillicultlr-s involved Antihc proposi- u ery mposs P. e ncreas ' - ti t ah th stander o a'. high a hoe sentiment thr lughout the Pro- {Sign 'IJ "ifs Slrggested. With Kiln Mis- vince was such that should the decision vatmmell's attncks upon the High g,,vtt/idet1vtvinct1y"f,u1,'ii,/t15,t,ie,sheth/t? I Sclllll'lls he diff'cri'lt] enltlrf'ly. illolding l 1mm. Ritl ""ala it will be their duty to still further rc- ! if; 1tthl,h".?(.h',vci" $303: l'f'ie, 'h,t,'ifl, duce the number of lie es issued. The I Fichirols, and m-rc nmcssary to enable Opposition complain at the Gov- I the "hildreat of the poor man to get an erment reports 'were wing larger. I education. As tor the number of High hut if they were . smaller the I Schools, the House had nothing to do 'ihasrg,,a11ep'ii,ottt1n1,ut atl1Jtsct,il,g,'; with the ".u'trrhllshmunt 0fttihcnl. willych ' 8 O 4 . uC Pst" ytartp 'e.Ir .nl its ot Pedagogy, which had braert assailed ?i)i'/it.v'"/yiti1lir'r1ar.esr',rl)a"i,l,noc',i"udteju by the Opposition. was an luv-client in. i an able dstatts"e of the policy of the Mitution for the training or mcn and Government with an culoglslic l Ir- f'd','rtloth1o'ppgt £333.? (lay-14%;}: I (inch to Sir Oliver Mowat s sinwisvs.s to ncluded his able speech by compli- the Province. entury renvence.n to tho work "i the THE MEMBER FOR WEST roux. overnment, in the course or which he entioned the campaign "ngw' by the ' Mr. Craig was followed by Mr. St. .P.A. in the last election. John, who was the tipst to make a 'tWhat is the P.P.A. '?" axiv'il Mr. cathode rays JHio in the House. lic PX- Whitney. pressed a dcslrc to use those pi nt-trat- "Oh. you've got two of them over 'ing rays in a search thmulr'n the [there," was the ready reply from Mr. Treasury Ih',trartrrwnt for the surplus. gConmea The surplus question he considered . Mr. Stratton finished at a quarter to at oonsldera:hle length, claiming 6. Mr. Miscampbell rose to continue that the Government's operations had the debate, but the Speaker lcft the resulted in a total deficit of $3,171,028. chair. In his discussion of this subjcct ho i dcclared that the Government had sub- 1 ' EVENING SESSION' mlttcd varying estimates of lhesurplus ; ' The first evening session was held and the amounts due the Dominion to I to-night, and there was a. good at- the House. and was corttctrd by Mr. tl-ndance alike of members and visit- Harcourt. whomointcd out that his cs- i on. tilnate of $2,000,000 due the Dominion _ Mr. Miscampben continued the de- was simply an estimate. and that ht" hate on the budget. He began by hind. in hlh"It1?.j,t (it. f,',f,l,"ginc',d to the . ying that the o gluon do not dit- I ousc t at .75 . 00 Won lo n more ' I't'. with the l',Cd'rtt'l,'lot on the edu- likely figure. lie gave a clear cxpinna- l 'eationat or the timber policies, but tion of the various changes made in, they differed on the conclusions drawn. that account, and pointed out that the He objected to bringing in the Ottawa arbitrators said ,tlistt//1i,.llg that the Pro- and Quebec Governments as side is- villce was entitle; to 32.148.000. Mr Mt. _ Suez. l This Government should stand John replied that he did not consider or al on its own merits. He chars the explanation satisfactory. A mo- Iacterized the Government as a mutual mellt later he was again corrected in {Mmlration society, He never knew a reference, to the public accounts by man on his side of the House who Mr. Harcourt, and appealed to the , dvocatcd that there was not a sur- _ Speaker for protection against inter- sin the proper sense of the word. i ruptions. Continuing. he went on to l A