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|company, who were operating the Cen-- e 'owe@ him. The hon. "{meg}"t'mxed'r tral Prison industries, failed and the 79 e l'made reference to the ;G::m d give to Government eXperienced a loss of at Jt 'b tender last year an i that the most $4,000. Does any manufacturer in 9R > D¥ ntry the impression invit-- private life, he asked, expect to carry fls g':ve'x:-:'r'nent are selling timbel;il:gl n";'he on business from year. to year for a C i tenders Instead of by auc the. sales dczen years without suffering losses? t¥ > y::)gn gentlemin knew that . T efe. of That happened in this particular case hi which took place last y'e):;n the cus-- to the Government, and it was the only [¥ > burnt timber, and it has been 26 TNX case in which the industries had suf-- tom when portions Otbteen Durned, and fered a loss in any way. The hon. gen-- 3 of the Province have tlcman had also said there was a scar-- & -- > ] dal in connection with the case of Wal-- f they may be and are frequently sold ter Scott, swho had been foreman of the by tender instead of by public auction. industries for many years. -- He would No one had ever objected to that course, not weary the House with any lengthy. but he did object that the hon. gentle-- erplanation of this, but would remark ' man had endeavored to lead the public that the hon. gentleman who had just to Nuew th" ,t 1' the pl'aotlce ln a»l' | Bp('ken had done more in the way of cases to sell timber limits by tender ; erdeavoring to do mischief in the Cen-- ¢ instead of by public auction. , tral Prison and some ot{xer institutions, by the course he has felt it his duty to Opposition Scandals. > | pursue, than anything %ueiwm} 'which & the Government had to deal. If a per-- Then as to the scandals to which the son was dismissed for misconduct it hon. gentleman had referred it is true ' gererally turned up tha? the hon, gen-- i that the Government have from time | tleman found him out; and wanted to a: to time asked what are the scandals | kncow why the individual --should have with which the Government has been l been dismissed, and in 'that way en-- ¢f charged. The hon. gentleman had | deavored to make use of some dismissed chosen to accept this challenge, and servants. © & [ had in the first place, he supposed it Mr. Marter-- N&MC some of them. was his chief scandal, referred to the Hon. Mr. Gibson," cofitinuing, -- took fact that a man named Coleman had | up the charge that the Crown lands of-- been given a contract for the supply of p ficers' salaries had been reduced some coal to the Hamilton Asylum. What | years ago by the Premier owing to the ul were the facts of .;ge case ? When ten« | action of the Opposition. Everyone o ders were received in reply to adver-- ' \ knew that the work of the Crown lands tisements in all the leading newspapérs agents had becomeless, and the salar-- s of the Province it was'found that there l ies had been from time to time reduced !was a combine an¥l he refused to ac-- by the present Attorney--General, be-- cept them, thhfldgs t!'ge price was tod cause the reduction bad, in view of Ks ' bigh. Instead of & loss of $3,000 owing less work, been justifiable. Assuming s to the action of tg: Government thgre all this to be true, he asked the hon. * had in reality been a"saving of $1,200 member for North Toronto, "Is there "g to $2,900, he could not, give the exact any sense in putting such a case down amount speaking from memory, which | in' big list of seandals ?" was proved by the rate paid by the : 4. ] HMHamilton schools for coalbat thl?t sefx,me ' Opposition Cal?ulatnons. time. The next scand@al broug or-- n the question of the | i. ward was that of Mr. John Scully, and | su?[()}lucin}g()!'ll.poMT. Glb':(m Commented | he wondered that the hon. gentleman' upon t}'le method of compumth)n nd- had brought up such a transaction as | opted by the hon. gentlemen in con-- & | showing what he considered to be a; nection with this question. They in-- & |gcandal. _ The farts were that Mr. | sisted upon doing what no child would t Scully had, at some trouble, made a think of doing in dealing with a mat-- § sale of a large number of bricks manu-- ter of this kind; they would insist upon ' factured at the Gentral Prison, which making out that the Province is $4,000,-- had been lying there in the piles for | 000 in debt in respect of the railway an-- f vears and years, _A good sale was nuities, when he knows that no county made through Mr. Scully's instrumen-- or tm":nship clerk in the Province tality. | weuld, if asked, "What are the liabili-- Mr. Marter--No, no. ties of the municipality?" 'think of add-- Hon. Mr. (Gibson, continuing, reaf-- ing the coupons to the debentures is-- , firmed that Mr. Scully was instrument-- | sved by his corporation. * A al in making the sale and the _ Hon. Mr. Hardy--He would be dis-- * public accounts report would, he 'missed, just as 'hon. gentlemen oppo-- f was sure, show that he was right, and site. * the hon. gentleman opposite was wrong, Hon, Mr. Gibson--Surely if hon. gen-- and that Mr. Scully was entitled to the tlemen added the payments for the ' amount paid him for his services. The next forty years on railways and an-- J. D. Simpson case was next called nuities, they would allow the Govern-- ' a scandal by the hon. gentleman, and ment to add the interest upon their in-- i it showed _ how _ hard up the tercst--bearing bonds for the forty years, hon. gentlemen _ opposite were and if the interest upon the $5,000,000 for A charge. Was _ it fair | for forty years is added, they would ' to insinuate, as hon. gentlemen had have $8,000,000. That would, he thought, dcone, that Mr. Simpson was shamming | be a most reasonable proposition, be-- . illness, that some doctor had been brib-- cause their trust funds are bearing in-- } -- ed to ruin his reputation for ever by! terest. . giving a wrong certificate? He paid | Continuing, he said that the Opposi-- «x a high tribute to Mr. Simpson as a man | tion were not entitled to select the cash of integrity, whose very bearing con-- |assets of the Province on the one side w f vinced _ anyone * 'who heard his and set against them future payments stme{nems. The Brandon -- Com-- on the other side. There would be the y uny's case had also> been re--| .. . same reason for saying that at the pre-- d erred _ to as a scandal. What ere _ the facts ? _The bu of this