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[El-Iv. 'r":rg' cgA-FiFi%'i'i,' the excellent viii which had be: 10 gmwuwm .doneonthatroad. True.hehadal _ t In 11M lturs on coloni- criticised severer the work done on ution roads. Hitherto they had onpqp- another road which he had crossed " the spendinx ot money on coloniza- over when travelling at the rate of 45 tion roads. In 1894 Mr. Campbetl had miles an hour. and which he had seen moved that the sum of $126,300 for col- out of the window of a parlor car. With onlzation roads.surveys and services in reference to the charge that Mr. Boyd the new district be cut down to 860,000. was present at the. convention at which Mr. Clancy had also proposed that the the speaker was nominated last Bum- item of 835.000 in the estimates for sur- mer, he asserted most emphatically l - veys of townships in the new districts that Mr. Boyd nor any other omciat of i be struck out. In the face ot this the the Government was present at that Opposition would go to the new dis- convention, or anywhere near it, as! tr tnicts and appeal fnr support. as he knew. In answer to the argu- I Mr. Marter declared that the Opposl- ments of the Opposition that the money l tion had always sympathized with the I should be expended by the municipal" l efforts of the. settlers in the new dis- tics, he had made inquiries and found i tricts of the country for increased ex- that every one of them In east Altrdrna 1 pendltures on colonization roads, hut was a member ot some municipal Coun- l, they had always objected to the man- eil, and therefore enjoyed the Conti- l ner in which the money had "been ex- dence of the people. Dozens of his con- l l pended. It had been employed for stltuentm Kmontr them being many Con- political purposes. and had gone to re- servatives, had expressed their satisfac- l ward friends and supportem ot the lion with the work done. and said that :' Government. or in other words to buy the money had been well spent, the I them up. He lnstanced the. page of only dimculty being that they did not John Boyd in Algoma, He accused got enough of it. The hon. gcntlemenl Mr. Conmee of cnntortlng and sup- opposite professed to be anxious to do pressing the evidence as to the past all they could to develop the new dis- course of the Opposition. In 189t the Op- trictse, but the hon. member for West positionhad voted onaresolution advo.. Algoma had shown that they had eating the transfer of the colonization attempted to cut down by one-halt road moneys to the municipal the amount of money to he spent In de- Councns. The resolutions which Visioning the new districts. In his own Mr. Conmee had mentioned had district the expenditure of the coloni- no reference to colonization roads. hut ration road money is a. pot'dtive Injury to the expenses of the Crown Lands to him politically instead of a benefit. Department. Mr. Marter gave the The Government are responsible for the member for West Alxoma a chance to money, and this Government would be apologize, but Mr. Cnnmee said that he were-ant to their duty if they handed had nothing to take back. He quoted the money over to any other body and from a letter written by Mr. Israeli allowed them to expend It. Weaver saying that the country is not I i Lieut.-Col. Matheson said that the! benefited by the expenditure of these ' only time that he had had any emeri- ; moneys on the oohmization roads, a rnce in the matter of ttolonization roads 3 little here and a little there. There wat, during his first session, when the' is no authority which could expend than Commissioner of Crown Lands ; these moneys to better advantage than very kindly gave him a. grant. He the municipal Councils. who would charged that money was improperly imake the expenditure on roads approv- vxpended in Almrma for political DUI" ed of by the Government. and the work l poses. He applied this charge to the to be approved of afterwards by the [circumstances attending the construc- G'rvernmont. Why. he asked, was the tion of a read from North Bay to Cal- Government SO tenacious of the cnn- lender, He said that the road had, mo of this expenditure ? Ho heartily orizinally lwvn tak1m round by a clr-i syini-iithizcd with his hon. fri-ttdn who cuitous way to Increase the outlay, and ' moved and seconded the amendment. the road not being used a direct road," having himself experienced the disad- was suhuequently constructed. l vantage of having opposed to him in Mr. Hardy incidentally explained an election campaign a. gentleman who during Col. Matizeson's speech the sys- i was able to appeal to the Government tem under which the colonization for aid on account of the colonization road fund is expended. The inspector roads. and the Local mrmin-r confer. and after Mr. Conmee rose to explain that by slim-ting a good man to do the work the amendment to which he had re- recommend him to the department. ferred the hon. gentlemen opposite at- Mr. Longhrin. who lived in a districtl tempted to, cut in half the entire in which there had been a liberal ex-; appropriation for Crown lands, which penditurc on colonization roads, but not necessarily involved a corresponding I half enough to meet the heavy require- reduction in the grant for colonization int-ills of the district, defended the _ roads. Hss had nothirut to withdraw. policy of the Government and assert-i Mr. Marter--The hon. gentleman was ed that if the instructions of the Gov-' never known to withdraw anything ex- crnment are carried out, as they gen- I rcpt a resignation. (Opposition laugh- "ally are. there can he no better sys- 1, tet.) tom of doing the wogk. t yon. gentle-' men It pcsite had ma e s a emen tr con- Overseers Are Councillors, comma the expenditure of this money, Mr. Farwell said that Mr. Boyd. the charging extravagance and almost rob-' colonization road inspector for Algoma, Lory. He demanded that they makes was not paid out of the appropria- spet'ifle charges showing" where the tion for colonization roads. and he saw money had been improperly spent. and! that the overseen did their duty and made a vigorous defence of the expen- i that the. money was properly expend- diture made by the Government in his' ed. The leader of the Opposition had constituency. l said that he had the pleasure of page- Mr. St. John said that the inspec- ing over one of these roads in eastern tor was always rtutmervient to the: Algoma, and he then paid a tribute to Government and that the money Was; .--------_q--'----------.--,