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9 i o nnnerdnaat sori h omm ¥ . general co nt and approval as T * E could have been urged equally as woll which we have the honor to ask the Pé: \' e an time durins the past ihree or House now to give a third reading. 1 q o : mi He strongly favored the (Applause.) --I would like to refer for a P i+ & % ® Mr. Carscallen said he had received neare recently in this Houge, but thich M a telegram from the civic authorities I o. on nanne iss To ~ o i PM in $3 e was never heard before--that the de-- $ 3 would make a difference of about $19,-- | oo »qe9,.000 99 Phe idemnde saiine m $ 000 in the revenue of that city by . only $207,000.~ "The idea of gut'tin: on p § taking away sources of income they | a tax to make up $207,000,~--was the had previously controlled. That amount | scornful sug'gestl?n thrown. out, o mwhen | é might not, of course, be absolutely cor-- | was the deficit ever matde so low.--when 4 rect, but it might be nearly so. He was was it ever treated as a trifling thing d strongly opposed to the bill, because o e mireie cunmene omm uoionp e t it interfered with municipal, , powers. The whole current of .theh"., thought ard He ailso thought that no bill imposing: expression has changed, '"You have no | taxaiion on the peorde in the measurc; | need _ of _ a . deficit, and . .gen-- that this particular bill did _ should tlemen who themselves have clamored : be vorcibly thrust down the people's throughout the Province, and clamored throats, but should be withdrawn for a thousand times in chorus that we rob-- B one year at least in order to give the bed and filched from them the policy | 4 people a chance to thoroughly discuss relating to timber, which requires the »! ' it and give their opinions upon it. raising of this money, now come for-- | . ward and say, .['Oh, it is not much--that | Hon. Mr. Hardy's Reply. vyou require to raise," whereas the fig--, . < "I have just one word to say in reply ures speak for themsolves, -- . § to the few remarks of my hon. friend," The amendment was defeated by a~ : observed Hon. Mr. Hardy, as he rose yote of 46 to $6, the division.being as, | 4 to answer the Opposition: leader. "I --"I{OWS im SEbdHsY' $ am afraid that what disturbs my hon. Nays-- Auld, Aylsworth, Barber,Beat-- 7 friend is that we are not imposing apon t:v:.'(Pa.rry Soumd), Blezard, 'Bowman, | 4 the people direct taxation in the sense -- Bridgland, | Brown, . Burt, Caldwell, [¥ that he has ever preached it to them. | Campbell, Carpenter, Charlton,, Clarke, S (Ministerial hear, hear.) Direct taxa-- | LConmee, Pa.vls. Dickenson, ~Dryden, 3 tion was preached by my hon. friend warwell, Ferguson, Gérman, . Gibson,l' t on every platform upon which he has | tranam._ Guibord, .Harcourt;"~ Hardy, | spoken in the past few years. He re-- Harty, .Hill, ~Hislop, Holmes, Leys,| ; presented this in his own language-- Loughrin, L!_l_msde;&', Malcolm, Mutrie, | that it was taxation upon. windows, Macnish, Mchkay, McKee, Pardee, Par=| hearthstones and doors. That was his 20' Patiullo, Pettypiece, . Ross, Russell, | 8 idea of direct taxation--that the collec-- Etratton, Taylor--46. ... .. i0 d y tor should go around and levy a tax, Yeas--Allen, Barr, Beatty (Leedg), 3 a door tax, a window tax, a 'hearth-- Ifoyd, Brower, Carnegie, «Carscallen, stone tax. I will commend him to the Colquhoun, Crawford,-- Dempsey, Duf, report, if he will allow me, of the few Iilber, Fallis, Foy, .Fox,. Gallagher, 4 remarks he made when this bill was Hlodgins, Hoyle, Jessop, 'Joynt, Kidd, f first introduced. 'That was his des-- Little, LAcas,-- Marter, ~Matheson,. Mon-- # - cription .of a direct tax; it has been his toith, McDonald, McLaughlin,. Powell, description of a direct tax throughout .'T_:I""CS _ _ Reid _ (Durham), .. Thompson, { . the Il'rovlnce.h"'e hgv;nalways. told the Tucker, Wardell, White, Whitney--36. I people, not that we' impose no direct f y + taxes, but that wwe impfx;:e no general { License Revenue Bill. direct taxation and wouid impogse non«. Hon. Mr. Harcourt moved the {third f My hon. frend has seen the same spec-- reading of the liquor license bill, with tre and bogy which he has been conijur-- | an amendment providing that semi--an-- s Ing up on the platform during the last | nual payments of licenses shall only be f four years disappear and vanish 'into | allowable in localities where the fee is ' thin air. That is what disturbs him, | increased by the bill. > and that is what disturbs also the pla-- l Mr. Whitney opposed the motion. He : cid temper of my hon. friend from South was much amused, he said," at the Lanark (Mr.Matheson)}, Now,I say there | heavy artiliery discharged by the Hon., & is the greatest difference between what the Premier in regard to the position of might be called a general tax upon the the Opposition. He could quite under-- people, and a tax such as this upon stand the serious nature of the posi-- f wealthy corporations and upon finan-- , tion in which his hon. friend found o F vial corporations. Kverybody approves | himself, He denied that he had said of this tax except those who have to that taxation would assume the form of a pay -- it--(Ministerfal _ applause)--and a house and window tax. On the caon-- ' f even they say : "If the tax is reagon-- triry, he had said that one could not able and moderate we recognize it as teill where it would stop, and that if the f just and statesimanlike." It is not ai (Government persisted in their course a ' tax upon the workingman, it is not a window tax might be necessary.: The tax upon the farmer, it is not a tax up-- l words of the Opposition on this sub-- ' 'on the merchant, it is --not a tax upon Sdect were«distorted for a set purpose bc-- * v.lndula. it is not a tax upon the man-- | \fnre Mouse and country. For the < ifacturer, it is not a tax upon labor. / pyast fif years the Government had, i 3 (Ministerial hear, hears.) It reaches on the pitblic platform, stated that they f imply to the wealthy corporations, 'to were 'rolling in wealth, and the hon. "the great financial institutions of the the Attorney--General had in more than J country. It says that they for the pro-- ne place in the country said that they q f tection which they receive shall con-- drew upon their surplus when they had -- Aribute some fair share of the burdens | a little deficit. . That statement had i -- hlch fall upon the people. In that | r._ever, Of course, --been _ made ln-tl}e i «way our bill is framed. No tax bill FHiouse, and for apparent reasons... No j ich was ever laid before the coun-- am«mber of tthe Gogfifigslth?w;gé * 'to answer to an : C . , irv has received so unanimous or such g 'The. Gfobe: of an edition publish .