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increased by $700,000 a: ; tfAW sidered such a large increase undiustia_-- % able. 'The expenditure last year way! $3,710,000, the receipts $4,096,00u § RD AY MABCH 10, parently show'lzfz &)&arce surplus. 1% SATU s cruy ts claimed that ,000 of these receipts. [ were properly chargeable to capital ac-- count, including receipts from dral'nu'e! f debentures, sale of asylum lands, sale| of the agricultural property at the cor-- ¥! ner of Queen and Yonge streets, bonusl from timber sales and collections from common school lands. Comparing thel wommmaaaeeze zmm expenses of 1899 with those of 1898,| Mr. Matheson said that in 1898 th?llie were several special items of expendi-- Col. Matheson Denounces Sher-- ture, such as $43,000 in consolidation I 7 : of statutes and $80,000 in elections, or lff Bl'OWn S Conduct. £$124,000 of unusual expenditures, which was not the case in 1899. Then he be--'! lieved that from $20,000 to $30,000 ueeensunmunenyememuss had beer spent in 1809 which the Gov--| t ernment withheld from the accounts' A PROTEST FROM MR ROSS of last year. He protested against the * ysale of the Yonge _ street property, which was one of the most valuable, wz z_ grites in the city. Reference had been made to the growth of chartered com-' Nr. Whitney's Proposed Amend-- panies. He thought more care should ' ments to the Election Actq'-d'fl be taken in gl»antlng powers 'L() |='|ese ' All d companies, and protested against loan to Pireet Prosecution of Allege companies being allowed to go sround _ Corruptionists. the country asking women and children | A to take stock in their companies, where | wa _ they got no return, and frequently did t not get any principal back. He udnr!lit- f i ted the Government's contention that' . _Mr. «Matheson continued his on--| some money had been spent on capital slaught on the Ontario Government in account last year, to the extent of the the Legislature yesterday afternoon, Normal School at London, but, on the and painted a depressing picture of the fore Aestarare inare Wakine miem: bat condition of the Provincial fAinances. ought to be paid out of the revenue of According to the speaker things were the Province. running all behind, and the exchequer The Province's Debts. was being depleted in a most alarm-- It was admitted, Mr. Matheson went ing manner--this despite the reassur-- on, that the Province owed two million Inz report of the financial experts, * dollars to the Dominion -- for -- school which was in every member's hends. lan(}]s. The bonus from timber sales k n s ought to have been used to pay this Mr. Matheson 'attacked Sheriff Bro"nv debt. No attempt was being made to of West Elgin, on the ground of havy--| pay the debts of the Province to the ing permitted strangers to come into D(i)lllmmon. We could not add half a million, year after year, to our income the riding and act as deputy rct'urnlng from timber bonuses. Were these per-- 'officers. and insisted that the Govern-- manent receipts or not ? The propos-- ment should have promptly «dismissed ed Oxford Reformatnry_ he declared as him. This strong statement elicited a :'}:'"';fe?s"ry' land was simply to satisfy protest from Premier Ross against the e neiorim slecfors of that county. vilification of a public officer whose Money for Canada's Soldiers. conduct had been under review by the Th; item 1;0;' the Pat&'lotithund was § ) one he cordially agreed with. He only Judges at :he electignb tr:;l. b;t who regretted that the Government had not had not been reported by them for any seen their way to make a larger one. offence. Hon. J. R. Stratton will be \S'he? the two great I.'ailwa'\is_nru the the next speaker for the Government ominion had each given $15,000, it i | seemed to him that $10,000 from the when the debate is resumed on Pues-' Province and $4,000 for the salaries of day. | 'Canadian soldiers who were in the . _Mr. Whitney introduced his bill to P""""}'l"e's employ was not large s in m enough. amend the election act, which containg Referring to the Financial Commis-- a large number of proposed changes. l sion'sl report, Mr. Matheson said the ie Homes is commission never claimed there was a Mr. Matheson's Criticisms. surplus. When they gave a list of the | Mr. Matheson, in resuming his aasl',)cits and l:he liabilities they did not s subtract them. Had they done that speech on the' budget, said that uniess they would have given their pledge that some effort were made to keep down the items in the assets were available to | the expenditures they would grow too pay the liabilities.Those trust funds held | large. In the last ten years the ordin-- ?g' the Dominion were held in trust rori ary expenditures of the Province had ® schools and for keeping up «sylums.