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'purposes, and of thelr total Whitney could not show a single state-- * itures $8,000,000 was raised by ment he had made where .h':dha.d de-- 58 direct taxation. _ -l;od :hs-mucutlgn of a Conservative + who ha n guilty of corrupt prac-- The Government's Policy. tices. -- (Ministerial appuw"')l" prac 8 In regard to education the Province < had spent alnfe 1872 :17.000','0,(()% O(T(;' Great Enterprises. l Average annual grant of over 000. Continuing, Mr. Stratton 3 8 | He spoke in this regard of the growing tres relative to the expen(!'l':gttl::s flgt 'population of the Province, and the various counties of the Province in consequent necessity of increasing the support of his contention _ thit grants. He pointed out that in the | the expenditures of the Province State of New York, and in other States, bad _ not increaged _ proportionat the amounts for education were almosti 'ly with the expenditures -- of ?I?o:; entirely raised by direct taxation, but moneys controlled by the municipali-- | in Ontario the Government's plan was | ties themselves. He also dealt 'v'vlth to assis* the mun'cipalities, and thus | Mr. Whitney's references to the Cler avolid direct taxation. For instance, the | agreement, and pointed out the gue City of Toronto last year received from advantages which had accrued "g're_a( the Government of the Province to-- from to the Province. -- On the varleor:- ward education about $33,000, a large works in connection with Mr Clergue': amount to give to a great and growlnt{ enterprises $9,000,.000 had been alread and -- prosperous _ city. _ He _ dealt spent, and about $9,000,000 more, it was with the amounts expended _ on expected, would be spent wm;m tA hospitals and charities, saying that no next year or éighteen --months I-Ie similar institutions could be pointed to dorlt in detail with several of th 1e i anywhere where the average cost ccnnected enterprises and with otg;g per prtient per year was so low as in enterprises which had been completed this Province. But while these insti-- or were now projected and which meant tutions were economically managed, immense expenditures in the Provi the patients were treated as carefully, No Government, he contended, had nce. as eMciently and as considerately as in been able to make such an é ad ever any institutions the world over. Mr. with any man or company ':e:"t'}e,:;: | 1 Whitney had said that if he ever got which the Administration had mad | :llto power--which must be in thte ;llc;rg with Mr. Clergue. _ He referred to Af l.e f Inif :".'""'--d he _ would 1 vhools Whitney's claim that the sawlog policy $ |a Th Poze'n agricultura l;c 00 of the Province was originated by the I? w§nld rol\ul!nce. He ;';%u ':)3;_' Opposition, and argued that the meas-- \ \ the 'Oppositi + mt Sbett Die " C AOusht In as a result of the e pposition to give a etter . outery over the unbearable Conditic, o moral support to the one now in ex-- of 'the Dingley tariff, and was aq()'\'(; 3 listence. _ One good _ agricultural col-- almost unanimously by the Ho: passe lege was better than half a dozen mon-- ' * ouse. grel schools. (Ministerial hagplause.) VWest Elgin. The grants to agricu'ture had grown Mr. » from $72,000 in 1872 to $209,000 last words io Wes. Higln referred in toud year. _ He believed Ontario was to-- had not said, however, that tll?\. He day, as the result of these judicious ex-- sent member for West Elgin (M e pre-- penditures, the foremost agricultural diarmid) secured his seat at th s iecrich | country in the world. | e election | I ' Mr. Whitney at Niagara. | 1Crl\" egggt.s) by personation. (Ministerial ' Continuing, Mr. Stratton referred to Mr. Macdiarmid--Who was the per-- Mr. Whitney's speech at Niagara Falis sonator ? | in the recent bye--election, when the | Mr. Stratton--John Taylor is the |\latter, he said, endeavored to bribe a gentleman referred to. \ whole congtituency by promig'ng if re-- Mr- Macdiarmld--ln whose name did turned to power to give free power. he vote in that election, and by whose Mr. Whitney--You have a mare's nest request ? | now. ar. Stratton--He hunted for a man Mr. Whitney, the Provincial Secre-- of the same name so that he could per-- tary went on, had a coup'e of years :'0"3"-' him, and through the persona-- »go described Mr. Hardy's urging of the on of that vote the hon. gentleman West Elgin electors not to place them--. owes his seat in the Legislature to-- selves in opposition to the Govern-- day. (Ministerial cheers.) Continuing, ments both at Ottawa and Toronto as M';' Stratton defled Mr. _ Whitney tg "deplorable and wholesale bribery." If point (;0 a single speech where he 31\8 ' that was wholesale bribery, what were gvelrh enounced the actions of Billy. the remarks of Mr. Whitney at Niagara c:n t l1n South Ontario, or censured {he Falls ?¢ Had he one code of morals for th'?" _ze}r]a for their part in connection, the Legislature and one for the plat-- erewith. | ferm outside ? No man, Mr. Stratton Dressed Beetf. declared, ever made a more brazen bid, is ' a more corrupt offer, a more startling .Mr' Stratton went on to speak of the proposed abattoir, and _ said a trial 6 statement to the people of Ontario than shipment of dressed becf had just been had Mr. Whitney at Niagara Falls, As made to Great Britain well might the Government offer to Mr. Crawford--It wa's an experiment make the nickel and forests and pulp-- 'There have been seversal of them, and weod of this country free. Mr. Whit-- they have been failures é ney played a high moral role in the | _ Mr. Stratton--They were made under House, but he did not play it on the éiMferent conditions. They ~had not campaign platform. _ He wanted brib-- the cold--storage facilities of to--day.. erg punished who were Liberals, but The effort to interest the British Gov-- ' not when they were Conservatives. Mr. in MA a