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T?" g Ci "if t E Illl 'll! MI, ' :-t l P '51., 'i"iiriiiroriri11 wrong. "lt'wis no teiiat1iliii account grgre" Iii L' "ii,iita"ii L AD 'ir, is is. ill s..""?' r, Used on sound business principles, than of assessments. Under the a . 1|, T .. When a deputation from the Farmers' lvalorem. system the tlttt18.ee of V m' V . l ' Association waited on the Government 1Pirty,1stlirttih Nytae.htutt9, and Con- ifl8lil88(lflll fl _ ' me months ago the Premier was re- mews" collected $40,000,090 ttt .1903' ' so ' , . ' . h lwhile the total taxes on railways in the ported as having told them that t e vU"ted States was onl tsa,otpooo _ time for bonusing railways had gone _'ev'i's', . h d d t dtii ad valoreiii F , .. b in this Province. No more popu- ' 1scons.tn a a one It . la); declaration had been made by Mr system m t,rt1Tht,i,t,'e' a 'r'eg"g,',"sndit ' t . _ f . _ . tion madeb t e overnoro t e tate Mn PettYP'eces Bill Bespectms Ross since.he became Premier. . as .'dll'l/l.'i'd'd. tif a commission on fl" Railway Taxation. . Opening Up New Ontario. 'i%tbic.'ct.. vUsader, it; "the commission, _ ' . . . i which. worked for four years, said that --.-.e.. _ Premier Ros.s, in reply, said the re-: theywould obtain $2.644,ooo instead of turn was partially preplared threeiot, $t.7oopoo. . mm. years ago, and cou d be comp et- i.. iii Ontario the G. T. R. com lained PROMISE OF THE. PREMIER. c.d promptly. ll. had been the prac-l against an increase upon $56 'Ill) mile N . tlce of the Legislature or Ontarioi taxes, while in Indiana they asked the --.. --- m-------. since 1871, in common with the. Federal! State board to fix their taxes at $40,- . ' House and the other Provincial As-) ooo. Mr. Ilellmuth before the com- Supplementary Revenue Meas. semblics. to grant. subsidies to rail-l mission made comparisons between . l trays. and thus aid in the development) Ontario and New York and Illinois to ure to Affect Railways. ". ', at the natural resources of the Pro- show that. considering the number of _ l l titer. in. increasing the population; and': people to the square mile. the taxes in .-.__....-..._u. t in otherwise adding: to the wealth of Ontario were much Largerlper square . 'lic country. Neither Manitoba nor mile than in the States. here. were Premier Ross Defends the-Policy of t _hf.h'Y'thwvs.1 Territories would have many other ii,titeis,h/'/rg,ve'iiarhi9, T, . q . . . ii1titilyitl to a tithe of the progress they comparison wit I" a . l . Tuc Granting Subsidies to Railroads) had now reached had it not been ior hiirler.taxey "In Lansing. hiIicliigan, in New Ontario-Education Bill., the subsidies granted to railways by on Ff'dag' last the court's) f ad if"- _ their respective Governments and the essors A am ayl (goomy e or.e.t em, -- ', Federal Government. About 1885 On- two of Il" recognized authorities on ' tario ceased aiding railways in the st,'1xtei'i, thanentertairtirgs": , . , . . q i l . . ,- h'isilvvil: nilbnllilt'a and railway tax-, older part of the Province, and Since ooo to $63ooo,poo and the Pere Mar-i . that time all the subsidies had been . ' ' 6 , ation occupwd almost the. whole timel for the d ,1 ' . . nuette from $260009?) to tt 900900" or ':hc. I , _'.. N v lst 1. . . it -i L' eve opment of New Ontario. Last Winter th municipal Councils Wit" . c. "MW" "P "W f" cr l Benefitin on o t io ed in favor of the passage of the bill.' Remit. and on both subjects the discus-' f n ar . The people of the Province were at min was of unusual interest. _ Mr. J; I," He believed that the policy oi devel- last awake to the fast that they were J. Preston tit 15.1.1 Darin." condemn- HOWE?" 1"ch hOntario was. Iaipgaciatcd not only paying? their own taxeskbut .l . . .. "r.'-., . 'e. _ 4 ' " was cn 'yt e farmers-oi or ntario t e taxes o the grea corpora tot" H" "t Prils"llct m s',rant111g "him" llas by any other class, and his remarks ibotli here and in the States. lll'i'iliil'l'uuls, and litifn'd the _l I""": )todhe deput.a,tion oi farmers that . . . . 1ern rtply in a recent deputation in f waited Uprmhihim were not intended to Mr. Hoyle Pun.? Committee. l iacucir, could be interpreted a. an 2239-." ill"; ride? that agy change Was 1 Mr.. Hoyle said. She Jtsst',s,rtl'g'otj" . ' ' t , L... . l; . WW3? in re air to assistin ,I'Coinmittee rtco ize t a n ario tl'.,':,"'.',-,",,':',':: Ol the Vim)" . Irwin", ll "impale in new gntario. He did: i must have half agiiiillion dollars morel "e". showed that "PC" 1333 only tenet think any bctterlse could be made I l for revenue. Mr. Pettypiece's com- roads in new Ontario had been as- "vi the credit of the Province than in lparison with the American States siaed. and argued that in thus help- ilmakmg th.c tmprdductive parts produc- lwae not 3 prop.er one. because mg to open up the newer parts oi ilulicv-mld m extending the boundaries in} Ontario the Puni.ci.palit.iesu, the Pro. the Prroinct. thrs. were adopting, a o. Acttlemcut. Ontario must not Colt-:' mum and the Dominion. had all bon- .'. . _ _ . - f' gtmuc to be a triuge of settlement used the railways, a policy which had tumour policy that wut avprcciated , along the great lakes, and its develop- not been followed in the States. The and upprotc-il by all classes. Mr. [intent must come from the accumulated committee did not think it fair that it. t Pcttypicce. m nroiitvg the setr- tweak-h oi the order parts of the Pro- the Province should by a tax on rail- und reading oi his now famous lull "uy"h That yas, he believed, a patri- ways. .pty.oyide for a return to the "7","th tin the iurrvased taxation 'otic policy. Several hundred thousand rrunjcipalities. which had never bon- I'.,',,,' L"., . f, _ _ "f", . dollars in immune; on timber had re- used the railways. The committee It' [i'."'"'"."', 6'xprtyst'i1surpr1rit' Hi the, ctiitly been added to the revenue iii had been evolving a system which dr,irion at thc special assc=5iticnt the Province. entirely as the result of would be far more equitable than the tiniillllllLtC'C to abandon the idea Hi the building oi the Temiskaming Rail- imethod by which the hon. member n Provincial board of assessors. Thut way, the iron mines at Michipicotcu would seek to prtyrititr.fpr the increase "as the only lll('ll""il of fairly rand had been made valuable owing to the of the taxes on the railways. t'JlUllLtl'l) .th'rlllf" ihesc. t'til' assistance given to the Algoma Ceir. . . it )l'litldll'. llt' contended. and tral, and a million acres of arable land Supplementary Revenue Bill. want-d lliitt ll. had br-cy, my..." had been opened up as the result oil Premier Ross said the member for ed with 'suO'trt't ill. itiniiy Mates oi tim- building of the Canadian Northern." East Lambton deserved a great deal ""3 Lino"- lc, iii'RO yuotctl. 1lu11.Tr-. ilhe present liability of the Province of credit and the thanks of the House "".f,_"g""" i,'r LYNN that 1'a.nadi:rn in respect of railway subsidies was be- ifor his very lucid explanation of a rahfgddi, were lf paying." ii"/f W." itween four and five million dollars, in- lvery complicated problem. He had 'ir/ri,,""), fy, t)tuiyt",e,ii,,. "yr' Emmi" 'volving' an average annual charge of lput the House in a better position to "' Cl "Y'?? Il'.'?) mtnnmed . that _v,1 about $400000. That charge would be- Hind a solution oi what was a matter i4 suppie1nc11titr.1 "will" hill, which I . id bl smaller unless fresh toi rcat interest to the ice le and to 1w m preparing. the railways will be .cmnc cons! era y a . h T l g ' . . i l p [WM crrnilerabiy morc than at "c. lsubsidics were voted. and m about 40 itlie Treasury Department. He had "(pm ' . f ' ' I éyears it would dwindlc down to a very targued. that the prop.er way of tax- . . .- ..' . iinsittttificipt sum. " mg railway_ corporations .and other The Temperance Bill. _ _ Mr. Whitney remarked that.he was large fraychis.t-hol.diryr, bodies was by litgforc the ordcr, tri" the day were ialraid the P.rtyier had been speaking" .?lti111, of. a Provincial board of as- li'lllIllCd. Mr. St. John asked the Pre- lin defence ot the .measure he proposed .Scssors, and had shown that that micr to inform the House when he Qbringing down with regard to the Al- method had been adopted in the United votild introduce' hi, promised temper- tftIOma Central Railway. . . 'itatcs apparently. with satisfactory re- mice bill. Mr. Ross repiied: "No li Mr. Ross-That matter, if it should gsults. The special committee, on the mg] will be brought down this week." lever come before the House, can be {other hand. had found what they con- Mr. Hugh Clark (Centre Bruce) discussed at that time. 1sidtted, , bett.er system. audit might explained that ii any member On. the i . . gt be in this, as in many othernnstanccs, "Moshe side oi the House had left i Taxation of Railways. i, that they could show the United States the House on the occasion of the d Mr Pettypiere moved the second; .that better results could be achieved riivisiott (in the iunendmeut to the il,.(.;"1.;;,.. (or" his railwa taxation bill,:', in another way than that under which linden. motion in order to pair his ltciaimin'g that it should be sent iGclife States were working now. He t.\lr. Clark's) vote, he had. done so "me,- hv the House this year than dur- tlioiight_t'he House would accept the "about his consent and without the. ing the previou.s two years, when he leadership of the committee that had ailment oi anyone IN ho had his au- brought it up. because of th.e general given so much attention to the matter. timrity. He had been unavoidably attention which had been given to yt i Mr. Pettypiece had also raised another bent and would have tinted, forlthc thy the public. He had been surprls- l Donn. the supplementing of the rev- "mendrncnt ii prtsent. crl when he learned from the Attorney: ' cuties of the. Province and of the tttuni- Colonel Matheson asked that the General that the proposed P.rolrittcial Cipalitics. So far as the latter were r'ublic Accounts f.:teyy..ittff he called board oi assessment catel','"e'feaerrl concerned, the committee had already ro-day and the Premier acquiesced. !Wit.9 to be abandoned. 5"th l boar made. considerable progress in finding Subsidies to Railways. aloue 00""! make an equitable; "fess; additional revenue for them. "I hope," . mom. He did not apProye o t e a added the Premier "in a very short In moving for it return shouting the rate, because $rooamile mightbe small time to bring own a supplementary amount of money paid y railway sub- for the c. P. R. and G. T, R., but revenue bill which will tax railwa s siditts bv the'Prov.ncc Since confedera- would be ruinttusdor" small, raj,1).ytr,ttltyl more and increase the revenues I . . - ' . -* . . . . . s of the ttttoil. Mr. Preston of. East Durham was impossible for the municipalities . Province " On some future da said that, while he did noticel Jllstl- to dtrthe. taxing. ." The ad valorem l these matters Could be tlioron hlv dis- fied in saying that the Legislature had, system was the correct one. In the ' .. g . in making these grants. acted with diy nited States. t.he ilt.temtts.to tax rail- honest intention, the principle was, m 'ways by g'gtlNi,1t', during the last c, . a». _ . joJeai-s had to the most ludicrous, (If .3..." _' s-', . .