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P. . Woman's " an 1tt?tt He : "new: the yen- with .ttr.t) 3.000 in the bank, and 'weund up, utter akin! att receipts and expenditures. with .but 33,000,000. His own statement shows a defteit of two millions. He. has am, told us he has a balance on. current revenue. This is also not well I . ""g,?"lihoutra, showed that. eount-' ins 3432.000 received on the sale of timber lands and other revenue WM" erly charged to capital. account. the Fri,vinciat Treasurer. instead of a . rem] thousand. had act- lsur')lus ot " uallr a deficit of $600.000. an argu- ment that provoked Irrolonged Lili- eral applause. " Deficit From Any side. I "No matter how you look at it he I has a deficit." summed up the speaker. The member from East Ottawa took the Government to task for its unprorrressivtt course with regard to T Econsel'Vmg the. forest wealth of the (Province. The forests if properly l,lio'l'sie"r'iiiii would provide " steady re- ivenue for all time to come. The re- 'cord of the Government was one of retroswession. and in this regard Mr. McDougal referred to the action ofi the Administration in abolishing the: Bureau of Forestr; just when it was; in to he o use. i '"y,""t"hn/U.!". he declared. "that the) Government should appoint a Com-' mission and thoroughly go into the matter. and adopt a proper policy. They owe that much to the people of the Province. runners Not Fairly Treated. Mr. McDougal strongly r-ritir-ized the Government for the inadequate provision in the estimates for the farming industry. They should eon- duct an investigation into the reason itht young.r men are leasing the farm. Hit northern Untario there was Just ,as good land as in the nest. and the young men should he Nivonruged to go there. The prosperity of the Provirwo was. continued the speaker. " measure of what the whole Dominion "us enjoy- ing. and for that prosperity tho l.ih- eral Government at Httnwn was to a large extent responsible. Mr. Mr- Dougal vigorously replied to the Pro- vincial Treasurer's criticism of the reciprocity agreement. 1tcrittrority Approved. "This," he declared. "is one of the tint'st things the Government has ever done for iarmers of Ontario and of 'he Dominion. it will redound to their 'oenrh't. I know they are not special friends of the gentlemen op- posite. who do not take any special interest in the good of the farming, :ommunity. We know that the Con- servative policy is to build up the manufacturers and to stand in with them. But the Liberals have some regard for the industry that is the foundation of tho nation. and we trust and hone that the Government will keep on looking to the intereV of the 'aciriculturat portion of the community, They have endeavored to secure for the farmers u market of ninety millions, and we trust that they will succeed. that tho treaty will he ratified. Even if it is hard on the railways. if it benefits the man who this the ground it is a good thing Jor the country. it is a good thing and statesmanlike " Pulpnood Policy a Good One. Mr. Menougal congratulated the Minister or Lands, Forests and Mines Upon his determination to allow no ' change in the Provincial policy with respect to pulpwood, which compels the lilanul'arture into paper of all pulpwood cut on Crown lands. Ho hoped that the Government would stick to this policy. "If in our "ndearors to build up a _ paper industry we allow our forests f? be denuded we will be in the post- tion of having an industry built up and no raw material to supply them. as it is in the United States at pre- sent." ' "l hope." said Mr. McDougal_ in eoneluding, "that the spirit of econo- my may come back to the Provincial :Treasurer in the ensuing twelve (months. and that he will be able to icome down next year, not with a de- Iti.t, in both current and capital ac- counts. but with what is really a bone. yct'C, surplus in both accounts." . l T-"ertTeee.eLe'e='l'e--e-'-e