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m ' v. . ____ . _ It', [t V ", I 7 b Tc: . ,' _ , a. ' . . 7 . ' _ _ . I" mumps... ., FEBRUARY .16.. 1911. t s..tt'r" "' '--."-qtree""' . 'tso' -e BUDGET DEBATE l , President Taft is the "wise and _ ' crafty President of the United States." _ , who was "too much . for" Messrs. Fielding and Paterson. He closed l. with a, vigorous attack upon reel-' _ procity. . _---.------""- i A Straight Party Division. P . Mi . ' The amendment moved by the yy/ r . _ eral leader was lost on a straight. lme muster and Liberal t party vote, Mr. Allan Studholme, the , Labor member, voting with the Gov- Leader Address the House. !ernment. The vote was: Yea, 18; nay, 80. The original motion was i f ------- ' carried on the same division. The interest taken in the final day DIVISION Ohl of the debate was evident from the PARTY LINES. ierowded galleries, and many people listened to the leaders from the floor L..." . ig the House under the galleries. One, of the most interested spectators want LabO M b Sid , 'Miss Sylvia Pankhurst. the iiizii,iiii) r em e . lsuttratrette, who was accompanied by r I es With the EDr. Margaret Gordon and other ladies. Government. interested in the suffragette movement . in Toronto. ------.-.. The Treasurer Meets Himself. In his opening remarks the Liberal Hon. A. G. MacKay Delivers Masterly leader declared. that he wasrgoing to Cri , ' introduce the Provincial Treasurer to itlcisttt of Provincial Treasuree'g himself----to face the shade of thc Financial Statement-An Attempt ' P.ros1nci1l...?,?1",1,i',uff,h' in his first year to "Humb " ot oiiice with the Provincial treasurer " the People - Sir Inf to-day. James Attacks Reciprocity , "If the people of the Province are . {to have. any conception of where they --.--------- {stand there must be some continuity of system in estimating the revenues," A ma t he declared. "It is a remarkable thing Hi, storly two-hourg' address by when the Provincial Treasurer must ' on. A. G. MacKay, and a re 1 b transpose figures to get a surplus. He .Sil' James Whitney Dy y says he has a surplus. but-he cannot the vi marked by all justify that statement. .mnisigor characteristic of the Prime "I "don't idealiZe a surplus. it is A er, brought to a close in not such an attractive thing that. the the Legislature late . figures ot' the financial statement , yesterday after- ' 1d . r " noon the long-drawn-out debate; shOu be Juggled to get one. "Upon the Budget. The Liberal'. Current or Capital Revenue? . ' ', eader covered a tremendous amount' Hon. Mr. MacKay showed that the' of ground in his address H Provincial Treasurer had classed as. with the financial t . e began current revenue money received from i. Provincial T s atement of the the absolute sale of Crown lands, and, " . reasurer, and causticaily _ contrasted this with his statement in: criticized Hon. Mr. Matheson for hi the Legislature in 1005 in which he l,. attempt to "humbu ', th IS , declared that receipts from Crown, the Provinc . g g e people ot lands should be treated as a capital,' 1 t e by figuring out a. sur- receipt and not a current one. He', pus. raced the source of the revenue claimed that if the Provincial Treas-l Increases so to d Iurer had placed these receipts from the T:',','.",,,.','),',,,,:"'," 1y announced by Crown lands in his statement as capi- ed bv th o legislation fram- tal receipts he would have been fore-'3 . e previous administration, ed to announce a deficit of half a mil- .and went thoroughly into the unsatis- lion of dollars instead of a, small sub! ' factory condition of education DIXIE} h it 1 I thro . . " _ t is revenue was a Cap! a re-' ughOut the Province. ceipt in 1905 it is a capital receipt ,The Trade Agreement, , now," summed up the Liberal leader.l I' In the loi ,"1f the Provincial Treasurer is al-l.. Id C S ng portion of his ad- I. lowed to transpoee items at will, ttli l ress Hon. A. G. MacKay scored the class an item one way at one time andi I Provincial Treasurer tor deliberat lv another way at another, then his state-i introducting reciprocit e3 ment will become a (t.Fihrryeitef,tl (1t1'treof.C t . y into the de- and the public will pay little attention l matter which, he contended, to it." l I 'L'tl'gi1tt',',1iv, outside the province of the "I am not here," continued Hon; i gislature, and one for the Domin- IMr. MacKay, after showing how the), Ill Parliament to deal with. Statingi iProvincial Treasurer had worked out " at H.om Mr- Matheson by ii'i'iiiitlll his surplus, "to make any extremal lmg reciprocity had forced him to dis- .party criticism, but I do say that it isl longs the subject, the Liberal leader lk crime for any public man to shift! zlalunchcd into a brilliant defence of iaround his figures to show as a sur-l ' t e agreement made at Washington plus what is in reality a deficit." I giggggerdlcme upon the Provincial The Speaker criticized the Govern- taken that ly the position he had {rllent1 for claiming so much credit for man could not sh - 1e arse receipts from the mines.l agilmal across the border M31013! pointing out that a year before the; 'f/IPM. his nationality across withdt I . Government adopted the "royalty") sarld'th r. MacKay proved trom Han; system it was advocated hy the Lib-' in his "attttlekP'it',1rt1, Treasurer hid eral Opposition. to the Jotst,11t,p'eltnd,i,Thta"tti1t . Liberals Provided the Revenue. ers of the Conservative e ea - Hon M M K ' el rd h th art . r. g ac ay stone t at e Co'fteda,atico/t p y Since former Liberal Administration had . e cose of his addr provided the sources of revenue by. Liberal leader moved an te,',',":',',",,,"',',',; reason of which the Government were tso the motion to go into Committee oil able to increase their grants to educa- ','vtt2', instancing all the points up0n tion, agriculture and colonization. in- the 2o,t,ll,e.,/2gt'ition took issue with' ;stancing the tax on corporations, the en . 'tax on brewers and distillers. and the Sir James Wa ' succeSSion duties, all of which the, The r l ves the Platt. I Government members had criticized': epy of the Prime Mi . when in Opposition. From these'; W3? chietlv confined to an 2e','i"'toe,'il, sources he showed that the Govern-g gicnt'gf/td; After defending the Ad- ment had received all but some $300.1; ll Stratum against the various criti- 000 of the increase in revenue, not a; tg'd',tf the Liberal leader, Sir James] idollar of which they would have re-l "had a 'pS'ttctt1!igtioht1'"it1cleret,'utrti' 2.??3303'21 {iii it'éieede" In theirolr-i. u e to . "','d'p,'.fif wile saw menacing the Provti': The Liberal leader.. showed that. 'even th ay as a. result of reciprocity with the total expenditure increasing 'cular-lv 31:5; it was a matter pal-ti: over " per cent., the farming indus- 'minion Gov:- the purview of the Ihr. _ try had received an increase of only 'trade had all"fluent. He held that! 39 per cent. dThe "l/ir,",?,',"', to civil . ' ' 33': followed the l government ha been 6 per cent. and u-, The Prime Minister 'ruf,t,f"ioli' Ito the Crown Lands Department " . - , per cent. .He showed that education .4 was receiving but one per cent. more .