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SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1915. -- is ~was financing which was not 'to [ . the mfi of the Province. He moved | FIVE Mlll f | that a clause be added to the bill re-- | e storing the control to the Legislative Assembly, so that the Government ELY SPENT would have to bring down their esti-- ; f b mates under this act and have them -- voted by--the House. iticizes the Gov § 1Ho(;\. Ml;. tLulfaii satir:l tl:ls hon. | * riend was just shaking the old bones. MT. Rowe" c" 1Cize s The whole questioin hadhbeen debated | 3 i over and over again, The Legislature ernment S Fmancmg had already answered. the question whether it was desirable, as the House commmnmm mmmmammmmmmem m ' then decided, to place the expenditure | in the hands of the Gove;rnment with-- out the voting of the estimates, Once DlSCR'EDIT TO ONTARIO the Legislature had given the author-- ity, then all the rest of his hon. | friend's criticism went for nothing. | e | If he were not in the Legislature he | h ( '(Mr. Lucas) would describe it as Attorney--Gencral Says That Method o i:)unkum. Heo contendt;d there had % £ | been a proper system o financing-- Financing Was Pure Question o '|it was a pure question of how they Bookkeeping--Information Sought kept their books. Regarding Unemployment. Political Expenditures, Mr. Sam Carter (South Wellington ) ioommommomopmmamated thought New Ontario money should be | carmarked -- for slpeclal services and the Legis-- more scientifically spent. He de-- o s o eagarane ':f the g:e- clared when the old Government lature yesterday pleaded for were in office he was of the opinion storation to the Assembly of a power that a good deal of the money then of controlling finance withdrawn by 1spen't in thaé c;:strict had plo'lmtcaltfi?di Fe n view, an e was coming to n the northern and northwestern »Ond 'the Sathe Purbose was in view mow. tario development act of 1915, an A member on the Conservative side with reference to the $5,000,000 loan | here interjected the question as to ent with sperda-- l how Mr. Carter managed to win South e Amoney can on ther than | Wellington, to which the speaker re-- ing money on purposes 0 plied that he would tell them that those authorized. He declared that some time. The election he had come such a system of financing was not to through was a corrupt and abomin-- the credit of the Province. 31%12 one on the part of the other Hon. Mr. Lucas, Attorney--General, [ * . answered that the Legislature had g)[oncy We Spent. given the authority to place the ex-- ; Premier Hearst held ghaltl the money penditure in the hands of the Gov--| '?':'Z;Wlsoerlli'a.?ino(} ez:r?gogsg?edy Islléi?fief;g ernment without the voting of thel ; members on the Liberal side who had estimates, and with regard to thel | said that not to%hmuch mone_\t.hhad 1 , asserted it was a | been expended. ere were others, method of financing aq; kept their \ he sail, on the Liberal side who pro-- pure question of how they kep | claimed their love for New Ontario books. [ from the housetops, "but when it Questionable Financing. ; comes to deeds they would try and | hamper us in every way they can." When the House sat in committee | on the bill to amend an act for rais-- | Unemployment Conditions, ing money on the credit of the Con-- _ In moving for a return of peti-- solidated Revenue Fund of Ontario, 'tions, correspondence and other docu-- Mr. Rowell recalled that in 1912 the | 'ments with reference to the condition northern and northwestern Ontario ' of unemployment in the Province, development act was passed, author-- 'Mr. Rowell said the object of his mo-- izing a loan on the credit of the tion was to secure information on a Province of $5,000,000 to be applied matter of great public concern at this to certain uses set out in the act, but time. Undoubtedly the hardship | the control over the expenditure of through lack of work had pressed |this money was withdrawn from the heavily on many families during the | Legislative Assembly and put in the winter. He understood that repre-- ; hands of the Liecutenant--Governor in | sentations had been made to the Council. At the time this bill was be-- | Federal Government by the labor fore the House the Opposition pre-- . unions, who suggested that the Do-- sented reasons why the power here | minion and Provincial Governments conferred on the Lieutenant--Governor | should get together and devisgz some in Council should rot be taken away | plan whereby the situation might be from the Legislative Assembly, and ; relieved, and quoted a despatch from that the House should have the right ; ()ttawz} which gave the impression to determine the particular purpose| thgt little encouragement _ was re-- _for which the money should be ex-- | ceived from the Provincial authori-- pended under the scope of the pro-- ties. While he was glad to see that visions of the act. At that time it | a Commission on unemployment had _was stated they should not be uneasy | been appointed, he felt if the sug-- about the provisions of the act: that | gestion of the Opposition last session they should be prepared to trust the | had been adopted to look into the Governmert with the raising and ex-- ; question a great deal of time would pending of this fund, and that the have been saved and results might money would be raised and expended now be coming in. The figures of only for the purpose provided under registration, he thought, did not give the act. Lh?i full isiory{,i as rlnany traln}fd rtr:eini | ad registere only --throu their \A Risky Experiment. t;ade iunions. He thought gas well wie" tter how go 6 that aid might have been extended to }trugfvorrt?lz an act gm(:g, t:-e, h"):; |skilled workmen, who could have felt then, as we feel now, that it was found employment in England on 'a departure from important constitu-- faccount of war activity. |tional practice. What has happened | No Opportunities Lost. since has more than justified the , "Th ' 'crmclsm of the bill passed at the tims, | e Government have not lost and renders more urgent than ever any opportunity to co--operate with 'that we should come back to the old 'any movement that was calculated | constitutional practice and restore to |to meet the condition of things that | the representatives of the people con-- was on or was expected to be on in |\ trol over public expenditure." _ Mr this Province as the outcome of the ' * * present war," said Mr. Hanna in con-- | Rowell, proceeding, ~stated that in senting that th a |\ September, 1913, the Province had f e Ens Oe the return should issue. I think it will be ded for purpos |expen purposes covered by the found when the facts are all laid act only $1,300,000, leaving a balance down that no o tuniti i | ver $3,000,000, whi pportunities in that of o $ + ch, according direction have been lost." to the statemert given by the Dep-- In a question to Hon. Mr. Han uty Provincial Treasurer, n d b t . d y . 5 a een Mr. Rowell said he noticed from The expended for other. purposes. The 'News of February 26 that the Liquor borrowlnt-l!owers authorized, by the Dealers' Association held a meeting act were--used, not for the purpose of to consider certain proposed amend-- the ngct. not -- to raise -- money / for ments to the liquor license law. -- He ' Northern Ontario, but to raise money would like to ask the Provincial Sec-- . to cover other flna%clal arra.nxemontn_ retary if he had communicated -- to of the Province. To . put it mildly, any representatives of the asaocla,tlopl a $ caveeiiiiiipimmmmmammmmemennnonnnnnnnns l