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CaaC penditure," when those structureés f Comparing revenues for ten years, were built for many years to come and y iho speaker pointed out that from should therefore go under the heading tau to 1905 the general revenues of "capital expenditure." ul;: Province amounted to $456,162,-- "I would be prepared to accept the + [I09 or an average of about $4,500,-- statement of the Provincial Auditor 000 a year, while from 1906--15 the over his signature," interjected Mr.; l"vo::;:;xe!; ywfifa:: o't:.%ls"fr?iu' "In other Rowell. | & e | immediate predecessors 1t';'ol:mgut h;: Hydro Audit On. | gxe pockets of the people of this With reference to an audit of the | thmfil'nr?' received from the people of accounts of the Provincial HMyero-- e vince, and from the sources electric Commission the Provincial | gf r{'evenue from which the Province Treasurer said that this year the Gove-- ; tl: es its income $53,000,000 during ernment had determined to kave _A / ose ten years more than we re-- final audit, and officers of the Gov--| ceived for the ten years preceding." ernment had been going through the Having _ described Government books of the Hydro during the last «House as 'a monument to the pride few months. Mr. Rowell had found and folly of the Government," Mr. something in, the nature of a "mare's Rowell referred to the expanditure nest." Mr.' Clancy, the Provincial on the Guelph Prison Farm, given Auditor, did not claim that ane dol-- as $1,738,000, which represented an lar had gone wrong, but he did claim agerue capital investment of about that some four million dollars had $3,500 per prisoner. The time had been expended by the Hydro without 1 come when the most rigid economy statutory authority. The explanation should be exercised and when finzn-- of the fact that they had spent four * clal resources should be conserved so ' imillions more than the Governimnent as to make provision for the men cut-- | rave them was that they had receiv-- side as well as those inside who were | ed that much money on account of deserving of the thought and atten-- | | municipal supplies, etc.. _ and had tion of the Government. | |spent the money in a similair manner. (However, it was the intention of the Financial Degencration. | 'Government this session _ to bring \.. At the close of the fiscal year 1905, \down legislation that would deal with 'the first year in which the Govern: 'the point regarding which the UHydro = }ment of,. Sir James . Whitney bad 'auditor and the Provincial Auditor 'c;l:rggd of Rthe lf{na,tnces of the Prov-- | differed. e, Mr. Rowell stated there was a anr * excess of liquid assets over "abflitiel; Poor Likes War Tax. & of $1,22%0,563; in the years 1906--15 | Dealing with the argument of Mr. the total increase in revenue was $53%,-- Marshall, the member for Lincoln, 403,744, and vet at the close of the | that the one--cent tax on moving pic-- fiscal year 1915 there was a deficit of ; 'ture show tickets would hit the liquid asgets as against lHabilities of | pockets of the working classes, the the Province of $8,346,833. "In oth-- 'Provincial Treasurer said this con-- er words, starting ten years ago with : \tention was the result of the desire of - a surplus of $1,220,000, with an in-- 'the Opposition to look up something crease of general revenue during that \that would appeal to the popular im-- period of over $53,000,000, we find |agination. If the poor man was over-- urselves with a balance of Hahilties loaded with the tax on moving piciure over liquid assets on the wrong side show tickets the Government would of the ledger of $8,346,883. see to it that the tax was removed, ' If the Government had exercised !but he did not think the poor man * reasonable economy it would never !would complain when he Iknew that have been necessary to impose a war 'the money was going for war PUuIP-- | tax to meet the expenditures. The tposes. | war tax had become necessary be-- P | cause of the depletion of revenues \G.I.P. Agreement. through _ extravagant expendiiures |_ With respect to the Liberal leager's year after year. |\remarks regarding the refusal of t:\e | inci 'Grand Trunk Pacific to live up to its Provincial Trea§urer 'agreement as to gmning righto.s on?ri | the Timiskaming Northern Ontario Defends Government Railway and the railu{e of itho Gov-' AMEAPEL q | ernment to take legal action, the Utf{e(:-s';llyivr')rii $ 43G°° d'?"rtw" of the | Provincial Treasurer said that the | p to the effect that if | did t give the Govern-- \the statement of the financial C o bo w o eike sction. in ti f th # posi~ | ment power to bring @ction in the on of the Province had been pre-- | t til the construction of the ared by the Provincial Audi in' courts untl e con U ; gt ad fyb rray uditor in GT.P. was finished and they were a,ned thg Tr!e'a,;gx?yrg::igc'iéfl Treasurer | running trains over the system. The hown a deficit rd i w?uld have | expenditures made on improvements | 8 a deficit of over two million ' to the Government line totalled some i doiltllarsfi Provincial Treasurer McGarry | six or seven hundred thousand dol~ | !(9)a o ti atnahe former Government of lars, and not four millions of dollars, ' ndtiu' 0o not differex?txate between as the Opposition had suggested. Any-- ordina.ry capit?.l and expenditure and way, the Gowernment was not look-- ordinary capital receipts. When they ing for legal advice from the Opposi-- were short of money, instead of levy-- tion side of the House. ing a tax on the people they sold a timber limit, and that was how they Those Machine Guns. were able to cover up deficits. "By innuendo and otherwise" the Still Sure of Surplus. Liberal leader had endeavored _ to N i j | blame the Government for the gift| * otwithstanding the claims of the | of five hundred machine guns. The | Opposition he would reiterate that | Minister for Lands, Forests and. there was a surplus last year of $271,-- | Mines and the Provincial Treasurer| 000. 'I'!n'e Opposition leader had spok--= had made a trip to Valcartier for the| en of "general revenue" and "gen-- purpose of witnessing some tests of] eral expenditure." Ho did not un-- machine guns, and while there the| derstand what was meant by "gener-- Minister of Militia had told them | al rgvenue" and -- "general expendi-- that there was nothing better tho{ ture." "Ordinary receipts" and "or-- Ontario Government could do than| dinary expenditure" and "capital re-- give machine guns. The result was I ceipts" and "capital expenditure" were . they had decided to give 500 guns atl f the terms generally used in financial . a cost of $500,000, and letters of ap--: . cirlces. Receipts from the sale of such | preciation of the gift had been re--| properties at the Toronto Asylum and ceived from Premier Borden, Sir Sam the Central Prison had been put in Hughes and other prominent men at "capital hn(:iceipts." and when the Ottawa. | money had been spent on the es-- i tablishment of the Guelph Prison Not a Dollar Misspent. 1 » Farm it had been put in "capital ex-- The Opposition leawler had com--| penditure." plairéed abdout the present Govern--! e ment spending ninety--eight million| iNo Man's Land. dollars in ten years as compared with \_ _ With the system such as that proe forty--five millions spent in ten years posed by the Opposition leaqer, the by the former Government. He con-- . item of $2,480,000 received trom the sidered that a ridiculous comparison. sale of those properties would have There was no more comparison be-- been wandering around in the "no tween the. expenditure in those two man's land" of "general expenditure," decades than there was between a waiting for someone to take it in. "I native of the Island of Fiji and his hope the time is not near when he honorable friend. And if the Gov-- (Mr. Rowell) will be presiding over ernment hbad spent ninety--eight mil--| -- the financial operations of this Pro-- |lions in ten years they had the pub--| ; vince, because with his ingenuity the i"c services to show for it, and, as Lord only knows to what extent he (evidenced at the election of 1914, a| p will stretch that term 'general ex-- __ |grateful people standing _ behind | pendifire, " 'said Mr. McGarry. He them. _A clever Opposition with a| \ would like' to know if the Opposition clever leader had not been able. to| leader would put the cost of the pub-- show where one dollar had been mis-! lc building at Whitby and similar spent, said Mr. McGarry. | 4 _ipuildings in the account of "ordinary | mt seentetentienals | 4