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I." . , 'll$lle, Iill.t,ll)l. "'le lartisan, for e,', l, . . __ 1 their the United States. "ion dollars as a result o levnfirhi,i,irii,iiiitr, also some measures of issuance of i,i,ieij,t,.1io'g,-,ettv-2e, Mr.' it? Allowance administration, bonds. He urged that w a s a graham "Bride quoted V an omcial needed now in the Province wra 's'v'tlCU1t,dn,, the House that 1,600 ttnancitt1 survey. .. 'ir7/'ul"tre,t.':tnareegfeai1,1,otTt'"d1' m... "soaked." "named the. commie i t iv an In passing, the member for North allow son o g e tated that Government ance to any widow who was ml Victoria s ' l Ineed of it. Some members of the) profit upon the sale of automobile hoard, he said had ttxed {ID regula- markers at $1 a pair was aroundl ltiona overriding the statute I 78 per cent., the net cost to the: 3R0 . Government being around 22 centre; ' tttme ot Extravturanco. l, He submitted that the Government a: 1 Mr. ' , . u .3 increase in revenues were (rawn. rall ten ','/t/ef,eg,a11,,2, Efoggravr-s from sources that did not burden; . r he- l 3am expenditure in connection with] the farmer or tho Po'"' I',",',) .9 Govvrnment administration, and' tailing such items of taxat.un db! Proceeded to enumerate the Suthenl racetrack betting. insurance. auc- land Commission the timber probe l osssion duties, etc., he asked lr.1 Pavhl the Cvregory Commission the Govern-II instance if they wrilld be ('nnmdered ment's propensities for.hiring law-l unwarranted taxation. lie compar- i'ers. rental of outside buildings tori .ed fmtnr.ri.o"' not yfeld on . bond the departments. increased cost oil "guys with thus-emf tluu.Wras"'rn, dispensaries and of the IA/i:,",.'),:,'.) Provinces, which, In PV'"r.V lllSlatlm'm. General's Iropartment----all of which. showed "t.1Y'nt5 favorable to the i)tl- had totalled $2107 000 of A',"?,,',;,'.,'.), Wm" soctt.y: Provincial Treasur"'r, lute orti:riiatriJr', " ' E Smith's $15,000,000 Of 1922, to yield Dealing with livdro Mr. Mac- only 5.01 per cent, he tonceiycd to Bride said; "Knowing the Poten- ihe an especially good piece of ilnunc- I -. . . . i ng. _ to1yi/iv/'sV"ita',tvhr/1,j,hetht.r.rittvemg/ John Joynt (Constsrvative, North, ponents of Hydro-ore conducting! Huron) adlcturnsad tho (if-hate, , the same old propaganda. It is not; Beck they want, nor Hydro; it is t.hel . whole principle of public ownership.; If they can break Sir Adam Beck's,- heart and send him home sick to his; bed, as they have done this week.i they are sapping the strength of the) man on whose shoulders the great) burden has rested for the past 16| years. Frankly, I don't think this', Government when it came in knew; much about Hydro. I cannot re-s member having seen a single mung on the Government side associated) with it." 1 Scores Gregory Commission. Continuing after the evening re-) :cess. Mr. Muckride criticized the ap-I pointment of the Gregory Commie-1 [slon and the carrying out of tht Backus "deal," and alleged failurc ion the part of the Government tt improve agricultural oonditions .throughout the Province. The mem- 'ber for South Brant also twittcd tho occupants of the Treasury benches {with side-stepping on the redistribu- ltion issue. Premier Drury, he said, had in- formed the country that he desired to make the Hydro Commission r"sl90n- sible to the Legislature. And yet, in the face of that declaration, "he ap- points Mr. Gregory, outside the Legis- lature, and makes the Hydro Com- mission responsible to him." Edgar Watson (U.F.O.. North Vic- toria), who followed, launched out; Into an extended and detailed re-i buttal to w. F. Nickle's attack on the' Budget. Mr. Nickle, he maid, had tried to prove the Provincial Treas- urer had had a deflcit of some two q millions by going through the ac- counts and transferring a long list oC specific expenditures from capital account to ordinary. At best, said Mr. Watson, the disposition of these and similar items was a matter of some difftcu'lty. It was not easy to tell what actually was capital ex- penditure and what was current. But, contrary to the practice of other Governments, this Government had left the arrangement of the accounts! to the departmental experts, who had; actually handled the money. t ', He submitted that his investitrr-l, tion had shown that "the statements) made by the member for Kingston with reference to the falsity of the. surplus need not necessarily be ac-l cepted at face value by the members of this House or by the people of Ontario. There is abundant proof to Show that the Government made conscientious effort to charge the ac- counts where they should have been charged. There is not the slightest evidence to show that members of the Government went to the depart- ments and said 'Go heavy on the capital and light on the ordinary. Financial Survey Needed. Mr. W'atson proceeded, to deal with criticisms that had been launched in connection with Gov- ernment bookkeeping, methods. stat- ing that he hesitated to defend the variations in the date for the closing of the Government book. of receipts. But it was not a system instituted by the present Administration, 'he declared, as instanced in the In- formation given to the House by the Provincial Treasurer. C He turned to attack the late Gov- ernment on its administration rec- ord, instancing the loss of _a mil- -.