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\uesc'L'&\(. x ; omm nnnmmmm mm esmm \ lesas o Not Enough Opposition From Main Estimates for Year Anv Quarter to Threaten Endi 1926, A NY | Ending October, , Are Second Reading \ _ Tabled in Legislature e ivgannanss | LIKELY TO BE ACCEPTED 'BIG HYDRO EXTENSIONS w n prrnneeg ! o s I With members of the Progressive |Provision Is Made for FUPther| ssoun opposins--although . not _ ®" \ _ vigorously as to occasion a division | | j | Bonus Grants for '\of the House--the Legislature yes-- | RUI'al LmeS 'u"r'fl;;,"lr\a.\'sorl tl}]»];:.}l"gh{ '::;"'"drr':'::; \ ings the two L118 O C . & PA 4 Minister, one increasing members f r '"@" 'TS"'"?[" fnr_ the feoal year indemnitics from $1,409 to $2,000, !cndmg nct, 31, 19.'0.. were tabled | and the other increasing _Cabinet ;;'.otst;'rd;i\"xbn ,El(:ef l.,chsll:.urr;.i ].::(:: Ministers' salaries from $6,000 to | tota 43,822,302.35. 'The highes } figure is for the Prime Minister's De-- | Si.lf'()fi.h legislation which was in cg 2 hi in-- partment, which is $16,057.770.. The | B Ne 1oe s D. "'n is --made the total for the Attorney--General's De-- | '.rndm-oq the Premicr is --made partment is $2,078.940; for the EKdu. | One Cabinet exception in the general cation Department. $7,288.895; for | increase--his ca]ar.};:ls 'h'l * c ooused + € » i s se-- the Lands and Forests Department, | $12.000--and considerable . amu is o un ivkt? o eoacts 4 ment was caused by the attitude of $?,639,825; Public Works Depart= | in. "raapor group, for whom Peter 'ment, $1,9870,936; Labor Depariment. | ;reenan of Kenora spoke. that in $2,289,905; Provincial Secretary's| committee they would move an Department, $5,730.216; Agriculturec. | amendment that the Premier's sal-- $2,368,0905. @ § ary should be increased proportion-- Much of the expenditure in the| ately Prime\! Minister's department is | ||, . es made up of Hydro items. In the| *"Right Thing; Wrong Time. f ; Niagara systoem for the Queenston Progressives who -- spoke a':amsf units 1 to 10, Ontario Power and!| the hill were HMHon. Manning Doherty, & , Hlectrical Development improve -- acting Leader in the temporary ab-- | ments, preliminary engineering, with sence of Mr. Raney; J. G,. Leth--. |further developments, the sum of bridge, Middlesex: D. P. 'Taylor | $2,600,000 is set aside. For steam North Groy, and D. M. Ross, North | plant. engineering and construcilion, Oxford. Mr. Doherty was mild ir | $5,000,000 is provided. Two millions his denunciation of the measure, cx-- is asked for for transformer staiions, proessing his opinion that the Gov-- and $1,500,000 to provide for addi-- ernment was "doing the right thin; ;tionai high--voltage lines, recon-- ~t the wrong time,'"' but Messrs. Ros: structing formerly Toronto, Niagara and Loethbridge were a little stronge | Power lines, and additional better--; in objecting. ixnean, etc. I Although Sam _ Clarke, Libera & f s k member for West Northumberland lhl. Iawren(:c an_d Georgian Systems. suggested, and -- Premier -- Fergusor | _ _In the Georgian Bay system for _ concurred, that any member whose | developments for South Falls, Hol-- _ oanscience would not let him vote | low Igake Dam, Severn, Muskoka. ror the measure should not accept f'"'d lmpr:)v'ements to other existing _ the increase when it was voted, none 'plants the sum of $500,000 is to be of the Progressives accepted the ,VOt"d' An additional $200,000 is to _ challenge. Mr. Ross, however, on a h; ]x;rim'xdc'd 1;');"'""5"0""1" stations, _ former occasion, refused to accept a ; tr;'ns aAnd betterments, etc. $600 bonus when it was generally . l" the St. Lawrence system for de-- _ accorded by the Drury Government. "sgo%r'(l)lagnts there is to be voted Mr. Lethbridge said that if the in-- 1 200. trar transformer station $100,-- _ erease was enacted over his head he ;" _ 's"]"o'z,sg:)'g"o" and dlstr.i,bution would accept it, and Mr. Doherty ',.,"f" e spent The sum Of '-90-0°Q, considered _ that _ members, even xs o be spent in the Rideau system . though they opposed the measure, | and $950,000 in the Thunder Bay| ought to "obey t} 1 w.""" & & ho & I obey the law," and accept 'nsstem. The Central system will re-- what had been decreed s €) = +s * quire $825,000, the Nipissing system 5 '3600.000. and other miscellancous! Will Probably Accept. | charges amount to $685,000. A half--| Sam Clarke ventured the assur-- | million is set aside for bonuses to' ance that Mr. Doherty would never rural lines. be brought to court for not accept-- $557,000 for Colonization Roads ! m:.:i t:m $600 v'vhinh was to be voted, o * * and Premier Ferguson--maybe f2-- Legislation estimates show a de-- cetiously--suggested -- that, perhaps crease of $7,000 over last year, and IA o ; f the Attorney--General's Department in Commilttee, the Legislature conld estimates a slight i;lcreage abogt oDi sS, fHch amendment as would $13,000. The usual grants to tnme| P/CiCCt members opposed to the in-- University of Toronto and the Royal | ("x;ease :'{0"' ?";"8 lmpotsed upon in Pntario Museum are made, Col. | e matter of its acceptance. onization roads are to cost $557.000, | In introducing the subject, Pre-- a decrease of $300,000. _ Therc is;! mier Ferguson detailed the salaries just about this amount of decrease of Cabinet }\lhmsters in other Prov-- in the proposed expenditure of thel inces, as follows: Alberta, $6,000; Lands and Forests Department. | _ British Columbia, $7,500; Manitoba, &'here lsfquito a large reduction in ; $5'400$:6 ?uebec, $6,000; Saskatche-- estimates for the Public Works De-- wan, ,000; Nova Scotia, $5,000. partgnent, there being a decrease Of} _ _ Comparing the responsibilities of a million dollars under the heading | public buildings. Government House maintenance costs $48,925, the same as last year, and there is a reduc-- tion estimated of about $9,000 on o Parliament Buildings maintenance. There is an estimated reduction in the Provincial Treasurer's office of x $36,000. ho