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1 0 ro 18 Legislative Assembly, Toronto, Dec. 14, 1897. M.. Speaker,â€"Owlnog to the unusually ear Iy date of the commencement of the sesâ€" slon, and to the fact that the accounts in the bands of bhon. members cover only ten months of the present year, instead of the full calendar year as heretofore, my stateâ€" ment this afternoon must of necessity differ considerably from those I bave previously bad the honor to deliver, both as to its subâ€" jeet matter and arrangement. At the very earliest hour possible the acâ€" counts for the balance of the year, viz., for the montbks of November and December, will be presented to the House in the usual form, and bon. members will then, as alâ€" wayre heretofore, bave the fullest opporâ€" tunity to examine them in detail, and subâ€" jJect them in committee, If need be, to closâ€" est scrutiny. It must be apparent to ereryone that much valuable time will in this way be «ared, that the business of the session will be greatly facilitated and expedited by bringing down now, as we have done, the full accounts of the year up to the end of October last, and that the convenience of bon. members will thus be best suited. RECEIPTS, TEN MONTHS ENDED 3ist GCTOBER, 1897. Financial Statement of Hon. R. Harcourt. Eubsidy .. Bpecific g Crown lands ........ . RKent re Crown lands . Railway lands ........ Clergy lands ...... .. Common School lands Grammar Sechool lands University lands .... Woods and forests ... ::lnlng lMeenses ..... lucellancous ........ MCOMNMLE.cerdagceris Interest on capital Reld and debta due by the Dominion to CMHERENKE .«c««s« «axreri«s «irges luterest on investments ...... Algoma taxes ...... C Htamg% ........ Cenges ....... ... ueation Departmer le of lands at Toro Public institutions r oronto Lunatic Asy leo Lunatie Asy ndon Lunatie Asyl qronto Lunatic Asylum . leo Lunatie Asylum . on Lunatie Asylum .. Eullton Lunatie Asy!lum Ingston Lunatic Asylum Brockvillie Lunatlic Asylum Ortilia Lunatle Asylum ... Reformatory for Females Reformatory for Boys ... Riind Institute ........ .. Central Prison lodustries Casua) Rovenneâ€" Provincial Secretary‘s Depart NUMKE . «ue ««csura uvctrs ++ Provincial Registrar‘s branch. tegistrarâ€"General‘s branch ... rneo. Cllk «emararrcu« arss‘ss s nsurance companies‘ feesâ€"(‘n Cap. _ 50) . .e ks es +« +4 s« n3 «+ +# Feewâ€"Local Masters of titles. Bhooting and fishing lHcenses. Otprows â€" dC@N®@® | ....... .. 0+ ++ Intestate estates Imoney® ... Official GAZ@AR® ......0kkkkk+s Private DIB ....02 0 ss> «es ++ +> BtatUt@e® ....>>@ 00 «n 9nn t ar ks k5 Ground rent, old Agricultural tarto act and 18901 act ...... Loan companiesâ€"fees ........ Public officers‘ surpius fees (537 Â¥ic.. COap. 9 and R.S.O. Hall #1t@ ....0e««««««se«+««+ RefURA® 2.....00+ «s ++ ++ ++ ++ IncldemtAl® ....0. |«>;e> ++ ++ 9+ Insurance companies‘ assessâ€" ment re expenditure for inâ€" surance branch ......0.....« Removal of patients to asylums EXPFNDITURE, Crown Lands Department Drainage Dratnage debenture®s ......)+ Drainage debentures, tile ... Bale of ADDUItiG® ......6+++* (vit government a w ue en n n n LegislatlO® «... gensssksk***** Adininistration of justice .... EducatioH ....«..«.. «en arnucuc. Public institutions maintenance I mm{igratio®n ......>>«> +**«* AgTICUITU® ...« 66w ) k« *n**** Hospitals and charities ....~+ Regflrs and maintenance ...> Public bulldING® ....>>>>>***** Public WOTK® ....ee8 «* «******* Cwlomization romd# .....«***+** Charges Crown Land# ....}+>* ReUN ....ccrs sailkkkkX*t‘* TV U! Snouctunly ~LGC6 caue WCiunnte +**C 0 us Statutes consolideted . Miscellancous . ...â€"++*** Irainage debentures® ... TCM D esvamson‘ t Irainage debentures, Ue® Railway aid certificates . Annuity ...+«* The main source of Increase, it will U0° noticed, is in the receint from Crown lands. For the period of «en montbs which 1 am now counsidering OUT total recelpts from the Crown Lands Department amounted to £1.300,.178, the largest recelpt of any year since 1898. Last year we recelved $025,262. The arerâ€" age yearly receipt from this department for twoentyâ€"sizx years bas been $978,284. From P X Sadccoc Nuvie We MM this Last year e t t o ie vas age yearly receipt from this department for twoentyâ€"sizx years bas been $978,284. From the aale of Crown lands we recelved this year $84,405, from rents, mining leases, the noticeably large amount of $154,735, and from woods and forests $1,132.387. From mining leases we received last year $46,040. N05 00000 C @entk satten wf vimm W.eâ€" ;oâ€"ld during the year 1 ber lands, obialllu for It Vol. XX. No, 6. ant works assessmentsa Supplement to DURHAM REVIEW. 18 SABN $3,608,.138 32 . TEX MONTHS, ENDED OCToBER, 1897. en aeacusucees: OHDIAd 20 | ns maintenance ez,050 S0 ; o l 6.767 C 168,.002 37 | charities ...++* 102.604 08 | alntenance ...> ® A14 61 | K «xccarerrceres 108,8504 28 ; 26,130 70 | yOÂ¥ 2 2s se 06++ ++ + T9.301 67 | Land# ....)++* 144,257 08 , [« . uxn u%aeaNCe*® 23,820 T dated ....>>=>* 14,063 80 | Cl LeaeeuRCCEECN 129,3501 &il eed. ih'e- ynr 150%, miles of timâ€" Ing for It $265,.162, or $1,665 recelred up to the end of LC «.. «c««ua â€" RhLME O , «uruuÂ¥te a% 23,820 S7T k «everrurs 14,063 80 129,301 34 Wectremetemmentionts §3,029.040 6 | a us exruuk® 6,.872 M , tlie ..«+ 6,800 00 ites ....>@ 112,305 6 45,100 0) $3,200,218 46 to? the ten months of a «iÂ¥X ,116.872 80 $1,196,872 80 $ â€"$4,405 10 $1,300 $3,505, ‘ 24 $204,07 51 212,414 48 22,2336 03 $85,488 87 8t>,OAM4) OO 115,.104 83,546 4,.040 2,620 10,.080 158 10 1 1386,004 10 358,0142 71 | AT3,.189 47 ; erz,050 S0 j 6. 7eT :\ 15,000 4) 1t will be 14,884 10. 1909 211,026 JSS 2G , t0C o OW 2,900 8'." | ed amongs 2419 21 | 1 e sot 26 of the last 6.845 16 License yr 11,M0 76 isg; ..... 4,0418 M i8s9% ..... 1,461 02| 188C ..... C ic ..... 4,000 00 1897 ..... 4 41 5t 17 The Pro 0,188 01 820 08 M 4nd 7O 4. 000 OO 1.18 311 115 0 $11 € 18 744 ( 206 441 4X 14 104 99 46 3O §A9 17 NO 00 L t ) AT 8O 20 8g 1 0S ta 13 4) O 41 40) K (K) Wa received 'llquor licenses i follows:â€" Revenue from « Il{nvenm,- from : October from this sale $88,812. The balance is still outstanding. Omitting altogether the proceeds of this sale, our Crown lands recelipts for the ten months of 1897 bave been exceptionally large. The Sandfield Macdonald Government, it will be remembered, had four sales of timâ€" ber, one during each year of Its term of office. The average price realized at these four sales was $260.41 per mile. We have had only seven sales in twentyâ€"six years, and we bare reallzed as our average price $1,221 67 per mile. The berths disposed of at our sale last August are situated chiefly near Lake Wahâ€" napitae, in the Townships of Rathbun,Scadâ€" ding, Kelly, Daris and Hanmer. These fives townships are situated in a ds trict that has been prospected by miners and in which hundreds of applications have been made for leases or patents under the mines act. ‘The department could not grant leases or patents before it had disposed of the pine timber. It was therefore absolutely necessary, as well as prudent, to sell this timber in order that the applicants might obtain their tit!es and that very serlous loss by fire might be averted. We recetved as Interest this year on our trust funds and Investments $234,647. Of this amount $212,414 was remitted to us by the Dominion (Government as the interest due us on the funds it holds in trust for us. The balance, $22,283, represents interest on our drainage debentures and Interest reâ€" celved from the banks on our deposits. The plain fact, Mr. Speaker, that we have thus received this very year $212,414 from the Dominion Government, and‘I expect an additlional sum before the year closes, is conciusive proof that the Dominion holds in trust for us a large capital fund of several millions of doliars on which It regulatly pays us interest. I will take occasion later on to refer to this question. LICENSE RECEIPTS. ing brewers‘ and distillers‘ 11â€" CCNSCS \...ir.rr 06e sirsss \x«@â€"+@B9MI0f 12 The revenue from liquor licenses (not inâ€" cluding brewers and distillers) shows a net Increase of $2,0984 over last year, the reveâ€" nue from the cities baving Increased by $3,540 and that from other munlcipalities decreased b’ 3350 The fee for a brewoer‘s license is $250. Since last sesslon the Privy Council conâ€" Ormed our right to exagt a license fee from brewers and distiliers. The following table shows the amount of license revenue retained by the Province for its own use and the amount it distributâ€" ed amongst the municipalities during each of the last five years:â€" License yr. Province. Municipalities. 1804 ..........§204,516 T2 $280,006 74 80 .......... 2tKIN 12 270,006 00 The Province of Quebec retains all license moneyrs and returns no part of them to the municipalities. It recelved from this source last year $663,087. The tota!l number of tavern, shop and wholesale (not Including brewers‘ and dis tillers‘) licenses Issued in 1892 WBS ........... k2.... f.RAD Issued in 1808 WAS .....ccei. ...... SR Issued In 189M WAS ......... ........ S.I4! Tnstmek Irs THMNY WIW ..« ««cr0e u«s srresres itilebe Issued in 18B WBR ......ee6k ...... Testred In ISOE WIW .ircic006 «rcarers Tegued in ISM) WES ..c«crrccirsskserls Issued in 1896 was .................. A total decrease in fivre years of 2 conses. The number issued in 1874 was 6,185, in | ln six Sta 1984 3,970 and in 1804 3.151. The next five ; anunal per years will in all probability witness a st!!! ' per eapit® more striking diminution. The act passed | $12 °8. last «ession abolishing saloons and allowing At the PC only three tavern licenses for the first 1,009 | accordiag t of the population Instead of four as in for. | and at the mer years, and only one license for each | 92 20â€" 600 thereafter Instead of 400 as formerly, | The last will, in connection with the unwritten law | me with s0 of the survival of the fittest, Inevitably conâ€" | Will,. I kno tribute to this result. lums, or h The sum of $115,104, representing what we call "Casual revenue," is made up of more than twenty miscellancous items of reâ€" celpts. The largest of these Items !s that of $33,840, which comes to us from the Proâ€" vincial Secretary‘s Department, and nearly all of this is made up of fees received for charters of Incorporation. The number of charters lssued greatly exceeded that of previous years, From marrlage licenses we received $2,000. In 1869 the Sandfield Macâ€" donald Government received from marriage Mcense fees $31,581. Perhaps this is the only instance on record of a loss of revenue of which everyone approves. We recoived from our sale of annulties this year $136,3442. Our first sale was in 1884. In that year l we sold to the amount of $13,400 a year. : This year we only nceded to sell to the ! amount of $7,000 a year, and the difference ! in amount of course represents our imâ€" proved position as to these railway abligaâ€" tlons. The amount we sold this year was | emaller than that of any previous year. ‘ Puring the nest few years, unless we grant | ald to railways to a large extent in the From the Insurance Department we re ecived a lHttle more than $25,000. The fees received under the Ontario insurance act of last session amounted to $17,804. The anpual registry fees of Dominion licensees and friendly societies amounts to $13,481. We received by way of annual registry certificate fees payable by building gocleties, loan companies and trust comâ€" panies, and for charters and application fees. $10,200. This source of revenue dates from the passing of our loan corporations act of last sesslon. nue from munle than cities se me s otal revenue for 189. includ brewers‘ and distillers‘ 11 ) Mf from brewers 1807 ...... uds INTEREST RECEIPTS altogether this year from $280,157. It is made up as ty municipalities.$116,162 12 nunlcipalities othâ€" a n me onitniiel m trante e u‘s +404,0905.00 sn mon m on maln ie n n n n n n 263 AXXUITIES. 216 T2 330 14 800 12 189. includ «Arercresx§@i1,107 12 and disâ€" | 18,000 00 282 o)’-)‘ 272,101 31 267.072 40 270,006 00 413 40 142 OU6G meantime, these railway obligations will decrease considerably. Next year these obligations will be $28,000 less than those we have met this year, in 18900 there will be another drop of $14,000, the following year a drop of $6,000, and four years from now they will, as compared with this year, be diminished to the amount of nearly $80,000, In 1884, the year of our Arst sale, the purchaser‘a investment brought him an interest ylield of about 414 per cent. (The purchasers this year will reâ€" celve less than 3%4 per cent. on their inâ€" vestment. It must always be remembered that the issue and sale of theso annuities does not add one dollar to our existing obligations. When we sell annuities we merely postpone the railway obligations which mature durâ€" Ing the year in which the sale takes place. During these two Parliaments, more over, that is from 1890 to 1897 Inclusive, we bave paid out for railway ald and to retire annuities $1,000,732 more than we have recelved from the fAive gales of annuities reâ€" ferred to. We have had nine sales of annuities since 188§4. We bave had five sales during the last two Parliaments. We have not sold them every year. We did not sell them, for example, in 1803 or 1894, or in 1880, 1889 or 1800. We have paid out for railway ald since 1884 $1,013,204 more than we have recelved from our nine sales of anndiâ€" ties. SsUCCESSION DUTIES. T estimated that wo would receive from succession duties during the year $175,000, Up to the end of October we had recelyved $$3.546. Only fifty estates out of three or four thousand came within the act. I will before the session closes be able to give the exact number of estates which were administered during the year. In 25 of our counties not a single estate paid duty this year. The County of York, including Toâ€" ronto, paid half of the total sum we re ceived. <% Since 1802, when our act was passed, we have recelved $744.376. The Government claims and is entitled to much credit for this large recelpt. All economists agree that this is as just and equitable a means of raising revenue as has ever been de vised. It fully conforms with the foundaâ€" tion principle that all taxation should have regard to the ability to pay on the part of the taxpayer. Under our act only large estates (and we bave but few of them in any cireumstances. Nelther husband, wife nor child, father, mother nor granchild, nor sonâ€"indaw nor daughterâ€"inâ€"law is called upon to pay anything unless the estate exâ€" ceeds $100,000 in value. In other States and countries, New York, Penosylyvania and England itself, for exâ€" ample, similar acts have & much wider application, a higher scale of dutics, and reach much smaller estates. Every one of our sister Provinces has copied our legislaâ€" tion in this direction. The receipts under our act are earâ€"marked by the statute itâ€" self, and must go to charitable purposes. Our statute does not apply to property glvâ€" en, devised or bequeathed for religious, charitable or educational purposes. Sucâ€" cession or Inheritance daties to the amount our young country) are dutiable. But one estate out of every fifty is reached by its provisions. Direct heirs very rarcely pay anything. â€" Gollateral and remote helrs bear nearly all of the burden. No estate l0ss in value than $10,000 pays any duty under cession or Inheritance daties to the amount of $2,126,804 were received in New York State during one fiscal year, viz., 1805, Tho British Government received last year a miliion of dollars from single estate. ASYLUM EXPEXDMTURES. ents as we nad were 158 more t! vious year. Tho in 1804 was 4.38 cost per patient | against $134 55 la once admitted that the part of those | Amipecd, TB OM repalrs. In six State : §126 98. Al the Pontiac Asylum, Michigan, it was, nceording to the last annual report, $175 41, and at the Mattawean Hospital, New York, $192 20. ‘The last reports I have at hand furnish me with some additional comparisons, which will, I know, interest the House. The asyâ€" lums, or hospitals, as many prefer to call them, which I will name are large and ;réil équlwed institutions:â€" FEizin, iinols \......e ...¢4 40 0 @140 Pn TUtica. New York, 1896...... 3 82 198 62 | Willard, New York, 189 .. 2 83 147 42| Hndson River, New York.. 3 92 201 8O Middletown, New York .... 3 T5 195 81 | Buffalo, New York .......« 3 58 183 56 | Binghamton, New York .. 3 M 186 63 | St. Lawrence, New York.... 4 23 219 85 Rochester, New York ..... 4 S 243 44 Prov. Ontario, 7 asylums.. 2 43 126 23 | We spend more for the maintenance of | our public institutions than we do for any | other single service, viz., nearly, if not | fully, $2,200 a day: out of every £100 the Province spends, nearly $22 of it is required for their support. It means a great deal therefore that we are able conclusively to show that we maintain them at a considerâ€" ably less cost than is required for exactly . similar institutions elsewhere. ‘ WTrhat they are efficiently managed and generously provided for, both as regards dict, clothing and expert professional treatâ€" ment, no one will pretend to dispute. In only seven or eight of the United States are the indigent insane cared for by the State, New York State is one of these, and it levies a special tax on all the taxable property of the State for their supâ€" port. Tazes to the amount of $4,292,346. were so levied in 1898 for this special E_ CHOmI In eighteen of the States, amoug them Towa, Illinois, Michigan and Massachusetts, the burden of this great care rests solely on the municipalities. ":rh; _Pi'oflnee' of Quebec assumes half of the burden and throws the other half on the munlelipalities. Nova Scotia gives a six State asylums of Massachusetts the 1! per capita cost was $176 80. The eapita cost in our seven asylums is DURHAM, Feb. 10, 1898. n Weekly Annual Cost Cost er cap. Por cap. ..$2 T70 _ $140 30 [. 8 82 198 62 $140 30 | 198 62 | 147 42| 201 80 195 31 | 183 56 | 1sg 63 | 219 85 | small contribution towards their maintemâ€" ance, amounting to oneâ€"fifth of the gross expepditure. In Ontario the municipallâ€" ties, on the other band, are relieved of the burden altogether. In 1895 we expended for education £698,â€" 042, while the Province of Quebec expended only $371,260. I could readily give furtber illustrations to show that this Province is estremely liberal in the grants it gives with the object of relieving the munilcipalities. Our two lnrgeli Items of expenditure are those for education and for maintenance of our public Institutions. ye In the same year we spent for maintenâ€" ance of public institutions, including hosâ€" pitals, $989,443, while Quebec spent only $378,158. The insane asylums of the State of New York are beyond question carefully manâ€" aged instltutions. The people of the State, as I have said, are taxed directly for their support. A ratepayer assessed for $3,000 pays about $3 a year for this purpose, It is often urged that where direct taxaâ€" tion is resorted to the taxpayer will closeâ€" ly scrutinize every outlay and insist on strictest economy. And yet we have succeeded in this Proâ€" vince in keeping our asylum expenditures considerably under those of the State of New York. Does not this tend to prove that we manâ€" age our institutions with due regard to economy ? The State Commission in Lunacy in New York State carctully revises the detailed monthly estimates, which are prepared by the stewards of the various hospitals under the direction of the Superintendents. Every precaution is taken to keep down expenses. It will, I am sure, interest hon. members If I compare or contrast with some detail one of these New York State institutions with one of ours as regards expenditures. The asylum at Ogdensburg, New York, is called the St. Lawrence State Hospital. The River St. Lawrence, and It alone, separates it from our asylum at Brockville, No two institations could be more simillarly cireumâ€" stanced. There is accommodation for 1,300 patients at Ogdensburg and 506 at Brockâ€" ville. The capital expenditure on lands, buildâ€" ings â€" and _ furnishings . at Ogdensburg amounts to $2,272,467, that, at Brockville $440,126. ' The per capita cost of maintenance at Ogdensburg last year was $213, at Brockâ€" ville $143. The number of medical offigers at Ogdensâ€" burg is 1 for every 127 patients, at Brockâ€" ville 1 for every 1093 patients. The number of officers, attendants, nurses and employees at Ogdensburg is one for every four patients, at Brockville one for every six. 'l‘hor rate of cost per bed at Ogdensburg is $1,758, at Brockville $870. At Ogdénsburg $&2 is pald for salaries officials and employees for every patient, Brockvilie $48. All supplies at Ogdensburg are bought by the steward in the open market ; we buy our supplies for the main part (viz., 84 per cent.) by tender. Wheir Commissioners belleve they can only make sure of getting provisions of the best quality by buying in the open market. The buildings at Ogdensburg, bhaving reâ€" gard to the accommodation, cost twice as much as those at Brockville, the per capiâ€" ta cost of maintenance is 60 per cent. highâ€" er, th larger The salaries pald to officials generally at Ogdensburg are nearly double those paid at Brockville. The Superintendant of the Ogdensburg Asylum, the Assistant Superintendant, and the Bursar, each of them receive twice as large a salary as we pay the same officlals at Brockville. These figures 8 bly that I nced thein. May I give another comparison ? I will refer to six representative asylums situate in four of the most advanced States of the TUnion. Per capita cost of patients in six Ameriâ€" Kalamazoo, Mich... Pontiac, Mich ..... Columbus, Obio.... Cleveland, Ohio ... Warren, Penn ... Harrisburg, Pepn.. Province of Ontario Kalamazoo, Mich....$189 92 §3 406 1177 Pontiac, Mich ...... 175 41 3 8T 1,0050 Columbus, Obio..... 136 70 2 63 1.274 Cleveland, Ohio .... 134 04 2 DT 1,100 Warren, Penn .... 187 72 3 61 044 Harrisburg, Penpn... 183 62 3 33 841 Province of Ontario. 126 28 243 _ 4,2M4 The average weekly cost per capita for the maintenance of lunatics In these asyâ€" lums was $316. In Ontario asylums, for 1807,. it was $243, a difference per capita of 73 cents weekly. The average daily population of lunatiecs in 1897 in Ontario was 4,254. If the same average rate of maintenance was charged in Ontario as in the American institutions it would mean to us an increased expendiâ€" ture of $161,476 64 a year. If the average rate in Ontarlo were apâ€" plied to the above American asylums it would mean to them a saving of $242,154 20 a year. The foregoing @ix American asylums are thoroughly representative. Their circumâ€" stances and conditions are not unlike ours, A comparison with them is therefore fair and reasonable. The per capita cost of management in each of them is highe, than in any of ours. They nave a larger population thar o«trs and that fact should tend to diminish their per capita cost, @ince the cost of manageâ€" ment should decrease with increasing numâ€" bers, an asylums in 1896 :â€" The cost of fuel, a very important item in the cost of maintaining asylums, is much less in these States than It is in Ontario. In a recent report of the Columbus Asylum, for example, this statement appears :â€" "We have a contract for coal this year at the remarkably low price of $104 per ton-" The following summary will prove of inâ€" terest :â€"â€" nfi sns L CERCEE &0 Avrerage Average anuual weekly Popuâ€" h cost. eost. â€" lation. Six American asylums.$167 90 $3 16 6.305 Six Ontario asylums .. 126 28 2 43 4,254 LEGISLATION. In 1895 the cost ofâ€"legislation in Ontario was 7 cents per bead, while in Quebec it was 13 cents, and in the Dominion 171 cents. in cents. ';nd yet we hare néever heard of our critics opposite complaining of the excessive expenditure at Ottawa or Quebec, either as ;;;ardo legislation or civil government. EXPENDITURES NXOT CHALLENGED. Eramine, Mr. Speaker, the whole period the number of officials 50 per cent. The cost of civil gorernment in Ontarlo ; 1895 was 11%, cents per bead ; in Queâ€" oc 17%4 cents, and in the Dominion 29% OorvyIL GOYVERNMENT. speak so plainly and forclâ€" a not further comment on Annual, Weekly. Popâ€" Cost.. _ Cost, lation Daily Av‘ge of at of IAberal rule in this Province, from 1871 unt!! the end of 1896, and you will find that the Opposition in the various interveniug Parliaments have challenged less than threeâ€" £fth of 1 per cent. of all our expenditure. The Opposition in this present Parliament has taken objection to less than 1 per.cent. of all our expenditures. Nearly all of our expenditures pass unâ€" chailenged, but when an election approaches the old and time honored cries of waste and extravagance are revived. A considerable portion of our yearly cxâ€" penditure consist of direct grants, apporâ€" tlionments of money sent to County Treasurâ€" ere, Treasurers of School Boards, of Agriâ€" cultural Socleties and of Hospital Boards. We give the money itself directly back to the people, and they spend it in their own immediate localities in relief of their local burdens. In 1896, for lustance, we gave direct grants in this way to the amount of $1,002,608. For example, if we take all our expenditures of a single year, we will find that out of every $100 the Province spends $19 93 of it is spent for maintaining our public institutions, $16 05 for purposes of education, $1512 for public works and buildings, $974 for adininistration of jusâ€" tice, $561 for railway ald, $4 34 for agriculâ€" ture, $4 22 for hospitals and charities, $6 18 for civil government, $3 55 for legislation, $2 87 for colonization roade, $248 for charges on Crown dands, $206 for repairs to public buildings, 18 cents for immigration and $4 80 for the many various unclassified items which make up what we call miscelâ€" lancous expenditure. This analysis of itself shows at a glance what large sums we return each year to the people, and bow little is expended for orâ€" dinary purposes of government. INCREASED GRANTsS IN AID, We have spent under the bead of educaâ€" tion this year $673,189. Our total expendiâ€" ture last year for this purpose was $702,457. In 1877 we spent $570,760, Out of each $100 the Province spends about $19 of it goes to support our schools, For hbospitails and charities we bave given, and these are cash payments sent to the Treasurers of the va riâ€" ous institutions, this year $192,69%4. We gave $4,000 each to the Houses of Refuge in the Countles of Torth and Lambton. For agriculture we speni. inis venrr $168, 052. In 1887 we speut $150.04G7. tor ad ministration of justice we spent this yea! $358,642, while ten years ago we spei. $52+, 495. This ilustrates in was«:! «Ars «UP eX penditures increase. In each case the au n tional expenditure carries with it cories ponding relief to the municipalities. Our total expenditure for all of 1897 will be considerably less than the House auâ€" thorized us to spend. We spent last year $143,587 less than the House voted, and the same statement is true for every year for ten years past, and the amount wnexpended each year is considerable. Is not this fact conclusive proof of our earnest desire to economize whenever posâ€" slble? The additional fact that our total expendiâ€" tures have been continuously decreased for gseveral years past cannot be overlooked., Our total expenditure in 1891 lmoumed to $4,158,159; 1802, $4,068,257; 1893, $3,007,145; 1804, $3,842,5005; 1895, $3,758,5045; 1896, $3,â€" 703,.379. Was It the polics donald to keep «d by year and thu» fomo a lurge reserve Iund to be constantls Im reas d by yearly acâ€" l eumulations? N o4ti«s be nor any member of bis Government aâ€"cocauted such a policy for a single momen! ~ member of any Government In any ceanlty, 60 far as J know, ever acted on siich a pelicy,.. Let us | consider briefly mhat s dnancial â€" policy was. When he lefi office there was in the trogsury, as I shall show later on, an avall abie cash surplus of less than $1,350,000. Our financial critics opposite from a bundred different platforms have recently stated that it amounted to $4,009,000. Their misâ€" take or exaggeration to the extent of $2,â€" 500,000 is one of several striking examples which I could readlly give of the loose asâ€" sertion.of the unrestrained license of speech they habitnally indulge in when discussing our finances. Some of them, I am compelled reluctantly to say, judging from their exaggerated speeches . on!y recently â€" delivered, do not seem to even . think it necessary to respect the Intelligence of their aud!â€" ences. In a new Province, with its everâ€" increasing and loud demands for such libeâ€" ral aid and generous expenditure as would alone furnish the means of helping the peoâ€" ple to help themselvesâ€"this available cash surplus of $1,350,000, which the Sandfield Macdonald _ Administration â€" accumulated from 1868 to 1871, must soon hbhave been exâ€" bausted. His setting apart in bis last year of office Iby statute the sum of $1,500,000 to alid railâ€" ways plainly indicated that bis policy was in this way to open up the country and deâ€" velop its resources, and pot to hoard up year by year &A growing surplus. Besides, there is a plain and manifest reaâ€" son why he did not at an earlier date anâ€" pounce a policy of large expenditure or of distribution of the available money on bhand for public uses. The reason, Mr. Speaker, briefy and undeâ€" distribution of the available money on hand for public uses. The reason, Mr. Speaker, briefy and undeâ€" niably, is as follows:â€" In these early years, from 1868 to 1871, the Legislature and Government were lookâ€" ing forward, as we are even now, to the final adjustment of the accounts between the Provinces, and it was then believedâ€" and the Treasurer of that day is himself on record as holding this viewâ€"that the result of that adjustment might possibly impose a ecrlous charge on the Province of Ontario. Indced it was more than bintedâ€"at, during these early years, that our special funds mizht necessarily be drawn upon to meet this charge. The uncertainty, then, as to what the real might af J«hn Sandfeld Macâ€" uz in the surplus year in a xurge reserve fund â€" vear £168, financial condition of the Province was, the doubt which prevailed as to the amount of the surplus of debt in excess of $62,500,000, that being the extent of Provincial debts which the Dominion agrecd to assume al Coufederation, the fact that deductions to the amount of $291,066 a year were actually made from our subsidy in the early years, up to 1874, to meet the interest charges on this excess of debt; this it was which preâ€" vrented the Macdonald Administration from entering upon its policy of distributing surâ€" plus revenues earlier than It did. MHad it not been for such cireumstances the Macâ€" donald Government would not have left an avallable cash surpius of even $1,300,000. _ Our frieuds opposite scem, at ei€CCUUU times at least, to forget, and wilfully too the domiuating circumstance® of the case. SANDFIELD MACDONALD‘S SURPLLUS, From this total there must, however, ne deducted four items:â€"(1) £1,500,000 set apart in 1871 by statue for railway ald, and which could not be used for any other purposc. (2) §691,131, composed of payments made by the Dominion for Ontario during the term 1 have stated, sir, that the Macdonald ‘Adâ€" ministration left office with an available cash surplus of $1,350,000. The facts in connection with it are as follows. At the close of 1871 the Province had at Its credit: (1) Invested funds to the amount of $3, (1) Invested funds to the amount O° : 637.979, and (2) cash on hand $172,085, or together $3,810.964. of the Macdonald Administration for vari ous services rendered the Province of Onâ€" tario from July 1st, 1867, to December 3181, 1871, such as education, administration of justice, hospitals and charities and imainâ€" tenance of lunaties at Rockwood Asylum . These items were charged up against Ontaâ€" rio, and not settled for until long after 181. (3) $197,000 due to the Province of Quebee from Ontario, as its share of the collecâ€" tions from sales of Common School lands made during the years of the Macdonald Administration. This amount has been paid in cash to Quebec «ince 1871. (4) $96,500, beâ€" Iug the price of the Rockwood Asylum, bought from the Dominion _ Government prior to 1871, but not paid for untill after 1877. These four Items, taken together, amonnt | to $2,484.0621, and deducting this from $3,â€" 8109064 we have remaining $1,326,333 as the exuzct available cash surplus loft in the treaâ€" +ury by the Macdonald Administration. Our opponents further eay that as soon as talhn Sandficld loft office his euccessore, the Liberals, began at once to diminish the surâ€" plus. This is another reckless and total‘y unwarranted statement. THE SURPLUS OF THE MOWAT GOV-‘ ERNXMENXT. Whatever the surplus was, «ir, at the end of 1871, when Sandficld Macdonald left office, it was greatly added to in 1872 and 1873, as well as in later years, by the Mowat Government. The Province at the _end of 1871 bhad in investments and in casb, $3,810,9064, while at the end of 1873 it had ailso in like investments and in cash $4,726,431. At both dates I exclude what we trust funds. In these two years, thereâ€". fore, viz., 1872 and 1873, the first two years of the Mowat Government, the existing large eash surplus, outside of the trust funds, was augmented to the amount . of $900,000, and yet, Mr. Speaker, the leader of the Opposition is reported in The Toronâ€" to Mail of November 4 last to have said, when speaking at Milibrook, *"I tell you, | and I would be worse than a fool if I aid | so without knowing it to be true, that durâ€"| Ing the existence of Sir Oliver .\l(m-:n‘s| Government there never was an instant of; time when the Government had a surâ€" plus." ! The truth is, &ir, there has never been 280 instant of time when the Mowat Governâ€" ment had not a surplus of millions of dollare. (Applause.) Toâ€"day, allowing for every posâ€" sible liability, present and future, including of course our railway obligations, we have an available cash eurplus of at least from two to three millions of dollars. The quesâ€" tion of the surplus, its amount, and of these railway obligations, I will discuss later on. The extremely rash and random statements of my hon. friends will not alter ho facts ‘This very year, Mr. Speaker, tion of the surplus, its amount, and of these railway obligations, I will discuss later on. The extremely rash and random statements of my hon. friends will not alter the facts. This vory year, Mr. Speaker, wo will have a large surplus, our total reccipts exceeding our total expenditures by at least $350,000. The surplus wo have been discussing for so many years past is for the most part the creation of the Mowat Government. In the years 1972 and 1873, to which I have just alluded, as well as in later yegrs, for example, in 1880, 1881, 1887, 1888, 1802 and 18903 and this very year, 1897, the total reâ€" celpts of the Mowat Government and of the HMardy Government wore largely in excess of the total expenditures. The annual savings and aceumulations of these years I have just named amount to more than $2,500,000, and in each of these years there were extraordinary expenditures, of which every one approved, outside of the supply bill, and in the aggregate involving a large outlay of money. Our opponents evidently seek to conceal the facts from the people. Our railway ald policy inaugurated in 1871 has entailed up to the present time an expenditure of more than $6,500,000, and our surplus disâ€" tribution scheme an outlay of $3,380,000. | This last named sum was divided among the municipalities of the Province chlefy in the years 1874 to 1877 inclusive. These two policies, viz., railwey ald and ‘surplus | distribution, were deliberately intended, to | have the effect of diminishing our invested | surplus funds. The Legisliature passed the engctments concerning railway aid and surâ€" 1 plus distribution with the very object, I| repeat, of diminishing the surplus belonging | to the Province. The Legislature pluln!yé M AMIOAMInY dA CAE moes CCE NOAE OOE TT NE TTE | A ue I were extraordinary expenditures, of which | save, if this can be « alled saving, £1,400,000, very one approved, outside of the supply' Of this large sum of $702,000 the Oppoâ€" will, and in the aggregate involving a large | sition last session objected to only $13,9000, utlay of money. and it has been already shown, Mr, Epeaker, Our opponents evidently seek to N‘flcl’llt that the items so objected to, making up the facts from the people. Our railway aid | this $13,900, are not only in themselves policy â€" inaugurated in 1871 has entailed | unobjectionable, but also that the policy up to the present time an expenditure of l of our critics in regard to them is short» more than $6,500,000, and our surplus disâ€" gighted and unsound. tribution scheme an outlay of $3,380,000. ' INCREAGBD GRANTS TO MUNICOIPALL This last named sum was divided among TIES. the municipalities of the Province chlefy | john Sandficld in his last year spent $78,â€" in the years 1874 to 1877 Incluflve.‘ These | 000 in aiding agriculture,. Last year we two policics, viz.. railwey ald and ‘surplus | spent $192,000, His Government gave for distribution, were deliberately intended, t0 | pospitals and charities in 1871, £140,000, and have the effect of diminishing our invested | we gave five times as much, viz., $199,00 surplus funds. The Legisiature passed the | jn 18Â¥6. In these three d“'t’l'll&flfl alone, enactments concerning railway aid and surâ€" | viz. education, agriculture and hospitals plus distribution with the very object, I| and charities, the Macdonald Administra repeat, of diminishing the surplus be"msflll‘ tion in four years speut $1,715,828, whil« to the Province. The Legislature plainly | in our last four years, viz., from 1893 to intended that our Invested funds should be | 1896, inclusive, we spent $4,198 919. drawn upon from time to time to fllN'(l By pinching these three vastly important these very objects. It was after most | services down to the narrow limits fixed by careful deliberation thought desirable fll.tl the Macdonald Administration we would the surplus revenues of the Province should | have added in the short sp3ce of four years be utilized as fas as possible in developing | to our surplus an accumulation of $2,483, our resources by means of railway grants, | 090. and also, while relieving indobted muniâ€"| Jn other words we gave back to the peoâ€" «ipalities, to compensate as far. As «pracâ€"| ple in these three ways alonc in four years ticable the municipalities which. had not | §2,483,000 more than the Macdonald Adâ€" borrowed. It was deliberately (bought' minisiration gave for a like period, To thit undesirable to bhoard our surplus revenues, | extent we lightened the burdens of our to lock them up, to keep them unproductive. | people. Dhes not this prove conclusilvely In the light of these plain facts, all the | the utier, 1 might well «ay ridiculous, ab» criticisms of our oppouents . are grossly | surdity, of comparing the expenditures of unfair and misleading. | May I not Afairly | our early years with those of recent years, ask that those who pretend to instruct| and yet, gir, it is the fact that in every public audiences should in dealing with| campaign epeech of hon. gentiemen oppoâ€" these important questions seek at amy rate | site, without a single exception, constant to keep moderately within the bounds ofl references bhave been made to the scale 0f eract statement ? But, our criticsâ€"say,â€" we | expenditures of the Macdonald Administraâ€" @whould live within our means, we should | tion, with the aim of showing that the do as the John Sandfield Government did. â€"| present Government hbas been extravagant, It seems neediess, sir, to repeat at this | | But Jot us pursue this subject a step furâ€" time, but I feel compelied to do so, because | ther and take seven services, viz. :â€"Adminâ€" of the line of attack of our opponents, that | jstration of justice, education, public instiâ€" all comparisons between the Macdonald | tutions maintenance, agriculture and erts, hok ut â€" electfion Mivap ie E'.: i 3 »*w P on the treasury is t« as great as it was present contont m) hurried illustrations John Sandficld left office at the close of 1871. Neither the Contral Prison nor the Institution for the Blind at Brantford were In existence at that time. ‘The buildings themselves cost a large sum of amoney. ‘Their maintenance alone dast year ©09t $95,205. The only asylums for the insane we had at that time were those at Toronta and London, and part of that at Kingston, We have since built large asylums at Hameâ€" ilton, Orillia, Mimico and Brockville. The erection of these four new asylom« alone cost us $2,346,000, and for their annua upkeop we are compelled to pay $207,000 « They anccommodate 2.650 patients, and they are all filled to«lay save one of the c0ttages at Brockville,. John Sandficld left 18;1. Neither the 1 Institution for the B at Brockville, We maintained only three asylums in 1872, at a yearly cost of $100,024. We now maintfin seven asylums at an annual cost of $605,788. * In 1871 only 1,308% patients were cared for altogother. We now oure for nearly 5,000, We must not forget that when we add to our public bulildings we necessarily and proportionately add to our public anâ€"« nual maintenance charges. Under the Macdonald Administration not a dollar was actually _ #pent im alding the construction of _ rail« ways. For this one purpose we hbave «ince 1871 epent more than $6.500,000,. _ We have now in tha Province 6,M42 miles of completed rallway in actual operation, an& 1977 miles of it bave received substantial @id from the Provincial Treasury. The construction of these rallways enâ€" talled an expenditure within the bound aries of the Province by way of wages, ma« terials, rolling stock, etc., of $50,000,000 or $60,000,000, a vast expenditure of money, which in a variety of ways stimulated trade and otherwise aided in the develop« ment of our resovrees, Our friends opposite in a petulant way complain of our fnancial administration, and in vague, gemeral, loose terms deâ€" nounce it. As a «pecial evidence of our mismaragement they point to the raillway certificates and aunuities issued from tims to time. Here, sir, is an expenditure of over $6,â€" 500,000 given by us in ald 0f railways since I871, Let us come to close quarters for once. Did any one of our critics, ind some of them bave had seats in this Hoa»â€"â€" #ae two or three Parliaments, evonobloct from his seat in this House to a «ingle dollar of pose ? If : learn of it to this ho joction in way aid, « issue of money we Nial gsince 1871 has exhausted the « donald Admini §#2 WIM my bon, friend from Lanark from West York now rise and name railway which we alded and to which should not have given aid? Has my hon, friend who leads the O; sition a different railway policy 19 exhausted the cash surplus left by the Mace« donald Administration. And yet the leader of the Opposition «ays, and keeps saying, that we have equanderâ€" ed the surplus of the previous Government, Not one dollar of 1t, as he well knows, was «pent for ordinary purposes of government, or as part of our current, ordinary or norâ€" mal expenditures. Under the surplus distribution «#cheme there was pald directly to the muntcipall« tics of the Province from the Provincial Treasury, mainly in the years 1874, 1875, 1876 and 1877, more than $3,388,000, and the municipalities throughout the Province Im their turn expended this large sum thus directly given to them out of the Provin« cial Treasury on roads and bridges, town halls and schoolhouses, and in paying oft their own railway debts. This is the kind of Provincial expenditure which our eritics at one time call squandering the surplus and at another time dissipating the gerplu®, Whe Macdonald Administration in its last year spent by the way of educational al4 $351,000. We spent in 1806 exactly twice A8 much, viz., £702,000 . The A8 muca, VAK., Lolkl Ds aldd CC difference, it hoarding werse . our only object, would in a single year make a nice addition to our surplus. In the course of a single Parliament we could in this way In other words we gave back to the peoâ€" ple in these three ways alonc in four years $§2,4853,000 more than the Macdonald Adâ€" ministration gave for a like period. To thit extent we lightened the burdens of our people. Dhes not this prove conclusively the utier, I might well «2y ridiculous, ab« surdity, of comparing the expenditures of our early years with those of recent years, and yet, sitr, it is the fact that in every campaign epeech of hon. gentiemen oppoâ€" site, without a single exception, constant references have been made to the soule of expenditures of the Macdonald Administraâ€" tion, with the aim of whowing that the present Government has been extravagant, But let us pursue this subject a step furâ€" But let us ther and tak istration of . tutions mail 1871 AND 1896 hour « in the House to our scheme of rail« o any part of it, or to the igle rallway certificate, The ve given to railways alone ; more than four times over cash surplus left by the Macâ€" toâ€"4ay four OoxTRAsSTPDD fo wit Lry omy a few n taken ob» he has not glad t# ) Oppoâ€" Oe