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*A cagen C C3 1 mb"fi '"s:{m};l%?x in -- ©$000 00 said tgg.: while thcle 'mtfl:{e"uobluce?" and | -- & | W *~ 06: to Lunatic Asylum .. + expenditure was clear and reliable, the same % $ l -- m&n t 4. 12:% % could not be said of the statement of assets NO.TI('ES oF MoTiOXN. ! } 3 Hamilton « .. -- 5000 00 and liabilities. Mr. Morin--Thursday next--Order of the | Orillia K «+ %% %3 || _ It being six o'clock, the Speaker left the | House for a return showing the name of the Reformatory for L':)"?;'I"" "600 00 !| chair. several applicants for grants from the Crown l es PHISON ... ..rieclre. 65,000 09 | _ After recess Mr. CLARKE resumed the de-- | of the water lots in front of lots 5, 6, 7 and 8 Deaf and Dumb lnstitute.. 200 00 J23.800 09 bate on the Budget. Heproceeded toshow that | in the first concession of the Township of _ | Lrlllllll. ©25,000 oo || the Province was carrying large liabilities, | Bertie, ironting on Niagara River, the names |Rducation Depattmont..........}}..}* 5,000 00 | i 4 ; Habilfcies found ] in i F > J | Casual reVAAUO......eeeessss se k6 00++++ _ $29,000 00 | an that these liabilities found no F ace ' of all parties to whoin patents t,herefqr xssugd, | [ Liceusos.................. «x++r++«+«+++»+. -- 195,000 00 '» the statement. He did not condeinn the finan-- | the dates of such patents and the consideration | LBW SUADADS. . .. .. sls k e k e e + +k 6+# 03'833 83 | cial scheme, because he voted for it some years | paid in each case. | fi,'-',{?,',';;et::ti,...u.c 24,000 C0 ' ago, but he did complain that the honorable | _ Mr, Meredith--Friday next--Address for d | Municipal loan fund...........}..}}}« 4850 0) || gentleman was trying to hide the Provincial | copies of all Orders in Council for the payment 1| | Insurance companies' assessmonts.... 5,000 00 || debt. He complained of the sale of bonds | of gratuities to any officer of the Treasury De. | | Assessment of counties re removal of 6.030 09 || bearing 6 per cent., and charged the Govern-- partinent in the year 1885, and of all recom-- i | pplunatioe . . . .. 9.. .9 7. u0+ 6 06 o wl' hi BE e Pn redicintes {| ment with squandering the people's money. | mendations or reports on which such Orders in f | * OR ............................*++$5808@485 0 I! So much for the liatili:ies ; he would now | Council were based. g . | l A ! We have some additional receipts, but we will | turn _ to the assets, where some | faults Mr. Cla.ncy----l'uquiry of Ministry--Whether & | | also have additional capital expenditure. There '] might also be found. Railway certificates | copies of certain resolutions passed by this p n will be railway certificates andannuities certifi-- || ought to have been capitalised from the be-- | House on 22nd Apn}, 1837, were sent to the 3 | cates, making in all $300,182. It will be no-' ginning and ought to have nr')pe'uregl as & | Right Honorable William Ewart Giadstone, j '[ [ ticed that in this estimate I have not taken || debt carried by the Province. Capitalised at | M.P., and Mr. Charles Stewart Parneli, M.P., j !l | credit for any proceeds of annuities, It will || 4 per cent. it meant some six millions,and that | or either of them, as directed by this House. | '{ be recollecied that when 1 introduced this || should have appeared. Three inillions that | \WWhether any acknowledgment bas been made E M |" scheme I stated that the Government would l has no existence should never have appeared | of the receipt of said copies by the gentlemen f l/i ' take the power, if they received an increased || among the assets. The $1,300,000 obtained | to whom they were directed to be sent or 3 | subsidy or otherwise had important additions ' from the sale of timber gave the honorable | cither of thein, and if so what are the contents 4 I to the revenue, to pay the certificates in || gontleman an opportunity to speak in high-- | of such reply or replies, $ | f y cash, but in any case to replace them, as they || sounding words aud to point proudly to a S ! * fell due, with new ones. _ 'That statement was || surplus. He then returned to the subsidies, | received with ironical cries of ** Hear, hear !" || which he claimed should be capitalised as well | from the other side of the House. But the || as the interest. 'There was danger ahcad ; the | unexpected sometimes happens. Weare going || Provincial debt was going up by leaps and \ l | ' to pay those annuities and we are still goihg |, bounds --a progressive debt with a sta-- 1| to Eu\'e a surplus of $114,336 over and above || tionary revenue, and that revenue rapidly | '. | all our expenditure, with the exception of that || disappearing with the disappearance of | h 1| on the new Parliament buildings, and to || the forests, was a poor future for ! | meet that expenditure wo _ have an | tue Province, and he predicted. that there | amount not received from the imorts || would come a time when the people of Ontario } « ' | | gage reterred to of $27,848. We have | would realise the extravagance of the present | | also cash in the bank, $573,240, less the bonds || Administration and the fact that the boasted | [ | | which we do not propose to touch, $320,423, or || surpius was largely paper. f | | | a net balance of $252,823. We have thus || pip, G. B. SMITH said it might seem pre-- | altogether $395,007 available to meet the || suymptuous on his part to follow _ the « j | expenditure ou the Parliament bulldm"_.':f. poss coming Finance Minister," who was so able | (Cheers.) it may be, however, that addi-- | ;, prove that the Provincial surplus was a \ | tional sums for various services wxll. be re-- deficit, and who dealt so lightly with millions -- quired under the supplementary estimates. | f dollars. The hon. _ gentlemen _. of ; But, taking the experienceof past years, we | tgpp Opposition wailed about the \ [ $ may look for an unexpected bwianc@ O1 | patrimony of the country being given public buildings _ that \_vxll almost, _ if away -- and the debt growing enormous, | not quite, meet the amounts in the suppleimnen-- | Jfp also complained that the Government had | ¥ i 6 tary estimates. _ We have endeavored in thes0 | joreaged the expenditure on public institu» a | * estimates not to overestimate the receipts or tions, but such arguments would not weigh | | underestimate the expcmi}turc, and wc.lmp;x with the people of Toronto, still less with the } in 1888, as in 1886 and 1887, by the exercise of people in the country, in relief of whose taxes | that care, prudence and economy which _has | 2 part of the Provincial expenditure was ap-- | been the governing principle of the '\'h"'"f"'" plied. The Government always used the pub-- | tration, to be able at the close of the || j;, money for the public good. It was this I $ year to -- show _ that the expendifur@ | gpa; had always secured them favor with the | ¢ bas been kept well within the appropriations § people and had sent them back with ever--in-- ! i | h and that we have not needed to take advan ; Creasing majorities, I'f the kind of Govern-- tage to the full of the sums which the gener' ; ment . were . to prevail _ here that pre-- K ' | ous confidence of the House will have placed | vailed at $Ottawa, the _ result would be i | f | at our disposal. Mr. Speaker, 1 move that !| that all the public institutions would have | & id | you do now leave the chair. (Loud and pro-- | to be _ supported _ out of _ the local | B 4 ; longed cheers.) rates. Bu_t | there was no likelihood that ; 1 ¥ Mr. H. E. CLARKE, in reply, said he didn's | the Opposition would come to power or ' t know where they could look for a better ox. || that the surp.lus was going to disappear; rather , " i ample of a gentleman who could make much || it would convinne to increage year by year. | : | | $8% out of nothing than the honorable Treasurer in || 1f the timber limits ha«% 'l'°° ueeul sold, "Sf"'"l"' | t 'l t _ making his annual Budget speech. There was || Plained of by the honorable gentlemen of the | ' I val very little in the facts presented, and so a i Opposition, there woul}l have been no r:.nl-{ ; I ) ob flight into the realms of fancy on the part of | ways, and the country i many places would | & | | the Treasurer might be pardoned. It was || not yet be UI""{'."" up. 'This was a poor policy | ¥ $« the old story of lauding the Province || for a future Finance Minister, and it would \| j & of -- Ontario, and the Ontario CGovern. || not take well throughout the coun\?l'_v'. He 1 | L ment particularly, aithough, of _ course, || then refuted the arguments of Mr. Clarke that P i | it would not do to say anything against :rmlwuy subsidies should be capitalised, and SH | | this banner Province. Occasionally the || K2Y¢ 43 & precedent the custom of the Do. t | 1 _ honorable gentleman's remarks wore varied by |, iminion Government. | M f * an attack on the Dominion Government, but Mr. T. D. CRAIG claimed that it was not J after all he was compelied to come down to | from the ranks of the Opposition that the the receipts, the nssets and liabilitics of the | statement of the country going to destruction * e Province. _ There had been sold $300,000 | procceded. He thought the loss of fees to the * * e > | worth of bonds at 4 per cent., which was a | Government under the Canada Temperance o -- Idirect loss of $5,180. He proceeded to take | Act was amply compensated for at election | y I Te the leading services of the Government and | times,. The surplus of some six millions was 2 ¥ % l show the increase since 1871. In civil govern.-- | pleasant to look at and it was a pity to disturb y ' ment the expenditure was 56 per cent., and | it, but there should be put under it $2,862,000 l . h in 1886 it was 64 per cont. in legislation the | for railway anunuities, and when several other qh | J expenditure between "71 and '81 was $104,203, | large liabilities were added there would be a ' M | or 140 per cent. _ In '86 this expenditure was | greac dwindling of the surplus. It would al-- | g \ + I down to 90 per cent. There had been a fear-- most melt away. | b & ful increase in expenditure for public Mr. PHELPS said that the Opposition . * institutions and n"ml'ntg:mnce. _ l1n_'71 the | ought to specify the portions of the Treasurer's & expenditure was £380,230, or 220 per c¢nt. | statement which they considered to be inac. | t In 86. it was 255 per °e"t- This year curate, and not content themselves with vague | § the 'estnnates called for over $703,000, or n@w'> | insinuations. Heo entreated the Opposition to | ;' ly throe--quarters of a ""n"f" d°"'"3-, An 11-- | be more fair minded in their criticism and not ! | crease of 310 1'%':}1 c'ent'.ls For °'1"":"t'°_" the |/ make misleading speeches that would go out >f I EP » percentage '"l k Na h 1886 it was 61 | to the people of Ontario _ regarding f t a! per cent., anc tm:')c;u' the estimates called |-- the financial position of the Province. ' '[t % lfOl' 65 Pe;' "'l":'- 'f"" ""J(')"'"lt""" and arts the | If the Opposition at Ottawa pursued | b lw lt ; (norense Nt l)'%m> rom 4Q per cent. in 1871 to | the tactics of the Opposition of Ontario, he | | l 1 77 per cent. t('l"'l)e'"" From this subject Mr. || would not hesitate to withdraw his support | t \H e 4 Ufll'kf proceeded to fl"'_ timber "'5""':""'3 Of | from it. Since he had been in the House the f 1 ( ~Au the "'"";lc? M_"' L;.O'l"f'h"l;:"tf.'l the Govern-- || only policy of the Opposition was an attempt Y . > ment on their careiul husbanding of the limits. || g, prove to the country through the gailery | h 3E He urged that still more should be done to that the Governiment was corrupt. (I .o | W t & preserve to the people of Ontario the immense tm".) Fuph" LLsugh--)| - products ';f '?"" Province, and asked that the The House went into Committee of Supply i | -- extent, character and value of the timber at 9.20 and passed several items 1 4| x7 ... ' limits should be ascertained for the informa-- The H P djourned at 9. 30. | | tion of the House. Mr. Clarke their returned ! 1e Honee Rolo ied at ol 1 E W( . A to the bookkeeping of the hon. Treasurer, and | A 4 "'.." e Ush A -.'4