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. t ...- or N -"" .. '.,' .-... . Btletti- ','_. . " 'itfPiiirtSi?'iit that mum at Hydro. . - i MiF'iy'f,i.y _ _ 'wu . PM" 'tttrt ',t'lW, . . . iftt,t,fC:, . the 1rgg,t"rt'it"itte't onion fl In a brief review of the week at 'as 1/ . cation of the and courts o the Hydro-electric Power Comment" f. d- , K. ~Provinee. Sarcasticaliy. he. {a i ' for the year!) Mr. McGarry stat [that , ferret! to the sense ot loyalty t '. iedghty mu lcipaiities were then tak- uctuated the directors of thégF moms ling power from the Hydro lines. and , _ nies in rem-1118 to pay a. 10 ""10" i . ~800 farmers were under contract with thy/UI experts had decla'resuvas the Commission. The total invest- t a. heavy import and ~lrolured merit in the Hydro to the end of the 'lt t if they found a court wild-coke year was $9,892,000. .th:t the law was indirect palliation . Mr. MoGarry challenged the Ort.. and not within the power of the PM: position to show how the expenditure vince to impose, he would bring foe ally of the_various services could u .be curtailed without impairing etne- idown a bill which will not only in- _ . l I t th . ' liection of the $145,- ~lens}. A remark a 'ou e new inure to us the co .Government House drew a smile, but ;000 owing, but will penalize )those ithc Treasurer went on to say that al.. ithat refuse to pay. (Applause, tthnugh' $100,000 was spent there last " , ear. $200,000 would he spent there {TI-altars. bays Mr. Mctmrry. i{his ygar. and the building would be i Styling as traitors the men at (ct'o'ii'w'ilite'i, "and my honorable friend 'the head of these insurance com- :(Mr. Rowe") will be able to sit panics who had defied the tax, Mr. idown and enjoy a real banquet." V McGarry said: (Laughter.) "There is no difference twin een ' the conduct of these con:urtnies Survey Being Made. and that. of the soldier u'i the A survey was being made of the field of battle who, when hc iassets of the Province. Various meets the enemy. and so much 'items had been included in the state- , depends upon his bravery and ment, but as the list. was not com- fighting capacity. turns his back ;plete no totals were shown. The di- upon them and runs away. What irect liabilities of the Province were do they do with that kind of ll ;$40,445.000, and the assets tabulated man? He is shot. and generally l "35.368300 To.. these he added the the shot takes effect in his back. ', gto_tai of a valuation of the various in- These gentlemen are just as I irrtityti.oys---.ho.yy.'tals, asyiusm, schools much traitors to their country as l ':and other 1yei/yi,stcryii,,ru1tyr the to- the man on the field who turns l it" assets to $54,664,000, showing. a ' hi k Inet surplus of assets over liabilities , " bar ' t lot $14,000,000. (Loud applause.) iFailerl in Time of Peril. l : . E "This Province of Ontario is IT", {MaSterly Analysis Li . charging its duty towards the Elli-5 h ,pire. being obliged to create a detuett. l , by ibeial Whip .Knowing that required funds-tor) l Mr. C. M. Bowman (West Bruce), ithat was well known last 'sulmmer--- . , . , . "t V . :these men, hiding behind theiri m an hours speech in the evening, 'friends, the legal luminaries in the; began with a reference to the con-, lclty of Toronto. and joining with; diet in which the British Empire is other companies. may: 'Although this: fimolved. and remarked that as a 'Province requires money, although; émembcr whose ancestols Were Ger- We have admitted the principle or the; imans, he could speak probably more -tax during the last fifteen years, al-i :fcelingly on this point than some though we willingly paid it during thei gather members of the House. As a time of the late Administration. yet; .L'anadian of German descent hr air- ,in this year of crisis, at a time of peril l Ipreciated at this time that it was our ,to the Empire, when the Provincei lduty and the duty of Great Britain to ineeds money, it is a good time to 'tight with our allies until Prussian itWht it,' militarism is smashed. i " place the gentlemen who form l Speaking for himself and those on lthe boards of directors of Lineage com-l this side of the House, he would say panies in the Judgment of he people] they concurred heartily in the pro- of this Province, and ask them to deal 1 'position made by the Provincial out that castigation and merited dis-i Treasurer that the Province of On- approval which every honohahle man) tario should do still more than had gives them in this hour of trial."i been done not only for the mother- iApplause.) ( 'iand, but for the people of Belgium. He knew of none of the companies' iliut while he concurred in the raising that had refused to pay the tax rush- I :0! the amount of money for this pur- ing to the aid of tho Empire and in-, ipose, he regretted that some other wring the lives of the soldiers who ,method of raising it had not been ae- went from here. ivlsed. May Increase Revenue FTere. :"hy Not British System? While admitting that the succession ; He was in hopes that this Govern- dutv tax was created by the old Ioitr.. iment m raising money tor this special eral Government. Mr. McGarry said purpose would have adopted to a last year the receipts were much over .lurge extent the policy which had the estimate, and he hoped to see the i been . followed by Lloyd George in revenue conyiderablraugrnented from Aritain to meet the requirements of this source by reason of an investiga- ithe present situation. He felt tion that was being made into the Ithis fund should have been levied estates of deceased millionaires. The iupon the People of this Pro- , Government would see to it that the :vince in such a mannel that those Province was .getting its full share l who were best able to pay this amount of the distribution of this wealth, and .should practically contribute the he naively suggested that some of the ,Whole sum. Iuevyintr one mill on profits that were going into the pock- gevery dollar of assessable property eta of directors of life insurance com- inleant that every property owner in panics would be properly subject to: !thls Province would have to t'UllU'l- a tax. i' ibute his or her share. involving such l Defending the management of the, [cases as the widow with a limited in- T & N. o. Railway, Mr. McGarryi lcome who had a home the man 0 t went on to show that the Provincial) lot employment struggling to me t )1: line had suffered less from the re-l ipayments on his little horn .edtie duction in business than any other of; :many instances the wives 9.332,": the big railways of Canada. He ao-l, soldiers who had gone to the front t " plauded the assistance that the rail-I fight. o 1 . way was giving to settlers, and char-i l i acterized the management by Mr. o.) (Cause of the T3ettcit. L. Englehart. Chairman of the Com-; l "' mitegion., as efficient, 'rtslf-tracriticiruri, Proceeding to allude to the public and entirely disinterested. accounts, Mr. 13owman said. if he re- membered aright, Mr. Lucas, in his Ontario's Credit. tBhuadt1'et,t,iy",yysit' last session, predicted i Proceeding. Mr. McGarry discussed} mat" l", 136311 there would be abso- , the osition which the ' - ouit that there would be r p credit of the asurplus As h i' Province occupied in the money! ment of {1 P fC/.1d,tytood the state- K markets, and showed that the policy; afternoon "i, rfll1ni,i,a,1, Treasurer that i Iof issuing short-term loans at this; 'Certain r. C ad intimated that for l time, to he replaced with longer loans) inounce teashons he was forced to an- i when the money market was more; lin roundufti e Legislature that he had i- }avorable, had met the "orttrnendation; lot $700 000 sure; practically a deficit '. tot financial men who had given of do t ' 'and that this was largely t 'their advice freely to the Treasury! tau: do tt/,'re fallintr-otr in revenue pro- ) ' Department. He. objected to the . let Y the Te. Mr. Bowman t tenor of The Globe's report of thei id,"ll,'lied out that 1n looking over the ' iPublic Accounts in yesterday's issue) i,','l't'i' tt accounts and checking up the :as being misleading and untrue, and, if mated revenue presented to the ; [declared that criticism of that sort! t on" a Pa,'." ago by Mr. Lucas. he [was bound to damage the credit of" ' 'lh1f, that it was reckoned the re. , ithe Province. l, (e ms would be $9,793,373. l ----¥,W,