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March is ' * | "What we want to do is to give the; ; * [ taxpayer an exact picture of what it was 8004 for 4 PMA O 0.N0 Ihe sdded, amid laughter, "I decifed k * dividual. _ However, there was A » aughter, "I decided | was spent and what was receiveC." yoasonable expectation that after the| 4 have nothing more to do wi Hon. H. C. Nixon--How is it that y ; ols 'liuor d lef »» th clouds the sun would shine through. | 44UOT, and Je t the House. you have just discovered this? Mr. Calder then _ alluded to the ; Dr. 'my good man, , ./ : ne | Northern Ontario Problems. Jearn as Liberal convention of last December. we * .. This historic meeting, he observed,| _ Mr. Waters devoted his addrass al-- It was natiiral, the Minister con_l had dropped its pilot. However, it | most entiirely to Northern Ontario and tinued, to apply the previous year's| Was one thing to pass on the sceptre her problems, stressing the benefits surplus in ordinary revenue to debt| 204 fomething else altogether to pass | }'hk'h "'OUIfi accrue to the Province f § |rotirement.. When the present Ad.| on the power . IPhs Liberals . ho ( rom the establishment of Moose Fac-- ministration took office in 1923, it haa| thought, would not turn to a leader l| tory as a seaport next year, and found a $15,000,000 deficis on its| far away (Mitchell Hepburn), but to | pointing out the agricultural possi-- doorstep. If it now had a dencit, 1[,' the leader that the convention de-- " bilitics of the great clay belt, where-- was due to a period of world--wide | POSeG (W. E. N. Sinclair). | in, he claimed, lay accommodation depression and other conditions over| The speaker then touched upon the | f91, 1,000,000 people. f{ WiBich it had no control. He differed| Subject of alleged atheism at the [ TD present time, he claimed, was from Mr. Tweed's view that the debt-] Univer:ity of Toronto, which was the | NO Sme for foolish economy in so far relirement scheme was too ambitious.| subject of debste in the House not [ 22 thes» pecple of the North were "Can any Government be too am--| JOn@ 280. _ He speculated, rather concerned. He, along with other bitious in controlling its debt?" ho | facetiously, as to what might have | Northerners was, he stated, very asked. "I think it should rather be| happened had J. Fred Reid (Conserva-- srateful for every dollar spent by the described as laudable." He suggzested| tive, Windsor West) and A. H. Acros Government on roads, but he thought that when Mr. Tweed went back to| (Conservative, Carleton) been ap-- that the Government might well con-- Waterloa hc ascertain whoether or not| bointed a committee to find atheists sider the Quebec "premium" system _his own community d:d not provide | in this institution of higher learning. of financing its Northern settlers--a for the retirement of its debt. \Editorial in Varsity. °+ |system which, as a matter of fact Claims as to Debt Retirement. i He was glad that the matier of the 'v';r?:k to be adopled by New Gruns. The Government, he continued, 'c'divorial in Varsity, alleging that there | "If by me; never claimed that there would be no| ~** atheisiic teaching in the univer-- | said Mr wc¢tms of such a system," deb? in 40 years. What it had arranged | S!tY. bad been dealt with in the spirit | settlers 'selff pporpul "Af "haike, our was that the debt as existing when that it had been. He thought that the | well worth t-zlippcrtmg. it would be the plan was inaugurated in 1927 was @ditor had failed to make any dis-- | to put it in of Pacion »"" ouit onet to be retired in 40 years. Itmctisn between agnosticism and favored Som fiope:' ation." Mr. Waters The Minister defended the Govern--| Atheism. It was the privilege of youth ment insy rm" scheme of unemploy-- ment's policy in relation to the gas to have doubt, but he thought that poorly off in the fean yeebh n i t f tax. There was no diversion of money Goubt was often an indication 0f «down a stm 120 O Dhare and lnfa from gas tax and auto licenses. From SCArching moental energy, and always to abolish manieipet inood Athnors's the period 1920 to 1924, expenditures CDded in faith. <It was the experience . y p, municipal income tax. on the roads exceeded revenues from NOQSt thinking people passed through. to be a S upens io OO Nnak Nn took these sources by $5,531.000; after the . Thomas P. Murray (Liberal, Ren-- speech ofs;ggestlon lonfaimed in the imposition of the 3--cent gas tax. the ex. frew South) prevented the Legisla-- Grey somharquhar h. Oliver (UP.G., penditures exceeded revenue by $3,-- ture from forgetting that it was St. ance rates io Pne bffect that insur» $es.000 beiween i9ee and 1928, and to| Patrick's night. His speech on ths diary fires o commanco T NC date the revenus was still $2,400,000 Budget was gracious with blarney for solicitors 61' t 2 Aoae fofel wat the short of expenditures. members of Government and Opposi-- ment éoard 1e"A (lel " O evelop. Highways Criticism. tion benches alike, spiced with wit | searching titles Lroug}é i ocvess da "I wish to only take up the time of that kept the House in an uproar, and |long delays in" ut%pse (rouen uks the House to deal briefly with the two 1 filled with. the solid stuff of canny | Referring to thg rgg tthmqgh it io. departments," _ said Mr. Elliott. Celtic observation on public affairs. | pression, Mr Ba?(té'en pen.od earies "First, let us look at the Highways All that was appropriate for the | means shquld we t kr o crevent ks Department--practically all the re-- place and the night and the speaker, | égular i'ecurrencise o2 aoope hoce ceipts cver $16,000,000 received from |for Mr. Murray explained he had| DOes the large pro of . depression? gas tax, auto licenses, etc., are credi-- |asked as a special privilege to speak given for educ;tignatl)orixlgn Ot-' es ted to ordinary revenue. We have on St. Patrick's Day as the son of one pay? Could there notpb,p:ges' T oey no fault to find Wlph t.hlS--bqt whcen of the Irish pioneers of this Province. gation to bring about a i.- o ]ft'weszll- we come to expenditure, we find less In his general tributes to the oc-- | education more suited t T UrSl conal. tll%ll $5i.c(l)00.000 (rf'ha;gEd to ordinary. cupants of the Treasury benches he | 42"s?" CTire! cond'-- and paid out of the receipts; and C _ |_ _ Mtr. _ Strl nearly $13,.000,000 added to the debt, ifi;h'{fii(: lt/?: ;2£?§:0§;e;nog.v&i€:a{n Tweed's *lgg:i]ggg of C: té'l:llafx(?i(iies 1tm, g{fl;fig 71'11;;\{}\!"::9_;0 pay the costs of thelestablishing harmony among races | 2N MCA!S. stating that it was ace t It. BhiG ttsa.rgue d that 20 oohis and creeds on the last day will have ?:;';;'gnby a Rgomgilaint of too mu on thet dollsr should be paid out of t:«taonrfgwf(;\';n?i:tg s;?skgggull::xcrt:r:g references to 5?: cgfitrangtx; m'l;fi':e current revenue respecting Provincial | payin returned --fr disti ; ; | the Government for > highways; 50 cents on the dollar as carengh; The w rom _ distinguished | gtrickland declared that there w. c al 3 i er > war to lead an army | pj i ed that there we aggig.f,% :&"'g'g;l; ';g:afnd 80 cents 25| against the bugs and parasites that fi,'r'gg}l'{z:fig}f"a e(;cperts in the Hyd Following this system the defio;; [ Wete Ehreatening the farmers. Call--[able that thex were hoodwinses 3 [woult be noreased by $1.350,009, ne| e fof [hs appointment of MinisGo®s [ these oonipactep un "fs Nbodtinked i SAId. uN Na¥ SC+ for the Departnients of Education and "Farmers -- are overb j AS for the Department of Lands| Highways, he recommended that the |advice," said John Arsu;de?&d cog and Forests, Mr. Elliott clai ; | Premier read the Good Bock, with its| eral, Glengar Te o nato | aimed that| * | zarry). The Canad | bonus and timber dues were allocated | iDJUNCtion against a man so#ving two | farmor is undor a great disadvanieat | 70 per cent. ordinary revenue, andlma'"ers' "He is serving three," ob-- by bavine to pay @ higher prics io | 30 per cent. to capital. But, to capi. | Served the speaker. |assoline than users in the?']r(;"wi"? }tal revenue account occurred such |If He Were Ambassador. | States. The Government should 1"! | items as forest ranging. survey re-- "It has been asked," he continued,|2°""> t"h> eo~* of gasotine." ~" 4 | forestation, and fire ranging. and to "where th> Liberals found the money| __\"_ E*®N?stor comnwainsd thot the this extent 2dded to the Provincial|to contest the recent by--elections.| ""¢¢en nort of the Provincs was not debt. In this way the dsficit was | Well, the little bit of money they had"f"'"qum"'\v sorved by power. "The made to appear smaller than is ac--| was their own. The Conservatives| only way to set rid of debt is to cut tually was. used public funds. If I were a friend| JOWN expenditures," he went or. "Big Premicr Congratulated. of Premier Bennett's, and he ap-- lcit;ntres of population are drawing the Mr. Calder congratulated the new | Pointed me Ambassador to TIreland, fi?logd of smaller communities." Prime Minister, who. he said, would[.the Liberal candidate succeeding m°|at; 109. 45 TL O_ Adlourned the debste nevor be found to do anything that in my riding would have to face ail m | was mean or anything less than first--| the grants the Government disposes + |class. He also complimented the new | of." members of the Cabinet, and in par--| Referring to Dominian politics, and ticular Hon. Edward A. Dunlop, Pro-- c.\_peal:in'; in a sericus voin, Mr. Murray * vincial Treasurer. He would not be Goclared that th> people of Canada . _ |surprised. he said, if the honorable F24 mads ons of their greatoss mis-- member for Carlston (A. H. Acres) was takes in rejeciing the Cunning Bui-- some day taken into the charmed| Bet. _ Premier Bonnett's attitude at f 3 circle. < |the Imperial Conference had hurt the Turning to the new members of the Empire. In Russian papers it had been House elscted in the recent by--elec-- S$Aid as a result of that attitude that * tions in West Hamilton and Gren-- the Empire was crumbling and that ville, he said that the results had been | Premier Bennett was a disobedient son. a vindication of a very able and high--| MHe criticized the Government for ly regarded public officer (Hon. W. H.|§°°king to increase its profits from 5 Price, Attorney--General). liquor. "I've been brought up to be-- | _ Turning to the subject of current, lieve," said he, "that money made out } devression, the West Kent member O liquor will do you no good." said that, sincs honesty, economy and . After humorously tracing '-the his» progress were to be the policies of this tOry of liquor and politics, he declar Government, we could look forward to that liquor seemed to agree with Gg the future with faith, hope and op-- Conservative Party, but had prov timism. Although be did not like de-- the downfall of the Liberal and Prz ' prossion, he thought that sometimes S"@Ssive Parties. "When the ques» *~ _ tion came up again a few days ago,"