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practically the same, $10,700. Pro- vincial-Audltofs Department $1,- 620, compared with $2,400 last year Purchasing Agent $1,075, compared with 31.150 last year. Provincial Bulldinl $6.400, compared with $7,400 lset year. Pensions, the es- timate is $150,000 compared with $00,000 a year I80. because Old Age Pensions began to be paid the 1st of July. The estimate is practically doubled. Salaries and expenses or adxninistnnon $0,870. Telegrams $3M. Gasoline Rebatm, the same as last your $25,011). Motor vehicle ex- penses the same, $8,000. Public Works Department, salaries, travel- ling expenses, prlntlrm, bushing ice, bridgu and packets, $41,150. Queens County l"errles $14,630, compared with $14,730 a year ago. Prince County I-“errles $2.81!), the some as last year. King's County lierries $10,470, compared with $12,040, s reduction. Whs-rvu $3,000. compar- edwith $4.500 a year sgoflrele- phmes the same, $2,100. Miscel- uneous Public Works $8.000.‘ m- steml 0f $10,000 of neu- ego. The estimate for roads is the same $130.11». Road Brmerlntendmis and Engineers salaries $17,300. compared with $20,000 s year ago. Sinking Funds $118106 compared with $108,705 a year ago. Unforseen Ex- penditure $1,000 compared with $2,000 a your ago, making a total expenditure estimated $1,481,390 compared with $1,393,410 an in- crease of lees than $83,000, some of 1t due to interst, some of it due to Old Al!

Estimates of Revenue

1 sm going to give you the Esti- mates of Revenue. Federal Subsidy which I stationery 0479.131. D3110?- Relief 318MB. Old Age Pensimia $112,500. Those are the amount re- ceived from Ottawa, those three items, the Dominion Government Grants $637,681. General and Inoorhe Tl! IIGLQ. Canadian National Reilwlyu $40000; $111,000 in those two items. Fire Insurance Companies 815.000, Life Insurance Companies $7,000, ‘Acceptance 00r- porations $600, Accident and Guar- antee Ocmrpunies $1,200, Dunks $16,500, ‘Print and Loan Companies $2,400, Telegraph Companies 3N0. Electric Light Companies. $3.200. Telephone Companies $1.500, Steamship Companies $303, Domi- ciled Companies $451100, s total of taxes: Succession Duties, $35,000, Amusement Tax $4,500, Gasoline Tax $195,000, mak- ing 035,500 of those three taxes. Licenses: Motor Vehicles $95 000, Peddlers $350, Life Insurance Ag- ent; $200, Fire Insurance Agents $40.00, Marriage Licensee $1.000. n total of $96,590. Fines and Penal- ties $500. Fees: Public Lands. $50, Letters Patent $200, Proihonotary $3,500, Registry Offices $5.000. County Courts $1,500, Private Bills $100, Prince of Wales College Ms- triculation x1000. Prince of Wales College sessionai $9.000, Brokers $1 .5111, Faiconwood Hospital and In- firmary $10,000, I. total oi $31,900. General Government: Casual Rev- enue 03,1111, Department or Public were, $300, Department of Agricul- ture $2,000 Department of Health $17500. Prohibition: Oommlmlol! wlfch goes for police and mainten- ance of jails $30,010. 0n those five items 054.800 making a total esti- mated revenue of $1,340,821.

‘Pots-l Ordinary Expenditure is $1,431,390 and I am following the x1e plan I ffllowed lest year in dedu ting Sinking Fund p“. ‘one wine are $110306 making s total erdiaerv nwnditure of $1100.18! and Total Ordinary Revenue tirns o of 110G321 or an estimated d for i110 "If i024 01 $14.- 164. at i, the minute thst mu Government has sstkssted for this

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the necessary public expenditures in this Province even for i110 llll of making revenue and expenditure meet because in our opinion a cur- tailment of those servics is only putting s dlsnhillty upon the peo- ple which we‘ do not think they can endure, and we enmlder our cialms are solid enough and sound enough to give us at least sufficient additional revenue to make revenue and expenditure meet in this Pro- vinoe. (Applause).

I think that is a more reasonable stand to take than to submit esti- mates in this Home of revenue and expenditin-e and estimate for a sur- piuseach yesrsndtheu attheend of the yen-find outthlstthereil no surplus, because we have not had a. surplus in this legislature, 1dr. Speaker, for very many years.

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the people of this Province. There is no attempt or never has been sny attempt on the part of this Government to disguise the real financial situation of this Province -bad lsitmuybe. Whcnyoulook at the (ipposition press tomorrow, you will find just how bad our sit- uation is! It will be in the head- lines of the Patriot that the pres- ent Premier has not been able to solve the difficulty and consequent- ly is more or less of a failure. We have heard that in the pal and will continue to hear it in the fut- ure. The present Government are not a set of magicians; the Ieeent Premier is not a. magician either but he ‘a one who will endeavour to put facts fairly and squarely be- fore the people and leave it to their good judgment as to whether this Government has not been trying in do the best we cam in the interests of the people. (Applause). 0,, ' ' Criticism Analysed Now, we have been wid that this Government is a most extravagant Government, Mr. Speaker, I shall try and analyze the criticism! that have been made and are being made at all times that this Govern- ment is a. most extravagant Gov- ernment in this time of depression and 1 want to tell you, Mr. Speaker, that before I am through 1 will answer this charge of Irons extra- vagance on the part of this present Government, I will endeavour t0 show you. Mr. Speaker, Just how ecrmomical we have been. In all the criticism that has been launched against the Government both by the Opposition Press and by the membe s of this Legislature both on the floor of this House Mid throughout this country, you have never yet heard one word so to the diflicult times through which we are passing. You never hear any- thing about the troubles which have met all govemments for the past three or four years; nothing of that kind, no excuses at all, Just hold this Government 11D as an ex- ample o1 the grossest extravagance and try to uphold the charge by statcmcnie that cannot be verified.

Proofs of Economy

Now. i submit in all fairness, Mr. Speaker, that this Government hll endeavoured to be economical and i am going to submit to you s few figures in proof of that.

For instance take the Depart- ment of Justice, in 1030 that De- partment cost $493185. in 1031 it cost “G073 in 1932 $06,420, and in m: ten . In mo with an ex- penditure m about $50000. no pov- laent was made for the police. The

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duo to the fsct that this Govern- ment had to 111591! 07.500 for the Teachers’ Superannuation. That was an Act pamed by the late Gov- ernment but like several other Acts, they put them on the Statute books but that is as far as they pt; it was left to this Government to nut them into operation and to pay the ex- penses of . them. This Act cost $7.5M for the Superannuation Fund.

The increue in the number of First Class Teachers ($1,200) is an uncontrollable expenditure. Maln- tensnee of Prince of Wales College in 1932 was very small because w! were in the College only part of the time, Lest year, which was a full year, the expenditure was $9,705. The maintenance of the old Prince of Wales College in 1930 was $10,- 133, and the maintenance of this new building, which is supposed to b; so very much more expensive l: 8.105. less than the maintenance of the old College.

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Those are some of the places where we have economized, a few of them. Now I will give you one outstanding case, and they say this Government is not economical. In 1930 Falconwood Hospital and In- flnrmry cost $125,278. In 1931 it 00st $124,000. Then we had the disas- trous fire, and in spite of the fact that we had our mmates broken up and had to r1111 three different units where formerly there was only one, lsst year, in 1932, we brought the expenditure down from $125,000 to $83,000. that is a saving o! $B.000. That h a saving of one-third- 33 1-391. My honourable friends are very prme to tell us we should be saving at least 20“; to 25% on ac- count of the difference in prices. We went one better. instead of 20% to 25% we saved 331-11, so our economy in thine places is a little bettor than their estimate. In 1903 we brnmht the expenditure down to 833.000, the lowest that it has ever been. Miscellaneous ex- penditure: in 1930 was $5,594, in 1931 $5.530, in 1932 $2.797, in 1933 $.W. lu two year; under the lute G...“ ent $12,000: in two years under this Government $5,800.

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New some expenditures increased. For instance in 1090 the pauper re- lief fund, the amount was $8,180 in 1031 IIIJII. in 1932 824.3%. In 103i $37,317. ‘Phat is an expenditure that is uncontrollable. The Government has endeavoured to do the very best possible in order to relieve distress and suffering throughout this Pro- vince. Our expenditures have been "P! Q00 1. compared with other Provinces. The manner in which we have made those exflflidltil w: has not called for any extra expenditure on ac- munt of officials to do the work. Only recently I wls readini an ur- ticle which was dealing with the different forms of relief measu c: in the different Provinces of Can- ada, and the writer of this article drew the conclusion that after all the system employed in Prince Ed- ward Island was the most econo- mical and the most satisfactory in every vny.

I might at this time express the thank; of this Government to the clergyman of this Province who done a great deal of extra work over and above their usual pastoral duties in Investigating cues of re- lief, and in looking after cheques tbataresentintbeircare sndsee- ing that the monv! is Pffllierly dis-

P R E M I E R M want to draw your attentkm to this fwt and incidentally I want to an- swer some of tho charges snd the main charge is here. ‘

In the Charlottetown Patriot of Saturday, March 17th we read: "The Government plunges the Pro- vince deeper than ever in financial hole. Huge increase 1n public debt is revealed by Public Accounts. $380,000 added by the MscMills-n Government 1n 1983, making 1n all $570,000 added during the past two years. Deficit on Ordinary Account in 1933 was $129,212.82. II Capital Acount is added, as advocated by Honourable Mr. MacMlilan when giving his Budget Speech, the total deficit would be more than $100,000. Increase in Interest alone is more than $31,000. Terrible showing for a rigid economy administration.”

A Splendid Showing

You will remember, Mr. Speaker, that in my Budget Speech last year I did not take info account Sinking Funds, because I said that those were a credit extended and not really something that you can charge in the year's expenditure, because they are going to make a sinking mud to pay of‘! expendi- tures of a great many years. $129.- 000 they say is the deficit. You take $108,000 Sinking Fluids oi'l' that and you have a deficit of 520.000. So 1n my estimate last year it was a little more, I think I estimated for a slight surplus of $41110 so I was as- tray $24,000. Mr. Speaker, do you think it was a bad showing that I came within $24,000 of the esti- mate? I couldn't tell how fur direct relief was going to go. I umldmt tell how far our revenue was going to full. but I want to draw your st- tention to this fact, that the 00v- emment was able to keep its ex- penditure under the estimate by $131110, Mr. Speaker, I would, like any one to go buck in the history a! this Legislature and tell mo the year where expenditure was within the estimate. Ind Jvithin It by $13,000. (Applause).

But we are just going to take the official organ of the Oppmitlon and here is the charge: ‘$280,000 added by the MuoMillan Govern- ment in 1033, making in I" $570.- 000 added during the past two ygmgj‘ Degperaie, isn't it? Not a word about the special difficulties that we faced in those two Yell’!- Nothing about the Prince of Wales College and Fuiconwood Hospital which we had to rebuild in those two years. No credit for that at all.