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collations of carefully prepared figures, I doubt very much if hecould have borne up As it was, | am sure that Dr. Tupper right- ly interpreted the feeling of the House, when on rising to review the budget speech, he said the Finance Minister might rest as- sured that, in his painful position, he ‘‘com- manded the sympathy of every honorable gentleman.” ‘For myself,’ Dr. Tupper said, ‘‘I feel that we are brought face to face with a question so important in regard to the sondition of the country that 1 should not be discharging my duty to the Honse and the country if I were to allow any personal, political, or party considera- tion to euter into a discussion of this kind, on the present occasion.”

DR. TUPPER CONTINUED :

I confess I was a goMM deal surprised to find the hon. gentleman laying claims, in the commencement. of his speech, to his prophetic accuracy. He reminded the House of the time when, sitting on the Opposi- tion benches, he indulged in cortain gloomy forebodings that never came to pass; that, year after year, when the hon. gentleman predicted disaster, the Government of the day were ready to meet Parliament with evidences, not of disaster, which the hon. ntleman predicted, but. with a condition of public atfairs which that hon. gentleman, during the time he has held the high office he now fills, has never had the pleasure of pre- senting to the House, and I think the hon. gentleman’s recollection of his own budget speeches ought to be sufficient, if there were nothing else, to prevent him from asking the consideration ot the House to the ac- curacy of his prophecies, or to the fulfil- ment of those which he had ventured to make. 1 hold in my hand a speech of the hon. gentleman on the first occasion on which he brought down his budget to the House, and I tind that he told us that if we would give him three millions, and pass three millions of additional taxation for which he asked the House, it would suffice for all his necessities. He was, at that time, fully possessed of information in regard to all the liabilities that rested on the Govern- ment and on the country. The House, very properly, gave the hon. gentleman all he asked. It voted the additional taxation he proposed, and hon. members were gratified to learn from one of his colleagues, at an early date subsequently, that that taxation was levied for the purpose of providing for the construction of the Cana- dian Pacific Railway. The latter liability, under the scheme proposed by the late Gov- ernment, and the policy to which they were pledged, and by which they were bound, was proposed to be covered by an annual expenditure of $1,500,000. The House was glad to learn, whien it had given the $3,000,- 000 to the Hon. the Finance Minister, that it was sufficient to meet all the necessities for the future, and prevent him ever com- ing back to ask for any additional taxation. Hon. gentlemen will feel, with that state- ment on record, he occnpies a very unten- able position to claim the confidence of the House in regard, either to any predictions made in the past or any calculations he may make in the future, I may direct the at- tention of the House, also, to the statement he made in the following year. And then, in the second budget speech he delivered, he again ventured on the dangerous ground of prophecy. He aaid, with regard to the statement made by himself, that if the House would consent to grant the surplus for which he asked, he did not think they would make additional taxation. Before the hon. gentleman had concluded his speech, he said the House will at once perceive that, so far from the hon, gentle- man when believing, as he now leads the House to suppose he believed, that he had anticipated all the time, the depression and disaster, he led the House to believe then, February, 1875, he entertained the hope and opinion that the $3,000,000 would more than amply meet the necessities. of the country, and that it would furnish him

| with a very considerable surplus to deal

with, as occasion might require. The House must have been surprised when they found the hon. gentleman, in 1875 and 1876, came down with the confession that, instead of having the surplus which he had. promised the Honse, he had to confess that he had a deficit amounting to $1,900,000 to meet. . In his last. budget speech there was no necessity to tax the prophetic powers of the hon. gentleman to any very great ex- tent, because he was then dealmg with the | financial positien of the country for the,

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past year, with all the evidence that the ex- perience of years in the high position which | the hon, gentleman occupied gave him, and (with all the means of judging of the com- | mercial condition of the country indicated to anyone accustomed to feel the public pulse and watch the fluctuations of com- merce. In that budget speech the hon. gentleman, on pages 2 and 3, said :-—

‘Now, if hon. gentlemen having the public accounts in their hands will do me the favor to refer to the various items making up this deticit they will find that a very large propor- tion of this $1,000,000 is composed of items precisely of the character to which I have al luded. In the first place some $134,000 are charged on account of the expenses of the boundary surveys between ourselves amd the United States, which expenditure was actually meurred prior to the close of the year 1873-74, and which perhaps, as a matter of book -keep- ing even, ought to have been changed to the expenditure of that particular year. .They will find also that no less than $210,000 is charged for special services for the Philadelphia Exhi. bition, for the loan to the Mennonite settlers. and for the relief granted to the distressd set- tlers in Manitoba, all of which are clearly, ex- traordinary, and exceptional charges. Now, the House will recollect, with respect to an- other large entry in the Pitblic Accounts, that the policy of the present Government has al- ways been to close at as early a period as pus- sible the great expenditure which was going on upon what are generally known.as Minor Pub- lic Works, i. ¢., buildings and improvements of various kinds in different parts of the coun- try ; and they will also remember that this ex- penditure was largely in excess of the amount which, in our judgment, ought to be properly set apart for this service, at least, ander the prevent circumstances of the country, and that of the total sum so charged $1,980, in round numbers), $950,000 may be fairly. treated as exceptional and extraordinary expenditure, in- curred for extraordinary purposes, the ac- counts for which are closed and which need not recur again.”

And the hon. gentleman stated, however, that this was due to extraordinary and ab- normal expenditure. The hon. gentleman pointed out what some of these expenditures

lows :—

‘* Had there not been an unusual and extra- ordinary deficiency in the harvest throughout many portions of the country, the calculations on which the Government rested last year would have been campletely verified, and not only would the deficit have been greatly re- duced, but 1 have no manner of doubt that I would have been able to state to the House. it would have been absolutely extinguished by the end of the current financial year without further exertion on our part.”

The hon. gentleman, however, found, sir, that from these causes, exceptional and extraordinary as they were, he had reached a deficit of $1,901,000 ; and he again asked the House to submit to the not wery agree- able process of submitting. to further tax- ation. The hon. gentleman received the taxes for which he asked. He asked for some $500,000 of additional taxation, and he stated to the House that his last deficit was due to abnormal expenditure which would not occur again, and that: all was to be made serene by giving him $500,000 of additional taxation. Well, the House is al- ways anxious to meet the necessities of gen- tlemen in his position, and accordingly it granted him readily— too readily 1 think— the additional taxation for which the hon. gentleman asked. But, sir, they did it with the assurance that this was to be the end of the taxation, he was likely to require, and in fact upon the assurauce that if it were granted no further demands would be made upon the country. If this state- ment had been well founded, the hon, gentleman would not have been in the po- sition of having to bring down a budget showing a deficit instead of a surplus. But what is the result, sir? Why, it is found that the hon. gentleman has discovered a still lower depth than that into which he had sunk before; and notwithstanding his additional taxation, we have now another deficit amounting.in round numbers to one anda half million of dollars, or to $1,460,- 000 at the close of the financial year, on the ist July last.

THE GRAVITY OF THE SITUATION.

We have had added to the debt of this country, over and above all the revenue that the country has afforded him, nearly three and a half millions — $3,360,000. Well, sir, I would like to draw the atten- tion of the hon. gentleman to another fact. It is true that the tone of the hon. gentle- man’s address to-night was very different to that which the House has been accustomed to listen to. It was very different from the tone of his speech last year, but was in still greater contrast with that of the year before ; but, sir, he does not, | am afraid, appreci- ate—as far as I can gather from the lan- guage he used in his address to the House to-night—the gravity of the situation, and perhaps there are no means by which | can impress on tie hon. gentleman the gravity of the position in which he has brought the financial affairs of this country, more than by. quoting t» that hon. gentleman the high- est authority he recognises, and that is, his own. He drew the attention of the House, on the 16th of February, 1875, to the great importance wf the great services he had per- formed for lis country by avoiding a deticit. He drew the attention of the House to the enormous disaster it was to Canada that a deficit shoul present itself. He pointed out the fact that we were a borrowing country, that we were carrying on large public works ; that the prozess and advancement of our country depended upon our ability to obtain money from abroad, and that it was im- portant as a borrowing country that the credit of th: country should be maintained, and he, justified himself for haying brought

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