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The Northern Light. On the 18th inst., Sir Albert, Smith noved the Honse into committee of supply on the item of $300,000 for the maintenance of steamets. Sir Albert said the appropri- ation for the Northern Light was increased to thirty thousand, but he did not expect all would be spent. He contended that the fault of interruption was not in the steam- er, but in consequence of the physical im-

possibility of crossing the straits at some periods. Mr. Sinclair said the present route

was tow long for any steamer to stand. The sooner the Capes route was adopted the better. The Government should place in the supplementary estimates a sum for making railway connection with the Capes on both sides. Mr. Palmer said a small subsidy would induce the Company to build from the Intercolonial to Cape Tormentine. With the steamer between the Capes, there would be uninterrupted communication, as the ice-boats could take the mails during the ice blockades. The interest on the sub- sidy would be less than the extra sum spent in running the Northern Light on the pres- ent route. We fear that the Northern Light would

wove as great an elephant at the Capes as at Pictou and Georgetown. What is wanted at the Capes is—not the Northern Light. 2 -—--- The “ Parliamentary Spree.”

Tue Halifax Reporter educes from the discussion over the false reports of lying correspondents, respecting the ‘‘Parliamen- tary Spree,” the following facts :—

** Ist. Sir John is proved, out of the mouths of competent witnesses, to have been properly eceupying the “whole time during which his accusers stated he was drunk.

“9nd. The whole noise, confusion and up- roar originated and was kept ap by the Gov- ernment side, led on by Mr. McKenzie.

“3rd. The statements of a dozen reputable public men are on the one side in favor of Sir John.

“4th. His accuser isa man whom Dymond affirmed to be malicious and untruthful.

‘Sth. if, upon such grounds, a public man is to be accused of drunkenness, when perfect sobriecy distinguished him and when he kept altogether out of the uproar, what punishment of adverse public sentiment ought those to re ceive who joined in the fray, took whiskey in their coffee, kicked up the very devil, and then turned up the whites of their eyes in holy horres, and spread on the wings of the telegraph false information intended to cover up their own sins.”

It may be truly said of the Grit Pariy that —

‘With devotion’s visage and pious action,

They do sugar o’er the evil himself.”

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In at the Gleaning.

The Toronto Mail, referring to the fact that the Minister of Marine and Fisheries has received the honor of knighthood from her Majesty for his services in connection with the Fisheries Award, says :-— ..

“No one will envy Mr. Smith the honor, but it is only another illustration of the truth of the French saying, that it is the unexpected which always happens. Mr. Smith found his work well prepared for him when he went into the Marine and Fisheries Department. ‘The indefatigable labors of Mr. Mitchell left but little for him toe do, but he was in at the glean- ing, and quite te carried off the knight- hood, winch her Majesty has been pleased to eonfer upon hira,”

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Political Notes.

Sim Jonn McDonatp has again been nominated by the Liberal-Conservatives of Kingston.

Whilst Mr. S. Israel Tarte, the anti-out- rage candidate in Bonaventure County Que. , was handing his nomination papers to the Sheriff he was violently set upon by a reporter named Hamilton, and without any provocation brutally beaten. Driven des- perate at the straits in which they find themselves, it would appear that the Rouges are resorting to physical force to prove what their mental capacity is not equal to. Be- sides this wanton attack on Mr. Tarte, their organ in this city states that ex-Speaker Beaubien was roughly handled in a place in Hochelaga and compelled to leave. If rowdyisma will secure the endorsement of M. St. Just’s action, it is evident it will not be wanting.

Mr. Plumb has annomnced his intention of sueing the Halifax ‘‘ Chronicle” and London ‘* Advertiser” for saying in their Ottawa despatches that lie was drunk during Black Friday’s sitting.

‘The Premier has returned from Sarnia. The jury in his suit against the ** Cana- dian’ for insinuating that he gave his bro- thers information of the intended tariff changes, digagreed after two hours’ absence. A despatch says ten were liberals and two Conservatives, and that they stood seven for conviction and five for acquittal. The defence was “ not guilty.”

A riot oecurred at a political meeting held in Montreal on the 2ist in the East end of the city. Eight or ten thousand persons were present hearing addresses by the rival candidates at the approaching elections for the Provincial islature. One of the speakers having used ge offensive to the minority, the latter com- menced a vigorous attack from the out- skirts with stones whick became general, ‘and it was kept up until the arrival of a large force of police. Twenty-five persons who were severely wounded in the melee have been attended by doctors and it is be- lieved many others are seriously injured. >- + --— <a

Tue County Court is in session in this city since Thursday last. The majority of the three hundred and ninety-four cases on the docket have been tried, and the court will likely rise to-morrow,

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Senator Howlan’s Speech of the|

Financial Situation. A SUCCESSION OF, DEFICITS, AND How THEY

ARE OBTAINED— INTERESTING COM-

PARATIVE STATEMENTS.

(From the Senate Hansard. ) Hon. Mr. HowLtan—The question before the House, as I understand it, is the en- quiry by the hon. Senator from Saugeen : “That he will call attention to the public expenditure of the Dominion, especially that portion of it which is largely within the con- trol of the administration, and will enquire of the Government how it is proposed to restore the equilibrium between the income and ex- penditure.” This is a very proper enquiry, and this is the proper place to make it ; and it comes at a very opportune time, when it is ad- mitted there have been deficits, and when the question how to make imcome and ex- penditure meet, is occupying the minds of public men, especially those who are called upon to govern the country. The enquiry has been made in a proper and legitimate manner, respectable alike to the Govern- ment, to this House, to the country, and to the hon. gentleman who made it. If there had been no deficit, there would be some reason for the hon. gentleman who has just sat down to try and show there was none ; but the House will recall the - remarks of the Finance Minister in his former budget speeches. In 1874 he spoke of the proba- bility that the revenue would be equal to the expenditure, but in view of the large public works undertaken and the depres- sion which was then about commencing, it was advisable to increase taxation. No gentleman could have better opportunities of judging the financial position of the country than the Finance Minister, and when he asked Parliament to impose this increased taxation, he said: ‘‘We may be able not only to meet the requirements of the present year and have a small margin over, but to dispense with increased taxa- tion for a considerable period.” These were his words when asking for $3,000,000 additional taxation. That was granted, and the expenditure of the year was met in a way creditable to the Dominion, and it was thought further taxation would be un- necessary, as the Finance Minister had led Parliament and the country to believe. But in 1875 he came down and said :— ‘All immediate demands, which were con- siderable, have been carefully met. There are no pressing claims upon us with the ex- ception of those for public works for a year or two. We have a reasonable surplus for the current year.”

This necessarily excited the attention of members of @s House; not excepting the Government, and the hon. gentleman who makes this enquiry paid very] consider- able attention to the finances, and publish- ed his views in a pamphlet to the world. That provoked very considerable discussion and he replied to it in another pamphlet. Then it came out that the Finance Minister had deceived himself or the public in his Budget Speech. In 1876, when he address- ed Parliament again, he was forced to ad- mit that his predictions had not been veri- fied and that his prophetic visionof an ineyeas- edrevenue had not been realized. Again, in 1876-7 the same thing takes place, and he states in his budget speech, referring to the close of that year :-—

‘‘ T hope, with some degree of confidence, on the next occasion on which I may be called to address this House, I may be able to congra- tulate it upon seeing the deficit which now exists entirely extinguished, and our Treasury onee more restored to the state in which some years ago it was happily maintained.”

There are three budget speeches in three consecutive years predicting the revenue would exceed the expenditure, and again he has to announce a defigit of nearly $2,- 000,000, Surely, then, it is time attention was called to the state of the finances of the country. Surely gentlemen should look the matter in the face and acknowledge there is a deficit, and take steps to re-ar- range the figgnces of the country in such a way as to restore the equilibrium between revenue and expenditure. I say, therefore, this is a proper inquiry. The hon, Senator from Saugeen was told by an hon. gentle- man who preceded me that if he had any charges against the Government--he could call for a committee to investigate them: I believe there is no better committee for the purpose than the Senate.

Hon. gentlemen—Hear, hear.

Hon. Mr. HOWLAN—It is a very able committee ; one to which the people look in time of peril, like this, to give the affairs of the country the due and impartial attention they may not receive elsewhere. This is the proper place for the enquiry to be made. What is the answer made on behalf of the Government to this pertinent question ? In the first place, there is no demal there is a deficit, and in answer to the enquiry how the equilibrium between revenue and ex- penditure is to be restored, the Government have no policy to announce. They tell us there was a deficit in 1858. I confess I am unable to see any connection between the deficit of 1858 and the deficit of 1878. But we are toldthere would been no deficit if the Government had been at liberty to alter the public works of the Dominion. Surely the hon. Secretary of State knows the Govern- ment never dies. It may change, but it never ceases to exist, and it is well under- stood the gentlemen taking ofiice are re- sponsible for the expenditures commenced by their predecessors. We are told because the expenditure of this Government is no larger than that of the late Administration, it is, therefore a good Government. We are told that these gentlemen had been for years in opposition, and that they would exercise economy when they came into power ; that they had been well educated

‘in the policy of retrenchment, and in long

years of opposition had become thoroughly acquainted with the public affairs of the Do- minion.- Therefore, they cannot on the plea of imnocence or ignorance, ask the

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well aWaro that certain publie works must yo.on and certain services must be main- tained ; that the annual revenue of the country were about equal to a certain amount and knew what the average Con- trellable expenditure was. Therefore, they had every information a Government coud wish to possess on taking office. More than that, it was their boast that retrenchment and reform wete the principal planks of their platform. They had _, economy 1n- seribed on their banners, and the country believed in their professions and suspected there was some truthin their charges © extravagance made against their predeces- sors. It was believed by a majority of the people that there should be a change in tle administration of public affairs, and that these gentlemen should “be given an oppor- tunity to carry out their policy of retrench- ment. They have been nearly five years on trial before the the country, and what 1s their answer when charged with . having failed to economize ? ‘The late Government spent so much, and therefore We are justified in doing the same r That is their answer. So far as the Maritime Provinces are concerned, they locked upon this ad- ministration as a Liberal Government, and to the people of that portion of the Do- minion, the word “Liberal” has « charm.

Hon. Mr. Power—-Hear, hear.

Hon. Mr. Howtan—The hon. gentleman says ‘Shear, hear.” I repeat it, the word “Liberal” has a charm for the people of

‘Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince

Edward Island ; but the Liberals of those Provinces were of a very different stamp from those who arein power here. They could find no resting place in this Parlia- ment unless they find it in the ranks of the Liberal Conservative party. My hon. friend remembers Joseph Howe ; he was a Liberal, and he found a resting place among the Liberal Conservatives of this Dominion when Nova Scotia came into the Union. This present Adrainistration had a good send off, they had a large majority, perhaps too large; but it has been gradually grow- ing less. They started as no Government in Canada is likely to for a long time to come. They had every opportunity a Goy-

the expenditure within the revenue, and it is begging the question to go back to 1858 for a parallel case to that which exists to- day. We know there are veterans who like to fight their battles over again, and so it seems te be with these hon. gentlemen who deal with the events that occurred prior to Confederation. There is no good reason why this Government should spend more than their predecessors. There is no reason why if there were large expenditures in the past, the expenditures for the present should not be curtailed. The very best proof that they could have been reduced, is the im- provement chat has resulted from the dis

cussions that have taken place upon the subject introduced last session by my hon. friend from Sangeen. We find the Govern- ment for this year curtailed the expenditure, and this shows clearly that they had it in their power in the preceding year to make such a Feduction as would have brought the expenditure within the revenue. Therefore, the hon. gentleman is entitled to the thanks of the Government, and not their censure, for bringing under their notice the services in whieh retrenchment could be effected. But whether the Government will give him credit for it or not, the country will admit that it has been mainly through his instru- mentality a saving of over one million dol- lars has been effected this year. An at- tempt has been made to show that had this country remained as it was before Confed- eration there would have been no deficit ; but if Confederation had not taken place we would not have seen representatives from all the British Colonies in North America, with one exception, assembled in this Parliament, and we would not have had the grand country we now possess.

Since Confederation our coasts have been so well lighted that vessels coming to Can- ada are insured on as favorable terms as any other country in the world ; and, as a consequence, there is reduced cost of freight and insurance, and the industries of the country have received an impetus from

would not. Necessarily, we must give credit to the Government that did all this. Then there is the Intergolonial Railway, that‘has done more to cement the union than possibly could have been done by any other course that could have been suggest- ed. Surely my hon. friend from Halifax will not find fault with the late Government for having increased the public debt to build that ‘railroad; nor will he say that the large expenditures on the canals and other public works of the Dominion haye been unnecessary ; because for this debt we have ample returns. Notwithstanding the great outlay which occurred while the late Gov-

pace with it and warranted the expendi- ture. Instead of deficits they had sur- pluses. Almost every dollar of the indebt- edness they incurred was for building rail- ways, Hgidinhece, and other public works, necessary to the proper working out of this grand scheme of Confedera- tion. To say that the debt of Can- ada is greater now than it was in 1867, is begging the question. In 1873 Prince Edward island entered the Union, and it was necessary at the time to appoint officers for that Province, My hon. friend from Halifax has not carefully conzidered the question, when he made the statement that even in the death tliroes of the late Govern- ment, they had increased the expenditures of the coftry by iaking unnecessary ap- poiniments. Notan officer was dismissed by the present Adpainistration but was re- placed. We are told, and we have been led to belieye by statements made bya certain hon. gentleman here, that there is no de- ficit-—that it is folly to talk about it; and the fact-is, the House has been mystified by an array of figures -to show there was nou deficit at all. Nov, there is, or there is not a deficit. If the Public Aceounts of the country are correct, there must be a deficit,

people of Canada to believe they took office ;and I think we shal! see how this deficit has under a state of affairs with which they|taken place. I find if you take the totel jwere not acquainted, They were perfectly /salaries paid under both Governments, there’

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scntailntte OT were in 1875° $518,000; in 1876, $608,000 | FOR SALH,

ernment could desire to possess for keeping

these Improvements, which they otherwise |

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Take the Administration, of Justice in 1873,

+t was $399,000; in 1875, $459,000; in 1876,

#544,000. [am not saying but all this ex-

penditure was necessary, but there must be something extraordinary, that, am the -Ad-. ministration of Justice, there should be such a large and steady~increase.

ei of State says the Supreme Cowrt 1s head is not sufficient to explain the increase. hen-we have the cost of collection of cus- toms, which. increased steadily from 1870 onward; and the same mity be said with re- ward to the Emmigration Department. So *+ is in several departments, there tas been a continual increase since 1873. Or to state more definitely the increases in expenditures charged to Consolidated Revenve F und for 1875 and 1876 over 1873, and for 1876 over 1875 under the following heads being ‘tems within the control of the Government (Public Debt charges not included), 1 may be allowed to read the following table :—

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se —— ier ly &. VEL se ny we - . w j mie = is =< ‘ yg e ow DEPARTMENTS. 4 ‘ ar a - o ‘ Be; ES | Ge a a5 as | — — — Civil Government. |$148,391 mat nes $ 91,121 Administration of ; Bo Justiod. id... #4: | 98,439 $ 45,686) 145,025 Police and Pemi-| p tentiaries....... ae AR ROE -. | 4,968 Legislation........ | App pe 54,957 | 12,743 Geological Survey.; 29,199 3,226) 32,425 Arts and Agricul-| : ee. OORi. cso 5 47,416} 9,485 Immigration and; : Quarantine ..... | 35,402] 83,075) 98,477 Marine Hosyitals..| 10,871} 1,950! 12,82t

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annuation .....2| © 38,7 21) |

70,874! 100,598

Ocean and River)

SPURS. Gises> Po aes , 93,057; 90,339 Fisheries & Light| {

Houses. i). 668s. | 9,881! 97,191! 75,778 Inspection Insur-|

ance Co’s,.ete. . .| 8,914). 8,032

Subsidies to Prov-, .

foes iio. a. At 829, 362| Ais 768, 956 Public Works.....! 159,462} 191,866) 351,328 Miscellanemus.....| 18,229! 91,537; 109,866

Indian Grants and!

Manitoba Surv’s.| 131,513! 108,639) 212,549 Mounted Police. ..| 333,583! 35,935! 369,518 Soundary Surveys.| 121,741] 12,364] 134,105

Custom & Excise..! 142,457! 57,441} 199,898 Weights and Meas-| )

Ne ee | 69,969! 29,816) 99,785 Public Works in-| ~4

cluding Railways! 633,388]"...... 548,312 Post Office........| 452,995} 101,966) 554,961 Minor Revenues. . 3,111 2,778 Increase of 1875 over 1873,........ $2, 960, 336 Increase of 1876 over 1875......... 717,062 increase of 1876 over 1873......... 3,677,398

(To be Continued.)

SSS EEE . . ; . o Citizens’ Skating Rink Go, FHNHE Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the Citizens’ Skating Rink Company Ywill be held in the RINK on Wednesday, May Sth, at $ o'clock, p.m. By order,

J. R. BRECKEN, Sec’y. Ch’town, April 24, 1878—wed & sat till d

CHALLENGE.

320: en G in the Summerside Press that cer- \-) tain gentlemen of that town claim to be the CHAMPION SINGERS, I now hereby cHAL- LENGE ANY PERSON in the Province, ineluding Moncton, to sing, in the vernacular, ‘* Ai faibirin iherin uidirin O” in English, anc “Cabar Feidh” in the vernacular. Compe- tent and mutual judges to be appointed.

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