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The Provincial Budget. Hon. W. W. Sullivan's Speech.

A GOOD PROSPECT.

Mr. SpeakeER in the Chair,

The first order of the day for the House n Committee of Supply having being read, —

Hon. Mr. Suttran, Leader of the Goy- ernment, moved that the House do now go into the order of the day, and said: Mr. Speaker, before the House goes into Com- mittee of Supply, I desire to offer a few observations on the present financial state of the Province. On the 27th March, last, I moved a resolution to the effect that the House would, on the next day, go intoa committee friend, t thought i tion fairly ances of the Province on such brief notice ; , for, it will be remembered, the public’ accounts had been tabled but a very short time before the motion was made. The hon. member thought the Opposition were entitled to at least a week for the purpose of making themselves sufficiently acquaint- ed with the various items of the revenue and expenditure tor the past year ; and he Was supported in his statement by the hon.

er of the Opposition. Since then, three weeks have elapsed, so that hon. members of both sides of the House have how no reason to complain that they have not had a fair opportunity to consider fully the accounts placed before them. Besides this, the hon. Leader of the Opposition and his lieutenants have propounded on the order book a series of questions, asking for a considerable mass of information respect- ing almost every department of the public service; and the Government have taken every pain and availed themselves of every opportunity to supply, and to lay before the House, everything that has been asked for. Whatever charges hon. members of the Opposition may make against the Gov- ernment, I do not think that, on this oetasion, this session, they will chargé the Gévernment with any attempt or desire to withhold from the House the fullest, infor- mii i with regard-te-{the- mi { of public affairs. In order that they might have no doubts in this respect, I stated, that if there was any other information be- yond what they had already received, it would be submitted as soon as it could be prepared, if asked for. But no additional request has since been made ; on the con- trary, the hon. Leader of the Opposition has expressed his satisfaction with the in- formation placed by the Government before the House. The House has now before it the report of the Provincial Auditor on the Public Accounts, the report of the Superin- tendent of Education on the Schools of the Province, the report on the Hospital for thg Insane, the report on Public Works, the report of the Commissioner of Public Lands, the report on Exhibitions, etc., etc. Hon. members have, therefore, be- fore them the fullest information respecting every branch of the public service, and have had three long weeks in which to digest the statements regarding public affairs during the past year, Such being the case, on going into a Committee of the whole, to consider a Supply, every hon. gentleman has a right, and I havea right, to make some comments and statements to the House with respect to the position in which the Province now stands financially. Hon. members will remember that last session when the budget Speech was delivered before the House, it was stated by me that if we received the amounts expected, as revenue, during the year, and if our expenditure during the year would not exceed the amount then estimated, we would probably have a small surplus of about a thousard dollars. Well. as hon. members are aware, these were only estimates and did not come out as we expected. In fact, estimates hardly ever turn out as anticipated. But on looking over the records, now, and comparing those estimates with the actual revenue and expenditure, I think there is no reasen for the Government to be ashamed of them, Hon. members of this House are aware that the Accounts of this Province are made up to the 3lst December in each year. In fact, those Accounts are made up to the last moment of that month. The Accounts in the banks in which the Government do business are also made up to the elose of the last day of each month. By reference to the reporton the Public Accounts it will ke seen that on the 3lst December, 1887, there appears to be an indebtedness of the Government at the banks, by over- draft, of upwards of $188,000. There appeared to be that indebtedness on the face of the Accounts. Hor. members will recollect that thisamount exceeds that of the previous year by upwards of $40,000 ; and our opponents say that the indebted- ness of the Province has been increased to that extent. I say, Mr, Speaker, that on the 3lst December last we had an apparent indebtedness of upwards of $188,000. At that date all, or nearly all, the Accounts of the year were paid off. Some few small amounts, a very few, were necessarily carried forward to the year 1888. Every hon- member who does business knows how difficult it is to get his creditors to furnish

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. having to advise the Public, may speak free.”— Evxirives.

that extent. Hon. gentlemen on the other side of the House have asked the Government to lay on the table of the House a state- ment showing our financial position on the 3ist March last. In their desire to ‘entrap the Government, and to show that lits indebtedness at the banks was increas- ‘ing, they asked for that return. Well, it ‘was duly furnished, and shows clearly that the balance against the Province at that |date was reduced to the sum of $159,000. | This shows a reduction of $49,000 since the ,close of the past year. Now, the Opposi- ition declare that no reliance can be placed ‘in the estimates made by the Government, | but that the fullest reliance may be placed ‘in their own. Noyr, let us see in what | respect the Governimenc Estimates for 1887 failed to be fulfilled. Let us see whether the Government, or the country or the Op- position is to blame for this. The estimate ,of expenditure for 1887 was $265,481.22, jand the actual expenditure $287,700.17, ‘Showing a difference of $22,000. Let us inguire as to the cause for that difference.

the whole on supply ; but my|;Hon. members are aware that when the n. member for Strathalbyn, |estimates for last year were submitted to

hardly treating the Opposi-|the House, there was before this branch of sk them to consider the fin-|the Legislature a bill to amend the Educa-

tion Act, under the provisions of which, had it become law, the expenditure on education would have been reduced to the extent of about $10,000 per year, witheut diminishing the efliciency of the present school system of the Province. I must. say that I believe that, instead of impairing the etliciency of the schools, it would have in- creased it very much by causing the people to take a deeper interest in the working of those schools. When people have to put their hands into their pockets and contri- bute a postion of the expense of working our schoo! saystem, they are more particular in guardiug their own interests and in sce- ing that they receive corresponding advan- tages. In itivoducing that amendment, therefore, tae Government were forward- ing the interests of education in this Pro- vince, whilst, at the same time, reducing the annual expenditure thereon to the ex- tent of about $10,000 per year, vr $100,000 in ten years. While saving that large sum of money to the Province, we would have increased the efticiency of our educational system ten-fold. As matters now stand, education costs our people nothing in country districts, while the peo- ple of Charlottetown are heavily taxed. Last year, my own personal taxes in Char- lottetown amounted to alout $200, In the

‘are taxed for education through the Corporation, but in country places the people have merely to pay the ordinary running expense of the maintenance of their schools. Owing to the fact that the Legislative Council refused to agree to the proposed amendment of the Schools Act,

we could not make the _ proposed saving in the expenditure for edu-

cation; consequently the estimate for this year will exceed that of last year by $8,450, And for 1887, there was an over-expenditure to that extent above what was at first anticipated. In the Public Works Department, as hon. members are awaré, a change has taken place. The gentleman who formerly had the man- agement of that department was, by the foulest and most discreditable means, de- prived of his position. The hon. gentle- man who succeded him, found that certain undertakings, of which he had no know- ledge at the time the estimates for last year were made, hac to be carried out. The result was that there was an over- expenditure in that department on the highways of about $5,300. That this was an over-expenditure cannot be denied; but it was necessary to make it in the public interests. There was, also, a large expen- diture on packets, public buildings and other items which amounted to over $7,000. So that the total over-expenditure in ail these departments of the public service amounted to $22,500. This accounts for nearly half the difference between the esti- mates and the indebtedness, which appears in the Public Accounts. There was also a falling off in the receipts for the year 1887. These did not turn out to be as large as was anticipated by the Government. We expected to have received during the year a largersum from the Domimion Govern- ment by $10,000. Instead of receiving the

$10,000; the remaining portion of the amount due us we received on the first of January following. We have, however, the full benefit of that money this year, and it has assisted in reducing our indebtedness. We expected, also, to have received from the Dominion Government the amount due this Prevince on account of Pensions paid by us since Confederation. We made up a statement of our claim, and recived a pro- mise that it would be paid. The sum due us is about $12,000. We have been pay- ing pensions ever since 1873, which the Dominion Government should have paid. The pensions were paid to the late Hon. George Coles, the widow of the late Hon. Edward Whelan, and the late Sir Robert |Hodgson. In the other Provinces all such amounts were paid by the Dominion Gov- ernment immediately on their entering Confederation. Our claim was equally strong, and the Dominion Gcvernment con- cluded to pay it, but by some misadventure it was not placed in their estimates tor 1557, and they could not do so. I find that I am

this money would be expected during the year. Well, we were desirous of receiving it, but it did not come. the money, how- ever, is due us and will be received, and will go to reduce what our opponents call

small bills before the close of the year. The Government were anxious that all the indebtedness of the Province should appear in the Auditor’s report for the past year, but, for the reasons given, some small amounts were carried forward. Although there appeared to be an indebtednes at the

$188,000, on the day after, viz., the ist day of January, 1888, we were entitled to

banks on the 31st December, 1887, of;

our *‘ indebtedness.” The non receipt of ‘it, last year, caused us to fall short of the sum expected, to that extent, in addition to the $10,000 of subsidy which was not re- ceived until the first of January ¢last. We expected the Land{offiee to have yielded us $3,062 more than we received from that source. The hon. member for West River complained to this House during the pre- ‘sont session, in the course of his remarks

additional subsidy of $20,000, we received}

reported last session as having stated that |

receive from the Dominion Government our /on the Draft Address, that last year was an half year’s subsidy, viz., $96,768, so that ‘exceptionally bad one for our farmers, and

the apparent indebtedness was reduced to that there was an extraordinary depression

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in the price of farm produce. Well there was not an ‘*extraordinary depression,” although there was a very considerable de- pression in the price of farm prodace. Owing to that, the receipts at the Land Office fell short of the amount expected by about $3,062. Taking this with the other items we finda total decrease of receipts from the sum estimated of $24,382. By adding this amount to the over-expendi- ture, which was unavoidable, we find how the increase of the indebtedness at the Banks for the past year was incurred. The over-expenditure was $22,453, and the de- crease in receipts $24,582, making a total of $46,835. It was owing to these facts and circumstances that the apparent in- crease in our indebtedness for the past year was incurred. I have already stated that the total amount due the Banks on the 3lst March last was about $139,000 or $3,000 less than the balance due them on 3lst December. 1886. Now, Mr. Speaker, we approach the more important question of the estimates for the present year; for, whatever explanation we may make about the past, we can makes matters neither better ner worse than they are. The past is dead and gone forever. Let us consider the present and the future. As. hon. members are already aware, the estimated expenditure for the present year is $255,242.22. Now, this is a smaller sum than that of the estimates for last year by $12,239, and I dare say hon. members were surprised to find such to be the case. I was a member of the House in 1873, when the Terms of Con- federation were agreed upon, and when hon. members on both sides of the House made estimates of what they thought would be sufficient to maintain the Public Service of the Province under the union, and I find that among the highest estimate made on that occasion was $257 ,000. The estimate of the hon. member of Strathalbyn was far below thatsum. An estimate made by an hon. gentleman who is not now iu this Legislature, but who has filled, not without credit of a certain kind, the position of member of the Dominion Cabinet and Governor of the Northwest Territory, was very much lower than these amounts, viz., $205,038.85 per annum. It will be seen that this estimate was very much lower than that for the present year, which is, 253,242.22. The average esti- mate of hon. gentlemen who compose the present Opposition in 1873, of the expendi- ture under Confederation, was about $205,- 000 peraunum. I do not attach any blame whatever to any hon. gentleman who made estimates on that occasion, but will show reasons why those estimates have been ex- ceeded. (To he continued, )

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