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Orrawa, Feb. 27. | PUBLIC ACCOUNTS ANALYZED.
However much the Grits dislike Mr. Dalton McCarthy, they cannot deny to his great tal- ents the admiration they command. When he rose, yesterday afternoon, for the first time this session, to address the House, he was greeted by cheers from Ministerial as well as Upposition benches. He commenced by ex- pressing the diffidence he felt in speaking after the House had listened to the able speech of the Finance Minister and to the still abler | speech of Dr. Tupper. Then he read, from | resolutions passed at a great Grit Convention held in Toronto, declarations that economy in the public service and reduction of the public debt were the ‘‘strong planks” in the platform of the Grit Party. And then he showed, from the public accounts, that the Grits had, in years the most disastrous ever experienced by Canada, been more lavish of the public funds than Liberal Conservatives had been in years the most prosperous—that while deficit fol- iowed deficit, the McKenzie Administration continued to be more extravagant than the McDonald Administration ever were, while heaping surplus upon surplus, under a low tariff and with an abounding revenue.
STARVING THE MILITIA.
While starving the Militia Service, the Grits yet contrived to expend THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS for the purpose of teaching thirty-eight military cadets at Kingston. This is a fair specimen of Grit ‘‘economy.” A few boys are being drilled at Kingston—money is being poured into Kingston—in order to en. sure the defeat of Sir John McDonald by
Kingston--while the amount expended upon the militiamen of the Dominion —
is ‘‘cut down” $400,000 a year! Mr. McCarthy declared the expenditure of $300,000 upon the Military Academy ‘‘wholly unjustifiable un- der the circumstances;” and there will, I think, be found few outside of Kingston who disagree with him on that point. The idea of ‘tteaching”’ and ‘‘fostering’ a few boys—the sons of wealthy men-—until they become “Colonels” and ‘‘Major Generals,” while the rank and file of our militia are neglected and unjustly treated is surely ‘‘Protection’”—or as the Patriot would term it ‘‘robbery of the many to benefit the few —-an the noxious form that can possibly be imagined ! POST ENGAGEMENTS.
After critically analysing the public ac- counts Mr. McCarthy proceeded to show how unjust it was to saddle Liberal Conservatives with all the blame of having undertaken the expensive Public Works which have entailed so great an expenditure, that the Grits at- tribute all their financial trouble to the ‘‘en- gagements entered into by Sir John.” By quotations from Grit ‘‘platforms of which there appears te be no lack—he showed that the enlargement of the Lachine and Welland Canals was urged upon the Government by Grits themselves. As to the Pacific Railway, he showed from the great Grit organ—the Tor- onto Globe—that the Government would have been recreant to their duty had they ‘‘delayed one hour the commencement of that great work.”
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INTEREST AND DEBT.
Then Mr. McCarthy turned his attention to the boast of the Financial Minister that he had succeeded in reducing the rate of interest on the Public Debt. Mr. McCarthy showed, from the Financial Minister’s own statement; that while the present Government had re- duced the rate of interest, the late Govern- ment had done so toa much larger extent. He thought neither Government could justly lay claim to much credit on that account ; be- cause the consolidation of the Dominion had necessarily increased its credit; and because the ruling rates of interest have fallen. But if the Fiuancial Minister was entitled to praise for reducing the rate of interest, his predeces- sors were also entitled to praise. Besides, Mr. Cartwright had displayed the silver side of the shield; and traded upon the good management of the Liberal-Conservative Gov- ernment.
ODIOUS COMPARISONS.
Mr. McCarthy inistituted an amusing com- parison between Mr. Cartwright’s ‘‘ prophe- cies” and the actual results. He quoted his estimates andthe Public Acconnts ; and he
A PROTECTIONIST SUPPORTER OF TRADE GOVERNMENT.
Mr. Patterson—of South Brant—a worldy man of few ideas, was put up by the Govern- ment to answer Mr. McCarthy. Mr. Patter.
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| son’s speech is remarkable only because, ns | @ supporter of the Government and a thorou | Grit, he proclaimed himself a “ Protectionist “
-who thinks the Government have gone far enough in the direction of Protection. There are, | find, many Grits in Parliament who do not scruple to avow themselves ‘Protection: ists,” and who will not go back to their con. stituents on the square issne laid down by Mr. Cartwright.
wer <. -—-s. Ottawa, Feb. 28. ROUTE OF PACIFIC RAILWAY,
This subject was discussed yesterday. Mr. Kirkpatrick said the verdict of the people of Manitoba mnpeeting the location of the Pacific Railway north of Lake Manitoba—is ‘‘one of universal condemnation.” He mentioned the omimous name of ‘‘*McPherson’”—ominous for the Government—as that of aman who had declared to him that the ‘“muskegs” and ‘‘marshes” over which the Government propose to build the railway are so ‘‘boggy” that a aq may, by the force of a man’s arm alone,
driven down to the depth of eightcen or twenty feet. These marshes extend hundreds of miles. The engineers aud the Government have been deceived. They never were over the ground in summer. Their explorations and surveys were always made in winter, when the ground is frozen. A telegraph line has been erected along the proposed route; but it never ticked last summer, simply because the eeloaroy™ poles stuck up in a_ bog have fallen down. He said that either the engineers or the Government have blundered so - giously that either, or both, should “~ missed. With this conclusion Mr. Ryan (of
Margurette) evidently agreed. He attributed the blunder in great measure to aspeech of the ‘** Honorable the Prime Minister,” delivered in 1375, in which statements were made which are untrue. While disclaiming motives drawn from local considerations, both Mr. Kirkpatrick and Mr. Ryan maintained that the line of rail- way should be south, not north, of Lake Mani- toba, through cultivated fields—‘‘the garden of the northwest ’’—not over barren wastes and marshes. ‘The Premier disclaimed any desire to misplace the railway; and the lest route had not been selected, another may yet, he said, be chosen. His speeches and his acts respecting the railway had invariably been based upon the reports of competent engineers, specialty detailed for the purpose of exploring the country and locating the line upon the shortest route possible, with- out respect to any local consideration what- ever. The name of Mr. Granville C. Cunning- ham was brought up during this uniliii esting discussion of an important subject.
THE BALL LAST NIGHT.
After a dull afternoon session, the House adjourned, so that members might attend the Governor General’s Ball. This was, | am in- formed, one of the grandest of the grand enter- tainments given by His Excellency.
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Who is Responsible ? Tur Toronto Mail furnishes the following
clear and forcible exposition :—-
In 1867 the gross debt of the Dominion was $93,000,000; on the 30th June{ 1873, it was 129 700,000; to-day it is $174,700,000. De- ducting the assets, the debt in 1876 was $75, 700,000 ; in 1873, $99,800,000, and to-day it is $133,200,000. Thatis to say the debt in- errased $24,000,000 in six years of the Mac- donald Administrotion, or $4,000,000 a year : while in the past four years it has increased $33,000,000, or over $8,000,000 a year. It was under the Macdonald Government that all the heavy exceptional expenditures occurred, i. ¢., for the repelling of the Eenian raids, the purchase of the North-West, and the admission of British Columbia and Prince Ed- ward Island intothe Union.
Now, as to current expenditure. Witha bounding revenue and a yearly surplus, the
| Macdonald Government entered liberally upon
the work of developing the country, but their highest estimated expenditure, that of 1873-4, never exceeded $22,500,000. On the other hand the expenditure under Reform rule has run as follows :
thereby showed that whenever Mr. Cart- wright predicted a deficit, there followed ay surplus ; and whenever he predicted a surplus, it invariably happened that there was a de- ficit. He showed, too, that Mr. Cartwright erred to the extent of hundreds of thousands of dollars in his estimates of revenue and ex- penditure. FISCAL POLICY.
Then he proceeded to show that Mr. Cart. wright’s fiscal policy tended to transfer the trade of Canada to the United States. For himself. he was, in the abstract, a Free Trader. He believed in Reciprocal Free Trade. But, in view of the unfair and vicious system ad- opted by the United States, it is, he said, un necessary -~ if Canadian manufactures are to be maintained, and reci- procal Free Trade required, that Canada should adopt remedial measures. He quoted from the writings of Professor Cairns—-an extra
1873-4 $23,316,000 1874-5 23,713,000 1865-4 24,488,000 1876.7 23,587,000
The excess of their expenditure in four years ovey the highest estimated expenditure of the McDonald Government has one upward of $5,000,000. These figures prove beyond any cavil that the promise of the Reform party to cut down the eopensiire bas not, to put it mildly, been fulfilled. They made that prom- ise in the days when the revenue ran high and yearly surpluses were the rule, and all the mere reason existed for carrying it out when the hard times came in and the revenue began to decline. But the Globe of yesterday vir- tually says it was found impossible to cut down the expenditure. ‘Then it must have exagger- ated and and distorted borne false witness every day throughout the six years of the Tory regime in its denunciations of Tory ex-
Free Trader of great ability—in support of his views.
MR. MACCARTHY CLOSED, by administering to Mr. Cartwright a scathing rebuke, for daring to call a man of the emi- nance of Sir John McDonald a ‘ thief,” a ‘‘Jiar,” a ‘‘ briber,” and an *‘embezzler,” and fearing to take measures which—as a Minister of the Crown it was his duty to take-—to have
‘“embezzler” brought to justice. He pointed out that if—as Cartwright charged—sSir John had bribed members of the House of Commons, Cartwright himself, was one of those who ac-
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the ‘‘ thief,” ‘‘the liar,” or the ‘‘ briber,” and | gran
pane and the economy pledges of its ds must have been equally dishonest. But general decrease of expenditure were impossible, what is there to justify the enormous increase that has taken place in every branch of the public service at a period of falling revenues and declining trade? In 1873 it cost $568,000 to collect $13,053,000 of Customs revenue, while now it takes $721,000 to collect $12,556,000. In 1873, 37,000 immi- ts were secured from Europe at an outlay of $287,000, while last year it took $354,000 to secure 7,700. In 1873 the cost of the Ottawa Departments was $750,000 ; now it is $812,- 000. In 1873, Pensions and Superannuations
cepted the bribe, The difference between a|
cost $102,000 ; now they|linvolve a charge of
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