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“THE DA LY ES JULY 4 H. : - - - o | , - ——— ees : : : caeaapereaatate a cee tanlecnacct an en , 7 a ih a Tf si A romi al new districts. u | [ ' me amendments were made to promised severe ee a oe \ aie tonne ir ri icustom;| perhaps he was going oO ¢ LB .t, H ithese laws, as was their right and custom; i ae maaaer san | on-|some © * a at oneal in ‘ould: but neglected to say re. ‘ont te th estimates for the Hospital tor the le] jinto committee of supply, sac oe ers were appointed not to m ike laws, oat “ eo ag hc g rp wt Ta ee eae eae pegs ound 1 ‘to consolidate those already made. s ed + was also to be made in the matter of | proposed to expend during the year, 4 | alterations that were made by the | asvi = ee oe — ~* | en ra which it was intendes ‘. | House, however, were not of very wok tad , oa Le Hoe they were going to | raise a revenue to meet these expendi | importance. When the late yov- | and bridges, etc. _How they were olng | | tures He would not, however, a8 Was) ee vere in power shag eons tho [elies’ oraceniel )

Fripay, July © \FPTERNOON SESSION.

House in committee on the City Bill dis-

, yr. cussed the amendment proposed by Dr Jenkins ; ;

Mr. Warburton moved in amen men

have leave to withdraw his and the amend

that the mover rit] motion. ‘This motion was carried,

bill repor.ed agreed to without ment.

THE PROPOSED LOAN.

The Leader of the Opposition — resumed te on the resolution providing for debentures to the amount of He contended that the loan was

ithe deba the issue of $185,000,

desired by the Government for the purpose |

of enabling them to “‘tide over” for a year ortwo, and that the account submitted by the Leader of the Goverament was trumped up te afford an excuse for their action

He showed that they had unduly swelled

the amount of the indebtedness of the

‘customary with the leaders of the late ad- ‘ministration when delivering the Budget |Speech, go beck tor years and compare | the work their administration had done with lthe work of the preceeding administration. | He believed in facing the conditions and | of the present, and legis.ating to |meet these cunditions. But he would, | however, go back a little way and point to \some of the expenditures of the late ad- minissration to which he took objection. The first of the items which went to swell | up the debt with which he would deal was the coasolidation of the statutes. | He said that the amount 80 expended was The total sum paid as $10,072.49, and $1500 from

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imuch too great lfor the work to date w there wa: yot another claim of th ©awyer: who did the work. The whole work should have been laid on the ‘able, |printed and all, for $5,090. Then there iwas the Land Office investigation, which } cost the country some $5,305.67. He did | not consider this a justifiable expenditure.

Province in order that they might have an! He objected also to the payment of $200 to

excuse fer borrowing 4 large sum

charging contracts unfinished as liabilities, ths was counted against thelateGovernment,and they had not been given credit for the sub sidy for the helf year. If the Sullivan Gov- | ernment adopted the same course it might | easily have found an excuse for b rowing | % large amount of money. it could have | been shown by experts that the Province | was then in debt to the extent of $100,003 if a public work such as a bridge across the Hillsborough were to be brilt—any perma nent work —it might be expedient to issue) debentures. But it is nct right or expedient! to do so for ordinary expenditures. What reat public work have the Government in contemplation / It is propesed to repair the Provincial Building at a cost $1.000

« mere ordinary repair! There is, too, the coustruction of a sewer—is that one of the works for which they are going to borrow the large ameunt over and above the actual indebtedness of the Province’ Last year) we paid as interest only $2,600; but under the scheme of the Government $9,250 a year will be required as interest ! This is an easy system of financiering. Lt will, for a time, afford the Government plenty of money, and the demand for public works costing money will be equally great. The end must be disastrous. It is admitted that the Dominion Government owe us large sums of money. Why i: J wt pressure brought tojbear upon the Do- minion Government Have the Govern- ment even sent a minister of council to (ciuws pressing for the debts due the Pro- vince? According to their own erroneous s'atement the debt of the Province is only $171,000. Yet they ask leave to borrow $185,000. They want to borrow money to | supplement their revenue without resort to | direct taxation. It

is an easy thing to | incur a debt on mortgage ; but it is another thing to pay it off. This proposed issue of debentures is the introduction of the thin edge of the wedge by which a very large public debt will be incurred to weigh heavily upon the country for all time to come,

Hon. Mr. Farquharson reviewed the pub- lic wccounts and contended that it was necessary to issue debentures. He con- demned the withdrawal of capital from Oxtawa and iavored a sinking fund. To poy off the loan in twenty five years $6,- 212 42 a year would have to be invested and besides this th interest will hive te be paid. But $1211 mvested asa sinking fund would pay off the whole amount in fifty years; and $14948 invested for a hundred years would pay off the whole amount of $185,000. This is a serious

refused to pry

a law clerk last year when one was net ap-

cost of education for half the year 1591 | Gog to Mr. Best, the analyst, for his ser-

pie in paying D-. M:Neill, of Stanley, €30 on account of bis smallpox claim, a which the Sullivan administration He next referred to the time Messrs. McLeod and Ferguson went

caith

t . : at . to Ortawa, and to their having paid Mr.

W. ©. DesBrisay $20 for doing some work for them while there, He objected also to the employing of extra clerks in the Land Office,and to paying the travelling expenses of any of thein who went to the country on business for the Department.* He also ob- jected to the employing of extra clerks in the Edueation Office, when the regular staff mivht easily do the work. The estt- mated revenue forthe year he placed as follows :—

friends of the farmers. Whea they came in they found that the buildings on the Stock Farm were a disgrace, and they and bought improved Leader of the Gov- of the stock on the sl.ort- What will

erected new buildings herds of cattle. The | ernment speaks sneeringly the Stock Farm, and says that horns are not shorthorns at all. the farmers of the province think of this statement It is not cocrect. Prot Shaw, of Guelph, Ont., who is & much bet- ter judge of stock than the Leader of the Government, highly commended the stock on the Stock Farm. Have not Stock Fara cattle taken prizes at St. John, t Halifax, and every other place where they have Everyone knows that the thereughbred stock is excellent. He did not, however, think the farmers of the country would place a very high estimate upon the ability of the premier as 4 judge of thoroughbreds tut the Government was evidently determined to let the Stock Farm go down—to sell the atock on Market Sqnare and close up the farin. Then the premier denounces the expenses for the

been shown /

| pointed by the Honse, and to the paying of Ss Office cotanntadbins as un- : sce tial iy | BOCOTEATY, after the Patriot and other vices" at the preliminary He also | $Tit Newspapers demanding it in order to the WeeksSutherland casa. | ie with tix the responsibility fur the defalcations charged the lite administration : where it belonged and vindicate the char- synandering the money a acter of those who are innocent. He

thought the press was right in demanding an imvestigation—that such a proceeding was due to the employes in the oflice whom the Patriot said were open to suspicion. The investigation was very necessarry. It placed the responsibility fur the defalca- tions where it belonged, upon theshoulders offne man. The Comm ssione:s were indepen- dent men and did their work in an impartial manner. He justified the payment of $200 to Mr. Morson for his serviess as law clerk last year, also the payment of $300 to Mr. Best, the analyst, claiming that his pre- sence here at the prelimimary hearing was absolutely necessary. In the matter of the claim of Dr. McNeill, he thought his ad- ministration had pursued the proper course

Subsidy......----- aoe nee’ ©x9372 ~~ 1 in paying that gentleman $300 and obtain- Eaereqne by Tepaiatioe -~< +++ °: >: go 00 00 | ‘4g 4 receipt in full. The Doctor had done Public Lands..... ayesc eg tS “Tt oe 1.100 go | his work well, and it was right that he he ea meer te" te ont al 2.650 00| should be paid. Besides, the amount ;aid cae ee 6.000 00 | was not the full sum claimed by him from Couoty Neca es 2000 00} the Sulhvan administration. He then Hospital for Insane.........---- 1,500 00] justified the paying of $20 to Mr. Des- Prince of Wales College ......... 50 00} Brisay for dving some clerical work DRS a. acoade css 100 00} for himself and Mr. Ferguson while they Pediars’ Licenses. ..........+5- 1,000 00} were at Uttawa pressing the Island’s claims, Vendors’ Licenses. .........+- 50 001 also the employing of an extra clerk in the Kerries—Rocky Point ant South. Lind Office at a time when there was a on-state pomees 2 oe = a rush of business, and the paying of the “fa wii piu me Ne GONE 300 09 | expenses of the clerk in that office who

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The estimated expenditure was $270,- 995 00. He then touched upon some of the items in the estimates for the year. The item for education was less than last year. The salary of the superintendent was set down at $1200, but it was intended to reduce it to $1000. It was also the in- tention to reduce the salary of the clerk. The full salary of the Provincial Auditor would not have to be paid this year. The late auditor had resigned, aud the work of the office was now being performed by the Assistant Provincial Secretary, whe, of course, would have to be paid something extra for doing the werk. He said he eb- jected to paying Senator Howlan $500 ex- penses tu London in connection with the tunnel matter, when they told the people they were on'y paying $409. The runnel scheme had his support, but be ubjected to the way in which this money was paid. He objected also tu the late Guvernment pur-

«nestion—one to be seriously considered. Mr. Shaw contended that many of the expendituresof last year were extraordinary and such as cou'd not be forseen. He re- viewed some of the items, the amount paid for bridges, the amount expended upon

the Sutherland-Weeks case, the consolida- tion of the statues, the increase in the cost that last He de- manded a return showing the instructions viven Messrs, Chalmers and Davison—the Commissioners—to examine

of education, etce., and contended under normal conditions the deficit of year would be inconsiderable.

(; >vernment

over. The Debenture Bill session the Government could not go on.

It this year fur cattle for the Stock Farm.

agement of that Farin. were a disgrace.

Shorthorns ai all. competent person

chasing $162 worth of stationery from a firm in Toronte and only paying for half of it—asking the firm to let the balance stand was 30 necessary that if it were not passed this

was the only way of getting a re- venue. There was nothing in the estimates

He proposed to mike a change in the man- The cattle on it The Shorthorns were not He proposed to get a t» take Prof. Shattle-

went to the country on collecting tours at certain times in the year. He thought the references of the Premier to these matters was small and personal. This year there was nothing in the estimates for stock for the Stock Farm. Last year the Govern- ment expended $734 of the sum put in the estimates forthat purpose. Mr. Peters ssid that Prof. Shuttleworth did not give sati fa tion in some respecis$ Bur he (Mr. M.) had Dr. Anderson’s word for it that he bad given satisfaction in every re- spect. He thought that if the present Government got as goed a man they would do well. He said the late Government did not deceive the people in the matter of the salary of Prof. Shuttleworth. The Goy- ernment were led to believe by the gentle- oan in Montreal throagh whom Prof. *hutleworts was engaged, that the salary would be $800, but when Mr. Shuttleworth arrived here he said he would nut stay for that sum, and rather than lose his valuable services the Government agreed to pay him $1000. Then there was the sum of $500 paid Senator Howlan to defray his expenses to London in connection with the tunnel survey and estimates. ‘The leader of the Government objected to this expenditure on the ground that it was $100 in excess of che sum estimated, and at the same time took occasiou to say that he was not oj - posed to the tunnel scheme. The Liberal party as a whole, however, has always baen opposed to the tunnel, and the Liberal papers both here and in Summerside con- demned the sending of Sevator Howlan to London. Senator Howlanfestimated}the ex- perses of the trip to Londonfat $400, and tl e

; werth’s place and to manage the Stock . the public accounts, and concrasted the con- ine . Mae can ne kk a ard of trade pessed a resolu'ioi reco ue duct of the Government in withholding | * “*y* . y ' mending that the G : i those instructions with that of the late|P=dence with two or three persons in On- ne 8 Thi h ieee pay him r tario in reference to the matter. He said | 4° Sum. is the Government agreed to

Government in respect to the Land Office He showed the unfairness

Commissioners. and dishonesty of theGovernment in charg

ing the McLeod Administration with those expenditures within the present year and not giving them credit for the revenues received ; and desired to know whether the Government proposed to apply the $12,000 which—according to their own statement and adimission—they were going to borrow over and above the total amount of the in-

debtedness of the Province to the construc tion of a railway through Belfast.

saddled with a permanent encumberance.

Mr. H. C. McDonald moved the adjourn-

He con- tended that the Government ought not to incur a debeature debt for the purposes of ordinary expediture, and that before issuing debentures they should go to the country und ask the people whether or not they were willing that the Province should be

shrink from voting the sum.

they were paying him $1,000.

ther explanation when into committee.

MR M’LEOD'S REPLY.

In his case History was against

make comparisons.

never do. him.

that if an expenditure of $2,000 or $3,000 was necessary to make the farm a benefit to the country, the Government would not He did not approve of the late Government telling the people that they were getting Prof. Shut- tleworth’s services for $800 a year when He then briefly referred to one or two other itews in the estimates, and promised to give fur- the House went

The leader of the Opposition replied. In opening, he said he was not surprised at the leader of the Government not caring to it would

With characteristic modesty, the leader of the Government overestimated the deot of

do. But after the passing of the resoluticn Senator Howlan informed the Government that upon making a second and more care- fulestimate he found that the expenses would total up at least $500. The govern- ment acreed to give him that sum, believ- ing tat it would be recouped trom Ottawa, Senator Howlan did good work. The tunnel was now within the range of practical politics. The amount paid Sen- ator Howlan for his expenses to London woud likely be refunded by the Dominion Government. He then dealt with the Land Office Discount Bill which he claimed would operate against the poor man and in favor of the large proprietors—-the friends of the present Government. He asked the Government why they did not extend the time of discount over four or five years so that poor persons might be able to take ad- vantage of it. The Leader estimates that

ae vf the debate and the House took | the Province last year and the previous | the revenue realized by increase of popula. Pas. oo year by several thousands of dollars, and| tion will be $5,000, notwithstanding the al pan een? eae Dennen followed this up by counting in the cust of | fact that some members of the Govelnhaan ? . ntion oO S : ¢ : . . i Soe 66 wp ‘ . the Government to complete the opening fn enc pemiting the seemean! Ives | their ‘blue ruin speeches had said that

of the road from Southwest Road, Lot 14,

to Mis ouche, Lot 17.

Hon. Mr. McLean replied that the mat-

ter would be investigated.

Mr. Montgomery asked the Commission- er of Public Works if it is the intention of the Government to complete the opening of the aew road from Lot 14 to Northam, between D McIntosh's and A. McDonald's,

this summer.

Hon. Mr, McLean replied that an inves-

t gation would be held.

: Mr. Sullivan asked the Commissioner of Public Works if it isthe intention of the

Government to open the road from St. Peter's Road to Savage Harb or, through

the farms of Michacl Cunningham and Mar-

tin McGillivray, during the present sum- mer, the right of way having been s-cured soine tine ago. Also if it is the intention of the Government to Wharf, Morell.

Mr. McLean replied that both the road receive the favorable

and the wharf would consideration of the Government.

repair Dingwell’s

years at work and have had to revise, col-

Province for

House, throughout the country, or any- where else. the Liberals were in power, they employed three commissioners laws,and although they only had to go back but seven years, their work cost the coun- try only $1009 less than ours. of the Government estimates that the irnting and all should not cost more than $5000; but if he (Mr P ) were doing the work he ventured to say that his little bill alone, would be $5000. The Commission- ers did their work well—as well as the Leader of the Government could do it if he were multiplied by three. The Leader of the Government refers to the fact that last

of last year with the revising of the stat- utes in orderto swell up thecostof thelatter work, The Comm'‘ssioners had been three

lect and arrange the scattered laws of the & period extending back

the expenditure for that purpose in the Why, in Nova Scotia, where

to consolidate the

The Leader

nearly all the people had. left the country, that there were no persons remaining but a few grass widows! He thought that $5,- 000 revenue from this source for six months, $10,000 a year, was tuo large to expect, and felt certain that it would not

to the early histury of the Province. | be realized. He did nct think that the They had done their work well, | speeches of some members of the House and he was prepared to justify} when in Opposition were consistent with

their actions since they had obtained power. With reference to the Stationery bill referred to by the premier, he ex- plained that the firm in Toronto sent double the quantity ordered, and when it arrived the Government declined to take or pay forany more than they asked to have forwarded, The estimates and revenue would never meet. ‘They estimated that as a result of the discount the receipts from the Lind Office would be $60,000; last year there were only $24,000. year educa- tion cost $113,675; this year the amount S in the estimates for that purpose was $108,630. He could not see how the sav- ing was to be made in the face of the fact that the Leader of the Government had

it was quite plain it was not the intentu n make revenue and expenditure meet.

to The estimates for last year amounted to $278,000 ; this year they total up $270,000,

an almost identical sum, 1 twithstanding all the “‘ blue rain” speeches some mem- bers of the present Grit Government have been making. The deficit of last year was largely occasioned by une usual expenditures, such expenditures as were incurred by the consolidation of the statutes, exhibitions, the Governor. Gener- al’s visit, repairs to the steamer Elfin, to wharves and bridges, and to the Normal School. The late Government ought net to be held responsible for these extraordin- ary expenditures. After some remarks in reference to Government House, and the paying of the Governor's rent before he moved into the official residence, and touch- ing upon some other items in the estimates, which he promised to keep a close eye upon as they came up for approval, he resumed his seat. House adjourned.

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