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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1879-02-07, Page 944EB1UARY 7, 18,79. his ij3udenoo. The repro- of tle noble house el Stew - e pay se,90 for so vigorous au a his opinion. deeds is ennouaced of Mr. 1cKenzie, who was probably t perSou in. New Brunswick, the Dominion. He was Me age. sMr. McKenzie in his e R. soldier, aad by his death. 4 the 6nittil band of Waterloo is removed. ey select ball was held at the ent Hemse, Toroute, On. Thurs.. ling by Lietenant-Govenor Id.. *any members of the reincluding the Local Gov - were present, eild Hon, ✓ Mrkenzie, Hon. George 7c. 74 theusend Germans from Lern Stato e have signified to lean Government their inten- ive that country- and settle in ewestif the Goverruneut act towards them. The proposi- een Made known to the Gov_ ;end. I seipeee on runners leas been ty a (eta mau. It consists snaresleigh about four feet ixe wide with tour beles, tied With the feet at a, pretty high ed, aid is eapieble of carrymg s persons comfortably. ' inmeeciaI trae-eller visiting - 1.legra4hed ahead for e horse to meet him. at the statien. irrived to his wonderment he :arse Waiting for him. The ee preprietors are also under - bad eead " horse " in the Ls e Itharse.'" . N., MeKellar, ex-Werdee of ; and es -Reeve of Lobo. has Uted by the electors of Lobo, 1 tapii went ary address and a t and -chain, as a testorninal ern in which, he was held. w sr tangible to retired officers are very rare. ede leis had an interview with 0 of Agriculture in regard ring tot a grant_ of land in :or the Northwest for the of a. colony of his fellow ii. trite Goveruinent will !he request, and is thought here -4-i11 be 10,000 Swedes Lila awl settle in the spring. sev 1 re type of diphtheria, !been -aging in the Gatineau !al- 0 tawa, for some time enes o prevail. to an. edema - LI, rcere partieularly anaoeg ;A, gentleman -who has iust ,:aro, the Desert states,. that leaelis have already been re - 'reverter, a railway superie- an the East ladies, is in Ile is reeking a tour in Can- er tc; inspect the working of . vs. He travelled a distance t.000 miles in reaching Ot- tag by way of the Suez Canal. return via Sawn. Francisca. i7orn Ottawa to Calcutta is , James ...Were 'Wm. Bull, , Murray, heldi the office of es, and Assesswerespectively, nship of Annabel, county of Lt., for nineteen consecutive Latter officer being appointed dy age of twenty-one, and t period they have had the ' of forty-six councillors to Le busitiess of the township. keepers run a great clanger o keep posted up the notices r statute regarding theIoss of . valuaesies. A case came late County Court iu Barrie, tavernkeeper, Mr. Summer- r(lered to pay a, guest $105 ;near13- all of which- would. _ i beeu sa-ved had. he taken Lion of having thee proper '1..ed.over his room doors. ier iii. Nissonri was engaged - [ay v-Feek in threshing the bal.- seasinA's crop, and when the 'tilled to chimer the straw about completed, bat just le which passed over that ut that time caught it, ana .ewed it over the adjoining 'shoat four or five feet in g left of an entire day's Fisher, of Montreal, has Esc - challenge of John Ennis to t any man in America, or n any distance from 100 to ,for $500 or $1,000 a side. -.H. to allow Ennis' expenses be Montreal rink, and stip. 'etanceto be 100 miles, and !,e500 a side. Ennis has iles in 1111. 37m.„ the best , Fi$1ter 10a miles in Mt. i , 1 rday, 25th ult., about half- iolent gale from the north ;the country south and east k. A farmer was drawing • into Mr. J. Kerby's barn, od, when the storm struck and actually tore off one done so quickly that the done and the storm pass - horses had coiho to the' .1 before the man -,and the 141 •:airiv _ onsternation was felt in, in "Montreal on Satur- of. the failure of Mul- swholesale boot and shoe with ,‘"-;*-100,000 liabilities, The banks principally e British North American k of Commerce, did not Avency, but it is under - Arm brought it about eieveral other houses will rwu by this crash. so abundant about I>rince- uhmher of people there-- een sending half a dollar (Meg Yankee in Massa- - prornised for that sum to .()0; pictoral dictionary. eend to his dupes was c-nally sold in book -stores The result of the experi- :s and bad language, round . Lotteries -would have a pat rouage around Prince- porary says: Mr. -Fred. r. Jas. Lewie went out in - and North Norwich dur- ,-eek fd January on a. beg- et' the pretence of bee- - lite, whe had been dead nd:one Edward Allen,, e ist con. of Derehem, oweedge or consent. As ew the way up to heaven, d gOne,and as they feared ze 'Allen, they divided , tht4 affair had began to e Allen desires all those 64; e-• Supplemen Or - ' - [ ref ...eseteete'l/ h 4 ft, .r! 3 Supplement. SPEECHES OF A. M. ROSS, GIBSON, MR. ROSS' SPEECH. Below we give entire, the speech ofillr. A. M. Ross, M. P. P., West Huron, delivered on the 16th inst., during the debate on the address: Mr. ROSS said he would be as brief as possible in the remarks he intended to makeonthe Address. There was only two or three of the subjects therein refer - ed to that he would touch upon. We are congratulated upon the snocessful exhibit made by our Educational Department at the late World's Expositionsai Paris, and on the flattering encomiums passed upon . it by educationalists of other countriee. The people of Ontario justly feel proud at the prominent praise and honor given to le degree de much s. We ystem of struction them,and they are entitled to so of self -gratulation. 'We have m progress in educational matte have adopted and established a thoroughly free, and efficient i in our Common Schools, and our liberali- ty in the cause of higher educatien has', in: late years, been extended with nO-niggard hand. For that progress, and that stand- ard of excellence, he held no individual could claim the credit. That pro -res has been due to the great interest onr people take in the cause of education, I and be- cause they have in their own heeds, to a large • extent, the direct management of their public schools. The more thoroug-h that control is, and the more directly the will, and wishes of the people, are brought to bear upon our echoed system; the more practically efficient will it become, and the more firmly Will the determination to advance' and to occupy the first place 'amongstthose nations distinguished for liberatity and excellence in thit depart- ment, take deep root in our people. It will not do, however, to coerce the people, or endeavor to force them too feet in this direction, or make the systeth too costly or cumbrous. If we do we will raise a spirit of opposition which will retard in- stead of advance the cause of education. The feeling ha.s of late years been growing, that suffieient freedom of action is na given to our local trustees, and that the local taxation for schools --is more burden- some than it need be, with a regard to practidal efficiency. He believ.ed the change that was made two year ago, itt constituting the head of our Educational Department a Minister of the CrOWll di- rectly responsible to the people, and by reason of his position in the House brought immediately in contact ,with the populer will through the peoples repre- seutatives—was concurred in the more cheerfully, that it was thought It would lessen that somewhat arbitrary dictation from the former irresponsible central au- thority,- which was becoming Olin°. to the local authorities. Some modificaion in that direction has*ken plaoe. The former arbitrary provisions in respect to the compulsory emPlOyment of second teachers where there were over fifty chil- dren on the roll, and the somewhat oner- ous regulations as to increased school ac- commodation, have been largely modified by the present Minister, but the public sentiment in the rural parts is that there is room for improvement still. In regard to the settlement of the north- ern and western boundaries of the Pro- vince, the Government were justified in cengratulatingthe House on the.satisfac- tory settlement arrived at. No time had been lost in pushing this inaportant mat- ter to a speedy conclusion, and e conclu- sion had been arrived at which would be satisfactory to the people of this Province. While appropriating to the Sandfield Macdonald Government all—and perhaps mere than all-athe share of the credit that was due to it for the settlement of the fie_e nancial dispute between Ontario and Que- bec, the Opposition had been very chary in their allusions to this boundary ques- tion. They did not seem to join heartily inythe congratulations that a satisfactory settlement had been arrived at so speedily, evidently because their solemerPredictions of failure of last session, had not been ve- rified. They then took strong exception to the manner in which the Government sought to arrive at a settlement by arbit- • ration, as a course perilous to the Pro- vince, and predicted failuee through this course, and extended litigation. Their doleful prophecies had not been fulfilled. The result showed the wisdom of the GO- -remnant in proceeding by arbitration— and not by asserting our claims through the courts, as desired by the Opposition— as we had secured by that means:in an in- expensive and expeditious manner, all that we could reasonably expect, and all -that the other side of the House consider- ed We were entitled to. We hadextend- ed our boundaries westward to the north- west angle of the Lake of the Weeds, with which. the Hon. Wm. McDougall said :be would be perfectly satisfied. It was for- tunate that Hon. gentlemen on that side of the House had not the management of that matter,. or we would have been com- mitted to a tedious and expensive conten- tion before the Privy Council, which' would most likely have left us worse off than we were at present. • We had acduii- ed by this award a territory as large again as eve formerly possessed, a territory rich in minerals, rich, he was told, in agricul- tural land, possessing also the finest for - este of timber now on the American con- tinent—and by the Hudson's Bay, a pros- pect of.openingup a shorter route to the seaboard and European markets than by Qaebec and the St. Lawrence. The coun- try and the Government are incited to be congratulated on the result. He trusted that the measure promised in connection with the Voter's List Act will be in the direction of simplifying and rendering lees expensive the revision of the voter's lists. The municipalities com- plain that the present provisions entail considerable expense Oil the municipality, and he as sure most Hon. gentleman would rgree that it is rather onerous on the represe-ntatives. It is important that the list should be correct, but if any sav- ing can be effected in the expense, it will be a mtive in the right direction. One change was asked, viz.: that the remuner- ation of the Township officials in connec- tion with appeals before the Judges should be left to the municipalities. , (Mr. HARDY) " The Finality'A ct of last session had made that change. Mr. ROSS. He was not awa e that such was ehe case, if so, the Jud es; he thought, had not acted upon it. He was pleased to'eee that the inent proposed te amend the Jury simplify and render it less costly a densome than at present. He tr would be no half mee,sure. In this he did not wish it to be und that he desired to go so far as so abolish trial by jury altogether. lieved it was a veluable and efficie guard, and in many cases aninclisp part of the impartial adminietra justice. , It was a _matter, howev should not be frequently meddle and therefore it was the more ne that when a change does take p should remove all those features wh perience has shownto be objecti -One of the important things to be view'was to guard within rea limits of expense—against the eh packing a jury, in times when some motive .exited—it might be polit religiots—to inflUence thoee charg the selection or ballot. Another i ant thing is to secure as far ae pos that those chosen shall be as well fied as the circumstances will per discharge the iniportant duties of . man. With this view he hoped the selection under the present law w abolished, as there was one of the spots in the present system. He h -a member :of -the second selecting for twenty years, and knew that i useless, expensive, and dangerous beance (Hear Hear !). HE, had. honor, on several occasions, to bri subject of jury reform before- the House. He thought thatthe return he had moved •for some two years ago—and whieh had been presented to the House—hadcrened the eyes -of the members and the overn.- ment to the enormous expense -which our present systerci entailed upon the crntry, and the necessity for a reform. oyern- Act, to d bur- sted it saying retood e, and e be- lt safe- nsible ion of r, that with, essary ace, it ch ex - n able. -ept itt onable nee of strong cal or •d with had port- the ible— 8ho qu ali- was it, to to d jury- tv 0 econd He uld be in t eakest tim d been th.ou beard the was a the ncuin- gent ad the unfo g the \rage trati deal as t "1)0 by t who wit had firs to w for 1871 incr amo crea ly t had Nor 1871 two. tion caus • M. P. P., WEST HURON, AND THOMAS P. P., EAST HURON. discovery., Hon. g ntlemen opposite must have been sadly d ficient in their duty, in not challenging hese when they were submitted in the estimates. The Hon. Commissioner of ublic Works had, in his speech the other ight, clearly shown in how few instance the Opposition had placed on record 1 heir objections to the items submitted, i d how insignificant in amount. The Ho . Senator came before the country profes ing to be a thoroughly impartial critic, ee from partizanship, without any desire to make political capi- tal, but solely with a pure and patriotic anxLety for the welfare of the country, yet he eentured to Bull no man could read hie paMphlet withoutlpoming to the conclu- sion that he was ohe of the strongest, most bitt r, and most uncompromisingparti- sans that had ever' come before the public. The e was no baser character in the whole rou d of humanity than that of a hypo - crit ---(hear, hear)—whether a religious or a political hypOcrite, and such a char- acte deserved the, utmost condemnation, It vas in that cliaracter that the hon. Sen tor came before the country. Nothin that con bias was elec had been established—and at a very trifling expense. The Hein. gentleman does not seem to be aware of their establishment, for he makes the exclamation,"Training of teachers! I fancied our Normal sphoofs were for the education and, trainitag .of teachers!" He does not seem to be aware that these County Model schools were es- tablished as nurseries to ou,r Normal schools, and have admirably answered the purpose for which they were intended. The next item he would draw their at- tention to was under the head " Common and Separate Schools", in which. the larg- est increase in the table existed, viz: $67,- 000. In 1871 the amount distributed was $172,985, and 1877 $240,044. Now what was this increase? but a returning to the people, in the shape of increased grants to their schools of the taxes which had been collected from them. E'Very .additional dollar that the Government gave lessened the burden of their municipal taxation for the support of their schools. Was that a corrupt or extravagant expendi- ture. He believed the people would be had seen 'in Canadian politica not think so, and would prefer seeing an oversy had sh wn such a strong party increase rather than as diminution of ex - as this pamp let and the one which pend-iture in that respect. In "Poor issued prior o the late Dominion Schools" there was an increase of $6,000, ion. It was strange that the non and • in grants to Gra.mrpar and High part san Senator's fits of patriotism, came School also, an increase of $6,000. Did on j .st before our general elections. An anyone condemn these? While we were imp rtial critic shonld not base conclusions opening lip our new territory so exten- on 1 atters of doubt, but on matters of sivelv it was a necessity that we should posi ive knowledge • and yet every page be liberal in our aid to assist those strug- of this"docurnentbriAled with insinuations gling communities, to establish their of rone-doing that the writer' was not schools, and special grants tothese were bold enough to charge openly and broadly. classed under the head of ,`,` Poor Schools." (Oh ers.) When the Senator did not The additional aid to High Schools was knor anything about what he was dealing also a lessening of the taxation of the mu - with, he insinuated. It was claimed that nicipalities, in which these Schools were the figures in the Senator's tables were established. Another item in this table stric ly correct. With a few exceptions was, "Libraries, Maps and Prizes," in the ictua1 figures perhaps were so. His which there was an increase of $25,000 cher e against the Senator was that -he The amounts being in 1871 $34,950 and made an improper use of them, and in 1877 $59,995. This increase showed conclusions he had drawn either theta larger demand had been made of ed utter ignorance of the subject he late years by our rural School corporations ealing with, or a -deliberate attempt ceive. He had not had an opportun thoroughly examining these tables. ad only received a copy of them with - ie last three days'and had not had to go exhaustively into them, but he ht lie would be able to point eut to ouse to -night in a review of One of the utter unreliability of the hon. eman as a financial critic, and the pded nature of the charges of extra - nee be had made against the Adminis- n. He would first refer to the table ng with the educational expenditure, which the Hon. Senator said that ween 1871 and 1877 it was increased e appalling -sum of $200,000," and the e gravamen of the Senator's charge regard to that matter was that there been culpable extravagance. The item he would draw their attention s that of Normal and Model Schools, Yhich the expenditure was given in of $17,788, and in 1877, $39,922, an ase of $22,000. (He would give the nts. in even hundreds.) That in- . i e could be easily acceunted tor. Sure- this heedefor which his Own friends on the e Hon. Senator was aware that we other side of the House are wholly res - He was pleased to see, also, that it was proposed to appropriate a further sum for Drainage works. He was given to under- stand that,there was a larger number of ap- plications for works of this character—open drains—than the incoming payments of sinking fund and interest ftom former ap- propriations—which is all that is now avail- able for this purpose—will meet, and•that municipalities that had passed by-laws for drainage- works, have been obliged to wait - long periods before their wants could be supplied.- He wae not aware what l appli- cations had been received by the Govern- ment for loans for tile drainage under the act of last session. In the County of Hu- ron and neighboring counties he had not heard of any. This, be thought, was part- ly owing to the partial failure of the grain crop of last year, and the low prices ob- tainable, which had net left our farmers in a position to make outlays of this kind. He was of the opinion, also, that the scope of that measuremight be enlarged to per- mit, of the borrowing of the money for other than tile drains. In many i)arts of the country it was difficult and cotly to get tiles, and many experienced farmers— upon whose judgment he could rely; --stat- ed that drains constructed of heinlock or cedar, would last twenty years, and were as efficient as tile. He was satisfied if the act was made to include wood or stone drains, it would be much more generally availed of. With. regard to the eXpendi- tures of the Province, he was wiling to admit, that there .had been an increase of expenditure. With a large and flourish- ing Province—increasing in population— attaching to itself new territories, oPening up its Waste places—pushing into its out- laying districts its colonization roads and its railways, and planting along them new and thrifty settlements—which are rapid- ly forming and. consolidating themselves into independent municipalities, it matter of necessity, that there mus increase of expenditure. The - tru tion was, had that increase of expe been justifiable? Had there bee culpable extravagance? Hon. gen --totally at a loss for an election what charges to fulminate against the „present administration—have seized with avidity the pamphlet of the Hon. Senator from Saugeen—prepared for the 'purpose —and hurled it as their indictment against the Government. In their jubilation oyer this pamphlet and their 'endorsement of its charges of gross extravagaece, were they not virtually condemning themselves as unfit to fill the positions they occupy? One of the most important of the duties of an opposition was to scrutinize with the utmost care, all the items of expenditure, and the estimates yearly submitted, to them. If these extraordinary extrava- gances charged by the Senator, are a new was a be an pies - di ture ri any letnen ry, or • the lead Gov scho ed? acce had tion fu rt hay An o whi 1871 who incr men chan hear had posit sive. Gov that en ts (He spec men the Hea crea ous men shou prov effici 1877 150 misl unaccompanied with truthful exialana- tion . Did the -Hon. Senator not trade upoI the knowledge, that the great bulk of the electors have not aocese to the Pub- lic Aceounts, and are not able nor have they the leisure to examine for themselves these figures and fix the responsibility for the increases? He was aware of this and the Hon. Senater's conduct in making thes4 broad statements without publishing the articulars, was all the more repre- hens ble. (Hear, hear.) The next item was ' Training of teachers, $6,500," which repr ented the cost of the esteblishment of c unty model schools, one of the most valu ble and successful institutions that for library and Prize books, an increase not to be deprecated, but by every possible means encouraged. He must go back in the table, and draw their attention to the itena "Superannua- tion of Teachers." Under this head the expenditure had been in 1871 $6,143, and in 1877 $35,484, showing au increase of $29;300. It was natural that for some years after the establishment of this Su- perannuation Fund, an increase would take place, as our teachers became old in the service and unfit for duty. But who was' responsible for this increase ? Was it the present Government? Not at all. The .statutes under' which these superan- nuations took place were passed by the Sandfield Macdonald Government. Un- der that law we were still acting. (Hear, hear.) He did not object to the expendi- ture for this purpose. He did not believe anybody in the country did, but he did object that the Hon. Senator should en- deavor to saddle the present government with the increase of expenditure under erected in that period an additional P. onsible.. The aggregate of these increas- al school. That the expenditure of es he had referred to amounted, in round was for one school, that of 1877 for numbers to $184,000, for which eitherthe Would anyone say that the addi- Sandfield Macdonald Government were 1 Normal school at Ottawa, the chief clearly and solely responsible, or were in of that increase, was not required by the shape of a distribution to the people ountry ? And did not the present of the country of a part of our surplus re - r of the Opposition urge upon the venue, and thereby directly lessening their rninent to erect another Normal : burdens of local taxation. Deducting 1 still in the city which be represent- that a. mount from $550,000, the total ex - (Hear, hear.) Had the Government penditure for education in 1877, $366,000 would remain -as the expenditure of the ed to that request, we should have enator Macpherson, and the Opposi- resent Government in contrast to $351,- after ,him, raising the cry about this 000 under the Sandfield Macdonald Go- er increased expenditure which would vernment—(cheers)—a paltry. increase of been occasioned. (Hear, hear.) some $15.3.000. But:they should not have ' her iteni was that of Inspection, the credit of even that in?ease, because in the increase was from $14,527 he would call attention twan item which in to $36,644 in 1877, or $22,000. Now the Hon: Senator had entirely overlooked. i was it that was responsible for that We derved a revenue from our school ase? Who -was it but the Govern- system in the -shape of fees from Model of Mr. Sandfield 'Macdonald that School pupilts, sale of books, &c In 1871 ed the mode of inspection. (Hear, the receipts. from these 'sources he found ) The present mode of inspection in the public accounts—where the Hon. ecu the subject of attack by the Op- Senator co.ulc. have seen them—were $35,- ion as being unjustifiable and expen- 430. While in 1877 they were $57,805, an Before the Sandfield Macdonald increase—:closely connected with, and rnment left office they passed the act caused chiefly by the increased expendi- did away with the old superintend- ture of $22,355. (Hear, hear.) If that and appointed county inspectors. amount were deducted from the total ex - r, hear.) If the present mode of hi _ penditure for 1877, it would leave the ac - ion is expensive, the present Govern- tual total expenditure at $344,000 or less is not responsible for it. It was left by $7,000 than that of the Sandfield Mac - as a legacy by their predecessors donald Government in 1871. (Cheers.) how the Senator emphasizes 'the in- Senator Macpherson did not take into ac - in this item as one of his most seri- count these facts, and consequently de- harges against the present Govern- e clare1 that between 1871 and 1877 the ex - he says : " The inspection ofschools penditure for. education had "increased , d be very thorough and much id if its cost be any criterion to its - by theiappalliug sum of $200,000." The m • Hon. benator draws a distinctionebetween ncy: In 1871 it cost $14,527 and what are gran. ts.to Schools, and whatis in cost of adminastration. And under the it cost $36,644, being an increase of per cent." These items show how latter he classes all the expenditure ex- adine mere tables of figures- are f cept the actual amounts paid in grants to i Common and High Schools. Now noth- ing could more clearly show the Hon Senator's utter untrustworthiness, and his d. esire to. deceive his readers who are not. m a position to check his work with the Pubhc accounts, than the extract he would now read from his pamphlet. He says: ".The amount distributed among schools in 1877 was increased to $329 243 and the .cost of administration was incr'eas-' ed to $loo,5.24. In other words the grant to Schools in 1877 exceeded that of 1871 by. the sum of $78,781 and the cost of ad- ministration in 1877 exceeded that of 1871 by $95,845, being $17,064 -more than the increased amount of the grant to Schools." Now in this $95,845 of increase of what he calls the cost of administration and for which he wishes to excite the horror of his readers for Mr. Mowat's extravagance, he includes, not only the increase of $22,- 000 for the additional Normal School, not only the increase of $22,000 for inspection, and $29,009 for superannuated Teachers, for which his own leaders and party are solely resPonsible, but be actnally in- cludes al -sot the increase of $25,000 for Li- braries, M ps and Prizes, whic are not matters of administration at al), but are as much g ants to Schools as tie money paid over o the treasiirers. T ese facts showed that the Hon. Senators tables were utterly unreliable, and by giving them in such a way that they conveyed a false impresslon to the 'people, who were not in a p sition to investigate them for themselves Mr. Macpherson, professing to be imparti I, was either grossly ignorant of the subj ct he was dealing with or WAS guilty of ypocrisy of the smallest and meanest kipd. (Cheers.) I He would -now refer to the next 'table, that regardling expenditure connected with Crown La ds and Colonization Roads. The whole increase under this table, was made up o two items, Surveys ancl Colo- 'nizatiou Rads. In the former there was an increase from $17,902 in 1871;to $45,- 546 in 18717, or $27,609. Was there an undece.ssarir or unwise expenditure, or did it evince at y culpable extravagance. 1 The Pro ince was acquiring immense territory, And were we going to -leave it undeveloped? Or should we not survey it and open it up for settlement? Then there was A larger expenditure for coloni- 1 zation roa s, which was actually a distri 3e bution of t e surplus—(hear, hear)—and just in the direction which Hon. gentle- men on that side of the House were urg- ing the Government to further expendi- ture. The increase under this head was from $55,409 in 1871, to $77,300 in 1877, or $22,000, showing a total increase on these two items referred to, of $49,600. Deducting that sum from the total given ine1.8-i7-, it leaves $122,694, or $2,100 less than- Sand eld's last year -1871. (Hear, hear.) Anl he wished to call the atten- tion of the lElouse to the fact, that the re- maining it nes in the table in which this deorease h d taken place, viz.: .agents' salaries, traveiing expenses, commissions, inspections &c., were just that class of expenditur in which economy might be shown. Ahlid now he wished to draw the attention qf the House to those little dodges tbai illustrated so aptly the char- acter of th Hon. Senator's impartiality. Feeling th t the increase in this table could be e plained so easily and satisfac- torily as t turn the argument rgainst himself, he carries forward and reproduces here, the e penses of the Department at Toronto, w ich he had before gtven and made 'full use of in his table, under the head of Civil Go-vernment, and as an apo- logy, tacked a foot -note at the bottona, ex- plaining that these were added to the cost of Civil Goieernment, but were reProduced here to shoW the total expenditure—and, he might lave added, for the phrpose of more readly deceiving and making the table show better. (Hear, hear.) The next table that he would direct itheir at- tention to A as that of " Administration of Justice." Vith some of the items in that table he di not propose to deal. They cbuld be b tter reviewed by some of the legal gentl men in the House. The in- • crease und r the 'head of " Criminal Pro- secutions" he Provincial Secretary had already ref rred to, and explained to be in consequenc -of the increase in the number of criminal to be tried for whichthe Government could not be held responsible. i But he wis ed to call to their notice the fact that the largest part of the increase complained of, was in the amount paid over to the municipalities through their treasurers, to reimburse the municipalities for paymens made by them, and tlae more t that was reiurned to them In this way; the less had they to raise by local taxation. It was an expenditure which the Govern- -tirely regu ated by the magisterial and ment were powerless to control, being en - municipal officers in the various counties. This expenditure had been largely increas- ed of late years—tho increase between 1871 and 177 being $47,400 --in conse- quence of t es hard times through which we were pa.ssing, and the statement read by the Provincial Secretary showed that there was not a county or city in which the cost of Administration of Justice had not materially increased. • Tho Govern- ment were hot to blame for this, and ahy enforced economy under this head would be merely hifting the burden from the Provincial Treasury and throwing it upon the municipalities. He felt justified in saying that the records of the Provin- cial Treasurer's office would show that there was not a county in the -Province but had made remonstrances against what they conceived to be the too great deduc- tions made from their accounts by the Provincial Treasurer. Hon. gentleman will see the Senator puts in the.table, in the column for 1877, a lump sum of $56,677, the details of which he leads you to understand wore not to be found in the Public Accounts because, he says, "the amount is supposed to include the items which should be detailed in the -spaces marked with art , asterick." Now every item' of detail which he has given for other years, could be found in the ab- stract of Receipts and Expenditure for 1877, from which he took his other figures. (Mr. LAUDE -R) The Hon. gentleman is mistaken,these details are not given for i 1877, there s only the lump sum. (Mr. ROSS) He begged to correct the Hon. member, The details ;were given in the statement for 1877, (Mr. LAUDER) Where? Mr. ROSS. Well, the Hon. member seems to be as ignorant of what is in the Public Accounts as the Senator himself. If he will turn to statement No. 5, page .29, he will find in this comparative state- ment of the Estimates with the expendi- ture, all the details which the Hon. Sena- tor has omitted. He will find Deputy Clerks of the Crown and. Vlea,s," $15,950. He fvill find "Administration of Justice in Algoma," Sze., given RS $19,502, an in- crease over 1871 of $9,000, and here, per- haps, is one of the reasons why these de- tails were omitted. This item shows the largest increase of any in the omitted de- tails, and the explpnation is so simple that if the details were b0-lye/I .the statement would bear its own refutation. These new Districts of Algoma, Thunder Bay, Nipis- sing, Parry Sound and Muskoka, have only of late years sprung into existence, and the rapid influx of population has made it a necessity which no Government eoald ig- nore, to provide ample means for the due administration of Justice within their Then another of these omitted items found here is "Short -hand Report- ers for the Assize &arts," which is given in 1877 as $6,145, a measure designed for, and which has had the effect of relieving proportionately the taxation of munitipa- titles for juries, shortening, as it does, the attendance of the jurors at the Courts. Then there was another sum which. the Hon. Senator had erroneously included in this statement apparently to give him the opportunity of making the misleading de- claration, 'That the expenditure for the administration of Justice was increased. between 1871 and 1877 by the enormous animal sum of $141,264." He referred to the item for the Revision aid Consolidation of the Statutes $44,174. Now this was not an expenditure connected with the ad- -ministration of Justice at all, Nor was it an annual expenditure properly brought into such a- comparison. No revision a the Statutes had occurred for nearly twen- ty years before, leer might another be -re- quired for twenty years to came. Deduct- ine these three iteins that he had specifi- ed:Land he had no doubt that there were others to which good exception could be taken, he showed that the total expendi- ture under the present Government had been $217,000 as against $182,000 in 1871. Now with regard to the surplus. The whole tenor and drift of the Opposition ar- gument, both inside of this House and out of it, had been that the surphis accumulated by the Sandfield Macdonald Government, had been dissipated and wasted by the pre- sent Administration. They had also per- sistently endeavored to create a wrong im- pression as to the cause of the defeat of that Government. They had represented that the Reform party had attacked Mr. Mac-' donald's Governraent for its extravagance, and had come into power upon a promise of economy and retrenchment. That was not the issue. Sandfield Macdonald's Go- vernment was rather objected to, because it was too penurious, and that itt his desire for economy the public service suffered. The real issue was that they usurped, as an Executive, the powers and privileges; and the legislative functions of this House. And here he would take occasion to say that the present Opposition seemed desir- ous to ride into power on the record and character of the Saudfield Macdonald Go- vernment, a Government not one of whore meinbers had now a seat in this Chamber,. or were likely to have in the next Parlia- ment That Government was presided over by a life long Reformer, who heldthe reins of power himself, and continually boasted that he had made good reformers of all his colleagues. He would now make a comparison of the serplus as left by Sandfield, with what it is now, both with and without the lia- bilities and Dominion Trust Funds. In 1871 there was ".11111P"' Investments in Dominion. Stock tures. Bank Deposits ..... T•tai and Deben- $2,747,805 . 890,174 83,637,979 In 1877— DOMilliOn stock and de- bentures as before... Bank deposits Drainage debentures and rent charges.. ; Total.............. Or $236,675 rcebre than in 1871, $2,747,805 606,572 520,277 $3,874,654 1871. Investments and. de- posits as before....... $3,637,979- DOMilli011 trust funds consisting of Upper Canada Granunar, School Fund.....e-...1 312,769 Upper Canada Building 1,472,391 Common School Fund . 914,246 Ontario's share of li- brary ... 105,541-2,804,794 Making the total assets t 6,442,926 Less lia.bilities as fol- lows: Railway Fund. set apart by Act of 1871........$1,500,000 Quebec's share of Com- mon School Ftmd as in 1871. 135,744 1,635,744 $007,182 1 tti.•