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Un des symboles suivants apparaTtra sur la dernidre image de cheque microfiche, selon le cas: le symbols -^^ signifie "A SUIVRE". le symbols y signifie "FIN". Maps, plates, charts, etc., may be filmed at different reduction ratios. Those too large to be entirely included in one exposure are filmed beginning in the upper left hand corner, left to right and top to bottom, as many frames es required. The following diagrams Illustrate the method: Les cartes, planches, tableaux, etc., peuvent Atre filmte A des taux de rMuction diff^rents. Lorsque le document est trop grand pour Atre reproduit en un seul ciichA, II est f ilm6 A partir de Tangle supArieur geuche, de gauche h droite, et de haut en bas, en prwent le nombre d'images nAcessaire. Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mMhode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 \>¥ is PUBLIC PENSIONS. I ENCr.WOUS ABUSES OF THE SUPERANNUATION SYSTEM. HOW PLACES ARE MADE FOR TORY POLITICIANS. Occupants of positions under the Government In tlie Civil Service, are not as a rule overworked, and their salary is regular and has been accepted by them as sufficient. In order to make provision for their favnilies after death, they can insure their hves, as other Dooole have to do. In the great- majority of cases public servants can perform their duties ! nntil an advanced aze, und when they are incapacitated they are generally taken care ot, .as other old men are, by their children. It is a wise and prudent thing, however, to encourage them to lay Aside something out of their salaries to create a fund out of which they might receive some provision for their declining years. An Act was passed, in 1 870, to establish a fund of this kind and fixing yearly deductions to be made from salaries of Civil servants to sustain the fund The deduction from salaries was a reasonable one, but iSir L. Tilley reduced it one- half so that now it provides but a smaU proportion of the money paid every year by way of superannuation allowance to old civil servants, who have retired. For mstance, dunhg the Uvelve months ending June 80th, 1§§5, the entire sums deducted from salaries amounted only to «53,701, and the retired public servants drew m th« /''J^^ *i™« JF^Vj! public purse #303,636! This shews a dead loss to the conntry cf l,T14 for the rest of his days as a superannuation allowance. He at once irot a position as an engineer on a railway under construction. While Mr. Mttckenzio Was in Dower he was daily overwhelmed by a flood of false and foul abuse by the Mail newspaper, ;.hich was conducted by Mr. T. Q. Patteson. When Sir John ol>tniiie_d poAver in 1878 it became necessary for him to reward this unprincipled ilb-sinhber of the Mall He, therefore, forced Mr. Joseph LesHlie, the offioient :.-, 1 active Postmaster, of Toronto, to resign in 1879, and put him on the sHpcrannuaiion tlst, and gave Mr Patteson the berth. The very next year Mr. Patrick, thn efhcient and active Clerk of the II«»nse of Commons, was forced out of his position to make room for a Rovernraent favourite, and to appease hira lie Is paid an allowance of i2 379 per year ; and so it has been going on ever since In order to give an idea of tlie sriss abuses of this system and its groat cost to the country, some extracts are aiven below from a return moved for by Mr. McMulbn. M.P., last Session, which shows the dates at which the persons were superannuated, the entire amounts paid in by them while lu the service, and the amounts drawn by them up to Ist January, 1886. Kxtracti from Return presented to House of Commons, 20th April, 18§« a " . A8he, E. D May 1, 1883. .f 458 00 Bell, R Sept. 1, 1879. . 343 23 Benoit, W July 1,1879.. 239 14 Birch, C. J July 1, 1872. . 112 00 Briscoe, May 1, 1871 . . 69 33 Brunei. A. Jan. 1 , 1883. .1,050 86 t'onper', P Jan. i, 1883. . Ki 83 Dickson, G. P Dec. 1, 1880. . 525 f^Z Fife, W. G. Deo. 1, 1872. . 211 97