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MINOR SLANDERS. WHO ARE THE SCANDAL-MONGERS? SPEECH OP THE PREMIER ON THE BUDGET. CARRYING THE WAR INTO EGYPT. COMPARISON OF TRAVELUNG EXPENSES UNDER OPPOSITION REGIME AND NOW. S3,600 FOR ONE TRIP TO ENGI^AND AND NOT AN ITEM OF DETAIL. SI, 100 FOR ONE TRIP TO OTTAWA. WHAT fJOVERNMENT USED THE INTESTATE ESTATES FUNDS WITHOUT AUTHORITY ? ROBBING THE DEAD! POLITICAL ANARCHISM. Th« BnooBT. Hon. Mb. Davib resumed the debate on the bad^t. In the words of Artemua Ward, with reference to the song literature following the American war, he considered it about time to give "the old man a show," and the house having heard so much from the Oppoaition about Government misdoings, it would be in order to hear something on the other side. In the first place he would examine into some of the charges which had been made, and compare the conduct of the Government to the Leader of the Opposition. That hon. gentleman had made the rather startling statement that the Province would loose upwards of $600,000 in the conversion of $1,700,000 of 6 per cent, and 4^ per cent, bonds into 3 per cents. , or that more than one-third of tne amount would be Wiuted in the operation. So far aa observable, how- ever, neither the House nor the country had been alarmed by this or any other wild state- ment of blue ruin mwie in that hon. gentle- man's speech, for they hail Itcouuie so well accustomed to the ci"y of "wolf ! wolf!" from him that they now paid little or no atten- tion to it. His efforts had come to l)o cor- rectly aupreciated, and it is known that he has tlie Knack of so presenting half the truth that it leaves a falsehootl. Hu would deal m ^ with these objects later on ; but first of all, it would be well to "whet the palate," as it were, with "A Plate of Oysters," before entering upon the substantial repast, and to refer to some of t!.e scandals, as the Leader of the Opposition called them, viz., the Pooley scandal, the Baker scandal, and others of which the gentlemen opposite are liy their own description the scandal mon- gers. He could not pretend to say that hu would deal with all the insinuations, but he would take up as many as time would per- mit. There was for instance the question of " Travelling Expenses." In treating of the bubject the Leader of the Opposition had omitted to make refer- ence to those incurred by the Government of which he was a member, much less, had he brought the figures down before the House. In disclosing them now he (Mr. Davie) did not wish to raise any question of dishonesty or impropriety against anyone, for a Minister of the Crown must be treated as an honourable man end not required to give particulars for every cent that he spends while attending to the public busi- ness, and when Mr. Beaven was in office he appeared to have acted on the proper princi- ple that a Minister of the Crown while travelling should maintain the dignity of his office. The records, then, showed that on the 13th of June, 1874, it was decided to be necessary that "The Attorn by-General in Mr. Heaven's Government" should go to England, and on the 15th of June he gave a receipt for f2,<')(J0 and drew out '.hat amount for nis travelling expenses as an officer on duty, giving no particulars. Later on he drew on the treasury for $500, and when he came back he drew, supple- mentary to the two sums just mentioned, $510.99, making u total of $3,510.99, DRAWN simply FOR TRAVELLING EXPENSES WITHOUT ANY PARTICULAPJi WHATKVER. The Opposition at that time had not called for the vouchers or attempted to make a scandal out of a matter in which there pro- bably was no scandal, though the amount of it was three times that now called in ques- tion, and the present Leader of the Opposi- tion, who now holds up his hands in such holy horror, had then not one word of com- plamt, showing that it is only the most transparent political hypocrisy which leads him toqucstion thesmallersnmaftersanotion- ing the larger. (Applr.use.) The gentlemen op- posite paraded in large type in their organ m this city hit own (Mr. Davie's) travkllinci RXPKNSES, AMOrNTINO TO $1,900, SINl^E UK TOOK THE OFFICE OF PREMIRR IN JCI.Y, 1892. While he disliked to have to : efer to his own personal services he thought us a mat- ter of simple justice he ought to say a few words as to the returii made for this money, but he would refer only to some of the more important tasks upon which he had been engaged when these expenses were incurred These were the long and ditticult prosecution at Nanaimo in connection with th Bawn more case ; the Teragnello murder trial at the same place on another occasion, long ant] complicated cases engaging weeks, an(' which no reputable cc nisei could have bee! engaged to conduct under at least $1,500 the trials in Cariboo, in Clinton and at Kam loops; the Stroebel trial, lasting twelve days at Westminster and upwards of two weeks at Victoria, for which counsel worthy of having such cases entrusted to them, could not have been engaged under $3,000 or more, besides other important business in which HE CODLD, IF SO DISPOSED, HAVE EN- TRUSTED THE PRO.SECUTION TO OUTSIDE Coun- sel, THE COST TO THE PROVINCE BEING $5,000 OR MORE, BUT FOR WHICH HE (MR. Davie) had drawn $1,900only, for neces- sary TRAVELLING EXPENSES, TO SAY NO"IIING OF TWO TRIPS ACROSS THE C0NTIN3NT ON IMPORTANT PUBLIC BUSINESS. Apart, however, from the question of cost, he had felt that he should undertake these prosecutions, as any miscarrage of jus- tice would have been in the highest degree disivstrous to the Province ; and he felt it incumbent upon him to sacrifice his own convenience in the efiFort to maintain law and order and secure confidence in the administration of justice in '.he Province. The plan adopted in bringing theseso-called scandals before the House Appeared to be to spring them at a time when those against whom they are levelled are by the rules of debate prevented from replying immediate- ly — on the principle that a lie will travel a mile while truth is putting on its boots, and they make sure that their lies will get a long start. He would deal rfow with what has been called "The Pooley Scandal," the subject matter of which is that Mr. Pooley, who holds the honourary office of President of the Council, without salary, and is at the same time a practising barris- ter, with a large and important practice, had gone into Court in a case in which one of his clients, the E. & N. railway, have a dispute with the Government. He would like Iwfore proceeding further in the matter to lay down the broad principle, that it is the privilege of any man who happens to be a barrister, when culled to Her Majesty's council, to retain his private practice, for otherwise no lawyer whose services were worth having could enter , he (Government. A little reHection would show the soundness of this principle, for if it were not to be acted upon what would be the {losition of a barrister who had given up his practice to bel hel in I hi) cl \t to toy a few I ^or this money "^^ of the more J'e had been jere incurred. ■ut prosecution "•:at Mr. office of salary, wirris- I'actice, cli one liave a would natter It it is to l>e estv's *! f«)r Were lent, iness 9 be of a e to become Attomey-Oeneral, if in a short time he found that it did not suit him tu remain in that position, or if tlie public decided for him — at the polls or otherwise — that a change in the otiice was desirable? It would be monstrous to expect that while exposed to this contingency he should abandon his 1)rivate means of liveliliood. It might lappen that the private interests of a mem- ber of the Government would come in con- flict with those of the Crown, and in such a case these private riglits must be respected. ?3ven the Attorney-Cieneral might l)e in duty bound to appear for a private client against the Crown. This, of course, is a Erivilege which should be given only to an onourable man, and should not be abused. The New South Wales case cited by Mr. Cotton was not a parallel one to that in which Mr. Pooley had appeared to argue a dry point of law involving no secrets of the Oovernment, and in which nothing he could have learned in the executive could be of any advantage to him ; but on the contrary that case establishes the right in the clearest way, but thor*. it was considered that the privilege was abused, for the Attorney- General and the Minister of Justice, pre- sumably the only two law offices of the Government, both took briefs against a department of the Government. The gen- tlemen opposite did not seem to recognize the difference between the use and abuse of such a privilege. The case of the President of the Council was quite difterent. He could not have appeared for the Crown, unless his services were to be accepted for nothing, for the moment he accepted a retainer he would forfeit his seat, so the contention of the Opposition must be that he must forfeit his right of appearing in the case, one way or the other. Looking up the records for a precedent, since this matter was last before the House, the very first case he came across was one in England. An Enclisu Precedent. The Attorney-fieneral vh. the Ixiiulon & North-Western Railway Co. L. R. 6 Q. B. D. Hon. Mr. Beavkn— In Englaud it is a different thing altogether. Hon, Mr. Davie said this was not a dif- ferent thing, but he would later show a case nearer home. In this English suit in the court of first instance there was no official of the Government on either side. The question was one us to duties payable to the Crown, the point in dispute lieing whether duty should be paid on sleeping car tickets the same as on ordinary tickets. The ex- chequer division gave judgment for the (!'ro wn, and the defendant having appealed the Sojicitor-(!encrnl, Sir Farrar Herchell, appeared in (h«i appeal Court against tji^ Cro.ii. o " Sir Farrar Herchell. ' Though in England the Solicitor-General and Attoruey-fJeneral are not members of the Cabinet they are law officers of the Crown, and it is their duty to advise whether or not proceedings should be brought. If there were danger for abuse of authority how could it be more abused than by a Solicitor-General appearing against his own client, the Government, as had been done in the suit just mentioned. He had noticed a case also where the Solicitor-General appear- ed for the Crown and the Attorney-General for the other side. The I^eader of the Oppo- sition might, however, have given an instance which hai^pened nearer home in this Pro- vince, while that hon. gentleman had a seat in the House, but to which he took no ex- ception, perhaps because he was not then associated with the senior member for Van- couver and the member for Westminster City. This was the case in which th« pre- sent " Mr. Justice McCreioht," An adornment to the bench of the Pro- vince — when Attorney-General and Premier of the Province, appeared as Counsel for Dr. Trimble in his suit against the Crown for five acres of land at Ogden Point. Hon. Mr. Beavex — Everybwly knows that, Hon. Mr. Davie asked how it came that if everybody know this there was nothing to be said against it while it was made to ap- pear a grave offence in the President of the Council to appear for a regular client, when he draws no salary as a member of the Gov- ernment and could not appear for the Crown? These precedents showed conclu- sively that in Mr. Pooley's case no rule of propriety had been transgressc<', "Baker Scandal." To turn next to the so-called Baker scandal, it was surprising that the gentleman oppo- site could see nothing to condemn in their own course of appropriating private docu- ments not intended for them, but waiving that point it would be seen on examination how little foundation tliere is for the slander put in circulation. It was decided by the Lieut, -Governor in Council that the Province should be represented at the opening of the Imi)erial Institute, a determination which, as it had nofc met with a motion of condem- nation in the House, it must be assumed meets with general approval. The (Jovern- ment, therefore, chose as the most fitting representative the Provincial Secretary, a gentleman well known in England, of a family known all over the world, who could worthily represent the Province, and having been dispatched on this mission his expenses were of course paid out of the Public Treas- ury, It was absurd to contend that while in England he should not have given any attention to his private business, just as it hoWs aa a merchant. wC*^^ ^'''«'» he appeared co be that h« i , ^^^ occurred hands of hi« sol X?s Pl«««d himself in'fj^ 4 aed his name anrl ^^ • . "*<* *« sell aDDen hi i; 1 . .™® «n« official fTfi • i appen- wonld h''^^ «"* h« offices th; "* '"^^ « W'ould have coverPf? tiT ', *!"« very fact f»?PVcion, forXsi*'^L^^°^« affJ wUh this James Baker «n^ "^" ^o"W ask whv -"eealhisSh^itr'i/';.'^ was engaged in wL n o^ • *he business he he should not disSe h; '"li* '*''«''«'ard onJ had already ahowT^IiV^''^^ ««es. He S'^ "' '^« Crown"* f^P^r'T «^ ™S Canada and elsewhere is f n "^''^'V^ *"d in "> full on such occasions rJ^""^ *heir title,^ Joseph Tbutch ?^o ?m" ?^^« "an^es of Sir SiH Chabi,ks EaAvfc^^'«"*-Governoi" DENBIGH, were a gu?r"nS.%"^ f' '^abi. of and honourable ^u-^ °' W'hat is risht -"•ed With what 2ton"r"^ -ouldnot^* loe socallffi «< '"S- oT?h^«;---ade/rtrr "^ -•^- aU^A <^*»^«™ment by MrTr"'"*""'^"* gnoted the funds in „ '^^ .^aven, who Shuswap and Ok?„. •'"""ection with th« S'ocan LSwayt'"tKn"^V^^'^Can| the suitor.' furfda and „^''**t estates and elusion that "th'ose t?.T^f «* the con fojud their way iXthe'penrtenrP^^ ^^^ eaii this a surnlua nf Penitentiary miffh*^ ernment as if i. u *•'" treats tie rjj' "wn he,,,. I?„5«\KS''r "»'i«'^'» anr>niin4.„ -. , . ."y De kfinf «_ . "" was bound to^v^S/u" f'^«*'«» ^ryrhe pJ"n'lered the5?J~*t * \i^, "not^; Ho^'. Mb. BBlvmn"'^^'^ *he dead^ ^"&-.. . ^^'^-^-o^^^ourcry,! sugKwe. jv„.r crys, J ^^"S^ai^^rX^hatae,,,, «|nehewasnot^X:"«H *'"'* *' ^hat ^th politics, but he hL ^ ""'*-h mixed House that ho believed f^ ^u'^^^'^y t«W the just one. The St h« ^ *'''"«« wa, not a B«aven is noriomilJ'''^'''.'^ 'hat Mr Government has dCft V'"^. '•""*"«« the ty what he did by io a Jth'*^'!'"*'^« *»thor ^ >s in the matter of /h"*^, ** «"• So Jhich it is intended Ihlif T*''""*^ ^""d? Wernmeut to give it il > "««'^ hy the « thus derivabg Hnd tol'**^^f advantage tent the necessity of makr"*,'° this ef- Beaven had next toldth u"« ^«ans. Mr P«cts that the '^° H°»8e that he ex "I- 0. U.'sopMrNisTKBs" P°««We that thev""br t** therefore TmT acco..n.„ .„., with/rawalsSi f"" ^^P^^''^ hese idenlfcaVnl''''''" *''"« to jy-n was passed the ''8^^ *'j*'^* '"terest requiring payment of °" ^""^1 Act " treasury, an.f ^J ,-„°f ^T^^hing into tt foneys shall b^r i„r„ PT'^«« that the cannot do unless SeGolr'*' ^'"«h they Jt IS a case of Dav.-„„ • ^"'"'®nt uses then, ?» the idea of a'^82,'!i ""^ °"t every dav Ki; ™T^ SrLtnhJ;^'''«=h Uufd ?ny .(■■ceiity in u .,. ' ,*'"'";n. i'tbere,"' y. "".,«■" the mUL'i r,"" '"'"IveK "«"■"« »«.h<,„o„e^,'-tZXr.?J , ' ■". o or MINISTKBH " knows that°ili"tl.»° the treasury, »!.«„ k sanation is somewhaKS *.''""• '^h J f,^. his organ, which iSsLu^i" to the ,ji,„^ » other mone^d bes.V?" ^* '^hat there are travelling alfow^ whS">' • ^'"' thel^ received, but which S. ^'""isters have j;h«re. He know The^^r 1'"''' "? ««"'« the accounts are „„ *" he none, that While the slime and in'^P^" '^^^ iherf SemnV'" ^-^^ ^^^ve cl^^^'l^tfons cast 'on «enination, and lik« „ i ^ thtir own con- tTnsn^'^ '"«« wh': „.^rr«' ^^^--'^ transparent slander f hi? heap up g, r^ y-U.'s from the minilf ^'^"'■V «afe "j . 15^ 't WHS a ^ not only " Wie dea<| " your crys, j ^''at at that "'•"-•'• mixed ^^y told the gewaj not a " that Afr •ecaiise the "ve author- atall. So ""y funds, ««!/ »>y the advantage to this ex- wns. Mr. nut he ex- wheii he privilege »g evory- t'le first they ex- iniH in. siiiue of here are »' their rs have * soiHe- »e, that there, cast on ''1 coil- Bbound ? such anders lation ie oc- naoce ' oc- was «7«. >.U. iher ■Veil • of k-r nd en in 8t (I B to denounce him a perjurer. Even if these men had chanced to draw small s^ms against their salaries, and bad deposited their I.O.U. 'sin acknowledgment, that fact would have bren no justification for the in- sinuation of dishonesty made at^ainst them after tbei'' death. It was a foul slander, and why did he not bring it against these men when alive ? Twenty years) ago it had been used against him, Mr. Benven, as an electioneering cry, that he had "robbed the dead " — but now, in the year of grace 1894, he has really "kobbkd thk dead," or tried to — robbed them of all that remains of their treasured memory, a fair fame and worthy reputation, and this from the "J^eader of the Opposition"; a charge he had never dared to make in their lifetime, and which he, Mr. Davie, would now tell him he believed to be deliberately false. (Loud applause. ) Dr. Davie's appointment as " provincial HEALTH officer' had been lately used for political effect, because of the circumstance of his being a relative of the Premier. It had, however, been indisputably shown that that gentleman's skilful and vigorous ser- vices saved the country from scourge with which the leader of the opposition had shown himself "utterly unable to copk," in his position as Mayor of Victoria. It was when this hat! become apparent that on the 9th of July, 1892, the medical men at their meeting endorsed the proposal that a provincial health otficer should be appointed. Even the opposition organ in Victoria lauded the appointment, and as to its wisdom, and the effective manner in which the duties were carried out, tlie r-^port of Chief Justice Sir Matthew Begbie and the other members of the health commission was satisfactory proof, far ahead of the jaundiced, prejudiced and envious view taken by the Leader of the Opposition now that the danger is all over. Within three months, when the scourge was over, the Provincial Health Officer, who was appointed for a temporary service only, resigned, being paid for hii services $1,000, which no one would say was not of the best earned money ever paia to a public servant. (Applause.) Afterwards, a convention of medical men was called at Ottawa to con- sider the beat steps to be taken to prevent disease entering the country, and in his (the Premier's) absence his colleagues came to the conclusion that the Province should be represented, and that the man to send there was Dr. Davie, who had so successfully fought the smallpox and had acquired valu- able experience. He accordingly went, leaving his private practice for the (lischarge of a public duty, nnd for the time nece^sariTy occupied received $1,000, which no one would say was too much to pay to a physi- cian of stank had been used in advance of its presentation to Par- liament, stated that he wtvs indebted to the great cciirtesy of the Minister of Finance for this information, in the absence of which he could not have arrived at the real state of the public debt. Sir Richard Cartwright and \fr. Blake spoke of the advantage of giving the matter to the public in advance of the meeting of parliament. Sir John Mac- donald acccepted the re solution, which came as a suggestion from the other side of the House, saying that he saw no objection to it, that tnere Mas nothing in the law to prevent the departmental reports being given to the public as soon as completed, ».nd as it was onty a practice which had grown up to keep thtm from general circu- lation until parliament met, he had the word "rule" used by Mr. Charlton in the resoluti(m altered to "practice." To recapitulate, the facts showed the Op- position to be " Whitkd Sei'UL(;hkk.s," They "strain at a cjnat," but "swal- low A CAMEL." Thev strain at a little act of courtesy, si'ch as the handing of a public document, although hitherto unpublished, to an opponent ; tiiev swallow a camel in justifying an act of flagrant dishonesty, such as the appropriation of private documents, i. f. the Cranbrpok prospectus, and his, Mr. Davie's, private documents at C'ariboo and Chilliwhock. Thky strain at the moderate expense of ^1,000 for a Minister's trip to England, all detailed, but they swallow a camkl, in the shape of a bill for three times the amount for a similar servica, without a detail at all. Thev MANUFAiTURB A UNAT in the shape of what at most would have been a trifling advance, during the month to a public othcer, on account of his salary, but they swallow a camel by mak- ing the occasion the subject of a hideous attack upon the character of the dead. They strain at a gnat in the udng of the Intes- tate Fund under legislative authority, whilst THEY SWALLOW a oamel by the using of that same fund without any authority at all, whether legislative or otherwise. I'ruly they weie whited sepulchres. He had thus far barely finished up the plate of oysters, and there was now barely time, nor he feared would the house have the patience, to enter upon the more sub- stantial portion of the repast (Cries of go on), but — To revert to the "conversion ok the LOANS," he wished to take up Mr. Beaven's statement that the Province loses $(500,000 by the conversion of $1,724,000, or more than one-third of the amount. If the Prov- ince loses this, the convertees — to coin an expression — must gain it, but that there is no particular advantage to the convertees is shown by the fact that only one-third of the amouut has yet been converted. The whole scheme is worked ort by skilled actu- aries, v.hose endeavour is to secure that neither side has an advantage. Those who accept the scheme simply wish to exchange a short time loan, at a high rate of interest, for a long time one at a lower rate, and take an equitable premium to make up the de- ficiency. Time would not now admit of his going into the figures, which could l)e more ably dealt with by the Hon. Minister of Finance, who doubtless would have another opportunity of speaking. expenditures on public works. Though Mr. Kitchen staunchly supported Mr. Beaven, the latter had taken exception to the expenditure of $6,000 on the roads iu Westminster district, in addition to the $12,000 voted ; the amount expended was $22,000 ; while Mr. Kitchen had during the recess, ii>een going from north to south iu hij constituency complaining that the Gov- ernment had not spent enough upon the roads. Westminster could see from this in- cident how much she could expect if the Opposition party were in power, Mr. Beaven's further contention, brought out in the public accounts committee report, that the Government should not anticipate the revenue in their expenditure on roads and bridges, shows how he would treat the country if in power. The excess over rev- enue in expenditure on roads and bridges, amounting to $4(50,305.36, he would post- pone for a year, l)ecause, forsooth, the revenue was not available for another six months ! He thought ho had conclusively I bill for pWTrJHK would P'« the of bis niak- ^itleoiis They J Intes- (whilst i>f that >* all, [I'ruly IP the onrely have sub- lof go THK veil's \000 more rov- aii re is 68 is (1 of The ctii- that [who inge ■est, ^ike cle- his ore of ler abown how hollow were the superior preten- sions of the party opposite ; that they are, as he had termed them, in fact, " whited sepulchres," and ho held that they are like- wise little better than " POLITICAL ANARCHISTS." Their aim is to destroy character, of the dead as well as of the living — to de- stroy provincial credit and the rights of property generally — the credit of the prov- ince as proved by their separation petition, and of their binding themselves with Mr. Duval, for ..hose utterances tliey try to free themselves. If they did not agree with Mr. Duval in his idea of stopping the floating of the debt they should at once have said no ; but some one, imagining Duval voicea the sentiment of the meeting, did attempt to carry out Duval's project. " A Man is Known by the Company He Keeps," and similarly they cannot now disclaim, as they are trying to do, Mr. Duval's or Rev. Mr. Maxwell's effort to ruin public credit. Upon ordiiiary principles of criminal law each one of those banded together for the objects of the ineetiiig were responsible for Mr. Du- val's utterances, in light of the fact, especi- ally as regards Mr. Brown, of his being present nt the meeting of the 18th April at Vancouver, in thorough accord with the ob- jects of the meeting, and offering no word of objection to what Mr. Duval said. Mr. Cotton actually served on a committee ap- pointed at that meeting to carry out its ob- jects, and Mr. Duval was his co-committce man. (Mr. Davie read from the News- Advertiser of the 19th April.) He, (Mr. Davie) in illiistration of the principle that a man is judged by his company, would re- mind hon. gentlemen opposite of the fable of •• THE ASS AND HIS PURCHASEB," A man wanted to purcliase an ass, and agreed with its owner to try him before he bought hint. He took the ass home and put him in the straw yard with his other asses, upon which the ass, the subject of purchase, left all the others, and joined himself to the most idle, and the greatest eater of them all. Where- upon the intending purchaser put a halter on him, and led him back to his owner, who asked, how he could have made a trial in so short atinie. "I do not need," he answered, "a trial. I know he will be juat such an- other as the one of all the rest he chose for his companion." "So it is," remarked Mr. Davie, "with those who associated themselves with Mr. Duval and Mr. Maxwell." (Loud laughter.) He (Mr. Davie) charged the Opposition with inciting to anarchy when they try to incite the "I.AB0UBIN<1 MAN TO RE»EL A(3AINST THK MKii-NS OF HIS DAILV BREAD " by telling him the capitalist is his enemy, and to make war on him and to show him his money is not safe when invested here. Directly a man brings money into the place and invests it, whether in land, or a street railway, or what not, they would make him "a taruet TO BE SHOT AT," and hold him up to thd scorn of the workingmen. An instance of this had lately occurred in this city, where the workingmen had been lectured on the disadvantage of private ownersliip of tlie tramway and lighting apparatus, and it had been advocated that the property thus created by private capital should be made unprofitable by the construction of a rival scheme at public expense. If the public said, " We want to own such properties, and will put you out of the field by taking over your property at what it cost you, even this might seem hard to the men who had risked their capital in the hope of making a reasonable profit, but tliose who talked as the Opposition did maile no sug- gestion of purchase. They wanted the pro- perty for nothing, or to freeze the rightful owner out of it. What encouragement to a man to invest his money here ! He had heard his hon. friend the Minister of Finance say that possibly or probably this would be his last budget :peech, and that observation had been eagerly seized on by the Opposition press. No doulit that gentleman does sometimes feel discouraged to think that the vast services whicli lie has rendered the province and the watchful care over its finances are met with reproaches and wilful miscon- struction ; that instead of appreciation, not to say tbnnks, he is accuseii of little else than being a pickpocket. But he must know that it is but a small and self-interested faction of the coninninity who act thus. He must know that there is a watchful and ap- preciative public who are ever grateful and know how to reward a good and honest ser- vant. He must, however, remember that it is to them he owes a duty and not to throw off that duty because there are a few ingrates in society. There are these everywhere, and it is only by reflection of the good against the bad that justice is seen in its true light. They have all a duty to per- form here to society and must be unselKsh. There is not a member of the Government, probably, who would not hail with delight the freedom from this kind of thing and the return to his own accustomed avocations and home, more profitable and more pleas- urable to him than to be engaged in such wrangling as occurs here. But the issue is too serious at present. Other members on the Government side have not the time nor the inclination to give up their pursuits for official life, but by-and-by there will be those who are both able and willing to enter public life. Then will be the time when the present ministry may justly retire; but, in the meantime there is a hand-to-hand strug- gle going on between anarchism on the one hand, and progress and order on the other. They felt bound to sec the struggle out to the bitter end. With him it was " war to the knife " against such a faction, and he had no doubt whatever that intelli- gence, honesty and good government will reign supreme.