Henry Lumley Drayton
Conservative (1867-1942)
Sir HENRY DRAYTON:
It may possibly be, although I do not think so, that under the Audit Act, which has to do with our appropriations, we could charge to' a specific vote the cost of an inquiry which had to do absolutely with that one particular vote. But that is not the case here at all. We have here a concrete vote of $1,100,000 in connection with the Agricultural Instruction Act. It is not pretended that Mr. Duncan Marshall was engaged in England in connection with that matter. It is not pretended that he went down to Florida in connection with that. It is not pretended by the minister in charge of this department that there is a word of truth in the suggestion that he was acting as a commissioner to find out something in connection with the Agricultural Instruction Act. He went to Florida for the purpose of getting immigrants to come to Canada.
