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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... 1905 BUDGET SPEECH' The following is the speech made by His Excellency Lord Curzon in the course of the debate on the Budget Statements in March 1905 in the Supreme Legislative council: --T should like to congratulate my Hon'ble colleague Mr. Baker upon the reception accorded to his first Budget. He has assumed charge of hfs important office in a year which is the culminating point, up to date, of the process of financial recovery that has been proceeding uninterruptedly for the past six years andwhose origin may be traced back still further to the foresight and prudence of Sir David Barhour and Lord Lansdowne six years earlier. A CYCLE OF PROSPERITY. I do not mean to say that a point has been reached from which ve shall now decline. There is not, so far as I can see, the slightest ground for anticipating any such consequence. But the closer budgeting that has been employed in drawing up the estimates of revenue and expenditure for the next year, the narrower margins that have been left, and the heavy and increasing calls that we have accepted for the ensuing years in carrying out our gVeat measures of administrative reform and Military reorganisation, render it unlikely that my Hon'ble friend will always be able'to count upon similar surpluses even if an unlucky ciiange of wind does not drive him sooner or later into the financial doldrums. Of course, the most satisfactory feature of the Budget has been that Mr. Baker has been able at one and the same time, to provide the means for a great increase in administrative outlay and for a reduction in the burdens of the people.. That is the dream of the fortunate financier Which all cherislj but few realise. I remember saying in the.Budget debate a year ago that it would perhaps be too much...
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