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THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday July 1 Booze flowed under their feet Bear hugs Children Iraing ihe Georgetown and Hospital will bo given their own bear from now on The Golden North Club which is part of the Telephone Pioneers or America donated the hears and to the hospital June The money will go to purchasing air conditioning for labor rooms and domes for cribs There for the presentation were 4yearold Brian Kasclech and his mother Laura Standing left to right are Registered Nurse Golden Horseshoe North Club President George Corker treasurer Bob Boyd and Registered Nur Sergeant Herald photo We all have interest in deposit insurance By PAT WILLIAMS Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation We all have an interest in deposit insurance Thats the conclusion the Canada Deposit Insurance Cor poration CDIC has reached since the launch of its national awareness campaign in January Since the campaign started three months ago the toll- free number has been getting a steady stream of calls from across Canada says Denis Racine Director of Public Relations for the Ottawabased federal Crown Cor poration At the height of the advertising campaign our in formation officers were answering a thousand calls a day What kinds of questions are we asking The most frequently asked questions are about which deposits are insured by CDIC which are not and particularly about registered retirement savings plans and joint accounts says Mr Racine CDIC insures savings arid chequ ing accounts term deposits guaranteed investment cer tificates debentures other than a bank debenture drafts certified drafts or cheques travellers che ques issued by members and money orders To be insurable a deposit must be payable in Canada in Canadian currency and must he repayable on or before the expiration of five years The maximum insurance provid ed by is per person in each member institution explains Mr Racine Members include banks trust companies and loan companies At present there are federally regulated institutions 65 chartered banks and trust and loan companies and 36 pro- vincially regulated trust and loan companies You can multiply your in surance protection says Mr Racine Dealing with a number of member institutions and making use of joint deposits greatly in creases your insurance limit For example a family of three husband wife child could theoretically ring up Insurance coverage totalling in any one member institution Heres how you do it Three ordinary individual deposit accounts equals three joint accounts hus bandwife husbandchild equals two Registered Retirement Savings Plans husband and wife equals two REgistered Retire ment Income Funds husband and wife equals for a total of If a saving or investment pro duct offered by a member institu tion is not insured by CDIC this must be clearly stated in the pro ducts literature DAILY LUNCH SPECIALS LIC PATIO 37 King St Georgetown 8773544 Autohaus Georgetown Inc 1 Street Georgetown L7G Telephone 8775285 Toronto 84091O Norm Armstrong Sales Manager COMPLETE CAR CARE PACKAGES SUPER 0 MINUTE OIL CHANGE CENTRE OIL UNDERCOATING ARMSTRONG AVE UNIT 5 GEORGETOWN ONT By OIL HARDY Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service The phrase drunk with power had special meaning on Parlia ment Hill 100 years ago thanks to a fullfledged public saloon that operated literally under the feet of MPs Prom 1667 until 1896 the base ment of the first Parliament building was home to a much fre quented bar where MPs Com mons staff and the public bent elbows together The room part of the parliamentary restaurant was located directly under the House of Commons Thirsty Ottawans could walk in off the street to quaff grog and other spirits according to Com mons debates of the time Because the House often sat late and Parliament Hill was not bound by provincial liquor laws the saloon was a favorite of latenight tip plers This led to some rather un parliamentary scenes below stairs and some intemperate behavior in the House The issued An notated Standing Orders of the Commons describes it this way Speakers in that time were regularly confronted with rude and disorderly conduct which they were unable to control It was often suggested not without some truth that the root of the problem lay in the basement A contemporary newspaper ac count was more blunt Drunken strangers frequently and even in toxicated members occasionally are to be met in the corridors or stairs leading from the basement to the main floor If it were not for the fatal facility with which members obtain intoxicating li quor within a few steps of their Chamber the brawls ancl scenes which have disgraced not only this but previous Parliaments would never have been witnessed BAN LIQUORS During an debate on the basement bar a Conservative from Nova Scotia called for a on the sale of in toxicating liquors within the precincts of this House A similar motion had been passed but never acted upon in submit in all candor whether there have not been some exhibi tions in the saloon below which have been by no means creditable to the parties implicated I am afraid that the statement could not be contradicted that at certain hours during this session of Parlia ment the place below has been almost flooded with persons from outside complained The place below is dearly labelled saloon in a plan in the Public Archives of the original buildings basement The room was about 25 by 65 metres in size with an oak floor Brick arches on the long side walls supported by solid block stone pillars led into adjacent rooms At each end a doorway opened onto cementfloored cor ridors The saloon was situated next to water closets and a lavatory also with cement floors Beyond were stairs leading up to the Com mons It was an adjunct of the Parliamentary restaurant where MPs could down wine or beer with their meals Unlike today the restaurant and its Senate counter part were run by private businessmen The operator of the Commons restaurant who also owned a hotel where MPs stayed contended that the saloon was essential for him to make a profit TREBLED CUSTOM As Sir John A put it during the 1881 debate In the first place this House has no con trol over the Senate restaurant and the consequence of preventing the sale of wine in the Commons restaurant was that everybody went to the Senate and made the fortune of the man in one end of the building instead of the other Sir A who was known to enjoy a wee dram himself that trebled the custom of the man in the Senate restaurant and rendered the Commons restaurant valueless The person who had the Commons restaurant said it did not pay him and no man could be got to keep It selling food alone Other MPs were greatly offend ed by the suggestion that they were party to parliamentary debauchery McCallum an Ontario Liberal was quick to defend his peers As to the disgraceful scenes which we hear of I have been in Parliament for 13 years and say that if you take 200 men out of any church you would not find more temperate men than the members of This ringing declaration was repeated in somewhat different form when the House mulled over the issue years later in The speaker this time was Conser vative Opposition Leader Charles In my own judgment I do not believe it would be possible to col lect an equal number of gentlemen in any part of this country or in any other country amongst whom temperance is more uniformly the rule In the intervening years the Saloon had apparently roared on unchecked Although the debate resulted in a motion order ing the Speaker to close the bar and that strangers be excluded from the refreshment saloon of the House of Commons unless ac companied by a member nothing was done This was due mainly one suspects to the fact that the saloon played a major role id the con ducting of governmental business As one MP put it Parliament was home to members in 19th- century Canada who lived in Ot tawa for the entire session CONSULTING DOWNSTAIRS So why shouldnt MPs when their constituents visit Parlia ment many of them for the pur pose of consulting with members upon important public matters be at liberty to take those gentlemen to the rooms downstairs for those are really the only rooms available for the purpose of consulting with them Alas by those who favored rounds of consultations in the saloon were on the wane The new Liberal prime minister Wilfrid Laurier said that if the sense f the House was to ban the sale of liquor his government would not oppose it But Laurier too felt there was a place for spirits on the Hill He said he agreed with the banning of over- thecounter sales in the saloon but believed liquor should be served as it is in clubs to honorable members who wished to have it with their meals However the motion banning the sale of liquor within the precincts of House was passed The Common saloon closed down and the restaurant went up in flames with the rest of the budding in the 1916 fire GREEN MEADOWS NURSERY AND GARDEN CENTER nn SlhUMF GEORGETOWN BEDDING PLANTS 79 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