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by the Speaker with reference to the dis-- missal of Mr. (Gillespie,. M}'. Currie warmly defended the dismissed -- of-- ficial. i4 1.o000 P ate 7 Premier Accepts Responsibility. i ~--The Premier expressed the opinion i'that the hon. gentleman dared not at-- I tempt to say that he believed the story | connecting the name of the Speaker with | the matter to be true. _Mr. Currie said i it was believed in Prince Edward | county. ! The Premier, after & reference to the | Government's action in respect to com--* ' missions of the peace, which action he | warmly defended as he had done on pre-- ' vious occasions, said it was true that a nephew of the member for East North-- | umberland had been appointed to office !by the Government, but the Govern-- | ment was proud of its act in that case. : ' The young man appointed had served | his country in South Africa and had | come back from that arduous service g\vith his constitution ruined, physically f | disabled in tlhis youth. _ He regretted to 6 | have to call attention to it, but he was p g bound te ask, now that the hon. gentle-- | | man had raised this question, if he (Mr. f | Currie) did not know that the late Sir __| Oliver Mowat, Hon. Mr. Hardy and Hon. l A. M. Ross had appointed their own | flesh and blood to oftice, and the last | | Premier prior to his (Mr. Whitney's) p | accession to office had done the same. < He wanted to know whether the hon. | gentleman could say the same of him. j Continuing, the Premier said he accept-- ed the responsibility of examining into | | the question, looking into the facts and | '. | deciding to do what was done in the | | ! case of Sheriff Gillespiec without inves-- | tigation, _ The Premier went over the 'charges of activity in elections against Mr. Gillespie, which, he declared, were | ', | absolutely correét. _ He added that two | | of the Superior Court Judges of the Pro-- | vince had refused to allow the dismissed l ; official to escort them to and from the 5 | court house. "There &as been a sugges-- | tion in the press and out of it." the Pre-- | ! mier continued, "that Mr. Whitney has § | been constrained against his will to dis-- ' ; | miss oflicials. _ 'There has never been a | ' dismissal that did not receive my active ' endorsation, and the responsibility is first and foremost upon me, and not up-- | on my colleagues. [ spurn any such! sympathy received from time to time from different sources." _ No dismissal,| the Premier said, had taken place that . would not be repeated if the opportun-- f ity afforded itself again, so careful had the (iovernment been to see that no 4 such action was taken without proper reason. _ This had been so much the j case that many friends of the Govern-- J ment declared they had not gone far / enough. He would certainly bring down $ any papers relating to the matter. _ . ' mm mm mm aammmnm o re omm mmma en mane A