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& ge -- o -- % »v_"? % d 3 7 DaY, MARCH 19, 1915. '7 LIBERALS ASK ASSURANcp wammemmpemmememecg ane> & ¢ 7 Demand Provision the Pro-- ' + # ® vincial War Tax Will be Used for Purpose Intend-- ' ed--Only Statutory Ex-- ? emptions Will be Exempt | a% s *¥ For a short time yesterday after-- noon the Legislature forgot entirely ; that there was anything like a pa.rty' truce in operation at the present| | time; the Prime Minister and the; lead >r of the Opposition spoke in : | heated periods, and the members de--| | lighted themselves with desk pound-- ing and cheering that has not heen neard for many days. The trouble arose over the war tax bill, which nceupied the whole afternoon in dis-- ; cussion in committee. Mr. Rowell, mindful of the manner in which the Northern Ontario Development Fund had been managed, took strong zrounds against placing in the hands} of the Government any more power| to dispose of money without the | House specifically stating how that , money should be applied, and was; not content to take the assurance of the Provincial Treasurer that it was' intended to devote the proceeds of the war tax for war purposes. He reiter-i ated the suggestion made in the ' f Budget debate that Ontario should take some immediate action to parti-l cipate in the movements in Europe, { even to the extent of organizing a | brigade of fivs thousand men to 80] to the front. | How to Use the Money. ; Following this he moved that the| bill be amended to provide that the' proceeds of the loan to be raised | against the war tax should be applied ; (1) to recoup the Province for war advances already made, and (2) '"'the balance to aid the cause of his Majesty and his Maijesty's allies in | the war now being waged, the particu-- » lar Oobjects to be determined by the / Legislature, or the Lieutenant--Gov--| | ernor in Council if the Legislature is not in session, after consultation by| the Government with his Majesty's Government in CGreat Britain throughl the appropriate channels." | K Premicr Talks Politics. f The Premier rose with some heat to! reply. He had hoped that the bill j would pass -- unanimously, and it | would have gone out to the Prov--| ince and the Empire that Ontario was | united in her support of the Empire.| f is hon. frierd wanted the Govern-| 4 ment to take the advice of the Im--| perial authorities. _ '"Why didn't he: | and his friends in the Dominion House j take the advice of the Imperial auth--| | orities a few years ago?"--(at this' point the Conservative members, | t catching the drift of the Premier's re-- | marks, started to pourd their desks). "What about the Drcadnoughts?"' * cried several voices, and the applause ' broke out into Conservative cheers,f which continued for several minutes. | "If they had done that." continued | the Premier when his voice could be| heard, "we would have had the spec--| tacle of the flag of Canada with the | fleet hammering the Dardanelies andi Canadian ships with the Grand Fleet in the North Sea." Recall Striking Example. But the Liberal members were rot| to be diverted from the object of the | S amendment by patriotic fervor. Mr.}/-- Rowell's speech was a reasoned at-' j tempt to convince the Government, that the wise course to pursue was to . 1 make clear the objects for which' { the money was to be raised under f the war_ tax bill. _ They had| the example of the Northerr Ontariol Development Fund, from which, ac-- rording to the statement of the As-' sistant Provincial Treasurer, before |