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WEDNESDAY, MARCHi 21, | 1917. --W p CHARGESSURPLUS POWER Sir Adam Beck, in Militant -- | Mood, From His Place in I # ® Legislature, in Urging Prohibition of Export, # l Says Ontario Cannot Af-- | ford to Tolerate Any More ' Conduct of This Sort on Part of Private Corporate Interests Mir Adam Beck was in a :nilitant mood in the Legislature yesterday af-- ternoon. It is not often thst the Chairman of the Hydro--electric Com-- mission visits Queen's Park and takes part in the debates in the Legisla-- ture, but when he made his reap-- I pearance he fairly made the sparks Av. In the course of the discussion of a motion in the namse of Mr. Mar-- sball of Lincoln asking for certain in-- YCormation regarding the Hydro--radial lime from Toronto to Niagara -- Falls " through Hamilton, Sir Adam made | an impassioned attack on the Mac-- kenzie & Mann and other interests. He declared; "There is a blight upon the public men and public life of this a country which we must remove, Sir ' William Mackenzie and his asseciates ' are responsible. I say it absolutely. ' [ bave been threatened with libpel. I sgeek no protection from this House. , l am prepared to face these men in | tbke courts and on the platform, to | discredit the men who should be dis-- credited even at the sacrifice of my public life." C,., N. R. Offices to Montreal? The Chairman of the Hydaro Com-- masion said Bir Donald Mann had stated that the Canadian Northern would remove their oMces to Mont-- real if they were not dealt with fair-- | iy. "I doe not know how many people | would be sorry if Sir William Mac-- | kengie and Hir Donald Mann remov-- ' *4 their offices to Mexico. We have naid dearlyv for the exploits of these | memr in Canada. The Province and I the broad Dominion of Canada have | | been bied white. They have placed a | debt on every man, woman and child | im Canada of $28 per head. We do / aot care whither they 5o if they only | come not hither after thevy have| gone." | Tapping CGas Maina. | The Chairman of the Hydro--slectric | Commission accused the Electmcal Deavelopment --Company of steraling water power. e said: "We found them stealing, and it is a dangerous statement to make; but T want to say, Mr. Epeaker, that if a poor man is liable to go to prison for tapping a gas main, I say that the rich iman who appropriates tho people's power and water is also liable to imprison-- ment and can -- well be called a thief." 6¢ f P ® Stealing People's Power," Says Sir Adam Beck Sir Adam charged that the Elec-- trical -- Development Company,, of which Sir William Mackenme is Presidont, was entitied by the agree-- tment to generate 1%56,000 horse-- power, but during the last faow months bhad been stealing sufficient water power to bring the amount generated up to 149,750 horsepower, Me read the agreement, whicn spe-- | i cifically refers in three different | parts to the right of the Electrical f TFrevelopment Company to generate 125,000 horsepower. HMe doclared that the _ Electrical Development Company had installea additional equipment in the event of break@own ]