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] FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1917 FEW BUCKETS OF WATER $ p t aye *4 -- wo ow & s IS VALUED AT $360,. VALUED AT $360,000 s P Brcarm oae cnmnmrmemmenenninascemmmesemnsenemmencne--~4 > Sir Adam Bec * y * A % Beck Quotes Superintendent of Niagare Falls Park With a Vi - t Witen We wet a View to Proving That Certain Waters 9» * 4 ; K #. ]'m :tolen by Electrical Development Co.--Re-- . plies to Sir William > C ® ir William Mackenzie and Mr. R. J, Flemin Hir Adam Beck made a warm reply § in the Legislature yesterday to the recent letters of Bir William Mac-- kentrie and Mr. R. J. Fleming rogard-- ing the alleged "theft'" of water by the h Flectrical Development Co. and . the i@lleged conduct of the Canadian North-- .ern Railway in legislative "lobbying." » ~Me stated that the first intimation the 'Hydro Commission had that the Elec-- 'trical Development Company had ex-- ceeded their rights in the use . of gmtor and development of power was 'in December, when Mr. P. W. Ellis, {Chairman of the Niagara Falls Park l».Cmnm.isuion, advised the Hydro's Chief \ Hngineer. Sir Adam said the atti-- tude assumed by Mr. Fleming was 'that this was more or less a joke, but 'he stated that a total of $280,000 worth of power was disposed 'of by the company '"in these few short months," and "at the rate of the power they aro selling now it will be aquivalent to $360,000 per annum. 'This is what Mr. Fleming calls a few buckets of watep." } If these companies have the right 'to these diversions, Sir Adam main-- tained it would be suicidal to spend, another dollar on account of the: t'hippawa development. If it was necessary to make the law clear, he called upon the Government to pass| such legislation, if such could be pass--| ad, and also to make penalties which, f would be collectable. The Chairman| of the Hydro Commission, referring to Bir William Mackenzie's reply, maintained there was a lobby 'wher-- »ver Bir William Mackenzic's interests were at stake. ' "I refer him to 'Billy' Moore as to the system and methods they use in regard to the Parliament and Legis-- latures of this country," he said. Repliecs to Power Magnates, Rising to a question of privilege, Bir Adam Beck said that a letter had been written by Sir William Mackenzie, ad-- d@ressed to the Prime Minister, re-- garding his (Sir Adam's) remarks in the Legislature last week, and an-- * other had been written by Mr. R. J. Fleming addressed to the press, and copies of these communications had 'been supplied to the members of the, llouse, "Sir William Mackenzie, in his let-- #er, refers to my _ personal spleen egainst him, and inferred that I have L. personal grievance against hbhim,". said Sir Adam. "I am sure that those who know me best and who have fol-- lowed my public career in the past seventeen or cighteen years will be-- lieve me when I say I have neither képleen nor vindictiveness in my com-- ' position against Sir William Macken-- gie, Mr. R. J. Fleming or any other man with whom I come in contact in public affairs. I cannot, however, for-- get my duty to the project in regard ; ' to which I am somewhat responsible, } the carrying out of which is arduous | w and difficult, and one that necessarily | wreates confifiict, because it is more{ ' wther than the principle of _ public,) wnership versus _ private downexj;sgip : ;)n' theé development and 8p_erwon--otfg Pn'buc- stilities in Ontario."*" _ ¥L3 .Mr, Fleming, in an interview , pup= ; thed in The Star, said he would not L gullty . of stealing anything .. 80 Emall as & féew buckets of water. pelittling the Action. * _ _*MF. Fleming," said the gpeaker, \Fknew better the value of money than . to belittle a matter so seriouns and im-- portant to Ontario and to the Hgfil: Project than to make sUCh & 82 °67 Mment. 'The Government of the . [ vince have undertaken tq'consu"},c,t;» development plant at ChipPpaws, i s f water from that creek m diversion of WA @ -- this To the Queenston Heights, a"n o development would entail an °xtpe?n' diture of $15,000,000, the . liability: *