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'i Commission numetl W 3 G e i ment to investigate and report to | the House upon the cirecumstances farising out of the charges that my | honorable friend made in his speecn |and which will be referred specife ; cally to him to report upory~~** | !A Roving Commission, I -- | ; It was not the intention to refer | |to the Commission the accounts ofi | the License Department from 1913-] i198.. These will go before the Public' ;Accounts Committee, and it will | have the roving commission of in-' | quiring into the administration of |\the O.T.A. He saw no reason why i \ the Government -- should pay for | counsel to represent the Opposition |and provide other counsel to prose-l !cuto. The -- procedure before the Commission was a matter for the | Commissioner. ' | Mr. Dewart said that in making 'the motion last week he felt that by | | having a special committee of the l House the affairs of the License Board could be investigated without | interfering with the work of otherl committees, and very economically. | He had taken certain responsibilities | in making the statements he did, and he felt it only proper counsel should be provided to appear before the Commissioner. He referred to an investigation in 1903, when the Gov-- ernment of the day had appointed two senior counsel and one junior-- the latter the present Provincial Sec-- retary._to represent the Opposition. He told the Attorney--General that before the investigation was com-- pleted the latter would have reason to withdraw the remarks about "in-- nuendes and insinuations.'" In order to try and meet the two wings of the Opposition, Sir Wil-- Mam Hearst said, the -- Government nad referred all the matters to the Public Accounts Committee. In order to leave no room for saying efforts had been made to cover up j anything, a Commissioner had bca»osnl appointed to investigate specific charges. _A week ago he had raid that if any specific charges were for-- mulated they would be referred to the Commissioner. "I don't know anything could be done fairer," he | said. ' NHTNTEAee ienss en ie ivee