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e it n .. NXA ons S pmnemes mm ons ne oo mm ns .~ *# tlite* F i y 3 *A o SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1920. nerememnereeneninninn anrmanmenmenan cennanmmnnenenmemnemenet cammenrnoment envenrnmrnnrenea rams # 'Dewart is Critical About ! ; | P. W ol o Jud | Col. Cooper Starts Discus--. ® olmes and Judge _ | > T; f ' Do S. Mn 9 _ sion--Decision Will be | ® 0 | | | i ; Reached Later | | | o rmimenan meoreimaeinatemene | | _ 'The Liberal Leader, H. H. Dewart, Tmg: , f | | took occasion in the Legislature yes-- |-- "Everybody who did a little bit | discuss the method adopted by the some such sum. It is no wonder | | Attorney--General, Hon. -- W. F. |\that the soldilers asked for $2,000.| | Raney, in making appointments to 5l[ have been in the trenches for a | \ Government positions. The particu-- '22-h0ur day and never got an extra | lar reference was to the appoint-- cent." Such were the words of! ment of E. W. Holmes as Assistant "lLieut.-Col H. S. Cooper (Northwest | Master of Titles in the Crown Lands '32;';35&'0;"\ ":'-" d Pu}l)lic fAccountts l yesterday in reference to (I'):.r:'a.rt\llnenltj Along with thish(fr'\e |\the paying of bonuses to civil ser-- | i"n:l'l;d;ng thgwfxflt)o'ihnetrr]xte;x;too? 'Gf vants from a sum which certain | Mott as Judge of the Juvenile Court. | :}fi:}:]bfi:.:o:ati,?r \\t'g:tn;)isappropriated | He did not criticize the appointee, | | in 4 < firpose. 2l | but rather the method of appo'mt-" I q T};c }Suln v'w.s n:'imed for the }'a'i | ment, and also the giving of an--| ural Resources Committee, and a | other position to Mr. Boyd, who was | large part of it was used for bonus-- succeeded by Mr. Mott. l\fr. Dewar: | ing the civil service. Married men' complained that the Attorney--Gen-- got $200 and single men $100. It | eral had never consulted any of the was for the inside .service alone. It Toronto members about these ap-- :;'ast stated tl:lut this bonus was the ointments. rst ever paid to the civil service. It ' £ In connection with the appoint-- was under strict Government super-- ! ment of Mr. Holmes, he eaid that vision, according to witnesses,. ! another man in the department | 'R. K. H.all (Parry Sound) said he \ qualified for the position had been |did not think that the sum had been overlooked. He asked if the At-- | properly applied. (He was not op--| torney--General was to be a law unto | posed to bonuses for civil servants, | himself in the matters of these ap-- | but this one had been taken out of pointments. S |the wrong fund. Mr. Hall wanted Col. Price (Parkdale was in-- | to move a resolution to that effec: clined to agree with Mr. Dewart, but Chairman 3.. WY." Curre uied that the members should be con-- Ithis beyond the Surisdictionr Jnt rled sulited. He said that many more | committee. -- He ';'hm;z(:}f)t ",)'" f(i'fm}:"' . Liberals had been appointed by the | | AEEY agi es d amee t ols arariin 1 present Government than had Con--| é?!get?fo&)feard Could be submiMedito servatives. It ought to boe a "fifty--| | 9 maf is 34 § fifty'"' arrangement, he thought. ! Elon s ahgggffi&,;f{f t(r)xf t'lffie"e"t opin-- "Are you aware that Mr. Mott is a | | claring: misappr )_j,at. a motion de« Conservative?"> asked Hon. Man-- ppropriation of funds ning Doherty. i s 'Q'OOUlg bf; sent in by the committee. _ _"I understood_ he wase a school | ;ver'u:; 1ietx v:.l:;i((;n_,,-"l'as faken, how--. | teacher,"' replied Col. Price, amid | s d decided to call Civil 'laughtcr. \| itbert';ice Commissioner -- McCutcheon + ; I 0 e next meeting to give f ns mor regre n airaie oi n it minennags, . ticism until Mr,. Dewart spoke. "I | on n ho mn ie nfi ce recommended both men and stand | behind it, as the Government does," | | said the Attorney--General. He didi not think that he had to advertise vacancies when they occurred, or | | run after members to consult them | about appointments. He -- repudi--} t| ated the charge of Col. Price, that mostly Liberals were being appoint-- ieathanienmrin " ed, by naming Conservatives who ii'niz;;crlmbeen appointed to various posi-- Hon_ Bemah Bowman Te"s ies |\ _ House of Some Reforms i I MEANS TO EXTEND to Comeé f OFFICES OF Gov I. | -- Considerable reorganization in the? l outside forces of the Lands and| a 4 * |Forests Department was indicated | Minister Tells of Change %by the remarks of Hon. Beniah Bow--| i ® man in the Legislature yesterday.| | + com'ng at Queen $ The now Government when it came| Pal'k '. * into power had found an antiquated | se ernimict I | system in use. It was the intention | epeenivrctliniaes . ; t | That the Parliament Buildings in.i € |to have the woods and forests | Queen's Park will in the not too dis--| ;branch more competent and to im--| tant future be used for administra-- | prove the fire--ranging system, and tion p}xr];gses ailfing axlad };chat the | \to make a perfect system of pro-! general offices w e elsewhere, was | % e \The prediction of Hon. F. C. Blggs,l tection for forests from the Ott.a"a' Minister . of, Public Works, in the| §to the Manitoba boundary. When 'Legislature la}z:t night.i th {1 'men had showed that they were | He said that, seeing at the | | t 6 y xz | buildings were crowded, he had been { 'competen. they would be taken on |endeavotlng to work out a plan of| 'the permanent staff. }rearmngement by. which he hoped{ | Hon. Mr. Bowman defended the "accommodation would hbe improved.{ |appointment of Mr. Titus of Gore \The discussion arose when members | \ Bay as Law Clerk of the depart-- iof groups complained. that the ac--| ment. He said that with him there| commodation for members was not} much money would be saved in legal what it should be. | fees,~ Premier Drury said that all ppaninifmmntninh e sniaifachant alee j competent persons would be taken| ; f on the permanent staff, and that the old--system in that --respect--would. be> Changedt A c# A | j _Z. Mageau (Sturgeon Falls) eriti--| cized the: fire--ranging system~which= "made schoolboys fire--rangers. | - is | mt _ '