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¢ " .m' t l 1 -- ..L.E_! y y f 6 T ~ '_ «. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY ~3,. --1921, ! M\ GOVERNMENT CANNiING IN FIELD OR ORCHARD hud 7 stt + é Hon. H. C. Nixon Hasi Hopes That Plants in Public Institutions Will Allow Not a Pound to Spoil----Crime Wave Ha.si Filled Place of Deten-- tion | e ons a | ' MACBRIDE SCORNS | | ] U.F.0. PRACTISES * "If this fiudget is any indicationl of the kind of administration that a Farmers' Government would give at' | Ottawa, then God forbid that anyl ! such Government should ever ge'.i | control of the Dominion Treasury," | declared M. M. MacBride, Inde-- pendent Lawbor member for South Brant, in criticizing Provincial Treasurer Smith's statement of Pro-- vincial finances in the Ontario Leg-- islature yesterday. The turbulent member for South Brant only half finished his addrcss' yesterday afternoon before adjourn-- ;ment time came. When the time! i'or the Legislature at the night ses-} ision was given over to Government'i | orders, he had to postpaone com--| ment on "some particular items"' which he promised in the early part' of his address. Other debaters on the Budget yesterday were T. Mar-- shall, Liberal, Lincoln; C. H. Buck-- land, Conservative, South Welling-- | ton, and Hon. H. C. Nixon. | | Speaks of "Discourtesies." , Mr. MacBride opened his attack | by stating that he had been im-| pressed with the courtesies he had, received from members of the oldl political parties since crossing the floor of the House, and equally l.m-! pressed with the discourtesies he had received from Government| members on the other side. He t'clt' called upon to express these senti-' ments on the floor of the House, '"be-- cause," he said, "if it occurs again l' i shall have to resent these dis--| courtesies." | He proceeded to criticize Govern--| ment supporters for their outbursts| of laughter when, on previous 0c-- | casions, he had been criticizing Gov--; ernment policy,. The member fori south Brant was unruffled at the| outburst of laughter which greeted | his misattributing to Shakespears | Goldsmith's trite line: '"The loud | laugh that speaks the vacant mind.'"} "It was equally true, whoever said | it," declared Mr. MacBride, when his error was pointed out to him,} and equally applicabie to honorable| members opposite, not even except--| ing the Prime Minister. An Extravagant Family. | The member f0# South Brant de--| clared that the Provincial Preasurer,. had no right to plead that election expenses had helped to abnormailly swell the Province's expenditures., Due appropriation had been made for that payment at the last se:ion.| he declared, and, therefore, it was; to be in no way associated with the| ~ $800,000 deficit However, he did| not hold the Provincial Treasurer| wholly responsible for the deficit; it was the extravagant family of Cabi--; net Ministers which he had around him. ; Mr. MacBride drew a laugh from the House when he said he had * seen Government loans ear--marked erscous | "G--C"" and "'"4--J," and had searched