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" .,;.(" % v," .s", e e F 4 Tigorous retort and dénial .. x Characterizing T. Scher,© the man| : who, when arraigned for _selling / [ liquor, pleaded. finally that he was '. | President of a certain 'religious body, ' as a confessed perjurer, who had dls.'! posed somchow of 116 cases of quor, 'T. .H. Lennox aAn-- B nounced to the House that through the efforts of his counsel, J. WY. Curry. K.C.. the Attorney--}| General had remitted halif of his $1.-- 500 fine and lightened the 30--day imprisonment penalty. ;\lca?tim('. said Mr. Lennox. various widows, with numerous children, languighed in ijail because they were unfortn'n- ate enougzh to have employed otlier counsel than the member for South-- j east Toronto. A Few Sharp Exchanges. * Thoe cross--floor controverey . be-- + y twoen Mr. Lennox and the '-\tmrw?)-: * a, was waged principally over fi::mir\:}ue as to whether Hon. Mr. Rahey had written letters to Police l Magistrates demanding more | strin-- ;gpnet nenalties, the minimuin fine fm'j | selling to be $1,000. | "Can the honorable gcmleman' produce such :3 letter?"'* asked Hon.| 1\1':_ Raneoeyr. on the first intorruption.| "I cannot produce one at the mo-- ment." roplied NMr. lsennox,. "Well, then,. withdraw." Lersely commanded the Attorney--Geneoral. | UMr. Lennox----Will you deny suchl letters were written ? j {Ton. Mr. Raney--Certainly I will.| Mr. Lennox----Woell, then, °I will produce it. Later on the Attorney--General, in his reply, was denying that he had instructed for increased fines, and Mr. Lennox interrupted to remind him that Magistrate Denison, on the Bench in the Toronto Police Court, | had stated in court that he had re-- ceived such a letter from the At--} torney--General. Hon. Mr. Raney| suggested that Col. Denison was joking. to which Mr. Lennox retort-- ed: '"Well, then, he was having his joke every day. He says it every day." . b Would Produce Letters. > Still later in the Giscussion Mr. Lennox interrupted further -- refer-- ences by Attorney--General Raney to the supposed letters with; '"You had better not labor that point, Mr. At-- torney--General, because I am going' to produce it." ' "I will tell the House what the| letter is," broke in Hon. Mr. Raney. And he proceeded to tell of letters he had written to Magistrates calling attention to the provision in the act for the penalty of imprisonment. "I will give the letter to the House, and the members can read it." --_*'The member for Southeast To-- | ronto (Mr.Curry) has just the same influence with me as other honor-- able members have," went on Hon. Mr. Raney, '"and that is none at atl."" In the Scher case, he said. Mr.l Curry had not spoken to him about his appeal for remission of the fine| until after the License Board had dealt with the whole matter in the usual manner. Once when, in the vehemence of his denial, the At-- torney--General characterized Mr. Lennox's charges as '"reckless and without foundation," Hon. G. H. Fer-- guson appealed to the (Chair. Mr. Speaker ruled the words unparlia--|-- mentary, and Hon. r. Raney had to withdraw. f Before the discussion concluded J. W. Curry, K.C., arose to corroborate what the Attorney--General had said. It was his firm conviction, he said, that there had been a miscarriage of justice in the Scher case, and so he had-- appealed to --the License Board for a remission of the fine.