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,'K'i'mflxlflnflon. i AIC" the board had been unable in three weeks to get that information he thought there must be something . wrong. "A little more activity on the board should be shown,'"' he said, "and would be greatly appreciated." He it was who called the attention | of the House to Rev. Peter Bryce's acceptance of the chairmanship of the Referendum Committee, He thought Rev. Mr. Bryce should be requested to devote all his energies to looking after the administration of the act. Defense for Board. K. K. Homuth, Labor, South Waterloo, said that he had been able by personal attendance on board members in Toronto to get needy applications through prompt-- ly. He suggested to the members that it might be better were they to take their complaints directly to the Chairman rather than attack the . |administration on the floor of the House. It took some time, he said, to inquire into and pass on applica-- tions from all over the Province. R. R, Hall--But what are these widows and children to do in the meantime ? Mr. Homuth--What did they do| before the act was passed? Mr. Hall--They lived on charity, and it is a shame to have to say it. Sees Something Wrong. H. H. Dewart objected to a state of affairs where it was possible for a member to go to the board, as Mr. 'Homuth said he had done, and use his personal influence to have cer-- tain applications passed. The num-- erous complaints, he thought, show-- ed clearly that there was something | wrong with Pensions Act admin-- | istration. (:~~Hon. \\'Qlter Rollo vigorously de-- fended the'board members, who, he | said, on frequent occasions took work home with them in order to keep up with routine. Although he personally was in favor of pensions being made retroactive to the date the application was passed on by the local board, he said the board had the say of what was actually to be the case. The number of applica-- tions for pensions up to Fegruary, he said, was 3,088, whereas the number that would be paid for Feb-- ruary would be 1,245. '"Give the board a little time," he said, "and ; the act will be working smoothly." | Hon. G. Howard Ferguson, con--| cluding the debate, strongly urged | the necessity of making all the de-- layed payments retroactive to the date of approval by the local board. If the widows throughout the Pro-- vince could be told that such was to be the case they could secure the necessities of life on credit with the knowledgo that theis cheques would be forthcoming. The Conservative Leader secured from Premier Drury the statement that Commissioner Reynolds is a brother of Professor Reynolds of Guelph O. A. C. en mmemnnmmemncnmecnmenrememmemmmnmemmemmmemmemenemenmammmnmcnmemamnamememenammnnmemn, * & ,1! Ferguson "Admits Monopoly of Brains Before the Orders of the Day were' called in the Legislature yesterday,, Attorney--General -- Raney arose t")l ask Hon. G. H. FPerguson if he \ve:'e; correctly reported by The Globe at| the banquet given to him by To--| ronto Concervatives in saying that| all the brains and debating ahilityj of the Legislature were contained in the Conservative party. | Very forcibly the Leader of the| Conservative party declared that hu; was -- correctly reported. . Further--} more, he said, he was correctly re-{ ~ ported when he said that the Con--| servatives were defeated in 1919 by| an epidemic of hysteria which pass-- : ed over the Province. Evidences of that epidemic, he said, were still! visible on Government benches.