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Mr. McCrea read from the order paper his notice of motion, which he described as one of "very special significance to the people of On-- tario." He read also the order in Council inaugurating the Commission of Inquiry, dated March 9, 1920, whose conduct thus far, he declared, had led to the formation of popular Mr. McCrea prossed his motion in a two--hour address, vigorously de-- nouncing the conduct of the Timber Commission and ridiculing any find-- ing which it might make. H. H. Dewart, Liberal Leader, de-- fined the position of the Liberal par-- ty in the timber controversy as one decidedly not in sympathy with the attacks on the persounel of the com-- mission, and in favor of continued investigation into the alleged frauds of North country lumbermen. Says Government is Victimized. The Attorney--General condemned the motion as an effort to bring out prematurely the Government's legal case in respect of its civil action against the Shevlin--Clarke Co. At-- torney--General Raney, in the very last words of a lengthy speech, said that the documents would be tabled when they arrived from the North today. The timber discussion, launched by the motion of Charles McCrea, Conservative member for Sudbury, for the tabling of the (Government report on timber scaling in Northern Ontario, lasted the whole day. Trying to Draw Out Policy. Another letter from -- which he quoted stated: "When I was at the mill on June 30 they wore feeding there about 1,400 logs a day. I note that our men scaled an average of 2,000 loge a day." It was quite evident to him, he said, that effort was being made to keep out tMe large logs and confine work to small logs. All the coramission's evidence had demonstrated that overrun fig-- ures on sawn timber run abnormally large on small logs. The Attorney--General, quoted, without comment, from letters of . C. Hurdman, who was supervising the Government over--run tests. At one mill, Mr. Hurdman wrote, "The observation of my man is that the mill people endeavored to shove in as small logs as they possibly could." Like Deliberate Frame--up. The suggestion that there had been deliberate inflation of (Government timber '"over--run" test figures in some of the 26 mills at which Gov-- ernment experiments were being con-- ducted was thrown out on the floor of the Ontario Legislature last night by Attorney--General Raney. The inference to be drawn from the At-- torney--General's etatements and quotations was that the 100 per cent. average and 171 maximum over--run figures furnished by Hon. Beniah Bowman on the floop of the House the other day over the pro-- test of Hon. W. E. Raney were to-- tally unreliable, and the 55 per cent. "over--run," declared by the Timber Commissioners to be the maximum permissible remainea unaltered. MEMBER DEMANDS NEW COMMISSION DELIBERATE ATTEMPT TO SWELL OVER--RUN, IS CHARGE OF RANEY Lumber Mills Crowding Through Small Logs While Government Tests Were Being Made--Mc-- Crea Trying to Bring Out Government's Legal Case wWEDNESDAY, MARCH 16,, 1921. '"'There is an erronscous impression in the public mind," Mr. McCrea said, "that a man buying timber should pay for all that was in the log, and that when a lumberman saws out more lumber than is allowed under the measure he has paid on he is getting something in fraud of the Government and the people of Ontario." is opinion to the effect that great scan-- dals had been unearthed concerning the lumbering industry of the Pro-- vince. In this, ho declared, the Gov-- ernment of the day and private mem-- bers on the Government benches had been victimized by parties privately interested. The whole case of the commission, Mr. McCrea said, was inextricably bound up with a prope»® interpreta-- tion of the Doyle rule, and, inferen-- tially, the commission. had found anyone securing more than 50 per cent. over that allowed by the Doyle rule had been doing so wrongfully and in fraud of the Province. He entirely disagreed with the sommis-- sion, he went on, as to 50 per cent. being a fair over--run on the class of timber cut in the Provincs during the past few years. 1 Experts Should Advise. The Doyle rule had been used in Ontario since 1879 and all iumber sold in the Province had been sold subject to measurement by the Doyle rule. The House and Pro-- vince, he declared, wanted to know exactly, under tests conducted by experts, what was regarded as a fair over--run under the Doyle rule. Mr. McCrea, referring to the action of the Government last June in ap-- pointing Mr. G. C. Hurdman to supervise a Doyle rule test in 28 mills in Ontario, called for presenta-- tion of the report thereon. Referring to the figures quoted in the House last week by Hon. Beniah Bowman, regarding over--run in Gov-- ernment tests, ghe member for Sud-- bury stated that the figures "jarred very seriously and destroyed the re-- port of the commissioners appoint-- ed under the Crown." ' The -- commissioners -- themselves, Mr. McCrea charged, had "seemed determined not to have the benefit of the report'" prepared for the Crown by Mr. Hurdman. Mr. Peter White, he stated, as well as Hon. G. H. Ferguson, had urged in vain their consideration of the report in evidence. "Was it fair to the people of On-- tario," he asked, "and was it fair to the lumbermen of Ontario, that these two honorable men should ab-- solutely ignore the expert test scale being carried on by the Govern-- ment?" "This test, according to the answer brought down by Hon. Mr. Bowman,'"' said Mr. McCrea, '"com-- pletely upsets the findings of these commissioners, based upon evidence not half as valuable as the expert test conducted by Mr. Hurdman. "Honesty ax;ld fairness -- demand that the Government bring down this report,"' he went on. "It will require a great deal of courage to. bring down a report that utterly re-- futes, in the main, the findings of this commission. It will require a great deal of courage for the Gov-- ernment now to say to the people: 'We have been misled we have been victimized by designing politi-- cians: we have been a party to the creating of wrong impressions.' It will require a great deal of courage for the Prims Minister to do this, but I hope, ir fairness to himself, he will bring down this report which he and his Cabinet have ordered to be made." "Putting Something Over." Mr. McCrea went on to show, from the stenographic report of evidence given by Mr. K. T. Harding before ine Public Accounts Committee, that Mr. Harding had held at the same time private and public retainers; that the inception of the inquiry was political; that Mr. Harding "was de--