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Fad MAKES STRONG REPLY _ TO PAPER'S ATTACK PARRY SOUND MEMBER BLAMES HYDRO ENGINEER FPOR WAsHOUT Mr. Hall said that the washout occurred primarily because the Hydro engineer did not know enough to pull out the stop--cocks until the water had risen too high to permit of remedy. HMe went on to give ab-- solute denial to the statement in the article declaring that Mr. Hall had benefited by the sale of gravel to the works -- when -- under -- construction. Denouncing the article as a "criminal libel," Mr. Hall intimated that he had already taken steps to get re-- dress for injuries to himself due to the falsehoods therein contained. Speaking to a question of privilege in the Ontario Legislature yesterday, R. R. Hall, Liberal member for Parry Sound, bitterly denounced an article in a local evening paper which laid at his door the blame for the late power plant disaster in the northern town. Whereas the evening newspaper had commented, '"Thank heaven the Hydro had no-- thing to do with it," Mr. Hall re-- torted on the floor of the House, "Would to heaven that the Hydro had never had anything to do with it and the thing would never have happened." is C j Upon concluding his address of protest Mr. Hall moved" that the matter be taken up at the Committee on Privileges and Elections, which was carried without comment from the House. To Come Before House The Ontario Government can go ahead with its bill to amend the Public Inquiries Act--a measure which will override the ESpanish River Pulp & Paper Co.'s injunction against the Timber Commission. In the Legislature yesterday Speaker Parliament's ruling on the point of order raised by Charles McCrea, Sudbury, who argued that the second bill was'inadmissible, declared that the bill was different in principle from the first amendment introduc-- ed into the House, and consequently could properly be concideyed. 4 _ The bill will come up for second reading next week. Public Inquiries Bill a $3,000 cash--or--car bargain in which, he understood, the Min-- ister was to share; tnat the Minister on one occasion had asked what it would take to settle his quarrel with Parkin, and that, in Hon. Mr. Biggs' own residence at Dundas, he (Key-- nolds) had said to him: * "Frank, whatever is coming to you out of this, I am willing to give mine"--meaning, he explained, his share in the total profit. No previous meeting of the Pub-- lic Accounts Committee this session --or for-- several -- sessions--elicited such widespread interest as that of yesterday. Premier -- Drury was present throughout the morning, along with eight members of his Cabinet. W. H. Price, Conservative, conducted the examination of the witness, while the committee beheld a Liberal member, R. L. Brackin of West Kent, in the unexpected role He offered sensational evidence regarding an alleged understanding to share the agents' commissions, with which he coupled, in an indi-- rect manner, the Minister of Pu&'lic Works, to whom he referred in testimony as '"Frank." He main-- tained that he helped to arrange of Government counsel. Acrimoni-- ous legal hattles regarding -- rele-- vancy were frequent. The Chair-- Dundas Man Says His Idea Was to Give Minister Cash or Car PUBLIC ACCOUNTS PROBE Partners' Dispute Over Com-- mission Leads to Poli-- tical Sensation man, J. Walter Curry, ruled upon strictly legal lines, and it was only the candid statement _ of Hon. Mr. Biggs that he wanted '"everything to come out" that opened the way, finally, for a motion by. W.. E. N. Jjinclair to suspend the rules of evi-- 4ence. Drury After All the Facts, Premier Drury went even farther than the Minister of Public W orks. Following a very definite ruling out of certain evidence, he suggested that some member move "that ev-- erything be heard." The Premier's attitude had marked effect, and the committee voted to discard -- legal technicalities and to inaugurate &A "free--for--all" as in the greatest public interest. i 5. 2 oo mss ooA amle To mvans An extraordinary story, alleging irregularities in connection with Governmental purchase of road-- making equipment bought by the Provincial Public Works Depart-- ment, was told yesterday to the Public Accounts Committee of the Legislature b¥ Roy -- Reynolds of Dundas. lluullu EPE CCC At the conclusion of a three--hour sitting Reynolds stated, in reply to definite, point--blank questions . by Hon. Mr. Drury, that at no time or in any manner had Hon. Mr. Biggs approached him regarding a bon:\xs w . nepoley ol t qs s ie o s ons / e m e e m Mr. Reynolds was summoned in connection with the sale to the Gov-- ernment of $117,000 worth of trucks by L. C. Parkin, a Dundas garage owner, whom he recently sued for recovery of commissions, and who testified before the committee last Wednesday. A Question of Commissions. op bribe. PLANS TO MAKE GIFT TO BIGGS did not know that the even farther