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°_ WEDNESDAY. APRIL 6, 1921. & WEDNESDAY, , x; *® p~ h _________________--_--M ¥ mgrmnanrenininmmmetnem, pemere uks i mmme zns y x f | of 14 years' imprisonment. New Angle Revealed to [ Demate Grows Heated. Timber Probe in Course "Well, why don't you lock _ him o up?"" queried Hon. Mr. --Ferguson of Angry Debate in Leg- from across the floor. % Hon. Mr. Raney--I am not saying islature -- Letters Are anything about that at present. ¥ Acrimonious cross--floor _ debates ' Claimed to be Prlvate by between the Attorney--General and the Leader of the Conservative party | Ex-Secretary 'and his followers were frequent. Hon. Mr. Ferguson, having taken waaii______zzzkse 0 objection on numerous occasions Jo ~ the unfair insinuations which, he THE SPEAKER HAS said, the Attorney--General -- had |thr0wn out during his lengthy read-- A BUSY EVENING |ing of Timber Commission evidence, declared in his speech that for an f mm ie * hour and a half the Attorney--(ien-- eral had done nothing but seek to Attorney--General Emphat-- 'contort and diiscolor the whole sith. + * * * ation," a remark which Hon. Myp. 1C In Hls SuggeStlon Raney demanded be withdrawn. | That Public Documentg Says Public Papers Gone. ' * The -- Attorney--General had 'non Il Had Been Burned or sooner commenced his speech than * Hon. Mr. Ferguson arose with the ' Carried Away-- Heated indignant demand as to whether h> suggested that anything had been I D e b a t e a n d A n g r y o burned or carried away from the Do-- 'N partment of lTands, Forests and ' ords Are Passed II\IinPs that was in any way a public | Wnn iimnipomgremamanicts | document. * ; | --"Yes," answered Hon. Mr. Raney. | Plainly to be drawn from the 'i Hon. Mr. Ferguson--I say -- the Jspiritod debate in the Legislature {At'torne\\'-(,'enm'al is sa_\'ingdsome- | yvesterday 3 . 7 reni on |thing absolutely without foundation, ;}'e'cteldt'\ 1.t't6j!'f1'00n" td 'e\en ngth 'and I believe he knows it is abs;)- | Premier Drury's bill to amend e 'Mlutely without foundation. | Public Inquiries Act was the infer-- (--~ TiAter the Conservative -- Leader [ ence that the Provincial Govern-- '"'ratl1t'a)1t!i3- pr}::es{tsd axair:s;t rlt'}':g | s 5 £ P iti term "rifling the department. .ment intends to mke. legal tu.tlon to !Attorney-(;c;r)leral. ie safd, had no | recover from Hon. (G. H. Ferguson, |right to make such a statement. and iex-l\linister of Lands, Forests and iwhnn both members of the I'iouse | Mines, the files of letters, claimed by |endeavored to elucidate the point at & o aine hto Ywhai once the Conservative Leader cau-- him to be private, which were re-- tioned, '"Now just a moment, Mr. | moved from the department by his Attorney--General, you get too cocky lsem-etar.\', C. C. Hele, after the de-- sometimes.'" The point was V\fjl'anfi- c nnfGanrariie + h. led over at some length, and finally | l feat of the Conservative Govern the Speaker ruled the term unparlia-- ' ment. mentary. | | _ The bill, which seeks to release "Abstracted" was 'the next term| | the timber probe from the injunction t"{),"'}t"lch HoIn. .\{;'l. l:\f'tl"glls:)el: (t;,':;;'f inss AFAllF , ave raths objection. -- '"Let e orney--Gen-- ;)l:oceetllngh brought by thg' Spanish eral," he said, "go outsiGe the Kiver Pulp & Paper -- Company, House and make that statement raised for the fourth or fifth time and I will give him an oppur:u'nit'.'v' during the session the whole ques-- ;'Jf showing the D\llbii(fl \"\'Ih""g?r ;i (::f r C ruée or not." Again Mr. Speaker| ition of the Ti'mben Commission, and was called fGpon to rule out the re--| 'the old invectives and old arguments ference, and the ruling was no, [against its status and jurisdiction sooner given than J. W. Curry Of'; were revamped at considerable fered his assistance to the_ Attorney--| length General by raising a point of or--} e ons der against Hon. Mr. Ferguson's re--| New Feature Introduced. ference to "pettifogging member"| & dire 1 ¢ inst § .-- 4 rey--| The decidedly new feature in yes-- Gengt*;(l feail®t th's MLLornes { terday's debate was the attitude of ; Hon. G. H. Henry demanded to| the Attorney--General in throwing _know if the Attorney--General con--| the spotlight upon evidence taken struedlg Minister's right (;0 take | A ® FR j away his private correspondence as 6t * ® & 44 3 3 s ++ . he ,1 ublic" Accounts Lor?m'tt.O tampering with the files. Hon. concerning the removal of 25 or 30 Mr. Raney characterized the ques-- files and the burning of many other tion as "too ridiculous to answer," letters. and the ex--Minister of Agriculture's U 3+ * yesh effort to thrash the thing out across Hon. Mr. Raney told the I_{OU!'G' An the floor was drowned by the criesz forceful language, that he linked up of "Order" from U.F.O. members. | with the subpoeuna proceedings for Sar t s s l the production of that correspond-- ays It's Not Private. | ence before the commission the in-- "Does not all this correspond-[ junction proceedings of the Spanish :';:C'-"" l&)a]s.ked R. {R- Hall, "deal with| River 1 & \ p; + * e public domain, and is it not in er Fulp' & Paper L?m))an) to consequence public? Why does the halt the whole proceedings of the Attorney--(ieneral refer to it as Royal Commission. private ?" Reading at length from Mr. Hele's A UO"'. Mr. Raney--I .d° not say evidence before the commission, the it is private. They say it is private. Attorney--(ieneral pointed out that I do not know whether anything of! the ex--Secretary of the department « this kind has taken place in the had steadfastly refused to allow any history of this country or any other| person to go over the files, among country, _ Mr. Hele, I understand, which were letters relating to pulp. is still actively engaged in repre-- to complaints against departmental senting the Conservative section of administration, and anything that this House on occaston. might be deemed by himself or the Hon. Mr. Raney denounced the Minister to be private. The At. injunction _ proceedings _ of the torney--(General pointed out that ap-- Epanish River Company as an ef-- parently Mr. Hele had studied the |fort to stave off the demand of the Criminal Code on the subject, for he L';'imber Commission for production said he had read that particular sec-- _ Lof the "private" Ferguson corres-- tion which had reference to a term en x *