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, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1921, _ j ?c" oo HEATED OPPOSITION -- FOR O. T. A. APPEALs C en en mt <4 * ies M 9 Attorney -- General's Mea-- : sure is Centre of Attacks Launched By Hon. G. H. Ferguson and Mr. H. H. \ Dewart § | | P cmuaipd" thare s m ' RANEY LIKENED . [ 5 $ (Wabieie e meie e ic en ite Fncermeene | At 1.35 this morning. the l Tolmie amendment was l&t on Mss decision and -- Attorney--General f Raney's bill was given second ' i reading. | | is s | & i All the hours of committee con--| }sidemtiun and House debate which | the Ontario Legislature has spent in ldiSC.US'S'i'O-n of the O.T.A. appeals were merely preludes. The final discus-- sion on the subject, and the one ' # which will eventually settle the matteéer, commenced yesterday after-- noon and continued all evening over + , the 'bill introduced by Attorney--CGen-- eral Raney, which provides for ap-- peals to the County Judge on the Police Court record of evidence, For the first time in discussion of the appeals issue the two Opposition Leaders in the House joined in vigor-- _ ous protest against the proposed 6n-- actment. H. H. Dewart, Liberal ~p.--r* Leader, after denouncing the re-- strictions it was proposed to place upon the right of appeal, likened the }A'ttomey-(ienfeml to the Spaniard | Torquemada in his persecution of 'those who differed from his par-- ' ticular view. * Hon. G. H. Ferguson, who did not take part in last week's debate which settled one phase of the appeals & controversy, jumped into the debate . last night to say that the proposed right of appeal was so restricted and circumscribed as to be valueless. He would just as soon have no right of appeal as that in force bn the statute books. Referring once more £ to the Raney--Counsell --statements, the Conservative Leader satirized the Attorney--General as the little boy at , f school who hit the big boy and them; ran home and shouted at him from out his window. Hon. . Mr. Raney dared not, he said, make the same' charge outside the House. | | Mr. Tolmic's Proposal. | Following up an earlier appeal ot') the Liberal Leader, H. H. 1)ewart,' for consideration by the special com--| mittee of the proposed appeal en--| actment, J. C. Tolmie, Liberal men--| L ber for Windsor, introduced at 11.435| o'clock last night a motion embody-' ing that proposal. He was seconded by ~C. H. Buckland, Wellington ® South. The special committee for-- A merly favored unrestricted appeai to f County Judges. Mr. Tolmie's motion read: "That{ in view of the consideration by a special committee of this Hous»e ot' the various bills in amendment of| the O.T.A., be it resolved that Bill No, 207, entitled an Act to Amend the O. T. A., be not now read a sec-- ond time, but referred to a standing committee of this House consisting of the members of this House who _ were appointed at the last session of this Legislature to inquire into the working and operation of the O. T.! A. and the administration thereof'"| He proposed the addition of Hon. p Manning Doherty and Hon. G. H.| ® Ferguson to the committee. { | Crown May Also Appeal. -- In explaining his measure on sec-g s R ond reading, Attorney -- General |