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ENTE UTBDLT! ul uis + Ti iC d °L _ d C oee Aeaeeats ; THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1921. --------_'_--_-';Em. Dewart was not me-'- ( sent. R. R. Hali-- (Parry Sound) made a short speech favoring the f |aadoption of the proposed amend-- ' ment. He said he did not believe | | DRAWN . lthat the people in the Pru\'ince! ' > !were getting a square deal when| | |0ne section was cut off froim its} | | favorite beverage and another sec-; ' f | tion gotit. There already was im--| | posed on the people of the l'ro-i { wan _2 z22 _ _l2zzzme | vince, he said, an incomplete Pro--| .| D 5 MeaSUI'e in i hibition Act. OA man -- who had | |M|'. Drury rop Imeans could purchase what quan'i-i * ties he wanted of native wines. | | _ Face of Determined s p | | Get Mr. Rancy's Opinion. | 0pp0$|t|0n | H. P. Hill of Ottawa suggested | | lthat the bill was important enough | M m to be discussed by members of thei FlLlBUSTER THREATENED committee. | | "'*Give Mr. Hall his bill and let itl i L mreprmecmmrinne be carried away," suggested Mr.!| [ s $ tan PMitiva: Ferguson. | Early this morning Premier Drur; Mr. Hill said he would like to get| "withdrew his bill to provide for the the opinion of the Attorney--Gen--| s 3 of a joint Federal and t'l.'a'l. tX want to see this committee| P "m'o,m"_nont U d d regulate the 'dx\'lde on this bill," said Mr. Raney.| Provincial Boar 0 "' is | R. L. Brackin | (West Keut); levels of the Lake of the cods. moved, seconded by Hon. W. R.] !The measure was strongly opposed Rollo, that the bill be not reported, | ibv H. H. Dewart, Liberal Leader, Mr. Hill moved that the bill come| [~> * [ e n mmice % hss a into force upon -- Royal proclama--| \and Hon. G. H. Ferguson, Conserva tion, but the Chairman said such a . !'ti\'e Leader, on the grom.ul that the motion was out of order. i |Province was unnecessarily delegat-- The vote on Mr, Brackin's motion | [ins its powers to a commission. was: .Xeas'--Mossrs. Allan, -- Biggs,| Imo I'L H1 an, Labor member for Prackin, Ferguson, Nixon, Rollo,, | Peter eenan, L o esd gup. Sinclair. Nays--Curry, Hill, Raney. |Kenora, and a Government suy That ended the bill for the time , porter, was firmly 03)1;08951 ttOt_U"' being. | asure, and indicated his intention, s § s {]I.u&f:lsm ;\-as pressed, of speaking Sponsor Reopens Discussion. f at great length into the small hours A few minutes later Mr. I)(-wartg of the morning. arrived and asked that the cnm-: ig Loss Predicted. mittee reconsider the bill. Mr. Big Loss 5 seoll ASC Brackin moved -- for reconsidera--| _ Mr. Heenan, in arguing 383{"{'&"'0 tion and the committee agreed. | bill, declaregl_ that it 811"01""" ]e"O'; Mr. Dewart said that he had an' | notice of f"l('!l,(".l-'to t"N'» l')if;')l; sta-- amendment in mind. One of the |tisties fr & & iv in: | International Joint Waterways Com-- a"'f)unt'Of' native wines obtainable sinissi(,m and Government engineers upon prescription at any one time i to show that were Ontario to pass tfio s1ix ounces. .He. wished to re-- |the Drury bill it would entail an im-- move that restriction against per-- 'mediate annual loss of nearly a mil-- "Sons in places where there was no lion dollars' worth of power possi-- dispensary, s ! | bilities and ultimately untold loss in | Chairman McCrea suggested that, | | industrial development. as the amendment would be o# some | _ The Premier's view was that co-- importance, -- the matter stand | |operation was essential, and that if until the next meeting of the com--| ico-operation, as approved by this mittee. The committee then ad-- | bill, was not put into effect, then the jJourned to meet at the call of the Dominion might, if it saw fit, inter-- | Chairman. |fere seriously with Ontario _ power | bewnrtonemesnnmememmmeernnensentmnsmened | development under the guise Qf tregu]ation of water levels for navi-- | gation purposes, ' DEWART 1 | Contention is Opposed. y o | , Opposing this contention by Mr. SEARCH METHODS Drury, Hon. G. H. Ferguson and Mr. | |Dewart insisted that so long as the s ns ial n ts | Province kept the levels within the | minimum and maximum levels set Blames Attorney.General f0r§ by the International Waterways o | Commission in a report which the Resun Of Flemlng I Dominion had approved, the Fedey'al o ! authorities could not interfere with | Yacht SUIt + | the Province in any way. | £ e | The Opposition Leaders both op-- | o , | posed the bill generally on the Before second reading was mvenl ground _thgt it involved a surrender in the Legislature vesterday to At--| of Provincial rights. torney--General Raney's bill to per--| " % | mit search of boats and yachts for; 4 A KING ( liquor, H. H. Dewart, Liberal Liead--| t er, offered some severe criticism as . $ | to the manner in which the right of | 9 | search had been made in the past. ' | "I know it hurts," he sharply re-- + i torted when Hon. Mr. Raney on one t occasion rose to a point of order on L | Mr. Dewart's assertion that he (Mr. s F f R t, Raney) endorsed Rev. J. O. 99 V eportin e Spracklin's actions on the Fleming VOteS in ravor 0 p g yacht in respect to which there fol-- lewed a civil action. * It From the Legal Concerning the bill itself, the Lib--| + eral Leader said that in his view | Commlttee "to give anybody the right to search | boats is something that I think is | | not within the judgment of the best| MEASURE |S NOT KILLED people of Ontario." He objected | | that it was not even necessary for| . Welikkhe es hn rvinrrr ies e | the officer to swear that he believes| h ' s | that the particular case in which| Hartley H. Dewart's amenoment' search is proposed is one in which; to the Ontario Temperance At'l-[ 'he can act. > prohibiting the sale of native wines,| . One of the Liberal Leader's pass-- came 'before the Lefal Committ(*ct Ing references to the Attorney--Gen-- 'a * a CE 1'e' C fiet" ~a eral's liquor officers included the yesterday morning, and a'ex i word '"thugs," and he referred to | ~ strange and varied course is :stil!l them as "a-- particular class of in-- before the committee, which stands; P dividuals," o adjourned to meet at the call of the | Chairman, Charles McCrea. | * _ .--When the bill came up for c-on-! / sc s-- P i i i i ie n s i i is _ i