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e 2 C k iow y y 4>*% :';"' 6 ue : t c I # .q'? 9 .?" y FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17 | , t npooe--~pmagthhige * 4 4 '55'-:}',-"_.. ( ,Infomnuon Before Money Votes. f" k Li6 'X'b ' y Proceeding, the Liberal Leader p,ure Ldbera! Leader twitted Myp o ' said, in so far as his party was con--| 'D.',",'n','{,i?,',', 2;:c:f::°h°;u d""Jll' the ts * cerned, not one dollar of money {from -- Mr. Drury' understood | _ anae e for any department of Government "Bpring pr&coede;y;( 'fiflches last es at this session would be voted until | Premie r. Hay, that th S ( the Liberal > e on OV Ominmo was s ( » asked the Premier to make the legislatio going to| ~-- j have each Minister render to the the English Rlvernuat Ottawa on j P House a fair statement of his de-- | but he did no such t'}?i!x:s an issue, 6+ partment for the past fiscal year, Mr. Hay. Hon. Mr. K &€, asserted | i land give also a fair resume of what Y Pardee cha.mpic;ned s thinz and Mr, » 'rpizht be expected for the coming the Province of Ontarioeatrights of $ year. but Mr. Crerar voted fo ttawa, Reverting to ths Chippawa de-- Government r the then is velopment, Mr. Hay said that the y 4 f Government and the Hydro Com-- y Praise for Mr. Ferguson, f .' mission did not agree. The Lib-- An unexpected tribute to | 3 erals did not wish to make a move guson was given when disc TL Feors e f of any kind that would hinder the North Oxford by--election u'-s-m' the *> work of the Hydro Commission in |not a good hunter, he's a If he's K Ontario, but there was a feeling in ' good sport" declared Mr Hm"hty | § p the Province, rightly or wrongly, commending the Tory Chief !a.y, in ' a f that this noew development at Chip-- opposing the Liberals. He pr cicted L pawa had cost more than it should |that _North Oxford would ;?gedlcted s ; 'have cost. The cost had exceeded the Liberal fold next eleectl;nurn to very largely the estimates. It would He also extracted consid | & be a 'big obligation on everybody, ' ] ttlimusement out of the Domlnlox:!re»i:)le and a big yresponsibility, to collect 'l°fl figures, showing how in C t » ' ' Instances Farmer majorities m"}%';' N t}?ouz!l)xe;?r It)g;nedh (7to, _ ininorities £ revenue enough to pay, some day, half of the Prozegifi,SDOken on be-- ' |something on capital account. |-- *""Phe policy of theeL'ig:dh'lates. I § , Liberals Oppose Commissions. t;';' to give assistance to f:?ersldwm- I | _ 'Generally speaking, the Liberals nc?af"ht'o" 'i?f P!'Pposalg will be bengf C 0 \were opposed to commissions, pro-- concluded e . rhole Province." i he S | !ceeded Mr. Hay, but he wondered if stands noy The -- Libera] party s it would not be a good thing to the prinoiw and always steadfast to f, ' 'appoint from the House a commit-- ciples of Liberalism." I e itee to investigate, not the possibil-- itpoe ' BR lity of what profits the project would Et ipay, but to deal with the differences 6@ |of opinion that appeared to exist * o 'between the Government and the C l \Hydro Commission, largely as to the ' amount of money that had been E:: s _ required to complete the Chippawa & . @ p project. The public ought to be . > x' |satisfied that the money had been o : \reasonably expended. t \ __"Is it not our duty, as members, to n * tal be able to go to our constituencies and say that"a committee of this <% | House has made an investigation, > and that the findings of this com-- e mittee are such and so?" asked Mr. ;,}1-"-' Hay. '"We want to satisfy our-- $ '/».&"»4 | selves that contracts were let to the *' -- 0 | lowest tenders and that value was s * -- |received for the money expended." * * & «1". Mr. Hay said that perhaps the ,w» | Legislature® had gone as far as it . + 'w thought it ought to go in making 3 C public the various opinions on E Hydro--radial construction, but ; thought that municipalities might € + | have machinery to enable them to # * $ . construct radialsa if they wished. . Electrification of existing roads fre--| NA quently might be helpful to the it 2 [ larger places, and the smaller places * § * < | would suffer. If, however, the with~' #1.. 9 p | drawal of Government guarantees AbtDRI ' would be a dominant factor in selling * SR | radial securities, then "that might f $s | be another matter." # #£ * y ' Public Money Not Saved. | ':E;fi | _ The Liberal Leader asserted that ;'1@.{?' 4 | up to the present there had been P' f | no saving of public money by the| ce . i | tying up of endorsation of radial | PWig *A E. j bonds. The money had not yet been § paty s expended, and there had been no * loss. Even with the endorsation of 'Q'«;;fi:é?'.'_"'" the Government, there would have A :'g}g{* been no loss, because municipalities} ~ n eres |like Taronto, Hamilton and _ St. : Catharines were able to take care of : © w E tany obligations that might arise. | * . . We Something should be done regard-- | _' io l ' llnz the conservation of timber re-- : 4 i | sources, said Mr. Hay, and passing t .. e -- !on to Mr. Raney's department he C "<~ said that he looked on the office of f i6' P Attorney--General as ons which C > . llhtmld not get into controversies in B1z | newspapers. He admitted that, as Eow ; those trying to violate the Ontario * C s3 R \ Temperance Act were actuated by f * | | destre of commercial gain, the situ-- , ' § M ,7345 : |ation was difficult to handle. Re-- f hi 8. F lgardlng the proposed "blue sky" f \laws, he said the Government ' 'lhould be careful not to interfere f * 4 > 'wlth the development of mining . § | I If in floating mining ventures they * . N $ 1 could regulate the amount that had ' to ho ies on moany for legitimate ' F & $ s helotul. ation would be C , | J , .