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s _ _SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, ' * ---- + "--- -- HAWKES, ELSON & CO., f | ' + ord --_| Promicr Gets Retraction. EM. M' MacBrtde, Bfrd'?tf | ' _ Mr. MacBride retorted warmly MCMber, DD'GWB Fire of i that he had won five elections and y -- s f | Uua.t:_ihe Premier, in his own county Queen $ Parlz Clue of Simcoe, had been turned down / d | three times. The Premier said this When He Demands En | :\i'as untguo fand asked for a retrac-- C [ on, and after some cross--fire Mr. Of Anh-Hytf.ro Propa- | MacBride said he would be glad to . | withdraw any remark he had made $ ganda ; that cwas not true. "If any mem-- * { ber of the Government -- wants to 4 | come down and try, his fortunes in BRANTFORD PROBE | B;;u,ntford I l\)vvillk res;"gn :n(} w%':l see | who comes back," he declare | ALSO ' DISCUSSED | . _ 'The three Indepéndent members f | in the House, himself, Mr. McNamara | t T oTO ; 'and Mr. Halcrow, represented 109,-- |__*"*Stop this nropaganda against l000 people, said Mr. MacBride. He, %Hydro!" thunderved M. M. MacBride, | challenged the Government to put | | fuabor member for | together any 15 members that repre--| |Independent | sented so large a number of persons. | |Brantford, acrogss the floor of the !___Mr. MacBride then rather unex-- | Legislature at the Drury Government ! I;CC}OG]\.Y gaive h{? meed }c;f I)tt'ais(;a :0: | ; f a vigorous 4. J,. Morrison because he stoo o | }yesterday. in the ?'d;teor;ier fm_ his | his principles through thick -- and |arraignment «of the Pr | thin. _ Following that he criticized |attitude toward Hydro. | the Government for not making any i Bringing forward the names of | l'OfPrgnctehtogt'he \ZfltShingign ggnfer- s ence in the Speech from the rone. phresers._ Elgon a!nd (lrwkee anld ;He also criticized the Government lHydrO-l'adifll witnesses before the for not welcoming officially Admiral \Sutherland Commission, Mr. Mac-- | Earl Beatty when he was here. That, \Bride declared that public accounts Rtt't(t)houg}(l't. was1 the tt'?,ult of th}: rney--General, quoting a speec would bear out the fact that Eh'ey of Mr. Raney, mac;le recently, r\)vhen were pald by the Government. While the latter had said that Canadians the member for Brantford assumed ;iid not wish to interfere in Great 3ritain's foreign affairs and that |that the'y represented. the interests Canada had enough problems of her lwhom, Sir Adam Beck had e0 long own. Important legislation was not |\been fighting, he voiced a demand to ready for the House, said Mr. Mac-- lknow of the Government just who it tl;'ride. btUt ;vittr}lfin a few \dlu,ystrom was they had really represented. hl]"::u:rl(:tr h? his e"fa't:'s'?.np; r'bm'mf% Premier on Defensive. ;| abolish appeals to the Privy Coun-- E After Premier Drury had inter-- "'"-' |rupted with a denial that there had | Says Rollo Escaped to Geneva, |been, or ever would be, Government [ -- 'The Government was then criticiz-- \propaganda against Hydro, and that ed by the member for Brantford for | \the Government was not responsible not helping the farmers, and he said | for Arthur Hawkes and J. M. Elson, ) the Premier had not had the courage | IMr. MacBride we'nt. on to ify]terpret. to say Open']y to hnvplement ma'nu-g |as he saw it, the Government's Hydro facturers that their prices were too . |policy--of attacking here, criticizing high, ag he himself had done in | ithere, and investigating some place *| Brantford. Mr. Drury retorted that else, until, perhaps, it could _ get he was aware the prices were too the people of the Province to believe high and that he knew of the syes-- 50"}"""8- *R G | tem that permitted it. 'This led Mr. s F. G-_,Sa"{i'-'" '_,-'F- ). member for | MacBride into a discussion on fiscal ggg;'ézlg;';:\'f"" will resume the de--| } policies, iln vw;();icl;) he Iupl'l:\'alid -proteo; | J + tion, and sa that the Minister o | Over 8,000 Orders--in--Council. La-bort, '\g Rollc]), ?%d"m')nver:iient:y | 8 s | gone to Geneva last fall in order to :bei'ee;;]xyliigf t?na ?}'::Stlg:y" ?,rglne];z;' |miss the issue that was raised in the ,Drury had said that sinc.e the time | Dominion e]e«;ti'ons. He then twit'tod 'his Government cama inta, aMaAq »~+~-- the . Labor Mmiste'.'_ on his interview to and including %nuary 31. last, :I :.1;] 'lt'h}c Gi(t)*lw]in ;\tfm;};] M(r;. Rollo said in e ha at'he stood with the Government. total.of §$,297 Orders--in Coucrll::ilssmn C Mr. Rollo wanted the member to been passed,. Upon this a read 'this, and in the exchange of the member for Brantford hung a questions said quite positively that text for the first part of his speech, ';1{(- (;uppor(tied t(?ie l(}'ovfi-rr}ment on the i ; he ydro and radial policies. holding: that ,thq .protestsl ,%f. tcll l Mr. MacBride then accused the |Farmers against ~~Orders--in--Coun Government of granting in November had been merely hypocrisy. 3 last a charter to a company to build ' He then turned his attention to the light railways in Northorn Ontario. |"spotter," and scornfully referred '"*What is the history of charters be-- 'to what he termed an attempt by the | ing granted in this Province to pri-- | Attorney--General to elevate this | vate individuals?" he asked. | "They kind of person to a superior plane | are sold to larger corporations. 1 under the title of special operatives. | predict in a short time an attempt He objected to the employment of a of the C.P.R,. to acquire some -- of type of man who, he said, enticedi these charters, whereby much of the boys of 18, and sometimes younger, | freight of the North country will be to take a dJdrink and who then laid 'carried on that road instead of on an information against them for Government roads." drinking. Draws Premier's Fire. A Supporter of P. R. "Whether this Government or the | After urging that the' Southeast municipalities control, it may be a Toronto riding should be opened im--| debatable point," said Mr. Mac-- mediately Mr. MacBride went on to:| Bride, referring to Hydro, "but the commend proportional representa-- fact that the peop_le of the Province tion. . He would welcome an experi-- own and control it in any event is ment of groupiny the counties of| not debatable." . s Brant, Norfolk, Oxford and Water--| Referring to ~the Chippawa de-- loo for election purpoges underg velopment, the member for Brant-- this scheme and let the issue be the ford went on to say that ft was a stand the Labor memnbers support-- war necessity, in that additional | ing the Government had taken, as power was being _ demanded . for compared with the stand Mr. Mac-- munition Mmarllaufgcwre. Of course, Bride had taken. _ The effect would' ga;--ti;i Mr. h sog io unf}er war con-- be to enlarge the Independent eroup| I flkd ex--ceded 1ie"e rices. the cost | se by 500 per cent., he| ad exceede e estimate, but his g;u;he House by | | surprise wa.g ntott l:h"tltahere had been "T only way the honor-- an excess, bu at e excess over abl:snrgxz%;?ihinksg is ';vill get in?", !| the estimate had not 'been larger. inquired Mr. Drury suavely. | Revn o s