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Lo E* 3 ho x-i'm x Je 2s 23 TT m .#UESDA_Y. MARCH 7,~ .. * {PA AGE CRY | } | omm immemmnsenconimnmmncge Government _ Accused _ of 66 rnn'"" + _ *"Muddling" Deal With Paper Company | #s £ Anermpgen m --mmmmtene ns & Charging that political influences and unbusinesslike methods on the part of the Drury Government were responsible for the impasse in which the Government finds itself with re-- ¥Speot to the Great Lakes Pulp and \Paper Company of Fort William and the Nipigon development, D. M. Hogarth, member for Port Arthur, elicited from Premier Drury, in the Legislature yesterday, a promise of a full statement on the situation. Insist Agreement Rroken, In spite of denials by the Attor-- ney--General, Mr. Hogarth and later lion. G. H. Ferguson, insisted dur--| ing yesterday's discussion that agree-- | ment had been arrived at between | all parties for the establishment ofl a plant at Bear Point. }-:verybody' was satisfied with the terms, he said, | -- which included a price on ;\'ipigon' Hydro power, and then, according | to Mr. Hogarth, Hon. Harry Mills,i member for Fort William, used his influence to have the site changed to Mission, near Fort William. The company refused to pay the en-- hanced price of power that the move entailed, and as a result, de-- clared the member, ~--Port Arthur found itself today without the in-f lustry, and the Government and the Hydro Commission without the ex-- | pecied market for Nibigon power. | Pressing Influence Used. | "If the Government had handled | this thing in a businesslike way," leclared Mr. Hogarth, "and had not | been susceptible to pressing-- in--| Aluences, we would have had the in--| dustry established at the head of the lakes, and we would have had | a customer for ten or fifteen thou~-- | sand horsepower." With consider--| able vigor he expressed the opinion | that Hon. G. H. Ferguson, Conserva--| tive Leader, had more knowledge of | the requirements of the North coun--| try in his little finger than the Drury | Government had in its collective| anatomy. -- 31 Hon. Harry Mills followed, with | an explanation that Fort William had not been given an opportunity | > of being heard on the contract. He ; felt, he said, that both sides in the dispute should be given a hearing, which was finally done. He denied personal interference. Imerference by Mills, ( 3 I Hon. G. H. Ferguson expressed | the conviction that existing condi-- tions were due entirely to "the inter-- | ference of the Minister of Mines, on the principle of local patronage, . with the contract and arrangement that had been already established." Wellington Hay, Liberal Leader, | agreed it was evident that there had | been "some bungling on the part of' somebody," and expressed> a desire | to have the whole situation laid be-- / rore the House and e.\plained_by the Prime Minister, a suggestion to: which the Premier gave assent. % i # A CASE OFP PARENTAGE. Hon. Howard Ferguson asked in i esterday if the bill the Legislature y a 'of | to establish a Provincial Boar Itor Alienists, introduced by J. Waite | theast Toronto), was 2 Curry (Sou t overnment bill. Mr. Raney said i zas Mr. Ferguson said he thought the Attorney--General, "rather than 'his assistant,'" should take the re-- sponsibility for the bill.