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. [cr",. ' I l How Price Was Arrived. At. . g Macdonald's estimate of pine on ', 5 these berths was less than half the . . . c. estimate of Gamble and Rochester. (i, Macdonald said in his evidence that C', he arrived at a price from the price i . fixed by him in 1917 for berth 51, l ' and admitted that he knew nothing ' about the value in either case. Mr. k ' Raney said. --_. . e --- G A ti$ber cruise, said the Attorney- Man P . l ener ,properiy rnade,i-ientitite . , RT,',"",','; A proper cruise of these _ , 12let .th)ls Are In 1 limits by experienced woodmen . - ' would have required about three Lice m Legis ' months. Young Macdonald and his lature helper spent a fortnight, or threel __ '" 1 weeks at most, on the berths. . RA _ "In these two transactions the , 1 late Government parted with nearly 1 ISE BOND INTEREST f 200,000,000 feet of pine timber on I """"-----..--.- the reports of a. young man who Hon. w. E, rlnntrir mm 'r,rs 'lr knew nothing of timber cruising or , ""101, . 'i'..""' V1"tt' ttat, ,.,mise of timber values, who was practically :' b Pa.) that it a "OHM" cele- the employee of the purchaser of :'ltrrttstU libel action mime on again _ the timber, and whose reports to ':while the House was in session, and l the Government, as it now appears. :if' the state of blio . V were fabricated. Did the Shevlin- . . & pu " businrsss De"; l 1 Clarke Company contribute to the muted it., the Premier and himself l _ |COst of the beautiful life-size litho- would be glad to attettd "nd give l graphs that adorned the billboards "Vldpnpe- He madn this sin 1 l, 'of this Province just prior to the in answer t ct b ' .enien elections of 1919? No doubt the , '.', ' 0 l query from llton. honorable member for Grenville will G. H. Perqusnn, Conservative Lead". _ know. If so, how much? If not, the who said he thought a, WWII: im- company was very ungrateful." pression was getting nut that nlOm-. To Prove Culmination. bers oi' the I-Tour-e, WW0- using thei l After reviewing the terms of the, privilege of the House to "Wild KIN-i settlement, the Attorney-General mg Into the witness imx, ' _ i _ isaid that the Government was in- Thr, Altorney-Gener;s1 will the" 'i 'r ttuenced by considerations other than "gismmm that the agreement on - _ ithe mere amount of money involved. "wed into with E. W. biaclius we 'I 'Some If these considerations he was ('f,r'y1,'1'if,; " WHN a" :icreenient l l not at berty to discuss at this time, . l lat mund tlle GUVcrnmt-ni, . '1 (but he could mention two of them. " , . First. if the litigation had proceeded, hoops Flicm in Place. the Government was convinced that Speaker Parliament 'innr)uiictsd', the company would have closed thut. Itnlesn olnder exieptional Cir-' dam perhaps would have been com- Egggztatnce? our? with the unanimous . pe to close down, its )lants ' ' n 0 t e House. members, Fort Frances. Secondly, txhe corals would be asked when speaking to' puny was not the only party guilty of speak from their own places. misconduct with regard to the mat- Something like 25 hills were in- tcrs covered by the lawsuits. ,N" ii'oclluced by private members yes-, accredited representatives of . the - [f/CI'),',','. a1ooustt 5?:hglgge-St day this , Government were ry,y,,tyt'g1,'"tto",,a.v application Htt were Of local ( " , I erm 1 . ', . . I p, ct.g,1tu'tloant' Sits litigation will A bill to reduce. the business as-g mate the culmination of a system . 'l,el.'s,rlle1t, of distillers was introduced; T'1'u'd'niii/riiiirrt of ms timber 1')er Ri3r1tdi1ti'u,',kri/l,; K.C.. West Kent. resources of this Province, said Mr. ii/Gi u on M,,'",,)),",'):."', l?. place dis- Raney. "If that end is accomplished factur p h . e some. hams as manu- the Gdre matter of dollars and cents '2 ers, 33 making their busmess. involved in this settlement, or in any 'ey,'t',o,t',r),"seelt, 60 per cent. of thaprop- other settlements which may be cent asssessment. instead of 150 per, made with other companies who f ir,', "l at flT"(",T, . 7 have obtained improper advantages r_-"- lFaCkm also introduced a at the expense of the Government, filial}? Jill. the Intent or which is will he a comparatively unimportant ivt/'odrir,vfn.,lhiry/g1i,"? Street Hallway " 'B, . . . I I " i ' u matter. straight ti,yelC,J,,"t' fart? Ottditlsl glinesql Credit to Liberal Party. The bill will be, opposed by Dr: z. Mageau, Liberal member for Stevenson, member for London. on, Sturgeon Falls, cgnteiiideg 'ite, tilte [the grottgid that it is an attempt to] art ' un er . . ewar ' tcoerce e city, which (. " - If??? sphou¥d be given cgedit tfor chise coveringh'ates. has a tvan at the 'bottom o m er Egggi'tfons in the North Country. He Increase Interest Rate. . idid not think the Conservative J. w. Curry, ICC., brought before Leader could ever vindicate himself the House a bill to give the oi/ir/ir, before the House and the public Railway and Municipal Board power for his administration of the Lands to approve of an increase in the in.. and Forests Department. terest rate, on municipal debentures. Mr. Mageau gave the Drury Gov- With bond prices rising. the opin-i ernment some credit for its handling ion of financiers was that a. de- of the situation which it found upon benture issued at a premium d/ , coming into office, and expressed not as salable a proposition as dbl _ " ' _ ' t one the opinion that its settlement was bearing a lower rate and sold W: a pretty good thing for the Prov- Pat' 01' at a slight disc )1].th s- Iii ince, in view of the difficult situa- Dr. Stevenson , ., C ' eat tion which had presented itself. R. R. Hall. .r'arrv Sot d . . l It. R. Hall, Liberal member for d -d ' ' f. 5-"1m , mtm'i V uce a bill which is intended in! Parry Sound, also presented to the give township Crounr'ils i h . '1 House and the public the view that trict of Parry siliiiiiii 'H n In: fii.'tl, the real task of cleaning up. and sell lands for /a'2(,.C, ii if], Ugh} to. ithe hardest portion of it. had been of through th C Sh f.lkec y, instead! ie,',',',' by the Liberal party. He R T Br 'k? 'litlr_1, . . I thought they had been successful in hill l " . at,-"" .c., submitted 'li /i,iijjiiijiir, it upon the minds of the o Iriv.e villae and townships. people that there was a "nigger in the right, in assesstng for local ?y-l the old Government's wood-pile provement. to assess specified dis" which had to be shaken out." i triCtS, while J. C. Toimie, Windsor,l i Mr. Hall said that the U.F.O. had introduced a measure to permit vil-; ' i been reaping where the Liberals had lages to extend Provincial or county} lsown. highways out to the curbs by pay-, l w. E. N. Sinclair. Liberal. South ing the additional cost. P (Ontario, moved the adjournment. ._.._._.. l ( i O r