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THURSDAY, APRIL 6. FERGUSON'S MOTION Premier Drury Withdraws | when the debats ended there was Motton to Allow Tory innthing to vote on, but some in-- 66 * | dication was given as to how the Leader to TeSt Feehng | members will line up on Mr. Fergu-- of House" on Question of | son's motion for a House commit-- o s | tee, which motion will bring the Commlttee 1. Commls. (Government face to face with prob--, %., I c a'l»]_v the most snlid[y arrayed ()m)o-,' sion in LF | sition it has met with in its career.| quiry : Mr. Ferguson said he had read' mesmarmma=s j a Press despatch intimating that M. » | | J. Haney and Brig.--Gen. Mitchell MEMBER'S OPIN'ONS | %\\'nu]d be members of the Royal SHOWN IN DEBATE ; Commission to investigate Hydro ex-- | penditures. Mr. Ferguson said it wome m n en mm ie seemed rather remarkable that the Premier should take this course Premier Drury told the Legislature without the consent of the House, yvesterday that before commissions l if he had decided on such a course. t 1 r ui '\ are issued to the members of the 'I[e [nOllg]:lt the fllnl(i' {inister % i agt 3 | should give an undertaking to the) Royal Commission that is to investi-- | House that before any action was! gate the expenditures of the build--| taken on the matter the House ing of the Chippawa Canal the should be consulted. names will be announced to the Should Inform House. House, and the House will have an | 'Ph(;[}lopuse was entlitled to kno}\lv. Ifs fe j | said Mr. Ferguson, what course the epportunity of pronouncing upon' Government was going to adopt. He, them. At the same time, he said, ; reviewed the history of the pro--. the Government would not permiti puse(}, im-est.iggttzjon. trecal]intg tha; x' ¥7 +» «!the Premier had put a notice o any "mauling ,Of. the namte: : motion on the order paper. '"The The ,\) Premier's announcementi Prime Minister should make clear, came as.the result of a question put j and delginitely dStatte tt}r: us, idwl}\liat -- ~ ~ f course he intends to take," sa r. oy Hon.. .(:. Howarq Ferguson- a.nd Ferguson,. who took again. the it precipitated a discussion, which position that the tribunal ought to lasted all afternoon, as to the ad-- be selected Dby the }{(])iusie.th c 'th 5 - | Premier Drury replied at the vantages am_l Gisadvanlages . of & a! Government was prepared to take Royal Commission, as compared w'thi' the responsibility. It could not ar--, a Committee of the House. The net | rive at its con(-lusi'nnf1 in a momer;]t.' . times The Government had come to the r"l,"t' or g gebate LNat .was MAHme conclusion that the investigation | cxciting are as follows: could not be carried on by a com-- Test Fecling of House. f l';itfif;] of the House during s the The Premjer consented to remove m ':The personnel of the commission his notice of motion from the order has not yet been decided upon, and repalprens nevinburin. wis mae s ue and in Are promature, and come itaidel House to investigate Hydro expendi-- > authority," he said. tures, so that Mr. Ferguson may May Not "Maul" Commissioners s s «8 e he * & «i 4 4 is * place & similar one the.:"e. to Mest + Before the commission was issued feeling of the House. the Government would announce to W. H. Casseiman, U.F.0. member | the House the members of the com-- for Dundas, announced that he was | mission. '"We will do that because in favor of an investigation by a _ |I believe that to be the democratic committee of the House, and op-- practice, and not that the Govern-- fioud to a Royal Commission. ment will be prepared to have the . t H Liberal Leader, personnel of that commission leaaod by uis laiy' 1 estion of a mauled in the House." stood by his orleina sugig" £ it Mr. Ferguson then asked if the HMouse coml;ni]t_tegrgggi:.t We:tvgz:nt:. |Prime Minister would remove his Me"lm'k i V??est Northumberland; _ inotice of motion found on the order Sam Clar eéturgeon Palls, and J. W. > |paper, "that I may place a motion 7. Mageal, rp to. all Lipb--| $ on the order paper and test the feel-- Curry, Southeast Toronto, a l ling of the House." erals, in their speeches, si.tgn etl | _ TAIl right," said Mr. Drury. ' their opposition t;) :{ :o;'\:)malt%emg-; & J. C. Tolmie, Windsor, said he re--| the House, as again M f gretted the appointment of a Royal mission. | \Commission. _ After reviewing CGol. \Government's Crucial Test. 'Carmichael's statement in the House| The whole discussion came up \on a former occasion, he said: "It "before the orders of the day were seems to me a committee of the caleled." and upon a motion to ad--| _ House is the proper party to make journ the House. As a consequence, * an investigation of that kind. The|