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%, ~fee \WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, AT T. HERB. LENNOX NDING REG /( Admits "Errors in Judg-- ment'"' on Part of Sub-- & % * 0e | ordinates in Not Suffici-- ently Investigating Rec-- ' ords of Some Prospective s¥ * | + Liquor Qperators -- In-- e discretions Draw Prompt' Dismissal H. H. DEWART SCORES 99 * "THE TEN TINKERS From a mass of correspondence and reports Attorney--General Raney, in the Legislature yesterday, under-- took to prove that the department | was not deliberately employing F '"thugs, criminals and felons'"' to as--| | sist in the administration of the On-- / | tario Temperance Act, as had been | ? previously charged by T. H. Lennox, | } K.C., Conservative member -- for | f North York. 4 , Taking -- up case after -- case brought forward by Mr. Lennox in | his charges, Hon. Mr. Raney main-- * tained that in each instance eitherl 'the original basis of criticism with'i respect to the operator was untrue | or that the department, immedia.te-f ly it had conclusive proof of the un-- | desirability of the employee, had dismissed him. In one or two in-- stances did the Attorney--General admit '"errors in Judgment'"' on the part of his subordinates in not mak-- ing sufficient investigation into the record of a prospective liquor oper-- ator, or in continuing in employment a man who had made a slip. | Lennox Makes Denial. There were a feow tense moments during the Attorney--General's ad-- dress of over an hour and a half, when, in. response to Hon. Mr.| Raney's question, Mr. Lennox de-;' niled absolutely that he had paid for | or had promised to pay for any of | the vast quantity of information re-- | specting O.T.A. enforcement which . he let loose on the House in his five x and one--half hour address. Neither, said Mr. Lennox, did he get any of | his information from Mr. Courian.g whom he had seen but once for five | minutes in six months. | The Attorney--General replied by | reading a signed statement by for.| mer Special Officer Frank E. Bud--[ way to the effect that on Bunday, | March 20, when he was in Courian's house, Mr. Lennox came in and offered him $200 "for any informa-- A tion regarding operators in the de-- partment," and asked him (Bud-- way) to go over with him a list of names in the Public Accounts. | Cheap at $200. | "Now, does the honorable member deny he offered to pay this man $2007" asked the Attorney--General. Mr. Lennox--I say it is absolutely and unqualifiedly false. But the ' DT "*"T O NE THIUIUNNNGENNSeEriEeeteeuieiecccncrmmas cce en acmerne oneccmmrs mememen. w s C information I got is worth, not only $200, but $20,000. s Hon. Mr. Raney--It would be | cheap at $200. ' Before the little exchange was over, Hon. G. H. Ferguson, Con-- servative Leader, observed that in | getting his information from Bud--| L way the Attorney--General was evi--} dently going to the same sources as did apparently the member for j No'rth York.