The Ontario Scrapbook Hansard

Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 21 Apr 1922, p. 1

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FRIDAY, APRIL 21, LOOSE TALKING Two Government members. War--| ren Stringer, U.F.O. member for Haldimand, and Charles Swavze, Labor member for Niagara Falls, took <up the Budget debate in the LMLegislature yesterday. It was almost | 6 o'clock before the House finally reached the orders, and the two speakers occupied the time until 10 at night, when the House went into committee. \ Mr. Swayze was inclined to be humorously critical,. not only of Opposition members who had de-- livered criticisms of the Govern-- ment, but of members generally for absenting themselves upon an ocga-' sion when it was known "two back--| s benchers'"' would speak on the Bud--| get. | "Filled One House With Glee." | The Niagara Falls member caused | a laugh among the few members present in the evening when he re-- ferred to the existing conditions of apparent amiability between H. H. Dewart, K.C.. and Hon. G. H. Fer-- guson, who he had heard. even addressed each other as '"'Hartley'" and '"Howard.'" Mr. Stringer, who resumed just before adjournment hour in the afternoon, upheld the position of the farmers in Provincial affairs, de-- scribing the country's yeoman as the backbone of the nation. From a spirit of suspicion and fear of class legislation, evidenced at the first ses-- . sion of tihe present Legislature, said Mr. Stringer, Opposltlon memberal

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