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OLD ISSUES Mr. Swayze concluded with an ex-- pression of hope that all th» mem-- bers would be as brief as he had been, so that members could re-- turn to their homes "some time be. fore JSuly 1.' Labor and industrial conditions throughout the world, Mr. Swayze thought, would never wholly right themscelves until there was a return to the standard value of money in the various countries. Concerning the Nickel Commis-- sion of a few years ago, Mr. Swavze said that. although it had cost $85,-- 000, he failed to see where the Government had derived one dollar of beneft. Quebec Senator Fails to Gain _ _Admission to On-- * tario Bar The Niagara Falls member vigor-- ously defended the record of the Drury Government, adding, at the same time, that he had not bother-- ed to look into the Public Accounts at all. He read from an evening newspaper , which endorsed the Drury Government, and said that only two papers in the whole Prov-- ince had given the Administration its due meed of praise. On unem-- ployment matters, Mr. Swayzoe said, the Government had done as much as could be expected of it. Must Stabilize Currency. HOUSE DIVIDES, 57 TO 21 By a vote of 57 to 21 the Legis-- lature yesterday refused to send back a report to the Private Bills Committee for reconsideration of Bill No. ?27, to authorize the Law Hociety of Upper Canada to admit Senator Pierre Edouard Blondin to practice as a barrister and solicitor. The vote followed a discussion which lasted practically all the afternoon. The Conservatives were solidly for reconsideration, the Liberals as solidly against it. Government mem-- bers voted for the acceptance of the report from the committee as it stood, the only boiters being Hon. Manning Doherty, J. W. Widdifield, North Ontario; W. Montgomery, Northumberland East, and M. C. Fox, South Essex. The U.F.O. member did not take much stock in the financial argu-- ments of Opposition critics concern-- ing the proper accounting of Pro--| vincial funds and the deficits they[ attributed to the Provincial Treas--| urer under proper accounting. He| asked how, when one Conservative member estimated a deficit at $700,--| 000 and another at $3,000,000, U.F.O. j members were to 'be expected to be--| lieve in their gincerity. ', Mr. Swayze spoke -- very briefly, commenting he had been "talked at'" so much in the present session that he realized the necessity of brevity. He thought a great deal of the time spent in discussion had heen wasted, and instanced the afternoon's discus-- sion on the Blondin matter as a typical case in point. had come to criticize the Drury Gov-- ernment for its failure to bring down legislation on behalf of the farmer population. Mr. Stringer went on to approve the Government's efforts in the en-- forcement of the O.T.A., declared the people had confidence in Attor-- ney--General Raney, and, concerning Hydro, said that although an investi-- gation was undoubtedly the desire of the people, he did not anticipate that anything more serious than over--confidence would be _ brought out against the men at the head of Hydro affairs, j 4 ns Only Over--confidence, ENTER DEBATE Warm Committee Debate. The debate on the amendment to refer back the report, which amend-- ment was moved by H. P. Hill, Conservative member for West Ot-- tawa, was a sequel to a warm dis-- cussion that had taken place in the Private Bills Committee in -- the morning when Senator Blondin's bill was defeated . Ssenator Blon-- din -- was formeriv Postmaster-- General and Secretary of State in the Borden and Union Gov-- ernments, and is now a member of the Senate. Mr. Hill, in introduc-- ing his amendment, made a warm attack on the opponents of the bill before the Private Bills Committee and maintained that it had been the views of Senator Blondin on con-- scription and his supposed speech In former years of "shooting holes in the British flag"' that had brought Mr. Hill described the defeat of the bill before the Private Bills Committee as "stupid, mean, under-- hand, silly and cowardly." This brought explanations _ from Mr. Evanturel and J. W. Curry, South-- east Toronto, that they had opposged the bill because they thought Sena-- tor Blordin had not the qualificr-- tions required from other appli-- cants. The defeat that was given the application of a similar nature by Sidney Tannenbaum a few weeks ago was taken as a precedent, Mr. Curry maintained that there was no politics in his decisgion, nor had lobbying affected it. . L. Brackin, West Kent, held that all should be treated alike in these applications and that no man should be favored simply because he was well known. Upper Canada, saying that the Chairman of the Legal Educational Committee had instructed him to inform the Attorney--General that the Law Sociecty was not offering any opposition to the passing of the bill admitting Senator Blondin to prac-- tice. This letter was dated April 19, but did not reach Mr. Raney until yesterday afternoon, and too late to be presented to the Private Bills Committee when it met in the morning. "I am glad to see my friends in the northwest corner of the House showing a belated zeal in this direc-- tion," observed the Premier, -- sar-- castically, when he spoke urging that the findings of the committee should be upheld. Hon. Messrs. Drury, Raney and Ferguson all ex-- pressed regret that the debate had taken any political turn. Members Demand Taking Vote., _ Hon. Howard Forguson, Conser-- vative Leader, though he voted for the amendment, suggested that Mr. Hill withdraw it, and Mr. Hill of-- fered to do so, but several members objected, and asked for a vote. The Attorney--General, during the course of the debate, read a letter from the Secretary of the Law Society of HI. H. Dewart, Southwest Toronto, said that if Mr. Blondin qualified in Quebec and produced his certif-- cate, he would be admitted in Ontario, -- There seemed to be some misunderstanding as to what Sena-- tor Blondin was in Quebec. The bill said a notary, and lay mem-- bers did not know whether that meant a notary public or a solicitor. Mr. Dewart explained that a notary in Quebec was merely a custodian of documents. about the opposition to -- Senator Blondin's petition. He singled out Gustave Evanturel, Liberal member for Prescott, as leading the opposi-- tion to the bill before the Private Bills Committee because of the con-- scription issue, which charge Mr. Evanturel denied. The debate went far aficld during the afternoon. Old political ghosts walked again and old bitter topics were resurrected. The election tac-- tics of 1811, the Conservative "wave the flag" campaign, wore criticized by Liberal speakers, and there was considerable talk about Mr. Blon-- din's' "shooting holes in the flag'"' speech, which Mr. Hill said Senator Blondin denied. He read Senator Blondin's denials from the Hansard report of Senate debates. A strange feature of the debate was the warm support of the idea of the '"bonne entente'"' by Conservative nmembers, who argued that it would be taken as an affront by Quebeg if Senator Blondin's petition -- was refused. f -- COonser-- voted for that Mr. HIill of-- members y*¥» *# t V ts fue uis j Aut i ogtH «& c % No *« w t