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: $ h95 i. j jears en | * e I'\ ' NOW? ~| PROBED BY DEWART ! s ® # ® ® \ oormbrmmmponcimms Royal Commissioner Partici-- | i } # Hon. W. E. Raney Objects to| | _ pates in Payment for Lower Assessment on | % Crushed Stone | | # # * l { ieeerias ons ie en ce se renialey D'St'"e"es | When the Public Accounts Com-- t efi TD | + ! mittee of the Legislature met at the BRACK'N B".L |S HOISTED fP:lx'lian1ent Buildings yesterday, H. Sennvdrueisaiate ies , | H. Dewart, K.C., advanced vigorous The bill introduced by BR. L. |criticism of the manner in which the', Brackin. Liberal member for West: accounts of the Ontario 'Department'i | Kent, to reduce the assessment on | | of Highways were kept. Mr. D&Wartli 'aistilleries, after considerable dis-; a [ contended that e.xpenditures wem' | cussion in the Legislature yesterday,| | NOot properly classified, and that the } o . til 'an opifiion is | statements of the department's re-- 'v«as held over until at pini & 'ceipts were not given in sufficient 'nbtained from the law clerks as to | i detail. ! its effect on present laws. Mr.| ' With Deputy Minigter of Highways ~ d that the bill should' | W. A. Mckean as witness, Mr. Dew-- Bra'ckm en 1 t; the com-- | art elicited the statement that ad--| go to committee, and then the vances wers made to the depart-- / %mlttee could hear the arguments of ment without Orders--in--Council to | anM concerned. The Attorney -- Gen-- authorize them, or without having | «l eral Was sed to this course. He been submitted to the Cabinct. [S"C: Wae Onposet C0 C j f "It begins to appear," commented ! saw no reason, he said, why the bill i the member for Southwest Toronto f 'should go to committee. He under--| "as though this Department of H]gh., istood distillers were making more| ways were an unlimited spending | profits now, relative to their output, department.'" I 'than they ever did. Why should / _ *'Not at all," interijected Hon. F. there be a change in assessment ; C,. Biggs, Minister of Highways. | now? he asked. Was it because of :'Every dollar that is appropriated | less business, or did the distillers , is pagssed by the House.'" )wum special favors, or were they | _ Mr. Dewart ?lso inquired concern-- | making less profits? | ing an item of $10,8%18 for crushed ! _ There was objection taken to the| stone paid to the Point Anne Quar-- bill also on the ground that if it wast ries, Lxr}nztof.I. W:th which M. J. passed the dGdistillers would escape' Haney, Port Credit, recent appointes the business tax altogether. Mr.} io the Royal Commission investigat-- Brackin contended that if the bill} ing Hydro expenditures, is connect-- passed distilleries would automati-- | a ed. _Hon. Mr. Biggs said that the [ cally be classified as manufacturers; Mr. Haney cited was an official of | at any rate, the distillers did not the company, and was one of the | wish to escape paving a tax. { Royal Commissioners, i __The legal tangle will be cleared | n | up by the law clerks, | | A bill to permit the selling of hy-- drogen peroxide in places other than' > drug stores passed second reading.| § F. Rennie (South Bruce) introduced ; a bill to amend the Disqualifications APPROVES CURRY'S BILL, Act. _ This was opposed by W. J.| The Municipal Committese of the Johnston, U.F.O. member for bquth. legislature yesterday approved of Lanark, and the question was ra_'?'ff" the principle of J. W. Curry's bill, also that the bill might affect civil under which munijcipal corporations rights. It was held over, 4 may defer for a period of three to Second reading was given A,. P., .. fifteen years the taking over and Mewhinney's bill to amend the Mu-- commencement of work on land re-- nicipal Drainage Act, providing thati quired for establishing, extending a corporation was not liable by rea~| and widening or diverting a high-- son of the blocking of a drain h,\'l way. § | snow or ice. > |