The Ontario Scrapbook Hansard

Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 19 May 1922, p. 3

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K. es ._.....-"-----__&._..__- ¥ Help Men Sell Farms. He referred in his speech to the | "beautiful fowery stories'"' told to the municipalities "by the "projectors of F these great Hydro--radial schemes.'" He wanted to know why Niagara Falls had not voted on the radilal 'scheme, and said it was because the \commission knew it did not want to 'be driven into this thing. Dlscusls- * O mnmamngmens \ing interviews that had appeared in i * * |a iewspa'per regarding the proposed Dewart GlVeS Raney Lie Oakville radial, Mr. Hall asked if the Direct at 0 T A Province could afford to go into the $ «1 .A. radial business to help men sell their lnCIUiI'y farms. uies '% ® *z ns . 9 \| When Attorney -- General Raney MACBRIDES Q | russgested at yesterday morning's | Slt'tmg of the Public Accounts Com-- R MPUS | mittee that a motion by H. H. De-- S l wart, K.C., might be construed as a | deliberate attempt to cut off O.T.A. & « s inquiry and leave the Lennox ch Insists on Getting |nfon;n3a is Iupproved, Atr. peware qare angne | About LlOYd Harris direct to the Attorney--General, who tion C Mee ooz l)romptly demanded a withdrawal. Affiliations Mr. Dewart's motion sugwested that r:e %Sxm]mttee begin an inquiry into i e * % the orkmen's Compensation Boar Another fierce storm raged in the matters on Thursdaypnext. C Legislature yesterday afternoon, when "I want to give the Attorney--Gen-- [. M. MacBride. member for South eral the lie direct as to that state-- f JnE itation of the ment of his regarding my motive," rant, insisted on a citali o said Mr. Dewart in answer to Mr. ruling by J. M. Webster, West Lamb-- NRaney's suggestion. ton, acting at the time as (,han:ma'ni Ignores His Insults. of the Committee of the YYnolt J «/ __"I have long since ceased to take House, that Mr. MacBride was out | any notice of the insults of the mem-- / of order in discussing the failure of,. ::; w};g has Jus(t' sat dlown," replied Cl re any reply given 1 orney -- General wrathfully, the Premier to have any reply mape "but I ask for the ruling of the Chair to his question on the order paper on the remark." regarding the alleged financial con-- Chairman Edgar Watson then nections of Lloyd Harris. poured oil on the troubled waters by ; - | # ked for a ruling out both remarks--the Attor--| The Attorney Gener'al asked it ney--General's suggestion and the re--| ruling on Mr. MacBride not speak-- ply of Mr. Dewart--and both mem-' J ing upon the bill before the House. bers withdrew what they had said. _ E) The Chairman ruled him out Of. Among a number of things which order. The South Brant member . y the committee listened to at yester-- | . asked for the rule, and B&I'd he Pro--| day's session was the testimony of F posed to keep the floor until the rule / Thomas Joynt, Shallow Lake hotel-- was cited. keeper, that he had been the victim i High. of a conspiracy on an occasion al-- , Excitement Runs Hig s y t ready referred to exhaustively in evi-- M There was considerable excx\.emend dence. Joynt's comments and an-- f for a few moments. 'There were lou swers were a source of mirth to the ! cries of "Order! order!" as Mr. Mac-- committee. Bride tried to go on 'w"hBhi.'d speec?d.z '"'Was there ever an atom of foun-- Mr. Raney eaid Mr. Mac fnhe c.%u. | Gation or truth for the charge laid appeal from the ruling of t 54-- alr | ragainst you?" asked Col. T. H. Len-- f to the committee. Hon. Howard F'or-i nox. % guson contended that, 'b.\"}:h.e rul(:s' '"There was not," said Mr. Joynt, of the House when the C a-"'"f'f':"s who, in reply to L. W. Oke, East ruling was charllengedb In cfi?dm.'l; oteo. lambton, maintained he had never the'(;gpeak'-'r was to be ca * zold liquor contrary to the O.T.A. ide. § de;n this time Mr. MacBride kepi "'The Easicst Way Out." on trying to SPe"'k'n.a"d a}LrthemE(lirg: Mr. Joynt went on to say that, al-- memberse kept calling S umfMioned though he had been convicted of one Finally Mr. Speaker kwgsfora'ruling B.O.T.A. charge, that of selling a and Mr. MacBride aske ied that the glass of liquor, he had pleaded guilty , Hon. Mr. Parliamsint {'\1; Brite was because he had been told it was "the motion made by Mr. Mac easiest way out.'" Mr. Raney dryly * _ _.3}out of order. remarked that he parted with his f en \ money rather easily. ( A rather serious charge was made concerning former Inspector James _ _Jefferys of the Provincial O.T.A. F enforcement staff, to the effect that "he had been under the influence of liquor on one occasion when he brought in a woman, charged with | _ COMMITTEE APPOINTED. a breach of the O.T.A., and had i e8 to 'handled her roughly. Inspector o. . on ilcire ]?rutryda:;'notl;'tx the | _ 'Cruickshanks and Constable McBeth the Legislature yester onliger .the of the Hamilton police gave evi-- special comr:l;tt:getoséam Boilers' |dence concerning the occurrence, . lacrod ed iby Leslie Oke, U. and it was brought out that when Act, introduc locked up her two F. O. member for East Lambton, the woman was loc x 1& onsgist of the following: Hon. children were left playing on the vszoaliterc Rollo, Hon. George S.| street and the door of her home,' Henry, Andrew Hicks (U.F.0O,. mem-- left wide open. 'ber for Centre Huron), J. W. Mc--| _ Belioves Firmly in O.T.A. 'Leod (Liberal member for Stor-- Inspector Cruikshanks admitted 4 4mont), and Mr. Oke. that some of the Hamilton police ' ; oflicers had not the kindliest of feelings toward men of the Pro--. F vincial staff, but he steadfastly main--| 3 * tained that the feeling was not any-- like general throughout the> thing & s force. He believed in the O.T.A. to CC * y 'the last lotter. he said., and did his

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