The Ontario Scrapbook Hansard

Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 24 May 1922, p. 4

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(Exclude Radials From l:ia:i. as . & F LATLY DmB \ _ Premier Drury sugge edeadlock 'means of breaking th'I('gorom:o and that the lines of the "LO"OM"n/ded York | Railways be eit-helor be pur-- from the deal altogeth.erbut neither hased by the county, D\ uiesced | € 93 gir Adam nor the Mayor tdg?tuation-' in the desirability of Lh&} ier got mSir Adam and wme Iremtlger on . $0 + into difficunie.;e»:/llt{'h:af,',fer%ier, in -- | smmmmmommemmmeacoms | n occasion w am, asked: "Do r Terrupting ks (fif}{}m{o 'go through Attorney--General Gives North rou want 4 o' sir Adam sa 2)3 lto be :j'al:fi(érg"\\.'as ":'.ln;;( silencg York Member Many v¥n aAn 6t £ rotested * ?c?r} a moment. _ Sir Ada&" remarked Shrewd Thrusts is Anter i uP ic e i oldicals _ to I ce nrewdates : 2; (he nex.ve-rackingbjegttédem sou. 5] Su F3 B t which hivn%d ine Heal. The Pr%mll:é LAW SOCIETY TO ACT?: nect otlllmat he was tired -- of eef_. remadnnnengss | said d at when he was trying to | ; $ ic Accounts | ghoule aess in connection with the Addressing the Public cCc 8 | 1:eCtl * % illt' Committee yesterday morning, At--| de%\.\'e no s°°neng.3f~v Soan:l "Ii?mn torney--General Raney gave C """"' cleared up Mr-lior; is raised. 1 likel qualified and emphatic denial s ',Hl from Othe'.ob'?.ec l the charges of T. H. Lennox, K.A '*| frank dealing. ; made in the House some weeks 3"»"\) Sir Adam Hits B"":)';__ itustes," xe--| to the effect that, with Mr. Raney's | ."Th":!l- {.Tdazrln p'l'll fié\'e no ansV\'er, knowledge, the O.T.A.. enforecement} plxeqosll'l q'uestio'n; When I fail ig department had employed "thugs ;f,v}dmy as a trustee h:::};ég Swilh and criminals." remedy. 1 have bg;g cwhat is un-- The Attorney--General, in a gen-- dishoneztyl ':11:1(11 s:;lnning to believe eral statement to the committee, t!}'1ueearrlnust be something in it. 1 then proceeded to make absolute de-- have told you is nuviee on Lrles and nial of the accuracy of the dozen ing for cour}'sel's s' k | or more charges which, however,; for | agreie-mfo";éf{xinp:»'l'here is nothing * the most part, came under the gen-- qt.';\nZ{ing in the way of the =igl't91_::'(;l"l: { eral heading of the employment of being signed if the 'P"("l'l" 0n | disreputable characters. Concerning| sides will be reasonable. 4ea in 'a'l '_ the allegation that, as Attnrnr:_\-_é Another exchange . ensu ha lagg; General, he had been associated with | repetition of discussion i\"i l)lzl':)nn;e 'men who would have been a dis-- conference over the allegtvtqnlwav to' grace to any community or any morpllingere ce ce Aeppatinen 'which Sit. civilized country," Mr. Raney de--| "clean up" Yonge street, whi do;lp clared that reference must be taken | Adam contended had not neehn 2l to include Messrs. Flavelle, Ding--| Mr. Fleming reiterated that the cover man and Smith, than whom, hr,e{ pany only undertook to t,ur:n ficht maintained, with' . emphasis, _there| that to which they had a right. were no more honorable men in the Difference Over Radial Cost. : Province. That led on to a rather acrimoni-- Lennox Refuses to Testify. ous exchange between Sir A,d?m Although the motion of the com-- and Mr. Fleming over the \% U?' mittee as passed last week was for which the railways had been S?h éllp; the hearing of both the Attorney-- in relation to the total of the w (,) ' General and Mr. Lennox, the latter deal. Sir Adarm ma_iptamed it "a.: resolutely l'eftxsm_J to submit. to $5,900,000, and Mr. Fleming that i ' examination at this particulz;r point wa's $2,900,000. o in the proceedings. He maintained | Mr. Fleming assured the gathel-l the position he took at previous Iing'; that the company would keep | committee meetings, that althoush the radials so long as the major he would eventually take the w{tness | portion of the deal was gone throughl stand, he alone was to be the judge with. is of when the opportune time had "The Government wants progress, | arrived. Both he and Hon. (i+. }'I. said the Premier, '"and we are go--| Ferguson argued that 'all the evi-- ing to get it, if it is necessary to take | dence was not in, Mr. Perguson de everybody by the neck." I'le an-l | claring that it was a new thing for nounced the intention of holding an-- the accused to dictate to the accuser |other conference toward the close as to when he should give his evi-- | of the week. » degff' r p j j . _ haney, in his statement, in-- timated that certain of Mr. Len-- ; nox's actions which he questioned would be brought to the attention of the Law Society. He stated that, in his opinion, it was a most serious f breach of legal ethics for a laawyer S to make public confidential informa-- tion which he had received from a client. Discussion of Legal Ethics. | Reference was made parucularly.' to 'the case of H. H. McCutcheon, | 3. who had accused the North York [ oA member of "double--crossing'* him, | * and Mr. Lennox, in that connection, | pointed out McCu'tcheon's admission | that he knew the information' and | the charges were to be launched in ' f the House. The Attorney-Geneml,, however, did not think that covered / the point, but the discussion of legal § ethics was cut short by ' protests| from W. E. N. Sinclair and W. F. Nickl6, K.C., that a matter of in-- terest to the Law Society should be argued before that body, and not! before the Legislature's Committee on Public Accounts, * Another matter relating closely to the personal conduct of Mr. Len-- noxk, which the Attorney--General = brought out, and on which he Jlaid great emphasis, was the fact that toward: the end of the month -- of , November Mr. Lennox had received * two prescriptions, one from Dr. R. F. Preston, Carleton Place, and the <(J)th:r fror? Drl. Ball of Stouffville. ne was for ale and ; whiskey, the other for

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