The Ontario Scrapbook Hansard

Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 2 Jun 1922, p. 1

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The Attorney--General, how-- aver, did get before the House a categorical denial of | the more outstanding Lennox charges, and, dealing with in--| dividual cases, contended that | on each one the North York | member had failed to establish \ his case. Either Mr. Lennox's \'. declarations _ On particular | cases were gross exaggera-- tions of the facts, or, according | to Mr. Raney's statements, they were absolutely false. | Opposition Men Rush to Attack When Attor-- ney--General Starts to Show Who Are En-- emies of Proper Prohibition Enforcement-- Though Blocked by Ruling, Minister Man-- ages to Answer, Item by Item, T. H. Len-- _ nox's Charges, and Brands Them "False" | Prevented by the Speaker's ruling trom discussing the at-- \titude of certain Conservative members toward the Ontario \ Temperance Act, Attorney--General Raney, in the Legislature | yesterday, abruptly terminated his speech on the second read-- 'ing of his bill to prevent liquor transportation on public high-- ' ways, and moved the second reading. Although he intimated an intention of appealing from the ruling of the Chair, he ulti-- mately abandoned that course. SECOND READING GIVEN MEASURE TO HAMPER SHIPMENT OF LIQUOR FRIDAY, JUNE 2 w. F. > Nickle, K.C., Kingston, raised the first point of order when he asked for the Speaker's ruling as to the right of the Attorney-- General to discuss the Lennox charges when the matter was under investigation by the Public Accounts Committee, and --a report thereon pending. Mr. Nickle declined to accept the ruling of Malcolm Mac-- : Vicar, who temporarily occupied the chair, and asked for the Speaker. Hon. Mr. Parliament's ruling was that a member could not anticipate discussion which would rightly come before the House on the report of ' the Public Accounts Committee. Insists on Speakers mnuling.

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