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& !Gordon was not employed by In-- 4 ; spector Hammond in the enforce--| AGAm . f -- _ | inent of the Act and was not used as | | 4j k * a witness in court.'" A further question by Mr. Lennox asked: "Will you say that a man by 4 HO"SE the name of Lentz, a German spy, . was not den::tedd by y%t:)r' 13:&?::;. y ment, and induced a yO | x by the name of Cote at Cobalt to Attorney--General Denies In-- criminal." s « * :'::m(mae arge is False formation Regarding Wager-- Mr. Raney's answer was: "This tax Gorrespondence charge is failse. The only foundation for the charge is that Lentz, who was employed by Inspector Black--, DEWART is NOT SATISFIED well at Cochrane ior two or three weeks in 1921, was a German by en« lineage. HMe was born in Renfrew _ _ Failing to secure the information county, Ontario, where hli)'tg':om: asked for in any one of his half-- had livet"'hf':: 'l's"e":;l;:::'nrtsly 'etheesole! dozen questions relating to Corpora-- ggstil;. for your charge that he is a tion Tax Act enforcement, H. H German SPY-- Dewart. K.C., in the Legislature last "Cote, who was convicted on his might, intimated his intention to evidence, is a man with a bad record,} ° 7 having been convicted previously of| press today his motion for a return !house-brcakinz- Cote appealed to of all legal opinions and correspond-- _ the Lkeut.enant-Governor-in-lgou::g aence thereon, including an alleged y rflpifi?o:"e;?:rg'de 'a),::ians{' his communication from the Chief Jus-- g:rl;ligaltai'oen. This item does not sup--| tice of Ontario, Sir Wm. Meredith. port your charge." s After stating his reéeasons for de-- .. The last question dealt with ask-' clining to give the information asked § W You hn T LALR se sol, ovan. for in Mf. Dewart's six questions, th me of Webb, alias West, soak-- r in M#. Dewart's six questions, the :l('le:?th drink in the King Edward Attorney--General said : Hotel at Guelph, after having read '"Without: questioning the motives the notes of two other . spotters, behind the questions which I have re to what they said ?" ! just read, the only persons interested swo * in their answers are those who are Criminally Libelious® ut a maintaining the controversy against| The answer to this was: '"This i this Legislature, and there is no duty | charge also is false, and if repeated 'on the part of the Government to outside this House would lay you make disclosures on the suggestion | open to prosecution . for criminal or at the request of persons who libel. _ Your charge is that Webb, adopt the same attitude on the sub-- alias West. committed perjury _ by jects in controversy as that that has| f giving false evidence at Guelph. The been adopted by the Ontario Jockey | fact is that Webb twashrlml: 'evenra Club.' | in the case to which you re-- tor" Pnat is established by a letter Demands Withdrawal. | which I have from Mr. Nicol Jeffrey, Mr. Dewar.t promptly rogse and de-- K.C., who conducted the prosecution| manded a withdrawal of the sugges-- ; for the Department, and by a certifi--| tion that there was any motive be-- eate from _ the . Poliss MsLg~ * Miorhep--Gekeral replied tnat he had j ouse." * & ul nat he ha t which I'proquced in Ts s been very careful not to make any ; suggestions, said: "I1 take it, that is a withdrawal."' In reply to Mr. Dewart's questions as to Government's intention in the matter of submitting a stated cage on the validity and jurisdiction o0f the Corporations Tax Act, or its intention to introduce further reme-- dial legitlation, Mr. Raney simply said that the Government had not formulated any policies on these subjects. TORY MEMBERS As to the bringing down of legal opinions of departmental officials, HONOR LEADER the Attorney--General said that pub-- neptimethowiniimnsanmermentorens lic interest did not ca'lil itor thetpg)' o 'an« I lication of these opinions @A e Hon. G. Howard Ferguson. (n.nq | presont Uime,.in vievs f the Likel:-- servative Leader, yesterday was pres f hood of the matters coming before sented by his followers with a purse the courts. 4 | of gold, and at the same time Mrs, $ \Ferguson was the recipient of Not in Public Interest. § |a bouquet of flowers. The presens< | Qoncerning" co~mmumcat_xor_18d. '1_"91' 'tation took place in the Conservative ceived from k o an, lega} 0; hJ\i' Ktll':e | . _ lcommittee rooms at the Parliament s 'source in 'regard 10' e it Buildings. Declaratory Act or the Corpora-- Hon. Thomas Crawford, dean of s 'tions Tax Act," Mr. Raney said: the Conservative group in the HMHouse, i"Any such communications there made the presentation, and in doing may-- have beqn are privileged, @nd so said that "the responsibilities youw !their publication would be against . have had to face have been> more \the public interest. . . . There is a onerous and exacting than under 'controversy now pending between normal conditions prevailing under} \the Crown and the Ontario Jockey the former two--party system, this Ciub, in which the authority of this being emphasized by reason of the * Legislature to enact the statutes fact that the Government and its labove-mentioned is being question-- followers were wholly without Par-- ed, and it is therefore not in the 'liamentary experience, but enthusi~ public interest that the Crown \astic to give legislative effect to their should be called upon to discuss th® ambpitions and ideas.. It is a matter |advice it has received, whether of gratification that in times such | YOI r oth 18 * the. pro-- 'as these your broad knowledge and |voluntary or oft! er'?r e, Or. LHi pi 'Parliamentary experience, combined - ceedings it has in view ~f°}f m'{'m'gl';: | with patience and -- perseverance, ;égfe the authority of 'the Leg ; v¥ and devotion to duty, were + : j :gialiiltéblea in the public service for Pursuing the subject of the SUP"; the benefit of the Province." . posed letter to the Attorney-_General. + Mr. Ferguson expects, though his from ~Chief Justice Meredith, Mrl plans are not definite, to take a trip Dewart asked if there was any in-- ' to the Pacific Coast and Alaska a timation in that letter that it should, when the session is over. or might be, made public? '