The Ontario Scrapbook Hansard

Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 1 Feb 1923, p. 1

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rmclih f y ie > -- se $ 22 - | i , Te m a WL , ; .' (Shogrsirmenieoearprbnie in en ' J ; Declares Attorney--General is Excitable as Ad-- y | ministrator Rore w eomdiran n TALKS OF"AMALGAMATION But Despite Fury of Attack It Is Defeated by Only § With a contribution from H. P. Flve VOteS & Hill, Conservative member for West T o ts Ottawa, the debate on the Address was advanced one more step toward ODD D|VIS|0N OF HOUSE A&a wind--up in the Legislature yester-- By «. Stihdli i $ 88 to sf day. The day's proceedings were standing vote of 33 to terminated rather abruptly at 5.30 :::owoztifltohcIJ'?:r:SIatu;: sfzt'i';d'a?: p.m., when M. M. MacBride, Labor ' e man, sote :nembt;eg fo;- hsomh Bmat' who was ;';Hl orf 1\."1(.t lIlomuthI.JaL:.bor metl:- roubled with an attack of grippe, A er ; for 'aterloo. st year e moved the adjournment. , PP member for Waterloo was able to _--The member for. West Ottawa advance the same measure into rr:ladde a cllmrac;'erlstlcaliy critical go;nmtft%eet stagebbefore ltsi eviatntual Rrddress, at times humorous and sar-- efea ut members opposing it yes-- 'castic in itsdreferet)\]ce to the f}ov- :;:(:a);ts&ongli{l eu;)m:ltted e%w ;f(l)ev; ernment, and at other times vigor-- + e was deem wron ously serious. Mr. Hill ventured a in principle, it should be killed upon little into the field of O.T.A. discus-- * gecond reading. sion, resenting the implication that Labor was the only group in the feckk's" abo Fumorunherss * whs Prance of unity on the ancatonzel leggers -- an rum--runners. a Conservative party, he said, had the right of property holders in never taken a stand of criticism of more than one ward to vote more the O.T.A. on its general principle, than once on money by--laws. The pttlt hiad found fault with its admin-- g'r;o m?imber? dtivi';irf&afigt;t fi:;\-- istration. or and against, s = s ning Doherty'alone, among the few Government Criticized. Cabinet Ministers present, casting Mr. Hill criticized the Govern-- his vote against the measure, Only moint's boasted attitude toward agri-- gvo Cor}servatéve\si Mclfl;{ssrs. t}){,!" ga? culture. Out of 461 bills passed ewis, favored 'Mr. omuth's + since Mr. Drury became Premier and the Liberals split up their vote only seven or eight applied to agri-- pretty well. 3 culture. He scouted the idea that Besides Mr. Homuth, Hon. Wal-- Hon. Manning Doherty was respons-- ter Rollo, M. M. MacBride (South ible for the lifting of the British Brant), Dr. H. A. Stevenson (Lon-- cattle embargo. Mr. Hill claimed, don»)y and G. G. Halcrow (E. Hamil-- too, that since this Government had ton)--all Labor members--the bill come into power fifteen new forms found a champlon in the Attorney-- of taxation had been introduced. General. He conceded some rixhts| g?lrixing to t)&e temperzlrncde issute, I\v%r. touproperty to be repr&sentedblr:} -- resented the attitude o the voting on money questions, u :tt?rniey-(;;;neral in rushing out aBnd thm:ight tilge preisent x?r:t\'i?r'\%rtlh%gug!' eclaring that a war was on. e-- ward unit an incorre cause some members of the Legisla-- according recognition. A proper? ture critieclized his administration of method, he suggested in passing, ° the O.T.A. it did not follow that they might be a vote for each unit of | we(xl'e the friends of the bootleggers w}e:;l}lht--sa.y $500 o_x;i $1,000--upon ; and rum--runners. which taxes were paid. | Is Dissatisficd W. H. Casselman, U.F.O,. member | 8 ssaticficd. for Dundas, characterized the prin--. 'We can assure him that the ciple embodied in the bill as an "ab-- O.T.A. is not him," added Mr. Hill. solute outrage"; T. Crawford, Con-- ; 'We are dissatisfied with the ad-- servative member for Northeast To-- ministration of the O.T.A. under ronto, opposed it on principle, and him, but we hav(e; never taken the "befiaulse it{xetxie }}'as}?o g{em%rztggtr stand that th .T.A. was wron suc egislation'"; A * s and bad, and t}emt we are making a: K.C., spoke against it, at the same attack upon it." time criticizing what he termed the The O.T.A., he continued, had sup-- '"'vacillating" attitude of Provincial porters willing to give up personal . beqredtalr}'thixg:}» ;;?&" l{'gu'}v%':gg gg; # liberties, and this element of the s paove ash yeatr, 7 the measure this community held the balance of | stand in the way o e re rower If th s n | year; and Hon. G. Howard Fergu-- T * ere was anything to | f a P | son, Conservative Leader, concluded turn that element against the O.T.A., | C the debate with a brief condemna it was inefficlent and self--advertising | ; tion of the bill methods of administration. The ) . Goctuitertions arcies people did not expect hysterical, | - high--strung and excitable methods of administration. Lawyers were R running all over the country on petty liquor cases. The public did not| care to have the judgment of Magis-- | = trates interfered with by an excitable | f Attorney--General. He claimed that | at present Magistrates dared not{ w2222222 2222cz | exerocise their judgment as to the | R * ' serldousness or levity of the chargesi Timber Sales, Film Censoring made. Artitude of Industrics, | and Unemploym_ent Facts Mr. Hill alleged that attacks had From Cabinet bean made on the lumber and other } induatlrie;. go tmuch go tlzat bulsiness EXISTS' men looke orward with glée to | voting against the U.F.O. Govern-- PEAT COMM'TTEE ment, wl;lle lndutstriesdwlere looking amaxrreaasry more and.more Toward locations in ¢ 'Queen's Park Cabinet Ministers Quelb %c. ul--;e;n:rn':g;'zegaclt'}')l: 5::":1'_' made their first onslaught yester-- f;od };o tie up the only source of day upon the formidable array of _ power at Dog Rapids, before bidding '"'questions'"' which Opposition mem-- £ | was &aked for on the English River | bers have been piling up since th; w limite. ts session commenced. They dispose 4 k conclndlnx,f Mr. HJ:I dOfli!it_ nWéth! of 13 of the 45 standing on the § rumors of an amalgamatio e--| * j :twl.:On the Liberals and . the U.F.O,| org:rtg%p:'::pues given, Mr. McCrea He prophesied that if the Liberals | was informed that the total number permitted themselves to be ewallow. | & of sales of pulp and timber, areas ed up by the U.FP.O., then the Farm. | from November 1, 1921, to October ers who were formeérty Conserva--| 31, 192%, was 47; Hon. Mr. Ferguson «ives would have nothing more to | .--Alicited the information that approxi-- do with the game. He also foresaw a *' mately $150,000 had been expended _ Conservative victory at the next sn | elections. : * } seyipemmizmergrauycrmmmenmns e matenerinns &

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