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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY Cl MUCH PATRONAGE, SINCLAIR CLAIMS BENEFITS OF PROHIBITION Ylifi)fl()llfM BROUGHT OUT DEFINITE ANNOUNCE- MENT of a move in Ontario for a plebiscite on Government-i controlled sale of liquor was} forthcoming in the Legislature} yesterday, when Karl K. Ho-) ninth, Labor member for South é Waterloo. said it was his inten-' tion to introduce a resolution; calling for a referendum. The House heard the announcement l in silence-An an atmosphere) indeed, almost of tensenegs--- and no member indicated by applause or otherwise his ap- proval or disapproval of such a proposal. Debate on Address. Three members contributed to the debate on the Address at yesterday afternoon's session. W. E. N. Sin- clair. Liberal member for South On- tario. leading oft, followed by Mr. Homuth and R. R. Hall, Liberal member for Parry Sound. All three. while brief. covered a great deal of ground, and gained the applause of their respective parties. W. F. Nickle. K.C.. moved the adjourn- ment at 6 o'clock for D. M. Hogarth, Conservative member for Port Arthur. In more than one respect, res- terday's three-hour sitting was the most momentous so far this session. More members contributed to the debate-tpn have now spoken-than on any other previous afternoon this session. The House heard Mr. Ho- muth interject into legislative de- bates the controversial issue of Government sale of beer and wines and spirituous liquors. And. as the third big item of the day, the House received and gaVe first reading to Attorney-General Raney's promised bill to prohibit publication of rac- ing information calculated or likely to help the handbook men. In the absence of Speaker Nelson Parlia- ment, who is ill, Hon. Thomas Craw- ford, a former Speaker. Conserva- tive member for Northeast To- ronto. occupied the_ Spealter's chair. Mr. Sinclair.' in his address. was extremely critical of the Govern- ment's record. He started out by protesting the Premier's suggestion of the day previous that his absence on Friday last was due to a desire to obstruct or delay the business of the House. He stated that such a motive was farthest from his thought. and he advised Premier Drury not to be so zealous for speed at the expense of the proper carry- my on of the administration of the R. Hall Takes Up Proposal to Submit Ref- erendum on O. T. A., Defending Present Legis- lation-UC K. Homuth of Waterloo Claims People Want New Vote M PARRY SOUND MEMBER 1913. In criticizing the Government's publicity efforts he covered much the same ground as Hon. G. Howard Fer- guson did on Friday last. and char- acterized certain advertisements as Ipolltical propaganda. The Govern- ment, he said, undoubtedly had in view the proximity of a general elec- tion, and, whatever the results of its efforts on behalf of a Province, it was certainly alive to its own in- terests. ent pdwers had numerically mitdia- tgnced their predecessors. A Rance He found fault with the methods pursued in extending relief to fire- stricken Northern Ontario. Instead of going at the work ot assistance piecemeal and inviting municipal contributions in unfair proportions, he said the Legislature might well have been convened for a day and made a general grant for immediate and speedy relief. Commissions and House commit- tees also came under the scope of his criticism. He contrasted the com- mission, record of the Drury Govern- ment with the old Hearst Adminis- tration, a.nd concluded that the pres- The Government, he proceed- ed, had certainly succeeded in cov- ering up in the Speech from the Throne what were its intentions dur- ing the session. Whether the idea ot this was to have a short session he could not say, put the Speech was "certainly full of words and vague of ideas." Calls It Propaganda. "affairs of the Province. Hon Drury explained that his re had been misinterpreted. Sinclair Is Critical. on'7i'i,t'/i12JLtp/ii,orauti.tstvrat had appeared recently in The Farmers' Sun, criticizing the pro- ceedings in the Legislature, and coming to the Speech from the Throne, he described it as 11 "won- derful document." Mr. Sinclair drew a humorous imaginative picture of what he said probably took place in the Council Chamber when the Speech from the Throne was under discussion and the remarks made by the Premier and the members of the Cabinet when the paragraphs retcrring to their particular departments came up for inclusion in the Speech. The conclusion the Government ulti- mately arrived at, he suggested, was that they should submit a Speech looking backward, and not forward. so that it would be good election propaganda for the people. The Council meeting. he observed, prob: ably broke up with the singing of "What Will the Harvest Be?" "Probably," he said. "thereonever has been such a wonderful docu- ment produced in the history of the Legislature, because of the little which the Speech speaks of doing. and because of the amount which it speaks of having been done. It is strange that, instead of looking forward, the Government has turn- ed round and is looking backward." upposm'on side of the House had been called upon to take up,more than their share of time in discuss- ing the affairs of the Province. It might devolop that Government members would later take more time; probably they would, as for most of them it would be the last opportunity they would ever have ot being heard on the floor of that House. Mr. Sinclair proceeded to say that there had been no rush on the part of members on the Government benches to take part in the debate, and consequently members on the Opposition side of the House had been called upon to take up,more than their share of time in discuss- ing the affairs of tho Provinnn n on. M rl remark f