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During the argument which took place between Mr. Dewart and the Attorney-General it developed that the latter had commissioned an ot. tice assistant to look into the mat. ter and that the three letters, all bearing yesterday's date, had been the result of this assistant's activi- ties. The latter fact led the mem- ber for Southwest Toronto to char- acterize the documents as "in- spired." The letters. said Mr. Dew.. art, did not in any way meet the statements he had made; he, there- fore, repeated his charges. _ _ The third, from the ttrm of E. & J. Flanagan, agents, who ne- gotiated the sale to the Govern- ment. stated that the writer was "quite certain that Mr. Rea did not kno.w the Government was looking tor a building prior to his purchase of the factory," and that "no one on behalf of the Government had in- apected the building before it was purchased by Mr. Rea." Mr. Raney then proceeded with the reading of his documents.' A letter from Oscar H. King. solicitor to J. B. Rea. who sold to the Gov- erximent. declared that. although his client had purchased at $175,000, the original price asked had been "tar in excess" of that amount. Mr. Rea, he said, had required the building for factory purposes. and he resold it only after considerable RANEY'S REBUTTAL CAUSES ll, ll, DEWART Ti) REPEAT CHARGES Mr. Raney met the protest by in- sisting on his right to speak on a matter of privilege. His opponent stuck to his guns. declared that there was no ground for a question ot privilege, and finally appealed to the Speaker for a ruling. The lat.. ter, after asking the Attorney-Gen- eral to state what he proposed to do, ruled against Mr. Dewar-t, on the ground that it was only fair that information relative to charges made on the ftoor of the House should be placed before the mem- bera. Three Letters Produced by Attorney-General Charac- terized as "Inspired" On the opening of last night's ses- sion Mr. Haney asked the permis- sion of the House to read and table the letters. along with copies of the agreements referred to by Mr. Dew- art on Monday. Hon. G. Howard Ferguson rose to object that the ori- ginator of the charges was not in his seat. but before he could state his case Mr. Dewart walked down the aisle to make his own objections. He claimed that the Attorney-Gen- eral was out of order and could not introduce business not on the order paper. Speaker Upholds Mr. Rancy. T$ertruatriort. After a. lively tilt with H. H. Dew- art, K.C., Attorney-General Raney last night succeeded in reading in the Legislature the Government's answer to the charge that a. "job had been put up" in connection with the purchase by the Ontario License Board of the building which now. houses the Government Liquor Dis- pensary at Simcoe and Wellington' streets. A _tsecond letter from Gibson Brothers. est-ate agents, stated that a little over a year ago they had list- ed the property at $225,000. Prior to the otter made by the Govern- ment Mr. Rea had been asked to sell, but had refused. This answer took the form of three tettertr--one from J. B. Rea's colicitor and the other two from real estate atrenttr--a11 three of which denied the inference of the Dewart Chartres/and detailed facts to substantiate their claims. Mr. Dewart Repeats (merges. PURCHASE OF DISPENSARY Men Write. During diacussion in the commit- tee staze of Hon. H. C. Nixon's bill fo remdve the statutory authoriza- tion for the paroling of prisoners in Ontario prisons sentenced under Federal laws the Provincial Secre- tary was forced to speak at consid- erable length in defense of the whole parole system. That it was successful was evidenced, he said, by the fact that during 1922 276 prisoners mad been paroled. Only four had caused trouble and three of these had been recaptured. In addition, the earnings of paroled men had totalled over $50,000, all of which amount had gone to the support of their families. D. J. Taylor (I).I".0.. North Grey) suggested that too much attention was being paid to soft timbers. At the same time second-growth hard- wood in Old Ontario was being slaughtered. Paroling of Prisoners. Premier Drury was inclined to laugh at the Conservative Leader's protestations. The honorable mem- ber, he said, was an adept "at carv- ing Hallowe'en pumpkins out of very pulpy material and lighting them with the candle ot his own fervid imagination." The bill sought to bestow a very necessary power. The Government wanted nursery sites; they were hard to get, and once it became known that the Gov.. ernment wanted certain properties lands which were next to worthless assumed a very considerable mine. The bill sought to overcome that difficulty, Deopite considerable objection from tho Opposition benches. the Minister's bill secured second read- ing without division. Hon. G. How- ard Ferguson deplored the "sweep- ing authority" which the measure Conferred on the department and stated that it would leave the way open for "moat extraordinary pieces of confueation." The Government, if it wanted land for forest purposes, he said, should buy it and "not force Jhe poor farmer to give it up against his wishes." Gets Seco'nd Reading. Considerable expansion of the On- tario Government's reforestation nurseries was forecast in the Legislature last night by Hon. Ben- iah Bowman. Minister of Lands and Forests. During debate on second reading ot a bill to empower his de- partment to expropriate lands for nursery or reforestation purposes the Minister stated that the capacity of the Norfolk Nurseries had been doubled four times during the last year and that it was the intention of the Government "to go ahead on a very large scale." fi) Sllijljitlfljlffil)s BY u?ll()nljlfl()li Government's Plans for For- est Nurseries Excite G. H. Ferguson PRISONERS EARN MONEY "They do not in any way the statements I made last nig must therefore r'epeat these t manta." The latter declaration speaker made good, by elucid for a second time the substam his Monday night speech. L' Declares Letters' "diu,irec,, . . any way meet last night. I these state- 'laration, the ' elucidating substance of