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, , , I , o WEONESDAY, MARCH 2l, I923. _ l, W t E Y SPENT EAST l i NORTH SHOULD GET, 2 , ' --------_ +W~w . . . for Northern Ontario had l"'lil.iiv;ud t Nipissintr Member Charges unexpended, and, when lion. hung," I . . . Bowman ventured the expirinn'inn Drury Administration that the Drury Govrrnt-, was q . practicing economy, tho lricml,~t-y- for ' With Extravagance m Nipissing said that tho nun-t my- l . in that event. might i, iso ty e ernment. h ----, C.dl.'s..' Old Ontario at .Expens ashamed of itself for practicing of Newer Sections of 'ifeory,'yde,rtely expense of the. set- Province - MacBride At Expense of North. e rn m e n t He went on to show that items a Scores (j/y, . t hundreds of thousands of dollars . ag m a appearing in the Public Accounts Policy o g g which might reasonably be assumed Hydro to have been spent in Northern Ontario were in reality divided be- I tween it and the newer districts, of BUDGET CRITICISM t older Ontario. Of $760,000 for i, colonization, ho said, $559,000 had FREELY LAUNCHED' been spent that way, and the Barn? i with trunk roads, in which Item, Mr, -.--r------.-.. l Marceau said, Northern Ontario was i . " 125, 00 to: Of three speakers in the .Budgeti 21'"t',g/ga2,t'/,uvjtd'ey "d,?d,.iot.hir, debate in the Ontario Legls'aiumg essence. his big financial criticism. yetsterday---a Liberal, Labor and Lt.: was that Northern Ontario was not __ _ dd 41 their' receiving anything like the financial, F. o. member two a N expenditure to which it was en- voices to the general demand that, titled. the Drury Government proceed im. Listing the various central roads mediately with general redistribu- 'dict/lean/epic/W/bs',,?:,'.",;,?,',':: tion in the Province of Ontario. ent improvement. Much of the ef- J. H. Marecau, Liberal member fort at temporary construction, he itor Nipissing. made a strong plea 0101183111. was effort and money ' for Just representation for Northern 33:25 Ji' /fltne'lffhonsgitthheryt',e/ Ontario, which he conceived to be tario's request for French River lamentably under-represented in the power development. not under the Provincial Parliament. and entitled ",Irtre, Act, but'undai; a "At',',',, of to at least tive or six more members. f Soil ernment ',"l'f)','rl! p. 3W9; he M. M. MacBridc, Independent Labor ' e ','J.t,1 to tt t " Tet/d, A ort ern member for South Brant. advised :Ontaro set ement pro ems. Government members never again to ( Nothing Done by Government. talk of "Government by the people . for the people" if they refused to I The Nipissing member trained his '_'s"lt'itthT'v.';t,1),v."1ger1 {Wage Edge; fdm't/e/,y',eg',(fT; 't'ieh,"e'rri2yiit L atson. . . . mem er or Sort ' - (Victoria, did not discuss redistribu- ttsitttionatPgettah1"titdht IcioncerLis: tion, but made one of the ablest dc- feud C w Stl 'ld t 'l, 13'" e -ftt,t/', {1: tailed financial defenses of Drury gr. 0mm}? 0;,asbe don. 'f,'," 'l/h Government financing that has as owman w at ad een one nt " yet been heard from Government 7l,rv/fai"eg,inuu"if,','ettivytiriid1trii, . I benches information on many of the itemss Resumes Debate. L of request, but in the main. it tip-i J. H. Marceau, Liberal memberi peared. nothing had as yet been) for Nipissing, resumed the debate; d.one concerning the vtirioutr mm'; shortly after 3 o'clock, launching panics in which MR Marceau had! into a demand for immediate redis-l particular interest. ', tribution of the Ontario electoral! Mr. Marceau declared that there divisions. Voicing the demand or! was need for greater companion Northern Ontario for. justice in its', between many of the Crown Timber' representation strength on the floor Agents and the department. voicingi of the Provincial Parliament, Mr. some complaint against the admin-: Marceau stated the population of his istration of the agent at North Bay; ' riding of Nipissing to be 22,583. protested at the manipulations "ti scattered over an area of 6,000 the timber wolves" who settled) square miles. Then, in, contrast, he! i agricultural land for the timber, andi cited a f.?.zen older Ontario rural asked for more careful investiga-f municipalities with Populations 'tii tion of agricultural lots before they: "ey 15,000, far more centralized. I were handed over to new settlers as: If any honorable member of this)' reasonable agricultural propositions. House can tray in Justice that WP) M. M. MacBride. Labor member ishould not have redistribution as} for South Brant urged that, with early as possible," said Mr, Marceau, an election inevitable not later than 21,'t1dhttJttaiNte,trpivenotp',i,tx 82:;le I this fall, it was the duty of Premier _ ' - Drur to declare to the eo 'le where bers more than we have at the pres- he agood in the f',/fl/if)fifJ',fi2'dr U ' ent time, I should like to hear him F o Liberal alliance Hecallfng, say t." . " ' . i " [ In further. discussion of the sub-l ct///',c'rfytttet'g.', 1tMp)1ru1/grr,.r,"r, Ject the hipissing member went out challen ed him to 'ro beforc'the some? to quote statistics which showed that I ' , g .f . . .0' in thirteen ridings of Northern On- L'.F.O. Executive and seek a VO'Ce tafrioz tigerle was a representative unit ot confidence. _ o l, 3 , as compared with the; Brant' Me ber i , lower unit of 20,000 of population to; s I m cm cal. ' _ti Provincial member in the 98 rid.. Commenting upon what Ite term-: iings of older Ontario, even including ed 8 ditspotsition on the part of pres-l ithe under-represented urban munici- ent Cabinet Ministers to excuse oer-f ',palities. I gain actions because such things ' " ', tad been done by the Hearst Gov- "Pi sixthn or Ontario. l eminent. the South Brant member. hen, tron? item to item, he dealt' Charged hypocrisy. "It you fa\0redl with the various branches ot North- f the thing they did " he said "why; am Ontario wealth, including its) didn't you support 'it?;; ' i gold, silver, nickel and timber re- The member called attention to' sources. and, Mr. Marceau said, its the fact that with fewer persons .lf/rtltiQ,t'u/1g,1.erethejei,(i, Sgglctlhl-' employed industrial accidents had I ces. e remn e e ' . . "r," . House that the section of the Prov- increased 25 per cent. in ye,re, ince which was referred to as North- ast year. and that, over the "/ll ern Ontario comprised five-sixths of period, payments by the \\'(.rkniens the entire area of Ontario. Ninety- Sfhr.tyrtnut1o.n Board had ('tiTUl eight per cent. ot the natural re- decrease. It indicated, he said, a - sources of the Province, he said, be- tsolute lack of proper ' inspectiolnd. longed to that country. and, in the same connection, he he i Itouching' upon some of the com- th\Government partly responllbels. lplamts of hew Ontario, Mr. Marceau "M0" the departure of many tskill I [asked why an. item of $186,115 voted '