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-"'"-""l-it-l-l-"l-"""""-"""-." mrat he still gtood on the ably in his seat or had the Odd. Liberal side ot the house. smoke in a nearby lobby, patiently! "r"have no objection to telling waiting his turn to speak on the the House what kind of a Grit he. Budget. He had his speech in his is." interrupted Mr. Pinard. mind and the necessary pile of "There are men less entitled to documents on his desk at 3 o'clock, stand' in this end of the House than and it was about 9.15 at night be- I," said Mr. Curry, and the House tore he could get going. It was sat in'amazement at revelations ot, afternoon of tribulation for Mr. a' party row which seldom get be-l fan . yond caucus. Mr. Pinard chal- The Liberal caucus in the fore- ienged Mr. Curry to name them, noon resulted in hardly anything', but the Toronto man refused, add- bevond the bad feeling shown in; £118 to his argument for the bill: m; House during the afternoon! So far as I am concerned, I am Mr Hay tacetioussly remarked that: enumerating Liberal principles." he had taken the advice ot a UFO} Mr. Pinard made a short speech man referred to in this column the; after the dinner recess, but he ther dav and "introduced the beS' seemed more anxious to say things (:0 one. ' another." An Official, to Mr. Raney than about the bill. S okesman said any threatened) There were too many bills restrict- hp ii in the party had not been! ing liberties, he claimed. and this Ji'fiztehed but neither would he ad-.' measure he thought an "outrage" mit that the healing process wasl, 11Tye Sir Lomer Gouin and the quite as successful as had beeni ederal legislation. hoped. The only conclusion seems) Then the Premier took a hand, to be that matters are pretty much: claiming that the same opposition h tood before .. to the bill was manifesting itself as t ey S -. ' E as against all measures for decency. l .a.--"-'""-- He, too, got into hot water with] Mr. Pinard. but he promised to let, . the country know trom whence' came the opposition to advance-l Leader Kay's Support. I Wellington Hay, Liberal Leader,) frankly stated that the bill oughti to receive second reading. If any such interests as Abe Orpen were protected the bill could be amend-l ed in committee. , It looked as though all oppo-' sition had spent itself, and the Farmer members were present in goodly numbers to vote if neces- sary. However, Mr. Haney thought a final appeal was required, par- ticularly in view of Mr. Ferguson's allegation that he had been hiding behind a matter of courtesy toward the Federal Government. He stated I emphatically that if Ottawa put itl 'up to the Provinces to do away, entirely with race-track gambling this Government would not hesi- tate to act. Next he turned to the! Conservative Leader, claiming the) latter had never done a- thing to; combat the handbook evil. 5 As was stated at the outset, notl a cry of "lost" was heard when the Speaker asked tor the House de-g cision. The bill will doubtless pass'; . all stages, unless the Gouin legis-i lation at Ottawa renders further! action here unnecessary. It the lSenate passes Sir Lomcr's bill noth-l ling more will be heard in the Legis-i lature. l ilgnOring Private Members. ( Aside from this bit of 1isw-tnair-l, ing, the House heard a bitter com-1 piaint yesterday from Hon. Mr. Fer-y guson, to the effect that the Gov--, fernment was ignoring the private' (members. At present there were; '20 motions and 42 questions on the! larder paper, and he protested thati Iprivate members had some rights. 1 I Premier Drury said that in satis-, (tying the "insatiable curiosity" ot, fthe members the Government had) 'already answered 160 questions. It,' was the intention of the Govern-) ment not to call the motions untill the real business of the session was .' concluded. Much more argument! passed between the two Léaders.| but the Premier refused to waste) time listening to the oratorica-l abil- I ity ot private members airing theiri views on "shoes and ships and seal-' ing wax and cabbages and kings." 1 Then, tor the third time within! a week, Mr. Haney tried to get sec..', and reading tor his blue sky legis-} lation, but again the Conservatives! persuaded him to hold it over until! Charles McCrea (Sudbury) return..; ed to the House. I Orr. Lang's Long Wait. 3 Meanwhile. Malcolm Lang (no.5 Liberal, Cochrane) sat uncomfort-f