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FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1923. ; ' eonmmpemmnmasemenenenennmmnnnenmmenmpnmmerenmemmmneinmendensennenmnenneneretpnmnematenmtmenteammeten o 4 A __'7.'____]______---------------------'_-- | * * # , ' 'Tin Soldiering,' 'Brass Mon-- , # keys' and Other Pictur-- : esque Epithets Used With the House trying to get through the main estimates yester-- day afternoon, one of the bitterest controversies of the session broke out between Z. Mageau, Liberal, Sturgeon Falls, and John A. Currie, Conservative, Southeast Toronto, dur-- Ing which the usually mild--tempered and urbane member from the North was roused to great resentment. He turned his back on the Chairman and, facing Mr. Currie: denounced | ------«~---->--------«c«n----m,--smmumimcmmiutenc--nmmeest with all his strength tactics he al-- |Ferguson, who said he had just been leged were used in 1917 at the elec--|summoned into the House. He de-- tlons, and with burning wrath told |elared that that was no way to an-- the Toronto _ member something |ewer a question. After some further about '"not taking any more from |bickerings Mr. Ferguson said he big cowards like you. would be glad to see this "unnseces-- St s Co k sary and unseemly wrangle stopped." orms Come in Rolays J. Walter Curry (Liberal, South-- (]({\vn another bitter row seemed im-- plaining what had happ'ened the At-- tive, Northeast Toronto, got uP to |across the floor of the House by cer-- reply to what he alleged were un--|tain members in the House. called.--for remarks hy the Attorney--| Mr. Ferguson--Don't stir it up Genera}labout Mr. Currie. Mr. Lewis again. was called to order, but maintained | ~xp Curry sat down. he intended to say what he had to| @ mgme;yt lazer the Attorney--Gen-- ean . B1 Inlk berlod Hon, 6. Howard leral said: "L think, Mr. Chairman, Ferguson, Conservative Leader, wAS|ine House is getting tired of tin-- hastily summoned into the House, soldiering." and, rising in his place, he criticized "I think it is getting tired of brass the Aitorney--General for the way he |attorneys," said Mr. Curric. h'a(} received a question of Mr. "Brass monkeys," called out a Currie, then virtually asked _ Mr.|voice on the Government side. .(Iilledwxs to sit down, which Mr. Lewis Then Mr. Lewis got up and declar-- ~ § ed that when anybody cast aspersions The dispute arose during estimates) on the military :;"eoord of Mr. Currie in t!]e Provincial Police, when Mr. he was talking of something he knew Currie wanted to know particulars|nothing about. The Attorney--Gen-- of the vote and if the police were to|aral rose to a point of order, and the be used during the elections. Mr. Chairman, J. M. Webster, declared Raney, replying, said the House| Mr, Lewis out of order. would understand objections coming a from the member for Southeast To.| Lewis Sits Down,. ronto and his military record. Mr. "I'm just about through and I'm Currie, with some heat, retorted going toj finish--" Mr. Lewis started t.hat his record was just as good asl to say. "your Chief Williams'." | _ _Mr. Raney--Mr. Chairman, I sug-- "Old Line *» | gest you exercise your authority. _ d : n for the Wash. § | * Someone called out to "name But the reference to police and|nim and Mr. Ferguson came to his elections carried Mr. Mageau's mind| gae,' A member was within his back to 1917, and, riging in great rlgfi"ts in maintaining his right to anger, he directed a torrent of PrO--| speak, he urged. Then he added!| . test at the Toronto member. "I suggest my honorable friend I had a boy in France wWhO|gfrom Southeast Toronto does nOt| > wasn't given the ballot," declared| neeq anybody to defend his record. the Northerner. "You are talking to| ; suggest to my honorable friend a man who stood his ground in | jrom Northeast Toronto (Mr. pewis) 1917."_. that his record and the question of I didn't take refuge behind my|the war be eliminated and the dist} ® son." said Mr. Currie, "and I am| cussion of the estimates go on." older than you." Earlier in the discussion Mr. Cur:-- '"I offered to raise a battalion in rie was complaining that one could' 1916 and I was refused," retorted | not go into any town or village with--| Mr. Mageau. out seeing a policeman in the "Um'i "I offered to raise one and I|form of the Attorney--General. Tl}"" raised it," replied Mr. Currie. He| police must be following you aroun added that if Mr. Mageau's son did| I never see them where I go," com-- not get a ballot in 1917, then there| mented Hon. Peter.Smlth. 3k were officials representing the party '"They are in plain clothes folg)";_ there he could have voted for. ing you,." jocularly returned Mr, CU '"'They didn't appoint people on| rie, amid laughter. the other side until 2 o'clock on the e oo o oo afternoon the vote was taken," ex-- claimed J. C. Ramsden -- (Liberal, southwest Toronto). Mr. Currie returned to the esti-- mates and asked some further ques-- tions, and Mr. Raney told him to come to the department "and T'll tell . you." This drew a protest from Mr. o T uhi nerinfratite emn n in i ain ue aiane o aiacannnonninenaaonemenrarmermammmenmerare 5