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$a Ft"&'da\, ['u, L 1° M "ap* ' Gets Half--Million Dollars Set Aside to Use When ' » ' He's Ready # MARTIN'S MAIDEN SPEECH | wWith one more futile effort on the part of W, E. N. Sinclair, K.C., Liberal Leader, to draw from Pre-- mier FPerguson an intimation of wihien the Q.T.A. plebiscite might be held, the item of $500,000 in the supplementary estiimates to meet the expens@es of the expected voie was carried in Committee of Supply in the Legislature last night. Whole Day on Supp!y. The House had spen:; practically the whole day in supply on the item of $10,000 for the special com-- mittee which is to investigate agri-- cuiture, and in that pursu't to Via t _ Great Britain and Denmark, and it | was almost 11 o'clock when the !$500,000 item was reached. | _ When the vote Was taken -- up 'Mr. Ferguson said: "It is only the 'vag'u\est estimate. We may not re-- |quire it at all. When the Govern-- ment makes up its mind th?t the | people desire a vott WE will have 'the machinery available. _ [ Mr. Sinclair asked if this expense | might not be obviated altogether if dthe Government gave, the hHOuSO some intimation of whe" *t"* vote Hoooimpopmprmmeauantioiegrme on ie