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"New, Ma rc h a 5 Ch i Mr. Ranev said that one would (have thought the Prime Minister, as .a. member of the former Govern- ment. would have looked to what took place at Kingston and seen to it thatJhe matter was cleared up. Premier Issues Challenge. Premier Ferguson rose in protest. "It the member will have the. cour- age to make. his contemptuous in- smuations outside the House, where he will be made answerable to law, I will give him ample opportunity to prove his contention either in re- I gard to the Home Bunk bills or this present advertising matter. My friend has pursued a course that is beneath any public- mun I have ever come in contact. with in this or in any other lirkxislnture. My friend hasn't the courage to make a charge against, anybody. Whut he wants to do with his usual tactics is at.. tempt to disseminate suspicion, vil- ify N't'rylmdy thnt he wants to vritiwiym without Using the courage that :lll'.' hones'l l minnot use, the language in I'atliarnruu that I would lilo, to use "t tiare, him In new outside tin- Irtu.e:o what he has said here. and J {my further that if any accusation he has made in this House with respect tn nu: is published in his pet journal on any other paper and I can make him nnmvernlrlc to law I will do it. I do not propose to rest under the} suggestion of a man who has not the I courage to make a charge and at- tempts to hide behind hie usual) method of miserable insinuation. Offers to Resign. "I give the House and Province the assurance that so far as I am :iie-i'sonally concerned I have never L had anything to do with any of these transactions. nor any personal 'knowledge whatever of the matters ,mr friend has discussed. He has not the decency to stand up and say he accepts that, and I give it to him as a public man and Prime Minister of? the Province, and it he or any- body else can prove anything to the icontrary the Province will have my rvsipnation the moment it is de- icided." L Mv. Raney---r have long since pass- ';cd the point when I attempt to lanswer the Prime Minister in kind., ! I have nothing to take back, because i i] have said nothing against him. lanstion at Kingston. F "I repeat. one would have thought ,rt member of this House who had {been a member of the previous Gov- .'ernment. looking to what took place iat Kingston. would have seen to it. :that the question asked Mr. Mathews, 'the answer' to which was prevented. was answered." i Mr. Ferguson-This is not the first itime my friend has tried to destroy 1'1y, and he has even sought to pros- ;titute the courts. but he had his lanswer from the Province in 1923. {He can make all the insinuations of :which he is capable. and he will get this answer when the next election 'COMQS. , Mark Vaughar (Conservative. Welland) said he would wait for the Government to provide "real" ttov.. !ernment control. The Brackin . inmendment with its want of confi- idenee. in the Province's finances; did not provide that. he maintained. John Joynt (Conservative. North Huron) upheld the O.T.A. as doing "some good" in spite of the state- ments of Mr. Wilson, the Windsor i representative. "Whiskey never imade any country." he said. iTo Support Buckin. i E. P. Tellier, North Essex. an- nounced his intention of voting for the Brackin amendment. The O.T.A., he said. was no more a temperance , act, but a prohibition act, which. in his Judgment. was contrary to tem.. perance. His constituents. he said, had voted 84 per cent. tor Govern- iinent control, not because they want- ied easier access to liquor. but be- cause it was a wise move in the . handling of the liquor traffic. Mr. Tellier reviewed the effects of the gasoline tax, which had been opposed from his side of the House ,iast session. and presented statistics tto show that the taxation burden was Eunequal and large. He thought the 'Government would have been well advised last session if they had taken good advice and not passed it.