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BUDGET ON TUESDAY, DECLARES FERCUSON, AS DEBATE NEARS END An even dozen of Ontario's legis-- lators. most of them new men, speaking for the first time, and at-- tuning their expressed views to the sentiment of their respective ridings, carried the debate in the House an-- other day nearer the end yesterday. Wide Range of Subjects Covered by Dozen Legis-- lators in House MANY MAIDEN SPEECHES On adjournment at 11 o'cloc!:; last night Premier Ferguson said that the debate would wind up « on Thursday, and that the Budget, the appearance of which had been ex-- pected this week, as a consequence would not be brought down until Tuesday next. Nesbitt's Amendment. Proceedings yesterday were moark.-- aAnd getling a bottle or a case and ed by Russell Nesbitt's amendment having to have it in his home." to Hon. W. E. Raney's amendme::t If no provision was made for the of last week, aimed primarily t .e-- Workingman to get his beer, he re-- moving the '"sting'" in the Progres-- iterated, the bill would not be a suc-- sive Leader's motion, and expressing CC®S. In this matter of "beer for the the Assembly's faith in the "safe. Workingman'" he felt that in Mani-- guard" to all classes of the com-- toba the act was a fallacy in that munity "against the evils of intem-- there was much -- hampering "red perance" as provided for in the tape." ¢ L Government's liquor--control policy. Dr. G. A. M.cqul)han (Liberal, Conspicuous also were the 'in-- Northeast Wellington) commended augural speeches of young Farquhar the Government's policy of distribu-- 8:'lev)er'ax?(il"é(;.arrlnem(beli~1 {0; S'i:';)h tion of free toxins for prevention and > es G. Fletcher, Lib s=read of disease. but felt that the g'atlhl'(:presentatlve for South Essex. Department of Health should en-- ti?'lct lyrgung'l.fglslz'itors made & dis-- irge on its policy of distribution of 4 fires's on, .'ujd even (,'overr}- nsulin in order that the cost to peo-- ;nent 'ol owers were no.t sparing in »je with part--time pay, compelled to ngg;(z:mmgt their premier pro-- ike it over a long period, would not : * be so great. was expected of him azd. l'"dmdt noint out that the department was tiie cause "of the [ workingman's NODAti to distribute free insulin beer," declating em hatlcalli'mtahn'? uinder such circumstances. Dr. Mc-- Government control ':he Dringible 2: «luthban replied that the person re-- which, he Said would always have his '.!,l.li'p]l?,;fr" l]t',, 1]?,':.(: ht,f)s;,il,)l(_ m]:"::l,;\t: ?gg:)eor:\:a::}:)lr:ea';)arjcl)v'i]s(;:)?lmginunlt(ifi od requisition carried words to that forthcoming act for supplying the effect. Dr. Godfrey inferred that Dr. laborer with his glass of beer with-- . ~'C@UIPPAN had misconstrued the aont fnrcing him +a ;\!Il'.\hnL-;\ iL "m4 ? ""('lnin": "f [h') l'("ll"sltl()n. Karl Homuth, indenendent Labor member for South Waterloo; did what was expected of him, and pleaded the cause of the "workingman's beer," declaring emphatically that Government control, the principle of which, he Said would always have his support, would avail nothing unless there was some provision in the forthcoming act for supplying the laborer with his glass of beer with-- out forcing him to purchase it at a Government shop. Retort to Martin. Government members, while fewer in number than the Opposition, lost no opportunity to vigorously pummel the Liberal and Progressive groups. On the whole the debate was clouded with election atmosphere, and "cer-- tain clergy," whose activity was the object of much Government criticism during the November -- December campaign, were again made the tar-- get for "sizzling" comment from the Conservative side of the Chamber. Homuth's Labor View. Opposition members ranged their discussion from the corn--borer and the Qriental peach moth to reviews of the temperance situation in On-- tario from its earliest beginning, and to sharp and considerable retort to Rev. W. G,. Martin, (Conservative, Brantford}) for '"unseemly refer-- ences" during the course of his re-- cent speech on the debate. Mr. Homuth, in his opening rc-- marks, noted that he was the only member in the House elected as a Labor man. He felt that other Labor candidates would have been with him if they had stuck to a Gov-- ernment control policy. But, said he, Labor men had '"accepted the endorsation of the prohibition party, and the two uon't mix at all." '"'You can't take the liquor ques-- tion out of politics," said he. "It's in, and it's going to stay. Every member must take a stand one way or the--other.'"' As for his part, said he, he would maintain his attitude that Government control was a solu-- tion to the problem. Then he referred to his motion, discussed in the House recently, to urge Ottawa to cut the excise on epirits. "It was hinted," said he, "that, in moving that, I was in con-- nivance with the Government. But that is absolutely untrue. Denies Connivance, "I am prepared," he went on, "to support the Government on the Gov-- ernment control bill; I am prepared to support the Government on the other planks in the Conservative platform advocated at the election, and I am prepared to maintain them in office for the full Parliamentary term, so that the Government con-- trol bill can have every opportunity." His final words were drowned in applause from the Government benches,. Regrets Church in Politics, Referring again to the election, he went on: "I regret that the Church, which should be too sacred to be mixed in politics, was brought into politiecs--at least one section of one certain Church--and every effort was used to elect prohibition can-- didates. '"Young people's protest meetings," held all over the Province in the election days, he termed "a sinister movement to defeat Government control supporters." '"'The Government control meas-- ure," he went on,. "is not --going to be the success that we hope it to be unless it provides that beer is sold in such a way that the workingman can walk in and get his glass, or a bottle, instead of going to a store and getting a bottle or a case and having to have it in his home." lussell Nesbitt (Bracondale--To-- ronto) opened his address with bit-- ing references to Hon. W. E. Raney's 'uncalled--for attack" on the Angli-- can clergy, and dealt extensively with Hydro matters with a view to showing the competency of the Fer-- guson Administration. rowde deQuil lectiot irtue" oliev vesbitt Deals With Hydro. We dnesda ay, t e b. 16 p old for the Dr. Ei.ruUCI ment cent. instit the c added 19%21. *L' '"During the incumbency of the prosent Government," said he, "rural line construction by the Hydro-- Electric Power Commission has been carried on in the Province from the uebec boundary on the east to Windsor on the west, and Colling-- wood and Sparrow Lake on the north, to serve farms and hamlets. One thousand four hundred and forty--seven miles of line has beten constructed to serve 16,388 consum-- ePs. Quotes Pigures. topi ¥A P may adva temperan safegzuard 6) '"'The total cost of this construction Kas $3,125,160, of which the Gov-- 'rnment has pald $1,461,509, being 0 per cent. of the total cost of rural rimary and secondary line con-- 'ruction. In the year 1921 this pay-- nent by the Government of 50 per 'cat, of the cost of primary lines was nstituted, but in 1924, 50 per cent. of he cost of secondary lines was dded and made retroactive, to Boenefits to Agriculture,. Charles (G. Fletcher _ (Liberal, South Essex), new member in the House, complained that the Speech from the Throne did not contain much fare for agriculturists, and thought that there should be a con-- sideration of two principal means of benefiting agriculture, the basic in-- dustry of the Province. First was the application of scientific methods to agriculture; . second, the taking of further steps toward the stand-- ardization of products and the find-- ing of new markets. Next he dealt with a problem par-- ticularly facing the agriculturists of Southwest Ontario: the work of the corn--borer. He felt that the Govern-- ment should press its attack on this menace to the farmer. He also stressed the need of Government intervention, if possible, in the situ-- ation at Pelee Island, where, he said, sand--suckers are "slowly eating the island away." Lake--Bottom-- Rights. Premier Ferguson interrupted to explain that the : great basic diffi-- culty there, which different, Govern-- ments had tried to overcome, was that a certain patent on "freehold rights at the bottom of the lake" prevented any interference from the Government, and the people who had invested in these "holdings" claimed the right to take what sand they wanted. muni Deral Referring to the liquor question, Mr. Fletcher stated there was no question but that the Government had secured a mandate from the people, but that this mandate did not meet with the expressed wishes of the public in the way a referen-- dum or plebiscite would have done. R. H. Kemp (Progressive, Lincoln) also regretted that there was not more mention of agricultural matters in the Speech. He reiterated his statements of last session that there was "more dishonesty in the hand-- ling of fruit in the City of Toronto th?n in the whole Niagara Penin-- sula," Mr. Raney . was not certain that the case was not one for legality. The island, he stated, was being lit-- erally carried off for American use. Refers to Liquor Question. ving be sut use assure oposed me: the metho« ration of he future that Hydro has," said 'oncluding his remarks on this . "Is to look to the Conservative : for protection." concluding, Mr. Nesbitt moved amendment to replace Mr. 'y's amendment. It was sec-- d by E. C. Graves (Conserva-- St. Catharines) and read -- as d d n t