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Price's bill to amend the Admi;ai.;tf;t:{on of Justics Expenses Act, Mr. Wilson de-- clared that many men nowadays are brought into court, in danger of a jail sentence, who have neither the oppor-- tunity of preparing a proper defense nor Of hiring counsel. In his belief, some provision had to be madse whereby the Government would shoulder the costs tf their defense. "I may say," declared Mr. Wilson, "that, under the system now in vogue, the court may appoint counsel for de-- fense, but this system does not answer vhe purpose. Gensrally, the lawyer is picked in the courtroom, on the spur of the moment, without any knowledge »f the case. In addition, it is only hu-- man that a lawyer will not give as much attention to a case for which he receives no fee, as to a case in which he is financially interested." , Appointment of an official whose job i would be to ccnduct the defense of poor people prosecuted for crime was urged upon the Ontario Government yesterday by Frank W. Wilson, Conser-- vaiive M.P.P. for East Windsor. Speaking in the Legislature to the seccond reading of Attorney--General LIQUOR PERMIT FIGURES Present System Criticized Attorney--General Is Sympathetic e _ it as 10 say that "beer at cost price is a lie." Mr. Lethbridge's bill was being intro-- duced, he claimed, as so much "dust, sand or whatever you. want to call is fux the eyes of the neonln'".__+i., L:424"",.!* nar y . 71 718C 5 Di was being intro-- duced, he claimed, as so much "dust, sand or whatever you. want to call it in the eyes of the people"--to hide ths fact that "we all take money whenever we can get it." OFFICIAL DEFENDER OF PCOR IN COURTS run Spe. T; afte In cynical vein Mtr. -- Pi after Mr. Lethbridge as one who persistently cried "Re who had granted & lot of " {v;;hen they were in power ir ce. ' Swinging -- around to the Liberal benches, the East Ottawa member sug-- gested by his remarks that the most of their cccupants were ""hypocrites'"-- that there were "only four real Lipb. crails in the House now--Legauit, Proulx, Belanger and myself." Off on a fresh tack, Mr. Pinard said the House was like a County Council. l"The trouble is," he said, heatedly, "we get too important when MPP. is put' after our names." The Legislature, he argued, should be called a Provincial' Council, with a President elected to| run it. Where was the need of & ' Speaker, anyway? I A n 11 "ublf vi a majority I would lay on the whip. I would say to the Leader of the Farmer group: 'You are ]beHnd the times--away behind. ¥You :Just take your bill and play with it for {vears to come. I will take the money, and if you won't do it, it's good--bye to 708, sir.'"~ Mr Pinard stated that he had not cast a vote in the House this soession. He dida't agree, he said, with the man on his right (Mr. Sinclair), and while he might like to cast a vote with the man on his left (Premier Ferguson), he diin't go with him. "Four Real Liberals Now." P imbCC,. . CAl L was the L;ea,ilt;l:.-'; s:i&'vfi::, "and had thirty of a majority I would lay on the whip. I would say t tha Fimmstueas «ue is . ~ K URGED BY M.P.P. flu rsja/; F'Z/"(/a;c/- 3 DP/7F °3 GAHatks that the most 'upants were ""hypocrites'"-- were "only four real Lib-- the -- House now--Leganit P i4 i. ""0**0, Mr. Pinard shouted y!" He would talk' ct, he said, during buLt, now he would Mr. Pinard went the are Y¥ ou for SETTLERS IN NORTH LIVING LIKE MINERS, ISs LIBERAL'S CLAIM the Ferguson Government was not practicing colonization in any true sense of the word; that 25,000 scttlers in Northern Ontario were practically liv-- ing under the same conditions "as the Ininers in England"; that certain scee-- tions were being discriminated against in favor of others, and that Qucen's Park was more interested in industrial-- izing the North and creating "tourist Ravens" than looking after the needs Of the great bulk of settlers, and see-- ing to the developments of the some €,000,000 acres of lands there available. TRUE COLONIZATION IS NOT PRACTICED Before the Agriculture and Coloni-- Bation Comumittee of the Legislaturc Theodore Legault, Liboral member for Eturgeon Falls, yesterday charged that The Liquor Control Board. on lts! own initiative, cancelled 5.118 liquor' permits during the past year. No|l statistics have been kept showing the | source of information which resulted NC _CB@ THTS SAUDU LNAE YCAE tLICTC WAS one inquest in the mental hospitals of the Province, that being at the Whitby institution. In Government answers to Opposi~ tion questions on the order paper the House recoived the following informa-- tion: Since the LC.A. came into forese the Government has confiscated 3,190 gal-- lons of liquor and 9.291 gallons of beor. Confiscated liquor is turned over to the Control Board, but it is not sold in Government stores. j During the last fiscal year thore was Theodore Legault Charges | One--vat ® one'ha G overnment With 1mr. Les ' * from whi Greater Interest in the Gov * true, but "Tourist Havens'-- sstabuishs *I 5+ $st's purs Urges Building of Roads tncy hac * J+ settlers, | and Subsidies elite Af mIY (Aay. . py. _ C Of TCV OMUvite HALGELEL very well take the lead in the Domin-- ion itn instituting some similar arrange~-- ment. Both Edmund Prouix (Liberal, Pres-- Cott) and Attorney--General Price saw considerable merit in the proposal, but Coloncl Prics wondered if many pecu-- nilary people would not attempt to take advantage of such a system. However, he promised the matter his serious con:-- slder2tion, With the rapid turning of the legis-- lative grist mill yesterday, all nine of the bills by which the Attorney--General sceks to improve the salary conditions of the "outsile staff" of his depart-- inent received second reading. In con-- nection with the amendment to the Crown Attorneys' Act, Colonel Price argued that the best system would br to have all such officers on a salary basis. This, however, he stated, couid not be accomplished immediately, but would have to be brought about gradu-- ally. Under the terms of this amending bill. Crown Attorneys may make appli+ cation to be placed on a salary basis, their salaries to be based on their ay-- erage fees for the past five years. The Houss also gave second reading to an act to amend the Tile Drainags Act: an act :o amend the SBuccession Duty Act; and an act respecting the boundary between the Provinces of Manitoba and Ontario. Attorney--Gen-- eral Price's act, which would maks "'better provision for widows and or-- phan children" was again discussed in committes. Government Answers. ntas 1. _ |' EPVE -- IHUOILIICE SUFCOOCU the point that in England such a sys-- tem as he suggested is followed, and much money spent on it. During the House r'e'cess: Ontario, he added, might POPUV mm k adte us e t l gcn ioi in ud 1 Qbiains in England The East Winde. J L yq s da y Windsor member stressed 2 4 m on One--half of the settlers in the North, Mr. Legault claimed, lived on land from which there was no road egress. 'The Government built roads, it was true, but they were chicfly trunk roads, established with one eye on the tour-- $st's purss. Under conditicons in which they had been forced to live, many settlers, he stated, had made no pre-- tense of tilling the land, but had sim-- ; ply robbed the bush and had then clear-- 'ed out. No action was taken by the commit-- tee on the resolution, on the ground that the points raised came within the jurisdiction of the Department of Nor-- thern Development, but the recommen-- dations involved were passed along to Hon. William Finlayson for his serious As a remedy for the conditions of ®hich he complained, as a means of on-- couraging the "inexperienced" settler to "stay put" on his Northern acre-- aAge, Mr. Legault moved a resolution urging that roads be built and main-- tained by the Government to the set-- tlers' homes, and where advantagcous, built before the settler goes in; that the Jland allocation of 75 acres per set-- tler be increased to 150 or 160 acres; that subsidies--$10 per acre for cut-- ting down the bush, and $20 per acre for clearing the property--be allowed the settler; that more money be devoted to helping the settler get cattle on time gayments. and that T.B. free zones for hese cattle be established. f consideration. Isolated. 44