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Te c?;;kii ];ee P44 :ll re?,:ller?stwer:e;xeotn%atons e{h'at all a Government of over--officialdom: a | » Government of Demfltshfor this, tg)at. l'};gg:}:';«e r;?;og;" matter, were not and everything under the sun: a bur-- * eaucratic Government, if there ever was 'bycfi;gpse; :;}1(';':_ ;nsa;::ti&gu:veasgr?:%da& one. | In a brief attack on administration Ehme t&:oge;'elol?:a:gttgfe a&i'fggz'ggh:'g | of various Commissions operating under | adiobt sog'g sch%me Of this kind the Government, Mr. Nixon cited a case | 299P * * of injustice from the Workmen's Com-- Nixon Criticized. | pensation Board, and claimed that Opening his address, Mr. Nesbitt told 1 while the Ferguson Government took the House that, in the matter of Bud-- the credit for the Teachers' Superan-- _ gets, Hon. Harry C. Nixon was "hard | nuation Fund, it had really _ been to satisfy," and recalled former Budget | Jaunched with ' $3,000,000 from _ the;, | addrasses of the Brant member, Drury Government after the Hearst He observed that Mr. Nixon came to Government had failed to carry along the defense of the Drury regime. Well, _what it had conceived. s said Mr. Nesbitt, in law, if a man wasn't From the look of the Budget, said _ heard of in seven years, he couldixbe t declared dead. A rently, Mr. Nixon Mr. Nixon, one would naturally gather was "staving off s?xg; a declaration in fore spending it, the Government last > Then, just before adjourning the de-- | year had first spent it and had then bate, Mr. Nesbitt had a retort for Mr. 'to scramble wildly about at the last _ Miller. He wanted to tell the finan-- minute to pick up enough cash to cre-- cial critic of the Liberal party that the tate aA surplus. Paying back by the Ferguson Government had achieved a ; Public Trustee of some $51,000 would $3,000,000 reduction im taxation. | indicate, he said, how hard pressed fot s lfunds the Administration was. | _ What had liquor revenue done for | Ontario, asked Mr. Nixon, outside of making it "the barroom for a very large portion of the North American Con-- tinent?" "What did the people get in return for spending $49,000,000 in booze?" he emphasized. '"Well, we have our jails filled, greater loss of life in motor accidents, a trail of debauchery. It would have been far better to take the whole $49,000.000 direct from the people." Bootlegging and illicit home--brew-- ing continued, he said, Court cases and drunks had greatly increased. There had been a marked Jjump in the sales 0f liquors during the last five months of the fiscal year of 1928, as compared 'with the corresponding period of 1928. "And what does the Liquor Board re-- port say about it?" he asked. "This report carries the usual line of plati-- tudes, and sermons on temperance, but what the board itself has actually done has been reduced to an irreduc-- able minimum." Mr. Nixon gibed the Attorney--Gen-- 'eral on his attitude toward the long-- discussed Provincial Officer Brien and |Windsor Jockey Club cases, and said | that he should furnish the House, as ' he had stated his willingness to do, with all the facts of these cases. The $2,000,000 payment by the Hydro 'to the Government--money put into ordinary revenue, he claimed, so that a deficit could be avoided, and the Hydro rates to "small municipalities" also came under the Brant member's fire. Small municipalities, because of their rates, found it very difficult, he contended, to compete with larger cen-- ; . tres. Differen}t for the Farmer. "A $150 or $160 Hydro bill a year," said he, "may not seem much to the aggregation of plutocrats on the Treas-- ury benches, who pursue the delightful practice of summering in Europe, and wintering in Bermuda, but to the farm-- . ~-- er who cannot get any more than 30 cents a bag for potatoes it is an en-- tirely different matter. Mr. Nixon strongly urged some new form of gas--tax collection, claiming that, in allowing "extremely wealthy'" oil companies to collect it, as at pres-- ent, the Department of Highways was simply taking money out of the tax-- payers' pockets. Mr. Nixon also had & | punch up his sleeve for the Minister of | Highways, himself, A year ago he had brought before the House, he recalled,f a case of extraordinarily large depart-- | mental payment for weed cutting. At| that time the Minister had laughed his , argument to silence, but this year, he' said, he had taken the trouble to make ; inquiries, and he had found another| case. This case involved, he said, the | payment of $2,004 for cutting weeds on | nine and one--half miles of road--an average expenditure of $211 per mile. "It must be a dirty county where that happened," interjected Hon. George 8: Henry. lt ""No, Mr. Speaker," Mr. Nixon re-- torted, "it's a good county, but a rot-- ten Administration." | Opposition members greeted this shot with some of the noisiest desk--banging of the session.