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In one of those dizzy dashes throughn Bbusiness that charactorize the closing kBbours of every session, the House yos-- Rerday afternoon and last night prac-- tlcally wiped the order--paper platter Clean, and trimmed its sails for a voy-- Age home. Before adjournment was Feached at 12.30 o'clock this (Wednes-- day) morning $36,429,730 in main esti-- mates, of the total of $47,318,270 which are to be voted for the fiscal year of 1929--1930, had been disposed of, _ Visibly annoyed, Premier Ferguson ghallenged the Liberal Leader's attitude, elaiming that he was constantly rising in the House, "heckling and pestcring like some fishwife." Opposition criticism of various esti-- mates, which was pronounced in the searly stages of the cvening,. dwindled away appreciably as midnight neared. Y¥et, in spite of the carly criticism, a Closing minutes of this lengthy sit-- king were featured by a spirited clash between Liberal Leader Sinclair and Premier Ferguson over the adjournment a?ur. Mr. Sinclair made it plain to e House that he was tired; that there were several committees on which he was engaged in the morning:; and that there was a limit to everything. |__ _ wote of $1,000,000 under the Prime Minister's Department for allowances to be paid under the Old--Age Pensions Act in 1930,. slipped by unchallenged and apparently unnoticed. "But,* said he, sarcastically, "if the Prime Minister wishes it to get out wround the Province that we rushed through.some $50.000,000 in estimates In a couple of hours, Iet it get out." "Heckling and Poestcring." The wind--un of the third session of Ontario's Seventoenth Legislature is in Sight. It will likoly come tonight, al-- though a Thursday "finis" may, of nce-- sessity, be written. Should today be the last day of the 1929 session, a few crowded and hectic hours are in store for the legislators. Public Accounts Committee has to com-- plete its inquiries; several pieces of CGovernment legislation, including Hon. MHines and Fisheries, is due to make his long--awaited speech in reply to criticism that has been raised in recent months against the administrative staff George S. Henry's bill to amend the gasoline tax to the extent of raising the tax from 3 to 5 cents, have still to be introduced and given their various readings, vnreparatory to enactment. Hon. Charles McCrea, Minister of MUCH BUSINESS STILL REMAINS and record of the Game and Fisherics Branch, and the balance of the main estimates have to be voted. Prorogue After Easter. Regardless of when the House drops its curtain, prorogation, that time-- honored ceremony by which the Lieu-- tenant--Governor sends the 112 mem-- bers of the House home with "grateful thanks," and so on, will not, it is un-- derstood, be fixed until after Easter, Tuesday or Wednesday representing a choice of dates, with the latter being --C/edres sys Mzz*t_~ 227 LEGISLATURE WIND--UP > IS EXPECTED TONIGHT ; _PROROGATION APRIL 3 Premier and Lib eral Leader Clash Hotly at _Midnight Sitting--$36, 429,730 of $47,318,270 Estimates for 1930 Ap-- proved With Dwindling Criticism l "The hydro--electric power require-- ments will be about 6.000 horsepower, i "The Consolidated Smelters and In-- t ternational Nickel Campantes are ac-- t tively interested in this new enterprise, '[and other associates may be annsunced lat a later date. WILL SERVE OTHER MINES The Consolidated Mining and Smelt-- ing Company stated subsequently that Ventures Limited and the Sherritt-- Gordon Company are associated with it and the Intsrnational Nickel Com-- nany in the company building the re-- finery. The Smelters statemont also said that the refinery will probably treat also the blister copnoer of the Hudson Bay Mininge and Sme'tin--@ Company, opersting the Flin Flon Mine. "For this reason, as well as to take care of the increased production of cop-- per incident to the further development of the Frocd Mine, it is exvected that the initial unit will be duplicated with-- in a short time." "The industry will require the em-- ploynment of 600 men, with a payroll of approximately $750,000 and an annual experditure for suovlies and matcrials estimated at $300.000. "The facillities of this new comnany M_)_I_be a.v:-tlablc as a customs refinery. "It is a great satisfaction to the Gov-- ernment to be able to announce, and the public will be glad to learn, that arrangements have been completed for the immediate erection of a copper re-- finery in Ontario. "The plant will be located in the vi-- cinity of Sudbury. at a cost of at least $4,000,000, with 2an initial capacity of 120,000 tons per year. The announcement--the biggest of this session--came as a total surprise, although agitation for a customs smelt-- er in the North has been constantly in-- creasing during recent years, and the Government has been known to be closely in touch with and alive to the situation. The statement of the Premier was as follows : Capacity 120,000 Tons. Ventures and Sherritt--Gor don Associated in New Company Smelters and Nickel Will Jointly Operate Huge Copper Plant copper refinery near Sudbury, under joint operation by Conso'idated Min-- ing and Smelting and International Nickel Companies, with all its facili-- ties available as a customs refinery. was announced by Promirsr G. Howard Ferguson in the Ontario Legislature y--5-- terday afternoon. 400 REFINERY IN SUDBURY DISTRICT ANNOUNCED IN HOUSE Immediate erection of a $4,000,.000 Alex, P. Mewhinney, Liberal member . for North Bruce, and David J. Taylor, Progressive member for North Grey, were the Oppoesition pair who dragged the skeleton from the closet and shook it in the faces of the Government, until Hon. Joseph Thompson, Chairman of Committee on Supply, took a hand in 'proceedings, and "carried" the vote in the main estimates, which had precipi-- tated all the discussion. Immediate Service. Neither Mr. Mewhinney nor Mr. Tay-- [lor was critical of the Hydro's inten-- tions regarding the power--consuming ;public in Bruce County or in Grey, but |both were outspoken in their plea for immediate service, with as cheap rates as had been offered by the Foshay in-- 'terests. Mr. Mewhinney claimed that the Hydro had been '"asleep at the [switch," or the situation which faces | Bruce today would never have deve!-- 'oped, and he threw down the warning that "Hydro willthave a lot more trouble in convincing the rural districts than they had in Southampton, and, good-- ness knows, they had their work cut out for them there." Mr. Taylor just won-- dered what Hydro, now that it was safe-- ly entrenched at Southampton, would do for his section of the country-- whether it would--now that it was es-- tablished in the centre--leave the out-- side districts, or both filanks, to crib army phraseology, '"in the air." NOT BORNE BY PUBLIG, BUT BY HYDRO UNION Premier | Reiterates Stand Against Invasion by Foreign Interests ! _ "T'll repsat what I've already said | regarding my district," declared Mr. Taylor. "If the Hydro will go ahead and take over the scheme at Sauble Falls as the Foshay people planned to do, and supply power at $42 per horse-- | power, same as the Foshay, you will find everybody behind it." MEMBERS ARE CRITICAL For tweniy minutes last evening, it looked as if the Southampton power battle might be refought in the Ontario Legislature. All the argument followed Liberal Leader Sinclair's auestioning of Hon. J. R. Cooke, Hydro Commissioner, regard-- ing the reports that the Hydro Cam-- missicn was bearing the campaign ex-- penseés in the Southampton "scrap." The money, he stated, had to come from some source, and he had every reason to believe that the general pub-- lic, through the Hydro, would have to foot the bill. Mr. Cdoke explained that the expenses would be borne by the Unin of Hydro Municipalities, but that did not satisfy Mr. Mewhinney, who told the House he had been in-- formed that the solicitor for the Hydro had stated publicly--although he after-- ward declined to put the offer in writ-- ing--that the Commission would un-- dertake the payment. Hydro Never Imposes. Both Mr. Mewhinney and Mr. Tay-- lor stressed the point that the Foshay interests had been about to give to the people power service which, in their opinion, and in the opinion of the dis-- trict, generally, had not been expected for twenty years. Neither held a brief for the Foshay people, but the Foshay people--American interests, or not-- Fad been ready to go ahead, and had not the Hydro waged the campaign it had at Scuthampton, the people, claim-- ed Mr. Mewhinney, would have been all for the privete concern. Premier Ferguson got into the argu-- ment with a reiteration of former state-- ments to the effect that if Hydro did not protect itself against invasion by foreign interests '"'we might as well give up the notion of maintaining a public ownership enterprise." Hydro, he re-- iterated, made no practice of imposing itself on any community, but once that community sought '"power at cost" through recognized channels, the Com-- mission would, in effect, fight to the last ditch to supply what was asked 0; It. E GOST