The Ontario Scrapbook Hansard

Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 17 Feb 1932, p. 3

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mid €91 and so what a "All th zhly unlog pows cring 1 these things must be cleared session if we have to sit until immer." the period of forty vears, an< C of wer + on. harv magnitude of <| of Hydroa purcha er, totalling clos onower, which $15.000,.000 naid BU n esting it has bes 7 of old junk in avelopment upon blic! And everyy o high h in almcst t theirs t theirs is the woestigated first scarceiy canporc Ana everywhere j ¥ heaven. with th wi 01 s of con-- o a mil-- 11 mean, 1t vearly ons instance _ Beach Epeaker, i! What the ways a lona-- at e b. | Moved by William E. N. Sinclair, seconded by Dr. George A. McQuib-- ban, the following Liberal group amendment--virtually a want--of--con-- fidence motion in the Henry Govern-- ment--was introduced to the Ontario Legislature yesterday, and will force a vote in the House before the present debate on the Address in reply to the Speech from the Throne terminates: "This House condemns the Government for its failure to ac-- cede to the demands for a judi-- cial inquiry into the payment of $125,000 to John Aird Jr. by Mr. R. O. Sweezey, at or about the time the contract was completed between the Hydro--Electric Power Commission of Ontario and the Beauharnois Light, Heat and Peower Company for the purchase of 250,000 h.p. of electricity by the Hydro--Electric Power Com-- mission of Ontario, and into all the circumstances connected with the following contracts made by the Hydro--Electric Power Com-- mission of Ontario for the pur-- chase of power: * ':\"\I'\c'\--\n\n\n\ct\cr'o- <as> |Roval Commission Hydro inquiry, and over the Aird--Beaubarrnois payment maiter in particular, Mr. McCrea was 'ovs:rved making references on the | sway of argument, and in closs study | of the Dominion Parliamentary com-- 'mittee report of the Beauharnois in-- | vestigation proceedings. MCREA TO SPEAK IN HYDRO DEBATE '\lt\d'\c'\a-\ 89M 0 9 Th i 9 old 8 o. t 9 s d 6 \.l" --'This appearance will be his first recognized debate speech in a good many years. The reasons for it cou'd not be Getermined last night, Mi. McCrea had nothing to say on the point, and other Cabinet members were equally non----sommittal. k Hon. Charles McCrea, Minister o Mines, will, it is understood, enter the Hydro battle in the Legistature before the present debate on the Ad-- dress in reply to the Speech from the Throne winds up. ty ies All -- yesterdiiy afternoon, while Messrs. Sinclair and Nixon were entangled with Premier Henry over various aspects of the forthcoming PDs=~al! Commission Hyvdro inquiry. and Intervention of Minister of Mines Deemed Un-- usual "2. The Gatineau contract, De-- cember, 1927, 60,000 h.p. "3. The Wahnipitae purchase, February, 1929, $2,700,000. "4. The Chats Falls contract, August, 1929, 96,000 h.p. "%. The Maclaren contract, Feb-- ruary, 1931, 125,000 h.p." "5. The Beauharnois contract, November, 1929, 250,000 h.p. "1. The Gatineau contract, May, 1926, 260,000 h.p. "6. The Abitibi contract, April, 1930, 100,000 h.p. Want Slate Cleaned

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