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is to send an occasional letter to Ottawa and extract these letters from the files, and read them to the House from time to time. He did not tell us of the Winnipeg convention, which entirely closed the book as far as the St. Lawrence development was con-- cerned, but blamed the King Govern-- ment for the delay. has nothing whatever to do with the amendment now moved by the Lib-- erals. He then referred to the Gregory Commission, but he did not tell us that the report of the Commission was not presented until eight months after the Ferguson Government was in office; and who knows what would have been reported had there been no change in Government, in view of his statements regarding the strong arm of the Copservative Party? He dealt with the St. Lawrence development, l')ut'all that this Government has done "In arguing against the amend-l ment, he dealt first with the Ross | Government, which has been out of ; office now for nearly thirty years. It was an effort to discredit men now gone, for the purpose of discreditmp the Liberals The Ross Government | has nothing whatever to do with the | amgndment now moved by the Lib-' Mr. Sinclair continued: "Mr. Mc-- Crea proved conclusively that Hydro is an adjunct of the Conservative Party, and time after time referred to the strong arm of the Conservative Party which had made Hydro possible. H left no doubt in the minds of us all that Hydro was an adjunct of the Conservative Party, and was being rua as a part of the activities of the party. Never before in this House had Hydro been held up as a part of the Con-- servative Party. It has always been argued that the municipalities were the owners, but they are ignored now, and it is all the strong arm of the Conservative Party. T. W. McGarry, and Charles Mc-- Crea, a corporation solicitor in Sud-- bury. Thsse succeeded in persuad-- ing Sir James Whitney to keep Adam Beck out of New Ontario. Party's Strong Arm. Mr. Sinclair read the following ex-- tract from an address by John R. Robinson, late editor of the Evening Telegram, delivered before the Hydro Conservative Association in Earlscourt Community Hall, May 27, 1926, and dreporuzd in the Teolegrain the next ay : @a Cabinect Minister must speak for the Government and say the strong arm of the Conservative Party in the Province of Ontario has sold out to the Province of Quebec. This is my Ontario policy, which the Minister of Mines took pains to distort and mis-- represznt in speaking the olher day.' "What Is the Issue?"" Asks Speaker. Mr. Sinclair asked in the course of his speech: "What is the issue in this dopate? ~Our demand is for an in-- quiry into the matters mntioned in our amendment. The Consorvatives refuse that demand. The Minister of Mines did not deal with matters men-- ticned in the amondmont, but dc-- clared that it was ansthor Hydro battis. He entered the battle, how-- ever, as a champion of the Conserv-- ative Party and not as a champion of Hydro." what a contrast to the Province Oof "He then dealt," Quebec, which says: 'No seaway f0" "with the Geor; Ontario, no power for Ontario, exXC°Pt _ charter, which had Quebec power,' and the Provincial \to do with the ams Secretary endorses the Quebec pOlicy. at length with M The Provincial Secretary endorses tit _ activities before th Queb»c domination of Ontario, and @AS _ tese but this had + Adam Beck tried to get into New Ontario. He tried to electrify the Timiskaming & Northern Ontario Railway. He was beaten back by a combination of corporationist Con-- servatives, lod by the Hon. Fran)}: Cochrane, supported by Howard Ferguson, M.P.P. for Grenville, and They say, "Is not the main co>-- joot of Howard Ferguson in life to serve the good of Ontario?" I do not think he has any obsject excopt to serve Ontario. But we do not want intentions, we want actions. (Applause.) The intentions of Hon. HMHoward Ferguson wore just as good twenty years azo,. in 1905, as they are today. If you want to see a monument to Hon. Howard Ferguson's good intentions, look around you in Northern Ontario. I bslieve it can do better work for | Oniario than you can do in any othor party.. If I did not believe that, I would not be inside the Con-- | servative Party for five minutes. | I do not want to be misunder-- stood.-- I am speaking as a Hydro Conservative; as a man who adheres to the Conservative Party because yvui, 1i lC GONSCTVaALIVe Party is so close to Hydro as it claims, then all contracts mentioned in the amend-- | ment become political. It is the strong arm of the Conservative Party in re-- lation to these contracts which has caused the demand for an inquiry, and it is that strong arm which is refusing that inquiry. The only reason for the | refusal which has been given in the | debate is the record of the Ross Gov-- 'cmment. the weakness of the Drury Government, the Sifton manipula-- tions, the resolution at the Liberal convention, and the Beauharnois sc¥ndal. None of these matters, which 'were elaborated upon at length by the Minister. show that the inquiry | power to sell. All the argument shows | was that if the Government had | bought power at $19 instead of $15 it meant an extra expenditure of $3,.200,-- 000 a year. But Hyd@ro did n:t buy it, because Sifton had non> to sell. The argument of the Minister in re-- gard to the price of $15 for powoer was that this rad been the price paid on all purchases from 1907 to the }presenvt dats. He made no analysis of the conditions in each case, and so {his statement proves nothing. |_ "The Minister," Mr. Sinclair p | ceeded, "dealt with Siftocn and I power sales, and held up Sifton ridicule because he asked $19 ] horsepower when he had no powoer sell. The Minister said that Gazine asked much more than $15 at first, } that they succeeded in reducing i price to $15. Possibly Sifton wot have taken $15 if he had had 2 _ VComing on to Jonn Aird Jr., whic after two hours of his spsech, w the first matter which was at all rol vani, Mr. McCrea had read the r port of the committee," said N Sinclair. "The committee itseli the speaker continusd. "says th 1'it cannot say on which side t truth lies, but it does say that, on t! |evidence 'before the commitice, th find that none of the bonds reach any political party. That is the who question at issue. That is why a j dicial inquiry is wanted. The con mittee could not. say on which si: the truth lay. The Minister des with Aird and the Conservative Part He did not deal with Aird and Hydr and the discussion before the Hou was in relation to Hydro. The Mini |ter was most anxious to show that t] Aird money did not go to the Cor servative Party, but he failed entire to deal with it as a matter in rel: | tion to Hydro. t_ _ "On the second day of his debate 'became an endurance test. It was a effort to put the Opposition over -- 'the night session for their speeche and it succseded. For nearly thri hours he read speeches, clippings ar leditoria].s'. but failed to impress t House that he was arguing on b>ha ' of Hydro and the pecple's intore: |The whole effort on the second d: |was a political effort to discred Liberals, who have nothing whatev 'to do with the resolutions now befor | the House, and who are not sitting i the House. As an effort to put t Opposition speakers on in the eve ning, it succeeded--but as an effo to argue the matters before i; blame for failure must lie at door. If the Conservative Party fiCUs®, It was a 1: Had No Power to "If all credit for the success of Hydro is dus the Tory Party, as the Minister of Mines claims, then all "He then dealt with the resolution passed at the Liberal convention, making a great ado about this resolu-- tion, but not being able to show that this had anything whatever to do with the amendment which was moved by the Liberals in the present debate. H» then dealt with the Sifton speech in 1930 in the Federal election campaign, where there was criticism of Mr. Fer-- guson, but this was all done to divert attention from the issue in the House. He then dealt with the speeches of Messrs, King and Bennett in regard to the Beauharnois inquiry. He failed to elaborate, however, that Mr. Ben-- nett in Opposition had promised a Judicial inquiry, but when in power had given a political committce "Great Ado" About Resolution. _nme then dealt," Mr. Sinclair said, "with the Georgian Bay Canal charter, which had nothing whatever to do with the amendment, and dealt at length with Mr. Sifton and hnis activities before the Federal Commit-- tee, but this had nothing to do witn the matter under discussion in the H(.use' Mar alitUl1 lure. Sell. Mr. Sinclai h Siftcn an held up Sifi s aebate it It was an n over to ' speeches, arly three ecn, was t all rele-- 1 the re-- said Mr. : -- itself," 'says that side the it, on the & L1hS would 1 any shows had ng in t the eve-- effort the wAhol a ju their a ju-- com-- _ side dealt ?arty. [ydro, Aouse L11]1}= t the Con-- tirely rela~-- day redit but the an th, id day?" asked the spéaker. "Not at Queenston, where they are rugning abcut half capacity, with full overhead cos's; not at any of the Niagara plants, one of which is completely idle and the other partially idle. Not in the case of purchased power, where the profit is paid to the producers when we buy the power. Power users are paying interest on dormant power-- sites investments. They are paying profits on power purchased, so that power ai cost is a thing of the past. "The new Provincial Secretary speont nearly an hour and a half. He carned his Cabinet position by the ficry speech which he made last ses-- sion, but did not live up to his repu-- tation this year. His speech was largely a review of the speech of the Minister of Mines, and was not an argument in support of Hydro. It bristled with attacks on the Liberals and a eulogy of the Conservative Party, both of which had nothing to do with the motion. Re lives upon the banks of the St. Lawrence, and his riding fronts on the river, and if he is content to see no development of electric power in his own district, that is an affair for himself and his cwn riding. If politics are more im-- portant than the development of agri-- culture and industry in the St. Law-- rence Valley, that is his affair." §24 48 wl and Party do w the t his r, he is of elf should not be held. Neither do they show that the Liberal Party at the present time is unworthy of consider-- ation, but show the utter lack of reason for the Government in refusing the inquiry." Interest en Dormant Sites. Mr. McCrea, Mr. Sinclair said, had failed to develop his argument along sound Hydro lines, but preferred to develop it upon the strong arm of the Conservative Party. '"Whoere have we power at cost to