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Mar. ; & COVERING ENGINEERS ON HOSPITAL CUT WLLAMS$ REPORT DlES lN COMM""I'EE gumsrtzcns Provincial Police Head Re-- { State Not Ready to Assume _ views Activities Against [1% se Entire Cost, Premier Communists 'Mlgmg Men Take Strong Says | Arzests, made in varigus contres of es the Province subsequent to Commu-- tand Agalnst Intended Declining to state definitely whether _ nist upsets, particularly in the North-- | Legislation the Government will reduce the per _ em part of the Province, are men-- | diem allowance to hospitals for in-- tioned in the report of the Provincial , woree smemenmmmmmere digent patients"from 60 to 50 cents, Police made by Major--Gen. Victor Premier Cieorge S. Henty, speaking to -- Williams and tabled at the Legislature IS KILLED IN ENTIRETY 150 representatives of the Ontario Yesterday afternoon. Hospital Association yesterday, de-- The report states that the decrease _w_--__--_--_--_--____-- clared that the State and municipali-- _ of 1,350 in the total--number of cases Private Bills Committec'lof the Legis-- _ ties were not yet prepared to assume _ Prosxuted was porticularly gratifying 'latm'e Steraay xillec. in % the entire cost of indigent patients. in view of unsettled industrial condi-- Y Y in mno unce-- "It would be bad for scciety, for tions and the ammormally large num-- tain fashion, tnc professional engi-- we can go too far in the State assum-- ber_of unemployed. |neers' bili, sponsored by Charles E. ing such responsibility of a social Under the Liquor Control Act there Richardson (Conservative, _ South character," said Mr. Henry. He point-- Were 5,823 prosecutions, 4,973 convic-- Perth), which required the registra-- ed out that there is criticism as to tions, 542 dismissals and 308 with-- | tion of all engineers after examina-- Whether the hospitais are practicing drawals. There were 224 prosecutions !tion. on the grounds that it not only _ 44 the economies that they might. and 145 convictions in charges for 'jeopardjzed The Iubure developmen _'"The humanitarian side of activi-- Offenses against women and girls, 66 lof the mining / industry i)u-t mif"ng ties should have a preferred position _ D&Nng dismissed and 12 withdrawn. In prove ® detrimental to tfie' farmer :n a and should not be interfered with in 19:}(\ there were 275 prosecutions for th i * the same manner as material things,". this type of offense. e sma buildcr.' declared the Premior. Seventeen murders occurred Gduring The measure was turned down in F. R. Reville of Brantford, Presi--, the year, as compared with 20 in 1930; the principal stage, and never reach-- dent of the association, stated that a| 18 manslaughters, compared with 17; ed clause-- by --clause consideration. reduction in the Provincial grant| 92 suicidos, compared with 83; 210 Hon. Charles McCrea, Minister of _ would place too great a burden upon| Alltcmnhile fatalities, compared with Mines, and Fred Kenning, Conserva-- the municipalities and hospitals. ' 200; 154 drownings, compared with tive member for South Cochrane, Dr. Fred Routley, Secretary of the: 166;: and other causes 218, Oommml supported by Jack Hamill, well--known _ association, pointed out that last year' with 217. mining promoter; George C. Bateman over $1,000,000 had been subscribed in | of the Ontario Mining Association; order to carry on hospitails. Excess' Arnthur Cockeram, representing the ecsts might come from two sources,| great army of prospectors; and Mr. the private and semi--private patients, | Williams of the Canadian Mining and subscription, but he urged t,hei Institute, led the opposition which public at large should bear the entire | sounded the dsath--knell of the bill. cost of indigent patients No group | | I. F. Hellmuth, K.C., was the only gieglsé}m%%';rthe fs%}f' ge in morte; | speaker to a r in support of the & 0 e uovernment, | | intended legggtiaon. butpfi)rcl) spite of in view of economic distress, than| * \the forceful, comprehensive argument are the hospitals. ' | he put up he never at any time got I"to first base" with th:s committee. . !In spite of his offer to amend the ;bill as introduced so as to render any [one engaged in mining immune from "t'he pernalties provided under the | measure, the committee--with the | exception of seven members--turned \ thumbs down. | "The entire mining world," said Mr. * iMcCrea' "is up in arms against the lbm. and, in my judgment, properly | so. If the measure were to go through, imen who have been outstanding in mining circles would be held back in | their work." The difference between | the present bill and the old engineers' :legislation of 1922 was, he explained, \the difference between a voluntary registration and a compulsory regis-- n |'tration as professional engineers. In 'the new proposed legislation its pro-- ' ponents sought to put teeth that would foarce people to use engineers qualified uncer their standards. In ' other words, no mining man could en-- f list the services of a practical engi-- neer--one perhaps upon whom he had & been depending for years--without having the work overseen or passed by j some "professional engineer." . Mr. Kenning spoke at various times on various points of the legislation, called it "torrible," and vigorously up-- 5 held the claims of the North that it » should never be legiglated into opera-- tion. Po:itions wore prodursed by Mr. Mc-- f Crea and Mr. Cockeram. The latter 4 claimed that, had he had more time, he could have increased his 400 pros-- pectors--the men he spoke for, he said, to 9,000.