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"t understand that the member for Huron North IC. A. Robertson) spoke of the increase in the cost of adm nis- tering my department." said Colonel Price. " want to tell him that there has been really no increase in the cost of administering justice in this Prov- ince. considering the things which have been handed over to my depart- iment. During the past iew years there t have been many things turned over to my department. There were the high- way tramc omeers, costing $219,000 There were the acting high constables, costing 350.000; and the Ontario Se- curities, costing another $50,000. Then _there was the payment of the Jarvis aand other times. costing $369,000. When 'these things are considered. the costs (iii as low as they were in 1929. and (there has actually been a decrease in _ the__r_mmber or employees. " tun tired ot the viliileation ot Mlle men who are serving their country " said the Attorney-General. He said he thought Mr. Murphy should resent the statements made by Gor- don Waldron. He continued reading from a list of men who were directors of companies while Ministers of varimis Governments. "There are dozens of them. There was Sir George Ross. No Conservative, Liberal or Pro. I wondered it he knew that Hon. P. C. Riggs ot the Drury Government was Vice-President ot the Hamilton Dairy. Why didn't he speak to Mr. Riggs. about it when they sat in Council. instead ot coming out and attacking the Prime Minister. who is a 'stralght " a. die? Mr. Bless was " , a direc- tor of the Commonwealth Life and Accident Insurance Company and the Ontario Mutable Life and Accident Innmutoe fhtqtpapy. "We had an attack on the Prime Minister by the member from Brant (Mr. Nixon) because he was President of a milk company and director ot a mortgage company. I wondered when I read it it the member for Brant had thought the matter over. and tt he knew the Ministers of other Govern- mentsrwho sat on Boards of Directors. Thus it was that the motion to adopt the Speech was carried after a debate which had dragged out over more than tour weeks. Every Opposi- tion member. including Mr. Sinclair. supported the Nixon subamendment. with the exception of C. A. Robertson (Liberal. Huron South). who was pair- ed with Russell Nesbitt (Conservative. Bratxmdaley, and Farquhar Oliver (0.10. Grey South). who was un- avoidably absent. Twenty-one speak- ers had participated in the debate. The truttttmendment moved by Hon. Harry C. Nixon. Progressive Leader. which was essentially a wttnt-ot-txyntt- dence motion. and which called for an early election. was defeated in the Legislature by a vote of 81-20. No vote was called on the amendment of W. E. N. Sinclair. Liberal House Leader, which deprecated cutting on educa- tional grants without easing the regu- lations which compelled School Boards to have expensive equipment; nor on the main motion. It was agreed that the same vote should sumce for all Denying any dimension in the rank» ot the Conservatives. and saying that, he was proud of the "independent spirit" being shown within the party rents. Attorney-General W. H. Price yesterday closed the long debate on the motion to adopt the Speech from the Throne. WATCHFUL 0F RUSSIA Attorney - General Defends Administration. Denies Extravagance Tory Followers U phold Cabinet In Debate Vote "We made a cut ot tour and one-half million in the expenditures last year. Try to do it; it is not easy," he said. Those in charge of the highways, for- estry, mines or other branches had built them up and were loath to see them torn down again. "What a. prob- lem it is," he remarked, in connection with the cutting of expenditures. "And we are going further this year. When the Prime Minister brings down his 1liudget, he will say more along this he. "The Government is not anxious to take over the municipalities. Let them look after themselves. If they be- come insolvent. then they can go un- der this Municipal Board. "And we did make progress on the trans-Canada highway. As a relief work we made a tremendous improve- ment. And never before in our history have we seen 65 per cent. of the men out of work in some parts of Northern Ontario. One cut of every seven per- sons in Toronto has to be provided tor, the Mayor states. "Surely no one should try to make political capital out ot unemployment, out of the distress ot the people. We have shown prowess in these things. and there has been constructive ability. This party is afraid of no one in that respect. And I am not worried about another Government coming into power. I do not think there will be one, but I am not worried about it. I would, however. be opposed to some people leading another Government. said. "There was first an agreement to be made between the Province and the Dominion, and then between the Dominion and the United States. The third was that between the United States and New York State. All these things had to be synchronized. That was no ehild's play; it was one of the biggest things in the history of the Province." Every one was anxious that it should go ahead. and he was hoping to c the time when the whole valley of the St. Lawrence would be in blossom and the manufacturing industries of East- ern Ontario would rival those of West- ern Ontario. Turning to the address of Farquhar Oliver, Colonel Price took up the aurstlon of the Barrie packing plant. "We were anxious to see it successful. I think I said that the failure was due to overhead. I was probably wrong there." "I say to the farmers and the mem- bers here that it they put their house in order and cut out the little slices Miss Macphail spoke of, and cut cut the commission. they will have the co- operation of this, Government." A He then read what Miss Macphail had said. "She might have used stronger terms. Instead of looking after the farmer, they made jobs Cr themselves. The Minister ot Agricul- ture was right in going slow. They had to turn out the parasites. Mr. Drury got a commission on that loan. No wonder the Minister of Agriculture was leery of it," Cslonel Price de- clared. adding that some of the share- holders had got meat from the plant without paying retail prices for it.' Government Help. No Prime Minister had ever at- tended to any question more as- siduously than the present; Ontario Premier had that ct the waterways, gressive rose to say anything about it. Sir Wilfrid Laurier was a director of the Mutual Life Insurance Company when he was Prime Minister, and surely no one would question his hon- esty.' Mr. Nixon should not talk about ex- 2,pntgii,e,egSttgypg,entgl said. Hon. Lincoln, oldie. who was Pro- vincial Treasurer after Mr. Nixon, had savrd $900,000 in his first term of omee, he recounted. Mr. Nixon-t never imputed dishon- esty or lack of integrity to the Prime Minister in any way. Furthermore, Mr. Riggs was not Prime Minister. Denies Extnvugance. it Marek I7. "We have tackled the question of mortgage relief, and I with to thank the members opposite tor their sup- port. We said that it would be a non- political measure. We tackled the problem of insurance rates, and now we have the lowest rate for automobile insurance. There is being $1,000,000 tb year saved in the Province on account of that." Mortgage Relief. He paid tribute to the work Hory's, T. L. Kennedy was doing for agricul-l ture. "He has gone out and perhapsl said things which a. member of the Government should not have said. He said that the farmers should get bet- ter treatment. It has been suggested that the estimates ot that department; be cut in two. We won't do that.' although they will be reduced along: with the others. I am sure the Min-i ister was right about the Barrie mat-' ter. "The member for South Grey (Mr. Oliver) said that we should trade with every one. He has no quarrel with me there. I say, trade with every one. Britain won her posi- tion by trading with the North Ameri- can Indian, and with the Indian in India, and with every one. She knew l He again reviewed the record of l the Drury Government, as compared to the record of the present Adminis- tration, , "We have never sold succession duty free bonds and given the money to the promoter; nor have we set up any Hydro inquiry that cost the Province '600,000," he asserted. "No," he continued, "our record is as good for protecting the money of the people as any banking or financial institution in the Province." _ _ Hibdunds of race, icligion or system ot government. System of Russia. "But that isn't the question today. We have that country Russia laying down as a. point in its program that we should change our system to com- munism. Ka'rl Marx's book states that they should go out and evangelize the world. They do not, want. to trade on an equal basis. They want. tn break us down and dump their products in here," he asserted. "They can carry on whatever sys- tem they like. But we ate not going to have Russian paid agents coming into this country. We are not going to allow here some ot the thousands and thousands of spies they have all over the world. I do not say we should not trade with them, but it we do we should watch closely. They would break down our morals. "This communism is something none of us should approve of. We should not lend our efforts to it. It means breaking up the homes and the pros- tituting of women. Where does the money come from? We should not allow any country to disrupt the world." Colonel Price remarked on the con- dition of Europe, with Communists, Fascists. and others causing trouble. "We take the credit for having prose- cuted Communists here and sent them to jail. And when we did it we gave them a fair trial by jury. We did not do it as they did, with the firing squad. We do not execute our enemies here by the firing squad. Here is a place where we have freedom-tre dom within the law," declared the A:,- torney-General. Praise for Premier. "There is some talk in certain tolaees," the Attorney-General went on, "that this Government should go to the country now; some say in six months or in a year and a half; or others say two years, and there IS some talk in the House of some mem- bers being cowardly, but. I want to assure you, sir, that this party. IS standing solidly behind the anme Minister in bringing down a bill to straighten out inequalities in the House." . . - Referring to Premier Henry's task, Colonel Price said that the Leader of the Government "was strong and noted for his rugged honesty. although he is a little strong-headed at times." He again reviewed the record of -iiradvised the Opposition to be constructive in its criticism of ques-