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e ts "'Timber Conservation Praised. Packers Again Accused in Srie, membet for Cochrane _ North Legislature Debate -- 'ml_m&m lt.I;::',imgethesJ;:ret jof Northern Members Are cherm vigre 1+ purvey. the, interests of Prominent in Budget ffi?&@m?fivfififm&"fi fitted | for Piscussion _---- SperkINE | ulcatan "of rsslderce repaiaiint Continues Until After ts pele o inines and ufi"?m,?{fi? Midnight mfie:gggw&lghm:gfud aid the settr Trans--Canada Project _ Urged for Completion Immediate completion of Ontario's section of the Trans--Canada High-- way, with employment of men drawn on a quota system from the direct relief centres of the Province was advocated in the Ontaro Legislature late last, night by Frank Spence (Conservative, Port William). Mr. Bpence sstimated that the project would cost $10,000,000, shared equally by the Province and the Rominion. Labor would be paid 25 cents an hour. Earlier in the day the House had heard D. J. Taylor (Progressive, Grey North) accuse thr packers of treating hog--shippers unfairly; A. V. Waters, Conservative member from Ontario's northernmost riding o Cochrane North, criticize Government coloniza-- tion policies; E. J. Murphy (Con-- servative, Toronto--St. Patrick) taunt Progressive Leader Harry Nixon: "One of the two legacies from the Drury regims, the other being a coal scuttle"; and T. P. Murray (Lib-- eral, Renfrew South) voice his opin-- ion that Hon. Feter Smith, Provincial Treasurer in that same Government, went to jail because of happen'ngs under a Conservative Administration. Just before midnight Earl Hutchin-- son (Labor, Kenora) began his ctiticism of the Budget. He pro-- tested wage reductions both by the Government and private industry. The debate was adjourned at 12.15 this (Wednesday) morning. Liberal Leader Assailed. The Conservative formula, combin-- ing a slashing political attack with a suggestion for constructive legislation, was repeated in the Legislature yester-- day by A. V. Waters (Conservative, Cochrane North). Appearing as first private Conservative participant in the At the outset of the day's sitting Dr. L. J. Simpson, Liberal Pinancial critic, had opened the Opposition at-- tack on the Henry Budget with a 90--minute onslaught. _ _ Budget debate, Mr. Waters devoted half of his speech to a denunciation of Liberals, climaxing with the sugges-- tion that the Liberal Leader "perhaps wished to serve the power barons," and in the second half of his address, analyzed the labor and agricultural problems of the Cochrane district, of-- fering a series of suggestions for the improvement of colonization. _ Alluding to the labor trouble in the lumber camps, the member for Coch-- rane North commended the Govern-- merft for its efforts to improve condi-- tions in the industry, mentioning par-- ticularly the anticipated legislation. Of the strikers in his locality, he said: *"There is no doubt that the men were underpaid and had a just grievance." The Conservative member testified that the conduct of the men who congre-- gated in Cochrane "was admirable and a credit to Canadian labor. There was no disorder save on the part of pro-- fessional agitators." Praising the Pro-- vincial Police, he declared: "Their con-- auct stood out in sharp contrast to the conduct of the police in Quebec." _ As an offiset to this criticism, Mr Waters praised the colonization proj-- ects of the Eastern Province as con-- trasted with Ontario conditions,. The local eolonm m&o:z scheme hs}c'l been wm mM # e con= tended, citing the mgnate open-- ing of land, the subordination of the settlers'--interests to forest conserva-- tion, and the insufficient financing of the unfledged farmers, as major de-- fects of the Northern situation. Enumerating the difficulties of set-- tlers forced to work on the road or in the timber industry to gain a sub-- sistence while opening up a farm Mr. Waters called for higher wages for road work which would vermit these men to devote more time to the work of their own property. Labor troubles would be lessened,. he declared, when farmers backed by a full larder and root--house could bargain for wages tnflihe lumber camps and the paper mills. Mr. Waters concluded his sugges-- tions with praise for the work of the egricultural agents and with the sug-- gestion that agricultural lands should be transferred from the supervision of the Department of Lands and Forests to the Agricultural Ministry. In the political part of his speech the member for Cochrane North charged that Liberal leadors were playing politics with human misery. 'They draw attention to the plight of the farmer, he contended, after a Lib-- eral Administration in Ottawa has permitted tariff walls to be erected in the United States without protest, and they were now "fuming" over any sale made under the auspices of the pres-- ent Ottawa Administration. Hydro and St. Lawrence. The Conservative member attacked what he alleged was the Liberal Lead-- er's position in regard to Hydro and the St. Lawrence waerway, suggest-- ing in the latter matter that if the Liberals wished to cure unemployment they should go to their leaders and ask them to change their atitudes. 'Terming the Gregory Commission "a crime," in which "@a personal ven-- geance and a political vendetta" were involved, the member inferred that the present Liberal Leader, because Hydro was a Conservative achieve-- ment. attacked it in the hope of un-- covering a vuilnerable spo:, without thinking of the peril to the public utility. "Or perhaps he wished to serve the power barons," Mr. Waters suggested; "$720,000 is a tidy sum, 1i worthy of some return." Murphy Draws Nixon's Fire. With a peroration, in which, after the first formal «<ributes, half the phrases dripped with good--humored irony, E. J. Murphy (Conservative, St. Patrick's) paid his respects to "vapor-- ing dGdestructionists," "leaking wind-- bags" and "maladministration bally-- hoo." The Conservative member con-- centrated his barbed humor on the Progressive Leader, pausing at the end of modulated phrases to stare quizzi-- cally at Mr. Nixon, and occasionally arousing a rapid--fire exchange of repartee. Assailing the member for Brant for his alliance with Mitchell Hepburn, the member for St. Patrick's detailed & sonmorous description of their rela-- tionship, quoting as the viewpoint of the Progressive Leader, the couplet: "What thou thinkest I will think, What thou grinkest, I will drink." The member for Brant protested that he couldn't remember using the exact words and asked if he were be-- ing quoted directly, "As you were," Mr. Murphy interjected, and went on with the allegory. As a conclusion he addressed the following verse to the Progressive Leader: "The In the party ranks you'll find him; He's girded his leader's weapons on, But his leader's far behind him." minstrel boy to the wars has| Mav(:\r\ * 1 _ * TV ouUuggcocu,. _ Ainc nounotl-- able member is really flattering me too mminaauiiy M sesact Witu welll c n m oc much," and Mr. Murphy returned with an allusion to the Government "which left us as a legacy a coal scuttle and the honorable member for Brant." Tax Cuts Predicted. In moments of seriousness, the member for St. Patrick's declared: "There has been no direct taxation by this Government; it has always been a luxury tax.'" He praised the Government for the surplus and laud-- ed them for economies, claiming that "t'he increase in revenue reflects an upturn in business." Commenting that this had been accomplished in difficult times, he predicted tax cuts as soon as they were possible. Hon. W. H. Price was lauded as the greatest Attorney--General since Con-- federation, and Mr. Murphy declared that "the firm stand taken by the At-- torney--General prevents this Province from being a hunting ground for highwaymen of finance." Mr. Murphy also defended the Con-- servative debt record, citing figures showing an annual dsbt increase of $25,000,000 during the Ferguson re-- gime, of $40,000,000 under the Henry Government, and of $48,000,000 when Drury was Prime Minister. The member for St. Patrick's em-- ployed the word "virtue" with heavy irony in reference to the Liberal ac-- tion costing W. E. N. Sinclair, K.C., the $3,000 allowance as House Leader. A moment later, when he began: "But in the case of the Orillia Magistrate," he was called to order by the Speaker at the instance of Mr. Nixon. The tenth commandment, "Thou. shalt not covet," was quoted for the benefit of Mitchell Hepburn. "Are we to assume that power is the divine right of the Conservative Party?" Mr. Nixon asked, but Mr. Murphy declined to answer directly. Denouncing Mr. Hepburn's program, the Conservative meomber claimed that a final plank of the platform read: "Free lectures on birth control." The member suggest-- ed that he may feel that he must make startling assertions to secure public attention. It was with the reference to "leak-- ing windbags'" that Mr. Murphy was momentarily submerged under an Op-- position barrage, but he climbed out a minute later with the remark: "I have listeoned to many horticultural addresses from the member for Brant, so I suppose tonight he must listen to Scrry for Tories. Mr. Murray, a firm believer in the functions of Parliamentary Opposi-- tions, expressed the hope that enough Conservatives would survive the com-- ing elections to provide opposition for the Liboral Government. 2 He be'ieved that the hundreds of thousands paid by th> Government for legal advice constituted "a slur on the lawyers in this House." In January the Premier had called in three experts to help him float the loan. and had paid these experts $40,000 for their services. Meanwhile the Attorney--General's Department was filled with competent legal men who could very well have given their advice as part of their jobs. . The Conservatives, said Mr. Murray, were a hard--luck party. Recalling the disasters which seemed always to at-- tend Consorvative Administrations in the past, he said the latest was the depression. The effect on the people was heightened by the taxes imposed since the present regime began in 1923. He disputed the repsated Governmen-- tal strictures on the Drury regime. In this connection he interjected: "I've always believed that Hon. Peter Smith (Provincial Treasurer in the PFarm:>r Government) went to jail because of things done under the Conservatives before his time." j Mr. Murray recalled the statement of William Morrison (Conservative, Hamilion East) that as a labor man he considered John Aird Jr. had carn-- ed the $50,000 received from Beau: harnois. '"I'd like to go up to Ham-- ilton on the same platform with that loud--speaking lawyer," said Mr. Mur-- ray, '"and let the laboring men hear both of us." Hon William Finlayson, Minister of Lands and Forests, scored a point on Mr. Murray, a lumberman, when the latter was criticizing the rate of $1.20 a day paid at Government road camps.