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and torFii%rViise dumiastiu--Httrt. George 3. Henry yummy took the Hepburn Government to task. - __ "Beverage room conditions" the conservative under maimed. "are due to lax administration." Assuming mummy tor the beer amend. menu he smiled the subcquent Ubem Govcmment minions and th_e_single permit. "mixing; :1 this Province ttte "ring. Shame on you'. Shame on you."' he charged. as he castigated - _ - d out" he charged. as he castle": {he Government for Civil Service du- missus. The Iowa: Prime Minister did not limit himself to this subject matter. but chose it as ground tor his de- tancd attack. Of two other major qttttleets-timuteial tigures and the school system aursrer--he admitted Ignorance. but suggested questions. Into his speech Mr Henry wow ttrhef1y most ot the Conservative political charges at 1934. The beer Bill division of the last session culminated his chronicle. Hon. Harry G. Nixon stepped into the breach when the volume review touched him most tlttsels. "Be (D. J. hylor. long time Nixon! right hand and present Deputy Minister of Game and Fish- eriesy, was mammal." Mr. Henry charted. "to those who sent him to this Legislature." "What did Nona Grey say in elec- tion?" Mr. Nixon answered angrily. "He we: eleeted by the lamest. ma- jority ever polled. The Province new; had 3 better man in Game and "Mr Taylor did not represent, the temperance View: ot his riding," the Conservative Leader continued. " deny that." "I say that. Yen (Mr. Nixon) might not 1taveAtttrr.1' -rr has elected." the Protmeial Sec- retary returned. "by a. small majority of some 5,000." Attach Hutchinson. Mr. Henry translated his attention! to Earl Hutchinson. one-Lime mem- I ber tor Keenan and now member 'iil the Wot-knew: Compensation Board. I "Me voted right and he resigned! right." the former Prime Minister unmanned. Those who did right were well treated--"those who did not were left out in the cold." "Where are the members that voted with you on that occasion?" Prime Minister Mitchell P. Hepburn put the query, and the recurrent laughter and thumping of desks reached a climax. Fisheries." I "We are prepared to eo-operate and :approve of all that is brought forward 'that in our_view may be of value to 'the Province." Mr. Henry said; as he opened his speech. The Opposition's 1'iii?'isii,'i' position. he held. demand- ed a very critical View. bub-"we do lnot propose captions criticism." The Government heralded many changes. "Change is valuable. but change is not always an improve- ment. We will be critical ot any Gl'lllie unless reason is behind it." Henry Amendment ' Fifi} I The Government. Mr. Henry hinted, had not always lived up to these press-announced plans. "Saute one," he said. "has suggested that this Gov- ernment has a habit of speaking on Monday and thinking it over on Tues- t "The Administration that was de- feated last June." the former Prime lMinister maintained. though mud lloud laughter. "was not defeated on 'its record. I don't stand to assert that lwe didn't make errors in judgment. 'But while our Judgment may have :been faulty-there was no criticism or our honesty, integrity. and intent to serve eftieiently. That cannot be questioned " Pulse lot Whitney. With a revival of 1905 charges the conservative Leader swung into his administration Civil Service indictment. In that you. he said, the Civil Service was made up ot ardent supporters of the Liberal Government. "When We came into power Sir James Whitney would not. listen to wBrd-heelets." "My honorable friend (Premier Hepburn) is not strong enough to say the service shall continue. Mr honor- able friend," the Conservative Leader alleged, "ls not strong enough to shut the doors on these applicants." "We have 9. Prime Minister who is seeking to set up something even worse than the spoils system in the United States." His regime and the preceding one, Mr. Henry held, had worked tor an etticient Civil Berviee-- and no politics. "The order changeth--ute man in favor with this Government seems to be the man who has been in political activity." Dismissals without notice or by mass nouce. and without appeal. were, in Mr. Henry's opinion,.an unheard-of and callous treatment, ot men and women. Veterans' dismissals also were touched on with a word. "I think it is time," the former Prime Minister said. "that this Gov- ernment not only study the situation, but reinstate them in their positions. right away. There was no mandate for the Government to dismiss these pmpie" - when Governments were pressing for private re-employment. The "Speech" drew from the Con- servative Leader questions and sug- gestions. It was not so capacious as might, have been expected: there was no forecast of tax reductions and there was an unofficial whisper ot possible new taxes. The survey under the Minister of Education aroused the ex- Premier's curiosity. Temperance Stays in Politics. "The temperance question is per- petual." Mr. Henry said when he opened the subject. " know my friend, the Prime Minister. tried to take it out of politics. It is always in politics- for the liquor question is largely a matter ot administration and the re- sponsslsility rests finally with the Government." The former Premier traced liquor control history. although not without Gavernment objection, when he re- chronicled the "strong man" of 1927. At that time. he said, beer by the glass had been considered but shelved. A cardinal point of the 1927 system had been the permit-not individual. but as a record of purchases through- out the year. Freer distribution or beer had been always considered. "We are re- sponsitsle for the amendments of last year. but the present Government is equally responsible. I take no re- sponsibility for the regulations passed by this Government." Turning to what he termed present, conditions, the Leader ot the Opposl- tlon declared that more is ample ac- commodation for the travelling pub- lie. The Henry Administration, he stud, had no thought of permitting "makeshift hotels" to receive beer and wine licenses. "There was no thought in our minds that anything'but standard hotels-- operating tor two rears-would be licensed," Mr. Henry said. " throw it back into the teeth ot the Government that I had any- thing to do with the present regula- tions. My responsibility ended with the passing ot the not last year. Had we remained in power there would have been strict control. "All these makeshift. hotels have been set. up," he continued. "merely tor the farce of giving beverage-room permits to satisfy some ot their friends." Mr Henry vigorously assailed the Introduction ot the single permit sys- tem, and termed this move a "griev- ous error." Eben" an Gates Opened Wide "The doing away with the old per- mit had opened the gates wide." the former Premier asserted. "There I: no control under the single-permit 878- tem. In establishing the single per- mit the Government has departed from the cardinal principles of con- trol. I suggest to the Government that the name ot the not be changed, tor there is no longer control. "I understand," Mr. Henry went on. "that about " per cent. ot sales In under single permits. A person can buy a, number ot cases an etch. I understand." "Only one ease," Premier Hepburn put 1n. "Weil, I am not sure. I don't know," Mr. Henry replied. "Then talk about something you know something about," the Premiu' suggested. The Leader of the Opposition took some time to read extracts from The Toronto Globe dealing with the bever- age-room situation. One exempt from the issue of Aug. 24, 1934, was headed "Beverage Room Disgrace." _Oondi- tions, the newspaper declared, were tict, entirely desirable. "I ask The Globe what was the matter with its principles when the Premier was out on the election tour in June advocating the return of beer by the glass," Mr. Henry declared. " rather thought then that The Globe urged the stand taken by the Pre- mier." He urged the Premier to study carefully The Globe editorials on this matter. Regarding the closing hour ot bever- agp rooms, Mr. Henry said nothing was in the regulations about Daylight Saving Time, and some rooms stayed open until 1 o'elothr in the morning. "Eleven o'cloek now," the declared. "And I commend the Government tor that, but you will have to amend the hours further than at present." Mr. Henry answered. Concluding his address, the ex-Pre- mier moved the following amendment to the motion to adopt the Speech from the Throne: "That this House regrets that your advisers through the Liquor Control Board have failed to maintain the control ot the distribution ot liquor which has been such a marked feature during recent. years."