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J 7 ! March ¢ ¢ f Ig""'--l'm'" of people out of work. :'I'!Mncc Ibou)dpdevelop its own 'Quuten "But I think Sir Adam was to;qmm:: ecaion." ho mrig .jmu:tde that o:tr!:."bm NT ns "There have been wobn?inyhelm';\?.' | _The next move, the Minister de-- | diate decisions." glt:rcd. ;tl'as t.oi;e Jan. 21, 1925, when ai Repudia +k a am Plan partment of the Com-- mnm:"'::l::;ng:n;g' not:nt':) , mission was estaplished for the express | repudiate. I don't care one way or | PUPOSC Of Studying the question. _ | another, but it is surprising to hear ; "On May 27 of the same year," he| the arch supporters of repudiation so continued, "Sir Adam wrote to Mayor speaking." Foster of 'Toronto, telling him that| Mr. McQuesten charged hypocrisy the Legislature had voted some 310.-' to an Opposition warning the Gov. | 000.000 for steam plants, but that final| ernment not to go wrong on their Iauthority to construct the plants had| principles. Cede Matievel Oe Oek Promte "The greatest piece of repudiation 1e s e then Premier done was the moratorium t?n mort. |a&nd urged that authority to proceed gages." léc givgnrtto the Hyd;o m:drtrgssiol?. The bondholders might perhaps be boire jeil a memotrandum the oom::ered as lnnoccl:n '})1:;1 d"r;s of Premier setting out the reasons why "stolen property." The Minister the Com ;mlde it clear that he was not sug-- const'mc?'kj:*s..im fosived foproceed with gesting that they knew of the origi-- "On June 3 Chief Engineer Gaby nc.! situation. . forwarded _ information _ concerning But the thief cannot have or con--|-- stecam plants to Mr. Clarkson, and on fer any valuc, even to an innocent| July 17, 1925, Mr. Clarkson made his party," he quoted. | _ report on the steam--plant proposals No Lectures Wanted. |__to the Prime Minister, declaring that He was not discussing the right or lhe three plants were necessary, and wrong of the repudiation of the con--| WOuld generate about 300,000 horse-- tracts, said Mr. McQuesten, "but we! POWer."' friends opposite." Minister explained, but in February Ontario's fate with interruptibple Of the following year Mr. Brandon, power was pomtpd out. Chief Electrical Engineer, again re-- "We'll have to resort to our power. . Ported to the Commission in favor of Why don't we use it now?" steam plants. The whole run of events, 'The Minister dug into the huge he said, clearly indicated where Sir minute book, and began to take up | Adam and the Commission stood on Hydro's much--discussed "engincers'" l"'" question of steam--generated power minutes. It was the sixth or seventh | fOr Ontario. time that it had been referred to in detail on the floor of the Legislature. "This attachment was not signed-- was cbviously not an original--and | consists of two documents. The HMouse applauded. j "There's ncthing in here which adopts this report," he said. The persistency of the Commission of that day in signing contracts for power that was unwanted and could not be used was not done for the benefit of the public, the Minister insisted,«but was done to enable them to market their securitics. ' He quoted an editorial from the ltvening Telegram at the time they ¢ ,were buying this power. The editorial had stated that "it was time for a showdown in Provincial Hydro," and that the Commission was buying more power than it could use. While they were buying this power f from private corporations, he con-- | tinued, they had their own develop-- !mcnt engineers idle. No publicly k owned project could live without the 'confldence of the people;: or while there were clouds of suspicion hanging over it, he said. "Shameful Histery," "Surely," declared Mr. McQuesten at the outset of his address, "this is the most shameful history and abso-- ' . |lutely callous wrecking of this great enterprise that has ever come before the people of this Province." (Ap-- plause.) "It seems to me," he added, "that f the ill--considered abandonment of the conclusions of Sir Adam Beck is a suspicious and significant fact. Theore is no question but that steam power was Sir Adam's conclusion despite the attempt of the honorable member from . Grenville--Dundas to show Sir Adam opposed this method of power gonera-- tion in Ontario. This was Beck's conclusion, and it was the conclusion of his staif of engineers and the Hydro |\ Commissioners. All combined on th: view that for the supply of firm power stcam plants should be built." "Clarkson." the Minister declared. * "was called in to report on the . advisability of steam plants, Clark-- son is the man who was sent to Ham-- liton to give the. cloak of respectability to the purchase of the Dominion Power and Transmission Company " "Mich has been made of the letter written to Gale offering to purchas: power from Quebec," declared Mr. Mc--