t se ' % 6 March ¢ Hydro Commission 'were political ap-- | -- pointments, he said. Two Cabinect a Mingters on ne, Commuesion was s . | Q(JQ $ WHIP thing unsheard of previously. "God j fi&n':",'{?{; he said, if that was a yaro out of politics. Hydro | had come through three investiga-- 0" ontar|n F""ds | PROTESTS zlg:; aam:i ftwh time had come out | ' | e spnore . an would come out o 3 | f ) 'l'xixvtcs';!sa'?on unblgmished. he £ ;l:?cit Hapn"[ " Gnarges Claims Headhne Was eted. The purchase of power would be shown to be a "wiso axx)ud sonsible" Inaccurate Hso geonied emphatically that Hydro Strong exception w en i :l:gmb:en .szartl:d by a Liberal Gov-- Three Paper Plants Here Om,a,rl'og Legirs)lattrxlr: asyegg;éma):n ttg; ment, but charged the Liberal Ad-- {ertea] 1j i Harold Kirby, Chie i i min}strat:on in 1900 (Premier G. W. Id'e ClteS Ne'w Phase m to an articleyappeariZ\gL:x?e;al'rqg':-v;f:t% Ross) had granted thres leases at Power Dispute evening. paper, headed: "Hepburn Niagara Falls, two o' them to Ameri-- Dazes City Council with Bid to Hunt can intorests en Club Dinner." | To Resume Tuesday. | A new phase to the Hydro--Quebec The fact is, Mr. Kirby explained.| h 1120 Mr. Eilis f | power contracts controversy was cited that Liberal members of the House' 'journme'.t ( * E;.x.\ m,)'\.fli the ad-- by Premier Hepburn yesterday. "Three have arranged the dinner on Fri-- [ Hepbu nt of the debate. Premier Ontario paper mills are closed down," day night for the Prime Ministr and wm':ld m .ax.nmutccd th:r the dacbate he said, "while Quebec mills continue his Cabinet, members of the Opposi-- efere :fb:'m" on "!jl(':r..;y next. In 'to operate, and the reason is that the tion and the City Council. Premier ow 'r;no o members who wish to visit power companies and paper companies Hepburn, he said, had nothing to bar t}ir\'ml»i: n't tn.v: week--ond, he add-- of Quebec are linked. The power do with arrangements for the event. in s Touse would adjourn at 5 companies in the Eastern Province. Hon. George S. Henty claimed the pm. today. largely through the revenues derived Whip was oui of order in 'bringing from the sale of electrical energy to the matter up. this Province, are able to subsidize "The member is going to correct their paper mills and so, with Ontario one of the many misleading articles funds, are able to drive Ontario milis which appear in that paper," the Pre-- 'to the wall. mier put in., "That is a new and important fac-- "We'll always be in order then." t | tor of the case," added Mr. Hepburn. said Mr. Henry. k |\"We are not only faced with the "You look after your side of the | necessity for increasing the cost of House and I'll look after mine," the | our power to the consumer, if these Premier returned. | contracts for power purchase in Que-- ' bec remain unbroken, but we are also | faced with unfair competition from \ the same quarter in our pulp and | paper lnd{xstr,v. f "I want the people to understand 'the far--reaching effect of these power contracts which we are now chal-- 'lenging." The Premier repeated a willingness | to meet the Quebec power interests and discuss a revision of contracts. "We will meet them if they so desire," he stated. "We haven't approached * them. If they ask us for an inter-- view, we will give them an opportunity to meet the whole Cabinect. We are not worrying, though. rest assured. We can cancel those contracts through legislative action." Mr. Hepburn stated the Cabinet Council would moet on Saturday morning, but denied that a conference + a with Quebsc power represontatives had been arrangea for that time,. re-- iterating merely that "we are ready | * . to meet them. i#f they so desire." CH ALLIE S 9 WON'T ANSWER " # Is That a Compliment?" Hon. George H. Challies, former Provincial Secretary in the Henry Administration, in the Ontario Legis-- lature, yesterday bluntly declined to answer any questions which Attorney-- General Arthur W. Roebuck might ® see fit to ask. The Conservative member was at the outset of his address on the Hcuse debate on Hydro affairs when the Attorney--General rose to question one * * of his statements. * "I wish to say right here," declared Mr. Challies, "that I will accept questions from any other member of the House, but not from Mr. Roe-- buck." "Is that a compliment or the re-- verse?" the Attorney--General asked. '"You can take it just as you like," Mr. Challies replied, and then went on to say that the Attorney--General had had the services of "a battery of legal advisers, and a group along the sidelines acting as cheer leaders and preparing his data." Several times the Attorney--General * tested Mr. Challies's sincerity and in-- terjected a question, but the latter shook his finger and said: "Not on® question of yours will I answer."