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A Ma"c.\\, A L \ Mok .. a "It is a contemptinie tning to ao," ' a he said, "to hitch up the statements | of agitators with me and attempt lto | blacken me. It is not fair and is not true, and the member should with-- i draw it." Mr. Henry could not sse what there was to withdraw. He was reading newspaper excerpts. "Which he put in such juxtaposi-- 4 tlox;." complained the Attorney--Gen-- eral. PO' "I am willing to withdraw any-- | thing I have said that imputes con-- nection with Moscow to the Attor-- ney--General,' said Mr. Henry. v o Withdrawal Demanded. erbal Melee in House .. MG Rocbuck . sharply . demanded 646 9 + rawal of the original inference, Ta"(S OUt POIlOQ' but the former Premier demanded that Director Bl" he repeat the words to be withdrawn. | "I'm no shorthand reporter," said | the Attcrney--General, and the matter "SOAP »" ' was dropped. BOX REFERENCE | _ Otherwise both Mr. Henry and for-- en | mer Aitorney--General W. H. Price were comparatively measured in their > MPROMPTU charges in-- denunciation of the police bill. dicting the heavy--hand-- | w"'rhis legislation is really central-- ng police authority in some one ap-- edness of Henry Govern-- | pointed by the Attorney--General or Lieutenant--Governor--in--Council," said n;ler:t pto Iti.ce movepmients;ziere | Colonel Price. "I think this bill goces shot at former Prime Min-- | too far, is a very extreme measure, ister George S. Henry late | and doesn't carry out what the At-- | torney--Gencral wants to do." vesterday. To the former Premier there was Delay Results. no evidence of a need for the change. The fracas whirled the Ontario Agreeing that there should be closer Legislature into another but short-- fi:"'rrdm"?gg;l h"'ort'"::fd :gfir';;ea;':?'; lived melee. With its aid and with . onajacter» * the aid of the first Liberal speeches S to the measure, the "emergency police director" bill was again taiked out--a process to which the Government on & Friday afternoon offered no protest. Mr. Henry, with apparent inadver-- tence, levelled the first charge at his administration. He was reading an account of a "soapbox" meeting, with the implication that Attorney--General Arthur Roebuck gave his blessing to those hunger--marching and Soviet-- minded agitators. The clipping quoted a "soapbox" reference to the * armed forces of the former Adminis-- tration. "Stratford--tanks and _ machine guns--armed men," Liberal members shouted at the former Premier. John Rowlandson, white--haired member for Cochrane South, rose angrily in his place to charge that an army of men and guns had been sent north to aid a single lumber operator. "I understood," the former Premier flared back as cries of "order" silenced the Chamber, "that the British Empire stood for protection of law and order and for the protec-- tion of British citizenship. I have heard of gunboats and men--of--war | going in to protect one citizen." ' Rowlandson Angry. j Mr. Rowlandson, still angry. de-- < clared that this was no foreign coun-- | lry, and Attorney--General Arthur | Roebuck asked Mr. Henry if he favor-- ed gunboats in Ontario. _ _'"Who talked of gunboats?" asked | the former Premier. | _ "You did," the Liberals shouted | triumphantly. |\ _ Hon. Arthur Roebuck challenged the | inference in the reading of the | newspaper accounts of last summer's ' hunger march, an inference that he * had wished success to men later talk-- Ing of Soviet organization.