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March 18 Legislat Session _ 4 4 H 11 & Y Is "Hottest" in Years # ; Veterans Look Back to 1923 to Find Its Equal f for Parliamentary Fire-- works "It's a lively session at Queen's Park." t Even the veterans will admit it-- the veterans who grumble that the Parliamentary clock stopped with Sir James Whitney in 1914, or with Hon. » G. Howard Ferguson in 1930. In the three 'weeks and four days, during which the first session of the nineteenth Legislature has been sit-- ting, cnough questions of privilege and points of order have sizzled across the time--honored "flcor'" to break all current records. According to veteran observers, the Queen's Park annals must be turned| t!DUally invoked in the present House, back to 1923 to find a "hotter" ses.| UDtil Hn. George S. Henry made a sion. The barometer of the galleries| "@Cent two--sentence speech about him. --where men and women have waited| Th¢ new Speaker has been callea on for two hours before session time in | fOr dozens of rulings and a recently the last few weeks--also has not hit| Gelivered dictum occupied three pages, a similar high in twelve years. Questions are another fighting word. Rules of Procedure. Used in times past to shake many a member's speech, they were limited The late Sir Erskine May is better| by Hon. Arthur Roebuck during his| known to the maiden members of the| nine--hour Hydro contract indictment. current Legislature than to some Oof| The Opposition has followed suit-- their predccessors, who occupied their| with many a display of Parliamentary mt.si for a whole Parliament. 81r| fireworks. Erskine, one--time Clerk of the Par--| Reason for the "liveliest" uame.pt. at Westminster, is the author| obvious On m: omigonsegse:?:mlg mrmmwyl Practice, thel are the picked men of a former Min-- o such is n m"h';d proceédure.' istry and Legislature, and the Hep-- name been COn-- purn Government has taken them on * at repartee and debate. Oltawa Experience. The Premier brings Ottawa experi-- ence to the House, and is the first Prime Minister to do so for many years. On one side he has the ablest exponent of cross--fire in several On-- ' tario Legislatures, Hon. Harry C. Nixon, and his Attorney--General, Minister of Highways and Minister of Agriculture have already proven their speech--making ability in the House. Former Prime Minister Hon. George 6. Henry is still chief Conservative thunderer. His desk--mate, former & Attorney--General W. H. Price, pre-- f cipitates in even more Parliamentary ~ battles, and next to him is Hon. Leo-- pold Macaulay, Of the new members, several veterans of the Toronto Coun-- cil are most eager for the fray. The crowded galleries and the rec-- ords prove that so far it has been a good fight. The veterans have stop-- ped saying: "You should have heard Sir James."