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. ,Compensation Board _-- Firings Attacked NTARIO'S -- Liberal Government wants Liberal Government men to head the public service, and will accord the same right to succeeding Administrations. "Absolutely Essential." "It is absolutely essential," Attor-- ney--General Roebuck told yesterday's Legislature, "that executive positions be held by those who are in sympathy with the Government, But, in the event of a change in Governmenlt-- "there will be no attempt by this Gov-- eroment to tie the hands of succseding Governments." The principle, conlained in an aci | making the Workmen's Compensation | Board removable "at pleasure," was '(layed by Arthur Elliis. The Govern-- | ment. the Conservative member charg-- \ ed, did not realize that some bodics | had been constituted to be free from | political influence. "That's a shameful econdition," ht chanrged. "The late Sir James Whit=-- ney never did the disgraceful taings this Government has done in whole-- sale dismissals. The Attorney--Gensral has such a mental outlook on political life that he doesn't beat about the bush. I am very sorry that the view-- point of the Attorney--G neral is that this indenendent board should be But Roebuck Claims Hold-- ers of Executive Posi-- tions Must Be in Sym-- pathy With Government placed under political influence." Administration Unsatisfactory. "The administration of the act." Mr. Roebuck explained, "had not been satisfactory to the Government. Messrs. Halford and Sinclair (former () Vice--Chairman and Chairman) were asked to resign. Both claimed that they had something of a life interest." A retroactive clause in the bill would cover these executive changes of last fall in the Workmen's Compensation Bcard. "This bill," said Mr. Roebuck: "makes it clear that these offices are the gift of the Government of the day." H# assured the Opposition that when their term of Government arrived they would not have to ask the present board members, George Wilkis and Earl Hutchinson for their resignations. AP\' \\ Wailing bassoons, oboes sounding off on summer evenings, and tootling sousaphones went filat in yesterday's Legislature. 'The House accepted the report of the Private Bills Committee, which killed Fraser Hunter's bill, asking that municipalities be empowered to vote grants for the maintenance of local & legal quorum was present at the time. He declared vigorously that it was not his practice to sanction actions of a committee when a quorum was not present. When the report of the committee was submitted, Hon. Leopold Macaulay ¥Conservative, South York) protested its acceptance on the grounds that the bill had been killed, according to his information, at a time when the com-- mittee lacked a quorum. "HMHow can we vote to accept this report when thne action of the com-- mittee was ultra vires through lack of a quorum?" he asked. W. E. N. Sinclair (Liberal, Ontario), Chairman of the committee, declared that the Secretary informed him that The South York member asked that the Secretary produce a certificate saying a quorum had been present. "Surely." said the Hon. Harry C. Nixon, "the honorable member is not going to demand a Secretary's certifi-- cate in the face of the assurance of the Chairman." Mr. Macaulay agreed to accept the statement of Mr. Sinclair. This practice, the explanation to the bill points out, has been demoral-- izing to the automobile insurance busi-- ness and works against the individual policyholder. The amendment does not interfere with the legitimate "fleet-- rating." NO GRANTS Another amendment to the same act ----the Insurance Act--is aimed at so-- called "synthetic fleets," and hits at the practice of a small minority of insurance companies who undertake to insure at a lower premium the pri-- vately owned cars of groups of persons in common employment, or living in the same apartment houses. The measure, introduced by the Hon. David A. Croll, Minister of Public Welfare, would enable only a solicitor or barrister, acting in the usual course of his profession, to act in connection with claims for accident damage. Legislation . was introduced in the Ontario Legislature yesterday designed to curb the activities of "ambulance-- chasers" ---- insurance adjusters who grew fat on claims arising out 0o# motor accidents. Lawyers Only May Act in Accident Claims, Says Croll Ambulance Chasing Is Gurbed by Bill FOR TOWN BANDS