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Febwu' B B Says ex--Dep uty Failed to C [ f 'Legal Inf ti Holds T reasury Department Lacks Adequate I ® * + * + | _ _Data Since 1932--Cites Difficulty in Delv-- @ + w tcrcmucty ing Into Alleged Power Deal Connection s AN A-l-flm A Am BILL to reqauire the Mail and Empire to produce in-- w formation which, he is in formed, has been lacking in , _----_.' G its returns to the Provincial Treasurer since 1932 to ° Premier Promises Grant +« __ be introduced in the Legislature, Premier Hepburn an-- Will Be Paid nounced last night. msromamn Accuses ex--Deputy. power contract made between the Premiex_- Hepburn yesterday assured The announcement followed the Otiawa Valley and the Hydro. Now _ & GSlegation representing all tuberceu-- A F he says he is investigating. That is losis sanatoria in Ontario, the Govern-- Premier's disclosure in yesterday's not the same thing. He sgbul i with ment during the fiscal year starting Legislature that a Deputy Treasurer; draw his charge until he is in a al April 1, would continue its grant of # P08 712% cents day per patient, The had failed to compel the Toronto tion to give proof. He made this mrotis invople: o g $790,000 r to file proper returns. charge on his responsibility as Prime »VUUUs g «+ wb 4e | Minister. 'The charge should be Spokesmen for the sanatoria, plead-- The Premier is charging that a) Withdrawn." ing for continuation of the grant, em-- power contract between the Henry "That's my responsibility," Premier ind "heirflgs °tf> """&m Government and the Ottawa Valley|\ Hepburn countered. "I say the con-- inablgffm ttj pay nts. » tract would never have been entered of municipaiities to keep up payme Power Company, with which Isaac They said also endowment funds were .__ nto if Killam had not been owner tion W. Killam was identified, would have of the Mail and Empire, Tory organ _ Gepleted due to the current condition | »» f % of the investment market. There was| never been entered into if Mr. Killam of Ontario. a heavy falling off of voluntary contri--. had not been owner of the Mail and "My honorable friend always sus-- butions, while food and other staples| Empire pects wrong motives in everybody." morea.séd in price t * declared Mr. Macaulay. "That is his M omm h Colonel Tbbetson Leonard of the Announcement of his new move in big trouble." Nisgara Pentuls Senatorium sat iBt his probe into the paper followed a | Catharines, was one of the speakers Conservative attempt in yesterday's for the delegation. R. L. Smith of the Legislature to get the Proemier to Mountain Sanatorium, expressed the withdraw the charges. thanks of the delegation for the con--| Encounters Difficulty. sideration given their requ:)rst. cCc | . Delegates also praised . G. UG. A former Deputy Treasurer did w Brink, director of the Tuberculosis not compel the Mail and lh.xpu-e to 6 MONTH RETURN Division of the Health Department, file proper returns at Queen's Park, LE for his clinics. e e Leph un ntaled yesterdey in SAID IMPOSSIE Institutions at the following centres the Ontario Legislature, A4¥ : were represented: Brantford, Windsor,| The Premier's new charge was & T _ 1t + Fort William, Gravenhurst, Hailey-- | made when he was admitting he had Nixon Would Rescind bury, Hamilton, Kitchener, London, encountered difficulty in delving into & Ottawa. St. Catharines, Sandwich, To-- | the alleged tie--up between the Mail Resolution onto and Wesion. and the '"'infprovident" Chats Falis anempemencmmmnnaemmtnmnes ; o nlhermiigercoe prover uonmremenes teeiepereninnmentomaabioatimine power purchase, which a Conserva-- ~ pProvincial Secretary Harry Nixon tive regime allegedly made from the paq a notice of motion on the On-- company headed by the Mail's tariq Legislature order vaper yester-- Iowner. day asking the House to rescind aA | "The former Deputy Treasurer did resolution passed las? session ordering \ not compel the Mail and Empire to a return showing capital and ordinary , lnle proper returns--took their word fO" _ expenditures for six--month pericds| | taxation purposes," said the Premier. each year from 1929 to 1935. 4 He was considering, he told the: _ a minor storm arose in the Legis--| House, a retroactive bill "which would| jatyre jlast week when Opposition | s compel the Mail and Empire to submit.l Leader Goorge S. Henry declared tbe that information to us." q irformation had not been made avail--| Leopold Macaulay had risen in de-; able to him. | fense of the Toronto paper, and had | Mr. Nixon's motion asks the order read its denial to the Premier's charge' for the return be rescinded and an that the Province was the Mail and| _n;vy in the journals of the House Empire's "sugar--daddy." l "which purported to show that the "I submit the Premier ought to| L..n naq been made" be deleted. withdraw that charge," Mr. Macaulay The Provincial Secretary contends it said, as he told the Legislature that it! |;; imnossiple to assemble the informa-- was a serious matter when such a tion requested. charge was made against a newspaper. "Continuing Investigation." "I am continuing an investigation s in regard to this matter," the Premier * answered. Conservative benchers laughed. "I repeat,"" flared the Premler, "that Killam (Isaac W. Killam) is head of 'the Mail and Empire and of the power ' ' company with which was made the 4 ' nefarious and improvident deal." It was rather difficult, he said, to get actual information, and he cited the former Deputy Treasurer's failure + to r; proper Mail and Empire rehm,h.' The Prime Minister has retreated a long way from his previous stand," * { said Mr. Macaulay. "The Prime Min«-- ister made a charge that the finan-- ~cial structure of the Mail and llwim, had ' boistered as a result of a . _