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March i2 f i. Heoharn Prooom" JUDGE $ ACT _ | Hepburn Presents I « CHANGE PASSES| _ | Speech on Budget eemmmmemmineme | Punmnn HEPBURN swings into # + | action at Queen's Park today Would Appomt Ninth with Ontario's 1936 Budget speech. County J udge It will be the Premier's second Bud-- we _ _________ _ get during his regime as Prime Second reading was given in the Minister and Provincial Treasurer. Legislature yesterday to Attorney-- Expected to be a complete review of General Roebuck's amendment to the Province of Ontario finances, it is County Judges Act, providing for the the only item appearing on today's appointment of a ninth County Judge order paper at the Legislature. for York County. No debate and little discussion took s place, no mention l:}c:)g made of the : i widespread report t the new ap-- pointse would beoomho Judge W. T. J.| !lNCOME TAX VOTE Lee's successor on the Toronto Police Commission. Mr. Rocbuck contented CA' I ED "ABSURD" o himself with cutlining the onerous duties at pressnt on the shoulders of m ne eemmmnmmmmmmmmmems York's eight County Judges. A renewed attemp} to push the bills Second isx-ceadlim; was also givcl;r}. | supplementing the income tax law ;';:,'gg;':n u;f os,k t°.y§§fc'a§.}§ uxc: through the Loegislature was stalsmat. providing for the enlargement of the ed by a brief flurry at the close of yes» High Court of Justice to a total of terday's session. thirteen, including the Chief Justice. | _ 'The first supplementary bill was put into Committee of the Whole by the -- Government. An amendment {from | Arthur Ellis, Conservative municipal HOSP ]TAL COSTS expert, which would have denied a 'municipal vote to income taxpayers, FLAYED BY HENRY was killed. Mr. Ellis again objected because the Opposition had not been Wilrwin ie advised of the technical amendments George S. Henry protested in the covering partnership, which had been Legislature yesterday against over-- forecast by Hon. David Croll, and the expansicn of Ontario hcspital facili-- bl}l was allowed to stand. ties. 'Utterly absurd--makes the Prov-- It was getting to be too muth of a ince look ridiculous," the Conservative habit, said Mr. Henry, "and I say the membe_r §aJd of the clause which gives medical profession is responsible, send-- a& municipal vote to certain payers of ing a patient to a hospital who could the new tax. Former Premier_He-nry be treated at home. You might just agreed that the Government might as as well lie in your own bed." well give a vote to automobile license purchasers. Mr. Croll reminded them that if the clause was not passed it would result in the disenfranchisement of voters in municipalities which had an income tax. | INQUIRY ORDERED eane n [ An Inspector of the Department of | Municipal Affairs has been despatch-- | ed from Queen's Park to Chandos | Township, Peterboro' County, to ex-- amine the financial affairs of the mu-- | nicipality. | This was revealed yesterday when T. P. Lancaster, Conservative mem--| ber for Peterboro' in the Ontario Leg-- | islature, Grew the attention of Hon. | David Croll, Minister of Welfare and Municipal Affairs, to a report in The , Globe describing privation in the vi-- , y cinity of Apsley Village. | "At the present the task of admin-- istering relicf in Chandos Township is complicated by the loss of the mu-- j nicipality's books, which the Treasur-- er reported he had dropped acciden-- tally while crossing a stream,." re-- plied the Minister. '"However, we rather suspect that something is the mattcr, and have despatched an in-- spector to the scene." Mr. Croll f promised the Conservative msmber that a report would shorily be avail-- able . | o