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[mooted Mme) at the .ooyermnettl, Ito dame den and records demanded by the Gtpattutttt. Mr. Mick's outburst. followed mum ot the mt. mum Coun- mhdon by _ my when. The mt mm. he sold, could let be composed to say previous Com- .Inhdon. ter tn the put the members had has: met! "for pounce] patron- age solely." One recent Commission, ttemotmt,hadtteettoornpatettofthe, tntttiettt d we): mica-unaon was not inthernt1Mehtteretrt, new. loco-Wt. Geoe-hs1liesopeetedtlte'Itwy M M taming the Government which "my unjust and very untair." The Opposition was being handicap- pod. he an. new to know tf the nova-amt had recently put- ohnnd with power for Campbell- The mo debate began when Mr. RmtrtatAmNiedttttmvorattwtotr49ttrt- -ntt'entieofmotdortmllimrupon in Comment to table a full and thtModrqtor'testa1lttteteest-,meot- omntKdi-ittntrornegotutitmsre- -tigte ttttmt-e of now for the ttx-ttie 1m in the Senate and t "we panned heekr-attout- Ul" "(-1: VI van. mun-Ivor-OI-ovvo l Arthur Ellis (Cons. Ottawa South) I said it was quite obvious that Hydrol was to he kept under compietel political domination. He asked 11. Chief Commissioner t Stewart Lyon! had been consulted in connection with -the question at hand. ' "In Did You Vote?" / . Aron. H._ 9.31129. PrrinAtt pee. "le use paid " 810.000 per year, with we (nun-elf and We: "All Conservative Appointments to Commit: _ sion Were Political, Roebuck Charges I in Legislature He added that the Government ms ready to announce details ot completed deck. but not of uneonsutmmsted negotiations. "wand" of the municipalities." The Attttetter-tNttsm1 replied that he Mt. Chalk deplored the absence m the mum Commission of guy when". Thetetru1twtusthe The people ot Ontano were becom- mg armed at the need for power. Ind hearing rumors at the same time that Ontario was seeking power from New York State. , Premier Hepburn asserted that this Government was more tree and open in the production ot intttrtttBtiott than its predecessor. And he vented " ' ONBERVA'I'IVE appointments to the Ontario Hydro C Commission were purely political, and one went to "a mere political heeler-about-town, of whom the less said the better," Attorney-General Arthur Roebuck charged in the Legislature yesterday. Con-blon- Conwed. C m chute featured an afternoon] I C)ooke OWNS?" was more poihit moi when any Hydro Commission had had B special member representa- tive solely ot the munieitmlities. 7 "Political Heeler" Appointed to Hydro By Tories, Is Claim Mt. Rttenttttt mn't sure. but mid 1 "Is it a fact." asked Leopold Ma- lcaulay, "that the Government nego- .tiated for blocks of power in New York?" "The Government." replied Mr. Roebuck, "has nothing to announce ht that connection." Mr. Henry in- terposed that the people of Ontario would never tolerate the importation of foreign power when Canadian power was available. J. Lewis Duncan. the recently repu- diated Liberal legal counsel to the Govern ment on Hydro contract mat- ters. had overreaehed himself. Mr. Macaulay cemented. Neighen Intended. Former Premier George Henry stout- ly defended former Commissioner Meighen as highly qualified tor that (nice. He was not apnointed to the Senate until he had held the office for a considerable time. As for for- mer Commissioner Maguire. he was a Liberal before he gave up politics. "You consented to Mr. Meighen'a aptyointrmmt to the Senate while he Mill carried on in the Commission. You knew. of course. that that would require his absence trom the citv for about five months a year?" asked Mr. Hepburn. "You should have." shot, back the Premier. "Because I understand that you sought a senatorial appointment yourself." If the municipalities were entitled to know every detail of Hydro M- fairs, why not admit the press to the Commiscicn meetings. he wanted to know. Then everything the Commis- s!on did could be spread all over the Province, as the Opposition seemed to want. A third resolution asking full data and surveys relating to the Quebec contracts since July, 1934. was killed after Mr. Roebuck pointed out tttttt such information would be invaluable to Hydro's competitors. '1 know nothing pl returned Mr. Henry The discussion ended with a. de- mand from Mr. Baird for the full text of Arthur Slaght's "plea for Gatineau" at the meeting when the contract; were let. It must have been on eloquent address. he thought. When a second resolution, seeking the full record ot negotiations with the Quebec companies. was debated. it met the same fate. and it was then that Mr. Roebuek hurled his charge at the former Maguire-Meighen- Cooke Commission. "Never mind how I voted," said Mr. Baird. "I'm talking now as I see things from the Opposition." The resolution was then last. Cooke Commission was more political- ty controlled than any other one tn Hydro history. When W. A. Baird. Toronto Tory. Joined the discussion. Mr. Nixon asked him pointedly how he had voted when the then Liberal Opposition had sought Hydro data trom the previous Government. March " ing about that at all,"