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Yesterdays announcement ot a blanket penaity--"in respect to the stsbmty of the forest products indus- tries"--4otlowed eighteen months ot newsprint negotiations at Queen's Park. During that time there have been veiled hints of some form ot Government control ot the price of newsprint, and dcf1nite statements that the Government was ttttttting alleged priee-eut,ting raids on the newsprint market. The clause added to the reallocation bill yesterday was coneldered the probable Govemment weapon for the future implementing of its newsprint policy. The penalties also lie agatnst companies operating "in a manner detrimental to the publtc interest" in respect to Crown revenues and the maintenance of fair wage and labor condltions. n was predicted last night that the blanket penalty provisions plus the already announced clauses which give the Government power to revamp the Ncrihern timber limits. will mean a. Lett'.s'sature right. on the bill. Another clause puts a still penalty of 81.000 tt day on companies violating the bill or the retulaticm under the bill. The bill also provides machinery which will give the Minister all information about the pulp and paper companies 'i',',eut.t'"'e in the Ncrth on Crown 1 mils. The reallocation causes of the bill are area: the lines announced by Mr. Keenan at the beginnlnc of the Legis- lature. They will pretty well permit the Ltutettattt-ootterttor-in-Ceqtneil to revamp the present concessions in the North In the Interest of general economy. A clause my; the Govern- ment may control the qunntlttes and kinds of timber to be cut from any area or used in any mill Bttd may limit the outth to that consistent with approved forestry methods. he bill provides that these penal- ties will be an increase. by a much as five times. in the stumpue chargss paid to the Grown by the great pulp and timber companies. The Lieutmant - Governor - in - Council is empowered to levy these increuses against companies which are acting against the public interest in the opinion ot the Lletttenttnt-t3overnor. tgt-Council. "The stability ot the forest products industries" is the second item in the list ot matters ot public interest oom- ms under the protection of the pro- posed penalties. The added clause provides that pulp. paper and timber companies using the Crown's Northern timber concessions may be pendined tor operations which are deemed detri- mental to the public interest. A clause which will give the On- tario Government " indefinite mea- sure of control over the newsprint and lumber max-itch was attached to Hon. Peter Heennn's "rettlloeatiott-ttf-tinr. tter-limits" bill when that in! was introduced in the Legislature yester- day. . . u'"" --v u"--. v" Penalties for Companies -----_ Wr . , "I spat " a Government that does ong'ly Usiryr Crown something tor the Named soldier." Concessions Ontario's youngest Cabinet, Min- [UMBER MART 'cnoLLSPEAKs comm PLAN FOR VETERANS 0F Iiiiiilil0l BILL The former Attorney-General back- ed his charges with an atBdavit from the boy. who pleaded he had not. been old enough to vote and could not have vow Conservative. Dr. Roberts had advanced the excuse, said the am- dem. that he must take care of u lot of promises ot Jobs. The diamssal was a sample of the Keenan patronage uystem in Northern Ontario. the former Attorney-General Government Remembers Debt, He Declares Dr A. D. Roberts, Liberal M.P.P. tor the Sault, dismissed a boy who was clerking in the Northern Develop- ment omoes because he had promised slototjobsandhadtofulmhis pmmises. former Attorney-General W. H. Price charged in yesterday's Legis- brute. ROBERTS REBUKED OVER DISMISSAL Ontario's youngest Cabinet. Min- ister, Hon. Dan/id Omll. made all: simple statement. lat. night When he wound up an all-day Legislature tight over the alleged manual ot veterans from the Civil Service. The Welfsre-Labor Minister, ad- mitting he was only 14 when the we: broke out, was speaking in answer to chutes that the Government had also missed and neglected World War vet- erans. The chutes had been made by former Attorney-0eneral W. H. Price. He was answering charges by Colonel Price that the Administration had fired veterans after the making ot last year's Hunter report. In lar. mora. T. McQuigge. Mormon; Wil- liam McCoy. Madoc, and a. Mr. Well- mun of Marmorae-tul veterans with 'trmllietr-ttad been dismissed. Colonel Price charged. and the Mormon. Le- gion Post had reported the men were replaced by Mr. Bruce Mtmroy-- "who is reported to have hidden in the swamps during the war so that he need not fight." Mr. Croll stated that since the mak- ing of the Hunter report, the Gov- ernment had reinstated 110 returned soldiers and the remaining 198 on the list could have every hope of re-em- playment. "I have never lost sight of the fact that I owe a debt ot gratitude to the returned soldier." said Mr. 01011. "When we entered office we found that under the Government of which the ex-Attorney-General was a mem- ber the returned than was getting less relief than the civilian. Now, under this Government. the returned soldier. for the first time in the his- tary of the Province. is placed on the same footing as the civilian." March " PAYROLL FRAUD (l8lllllliit FOUND WITHOUT BASIS 'Rowlandson Report' See No Relief Discrimina- tion in South Cochrane No grounds tor charges ot payroll padding and relief discrimination in South Cochrane, but one instance ot improper expenditure of public money on a dam, are contained in the text of the long-awaited "Rowlandson re- port," which was tabled in the On- tario Legislature yesterday. A Commission headed by W. B. Common, K.C., investigated charges against the administration ot the De- partment ot Northern Development, uttered last year by John Rowland- son. Liberal member of the Legisla- ture for Cochrane South. Mr. Common found no grounds tor charges ot payroll padding and relief discrimination in that Northern On- tario area. The Prederielrhouse Lake dam at Timmins, he said, was the only matter that justified the lava. The Commissioner found there was considerable quicksand where the dam was built, necessitating patching the construction. and that evidence of engineers showed the dam should never have been built at that place. Had there been efficient inspection, the report said, completion of the dam would have been abandoned. The sole purpose of the dam, it was claimed. was to provide duck-hunting facilities for a small section of the community. The Commissioner observed that two ot Mr. Rowlandson's daughters had been employed by the department. One was let out because of insubordina- tion; the other quit when work fell off. tittation. Because many people in the sparsely settled area were on relief. having "great difficuliy in eking out a mere existenee." said Mr. Common, com- plaints and friction had arisen. Mr. Rowlandson was rebuked in the report for having said last June T. according to a newspaper report, that the Commission was "trying to mits- construe the evidence of witnesses" and that its work was a "washout." The member for Cochrane South should have "exemised discretion in his public utterances." with the mat- ters under investigation still sub- Judice. said the report. Mr. Rowland- son was complimented, however. for his earnestness and sincerity regard- ing well-being of his constituents. At the time of the Commission's inquiry. last June, $24,000 had been expended and there was still $8,000 in accounts outstanding. The report found A. T. Hamer, act- ing district engineer, failed to make periodical inspections ot the dam. and should have "consistently opposed" further expenditure of public money on the project. The Sporting Club of Timmins was prcmised the dam by the Northern Development Department in March, 1934, at a proposed cost ot $700.