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One Company Favored, 1 Claims Tory in Attack on Liquor Board llIllBll BASES glllll m CARRY ADVERTISING ONE liquor company had been allowed the privilege of placing advertbing stickers on cases of their products being distributed from store to customer. Colonel T. A. Kidd, Conservative member for Kingston. told the Legislature yesterday in the - " an attack on administra- tion of the Liquor Control Board. Producing an adhesive strip from his pocket. the Kingston member dis- played its red-primed inscription. "Spey Royal " These stickers. he said. were placed on the cartons before they were sent out, from the Picton liquor store. while all other brands were not permitted to bear any label-brand on the wrapping. "Abnolute Power." This. said Colonel Kidd. was msieal d the way the stairs of the Liquor Control Board were Being managed under "one-man control." by means of which. he mud. Chairman Edmond Odette "can do anything he likes-- allow one brand to advertise and not another. and do things for his own friends." He pleaded for removal of "absolute power" from one man's hands. Colonel Kidd's ninety-minute speech in the debam on the Budget included a. charge that Ontario. under the Lib- eral regime. had become " lawyers' paradise." Since Mr. Hepburn took ttttlee. he said. independent counsel had been retained In various advisory undue: and " Commission counsel. to a total cost to the taxpayers of $122.M9.'tlb. Defense of the Government. and mater-attack on the former Con- servative regime, was offered by Pro- vincial Secretary H. C. Nixon when he said that full value in proportion' to the cost had been rendered by all counsel retained. and mentioned the instance of the lawsuit against the Niagara Parks Commission. Sees "Lawyers' Paradise." Colonel Kidd. he said. had mom. timed Mr. Slasht. as one who had' shared the "iawyers' paradise." In the Niagara litigation. Mr. Slaght had, been successful in having judgment against the Province held down to $100,000. when it might have been more than $2,000,000. Surely. he ar- tttted. Mr. Slaght's fee. ct $32,000 was Justified on that basis. "rttrthermore." asked Mr. Nixon. " want to ask my honorable friend it he remembers the DP. a T. investig gation. under another regime, whichi eart 860,000. and the $1.000 per day spent to investigate theinvestigation." "I have no responsibility for the late Government." said Colonel Kidd. amid cries of "Oh. oh!" from Govern- ment benches. " cannot be held re- sponsible for those five years." Regarding the liquor label charge. Mr. Nixon assured Colonel Kidd that .the matter would Be investigated im- iiic""ria iiirdii' $15,000,000 loin issue .130 "failed to so over because the news me out that. the Government was not going to accept delivery ot the contracted-for Mttelaren-Ruettee power." 'Ut didn't led out." the Prime hamster declared manually. "The new}? Hepburn himsclt mswered another of Colonel Kidd's chutes. when the Kiwtgn 7?yryPy1red that Finally. Colonel Kidd drew the ar- tention of Hon. Dr. J. A. Faulknerq Minister of Health, to the fact that; the Hendry-Connell Research Foun- dation at Kingston, which was using "Ensol." the latest discovery for the relief ot cancer sufferers. was carry- ing on without a single dollar of Ca- nadian funds behind it. It was being financed, he said. by the Biological Research Foundation of the Franklin Institute at Philadelphia. Ho com- mended to the Government's inter- est the work being done in Kingston. and asked that Dr. Faulkner "keep at least a fatherly eye on it." He criticized the Budget address because. he said. it contained no retstenee to assets. and did not give Then Colonel Kidd renewed his at- tack of a fortnight ago on the closing of the Kingston Dairy School. On- tario. he said. produced two-and- a-halt times as much cheese as the other Provinces. and the farmers could ill spare the facilities of the school in the training of their sons for the important vocation of dairy- ing and cheese-making, a. fair presentation of the finances ot the Province. And he extolled the policies of former Dominion Prime Minister Bennett. Would Clarify Municipal Disqualifications Regardless of how the word got around. Colonel Kidd retorted, it was clear that the financial interests and the bond houses lost faith in the Government's financial policy. Raps Budget Speech. Nearly a year had passed since the people contributed to the late King's Jubilee Cancer Fund. and nothing had been accomplished. He expressed the opinion that "something would come of the work Dr. Donnell is do- ing." ELECTION BILL notification was openly sent to the mummies. and I resent the insinu- ation that there was anything sinis- ter In the thing." A bill spcncored by Sam Lawrence (C.C.F.. Hamilton East). to clarify the situa.icn as to grounds for dis- qualifying owners and tenants who seek election as members of Municipal Councils. was rejected by the Ontario Legislature Municipal Bills Committee yesterday. The committee approved an amend- ment to the Municipal Act which would decrease the cost of printing in municipul elections by tcrta,siietr. the number rf voters in eat-h polling annivisioh. The bill increases the number of {raters in each poll trem 200 to 450. The committee approved also a bill by J. F. Kelly (Liberal, Muskoka- Ontario). designating certain areas in . municipality for grazing cattle. t P. Murray (Liberal. Renfrew South). doubted whether the measure South), doubted would work out. "1Ei",uTGiii" Rue to put up signs prohibited areas and then teach 1 cows to read them." he said.. Pollmg hours " advanced polls in municipal elections may be open for any eight consecutive hours between D o'clock in the morning and 9 o'clock " night. the committee agreed as it passed in amended form the proposal for the change in a bill By Arthur Ellis (Com. Ottawa-South.) ..- .__a-A -L- eat-Mn" Kilt b"""'"""" .v. V--- Me--" - By Arthur Ellis (Con. Ottawa-South.) The comittee rejected the section in the some bill to force local boards and commissions to have their es- timates before Council By Feb. l, tn- dead of the Beginning of March. The committses also rejected Mr. Ilia}. bill to enable a Council to undertake paving or resurfacing under a section of the Municipal next}? on approval March 2.6 THROWN BUT of 'thii"iGiifirptn Board. the A strong appeal tor the taxation ot Hydro came from the Government side of the Legislature last night in an address on the Budget debate try W. L. Houck. member for Niagara Falls. Complaining bitterly against the lot of his own constituents under the present policies of untaxed Hydro. the young Liberal member said: "Some- thing positively must be done regard- .ing Hydro and taxation. Last week i Niagara Falls received its thirteenth , power bill, and I am ashamed to say it was the highest we ever received. Power and Coal. TAX " HYDRO lllllgill llf Ilililillt tll flihlliilllluiN' Niagara Falls Power Bill Highest in History, Says Liberal '%i it fair." asked the member, "that we in Niagara Falls. where the power is generated, should have to pay $22 per horsepower at its source.' It you go to the coal dealer's bin and take coal on the spot, do you expect, to pay as much as the man who has it delivered in a wagon?" "I firmly believe that Hydro should be taxed." proceeded Mr. Houck. "When public ownership ceases to campete with private ownership on a. fair basis. it falls in my regard. A private power company in StamIord Township paid $132,000 taxes last year. I think the Honorable Minister of Public Welfare will back me up in the statement that Niagara Falls and Stamford have been unfairly treated. Sir Adam Beck was at least fair. Protest Treatment. "The Hydro-Electric Power Com- mission has deviated from the original policy of Sir Adam. and both Niagara Pails and Stamford have in their pos- session documents that prove con- elusively that, Sir Adam assured them that no municipalities would s.ttiter any loss of taxes through the Hydro development at the Falls. Sir Adam was at least fair in regard to these municipalities. and paid them ap- proximately $75.000 a. year for ten years in lieu of taxation. Last year I had a tight. and finally secured 850,- 000 for Niagara Falls and $45,000 for Stamford," he said. graying from a. box containing names of all Jurors. "I can see no Justified reason why Hydro should not pay at least a. justi- Bed tax as a publicly owned enterprise it privately owned enterprises have to pay taxes far in excess ot this, and I know the honorable members of this House can well see why it is that Niagara Falls and the Township of Stamford bitterly protest, against the treatment received from Hydro since 1931. and you can well realize why it is that the Hon. Minister of Welfare has had his hands full in regard to these two municipalities," he said. An amendment to the Jurors Act, legalizing a Judge's right to release part of a panel of jurors at a sitting of a civil court. was brought down in the Legislature yesterday by Attorney- General Arthur Roebuck. The jurors to be released are to be omega IT., ROEBUCK PROPOSES JURORS ACT CHANGE