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E. April 7 into the first major of the de-- bate when he hnncl::di: scathing Situation in Hull, | _ _ *k lacing at Minister of Education DF: .. Replying to claims that the Pro-- " KNHY W-then"ntfmflnm- :(:::m(;ruym':mmm't' 1 1 & The Toronto M.P.P.. K.C., and Or-- | pe, gepareq'ipl1o, MDebondale mem-- that in 1931--32 in Hull, angeman turned on the Minister When . ont of a totaj school tax of $100,149.08 f he attacked the Government for bring-- -- +:p, Protestants received only 4.9 ne, ing down school legislation in the _ cent| of $4.682 .0 --p€ Legislature's dying hours--the same "This," he said, "despite the fact school legislation which the Fathers of that one concern,. the E. B. Ed dy mederaUOn had studied for twenty Comp?r;g----an entirely Protestant firm « --contr -- w f [ "Twenty years or more the Falll\er: | poration ?g(d , one--half the total cor wommpmeptmes of Confederation had this contentious | _"How m & k [avestion on their hands.. Twenty years any public schools are there -- Declines Proffered Op | --the Fathers of Confederation. men | in Hull?" asked Dr. A. Des Rosiers, portunity to Be | like Brown. Macdonald, Cartier-- Liberal member for Russell. «4* Lbwenty years getting it settled, and yet "None," shot back Mr. Nesbitt | Speclflc the Government, with three days to | "Where did you ever get the idea that | go, puts it in the books. there were any public schools in the | t "The Minister of Education got up Province of Quebec?" |__ Conservative Leader Henry declined | today--fiftecn minutes." "And yet," went on the Toronto | in the Legislature shortly before mid«= ; "That's not correct," Attorney--Gen-- | | Tory, "here in Ontario Frank O'Con-- 'night last night to commit his party | eral Arthur Roebuck broke in. i | nor is able to keep on, year after |to repeal of the school tax bill if re-- "I won't quarre! over two or three | | year, handing over the entire tax of turned to power. : minutes," said Mr. Nesbitt. "He got| | his vast business enterprise to the / "Pussyfooting," Attorney -- General | up for half an hour, we'll say, and | | Separate schools, while Protestant Roebuck charged, as five minutes oi' talked for ten minutes of wonderful | firms in Quebec have no such corres-- | shouts of "Riffraff!" and "Order, {(cals-- ponding privilege." order!" were drowned out in a cres--| "I want to say that wasn't what we ;cendo of Liberal applause. ' wantsd the Minister of Education to |__Mr. Roebuck began by stating that talk about. We wanted the Minister * | the former Prime Minister had 1nt.i-' of Education to discuss this bill in \ mated in the afternoon that he would | | detail. repeal the legislation if he was return-- | ' _ *Where is he now, the Minister of ed to power. | | Education--and this bill going through "I demand that he withdraw, as I| \the House? The Minister of Education never made such a statement," Mr.! got up and gave three cities and said Henry said. | the corporation taxes didn't chang: ""Now, will you say it?" the Attorney-- \the rates much. And when I asked General demanded, amid loud Libexm" him how this bill affected N=:thern | applause. § | Oontario, of which The Globe news-- | _ "Am I to have those words with-- ; paper complain¢d so bitterly, he didn't ' drawn, Mr. Speaker?" the Tory Lead*r | have a thing." asked after the tumult subsided. | C | _ "Very well," said the Attorney-- | Reviews School System. | General. _ "I will withdraw it on the | "Where is he? He owes it to the understanding that my honorabl«| courtesy of his position to be in this | friend now intimates----" | House when this bill goes through. Liberal applause drowned out the | Where is the sponsor of this bill (the Attorney--General. ; Premier) when it is going through? "Come across," the Tories demanded, | Speaking of good will--the Provin-- "Is the gentleman standing on his cial Secretary is smiling." feet or on his head?" asked Mr. Ro:s-- "They've read those Telogram cdi-- a buck. "Is he black or white?" torials," Harry Nixon said. (Mr. No:-- _ _There was more cheering and Lib-- bitt had been reading Telogram edi-- cral applause ,tom,ls at length.) '"The honorable member says he | _ "And they'll write your obituary a. doesn't know whether I'm black or | the result of those Telegram editor-- white," Mr. Henry answered. "I'm red-- l*ls." blooded." \__"The Telegram has been asking for The former Premier domanded an ' my obituary for cighteen years," Mr. unequivocal withdrawal and "no pussy-- Nixon grinned. "How much of a footing." Mr. Speaker asked for the F majority did you get in the last eloc-- words to which Mr. Henry objected. tion?" "I did not intimate that I would A The Toronto member's spzech had repeal the act." )been prior to the outburst on a review The Attorney--General sprung the ,ot Quebec and Ontari>o school condi-- trap. | tions and schocl taxes documented by "Surely now if he is the red-- lengthy newspaper clippings. Once blooded man he is talking about he \ when he taunted, "Men who support will say if he will repeal it or if he | public schools and who won't stand up won't. The honorable member work-- f {Tt;;h?r schools in this House," he had ed both the public school supporters | Liberals stirred. and the separate school supporters in E Mr. Nesbitt unleashed batteries of the last election, and he's hoping to |figures showing that Protestant mon y try it at the next. was being taken to teach Catholic "If he can't state his stand to the ' children in Quebec. Protestant opposition to the separate _ "Does that mean the Protestants schools, he will have the opposition of | lave the weaith and the Catholics those gentlemen. He will fall between, have the children?" T. P. Murray, two chairs on the pussyfooting |Renfrew Liberal, summed up the method he has adopted as he fell be-- | 'arxumem. tween the two chairs on the beer! Ideals of . G y question. | | ton. George Brown. "One thing the people want is & , An attempt was being made, com-- clear and courageous siatement of| | plained Mr. Nesbitt, to rush the bill . where they do stand. I invite the ' through in the dying hours of the people to take their choice. The man session, while not one school board across the way (Mr. Henry) can't say | in the Province knew what share of if he'd repeal it if he had the power | M the cost it would have to bear. or if he would continue it if he had ; _ _Are you going to live up to the + the power. I ask them to choose be-- 'deals set for your party by Hon. tween the forthright methods of the George Brown," he asked the Liberal 3 Government in meeting this problem | members, "or are you going to place and trying to settle it and the pussy-- | yourselves under obligation of onc footing across the way." sectarian group? ) * n romnd emeerermtome "The Prim: Minister has said that + he has no doubt of the constitution-- ality of this House amending the Assessment Act. How does he know? He may have secured the opinion of > a few lawyors learned in constitutional * law, but others have different opinions." Here Mr. Nesbitt quoted $ & number of legal opinions published in the press, and another opinion submitted by the late Judge Scott. Separate school supporters, Judge Scott had declared, had no right to ask for extension of their privileges, and the Ontario Legislature had no _ right to grant them. #