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be used for purchase of the neces- sary materials tor the houses to be built under the housing policy. Not a cent ot Provincial relief money will be used for purchase of ma- terials. We will. however. contri. bule at our usual rate lo the wages of mechanics employed on construc- tion. Enthuohun Seen. "The reliel outlay of municipali- ties this year will be less than last Sear. and even with some reduction in the levy for their share of the relief cost. there will he funds avail. able for another purpose." contin- ued Mr. Croll. "These funds will "We have consulted tho super- vised municipalities and they have been enthusiastic." continued the Minister. "We are prepared to go further. To the other municipali- ties of Ontario there is the open door. They are at liberty to partici- pate in this scheme. 1 am not sug- gesting that this is a complete and all-embracing housing policy. It Isn't. What I will say. though. is that it is a definite step forward and a logical sequence to the be- ginning we made last summer." "Phi-tow". thd The Welfare Minister compli- mented Mr. Heighirutton on his con- tribution toward housing and slum clearance and recalled that it was a resolution from the member for St. David several years ago that helped awaken public and official sentiment on the question. Mr. Helghlngton expressed the hope that the City of Toronto would do something concrete. now that the way had been opened. The city's housing bill was "utterly dis- appointing." he declared. Parliaments in law represent and express the will of the people, sub.- mitted Colonel Hunter, and if there was any doubt in the mind ot any- one in the House as to the will of the overwhelming mass of the : people of Ontario "concerning these iniqultious power contracts," .they had only to go into the homes of the common men and women who pay their Hydro bills today. "They will learn," he said, "that the legislator who attempts to en- force these contracts has no future in any Parliament in these days. He will learn that this legislation is not a case of flaunting or repudiat- , ing the courts. but of obeying and representing the sovereign will of the overwhelming majority of the! people who constitute our society? 1 "Seriously. t did attempt," said he, "to clear legal doubts in my mind by listening attentively to the debate, particularly to tho Attorney- General's speech. In all friendli- ness. and not for a moment intend- ing offense to an old and valued friend, I cannot resist the tempta- tion of plagiarizing the Premier's description of the recent decision of the Supreme Court concerning the 1935 Hydro legislation, by say~ ing that In my search for legal ad.. vice, I listened most attentively to his (Mr. Roebuck's) long discourse. But perhaps due to my own limita- tions, I could discover little in it other than a hog's head full of Jack Homer. and a ttiimblefu1 of law." Sees Public Support. - "And I got hold of a lot of the wrong hooks before I got hold of the right hook," the outspoken military member further revealed amid the uproarlous laughter ot the House. luuay. "To some." continued Colonel Hunter. "this bill may seem harsh, arbitrary and expropriat?r11 but the fraud upon the people of this Prov- ince which it is aimed to repudiate and render harmless to the citizens of this Province was so shameless and full of iniquity that for the present protection of the public. heroic methods had perforce to be resorted to. The right of eminent domain. or universal right in the public over property, is definitely embodied In the laws of every civi- lized nation. Every civilized Gov- ernment has the right to expro~ priate private property, the public possession of which the Govern- ment considers to be in the public Interest. This legislation does, in tact, make Hydro sacrosanct so far as public ownership is concerned end, if I read the signs sright, that -- ... " A..- _--_'-v Labelling Attorney-General's Roe- buck's recent marathon address on the Hepburn Government's new power legislation as "six hours of rhetoric and four minutes ot releo Vance," Colonel Fred Fraser Hunter (Llh.. St. Patrick). admitted to the Legislature yesterday that not until he had dug up Dicey's "Law of the Constitution" had he been able to free himself of certain miss givings he had entertained as to the eortstitutional legality and cor- rectness of the Government's atti- tude. today. Colonel Fraser Hunter De- clares, However, That He s tt p p o r f s Completely Power Legislation of Me Governmenf Says Speech by RoebIc'IE "Six Hours of Rheforic, Four Minute? of Relevance" all". " A Ituu 91w nae--7. I Is the will of tht people. Javuusx 'tiS "Thus, possibly," he added, "would we strengthen the hands of our courts in their efforts to punish such fraud as that which we're told was perpetrated by the so- called iniquitious power barons ind their Hydro and Government ac- complies. It is this fraud and not this legislation which constitutes a disgrace to this Province today." Wilfrid Heighington (Cons., St. David), questioned Col. Hunter's .ise of the term "fraud" and de- manded proof that such fraud had aeen perpetrated. The one-time doughty commander of the Bengal Lancers took refuge behind the :uggestlon that when the present Mil had been passed the Leglsla- lure should go farther and bring in some amendment to the legal code, so as to broaden the scope of admissible evidence, "to include some form of sworn hearsay or documentary evidence." Answers Heitthimrton.