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_----W--------W--'--"----'----*----Y'--------' Febru ary 20 | | e# 'o ) mperialism _ . Rumor Involving Hon. Peter GOtD'c:l-Wl'l'!1 ang ldce:al|s of; + ays LOIl. Heenan Causes Merri-- ree p 9"_"-"*;" |-- ment in House es : A story that has been making the Colonel Fred Fraser Hunter, ' rounds at Queen's Park during the M.L.A., St. Patrick, delivered a brief | past few weks, t;it'c'aflon':l\g i':;a':y but eloquent lesson on "True Im-- chuckles, was officially denied in » io Legisla-- | the Legislature yesterday when perialism" in the Ontario Legisla P Premier Hepburn replied in the ture yesterday. es negative to a question from the Op-- "And I hope it SII"!ks hox:ne to a position as to a reported fight be-- lot of people I know," he said after-- +A tween two of his Cabinet Ministers. * . ward. | The rumor concerns Hon. Peter Ever since t'he war, he told the Heenan, Minister of Lands and House, otherwise intelligent people Forests. According to the tale, Mr. had striven to conceal the word, + Heenan climaxed a warm session '"Empire," under S.l'lch pussy--foot-- with a Cabinet colleague by picking ; ing cognomens as "Commonwealth | him up and throwing him over a | of Nations," 6r had gone about | | desk. | "spouting _ economic > statistics Wilfrid Heighington (Cons., St. | which proved nothing, and only Davids), interjected the affair into | added, he said, to the confusion. the House before the Orders of the |_ _ "The British Empire is not held Day when he rose and referred to | together," he said, "by the Ottawa an evening newspaper story con-- | agreements or because John Bull is cerning the alleged event. | always depicted as a fat, easy busi-- Arouses Laughter lgmsd prop:i)sition.l paying I:uc::s dug; o y ends and employing 0s "While we on this side of the A R in dires rude | people. There is no economic jus House have heard that there iis dis-- \tification for an Empire in which * sension in the Cabinet, we d"d noé each member, under tariffs, quotas think it had gone '.h"s ",,'i'f l"i' and embargoes, does his level best mé }xig:'(:fitdm:ik:nlg Zit in ol: l':sl to exclude the other fello;v's goods. | * o e : "Racial affinity has nothing to do | n rmighe io se ta hiey." IRioke with the cohesion of the British r jy o Empire. hat common -- racia not like to see the heavyweight | characteristics could possibly exist Minister of Agriculture (Hon. pun-l between a Bengali Babu, a Cin-- | can Marshall) take on the light-- galese, a Hottentot, a Fiji Islander, | weight Minister of Welfare (Hon, a Maoria, an Aigonquin Indian B:::": Clr:ll)ihgi cc;auhr;:i'c:l us:e::l;:' and, let us say, a man from Mani-i y toba. (laughter). And I would remind the wl * | Attorney--General that in a duel a| We are linked together in the > goodwill and spiritual ideals of free long time ago an Attorney-General! men and women, no miatlter what wa"sl 3;:1113' l'i'l:{eu::disk the Premier:| our race, creed or color. We are all is this a private fight or can any--| Impe'r'lalists today and not ashamed one get in on it?" concluded Mr.! of it. Heighington. amid general laugh-- ter. Mr. Heenan had a smile on his face. --The Premier did the re-- = plying. | |__*"Using the words of the Opposi--' | tion Leader in describing his group, |I might say we are a happy family."' | said Mr. Hepburn. Celebrates Birthday. i "Yesterday the Minister of Lands | and Forests celebrated his birth-- day and 1 would suggest that if , The Evening Telegram wants to pick on a membor of the Cabinet, let them take someone a few years | younger, like my honorable friend, the Provincial Secretary." The Premier smiled as he turned and glanced at Mr. Nixon and then across at Mr Heenan. "Inasmuch as the Minister of i Lands and Forests has denied the € story, there is no need for me to do so," concluded the Premier.