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¢°" x pati'> '.«A\""-. ® . .I . ' , ch 18 . Census Will Be Tak ' _ Of Picks and Shovel Mepburn Protests 'Against ; _ _Conservatives' Consum-- _ ing Curiosity, But Ac-- '4 cedes to Unusual Request * Reiterating his charge that many ' of the order paper questions prepar-- ed this session by the Conservative f Opposition were designed solely to cost the Government considerable . time and money, Premier Hepburn yesterday voiced emphatic protest against an interrogation from A. H. Acres (Cons., Carleton) which among other things demanded infor-- mation as to the number of picks and shovels used over a certain period under former Northern De-- : h velopment Branch operations, and ' where these picks and shovels are ; stored. : It was obvious, said the Prime Minister, that to answer Mr. Acres's duestion in full would require the + 1 services uf several men travelling all over the North country. And, after f the information was compliled, it: was very doubtful, said he, if the| member would even take the trouble ; | k d . % to read it. | s "These questions are being asked' r e by 'l'l'l'e I'I'U +| On S just to satisfy their curiosity, and | h t for no other pur;;ose." hidr. Hepl:uru + charged. "But I'm going to turn + this particular question into an o hm o 4& ur al S e ec order for a return, although we probably won't have the information * € borite trmnbore y auerpnnitontnices Asked for for several months. I never $ | raw anything more rldlicu':ou;. We, Even After Achng Speal(er of the Government, might just as * well );now howedn:)an{h pfiks alnd wi;cede; on His Behalf, shovels were us y the Macaulay +11+ * pick and shovel brigade which was y * '.am a'rd Refuses to turned loose on the eve of the last Continue Provincial election in an effort to n aurer iierentetearnentinong buy t:e el!lectors(i.nto again tsupp(:r}']t- Pie Ontario Lepisigi it ing the Henry Government -- the ' & egisiature wil-- most discredited Adminlftrauonthls nessed the odd spectacle yester-- Province has even seen. day of an M.L.A. cutting off his speech before it was half deliv-- BR ered and refusing to conitinue, in protest against the House's seoem-- ing reluctance to listen to what ; he had to say. The member was W. A. Baird (Cons., High Park). Repeated in-- terruptions from the Government} side of the House finally drew from him the plaint: "I may as well} conclude my remarks." 2 "Make it louder and funnier," in-- terjected Provincial Secretary Nixon, who was leading the Houseg C at the time. ' ; --~Mr. Baird continued,; but voices$ again began to drone about him, t and for the third time he com-- | plained against the "discourtesy" k. | being shown him. "I must ask the members of the House to show the honorable mem-- ber from High Park a little more| 'courtesy." ruled P. N. Dewan (Ox-t f ford), acting Speaker, Mr. Baird,| f | however, had had enough. He sat | \ down and refused to budge. | The Hepburn Budget was charac-- terized by him as "an alluring show-- window display but just so many | empty boxes." ' #