March 23 3 Students Are Hired _ For Medi | Work Ch 1A arges North M.L.A. f fi eumennmmmnemmmsmmmmmmmmmem Kirkland _ Lake Physician, f Making $100,000 a Year Out of Mine Practice, POWER P ACT Buys Services of Juniors, . Rowlandson Alleges [ snn n mmmmmmmenmme ' |S VA"DATED STATEMENT QUESTIONED ' * * o One hundred thousand dollars Hepburn Declines to Expunge a year, actording 10 John Row. From Records Preamble landson, Lib., South Cochrane, is to Legislation what a certain Kirkland Lake harndevenddid physician makes annually out of HOUSE IS SPEEDED UP his DMledical contract with the, NMeadoimadiehites mines of his district. Premier HMepburn yesterday re-- "And what's more," says Mr. él:ni'd to'uv'w'(_if- t'PU {hv 'dx"tnnndt} nz Rowlandson, "he spends his winters ° servatives in the Legisiature tha in P R o the "disgraceful, inaccurate and of-- El']mpe or in the South. He fensive words" of the 1935 power comes down to Toronto and hires contract cancellation be expunged some medical students to do his C from the records of the Assembly. work for him while he travels." ¥e Wilfrid Heighington (Cons., St. M io aHawblt A David) led the Opposition's attack Mr. Rowlandson's startling state-- on the issue. ments were made yesterday before | Discussion arose when the bill to the Legal Bills Committee of the |'\"aali$atl¢l? th;; mmrt'm with the Otta-- Legislature in support of his bill | w alley Power Company came up that ob A x -- f | for final approval. 'The member for .,Ia would give miners .the right to 'St. David declared it was ridiculous select _"'""' own physicians. "And ! Simmariatieeam i ce ueregrueags for the Government to ask the House there is a doctor in Timmins," hé | & & to restore contracts, in almost the said, "who is getting $3,000 a _ |Reorganization of Company same terms, which were labelled mo'nth out of the miners." g ) h E H i "born in iniquity" at the 1935 ses-- "oé)You m;eanche miners pay %3,-- l Nearer Than ver, mouse sion. ," put in Hon. Paul Leduc, Min-- | 4 | "The preamble is a false statement ister of Mines. "Part of their medi« | Told by Roebuck | and should be removed," declared :?ll lf"'f's \?0 'E-\;iard ;Jhe mines hox-- Y en cas Mr. Heighington. i m._ _ "NMr. Leduc also challenged Reorganization of the bankrupt "The Legislature has ruled that the accuracy , of the South Coch« AfiilibibPower zlind Paper Company \the old contracts were illegal and rane member's statement that s o. F f # Premier Hepburn. ltake on the practice.of the Kirl.-- than at any time since the company Arthur Ellis (Cons., Ottawa South) ha';gd L'ake" doctor, while he was on failed, Attorney -- General Atrrhur expressed doubt as to the legality of t: C ..33j j They may be young dors Roebuck declared in the Lemisla-- the Hydro Commission operating the ar;s' :a.:l dhe' _Rul. they certainty ture yesterday in introducing an Quebec side of the Chats Falls plant. Finol :"u ents. i act respecting this company. The Prime Minister pointed out h ldna sposition of the bill was _ The purpose of the legislation was that to guard against any legal s i up until such time as its to clear up doubt as to the au-- doubt. the company had agreed to (bO eo s L confer with Hon. T. thority of the Ontario Hydro--Elec-- do o ee, HSI | J. A. Faulkner, Mini c 1 join with the Commission in ask-- ?a'nd with r, Minister of Health, tric Power Commission and the De-- ing the Dominion Government for | buck 1 th Attorney--General Roe-- partment of Lands and Forests to legislation in the event that such com l:in e situation of which h»e enter into negotiations with the a contingency should arise. He fur-- piains. Abitibi Company with a view to ther said that while it no doubt removing the company from its would be the part of economy for difficulties, the Attorney » Gencral the Hydro to purchase the other explained. Negotiations have peer half of the joint development at going on for some time and the § | Chats Falls, he questioned the wis-- | settlement now proposed invoived, \ dom of taking up the option to first of all, the Ontario Hydro Com-- | purchase. * | mission. Numerous bills woere given sec-- _ The series of claims held by the ond reading at the 11 a.m. session + Commission against the Abiubi as the Government speeded up leg-- 'Company would be exchanged for | Islative machinery in order to pro-- certain assets given by the com-- 'roguc the House before Easter. pany. Legality of the Hydro to An amendment to the bill which enter into such a settlement was iprewnts sale of codein except on in doubt and therefore such a bill ' a physician's prescription, was was necessary. s !amended by Hon. Dr. J. A. Faulk-- Secondly, negotiations between | ner to permit its inclusion in phar-- the Lands and Forests Department | maceutical quantities in medicines. and the bankrupt company were \ Over the protests of the Oppo-- spb,lect to the same doubt as the \ slitlon, third reading was given to right of the department to forgive the iron ore bounty bill. Mr. a claim for a public advantage jhat Heighington urged that the bill be was not exactly payment, Mr. Roe-- stood over until the Committee on -'bugk stated. _ . Privileges and Elections had fin-- Conditions in the industry were ished its inquiry into charges made better now and the time was ripei against Dr. A. D. Roberts, Liberal to get the company out of bank-- _member for Sault Ste. Marie. It ruptcy, the House was told. \ had been charged by Premier Hep-- burn that Dr. Roberts had offered 'his support to the Algoma Steel f ! Co., in return for a concession.