The Ontario Scrapbook Hansard

Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 25 Mar 1937, p. 6

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The bill came up for third reading yesterday, but at the request of the Ministe. it was allowed to stand over another day on the order paper Mr. McQuesten was not in the House !whon the bill was debated previ-- ously. He very definitely opposes | increasing the speed limit to 50 miles per hour, it is known. _ His amendment, however, may not meet with Governmental approval 'Thn House has already brought the | bill through committee stage and it | has been approved by Premier Hep-- | burn. McQuesten May Move Amend Bill on Third Reading Hon. T. B. McQuesten, Minister of Highways, may move an amendmen! to the bill proposing a speed limit of 50 miles per hour in Ontario. Opposes New SpeedLimit Early this (Thursday) morning Hon. Harry Nixon, Acting Leader of the Ontario Legislature, an. nounced the House would sit in continuous session throughout the night to clear up remaining busi-- ness. Previously the Government had announced plans to clean up everything by Thursday night. Mr. Nixon still had this objective in mind when he announced the all-- night session. All--Night Session Of Legislature Announced to "Not one stick" of the whole tim-- ber area recently leased was going into newsprint production, he declared, denying charges by Mr. Macaulay that the Province would lose millions because it did not manufacture the finished product. Mopes for Mill. "While we are permitting the ex-- port of pulpwood now, I'm honing to give you a surprise soon and put in a pulp mill alongside of this area," declared the Minister. This land had been taken back by the If the price of pulpwood reached $100, this contract signed by the Hepburn Government would "make a brand new batch of millioraires over in the United States," charged Mr. Macaulay,. Crown from former lessees. "We took it back to harvest it, to give men work," he said. The policy of his Government, de. clared the Minister, was to Geal directly with the investors, not with the "chisellers " weuAVCNuHIROITH 43 JdJdInHTted °] Tried to Make Fortune Out _ Legislature by Hon. Leo-- of Pulp Areas Leased to pold Macaulay _ U.S. Firm, Claim ~grm--mniimems Sifeld "I offered this area to every pulp and paper company in Ontario, but they wouldn't touch it," said Mr. Heenan. He had "pleaded with loggers to harvest the area." but they had refused, he said. "But as soon as it became known that we were going to make a deal, there were dozens of them came around wanting to get in on it," declared | the Minister. | Defines "Chiscollers." | He labelled as "chisellers" those| who did not want to develop the timber areas, but merely wanted to peddle them to United States inter-- ests and then "use their influence" to persuade the Government that the areas should not be developed within the specified time. CONTRACTS UNDER FIRE HEENAN LASHES AT CHISELLERS The Minister was replying to charges by Leopold Macaulay (Cons., South York), that the pulp-- wood contracts "were the most im-- provident ever made" and would mean a loss of millions of dollars to the Province. "Chisellers" in the pulpwood in-- dustry had tried to make a personal foritune of $100,000 to $150,000 out of the pulpwood areas leased to a United States Company, HMon. Peter Heenan, Minister of Lands and For-- ests, told the House yesterday,. March 25 Catechism 4s Submitted to ture yesterday afternoon. The former Minister of Highways offered the Legislature his interpre-- tation of two phrases closely associ-- ated with political debate for the past two years--the "barons and the wolves" who had sold power to Ontario. A Liberal Government can con-- vert a St. James Street wolf into a sheep and make a power baron a respocted citizen of Ontario, Hon. Leopold Macaulay told the Legisla-- ture yesterday afternoon. The former Minister aof Hichuave He submitted this catechism to the House: "What is a power bharon?" "A financial man who makes -- a contract with a Conservative Gov-- ernment." a contract with a Conservative Covernment." '"'When does a power baron lose his title?" "\\'h@n ho makes a anntrant urlth "When he makes a Liberal Governme "What is a wolf Street ?" "When he makes a contract with a Liberal Government." "When does sheep ?" ower Baro_nS- Are Defined proquc ie makes a contract with Government." is a wolf of St. James a power baron? the --wolf become --a

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