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A March is § MerntttttiNANATNNAGGG mm mss ss R sw C9s L ada .!A..' ER PA E Ontario Budget | Held Back ? + Presentation of the Ontario Budget, scheduled for Friday, has B been postponed until some day next week, Premier Hepburn noti-- fied the Legislature late yester. o on day. New Contracts With Que--| Opposition Leader Tells (oe bnantier did mt esplelh * * Cw * why it was necessary to postpone bec Companies Are Made Legislature Principle of : ) tns nugest speech, but empha-- Interdependent Plan to Be Fought sized it would be well to make an aWliveni ie e ireier ns on attempt to close the debate on the Speech from the Throne b FIRST READING GIVEN| FORECLOSURES FEARED upt * | Thursday night. i l e en Mr. Hepburn, in answer to a Acts P'".d by Legislafure k Holding that the Governrner}t was question by Hgn. T. A. Kidd, Con-- Will No Longer Appl Proposed amendment to 'the Mort StTVative Whip, concerning the r roposed amendment to the Mort-- tss +144 9 s PP'Y gagors' and Purchasers' Relief Act, P"98"°SS$ 0f the youth--training {o L.hgahon Hon. Leopold Macaulay, Conserva-- Program, intimated that future AheeTW ie ie ce e erie m ie tive Opposition _ Leader, served expenditures on this line in for-- C P , notice in the Legislature yesterday _ estry and mining training schools ti Flr;t'raadmg' WWalklyan' 185| _ that the group he led would oppose might be dependent on the possi-- lon being raised, was given yester-- the bill on principle in committee ]" ' is :m :';lnth:a?'r;t?no Le'gl:elaturo' to'a stage. ,_ bility of securing jobs for gradu-- Yaiigate certain contracts The bill, introduced by Hon. Gor-- _ ates. P ower (;:r'r:)m?:ci:)':\' Hydro--Electric d;m ,fronant. nict;nd: the prot\;lsion: He said he was asking the Gov-- ssion. of the act, with the exception o f Introduced by the Hydro Chair-- > 1 whi 5 10 dJ \gi h the Ornment departments to report on A 7 j art 1 ich has to t INis Dhas £* the train} m::_nf.. }lr'»'r:. W. L. Hofurk. the i;,l" payments of interest, until June 30, is phase o e 1rainimg pro« ratifies e contracts for power ne-- 1039 gram. tween the Commission and the This, in effect, explained J. J. Gatineau, Beauharnois and Ma~-- Glass (Lib., St. Andrew), protected Laren--Quebec Companies, despite mortgagors from foreclosure pro-- anything contained in the Powflrl ceedings, in event they were unable Commission Act of 1935, which can-- to pay principal payments, if they celled prevlous contracts entered in-- ' maintained their interest payments. to by a preceding Ministry. | The Part 11 section, which was "The main feature of the bill, designed to take care of those who which, with others, will be explain--| were unable to meet their taxes j ed more fully in the House in my| _ And interest obligations, is being speech, is that the cost of power| _ Closed off by the bill on Oct. 31, ' to Ontario is reduced from $15 per | 19"8 with a saving provision which horsepower to $12.50 per horse-- would permit an order made under power," Mr. Houck told The Globe! Part 11 to be continued beyond Oct. and Mail | 31 and to be extended for a period % | not exceeding six months. Exempt From Legisiation. Mr. Glass maintained that if the The bill provides that the old amendment was ratified, there contracts, as revised by the new would be a flood of foreclosures on ones of December, 1937, are to be properties, now _held _ under the declared exempt from all the Hydro P",t' lg se;']tlo.n. He added: "But it legislation passed by the Govern-- cant be allowed to go on and on. ment in its struggle with the Que-- Mr. Macaulay emphasized there bee companies were some who have been fightin& g § for four or five years to clear o im'lr.r:'t::?za':(i'r::' d'o;s;g'nedm:lc:.tpr;:'ildze. arrears of taxes who would be put ¢ ments and from putting up security | . Supeuy ied nds in homel sbiort '°.';]°°"5l'" Privy (i""'t'"' 'ppefi:?' to meet their obligations, he be-- ation arisine « atppfyth: (l'.mt'i' eay | . lieved provisions should be made to gation arising out 0 atineau, | give them relief from drastic fore-- Beauharnois and MacLaren con-- closure action. tracts. s J. H. Clark (Liberal, Windsor-- ' The new contracts with Beau« Sandwich), contended that if mort-- ' harnois and MacLaren expire on gagors couldn't clear off their in-- .t!iuly L tlt?i:-'d {e"ie:i:ll:ts?onby El"ll:: terest and tax obligatligns bdv 't}l'\;: me ra Y $ * time, they never could, an Gatineau contract expires Aug. 1| _ maintenance of the act was detri-- im;l:sthy :'hat t'lme t:e hfion;::ms! mental to crl'o't'; (h; tmor;&ug;s 'lrr:; wit eauharnois an acLkaren terests an e intere | "have become fully and uncondition-- lending corporations or individuals. | ally effective." § (o Kavor, ' The contracts are interdependent, ;'Yoxl:'rernot doing them any favor | and anything terminating one con-- + their ho for | tract before July 1, 1938, will auto-- at all in exte'pcrl'ing ider opes * | matically terminate the others on 'n'?l!!';:a-';'\i:'r.'teds Sl!su.ggested Mr. | Aug. 1. Should anything prevent Macaulay f the contracts becoming effective, "I'm not hard--hearted," protested all three companies reta.i'n their Mr. Clark. "I'm probably as big-- legal rightg. under the "original hearted as any one here." ; "}r'egl';'ems;'atiflcation the com He said thhe o ool didd ":tnfffll:.gt: allin + ® * y > ssume f panies t'hus would have the right | :?5,,0'1';23\? ..'i';:?: clean up the old ' to continue the litigation suspended dregs," he declared. 1 last December. The bill received second reading. ' ges Dr. H. E. Welsh (Conservative, y ' Hastings East), questioned 'ne clause in the amendment to the Public Health Act that called for the segregation of disease carriers or persons suspected of being disease carriers. HMon. Harold J. Kirby, Minister of Health, told him it was proposed to consider each \ case on its merits when it came to ; compensating the person segre-- RA gated.