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$ march 16 f , aP Major Lewis Reads Bill €2 C@lSs OUSCe Which Would Make Him Wlenlene i rirmaee omm riecromtraey a Lawyer Hepburn Expresses Deep Concern and Immediately Tradifond! rules were swept by * * * the board yesterday in the Ontario Names Committee With Wide Powers to Legislature when Premier Hep-- * 1 burn led a demonstration acclaim-- Investigate Tory Leader's Charges When He _ |ing Major Alex. Lewis, for twelve & * | | years Clerk of the Legislature, as Produces Mutilated Envelope as Evidence | that official read the bill, that if TT erir ui aheaiien e e iess evirnioeice e 'adopted. will make him a barrister A and a solicitor. _ INQUIRY WILL BE CONDUCTED BY LEDUC _ |"'as"a Sow flush crept above his ears, Major Lewis took the bill o e e from the Speaker's hand and, in Grave charges from Opposition Leader Leopold Macaulay that accordance with the rules of proce-- his mail had been tampered with in the Parliament Buildings Post-- <'iuro. :';fld, "5"#193L"Th'§ 18 ?n agtf £ # e e w Society c office on four different occasions since the present session opened (?ppael:. C?:rlmzada to a:mit Acl]eexénder will be investigated immediately by a special committee of the Legis-- Cameron Lewis as a barrister and lature under the chairmanship of Hon. Paul Leduc, Minister of solicitor." | During the regular course of | Mines. events, not a sound is permitted to Mr. Macaulay precipitated this, the most sensational incident of break the silence of the House dur-- the House to date--a situation which has its closest parallel in the ing the formal proceedings. But 5 t 1 d fi p /= "wandering ballots" episode of some ten years back--when early yester-- :srf'on:;mh:n(; e(r)kp::sméqlshn:gmgg:s day afternoon, white--faced, customary composure shaken, he hurled alike were pounding their desks, his allegations before a crowded Assembly and followed them up f"':"d P'ré:qu?iid}'l'epbum shouted a with the dramatic cross--chamber presentation to the Prime Minister O'I'h'e hill.lwhi.(-h was introduced by of the last "mutilated letter" indignity to which he claims to have Allan Lamport, Liberal, St. David, en subjected. carried with it an explanation, Prensibjected s , which, in part, pointed out that Offers Co--operation. ) time it has happened. This is the Major Lewis's studies at Osgoode | . | fourth. It is coming in to me, open-- Hall had been broken by the out-- Premier Hepburn met the. situs ed u Down at the Toronto Post-- break of the World War. He served tion promptly and determinedly, MP» with His Majesty's forces for four describing it as "most distressing," | Office, when you get a letter that years. The explanation emphasized offering every co--operation to the | has been opened you find the in-- that his duties since that period Opposition Leader in placing re-- | itials of some supervisor on it and ha_;'hr'llac"? hlmkm close association f, inuncttaart | wi egal work. sponsibility where responsibility | YO'U Can have an investigation. Immediately before the bill had belonged, and issuing the warning | _ "W®ll, here is a letter"--(He took been introduced, W. J. Gardhouse, that any offenders uncovered by | !t Off his desk, handed it to a page Liberal, Yr;rk West, ha;li mtrodt{;g;'l 4 5 f r ow «+ j p an identical measure affecting Wil-- the ln'quir,v committee he would boy with t.he or'c\ier.' 'I'afe " .n?er liam E. MacDonald, Reeve of New immediately authorize would be | !9 the Prime Minister")--"whicn Toronto. "punished severely." | they couldn't repair after they Up rose Colonel Fraser Hunter, RSHICALI ¢ opened it. her rasn't Liberal, St. Patrick, "May I ask the The Investigating comimittee | P 'ld dT ex: f\;asn enougr'x honorable member if this is a law which was empanelled by the two | muclage un' er 1 G_! ap apparent.ls. school or a Parliament?", he asked. Leaders, while the Throne debate | They couldn't put it together again. address proceeded, will comprise, in | It happens, as a matter of fact, to addition to Mr. Leduc, Provincial I be a complaint about a timber Secretary Harry C. Nixon and Major | license in Northern Ontario. I do James Clark (Windsor--Sandwich),| MOt Suggest that the Minister of representing the Liberals, and L. M. | Lands and Forests had anything to Frost (Victoria), Fred G. McBrien | 49 with it"--(Mr. Macaulay had (Parkdale) and Thomas A. Murphy ' been arguing bitterly with Hon. (Beaches), acting for the Opposi-- ' Peter Heenan on timber policy only tion. a few minutes previously)--"but I # T want to be very fair in this ' do feel that I am entitled to pro-- matter, 'iuldt:he Prime Minister in | test. announcing this personnel, just be-- |,, fore the House adjourned. "I have | "Lntitled to Protection." asked Mr. Leduc to be Chairman | "The Postoffice here is under ths * because he then will not be privi-- Prime Minister's department, so I leged to vote, and the committee don't know where the complaint * majority will rest with the Opposi-- could more properly be aired than tion. I deeply regret what has in this House. I don't think this occurred. There must be the fullest tampering will happen again, but I investigation. We cannot condone | feel very strongly on the point. l.::;l tampering with his Majesty's | After all the Postoffice and the &. | mails are, as every one knows, sup-- ' Wide Powers Given. | posed to be something sacred, their The resolution subsequently mov. integrity unquestioned, and one ed by the Premier and adopted Should be entitled to all the pro-- unanimously by the House giv,s;tgction the Criminal Code can the committee powers compar. | give." able almost with those of a Royal| "This is very distressing," ob-- Commission. The right to sub-- served Mr. Hepburn. "I can tell my poena witnesses, examine records.'honorahle friend I will order a and demand the presentation of | sweeping investigation of the Post-- whatever documents they consider office. I might point out that as vital to the fullest execution of the | far as I'm aware all the staff there f probe is authorized. Chairman | are appointees of former Govern-- Leduc will today announce when 'ments. But that is beside the point. the first sitting will be held. \These are serious charges that have "I am not one to bother withibeen made. We cannot possibly| trivialities," said Mr. Macaulay, be--| condone tampering with the mails fore the Orders of the Day, when in this House. I shall appoint a PP he lntrodgc.ed his electrifying dis--| committee of the House to deal with closure. "I'm not in the habit of |the situation, and include the Leader squawking. But my mail is being |of the Opposition in its member-- tampered with. This is not the first |ship if he cares to act."