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"During the last year there were great expenditures on public works just before the election." said the member. Nt seems particularly uno businesslike that the Legislature will not have an opportunity of discussing these until 1939. almost one and one-half years after they have been incurred. and, in fact, under the present system the Gov. ernment is not bound to deliver these accounts until the Legisla- ture convenes next year. This system does not provide for, the public safeguard. which an early scrutiny ot the public accounts prpyide." He noted that under the Con. teryativf regime, the fiscal year ended Oct. 31. and that the public accounts were available to every member during the session that immediatet.7 followed the close of the year. Mr. Frost pointed out that while the Premier's Budget speech was delivered on March 18. intelligent discussion of the huge items of re- ceipts and expenditures contained in it was hopelessly restricted be- - the latest copy of the public accounts in the members' posses- Mon was nearly a year old, and had bearing on the year 1936-37 and not of the fiscal year now closing. "tmt-tne-tme." Private business would not tol- erate the system that the Province of Ontario has been given since 1935 in reportin. its accounts. Leslie M. Frost tCons.. Victoria) charged yesterday in the Legisla- ture. when he appealed to the Hepburn Government to change its fiscal year closing date from March 31. to a date some time in the late autumn. Mr. Front, lttto ynsterdny. " journed the Budget debate. which will be resumed. it is anticipated. on Tuesday. An early canclusion of the debate, and of the Home itself within a period of two weeks, was lorecast when Government leaders indicated there would not he tur. ther debate speeches from the Liberal benches. Sunday Bunting. D E B A T E S RESTRICTED L. M. Frost Suggests Ontario Fiscal Year End in ' Late Fall Abolition of the present prohibi- tion of Sunday hunting was urged by James Cooper. Liberal, Sudhury. "There is a decided feeling in my riding." said he, "that the ban on Sunday hunting has long out- lived its usefulness. The large moo jority of those in my riding are men who work six days a deek. They cannot understand why people can play golf or tennis on Sunday while hunting on that day remains an offense. Hunting is a good, healthy outdoor recreation. and I suggest that the Minister of Game and Fisheries consider my sugges- tion for future action." PROVINCIAL ACCOUNTING CRITICIZED might be reduced. was manipulated Ity a small group of brokers. oper- ators and mining magnatns. repre- Mutiny: perhaps half a billion dollars of accumulated wealth. who made millions out of the fall and the re- hound of mining securities. Yes, they made millions. hut the trusting invostors and speculators of the Province lost in equal amount." in a lengthy castigatlon of gen- eral Government policy, Mr. Elgie singled out the Succession Duties branch operations for particular at- tention. charging that Premier and Provincial Treasurer Hepburn had been compelled "to dig into grave- yards. so to speak," to get a bal- an ed Budget. Mr. Cooper also expressed strong opposition to any idea which the Government may have of closing beverage rooms to women. "I can- not agree with the member for North York (Morgan Baker, Liberal) when he advocates closing of the ladies' beverage parlors." said he. "The people in my riding are sat- fiod with the law as it stands. I would not favor any extension of the act. hut I would he less in favor of abolition of beverage rooms for women. Tho ladies of today are go- int: to drink beer if they are so in- elined whether we of the Legis- lature license beverage rooms or not. Tho real effect of the suggest- ed aholition would he to drive wo- men who wish beer into hotel rooms where drinking has heeome pre- valent. or to so-ealled Find pigs' over which the Liquor Board has neither supervision nor control." Ashe Better Roads. Mr. Cooper advocated tho con- struction of hard surface main roads in tho north country-particularly in the North Bay-Snult section- which. ho said. was tram-Hod hy "untold thoucands" of American tourists (wary yoar on thoir way to <00 tho Dionne quintuplets. whore was tho Ontario Socuritlos Commissioner when the grant min- ing slump of 1937 occurred, Goldwyn Elgio tCons.. Woodbine) domandod of tho House. "Did he investigate to find out the causes of that slump?" ho quorird. "It ho had done so I think he would have dis. mwn-d that the whole thing. be- ginning with a vague rumor from Now York that the price of gold "Ho calls it a duty to do that," gihed Mr. Elgie. "Ho made the duty an issue in the last election campaign. Now he is boasting about results. But sooner or later this source of revenue will be curtailed. There will he no more old estates to probe. and doubtless any new es- tates that may be investigated will not return such dividends in the way of taxation. This Government was out after money at any cost, and it all reports are true. it cared little about the ruination of proper- ties and the suffering of individuals in tho attainment of its end." Mr. Hepburn. in his Budget speech. said Mr. Elgie. had passed some rather pointed comments on lawyers who had acted in the set- tlement of certain estates. "tt what ho says is true." he added, "why haven't these men been prosecuted? lf they are as had as he says they are, why are they not in Jail? Peru haps some of them are Liberal law.. yers. Personally I think the whole nuthreak ls only another smoke- screen of the kind the Government is so fond of throwing up tohide the weakness of its own position." Much 2.5