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Ip.. 4 ds [ e e > March 23 | 9 By Nose, He Says ' Prepared to Take Political Life in His Hands by ® # L # 4 Supporting Move for Legalization, Premier | ® + & Tells House--Macaulay Attacks Publicity on # # Irish Draw and Resents Being Hounded Clergymen of Ontario, who over the week--end heaped high their protests against the Legislature motion asking Federal authority to legalize sweepstakes for hospital purposes in the Provinces, were * branded yesterday by Premier Mitchell F. Hepburn as "hypocrites" as the Government Leader told the House he was prepared to take his political life in his hands by supporting the resolution. "I am not going to be led around by the nose by any minister," said the Premier, "and I want to say I don't think there are any greater hypocrites than these gentlemen." M M Amendment Offered. Ca;lnet Clea\'ngu Revealed. | 'The pace of the argument rose | Premier Poses Question. dowhne atptr;:":l:):o r:fhaar:db:h;;;lcfmr?f(: |and fell for more than two hours _ "Why be hypocritical?" demand-- k cut across party lines rn\'mil:d 'annr Fred G. McBrien (Cons., Park-- |ed the Premier as he declared that sharp Pl;';!\'a cs in the f'nhinfl on dale) led off in his support of the ) J,. J. Glass (Lib., St. Andrew), who the ques'tmngand drew from me motion which he had tabled on |opposed the motion, had probably bers neated exchinzes h~1<odm 'n"n March 18. At the outset, he offered | haunted his office more than any the economic as "Nr" th'c; morail 1 9"® amendment by cutting out "and |other member seeking increased } C o e es o. , | grants for a hospital. aspects O_f ")"' l"_"l"":'!l- s t |for other charitable institutions," | "Hfospital costs have increased 100 The Premier, speaking last, sug-- | thus leaving hospitals as the sol@ | per cent during the last ten years gested that the vote on the motion | beneficiaries of the proposed sweep-- |P ; ; C o n s ' reyp j w . & proposed s P* | My office is literally cluttered up be held over until some day later |stake scheme s e yeirealcds _ * Sli ® * with requests for additional hos-- ' in the week when there would be F R 4 y it & full sttendance in the House Mr. McBrien emphasized that the |pital grants. Why be hypocritical? | benches 13 Ontario Government was already in | te weng mvegy Let us bring it out | on "I eopold Macaulay, Conser-- the legalized gambling business irtnsn 'f:;ngpgg'.. es M4 & 3 | vative House Leader, as indicated 1?\r,(:,':,x,1,h\.p??'-\'l:fhm(-iyl.l-;;"l% ',h,';e%qi; Then he turned to Mr. Baird and | earlier, supported the motion. but |py chiselling off 5 cents from each SURR®Ste4 there was more than a a? the same "m,. dm'lnrrd' "_m' heildollar that is fed through a pari« -- Strong possibility |.hat some of the | would be prepared to oppose SWeeP-- |mutuel machine at a Government« GOYVArnment money that had been ?Yt'al'(;; ?7:1';1i':::- i;rn'ir:;:\;:ln Ii?\'-nl\'ro:: licensed race track. x ;\iaid to n1':"]}:0.:'};:;1'8l";':n(\f'mf:?g;]y:l'; | , 'spapers e per C P rer fused to publish the 1'o~lflt: of the "Any member who faiis to raise llo\nk' as a rakeoff inJhorse-raop Irish Free State hospitals' sweep. a protest against this present Gove-- gambling. "I think," he said, "that the news. | ernment and all other Governments "I don't like hypocrisy of any papers, by giving tremendous pub-- who preceded it up to the time that | ging, so I am prepared to take my licity in publishing and building up | PACG!T4CK COlections Were fitst political future in my hands and the payoff have lent such an at.|| MAd®. and then refuses to support support this resolution. I wish I \ mosphere of glamour to it that a| SWSOPStakes for hospitals, will be _ nou;q say in my own words what I |lot of people put in their $2.50} rf)nxixnf:) g';:\"-" at "":. h}?_r of publi¢ inink of these people who sent \ in order to have a part in he ('(r:nrllmnpm\_r"p}:):r<n;a|r\ ing and iNn* _ these protests to me." | iglamorous occasion that happens to § C! y Nixon to Vote Against. ; i'sio:'r:::".person in Canada about once;l(ouldnt Touch Bookmakers. In requesting a delay on the vote, | f "IT€ 1 P ||__The same issue was raised by the Promier revealed that Hon. | If the P.rm-mrp would go s0o fAr|) Premije Hepbur 4 t iMlan Harrvy C. Nixon. Provincial Secre-- s to pronibit o € | r epbhurn when William « a s ' ll. prol newspapers publish»= | Duckworth (Cons., Dovercourt) . tary and on occasion Acting Pre-- 'r';gutl:': pl:tt'xfro\-_ of \\'\-nno'rs and the} claimed that if the Government | mier, would vote against it. iar{d h}'al:mr;ll ll \\\\"T'll";:" {thn\hmn"mot-' entered the sweepstake gambling |. "This splits party lines and 1 | R I e for that. | scheme, its law officers had not the | have no 1df*a what the outcome of Resent Being Hounded. | slightest moral or legal right to | the vote will be. I have "keg td Both the Premier and the Con-- CT@Ck down upon bookmakers or | One to support it. I knO\:ImyNi;g;- servative House Leader bitterly at--, 2N¥ Other gamblers, because the | °S! tirlend. po'lnllr:ii{ tdn ',)'r.a deep tacked the practice that made of Covernment was in the same posi-- ;\\411?,9'._fa(-e'\\as ]'\ed th}o res 663 members of the House or any pub> on as the men they sought to lflu»h. Ils o af am ]ea the Lii)grali tic official targets for persons sell., Pen@lize. He claimed also that it ied g . a89, an:}(:!cgmmion it & Ing draw and raffle tickets. would be the Government's duty, if :an{jl hy |}l'l'npposf'at :lho outset of his | Mr. Macaulay referred to the de--| !t Was to sponsor sweeps, to set up | dd'eqc 'fig]clfar{-od he had never | cision at Ottawa to investigate elec.. 2 Gepartment to operate it and to | ;" r'r'{r" o weenstake ticket and was | tion procedure with the view of: Profect the public from chiselling. o <a race. At3c e occasion | a "I . "Are you aware," asked the P at a race track on on < eliminating -- abuses. I suggest s 3w mane |only and then to see a person. He something should be done to inves "VYS*;, e pument® h oarimet ' entioned Mr Marculay's reference tigate the petty blackmail that is im., Of Government now that does | M°T/D"T2,; Cyi. "ne Opposition posed on members of both parties." NOthing else but collect the returns .| °° d red i a he said Pa"C©S$: / from the race tracks? We are in | €8de® oc uurer intersst _ . .. .. g k C S . F i interest. The Premier's objections were the business of gambling now, not pr'?':):y:m}fpbl&l:rgged that the To-- raised heatedly in his "hypocrisy" {hAt this Government has set it UP. | ron;o Daily Star, "which plays Up | charge, when he declared: "I am 1t 3s been there for years. interviews with people who have f |\pursued by hundreds of church | it Was raised again by the Pre» | won sweeps and builds them Up E | organizations to take tickets on | MI@" in comment on the opposition | with bic'gr;g, comes out hypocriti-- |yarious draws. I am hounded and |$!2Nd taken by W. A. Baird (Cons., | oa as usual against this thing in importuned everywhere to buy tick. | f{igh Park). Mr. Baird pointed out | an editorial." ets and have bought enough to | that he was President of the Board Also Sought by Quebec paper this House. Yet when we |Of Managers of the Toronto Hos-- reprromneit ind ns hy 4 ted also bring this thing out in the open | P'ta! for Incurables. Te oi o i c s c saded "With these are the people who protest. | "I don't want my hospital to take that Ontario would be floodpdf wtlhe Every one knows this Province is MONCY that is going to come from Q@uebec sweepstake 1lc}§)e'fs e]' the blanketed with sweep tickets of one ]the sale of gambling tickets," he motion that is now . DeIOT i F ~ _' kind or another." ,declared. House of Commons in the name r k f Ernest Bertrand (Lib.. Laurier) 0 f Montreal, was granted by 0"8"da p He claimed that the only. remed\ | 8 lay in securing the permissive NS | E. for Ontario. 6