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fi-------\---------------------fi'---------- & * March 30 ::fll'ller over the ditching of the uCR-to-Nluara power policy in yor of new Quebec contracts. The speaker then leaped on the committee Investigation slated for the Hydro contracts, worried it for . a spell and claimed, "I wouldn't give a five--cent piece for the report that the committee will bring in." Amazed at Premier. He said he was amazed that Premier Hepburn, by his own ad-- mission, did not know prior to the c *~~--«~----mmaas ::;:tiofn thl;t ti;'ere were no negotia-- t § for Beauharnois power. Mr. urrency Reform, Lower In-- wers, thought "the Premicr wl _ terest Urg.d Upon smarter than that. H & Why," said the member, "when Qpbum by Acres I was in Montreal in August I was > {;flid then tlthed contracts _ were es eimng negotiated and would be WOULD BACK MOTION _ approved and furthermore would not be announced until a few ons weeks after the election" Controlled inflation of currency His roving, outstretched finger, and a scaling down of interest rates 1';::':;":'"::"' ?llrl inlemplhasis Oif ":\'".V . 1e n line with the ::mGove;nment bond issues WASs _ pPrime Minister and again Mr. Acres mended yesterday in the On-- directed his wrath against Mr. Hep-- tario Legislature to the Ottawa and burn, this time for having in the Provincial Governments as an im-- _ House Monday made slighting refer-- mediate cure for monetary ills and ences to the nine--hour speech that unempln)ment hy A. (}'O".\') Acr's Al'lhur Roebuck. K.Cc (Lib.. Be"' (Con., Carleton), who, by his own woods), h.ad made in support of the admission, "never gets up to speak contracts' repudiation bill, while he . without making a definite sugges-- _ WAaSs Attorney--General and member' tion." of the Hydro Commission. "I would back a motion calling "He made a ninc--hour speech for for a change in the monetary sys-- you and you pounded your desk un-- tem,." he told Premier Mitchell F. til you were tired," said Mr. Acres. Hepburn in a speech on the Budget He wanted, too, to know where all debate that flayed Liberal election _ !h® money came from to the Liberal spending, the Government's about-- campaign fund. He suggested R. face on its mandate to return to O. Sweezey, associated with Beau-- Niagara for power, and its failure harnois and the Lake Sulphite Com-- to maintain marketing facilities in pany, could tell something about it. London, Eng. Did it come from the Government's Taunted on his aspirations to American friends who received party leadership, Mr. Acres whip-- pulpwood contracts behind closed ped the House into a frenzy of ap-- doors? he asked. lause when he declared that if he "It is being proved in the courts Kad led the Conservative Party the of Canada that this man Sweezey' Liberals would not have been re-- Is a contributor," said Mr. Acres. elected. Nor, he added. in pointed Answers Dewan. castigation of Conservative general-- He then turned to earlier refer-- thip, would he have been moved| _ ences, made by Hon. P. M. Dewan. Info a position of accepting the| _ Minister of Agriculture, to his bid g:g as a part of the party's plat-- for leadership of the Conservative * rty. On currency control, he suggest-- P."I)didn't get very many votes," ed that bond obligations should be sald Mr. Acres, "but I want to tell| -- relssued on a lower rate of interest you that if I had you wouldn't be in . and on longer terms, and that if the front seats." | present owners did not agree they Liberal members broke out into a. should be paid off in inflated frenzy of cheering and desk pound-- moneys. Ing at the statement that drowned Raps Heary Cost. the member's attempts to speak for Mr. Acres charged the Liberals, some moments. When he could be in the October election had spent heard, it was a statement to the ef-- more money in one riding than fect that "no John Lewis either the entire cost of the essential could have made me take the C.I.O. marketing centre incorporated in on as a platform." * the old Ontario House in London. He claimed also "that 1 called He declared there was misrepre-- Hon. Earl Rowe to say that the sentation in Premier Hepburn's Beauharnois negotiations were on Budget speech, "but he is a clever in August and if any one challeages orator and he can get away with It, send him to the member for things that others can't." | Carleton." Echoes of Mr. Acres's Throne| Mr. Acres then broached his speech address were heard when policy of controlled inflation, sug-- he directed his fire at Hon. T. B. gesting that the "Dominion Govern-- McQuesten, Minister of Highways. ment should call in all its loans, and who was not in his seat when the | s member tor Carleton pattered up 'l\'.. the Provin('e! the same au-- o ters with strong--voiced criticisms poration which refused a new issue "I am glad he is here," he said on much longer terms of payment "He is one man in the front and at a lower rate of interest benches I admire and I am waiting should be given cash on an infla-- for his stand on the Hydro issue" tionary basis." In this reference, Mr. Acres spoke "I urge you, Mr. Prime Minister, of the statement that is promised| to urge the Dominion Government from Mr. McQuesten in the House to give you that authority, I ap-- today on his disagreement with the, prove of everything you said in the House the other day about the C.N.R. debt. Why not inflate and | remove the railways debt?" he asked. Mr. Acres said he was absolutely opposed to rail amalgamation, but In shooting back to the inflationary question, claimed Sir Robert Bor-- den, during the war years, had in-- T flated currency by $219,000,000, 6