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AP\'\\ ¥. -- gaid indicated that the work is to be started there again and that it is _ to be the finest mill in the world." Mr. Cox declared he was not con-- nected in any way, shape or form with the allocation of the limits to the Lake Sulphite Company, or with Its financing % The Conservative Opposition, in demanding an investigation of the company, had failed to ask for an Investigation into the Nipigon limits doa} wh_!i_c;'h. r:;e said, had reeked of -- s graft. e Nipigon limits had been Offlcuals Spenf Money L|ke reallocated h_vptho present Adminis-- ' . c tration, he pointed out, and were 3 ' Drunlren SOI'OI'S, COR now a part of the Lake Sulphite Charges holdings. fevonespmromemen e carne North Kicked Around. "If my honorable friend from Fort RAPS N1 PIGON DEAL William _ (Frank Spence, Cons.) | h R wants an investigation, why doesn't I ; Cjuanurmmanans he go back five or ten years before. Operations of the Lake Sulphite Northern Ontario has been kicked Pulp and Paper Company, Limited, around !ong Ppfl\xgh by unscrupu-- before the company passed recently lous anfi chiselling and grafting poli-- into receivership, .tood as a monu-- '":."ms' & ment to the most mismanaged en-- If 'w?" are asking for an inQUiry'" f terprise in the history of Northern broke in Mr. Spence, "demand it Ontario, Charles Cox (Lib., Port_ 804 }et the chips fall where they \ Arthur), and Mayor of that city, may. 5 i charged yesterday in the Ontario Mr. Cox said he would like to have [ Leaistature. * an in.\'esnznlmn made into Lake Monev, he said in the Budget de-- Sulphite, but that it should be ex-- bate, was spent as if by "drunken tended to the Nipigon "when part sailors." . The management, he ",' the limits now in Lake Sulphite | claimed, was placed largely in the _ WSTC Put through in a crooked deal , hands of men outside the Province. by a previous Administration." | ' many of whom were wholly un-- He claimed that if there was an| : familiar with the conditions over im'ostigation' into the Lake Sul-- f which they were supposed to have p!}lt_e situation and the earlierl M control. Repeatedly the Port Ar-- _ NiPigon deal "people of Northern 1 thur member referred to the enter. _ Ontario will be satisfied and people | prise, which planned to build a mill of Southern Ontario will be shock--| and townsite at Red Rock, as a ed as they have never been shock-| "fiasco." ed before." Closing hours of the Budget de-- _ Mr. Finlayson's speech was his bate were spent largely in a review first since he was returned to the of timber operations, a review in Legisiature. Scoring the Liberal which William Finlayson (Cons.,. _ handling of the Quebec Hydro con-- Simcoe East), and former Minister tract situation, he emphasized there of Lands and Forests, joined with should have been an attempt to re-- an attack on the Government's arrange the early contracts instead policy of exporting of raw pulp to of repudiation. A settlement would the United States mills. have saved Ontario's name and Finlayson Bitter. ! credit, he claimed. | ; Mr. Finlayson was bitter, too, in | Mr. Cox's speech, he said, indi--' ' his criticism of the Government's | m.','d the zeal of a convert. o policy of reallocating timber limits "I can "'f" remember," said Mr. without advertising and without Finlayson, "when he was a member tender, in a manner which he of the _Conserva.tive Party when charged was akin to a repudiation these wicked things of which he of the agreements under which the complained were done. I have no limits had been allocated previous-- quarrel with him in his present ly. He, too, brought in a direct views. They are his own. But | reference to the Lake Sulphite when he could not get what he | ;Company as he emphasized that wanted he said he could get elected out of twelve pulpwood agreements as a Liberal, and he did so." | | Involving erection of mills, flaunt-- Under his admim'stration. said Mr. I | ed by Premier Hepburn and his sup-- _ Finlayson, the Department of Lands | ' porters during the election, one mill _ and Forests allocated timber limits | only, the Lake Sulphite Company, by tender and he crazmed the de--| } had gone ahead to a certain stage, partment erred greatest in policy at | and was a "lamentable failure." the present time in allowing the | Hon. Peter Heenan, Minister of exportation of unmanufactured | Lands and Forests, entered the de-- pulpwood. t bate in not only a defense of the He admitted he had granted per-- timber policy, but to say that he had mits to export pulp while he was T spoken to the receiver of the Lak: in office, but claimed they were for a| el' S Sulphite Company and "what he limited quantities. ! b I d Emplovees of the Queen's Park Postoffice were absolved yester-- day by the Legislature Committee of Inquiry of any suggestion that they had tampered with mail ad-- dressed to Hon. Leopold Macaulay, Conservative House Leader. * The committee report, tabled in 3 the House, emphasized that mem-- 'bers found Mr. Macaulay had been | justified in bringing to the atten-- | tion of the House the fact that the letter examined by the committee had been opened before it reached him. '"We find there is no evidence that any of the Postoffice employees had tampered with the letter ad-- dressed to Mr. Macaulay or with any other mail, and we accept their + evidence that they did not," the re-- port read.