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At the outset, the former Brock- ville Public Utilities chairman. handed a bouquet to the Premier. saying: "As long as we have to sit over here I don't know any one I would sooner look at than yourself. I like the way you transact business and I think that is all the nice things I am going to say." He charged that despite 1934 elec- tion promises of reduced taxation. that the taxation ham had been in- creased by 820,000,000 in eight years. In 1937, he said. the Premier came "There were a great number of vacant seats when the vote was called," he said. "And when the government whip went out to round up the members he came back by himself. The vote was 43 to 21, and I do say that out of 66 members, 43 wasn't a very large number." Special Session Is Proposed On Trihulafions of Toronto' In a sharp attack on the Hepburn "ntiniitration's taxing policies. W. B. Reynolds icon., Leeds), last night In the Legislature charged the Pre- mier. in increasing the gasoline tax had repudiated election pledges and It the same time he twitted the government tor the paucity of sup- port given by its members to the gasoline measure. Calls Gas-Tax Increase Repudhrijon of Pledge A ten-day special session of the Ontario Legislature. to deal with the "trials and tribulations ot To- ronto so as to get it over with at one time." was advocated in a budget debate speech last night by F. B. Brownridge (Lib., Motu month " he opposed thet city's bid for government assistance in building a sewage disposal plant. " don't see why we, away down in Cornwall, should assist to build a sewage disposal plant for To. ronto. and I hope that the Provin- cial Government will turn them down," he said. The member backed recent pleas from the French-English eastern counties for a more intensive study of the French language in the public schools. Opposition, directed from Toronto. he believ- ed, was due to a lack of apprecia- don ot the problem of English- Ipeaklnz people living in a sec- M in which there was at least down to his riding and announced that the financial condition of the province was such that he was able to announce a reduction of $5 on auto licenses. "I believe now," he told the Pre- mier. "that you never did anything in your lite that got you more votes. But now, after getting $5 from the license fees. the motorists have to dig down and bring out $20 in gaso- line taxes." an equal number of French, and he stated that many Cornwall public school pupils were study- ing French under private tutors. He claimed that passage of the gasoline tax measure in Ontario created a problem for communi- ties near the Quebec border, and he welcomed today's announce- ment from the sister province that the tax there had been placed on a parity with that of Ontario. Premier Hepburn, in making a formal announcement of Quebee's action, revealed that the Duplessls cabinet, without the formality of legislative proceedings, had simply notified the gasoline companies that the tax would be chargeable effective yesterday. The sudden announcement, he said. Nwas de- signed to prevent hoarding of gasoline. He assumed legisla- tion ot a retroactive nature would be passed by the Quebec Legisla- ture to cover the tax increase. RH. l He warned that the potential benefit to be derived from the League would not come by "criticiz- ing or slandering the men who give their time to public service, many of whom do so at consider- able financial sacrifice as well as the sacrifice of their own comfort and home and 'family life." Of essential importance to its program, he said, was the educa- tion of the public to realize that when they insisted upon govern- ments spending money for new buildings, roads or services that it was the people who must provide that money. The Leadership League can be of great benefit by awakening the conscience of each individual ciiio zen to his or her responsibility in citizenship, H. N. Carr (Liberal, Northumberland), emphasized be- fore the Legislature in his speech on the budget debate. Mr. Carr, who had earlier expres- sed deep concern over the effect of unemployment and relief upon youth, urged the League to advise citizens that the privilege of self- government was dearly bought by our forefathers "and that it is their duty to protect that privilege by exercising their franchise, not only on election day, but by taking also a keen and intelligent interest in what their governments are doing." Awaken Public M.L.A. Urges SURVEY FOR OIL ASKED IN NORTH Mines Minister Paul Leduc was asked in the Legislature last night by Frank Spence (Con., Fort Wil- liam) if he planned to send a geol- ogist or surveying expedition to the Severn River district near Hudson Bay to examine reports of the discovery of oil-bearing for- mations there. "For two years many reports from the far north of the province have persistently claimed the lime- stone formation from the edge of the Pre-Cambrian shield down the Severn to Tidewater is oil-bearing," said Mr. Spence. There was no road into the remote district, he said, but he knew of people who were anxious to go ahead, if given alarge lease, in prospecting work and would even be prepared to build a road into the district. 7 Mr. Spence clashed with Mr. Leduc and Hon. Peter Heenan, Minister of Lands and Forests, over pro-rationing of newsprint pro- duction. He charged that much ton- nage was lost to the Province of Quebec mills, resulting in less work in Ontario millsandinthe bush.He 'asked that the Minister ot Lands :and Forests explain his policy be- (tore the House prorogued. Mr. Spence's speech carried the House nearly three-quarters of an hour past the 11 o'clock adjourn- ment hour. The Premier announced that the debate would continue to- day until concluded, and the House would then proceed to consideration of the estimates.