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e mE y 7 e ® y S APRIL 22. ~ = & Hepburn Would Stop It. ' Premier Hepburn expressed the belief that the House should go even ' & further than voicing disapproval.| **Some amendment is needed to take $ away from this Chamber the author-- 1 Ity it has in this respect," he said. "I hope the Attorney--General will amend any existing statutes to make BY HOUSE ACT & recurrence of this impossible." "I don't think this Legislature can do anything by statute to prevent itself from enacting the statutes of M * the province," observed Colonel ' NGW Rule Wi" Be Draffed George A. Drew, -- Conservative ® ' s | Leader. "I strongly disapprove of \ as RGSU" O{ Dlsapprova" the principle of this bill, but since ® * the Attorney--General, as chief law Vouced Over Con{e"'ngf officer, has seen fit to take the re-- Lega| Sfafus by S}afufe' sponsibility of offering no opposi-- en winntegerrerrmoyrnncae | tion, I will not oppose it." | "We can make it a rule of the BELANGER BILL PASSED: House that this should not be don»| | in future," Mr. Conant .\uggfwiml.' e mt oo _ __"It would at least offer substantial | Steps were taken in the Ontario| oOopposition to any future efforts' Legislature yesterday to halt t®%e| &WOong this line." growing practice of con{ferring mem-- bership in the professions by virtue of acts of parliament. | Taking direct action in the mat-- ter, after speakers on both sides of the House had condemned the prac-- tice, Attorney--Gencral Gordon Co-- nant gave instructions to Major Alex, C. Lewis, Clerk of the Legis-- lature, to prepare a new House rule that would prohibit introduction of any bill creating barristers, solici-- tors, doctors, or members of any REMA'N SECRET profession by act of the Legislature. This rule, the Attorney--General c s said last night, would be introduced for debate and passed before the Liberals in Committee De-- & 1t sessiC s prorogue :+ ,\;'::i(r'\r:'sda(.\'. M ds profogued No' feaf MOCGU'GY'S Plea to iull"h;"A;Lox;nfi.\';;};neral gr,c,:l}:ed thz:_t' j 'tlon arose out of de-- jus cause *'s one in the pas : bafissol:t:.'g?i(\lln:-' hl:'ii i.\v;:,\v-, .'._fm:."f Show Accounts to Clear naq violated the succession duties confer the degree of barrister--at-- Esfafe Execufors O{ SUS- |law. ,h-\' discussing .\'el!l.emems, ":"i law upon Aurelien Belanger (Lib., | * + 'Puhllc Accounts Committee shouid Prescott) and which passed through picion |not be asked to violate it. j committee stage during the after-- | wnn~_._. lz aaaz__~s [-- ;'TP}C he?d\'of tae goxiernmemdld," noon. |interjected Mr. Macaulay. Principle Disapproved. | ACT PREVENTS PROBE '.'I don't care whether he did." : PelpakntanitRankeine said Mr. Conant. '"The committee Although the measure encounter-- | .\ shouldn't do it." ed no opposition in committee, il( Demand of Hon. Leopold Macaulay "Are you prepared the next time was passed with obvious reluctance| for authority from the Legislature the Premier goes off the deep end," on the part of every membr who | and treasury to have the Public Ac-- 2SKked Mr. Macaulay, "to tell him took part in the debate. Conserva-->| _ ' . . _ that he's breaking the law?" tive and Liberal private members,| counts Committee examine the $20,-- Committee Chairman Cooper ex-- along with government ministers,| 000,000 succession duties revenue pressed the opinion that the law made No effort '0.."0"."'"" their dis= | _ jtem recorded for the fiscal year of prohibited the committee from go-- lpxro\\'?l ;){ir)llt::(-'l'("n:l'ji'i':: Of'll(}::n::t"r:-'i 1937--1938 was "steam--rollered" into iNn& into the succession duties rev-- ic W. + . | &A y nue. ponr sn se Acsiiich ce | in reninaiee io e poete eg Rnt |. | "Be, Conene oart it wee aoonsttle sral of the M mvant * Mpm»\wd es | _times undignified %ittihg at Queen's| lhat the law as it now stood "might general son?n'nu»m (?r th'._» Houmi Park vesterday ® be & little rigorous," but the com-- a :::: hgl:l:::;;zd ,:'\I.dtt,:ft"'.f,t,.':.d"bn.::! Solidly sup[;(;rting the argumeni _ mittee was bound by it, in its prin(-iple\on which this bill 'i_\,. of Attorney--General Conant, Provin-- Present form. f ' based, and look with hearty disap--| Cl Secretary Nixon and James "If, as the Atto'rney-Ge'x'lera_l uV proval at the action of this House| Cooper, committee chairman, that the law is too rigorous," said Mv. in overriding the Law Society."| Under the present Succession Dutiee _ Macaulay, "we should start in to Continuation of the practice, .hp Act "secrecy" provisions prohibited change it. _Thls is lhe' pla.('e to sl.al:t threatened, would "ruin the legal| them from attempting the probe of _ !° change it. My motion 1s'the first profession." Mr. Macaulay's desire, the Liberais _ SteP in that direction. Let's get its "f hope to spare myself and the voted 22--9 against the motion of the adnjl-mslrauon away from all' this House further embarrassment in' Opposition second--in--command. DOllH'('al t;'tmosr:}lere of charges and C is," Attorney--Gen-- Colonel George A. Drew, the Con-- _ COunter charges. . ::lesC?r'\ta';\taia::.' as }:wt o.\p.rossmi' servative Leader, contended that ex-- Later, Chairman .Coop(:r' said h.e agreement with his colleague's re--| @Mination of these death duty pay-- | Would be "broad minded" and bei-- marks. "It is wrong for us to sot| MeNnts was imperative if suspicion m""('d the Macaulay motion to be q eal bc which had been cast upon estates; | PUF-- :):l:sg\lx';g:d?c':ig; aor; ::}':L) ;{,I;;"-)dg\:,pf;(f:x\].l. administrators in generapl in recent _ S. Chester Walters, ('ontroll'er' of J will oppose future bills unless the| Ye@rs by the "loose, irresponsible finances and assistant treasurel, cireumstances are most exceptional."| Statements" of Premier Hepburn| Who had been on the witness stand, were to be dissipated, and justics| all this time, awaiting V(r Macaic done them. | Jlay's examination on various trea-- \ The Premier, he said, had not been| SUNY items, took occasion to state averse to talking of various estates| {hat at no time had he ever g"'.'": settlements with the treasury, andl information l"egardmg su<ce'ssmx' had left the impression 1hrofighoul, dutif:s. collgctlons. souleme\nts,v:'l1 the province that "punitive meas.| @@ministration to any one--not e'l'he ures" had had to be resorted to in| the members of the c.ab":et' many instances to recover moneys| 1aW, he said, forbade him * the IR-- f for the Crown, and that the Crown| "Who gives the Premier 1 c to had been "defrauded" out of great| formation he uses 1frolm'hm » sums in past years. If the situation | "Te? a;ekfd M(; filakwsiérq were not as the premier had paim-} ,,{Ndfin :h :T.' qaidr.Mr Macaulay, f ed, then surely, said he, the admin--| . ,, lo mrise ~f rou 'de artment ; istrators of estates had "the right _*** th(;wmf; Ob ;:},": P to clear themselves of suspicion."| °p'?£ to t:{ 'I?x?eal;urér of the Prov-- The only way of determining what o f t & wWalt f was what was to examine the rev.| | NCO said Mr. Walters. Liberal 6 E \enue item challen ed by Mr. Ma-- "And naturally," some .f] § 'caula 8 Y s | |cried, "he has access to them. s y. | . $ | m .