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e ie P _h 0 ° PP en ce( 00 40 WM Janvar@y 26 ROEBUCK SAYS Cmars seise - Ont Sales HEPBURN CLAIM Of Liquor Fall l S & y iquor ra RlD A decrease in sales and net profits e for the year ending March 31, 1939, as compared with the previous year, se mm mm is snhown in the anng;lldOntaflo' » * Liquor Board report tabled yester-- C'OS"WS With Conant * day in the Legislature. Sales. of: i + * + spirits, beer and wine were.lower and. Nixon in Denial "I didn't say that," retorted Mr.| by $1,367,682 and profits were down of 'Pay--Off Charge Roebuck. by $317,566. | The Speaker pointed out that Net profit in 1939, based on total CS legally, in Parliamentary procedure,| sales of $49,637,986, was $9,576,020. '.,":'""' on a question of personal| the matter was closed at the pre--| The previous year the profit was privilege, Arthur Roebuck, former| : vious day's session. "€9,803,587, based on total sales of Attorney--General, told the Legisla-- "Surely, Mr. Speaker, you are not | | $51,005,668. ture yesterday that Premier HMep--| | going to stop me from replying to burn's charge that he went to Eng--| | a press statement that impugns the land to get the "pay--off" in return | | honor of a member of this House ?" for the granting of a license toi asked Mr. Roebuck. Lloyd's insurance firm was "as "I rise to a point of order," said ridiculous as it is untrue." Attorney--General Conant. "IL have The aftermath of Wednesday's| | good hearing and a good memory, heated duel between the Premier| |and I know that the honorable and his one--time Cabinet colleague member covered the same ground found the former absent from the| | yesterday. This is just a rehash." House. But Hon. Harry Nixon and' "I am not rehashing anything," Attorney--General -- Gordon Conantl retorted the former Attorney-- clashed with Mr. Roebuck repeat--| | General "If the honorable mem--| edly when the member for Bell-- ; 'hor was not so nervous I'd soon woods attempted to speak. ' finish." Mr. Nixon protested the assertion | | _ Without further interruption Mr. made by Mr. Roebuck that the Pre--| | Roebuck went on to deny that his mier was endeavoring to terrorize| visit to England had anything to do his followers. He called upon Mr.|} with the granting of an agent's lic-- Speaker to ask for withdrawal of ense to his brother--in--law, Donald the statement. anc after lirst re-' Walkinshaw, as charged by Premier fusir;g to do s;) 'Mr'. Hoebuck ;cced- Hepburn. Lloyd's, he declared, was , ed' bo ume requczst éolh the Provin-- one of the, most tr_uslgd institutions clal Secretary' and the Attorney-- in the world, one which had never General contended that Mr. Roebuck | c onl oke. when thank uy ioh d covered the s s i j "Now, when there is a pay--off -- :"? a (O\dore' * . sume dgr(')'un ( '"' there must be a payer as well as a | ednesday's session, and thereIOT® | navee," he said. "It is A ridiculous' he had.no right to bring the matter; charge to say that Lloyd's would | up again. | ehgage in a questionable thing of Mr. RKoebuck opened his remarks| this kind--as ridiculous as to charge . by referring to the report in The' me. I do not know the people Walk-- Globe and Mail of Premier Hep--| inshaw dealt with. Walkinshaw burn's "pay--off" charges. This re--| arrived in London on a Friday port had received wide cirvulation,| night and I left on the Monday he said, and it was quite impossible; morning fo"o\ving_ 'The transaction for any honorable member of lhei took place after I left and I had f House to allow such a statement to: nothing to do with it at all." go to the press without a denial. | Mr. Roebuck said Walkinshaw "I hope the press gives my reply -- was made an agent and, at the time as prominent mention as it gave he secured the agency, "it was not s to the slanderous and unfounded . as Walkinshaw, my private secre-- charge," he declared. tary, but after he had retired from "Now, Mr. Speaker," interrupted: the public service." Attorney--General _ Conant, . "this Walkinshaw yesterday gave his ground was covered yesterday and version of the controversy in a I submit the honorable member is Ssigned statement issued to the press entirely out of order." as follows: "I understand the honorable gen-- "According to today's newspapers tleman wants to stop me," replied the Prime Minister, in the House, Mr. Roebuck. "There is a general yesterday referred to me in slan-- tendency to do that whenever I get: derous and untrue statements. on my feet." | Among others was the assertion that The Speaker agreed that the sub--| I went to England with Mr. Roe-- ject matter had been covered in || buck while employed as his private Wednesday's debate and asked the || secretary, and that I there received Bellwoods member to keep his re--. a contract as sole representative ' marks brief. | of Lloyd's in Canada as the "pay--off" "Length of time has nothing to do || to Mr. Roebuck for the Order--in--. with a question of right," retorted || Council permitting Lloyd's to do | Mr. Roebuck. "The time I take to | business in Ontario. This is false. | clear my name is a matter of large | The facts are that I did not ap-- | importance. -- This is part of the ,'proach Lloyd's until I had left the Premier's plan to terrorize the | public service. I did not go to Eng-- 4 House." land with Mr. Roebuck. I arrived in Mr. Nixon at once jumped to his: London, England, on a Friday night feet on a point of order. and Mr. Roebuck left for home on "I regret the Premier is not go-- Monday morning. I secured an ing to be in the House today," said: agency for the writing of insurance the Provincial Secretary. "But I; from a firm of brokers who were am not going to sit still while such members at Lloyd's, but not from | motives are imputed to my leader. Lloyd's themselves. This was not a i - I ask that the statement be with-- sole agency, as the Premier said, \ drawn." and there were at this time a con-- Mr. Roebuck at first refused to siderable number of such agencies do so but changed his mind on the: held in Canada. Mr. Roebuck did insistence of the Speaker. not know nor had he ever met the "Let's not take up time with futile people I was doing business with. ° rulings," continued Mr. Roebuck. | The suggestion of a "pay--off" to Again there was an interruption.| Mr. Roebuck by Lloyd's in a broker's + Mr. Nixon charged that the expres--| insurance--writing agency to me, is sion "futile rulings" was an insult| as ridiculous as it is false and slan-- to the Speaker. derous."