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Tax Amendment C f Passedby House AUTION URGED j 'l'ho_ amendment to the Cor-- poration 'Tax Act, increasing the | levy on income from two to five i per cent, yesterday was given | f third reading by the Legislature. | Opposition Leader Drew called for a declaration of the "ayes" | | and "nays" in the vote. | "The act, 1 am convinced, is | w mm mm omm an extremely unwise one at the 1 * * present time." he said. Colonel Pl.h No Action in Case Drew forecast that the sharp tax increase would effect an in-- Of JUng .Shea w.ho HOld * jury upon business at a time COHS*I'UC*IOH Flrm POS"' when it was "essential to get on areued e esnt e ie tiecres with the business at hand." NO LONGER DIRECTOR i _ Magistrates of the Province must ROAD not only administer the law but f must conduct theselves within the law, Attorney.General Gordon Con-- ant declared in the Legislature yes-- terday in tabling correspondence in ., the case of Judge J. Ambrose Shea. 'Lndcr an amendment to the Last week Opposition Leader Highway lmprov.emcm Act, @ApP--|| George Drew brought up in the ® proved yesterday in the House, ap--|| House an article in the Financial plication fox: township road subsi--|| post which claimed that Judge dies shall mc.lude only the esti--|| Shea, at the time ho was a magis-- mated expcndxtun.a on such work|| trate at Kingston, had been an of-- as may be designated by the|| ficer and a director of the Frontenas Minister as being work on which Con§tr\:'ction Company which had a subsidy will be ia. | received largo contracts from the According --to up:':. Ttom. ymye.|| Ontario Government. The Attornev-- Questen, Minister of Highways, the | Gem.'ral'promlsed an immediate in-- amendment applies particularly io |{vestigation of the facts. suburban areas. Under the present " The facts as presented by the system, he said, residents in the| LC23®" of the Opposition wete €Of« : highly built up township areas | hels the Attmney-Geqcral said, He lying beyond the borders of the mdlcatcd. that no action woulid be cities are _ receiving -- Provincial| forthcoming. grants for roads' construction, I neither approve nor condone while those living within the what has been done," said Mr. borders paid for their roads under| Conant. "The fact that this has been the local improvement plan. He brought to light may serve the pur-- believed that the Province should DOS¢ Of indicating to the magis-- not be called on to subsidize such _ *"4t©s of the Province that it is not suburban roads. only their duty to administer the ' law but to conduct thomselves with-- *4 in the law." % P a <__In October, 1935, continued Mr. Naughty Fllm | Conant, Judge Shea, then a magis-- trate, had written to Colonel W. W. f Dennison, Inspector of Legal Of-- passes Of ered fices, admitting his connection with the company and asking advice as Leopold Macaulay and T. L. t A Kennedy, Conservative members to whether he should continue that | for South York and Peel, respec-- connection. Mr. Conant remarked tively, last night in the Legis-- that Colonel Dennison's reply was Jature were "offered "season [|"Unforfunstely, not velx helpful," tickets" by Premier Hepburn to | 8"4 added: '"Perhaps that is one the "naughty" pictures banned | indication why he is no longer hold-- for public consumption by the | ing the position of Inspector of Le-- Motion Picture Censor Board. _ | 881 Offices. The presentation offer was The reply was to the effect that made as Mr. Macaulay ques-- Mr. Shea would have to use his own tioned the $42525 item in the --| £004 judgment in the matter and estimates -- dedicated to the concluded: "I would myself, how-- censorship and theatre inspec-- ever, be very averse to being a di-- tion branch of the Government. rector of a company unless I knew > "Do they ever turn down any everything that was going on all f pictures?" queried Mr. Mac-- the time." aulay, seeking an excuse to cut "That may have been very good the estimate. business adviceo but it was not very "Come up and see me some helpful under the circumstances," time and I'll show you a few," commented Mr. Conant, who stress--| replied the Premicr. ed that the situation developed be-- fore his time as Attorney.General. Following publication of the article f€ and before the matter was raised in f the House, Judge Shea wrote to the + Deputy Minister of Justice at Otta-- wa, acquainting him with all the facts of the case. In this letter|B_______________________s Judge Shea pointed out that in 1934, before his appointment as magis--| little about what was _bging done. trate, he helped form the Frontenac|I never received a d}Vldend but Construction Company, and was re-- from time to time received a direc-- tained as solicitor. Afterwards he|tor's fee which also covered . my became a director and was allotted solicitor's charges for incorpora-- one share. tion." $ § o "For the first year the company In June, 1939, he resigned as di-- did no business," he wrote the De--| rector and trangterred his one share puty Minister of Justice. "Then the|to his brother--in--law. Since that! head office was transferred to To-- | time he had had no interest, directly ronto and I had virtually nothing | or indirectly, in the company, he, | to do with it thereafter. I know very | declared. | J #