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ENNNE TTE e t rm~....._._._._\._\cin mm MARCH 12 # a% 6 ~-------N_ Cox Asks Timber Board During St Deb w; J Y e ith Forests Minister wnmnmmesmmentcmmememmmememues € i | #%* _ % aM1F, ox charso Criticism of Policies Is 'imhfrcl;:*l;l?':d'z:oqn'«::aln:':'\o P nnoug Termed Personal Attack ;1?1?')1::11(!.;1':::';' "wl;u'h I llf'Dl'(':Cl\l s a far--reaching and detrimental effect 1 Fiep bY PQ?GT Heenan and Dnmini-n[\r"' ll(:'h :th:sir(;,\:;:g smm m ammma mm mm mm o that the Lands and Forests D('}'HI:Y- EXCHANGE BITTER || third of fts revenue from the Port hose hm apre" fot aied C ® about 1 Charges by Charles W. C Mavor per cent of the pulpwood exported of Port A.' * . LOX, MayoI from Crown Lands came from the rthur, that timber ad-- same territory, ministration policies of the Govern-- "'Undcr agreements made by pre-- ment of which he is a member are :'l{::lts'aifli\l;n'::lii;llllimnna although con-- "ruinous" &' Histric is alinks L ariably were never carr in the l;.c t::~ hL. district, yesterday < out or enforced. there was at ILLCS f Legis ature, drew from Lands: a camoufllaged effort tp have the and Forests Minister Peter Heenan _ fimber manufactured in Canada." the reply that the onc--time Hepburn :: H;)':" R:'""m'.'mo" of timber areas Minister wit 'tfoli y e s been done in a way which gave layed, m-)rr1 hv?:'n P:'llJUl"; .h,d' fio the exporting mills and those g-'UD' the acvelo C n> other man,. plying the f.\port market "a very de-- C lopment of timber resources. _ Cided advantage over Canadian "You have witnessed the wrath . "WHS" . and the scorn of a disgruntled politi-- fle «aid he was "exiremely doubt. cian," charged Mr. Heenan and ful anything constructive might sgein, he sald: "All h C |_develop from the Legislative Timber . $ 4 e wanted was | Inquiry, which is due to report to | to have aill the patronage of the | the Il_nusc after the Royal Commis--| northwest part of the Province. 1| SX# inquiry into the Abitibi Pulp' wouldn't stand for it. ant I won't Ttr:dtlfi:?:L\Company has presented : stand for it today. I would leave Many ne)'rn represeonti 1 30,.-- ?hg Cabinet "hr'forc I knuckled to _ 000,000 pulp axr:d pap'gxg l::guii'l,v such a thing. "know the present policy is ruinou's The speech by Mayor Cox conm--| and would have gladly given evi« !azncd a recommendation that "an j * Ingependent. . nonmobienl 0n | | fpos at, the timber ptobe but for changes should be made in the yie U_' z(tpn.\al.\. he charged. & policy. I could suggest names of | He charged that the Lake Sulphite # o l Company project "represonts one of men who might act. Some, by virtue » Ryr + on PRevt the North country's 0 'st recent of their interest in transporiation SFims h y f prOblcnl'. would be \,na".\ inter-- !'O?I!I(dl. blunders -- .nn- .\.h'lkh 'hd' ested. such as Sir Edward Beatty | again cost t_.he poot .puhlu_ many vy (Iriy n Y ! | millions. It is my considered opinion and S. J. Hungerford,. presidents, re--| | Ub lats 9@ P f spectively, of the CPR. and C.N.R.:: pollm.ua!.): played a most important Mr. Justice McTague, chairman of | part in its collapse. + the. Roval Commission which re-- Mr. -- HMeenan dm:larvd Mr. Cox cently investigated affairs of the "actually 'Snolkl('.r('d'tty 'Ior "j":'lbl:bl."' Abitibi Pulp & Paper Company: angQ mgbLal\g N p'ul;f'. "u l.'\?-" '\a. lf' G. R. Cottrelle, Toronto banker and t anlflupt. nere ,m > m,"\ sims 4 @ T n ands and Forests who established industrialist, at present Federal Oil the mill." Controller. ; He charged that the Port Arthur Termed Personal Attack. Mayor had personally led a deloga-- The storm broke in the House . tion to Queen's Park for the lifting directly after Mayor Cox, who is : of the ban on the export of raw pulp member for Port Arthur, {inished | and that, one time in 1937, with= his address in the Throne Speech | out consulting the Premier or the debate. It was named by the Lands / Minister of Lands and Forests, he and Forests Minmster as a personal | | called a conference of United States attack upon him and. for the most : | pulp buyers "and threatened -- and part, members teft the stage to the |pleaded to these representatives to two antagonists. give him orders for wood. I was 'The first break in the due! be-- . never so ashamed in my life to at-- tween the Minister from Kenora _ tend a conference." and the member from Port Arthu: Mr. Cox, he declared, had re-- came when Mr. Hcenan asserted . versed his policy on pulp export for that. after Mr. Cox was elected in' "political expediency." In 1934, ho 1934 and the election had been pro-- charged, "he was guilty of tres-- tested, the petitioners behind the pass--he went on other people's protest said they would withdraw _ areas without the authority of the the protest if he promised them _ Crown. that they would not have to go to "Because I have dared to oppose Mr. Cox as an intermediary in se-- him I have been the subject of his curing pulpwood -- cutting . agree-- | malicious attacks," declared Mr. ments. He said the protests subse-- \ Heenan. quently had been withdrawn. mmenmmmmataueems «: "The Conservatives did not with-- i draw the protest." Leopold Macau-- lay (Con., South York), interjected He added that he, personally, in the Legislature had led the fight against a Government bill, in the 1935 ses-- sion, which had the effect of in-- validating a petition asking for the unseating of Mr. Cox. "It wa. the only time such a bill has ever been presented in this House," he said.