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# dale, for a remark concerning the | f HEPBURN QUIT Dionne quints and the tongunegt,hey] Sol\lzthtHAnbAlterm.uve, would use at a ship launching, re-- 3 the Doniini said that Ontario plied that he was not accusing the | argththe Dominion had gone through Opposition of attempting to raise a | Wfl the_ St. Lawrgnce agreement, racial issue. He accused Ottawa of| .3 ter which the United States Con-- wanting to create a racial issue ini gress had thrown it out. There was an Ontario election. | no reason to believe that Congress Referring to his l'OSignat ion as| WO'uld have paSSEd aA blll after that Premier, Mr. Hepburn remarked, "I for development of the St. Law-- | am glad to move over one seat, now | _ "°RC°: that we have obviated a racial issue | Then came the war, and one of D l in this Province." 1 the first t.hmgS he had done was to eclares Ottawa Soughf Mr. Hepburn praised the French--| :)%l::tl::)tn w:t}:l th;'f Leatder of the Op-- | & a Canadian people as being prepared | sition and offer to remove any Gn. Onfano E | e ction to "shed mci,-p]a,t drap of D?Ioopd f%?.' objections so the St. Lawrence de-' With French vs. Enalish | Canads" but he insisted that| |YS!ODmenbt could be proceeded with 9 French--Canadians could not be made | ?:ngl't WV;as 'Il'gahzed 'dt W%\llg be a Fear aniat lea . to become Imperialists and he| r. lhree and a half years . Feaw that a racial issue might dec | [Outd wot bfamp (them, tiad the| | [ater mo action had vet been taken slection 'nad been broughi [d _ Battle of the Plains of Abraham | y Congress. Even the impact of fall without the L gl 14 f.as gone the other way, and had I been ;'tal' seemed insufficient to get it | giving approval egislature first raised as a member of a minority.! hrough, and it seemed it would not | ari pproval to the Quebec--On-- 1 could not have been the same; °8 GON¢ for many years to come. tario power agreement was one Of -- Imperialist." t "Having arrived at that decision, t'hc' reasons why Mitchell Hepburn "You cannot make 'the Prenrch| We turned to another source, the resigned the Premiership. Canadians Imperialists" he de--| Oftawa River," said Mr. Hepburn. The former Premier made this clared. "And you cannot push them | -- Of Decew development, he said: "If| statement to the Legislature last _ around." |\ . we get anything out of it we'll be| night to suddenly attentive mem-- _ Was Anxious About Power. | : lucky--but that's over the dam." * bers during second reading of the "I do not tolerate the hot--headed | In the Sifton application for char-! 3 bill to ratify he agsreemert. Mr. Imperialists any more than I do the| | ters for development of the Ottawa, Hepburn said the King Liberals rabid isolationists of Quebec," con-- he said, "both political parties share were pressing for an election in On-- / tinued the Provincial Treasurer. "If} in the blame." The Sifton bill was tario last fall, and he did not favor I had yielded to pressure from Oot.| | killed, "and we were told the Otta-- an election until the power agree-- _ tawa and brought on an election last! | W River was cleared for develop-- ment now before the House had _ fall, my friends opposite would have| |mMent by both Provinces. been ratified. damned Quebec for standing in the: |_ "I did not resign as Premier over "If I had yvielded to pressure from _ way of Ontario's progress. I was|-- | a"Y disagreement with Premier Ottawa for an election the issue more anxious to bring this bill be.| | Godbout on this issue," declared Mr. would have been a racial one," he. fore this House than to remain| -- Hepburn. "One reason I resigned | declared, following a clash with Premier of Ontario. | was because of pressure on me to Opposition Leader George Drew. "I know my friends in the House| | CAU an election last fall," he said. "The Province of Quebee would won't like it," remarked Mr. Hepfi An election then would have brought | have been pictured as the dog in _ burn, after accusing Ottawa of try--| | UP discussions that might have| the manger and I did not want ing to foment racial warfare. "But | proved harmful. that. I went through one cam-- _ it is the truth. They didn't succeed,| | It was at this stage that Mr. Hep-- paign which was based on a relis _ powever, because I Tefused to bring | burn accused W. J. Stewart (Prog. gious issue, and I wanted no more." _ on an election. | | Con., Toronto--Parkdale) of raising Mr. Hepburn's unexpected and Mr. Hepburn said there was noth.! |a language issue when he asked if| dramatic rm'{*lanon of_one of the ing .~pornlafivo~ ahnu{ the agroo-- the Dionne quints were going to. reasons for his resignation from the ment. When the war ended, as all speak in two languages when they : premiership, was regarded as a wars must do, he bh]if*vecf there| | christen five warships in the United : definite indication that the Conant | woulq be a hif;l%ly profitable market| |States for use by Britain. '(;q\m'nm.cnt -w'" g.o t'o _tho country for the power in the United States. Mr. He_nry attacked the speech on is year. Ih; dcdalatlon' that hp. "Two Crown bodies have agrpod' Hydro given by Hydro Vice--Chair-- oppo.aed' holding an election umu on an equitable division df pov&ér} man Houck, declaring it was a t'he power agreement had bgcn rati« s y it is Nlew that it will speech that would fit at a social fied, was taken as meaning that. Sites and it is my view thal it WIU| |nonuuet, all generalities "but it the Bartier to holding an electi help to create a binding link be-- on ieey? 2 les, but' it C 18 ection 1¥ ut ! won't satisfy this House. He should this year would disappear with -- tween the two races," said Mr. Hep-t | ° € shou ratification of the measure. burn. '"We asked Quebec to enter | 3{1ave Pecn To h arm.cd. 1 s . h8 [Col. Drew UObjects into this agreement. They didn't| |#ame speech he had probably given L6 wecks. § ask us. They have been eminently | | to service clubs. Lt.--Col. George Drew, Progressive fair." ( 1 Hon. T. B. McQuesten challenged | Congértvative Leader, clashed with Mr Hepburn predicted that the| | M*r-- Henry's complaint about short-- | Mr. Hepburn over the suggested time.\muld come when a Govern| {238° of Eastern Ontario power, say-- racial issue. He charged that Mr. ment "not as stul;born"' as the prps-' ing: "It has always had ample Hepburn's speech was "one of the ent one \'vo'uld be in power at Ol- power. Show me any demand that most inx;)x'qpel' ever made in the {awa ax{cl then it would be possible has not been satisfied." Llf;'gl.slatux'o.i _'"There was not the to negotiate power agreements to slightest justification for the former fevelo ari iles which would Premietr's intimation that the racial ;.ve PP _V_' pus & 'ce 'Of p issue had arisen out af the Opposi-- e an everlasting source of revenue tion's demand for more information _ !9, hC Province Opnositl e on the power agreement," deciared . i panie maye information.. 4 dont ol. Drew. ® * "It ljs a deliberate attempt to know how much more he wants io create an impression utterly remote _ know _ after listening to the member | ; ; from the debate," charged Col. for Carleton (A. H. Acres, Prog. ; Drew. Con.) who spoke on Hydro at the » | Mr. Hepburn, who earliee had, afternoon session, 'criticized William Stewart, Progres--| "He talks of priorities. It's a | sive Conservative member for Park--| hypothetical matter. We'll get them f i if this bill goes through. I believe . if we pass the bill it will then be-- B come effective." | Praising the Premier, Dr. Hoggil s and others who had carried on the | power negotiations with Quebec, Mr. Hepburn reminded the House: | "We were secking the deal. I think Quebec has been manifestly fair in ' the way it has treated us."