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'Belan Gi D f l 9 iOf C ( onan an e p urn i In a fighting spooch in the Legis-( lalurc last night often punctuated) by desk-thumping approval oi" .fellow-Liberal members, Aurelian,l . [8016mm- (Lib, Prescott; defended? ex-Premier Mitchell Hephurn's reel lord and at the same time condemned? tho Progressive Conservative Oppo-i _ sition for its charge that Premier , IGOt'don Conant "stabbed Mr. Hep- (burn in the back" in accepting his _resiznation from his Cabinet. ( "When the member for Carleton ltA. H. Acres) accused the present iPrime Minister of stabbing his prc'- f tdccessor in the back. of being so ldisloyal and ungrateful as lo ask ifor Mitchell Ilepburn's resignation," isaid Mr. Belanger, "it. never occur . :red lo him that there might have _ [been a very important reason. It . lmight have been a fulfilment. of a iduty of the Prime Minister to this House." , . "Hear, hear," cut in Ian Strachan (Lib. Toronto-St. George). t Mr. Belanger added there might; have been things behind the seenesi which were not known. t Obstacle to Co-ordination. "Suppose he might have been an; _ obstacle to the very co-ordiuation o' , this very House which has been said i is so desirable. The Prime Min-l ister is to be sympathized with fori having put his love of his Province, before his affection and gratefulness; . to his predecessor." ', Speaking of the previous Prime! . Minister, Mr. Belanger said he could', not let. the occasion pass without commenting on the passing of Mr. Hepburn as the head of the Gov-' ernment. F "His regime," ho insisted. "will, hold in the political and economic history of this Province a place SCC-' 'ond to none." i The Hepburn regime after 1934, ill" said, had boon turning terrible idcficits into wonderful surpluses, year after year. Relief expenditures 'were paid out of current revenue. I not capital. _ ! Frauds Uncovered. I l, "We have seen frauds in stic('es~_ ' 1 sion duties brought, to light and rich men who had defrauded the Prov. ince of millions-l will not say with, the connivance of the former Gov-', . ernment, but on account of their: terrible negligence-forced to make! restitution," and for the first. time: . in history a Government had turned i its eye to easternmost Ontario. '5 1 He advised prospective trl_oy)ityti (speakers not, to criticize the Minissi I ter of Agriculture for what he had }; . (done in that section-not at, any ti member and a former speaker to t Eastern Ontario meeting. He traced it urge that after the. war there should ' irlephurn Government. 'i'r,hi"iiVriipir,',ll, be hut one language in Ontario l in other departments. and recounted j, schools. "that bilingual schools ,' Mr. Hepburn's "defeat of the monied " should be abolished." zinterests" in Provincial financing., "For 15 )ears attempt has been (Mr. Belanger chided Col. Drew and} made to strangle the French ibis followers that the possibility of; language in the throats of. the [a coming election "throws a kind off French children of this Provtnce." pail oyer them and chills them to: he said. "And it has failed. Our the marrow." _ safety, our salvation and the salva- It was disturbing. he said, in the / tion of my race rests with the Brit- face of need for national unity, tor) ish Empire," he declared amid gen- ., _ a member of the House, a former eral applause.