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.' L F\'\ FOREST CONTROL CCE ASSIST ~ VESTED DEFE Complete authority ovfarthe ]anr.li , The C.C.F. Opposition lined up :and forests of Ontario is vested in iwith the Drew Government -- last f \the Ontario Forest Resources Com-- lnight to defeat an --amendment mission, Premier George Drew told sponsored by Mitchell F. Hepburn the Legislature yesterday when the *which would have had the effect of bill to create the commission was |giving a six--month hoist to the | .'pa(-od in committee stage. Optometry Act amendm?m.fl This| F & t f f the Forest Re. amendment, bltler.ly opposed by Mr. The relation o Hepburn the previous day, enlarges| * sources Commission to the Govern-- lthe Board of Optometry from three| ment will be exactly the same as the to five members, gives the board | relation of the Hydro Commission to | power l10 reg]ulate a]dvertisin;:i of ¢ -- & . Ys spectacles and eye--glasses and ex-- f the Government, the Premier ex-- tends the disciplinary powers of| plained. the organization. The commission would not dis-- Two -- Progressive Conservative solve the Department of Lands and m«,-dmboqgs. D;;' HO\léhs 'I]'a.\'lm' ;'Huron) _ o o an s _ Murphy _ (Toronto-- : [Porests, but the plan called fhor e Beaches), voted with the Liberal| ' | administration of the df'p"_" tment group, as did the two Labor--Progres-- to come under the commission. He / sives A. A. MacLeod (Toronto--Bel-- | $ !pn]pha.\lZPd that the commission \Svoogs)dand).]. B. Salsberg (Toronto-- | A t. Andrew). ;\\ou'd not duplicate any existing The Hepburn amendmient was | body. . defeated by a vote of 64 to 19, and | In dealing with forests it should the main motion to give third read-- k \be remembered that they were a ing to the biil was carried by 65 to | crop, except that the rotation period 19, the extra vote coming from \ was between 20 and 100 years. Due Attorney--General Leslie Blackwell, to this fact the Government was who was absent when the first vote f setting up a long--range policy in was taken. order to improve the Ioresl; "crop" Introduced by Porter. in Ontario, the Premier said. The Optometry Act amendment ' An amendment by J. B.- Salsberg was not a Government--sponsored (L.P., Toronto--St. Andre\\_) lhat'a measure. It was introduced by a nominee of the trade union move-- I Government member, Dana H. Por-- ment be placed on the comniss10n ter (P.C., Toronto--St. George). Mr. was defeated without a recorded Hepburn made no move to oppose . division. Premier Drew said the the bill during committee stage con-- Government must take full rea'pox;- sideration, but when Speaker Stew-- sibility for the commission and Loubd' art put the motion for third reading |not permit its hands to be tied i. he rose and presented his motion |having to appoint persons o onlee" "that the ebill be not now read a ed by other than the Government 'third time, but be read a third time itself. _ & R this day six months hence." ' No Government can es e TC '"This is an amendment to the mo-- f sponsibility for Appoinlink 'l' voin-- tion?" asked the Speaker. ; mission if told m'ad\ance tlbe sta-- "No, it is not," replied Mr. Hep-- tus of members who are t.(('i P,,&'," burn. "It is a motion. After 18 . pointed," the Premier 5.';'.].', s years Parliamentary experience, I must accept the responsibility an think I know when a motion is in ride or fall on our decision. This order." is nothing new. It is a principle ' which underlies all such matters. Overruled. The Government is not prepared to The Speaker said there could not support an amendment which calls be two motions before the House for an appointment which ties our and ruled that it be accepted as an |hands." [amendment. _ Liberal Leader H. C. Nixon sup-- The Optometry Act amendment ported the Premier's stand, declar-- came before the Legal Bills Com-- ing that the heads of the Govern-- mittee yesterday morning and was| 'ment must be left free. He deplored reported after one amendment was the growing number of Government made. This amendment clarified the commissions and said he would like | section dealing with regulating the to see some abolished instead of new ladvertising of spectacles and eye-- ones being created. He recognized, glasses, the advertising of prices and however, that the Government had a the advertising of the terms upon mandate to bring in such legislation which spectacles and eye--glasses regarding the forests of Ontario. may be purchased.. | | It was Mr. Hepburn's contention j !at second reading on Tuesday that: | the bill restored a racket in the |field of sale of spectacles.