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| March 9 D. ISl C II d IVISIONS LalIEG, | | Upheld on Vote _ | Disclosure of the Government's} * intention to bring down the Budget| Friday afternoon to permit orderly] consideration _ of the estimates brought about two divisions in thel Legislature yesterday. In one mse' the Government was upheld and in! * the other a ruling of the Speaker, was sustained. The C.C.F. Opposi--| tion voted with the Progressive| | Conservatives in both cases. The, _votes were 60 to 20 and 59 to 21. These were the first divisions of the present session. | The motion to go into supply wasi not contested, but when Provincial| Treasurer Leslie Frost introduced the complementary motion that the House go into ways and means| Liberal House Leader M. F. Hep-- burn challenged the motion and de-- scribed it as a "cowardly and des--, picable" attempt on the part of, the Government to throttle debate on the Speech from the Throne. When the Speaker called for a vote there was a chorus of nays! from the Liberal benches, and a louder response of ayes from the, Government members. This brought on the recorded division which saw ) , i $ the Government upheld by a vote Expressive Adjectives § % of 60 to 20. ( '"The member for Elgin,"' sald' The second division was brought! Premier George A. Drew, "with his| about when Mr. Hepburn challeng-- CONception l?f p;ocedlt:re has Uused| ~------------------«mumamomenencmmmecamin ed the Speaker's ruling that he was| Adjectives that brought this Legis*\ ns gwo former CCF. memb out of order. Mr. Hepburn previ--' lature to a very low ebb during the Nejson Alles and Leslic Hancoecrli. ously had cited various authoritiee! Y€a"s he was head of the GoveTD--)yo;eq with the Liberals. * on parliamentary procedure to| Ment. Let me tell the House thatl when Mr. Jolliffe disclosed that show that it was not permissible to| !(his is not the first time this DrOCe--iprovincial Treagurer Frost had.con-- proceed with the Budget until the| @uUre has been followed here. On|syiteq with him the previous after-- Speech from the Throne debate was) March 31, 1942, on motion of MI:\ngon concerning the possibility of concluded. | (Hepburn, it was moved That 'this getting the estimates before the # House resolve itself into Committee House more idly, M Williams Changes Figure of Supply next Thursday. This was e more ftapidly, Mr. Hepbutn Lef h * s * queried, in obvious exasperation: "Is Once more the S'vision bells rang ; followed by a motion that the House this Tory--C.C.F. collaboration ?" and the party wi.ps hurried out 1© |go into Ways and Means on Thurs--| ft was e;:p.la'ined earlie;'o b.v t round up the members. This tims \day next.' [Premier that there was no wish o'fi the vote &~J ne more to .t "This man, who loosely uses words'the Government's part to cut off losing -- group, \cthur _ William |like despicable and cowardly, fol'!debate on -- the T'?hrone Spe °h (C.C.F., Ontario) oting against t ilowed exactly the same procedure aS*Ample opportunity would bep ii'(;n. Government and his own party. | we propose now," said the Premier.:a" who wished to speak, he gsaid Mr. Hepburn denounced the Go~-- |"He gets funnier every day." I T f d ernment (or .s intention of brin~ ; Government _ members _ banged ing down the Budget Friday, a Gtheir desks as the Premier con-- serting that, with a C.C.F. amenc»« 'cluded, and Mr. Hepburn jumped to ment to the Throne Speech motion 'his feet. and a Liberal subamendment, "the | '"That was on March 31," he said. life of this Government might well |'"Today is only March 7, before all \be at stake." Before the Govern-- (the leaders have been heard in the !ment was legally entitled to proceed éThrone Speech debate." with the Budget the amendment and | _ A. A. MacLeod (Lab.--Prog., Bell}-- '\the subamendment should be dealt 'woods) said he did not think that, 'with. he contended. ; before the fate of the Gowernment \ _ Opposition Leader E. B. Jolliffe |was decided, a blank cheque should said that in 1943 the then Liberal (be given the Administration. !Government had brought down the In both divisions the two Labor-- Budget before concluding the Progressives, Mr. MacLeod and Throne Speech debatce. Joseph Salsberg (St. Andrew), and 1 Hiifiieruoumee ooeei ce renmeermecemmccemmmsccmcmncmrnmmmcccuccce