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Friday, Fe yb. \& 7h NO “NAYS”? RECORDED AS ADDRESS IN REPLY IS CARRIED IN HOUSE nn “Unetl June, if Desired. Raney Contends Nesbitt Mr. Ferguson also expressed his willingness to have the House sit Amendment Only Elabo-' until June, if members-desired that length ef opportunity to consider and | discuss the measure. “And when it comes down,” he added, “I can promise you it will be just as big a Surprise in its way as my announce- ment of the Commission.” Based on Slogans. rate Restatement of His Own—Leaders Exchange Verbal Shots Before Vote Is Taken ister reiteration of his assurance that |! /he liked, and he spoke for an hour when the control bill came down it | 20d @ half.” would be found to be in keeping with | Mr. Martin—I would just like to the Government's representations on Say that when I spoke for an hour the public platform during the elec- and a half the other night I spoke tion campaign. 'on a temperance platform. ! Mr. Sinclair—i’'m afraid there is' some difference between the schools of temperance that we attended. I’m sure that the temperance meeting that you addressed was not the kind that is being held in Massey Hal] and other places. ee cS “Hear, hear!” cried the Govern- ment benches. “I should say not.” Mr. Sinclair likened the Legisla- T. A. North 'ture to a jury, and Mr. Martin, | Thompson (Conservative, ; Lanark), and A. L. Shaver (Conser- vative, North Wentworth) to jurors | ho “slept” through “temperance’s trial.’ with utter disregard for the } verdict wrapped up in the forthcom- jing liquor control bill. He took ex- 'ception to Mr. Thompson’s state- ments that “clergy had sniped, from ithe political dugouts” they had made /of their pulpits. ' | Makes Correction, Mr. Raney was brief and to the ; point. His amendment to the! “What I said corrected Mr PROMISES TO BE KEPT ‘original motion was, he contended,|} Thompson. “was that the sniping 9 based on language that had served | Vas done by clergy opposed to thy REITERATES PREMIER as Government slogans in the elec- | Government.” Se tion campaign, in that it aimed et’ “My honorable friend,” said M “making for real temperance and. Sinclair, ee ng nf PE dat = a : having special regard for the youth | Serve some salvation to hims¢ | cd Without division—in fact, with- of Ontarie.” There was virtually Mr. Sinclair ridiculed the ges- out a dissenting voice—the Address no difference between his amend- tion of Mr. Baird that “gloom” was in reply to the Speech from the ™emt and the amendment to the written on the faces of the Opposi- Throne, with its Nesbitt ; amendment, submitted by Russeli,| tion groups. but added that gloon ; Nesbitt amend- wNesbitt (Conservative, Bracondale), || 1ssuredly would be found among the ment, was carried in the Legislature; He wished to congratulate the ;Government supporters when thy yesterday afternoon. eee , ne | control bill = age down . ei | Government, he said, on restating !}“Their smiles,” he said, ‘‘will be more There were no thrills in the actual] his motion. Amid ‘derisive cries || superficial than ever then.” vote, Liberal Leader William E.| from the Government venches, he!) The Liberal Leader charged Pre- N. Sinclair and Progressive Leader | 24ded: ! mier Ferguson with holding a nigh Hon, W. E. Raney had previously | “So far as I am concerned, there | session on “Leaders’ day,” so that stated their disinclination to will be no division on the adoption}; the newspapers wou'd not report press; of the Address.” ; what Mr. Raney had to say fora division. and on the ealling of Liberal Leader Sinclair was in-! “T submit,” said the Prime Minis- the “yeas” and “nays” the Opposi-| clined to view the situution in a ter, Who had announced the person- tion sat tight>lipped. As was to be ex- different light. ‘I am free to ad- nel of his Liquor Commission at the pected, Government benchers made. mit,” said he, ‘“‘that I haven’t reach- night session in mention, “that T had the most of their ‘victory’ with! ed the same conclusions as my 10 such reason in mind. It was so several minutes of desk-banging. | honorable friend from Prince Iia- the newspapers would have some- cee ene circumstances, the | ward.” : thing to say.” debate, after two'weeks of life, died | “You mustn’t have had a con- : — ixchance , . its natural death, with House mem-/! sultation lately,’’ smiled Seema Sharpest Gachange of ‘Worse. bers already flushed with anticipa- } Ferguson. : Mr. Sinclair reviewed at some tion of what the Government will “[ can assure the Honorable length the ‘‘about-turn” tactics of say in its Budget address on Tuesday! Premier,’ said Mr. Sinclair, “that the Prime Minister during the elec- next. ' the Liberal Leader and the Liberal tion, and it was during this review Raney Disappoints. party need not consult save among that the sharpest exchange of words ; themselves. during the whole debate occurred. While the vote itself did me Mr. Sinclair had chided the Prime startle, events leading up to it seem. Simelair Seeks Lucidation, Minister for statemenis at Leaming- ingly tickled the fancy of the crowd- Mr, Sinclair termed the Nesbit, || ton that whiskey prices might be ed galleries. Much had been ex- amendment as “ingeniously drawn,” }| lowered. pected of Mr. Raney in the way of but added that it appeared to hint | | “Are you in favor of making retaliation to criticism from Gov- as if the Legislature was goin: ‘“‘a}| Whiskey dearer?’ demanded Rev. ernment channels of the group and long way” in giving assurance, as||/4- C. Calder (Conservative, West policy he directs, But he disap- the Nesbitt amendment aungedio’ j| Kent) of the Liberal Letder. pointed the expectant ones by cen- to “something we know not * hat my “I may sav in reply,” said Mr pentins himself with the satisfaction He said that the House should know |! Sinclair, “that it won't affect me one > Po galingged az es as he main~ what the liquor control bill wasj| way or the other. I don’t know how ’ lat the Nesbitt amendment ard what it contained; what the it will affect my honorable friend.” was purely and simply a restate- Government meant, in the ee : Mr. Calder—i’! sues: now “tiene ment, in elaborate garb, of his own amendment, by the “terms~ “true | vh h h fer le mem! r on : nient to the Adérees—-t Sh a ne, cee Cee (rué| when the lonorab e€ member refer- ’ Ss—in other temperance’ and “evils of intemper-! red to himself recently as a person W ords, the pledge he sought from ance,” No member he conten led f crea intellis gen th: it he spoke the Government that its new policy could vote conscientiously. an ht i Y caine r aaa gs : " ; ns vy, and give. not only according to conviction, bu would make for “‘better temperance” honest. careful consideration t according to fact.” : cae ome. some time have “par- something of which nothing ts ag go etn flushed at the re- ae vac regard for the youth of On- known. gn 3 mark, and turned to the Speaker. “I ‘ |; At this juncture Mr, Sinclair re- jam very sorry,” said he, “that such Injection of “Harshest” Note. | ferred to Rev. W. G. Martin (Con- |a remark has been made in_ thi Rev. A. C. Calder (West Kent), ppeetige <5 Brantford), and his re- | House; but I am not going to even one of the two clergymen elected on i p-aees i Sg in the debate that | ask you, Mr. Speaker, to make | the a Government-control ticket on Dee. igen on members who had “‘talk- ; honorable member withdraw it.” 1, injected the “harshest” note of the ed temperance” during the cam- ; There were loud “siear, hears! whole debate into the note of the | paign had not since been sven on | from the Opposition benches. The proceedings when in "unmistakable | temperance platforms. , Government benches sat silent. For terms he referred to the liberal’ Queries Clergyman’s Actions te at awl the atmosphere created Leader as a person of “average in- es : iby the c.ergyman’s remark was telligence,” and escaped a possible i would like to know,” said Mr, { Strained. Ke rebuke from the Speaker of the Sinclair, “how often the honorable { Then Mr. Sinclair concluded _ hi: Jouse because Mr. Sinclair declined member for Brantford has Leen on [Speech with the admission that he o press for a withdrawal of the @ temperance platform since the | Would not press for any division on statement. election”? (Opposition thumping.) adoption of the Address, _The closing hours of the debate | [ saw by a paper recently where he ppemier Deals With “G, C.” were productive in other ways, in i had appeared at a Toronto meeting. . that they drew from the Prime Min- They told him to take aii the time Premier Ferguson then rosé to close the debate. At the outset he emphasized that the Raney amenda- ment must be considered as a want- of-confidence motion. He went on) to deal again with the subject of Government control. ; Government control, he was not brought before as a political issue to bring th« Conservative party back into power. “That's funny,” laughed Opposi- declared, the public tion members, ‘“But,’. Mr. Ferguson went on “it was presenting a problem to the something no Government ever did before.” | “Hear, hear,” interjected Mr. | Raney, and laughed.