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E TS I PM " emeigeeee e CC Te mm e o Oessapsrine" 7 e _ * m _ °0 A% mhigty wee . -- e a 9 <4 on m WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13. 1921. f RANEY ANXIOUS SUBMIT REFORM C mevenennmenne memmmenen Starts Discussion of O.T.A. Legislature Decides Initiative | * . Appeals Amendment at _ in Assessment Changes _ "Belated Time" | Must be Theirs "Free importation of liquor, os--:| Two important GOYietl;nmentd;nea- tensibly for domestic use, but really ' sures received committee endorsa for sale, is and has been since Janu-- , tion in the Ontaerio Legislature YQ?' ary 1 the chief obstacle in the way terday--Hon. Manning Doherty's of the enforcement of the Ontario bill to establish a system of rural Temperance Act.'" 1 credits in Ontario and Premier Just this one sentence had been Drury's assessment reform measure, uttered by the At'('rne{-(;e"df'_"al 0: which will compel Municipal Coun-- the Province on second reading o 5 his O.T.A. appeals amendment in | cils to enact such assessment re the Legislature last night, when ob-l forms as are indorsed by the people jections emanating from Opposition at the polis. members, first on one point and then' In the latter bill the Premier as-- on another, threw over until today sented to the demand of H. H. De-- the whole of the O'q'A'l?ebgo' M wart and members of the Opposi-- 1 _ opleet"" said_H. o n in tion that the process of initiation of Liberal Leader, "to my honorable t a 1 tricted : to friend attempting tonight to intro-- | such referendum be restr b?ll duce an argument upon questions | ratepayers, whereas his first Betl that are not at all relative, that he forth that on, a petition gigned by has chosen at this belated time to | 10 per cent. of municipal électors a' introduce with a view to shutt.ing' vote of the people should be taken off discussion upon the question of on assessment reform, the clause' the majority and minority reports of | | was amended to restrict such lnltla-l the Special Committee on O.'T.A&.'" | tory proceedings to "at least 10 per | Hon. Mr. Raney--I will not un-- |cent. of electors qualified to vote dertake hl ("S('U.\'Sing 'hls t)lll to (.'()n' | on money by-laWS." I fine myself absolutely to the sections ' Hon. George 8. Henry and Hon. G. of the 'hm. it is n unhnar(l-ufl |H. Ferguson vigorously -- protested proposition. It is an ax.nendmcnt to \against the provisions in Hon. Mr. the law, and it is my right, I think, Doherty's rural credits legislation, . to discuss the law, which permits of 20--year loans bb-, Promise of Premier. ing taken out'by farmers. Ten years, | J. C. Tolmie, Liberal member for in their opinion, was the longest Windsor, called the attention of the period for which such loans should House to the promise of the Gov-- be extended by the Province. -- Hon. ernment, made, he said, a month Mr. Henry ventured the opinion that ago. to fully discuss the issue of O. the average length of farming life in T. A. appeals before and separate rural districts did not exceed 20 from the general O.T.A. amend-- years, which meant that the farmer ments which it was pro-- taking advant?.ge of the offer was posed to bring down. In his conten-- taking upon himself a life burden. tion he was backed up by Hon. G. Hon. Mr. Ferguson maintained H. Ferguson, who said he clearly that loans for a shorter period, with remembered the promise, and J. W. right of renewal under specified Curry, S$.E. Toronto, who expressed conditions, were preferable, since it the opinion that at the time the would permit of loans being with-- Premier might not have fully un-- drawn within a reasonable period if derstood the import of the question' the borrower was not making pro-- which was asked of him by the per use of the money and keeping up member for Windsor (Mr. Tolmie). the security. Mr. Doherty thought "I have no clear recollection of the that with the shorter term the circumstances," said Hon. Mr.i farmer would be putting so much Drury. '"That happened, I believe, on away to pay off principle that he March 3. But I have every desire to would hold back on the purchase of play fair and I will withdraw this equipment necessary to properly de-- bill for the evening, and if there is velop his land. s no objection we will go on with the Mr. Ferguson also obJectegi to the édjourned debate on O.T.A. appeals." Government paying administration There was no objection--at least costs. The Minister, however, maad'e nobody voiced any at that time. it clear that after the new scherme Order Not on Record. gets on its feet solidly it will meet But Mr. Dewart and Opposition all its own costs. members did not know who ad-- m enc arancaaaan en iourned the debate away back on larch 3 or whose turn it was to con-- tinwe it, and while Mr. Dewart was hurriedly looking up the votes and proceedings to find out just where ; to begin there was much sarcastic laughter from Government members. Finally he found that A. C. Lewis, N.E. Toronto, had adjourned the de-- ~ bate, and Mr. Lewis was not in the House at the moment to take up P the discussion. But Mr. Dewart ex-- * ploded another mine under the Gov--| ernment when he dealared, "Mr.! Premier, the order is not on thel order paper. Under these cirecum-- stances I say the House should not 1 * s go on with it tonight." s Premier Drury accepted the point of order, declaring, however, that the discussion must g0 on to its termination tomorrow so as not to delay the passage of the "CO.T.A.'l : A Amendments Bill. "*'My own feeling is however," he commented, "that + § the discussion has served all useful + ends." | + Incidental to the brief but decid--| edly interesting proceedings was Mr.! x Dewart's rigid objection to the At-- $ torney--General's use of the word '"'pretext" in connection with the con-- tinuance of O.T.A. debates in one form and another, After much in-- sistence on the part of the Liberal Leader, Hon. Mr. Rarney said he would withdraw the word "if ' 4t made any material difference."