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TUESDAY. APRIL. H1, Toronto Member Rebuffed by Provincial Treasurer o f * | _ Mr. Dewart said he understood on Questions About $15,-- [ xtr. Smitiy nad satd' on Friday that 000,000 Loan and Where ' the questions put to the Provincial , 6¢ | Treasurer would be answered on | Money for General Pur' + ¢ } Monday. He wanted to know if the' 2» * *' Provincial Treasurer was going to" poses" Is Going to Be | angwer theim. U sed I Had Different Idea. { me--cconeimeccmikemis | Mr. Smith retorted he did not 66 »3 | understand that Mr. Dewart on Fri--| STRIV[NG IN DARK? | day had accepted his offer to answer | ASKS MR DEWART ! the questions on Monday, so he «Mr.' * | Smith) had paid no more attention | wonesmmmme mm mm t | to them. . However, if Mr,. Dewart . io | | placed the questions on the order Another sharp clash took place inl; | paper they would be answered. the Legislature yesterday between | ! _ _ The Toronto member retorted thag Hon. Peter Smith, Provincial Treas-- | & he took exception to the attitude of urer, and H. H. Dewart, K.C., South-- | the Pll;ovinclal 'I;reaeurer. tl?e had | | brought up a reference to the mat-- west Toronto, respecting q"°°"°"s; ter at the earliest possible moment put by Mr. Dewart on Friday about | he could, and he had learned from ! the Provincial loan of $15,000,000, | the Provir}cial Treasurer that about | which was advertised for the first iie'ghtt milhon? of the loan were go.-- ) o t & | ing to general purposes. | time that day. Mr. Dewart wanted | . __ "If there is any definite purpose | an answer to the questions he put | ® 'the .Government has in mind we ;on Friday and the upshot was that . # shoulél know, or; we shquild kpowhit, Mr. Smith told him he would | the Government, is striving in. the { is i { answer the questions when he was M'l'.'fl--w'-'i'--"& 'prepared to answer them,