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CLAIMS LENNOX IS “WELSHING”’ Committee Hears Who Used Words “Debauching Brit- ish Columbia”’ —_———_ HAVERSON TELLS STORY Matters relating to the now fa-| mous $40,000 liquor shipment of the United Shippers seized by the On-| tario License Board were gone over’! by the Public Accounts Committee of the Legislature yesterday, with J. I’. Haverson, K.C., mentioned by T. Jt. Lennox, K.C., in his charges, as_ witness. Mr, Haverson, in an hour's testi- | 2nony on the stand, made it ciear to} the committee that the reference about “debauching British Colum- bia’ in connection with the suggest- ed release of the liquor for transpor- | iation to that Province was made! hy himself, and not by Chairman | Hales of the License Board, or the! Attorney-General, as charged by Mr. iennox. The company, he said, did not want the liquor sent on to the United States, where it would be con- traband goods. JAquor Twice Seized. Mr. Haverson explained the his- tory of. the shipment, already thresh- ed out in the House, and told of his appeal to the License Board after the case had been before the court. There was a compromise between the Government and the company, and subsequently a second seizure in November. On January 3 Mr. Hales communt- cated with Mr, Haverson that the License Board would release the liquor if it were sent to British Co- ljumbia. Mr. Haverson, in a letter io one of the principals of the com- pany, gave notification of the condi- ion that was attached; namely, that none of the liquor would be sold ‘legally. Mr. averson, however, Hales could not be Ss hat (Mr. Se aan that some of this liquor would not. come back to. Ontario, . Hall—Did Mr. Hales tell you ix gum the liquor to British Colum- bia? A.—Yes, he did. Mr. Hall—tI understood that the other day he said he didn’t. Mr. Ferguson and Mr. “Lennox both expressed the opinion that Mr. ‘Hall’s last § Mr, Hales. tatement was unfair to) ‘United States Taboo. Mr. Haverson, in further state- ment, said that the only places the | department would consider sending, the liquor te were Quebec and Brit- | ish Columbia. The United States, he said, was taboo, an attitude on the part of the authorities which he did not quite understand, Mr. Raney—lIs it true that you said that the Attorney-General would let fyvou have the liquor if you would ship it to debauch the citizens of British Columbia? A.—WNo, it is not true, : The Attorney~General alluded to Mr, Lennox’s promise to resign if hig statements were not substantiated, and accused him of now ‘‘welshing’’ on his statements. Said Mr. Lennox iin reply: ‘‘You will welsh when the people get a chance at you. ... Tf that sentence about debauching is’ quoted as Mr. Hales’, it is not true. if‘_t is quoted as mine, it is true.” Shown Mr. Lennox’s statements in, ‘he House, Mr. Haverson said they! were not exactly correct. “They vere not willing to give back the liquor,”* he said, “and the best proof is that they didn’t.” Might. Benefit British Columbia? Mr. Lennox—Unless it was ship-| ped to British Columbia? Mr, Haverson—That’s it, Mr. Lennox—If you had accepted | the last chance they offered you of} shipping that liquor to British Co- | lumbia, everything’ would have been | all right? A.—I guess so. “And you would have been de- bauching the people of British Co- ‘tumbia?” asked Mr. Hall. A.—lIt night have benefited British Colum- bia. H. H. McCutcheon, prominently rnentioned by Mr, Lennox in his. charges against the department, was ‘present to give evidence, but the committee decided to hear him next sitting. Before Mr. Haverson appeared the committee listened to the testimony of Messrs. G. B. and L, B. Rochester of Ottawa, two of the cullers who, under their father, cruised the Shev- lin-Clarke timber areas for the Gov- ernment. Under examination of the Conservative members, both admit- ted that they hed not had any con- stderable experience in the work be- fore they undertook this jub, FRIDAY, MAY _ 5, Hon. Mr. Nixon Adverse to! Further Extension of Franchise EARLIER DEER HUNTING Despite the plea of Hon. G. H. 4 Ferguson and members of the nen | Servative party for the extension of | ‘the principle of Hon. H. C. Nixon’s | Voters’ Act amendment to in- dividuals assessed on income, the most they could get from the Min- | ister was a promise of careful con- sideration. The measure, ag given second reading last evening, extends the municipal franchise to the wife or husband of persons “rated or en- titled to be rated” as owner or , tenant of the amount of property: necessary to qualify as a voter. Hon. Mr.. Ferguson was inclined to think the result of the amend- ment would be to increase the num- ber of voters in rural sections, where the majority of families were rated as landowners. Hon. Mr. Nixon, in promising consideration to the sug- gested further extension of the act, said that it was considered a rather radical step that was being taken, and that sufficient alteration was being made for the present. Before going into supply for the balance of the night, the House gave second reading also to Hon. Harry Mills’ measure advancing the deer /hunting season in the district north of the G.T.R. main line fifteen days, and twenty days in the area north-. west of the French and Mattawa Rivers.