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Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 24 Mar 1923, p. 3

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_ . ":r"Cdct7'c",iisMsC,'?"' . ' i"""'"------.. ., '....c.'.,e'." . r..- _ . - . a E ".1 _ - . f - Tire, OBSERVE T, (ll,iii!, _;',,! " ill. i . (1.- nt 2.]; I Q A MII! Ill? - t' I cu " I atiil ' IN QUEEN s PARIS tlifilE = ti 2tt, l, 7'5" ax;tq "I! ', l, -. l Tho process of educating the ties on P.R. has been badly loos-i (rank and file of the U.F.O. mem- ened, and once lagalin She Clonservwi hersh . lives are than tu t ey ave no .tion 1?th proportional representa- platform, though it must be isiatedl ito the ascoming most discouraging the latter would exchange nearly} : voting Igocates of that system ot everything they have it they could subject h or If!" weeks now the find something to agree upon as a ment "was een before Govern- liquor policy. When not worrying be learn I'.'"",',' and, from what can, over their own troubles. the ii,iiirjj) nearer tM ' an agreement is no ers spend some time speculating on ' and the hope tor a unanl-t the future of the Liberals. One otl, PJ?.e,'U/.y,ltyy'yt is abandoned. Soi, them who is noted for his shrewd- emphatic have been the ?..te1e.t,ti ness made this observation the 'l/e,trtt, P.R. that the Government) other day: "Wellington Hay is a £5 tateg to 81"9 any leadership tor: good fellow and a good mixer, and . , present, feeling that many 0t] we, often wonder why he doesn't 1iittJ.o11owers cannot be whipped into'; take those Liberals ot his and intro- . . I ducc them to each other." [ In this connection the lessonsl ? learned this week as a result of the f This Bill staughtoredo ( Casselman protest against the' The House yesterday got through' Adolescent School Attendance Act'considerable business of a routine! are not being forgotten. Premierlnature before it broke up about Dr?" only a few weeks ago stated] 4.30 for want ot a quorum. . One definitely to a delegation that Mal bill was killed amidst general re- Casselman's bill giving a hoist to jolcing. . Karl Homuth (Labor, the Adolescent School Aa,t,trtii,1d,1tiattii'si,liiiii1,t',l, Waterloo) asked second Act would never pass. True, the reading for a measure to regulate bill will never pass. but Mr. Cassel~l public automobile garages and serv- man s Ohiects are attained bY, ice stations. The bill was intended amendments to the act as promised) to license motor mechanics. and! by the Minister ot Education. The) provided for their examination he-I explanation accepted in Legislature) fore a competent board. By almost'; circles is that the Government; unanimous consent the work of backed down owing to pressure or, slaughtering'the legislation was left] rura1oplnion. It is now freely Dre-i in the competent hands of R. L.) dicted that the same pressure Will; Brackin (Liberal, West Kent), whol be exerted against P.R. l is a personal friend ot Mr. Homuth. [e Many U.P.O. members look at; Mr. Brackin did quite a good job in the proportional representation: a short space of time. He said the issue in this manner. They say it) measure was to make "more attrac- is difficult enough now to get out! tive highway robbery," and that it V tho vote, hut the task would bei, would let loose "another corps of many times harder through a com- sin-hounds to pursue the people," plicated system of polling such as and that it was time "to stop pes- they see P.R. to be. Agrarian) tering the public with fool regula- members. too, are admittedly sue-t tions." Four members. Homuth. vicious of some of those ardent per-' Swayze, Greenlaw and 'ar'l'llkr'i',l sons who have been lobbying so formed the only support the meas-i persistently in the interests ot RR. ure could get. and it will not be: gems mtembgrs adoptI a stiff old heard from for at least a year. I I . ory a titu e towar these P.R. i advocates. calling them fanatics Mr. Raney's Misfortune. I and extremists and faddists with as Hon. Mr. Raney pressed for Bee- much vigor as the apostles of the ond reading for his Blue Sky,1egis- old National Policy exhibit when lation-that is, the measure respect-; anything gets beyond last century. ing the sale of securities. Hon.l The Farmers undoubtedly have re-I George Henry, who was leading the sented the persistent efforts of the Conservatives, objected on the past few weeks to change the time- ground that Charles McCrea, Sud- honored marking of the ballot to bury, desired to speak, and Mr. Me.) that of selection. If Mr. Drury in- Crea could not be present. Mr. slots on living up to the U.F.0. plat- Henry claimed the bill affected form on P.R. he is sure to have a New Ontario more particularly, and merry family quarrel on his hands that Mr. McCrea should be heard. --a quarrel which is likely to get Reluctantly Mr. Raney and the. beyond the secrecy of the caucus Premier gave consent. with the. room, and be aired In the House. understanding that it come up on In view of this situation, the feel- Monday. in; is growing that a more sweep- Next the Attorney-General tried ing redistribution measure is com- to get second reading for his bill ing than was generally thought a respecting the registration of guests month ago, when all the changes at standard hotels. Among other were to be confined to Toronto. The things, this bill would make it; Premier is strongly desirous of illegal for a guest to register under playing fair. eren though some of an assumed name. Mr. Raney's his followers would sooner play efforts with this measure met with safe. RR. and the single transfer- discouragement. It was Friday able vote. perhaps at first only as afternoon, and the trains were pull- an experiment. were in line with his ing out for home, and, one by one, ideas of playing fair. It he sees the members disappeared until Hon. he cannot carry the big majority of Thomas Crawford and John Joynt his party in this contention he may informed the Speaker in almost the swing over to some sort ot redistri- same breath that the House had no, bution bill. He may do this against quorum. ' l . the definite conclusion he reached __________.__..___ F before the session opened to let,Arrest Geo. Glttmora. redistribution go until next session and then tackle the problem from 0 . what he characterized as "a scien- George . . tific basis." . nue, r The platform of two political par- noor MP o-------------"""'"""""-"'"-"""'"""""""""" . .

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