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PREMER MAY PLUC _ 'papracKS ASSAULT _ INFEORMATION LEAKS --supygct of DERATE $100,000 sum mMissING? y ro-- d e n Ria. Pt';:os%r:sbsc;nf pmflfiz?ueflvs Attorney--General Will Dis ca_ yesterday in the Legislature against such articles going first to the press before the information was supplied to the House. Mr. Raeney sald that from (Government officials Alluding to a published report in a Toronto evening paper of alleged defalcations in several branches of the Government administration, Hon. Manning W. Doherty, Farmer Leader. and Hon. W. E. Raney (U.F.O., East Wellington) protest-- ed yesterday in the Legislature had gone out information the whole tenor of which had been to cast dis-- credit on the former Government. _ The story referred to states that @Gefalcations totalling ©$100,000 are expected to be revealed. It is said 'the defalcations have been revealed ,in the Nyorthern Developments \ Branch of sums up to $5,000. The ;Lands and Forests Department also is saidl to be included in the dis-- | coveries. It is said that several mo-- | tor--marker agents have not yet ' made complete returns of moneys | collected by them a year ago. j Premier Ferguson said the former Government had got into the habit of permitting offlcials to make an-- nouncements of policy. The present liovernment proposed to decidie for itsoelf and give out declarations of policy through Ministers and not through officials. Proceeding, he said that only a short time ago, in the Attorney--General's Department, there had been arranged a round-- up of the bootleggers of the Prov-- ince, but there was a leak some-- where in the service, information went to the newspapers and an ar-- ticle appeared in a morning paper and the quarry disappeared. He in-- timated that the Government was trying to find out who was supplying unauthorized information. The Premier said that unfortu-- nately there had been definite dis-- closures of this type--as reported in the article Mr. Doherty referred to---- where there were defalcations, but adjustments were being made in most cases, often by members of the families. The defendant was not available in some cases, he said. _ of Alleged Defalcations ves c'as/" feb. 2 6"> CURRIE REVIEWS CASE "So far and so long as I am the Attorney--General of this Province I shall endeavor to the utmost of my ability to discourage the promiscuous use of the lash," said Hon. W. F. Nickle, in the Legislature yesterday, in speaking in reply to John A. Cur-- rie (Conservative, Southwest Toron-- to), who protested against the civil authorities interfering in the Stan-- ley Barracks alleged assault case in the way they did. Thinks Lash Archalc. Mr. Nickle said that, to his mind, the lash was archaic; it emacked of the Middle Ages, and was not bene-- ficial,. When the law endeavored to punish an imprisoned man merely for the purpose of creating pain, then the punishment, instead of be-- ing reformatory, became an act of vengeance, said the Attorney--Gen-- eral, and imade the individual, when he returned to society, more unsocial than when originally deprived of his liberty. Mr. Currie, in reviewing the Stan-- ley Barracks case, said that such matters were covered by the Army Act, and that it was unprecedented in British procedure for the --civil authorities to step in in a barrack-- room case----unless in case of murder ----and, moreover, that the procedure followed had been wrong, and that the men were not properly before the Toronto Police Court. Not Beyond Civil Law. The Attorney--General said he did not accept that interpretation of the law, and declared that he was not prepared to admit the doctrine that a crime committed in barracks was beyond the purview of the civil law. He regretted that Judge Denton's question to one of the prisoners as to how he would like to receive lashes as it was alleged he had in-- fAicted them -- was interpreted as meaning that the Judge intended to punish by the lash. courage Promiscuous Use of Lash C¥ | _ --"(1). Has the -- Attorney--General given instructions for an appeal to the Judicial -- Committee of the Privy Council in the cases of the Home Bank directors? (2) What '\are the points involved in the ap-- ipeal? (3) Is the Attorney--General objecting to the trial of the cases in lques'tion by a Judge? (4) If so, iwhy? (5) If an appeal is being taken, when does the Attorney--Gen-- eral anticipate it will be heard? (6) Has the Attorney--General given consideration to the importance, from the point of view of the ad-- ministration of justice, of an early trial of these cases? (7) Has the Attorney--General given -- considera-- tion to the desirability of a trial of these cases before a tribunal as free as pos@ible from prepossessions and prejudices? (8) Has the Attorney-- General given consideration to the provisions of Section 1025 of the 'Criminal Code of Canada forbid-- ding appeals in criminal cases from any judgment or order of any court in Canada to the Judicial Commit-- tee of the Privy Council? (9) Is it the opinion of the Attorney--Gen-- eral that the Gefendants are less \likely to get a fair trial before a Judge than before a Judge and Places Nine Q ues t io ns on Order Paper of Legislature RANEY IS INTERESTED IN HOME BANK AFFAIR Hon. W. E. Raney (U.F.O., East Wellington) has placed the follow-- ing questions on the order paper of the Legislature: jury ? m*+