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| Premier Henry has incurred "severe censure," but Right Hon. Arthur Meighen has earned contempt for "the basest type of public treachery," it was contended in the Legislature {yesterday in commentary upon the respective positions of 'the two Ontario Power Service Corporation bond--holding statesmen. Henry Incurs Severe Censure in Power Transaction, But Stands Ground, Says Liberal Member in Legislature, While Senator "Turns Tail"--Gov-- ernment Morally Bound to Take Over Enterprise, Declares 8. C. Tweed -- "Walking Tickets" for Meighen Accused OfBase Treachery ByDbr. McQuibban POWER PURCHASE BILL IS PASSED IN STRAIGHT PARTY DIVISION This devastating irony and inference was cast at the former Dominion Prime Minister, now Government leader in the Senate Chamber--appointed, it was said at Ottawa, to be political executioner of former Senator Wilfred Laurier McDougald--by Dr. George A. McQuibban, Liberal member of the Legislature for Northeast Wellington, in discussing the bill to require the Ontario Power Service Corporation development. _ x o e n e Premier Henry had blamed no one, and had stood his ground to face the challengers; Mr. Meighen had blamed Mr. Henry, and had run away--had "turned tail, and shoved Premier Henry into the cannon's mouth," was the stinging comment by Dr. McQuibban yesterday in the debate which prficeded the passage of the O.P.S.C. development acquisition bill. Bill Passed on Party Vote. At 12.15 this morning the bill car-- ried by 74 to 18 on a straight party division. Three Liberal members were absent--Messrs. Tweed, Bragg and Elliott. Earlier in the day Mr. Tweed, a widely known insurance ex=-- ecutive, said the feeling in insurance circles was that Premier Henry had driven a hard bargain with the bond-- holders, that under the price paid by the Government these investors would lose 25 per cent. of their investment. Another feature was the statement of Mr. Tweed to the effect he be-- lieved "the Government was moraily bound to take over the undertaking._" | arhu-- BB cuaurd 4 Rumalinddt? 4 epepardtcirrs PRA NPA Leader, said he would never enter the offices of the Hydro Commission in search of information until he went there "with the walking--tickets of the present members of the Commission." _In criticism of the Government's power policy, H. C. Nixon, Progressive Senator Meighen's powers of ora-- tory. once raised, it was said by Dr. McQuibban, to "hush the roar of the busy turbines in Quebec." and his "soothing phrases uttered to merge with the no less silent turbines at Niagara," were now engaged in de-- fending Meighen. Meighen Defends Meighen. "No longer," Dr. McQuibban de-- clared, "can Meighen anocint the grateful brows of both Government and Hydro Commission. Mr. Meighen is defending Mr. Meighen from the same place in the Senate from which he uttered the cadaveric words which made a vacant seat in that Chamber and put an individual in the political morgue. He stands now to defend himself." Hydro Commissioners Foreseen by Nixon Dr. McQuibban held up to the spot-- light for analysis Senator Meighen's statement--*"The Government did all the negotiating for Abitibi Power Company acquisition without advice from the Commission"--with Premjer Henry's: "The matter was given seri-- ous thought by the Government and the Commission"; and concluded for himself: "There is not the slightest | doubt the Hydro Commission was fully ' aware of every step in the negoti-- | ations, and most properly so." I Act of Public Treachery. By the irony of fate, "the Power Barons are still on the stage and Mr. Meighen is in the cast. He is defend-- ing himself." Senator Meighen's "passing of t,hei buck to the Government," Dr. Mc-- Quibban condemned as "the basest type of public treachery." _ _ _ _ _ "The Premier of this Province," he continued, "has given to the public a full statement of his connections with the matter. He was not afraid to do it. In my judgment he has incurred severe censure in having any personal connection with this corporation in view of his position as Premier. But, he has faced the situ-- tion. -- (Conservative applause.) He does not blame Mr. Meighen. He doesn't blame anybody. "What of his henchman, who no doubt considers himself greater than his master? He turns tail and shoves the Premier into the cannon's mouth. He washes his hands on the conscience of his Premier. He throws him to the wolves." [ 42-- APN This constituted the day's main Op-- position assault upon 'the two out-- standing Conservative Party person-- ages under fire in the Government's Abitibi power development purchase transaction. It was delivered in the middle of the afternoon, and the re-- sponse from Henry Government Treas-- "I cannot understand," said Hon.! Mr. McCrea, when he reached thjs' point in his long address, "why he (Dr. ; McQuibban) should want to brand \Senator Meighen, or compare him with a certain Senator of the Liberal | Party (former Senator McDougald) .: Is there any comparison between; these two men? Here wWas Senator McDougald promoting & power plam,' making use of his political position to] advance his company's interest. And | yet he stands up in this House to com-- pare Senator Meighen with that sort of politician--Senator Meighen, who bought in 1931, before this tra.gsafi?ion ury benches did not come until the hands of the clock had passed 11 at night. Hon. Charles McCrea, Minister of Mines, was Ssei@cted IOf Un . WoK. His principal defense was for his chieftein, Premier George S. Henry, who, with but one intervening member, sat two benches to the right and ap-- peared, if anything, far more em-- barrassed by the defense than he had beefn by the earlier criticisms of him-- self, | "Why This Comparison?" Vn id 4hE o A i y w ces s i ie came near this Government, three trust bonds of $1,000 each. It is true, he is manager of several investment; companies who invested in these| bonds, which were regarded as invest-- ments in which trust funds could be made. Why this comparison? The Hon. Mr. Meighen has always played the game aboveboard, on the level His arswers are here before the House.: They speak for themselves. Is it & part of Liberal strategy in this Prov-- ince, realizing just what the Beauhar-- nois situation has been, knowing it will stink and stink and stink, that they try to make it appear to the people of the Province of Ontario that something of the same kind has hap-- pened in the Liberal--Conservative Party? _ "Well, they cannot make that state-- ment, because that hasn't happened." Then, taking up cudgels on Premier Henry's behalf, Hon. Mr. McCrea dis-- puted the application by Progressive 'Lea.der Harry Nixon of Mr. Asquith's Parliamentary principles laid down on £ o oR the occasion of the Marconi transac-- tion, involving two members of the British House. Did the House under-- stand the Marconi transaction? asked the Minister of Mines. Certain mem-- bers became interested indirectly in speculative shares which might be in-- fluenced by the negotiations carried on by the Government. Sees No Analogy. "Mr. Henry," he said, WIUN mou-l sands of other investors in Ontario, jin 1930 purchased these bends. He| didn't purchase any bunds or enga.ge1 in any business whatsoever involving this deal since he became Prime Min--. ister. There is no analogy or com-- parison between the Marconi facts and the facts here in the Province of On-- tario." And he went on to admit that he sometimes wondered what public men got out of their public service, why they entered it, and why they reé-- mained to reap the abuse that from time to time was heaped upon them. Speaking for himself, he presumed the maxim that "virtue is in its own re-- lward." perhaps, played a part in his fortitude. He quoted Gray's Elegy as a prelude to the portrayal of Premier 14 L l DL c ennrlenar WBP fhlw BP iA Cc aaenl inss ABRRIALLNIAAF! Henry as the farmer plowboy who or-- ganized a milk company, then became school trustee, Councillor, Warden, Legislature representative, and finally Prime Minister of the Province. "And I reach the conclusion," he said, "that every one who knows George Henry will have reached: that he learned to plow & straight and a clean furrow, that in his negotiations with this deal he had not swerved one iota from the path of duty. _ As nointed out by the member to; Wh:tes- & q0 0o3 L. uamm nA _ loo (Mr. Tweed had expressed bond-- holding insurance @gpfipfifiicgfivx £AUEVERLAR, ARENNESCEREMN C UA CaoS tions, that Premier Henry had driven a hard bargain), the feeling was that he (Mr. Henry) had pushed thg bo;t'x'd- U pUxsLICU _ 0°" e holder, that selected for the task. had treated "with thou-- Hon. | this ' : (Dr. rand him ator ant, l n to j And |