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Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 23 Mar 1937, p. 4

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March 23 f N ce m mm ns s % TO END LABOR For Drunken Drivers @memmmememmmmmmmmmunmmmmses R ) " Opposition Co--operates in Offenders May Be Treated Traditional Last--Minute at Ontario Hospital in ' Pre--Easter Sprint Whitby, States Attorney-- sumsrrccmesonse General Roebuck SCHOOL TAX DEBATE , amareriti t deedkr e Gee e h iererite e t * Automobile owners who persist 1 M b+; ; in drinking and driving even The Conservative Opposition will o co--operate with the Hepburn Gov-- though convictions for drunken ernment in a determined effort to driving have been registered -- wind up the business of the &937 against them, should be committed | Legislature -- session -- some ime % 3 | Thursday or early Friday morning. :'Zc ;i':'s:it:';?':_sg o::lhe:\fret"'w!i,n nt':z ! Former Premier Henry expressed & j his willingness to expedite matters opinion of Attorney--General l toward a pre--Easter conclusion when Arthur Roebuck. Prime Minister Hepburn promised | At the opening of the Legislature f ".'","bi,","','fl",f',.p',.';'}dt'{,'fi 1%3;2:;,:3;:' yesterday Mr. Roebuck demanded | ('z]xc:l lt*gifila'ion.-fli'st thing this after-- that George H. Challies (Cons., Dun-; noon. das--Grenville) withdraw charges he j The debate on this bill, and con-- is alleged to have made that Premier' sideration of the Government's gstl- Hepburn had a d.runken driver sent | mates for the forthcoming fiscal to a mengal hospital bec_au§e he had year, are practically the only un-- crashed into the Premier's car. 1 finished business apt to furnish Four Convictions. | any serious snags. Tne House will He termed the Conservative mem--| sit morning, afterncon and night, ber's charge "totally unjust, untrue | with committees sitting concurrent. and unwarranted," and produced in MXE IILLRA. to a Government measure establish-- \'Thomas Rutledge, a driver recently | ;gzahn iron ore bounty of twogents convicted of dru'nken driving and| a unit. Wilfrid Heighington ';mon;: of hitting Premier Hepburn's car. St. David) suggested the the From 1929 to 1935 this driver had stood over ""';"Efiggfio},',""cg;'mifi been convicted four times of éirivingl | \Privileges an while drunk, the Attorney--Genera iee has reported on the charges read from the record. After review-- :nade bif the Prime Minister .i'b.eimlt ing the man'si r:cord, N(Iiag,:?tm:e s, former Liberal, Keith had decided to sen m to W lf' .QPc' ?A?:?'f:.t The request fell -- the Ontario Hospital at Whitby for .s:udea.f ears, however. F | six mopths. Mr Roel?uck.dfc(llare(z. | ird reading was also given to| = The Prime Minister, he pointed out, | Th"i) vid A. Croll's legisiation to : had not attended the trial. }fAWin af municipal taxation im« Mr. Roebuck termed the Whitby d oven r:)cm made to homes under Hospital a place where a man might pmvte;me?n.ion housing scheme. Mr. receive the "gold cure," although vt(':'r%u OTnnounced hfs department © [he said it was not officially recogniz-- tify assessors suggesting { ed as being such an institution. would notify a Mr. Challies withdrew the charges | other lm;g'ovel:llents ben:ex:ér;gteuolll's he had made concerning the action, co s :a:-n'flesn'i-y. constituted an invitation Premier. ' 'to the assessors "to violate their w f oath." PR ' No such letter will be sent out, p f Premier Hepburn announced after ' he had called Mr. Croll into brief ' | consultation. | 1 M.L.A.'s Face 4 _ Speech Curb Forty--Minute Limit, Except for Leaders, Proposed + to Legislature Imposition of a forty--minute closure on all speeches except those of the Government and Opposition leaders, or members formally desig-- nated by either side to reply to the & leaders, has been recommended to the Ontario Legislature by the special committee that is now pre-- | paring a new set of rules of pro-- | cedure, ' | Shortening of the present prayers, « v | which now include both Angiican f and Presbyterian supplications, and ; § are much longer than those read in the House of Commons, is also + under discussion t

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