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DEFENDED BY CONANT wild with charges and expenses. :r'ause we have passed from -- the w m mm mm "They were given a swindle horse--and--buggy stage to an era Of' Hon. Leopold Macaulay, yesterday theet," said he, "and they made use | gasoline buggies that is no reason | i c in the Ontario Legislature, lashed of it to the fullest extent. Now we why we should feel our forefathers out at Government leaders whom @re going to stop the practice." \knew nothing." he held, were responsible for thé' ':I agree with you," said Oppo-! The Minister of Health, Hon. '°ma}\har;dling" of the report of the + gition Leader Macaulay, "but whorei Harold J. Kirby, claimed that the Legislature Legal Bills Committ you have an instance of abuse like | present Cemeteries Act, with its set-- eg_h d & t 'th T 'Pef this you can stamp it out." 'up commissions, was a dead act.l (:\,ltt e amenoment 140 L6 ru"eef "This sort of abuse obtained over | The benefits accruing from its earl T 4 ; --| the whole Province," said Mr. Hep--| operation had vanished, said he}j en eomnitLen, ho poinled ol burn. \and -- counties were complaining sat Tuesday when members SuDporis | Mr. Macaulay submitted that the against the high charges assessed ed an amendment io the nil and cemetery boards, as appointed in against them by the commissions left the committee room on the un-- 1931, had done good work, and if and their officials, His depart-- flerstanding that law clerks of the they were to be set aside, as the| mental staff had recommended an Legisiature would incorporate the | Government _ proposes, provision immediate change of conditions amendment in the bill for presenta--| should be made in a separate bill| Attorney--General Conant mod{-- tion to the House. from the Department of Health. In-- fied the bill to the extent of ren-- "Yesterday, in the House, I saw | stead,. said he, the Government had dering its provisions inapplicable to a most unconstitutional procecding | provided for the abolition in a cemeteries which in the depart-- when notices were sent around to | lengthy amendment to the Statute| ment's opinion were being adminis. members of the committee, recon-- Law Amendment Act. The principle| tered by municipal councils in a vening the committee after the nilll was all wrong, he added. The pro-- satisfactory manner. Premier Hep-- had been dealt with and reported posed legislation should stand over| burn admitted that little respect to the House." he said. "I say here and the Minister of Health should was being shown for the country's and now there is no power held by + further study the cemeterics situa-- ancestors, but consideration also the Government not to report the tlon. | should be given, he said, by the bill once it was dealt with by com-- "I havg travelled up and down | present generation to those coming mittee or to reconsider it." this Province," said he, "and I have after it. Mr. Macaulay claimed bluntly that if reports of committees are not to be given consideration, "Let < I the Attorney--General and the Prime r'ze u s nsurance Minister settle it--what legislation P is to be passed in this House." | _ Mr. Macaulay's protest was made <5 < ' A |as Ian Strachan (Liv., St. George) $5 ooo o es +° e .C. 1presented his report on the second $ I meeting of the committec, which ve-- Mae * turned, in effect, the same report as ti4k & & it did the preceding day. | Millihills Hansom, the most wnd.e- Attorney--General Conant, rising ly discussed bull of all Ontario in reply, held that the amendments | election campaigns, which died yes-- suggested Tuesday were rather of| terday at Guelph, was insured to the a "sketclhy na;ur'f." an(;l ;nt'r:'?lfle{c: | s i to the law clerks and himsel ' tt..ne of $5,000, 'ar.d that insurance draft the amendment. He claimed will be paid over to the Ontario the amendment as proposed was un-- Agricultural College, in spite of the workable in the light of legal inter-- fact that the $15,000 purchase price | pretation and application, and that > of the animal was put up by a con?equently dthie t%':m&;'gzezf :;"')5 M ; 3 again convened in * group of philanthrqpxc citizens in ducing an amendment more capable no way connected with the Govern-- of being placed into law. ment. Premier Hepburn formally an-- nounced the celebrated bull's death to the Legislature yesterday after-- noon, and accompanied his jocular "obit" remarks with the presentation s to A. Hollis Acres (Cons., Carleton) of a small bottle of beef extract as adequate souvenir of the high re-- gard of the beast for the man. Mr., Acres, for two years now, has beer.' a most persistent critic of the bull's purchase, and on different occasions / in the House's past, almost came to blows with Hon. Duncan Marshall. ; then Minister of Agriculture and the man who bought the animal in | * Scotland. | Mr. Hepburr: said that the bull's | death had been attributed to "acute' gastritis," but he implied that when | deceased saw the legislators who | Inspected him at the O.A.C. a week ago, he had decided there was simply no further need for him "on this sphere" and had subsequently,t kicked in. Mr. Acres, whose Legislature desk was draped with crepe and a pot of petunias, confessed, that as one of the inspecting legislators, he had casually passed his hand over Mill-- hills Ransom's broad back, but whether that had anything to do with the "prize baby's" demise he was not in a position to say. I