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"The Province of Ontario will do anything within its power to main-- tain the right of appeal, particu-- larly in constitutional matters," ne said. "The province is not so much concerned with the right of appeal in private cases. We are, however, very much concerned that the right of appeal to the Privy Council on constitutional questions, and par-- ticularly in issues arising between the Dominion and the province or between the provinces, may be finally adjudicated by the Privy Council." Yesterday Attorney--General Gor-- don Conant announced that, should the Supreme Court ratify the measure, the Ontario government might carry the matter to the Privy Council for a final ruling. So strongly is the Ontario govern-- ment opposed to abolition of appeals to the Privy Council, it may itself appeal to that body in an effort to | prevent the Dominion Government passing such a bill which is now' receiving consideration at Ottawa. The bill, sponsored by Hon. C.. H. Cahan, former secretary of state, | has received first reading in the | House of Commons, and has been' endorsed in substance by Hon. Ernest Lapointe, Minister of Jus--. tice. The minister, however, recent--| ly announced that the measure would be referred to the Supreme Court of Canada for a ruling. Hepburn Government Will Do Everything in Its Power to Prevent Abolition of Legal Step, Conant Says ONTARIO WANTS | BEER PARLORS PRIVY APPEAL : RUINING YOUTH, Hepburn Government Wil! M [ A DFECLARES BACKS HEPBURN ONC.1.0. Young People's Health Will Be Gone by Age of 35, Says T. P. Murray, 'Sage of Barry's Bay 'T, P. Murray, Liberal member for Renfrew South, took a sharp rap at the beverage rooms of Ontario during a Budget debate address last night to the Legislature. When the young people who are drinking now reach the age of thirty--five and "the bloom is off," then they will be after the government for their health, he said. The '"Sage of Barry's Bay," who said he drank more liquor when he was fourteen than in any year since, had a change of heart after being "dragged or pushed" into a beverage room in London not long ago. He saw "handsome young men and women" there who would be *"no good in this world or the next" when they were thirty--five, he believed. "If I were a dictator I think I would take half the men out of the depths of the gold mines and put them on top of the earth looking after the forests," said Mr. Murray, in connection with his reforesta-- tion ideas. He believed the forests woluld prove to be of more worth than the mines. The Conservative Government put the beer on the table and the Lib-- erals pulled the cork and got all the blame for the beverage rooms, he said. "It is high time Ontario got wise and cut out some of the liquor." "I started to drink liquor when I was twelve years old," the still hale and hearty veteran -- said. "Working on the railroad when I was fourteen I drank more liquor than I've drank in any year since." He could still take liquor next to any man, he added, but he didn't believe in it. Mr. Murray pleged his support to the Premier on the C.I.0O. labor question. The Province should have a tribunal strong enough to settle a strike in any town in an honest manner so men would not have to break the law to get their rights, he said. "Some will tell you," he added, "that the poisonous vapors of the East Hastings by--election blighted the trees in that area, but if they're wrong and it proves to be the dis-- ease I think it is, then we are going to have a fight on our hands." Mr. Murray criticized county and municipal councils for passing on their problems to the Federal and Provincial Governments. --"If "they are going to refuse to do anything for themselves then we can do without them," he said. "I am sorry to say this here, but it is too bad that the different gov-- ernments in Canada are not show-- ing more co--operation." APRIL 19 "It is hard to believe that patron-- age in this province has ever reach-- ed the vicious level of today," he said. "I doubt if 'even the Prime Minister knows what is going on. Even when a man wants to get a job on road work at 35 cents an hour he has to produce his Liberal membership card." Mr. Elgie accused the administra-- tion of misleading the people of Ontario in the matter of automobile Insurance rates. When the Liberal Government took away the right of passengers to sue automobile drivers for damages as the result of motor accidents, he said, the plea had been that insurance rates would be raised unless the step were taken. And yet, he added, in spite of this there had been a 20 per cent in-- crease in rates on March 31, 1937, and a similar increase in February of 1938. Quoting a statement made by Colonel F. Fraser Hunter in the Legislature, Monday, to the effect that political contacts were needed to get an appointment to the Onta-- rio Provincial Police force, Mr. Elgie roundly attacked the patron-- age system. "There weren't any Liberals around Hamilton getting jobs prior to 1934," interjected John Newlands {Lib., Hamilton Centre). "Well, there are plenty of them now," was the reply. "Surely the welfare of our unem-- ployed is something bigger than personal feuds," he said. The Toronto member also criti-- cized the government for failing to act promptly on the offer of the Dominion Government to pay dollar for dollar on municipal public works undertaken as relief meas-- ures. The Premier, he charged, re-- fused to accept the offer without giving any mature consideration to the question. "It should not be possible to bring down a budget that leaves room for doubt. as to whether this province had a surplus or a deficit," he said. "What is most needed is a simplified form of budget that will get out revenues, expenditures and debt in such a manner that it gives &A true picture." Public Unconvinced. The man on the street, Mr. Elgie said, was not convinced that the government had shown the surplus indicated, since the surplus had been achieved by spending money ear--marked for reduction of the highway debt. Continuing the debate on the budget address, Mr. Elgie expressed disappointment in the province's showing in the past year. He de-- plored the fact that the government had brought down a budget which "nobody in the House except the treasury benches--and only half of them--can understand." Concentrating his attack on the Ontario Government's failure to cope with relief problems, Goldwyn Elgie (Con., Toronto--Woodbine) climaxed a long recital in the Legis-- lature yesterday of Liberal short-- comings by charging that patron-- Aage under the present administra-- tion had "reached a peak of vicious-- ness undreamed of in the past." SPEECH ON BUDGET Woodbine Conservative M.L.A. Claims Liberal Membership Card Neces-- sary for Petty Laboring Job PATRONAGE HITS VICIOUS PEAK, ELGIE CHARGES