Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 13 Apr 1922, p. 3

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--WILL NOT JUMP _ ATPARTY'S WHIP _ _ W. H. Casselman, the independent-- minded U.F.O. member for Dundas, who within recent days has opposed the Government upon Chippawa in-- vestigation and Dairy Standards Act issues, put it squarely up to the Government yesterday as to whether ho would any longer retain a seat among the T. F. O. stalwarts. _ The Government, through the Premier, hastened.to assure him that his pres-- ence was stil} welcome and desirable. W. H. Casselman Offers to «_ Move From Government Benches An act that will require the Work-- men's Compensation Board to adopt the rating system was -- introduced into the Legislature yesterday by J. C. Toimie, Liberal member for Winda-- sor. He explained that the bill was to give protection by encouraging the manufacturer to take additional precautions on 'behalf of his work-- men by a rating system which would encourage the manufacturer to put in all safety devices that are known. A penalty would be attached to manufacturers that did not do so. It meant that the Workmen's Compen-- sation Board would 'be required to awdopt a rating system instead of leaving it optional as at present, he Mr. Casselman moved the adjourn-- ment of the Legislature before the orders of the day yesterday in order to state his position., He said that the amendment of the Minister of Agriculture to the Ferguson resolu-- tion on the Chippawa investigation had placed independent--minded Gov-- ernment members in. the position of voting tor Royal Commission inves-- tigation of Chippawa or else voting want of confidence in the Govern-- ment. ' women, he said, had been paid by{ Inspector Hammond, and the rec-- ords showed such payments. These women, he said, swore in court that in order to get convictions at the places where they were sent by the Government they had drunk liquor. + "If this Government expects ser-- vile support," he proceeded; '"if it expects me to answer to the, crack 6f the party whip, as against my own convictions, I want to say I am tem-- peramentally unfitted to _be a follower of this Government, and if my presence on this side is in any way objectionable, then 1 am quite content to occupy a seat anywhere elsse, where I can exercise my right, as the representative of Dundas, without feseling 1 am responsible to anybody except my constituents." M. M. MacBride, South Brant, ask. ed if a fair--wage clause was put in contracts for highway work. Hon. F. C. Biggs repliecd that all highway contracts let by the department had J. C. Tolmie Wants More Pre-- cautionary Measures in Industry Premier Drury arose, and in brief remarks, unheard from<the gallery, deprecated any idea of the member for Dundas moving his seat, It might be, said Mr. Lennok, that the Attorney--General was not aware of conditions existing in his department, but if that were true h* should no longer occupy the position of Attorney--General. -- '"You, sir, knew, or you ought to have known, that these men--all of whom are & menace to society, paid out of the Provincial Treasury, labelled by you as representing justice--were going throughout the Province en-- forcing the O.T.A. Magistrates were afraid to disbelieve the evidence of these criminals and these felons!" ' _ The one regarding the University of 'Toronto is as follows: !__*"Resolved, that the Rockefeller Founda-- tion pledge itself to appropriate the sum of one million dollars to the University of Toronto for general endowment of -- the Medical Department upon condition that the University carry out a program of de-- velopment including the following items , to be provided from funds other than those 'cgntrlbutod 'by'}:let Roc;koteller Foundation : (1) a new institute of. anatomy (approxi-- mately $500,000); (2) an addition to the athological --_ laboratory (ap'roxlmntoly §200.008); (3) a new psychiatric clinie Medicine, when the University shall have secured funds (approximately $900,000 ) for new buildings for physiology, pathology and psychiatry as agreed to in the program of development.'" The U. of T. Resolution. *"*Resolved, that the Rockefeller Founda-- tion pledge itself to appfFopriate the sum 0f one million dollars to McGill Unlverslgy for general endowment of the FPacukt'y 'of During the course of his speech Mr. Marshall read resolutions which, he said, were passed by the Rocke-- feller Foundation on <November 18;, 1920, granting aid under certain con.-- ditions to the medical departments of the University of Toronto and Mc. CGIll University, Montreal. He called the attention of the House to the dif. ference in these resolutions. The one concerning McCiill was as fol-- lows: ~ Wellington Hay, Liberal Leader, criticized the Minister of Education that he was not in his seat when Mr. Marshall spoke on his notice of mo-- tlion. The order ought not to have been called, he said, until the Min-- ister was in his place. Hon. Howard Ferguson joined with Mr. Hay in this view, and moved the adjourn-- ment of the discussion "until the Minister can be here." * The McGill Resolution. ; Premier Drury said that the prop-- ositions advanced by the member for| Lincoln were sound. There was no question, he said, that the organiza. tion was not getting the results it should. He said he would be pleased to report the motion to which Mr. Marshall spoke and under which he brought his suggestions before the House, and to see that the matter would be taken up fully at the De-- partment of Education. ! All appointments in each Paculty to be made by a joint recommenda-- tion of the President of the Univer-- sity, the Dean 'of the Faculty, and a committee on appointments of the department. concerned. Premicr Is Impressed. Restoration of the office of Vice-- Chancellor. Election of the Deans of Faculties by the Faculties themselves. All important expenditures of money, creation of new offices, and all important matters of policy should be laid before the University Fenate for confirmation. Several practical suggestions were made to the Government yesterday by Thomas Marshall, Liberal mem-- ber for Lincoln, regarding the Uni-- versity of Toronto and the matter of its administration. After reviewing what he considered certain weak-- nesses in the present system, he said that the Government should either hold an inquiry or accept his sug-- gestions. What He Recommends. ' His suggestions were that: | The University Act should eitherf be amended or repealed. | The former powers of the Univer-- awty Senate should be restored. Thomas Marshall, M.P.P., Further Claims U. of T. President Dictates STAFF CHOSEN BY GOVERNORS, SAYS MEMBER GRADUATES HAVE NO SAY

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