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J. Cyril Sinnott (Fifth Kings): Mr. Speaker, may I also extend to you my con- gratulations on your continued occupancy of the Chair of this Assembly. I am sure that both sides of the House can continue to rely upon you to preside with fairness and firmness over this Assembly this year. The difficulties and disputes which arose last year, and which you adjudged very well, in my opinion, will probably not recur this year; that of course depends upon the continued co-operation of the government. So far they have been rather conciliatory and seem to tend to continue working to— ward their own defeat. However, if once again they should become obstreperous then we shall have to take more vigorous measure and we ask your indulgnce in this respect.

All of us, Sir, welcome you back but if I said that we wanted you to occupy that chair much longer I would be somewhat less than honest.

I should like also to congratulate the Mover and Seconder of the Speech from the Throne, the Councillor from Fourth Queens, and the Assemblyman from Fourth Prince. Both of them made an eloquent plea on behalf of the Government for what the Leader of the Opposition said, “they made a good case out of what they had to work with.” I congratulate both of them, but I do think that they tried a little too hard to excuse this Government’s lack of initiative; they failed even to mention their short-comings, they failed also to mention this governments capacity for economic destruction in this Province. I think also they should have avoided trying to excuse the negligence of the Federal Government insofar as this Province is concerned.

Now, Mr. Speaker, I propose to examine the Speech from the Throne at some- what greater length and I should not like to split up these topics. It is getting late and with your indulgence, Sir, I would move that the Draft Address be adjourned.

J. Cyril Sinnott: Mr. Speaker, in continuing the Throne Speech Debate there are a few observations that I would like to make before launching into this famous docu- ment. That is, this afternoon we listened to the Minister with three portfolios dew liver a personal tirade against one Conservative Member and against the leader of the former Government and impute guilt, by association, to all of us. I’m surprised at that speech that he made, or rather that he gave, which was obviously written by Mr. Sigsworth because there are three quotations...

Hon. Cecil A. Miller: Mr. Speaker, I ask you to have that man retract that statement. Sigsworth never saw it; he never contributed anything to it; he had no suggestions and he didn’t even know that I was going to speak.

J. Cyril Sinnott: Mr. Speaker, if the Minister will tell us who wrote it, I’ll be glad to retract it.

Hon. Cecil A. Miller: All right, Mr. Speaker, I wrote that myself and I finished it this morning from half past six o’clock to half past ten this morning.

J. Cyril Sinnott: Mr. Speaker.. .. Hon. Cecil A. Miller: I was up before you were out of bed, Sir. (Laughter)

J. Cyril Sinnott: Mr. Speaker, once again I’ll be glad to retract the statement if the Minister will tell me which oration of Cicero he drew the following quotation from, “How long will you continue to abuse our patience”.

Hon. Cecil A. Miller: That has nothing to do with it, Sir (Laughter) I suppose that Sigsworth is the only one that ever read Cicero. Anyway, there’s very few of them over there who’d understand it, even if they did read it. (Laughter)

J. Cyril Sinnott: Mr. Speaker, for the information of the Minister with three port- folios, I am quite familiar with Cicero, Livy, Virgil and the rest.

Hon. Cecil A. Miller: I ask that you have that gentleman retract that statement.

J. Cyril Sinnott: I’d be glad to retract the statement but it is obvious that he’s wrong. There is a famous quotation in Cicero’s orations against Cataline in which he says, “Will you continue to abuse our patience?” and for the benefit of the Minister of Fisheries, Industries and Natural Resources, I will tell it to him in the original Latin. Now, if the Minister says that Mr. Sigsworth did not write his speech, ’Ill be glad to take his word for it. 270