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He charges about a hundred, he charges about a hundred for writing the speech and on the bottom of every invoice he covers it up by miscellaneous.

Mr. Speaker: I require that to be retracted.

Leo F. Rossiter: Retract what, Sir?

Unknown Voice: You know what you said.

Leo F. Rossiter: Mr. Speaker, I said, “It appears to me he wrote the speech”. Unknown Voice: Take it back.

Hon. Cecil A. Miller: You did not.

Leo I". Rossiter: I never said I was certain. I said, “it appears to me." I’m not certain, no

Hen. Cecil A. Miller: You did not. Mr. Speaker: Well, then you’ll have to retract it.

Leo F. Rossiter: I’m not certain. It appears to me that he wrote the speech. That’s true.

(Remarks Inaudible): Leo F. Rossiter: I beg your pardon? Mr. Speaker: I’m sorry, you will have to retract.

Leo F. Rossiter: I didn’t say he wrote the speech. I said it appears that he wrote the speech.

Walter R. Shaw: He did not make a definite statement that Sigsworth wrote the speech.

Unknown Voices: Yes, he did. “’alter R. Shaw: Just a minute now. (Remarks Inaudible):

Walter R. Shaw: Well, you keep quiet. He said it appears to him that Sigsworth wrote, an entirely different thing. Hon. Robert Campbell: He did not. You’re lying for him. You’re covering up for him.

\Valter R. Shaw: Mr. Speaker, I’m not going to let you make a statement of that kind. I demand he retract it. Nobody’s going to tell me on the floor of this House that I lied and I ask you to have that man retract that statement. (Laughter) And I’m not fooling about this, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Speaker: Will you take that back?

Hon. Robert Campbell: Mr. Speaker, I will not take it back because I heard the former Minister of Fisheries say that Mr. Sigsworth did write the speech and was

paid by the Government.

Walter R. Shaw: I’m not referring to that, Mr. Speaker, I’m referring to his state- ment that I lied.

Hon. Robert Campbell: You said that Mr. Rossiter didn’t make it definite but he did; I said he was a liar, and I do not take it back.

Walter R. Shaw: Mr. Speaker, I’m not going to accept a thing like that. Take that man and put him out of this Chamber. No one can go around and call a Member

of this House a liar. Hon. Robert Campbell: Mr. Speaker, I’m sorry that I said that but I still think he is.

(Laughter)

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