Mr. LADNER:

On this question?

Mr. MACKENZIE KING:

Including all legislation which the Government proposes to bring down.

Mr. T. W. CALDWELL (Victoria and Carleton) :

Mr. Speaker, I should like to ask the Minister of .Agriculture if he proposes to bring down his resolution on which to base, a bill to regulate the sale of fertilizers. Due to the fact that the session is drawing to a close, and that consequently a good deal of the legislative cargo may be jettisoned, I am anxious to hear what my hon. friend (Mr. Motherwell) proposes to do in the matter.

Hon. Mr. MOTHERWELL (Minister of Agriculture) :

It will be taken up on the

first Order of the Day.

Hon. H. S. BELAND (Minister of Soldiers' Civil Re-establishment):

Mr. Speaker, I should like to make a statement to the House in connection with the charges which have been levelled against the Pensions Board by the Great War Veterans' Association, and which were published in yesterday's Ottawa newspapers. These charges are now under examination by the parliamentary committee on Pensions and Reestablishment, and it is presumed that the report of the committee will deal with the subject. Therefore, out of deference to the committee I would suggest that hon. members suspend judgment until such report is laid on the table, when I shall be in a position to state what action the Government is prepared to take theron.

Mr. MEIGHEN:

Would the minister intimate what is the nature of the charge against the commissioners, and explain how it is that it comes under the purview of the committee on Re-establishment.

Mr. BELAND:

The charges were brought to the attention of the chairman of the parliamentary committee by the Dominion Secretary of the Great War Veterans' Association.

Revenue and Audit Act

Mr. MEIGHEN:

What charges?

Mr. BELAND:

The charges which have been published in the newspapers and to which reference was made in the House yesterday by the hon. member for Kootenay (Mr. Humphrey). My right hon. friend (Mr. Meighen) will remember that I made a statement in the House yesterday in the matter. I may apprise the House further that I received this morning a communication from the chairman of the Board referring to those charges in specific terms. I thought I had among my papers the charges in their exact wording, but I do not seem to have them now. At any rate, they have been published in the newspapers; the charge is, in a word, that the board conspired to deprive ex-service men of rights to Which they were by statute entitled.

Mr. FIELDING:

Sir HENRY DRAYTON:

Perhaps the Minister of Justice will explain this Clause.

Sir LOMER GOUIN:

I am not prepared to explain it; I did not know the matter was coming up this afternoon.

Mr. FIELDING:

It it merely to facilitate the transfer of bonds in the cases of deceased persons.

Sir HENRY DRAYTON:

I think the minister (Mr. Fielding) said that balances unused could subsequently be made available. How will that be done?

Mr. FIELDING:

If moneys out of the appropriations have not been expended and no action has been taken on them, they will lapse. If a letter of credit has been issued which has not been fully used, the unused portion of it may be provided for by a new letter of credit chargeable to the coming year.