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With second reading of the Bill to amend the I suspect to the aid proposed to be given to Public and High tuhsol Laws. He explained railways. the speaker said that the .'remler that the appointment of hilt the members of . knew that railways built years are cost the Council of Public Instruction shiuld I four, five, and six times as much as they do lspee in two seen. The term of olfi Jd of i new. yet- he declared that old municipalities hall the members of the Cornell i must be "tufiod with $2,000 per mile. was proposed to lapse in one year, ,, l Heer. llykert) held that there was no but after that, in two years. It was _ l _ justice in such a provision as that: The proposed also that there should be I hon. gentleman forgot also that railways three members of the Council trloutuar- one i' tut had recently been built had benefited by the masters of Public Schools, one by the i the municipalities that hadinvested in them, masters of high Schools, and one by School ; y and besides this, that these railways had Inspectors. He believed that much of the i' been aided by public mama; The speaker con- opposition to the Council as at present con- . tended Mao that the fact at different muni. stunted arose from the tact that the appoint. ' _ oipnlities had benotited from the construc- ments were for lite. and that the members of lion or' ooionir,ttion roads, for which they the Council thereby perhaps undeservedly had voted since Confederation over $900,000, lost the public conMeuoe. The proposed l and on which they had expended about change would allow the Government to re- , sti00,000, should be taken into account. "ter move or rather not to reappoint those mom. went on to say that some munici- here of the Council who were not in the palities that had borrowed money from habit of attending the meetings of the Goun- . the Municipal Loan Fund had oil. The other alterations in the law which expended it in constructing railways that had the Bill proposed were mostly in detnil.and he ' . cost as much as $115,000. $20,000, ".1830,- thought would be more suitably explained 030 "halting; midyet in :,i,i'ttfa.if',' out of ten in Committee. , t ey en isa paintc in not getting _ Ir', . such returns on their investments as they 3633:3353. 1't,('e'Lyt2iliSthi51iis'ltiu had had a sight to on wet. Another injustice M MA DON LD . t . of this scheme would he the granting of $2 r. G b A tsaid the Government , per head, simply according to Population. I',,t,' op P. to-oeumf' toy not ""1138 .itttt'0. , uahett they had the fact staring them in the (need this Bill earlier in_ the session then ', face that some of the municipalities had they 1pi.1 dee-P." having mentioned the . shown greater enterprise then others, and subyect in the LieuterusutoovarnoO speech. I had ooni.%ueuly been obliged to tax them. I It was now too late for lion members to twlso more hmvily. It was true that in the fhsd out. the Views of their _constitueuts on old wnnty ot Lincoln they hail the Welland the vanous alterations made in the law. m. h Canal. bat that was . irork that had built thought the Bill on the whole a goal 91.1.9, up Montreal, and helped Toronto, and proceeded to criticise same of its details. and every town east of lt, and it was Messrs. BYRERI' and FERGUSON ob. by the enterprise of the inhabitants of the jected to some of the clauses. l hug". diatnct that ithad been constructed. Mr. C AM TI RON mm that this Bill would It was true that L om the ll elland Canal the eyeite considerable discussion and " the eti'lt, M St, Catharine's had ,rster p"rer, Government did not appear til have formed ' p, they lmd tmtl Gr better water power any decided opinion on some of the points foam the old asnal. He contend" that rail. he thought that the Bill should be allowed . wqtt, frequently injured the WW" through to stand over until next session If the Go. which they ran, and said that St Cutliarines vernment were 'iirJiiFii to place the Bill - had been fnjureil by tho Great M eaten lt before the House as a Government measure I was only town! which we" the "will" _ and to take the responsibility of it' railways that W." particularly tssnaiitod by 7 thenhis remarks would go for nothin t them. The PM" had hiinseif said that As to the composition of the Council at PM? _ irrescotthutreon injure! by mitsrsre. An. lie Ina-traction he did not think that the 1 other point in the scheme to which the i change Giiiiiiii; made in AnBWer toeenti- speaker took exception was that with 1 , mental objections taken tothe present Goun- ' tetetences to "seiimeut. In, tsaid that cil. which had for twentv-tive years done, ' tnuUr the prrent. Wine" law almost good service in the cause oi education. He every town in the Province w" aseetmd Ito thcunht that the proposed mode of construc- low that it had 0 lar 9 debt hanging o0br lt tion ironld make the Council tor evanescent. liven the township (li Ops was not assessed G ral MOWAT Id . . for what it shouldbe. He maintained that Amaze?" 2,',1 h the bin h "miles they should consider the money paid out tor not to ttrdf, .1: l pubs: s on re- . school purposes ordinnr y o,xtreidftuti.tu't, as tam coni ence in he Ody w, Ic, was; per . . much asthe money spent b a municipality i V moment one, and w one 1i.tt.iog' yy! Pit??: for any other WW0- libs (lit. llyhrt) sions were pm ate. He did not think that understood the speech and the resolution l my. .eunge would be tnado tn tito o0at. . the Premier. the P2,000 P" mile ',"l'l,h positnn of the body merely for the simply be allowed to those municipalitier t iiGe of making ' change. m htul mahbmd to the Municipal Loan Fund. ', expressed doubt on only one claws of the Mr. MOWA'r--1 did not mean that I l Bill, and was preparedto defend all the . . . . others Respectin the charge of delay in meant it to apply to all muttieipalitie. bringing in this Bill he said lion members _ Mr. RYKERT said that "" " any rate, must remember thsit the "(increment and no what Invested from the scheme as the House had been very busy and that originally "Withd- m I!" arg,'. everything :ould not be done at ua The that portion of the scheme wit re- Government had introduced this session more spent to those .railways which had numerous and more important measures than , We," constructed P"'." anfodontwn. but l had been introduced in any session of this tit hag primaries! anaemia under the , Lgutatare. t war SI c erringto o t neation T , - ' . . . of railways. he said that instead of tlie Wet. It: fhlil' il,? did not th'y,rr, "it too tmyrh land Railway btttr the tom .10 the 5'14;ch oco . " guen to ennui} Councils. ' n . lore Councils knew better than the authori Niagara frontier it brought ruin airing do. p, ' . T to d d hat t solution to them. When there was the Co. Rio are: _ w . was or the benefit bourg and, Port Hope Railway whichhad l o e ooo, 3", . . been iniuriously allected by legislation. Dr. CLARKE made some suggestions. / Mr. MowAr----What is the legislation I' . The Bill was then read a second time. Mr. m'ittrRT---rako the granting of the l I Ml'h'lt'll'AL LOAN FYI; D. l charter from Port Hope to Pom-hero alone. I , . ,' . . t i bone discussion took place as to t \ It being an o clock the House me. ' whether or notthe debate upon the M. L. F. , . _ EVENING SITTING. l resolutions should be resumed. l . _ . . l Mr. CAMERON argued that be it had I . . e At. 1i'fle,,1l""" took the m" lot the prudence it should be taken up at once, . . Bon. Mr. $1OWAT said that the Govern- _ - m'ent lf the right to take it up when they p can . _ After some debate the understanding was . .' "come to that the debate should be resumed I ' tonorrow. ' . ASSESSMENT ACT, 1869. ', T / 0n notion of Hon. Mr. PABDEE, Bill to I _ ( declare the true construction of certain see i l _-w---.----, _fCt--ee2."e.ef, 5.eeee. ~_'__-, [Mrs " ut' T Ir I: '-_'" " Cf'"'- '41:? . ""'