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, ' amendments mado in Committso on the Bill | ___| respecting the Legisistive Assembuly were | | concurred in, | _ Mr. HODG!N#s:a'd thefifthclausewent be-- | youd the privileges claimed by the Eaplish | | House of Commons, The omes showsd | | trat the Houss of Coramons exersised | d'scretion in the case of thy arreat of a mom-- | ber, instead of makicg it absolato as it was l under this Act. efae Mr, MOWAT sald ho thought it most just | tbat members sthould be protescted from ar-- rest in ctvil caser, The casse reforred to by l the hon, member were in the nature of offon-- | | ceg, [ ELECTION BILL | On the motion of Mr, MOW AT, the House | went sgain Into Committee on the Bill to | further amond the law respecting elections of | members of the Legisiztive Assembly, and | reepectiog the trial of such elcctions, | Tho 26th clause was amended by striking ' out the words * or saspecs." | On the 27th claure, K'r MOWAT proposed | to substitute $1,000 for $800, as the security | to be deposited, | Mr, CAMERON sild this would place obetacles in the way cof investigation, | Mr. BETHUNE suggested thait the awmount sbhould be Inoreased to $1,200 to $1,500, and security allowed to be given in« stiad of a deporit being made. Thae amoust was certainly not largo enough now. . The costs in there caess had been%nrgely!nanuod by the wholesale way in which witnuessos had been aubp onaed, Mr. DE ACON esld more Conservatives had come out of the trials with cloan hands than & Reformers, and nc w the Governmernt wanted | d to place ohatacles in the way ol '!nvestiga & tion, | Mr. HODGINS samid cither the monsy | should bo Csposited or the tima for invesii | gating the value of she security skould be | exteaded. | | _ Mr. MACDOUGALL sald the (iavern-- | ment were on tho back track, They had | got into power or. the vr'y of purlty and had | passed a stringeat election law. 'Fhey had, however, been tound guilty of dirhonesty and ecrrupticn, and now _ they proposed | to titker with the law again. No | dcubt the laew was too _ stringent, | and it was noever interdsd _ that a man _ should bo urseasted _ and disqualified for eight years for takliog a glass of beer on polling day, Now they wera hay-- ing another law, and tha psople could not ucderstand a law which was so constantly sm:nded. That was one result of changlag legis'ation. (Laughter) They now trled to throw obstacles in the way of proving the guilt of those guilty of corruption. The | _\ _ country would hold them to be bypoorites in | S the past, and to be unlfaitliful to their trast | in the present. Tno hon. gantleman was | H solng on to attack the mamber for South rant when, at tno fostarce of Mr=Carrl \ be was called to order, He then c mkmd:(i ' _ _: that security for costs shoald be given iuste:d _ _ _! of a deposit being made, Ho donled that _ | there bad 'been gemeral corruptica in the country, as hon. geutlemen had alloged, Mr. CURP.IMN out that the laws pessed by the ature bad had the eflsot | of greatly improving the modse in which elec-- tlons were carried on, Ho believed the de-- | posit of money should be required in the 61. irg of po'iticns, to provent tshing petitions M being filed with the object of putting a lar;e _ _ | sum of money into the pockets of unprinci. \ pled attorneys Mr, 8SJINCLATR sald that the effect of al. a lowinz the law to remain as if was would be to allow political organi--ations to out in ps-- | tittons merely on a chance, and4 in some . cases as a matter of spite or recrimilaat'on, \ E& The effect would be to deter good men from | d iunning, ' 3 Mr, PAXTON ansd Mr, MILLER thooght ts $1,000 was not a Jlarge enough anu, | : The clause passed. l f On clause 31, | o Mr, CAMERON said ie was of | . opipion that _ canvassing by _ com-- | p mittees and such organizalions should | uot be allowed, but that the on'y mseans of l communication which a cndld'nto should bave with the elections should be by public meetings, or in such a way that any corrupt «Hers could be dissovered if they were made,. 0 The clause passed, On the 33rd clause, | ol( Mr. MOWAT sald he proposed to limit |