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TMRD PARUAMERT------SECOND SES$Y%, lownrs separated from counties to pay a sum equal to the Governmert grant instead of one--half as at present, would work very bharshly in the case ot small towns; and he had given some statistiics from the town in which he resided, showing that while the town paild $1,400 per annum in support of the High Sohoo!, boaides providing and keep-- Ing up the buliding, the puplis from the Bown were only about ons --third and the ou'}: alde puplis about swo--thisds of those in at-- &endance. He had said furtker that the surrounding counties should pay something o support a school at which so many 6f their puplis were educated. The amendmont, if carrled, would meke that town pay about $2,000 per anzum to support the echocl at which only absus 80 puptis from the fown were lustructed, ONTARIG LECISLATUEE sehnool Bill, lis was madle fo say iDhai Sowns in which High Schoo's were situated shorid p'vmon for their support than rural seobtlons, hat he did say was that the changes proposed by the Bil, compailiog Wroxtesoirv, Feb, 7. The Speakor took the ohailr at three O'cleck. EXPLANATION, Mr, HARGLRAFT said he wlihed to make Ioll'uk:\b:. hhgn Gwn"'s"npoa of IO':O remar made pight upon the School Bill, He was made to say that REPORT BY COMMITTEE, Mr, 8 er presented thoe report of the Beleot C;':ngmtce on the B:lh"t: amord the Assersment Aots. TORONTO MUNIS%E%L AMENDMUENT Mr. FRASER said he wished, bofore the orders cf the day were called, to direct ai-- bentlon as Chairman of the Committee on Private Bills, to an article published in one of the crewipspers this moralag, recond time he had been cbilged, as Chairman of that Committee, to make such a correction. The article was headed «* Teronto's Munloipal Bill," and 1t was to %he first paragraph bhe wished to refer, It was in the following language:--* Some of kthe clausos in this measure have reocived very cavalier treatmout at the hands of the Private Bills Committes, It may bs sup: m;d that the question about how the or of such a colsty as Toronto is to be chosen in cne which, at any rate, can boar @lscusslon, and that what the promoters of the Bill had to say on the rubjsot ought at least to have been hoard, What may eult maller places may be v'o.rlx unsuitable for one like the capital of Oatario; and it is not amatter which any member of any Parlina: mentary Committee, be he ohairman of such Committee or be he something elso. can dis-- pose of by his mere sic volo sic jubco, as we understacd was the case in this instance, Buch a way of despatching business may be expeditions, but is is not satia{actory,and in lhe ecd wili serve no good purgose, It may or It may not be the beet plas to appoiat a Mayor of a city by the vote of the Uounol], and from among the aldermen thomselver. We think It is uho best plap; but whether it is not, we protest sgalnst auy chaliman of any Parliamentary Committee that ever was named disposisg ol the matier in any «uch erbitrary faahion." He wished to ray in the mast distinct and nnqualified terms that in so far as that article pointd to his coniuct as Chairman of the Uommittes it was entirely coutrary to lhe facts, Instead of taking ground a!nlui the 'rmahr feature of the Bill raterred to, he had an opinion at all on the sub« jeak is was in favour of that feature, though he had not given expression to any opliaion, Ia the Bill thers were four clauses ; two ci thom _ inended to permit the -- allermen of Toronto. to retire ann y in rotation after the next | fi::uflyehoflw. and two oclauces "h"fl to | &v' election otf the Mayor by the Mun! pal Courolil. Whon thene clauses had come up for dtscussion it had b:en m"i': Il;y :o:r.:a ber of the Committee that the whols lour D3 pes OSPP YE CCC CC C tds Feastaa 1truck out, Iosterd of his being in favour .of €olng that, he,as chairman, had suggested that as thore wire $wo distinct featuces em:' braced in the four clauses, the first two clauses should be discussed by themselvos ard the last two by themselves, On that quggestion the motion was altered so as to Includo the striking out of the first t wo clanses, Alter a full and Intelligent disous: a2Crary §o & a!gstnn raterred the sub In which what he (Mr. Frasor) bad jast stated, was made as clear as posrible. He read from the report of the procsedings of the Committee, and went on to say that in the kalance cf the article he had been equaily slon b'y members of the Committeo, without al:;.o word having been said by him, t3e mittee bad by a lnrgo masjorlty--indeed amost unanimoutly--declded to strike sald a wor?d. He had not dia-- eumed them or expressied any opia. lon upon them in avy shape or fo m After a motion had been made and seconded4 that the two claures be atruck "::i so much had be cot been in favour of og them out that he had basied himself in dratiing a vclause tp ba substituted for those two, in erder that it might moot with the views of the Committeo and the Bill come bafore the Hoeuse in proper shape. He thought it was a matter to be regretied that when the chairmanship of a Committse such as Private Bills involved zo musch labour and anxiety, and when the dution of tha chalrman were at all times rathor arduouse than otherwise, his action should be entirely misropresented. It was a great pity that in misrepresenting the _ Chairman's action a reflaction shou!ld hbe cast on the Oommil}ieo itsel{f; tor the Committee would not be workhy of Its name i{ it would allow a obairman or any member to dictate any action if a majority «.eve .gh.'lut is Io this particular orse it was to be regretted all the more, when on %he previcus day thore had apperred ia the same paper a report by iis own reporter of the meeting of the Private Bills Commithoe, disoumion on the last two clauses ----those relating bo the matter reforred to in the newpaper article this morning. In rela-- tlon to those two elauses ho had not mlsreprerented. Wahat he bad done in the Private Bills Committee, and wha} ho con-- aldered it was his duta to do, had been to say that the vernment' had sconsidercd the partlcular sactions relating to eremptions from munloipal taxratlon, and had come to the concilusion that it there . was to boe any legisiation at all it should be of a Provinotal charaoter, Instead of apply-- ing merely to the city of Toronto, and that such lqh{-tlon should be laitiated by the {Giovarnment, The Commitise as a whole, and without a dissentiont volce, had can-- sidered this righs and proper, and acsord. logly that particular provision of the B kad beon struck cut He might add that the reotion relating to that matter had been Itroduced io rather a orude shrge-- in blank, in fact--so that it was svidant that tho promoters of the vacamure had not very wel! considered what they in« rended doirg. He could not holx thlnun' tbat the article to which he had referre was orloulated to brivg the Commi{ttse Into contempt. It was cersainly entirely un fair so far as he was coucsrred, Mr, BELL rald be was presont at the Uommittre as a prowoter of the Bill, and sonaldered that it had recelved a very fa'ir sopsideration by the Ohairman, clausa by olause, Lrm#year he (Mr, Bel}) had been of oplslon that the Chairmen had Sreated the matter ratber cavallerly, but he had no fault %o find this year, MASTERS' AND SERVANT3®' AOT, Mr. O'DONOC HUE ssaked whether it was | the Intention ot the Goversnment durlog the prescut sesoion to in trodnce a Bill amendiag the Manters' and Servants' Aot, or whother | such a mearure is within its jarisdiction. . | Mr. MOWAT said that it was not the Ictention of the Government to latroiuse such a measure this session It was doublal whether the portiors of the Act to which he supposed the hoo. gentieman relerred were within the jurisdiotion of the Legislature, Thie ard a number of other such questions sould 0o: 1; be fically acttled by the Suprems Court, NQUESTS AT THE CENTRAL PRISON Mr, MACDOUGALL (Simc«:), in the ab-- sence of Mr. Cameron, asked whother a soroner's Inquest was held on the boty o John McKelvy, who died in the Central P.i-- son, Toronto, on cr about the 14th day of Moy, 1875, and if so, by and before what soroner was such inquest beld; also whether a ocroner's Iirqusst was held on the body of James Skye or Nobyler, who disd in the Uen-- Dral Prison in July, 1875, ard if so, by and before what coroxer was such in queat held. Mr, WOOD said that, ia m:k'ng his romarks the other evening re. gardiog _ the Oentral Prison, the ounly only evidence ha had had hefore him was the statement be found in the report of the Inzpector of Prisons. Rirce then, on Inveirti. gation, he bhad arcortaiced that a post mortem eramination bad been h:l4 on ihe body of McKelvy by the Contral Prison surgeon, and ouk