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# Mr. GIBSON did not know whether the ap: plication of the Senate had appoared in the public press ; the details of the report had not appeared in the newspipers. This report would of course be brought down as an amendment. The report wont extensively into the present position of University College. ~Me thought the 'report had been sent to the Government nearly two years ago. The motion was carried. other | ORDER DISCHARGED. Mr. MEREDITH movedtha; the order for the House in Committee on the bill to amend the County Court Ast be discharged, Carried. The fiouse wont into Committe® on the bill to amend the Act respecting the AdminjstratiOh Justice i!!_!m.'.'f':'.m.!l.z.('d 'u."c':' um kn 1 J ustico M HRCERENE C y Mr. MEREDITH said the bill was one to in-- crease the jurisdiction of stipendiary magistrates in unorganized territories, Mr. SAO\\':\T said there was difficulty in the matter,as an Act had been passed some years ago and disallowed by the Dominion (Governiment on the i:mnd that it was ultra vires of the Provin: cial Legislature. The first clause was struck out. ; 6 1 TWB CC Shis sncfanmes anl SHERIFFS FEES Mr. MOWAT moved that the House to--mor-- row resolve itself into Committee of the Whole on resolutions respecting sberiffs' fees.--Carmed. Mr. Fraser's bill to amend the Municipal Act of 1884 was reported. 6 1NDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS, . The bill amendingy and consolidating the Act aating to industrial schools was considered in mmittee ot the Whoic. 'The amended bill ®ovrides for kecoping children arrested tor beg-- 'ing on the street separate from the ordinary o fhie uons S ced a d 0 d 1. 134100 Anls Lc diP onA Cns parent or other person liable for the support of rhe child. The clause was allowed to stand for consider-- ation and the bill reported s amended. It being one o'ciock the Speaker left the chair. aAFTER RECESS. The House went into Committee, with Mr. »Saxter in the chair, on Mr. Mowat's bill to unend the revised statutr respecting the estab-- © isbment of municipal institutions in the districts f A'goma, Muskoka, Parry Sound, Nipissing, and Thunder Bay. Mr. Mowat's bill to extend the provisions of the Wmeeee Mr. MEREDIUTH on another clause suggested hat the duty of paying for the support of chil-- Jren should not be imposed on the municipality. Mr. ROSS (West Middlesex) said only 81 a week could be collected in case there was no yavised atatute respecting master and IOI'VI%F.' fixing the time within which proceedings may taken to one month, was adopted in Committee. THUNDER BAY DISTRICT. Mr. MOW AT moved the second reading of his bill respecting the district of Algoma and Thun-- der Bay, for the establishment of a provisional judicial district of Thunder Bay. In support of his bill Mr. Mowat explained that hitherto there had been no necessity of establishing a Judicial Court, but since the completion of the railway a great deal otf money had been brought into this part of the country with the increasing popu'la~ tion. -- Another judge would have to be appointed by the Dominion Court, and there would also be a County Attorney. He proposed to increase the jurisdiction ofv the District Court,. 'The ex-- penses of a trial at a hicher court would be very great owing to the distance and the cost of bring-- il:f witnesses to the court. The motion was adopted, and the House immediately went into Cominittee on the bill. In reply to Mr. Mere-- dith, Mr. Mowat stated that the county town or district town had not yet been fixed. P _ Mr. MEREDITH moved an amendment that the Court House and gaol be situated at Port Arthur as the district town. e C 5/3 _ Mr. HARDY thought this matter should be left in the hands of the people. e lt -- The amendment was lost on a vote of 20 yeas and 22 nays. The bill was reported without amendment. THE PUBLIC HEALTH. Mr. ROQSS (Middlesex) moved the second reading of the bill to make further provisioa respecting public health, which he characterized as probably the most important of the sexsion, He stated that the object of the bill was to make further arrangement by which the public health could be more efliciently protected, He showed that the passagoe of a similar Act in England had had the effect of red ricing a death, rate from 94 to 2) per 1,000, thus showing a great saving of life following more onreful attention to the public health, He contended that the more careful attention to the public health in Ontario would result in a saving of 3,000 lives annually, The bill passed in 1883 left Municipal Councils at liberty to constituto themselvesa a local board of health or not, A8 tho{ thought best, and the result had been that they had contented thein-- solves with letting the matter alone, and lit-- tle attention had been paid to . the sub. ject, only about 50 municipalities up to last yeartaking any steps for the establishment of Boards of Mealth. The main abject then of the biil was to secure more attention _ to the sub, ject by making it imfierativo upon Councils to constitute Boards ot Health, He thought that the '» Provineial Board of Health had done a groat deal botn to protest the . public from | epi-- demics and investigate the cause. Ho reviewed the main features of the bill, which were to alarm the people as to the serious nature of some diseases, such as diphtberia and scarlet fever, The public was alarmed, and justly so, at the terrible nature of smalilpox as a disease, but as a matterof fact diphtheria was more destructive of life. . He moved the second reading. Mr. MEREDITH fearea that the msasure was too drastic, and interfered too much with the | elasticity which ought to prevail in municipal | institutions. . While adimitting the ability of this | Provincial Board of Health, he was not prepared ' to admit that this brdy should pass on a matter with regard to the establishment of a water ays-- tem or sewerage systein without their consent. _ | Mr. ROSS said the clause constituted the Board an tuivilm'y one. Mr. MEREDITH contended that with regard | to sewerage works they might refuse their con» sent, aud they could not go on. _ He would not ! place such a large city as Toronto, or the | cities for that matter, at the mercy of the Board. _ He also objected to the large expense it wou'ld force upaon municipalities. WUUilP RIPWCW MPTCOC PnE ROCCCCC Mr. McLAUGHLIN was in favour of a sound, stringent sanitary law. They had only to look at London with its immense population comprising people of all nations congregating, and notwith-- standing the fact that a great portion ofit was on the Surrey side of the Thames which was almost entirely a reclaimed marsh, and yet it was a healthy place. 'Take the case of Smith's Falls, Had this bi}l beon in operation last year he was catisfierd that a severe epidemic which prevallod there cou'la have been svo!decl 'i)nphtgeria bad broken out in sixtean or eighteen families, there being no less than 70 cases and 25 to 80 deaths, There could be no doubt at all if the present Act had been in force this could have been prevented, Mr. MEREDITH said every Town Councii had a Board of Health, Mr. McLAUGMLIN sard they hadn't such power as this bill conferred upon them, and, in fact, in the ser.ous cases werealmost powerleas to act. -- He was satisfied the bill was destined to do a great deal of good, * The biil was read the sscond time. EGRESS FROM PUBLIC BUILDINGS. The House in Committee of the Who!l2 con-- sidered the bill to provide better means of egress from public buildings. _ _ y The bill was amended so as to exempt church and school buildings now erebted from the opera-- tions of the Act, The compulsory mminimum width of doors was reduced from 4 feet to 8 feet 6 inches, with an incresse of a foot door space for each additional 60 of the largest audiénce. The committee reported progress. 1t being six o'clock, the Speaker left the chair, AFTER RECESS. THE HOUSE 1X COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY The items on legislation were considered. Mr. ROSS (Huron) stated that the increase, $2,000, in the item for sessional writers was due to their being an over--expenditure. Mr, MEREDITH objected to a statement previously made that the Opposition must share the responsibility for the increased amount of the vota for sessional writers, and showed that mem-- bers of the Opposition were only responsibie for 92 pages of the journals, x o Mr. ROSS said that the cost of getting out the returus must not be judged by the number of pages in the returns. Mr. CAKRNKEGIE objected to the number of messengers, the house hire, and the firemen. Mr., FRASER showed that there were not more than the ordinary decencies aud courtesies of the House required. 'The Speaker was en-- titled to reside here perimauently, and he did so ut Ottawa, or the main portion of the year. _ M. MEKREDITH countended that the service of the House was made the means of providing tor the friends of the Government, He wanted to know who made the appointments, He under: stood thatformerly the appointments were made by the Speaker, and he thought they were now made by the Government. . h $ Mr. ROSS said most ot the appointments were made by the Govetnment, f l4 The item for legisiation, $1%%,850, increase $800, was passed. The Committese reported prog'ress. PRIVILEGE:, Mr, MOWAT said I uow rise to call the at-- tentiuon of the House to a yvery important mat-- ter of brivilege, and in calling the attention of the House to it I have to mak--sthe most startling ~tatement evor made in it, and, perhaps, the #~* vere epidemic which prevailed Toik Abiided: 'Diphthoris had awbe . He