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QLECISLATURK : QNTARIO LEGISL ' Fifth Parliamort--Second Sos-- | | sion,. | | voumemmcmmis | | (By Our Own Reporters.) I Friday, Feb. 27. The Speaker took the chair at three o'clock. ALGOMA ELECTION,. | |_ Mr. SPEAKER informed the House that he | {had received the rerort of the Judges on the | {protested election in A'goma | REPORTS OF JUDGES. | Mr. SPEAKER informed the HMouse that he | had received the report of the Judges with re» | gard to Bili21, respecting the old cemetery in ' the town of Palmerston, and Bill 45, respocting | St. John's Church in the town of Cornwail. The ' report in the first case was against the Bill, and | in the second in {avour of the Bill. f | REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. Mr. Gibson (Hamilton) presented the 7th Report of the Committes on Private Bil's. | Mr, Baxter presented the 2ad Report of | the Committee on l'rin'.mg. | FIRST READINGS., l Mr. Young -- To amend the Assessment | A't. | _ Mr. Waters--To amend the Municipal Act : ; nETURNS. | IHon,. A. 8. MHardy presented a return show-- I : ing the emolumen's of Registrars. ; & PRIVILEGE, | ) Mr. MURRAY siid he found that in the | editorial commen.s of The Mail of this morning " upon the views exprossed by the various speakers ' on tho pPropositions to erect new Parliament t Buildings, he was reported to have said * that the pubjic were not willing to vote the moncy, ! and that a majority of those supporiing the Pre-- i mier were auti--buildingites." Moe did not think @ that in the few remarks he made any one who 1 was within hearing of his voies could have so | understood him. -- lie did not say it was a wiliul ! -- m'srepresentation, but he did not see how it | * could come that he should have been reported to | < have made such a statement. What he did say l _ was, that in the session of 1880 he voted for the | , expenditure of half a million dollars for new | buildings, that he sunported the propriety of } , erecting Parliament Buildings, that he agreed | * with the Government in pursuing a cautious ; "' course in the matter, and that he was prepared | to go as far as voting for a {further expenditure ,, of $800,0C0. . THIRD READINGS, : _ Mr, VYoung--To legalize a certain byslaw of . the town of Paris t, -- HMon. A. S Hardy--To amend the Act incor= | porating the Dean and Chapter of tke Cathedral of St. Alban the Martyr, Toronto, ' Hon. O. Mowat--Respecting the Woodstock P Methodist Cemetery. ' Mr. Phelps--To extend the provisions of the Act empowering the trustecs under the will of c the late Josoph Bitterman Spragge, to seli cer-- ; 'ain lands in the township of Bienbeim, in the ; county of Oxiord. ;' _ Mr. Ferrvis--Respocting the debt of the town of kt Napanee. h THE GUELPH LIVE STOCK. d _ Mr.PRESTON moved, "That inasmuch as the 1= live stock heretofore sold by the Ontario Agricu'-- . tural Farm has passed largely into the haudn| w of non--residents of Ontario, it is the opinion of | e this House that the surplus stock of that institu-- a tion should be sol., subject to such conditions ol and terms as will ensure its retention within the 0t Province." He contended that the farmers wore