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,.tbe..sfntute, for protecting the public interest' "Ho consolidate" The d&AF of e City of | | ::; lt:)'if: i:)'ns;:':_'l':" ::"lula] cret:)ks,l with a schedule | (Guelph and for other_purposes--Mr. Guthrie. | | paid. --He -.f red to. e Cc nnogu paid ,°"'°b° To incorporate the Iutornational Ferry Rail-- | paid,. He referred to. the Rivers and Streams way Co. --Ar. Morin [ | Bill which he said, after being disallowed by 4 4. o i AT 3 q | | the Dominion Government several times, was TOGLL ROADS l |at last allowed to stand. _ He would like to ; _ Hon. r. FRASER resumed the debate on ' know what was the use of this bill and to what ' Mir. Lee's resolution ia fayor of a Government | extent it had been taken advantage of. , measure to free the toll roads of the Province, = Hon. Mr. PARDEE said that the hon. gen.' He moved that & Spccial Committce be ap: tleman could readily understand that the mere : pointed to inquire into the question of toll fact of the CGovernment declaring streams to be | roads and the means whereby the collection of natural highways to he used by everybody on tolls may be surrendered, discontinued, or > proper payment for use of improvements, would abolished, to be c'mnpos'e(l as follo\!'s :~-- --.\l.f;;sr.q. prevent difficuities arising and ecause people ()'Connor, Meredith, Wood (Hastings), Dack, |\ to agree as to the use of these improve-- Balfour. Ingram, Wood (Brant), Garson, ---- | ments. -- The Licutenant--Giovernor had not | Lees, Stratton, (tibson (Huron), Preston, Gil. . been asked to fix tolls upon any uf these | mour, Smith, MeMahon, Allan, Drury, Hud. streams though he knew that a number were | Son, Ulancey and Hilliard, being u,&miln{v Ovthtnlm than the owners of im-- | rXTEXS8ION OF FEMALE FRANCHISE, rements upon them. ,pr:i"i;::iw':olnlt,i:»'n' w :C;I\"mhlm".". Mr. WATERS rose amid applause to move \ IUSTIOES OB THE PEACEF the f;e(.-oml reading of the bill to enable -- ' NJ s uy a ce ) hi intinie ns t * married _ women . to _ vyote _ for -- members Mr. CLARKNE (Wellington) moved for an fof -- municipal _ councils. _ HMe -- said | that I order of the House for & return showing the z the tendency of the day was in the direction of number of convictions returned to the Clerks Zthe extension of the franchise, and that eston: \of the Peace of the several Counties in the Zsion was not confined to the men, 'The giving | Province during the year 1885. The number "of the franchise to women had everywhere | of such convictions severally made by Police _been followed with good results,. |In DBritain F Magistrates, Reeves, acting as Justices of the ~womeu had voted in municipal elections for ' Peace, ecoficio, and duly qualified Justices of years. 'The law had Lbeen applied to England the Peace. -- Also, showing the number in each dirst, but had afterwards been extended to '('uuu:y of qualified Justices of the Peace re-- lc»{i\ifxg c\fp'i('.s uf. t.i.l_e l.\.'tatutcs of Ontario for Seotland, this itself being a proof that the 'Hc same year. Carried, : women of England had used theip franchise . | SEED GRAIN TO SETTLERS. -- well. -- In tits Jast mutmnicipal| elections in . ' Mr. ABRMSTRON( --moved for an-- order of _ Ontario, notwithstauding that the day was ex. | the House for a return showing the amount due ecedingly inclement, a large woman yote was , | the Government by settlers In the Muskoka | brought out. 'Fire total number of women 3 \ and Parry Sound districts for seed grain,. Also | °8 the lists was 20,122, 'M"l_ the total what amount has been paid back to the Gov-- number _ cast _ was _ 4,659. These were | ernment by the settlers for seed grain. _ He divided as follows :--Cities 1,902, towns 1,005, | argued in favor of remitting the amount due, . Yillagos 646, townships 1,106, _ This was as because of the work these pioneers were doing large a proportion as he had expected in his in opening up the Province, and because of humble advocacy of the measure, and was a the hardships they endured, _ When the forest l large proportion considering the mc_lemeucy' of fires took place in Michigan some years ago, | the weather on the day of the election, The | the Legisla ture of that State gave seed grain | Ofect ot having the woinen on the lists was to | free to those of the sufferors who needed it. make it necessary to have the best men 1 -- The resolution was carried, brought out and to lkeep moral questions well | ' It being six o'clock the Speaker left the | t the front in the election. 'This was the | | chair. experience every where where women had been ; EYEXNING sESS1ION. | given the vote. He dwelt especially upon the After rocess, | experience of Wyoming, respecting "'lll::h he _ The following private bills were passed in l read a nmimber of extracts 'from letters of pro-- | Conunitiec of the Whole :.---- } minent mon and from newspapers Jn a position . ! Vesting certuin lands in the corporation of i !° speak \\'_x't!x authority. _ The objectf e Tow nibt Thorolid heMr. ATurcounrt. ;| of this bill _ was . to . give the Respecting the City of Stratford--Mr. Hess. 3 sume . electora'l' place to married . women : The following private bills were read the as was nor'\: given to wulc:\m a:n«l uninarried : SECIF d LC *--= ' ;\Im:)cn. {11;: plea would be raised, uf'cL(.mrise. T resdestine the i tkc, «t Yyr | that a married woman was represented er . . .-:il:..').\"h,tj":';;fi!__fg debt of the City of KingstoU | puspand, But the husband dit)l not vote .x{ the To incorporate the Town of Parry Sound ---- representative of the woman. 1t was said that | $iy.. Armatrong. this would raise discord in the f'n'!mly. But To incevporate the Thames Valiey Tramway }hcy" must assume tvlu'tb in every \\'c:ll regulated Co.----Mr. FWooley. l"leJ there were subjects on \vhwh' the hus-- |_ To incorporate the Southern Railway Co.-- band and wife agreed to differ, and why not Mr. McKay, uporn this question of _\'l.;'.m;_m should they differ _ o change the name of the Thunder Bay at all. -- At prosent, if a man owned a house he | ! (,'ofuuimmt?' i1 ('u. = .,_\i;-. u-'\,l\'(nll't. f \'Olml o o onl Ut. ':' (lllll t'"c tenant .(.)l thc l | To define the houndary between the Town-- o on ..].".,OP."'N'V yated as tenant, Bag if ~the | ship of Nmith and the Town of Peterborough---- 'r'f"?.eiW..\.\,(:.,l:cvff'h to a married woman, the . | '\l'\f.' Stra.:.ton. is "')L\;'l'l.\;ll'.(fi):"".i'l :~.L:]tl f-..n".mt:\" to vote, but t.hc ' ; & To m')lnhrn\x an agreement entered into be-- .éf:.u:t PF «"(;L,I,O P v s a es '"el ""llt ','pmfl fhe | tween the Municipality of Dysart and the $ paj hoe w ':",",;"t"_ki"'"",m on tie subject w vich | (.:\.n:ld.sf.u Land and Emigration Co.--Mr. { E 1{1-" tfl 57]1 ed, and said that many others | | Cuthrie. " wou t D€ sent in. |__ 6 | | To amend the Act incorporating the Queon ; Hon, Mir, FRARER said his hon, friend was | City Five Insurance Co.--Mr. Smith. C T]l old campwi@nen in regard -- to i9 ~question. | | To amond the Act incorporatieg the Home ; \e '}",Cmb?m of the Mouse knew what his of the Eriendless of H&miltop=--Mr. Gibgon | [OL: "FRsens) oninions. on this subject were. | i Haailton), | They were his own opinions ; he was not re-- pressing the opinions of any body else. 'This