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n, Canadian Hd&m"fi'"mz. ']'Saihfioa'lfiihor. 432 Queen west. Joseph Power, 395 King stroot west. Jas. %4 Melrick, 102 &leen west. Thos, R. Williams, 19 Queen street wost, Angus Kerr, 198 Queon streot wost. T mc Smith, 111 Qudonawrent wosk, .. k}'n;x'bg\.}:ll;."ll' 46 and 48 Kinx stroot east. James Mannel!, 163 Yonge street, Martin Griftin, Hhakugoure. R. McDonaid, Revere house. _ W m, J. Wilson, Adciaide street, | _ Charles Brewer, % Spadina avenue. | _ Great applause followed the reading of | the statement and the announcement of the number of signatures appended to it . Mr. Ross, continuing, insisted that because the Government duly discharged the authority placed in their hands as regards 'I'P°"'""3f license commissioners they were accused o partisanship, but he would say that "'f' only obstacies placed in the way of the of. ficials of the Government was the Act passed ' by the friends of hon. gentlemen opposite in Ottawa. Coming then to tvho _ charges made by the member for East Northumber-- land, Mr. Ross explained that nccprdmg to a decision of the High Court,a police magis« trate appointed for one of the u'mtod coun-- ties was not a county police magistrate, and therefore could not try Scott Act cases. (Great cheering.) _ Amidst -- great _ ap-- plause he read a telegram from Chat-- | ham _ stating -- that the' Mr. McNabb H who, according to Mr, Clancy, had been | 'appointed a license commissioner under the | McCarthy Act, never was appointed to any | such office, but had simply been made an | % © inspector. I |\ _ There was another burst of applause at | | this, and Mr. Clancy said, amid the laughter of the House, that he did not say Mr. Me-- Nabb was made a commissioner, but that he was made an officer. Mr. Ross continuea, making several other good points, and when he sat down there was a widespread feeling that the charges | preferred by Mr. Me're«hth were nothm;; but absurdities, and that the lu.tementa e | the journal on which he had relied for in-- formation were nothing but a weak and stupid parody of the great Times--Paruell fiasco. % Dr. Preston thought it very strange that the Government should conduct private in vestigations into the conduct of the license commissioners in Toronto. _ The House should be given all the letters alluded to by the hon. Treasurer, and without these they werse not in a position to deal with the question in that impartial manner demand-- ed by the gravity of the mattor. He then discussed for some time local grievances with a view to show that the license com-- missioners were appointed from a partisan | standpoint. Mr. Murray said that if East Northum-- berland were really as bad a place as Mr, Wilioughby had pictured it, it must be a terrible place indeed, especially so far as the Conservatives were concerned. He had in his own riding never saw license officials attempt to interfere in elections. If he had, he would not have allowed them to use their influence on his behaif. He thought the (Government were doing all they could to perfect the license system, and that the Province was very weli satis-- fied with Mr. Mowat's {administrationZof it, Mr. Bishop was destined to make the last speech of the evening. He merely rose to state that the hotelkeepers of the South Riding of Huron were nearly all Conserva-- tives, and yet in spite of that had all voted for him. And they did not do it under co-- ercion either, he insisted. They did it ' simply because he expressed his views on Temperance honestly and in good faith, avowing frankly that he drank a glass of beer when he wanted it ; whereas his oppo-- nent, whoin he had the pleasure of defeat-- ing and who was no more of a Temperance man than he was himself, pretended to be a downright teetotalerin orcrerito get the sup. port jof the Temperance party, and so between the two stools fell to the ground. , He ventured to say that in some others of these cases where coercion was alleged the real facts were very much the same. Dr. Wylie moved the adjonrument of the | debate. 'The Attorney--Gienerat wanted to go on an hour or two longer, but Mr. Meredith protested and the Premier gave way. The House thereupon adjourned at 11.30 p.m. wemmeme commmmmmncmmmmnencememammrccmee