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«n o eemueesiosthtiiWiiit I iliificomintermetenth * n _ ----_--Lo z* 778 es ~@ "' / \'w | } ( / 6 [ c U 1 difficult to satisfy every one, and any legis-- I i T lation in that direction would necessarily | i be an experiment. There seemed to be & | tlons were "put to "Him;, ue The chairman $ general desire for a reduction, and t.fho (x;)v-t | | Faled out l\fr. Clancy's claim to go so far | s ernment would introduce a bill for tha | | bauck. On motion of Mr. Clancy a resolu-- purpose this session, tion was adopted instructing the .chmrmml 0s THg .FLOOR O¥ THE HOUSL to move in the House for authority to in-- k Col. Campbell, registrar of the County of quire into increases in salaries or a.lllow. Halton, occupied a seat on the floor of the ances since 1881. The committee will re-- R P House to--day. A number of members_of sume at 10.30 to--morrow. 'the Surveyors' Association "l"d °':'°"P'f'l RESPECTING ASSIGNMENTS. seats on the floor of the House during the Mr. G. B. Smith's bill to amend the law passage of their bill. | respecting assignments and preferences by | THE PRIVATE BILLS COMMITTEE, insolvent persons provides that preferences The Private Bills Committee met this given by a debtor to one or more crcd'ntors : morning, Mr. (Gibson in the chair, £00 | | qyer other creditors shall be conclusively passed the following bills with slight presumed to be fraud if given within 60 amendments :--To authorise the Village of days of insolvency, or within 60 days of an . Niagara Falls to register a correct plan of impeachment of said preference. It also the village ; to consolidate the debt of the provides that an endorser or surety shpll ' Town of Oshawa. not have a preference given him by an in-- ' ONTARIO SHIP RAILWAY, solvent debtor. Mr. Davis bas introduced a bill to in-- TK CITY'3 LEGISLATION. . corporate Messrs, David Blain, H. H. The petition from the Toronto City Coun-- Cook, lumberman ; John C. Fitch; Hugh cil asks for power to regulate and license Blain, merchant ; Joseph Blakeley, ac-- | menageries, cireus riding and other shows ; countart, all of 'Foronto ; E. L. Corthell| for authority to acquire an easement or of Chicago, engineer ; Mark H. Jrish of | right of entry upon or through land for Toronto, broker ; Kivas Tully of Toronto, | drainage and other purposes; to require the engineer, and William Bell of the Town of | . harbor commissioners to remove obstruc-- Sauit Ste. Maurie, engineer, under the tions that interfere with navigation ; to name of "The Ontario Ship Railway Com-- | allow that only copies of municipal docu-- pany," with power to construct from some ments should be necessary as evidence in * point on Lake Ontario to some point on the | courts ; making 24 hours iustead of 48 (ieorgion Bay or Lake Simcoe, or to both hours the period in which candidates Georgian Bay and Lake Simcoe, one or | nominated for municipal offices may retire; more tracks of railway for the purpose of | giving the municipality power to reduce carrying passengers and freights, and con-- the expenditure of the Free Library Board ; veying vessels, barges and other water | empowering the city to release parties ar-- craft and their cargoes from the upper lakes rested for drunkenness when they bave to Lake Ontario. The capital stock is | sobered up, and also decreeing that per-- placed at $75,000 to the mile of single track, | -- sons arrested for drunkenness or disorderly with power to increase. . 'The bonding conduct may testify in their own behalf. powers of the company are limited RAT PORTAGE DEPUTATION to $75,000 per mile of single track. i parar es : sA s The compauy shall have power to construct A depu'tatlon from Rat Portage waited a telegraph line and a telephone line in con-- | 2 the Government to--day and i Ihl nection with the railway, and may con-- troduced by Mr. Jmm:s Conmee, M.PP. It struct works for gencrating electricity for | _ WAS composed of A. Campbell, reeve of Rat the purpose of lighting the line and works Portage ; C. V, Chadwick, 'presldent, ot the and for motive power to be used in connec-- "0":(1 of Trade ; J. W. (.'01,(",!6"3}" T ies tion therewith. 'The company shall not be president of the BO"":d of Trade ; John ¢ compelled to start and run their trains at | _ Mather aod Richard Fuller of the Keewatin f i regular hours, except such trains as they l:umbcr (/um]'u'my, and Thomas Marks of . may run daily for the purpose of carrying Port Arthur, ""?y urged on t,he(}ovuu'lmf:nt passengers. The company shall be at liberty the necessity of issuing licenses for fishing to let contracts for the construction of their in the inland lakes of the Province. Mr. line of railway without inviting tenders Hardy stated in answer that the matter | therefor, by public notico or otherwise. If ha'ul been for some time under consideration. | the construction of the railway is not com-- Licenses had not been granted owing to the . menced and 10 per cent. of the amount of fact that a case was pending between the ' capital is not expended therefor within five l)omlm.on.und Provincial Governments as years after the passing of this act, and if| _ to the jurisdiction over fisheries, not only one single track of the railway is not fin-- in regard to inland lakes, but the great ished and put in operation in ten years from | l4kes as well. Ho promised, however, to | < the passing of this act, the corporate exist-- .cousl'der the advisability of bringing down ence and powers of the company shall| !Bt°UM arrangements whereby f'icenses ' f cease, could be granted. The question of master ; PUBLIC ACCOUNTS CoMMITPEE. | (\)vfi:ln'l':'s MRIRM Porfixgc was also discussed | ies , | i Aor, Mowat. i f | _ When the Public Accounts Committee | | the aprointment at u: e:rrl';'ut'ilzgg e omalt « resumed this morning, Mr. Christie, in-- | m & P |sp-:clor of asylum, was recalled aud ex. ' a COMMITTEE MEETINGS, , amined by Mr. Clancy as to his authority | | The follo'yxug committees will meet to -- l for recommending an increase of $100 in | | I8Y:--Public Accounts at 10 and Standing P | the house rent allowance of Bursar Tracy of ! Orders at 11, $ tlho 'li'orouto _Any:mlu.t Mrf. Christic pro-- | NOTICES OF MoTIOXN. duced an unsigned letter from Hon,. Mr. | Mr. 8 j FJF ' Illurd_v, atml_a good deal of discussion tooli; l !no:: A::.fltton Bill to amend the Assess-- ; place as to its genuineness and how it ) «Pn s : to be un_%igueld- ?lr. Sol. White mmlecat';:g pli?:lart.igni? Lffo l(l,'rlari{;:r'::rt: ;fif:fisxx Loot t,g::elzf)v;' N insinuation that the signature to the docu-- Society of Upper C la f Imissi ment itself was recently written, and student--at--] P L iCiatin for a «Amission ts 4 y | strong objecti SS take + * < P ~law, of the report of the special | + w li\x'c::nrttoul:u']v:)il.[:rl:n}t{?);hx:;:.)ynil::;; ;;c;;:;r:;z;ue'of the fbcncl;eu ;o which thlza ap-- ' was sent for, and he explained to "'m mivd (nootin fvts referred, of minutes of the mmittee that his signature | slima g of benchers at which the report » iss withaltl\mp,gon i thatinwr::kz':;'; e&t'l:gx)w :T:,sst:lfllqp?ed, bz:ud of all correspondence on of the ltitber the stamp did not priat Il)t" o Liver [;iercbti'es itween the Law Soctety and might also have occurred thro eore. 1 N tary making a copy before thcuftll.i:i};? :f:t::' in l}ltr}.x l mafotes (Durham)--Return _ show-- , ture was added. Mr. Clancy desired to s ha&;' e n'gl'nes of all persons or bodies who f | back over the accounts of the $BSE ton i ie rccu\gd remuneration for holding re-- years, with a view to shiuwing.--as he sr':umi th% oix)u nc_rv:cel in the various asylums of f : the growth of the increased allowancos (hv".,- I of th rovm?e as per statement on page 44 ' ing that time. Mr. Sproule, l'ruvinrhiE | tor t,le c earadey.""s luspector of asyluins Auditor. was catted. but only a few ag ... | ie year 1891. 'f. a % A } Br s ',-' ,,') En | s 6 »o m i e C -- o ie F F % PR i _ .. _ me---- -- umm * DLA 1: cssy e mm a9ores _ blhk e $ * se on