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The Business of the legislative Assembly Concluded. . The Salary of the Attorney- General Increased. AMENDMENTS To THIS ELECTION LAW DIS. CUSsttD-CLota.NG SCENE" OF TUE SES- 8103' --PItoWWAWoN Tu CBSDAY. Mr. Wood (Hastings) rose to aquestion of privilege with ri-gnrd to the rn'pnrt in Tur: GLOBE of the proceedings in the Housa hurt night on the Toronto titrcet Railway Bid. The report said ..--" The fact is that Mr. Meredith completely hoodwinkcd his 'ttaiding, follower. Mr. Wood blindly ac- cepted the statement of his lender that the additional words would merely place To- ronto on an equal footing with other places without hurting his proposition which had been accepted by the House." Mr. Wood said ..--When tho bill was before the Pri, vote Bills Committee 1 objected to nnv clauses that the hill contained that would give them rights as to running curs ' n Sunday that the general law did not con- tain. The counsel for the city, Mr. Blake, contended that such was the case, and the bill was amended, RS I understood, in that direction. Subsequently further action was taken. bu: was ncgutived in the com. mittee. I then stated that I would do what was done in tho House last night, in. troduce an amendment on the third read. ing. My whole object was, as I stated, to prevent special clauses that would put To. ronto in sny different position M to street can than the general law contained-- which I had reason to believe prohibited the runnin of streetcars on Sunday. On learning what was stated by the hon. mem- tree for London, I was impressed with the o inion that I was going further than the position I had taken warranted mo, and the effect at the amendments made is that the coxnpsny has only such rights as to running cars on Sunday as the general low ives, which I understand is common to "I, nnd bus the further restriction that it osnnot even exercise these rights unless by the consent of Toronto. Then I wns not hoodwinked, neither did I blindly accept s stotement from the leader of this side of the House, nor did I understand him ststing other than in effect as above. It the general law does not protect the people from Sabbath dtueeratioti then I can only be consistent by doing what I insisted others should h, not seek to not protection by s side issue, at amend the general law in that direction, which l propose to see} to do ntn future meeting of this Palis- SUBSIDIES To RAIL'VAYS. Tonox'ro, April 12, 1892. In the Legislative Assembly this morn- ing, Mr. Whitney, rising to a question of privilege, asked the Attorney-General whether, in view of the fact that the bill introduced by the member for South Essex (Mr. Balfour) had passed, it was the inten- tion of the Government to employ young women as pages on the iloor of the House and as sossioual writers. (Laughter.) . Mr. Mowat said he congratulated the hon. gentleman on the progress he had made. He was fairly startled by the ex- tent of the recommendation. He had not thought of such a change. But he presum- ed tho hon. gentleman represented the feel. ing of his loader and the Opposition gener- ally, and the matter would be taken into consideration. ( Laughter. ) ONTARIO L[i0lS1Al1lflll,' ', . /7 af., tf "2 ./1 Egg Ze? ' WEDNESDAY APRIL 13. 1892, Mn O) 'ounoy said the hon. member for London mum not 10ch so excite-l or in. diguotrwheu any "nutter that seemed to Nikon him was brought up. His record was Mr. O'Connor said it was rather strange that the aur. side should take this stand, immune he could tell them that the Gov- ernment candidates at the recent Dominion by-elcctions in East Bruce and West. Huron were elected by tho votes of Ameri- can citizens. The hon. member for London ought not to take such a. stand since he had movie such a record for himself. Mr. M_exe(lith grew quite wrathy, and laid that" the member for Bruce's remarks were only worthy of contempt. It was a reasonable thing that they should point out the ease with which Americans could vote and at. the same time claim under our law to be British subjects by birth. He domed that there was anything to be lzhamml of in his record. The House then went into committee on the bill to consolidate the acts respecting the election oi members to the Legislature. Several members of the Opposition claimed that the path of allegiance was not tu1iti. ciently explicit, as there were many who had gone to the United States and forsworn their right. to vote here, hut they could still claim to he British subjects by birth. They suggested that the words "birth or uaturalisation" he struck out, leaving the statement tsimply "I um a British subject." Mr. Hardy moved that {he full sessional Indemnity be paid to Messrs. F raiser, Bron- son, Porter, Smith (York), absent during part of session on account of iii-health, and to Messrs. Barr (Renfrew) and Marty, who were elected after the. session began and took part in the practical working of the Iessiou. The mooion was carried. Ther House went: into committee and passed resolutions to grant a. subsidy oi 83,000 a mile, not to exceed $30,000 in all, to the Irondalc, Bancroft, & Outawu Rail- way for ten miles of the railway eastward from in ondale. Tlt/resolutions were adopted and referred to the bill respecting aid to oes!.Yisr railways. , The House went into committee on the bill to amend the Liquor License Act, and male some amendments. Mr. Meredith ea ed attention to a complaint received from Waterloo that the inspector of lieen. dee went to a. magistrate asking that a charge of violating tho law mightbe com- promised. Mr. I arcourt said the depart. ment had no kn6Whedge of anything so grave. Mr. Ittere explained the circum- stances of the complaints and showed that there was little ground for complaint, and added that Mr. Manning had been sent up from Toronto, but thought the case a trivial one. Mr. Harcourt said the matter would be looked into, and if it was found as serious as stated another investigation would be made. On the motion for the third reading Mr. Meredith moved that there be struck out of section 6 the words " to persons being holders of licenses under the act," on the ground that they limit the right of brewers to sell by wholesale outside of the license district in which the breweries are situ- ated to others than holders of licenscs. The amendment was declared lost on division, and the bill was read a third time. With regard to the minimum quantity to be sold by brewers tho law will now stand, 4 gallons for lager, 10 gallons for ales and other beers in all electoral districts: save that in which the brewer carries on his business; 5 gallons for ales and other beers than lager in districts where brewers carry on business; but this is to stand for only two years from the _passing_ of the act. - Mr. Whitney moved that the full session- al indemnity he paid Messrs. Smith (Fron- tenac) and Miscmnpbell, abqent during part of the session on account of ill-health, and to the widow of the late H. E. Clarke. The motion was adopted. LIQUOR LAW CHANGES.