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[ 0 €10UIR, I 2 5 & *X Dr. Gilmour's Covenant Bil Strongly Objecte1 to. Dr. Ryerson's Motion Regard-' ing Dr Bryce. | Legislative Chamber, April 4. | Contrary to expectation, Mr. Meredith's weparate School motion did not come on , w--(lay,the Opposition leader being troubled | with a sore throat. The House had u} comparatively easy day in consequence, and adjourned betore 9 o'clock. The fea-- tures of the day were Dr. Ryerson's re-- marks on Dr. Bryce, touching his action in the case of the child Maton, a case al-- ready ventilated in the newspapers, and the brief discussion on Dr. Gilmour's bill | to abolish the personal covenant in mort-- | gages. The doctor's bill did not meet with very enthusiastic support from any quar-- ter, and it was strongly opposed by the Commissioner of Crewn Lands on the Government side of the House, and by Mr. Meredith on behalf of the Opposition. The point of attack was not so much the abo-- | lition of the covenant in future murtgu;.;v:" as the probable interference that would | 9 be caused by the bill with existinx mort-- | gages, pnd thereby with securities and the credit #gystem genocrally. Before the House | | adjourned in the evening, Hon. Mr. Hardy nentioned to MNr. Meredith, in reply to a | | question, that the redistribution bill would probably be brought dowi to-- morrow ® + e i ' (Thursday' i y rorxSR DEBATE. ' Mr. McCleary moved for an order of the ! House for a return of copies of all corres-- t pondence in connection with the granting of a shop license for the sale of liquor to one Joseph Aspinall of the Town of Ti]-- sonburg, in the South Fiding of Oxford, | ; for the year 1893--4. Also, copies of all pa-- | i pers and documents in possession of the | | Goveriment, or any official thereof, re-- lating to the said license, together with a copy of the report of the chief inspector | who inquired into the complaint that the | license was fraudulently granted. | Mr. MoCleary's charge was that the commissioners had granted a license in ' the face of grave irregularities connected with the certificate accompanying the ap-- | plication. In concluding he animadverted in severe terms upon the methods of the department regarding investigations, / which he described as actuated by pur-- 7 poses which were unvrightcous and@ not straight. The Treasurer, in his reply, gave a full * account of the circumstances connecte with the license. The petition in favor of the license had been protested against, and the license inspector had transmitted the ' papers to the Town Clerk, as is the pro-- cess in such cases. He had acted care-- lessly in not giving them personally, but in sending them by his son, instructing him if he could not find the Town Clerk | to give them to ex--Mayor Wm. Macdon-- ald, the owner of Aspinall's shop. The ) lad found neither and gave them to W m. Macdonald's brother ; while the Tow--