The Ontario Scrapbook Hansard

Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 4 May 1894, p. 1

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\| : % Business of the Session at Last' Concluded. j 'j Legislative Chamber, May 4 * * The session is over at last and the | seventh Legislature <f wntario is practic--=] « «> ally at an end. The redistribution bill was the municipal subject of discussion <rir-- to--day, and there wA & lively bout for|} upwards of an hour during the morning f session. Th Attorney--General took oc-l casion to remark upon what has been generally noted during the session, that Mr. Meredith has not improved in tem-- per of late years, and that his language is getting continually more violent. It may be added that, in marked contrast, Sir Q Oliver, while having shown himself more Je vigorous and active during the session than for years past, has distinguished himself not less by his urbanity and gAzneral good temper under the heavy fire of criticisms showered up{n him dur-l ing the last three months. In the afternoon the House took up the registration bili and touched up various of its clauses. The other items on the very slim order paper of the day were dis-- ' posed of early in the evening, and the ' membersy4, «luiged in the customary clos-- ' ing concert ; then the Legisiature was ready for prarogation to--morrow. THE RBPRESENTATION BILL The House went almost at once into : committee on the representation bill. _ Mr. E. I*. Clarke, discussinrg it, said the minority system that had lately prevailed \ in Toronto was so unfair that even the / Government could not tolerate it any \; longer. Therefore this bill had been in-| | \ troduced to relieve them from the obloquy

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