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bles are ~not"entitied , § ~----, un t3 f:", it to the people as the final tribun-- which mww "As al. (Cheers.) he proposed 'having a com-- plete discussion of the details of the The Opposition Leader, bill on the second reading he would not | Mr. Whitney said he was very much ((lgt"nra.) the -- House any _ longer. { \interested, and, if allowed to «ay so, & m"e' Pill was then given a first a-- | | little amused by the statement of his | ing and the House adjourned hon. friend, the Premier, that he was | ng & 5 f anxious to get before the peolzole.tl Novnv The Game Laws. ' $ nc o m fotfore The pe le, it Mr. Auld, South Essex, has presented | is anxious to get before the people, f f Cr Lana ight be that perhaps was the reason to the Commissioner 0 rown _ ands a m'g in taking away by this petition bearing 1,200 signatures, ex--| of the pe.fly his land pressing appreciation Oof the present bill the right which the law of this lan | ¢ < . the candidate for this Legislature, | game laws of the Province, especially ' gives he has proved that illegal votes | so far as they prohibit the sale of quail | when he cast for his opponent, that | and other valuable game birds, and | have been . 1 t | asking that the term of such prohibi-- | \ he shal be entitled to take his seat, t be that that is what his | tion should be extended -- indefinitely. and it migh j nd \The petition also asks that the close friend meant, that whereas uncer t ' aok metances the man who season for quail be extended from thel Tus. beet e&%ted and juggled out of 15th of October to the 15th of Novem-- j :l': bee'n'mn have it given back to ber, thereby ':imit'r};g the open u'easog: , seat. hon f to one month. e reagons assigned . him. 'The bill of his --Artend takes for this request are: that at the open--! $ that right away from him, a procedure l ing of the season for quail shooting, f unknown in any other Legislature in on the 15th day of October, there are' ) the imuzed wo;gl (Cheers.) The Op-i a ?reat m;nyotblml?l wj\ggggharet ir'rj'-" posi propored to take every consti-- mature and n 0 e o be I tutional means to event his hon. | strong on the wing, and on account friend from prevent%'ng them getti-ng' thereof large numbers of young quail before the pecyle. (Cheers.) He 44 | 'are slaughtered by those who are un-- | not propose to take up the time cf the | | sportsmanlike enough to do so; during House at all that afterngon, but wou!ld | | the first month of the present quail sea-- a refer to just om» other matter, one | | son farmers are busy in their fields, other symptom which appears inevery | | :.nd the hunting o!t qu&n over the fllleldn I speech made fro Government side s an annoyance to them, as well as of the House_a;ndt'l;e'" not only on . being dangerous to them and their cat-- j this qu«stion but it has been so on tle; the first month of the present quail every question ever since he entered season is usually dry and hot and unfit I the House, and it was this, that when for good work in the field, and that if | the Government finds itself in a tight the quail season were limited to one corner, when it is to blame for hay--| month it would afford better sport and ing neglectcd its plain duty, its only | would contribute materially to the pro-- P F tection and increase of the quail in 1J ty u';o'; {}:' 3"""".'::"' ';"'"e";'"' 18 our country by allowing sufficient time L 220 Dal.the UOpposition is to blame. for late broods to become fully ma-- Who, he asked, are the guardians of | the legislation of this Province ? Who ! tured:.>;__.-- are the people selected by the electorate Smmmameaaaaimammemmes and paid for locking after the legisla-- tion of this Province ? Who but the hon. gentlemen on the treasury benches, g and they turn around to say to the Op-- | position, " You are to blame if the I constables have not the right to vote." , | One did not like to say euch arguments \are. twaddle and that they are £ simply nonsense, _ and did _ not want to harber the ddea that these gentlemen have any bet-- ter explanation than that. During E all these years why have not the Gov-- ' ernment done their duty ? Why have } not Sir Matthew Crooks Cameron and | Sir Willlam R. Meredith done this ? They were not asked. These hon. gen-- \ tlemen were not paid for doing it as hon. gentlemen opposite had been. Therefore it came down to this, that if they were sitting there in this August session it was because the Government had, as trustees of the interests of the people of Ontario, sat by the wayside and neglected their duty. (Cheers.) In concdusion, he reiterated the inten-- | tion of the Opposition to use every Par-- | liamentary procedure reasonable to show their objection to this measure | in order to make it plain and clear to ) | the people, whose servants they are, | | what objection in their interests the Opporition propose to make to what they say is monstrous legislation and a monstrous abuse of the powers $ & Een aulle _