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N ' TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, wm--ZT: and is to be reimbursed by allowances Til . ', from ttte-atitattnt.due trom prison labor over and above the average output oil two and one-half tons per day. Tho company is bound over to continue tho l manufacture of binder twine, to pay " . l l haii the salary of the engineer to run _l/ ' the plant, and to manufacture fem" , 1 tons: per day after March 1 next. Th2, . g _ scale of prices fixed in the originni' ' agreement for binder twine will con.. tinne in force, and the. original agree- ment is extended for tive years, until . --------" 1905. . l "The report of the Provincial Auditor. F . FG which was alsa laid upon the table. . rnmen showed that whereas, the losses by 'sneficial Results O ove t municipalities 'through deficits, of om.. ' ' , dais in 1897 exceeded $100,000, the losses Action With Respect to for 1898 from the same spurce," owing . . . in a very large degree to the berm ' Municipal Accounts. fir'ial results of the action of the Gov- . ' . ernment with reference to the method T of keeping municipal accounts. had 't , been less than 312,000. Mr. Tucker in- -_-_-.._.._ i, troduced a bill to amend the election , Z att. which provides drastic penai- _,,i I . ' 3 lies upon tHvirtservnntt, fotuxinterfermg f A l _ in Legislative elections. LOSSES ARE SMALL. , . Petitions. . The Village Council of Eiora will op- q-----.-.-.. rose the bill before the House to ratify a Belleville bonus to the Canadian . .Brussels Carpet Company, Limited, on the ground that it means the reorgani- .greement Fo_r Manufacture of zation and removal of a firm already . _ doing business in Elora. Rope at Central Pr lson. E The Town of Bancroft wishes it made . a condition of any grant to the Ontario . _ Central Railway that the line should -------_ pass withina mile of the town. New Bills. F A.' t l r , 4 Mr. Pattuilo introduced a bill to INQUIRIES Bl RILBIBDRS' amend the municipal act. which will I have the effect of abolishing the ward .. . system in all towns and make a two- ' : . --------- I year term for the Aldermen, one-half g to go out annually. It reduces the mem- . , bursliip of municipal Councils in the I Drastic Me-re, to Prevent following degrees t--Towm, under 3,000 Oat-Inl- Interferin' In Mteettog- population to hive four Councilors and a Reeve or Mayor ; towns from 3,000 to oetrartattiogrn Walt on Government. ti,000 six Councillors ', towns from 5,000 r.-" to 7,000, eight, and In towns with over: . '7,000 there shall be ten Councillors. It -.-r------- . is proposed that they shall be elected A by a general vote. . F Mr. Tucker has a bill which provides Parliament Buildings, Feb. 20. drastic measures for any official who The Piovincial Secretu-y this after- canvasses. speaks or takes any part '. b ,. h d . j. l id the whatever in an election campaign. He nocn roug t own a" a on L fixes the penalty at 8200 and costs on table a copy ot the rurreement for the conviction or six months' imprisonment. manufacture of rope at the Central The omteitgl must also lore his position and may not accept another Govern- men. The agreement. stripped of ment job for four years. ttqtetrtst phraBeolotry, provided that the Mr. Foy also introduced an act to, . company is to'purchase the necessary amend the municipal act by giving] machinery to manufacture all kinds otl municipal franchise to persons rated at' o t t . i h di t b tl, 8400 personal property on the last re- r "' up o wo- no ante er. su Jec vised assessment roll. who have since to the approval of the Government. that date trontinuously resided in the