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& ~ THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 'Amendments _ to _ Workman's Compensation Act Proposed. A 1 ¢ PROCEDURE _ SIMPLIPIED. Onus of Proof Plasced on the Em-- ployer--Abduction of a Canadian Citizen Avenged. Parliament Buildings, March 8. This afternoon Hon. Mr. Hardy in-- troduced his bill to amend the law re-- specting compensation to workmen for injuries. The meagsure, which, Mr. Hardy announced, embraced the best features of the English act and discard-- ed those for which the public mind was not ripe, has for its object, first, the placing of the onus of proof with re-- spect to the condition of machinery, etc., upon the employer, and, secondly, the simiplifying of the legal procedure and the lessening of the cost of litiga-- tion under the act by means of arbi-- tration. _ Mr. Whitney approved of the ' effort made both by the Attorney--Gen-- | eral and Mr. Crawford in their bills to ! simplify legal procedure, and advocat-- | ed an e:\(tension of the principle sug-- gested to the general legal procedure. A short debate upon the abduction of one Meagher 'by an United States cus-- toms official was caused by a motion offered by Mr. Powell of Ottawa, re-- eulting in the demonstration of the fact | that this was a matter beyond the jur-- | isdiction of the Legislature, and, more--| over, that the vigorous action of the Dominion Government had brought speedy punishment upon the offending official. Worknuen's Compensation. Hon. Mr. Hardy introduced his bill to amend the law with respect to com-- | pensation of workmen. The bill, he ' said, has two principal features : first, | it provides that in trials or arbitra-- . tions under tPg act to recover com-- | pensation for {njuries, the onus of prov-- | ing that the machinery which is re-- | quired under the law to be kept in nl particular state or condition,or which is l deemed to be of a particular character requiring covering, is in accorda.nce]