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saATURDAY, MARCH 25. * momord PX ppad s | | W ¥ | A Drastic Measure Aimed -- at Government OFfiCla's Meets Defeat. _--_ . » ~*I 1 PREMIERS DENIA c .9T ®4 | f i Li# suemmmegemempapine mm I 'To Gensral Charges Made by s 6 Opposition Members. ESTIMATES PASSED For the Department of Agriculture ---- Hon, Mr. Dryden Outlines His Policy--Notes of the Day. | Parliament BRuildings.>March 24. | *The motion for the sevond reading of Mr. Tucker's bill prohibiting the ac-- tive engaging of offigials in> eplertions under penalty of a fine of $200 and for-- feiture of position for four years pro-- voked a lively discussion in the House this afternoon. Hon. Mr. Hardy point-- ed out that by a resolution -- adopt-- ed in 1897 the House had put itself on record against active partisanship by oficials. With -- other Government speakers he contended that the em-- ployees of the Government as a whole | had never been guilty of actions, either at elections or bye--elections, charged against them in a general way by the Opposition. -- Mr. Whitney and other members of the Opposition claimed that ' the condition of affairs in Ontario with |regard to interference in elections by iGovernment oficials was monstrous. | Many officials, they said, disregarded the principle of the regolution passed | by the House two years ago. The mo-- ! tion for the second reading of the biH M