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* m The Fisheries Bill. ' Trading Stamp Licenses. 1 R ?, _ _Hon. Mr. Hardy introduced a bill to | In the Municipal Committee to--day * amend thefifi:g""" act. Netting in | Mr. Lumsden's bill No. 210 to amend stroams fr ted by speckled trout | the municipal act was passed. The »in is prohibited,~ amt -- every Provln?Iali empowers cities of 50,0006 population to { constable is made..an--ex--officio over-- | elect civic boards of control similar to i seer. The finding of nets or forbidden that of Toronto, and provides for the devices in the possession of anyone is regulation of trading stamp, coupon to be regarded as prima f¥#cie evidence or gift schemes. The first cléuse was ;agamst him. Every license@e or leszes | passed easily. Hon. Mr. Hardy, Chair-- | of fishing privileges must. submit an | \man _ of -- the 'committes, _ express-- | annual statement of the weights and | Fed _ his unqualifled' ap'nroval of | variety of all fish caught by him dur-- | \boards _ of control and statedi ing the year. The overseers appointed ) | L4 » t | that he desired to . give all by the Government are to fix the places | [ cities &n o 'orfunit 16 eifétone." The hich nets may be scot. Sales of : PP y to is sOnle. | al w * hitensh. | clause regulating the trading stamp | » bass under ten inches and of whitefish, | SAQ like schemes % { a | 8 o s provides that persons salmon or lake trout under two pounds | engaging in the business must have a.' are prohibited. _ Exportation of such | license, for which in cities of over 50,-- fish from 'the Province is prohibifted. | * + a r x4 s 000 population they must pay a fee of | peckled trout, bass and maskinonge $1,000 : in cities. of 50,000 o a $500 ot be exported for two years, €4, » v r under, , @'F)? H djourned at midnight and towns having a population of 5,-- e House a W & 0(;0 or over, $250. . Mr. Lumsden made a | Cities. characteristic speech in support of the | § Revenue Bill--and Cities bill, during the course of which he said } & Deputations from the Cities of Lon-- that trading stamps and like schemes | M don and Toronto to--night interviewed * appealed to the latent dishonesty of | [3 the Government in regard to the effect mankind. The bill was opposed by re-- | s of the revenue bill with respect to the presentatives of the Dominion Trading N assessment question. Stamp Company and a number of local + The lLondon deputation, which was retail merchants. : the first to secure an interview, was e j introduced by Col. Leys, and consisted Railweay to Missanabis. ' s of Mayor Wilson, Ald. Parnell, Graham Messrs. F. H. Clevrene and H. J. Ham-- | # and Winnett, and Assessment Commis-- ilton and Mayor Pilummer of Sault Ste. | [ss sioner Grant. The London Street Rail-- Marie saw the Government this after-- i way Company was originally assessed noon and asked for a land grant of 6,400 % sby the corporation at $250,000 upon acres a mile in aid of a railway from § poles, wires and rails, and $78,000 upon Sault Ste. Marie to Missanabie, via real estate, but the courts _have reduc-- Michipicoton, a distance of 175 miles. | ed that assessment to $150,000. The The line if built would give communi-- | ' corporation now wants either to be cation with the spruce forests of the t able to assess the street railway at a north and serve as a feeder to the specific figure or to have the law so Sault Ste. Marie pulp mill, with which ' amended as to be able to assess the Mr. Clergue is connected. It is also | -- railway as a going concern. In sup-- claimed that it would open up to set-- | port of the application it was polntedl tlement a fine tract of agricultural | out that London d;.l)es q?t impl:):: (fofg country. 3 mileage tax upon the railway, $ 12. it r:cgelvo an;-) percentage of the re-! s Ottawa's Sunday Car Bill. j ceipts. The company's capital amounts | A deputation from Ottawa consisting | fs to $750,000, but seven--eighths of it is of Messrs. McVittie, City Solicitor, A. ; held outside the Province. Ferguson, barrister; W. Hutchison, M. § 7 The Toronto deputation consisted of P., and A. Luinsden, M.P.P., held a con-- & | Mayor Shaw, Ald. Burns, J. J. Gra-- | ference with the Cabinet this after-- E: ham, Hubbard, Frankland, and Spence. noon, with refernce to some objections % Corporation Counsel Fullerton, City So-- i made to the City of Ottawa Sunday car @ licitor Caswell and Messrs. Foreman bil}, since the measure passed the com-- s and White. KBled tnat T The reve ' mitteée. f [ It was claimed that under = BR nué bill the city's assessment upon in-- ' Creation of Forest Reserves. | p 3 surance compgnies, etc., would be re-- Hon. Mr. <Gibson is expected tol & -1 duced by $1,200,000, and upon street make _ an important | announcement | f railway, telephone and electric light in the House in regard to the volicy of | '* piant. $1,500,000, or about s.;,OO0.000_in creating forest reserves, A yéar ago ; 3' \all, which would involve a loss of $50,-- the Legislature passed an act authoriz-- | 7 000 in taxation, / It was pointed out fut-- ing the Government to set apart sceo-- | : ' thermore that the 'City of " Toromloc tions of the country into reserves wr! w makes its assessment a year in "8'-71- the protection of young timber and the vance. The assessment for 1899 iz promotion of reforestation. The first | & therefore, made in 1898, and the assess-- Step, m--the carryien out of that policy I ment rolls were closed last fall. 'The is the creation of a reserve of 50,000 | change contemplated by the revenue actes, a part of which is in The County f is haate this Astessinent l ©80 of Addington, and the remainder in the C provides that the companies afie(.t? County of Frontenac. Hon. Mr. Gib-- x shall have sixty days after the mea-- son will probably announce this fact to % | sure becomes law to enter an appeal to | The Degigiature in 4 day. or {wo. * the County,Judge and afterwards to | the Court of Appeal. The effecdt Ott fi: j Finish on Thursday. | this is that the city cannot adop 1 Tt sA leven o'cibck : | Untnt brocedure of strikine the tox rate e eae l mm e ie sprlm;i but)}ias i-(l) h:id; flt?)'otl?';. p::tt; ?r?g mu:; :gzl)e-dite business as to elose bt. on.* Mr. Har : ¢ § i | f,'? nfhe objections made and promised the proceedings of the House that ""'m,i tn encidor them carefully.