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DC 11 branc ' Essex 'Comp: | The Railway Committee yesterday @pproved the extension of the Hamil-- ;ton. Grimsby & Beamsville Railway to Bt. Catharines, Niagara Falls and Ni-- aAgara--on--the--Lake, but declared that the extension must be subject to the provisions of the electric railway act, and not under the provisions of the :ompany's special charter, under which they use freight cars and operate Sun-- po stand, at the Opposition's request, for some further explanation. The Premier explained that it was hoped to prect a suitable statue to the Queen in the Queen's Park with the $10,000 vot-- ed for that purpose. It was probable that a replica of some famous statue in the old land would be secured. _ The House passed some second read-- gn'gg of private bills, and adjourned at x 3VL j day cars. Opposition was present from the Lord's Day Alliance on the Sunday feature and from Mr. W. H. Biggar, K.C., for the Grand Trunk Railway on the freight question. The bill will be, redrawn. ' --The bill of the Windsor & Kent Ra-i dial Railway Company, who propose a' line from Windsor to Chatham, with; branches, was opposed by the Windsor,| Essex & Lake Shore Rapid Railway: Company on the ground of parallel{ lines. A compromise was reached, and! the bill reported as amended:; The bills: authorizing the Guelph Railway Com--: pany to extend their line to Hespeler; and Puslinch Lake, and granting thei rondale, Bancroft & Ottawa Railway; n extension to June, 1906, to complete| eir line, were reported. | Municipal Committee. | In the Municipal Committee Mr,l ith (Peel) withdrew his measure to| mpel police villages to keep their' dways in repair or to be lHable for| idents arising from bad roadways.| . Fox's bill to compel owners of! ds through which drains pass to, p them free from observation, al-- gh their lands do not benefit bys drains was laid over until of the Government's drainage rts has given an opinion. Mr. War-- 's bill to allow municipalittes with a ulation of 50,000 or over to pay r Police Commissioners was ap-- M ed of, but was held over until Bills in Committee. following Government bills were considered in committee ;:-- consolidate and amend the act re-- ting public schools--Mr, Harcourt. consolidate and amend the act re-- ting high schools and collegiate in-- tes--Mr. Harcourt. ; epecting summary convictions-- . Gibson. ; o amend the Ontario companiles act r. Btratton. . e House spent an hour in Commit-- of Supply in the evening, conclud-- g the balance of the estimates, three ms, immigration, $4,825 ; Reforma-- pry for Boys, Oxford, $380,000, and riscellaneous, $173,009, being allowed "scrip in lieu of land. Lbe sold the purchaser to settlement duties. Object to Sunday Cars. "the 790707 »4 0007 io .. PW rid lsnls ho wladl Sb td d The individual opinion of almost' every witness was in favor of a county | road system, but it was thought the | question as to who khould control the | roads should be subtmmitted to the peo-- | ple. Those who were interested in tolll roads favored expending a portion of | The special committee of the Legis-- lature appointed to consider the Prem-- ler's bill to provide for grants for road improvement met yesterday. --Mr. Pat-- tullo presided, and Mr. K. W. McKay, editor of The Municipal World, was appointed Secretary. Evidence was given by Messrs. Alex. Griffiths, Niag-- ara Falls, President: Welland Good Roads > Association i J. A. Ramsden, Toronto, Secretary> .Mun!clfal Good Roads Association ; R. J. Je ly, Eliza-- bethtown, 'Warden of Leeds and Grenville ; Hugh Hughes, Hexton ; M. T. Buchanan, Ingersoll, and A. F. Wood, ex--M.P.P., Madoc. The general opinion of the witnesses was in favor of road improvement, and the sum of one million dollars which the Government proposed to give in this direction was thought to be satis-- factory. The belief prevailed that the amount should be paid as soon as earn-- ed, and not distributed over a period of ten years. It was also thought that power should be given municipalities to expend money for this purpose with-- out submitting a by--law to the people. Mr. Crawford's bill to enable A. Mont-- gomery of Toronto, who graduated in medicine from Toronto University in 1802, to practise his _ profession without passing the Medical Council examination was rejected by the Priv-- ate Bills Committee. A number of local medical men opposed the bill. Its General Fentures Approved by the Witnesses Who Gave Evi-- dence Before the Special Commit-- tee. pox measures. They asked that a law be introduced compelling municipalities which allow suspected or diagnosed cases of smallpox or other diseases to be deported to other municipalities shall bear the full costs of the cases. A de%utation from Lindsay waited upon the. Provincial Secretary and asked that more stringent regulations. than those now enforced by the health oMficers be applied to lumbermen ~re-- turning from (the camps. Hon. Mr. Stratton thought the present regula tions would be found sufflicient. The Toronto Board of Health, headed by Chairman Dr. Lynd, and including Dr. Bheard and the other members, waited . upon Mr. Stratton in regard to small--| Tuesday. Ottawa and Hamilton aré the only cities afflected. Mr. Brown's bill providing that muni-- cipalities may lnglqde arny number of: cipalities may include any number of local improvements in one initiative no--, tice was reported, as was -- also. Mr. Graham's bill to allow pneumatic transit companies to lay thefi' lines on streets 'subject to municipal regula-- tions. THE GOOD ROADS BILL. Emallporx Questions. £ _ was -- also ow 'fi'neumatlc their lines on 121 --