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malntenance of children, on o _ Mr. wW. E. H. Massey, tepresent m:-u'; amending R 'fiz'}"""- Trade, said that body icipal arbitrations act by permitting inted radial railways. but they were 1 59 F a&ppointment of arbitrator for munici-- ainst depriving the city of control of ; m palities other than Toronto and York n'[-mm. | F County ; amending the registry act, Messrs. J. F. Ellis, Mayor Davis of } by providing for the ventilation of re--. North Toronto, J. T. Moore, Deer Park, 6 gistry ofices ; amending the liquor and others also spoke, urging that the 5 ll;:enn act, by extending the privilege :?z.béanwed to retain control of their s of paying licenses half--yearly to all s ' 3 L T in & The Premier, in reply, thanked the f parts of the Province 6 'deputation for the information they F 4 Commencement of Hansard. :;dt tgelven. and promised to consider the * & The select committee appointed for o . h the purpose of considering the pro-- w;ryh %::,f:fl::e g:x:;&ru& {2 tge Rall& f $ priety of a change in the rules of the it was there stated that an c ay.mant House, providing for printing questions had been approved of by theu?'}roe: dent by members and answers thereto in Control,. -- It was then decided. to . lay ' the votes and proceedings and journals, further consideration over until mo-d (y, | met yesterday, and decided to recom-- when the committee will be intormed'y'l mend that the rules of the House be to the decision of the special meetl:l 8| > amended to make provision for record-- of the Council called to pass upon tf,gi F ing the questions by members and an-- agreement. During the discussion Mr. J | i swers thereto, as proposed, but express-- ) Wardelil (North Wentworth) took ad--' & ed the opinion that provision should vantage of the opportunity to protest be made for preventing this change of against comments in a city newspa;ier E:3 practicé from leading to the asking of practically charging -- him with being: y | questions for information which ordin-- bribed. He emphatically denied and f arily and reasonably should be obtain-- l resented the imputation, adding that he| 'ed by means of motion for a return. was simply interested a h t of taxes on cit it eayy payer. Private Bills. n nancn on en o The bill empowering William John & Smith and Edward Smith of Toronto, executors of the late John Smith, to sell or mortgage certain lands, was re-- _ported by the Private Bills Committee. f ~-- _ The bill to confirm the by--law of the +Township of King respecting dAeben-- | tures in connec\tlon with the Aurora & \Schomberg Railway was again discuss-- ed at length, and finally reported. _ The Public Accounts Committee 'wound up their business to--day by \passing their report, which recited in 'a formal way the proceedings which _had taken place at the various ses-- ' slions. _ _A number o pupils from Hamilton Street School, in charge of Mr. John f \ Wallis, the Principal, were interested spectators of the afternoon session in the House. s < anennmmmmenmmememeeeeamenmmmm k THE CITY'8s ARGUMENTS. A Deputrtion Waits on the Govern-- ment to Protest Against Passing --of Metropolitan Bill, *3 .. deputation representing the City Council, Board of Trade and others waited on Premier Ross and Hon. John t Dryden yesterday afternoon respect-- ing the Metropolitan Railway bill. Mayor Howland gave a history of the: 7 case, and said the city had been fight--| ing for municipal control of the streets.| The company, he said, really wanted a perpetual right to run on the city streets. The City Council was the pro-- per body to look after the rights of the citizens. He asked that they be heard before the bar of the House if it was necessary. The city did not want to be driven into making an agree-- ment. _ ¢ Mr. Crawford, M.P.P., said the city ¥ wanted to make an agreement with the & lc_omptny. and then have it ratified by k. the Lexislature.