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'8 «m@'mm ph ons 9i h Ievominntne 168 **Mr:Boyd(North Grey)thought' that \ way. He could "not understand why | E veral: sa@mendments>might 'be made .any x'fi"' corporation should seek such strengthen 'the bill.~ The compary &A p ege. | , ' shoutd. be bound to complete the line ~, Dr.~Barr said the section was a sop | within tworor three years; six years to the Rathbun Company in order to. was-- too tong»> Clauses should also be make the member for East Hastings included 'providing that the line should solid . not 'b€6 allowed to--sidetrack a lot of Mr. Russell emphatically denied this. towns :and. villages, nor should the lat-- | _ Mr. Kidd (Carleton) suggested that ter becput>in the position of: haw'<ng 'the provision apply to townships. to offer .bonuses to 'iettm:'llne tg gl}ge \ -- The committee reported progress. f them fair--treatment in regar e | ; . ..wh:aamo of: opinion that the terminals MRA o io. Pub_llc Accounts. > and --car ferry--which had been spoken |'<«'Mr. Charltorn (North Norfolk) pre-- | of. would. not --suflice for the crossing of '®ented the report of the Public Ac. the gap: between Fitzwilliam and To-- | counts Committee. bermory.s.An: ice breaker would. be | _ Col. Matheson . urged that in future needed,.and ..al,together an expenditure |'the Public Accounts Committee should | ef $1.000.000 weu d be reavired ez this i imeet earlier in the session. _ Under| work. He would support the measure presnt conditions the committee had If it was strengthened by amendments [the greatest difficulty in getting a -- which he had outlined,and others which quorum. Members on the Government might be suggested. side were chiefly to blame, but it was & The bill was given its second reading. | ren;'ax;ka:bl,emhow quickly these would rush into the room to vote down any The Municipal Act. motion which they feared the Oppo--. In committee the Attorney--General sition _ members might carry. _ It \ withdrew several clauses of his bill to 'would be well if the committee could amend the municipal act, pointing out meet' immediately after the budget that they would affect pending litiga-- speech. He was glad that some changes tion. © The clauses withdrawa made were to be made, which would aimplify radical changes as to "injuring and the public accounts, and save a great outlet" Hability. h deal of trouble in examining the ex--| Mr. Thompson (Simcoe) moved that a penditures. Further -- improvement| clause be added providing that where a could be made, however. A list should' man's property was enhanced by a new be published of persons getting moneys drain or improvements to drains he from more than one source. There should not be compelled to pay an in-- should also be a detailed statement as -- creased assessment on the property so to the expenditure on colonization improved during the period that he was roads. In this connection he said that paying for drainage improvements. in Conservative constituencies only After a brief discussion the amend-- $13,000 had 'been spent, while in Lib-- ment--was withdrawn. and the bill as| eral constituencies the amount spent amended was reported. } was over $£100,000. . He objected to Hon. Mr. Davis was no: ready to go, amounts being published in lump sums, p on with the municipal amendment act, such as those referring to Cobourg 1901...-- The Attorney--General stated Asylum. It had been stated to him that he was preparing a new clause for that during the last elections Conser-- this bill, which would provide that in vative workmen had been sent down cases of separation of farm lands not from Toronto to work on the asylum only ~should the County Councils ap-- until the election was over, when they , prove, but arbitrators appointed under had <been discharged and sent back. , other sections would have power to ccn-- He had also been told that the cab hire sider the question of separation. of Manls{el's and Government officials Attending funerals was included in The Registration Act. some of the charges in public accounts. When the Attorney--General's bill to amend the statute law was taken up in No Political Schemes. committee several Opposition members Hon. Mr. Stratton said that in regard objected to a clause applying manhood to colonization roads it was dimcult' &'W registration to Sault Ste. Marie to know exactly in what constituen-- and Deseronto. Messrs. Duff (West cles they were situated, as many of Bimcoe), Dr. Barr (Dufferin), Hoyle them ran through various ridings. The (North Ontario), and Whitney argued engineer in such cases used his own that the act should apply to many other discretion as to which constituency ; towns equal in population to Deseronto. they charged with the roads, and there 1 The Attorney--General said that De-- was no force in the argument that seronto had, like Niagara Falls and hey were built for political purposes,. |other frontier towns, a floating popula-- ; ,lithhere was no desire on the part of ' tion. It was to meet the difficulties any head of a department to withhold | ' |arising from this state of affairs that any information he could possibly 1 Q.t,h.e ?iCt was to apply to Deseronto and give. MHe did not know of any mem-' ' |the Soo. _ Hon. Mr. Stratton s{pport-- ber of the Government who had charg-- | ed this view, and also pointed out the ed cab hire for private purposes. It | growing importance of the twp towns was not the Case so far as he was | mentioned . personally concerned, and he was quite Mr. Russell (Fast Hastings) also confident that it could not be charged spoke effectively in the same strain. to any other . member. He thought Mr. Whitney contended that the pro-- that perhaps some changes might be | posal had only political purposes in 'made in details of public accounts to view. At the last election trains were meet some of the suggestions advanc-- | run northward from Deseronto and ed 'ahd would look into the question. | \from the north into the town, and Con-- * 4 ' servatives were refused passage either ho