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MONDAY, _APRIL 15. ---------_------___*_' >A rvenmememmmenn . iz Prorogation Ceremonies This Afternoon. Review of Some of the lmnortnnti Measures=Large Increase in Fac-- tory Accidents.' 8 | With the assent of the Lieutenant-- Governor to--day to the bills of the ses-- sion just closed soine very important legislation will come into force. The session has been one of hard work and not much display. The development policy of the Government has advanc-- ed concurrently with a forward policy in transportation. After a thorough in-- vestigation both sides concurred in the passing of a bill granting one million dollars to assist in the improvement of the public highways. In the same line is a bill to facilitate the abolition of toll roads by municipalities. A pre-- liminary step toward the construction of a Government railway to the Temis-- caming country was taken in a vote of $10,000 for investigation and sur-- veys. The land grant to the Maritou-- lin & North Shore Railway will open up an extensive section in Algoma, and at the same time secure concessions hitherto unthought of in connection with a Provincial railway. The cash grants to other railways, including the 'Thunder Bay, Nepigon & St. Joe line, are on terms in advance of those of past years. _A pulp concession, by which a plant costing $1,500,000 will be erected at Keewatin, and on which the former leader of the Opposition sup-- ported the Government's policy, means much to the far northwestern portion of Ontario. The importance of scien-- tific eduvration for industrial Canada was recognized in handsome grants to Toronto University and the Kingston Schocl of Mining. Assistance to a pro-- mising agricuitural industry is em-- bodied in bounties for beet--root sugar, now first definitely taken up in Ontario. The amending of the assessment act so as to do away with the "scrap--iron" assessment meets a demand urgently