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Colonel, Gibson. before the cram ml the day were reached. referred. to, the select committee appointed at the rut: siygsioir' on" the 'assessment laws' rrrth.fProvin.ce. The, committee, he maid,' had bpetiipptjjtottd eepeeiiilly to ,it. during'the recess between " the missions with a" jiew to completing .;r maturiiig the. mtaispre before the House last .session. . Jle .prcsumgd- that the eifett of the meetiugol'_~ the House was' that the commiitire,had lapsed. technically. He would. like m'have an informal meetiug.of the committee, notwithstanding that it had lapsed, So that he might be able to. lay before them the result. of their deliberations as formulated since the. last meeting.' ' His object .Was to introduce the bill. afresh,.. atr, it came from the ctrttvmittee,jtid to V/AIUIU- . . a _ F Mr. Wlrit,iiey presented a pgtitibn lo give countiés. power to commit lunatics5 m asylums upotrthe,certiticate of two} medical men at the/instance' oi the} sNher.iff, and witltrut the intervention:" hi the county Judge' or.a Justice pt, the: Peace nominated ..by_.him.' .- . I On motion of Premier-Ross the. fol- ?nwing wcreappointed to strike stand- ing' committees for the session :r-lHon. J. Dal/Gibson, Hon. E. J. Davis,.Hml. J.'R. Stratton: "Messrs. J.' .1". Gross, l. M. Bowman, H, Dickerrstt.n, J. r. Pay. A. J. Mathcson, J., I.,.'. Whitney, H. Cargcallcn-and, w. wr.. A. 1Wil- ioughby. .' P ' . _.-'.."' . . _ . The Assessment-Bill. _ . " aturp"clock.. The debate on the ad- "ress' will likely last all week, andper- lva'ps -a portidn (.jf'next week, as the whips will not want a division. while so many members areabscnt m North Oxford.. . u', '. -r' . ' Thc (Thy pare of.debate On the ad- t'irc,os by the rank and tilc of the Lcgia, lature. began yesterday ' Mr. Foy make for an hour and a quarter; m the count: of which he: V argued that the rule Win .10 cail senior" later. He .closed by m/ning an amendment expressing 1lisavproval of the delay in l'uhling the North ls'infrcw election. Mr. Mackay'iollnwwi in a brici.ad- drcss oi great strength. Ile quoted a declaration to'show. that the delay in holding the election. trials was due to jungling among the Conservatives as to who was. entitled to receivejbaek themoney put up'as dirposits..in pre- uous case5. Dr.. Pyne, N.P.P,,"sta, shown to be a claimant for tht: deposit in Nerth Grey. He .also scored when he .pointed out that' the'. Conservative organizer-in North-Oxford was Robert io'irmingltam,. who had, schooled. the men who committed the Manitoba clcc- 1ionHrayds. Mr. Lucashad barely tie. gun hir speech when the House rose atio'ekyck.. The debate on the ad- Dr. Pyne and Conservative Lawyers Claim Deposits. Mr. Fey's Amendment to the Address. K DISPUTE OVER THE FUNDS. Mr. A. G. MacKay Shows Why Elec- tion Trials Were Delayed The Debate in the Legislature. . {DELAY B. _ -._'_""r NORTH RENFREW. ANUAitf? Taking all the sessihns since Crm. l federation. .\lr..F-0y proceeded to com- bat Mr. Ross' declaration that thi l House had been called Hi times out 01 34 during January. In 1902 the Houv. wat, called irrJanuary treciuvse,it "ax to expire in Narch,. With'that' excep- tion. the other three sessions of. the ninth Parliament were called in. Fehru- ary, except the short August session. In the" eighth Legislature there were three 'sessions .called' in- February and one, irrNpvember: The0atmary meet-. .ings Were frequently' very late. in'the month; In those dates, too, there was: he presumed, the tiiisal four weeks' notice. Going back twenty years,Che. found no. case exactly an- laingnds.» to the present. There doubt- less were' then .no. el.e'ctii:ipetitiotis' to |'be headed off," or else the predeces- isors of the hon. gentlemen were re- 'sponsible for additional wrongdoing. (Applause.) _ . Amid applause lrom the Opposition Mr. Foy drew out the analogy. refer- ring to the land thieves who got valu- able, timber Concessions for $250, and water. thieves who obtained valuable tishipg, rights from the Government. The pieriiler"hadaytided'to the recent timber sales. If they were entitled to credit for obtaining good prices this time, they :were responsible for not having obtained equally gddd prices on former occasions. Mr. Foy then out- lined the timber policy, which he claim- ed the Opposition alone advocated, of having ample advertisement of sales and public auctions. . T The Election Trials. The Premier had frankly admitted that the scs-sion was not called for, the, "Ships are but boards, sailors but meh. Theribe)and.rats and water rats, water thieves and land thieves. I mean pirates; and then there is thcrpcril oi waters, winds and rocks. The man is, notwithstanding, sufficient. Three thou- sand dttcats; f think I may take his bond." Mt. Foy resumed; the debate on :he address. He congratulated the i"remier upon his .. vigorous. speech, though alter analyzing" its Jrtpttstyicei, he thought the sp.eetih-yati.'"/htir of weaknesses, . particularly in the 'per'Or-' fitmn. where. instead. of arguing that My: Globe" "barnaclit" article tOtt- vtnned many good lessons, he 'had. rictnally conilxited 'the. facts a that argument. He _did not Show where ',he article failed irr connecting his (internment with the iniquities which that article called upon them to cor- rect. Mr. Foy declared there were. not only barnacles on this "ship of State, butthat it Was' cotrerttrr:wittr them. Hon. gentlemen on trtrop- pnsite side" of the House applauded the Premier, and if'the'r'e were any harnacles irrthe g_afiery'they Would he cheered by the Premier's assurance that the Government would stand by :hem. (Oppo:sitioiapNairsef The "erdiete: of the ipdependerir' press, of many of the Liberal papers,_ and Hi the electors in the recent 1ty.e- r-lections. were, all of one kind; ex- vept in Sault Ste. Mirie., where the elector; weakened-iv, the face mi the great promises made by the Attorney-General.. An amusing part of the Premier's speech was the"re.. lirence to the hon. member for Mini- mulin, a very childish reference. An- uther reference was to the wave oi indignation as seen in the bye-clec- lions in the three Norths. Thom rlectrons, took place before the state- ment made by the hon. member for Manitoulin on. March II last. Mus- kuka and North Renfrew had taken place since. (Applause.) Dates of Sessions. . Mr. Foy quoted from Shylock's spccgh in theCMerchant oi Yenict": Mogcm Shylockn. avcgl't again tefttred' to .the.. same conititittetrwheh it received its, sec- ond reading, to give it whatever) fur- ther copsidtirati.ofrm,itrht be desirable after the discussion. in thtr.House. Ile. thereiote.proptssed. to can an" in- formal meeting for Thursday oi this week. 'r. Mr. Fay's Criticisms. _ .