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*o the leled.'.ion.qf a Minister of Cro "hi-- MUatheso ',re;.d' a telegram= _ _ ~ e . y Lands or a Minister of Mines. _ But, To ;' as follows, "Treasury bills |.""" } fe prom:-- what was egpected, what everybody be-- |"O" DT discounted satis-- . |!"®>, DS o establish . a sep-- f lieved woufd be done, was not being | paid °." 'a;nd new.bgls t;fio of the com-- |2ate Departn ent fai;) "l;-'hud not | done; a different policy altogether was factorily,"sas an Mn the loan for ; been carried ou! . . The other act mere-- | bei + : 3 letion of the renewal of the loa '1v detached a department from th s ing adopted. His hon. friend was in-- |P ing Railway credit [ly detached a department 1 the of creasing the number of the Executive | the Temiskaming Y !flce of Premier and attached a title. Council. --It might be a proper thing to |Division of Liouor Fines. 4 Hon; £ " Ros * hought it would be do ; the country was growing. . The Hon. Mr. Hanna amended his amend-- 'desirable to have the ballot papers in Ministers of the Province, he 'believed, | ment to the liquor license act, so that gDomlm.onQ, ] '_-fncul elections uni-- worked harder than the Ministers at Ot-- the la d dition to sub--section one shall 'form, in which view the Premier con-- " tawa. _ But it was not so long since his [ _ 4. _ leurred, promising to consider the point hon. friend proposed to abolish the Pub-- | a, Arabster of removal of :A 11. iin committee. _ lic Works Department altogether ; now cen::. e:e;;e Amounting to one--half the |_ Mitr. Gamey withdrew 'his bill respect-- , he was increasing the Executive Coun-- |fee payable to the Province for sucPd !i-- |ing life insurance companies, but un-- | cil from seven to eight. _ He knew there .| CCNFA turndt;qltggie:ef;i%\h ifif'g rosecutions der protest. _ He believed the sense of | were extraordinary duties attached t0o ~| unger the liquor license act are brought the country desired to have the reserve | the office of the First Minister, which |by an inspector or other officer a;':po}'nt- of the companies on the same basis in 'necessnfily required that he should be . ;r?»\ t:,':e:lh:hg{?w;hg:dg:fllte'}::efeg?tiygiolelg "o . the Province as in the Dominion. relieved of departmental work. The thap Province. \ _ Hon. Mr. Hanna stated that the Gov-- o arrangement during his time as Premier, Mr. McCoig thought the section an ernment were impressed with the im-- hon. gentlemén would remember. Wa$s |ynjust one, providing that the whole portance of the matter, but could not that he occupied also the position f |reyenue should go to the Government deal with it on such shoet notice. Treasurer. _ The actual work of the de-- simply because the inspector laid a Mr. Kertr secured an order of the partment was administered by chartered 'char;.fo. House for a return of copies of all cor-- accountants, and there was not much Hon. Mr. Hanna believed that the bill respondence; papers, documents and | work for thg Minister to do, as his hOn. |\might well in the working out result memoranda relating to the drainage of \friend the Treasurer could testify, just |;, "mm.p revenue coming to the muni-- the River aux Raisin, in the townships ! enough mental activity to prevent men-- icipalities. He hoped it would lead to | tal decadence. \the municipalities instructing their of-- t i i \ficers to enforce the act. * The Premtier Set Right. Mr. Graham said the collection of ¢ The Premier was glad and sorry bOth |fnos was not so much the object as the that this hon. friend had at last ventur-- prevention of the violation of the law. | ed into the open. s | The Provincial authorities might not | _ Hon. Mr. Ross--I am always in the |\wish to interfere with the municipal f harvg A |authorities, and he feared that in the | | The Premier was sorry the hon. &N' |working out of the act they might es-- ~MH tleman had characterized the new Min-- cape responsibility. No law was more {} i ister of Mines from new Ontari0 @8 & |q;fgcult of enforcement than the li-- 1 makeshift. loense act. _ Toronto was a model to | U Hon. Mr. Ross said the Premier had |{ne Province in respect of its adminis-- | | given the word "makeshiit" a meaning Itmtion of the law, but there the in-- 'x | that was not intended or conveyed. _ It lspectors had nothing else to do. There (4 \ was merely used in relation to the me-- !was not such an -- inducement -- else-- § i thod his hon. friend had taken. _ The 'where for the same attention. [ | new Minisfer might be better than any Hon. Mr. Hanna said the amend-- { Row on the treasury benches, and that lmonti were intended to induce atten-- | would not be a marvellous thing. |tion to the law. -- ' ;Claims Promise is Fulfilled. {qt.\l'rr-] Gra'ha;n rea(: a _:_et.te_r frt(;m l'}':w ~ ' f f s St. Thomas Journal criticizing the Pre--. > l The Premjfer held that 1f he bad done lmier'u amendment _ to _ the gSu'rmgate , | what his hon. friend said he had promist |(Gourts act, and arguing that the 3 ed t.o «to. t.h.ere would also 'have been 'a-mendment would tend to throw the y fulr nerease . 1 t.he m'embers.hip of tbe ' management of the estates of minors * | hxec_utxve _Coupcnl. The change i" |;ngo the hands of trust companies and | public feeling in new Ontario, he said, 'rruarantf-e companies, and to burden | had commenced at the time the hONn. |FTpa masses | L gentleman (Mr. Ross) had succeeded to ' The Premicr thought the ficts wm'e' $ Lpower. The promise he (t'h'.) P"\mw?') |untruly stated and the conclusions dra wn 4 i had made had been fulfliled with the dil-- | |unjustifiable. _ He had been _ advised \¢ | ference that the Government in contrA>; |ipna; the first section of the bill was | distinetion to the hon. gentlemen had mm;-ccss*éry and withdrew it. t : confidence enough in the new Minister : | s ' | of Mines from new Ontario to ask him lWhat's in a Name ? ' ' to take the Department of Crown Lands. f iProceeding, thraPremior declared he had | .Hon. Mr. RO" thought'tljat .Ih,"' dig-- | never said that the new Minister would nity of Ministers alone was being con-- : have charge of the Department of Mines, 's'ulted. in. the bill c.ha?ngmg the title of and nothing else. -- They proposed to Commissioner to Minister, and he saw l put upon his shoulders the burden of the !'"0 necessity or public purpose to be j | Crown Lands Department. but might i-sel'}'ed by abolishing _ an appellation | | lighten the load iby transferring some | which had become historic and been' , subjects connected with that depart-- borne by many distinguished men. He |\ ment to other departments of the Gov-- wondered why the eminent office of the| | ernment. ' | Provincial Treasurer should not be | j | _ The bill was given its first reading. | dignified with the title of Minister _°f i 7 '-- Provincial Finance, and the Provincial | Other Government Bills. ' |Secretary might be distinguished as \ The following other Government bills | Minister of State. _ wore read a first time:-- The Premier thought the leader of ' ||__Hon. Mr. Foy--To amend the act re-- the Opposition was playing to the gal-- |specting the appropriation of lands for |lery. ;%volunteers to. South Africa, and of | Mr. Graham desired to point out ' 'if,volunteers who served at the frontier. ; without offence that the change of the _ | in 1866. si 'name of the Crown Lands Department I '].'hls extends the time for making lo-- ito that of Lands and Mines was un-- gcatlon.-. the_sur\'eys for which cannot 'doubtedly playing to the gallery. The 'be made rapidly enough to meet the ap-- |mines had always been administered by ; | plications. _ It also provides that pow-- |the Crown Lands Department, and there s & lers of attorney, which are being large-- + > ly used by land speculators to eva.dez A |the taxes to whrich the locations are due llf transferred by veterans, shall be re lgarded as transfers, and revokes that {part of a settlement plan for which a |Detront company has powers, whereby a number of veterans who had already |selected locations in certain -- districts | would have to surrender their locations 'to the company and seek others. !ti;{:t;hl\ir.blr{mna's. bill to extend the 1 lernmenter;d:' :'g:';trl&*s nt\'ay ection, of | > . ue erect; f "Houses of Refuge. § mection Of © éfoll,{ ot']l) DT Reaume--To amend the act E < j e a i o " Tfi the Government grant. Pporonment | | i . Mr. Lennox--To amend the act 16. ; f