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. ' - .3311 Smofgcgf "Waging action have ritihU. thin I . purchasera should not be iii-en it by 'tte" F -i-t-- cial legislation. The duty of the Gow illlllll?lillllmillf Till? , eminent u ended when they give a good I EARED title. They "fd,',','.', ealled upon by special i __.____' ialation an awards to may. the _ 'tSt/IT',?, from an}. actioni'that may; OTHER LINES CAN PARALLEL TEE come up." i ' GOVERNMENT ROAD. Hon. Mr. Foy said that the plaintiffs; -----_-- had never asked for a ot. He. alsoi read the proclamation withdrawing from l Hon. Dr. Reaume "75 That the Govern- exploration certain lands. including tho i ment Should Not be Protected-Sir Ujl.s of Cobalt and Kel? La:k.es. ttttd Hll, I ver Belt Electric Railway Bill as which the Governments right to .aell; . Trga larvely based. - T ! l, Amended Passed Committee. "on. Mr. Fey introdueed " bill to: ----.--'- NYY the Ontario election not. its "The Government, ehonld not, be pro- prineipal feature " a prormon enabling. h . t.. 7 . clergymen and teachers to vote. although i l tected any more t. an fl private In- they have removed. owing to lhe exigeu- f 2 dividual. t'ompeiitiut1 is as good for firs at: their profession. from the district the Government as for anyone else." m which they are registered. . This was Hon. Dr. Realmw's view as Interesting Point of Law. 'expressed in the Legislature's Railway Mr. Thompson iWenttrorth) tnorcd i, Committee yesterday when speaking the seeond reading of his bill to amend' 1 in respect. to the Silver Belt Elm-trig the liquor license art. The art provided Railway Company's bill, int,roduced by that. a retail limior store should not he Mr. w. R. Smyth. The proposed route permitted to ha.ve am agent to take or- of the railway from New liiakeard to 41ers in another mnnicipalitv than the "raile.vbury, Cobalt and Latehford one in which he was licenaed to sell.' ',rparallels the Temiskaming l \'orthern 'Jhere was a once in his oortstitnemt he Ontario Railway, the flovernmeni line, said; in whir.h the owners of P store had ir some sections and touches it at oth- ertablished an 'tgent in an adjoining ers. The powers sought. in the bill were municipality, In that municipality mu. very wide. "A blanket charter over a man regularly licensed. who TrttN oh- the whole of Nipioing" was the wnv liged'to meet this enmpetitiun, Tho law Mr. C. N. Smith. the member for the on this point was not eleer. and the, Son. expressed it. The eommittee trim- aet he proposed would make the sale of med the bill tsorrRidvrahly. safeguarding liquor in this war illegal. all interests in respect, to the develop. Hon. Mr. Hanna replied that the ment and sale of eleetn0ity other than ' question of a i-anvasser selling in a level that required for the railway; eontin- I municipality teemed to be provided ing railway rights absolutely to the pro- i against in the present art. Lat-t year visions of the not. and in' other wavs l, an amendment along the same line had limiting the powers conferrvd. Th,, been suggested to the department. but bill (I: amended was <~arried. on that occasion it applied to the whole- On the ,m,uTr,osifion of Hon. Messrs, sale shops. Tho Minister "mm, on to Hendrie and llatlieson. a clause was: ad.. _ demonstrate that the working out of ded hy whieh the Pompanf' agreed. in the such on not. would be to drive the orders firm of desiring to sell the milwav. to to the large centres. The act was one, give (he Government the first (ham-e to therefore. that should not, vase. purchase. _ Mr. Thompson r-ited a eat-w in the """"""-""'er"""""r1"r"""- f town of Dundee. where there was an agent. for an establishment in Hamilton. He had a card out soliciting orders for wines. Hon. Mr. Hanna raid the Hamilton man admitted that there was an ageney. at; Dundas, hut that, it was simply an agency for the buyers. He would hesi-i tote to give an offhand decision as to, the law on the point. it wan receiviugl consideration. The bill was withdrawn. I