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~ 599 598 I+ --counties should be appointed by the sender. Had it gone to Mr. Plavelle County Councils, and in cities and towns when that gentleman was Chairman it should be elected by the duly qualified would. he fl(,]i,r.\-ml, have been -- before electorate. Practically the same reso-- the (;'u\\'n Attorney the next morning lution was moved in 1896, the ground and the man who sent it would have taken®on every occasion being that it been charged with attempted bribery. was doesired to remove the administra-- o R tion of the liquor license from the in-- Arother Unfulfilied Promise. fAluences of party politics,. The policy He recalled the Premier's recent as of the Conservative party in this regard sertion in the House to the effect that had been reaffirmed at the conference revelations would be made as to con-- & prior to the last elections by the now ditions in Toronto in respect to l1 Premier, who stated in effect that it cense administration under the former should be non--partisan, and commission-- recime. But after adjournments . of ers and inspectors should be removed th: commission and the searching of from party influences. But no attempt the hichways and alleyways nothing had been made to put it into effect,. As had been found but a twenty--year--old to the system which preceded it, he incident connected with elections. The pointed out that the Liberals had made --onditions revealed in Toronto--cheques no false pretence as to what their poiicy Ivine. varty heelers using their infu was. Rightly or wrongly. they had 'fire. _ lawvers _ being paid by adopted that policy, but they had done feck--had been -- directly invited by it openly, whereas the Conservative the attitude and actions of the present party, having maintained a certain at-- _ Government. For himself he did not titude for thirty years. bad abandoned 1;:'".'\. that he could offer any detailed Lo aimost on the : inonont *0f ONCETHIE Mfin of dealing with the liconse ques office. tion. -- Perhaps, however, the chief of-- The Toronto Case. fieer of the department, Mr. S':j\lvldofi: if given a free hand and assisted by Mr. MacKay alluded to the dismiss-- '~n\.'c two others, the three constituting als of inspectors throughout the Prov-- a Provincial board. so to speak, could ince, referring particularly to the case within one year place the license law of Chief Inspector Hastings of Toron-- on. a ,mn.m',.tigan basis. _ He conclud-- to after a retention of nine months. He ed with a reassertion of his conviction raised the ~'po(-ifi(' qnnsti()n as to wheth-- ® that men who laid down a well--defined er the dismissal of that gentleman was volieyv. and made a contract with the not an act of the meanest and lowest }'(,0 io that they would carry it out, kind of partisanship. The condemna-- lhmlnid be held accountable when, as the tion of the Government's action by the resent Government had done, they then Board of Commissioners as convey-- {n'o.ko that premise. ed in their letter of resignation was read by Mr. MacKay. He asked why Stands by the Government. the country had never been given the | true facts in the case of the dismissal of Mr. Hastings. The Premier asked why the comumis-- sioners had not told. Mr. MacKay said they had told, and more had been told before the recent commission, the report _ ot which should have been presented to _ the House weeks ago. It had been shown, for instance, that Hon. Dr. Pyne, Min-- ister of Education, had left his office to call on the commission to use his influence in getting a license for a man named Courteney. As _ Minister -- of Education,. the hon. gentleman, _ of 'ourse, desired that the licensee should be an, educated gentleman, and so he had pleaded for a man who had been prosecuted and convicted, for infrac-- tions of the law some lfiftosen times. Touching upon the recent Toronto in-- restigation for a moment. he gaid that it took three mouths for the check sent to the present Chairman of the Board of Commissioners to get back to the