The Ontario Scrapbook Hansard

Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 13 Feb 1908, p. 2

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"'( f.li | 'ls'?» ic to ] napping out the campaign to be carried out in the course of the session, the de-- tails of which will be settled at subse-- * quent caucuses. Redistribution questions | | were touched upon, and, as indicated by Premier Whitney when the bill was in-- troduced in skeleton form a few days | ago, the question will be submitted to a joint committes drawn from both sides . of the House before definite proposals are brought down. Of course in such a | committee the Government will have a | majority, and the Opposition will be ' powerless to do more than express their . opinion. An effort will be made to close : lthn debate on the address in reply to the speech from the throne this week. ; | They Must be Sick. | __Under the new bill to amend the act | respecting the Legislative _ Assembly | sickness is the only excuse, under cer-- | tain conditions, which will be accepted | for the absence of members from their | duties if they wish to escape from hav-- | , ing their sessional indemnity -- reduced. | Section 69 provides that a deduction of | $4 a day shall be made from a member's sessional allowanee for every day that | he does not attend sittings of the A«-- ; sembly or of some committee thereof. For each day during the session,. after | the first on which a member attends, on : which there is no sitting of the Assem-- ! bly, in consequence of its having adjourn-- !.ml over that day,. or if the member is | within ten miles of the place of session, 'or prevented attending by sickness, the ' indemnity will be paid. | >

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