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I Never before during this session has the Liberal Opposition in the Legisla- ture been seen to better advantage than I yesterday afternoon and evening, when the strongest of lights was made. against the Whitney gerrymaptlcr bill.' The debate was Opened early in the afternoon by the Liberal leader. Hon. Mr. MacKay, whose address was re- plete with force and logical argument. He took up the principles laid down (try the Premier and showed clearly [and unmistakably how Mr. Whitney thad wandered. away from them. i,, The Opposition leader centred his {attack on the failure of the Premier I to act upon the principle that at least i the population of constituencies should [be equalized. Admitting even that in was not possible in every instance Eto follow county boundaries. he con- iclusively proved that on the more. i basic principle, that the population of leonstilueneG should be equalized. E Mr..Whltney had not acted upon what glue Mignon-lured to be his policy. the :.quoted constituency after constitu- iencyl which had not bcen touched Opposition Conducts Most Spirited De. batis-Pvemier Has Not Stuck to C Prim'lplt's Laid Down by mum-It ---h'tm Fair Faking and Pea-un- der-shell Racket. Says Opposition "tttder-Country Butch-rod tor Political Adrantage--Two Votes for Toronto .Eloctors. Otte for Rural Voters. - A.Srli, Leader of Opposition Gives the Figures Supporting His Contention. LIBERALS MAKE FIGHT IN HOUSE. Premier's Boasted Honesty Described in Debate as Thimble-rigging. where the differences in population ran into thousands. Only where pol. itical advantage was to be gained had the cry of equalization been raised for the obvious purpose ot gerry- wander. Particular emphasis was also placed upon the course pursued regarding To- ronto. where electors were to be given two votes each. whereas the electors in the rural rulings would still con- tinue to have only one. The time of redistribution was' inopportuno, claim- ed Mr. MacKay, coming as it did so long after a general census. The lead- er was followed by Mr. Sam Clarke (Northumberlandl. Colonel Atkinson (North Norfolk. Messrs. C. M. Bowman (Bruce), w. H. Hoyle (Onta'rio). W. K. McNaught (North Toronto), and A. C. Pratt (South Norfolk). The debate will be continued this morning 'by Mr. A. B. 2firiop, subsequently Mr. T. H. Presr [Jtfrl1lflT j.)-llflRYhfh.liil)liilr, _ HARGEWN, l, ofb-"irfh()li'L'ilr".r, ij, In continuing the debate on the. re- I distribution bill Hon. Mr. MacKay said ,his reason for submitting the resolu- DCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCC QCOOCDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCOOOC Taking Premier's Argument. You (Brant) will offer an amendment to Toronto rmpt'esentation, and a fur- ther amendment will Le. proposed by Mr. J. A. Auld (Essex) with regard to his county. To Hurry Through. In moving the second reading of the bill to amend the pharmacy act. Dr. Sineilie said it provided for regulation regarding the sale of cocaine. The bill specitied, he said, that when doctops' prescriptions were presented to drug- gists the latter should retain the pre- scription, so as not to let the victim of the cocaine habit take that prescrip- tion to another drugglst. Briefly. Dr. Smellie told that the cocaine victim never lost the craving for the drug. Dr. Jessop also favored the bill. The following bills were given third readings: To preserve the forests from destruction by tire, Hon. Mr. Cochrane: to amend the forest reserves act, Hon. Mr. Cochrane: to supplement the revenues of the Crown in Ontario. Hon. Mr. Matheson; to amend the supplementary revenue act. Hon. Mr. Cochrane ', respecting municipal securi- ties, Hon. Mr. Matheson; to amend the act respecting Quermston Heights: Park. Hon. Mr. Foy: respecting the city of Guelph, Mr. Downey. That it. is the intention of the Government to finish the business of the session as quickly at: possible was evidenced by the motion of the Premier at. we morning session, which read zw "Any connnlttee ot this House which hag not concluded the business referred to it may continue to sit while the House is in session." "I want to ask any honest man." said Mr. 1liivl"Pay. "any man who pretends to ho honoat. if that, is "quttlizinw'the eon- stitucneies '3 Why an" two municipalities taken from the smaller and given to the groatvr . How can that be honestly defined as honestly imdeuvorinsr to equalize tho population ? Peel had 3 Pol' vent. more population than Car-dwell. and now it will have 50 nor rout. From that whivh hath not. in so far as population is concerned. is taken about half that it hath. The reason is obvjous. Right. in the front. row on this sido of the House sits Mr. John Smith, the only man. it is supposed, who can hold Peel. This chang- turns over J.5i) (hmsutvvative votes. the battle-axe will fall on him. and that is the reason of the alteration. \"I would like the people of Ontario to port-om? exactly what this means." provomlcd Mr. Maekay. "I am willing that the people of the Province should judge of tho boast which names so often from the Premier ' 'IIonest enough to be bold. and bold enough to he honest.' "---Hon. A. Cl. Mat-Kay. "Lot the oonstituetwies of Pvel. and Cavdwcll 'bi- taken. They wore. "ousiituentis where the county boundaries were not considered. In the 1901 census Cardwell had a population of 18.527. Take " AllaDdale, which had gum- out by virtue of a special act and been added .to Simme. leaving 17.473. The population of Pool was 18.032. or 559 more than Cardwell. from which the, townships of Albion and Bolton had been I'P- moved. and by the hill plaw-d in their own county. Couuly boundaries were ulmm'vnd there, but not. in other vases. What, was the result ? Taking off Albion. with 2.741. and Bolton, with 702, frmn Cavdwell, a eonstitueney was loft with a population of only H.030. while Peel had 21.475. A Concrete Case. ETTOI'I to make no change in old Ontario ,,i ridings at the present time was endors- fed by tht'. Premier in his finding that F owing to the ago and inaccuracy of the existing census it was not safe to de- pend upon the figures He stated that in 1891 the cities ot Ontario had been dealt with. when Toronto had been given four members. Hamilton two and Ottawa two. In 1902 certain changes had been made in New Ontario, as it Was called. whereby additional repro- sentation was given to that part of the Provinc-o. Even now he agreed that it was advisable to increase the represen- tation in New Ontario. Continuing. Mr. MacKay wont to Great Britain for precedents when a redistribution was brought into tht? House of Commons by a joint commit- tce of both parties, and the leaders of both parties had adopted the principles ' laid down. The delimitation of me' constituencies, continued the speaker.' had then been left to an indopcmlmt' commission. In 1885 the principle of' I il one man one vote and one constituency l 1.o.l""..,rTt?iy.iyr1ttative had been laid down i muhreat Britain. 3 l thought, sir, we had arrived at 5}»333F.1]f:r'}_ lone' ago. The leaders in Goiux Nick on P Great as " "Thu' proper time to make a redistri- l (nought. sir, we had arrived at t here long ago. The leaders in at Britain arrived at it as far back 1885." said Mr. MacKay. I '0lit'y. 0