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s C * m € 4* aCt tnts* Irsbgamade n tor veear . ns 1: m O on © . * es ns Ing ML T. 3 er};gsfg:; rttsovt(le'd : "That |-- _ He pointed out that many of the | < s ie | _ 4 ©4 e PHuT be n C he third | Churches in Canada had the same | TT -- the bill be not now read the 5 tA 4 ifutto N 6 f time, but be forthwith referred back | Principle in théir constitution, c ? f * * un s k ) h ern-- ; to the Committee of the Whole Housc. in c«i)ncluslon 1';51 sai%hth?h e cAfns ; [ s o. y cCc he clause _ ment intended giving the thr & with instructions to insert t t ) | olause on falp 'trigl therein to amend section 24 of thc'?"; Mr. Preston's amendment was lost | h passed in the NXth_3C0 by striking -- by a vote of M to 55. Mr. Studholme | @ Jesty's reign, chaptered 450 P*2uithree: | voting with the Opposition 5 out in the said section the word trtw;:in 2 JPP * i f fifths" wherever it appears _ _, _ -- Third Readings. f and substituting therefor the words "A maal T e duigshs ganie ana majority." s > _ amend ie Ontario game an ' }iif-. sa)id it had not been satisfact0o"~ | , fischeries act, Hon. Dr. Reaume ; res-- ily explained by the Government .WhY pecting local municipal telephone sys-- ' oon apim in gs dioie . iomoal uin s n ment ¢lause should be. placed in the nfAs "Ti i [ The puniic 'senooif SCl, _ L1OnNns + local option. . 'The clause Was '-'l'" h':(;; ' I'a'vn'o: t'n amnnd.t.hf\, pact fc?'l' .th": im-- ; fringement of a prl_nvlple \_\.h]lr(:} tlom | pni»\mzp nt of 'm"hhv'htgh\\uw. }_]nn. ' R it)('('\ll in ('XiStPn('C sinca ('Ollt\(.yi(l\lrl\"])(.l; 1?1. r\fi'fi.|l"|1":. 'p-'*l)"('§]|\'g t'hr: '['(-glsl;]- i 'that the people should decide SUCI ; | tive Assembly, Hon. Mr,. Foy.: for the _ |questions by a majority vote. _ EN m:_ protsection and reformation of negisct-- l the party organs of the (.(»}fer11nl°_11 ed children, Hon. Mr,. Hann@& ; to )tonk that view, and stated '}Vf'l] fl;fl"';i ! amend the Iyi«'lAUn_r license a_(-t, 'Hon. M'r. f hibitory law cm;ld he ('jl'rr:\w(\\(n-] ioid' | I\:"""!"I: ]r~:>1vq..1t:»1g the '\\rt-t;lxl'\"n«-;un't(; § . were desired to do so. 3 o Mr. Hodgins ; to amenc i8 ntar} that the real reason for the clause '\'\.ais | Railway and Municipal Board act, Col-- e to secure permanence. _ "But," he itae onel Hendric ; to incorporate the town s "it has been found, in the testing UMS® [ of¢ Keewatin. that where the local option by--laws xmnmacmomoommmmmmemememme have carried by a bare majority \;nta. they have been -- maintained. Pro-- ceeding, Mr. ])rn'iston |ir1~\\i',r(lg'\?'|':' ;'\'1\1 himself the wrath of the emier Dy y saying that the three--fifths clause was DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO'-' poesx "un--American:" _ Mr. N htmri. 'p:]-.\- q p | B tested that the Government Wwas ¢ Wh D h | | properly un--American, to "E"-"'-'h' -\_": ( at 0 t e eOfile Get ? | { Preston retorted that in prison labor O | E reform and other schemes the Govern-- reeatinfavne iemoes m dment pevate e teerco n nececomaciene o | | 'mpnt had copied from olxm;w)hlo: acro.'«sl;- 0 | ! the line. Proceeding, Mr. Preston said« The Ontario C{overnme fexterday amun +(» at in Atrak 1 | | that local option had come from across The Ontario Government yesterday announced that it was | : zthfl line, where it was alimost ;:"':"";"":," proposed to guarantee the bonds of the James Bay Railway ' \ and had come into power on a Dare R n 42 p '11+ Naly * * ( 3 !m'a'jnm';. Tots: fatks. thedl to the extent of a million and a half of 'dollars for extensions ' I . -- Mr. Macdiarmid (Eigin~--Was 1loca arall in ~» a+ A 6t i: tlas . am iA n * _: f option no good before this Government totalling about fifty miles, and for proposed terminals in To-- O y came into power 7 ronto and elsewhere,. The J; s Bavy Railway. as every o l.lr. Preston--At that time the tem-- O '"."l (']\ where, I_h( l'","f" L".' Railway. as every one O perance people were not callits fO" () knows. is Wm. Mackenzie and D. D. Mann. These gentlemen local option, but knocking at the C us s s i T 6. 0 door of this Legislature for prohibi-- O alsn constitute the M)I]I]'(»"ll]g' nterest in the ]','('('H'H'a] l)('\'(-l- O tion. & R ne f 31\ thich s > chief tacle j 'a y" * ' * roceeding. Mr. Preston M;m 111\{11 O opment Company. which is the chief obstacle in the way o O Manitoba had recently abandoned the carrying out Mr. Beck's policy of publicly owned pole lines : threc--fifths clause. Prince Edward Ts-- O a x = it ; ; . § I [ P es o t pole lines O | land had prohibition, Nova \{g't'm O for the distribution of electric energy from Niagara at cost. 0 | three--fifths. Saskatchewan three--fifths, 3w dn MA haata ass : r .. o Neaspa e tig . ATberts thm',_finhglj and tihec entite O Premier Whitney and Mr. Wm. Mackenzic. if they were both O: ' Dominion a bare majority. <In Queens-- in earnes + + s P arrar o ra in s mr hy whip I land a two--thirds majority governed 0 in (nnm?t. w uul({'« ome t.u an dnang(*nvx'( nt in an huu'x by which 03 the increase of licenses:; Victoria, a ma&-- ¢) the duplication of pole lines between Niagara and this city and N jority; South Australia, Newfoundland ( qBA : s c evec. V i f * § L 'and the Transvaal a bare maiority. of distribution plants within Toronto could be avoided and a ; | Ortario prided itsalf that on temper-- 3s c# L t nA titk. 4 | I l:mCe questlions the Province was . in O great waste of capital prevented. Ox aijavity Rwi » P y * 4 P & & t advance of the majority of British col-- ) () Mr. Whitney has ient Mr. Mackenzie the Province's name i onies. He thought it a pity that the: _ h o o o y . O! + ! should be marking time instead _ of 0 on a note for $1,500,000. It would be interesting to know O? aking a step in advance. s i & 6 T i }r i i f ' t:';:"f'( ie c P f O whether he tried to get anything in return for the municipali-- 0} A Defence. . . . s 2 3 o . P $ O ties along the line of the Electrical Development Company's ( I Hon. W. J. Hanna said that when ue tu s ; s s es 3 236 Oi the Government came into power they () pole lines. The Premier has been profuse in his professions of | j found a local option law had been on O Inc'm nwwhs A cilpalities. e had a 8p1 lid 4 ts O; the statute book for thirty yem.si, but a desire to serve the municipalities. e had a splendid chaned O! a local option only in force in six or f sa:when he «at daown to discuss this enarantes hen Alr | | seven municipalities . At that tims O to d.n so when h« .\,1'('<10\\ n t'f' discuss t'hl.\ 2llalr¢lllf(. . _ When Mr. O because local option was passed by a O Whitney met Mr. Mackeonzie what did the Premier say to ad-- | | bare majority the interests opposed to ; ( % s s uis eas 4 t | it immediately set to work to aiscredit | () vance the cause of publicly owned electrical transmission lines * O.; it with a view to its repeal at the first | <: MaM:--anzsin annimns 4 i. nilinmne i; rilt4a | | opportunity. _ With the three--fifths !8 Mr. Mackenzic comes away smiling with this huge bond guar-- O clause there was behind the-- by--law antee from the people t ! a strength of sentiment which assisted O ant ol I P1C: O j in its enforcement. The adoption -- of ; j | local option by municipalities whi(-hiO WHAT .DO THE PEOPLE GET? O | failed to enforce it did a groat imnjury a O ; i | to the temperance causoe, and there-- » i 3 | fore it was desirable that it shHould DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOO. | . only be adopted under conditions which s e would make for its perman-- | 3 eney _ and enforeement. in ..--the : elections of 19807 and . 1908 there 3 was much not only too oncourage : s the temperance people, but the Gove= | E: ernment. . Those clections showed, he said. that local option had. at last o come to stay in the municipalities, and | 8 whore it was cnacted it was being en-- i l forced by a Government which was in x & j i " i " t / 8 '/'r 4 | X s J