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SCd YA " e A~) caene . d AAR d o !~"'Mr. w. Proudfoot (Centre Huron),| -- yap s d s Mr. W. K. M@cau:ht (North Toronto). 'of the Museum. ; 7 gndl M;.) Sam F__liv.:'lktst'(tYlVem: 'Noirthu:n- en aanaeeteenaetimammmaen 4 "berland) approved o e principle in-- ; h. | volved, but doubted whet;l'ler tt':e bill sOME PRIVATE BILLS. ' would accomplish the desired end. I s Mr. Johnson still persisted that his Sturgeon -- Falls Dispute Settled in "bill be put to the vote, and it was Committce. : ! finally lost. ; The Private Bills C itt f th 1 sexur P PA e Private s Committee of the | \;;es dmr \:«:r:en. f t' Legislature yesterday settled the dis-- s e day 0o e women has come a p y 53 Jagt. A record of a bill to give the pulte betgeendfhefoSJblic and b'eparate fair sex a vote is to go upon the or-- school Boards of Sturgeon Falls by dgr paper of th? Legislature. Notice \ arranging a new agreement in which 0 mot&on was given yesterday by Mr.' the Separate School Board gives up {\hl(l'a?) btu_dholme of a bm, to' amqnd 'all claim to taxes from the 'Imperial > Ontario election act by extending | the franchise to women, and backed \ Pulp & Paper Company, and receives by Mr. W. Proudfoot, the Tabor mem-- from the Public School Board the sum ber will brave the displeasure of Sir of $1,200 at once and $700 in three James Whitney and make a brave years. fight for the ladies. A woman suf-- The city of Stratford was given frage bill was prepared last session, power to purchase the Light, Heat & but Mr. Studholme could get no one Power Company of Stratford and the 'tfl second it. This year Mr. Proud' e]ectric plant. and to Combine the ' foot has volunteered. Mr. Proudfoot's Light and Water Commissi { | bill to amend the liqudf licéense act & C sloners. a + Approval was givemw a bill authoriz.--| byi striking out the three--fifths re-- ing Owen Sound to grant a loan of | c iftons a numbper of oth fl':'l'ea'""g $20,000 to the Canadian Heating &}| among a number of other bills. Ventilating Company, Limited. _ Ap--! Increase For Commissioner Dane. DrOKal ";as 511180 given a town by--law s . authorizing the municipality to h | For the purpose of increasing the a companf to be fo,.mf(; fo'\,. tthél zggf Sa--]a!:\' of Ml': l'l'ed Dane of the Temis-- struction and ODQration of a dr\.dock 'kaming & Northern Ontario Railway and shipbuilding plant. "% l Commission, a bill was _ introduced \J \ sunoormmuteontrrernmermmerenivemmmmmmmmmee | : yesterday by Hon. Dr. Reaume. _ It| t s > l ' provides for antincrease from $2,500 > . to $2,750. I 4 f Mr. W. Proudfoot has given notice of an amendment to the wages act, I ' | which seeks to put agents working on , commission upon the same footing as A\ k ¥ 'salaried men as -- creditors _ of _ the| 4_\\' _ company employing them. _ Mr. 4. . . \ Gooderham introduced a bill to amend \ ; \ the municipal act by giving the On-- ~4 tario Motor League the right to erect' : guide signs throughout the Province. The new milk bill, introduced Iastl week by Hon. J. 8. Duff, was given a} second reading. There was no dis-l : cussion. the Minister suggesting that | the bill be taken up in committee. | ' Lengthen School Holidays. f The House dealt in committee with Mr. W. K. McNaught's bill to incor-- porate the Hospital for Sick Children; Hon. Mtr. Cochrane's bill respecting . the Ontario & Minnesota Power Com. i 'pany; Hon. Col. Hendrie's bill to ; amend the Ontario railway act re--| ; garding -- interswitching and 'mter-} Ichange of freight, and Mr. P. H. Bowyer's bill to amend the public| school act by adding the last half of : August to the vacation for rural . ! schools. Each was reported without amendment. In the discussion on Mr. Bowyer's + bill to lengthen the rural school sum-- mer vacation to the end of August, Hon. Mr. MacKay asked the Mi&igter * of Education whether the department had definite information of the at-- |\ tendance during the latter half. of August, and whether it was fairly _good or slim. Hon. Dr. Pyne replied ithat he could not exactly say what! ' the attendance was, but it would probably be pretty good, he would say | perhaps about three--fourths of that in September. Hon. Mr. MacKay's idea is that if the attendance is very poor during the weeks in August when | school is open under the present reg-i ulations, it might be as well to ex-- t tend the holidays, but if the schools' . are well attended in August they| might as well be open for the sake of | the little children who can come then| but cannot attend during part of the| winter. In any case he thinks the| department ought not to make any' change in the existing . regulations without having in view the full factsi | as to attendance. s I | umnmermummmammenemmmememmmmmeme