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. WEDNESDAY, MARLH 8, 191-1.- ' """ "% . T . ' ". _------------------ _ ' N0 murmurs i, . 1 i scope of Board Widened. i THIS SESSION , . The limit of coat of local improve-l i ment works for which the approval! _ of the Ontario Railway and Muni-i "m"""""""-""'"""'-.. ! cipal Board is required, as provided t by Hon. M5. 'la'"',',',',',' bill to amend . ' the consoli ate municipal act, is But Members' Absences Will: fixed at $50,000, not $30,000, as print- N , ed in the that dirafts git the bill. the Amendment av ng een made in' be Noted ext Year. q Committee of the Whole. ' .. ' LIQUOR MEN GUMPLAIN PAY WHILE TRAVELLING. . . . OF NEW LIUENSE BILL' Further Amendments to Consolidated DEPUTATION TELLS PROVINCIAL' Municipal Act With Rape", to. SECRETARY THAT 'GOVERN- I Reception for Mr. Donovan's Bill. -.---.--_. A number of prominent hotelmen --.------- waited upon Hon. W. J. Hanna, Pro- vincial Secretary. yesterday to voice The members of the Legislature will their opposition to the new License not trutrer reductions in their salary Act amendments introduced in the checks this session. no matter how Legislature last week. seldom their countenance, appear in' The hotelmen objected to the plac- the Chamber. Sir James Whitney's ing upon them of a tax of five per bill to amend the Legislative Assem- cent. on all bar receipts over $40 a bly act by fixing a penalty for non- day, but their chief complaint was attendance was advanced a stage in about the clauses giving officers of the House yesterday when the Prime the License Department the right to Minister made a number of sugges- examine the books of hotelkeepers in tions to fill in the blanks left when order to check up returns to the De- the bill was introduced. The final partment. They declared that such suggestion was that it would scarce- power was dangerous, ard questioned ly be fair to bring the change into 11,ti,fd'trt,','niTteonte"t'dil'.ht to put such force this session. and July 1 was Hon. Mr. Hanna gave them little named. leaving things on the old foot-' fiomfort. t de, 1pointed out that the . quor ac s n one sense a revenue mg this 1esfi.on. . ,. act. and as a revenue bill the Govern- In explaining the hill Sir James ment had the power to make such took up the first clause, which fixes regulations respecting the new mea- the payment of members where the sure as were considered necessary. session lasts less than thirty days. He -------r------------' considered that $20 a day was a fair indemnity. Deduction for Absences. The deduction suggested by Sir James for each day's absence was either $10 or $15. This clause, he said. contained a departure from the act governing the Federal House,' since it provided that a member whoi did not appear in the House on i) certain day, but was travelling bona; fide on his way to the Legislature" . . should not suffer a deduction. Where, the member was in the city in ,1i.et..t) the session was being held, or was within ten miles. and was prevented by sickness from attending. it should ' ' be reckoned as a day of attendance. The Prime Minister suggested that _ five or six days be allowed each mem- ber on which he might be absent on T necessary business without having a deduction made in his indemnity. Advances to Members. The new bill also provides for the payment of members from time to . time as they become entitled to their _ indemnity, and in this connection Sir James thought that $15 for each day. would be sumeient, the remainder to . he paid at the end of the session. The bill was allowed to stand overt and will be taken up again and the . blanks filled in. 1 Make the Counties Pay. I Mr. A. E. Dongvan's bill to make counties and rural municipalities shoulder the expense of patients sent into city hospitals received a favor- . able reception from Hon. Mr. Hanna. The Provincial Secretary, while ques- tioning the advisability of allowing some details of the bill to become law. considered that the.bill had the; right principle and should go on tol the Municipal Committee. J .