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f more information upomu"s' ques-- 7. > ® _ tions. Dr. McQueen .was rlintormed that the Government had received re-- quests from twenty--six counties and ¢ four cities to take action to stamp out tuberculosis in Ontario, The Pro-- vincial Secretary gave a statement showing that for the five years from 1900 to 1905 the Government had given $20,438 to assist local sanitaria, and in the five years from 1905 to 1911 $160,073 had been appropriated. | In addition the Government had ap-- MB propriated smaller sums for tuber-- . § | culosis and health exhibits. The state-- | ment showed also that Ontario had & i * smaller death rate from tuberculosis IS BEING FU | than nearly every European country, | and that it was constantly growing t |less. beraensromntetiace en neninesinine | Sir James informed Mr. Udney | ' Richardson that no arrangement had o 3 | yet been made between the Federal Promise 10 Temperance PQO"I, 1 and Provincial Governments with re-- * c ied Out | ' ference to promoting immigration to | rrie U | New Ontario, nor had any such ar-- ple Being Larr ( | rangement been made with regard to | | &the construction of permanent high-- marmugnisnaa iss | | ways. i | Hon. Mr. Hanna secured Opposition 1 : | assent to present information regard-- MAY COME THlS SESS'ON. '\ing the enforcement of the liquor 1 | Jlaws in northern Ontario in the form in inss puate un ontinans Grme m nrenie t of a return of the House. To Col. ' Atkinson's inquiry . about the Gov-- i s | ernment's pol%cv f Sirl )f;:,tmtq ( q[;?p(l Mr. Rowoell Informs Deputation That | that it would be made known from | There Will be No Delay in Bring-- | | ime to time. | 4 g # § ; P | ui £ ame | ing in New Policy--Cold Comfort | B K l & i * | s lingual School Question From the Government. ( Mr. Rowell voiced an objection to : the manner in which Hon. Dr. Pyne es s 4 answered Mr. Racine's question as y C , to the number of bilingual schools in ' the Province. He considered that the | "I have nothing to say."--Sir f' Minister had not given an answer by | James Whitney's reply to the stating that Dr. Merchant's report| UHporonce HH had not been received. If there were | emperanct * no bilingual schools that fact could "Let -- me-- first express -- my be stated, and if there were such thanks to the Alliance for ex-- ' | schools the Government should know pressing itself{ in such a courteous ' | of them and not have to depend up-- Icrate way T tHhink on Dr. Merchant. and moderate way. . . . in The Opposition continues to be in-- we all recognize the evil of the quisitive. On Friday Mr. Munro will tarrooim. -- The question is -- the * ask : '"Was any request from any form of legislation to adopt. . . . source whatever made in writing to o o o a conciusi the Government or any member or We eannot come .o a concitUston official thereof for the making or the suddenty in view of present con-- s increasing of the deposit of public ditions. . . . It will be decided this moneys in the Farmers Bank of Can-- o pnerast Pep y elP's rp. ada? If so, from whom did any suich session. From Mr. Rowell's re written request come?" . ply to the temperance imen. Mr. Rowell also seeks information w upon the assessment law, and O" The temperance forces -- advanced Tuesday next will ask: '"How many isl ts j sa's I3. 4 gisit s in ueen's Park petitions were presented to the Legis-- upon, the h'gh m,' ' Lf // smail lature or the Government in each ()fl' yesterday . in considerably hrnd]' er the years 1909, 1910 and 1911, pray--| ~t numbers than the great -- deputation ing for legisllation ]enahling muni-' that demanded the abolition of the cipalities to levy a lower rate upon l u: a *Arpayp 3 is 7 (ame improvements than that levied upon! pars a yeat AEO; bu't with ie séall! lands, or to affix the assessment valu-- strong array of arguments and the ation of improvements at less than same convincing way of giving ex-- their real value?" pression to them. The -- deputation, Adttibedestreeccrenie cientcca e ocms CC oh. 2 s stt mm headed by Mr. Joseph Gibson, Presi-- dent .of the Ontario -- Branch _ of the -- Dominion Alliance, first paid their -- respects to Sir James Whit--| ney and> his Ministers, then not} at all comforted by the reception their requests receifved in that quarter," marched down the corridor to the; Opposition lobby and put their case | before the Liberal le&degl', Mr. N. "'.! Rowell, K.C. l Their request -- came under three! sub--heads: the abolition of the bar,| of treating, and of the selling of liquor | in clubs. | § | A Lesson From Mr. Hamna. t Sir James gave them no assurauces that the Government would alter its}| s present course, while Hon. Mr. Halmai read the temperance men a lesson in |