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k --mmimen l . _ x4 v, e t A | * T +T o« | TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 191%, _ NO "LONG BALLOT' | > TL NEXT YEAB' | | *erensatimmermmnertnmutke T Toronto Members Failed to S P * ecure Bill's Second Reading. *n e nes + C (pe 9 LEGISLATURE'$ BUSY DaAy. Many Bills Passed and Others Advanced Stage. Bill is Introduced to Legalize Practise of Ostecopathy and Raise Practi-- tioners to Higher Level--Opposi-- 3 tion's New Tactics on Bilingual Question. The united pleading of Hon. Thos. Crawford, Messrs. W. K. McNaught and W. D. McPherson has failed to induce the Prime Minister and Pro-- . vincial Secretary to allow the bill au-- thorizing the use of City Clerk Little-- john's "long ballot" in municipalities of over 100,000 to pass the second reading. The bill came up in the Legislature yesterday, and after con« siderable discussion Mr. McNaught yielded to pressure from Sir James Whitney, and moved for the with-- drawal of the bill on the under-- standing that the principle would form an amendment to the general act by the Government next year. Sir James Whitney's chief objec-- tion was that if this would prove a good thing for Toronto it would be good for other municipalities, and under such cireumstances should be a Government measure. He --hadk never seen the bill before. On the request being made by Mr. Mc-- Pherson that the bill be allowed to go to the committee to be thrashed out there, Sir James declared tha\' such action would be "slovenly leg-- islation." "Such a request ought never to be made in this House," hs added. The committee was just the place where it would not receive suf-- ficient attention. ' Objections to Bill. Hon. Mr. Hanna pointed out that the passing of the bill would involve the amendment of eleven or twelve| sections of the municipal act, which i the Government was not prepared to do this session. Mr. Rowell spoke in favor of let-- ting his bill go through, and rfiaid if it should prove a success in t case of Toronto it might then be extended to apply to other municipalities. Mr. Allan Studholme thought it was an attempt to get all the good thlngsj for Toronto. and if it was worth while why should not other cities en-- joy it? Still urging that he thought the bill would be a good thing 'for Toronto, Mr. McNaught said in view of the weighty reasons brought up by the Prime Minister and Provincial Sec-- retary he would not object to letting it stand over for another year. Oppose Close Corporations. Because it tended to the formation of a "clogse corporation," a bill intro-- duced by Mr. T. R. Whitesides (East Toronto), respecting optometry, was withdrawn on the second reading. Hon. I. B. Lucas said the purpose of the bill was to give opticians some standing with the view of protecting the public. At the same time too much power was sought by the asso-- ciation, who elected its own Board of J Directors, apnointed the examiners,