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'.nw":;,:'---;-'Wr».._' : m Government had failed: to d to the artisan and farm-- er, and if the latter put their heads | toet!lw they would wake up the men who shrugged their shoulders and said ||, Itho proposition -- was one of those things labor agiators were clamoring for. '"Let us appoint a committee," concluded Mr. Marshall; "then the matter cah be ijooked into, and if the | : proposition is impracticable it can be, rejected ." | As none of the Conservative mem--, bers expressed a desire to speak, the| vote was then taken, and Sir James: Whitney's "six months' hoist" idea was adopted by forty--one to nine. | Keep the Fourteen Judges . i The House then went in committee on Hon. Mr. Foy's bill respecting the Supreme Court of Ontario and the administration of justice in Ontario,| Mr. Roweli suggesting that the clausef relating to Supreme Court Judges] should be changed in order to vprovide for twelve Judges instead of fourteen. The suggestion was imme-- diatoly rejected . Mr. Proudfoot (Centre Huron)| suggested revising section 39, clause 2, pointing out that at present they| had Judges appointing themselvus' | Judges of a certain court. ' He did not think the Judges had power to appcint and constivute 'hem" selves memhbers of a bhoard to which} they did not belong.lt was a question | worthy of consideration, There was| a good deal of question among the profession at the present time whether the second division had any' power to deal with appeals that were being raised at present. Sir James and Hon. Mr. Foy spoke at once, both favoring "standing pat." Mr. Rowell inquired of the Attor: ney--General what was the character of 'the legislation now being consid-- ered by the Dominion Government re-- garding the Appellant Court, and was told that the Appellant division is be-- ing substituted for the Court of Ap-- peal. -- Discussing another »clause of the} bill, Mr. Proudfoot agvocated g0ing back io the position they were in in 1909, when they kad the Court of Ap:-- peal and the Divisional Courts. That would suit the prefession and the' Judges much better, he declared. He! pointed out that judgment had not "_yet been givon of cases tried in Janu-- | ary last. | _ ~Before adjournment Mr. Hearst in-- \ troduced a bill to amend the sur-- | yeys act. The practice had been to de-- duct the acreage of lakes when mak-- ing surveys, but recently a Judge had 'held, notwithstanding that fact, that| the line should be run in the centre| l between the north and south boundar-- ies, Wherever lakes were shown on the original plan of the surveyror they remained in posscssion of the Crown. Another bill to amend the Ontario voters' lists acts affected the prepara-- \ tion of lists in unorganized districts. ','l'he proposal was to appoint a chief !\ enumerator who would have power to appoint deputies and filing their re--> turns with the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, thus doing away with the necessity of passing an order in Coun-- cil in each case. ue en e en ces en in teaimertuiee in