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W--"--'--'----" TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1914. TUESDAY, 4 QW_M N'"ER fit ~West Hastings (Mr. J. W. John-- 'ston) in this House the other day, though the honorable member did not &o so far as The London Free Press. Permit me to say that the statement 4 is entirely without foundation. The Ontario Club is not the oficial head-- $ se quarters of the Liberal party of this Province. It is a social club, organiz-- s o ©(6 * * ed in the same way as the Albany, HIS VISItS SynChmmzed Wlth the NMational or the Toronto Clubs. Its menbership is composed of both Recent Votes Liberals and Conservatives. "In the second place, I am neither an officer nor a director of the club, n y and have no more say in its manage-- ment than any other of its more than STATEMENT OF MR HANNA five hundred members; and, on the C other hand. the Ontario Club, as such, has no say or voice in shaping the Wihinireoieromntinyipeom nsgesstrines policy of the Liberal party. £ A Squelcheor for Interrogator. e Ives Quictus to story 0 « j it 4 T Ml". PJ)""" Gives Q I believe it )8 an exceeding!y Ontario Club's License and Rela-- high--class and well--run club, but like | . all other leading clubs in Toronto it i "Nnliov----S t Sit» A tion to Liberal -- Policy hort Sit has 8 club Hicense. " The hon... mem ting of Legislature, ber for West Hastings asked the oth-- er day if 1 had been doing anything (niihcomicioun wmmminiwies to get this license cancelled. Permil me to say that I have been doing my best, not only to secure the abolition During the brief sitting of the Leg-- of this license, but the licenses -- of f R every other club in this Province. M3 i niate t t y t 7 » ~der apel * 1 islature yesterday the order paj regret is that I have not received any was cleared of a number of questions support in so doing from the hon put by Opposition members in anti-- member for West Hastings or an; 5 KR the Budret to--da; Hon other member on the Government sid« C!pa.llon of the »UCGH d N. * of this House.' T. J. 1"0}' stated that the total expen: Mr. Rowell's statement was received diture to date in connection with the with good--humored applause by the p y % Conservative members. It is evident rk 5 ensatl 1 & mnmis-- c x r q Workmen's oyomp'n.n'.,x 0 t that throughout the session the Lb sion, exclusive of printing, was #8,-- ecral members will lose no opportunit: 702.17. The amount is made up as of bringing the temperance question e i a &" Bb 4 to the front, and whenever the occa-- s 19 $1,5 9; 1912, $3,6614.. >g * hA s E f r:ql]f)'\b. 1 .11,'.1, I"." » 1 l P » sion p!'b'&fnu'l' ll-'"'l: ""l Sh"\\ th,. posi--, 68: 1913, $3,463.00. tion ocecupied by both parties on the | Hon. WV. J. Hanna gave the de-- policy now before the countrv. ; tails of the presence of Provincial meantseemaenenananama e } License Inspector W. K. Snider in the three counties that voted on the Canada temperance act on January 29 last. Mr. Snider was in -- Peel county, at Brampton, on January 23; he was in Huron county, at Wingham. on Japuary 23, at Clinton on the 24th and at Goderich on the 25th; in Wel-- land county, at Ridgeway on the 26th, , _&And at Stevensville on the 2ith. Mr. Hanna said he would discuss the whole situation in the estimates. Hon. W. H. Hearst stated that con-- struction had been commenced on the Lake Huron & Northern-- Ontario Railway, although no official report had been made to the department. | s | No lands had so far been sold. neither | had the department designated ;hni manufacturing plants to be erectcd. | Tax Reform Measures, 5 Lieut.--Col. T. R. Mayberry (South| Oxford) introduced a bill along the| line of the Liberal polics to -- amend | the assessment act, to permit muni cipalities to have a differential assoss ment on land and improvements. An--| other bill to amend the assessment | act was brought in by Mr. J. G. An--| derson (South Bruce) to enable| Township Councils by by--law to have' tax notices sent through the mails in-- | stead of having to be delivered by j the tax collector. Mr. Anderson in | another bill would give municivalities power to excelude motor vehicles from i highways on certain hours o the | day. | Another effort to enable litiganits to | proceed against the Timiskaming & | Northern Ontario Railwa, in the | kame manner as against any private corporation, without the necessity of securing a fiat from the Attorney-- General, will be made by the Opposi-- tion. Mr. Rowell secured the first reading of a bill to amend the T. & N. O. act in this respect. An Insinuation Repudiated, Mr. Rowell, on the orders of the day being called, took occasion to re-- pudiate an erroneous statement re-- cently published in The London Free Press, that 'the Ontario Club was the headquarters of the Liberal party, and making him personally respon-- sible for the sale of liquor at the Or. tario Club. "I presume this statement." said Mr. Rowell, "must be based upon the suggestion of the honorable member