~ .Os e ce s ae s N pas 5y : > / <> onl 'flt'w:.f CX _ FRax --' mmands . "Shetss y * noll --.;F m'?t 'Awt."w_ a|~ Bt That such provscdings. 5 Wof P AAY "uge ~Q x "v"' mun ~ *4 *""Q'W _Mr. Pro was! prised that Mr. Morawd should. 3 been reinstated. | _ 1 Mr. Rowell remarked that the res-- --|lgnation of Mr. Morand had. been ~|Rastened in order to stop the investi-- _fgation which had opened, and the ac-- _Mon of the Government was clei"hSt An attempt to cover up what mix & _lhave proved an embarrassing mitua --MHon at election time. | Some discussion -- centred _ around «just when the parties from whom 'Mr. Morand borrowed money to fin-- CAknce his canning enterprice were en-- »[Gaged in the liquor trane, but the --ALiberal leader made it vlear that ai fleast one of the parties at the time was a licensed hotelkeeper. and 'h(l. later volte--face could not be acce; 12 ithout some erplanation. Mr. 'groud{rmt asked if the unctuous reso-- «[ution that Mr. Hanna tead from the [Licenge Commissioners was -- really . _ [their own product, and suggested _ |that such an eloquent _ testimonial "Imight have been prepared in the de-- 4'lnrtm¢-nt. but Mr. Hanna said not. 'A Afraid of the Women. _ |---- That the Government was afraid to igive the married women the vote in [municipal _ elections -- because _ they iJ[might antagonize the lHquor interests JWwas the statement made by Uiberal Jmembers during the centinued debate Or the woman suffrage bill. Not a |{Government member spoke -- during the debate, and the Premier moved the adjournment of it Wm. Grieve -- <+North Middlesex ), Arguing on these lines, said that every barroom in Ontarioe infleenced from ten to fteen votes. Nubody doubted the ability nof the women to v¥ote. seventy per cent, of the women in-- Chicago had voted. The whole trouble was that if the Governmeni passed -- the measure it would. lose the support of the liquor interests. j To Amend Municipal Aet. ¢ A bill introduced by 'P. Magiadery to amend the municipal -- act would make it possible for a ron--resident of a imunicipality owning property in the ) municipality, ard living within five | miles _ of that mtrnicipalityr. _ tn ; qualify as a candidate in muni-- cipal _ elections. 1t recéeiveu IU8 _ | secord reading, as did a bill to make | it possible for a police village to buy | land on which to build a public hall, | and another imaking it possible to : build a bridge between two nn'ni(-i--'[ palities other than on a public high-- | way. : Three Votes to be Fought. ! Wher the report of the Committ« e | on Supply on the supplementary esti-- mates was being presented the Hmm-' sition made it known that three votes . will be challenged ard fought to a division. The first was the item of $200,000 additional for new Govern--. ment HMHouse, to which reference has| . previously been mude in the sessior.' Ar animated debate is likely to ensue | on this subject, as the Opposition is | determined to make the facts of the enormous . experditure on the new premises known throughout the Prov-- ince. Following the same line of reasoning, when Mr. Harna informed the House, in respect of an item of ' $125,000 for the new _ reformatory, ; | that the institution when completed | | would cost about $1,800,000, Mr. Bow--| li mar promptly asked that the resolu--| tion be held over for diseussion, and, | ! as a further warning, a similar re.| quest was made roegarding a vote of | || $200,000 for the new Hospital for the | | Insane at Whitby. | l e taiinmeeanfteinaaatiaants