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fixed assessments ° or bonuses." He {.hought these things should be made mpossible. They had been the curse of this Province in small towns and Cities. Poolroom Licenses. Before the orders of the day were called in the Legislature yesterday afternoon Mr. Rowell secured the statement from Hon. W. J. Hanna that legislation would be introduced this present session to settle beyond a doubt that municipalitiese had the control of poolroom licenses. This means that where there is local sen-- I timent against thse granting of a | poolroom -- license the municipality | cannot be overridden by a Pro--| vincial charter. ~There have been | several instances brought to the: at-- : tention of the Government 'lately | where this was done, and the Provin-- | cial Secretary intimated that adequate | power would be vested in the muni-' cipal authorities to regulate the pool-- room business. The Smoke Nuisance. Mr. W. D. McPherson (Northwest Toronto) got a second reading for his bill to amend the smoke nuisance! law, under which prosecutions > can be taken more quickly than the pro-- cedure now -- permits. Within the 90 days' notice now gequired firms could change their identity and ren-- der the proceedings a farce. Prison Farm Expenditure. When the House was in concur-- rence on supplementary estimates and an item of $125,000 on the Provincial prison farm was reached, Mr. Ham (South Brant) declared that the ini-- tial expenditure on the farm worked out at $3,.000 per inmate, which he thought was pretty steep. The worst feature, to his mind, was the fact that the present Government had for a sum of money given men the privilege of selling poison to other men, thus ruining them physically, mentally and morally, and filling this prison farm, for it was a woell--known fact that 75 to 90 per cent. of inmates of institu-- tions of that kind were there through strong drink. He did not see the wisdom of manufacturing criminals| for such institutions and then spend-- ing money in this fashion. Mr. Rowell declared it was not the intention of the Opposition to move an amendment, because they under-- stood it was necessary to spend this particular money on installing ma-- vhinery. They, however, thought the capital expenditure was too large for the purpose of carrying on this work.