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_ FOR HOMUTH'S BILL #'-- Proposal to Stop Plura Voting on Money By-- laws Opposed --_------------' The bill introduced into the Leg-- islature by Karl Homuth, l\{orth Waterloo, to amend the Municipal Act so that property--owners living in cities have only one vote _ on money by--laws, passed second read. ing in the Legislature yesterday, but enough opposition developed to indicate that it will meet with lively criticism in committee. Mr. Homuth said he introduced the bill to do away with an inequt: table state of affairs under the pres-- ent system. At present a person owning property of low value in different wards had a vote in every ward in which he had -- property. Another person owning & large amount of property in one ward had but one vote. This act would put all property--owners on the -- same basis. | Mr. Wellington Hay, Acting Lib-- eral Leader, supported Mr. Craw-- ford and thought it would be un-- fair if large holdings by . men distributed in different wards qhould be unrepresented when it came to the question of saying what bur--| dens were to be placed upon them. J. Walter Curry asked the mover| if it would not be a good idea to| | allow a man to vote on money by-- laws according to the assessed value of his property, and to have a unit of voting according to values? Hon. Mr. Raney favored the bill going \to committee. The bill was carried. Has Proposal to Amend Private Detectives Act Hon. W. E. Raney introduced into the Legislature yesterday a bill respecting Magistrates. The intent of the amendment is to con-- solidate and revise the statute® | with some minor changes. | Hon. Peter Smith introduced nE bill to amend the Land Transfer Tax Act. _ The change, will allow lthe affidavit of value to be made by the vendor or the purchaser or the agent of either, instead of only by the purchaser, as is the case at .r)resent. Mr. Smith also introduced a bill to amend the Private De-- :;ctives Act. By this amendmen e amount of the bonds of ity will be raised from $2,000 to gg%]é? detective firms will not be per'mn' ted to act as collecting agencies, and the names of all employees of private detective firms must be furnished to the Provincial Police Robert Cooper, Welland, intré- duced a bill giving the Ontario Rati-- way and Municipal Board the power \to fix rates for urban electric railf- ways in the same manner as it does now for suburban electric lines.