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o There were cases, he said, when a wife might know that it would be R ASSENTTO MEASURES unwise to leave anything to her § * « y husband, but under this bill the hus-- res 7i 4 band could summon the executors LIEUT--GOVERNOR COCKSHKUTT to court and have a "washing of the ATTENDS SITTING OF family linen." similarly a wife ' LEGISLATURE. could do the same with the will of a Smmmnitrpmnnmomeniemmnin tsmms & El"."r;a:l]di. llto (Ili(tl 'nlnl thl}nll; it "t'a,sha Royal assent was given yesterday gooc iing to le ie public get the W idea that they were trifling with the in the .Leglslature to three Govern-- , freedom of persons in the disposition ment bills: An Act to amend the Ag-- of property. ricultural Development Act; an Act h"l['he:".;\tttor:e.\'-(,:(»;n(;\rla)l plo!nt,ed ((;ut to amend the Ontario Farm Loans that whatever wou e done under s | this act would be done under the Act, and an act res'pectmg timber dliscretion of the court. At the pres-- licenses of the Shevlin--Clarke Lum-- ent time a man might, with the aid ber Company, Limited. Third read-- of his wife, amass a fortune, and ing was given the bills early in the then the man might cut out in his| afternoon, and at half--past four the will his infant children and his faith-- éeutenant--Governor attended the ful wifo (excepting her dower} Legislature and gave formal assent. rights), in favor even of another' The last--named of these bills con-- woman. * firms the settlement . made by the It was a bill of the same principle| Government with the Shevlin--Clarke as that which applied to the pro--| Lumber Company, by which sums tection of neglected children and de that will aggregate eventually fTOHl serted wives., ' a million and a quarter to a million f | b and a half dollars will come into ' Would Do 1t Anyway. | the Provincial Treasury. Mr. Nickle intervened at this Junc-f * f ture to say that such a man as instanced by the Attorney--General,| who wanted to do that sort of thing,| "could get round this bill as easily as a doz could jump through tissue HONORS MEMORY paper'"' by the device of placing his| pr(l;pomy with trustees. Mr. Raney OF SIR JOHN EATON said a man of that type would not| mnmnnn n mm mmmeme « let his property get out of his hands., ® f The y\'.tm'ne.\'-(}ermrul said he was Leg"lahfl'e Pays" Respe(:t 3: repared to question the right of k § : man, beyond a certain limit, in | to MemOTY Of ,S'plen the devolution of his property. The; + *a® o logic of the control of property by| dld Cltlzen ) dead men could be carried too far. witeienvamenrmaecnecmactnmnnrcanine A man who amassed millions owed Out of respect for the memory of much to institutions ;"~}S°°iet-'v' ar:d Sir John Eaton the Ontario Legis-- m his death much of that property j 7 o ought to go back to the State. If it lature will not meet wntil 4 oclock' was paternal legislation, it was pater-- on Monday afternoon, instead of at nal legislation that civilized countries the usual hour of 3 o'clock. This rFad been practising for generations, was decided upon by resolution yes-- articularly the last few generations, terday by unanimous consent of for the benefit and good of members members of the House. & g C iet© leg P a¥A + The suggestion that the mark 0 ;}fmsjggéf{'ecl._asv able to iakhe care o1 respect take this form came fm.m. % Hon. Thomas Crawford, member fo: How Act Might Work. Northwest Toronto, who paid high y Charles McCrea, Sudbury. in a tribute to the manly qualities of the homely illustration. brought home |great merchant prince. J. C, ".['Olm'ile' ¢ vividly to the members possible con-- Windsor, speaking for the Ll'bera,fs' sequences of the act. A man, he said he heartily endorsed all that had said, owned a farm. When he came been said by Mr. Crawford. to face death he decided to make a "I concur in every word that has will. He had a wife, one son whom been eaid," replied Premier Drury, he trusted fully, and who was of "Ontario dha!i, lost a worthy son and 'egal age, and several children under |a splendid citizen." 2*1 years of age. This man decided | "He was a ma-.n.whq stood pre-- that the best way to take care of 'eminent in the estimation of ".1.° ; his patrimony and of his family was 'people," said Mr. Crawford of Sir to leave the farm to his eldest son, \John Eaton. His fame was lntei"x'la;; Ithe wife being entitled to her dower, | tlonal. For such a record as his 1 'and have the other children main-- | was only proper that the House i4 tained and brought up by the eldest 'should at least in a measure express son as his judgment, of which th appreciation. 5 x |father thought highly, would direct _ the Province of Ontario has lost | * By this act, said Mr. McCrea, one one of its greatest sons, said Mr. of the minors, wanting maybe to sow | Tolmie. "It is poorer for th?' passing a few wild oats, could go to the' of the late Sir John E:LtOIl." 4 eldest son and demand a different Both Mr. Tolmie and Mr. Crawford 4 arrangement, and upset all his plans. expressed appreciation particularly 3¥ If he did not get what he was after for the way Sir John Eaton had l he could go to the court. In many, treated his employees. # such instances, said Mr. McCrea,. the T ogo, it . last state would be worse than the| : first. This bill was upsetting the' whole general law to apply solely to 'an exception. < | Abrogates Testator's Rights. NS | --Mr. Ferguson said that the bill |seemed to interfere with the right of * > © |a testator to make what he thought was a proper distribution of his prop-- : erty. He said if the bill was to go i through the committee, he would like < the individual members of the House to read and consider carefully 'the effect of the bill on themselyves 4 -- and for th@mselves. He did not know H4 |of a single case where there would p f be occasion to invoke a bill of this tscert. _ Should they legislate against hypothetical and visionary cirecum-- | stances ? ® 1 { J | * * c . I M T e n e i e h d s o it c _ t i s s