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\HOUSE DISLIKES _ THIS TINKERING Defeats K. Homuth's Bill to Amend Fraternal So-- ciety Legislation GOVERNMENT is OPPOSED: The bill of Karl Homuth, South | Waterloo, to amend the Ontario In-- surance Act, found few friends yes-- terday in the Legislature, and it met | defeat on second reading. | The bill provided that in "valuing or estimating the prospective lia bili-- ties of the society under its certifi-- cate or contracts of insurance. the actuary shall be governed by the tables of mortality of the National Fraternal Congress, and the rate of interest upon the funds from time to time in the hands of the society, as the contribution of the members thereof, shall be established by the actuary at the average rate of in-- : terest so earned G@uring the last . preceding %0 years, but not exceed-- :\ ing 5 per cent. per annum."' \_ 'Mr. Homuth argued that the bill should go to committee, so that the arguments of those favoring it could be heard. The bill, he said, would help the older members of friendly | societies. ; _ Hagar Watson, worth -- Victoria, held that the actuary ought to be a«¢r. anhnanihitalw ftree If his certificate Bagar Watson, NAOrLI . YICLULIH: held that the actuary ought to be left absolutely free if his certificate was to be of any use. | Joseph Thompson, Northeast To--, ronto, agreed with Mr. Watson that: it was a most dangerous bill, and | he opposed it. ' J. C. Brown, North Middlesex, supported the bill, at least favoring it going to committee. Hon. G. Howard Ferguson, Con-- servative -- Leader, thought it was rather unwise to be tinkering with this kind of legislation all the time. J. W. Curry, Southeast Toronto, Held there never would be any surety to fraternal societles if every session legislation was brought in permitting them to value their se-- curities. f 3 ! l4 uie ol 20 ixldne > SE N t CUIPIVEICS: Premier Drury said that if any-- thing should be settled for a term of years and not disturbed, it was insurance matters. This whole mat-- ter had been settled last year. The Attorney--General said that the De-- partrment of Insurance was against the bill. ASSISTANT POLICE CHIEF J. W.. Curry, K.C., MP.P., of| Southeast Toronto, has several times | presented the name of Alfred Cuddyv | to the Government in connection | | with the reorganization of the On-- lmflo police When Mr. Curry was. ' City Crown Attorney, Alfred Cuddy | was a city detective, \ Alfred Cuddy is now Commissioner of Police for Alberta. Prior to go-- ing West he was a Division Inspector on the Toronto force, although for many years he was in the detective department. He --handled many famous cases, including the Hyams and Holmes murders. At the pres-- ent time he is in receipt of a pen-- sion from the Toronto police fund. The late John Cuddy, a brother of Alfred Cuddy, was also a famous detective on the Toronto force. "'The Government has no state=-- ment to make on the matter at present," said Attorney--General Raney in the Legislature yesterday in reply to the question put by Hon. Howard Ferguson, -- Conservative Leader, if one Alfred Cuddy was to be made Assistant Commissioner of Provincial Police. ; SaF and \ esex, )ring Con-- was ; tunc _ The bill introduced by Joseph Thompson, Northeast Toronto, and '«approved by the Toronto Civic Guild, which would. give municipalities power to define areas wherein only a certain class of buildings would be permitted, was defeated on second reading in the Legislature vesterday. The bill met opposition from the start, and R. L. Brackin, West Kent, who was the first to speak against it, was convinced that Legislature Kills Act Provid-- ing Restricted Areas for Small Houses it was for the purpose of prohibit-- ing the building of schools on streets In Toronto where the people did not want thenr Mr. Brackin held that too much power would be given by the bill to the municipality. The Council could pass a by--law prohibiting the build-- ing of churches, schools, orphanages or religious institutions or anything of that kind. He thought the municipality should not have the power it had even now, and cited the case of the stopping of the building of the separate school on Prince Arthur avenue to illustrate his point. f Mr. Thompson explained that the bill was to make it possible for peo-- ple owning smaller sized houses to have reserved or restricted areas, the same as people with better class houses. Only a certain© class of house would be permitted to be built in this defined area, subject to the City Council and the approval of the Railway Board. The bill, he said, had the approval of the To-- ronto Civic Guild. Hon. G. Howard Ferguson, Con-- servative Leader, held that the prin«-- ciple laid down in Mr. Thompsgon's bill --was already in force, only it was expressed in a nega-- tive way, and Mr. Thompson's bill was expressing it in a positive way. This bill clarified the present situation, he thought. H. H. Dewart, Southwest Toronto, | opposed the bill. He said the a.ct' went so far as to say that the Gov-- ernment could not take over thol buildings on the east side of Queen's | Park for its own purposes if the municipality did not wish the Gov-- ernment to do so. "I venture to say that there is a covert thought be-- hind this bill that will not stand in-- vestigation. I do not think the House desires to see an act of that kind put on the statute books of this Province," he said. Premier Drury said the bill was going an absurd length in restric-- tions. There had been criticism of an act to reduce the amount of drinking of intoxicating liquors, and probably to increase the consump-- tion of water, but what would they think of an act that proposed they do nothing but drink water?" 'Second Reading Given by House to Several Measures '"'That's what we are coming to, anyway," called out an Opposition member, amid roars of laughter. |_ _ Third reading was given yesterday in the Legislature to the bill respect-- :'lng reciprocal and inter--insgurance. 'There was no discussion and no dis-- | sent. Private bills that passed rapidly through committee stage without amendment and without discussion included: Bill to amend the constitu-- tion of Huron College, 'bill respecting the Waterloo County Loan and Sav-- ings Company, 'bill respecting the county of Grey, bill respecting the municipality of Shuniah, bill to en-- able the town of Gananogue to with-- draw from the jurisdiction of the united counties of Leeds and Gren-- ville, bill resgpecting the city of St. Thomas, 'bill respecting the town of Sudbury, 'bill authorizing the Law Society of Upper Canada to admit T. L. Robinette to practise at the Bar of his Majesty's courts in Ontario, bill regpecting the county of Carle--