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throughout the Province, because tt' | was recommended by the commis-- 6 9 | sion to the Government, and voted \ | upon by the city of Toronto, when | a= 3 |the'-t a.ttiltude (:{ thed(e}rgert';mertlt tvga.itl * perfectly well un ood a a 'if 1 'time on the radial policy. Opposition Members Succeed Carry On as at Present. in Deferring Considera-- ! A. C. Lewis, Northeast Toronto, i1 T § maintained that the solicitors of the t|0n Untll TOday | Hydro held that the municipalities Te omm« + * could carry on under the existing | act, and that the municipalities were | * prepared to :lwceptd thfi new condi-- |__To settle the question of constitu--| tions. He admitted the ratepayers tionality rais had not been consulted, but the G. K ;:er u:d o on ioat. w Hon.! Councils had agreed to the change . e Preuson a"_'d H. H. Dewart,| of the agreements, and there had 1n ; connection with Hon. Peter been no protests. § He A held th;llt Smith's amendments to the Corpora-- nobody who was familiar with the tion Tax story of the electric railway project terday i tACt' the Government yes-- would agree with the Premier that y introduced amendments cal-- there was any suggestion to estab-- sulated to end all doubt on this mat-- lish Provincial systems to compete er. The changes objected to on with the steam roads. Mon C The essence of the whole radial | * tday include the proposed 5 per railway scheme, said Mr. Lewis-- cent: ta,x on race--track wagers, the the basis for the belief that the tax on liquor export companies and people of this section of _ Ontario | changed taxation f i had for a radial railway system--was | telephone companiesor (enan't centralization of operations and of 0 es * control, and that was the only way . t pposition members objected they could make the scheme pay. strenuously to the amendments in-- . troduced yesterday being made in No Central Control. typewrittén form. They objected so What was proposed under the much that the Government consented new act was a dozen or more asso-- to se | ciations, each operating its own rail-- : lat n'd tl}em back., i to reappear way without any central control. He | ater in properly printed form. said that the people were willing Because of sharp protests by H. to build the Toronto Eastern under UH. Dewart, Liberal member for --| the old act. Mr. Drury said that Southwest 'Toronto, _ reinforced by they could not do it under the old | further protests from R. R. Hall, § act. Mr. Lewis said the people did . Liberal member for Parry Sound, | not object to a revote; they objected | Hon. Peter Smith, Provincial Trea-- to the new act. | surer, consented to defer until to-k Mr. Lewis read extensively from day consideration by the Committee | interviews and communications pub-- of the Whole House of his bill pro-- lished in The Globe, supporting the | viding, among other things, for a Hydro--radial project, and pointed |five per cent. tax on -- race--track out that, according to the informa-- wagers. tion which The Globe had taken the 64 ; trouble to obtain and publish, even + Sm,y Until Doomsday. ' the motor truck manufacturers, who When thg House reached the bill had been held up by the Government last night, it was found that a cer-- as strong competitors of Hydro--| tain number of copies of the bills radials, supported their construction j containing typed amendments, had and held the opinion that good roads been distributed among the mem-- would tend to assist, rather than bers. Mr. Dewart claimed that in hamper, successful operation -- of such a short space of time he |radial railways. could not tell the meaning of these amendments and that other mem-- Why Change Present Act? bers would be in the same position. | Mr. Hall said he did not intend to Why the Government's insistence pass laws he did not understand, and on altering the present act? Mr. said he would stay in the House '| Lewis demanded. The municipali-- > "till doomsday," if ho were permit-- | ties and the people interested were ted, to protest against such treat-- satisfied. '"Why the opposition, un-- * ment. less it is nurtured by the private Mr, Dewart asked if one of the companies, who are the same people amended clauses gave the power to who onpnposed Hydro when it was the Provincial Police to stop the first mooted, and said it would not races if the tax were not collected be a success. The tactics are the * and paid. Mr. Raney said that was same then as now. But the oppon-- so, but said that power existed ents of Hydro power were wrong s under the former act, but the law ' then." % officers of the Crown advised piac-- '"*'The bill, in my opinion, has been |ing ic specifically in this act. drafted to make the Hydro--radial| | . The Attorney-Gepera'l _said the scheme absolutely impossible," said | | only objection against delay . was ' Joseph Thompson. The construction | one of time. _ If the _ Provincial of a radial system was something :' Treasurer agreed, he did. Aafter a that would take a great many years, conference between Mr. .P'{ane.y an'di ; but when it was finished they want-- . _ Mr. Smith, and after Mr. Hall's éa the work to be uniform, well speech, the Provincial Treasurer| thought out, and not patchwork. | agreed to the bill being held over. 1 "Leave the old bill as it is, wi'th-, legal Opinion Favorablc. ' draw the guarantee, and I think The Attorney--(General read the| everybody will be satisfied," he '\ memorandum on the legality of the | said. Mr. Thompson said that it proposed measure from the Deputy was an anti-co-operati(m bill and Attorney-General' Edward Bayly,1 suggested to both the Attorney-- and approved by the law officers, | General and the Premier that they' Messrs. Dymond and White. This| drop the measure and proceed to ' opinion held that the proposed tax | other business now before the Housel was within Provincial jurisdiction. | e@and claiming attention. The 'percentage permitted in the & Criminal Code was deducted and re-- tained by the racing associations, and "retained'" meant for the asso-- * 3 ciations' own use. The 5 per cent. . * Provincial tax, said the memoran-- b * dum, was not retained, but deducted k and sent on to the Province of On-- tario. s 'The amendments to the act are to the effect that, when collecting the tax, the association is to act as A the agent of the Treasurer of the | Province of Ontario, and deduct and pay over for the uses of the Treas-- k urer of the Province of Ontario the f 5 per cent. tax, etc.