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Raise Limit On Speed of Autos When the vote came onl¥ ~a--few members supported the measure, in-- cluding Hon. Harry Mills, Mlnist?' of Mines. Hon. W. E. Raney approved the idea in the bill, but thought it best to leave *the matter with the de-- partment, with the expectation of some general measure next session. Mr. Raney's bill to unite the regis-- try offices of Toronto and York was withdrawn, and the hbill referred to a special committee consisting of the Toronto and York members, to sit during the recess. With the exception of one amend--| ment to the Workmen's Compensa--| tion Act that may be introduced this' session, Government bills yvet to be, introduced consist of the following| measures: Lake of the Woods con--| trol, by Mr. Drury; amendment to the Rural Hydro Distribution Act, by Col. Carmichael; amendment to the Public Health Act, by Hon. Walter Rollo; Assessment Amendment Act, by Hon. H. C. Nixon. _ Government members said yester-- |day they had no statement to make 'at this time concerning the terms of kv.hese various bills, The bill to incorporate an Asso--| ciation of Engineers was referred again to the special committee, but it seems settled that the bill will not provide penalties for persons who do not belong to the association carry--| ing on the business of an engineer. Penalties are provided for those who | hold out that they are members of the association when they are not members. t The Attorney--General's "Blue Sky" law was also referred to a specia'! committee that will consider it dur-- ing the recess. The personnel of the committee will be announced later. THREE SCORE AND TEN CIVIL SERVANTS' LIMIT According to the terms of amend-- ments to the Ontario Public Ser-- vice Supjerannuation Act of 1920, in-- troduced yesterday into the Legis-- lature by Premier Drury, civil ser-- vants are to retire from the service at the age of 70. The Premier ex-- nlained that the amendments were recommended by the Superannuation Board, and the changes were chiefly of a minor nature. It is learned that the new amend-- ment will result in the retirement almost immediately of some 45 or 50 of the older employees of the Government in the servw. and these men will practically II be among the higher--paid class. A large number of promotions are looked for to follow the retirement of these men. By an amendment to the Work-- men's Compensation Act, introduced by Hon. Walter Rollo, in case of the death of the widow of a man killed in an industrial accident, the person looking after the children will be entitled to $15 for each child under the age limit set out by the act, instead of receiving $10 for each child, as is the case at present. Another amendment, applying to railway workers, provides that where a railwavy employee, a citizen of Can-- ada, who by reason of promotion is transferred to headquarters in the United States, but whose "run" is in Canada, and is injured or killed in Canada. the award is to be under the Ontario Board, and not under the State Board as is the case at present, when the State Board's award is lower than that in On-- tario. H. A. Stevenson, Labor mem-- ber for London, introduced in the Legislature yesterday an amendment to the Motor Ve-- hicles Act which, if -- passed, would increase the speed limit in the country to 30 miles an hour. It would also permit the use of parking lights on the rear left fender of an automobile, and make inoperative the pen-- alty clause relating to failure to slow down to 12 miles an \ hour at intersections. It would also give Municipal Councils l the right to close parks to TAKE EVIDENCE FROM CONVICTS Public Accounts Committee Will Hear Men From Prisons OPERATORS MUST DRINK? Again at the Public Accounts Com-- mittee meeting yesterday did the heated exchanges boetween the Attor-- ney--General, T. H. Lennox, K.C., J.4 W. Curry, K.C., and others, outstrip in interest the evidence brought out. Hon. Mr. Raney once more accused Mr. Lennox of wasting the time of the committee with irrelevant evi-- dlence, and remarked on one occasion that Mr. Lennox was simply "beating the air," Mr. ILennox's retort was for the Attorney--General to please keep quiet and let him comnlete his examination. J. W. Curry, K.G, after a tiff with Mr. Lennox, left the committee room. Take Prisoners' Evidence. At the close of the meeting the. committee members engaged in ani-- mated discussion as to whether they would bring witnesses from the Jail and from Kingston Penitentiary., Chairman BEdgar Watson asked for: the opinion of the committee on the point, whereupon Mr. Lennox point-- ed out that the resolution was al-- ready passed. When the Attorney-- General remarked that when the committee had the addresses of the men wanted it would decide, adding: that if they were in Kingston "we| can't bring them here." W . F.' Nickle, K.C., objected to such & "smoke screen." It was easy, he said, to get witnesses from prizson or jail to give evidence at any hea,rlr&g. Later on Mr. Lennox declared he was not afraid of the hearings being "stifled," because "men of other poli-- tics than mine are quite fixed in their determination to see this in-- guiry go on to the end. I propose to call all the witnesses that are necessary. I'll tell you why. The Attorney--General is not only very clever--he is foxy. If I did not pro-- .duce all these witnesses he would get up in the House and ask why I had not demanded that such and Most of the time of the committee yesterday was occupied with the ex-- amination of Inspector A. A. Mont-- gomery. The men under him, he said, absolutely were not ".thugs," and he did not keep any men whom he knew to have criminal records,. Montgomery said that he knew noth-- ing personally against former Opera-- tor Courrian, of whom much -- has been said at the committee. Cour-- rian he knew on one occasion -- to have been under the influence of liquor, but he did not consider that detrimental to the public interest. His experience showed that decent, respectable men could enforce the O.T.A. It was not necessary to em-- ploy criminals, Operators Have to Drink. Much was heard concerning _ an operator named Robinson who had been retaine in the department for three week after being fined, but witness said he did not know whether he had given evidence against any-- body in the interval. He could not recall one man being dismissed 'be-- cause of unfitnese. _ In conclusion the inspector said 'that it was necessary for spotters and 'operatore to drink in order to get convictions. _ Mr. Nickle asked: '"To enforce this law in this way you can-- not get men of good practise and character?" Witness assented. Mr. Watson--And the only way you can catch the bootleggers is by the use of these shady methode? Yes. Although the committee discussed seriougly &A proposal to sit on Satur-- 8' °n4 on May 24, final adjourn-- ;fi--cflh év\;'itness be summoned."' Prison Gates Will Yawn. On motion of Mr. Nickle, however, the committee decided to bring any necessary witnesses from jail. ment 1 T440 ks t atlerlie 60 "tled TF was made until 9.30 a.m. Tues--