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\ SATURDAY, JUNE _3, DEBA based, and it was going to be a radi-- cal aleration of the whole frame-- work and organization of the echool } system of the Province. | Thomas Marshall (Liberal mem-- , ber for Lincolin) asked if Toronto | was following the law in its manner | of levying deobenture charges?" "I | say not," said the Attorney--General. | A. C. Lewis (Consgervative member | 'for Northeast Toronto) explained \ 1 [that in Toronto the City Council is-- E \sued the debentures chargeable sepérfite gchoo, BO"dS to? 5against the property occupied 'by' I t \public school ratepayers. He thought | 0\ ow .roperty Unt" it would be a dangerous precedent to l Paid Off? |alter the conditions of the act placed | 1 \on the statute books for good and | t - valid reasons when the Educatlon' GIVEN SECOND READ'NG' Act was passed. To say that the | i taxes on any property must go to a pamaracacmmanaaaen | separate school eo long as the de-- By a vote of 21 to 13 the Legis-- l?ent'ureg were ttcmtstanding was a lature yesterday gave second read--. \evr,\ agrtt mt d ing to the bill of Z. Mageau, Liberal | Willing to Fight Long. member for Sturgeon Falls, amend--| '"I for one am prepared to stay . ing the Separate School Act, so that :e"' untiét mi"_,dS't't?;';nel:l x;lat,her t.l';t;n | > | ee an act o nd pass e debentures issued for separate school + House in such & light--hearted man-- ' purposes will remain a charge ner," he declared. | agaminst the property of separate | The Attorney--General, in a brief; school supporters at the time the' ffieeg},'fi saidhtzetthfigghtflt'r;o object{{)t F | e bill oug 0 6e sympathy debentures are issued until BUChl of the House. If a Roman Catholic debentures are paid off. | acquired property liable for public Mr. Mageau claims that, under| school rates and then was called the law at present, when any sep--| 10 to *4 9epara.u; 9c;1tcl>ol ra,;,';f' u. e was euffering an injustice. a arate school board issues debentures | trouble, however, was to work it the land is responsible for the de-- | out. If it could mot be worked out bentures only so long as it is in the this session then the department 3 hands of the man who held it at might consider it. | Mr. Mageau said he himself had | t ;0 time the debentures were issued. ! acquired property in Sturgeon Falls . ven if the property was sold to a | subject to public school debentures. Roman Catholic, and seuch Roman Sam Clarke (Liberal member for Catholic wanted to 'be a separate _ West Northumberland) made a plea school supporter, the property could R :;: 2gg:filb?y:treerfitmom of all under not be made responsible for the pay-- J. C. Tolmie (Liberal member for ment of the debenture, said Mr. Windsor) thought the Legal Com-- Mageau. On the other hand, as re-- mitt'eg ?houl»gel'%l!l.tthe tbmfi '"1'51 sug-- * geste & ment should con-- :.rds public school debentures, Mr. sider the matter and bring in a bill ageau contended that such de-- next session cleaning up the situa-- mt';eo'pe::;nafxn?iil :'h charge ug&n ! Son and putting it on a right founda-- n ey were =--| on. charged. His bill is to make prop-- When the vote camse Messrs. erties under both systems the same Raney, Nixon, Rollo and Mills of in these respects. t the Cabinet favored the bill, with Minister Changes Opinion. | l Brank itk mog or the -- papuier Bome weeks ago Mr. Mageau's bill | m:glt)'eu pre:le;*t a.ond t:ile th}: Cogx-. ' was up before the House and the , servatives present, voted against it Minister of Education held then that There was a cmal'i attendance in th o Mr. Mageau's internretation of the ]Houso h SBe law regarding deventures issued by 5 public school boards or for public school purposes, was not correct, | but that such dehentures were levied from year to year upon the property of public school supporters, as | shown from year to year on the assessment roll, irregardless of who] owned the property when the de-- 6 bentures were issued. Yesterday,! s however, Mr.~Grant admitted that| s _ this view had been modified--that | s Maclntosh Commission had consulted the Attorney--Ge~--| il's Department, and, as a ref J May Secure Telegrams told the House the law appearcd ; io . be that property had to remain Judgment.g.u.en yesterday by thlel iable for the repayment of desen-- Appellate Division at Osg?ode Ha tures issued, whether the holders opens the way for resumption of the . were Protestant or Roman Catho-- hearings of the Macintosh Commis-- lic. id that i sion, probing the chargesfl?f (;&let:;; | _ Premier Drury sa at, as the is, M.P.P., relative to the dea question was Wrfi,°"y one of law, he '})'rewé:p?;.m Orville Huston at Fort suggested the bill should go to the Frances last December. Legal Committee, the House passing The Appellate Division had ruled second reading without necessarily that certain telegraphic Correspol:ld- c t CTne oi could be rally, devared fhuve 'between The Toronto BYen n | it. The yd denet n w Telegram and its representative & in the Legal Committee and invest Winnipeg are properly open to in -- | gation made _ as btot v':'l:gther An" A spection by the commission. This iremedy could not be fo « clears away an obstaclie todtlie heas- Radi Change w . ings which has occasioned two a@ad-- HNIH m;'ng-:.on (Conserva "jotgxrnments. one last Tuesday and on. Howard Fe % i Thursday. tive Leader) held that the bill | ag?zlgasoc?ns for judgment will be de-- | would effect a radical change 1nz > livered later by the court, which in what had been the school la;w :s)l'nceI the meantime orders that the tele-- 1863. For that reason ho' {e t ere; grams in question be sealed by the i o. i P maragy on | ie s adigon _ lish a new principle upon which the .to Commissioner Macinto ; 'financing of separate echools was * f %. f y «