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1Ti'bEsD/ii'r: 'il'iiift"hrt' W . . - "ak"' "'il.."1' - . _ I the bill. V '." . 1't 'Bmxs . . Object of the Bill. ,""" i _The measure, as introdueedHrr A , C. Lewis (conservative, Norma": _ E Toronto), sought to secure 1mm, tive sanction for amendments to the " Assessment Act, advocated by om- icials of. the Associated Municipau- l ties of Ontario. Among other things . it sought to- make alterations in the method of securing returns tor tag. -.-------. tdion on incomhe. and removal of .. . oubt as to t e right of chur ': P r O p 0 S a I m Legislature property from exemption when sugth . . property was not being used as , Meets With But Little place of 'worship. The measur: was oppose' on the ground that Support Assessment Act had already £23 ----------=--- enough of "tingering," and that the proposed amendments would not INSURANCE BILL DEBATED have.any clarifying effect. . l Hon. R. ll. Grant, Minister of ---.H Education, opposed the iiomuth The Legislature was in a far from free-text bill on the ground there complaisant mood yesterday after- was 1nto demand for compulsory q no . . ' . "gislation sue as was ro ose. wet? :3; 3'0 private members bills After pointing out that thep wasting ' . e on second reading. de- statute gave the local school board spite the fact that the vote in both the option ot providing free bookal cases found Premier Drury's Cabinet Id' Sigfgilmtg'at the rurali sections y" . " . . . e . e were unan mouSI ~- l dis rded against itself. posed to any alteration in 'tly/ll,',.' 3 l Karl Homuth's bill to secure com- Hon. Walter Rollo, Minister of l pulsory provision ot free text-books Labor, took issue with his Cabinet' I in public, separate and high schools 'colleagues by declaring that refusal secured only six voting supporters. to support the bill meant disarowal two of whom were Ministers. A. C. 1"t " iyincl?lt long Fin" adopted in Lewis' measure to amend the Assess- l 'it_tar-io----comvulsor-v and free edu- ment Act in several particulars went ctttfon. t down to defeat on a formal division, l An informal vote found Hon. Mr. 1 which found Premier Drury and two 80"?» Hon. Harry Mills, with Messrs. I other members of the Cabinet voting ("mp (sovthoast Toronto), Hal- with a solid Conservative bloc, and in 1i'ry,w (,Eust Hamilton), Towns opposition to a very large majority .(hl "at tttttr/yer?'.). and Hornuth of the occupants of the U.F.O. (Smith IN aterloot supporCng the benches. . bill, and the rest of the Cabinet and The vote in the latter instance tht,t1r,n,y,1,ii'n.,dj"/" of tho Horv,eopposed. .registered 34 for the Lewis bill and _ Is". Wellington Hay, Liberal Leader, ill', against. "tii1;rt.lir)n".i'iiir/)ir) Objec'iyl'ls to the . z _ _ .o lillen li f - 'Rtgardmg Fire Insurance. lpel fire insurance on '/,1,/t"lS,opcroon) J. B. Johnston (U.F.O., East Sim-1 erty to be taken out through Ontario COP) was more fortunate than Messrs.' agents. Such a measure, he said. Homuth and Lewis, for his bill to re- involved v.ery serious inter-termite quire that all tire insurance on On- with the rights of a business Coll- tario property be taken out through cern to place tts insurance wherever Ontario agents was given second It could secure the most advantag- reading. Any elation that the mem- eous rates. her for East Simcoe might have felt Jiitorney:-fjepty'1, Haney "waived must have been tempered. however, that the bill had .heer? proinoted in by a knowledge of the fact that his' the interests of insurance men at measure was admitted to the com- the head of the Lakes, who objcctred mittee stage "on approval," as it " to the fact, that Manitoba agents were, rather than as the result of handled a large percentage of the general enthusiastic support. insurance on P.,'?,, gram and eleva- Division on the Lewis amendment ltors'at Fort William and Port Ar- to the Assessment Act afforded op- 'thm. portunity for the expression of Pre- - ------------' mier Drury's doctrine of freedom from Governmental interference as applied to the voting of Government members on private bills. During the debate on the mea- sure. the Premier took exception to some of the clauses in the bill, but wound up his speech by declaring that he had no particular objec- . tion to Its going to committee. De- spite this announcement, a call for the yeas and nays found the majority of the Government mem- bers in opposition to the passage of the measure. k . W. F. Nickle (Conservative. f l Kingston,) took exception to the' ', fact. claiming that so long as the . i Leader of .the Government was' i , . I disposed to let the bill go to com-', I, ' _ mittee there was no reason why. j. , occupants of CsCl-iii/ie-trt/ttmes", i, should ignore the i'rarier'spead" I xi Not Government Bill. I ' ' ,. "This is not a Government bill."l ' T l' replied Mr. Drury. " have no in- fr; Q. ' . tention ot dictating the attitude of l \members on this side of the House. To do so would be to restrict the _ ---.. lfreedom of the House in a matter v. . .- u 5.7:- ' which I feel should be decided by the House as a whole. I shall not oppose the sending of the bill to committee, but it would be tyran- ny if all other members on this . . side of the House were required _ _ to think as I do. As First Minister, I should not attempt to impose my i will on either Government members I 'or members of the Cabinet-on a question which they are quite cap- table of deciding for theselves." On the division which followed. the Premier, A"tiaAiear-Genertrl Raney. Hon. It. H. Grant and Messrs. Widdifieid (North Ontario)" ' . and. Watson (North Victoria), two l U. F. o. members, voted with the 11 Tories who supported the bill. . Six Cabinet Ministers. including l Messrs. Doherty, Smith, Rollo, Mills. I Carmichael and Nixon voted with' . l the Liberals, and the majority of - l l ' the U. F. o. members. to defeat. 1 ii, 'il