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4 To esd rla reh i8 -- fag V € S a\' + * f Bill Regarding Bonuses. ' Travelling Magistrates. o read the Complaints were made by W. C. shacdune l naure" givlenito the| | Chambers (Conservative, West Wel-- \ Government measure regulating | in id foed by Mlr-- Proulx! 'bonusing of industries by municipal 1'1'1(81'0 J)'h'm f° i (}60 r. m vallve | corporations, the new act permitting a\}n #4 }fi n O{lrl'a.t S m;e in ' only a fixed assessment for ten years, Nor uron), e system not renewable. After reviewing the| |counties of having one Magistrate history of municipal bonusing in this caused expense to many 'who had vo' Province, and efforts made to curb appear 'before them on trivial of-- it, the Attorney--General referred to fenses, and who 'had to travel 'to 'tfié recent conference with the Pre-- the county town for the hearing. mier of Quebec, and said that "Mr. "At present, in Weillington, our Po-- Taschereau assured them that Que-- lice Magistrate is not what _ we , bec was anxious to co--operate with|--| think he should be," said Mr. Cham-- Ontario so that commercial and in-- bers. Mr. Nickle said that he hac dustrial enterprises in respect to issued instructions time an'd agair ibonusing would be on exactly the| | that Magistrates must go to the same footing in the two Provinces. | case, rather than that the case mus! Hon. Manning Doherty, Progres-- come to the Magistrate. That was | sive Leader, sa@id that there had been the principle upon which he triec passed in th? House the matter of to administer justice in small places > dbonusing the iron ore industry, and _ If any member of the House hears he wondered if it was consistent to of any injustice suffered by a Magis. abolish municipal bonusing and em-- trate improperly refusing to go to & bark on a policy of Provincial casoe rather than the case coming bonusing. The Premier said he did . ty the Magistrate, he invited hi \not think the cases analogous. to lay the particulars before the At: Where there were hundreds of mu-- torney--General. He agreed witk nicipalities bidding one against the Mr. Proulx that the holding of these other the result was an unhealthy courts in various parts of the coun-- competition. The Province, on th®' iry made known a great deal 0@ other hand, was one entity, and the fireside law. result was not the same. He said MalooiIm Lang (Liberal, Coch-- | one could not go through the PrOV-- _ jansy said that in his part of th« ince today without seeing in MANY _ |ountry the Crown Attorney got the of the smaller places dismantled worst of it in respect to fees, as h« buildings once industrial concerns did not receive" --enough fo'r the which had been bonused. As s{)tr;ln fravelling h'e' 'h'éud to. o. -- {as the artificial aid had been with-- , . The amendments to the Ontario drawn the industry vanished, he Telephone Act -- woere put through f 'eaid. _ committee, and Mr. Nickle asked Effect of Cheaper Power. | that the clause be dropped which gave the Ontario Railway Board D. J. Taylor (Progressive, North power to enforce the decisions of Grey) thought that C'h'%pel' power the Dominion Board against a com-' in large cities as compared with the pany incorporated in Ontario. He| . .smaller centres acted as a form of hoped, he said, for the formation of bonus, to the detriment of the small a joint committee representing both places. In answer to a question boards to adjudicate upon these from Edmond Proulx (Liberal, | matters of service between compa-- Prescott), the Attorney--General said nies incorporated one at Ottawa and 'the G'Overnment was Wil.l'ing. if the O'therr 1n OntnrlQO. Quebec were,. to eliminate even the Various private bills were put right of fixed assessment. Hon. F. through commiittee; also the bill C. Biggs (Progressive, North Went-- appointing the Legislative Secre-- worth) thought that perhaps the tary for Northern and Northwestern * fixed time of 10 years was too rigid. Ontario. Peter Heenan (Labor, If the 10--year time were expiring §e:do:m.)d s'da.'id Flha}: he wmld J}d W(:}l;k @A an 0 a e cou or e now, for instance, it would be hard building up of the North country on many -i'ndustri'fii'sh tXu have "é'e?l" with anyone appointed by the bill. taxes increased. e orney -- * mornnmmmanne se me se en se 1 eral thought that there would be the | _ experiment of the tried--out 10-- year period to guide those in charge ~-- of jlegislation 10 years hence, if this > point were raised then. He also announced that the bill would come _ into effect on July 1, so that pend-- $ ing votes in somie municipalities would not be affected by the new 7 * measure. Mr. Nickle said, fur-- ther, that the Government would not permit exceptions to be made to the bill by private legislation. | 3 New Crown Attorneys. ; Second reading was given to the : ._. bill piloted by the attorney--General to permit the Government to appoint -- Crown Attorneys in counties in . R s which there is a city of more than . > 30,000. population, at a fixed salary, instead of fees. The bill also gives the Government power to fix fees & in smailler places at an average of « five years past instead of three. John A. Currie (Consgervative, 'Southeast Toronto) suggested that $ -- _ _Orown Attorneys should be placed in f charge of districts consisting of & groups of counties, rather than the *# present system, and that fees be > abolished altogether. In some places now, he said, the Crown Attorneys' © offices were used for collection agencies, He also complaimed of the , type of men often used as inter-- % f preters, who, he said, made it their jre» business to get fees for the lawyers 3 s from the foreigners. In answer to this the Attorney--General said that -- « * he had instructed the law clerks to * 7 prepare legislation giving Police l Commissioners in large centres the h right to appoint an interpreter, and f to pay him a salary for his work. -- e +