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f 4 s E * SV & \ teh > e A: K\Aa\\\ are 2-1 "g. weére even more open to question. s r J Mr. Nickle replied that heflad Hon. J. K. Cooke, Minister with ortfolio, -- then brought down prepared the briefs himself, from _ out p 7 the agreement be-- information which he could gather -- for ratification h tween the City of Toronto and the from all quarters, and in consulta-- ion for the deeding tion with an eminent Canadian Harbor Commission for (ssion lins scientist whose name he could not Oof land for a new transmission c give, but who was a prohibitionist. Amending Compensation Act. Mr. Raney criticized Mr. Nickle ; Attorney--General _ Nickle intro-- for introducing to the Legislature \duced another amendment to the evidence which had 'been presented | w y man's Compensation _ Act, to the U. S. Senate committee @Nd | wnich is aimed to prevent an injured scrapped by that body, inasmuch AS | worrman securing compenSsation in they had adopted a maximum of' one-- Quebec Province by _a process half of 1 per cent., which, Mr. Nickle | | 2> jow and also compensation in retorted, was not based on any scien-- \ Ontario under _the Compensation tiflc authority, 'but simply on the | Act Mr. Nickle said that Quebec standards accepted by the States. | | was introducing similar_legislation. When Mr. Nickle stated that it | At the request of E. Proulx, Lib-- wams chiefly upon the writings of| ecral member for Prescott, the House Prof. Starling and on the findings referred back to the Private Bills of the British committee which he Committee a bill which is to relieve had relied, Mr. Raney first took up} |imna Town of Hawkesbury from dif-- Prof. Starling's book, '"The Action of! | ficulties it has got Iinto in respect Alcohol on Man," and read from the| | pf $125,000 which it borrowed for preface to show the attitude in which' a Housing Commission. it was written. Prof. Starling had| F. W. Wilson, Conservative mem-- said it would be a calamity if a 'ber for Windsor, arose to ask the large minority of people had their \ Premier when he might expect Uis-- right to drink alcoholic beverages dussion upon his motion for a taken away from them by law. 'system of Governm:int cclmtrcl)logf i in Ontario under a loca * An Anti--Prohibition Commission? 't'i%'r'f"m.stem. The Premier replied Mr. Raney, after quoting from that. while he could not indicate the Prof. Starling's book, declared The | date, he would undertake that thet Lancet said the book was unworthy| | member should have opportunity o of its author, and that eminent social discussing the mrb:iect. Academic reformers in England had stated that' ; resolutions," he said, always had tc . they had documentary evidence to: / give way to Government business justify the assertion that the book | -- stt fsnt _ aicoo cai9dl . originally was commissioned by the I Anti--Prohibition League. The Lon-- don Daily Herald had asked the author about it, but he had declined | to enter into controversy. ' Mr. Raney quoted Rex v| McLean in 1898 to prove that beer of the strength of 4.4 was intoxicating, ac-- * cording to a York County Court judgment. Then there was plenty of evidence given by those in favor of the Volstead Act which Mr. Nickle did mot tell of, Mr. Raney s said. HMe quoted extensively from United States authorities and from English writers, and concluded by saying that the views of eminent sclentists were that beer of 4.4 strength was intoxicating. | F }' 1 | C |Redistribution Bill in Blank \__Form Comes Before \ Legislature | ---------- | } h | GOES ON TO COMMITTEE, Concurrent with an announcement; that the Legislature would rise at' Easter, which leaves ' ten working. days, the Government laiq its Ro-i i distribution Bill, in the usual blank | form, before the House yesterday.| In the bill the Government statesi a desire not to interfere with county boundaries in the proposed realign-- \ ment of constituencies, . and the 6 Premier said that a committee would 3 get to work upon it right away. The Government has had legal officers at .work for weeks preparing data * -- for the committee. "I heard it stated," said Mr. Sin-- clair, . Liberal Leader, '"that this bill was not to be finished, but was § to go over the recess." j Mr. Ferguson--Does my honorable frienda suggest that course? _ Mr. Sinclair--No. Mr. Ferguson----Well, that is not ; my view_of_lt. $ *