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Vi)a)rvtsdliisv., Ns. Its " Lieutenant-Governor Gives Royal Assent to 132 Bills .. ------ In marked contrast to the crush of the- or'eryttr-day' ceremonies in I February, the Legislature prorogao tion proceedings at Queen's Park yesterday afternoon were carried out before half-filled galleries and with a mere handful of members and members' wives on the floor of the House. Even the civil servants who flocked "tt the brilliant House open- ing barely deigned to look in mo- mentarily at yesterday's function, which was accompanied. however. by the usual military incidents outside the building. In yesterday's brief proceedings his Honor the Lieutenant-Governor gave Royal assent to 132 bills, which were read over to him by the House Clerk, among them the 1925 O.T.A. amendments, the Gasoline Tax Act. and various others of the legislative items which were the subject of vigorous debates during the session. Yesterday their titles echoed list- lessly in a halt-empty House, where ten days previously their calling would have prompted half a dozen vehement speeches. _ Outstanding in the address of his Honor the Irteutenant-Governor, which he road, was a paragraph of reference to the OKLA. amendments. "The amendments to the Ontario Temperance Act will. I trust," he said. "facilitate the enforcement of the measure and contribute to its riieienc.v. The fundamental prin- cuple of the law has been maintain- cu. while a cause. of hostility to it has been removed. The experience in the operation of this act has long pointed to the advisability of amend- intt it so as to create a greater re- spool for law observance. not only in tha interest of this particular enact- ment, but for the advantage of law and order generally in the com- munity." _ . _ The speech makes reference to the favorable outlook for agriculture during the year. comments upon re- cent observations in Northern On- tario having revealed probabilities of a mlneralized area of greater extent than heretofore imagined. observes that electoral inequalities have been wiped out by the Redistribution Bill, and marks the evidences of the carrying into efreet'ot'a policy of financial retrenchment.