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F r A . I 3'1, April a lid- Objccts to "St"aeritraut." The only incident during the evening which relieved the monoto onous drone of the "Clerk 88 hed chanted "third reading of bill to amend so and so " was an explo-' sion by K. K. Homuth. Independent..) Labor member for Waterloo, over references by Controller Hacker at a Toronto Board of Control meeting to Private Bills Committee members. Mr. Hacker was reported to have used the word "sauerkraut" in eon- nection with his statements. Mr. Homuth presumed tho referents;- was to himself and William Wei- chel, the North Waterloo 'member, and proceeded to say that neither. he nor Mr. Weichel had any apolo- gies to offer for representing such a splendid county as Waterloo. Apparently. Mr. liomuth said, Controller Hacker "started in to in- sult members of the Legislature, and that is something members of this Legislature will not stand from any Toronto municipal politician. if members of the Toronto Board of Control expect in i-mne before the Private Bills Committee asking for; legislation, and receive the fair treat- merit which has always been given them, they should not make such references as this." The House also applauded during the night a reference by F. H. Keefer, ICA?., Conservative member for Port Arthur, to the conquest of the Port Arthur team in the hockey championship hunt. Besides good timber, he said. the North country also Brew "good, clean, athletic boys." An interesting amendment during the evening session was that to the bill approving the Tor nto-Weston radial operation agreegient, when the Premier announced that the T.T.C. was not to receive permis- sion to keep busses off the highway and out of competition with its radial. Shortest Session of Late. [ With prorogation billed for Wed-1 nesday. the 1926 session of the; Legislature will be the shortest; within the last decade. The House' has sat only seven weeks, as com- pared with thirteen. fourteen and: fifteen weeks in recent years. The) Assembly convened Feb. 10. The outstanding item ot legisla- tion of the session was Attorney- General Nickle's bill to eliminate by-elections for Cabinet Ministers after general elections. Before the House assembled Premier Ferguson said that there would be little im- portant legislation. and his forecast {proved accurate. Very few meas- ures loom up out ot the seven weeks' labors to impress themselves upon one's memory as "important." 0.T.A. discussions and proposals to amend that much-discussed not occupied more time than any tla single matter. There were th "wet" moves during the setmiott---ttte Braekin amendment for Government control. which was defeated on divi- sion: the bill of J. A. Pinard for " per cent. beer. and the covet-amend control bill of Cot. J. A. Currie. which as: We: cut ttt with