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Projectc, ¢ er--by--Glass Proves Losing Venture In Legislature Debate Speaking to VOTE ON ISSUE COMES ON TODAY Windsor Member Asseris| T hat He Is Fulfilling: Pre--election Promise ------\ Three Speak in His| Support I Frank W. Wilson, Conservative mem-- ber for East Windsor. fought a determ-- ined battle for "beer by the glass" in the Legislature yesterday, but it was a losing one. When the House assembles this afternoon it will deliver Mr. Wil-- son's resolution, by way of a vote, the knockout punch which was withheld yesterday. The Ontario Government wants no "beer by the giass." In the words of Premjer Ferguson, it wants no tink-- ering, nor any interference with law, just to meet the demands of some iso-- lated sentiment in certain localities." A thorough trial is what the Prime Minister has in mind for the present law, and after his utterances of yes-- terday it looks as if the act will get it. Until such time as the Government {inds itself unable to maintain it or support it, and public opinion is no longer behind it, it will remain "un-- touched and unaltered." Premier Presents Opposition. The Prime Minister provided the sole opposition to the East Windsor mem-- ber's resolution, but it was enough. Mr. Wilson, who, in arguing the merits of his resolution, indirectly made out a fine case for opponents of the Liquor Control Act, was supported by W. C. Weichel (Conservative, North Water-- loo), and seconder of the resolution, and rather lukewarmly by Edmond Proulx and T. Legault, "wet" Liberal members for Prescott and Sturgeon Falls, respectively. There was little fire in the debate, save that kindled by Mr. Wilson in its closing moments, when he said: "I made a pledge to my con-- stituents that I would support this policy, and, so help me, I'm going to keep it and vote for this rosolution." Not Secking Bar's Roturn. Government control, said Mr. Wil-- son, could not effectively be obtained unless the act in its present form was extended to permit sale of beer by the glass. No question of return of the bar was involved in his resolution. It stipu-- lated that consumption of beer should be confined to places under Govern-- ment jurisdiction, subject to local op-- tion vote. It was not to be enforced on communities which didn't want it, and it was to be granted to those who wanted it. No set arbitrary rule in this connection, he stated, could be laid down for the whole Province,. For one community might want consumption in a standard hotel, while its neighbor might desire it to be consumed. in properly regulated rooms without the nlea)s. Li ue & 1110046b me¥ enbm »caking to Wilson Mo- campaign up to the time he had with-- drawn the "beer feature." tion, Premier Says T here| 8e @hson took Hine, +o Belth ons Will Be "No Tinkering" 8E Smito *rormetemce. Act Anere With Liguor| Law | io on se en ons o ds 113C002 09. His resolution, he submitted, was en-- tirely within everything said by the Prime Minister in the last election Meet Sentiment in Cer tain Localities TG&SA 3\1? _ And yet he stressed, the present law _ was still faulty. Thar rault lay in its failure to meet the demand for beer-- not in bulk, but in lesser quantities. Sees Danger to Act. "If you don't make any changes in this act," he warned tne Government, "you're going to kill it." All the other Provinces west of Ontario, with the exception of Saskatchewan, had made "beer by the glass" the basis of their Government control legislation. . One of the great tendencies under' the present law, he asseverated, was to drink rum, brandy, whiskey, gin, and other "high--powered stuff." There was, he said, a great amount of grinking of "hard stuff" in rooms, which, he fancied, could be eliminated to a great ' extent. if these hotels were allowed to | sell beer. Such sale, he also contend-- ed, would wipe out the "killing the crock" practice. Many tourists would : readily buy beer in glass quantities where they do not buy at all now, Or £0 . to the other extreme, and break the law \ rather than take out a permit and meet all the inconveniences of the law. _ The trouble with the present law, said the East Windsor member, was that it was a rich man's act and smack-- »d of "class legislation." Under its op-- eration, the average man was sponding altogether too much on liquor. Desir-- able as it had been to eliminate the bootlegger it was muqh more desiraR}e I'wl'(l);;-'v 7:3" eliminate his successor blind pigger. Cites Statistics. { ChkINEs XUEUEEONEEEEE T TTE mene 1 00 Cl board, he (Mr. Wilson) had never heard him utter a single syllable in opposi-- tion to that feature. Ministers of the Government were ready for the change, too, he contended. So were Conserva-- tive members of Parliament who had supported the "control" policy at the last election. "Speak for Yourself." * "Are you speaking for yourself?" in-- terjected T. A. Murphy, Conservative, Toronto--Beaches. "That is my intention," said Mr. Wil-- son. "Well, do so," said Mr. Murphy. In conclusion, Mr. Wilson argued that beer--by--the--glass sale would reme-- dy the big fault in the act. Sale of beer in this way might, he said, cut down the Government's revenué, but he would hate to have the impression get abroad, he said, that the Govern-- ment was more interested in "revenue" than in promoting the cause of "true temperance."