The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

Mr. Wilson's resolution was discussed on Monday, and the vote was held over, at the suggestion of Fremier Ferguson, that members who were absent might have the opportunity of recording their stand on the question. Yesterday, as the Speaker was about to put the reso-- lution, Mr. Pinard rose, stating that, while it was not his intention to make QUOTES MANY STATISTICS The result was expected. All that Mr, Wilson accomplished, apparently, in his effort to correct what he termed the one "big fauit" in the Liquor Con-- trol Act, was to divide the House for the first time this--session. On that division he had but the support of W. G. Weichel (Conservative, North Waterloo0) and Edmond Proulx and T. Legault (Liberals, Prescott and Stur-- geon Falls), Albert Pinard (Liberal, East Ottawa), who clashed with the Speaker, prior to the vote, over his right to state his attitude on the ques-- tion after the debate h not in his seat when taken. To Make Position Clear. POISSON, REID, HOMUTH, CURRIE By a vote of 92 to 4, the Ontario Legislature yesterday sounded the death--knell of Frank W. Wilson's "beer-- by--the--glass" _ resolution. House Divides for First Time This Season --East Ottawa Liberal Clashes With Speaker and Pre-- mier--Progressive Whip Votes 'Aye,' Then 'Nay' PRIGE DEFENDS LAW AND ASKS ONTARIO TO CVE IT A CGHANGE Control Act Not Perfect, But Conditions Are Better, _ He Claims 4 Says Number of Motor Acci-- dents Lower Than in Year Previous debate in the Legislature yesterday, At-- torney--General William H. Price ap-- pealed to all "reasonable citizens" of the Province to continue to give a "fair show" to the Liquor Control Act, firm in the conviction that, if such cooper-- ation is forthcoming, "the first year of operation of the act will show & very distinct improvement, notwith-- standing the special conditions that surrounded its coming into force, and that subsequent years will show that the people made no mistake when they adopted the Government's policy on Dec.. 1. 1926." WILSON RESOLUTION ON BEER--BY--GLASS IS VOTED DOWN, 92.4 The Attorney--General claimed that, while the new liquor law had had. a test in its first seven months of oper-- ation which probably no other new act in the history of Ontario had had to fafe, it had come through with flying colors, In a three--hour contribution to the after the debate had closed, was in his seat when the poll was ¥ e SA J. W. Widdifield, Progressive Whip, voted "Aye" on the calling of the "ayes" and "nays," and then turned around on the division and voted against the resolution. Had it not been for Mr. Widdifield's action in the first place, no division could have been recorded, for there were only four pro-- ponents of the resolution, and to ob-- tain a division five are required. The House got considerable fun out of the division. Liberal and Progres-- sive benches were banged lustily when Dr. Paul Poisson (Conservative, North Essex), Fred Reid (Conservative, West Windsor), and Karl Homuth (Consor-- vative, South Waterloo), and Col. J. A. Currile (Conservative, Toronto) _ cast their lot against the resolution. The lgiggest laugh, however, occurred when "Order!" snapped the SBpeaker. Mr. Pinard sat down. "I'm sorry," de-- clared the Speaker, "that my honorable friend made the statement he did a few moments ago. In the discharge of my duties in this House, I have tried to make it clear that I will not be dictated to by any party or by any Leader." (Applause). Mr. Pinard persisted in trying to get a hearing. "You're out of order," said the Speaker. "But I say--'" Mr. Pinard went on. "Will Not Be Dictated to." Col. Price's speech, while not exactly a fighting one--it was too crammed with statistics for that--had its warm spots, however. These were especialiy noticeable when he "went after" the "through and through" prohibitionists, who, he charged, had been too busy once upon a time in defending the On-- tario Temperance Act to create an edu-- cational campaign for temperance and sobriety, and who since the Liquor Control Act had come into force were engaged chiefy in "exaggerating out of all proportions incidents that now occur under its administration which they passed over as & matter of course when they occurred under the Ontario Temperance Act." Does "Nothing" With Them. Better Conditions, He Says. "The Government does not say,." he pointed out, "that conditions have been perfect, or anywhere near perfect. The Government does not say that the Liquor Control Act has cured all evils. But we feel that there is a better spirit abroad today than when the Ontario Temperance Act was in force. There is less talking about liquor. There is less abusing of police and Provincial offi-- cers, There is less resentment against other laws. There is a disposition on the part of the public to feel that they are getting a fair deal if they respect themselves and do not abuse their privi-- leges." f "But," said he, in this connection, "when I read these long--prepared reso-- lutions sent out by Ben Spence to wW.C.TU.'s and similar organizations to be sent in to the Liquor Board and the Government, I do with them as I ex-- pect you would do with them--noth-- ing." In his defense of the new law, Col. Price read letters from municipal of-- ficials in a half--dozen cities and towns of the Province commending the new administration; quoted statistics by the bushel to the detriment of the Vol-- stead law in the United States, and in this regard told the Opposition that if 'N'