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Y C 4 -- % Saturly-- 7# 2. most discussion, _ s Following the J reply ~the C K. 1 _ cyg3whapel. . J * , said he, e ) bill went through "ev';ry fCrEWALer mu-- !Rule for Contract Carriers. nicipality" | Mr. Henry yesterday introduced an Hl y on t«he Toronto-Nhga!'a ' to w the Publlc C mer i l ghway would set a 20--mile speed limit | amendmen contrac and slow up all traffic Vehicles Act 'wh:ch mtla.ktqs contrt?ct. tin Thc:. tendency on the American Con-- ;3" rif;:usrl;':ilgg u;gdotl;;zg: at(l)%x:lsa;gqxux 7 ent," said he, "is to increase speed. | iNE ; common carriers. 'That is {I know that the Minister has succeeded |the same as con y e in resistit ' commercial vehicles, whose owners con (pis O Slle reductions in the limit until tract with a firm to do delivery work th;l:t btoi'*s:sion. put I want to tell you wl'.fif have to meet the same iequirc-, hlghwa]\f:e 'tis puP fhore danger on the ments as the vehicles owned and used 35 miles a; hz(?urmlles an hour than at iby the firm or other common carriers, ** y 4 is R re was a moment of jocularity on A?g ttl"a"t' to tell you," he went 3-c'sI;,?§d"y afternoon when Attorney-- ,__that I don't think that automobile 1 Price introduced an amend-- cases should be tried bef ig. General Price a trate wt me ore a Magis ment to the Lunacy Act. It enables fee ,Wlm gets a bit of the fine for a us all to get in," said he, laughing. A en you are pulled before some But then he explained seriously. Under county Magistrate he looks first at the _4 is a committe®, may fee a.d t Wab existing legislation a committee may That is en at whether you are guilty. be appointed to safeguard the interests at is contrary to British institutions. of persons who are suffering from the d ul 'fhere are police going around the taking of dope, or from drunkenness country just feeding those Magistrates." | or disease. Yet there is no provision "Living Out of Fines,." for the dim-hax;::cto( th}E:-,!, comxrnitttc;r'. straig s out 1e Colonel Currie declared: "We should 's];?;atg;gendmen t* Oe have highway Magistrates and let the An -- amendment to the Public fines go altqgcth.r to the Province." iLibraries Act was introduced by A. R. Moreover, said he, there were traffic Nesbitt (Conservative, Toronto--Bracon-- officials on the highways who were dAale). While the present act authorizes makin_sz a living out of "'spotting." a Public Library Board to expropriate "And." he continued, *'municipalities land, there is no provision as to the bave men out trying to make a living procedure to be followed. The amend-- out of fines." ment provides that when land is ex-- He told the House that an officer Of |propriated and the compensation is not the Government had, during the sum-- the subject of a mutual agreement of mer months, been "pulling up" people |the parties, it may be determined by on the Wasaga Beach on speeding arbitration. charges, when he didn't even have the An amendment to the Municipal right to be there, for the beach was Act, brought in by Leopold Macaulay owned by fishermen and under Domin-- : (Conservative, South York} is aimed lon jurisdiction. 1a,t extending certain powers of munici-- '"No matter," he went on, "what the palities bordering on cities of 100,000 ~-- law is, you can always get a lot cf, 'population. cranks to come and stir up the Minister to change it. The people who do most | of the comiplaining are the people who | haven't cars." | e The motorist, he declared, was the | "under--dog." "But you members want| to remember him," he added. "He's the | man who'll drive your voters to the| polils. If we're up against an elcctlon,i now's the time for him." | '"Would you move an amendment for; election day?" Aurelien Belanger (Lib-- eral, Russell) asked. "Sure," replied the Colonel, "one for an increased speed." Safeguards in York. Leopoid Macaulay (Conservative, South York) clarified the situation on the section pertaining to speed limits. He pointed out that in South York and East York there were populations as great as a city, and yet on the high-- ways through these districts cars could travel 35 miles an hour. These areas wanted the same treatment as Toronto, and they were entitled to the same safe-- guards in speed limits as Toronto. "It's my intention to raise the speed limit in Toronto." Colonel Currie was up again. "Ninety per cent. of the people exceed it. We have enough trouble with the Chief of Police in To-- ronto, who happens to come from a small town." ; These remarks of the Colonel were in :'the nature of a "follow--up" on w hat he |had said a few moments before. He }had declared himself against the "no-- parking" traffic system -- in Toronto. | "Why," he said, "you can't even park |and go into a store for a stamp but J'some officer says 'Move on.' Those con-- ditions have got to stop." | _ Then Mr. Sinclair told the House |that "there is some merit" in Colonel 'Currie's views. The Liberal Leader 'foresaw that his motor trips from Osh-- |awa to Toronto would b« affected. If the municipalities set a 20--mile speod |limit, it would take nours to make the . | trip. Pearson Praises Curric. . _Then Mr. Pearson followed his Leader n praise of Tolonel Curric's point of view on highway matters. Mr. Henry, who throughout much of the Colonel's remarks, had been smil-- 'ing. opened up a reply to the argu-- ment with a shot at the Colonc!. The St. Patricks member, said he, couldn't | have read the bill very carefully or he'd have seen that the spceed limit sections only applied to municipalities of 100,000 or over. It was, said he, * | particularly framed for the municipali-- itles Mr. Macaulay referred to. He didn't jthink that Scarboro' or North York called for the legislation. "The mu-- 'nlcipa]ities." said he, "have been asking 'for this for several years. This is nol. !to retard the movement of traffic. I agree that a limit of 20 miles per hour ]on the main highways would be a seri-- | ous menace." L