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® "It will mean onit= a saving," Colonel l EMIER E P Prics told The Globe. { * The second bill nrovides that Justices of the Peace shall make full cuarterly' | returns of convictions, acauitta's. fines. . | etc., of cases coming befors them to | ,the Clerk of the Peacs. | % ATSECON READNGGun License Attacked Up to Jan. 1, said Premier Henry, under these measures 43,000 men had been given employment in Ontario, and 17,000 people had received direct re-- lief in the form of the necessities of life. More than $15,000,000 had been spent in the Province for these pur-- poses. Premier Henry explained that the genesis of the bill was the emergency session of the Dominion Parliament, at which $20,000,000 had been appropri-- ated to relieve unemployment. He ex-- Of $12,000,000 of Dominion money made available to the Provinces to as-- sist in providing emplcyment, $3,850,-- 000, he said, had come to Ontario. To that sum Ontario ag¢ded a similar amount. "The Government provided $1,000,000 on work in Northern On-- tario," he said. "Conditions in the Northland were very serious owing es-- pecially to the poor market for tim-- ber companies." With regard to municipal undertak-- ings, he declared that the Government policy had been opposed to the erec-- tion of public buildings, because in such projects the bulk of the money went into materials, The practice had been that municipalitiecs submitted plans of work they wished to undertake, together with an estimate of their un-- employed. Two hundred and one mu-- nicipalities received japproval on pro-- jects on which the two Governments paid half the cost, said Premier Henry. The total cost amounted to $11,600,000. The bill also validated the Government's action in empowering the Railway and Municipal Board to approve the munici-- palities issuing short--term debentures without consent of electors for the pur-- pose of financing projects under agree-- ments with the Province and Do-- minion. Work Is of Benefit. "I trust that conditions necessitating these measures to relieve unemployment are only tomporary.," said Premier Henry. "Yet most of this work under-- taken is of real matorial benefit to the communities." plained that $4,000,000 of this sum had been distributed among the Prov-- inces to provide direct relief to the needy in the communities on the basis of one--third of the relief being pro-- vided each by the Dominion, Provin-- cial and municipal Governments. Condiilions in Northland. Most of yesterday's short session of the Ontario Legislature was taken up with Premier George S. Henry's ex-- planation of the unemployment reliof bill, which validated expenditures by the Province under agreements with the Dominion Government and mu-- nicipalities, The bill was given second reading. Attorney--General -- Colonel W. H. Price introduced two bills for first read-- inz yestorday, ane to amend the Sum-- mary Conviction Act, and the second to amond the Justicscs of the Peace Act. The former amendmont is designed to eliminate unnscessary exponse to coun-- ties involved in the court stenograbphers making transcrintions of evidence at tria')s. {t provides that transcriptions of the shorthand notes of evidenee shall be made only when required by the Clerk of the Peacs, one of the parties in the case, or upon an appeal of con-- viction. PRICE INTRODUCES BILLS Province Has Spent Over $15,000,000 in Giving Work, Relief Nixon Suggests That It Be Made Operative in Con-- stituencies of McCrea and Finlayson to Show Injustice of Tax--Also Scores Game Law Legis-- lating ; "It will mean onit= a saving," Colonel Price told The Globe. The second bill nrovides that Justices of the Peace shall make full cuarterly returns of convictions, acauitta)s. fines. etc., of cases coming befors them to the Clerk of the Peacs. Determined to expose the "unfairness" of the gun licconse and the Ontario Government's method of applying it to the Province, Hon. Harry C. Nixon, Progressive group leader, will--provid=_x he is in order--move before the Legis-- lature this session that the license be made operative immediately in the Sudbury and Eact Simcoe constituencies of Hon. Charles McCrea, Minister in charge of Game and Fisheries, and Hon. William Finlayson, Minister of Lands and Forests. Mr. Nixon bases his propased action on the principle that "what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander." A brief trial of the license will, in Mr. Nixon's opinion, convince theose two Government Ministers in qusstion of the injustice of the gun tax. The move, however, is only part of an effort on his part to convert the House to the need of some new method of legislating its annual changes in the game laws. Protests "Railroading." As Iniquitous and Unfair "I have long felt," said he yesterday,| "that making a lot of recommendations | in the Game and Fish Committse and then bringzing them down to the House on the last day of the session and ex-- | pecting the members to put them through in three hurried readings is | not a proper way of doing things, and I intend to protest against the practice | this ssssion. What should be dons isi to have amendments to the game laws introduced to the House like any ot;har' legislation. and then referred to the | Game and Fish Committee for itsi considerat.on." Long a vigorous opponent of the gun license, Mr Nixon is prepared this ses-- sion to cite--either in the Budget de-- bate or in consideration of the Game and Fisheries Department estimatoes-- instances of the '"iniquitous way" in which the license is working out. If it were applied generally to the Prov-- ince, said he, there would not be so much objection forthcoming, but to single out only a comparatively small section of Ontario for its application is "totally unfair." Makes Lawbreakers. "In addition," said he, "it is making lawbreakers of the great majority of our farmers, and is an instrument of persecution in the hands of partisan game wardens and their deputies." What had been originated as a means of checking up the annual pheasant shoot in Lincoln County and of pro-- viding funds for the enlistment and maintenance of an augmented force of game overscers during that shoot had, the Progressive Leader contended, ds-- veloped entirely into a new Govern-- meont method of "revenue getting." "And what's more," he added, "the revenue from the sale of licenses goes into the Consolidated Revenue Fund." :10