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Farmers Fight Bill Linaiting Poison Sale To Druggists Only "For the last ton years," Mr. Nixon stated to Th: Globs yesterday, "we legislators have had to fight aganst demands of the Pharmacy Board-- and the board I understand, is back of the bill--for a monopcly on certain commoditiee. One has only to lcok back to 1922, when the board had a monopoly cn peroxide and was charging some 30 cents a small bottle for it. After we took that monopoly away from them, the price for this commodity fell away down. We naturally expect, when the board gots a monopsly on a thing, to have the price for it raised 300 per cont." It is understood that several promi-- nent Conservative members of th» House have already waited on ths Health Minister asking that the sale of the two drugs be left as it is at present . the farmer members of the House contend. but would render accessi-- bility of purchase much more difficult than has been the case in the past. Hon. Harry C. Nixon, Leader of the Progressive group, is thoroughly aroused over the amendment, and will ask the Minister of Health to moved it to the committee stage. If that is not done he is prepared to bring a resolution bsfore the House to gain his point. Farmer members of the Ontario \ Lcgislature--Government as well as' Opposition--have now trained their guns on the Pharmacy Act amend-- ment which would require that cal-- cium cyanide and sodium cyanide be | sold only in drug stores in future.' and although the amendment has rcached the third reading stage in the House there is an increasing de-- mand that it be moved back to com-- mittee in order that it can be struck ; out of the legislation of which it is | Both these poisons form the basic in -- gredients in many of the agricultural sprays; nsect powdcors, and rat and groundhog destroyers that ars com-- monly used by farmers, and at the present time are sold extensively by hardware and seed stores. To put them on sale in drug stores alone vt"oulq not conly increase prices, so AMENDMENT f IN THIRD READINN\G Fear Prices V\\ould Be In-- creased on Cyanides Used as Basis Nor Insect Sprays and i¢owders and Rat--Groundiwg De-- stroyers X All United States insurance com-- panies doing business in Ontario will |have to come to Ontario courts to fight claims against their policy-- holders arising out of automobile ac-- cidents in this Province, irrespective of where the policy was placed. If such insurance companies do not com-- ply with this rule their licens> to do business in Ontario will be carwelled. This is the effect of the amendment to the Insurance Act made by Attor-- nsy--General Price in the Legislature yesterday. About one--half of the in-- surance companiecs licensed to write autcmobile insurance are United States concerns. The purpose of the | act is to make such companies contest , the claim against their insured aris-- | ing out of automobile accidents with | United States cars in Ontario, here, M also introduced by Mr. Macaulay. This amendment provides that a mu-- nicipality may dispose of public utili-- ties in whole or part. In the case of & Hydro public utility, however, the consent of the commission must be obtained. Oshawa will be allowed to sell its publicly owned gas plant by an amendment to Public Utilities Act, by reason of the fact that landlords have not paid taxes. An echo of the last municipal election, wAen one of the Toronto candidates was disqualificd by reason of the fict that the taxes on an apartme'at house where he rented an apartm'mt, had not been paid, is found in another amendment to the Municfpal Act. This amendment re-- moves the disqualification of tenants Another amendmf{nt. to the act empowers municipritie to license street news vendors and restrict tkem to selling only daily and weekly news-- papers. _ Amendryents to empower County Councils 'x» establish and oper-- ate county farras in the interest of agriculture, and, to prevent the double taxation on irgome in cases where a citizen moves from one community to another, wers also introduced. -- I it riand. CV anilctzmnt €is ns io . .l Hon. Leopold Macaulay, Provincial Secretary, introduced several Gcawyorn-- ment am>ndments to the Municipal Act, One of these amendmernits will give farmers' daughters ths: same privileges in voting at munic'Mpal elec-- tlons as has heretofore beea enjoyed by farmers' sons. Sons residing on {arms with their fathers Pave enjoyed the right to vote in munical elections and this will be extended to daughters by the new bill. + Councils May Run Far#ns. Amendments to existing laws affect-- ing such widely divergent interests as mnewsboys, public utilities, farmers' daughters, victims of auto acciden's and county farms are included in bls introduced on behalf of the Govern-- mgnt in the Legislature yesterday. ECHO OF CITY ELECTION Licensing Newsboys Is An-- other Municipal Act Change FARM DAUGHTERS WOULD GET VOTE UNDER NEW BILL aycoh 19 Reading in committee of a Govern-- mont bill providing a three imonths' pemnalty for parents failing to main-- | lain their children, elicited from Hon. | Harry C. Nixon the query: "Are they going to look after their children bet-- ter in jail?" Soldiers' Aid Commission Reorganized by Cabinet Rearrangement of the personnel of the Soldiers' Aid Commission of this Province was announced last night, following Cabinet Council, by Hon. William G. Martin, Minisser of Pub-- lic Welfare. [ purpose of the bill was to bring under the local imv--ovement provisions the opening of a new street. It will also define the opening of the new street and the grading as one work. At present undir the act these are con-- sidered as iwo separate works, neces-- sitating separaie by--laws. As a sequcl to court difficulties over the Jarvis Street extension, & bill to amend the Local Improvement Act was g.ven second reading. Its spon-- sor. Fred G. M>Brien (Conservative, Toronto--Brockton) explained that the "\Il\ll\l.\"\.!\l.\l'\l.\'.\l'\"? coe Centre), who had been called away to a funeral, should roaturn. This Commission has been recenily transferred to the Welfare Depart-- ment from the Department of the Attorney--General, and Mr. Martin Pon 6 9 Sou t $ es 69 lt 5 tacl ts n o 9 "t 6 9 "o i P s i 9 o 6 5 lt $ tm 5 Before the orders of the day were called yesterday J. A. Sangster (Lib-- eral, Glangarry) asked permission to correcs; a report appearing in a morn-- ing paper regarding his speech on the Budget Tuesday night. He denied that he had assailed highway expen-- ditures zt A.lexganc.i_ria. in his riding. The Hospital Bill was not taken up in committee at the request of Wil-- liam E. N. Sinclair. Liberal House Leader, who asked that it be left over until D¢. L. J. Simpson (Liberal, Sim-- now succeeds Hon. William H. Price as Chairman of the body. and under the same laws as if the policy had been issued here. This regulation will apoly also to Ontario insurance comtvanies when they place insurance outside the Province. Corrects Paper's Report. The other officers, whose appoint-- ments have been approved by Govern-- ment Order--in--Council, are: Major-- Gen. Victor A. S. Williams, Major W. G. Blair of Perth, Captain Alex. Mc-- Farlane of Hamilton, Captain Harold Tolley of Sault Ste. Maric, Mrs. Ar-- thur VanKoughnet of Toronto, and Captain Calvert Stonehouse of Wai-- laceburg. & -- The first mseting Oof the reorgan-- ized Commission will be held at an early date. Notice of an amendment to On-- tario's Wolf Bounty Act is now standing on the Legislature order paper, and rumors heard around Queen's Park corridors are to the effect that Hon. Charles McCrea, Minister of Mines, proposes to raise the present bounty to a flat rate of $25 for every adult wolf, either timber the Province. Higher Wolf Bounty or brush, taken in