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Florists, Confectioners, _ _Private Schools, Police _ Board Covered by Flood | _ of Bills Toronto Members Seek Amendments To Municipal Act 'The bulk of the bills backed this year by the city fathers are amend-- ments to the Municipal Act. According to custom, they were introduced yes-- terday by private Toronto members, who will later inherit the job of de-- fending them when they strike rough going in second reading. ORONTO" bills got T started through the f Legislature _ yester-- day amid much legislative gaiety. Municipal Act Amendments. A few minutes after prayers, Mr. Speaker N. O. Hipel let the flood loose when he called for the introduction of bills. Ian Strachan, 'Toronto Liberal M.P.P.. asked permission to introduce an act amending the Municipal Act giving the city power to choose which Judge and Magistrate sit on the Police Commission. duce another bill, to amend the Mu-- nicipal Act, giving the City Council the right to license florists. } Harold Kirby, Liberal Whip, and Colonel Fraser Hunter were on their feet with more bilis ready. The Colonel retired in Mr. Kirby's favor, Mr. Kirby introduced a Forest Hill bill. The Colonel popped up again. J. H. ("Jim"> Clark of Windsor was up first. A moment later Aurelien Belanger, M.P.P. for Prescott, and Colonel Hun-- ter got to their feet simultaneously. Mr. Belanger got his bill before the House. Tag Days and Tea--Rooms. Mr. Speaker and the Clerk of the House put the bill through first read-- ing. With the House murmuring mock sympathy, the Colonel finally got a chance to beg leave to introduce a bill amending the Assessment Act, permit-- ting the appointment of a Deputy Commissioner of the Court of Re-- Mr. Strachan moved an amendment to the Municipal Act allowing a mu-- nicipality to levy the cost of filling in certain abandoned areas. Colonel Hunter moved another amendment to the Municipal Act per-- mitting restricted areas against private schools, hairdressing establishments and tea--rooms. Colone!l Hunter moved ancother amendment to the Municipal Act per-- mitting opening of the municipal polis for any eight hours prior to 9 p.m. _ Robert Allen, Toronto Liberal, M.P.P., moved an amendment to the Munici-- pal Act enlarging .a municipality's power to revoke any license it grants. Mr. Allen moved another amend-- ment to the Municipal Act clarifying the Police Commission right to grant tag days. "Mr. Speaker," said Wilfrid Heigh-- ington. "In view of the number of amendments to the Municipal Act, it might be a good idea for some one to bring in an act to remove it alto-- _ "Mr. Speaker," said J. J. Glass, To-- ronto Liberal M.P.P., as the House roared. "I beg leave to introduce an act to amend the Municipal Act." Mr. Strachan begged leave to intro-- SCHOOL TAXES ACTION PENDS SECOND CAUCUS No Announcement Fol-- lows First Liberal Par-- -- ley on Amendment Caucus action on the Ontario Gov-- ernment's plans for separate school tax amendment was postponed to a second caucus after Liberal meombers met in secret session at Queen's Park yesterday. The second caucus is scheduled for tomorrow. The widely touted session yesterday was lengthy, but was re-- ported to be comparatively uneventful. Members of the Government, accord-- ing to after--caucus rumor, sketched an outline of the Governments school proposals which are now generally :mdemood to be along "moderate" ines. Some protest was rumored from strong pro--Catholic members, but it was reported after the session that there had been no split. The present program is understood to call for a detailed submission of Government plans tomorrow. Caucus bitterness was rumored to have risen in a Northern Ontario-- Southern Ontario fight. Northern members were later credited with a warm defense of Provincial expendi-- tures in the Northern ridings.. They were forced :o this defense, it was reported, by an attack from "Old Ontario' Liberals. "Bill No. 52," the Government's mystery bill, generally reported . to have strengthened the municipal corporation tax. has been dropped for the present, according to reliable authority. The principle of the bill, it is stated, may be used later, but not in the form which reached and was stopped at the Government printing Feb tvearny 2 6 TAX BILL READY FOR LAST READING Measure Emerges From Committee Wilfrid Heighington (Conservative, St. David) fired the final Opposition volley at the measure when he op-- posed it as "a clumsy piece of crafts-- wmanship, amended and reamended, so that instead of being a finished piece of legislation we have only a mass of confusion." s lature yestercay Following reprinting to incorporate | changes and amendments, the bill wm' come back for third reading, when it | mav--or may not--pass unchallenged.! After one last Conservative broad-- side, the Provincial income tax bill emerged from committee in the Legis= "Since Arthur Mcighen has gone in for Shakespeare in a big way." con-- ciluded Mr. Heighington, "permit me to quo'te a passage from Macbeth which expresses my .opinion of this measure: 'Confusion now hath made its masterpiece.'" ' URBAN HOUSING BILL INTRODUCED | Would Compel Rehabilita-- tion of Buildings 'Toronto slum clearance was Ad-- vanced another step yesterday when J. J. Glass, Toronto Liberal MP.P., introduced a bill in the Legislature which would give municipalities the right to compel owners of dilapidated buildings to put them in good repair or tear them down. The bill would apply to urban municipalities only, Mr. Glass's pre-- amble explained. At present when a building is in ruinous condition, the municipality has no right to interfere unless the building should happen to provide a fire risk or be a danger to the public in other ways. The amend-- ment gives the right to the munici-- pality to require that the building be put into proper repair, or that it be Three minor sectional changes were proposed by Hon. Paul Leduc, Min-- ister of Mines, who is piloting the bill through the House, and were adopted after brief debate. pulled down.