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Ma.v c,\ e 3 * *4 s * Opposition Bill to Amend C & Municipal Board Act L C A d i1 ent Withdrawn Iq l.l OI' m e l'l Cmmemmmmmmmememmme mm A t lN THE face of warm opposition | from the Government benches l S O e wners and little encouragement from his own side of the House, Arthur Ellis (Cons., Oltawa South) yesterday t t e 1o Amend the oithen "Tumé ma . Beverage Rooms Required to Vacate on Board Act e a « & & ie 'of moter® framsport and "bus March 31 Following Dry Vote in | systems under that board. * _ % & t abtere Pobitcs Municipality | "I fail to see," said the Ottawa mem-- | ber in speaking to the bill, "why motor F A MUNICIPALITY votes dry, "March 31 of the next | -- :m';'::f';:;'C;'d'gn?c'i;nc{'gga:fgd';{ following year" will be the legal moving day when the would have the sole power to grant municipality's beverage rooms and liquor stores must }'::nf:u::dmtfimcz;'f°}n:fl,%§;pegé';§ move out, under a Government amendment brought down and routes. The real object of the bill in the Legislature yesterday. is to take the entire motor truck C question out of politics." Renewal Date, Hon. T. B. McQuesten, Minister of March 31 is the last day of the Highways and Public Works, said he Ontario fiscal year and of the bev-- didn't believe for one minute that Mr. erage room authoritiee which are re-- Eillis sincerely supported the principle newed annually. The Government has of his bill. previously revoked beer authoritiecs "Surely," the Minister commented, within a short time after they were * "it would be highly unfit for a body knifed by municipal vote. of that sort to be called upon to deal Premier Hepburn, sponsor of the ¢ with a political matter." amendment, said last night that it only extended to hotel men the pro-- Duplication Feared. tection which the Government now There would be duplication of serv-- demands for its liquor stores The ices should the step be taken, he Government was taking such a period f added, and felt that the matter should of time now, he said, to close out | not be placed in the hands of a liquor store leases. judicial independent board. Hotel owners, the Premier pointed Hon. Leopold Macaulay (Con., York out, could be also caught by a dry South), former Minister of Highways, plebiscite shortly after they had sunk : said there was "more throat--cutting a sum of money into their premises. x by improvident reduction of rates in The amendment, the Premier said, the trucking business than anywhere only gave them the protection already smmmusastscestustmemesommess else." afforded the liquor stores. ; G ish R * . 4s "COhiselling" Charged A rebrgaltt;'lngm half-:otzex:) an}m}etml:l- Uarnlshee estriction . * ments e Liquor Act, broug n | | "Why," he exclaimed, "they were yesterday, have a direct bearing on: | Measur e Generally | trucking stuff from Toronto to Ham-- the pending Toronto plebiscite. [ N Approved . iiton at one--quarter the railway rate. Petition Rights | They chisel along for two or three The $ lm. bint of 'these is de [ . wommemmmmmsmmes s ears, upsetting all rate scales, and mos por ol these *L ! 4 f %, «s » 4 l en they go imio bankraptey. 1 wih -- signed to clarity the right Of cvery iSroa's Ieislsture when the Cabingt im the Government if it will Ontario election voter to petition and' Snd ls;oth parti lit eto 'e' J. H.! make a genuine effort to place on its vote in a wet--and--dry plebiscite, The] Cl;.rk' Till ';'3 .;p bansg"e l iyoeS feet this staggering industry." amendment provides that "the last) t or 10' a z 'r"_t C y iment 33";' lelfs Fraser Hunter (Liberal, Toronto--St. revised list of a municipality is to be: pr<§' t'f'; a coutrt Jjudgment, a healthy Patrick) said he was opposed to the defined as the voters' list for the mu--, sel,}h-o wWwine j s; Iegisisii principle of the control of private en-- nicipality 2s revised for the last elec-- e _wWindsor lawyer's legislation terprise passing into the hands of tion to the Assembly.'" Before a went through second reading to boards not responsible to the elected plebiscite takes place, these lists are the Legal Bills Committee with | representatives of the DCOPle. to be revised again. Wllfrid '!'Idghm protesting that ltf Attorney--General Arthur Roebuck Another clause will deny voters in shouldn't be sent to the Legal Bills said he appreciated the concern for dry Eglinton and West Toronto a Committee--"to have it kxlled; At-- the transport drivers, but suggested vote in a city ballot on beer. Says the torney--General Arthur Roebuck was that their grievances be aired, and amendment: "Persons in a portion of skeptical about the effects of the pro-- adjustment secured. under the pro--| a municipality in which the sale of posed legal change, but Welfars Min-- visions of the Industrial Standards liquor is prohibited may not sign a ister David Croll and a half--dozen Act. petition or vote onhethe s:tl;n ottbtere'r other younfhlaw:'firs were (flor the bblll. P PR and wine in the other po: of the "Fords," the railways and many ig mir. Sllls then Mt.hd!:u fixe_bill. municipality." This vote on prohibi-- corporations fired employees who wore tion does not stand if the liquor pro-- garnisheed, Mr. Clark said. The hibition is lifted. employee might be right under the Other new caluses legalize the ap-- law, but the companies would not' pointment of wet and dry managers assume .he complications of a garnish-- at a plebiscite and give these man-- ment action. agers the right to examine and in-- Attorney--General Arthur Roebuck spect the petition during a four--week reminded the House that a working-- period. man got cred's because a storekeeper felt the law stood behind the credit. Garnishment before judgment was the * Division Court's one effectiveness, and f if abolished--one might as well abol-- 'ish those courts. The value of "credit" was debated in the House, and one member said a restriction of credit would be generally beneficial. ,_ *"We might be just as well off if we had no law to make debtors paY creditors," said the Attorney--General, "but that's philosophical speculation-- [ not practical politics." |