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March o v f e $ ' ; _ MOTOR LICENSE POLITICS' RAPPED 4 CHANGE ASKED . BY COL. FRASER Croapammras 6 'Would Advance Purchase , No Place f'f" Honest r Date for Markers , , Man Highway Minister McQuesten was r Colonel Praser turned "Dutch uncle last night and told the Ontario Legis-- night to have the year for the life of tario and Canada politics. motor licenses correspond with the Ml.lr:.i.s 4: Leg!alod tm{'e oon-t.anl:dutmg1 nem * % . ts an our _ ex--Ministers, Province's fiscal year, whi.ch ends Colonel Hunter announced "that Min-- March 31, instead of Dec. 31. istries consiss of men often in the past C. M. Maclie, Liberal member for 'fe'.('c:&'d from mediccrity or obscurity." Middlesex South, who made the re-- | Members of the Legislature making quest, said at present the purchase of \ spesches to the Speech from the u"ms by farmers was difficult since ;Thmne (as the Colonel admitted he they also had to pay their taxes at | was) were told their specches were > that time. | "Futile." C Speaking in the Throne Speech d-- Hirings and firings in the Civil tate, Goldwin C. Elgic, Conservative Service; government by Order--in-- member for Toronto--Woodbine plead-- Council; passage of $50,000,000 votes ed for more dignity in the Legislature in thirty minutes, and debates "where debates. _ the pot called the kettle black" were| Mr. Macfie praissd the Government flayed by the Toronto Colonel. | on its decision to rebuild worn--ont "Politics," he summed it all up, "are highways and for assuming the cost no place for an honest man." | of highways. The Colonel preserved his Liberal--, PFollowing Mr. Mac{ic's addross, Hon ism by absolving the present Adminis--' Thomas B. McQuesten, Minister of tration from his catalogue of faults, Highways and Public Works, told The and proserved his friends in the Legis-- 'Globe that "this shculd be given ']ature by telling them their sins like every consideration. It is a point of| a story--teller tells a joke. 'v:ew which had not cccurred to me," ' He made positive points with a | added the Minister. denunciation of local particularism f Mr. Maclie further suggested that !---"whlch saps the solidarity of Con-- more consideration in the matter of | federation"; with a plea for business-- , | financial grants be given municipal-- | like Government work in committee: ities which had borne a large share ,and with an appeal for the uphold-- of highway construction some years ing of legislative rights. Otherwise h> ago On this matter Mr. McQuesten | was not so gentle. * said: "It would be almost impOSSIbI'D | "The East thinks of the West as to readjust this now, so far as capital ' the daughter of the horse leech":-- costs are concerned " The Minister "Unless the Opposition changes its pointed out, however, that the Gov-- l blocking tactics this Province will suf-- ernment was now bearing the full [ter the disaster of some such lunatic cost of maintenance. solution as that to which Alberta has ' been condemned,"--and "Politically in * B Ontario we seem, until today, to have | been living in the age of Walpole," 'were some of his axioms. | _ Colonel Hunter talked at length on s the separate school question, and said 'thlt the price of the repudiation of the Confederation compromise must | be the disappearance of Canada, but * said h wasn't saying much more. '""You can lick your chops," said the | Colonel, "but you aren't going to get ; 'much out of me."