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Agreement was reached by Pre-- mier Hepburn and Opposition Lead-- ler Macaulay yesterday whereby the present session of the Legislature will be wound up, in so far &s busi-- ness is concerned, one week from today, Thursday, April 7. Formal prorogation of the House has been set for Friday, April 8. This would have taken the T.ogis-- lature well on to midnight, at the least. Now that they will sit only till 6 o'clock there is no possible indication of how far they will get with this trio of controversial issues. The only disappointed people, as far as can be learned, are the thou-- sand ticket holders who had been looking forward to a sitting tonight. Originally it was the intention to take divisions today on the supply motion, the second reading of the Houck bill ratifyving the new Beau-- harnois and other Quebec contracts, and the McBrien sweepstakes reso-- lution, which is cutting across party lines in a terrific manner. CANCEL NIGHT SITTINGS Ontario Delays Cancer "Cure" Probe Hoping Ottawa May Take Action Contrary to original plans, there will be no more night sittings. Nor will a Saturday sitting be required. Still with the hope that Ottawa may undertake an investigation of _ Ontario's various cancer "cures," the Hepburn Government has not made any further move to select the committee of inquiry which at one time it proposed to set up. Hon. Harold J. Kirby, Minister of Health, revealed this gsituation in the Legislature yes-- terday when he moved and got second reading to the bill author-- Iizing the inquiry in question and compelling the various "cure" op-- erators (among other things) to reveal their formula. Supply Motion, New Power Contracts, Sweepstakes Await Divisions Business to Be Completed by Next Thursday Under Revised Plans TWO LEADERS IN AGREEMENT ABOUT WINDUP Tomorrow the Private Bills Committee of the Legislature will consider the bill whereby J. E. MHett of Kitchener, one of the "oure" operators, seeks reinstate-- ment in the medical profession, from which he was recently sus-- pended by the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons. An extensive lobby on this par-- ticular bill has been carried on at Queen's Park for the past few days, and yesterday Dr. Hett, who wil!l speak before the committee Friday morning, was busy in the corridors, personally pleading his case with members and other parties concerned. March 31 VOTEPLUMPING CLAIMED RIGHT OF DEMOCRACY Both J. J. Glass (Lib., St. Andrew), and Arthur Roebuck (Lib., Bell-- woods), opposed the bill on grounds that it interfered with democratic rights and forced electors to divide their votes for candidates they might not like. Hon. George S Henry (Cons., East York), pleaded in support of his bill designed to halt "plump-- ing" by interpreting a "plumped" ballot as a rejected ballot, that an elector should have sufficient in-- terest in a municipality to express his views on all candidates rather than on a particular friend. The measure failed to pass sec-- ond reading. Additional suppert from the Opposition benches came from -- William Duckworth (Cons., Dovercourt), who declared "plump-- ing" placed a strong weapon in the hands "of a certain element in To-- ronto and other municipalities which is not in the best interests of the people of this country. If you don't want to happen here what is happening in the South eof Europe, vote for this bill." so " "It is undemocratic," claimed Aurelien Belanger (Lib., Prescott), "It might force me to vote for men of whom I do not approve and in whom I have no confidence. If this bill passes, minorities would not have a chance to elect representa-- Lives of their own. The only chance members of a minority have in se-- curing representation is to go there ard plump for their man and I don't know why they shouldn't do Hon. Gordon Conant, Attorney-- General, attacked the bill "because it is a very distinct limitation upon free choice in elections." e CCC -- PCs AIFEE art by which the voters are enavbled in civic contests to roll up large counts for a favorite candidate by failing to ballot on other candidates on an election slate, was upheld vesterday in the Ontario Legisla-- ture as a democratic right and a safeguard to minorities. MINORITY PRIVILEGE Henry Measure to Reject Ballot So Marked Is Defeated "Plumping," the gentle election