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l M P P " SiHi Prevent . . . s I mg C) R d C . . The Legislature yesterday accepted a GOP. amendment to the Highway Improvement Act which will prevent members of the Legislature from sitting as members of suburban roads com- missions, from which council members are now excluded. William --- ,Denniscm (C. C. E. Toronto -St. 1 . lDavid) who submitted the amend- [menh explained after the House rose that. George S. Hen cy, Morgan Baker and W. H. Gardhouse had sat. on the commission which extended the To- tom" and York roads system 255 miles sittt'P its inception in 1911. at a cost to Toronto of $100,000 annu- ally. The CIO-mile limit, he said, had been extended to 50 without, To. ronto's approval. "We now build main streets 20 feet wide," he said, "through Wood. twinge. Forest Hill, Newmarket, Richmond Hill and Aurora. My amendment will prevent M,P,P.'x from sitting on these bodies-will eliminate some bad cases of local patronage." 'Sugar Beet Subsidy. Agriculture Minister T. L. Ken.. nedy's bill to extend the sugar beet isubsidy from 55 cents to $1.55 per ton up to $225,000 was sent to the Agriculture Committee on second reading. for consideration Wednes- day morning. Payment of subsidy beyond the total specified will be a company responsibility, the Min: ister explained. "We arc making this subsidy pay- ment for two reasons," the Minister said. "One is as a purely war ex- penditure to increase production; the other to emphasize that sugar- beet growing is a direct contribution to the war, since about half the Allies' sugar supplies are from beets." He was afraid, too, he said, that if Ontario factories were closed machinery would be removed from the Province. Ten bills were given third reading at the two-hour session yesterday, including the Wartime Housing Act bill providing for collection by mu- nicipalities of taxes in arrears to 1940 on houses erected by Wartime Housing at an agreed rate at $24 and $30. . The Throne Speech debate will be continued Monday by private mem- bers, with J. B. Salsberg (L.P.. Toronto-St. Andrew) leading oft,