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oim en * owas A P\'\\ D r | Where, Oh Where, Has Thaf' ity Bill Gone? Member Indemnity Bill Gone: Disappearance of the Govern--|ing this s_tudy and t_ake all and ment bill to switch legislative in--|sundry action to provide a report > & $ for the next session. f demnities into tax--free allowances T. K. Creighton (P.C., Ontario) was indicated yesterday in a mo-- is chairman, and members are Lib-- tion presented to the Ontario Legis--|eral Leader Farquhar Oliver, C.C.F. lature by Premier George Drew|Leader W. J. Grummett, M. C.[ for setting up a select committee|Davies (P.C., Windsor--Walkerville)| to study legislators' pay. and T. A. Murphy (P.C., Toronto The motion, approved without | Beaches). | discussion or comiment, was made| Last night, when it appeared that. without the Premier referring to|the present session of the House| the bill that stands on the order|would end today, Speaker W. J.| paper. The bill was introduced by|Stewart, through whose office the| Attorney--General Leslie Blackwell,| $2,000 indemnities are paid members: received first reading, was then|of the Legislature, issued instruc-- spoken to at considerable length tions to the Provincial accountants| by Mr. Blackwell when he declared|to deduct the regular income taxf the Government would fight zny| amounts from cheques to be dis--| action of the income tax bureauc--| bursed today. | rtracy to collect under its provisions, "I have ordered that the amounts! + and received second reading. Since| be deducted, but that the sum be, then it has languished while other| held, pending what -- recommenda-- legislation, including the liquor|tions the select committece makes bill, was introduced and given the to the House at the next session,." full treatment to third reading. 'said Mr. Stewart. "If the commit-- The motion by the Premier places tee recommends that the income into the hands of the committee tax deductions should not have full power to study the entire ques--| been made, the sum will then be tion of legislators' remuneration|released to the members. If they or allowances or indemnities, or| recommend otherwise, then the pay-- whatever they may decide to call\ ment will be made to the income the stipend, to call witnesses dur--|tax branch." ' mpi f Poli } Revamping of Police Setup Provided in Bill Under a new Police Act intro--|bill does not grant this request, it duced in the Ontario Legislature makes possible wide selectivity in o jhe § personnel. yesterday by Attorney--General Les-- !" o WMickcs f lie Blackwell, provision is made for| N* Oe# Di"s'on . henge in the personnel of police | . Attorngy-benez'al Bla(.tkwell. in a'change in the Ders introducing the bill, said that in commissions in Ontario and PrO--|the statutes at present there was vincial Police are given the respon--| no clear division between municipal sibility of policing rural Ontario. and Provincial Police duties. Cities Change in the set--up of police and towns will have now a fixed commissions is said to have re. "OSDonsibility to enforce Dominion sulted from the recent investigation 364 Provincial, as well as local into police affairs at Guelph, when laws. Outside the cities and towns, Judge D. J. Cowan of Brantford 80 far as other municipalities 89. criticized the Guelph Police Com--, Yhere there is sufficient urban mission for lack of co--operation POPulation and assessment to en-- among its members. able policing to. be a local matter, a ce m those areas may be designated and Change in Set--up ; can then either make avrrangements Until now, the police commission with a neighboring city, operate of a municipality has been Auto-- their own police force or enter matically composed of the head of jnto agreement with*the Province the municipal council, the county fopr policing by the Provincial indge and a magistrate, Under the Police, % new bill, the commission may be; Several clauses in the act, accord-- composed of the head of the mu-- ing to officials, have been long nicipal council, the county judge O0f | awaited by -- police -- associations any neighboring municipality and throughout the Province. particu-- a magistrate or crown attorney, larly those relating to superannu-- The new bill also calls for a mini-- ation, and minimum wages. mum number of meetings of the "The bill." an official remarked, police commission during the year. "jg q genuine attempt by the} In the Guelph inquiry, Judge Cowan atiornev--general to achieve co--. criticized the police commission for nperation and uniformity among, failure to hold regular meetings nmunicipal police forces." anga for the {ew meetings held. t 1 iss oo aassntosniurigrraniiopenapie eteige h e aetetverinrreiealormged The government has received a number of resolutions urging that the personnel of police commissions be increased to five. While the