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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORrE. ONT. THE LEGISLATURE WEEK BY WEEK mffering from THURSDAY, MARCH Attorney-General Pr that Ontario will adop compensatible disease Workmen's Compensati silicotic (a diseased cc working in the mines) one of the three stages of the disease --ante-primary, primary, or secondary--will be entitled to payment, provided that his total service in the mines of the province is not less than five years. Ontario is the first province or state on the North American Continent to place silicosis among the compensatible diseases. Six bills were given third reading, and ten passed Committee of the House. Aurelien BelangelPs (Liberal, Russell) bill to amend the Theatres and Cinematographs Act was one of four given second reading. Hon. Geo. S. Henry, Acting Leader of the Government in the absence of Premier Ferguson, had no opposition to state. While the measure might require some "dressing up" in committee, the Government, he said, approved of its principle- FRIDAY, MARCH 23RD-- The Legislature authorized the Government to negotiate a $50,000,000 loan with which to meet its financial obligations for the fiscal year ending Oct. 31, 1927. It will be applied to departmental administration and to maturing bonds, and represents an increase of $10,000,000 over the loan authorized last session. There will be no special committee of the Legislature appointed present session to travel throughout the province during the recess make a survey of the fish and game situation. MONDAY, MARCH 26TH-- Main estimates for the fiscal yeai ending Oct. 31, 1929, *nd amounting to $38,639,318, were tabled, amount is approximately $6,000,000 less than the estimate for the fiscal year ending Oct. 31, 1928, as tabled during last year's session of the House. BY DEPARTMENTS. By departments the "1929" mates are as follows: Lieutenant-Governor's Office, !>50; Prime Minister's Department, f8,335,600; Legislation, $384,575; Attorney-General's Department, $2,061,-115; Insurance Department, $49,625; Education Department, $7,900,189 Lands and Forests Department, $2, 547, 450; Northern Development Department, $499,725; Mines Department, $360,600; Game and Fisheries Department, $527,825; Public Works Department, $1,262,165; Highways Department, $562,339; Health De- ::;;rE,!75^provi„^.i >r's Department, $619,950; Provincial Auditor's Office, $98,725; P'°™cla Secretary's Department, J.829,540, Agriculture Department, $2,608,390, Miscellaneous, $623,0*0- Chief reason for the falling off in this session's vote cau be found in the Hydro estimates. These, ias voted a rear ago, were more than ? 15,000,000. The total vote for 1929 *b^ggg% 000. Of this laM ■T<i'.:uY,y $5,750,000, system is reprjjjjjr goes to the Niag. $1,000,001)^ Thomas line, and $750,-a.rrror rural extension. For the Georgian Bay system the estimate of £035,000; Ottawa-St. Lawrence system, $375,000; Thunder Bay, $325,-C-00; Central Ontario. $620,000; Nip-issing, $437,000; Algoma, $10,000. EDUCATION ESTIMATES. Education Department estimates contain a vote of $2,100,000! for grants to rural, public, and separate schools; $100,000 for consolidated schools; $55,000 for summer schools. One/hundred and thirty thousand six hundred dollars is voted for English-French training schools, as compared with $143,600 of a year ago-The University of Toronto grant is set" at $166,900, and Western University, $300,000. Estimates for the Dept. of Highways show a slight increase. For 1929 they are $575,611, whereas for 1928 they were set at $562,339. LESS FOR HEALTH. Dept. of Health shows a falling off in requirement, the sum for 1929 being $G86,45i>, as against $573,600 for last year. Dept. of Labor shows a slight increase with a vote of $2,675,-705 being asked. Provincial Treasur-is down below its 1928 hundred and nineteen ne hundred and fifty dol-voted this session, where ; of the Provincial Secre-- tarv's Pept is $6,829,540 for 1929, as compared* with $7,063,191 for 1928. The Agriculture Dept. vote is placed at $2,(320,490--practically the same figure as brought down a year ago. A new sub-section to the Liquor Control Act proides stiff penalties for those who consume or obtain for beverage purpose patent medicines or essences of alcoholic content, and another item in the ti;*htening-up process is to the effect that an offence committed by any occupant of a house shall disqualify the residence for one year as a place where liquor may legally be kept. Section 80, providing that liquor must be kept in the bottle in which it was purchased is amended to provide that the Government label must regain on the receptacle until the liquor Hon. William Finlayson obtained first reading for the annual malgama-lion of amendments to the Municipal Act, and Premier Ferguson introduc-nced ■ ed the School Law Amendment Act, as a 11928. the! E. Proulx (Prescott) introduced his Any bill providing for exemption from accination of conscientious objectors, nd removing the compulsory feature n relation to vaccination upon entrance to schools and colleges. Premier Ferguson obtained first •eading for a bill "To Make Provision for the University of Western On- As vigorous as ever in their criti-jm of Premier Ferguson's Township School Boards Bill, Opposition members bombarded the Government with protests when the revised measure up in the House for second reading. For two hours the debate swung back and forward. Finally the Minister, who had started the argument, adjourned it to continue it. The new east block was formally opened with due ceremony at night. TUESDAY, MARCH 27TH-- The Government and Legislature •e hopeful that there will be no private bills next year arising out of hurch union controversies. The day vas taken up considering and adopting the report of the Private Bills Committee on the five bills remaining, settling the troubles arising out of :hurch union- Several private and local bills received attention and were passed. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28TH-- A request that the Ontario Government proclaim an Act passed by the Drury Government in 1922 making provision for co-operative banking in the Province of Ontario, was made during the consideration of the estimates for the year by A. Belanger (Lib., Russell). What were known as co-operative banks were doing business today in the province, and were materially aiding the farmer by giving him loans which' he would not have been able to get otherwise. There were some seven or eight, he believed, at present in existence in the province, while in Quebec they were numerous. "They are operating without charter," the Attorney-General suggested. "Yes," Mr. Belanger replied; "they are operating in a very unsatisfactory manner under the name of trustees." The matter will be inquired Estimates passed for the Insurance Dept- totalled $49,625; for the Dept. of Mines, $360,000; for the Dept. of Game and Fisheries, $527,825--a total for the day of $8,778,530. THURSDAY, MARCH 29TH-- With the traditional form and ceremony concluding the passage of the at •.ireftSS-liiU....the Leftij Films displayed in Ontario pictui theatres are to be stamped in a way Jat will indicate whether or no they are considered suitable for children. ill b" worked out under o;f/fhe Provincial Treas-'and not by statute. „, . .t. , CERIMONIAL WHEN KING MEETS KING ^ i ne visiting ruler of Afghanistan accompanied His Majesty King George in the inspection of the smart -- ~t Victoria Station, London. The Eastern Potentate appears to be saluting the camera. guard of honor Dept- thousan impleted, action will be taken to con-rve the game and fish-Other features of the session were Provincial Treasurer Monteith's an-balanced Budget and plus of $359,000 for the fiscal year ended, and the forecast of anj other surplus for the current year; the! Government's express intention of igthening "movie" censorship re-] The vastness and unity of the Brit-uglations; the Houses emphatic re- ish Empire are two things difficult jection of the principle of "beer-by- j for the average person to realize. In the glass ; the House s endorsation thinking of the Empire, most people bf the Government s policy to conduct, think first of Great Britain, Canada, survey of the situation before for-' Australia, India, South Africa and ulating any old-age pensions scheme; New Zealand. Unfamiliar places with and the promptness with which the curious names, seen only once or twice thorized a Royal Com-' perhaps over a period of years escape inquiry into the Hollingier general notice. Yet these also form stout links in the great chain of Em- EMPIRE SHOPPING WEEK Plans All Laid and all Classes Behind Drive to Boost "Empire Contained" Business e disaster. News for Hunters They are all sharing in Em Shopping Week in Canada, April 21st to 28th, for the Executive Committee of Empire Shopping Week have s to it--that every part of the Brit Empire is invited to participate Here's when and where you may go Ontario for your deer this fall: 1. In the district south of the *he 8reat effort French and Mattawa Rivers--Nov. 5J OTHER AIMS AND PURPOSES, to Nov. 20,both days inclusive. Briefly stated, one ma 2. In the district north of the 1 Empire Shopping Week French River and south of the Can- Flood Cost On Los Angeles City Assumes Big Task of Rehabilitating Santa Clara Valley Los Angeles--Having acknowledged through Mayor George Cryer its "moral responsibility" for the fatalities and loss of property in the St. Francis dom collapse, the city of Los Angelea has assumed the task of making restitution to the valley. The Mayor, wfco spoke in behalf of the municipality at a conference o( city councilmen and other officials, did not say to what length the city would go ill restoring the valley, but the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce announced it would propose to the coun-a rehabilitation program, based .n estimate of $1,000,000 property damage. This is at least $4,000,000 below the lowest estimate of the damage. The number of persons left without homes, food or clothing stood at 768, ith relief organizations taking care t that number. Official figures from Ventura County showed 273 homes iu he Santa Clara River Valley alone had been wiped out, in addition to numberless small homes in the groves immediately below tte dam. Hun dreds of acres of orange and lemon groves were buried under the silt. The plan of the Chamber of Commerce for rehabilitation oaWs for $L-000,000 being made immediately available in the City Council for re construction; a commission of Los Angeles business men to direct the project, and division of the«work into three classes--restoration of orchard and farm regions, rebuilding of business, industrial and residence property and relief of flood sufferers. The work or repairing the hig'cwa7 and railroad throughout the valley is BUY . BRITISH play contests, parao'es of decor floats, f<tncy d:ess balls, and m other special features. Empire Shoppings Weeks are n novelty. They have been tried i great success in other parts of the Empire, notably in Australia, British West Indies, and in Great Britain. Imports from foreign countries in Canada rose since 1914 from $29! 000,000 to $800,000,000 in 1927--1 per cent, increase in the last five years Milwaukee, Wis.--Ocean freighter --thus constituting an excellent im- plying between the West Indies ar mediate reason for considering the Great Lakes ports, including Chicago, present movement opportune. | Milwaukee, Buffalo, and Michigan^** The Advisory Council of Empire cities, are to be placed in operation Shopping Week in Canada holds beginning May 1 by the American strongly to the view--that the type of Shipping Co. of New York, according civilization and its promise of de- to announcement here, velopment as shown in countries of j The freighters will be of type suit-purpose of the British Empire--is one that Can- able to travel through the Great Lakes Canada is 1 adans desire to encourage for the sake canals and the St. Lawrence River. Lakes to Sea Service May 1 Ocean Freighters to Run Between Chicago and West Indies stimulate the purchase and sale of j of the present and the future genera- appro The plan w regulations urer's 1>-Pb' Ferguson _ formation in asking withdrawal of a bill sponsored by A. Belanger, Rus sell, which would have prohibited attendance of juveniles, whether in company of their parents or not, at theatres displaying films not passed by the Board as fit for children. The bill had another clause which would have raised the age limit for unaccompanied children from 15 to 16, and J. A. Pinard, in Mr- Belanger's absence, urged that this be enacted, but the Prime Minister thought that it «■ not worth while putting into legisli tlon. FRIDAY, MARCH 30TH-- THE LAST DAY. The second session of Ontario Seventeenth Legislature closed, amid the usual bombardment of papers from the Press Gallery. The session was dull. Last year there Liquor Control Act to scrap over. This year there was no contentious legislation of such dimensions, although the thrice ill-starred Hawkers and Peddlers Fill caused a lot of heated argument before the Private Committee, even if it got no distance at all in the House proper. PROVIDED FIREWORKS. One of the^main features of fh< session was Liberal Leader Sinclair's "wandering ballots" revelation, which eventually had to be taken out of the hands of the Privileges and Elections Committee, because of partisan play in the ranks of that body, and transferred to a Royal Commission for a solution. While this inquiry undoubtedly provided the most fireworks of the session, Premier Ferguson's announcement of Sir Joseph Flavelle's acceptance of the chairmanship of the Research Foundation which the Province will establish, in conjunction with Ontario manufacturing interests, carried with it, perhaps, more actual importance than anything else during the sitting. Considerable legislation with far-reaching effects went through, such as Attorney-General Price's Security Fraud's Prevention Act, and its companion measures, an act to amend the Companies Act and the Companies Information Act; Hon. Lincoln Goldie's Hospital Act amendment, and Premier Ferguson's Research Foundation and Training of Apprentices Acts. Sportsmen have some satisfaction in knowing that, after biological studies now being undertaken by the De-' partment of Game, and Fisheries are From the Mattawa Ri of the Canadian Pacific Railway from North Bay to Heron Bay and south of the north line of the Canadian National Railways, with the exception of that section from Heron Bay to the French River--Oct, 20 to Nov. 25. 4. North of the north line of the Canadian National Railways--Sept. 15 to Nov. 25. 5. St Joseph's Island--Nov. 10 to Nov. 25. Canada > great a part : so many Canadi; Get behind British goods. l the daily lives of i 1 he pr vided- Refriger Peg Leg Cracked, City Sued Seattle.--Alleging that a street 'sprinkler operated by the city sprayed water all over him and caused his peg leg to crack, D. Rastelli has filed a $165 claim for damages with the City Cou cil- J The proposed sailing schedule calls | for boats in and out of the various j Great Lakes ports at least once a : week, it is explained. When business •ants the service will be ex- Press Report Produced i Produced in the Empii recognized principle in Empire Shop-i ping Week that the products of the j Long Flights country in which the Week is held1 London Daily Telegraph (Cons.) should be favored first--then the pro-!-with the coming of spring and better tended to South Ame: ducts of other parts of the Empire- It, weather conditions there will inevita- ;--_*--- rests, therefore, with individual Can-1 bly be a recrudescence of attempts bv PrpmiPr IJCTIIM adian producers and manufacturers\ courageous men and women to make ^r«mier lyCIlICJJ and producers and manufacturers in j very long fights, and it cannot be too other parts of the Empire to create strongly emphasized that, in the best for themselves--with the willing help | interests of air travel, those who are of many local organizations, the best i inclined to risk their lives needlessly retail and advertising link-up they j for the sake of notoriety should be can--with the general educational i forcibly restrained from attempting and publicity campaign of the Em> Journeys which there is little or no pire Shopping Week in Canada. The1 chance of bringing to a successful is-Executive Committee and local com- sue. An incalculable amount of dam-mittees welcome ideas and suggestions • age to the cause of aviation was done ly which the Committee can co-oper- hast s.eason by a few men and women ate with individual advertisers. j wno insisted, in the face of all expert In other places where "Weeks" j advice, on throwing their lives away have been held, local committees have | to satisfy an explicable personal I successfully carried on window dis-1 caprice. 600 Swans Killed in "Ride" Over Niagara Falls Ottawa.'--The Canadian Premier, W. L. Mackenzie King, denied in the House of Commons the accuracy of reports that Canada had threatened to discontinue negotiations with the United States on the St. Lawrence waterways project unless several demands are met. The reports, printed in the Toronto Globe, purported to be a summary of the last Canadian note. wspaper account said that ad demanded discussion of ] the desirability of lowering the tariff Ion certain Canadian products, including wheat and livestock, the waiving I bv <-h,-> United States of all claim to of fro j TRY TO BLOW UP SHIP j THREE TIMES IN VAIN | London.--The third attempt by a moving picture company to blow up ! the schooner Amy in the English Channel to complete its film story of I Britain's famous "Q Ships," which si-ding to nted o she n-din HUNDREDS OF OTHERS ; latest estimate at least 600 wild swans wer • the Horseshoe f frighten them were in vain. Several hundred w< wardens and officers of the Victoria Park Commi until they can be sent to Jack Miner's sanctorum Hundreds of spectators lined the Canadian bottle1, another tragedy when a large flock of these stra; ffrawing shows the wild swans battling the tor: gle for life were swept over the falls backwards. cataract. Th« The seamen said that it was unlucky to remove her old figurehead of a woman clasping a bunch of flowers, now on view in a Weymouth hotel. "No vessel ever sunk without her figurehead," said an old salt. The Amy was towed to midchannel accompanied by naval vessels. The officers placed a charge in the spot where it was convenient to sink her, but trouble began when the electric leads between the Amy and the tug parted twice. The schooner's decks and jails-were^ laid and the crew ?.b^r.doned h«v Jjnfc still she frfused to burn. A submarine afterwards cruised around the schooner to make sure that, the fires were out- The demolition crew was ordered to return but refused and the ie company had to tow her back to Portland. She is still there, lying defiantly