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¢xlent of some cities and townt in Uanada, ~Sevecral remedies had bsen propuodhou of which was embodicd in the Bill. He had had the valuable assistance of Mr, Phipps, of this city in _ fxling _ the basls upon which the Bill was framod, Mr, Pmpn had made a carelu! examination of the city asscaem»nt, aud the result showed sbat munioiga\ affa'r; were very largaly con -- trclled by housebold votes. In 81. Andraw's Wrré tha terants wore 1,224 ; tie freehold4 votes 842, and the income votes 58 By the provictors of the Bill, the proportion would be ohanged to absat 2,000 voters as owners, and 1,224 kourmbold votes In ail the wards ot the otty the large majorlty of _ the voters wiru the swail tax--payes Oar whole system of mucloipal represontation was tamo,, Cefective, and Mioglcal; for next sear's votes ware oast on this year's property, He rafcrred to the mass mesting of working. men rscently beid wish regard to this Bill, and sald4 thas it was the baat reason in the world for a chacge. It was a common thing for apprals fcr support to be made on the cry that one workingman should help au-- miher, snd the result waes that many of the best wme: in the oommanity--thoss who had the largent intsrestse in the Municipality-- woere shnt cut altogsther, Ur der the proszont system --(t was made an objsot with tnore who h:ld hourchold votes to oremte deficits from year to year as ha4 been done in Toronts, the reeult being either that the obligaiilona were repudiated, or the clity had §o borsow ind :';nu h:'htow o'ih. burden in lgo cng run opon the holders ty. e then wsade mertion of the m universal dbsratisfaction with munle!pal works, arnd _ attribr*ad the 4eftects to the tvic authorm:i in the presence of the ocntractor, loring ocutrol, the latter tflaernolog the numerous wotoscf 'iasee whom he employsed. _ He had keten tauntod that his advocacy of this mor-- suze was a going back, it b:iag bo all Intsate and purpeses a Tory mearuro, but he contead. ed that it had now become a nocessity, con. pidering the large sams being munloipally ex-- pended, that the voter's power should be somm:usurate with his means, and that the accepted notlon of ropre-- senta'ion fioh:u alorgside of taxation be adoptc3. He adduced the omre of the town of Stratford in suppors of bis views when he sald that of 1,300 ratepayers lpuylng $35,000 the clase pasing under the limit of $25,-- 000 swar prd the powar o! the others, which ahowod that tho gower was not dixiribated 3 o quie e i rtsa al o en io ie nnc t 2 He thought the rovirse was the omse Then all matiers of leglslation lfi'n\l:a morsle must be of equal ln':nnoo to clastes of the community, was not pre: pared to say that batter CGovernment would prevail if greater power were given to the to the repra:sion of visce might bes much better osarried into eff:ect by taking th» dis-- oharge of them from the manicipal author!l-- tles ard concentrating them in the Govern-- but he falled to see that the Bill would pro-- vide a remeody, His own exporiencs was that clws was not found arraged agalnst olars. I% was an exceptional carse in which %he poor were cork divised and the rich equal-- ly divided. Hoadid nok think there was a aingle member of the City Csunoll who dii not owe his seat as much to those who would have a plurality of votes under the system auggerted as to those who would have single votes, Heconsidered that it wara much easler thing for the rich man to pay his large amount of taxce than it was for the pror man to pay his small amount, and the f:," had, therefore, a stronger molive ks n::.ldpnl $ ooono;ny! than the sich, a ater pait of munloipal legisla-- Slon rdunf;hhfly to maiters nlf:tlng the poor. This was +o cven in the matter of dralnage, a question which so vitally con: cerzed ns boaith of th:'poor and their chil. dren. A large portion of the muvioipal ex penditure not only affecied property, gni the in proportion to the bulk of taxation. The svil of this was nos so great in the country, but it war notorlous in cliidles. Ho oald this warsne uew idon that he sought to latroduce, It baving been adopted in Australia, Hs o:.u'd not be called an avistoorat, having come from the pesp!«; ho desired only, on Introducing this m«tter, to prevent one olass from domt\: sering over ths other,. He thought that all msassuras haviag reference Mr, MOWAT rald he fully admitted the Importance of the subject and the desirability of baving it discumed in the House. Thera wera doubtl:se oviis is our municipal system, person, For instsnce, the police and i; rervice were Inoowaryl for the 'p:ohofl" on of the perror. It was as important for the poor that the police forcs should boofidugo &# for tha rich Di4 expsrience show that the goor 'tho:xndl;miqulolool extravagance ? (s ts rich, _ The only method he saw o% securing improvement in munilcipal representation was by lucreasing the intelligence of the veople; in other words, by increasiog the ef. Rclency of the sohools, _ It was sok found, either, that mon of wealth aud intelligence were r:jeoted by the p--ople when they asked for their suffrages, _ 'Tae referencs to joint #took companies had no polnt, because they dealt with property alose, Equal voting had not prevented men from accumnlating wealth, _ On the contrary, all the wealth that bad been ascumalated had baeen obtala: <d uner the prosent pystem, _ Hoe thought, Sherefore, tbat the Bill oould not @O'laim the support of the House. Mr. CAMERON said that he disagresd | entirely with wha* the membar for Stormont | had sild. Even though ths man asssesed | for a small sum ererclsed tho same control as his ricker nelgzbbour, he was not prepared to glve the wealthier more power unless it | osuld be shown that ho was more lat:lH-- gont, upright, avd bonest, He contended that the improvements in the hr%e olties was t* o result of actlion by the weslthicr rate-- payers ard not by tho emaller ones, who alwayr are in favour of econcmy in munici i1 matters, Tkhoagh he was »gainss man-- good auffrage for the return of membars to the Heure or to munioipal corporations, he could no# supgort such a measure as the pre-- sent oge, until it hed been shown that an is-- jes:loe hat bsen doue, On the Hou'e calling for a withdrawal, Mr BETHUNE raid that as the mortore has h on Introdguced so lata in the Beraloa, end there was co lissle tims to dissusa & meakrtre of its importance, be would with . draw it for the present and intro€use it again next sesslon. RAILWAY LEGI3LATION Mr, OAMERON called the attsniion of the Attorney--General to the resoluticn in ald of rsilways, which he gava notico on the 14'th Feb., and which he had not yet brought under the conrideratimn of the Houre. He alo ashed when thy were to be srked to ratify the Ordera in Council re: gardivg the Princo Edward Island Riil way, Cily of O'tawa Junction Reilway, and the COredit Valley Rallway, Ho complained of Mr, MOWAT said that it was his inten. Mon to introduce to-- mcrrow his Raliway Ald Resolution, and that ample time would be given for the discusaion of those other mat. On thke malion of Mr Mawat the House afjureed at 11:50 p.m. the delay, and raid that time would not bs qmvtx to discurs thew.