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I se e 000 4 TUBSDAY'S PROCEEDINGS. | Tuesday, March 24. _ | The House passed a quiet but useful 'day in the discussion of vari0u 8 .VI__ ' etnment measut rd':,, x noon was spent in commiItLO® 8. Hon. Mr. Hardy's import J C es duce the number of County , Counel l lors, an exceedingly fuli" disguss '" taking place upon the Government's P propdsition. A large number Ot"o:lh?; . Government bills were dealt W t 'l e evening. lhbn the ogder:: of the day being called the following bl'}ls were read a thhdt | time and passed :-- ; j Respecting th(a'\'illage of T"b"ry' entre--Mr. Pardo. CTo further®improve the a%fi!turea and arts avt--«wno ® . ie ! Respecting the Township of Morn-- ington--Mr., Magwood. * | Respecting the' London St Fes # | way Company--Mr. German. ! To amend the act incorporat hi Ontario, Belmont & Northern Ral " Company--Mr. Blezard, f i ccounty eSUwet * e The House then went into commit-- > | tee on Hon,. Mr. Hardy's bill to M 4 duce the number of County Councl lors. In introducing the consideration | of the bill, Hon. Mr. Hardy announc-- |\ ed a number of changes which he-- 4 1 decided upon, partly in consequence 0 | the discussion upon the second a~ | ing. In the first place, the bill Cl | be made to apply to all counties, and. | in consequence the schedull Ww | have to be altered by the addition of R new class of counties, the o l .. population and under.. perimenting with som » ties, he had found tha * could not always be made. | uniform, and consequent! e n * »serted a clause giving a CE * amount of latitude in the makin these divisions. Thus, in a county @ 25,000 popuiation and under there y '--¥e be not less than 4 nor more than 5 di-- visions; in counties of from 25,000 to 40,000, either 5 or 6: in counties of fr t 140,000 to 60,000, either 6 or T. anfi counties of over 60,000, either 7 . Further provision was made for the nomination of an officer for each di-- vision for the conduct of the election, | and it was also pyovided that the nom-- | inations should be made by means of a paper signed by 20 electors. In the \ case of united counties, each would be | treated as a separate county to arrive | it a basis of population. ! The bill was discussed at some length. 1Dr. Meacham and Col. Mathe-- son opposed the bill, saying there was no public demand for it; Col. Matheson defended the.County Coun-- cils quite stoutly. Mr. Cleland criticized some features of the bill, but favor of--it. The bill sho s _he: < be put in force without the County Councils or to, The people were sick cxcessive numbers of the M » Councitors, and wanted C t Willoughby said that , the bill approved by anyone. _ The j course he would like to se e to require a greater number 0 otes for Deputy Reeves. FOR THE BILL. The Speaker discussed the bill, re-- marking that a number of persons and bodies had in times past expressed preference for the plan of dividing tli%' counties, and stating that the Essex County Council had expressed itself in favor of the bill ; it had expressed a desire to retain the @presentation of municipalities, but had said that if this could not be managed they want-- ! ed the bill given a trial The sugges-- | | tion to wait another year was a very' old one, the Speaker pointed out, a.ndl he concluded by strongly urging that | the passing of the bill would put an end to the pulling and hauling of local interests; the county would be admin-- istered by men acting for the county