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under -- the game m in , [ to all classes, and there is really 1 7) 8 the case of establishing . smelting ;_ggy little to be said against this. T-herei § work®: j d ' 'appears to be a widespread opinion, Mr. Richardson proposed that muni-- | Aowever, that the.bill goes much tm._l cipal councils be empowered to restrict | Ther tha'n it really does, and that it the aefivery d iacen h ' would disturb business and other rela-- | Dr. Ryerson moved in amendment ; tions much more fully than it was in-- . that cows be prohibited from givinga tended to do or, it is submitted, than it | . milk -- on Sunday.l Both amendment Te ally does + | n moffon M 5L .. The Government are Cléearly of opin-- l The Lord's Day Act. jon that the Lord's Day sl?oluld be pre-- | 4 red _ inviolate -- from -- labor ; Mr. Hardy, upon the order for moving servel Pties & i9 the House into committee on the bill to ; \&. orldly affuf.xs .h'd.,'uld b; ctond\;ded to': . secure the better observance of the,j six days. o 't*h{h:ee'kb, Iu ¥oth'lm bll?' Lord's Day, rose and intimated that t'he st'wenth f anl o ject' 0 MR st vell ~ question seemed to be larger'thar_l :\as \t\.asiimoae' C e'bth'e # to expln e:.s doe: arrlld | & anticipated wh';n hthetbill ;')'ra?)a:'gdm; t()nreor'xlloveanam .prlg::ta:d meet' on & ced. had therefore e C &'" % g:lt:fedmet}:tein the matter which he asked certainties which have been shown by the House to indulge him in rez'adlng in the decisions of the courts to exist. order that there should be no migunder-- standing of the ground taken by the | Changed Situation. Government on the matter. The--state-- When the original act was framed ment was as follows :-- full corporations took but an inconsiderable The Government have very carefuny part in the conduct of the world's busi-- To mt peoaner n o aging te crest Phipuaf en enterprizen and e vario > st ) C © the p;.ls!:al;.rse ;ref;;:'%':fngfi';a:,',iffii',':,.;: | many of the old branches of business | bill. It is well known that the occasion ' are wow conducted by corporations, The of the 'bill arises out of a recent decision situation is changed, and therefore it of the courts, that corporations were is not surprising that a demand shoul:l rot embraced within the prosent Lord's \be made for a change in the | law, D.ay act. The primary object of the *X\everthel'emo it must be admitt.ed thfit bill, therefore, was to include corpora-- some new light has been thrown upon tions. It was evident from the obser-- the subject since the introduction of lvations addressed to the Government the bill. It was not supposed that s-o. 'by the del.x-galiuns that very great mis-- n'\any of th'e mdustrifs (,)a'flh:?)(;'mlx)ntl;.\t an rport e bill. ras con-- shou s t i bi(lf'l'll)'l(; p;; .?:\\'vh whiil}-h li\':uort\()::"x:;.v{:" have been.ln roceiptdalmas; d{a)llfi' ;nfui'n- l | found in the present Lord's Day act, formation,'which leads to the belief tha't | such, for instance, as the right of the should this measure be enforced at(e.' nc cuge pnoer the eMifiing law. AlSo. wouid be prevented from.carrying on the case under the existing law. Also, J e F x > that steamboats owned by corporations their business -- as he"iwf"tl;lei _ ";tthg}llfil wou'ld be brought within the purview of objection by the general public. as | the law by the proposed act. Whereas, been made to a;(mear. too, that many | under section seven, which is applicable branches of business heretofore con-- | to steamboats plying for hire, sub--sec-- ducted require_, as &A m'a:ttgr of necestshl- tion five expressly provides that the ty, tQ do certain of their work uponb "e' word " owner" shall include a corpora-- Lord's Day, unless the 'grea,t "1' tion. The theory, too, that the em-- of -- their «employees are tch) d'P' ployees or servants of corporations thrown out of work on _ Mon ak) | could be fined under the new act and or sonre Oother day of the weeh not under the old is a mistaken one, As Representations have been made to t'|( I understand it, the law at present is, Government on behalf of the grea't _ratln-- that while a corporation may not be ways which carry thl:ough freig P included within the Lord's Day act, | }\'hose traing run upon Sunday, t'md i every officer or employee of the corpor-- | is alleged that if the ')a,w v;"el:e te}? ation is within its provisions. The direct | forced against them it wouldtha\e € object of section two of the proposed | effect of rapidly diverting1 dle)! %;iar bill is to put all corporations on lhfli bulk of t!\e_ freight ?Owl'i?a-""? }('1 th'l" same footing and to bring them all ; to the United States lines ; an &' | within the meaning of the act, as it | inis i | was Renerally " undertood they were | (aoe Arie feley migs foste, oo io | before the decision of the Court of Ap-- s , D'BS, £ C s ag s e« 4 dairy and all other perishable pro peal in the Hamilton Street Railway ducts. -- That our courts, following the case. Clause one of the lnl}. it is '.vp- | English interpretation of the word "nec-' | prehended, extends the law but very | 'essity," 35 use Uf the Lord's Day act., |little. ' | would probably hold. that the meaning 5f of that word was practically limited to The Present Bill. !cases involving life and health, where-- The classes of persons now subject to ;g':att:: ;O\!':zfl?t O; B!:\Tceh C:f"é?f ;{gri]tl(;l(} ce I-"m] x ]f)-ay .}.l-ct antt-fnv"..l-':ha::\tf_' [ =('an('P, and hold that it applies where llrudgsmon. ons ranarare. on s | injury would result to property if the chanics, workmen, --laborers or Other ' | work was not continued in whole or in persons \\'hulsuc\'vrt It § u.s' U\W!Ul}&. part on the Lord's Day; and that,there-- : therefore, that there are very few Y5. | fore, if the necessities of business re-- ; maining o.uts'lde. and th'} L(vrqhs'D.ay | quired it, that certain work w»ertaining' Alliance was of opinion that what ap-- | to the particular calling might be done 1 plied to one class of persons should ap-- on Sunday '