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| ?WW-&E"&! is a good one. hold upon the people, or the gentiéemen O [ th:tt g: re;pbnl?lsllllb':y?o?i r?x;n expect who represent them, which was a state 'r','" 'llllere u:_ Tthe dying hours Mz?zg ;1?;1; fsfu;l'xjngs he did not expect to see ex-i arliament would not rem 3 shoulders ~* Tho * hod.""." gentiemap, Heuegithat Pnidoipni caven med af-- had deliberately,-- in response-- to the / mitted that the Sabbath was better ob-- : 'generally expressed desire of the peo-- served in Ontario than in an other I ple of the Province that some ch c h } vin some . change country perhaps, And, such being the :l(:?urlgage "}lade al"d the meaning of the case, a year's delay would not be pro-- such & wi C ::_;.t .brought in ;sh&i?li}f__i? g:tcllve of evill reaulltjs. It would be far y no person Ca e 0o ter to wait and have a thoroughly--; judging could form an opinion upon the corsidered and matured -- bill vghig'h | bill. He did this deliberately, and could be enforced. " | therefore the people, both opponents Hon. Geo. W. Ross said that it had' and supporters of the bill, have a per-- been hoped when introduced that the fect right to hf)ld him responsible, and bill would pass without exciting a great' gllllll i(:xo tsr?e" 5?011!1 n}:'z:\;h},g' %e)?ilthw}i]th the geal of agli)tatlont.) '1'121; bill wash broughtl 'he C e was cwn on December 29, more than two dealing with it to--day, and for keeping weeks ago; it was dlstrll;uted throug"t,i- (tllilsetu?t';iens;k;ll'\ ol;)en lforf %Eottl;er iyezu', ;;ut the co;mtry. and considerable alarm - e people o e Province. ad been felt with respect to the opera-- Had the Government taken hold of the tion of the bill, altht?ugh he dlg not matter early in:the session, or before think the alarm was warranted. . But -- the session opened, as they are sup-- mer representing great industrial in-- posed to do, a bill could have been pre-- terests, and of high standing in the pared voicing the views of the Govern-- community, had taken alarm, and Tthe :]rfnet';xal?ed l:'uughtfbetll."nre thel Househat p'«:sitiog of lt)he(e1 (}(l)'vernmentdwas simplyi rlier hour o e session, when that they ha rought own a bill there would have been proper time to which they thoughtgtr}'nlght have re-! discuss it. Instead of that, they had ceived the approval of the country, but this acting in dumb.show with regard they had not fully realized the manner to this question, and he could not allow in which the bill would be received, e Hiouge and" the Sduntry' without Siuaces toat img nn Higd petier be lasd & ritho stances tha e ad better be la l(;tt!";!t)agnctl}";lllwt()l)tls ;)t th_ehPm\;lin(-e un-t : over,. In dohnghthls the Govern':nont in no : ha eir wishes have not ; way altered their views on the matter, been complied with, because hon, gen--| but simply took further time to consider i'l(;tn;'ent opposite had been afraid twdeall the objections raised, and they could f i. the more readily do so from the fact Mr. Thomas Gibson (Huron) regretted that the act in {he meantime would be that the Government had seen fit to! enforced, and the status of the corpor-- ('i"tittl;dcr».';"ih;h(l:h:;ingé tf:t lismtohe lt)lounden t ations w;)utl}(li b: {n no wise changed by cemove the am-- reason 0o e delay. biguities which now exist. He reviewed Mr. Whitne hadynot iven the House the progress of the street car systems | ,m'v .'nd'icatioi'l of 'his glelvs'na.s to Ot';u'. from the one--horse cars of 1871 to the uest d the H ald not Khnow trolley of to--day, and declared that | c on ratve t1ig f hecdrdeme l d s o. soit hn o unat t what he thought in regard to it. The in 1885, when the Lord's Day act was Db f the Gov t had a dis-- amended, the Legislature never dream-- | c Cimp coniails P srnk demcner a in on ed Hhat street railways had power to | tinct opinion on this subject which was T inron the seventh day.>."The eleétricv7 expressed in the bill,but clr'cumstanc-:-s railways were then only in embryo:; he | had arisen which rendered it 1ngxPedl- was positive the Legislature would fl.'t. ho oi at present .. "They 1 :(')l have settled that they were not to run e efarakincine opini 3 l'h'ey' h_.'u on the Lord's Day. _ If these compan-- | not withdrawn the opinions expressed jes have that powér they have it gy q in the bill, but they believed the inter-- fluke, and the Government should notg ?)St 'an.d tlgebobsbert\;ance * (;'hf, Llord's have introduced the bill, or, having : T it top Ae (ofin serve o Ad tho dofle so. should have stood to it --"X , ing it for further consideration and the | Ms. Haycock united with the .leader! better education of public opinion. § of the Opposition in nroteéling a.gn.ins't' where SOMan ikie 2s the" oraornt + the Mwithdrawal of the hill whick Had ed he thought this was the prudent after repeated reques!s, hy' petitions bs; i :{:i"im& d?h (}}I(fv .': a:' se:tilsflgdt tll{lat hundreds, in accord with public senti-- | .e 1 Amen T 10. the u. a 9e ment been introduced. The people. he | :)'rmi}? commlend itsgif Lo--thearoud SOndE said. who have been demanding this | eP CDd C | ' ?ll otvert'hth'é Province have been look--| Political Expediency. ng to e Government, and have to a | i ' ceriain extent been satisfied with the Tok R_yerson gaid that the bill had action of the Government ; and now been withdrawn. not from any @nues-- { & f i | tion of principle but merely because or the Government to say it was only | i i i joking, and withdraw the bill, was a (éfalc)g}:ltlica; e')'(l;())(:glelx)l'clg:na A}mmore dls{ step again: 'hic epr j CA . » illanimous capi-- teslt). gainst which he entered his pro | gxlatlon had not been witnessed by any + . Mr. Crawford wa i jovernme k -- drawing the bill, as he understood ftom } (}overnme'nt i.' like oirtont aentive 1 the remarks of the Attorney--General in 4. packed P o n ie on en sire | introducing it that the bill was in such ' ie ha ds Anoalpoivainn whacperr e e is wes: shape as would show that the sympa-] self to every one wh«{ wishes well for thies of the House were with the peo-- ltis oo t o s on Sperscne cap ipgas o iE/whn delight to ob i * yielded to the pressure of those op-- p elight to observe the Sabbath Dsy: He regarded the action of the posed to the bill. The GOvernment had Gcovernment as proof that the corpor-- P t'!islm fi, nst!dera.ttgnshot expedi-- tions of the Provin PC3 s r. Marter said that he had ations 0 ovince have a strong ! presented two petitions in favor of the