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P thousand" times more about" than the commissioners did. (Opposition cheers.) _ .. The Opposition's Socialism. es ) Mr. Russell (East Hastings) continued the debate on behalf of the Ministerial-- 'uu. He said that last year he had been accused of being somewhat social-- dstic, but he rejoiced that the Opposi-- tion now, as represented by Dr. Pyne, wanted to go a good deal further. The Opposition objected to the spending of timber bonus money, but at the same time they said if returned they would increase the grants to education and agriculture. The Opposition had de-- precated the cold--storage bill of last session. He had no doubt that measure would be ona of the most beneficial acts ever passed in the interests of agricul-- ture. In the County of Hastings they had already begun to take advantage of it. The fisheries industry was very important, and he thought the Ontario and Dominion Governments should ap-- point a commission to investigate the fisheries of the Hudson Bay. The great district of northern Ontario should be named in some way after Sir Oliver 'Mowat, who had saved it for this Pro-- vince, The hon. member for East Toron= to had much to say about corporations, but he reéfrained from criticizing a cer-- tain.very close corporation, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, which, was almost as bad as the lawyers. (Ministerial cheers.) Mr. Russell com-- mended the public institutions, and passed on to say that the system of: indeterminate sentences had been gain-- ing considerable headway. He thought the House might pass a resolution ask-- ing the Minister of Justice to apply the system to the Central Prison. Ald For School of Mines. Mr. Russell declared himself in favor of reasonable aid to the University of Toronto, but at the same time he thought liberal aid should be given the School of Mines at Kingston and the dairy schools. The charcoal iron in-- dustry, under the encouragement of the Government, promised well for the fu-- ture, and meant a great doal of em-- g(l)oyment in cutting the wood, of which 20,000 cords were required for the charcoal used at Deseronto alone. (Ministerial applause.) In view of our great forest wealth, Mr. Russell de-- clared, this Province should have a school of forestry. (Hear, hear.) Re-- ferring to educational matters, he said the school system had its faults, but it had put us in the van of all coun-- tries in that regard. The intelligence gained under our school system largely accounted for the way in which our soldiers held their own in Africa with the best British regiments. (Applause.) Dead Meat Industry. ~-- Mr. Crawford said it had been de-- 'monatrated that the statements given from year to year by Treasurers of the Province had not been exactly correct. He did not think that the finarcial po-- sition --of the Province had been clearly set forth. Continuing, he ex-- }presaed the opinion that for the last twenty--five years the Government had been a do--nothing Government, but the Premier now came before the House with great projects for the country, which would put all the people of the Province beyond want. These included the building of railways, a remount station and the d:gd meat industry. While referring to the latter he blamed both the Hon. Mr. Fisher and Hon. Mr. Dryden for the present status of the agreement regarding 'the 'Eubercuun test on cattle going into the United States. The agreement, he said, was against the best interests of Ontario and Canada generally. The export of cattle from Ontario and Quebec had been affected thereby, and last year was About 55 per cent, less than in 1898. _ This, he considered, did not augur well for the proposed dead meat project, He agreed that it would be well to memorlalize the British Govern-- ment to remove the.quauntlge on Can-- adian cattle going to the old country, and thought that Bir Wilfrid Laurier had missed a 'great opportunity of se-- curing this at the time of the adoption of the preferential tariff. Heexpress-- ed the opinion that when the Opposition changed places with the present Gov-- ernment much more would be done for the agricultural interests of the coun-- CE 3 + The House adjourned at 10.35. # Bills Introduced. Yesterday Hon. Mr. GMbson introduced a bill amending the 'trustees' invest-- ment act so as to enable trustees to invest in the debentures of loan com-- panies whose reserve funds amount to i per cent. of paid--up capital, instead of Zi> per cent. ' Among other bills introduced were :-- Mr. Graham--Empowering municipali-- ties to grant charters for the laying of pneumatic conduits in streets.'. Mr. Lumsden--Judges to have authority on petition to declare habitual drunkards unfit to manage property or transact business, these powers to be restored only on proof of proper conduct for a period of twelve months. Mr. Fox-- For better protection of drainage works running through property not direct-- 1y benefited. _ ? o Ts o Aiwn'g the notices af mbotion aré the folloWing :--Mr. Dryden--Memorial re-- specting the establishment ~of a re-- mount station for the . purchase . of horses for the. British service in the Province of Ontario. ~ / Mr. Ross--Bill improving the succes-- sion duties act. . This provides simply for the strengthening of the present act. -- The Attorney--General--Bill | entitled an act to amend the Jland titles act. Mr. Hill--Bill to amend the act re-- specting vaccination--and. inoculation. "Ihis provides the addition of & con-- science clause to the present act. f Education Bills. Hon. Mr. Harcourt's bill respecting high schools and collegiate institutes, and that respecting public schools, which were presented some time ago in skeleton form, are now printed. It-- alics and foot--notes are used freely in the bills, the former signifying entire-- ly neéw sections, the latter u&mmu amendments to sections. In the first 'mentloned act the g;ovmon- of the re-- vised statutes of 1897 and the amend-- ments of Notices of Motion.~ 1899 and 1900 are em-- 69