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» # I"M g ' , April $ . . P p e Said Bill's Victi t Cmm ommememenme mm mm omm mmmmmmmnmme mm Legislation Aimed «egislation Aimed at Wards 7 and 9, Charges # Tory--Bill Gets Second Reading | N OPPOSITION charge that the bill was prepared to 64 . beat the "temperance people" in a Toronto plebiscite was made on the Legislature floor yesterday before 7 the Government secured second readin for its Control Act amendments. § Liquor Termed "Smart." < The amendntents modify the plebis-- ; cite provisions in which the Toronto | plebiscite is now tangled, and will | keep Eglinton and West Toronto out | Oof a city beer vote. t William Duckworth, Toronto Conser-- | vative M.P.P., said the bill was aA ) "smart piece of legislation'" which was | being brought down to beat the "tom-- } perance people" at the polls. | '"This bill is prepared solely for the | City of Toronto," he said. "And for ; one purpose--to beat the temperance | people when it comes to a vote----if 7 it ever does. The people preparing it knew that Wards 7 and 9 (Eglinton and West Toronto) would vote dry, ~ ind "the bill was prepared for that: purpose." | "I wonder if the member knows that the members for Wards 7 and 9| are in favor of this ball." Harold | Kirby put in. } Former Attorney--General W. H.| s Pric=e had _ previously quest.oned{ whether the rest of Toronto, aside | from these two wards, would be en-- | titled to a plebiscite under the act as | only part of a municipality. | '"'Under the amendntents :o the act." in his opinion, "it would make it very difficult to have a vote." Colonel Price urged that since the | Toronto plebiscite was already in the | courts the _ Government should! exempt it from the operation of the new plebiscite amendments. t "If one interferes with a case going | to the Privy Council and part way | through, aren't we taking very drastic ' s action? There should be an exemp-- | tion for that (the Toronto) petition." | Same Protection. The Government pointed out that| the amendment giving authority-- holders the right to stay open until + March 31 of the year following a j plebiscite only gave them the same' ' protection which the Administration demanded for its own liquor stores. Even on this point Premier Hepburn encountered Opposition fire, when W. A,. Baird said that holders who tnew they were losing their authorities be-- cause of an election would be more "free and easy'"' in the possibly four-- teen-- month interim. "He will be under the rules and regulations," the Premier said. The Torouto Conservative MPP. sprang a surprise when he said he favored beer and wine sale in respect-- 'able restaurants as an alternative to the present hotel system. "The sale of wine and beer in the restaurants would have been better than in the beer pariors as at the present time," said Mr. Baird. "There's nothing i wrong with the sale of beer and wine in respectable restaurants." Former Premier Henry opened the debate with a renewal of his charges against the individual permit system which the Opposition Leader carried on for half an hour in spite of Gov-- ernment protests that he was out of order. "The substitution of the 25--cent ticket--and it's only a ticket--the 25-- | cent ticket is in no way a manner of | control. It's only a way of the Gov-- s a 'ernment to raise a little more f money. >' M "Every day the duplicates are sent to the head offices of the Liquor Con-- trol Board, where a careful check is kept," Premier Hepburn retorted. d y HHVHINTTITSTIOTTT en nEA n