THE LEGISLATURE WEEK BY WEEK U MONDAY, MARCH 5THâ€" Six Government measures and ten private bills passed committee stage without amendment, and now stand for third reading- Thi>ee Government bills reo£ivaJ second reading, and two new ones, -amendments to the Mining^ Act ami Public Service Act, .'ere in- troduced. The legislative program appears to have passed the peak, al- though Hon. Lincoln Goldie's Hospi- tals Bill is yet to coff.o down, and Hon. W. H. Price will introduce his Se- curities Fraud Prevention Bill. Government bills likewise advanced wero Col. Price's amendments to the Loral Improvement Act, Estreats Act, and Landlord and Tenant Act; Hon. William Finlayson's Lakes and Rivers Improvement Act amendment, and the bill respecting relief of settlers in Northern Ontario, also an amendment to the Assessment Act by Hon. Chas. McCrea. TUESDAY, MARCH 6THâ€" FOUR-FOOTED WOLF DAY Tlie Fish and Game Dept. of the Ontario Government will adopt again the shorter open season for the hunt- ing of deer in the province AGAINST INCREASED BOUNTY Hon. Mr. McCrea, in his customary fallings of the Drury administration by reiterating th« charge that the Ferguson Government had conducted "an orgy of expenditure" during tho remaining months of the fiscal year 1923 after it came into office, and had been correspondingly indulgent in the matter of collecting revenue. He commented upon the prompt payment of a claim by an Indian tribe, $400,- 000- Mr. Nixon wanted to know what the people were gelting for the $56,000,000 taken out of their pockets in the last fiscal year. - "Good government," said the Prime Minister. "Aro they getting $34,000,OCO worth more?" asked the member. "Yes," Mr. Ferguson replied. Mr. Nixon said the Treasurer had been the child of forttne in the mat- ter of succession duty revenue, having budgeted for $8,000,000 and receiving $9,468,950. In connection with reduc tion of motpr licenses, said to be a saving to the public of $2, 000,000, he estimated that the government had taken from the same persons $4,500,- 000 in gas tax and permit fees. Mr. Nixon dealt in some detail with the discrepancy between rural hydro rates and those in urban centres. His address to the committee, made it ' »wn service charge, he said, is $4.35, plain that the Government was not I even if he never turne on a light, favorably disposed to any increase in I while in a nearby village the minimum monthly biU is 75 cents. Power on his farm costs 5c a kw. hour for 42 k.w. hours and two cents for all after that In a small urban centre which he quoted, the rate is 2c for the first SO k.w. hours and one cent after that. Mr. Homuth (Cons., So\;th Water- loo) spoke, and aftar him tlid House heard W. A. Anderson (Lib., Peter- boro), and R. H. Kemp (Prog., Lin- coln), T. J- Mahoney (Con., South Wentworth), at 11 o'clock adjourned the debate. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7THâ€" The Municipal Law Committee of most disappeared, due to the ravages ' ^he Legislature wrestled with the of the packs, which were becoming ! Hawkers and Peddlers Bill for two the wolf bounties. "It so happens," he explained, "that we are getting more wolves today under the $15 ar- rangement, that live did previously with the larger founties. MENACE TO SHEEP INDUSTRY. "^ William Newman (Victoria North) pointed out that the wolf menace in his district had bean so g^reat to the sheep industry that the municipality of Minden in the County of Halibur- ton, had passed a by-law ordering that dogs be tied up at night. Dr. J. M. Robb (Algoma) declared that in his district the deer had al- more daring every day The Minister drew the attrition of the connnittee to the fact that the deer were mcst ptentiful in the vary dis- tricts froiM which the laTjest wolf rs^ turns had been made. hours and a half in the morning. And during that time some 20 representa- tives of interests opposinfT ^^ bill were heard. Many of them urged upon the eammittee that in their particular buainesaee there wwre "pecuMar cir "The wolf roam« fro<n district t-a j CMmstaswes" and "special conditiona" district," Dr. Rkibb pointed out, "aad^ which made their inclusion in the list he v.'ill follow the deer." {of those- exempt from p«yment of li- H. V. Harcourt (Parry Sound) ad- censes imperative, while there were vocated the plan used in the United others â€" chief among them the repre- States, where inspectors were appoint- sentative of the Canadian Manufac- Up In The Air SPECTACULAR LEAP FOR HIS COUNTRY « This is the sort of sensational thing that was seen during iho .ski- jump- ing contest at the winter Olympic games in Switzerland. cd to take care of the situation. When roports of wolf ravages wero received, the inspectors would make investiga- tion.-, and if they saw fit, -would pla- card townships, laying the necessary lines of poison. He believed this sys- tem might be more effective than the present bounty plan- J. C. Wilson (London North) drew to the attention of the committee, com- p>,ints from his riding against the practice of some hunters in chasing ducks with boats. He announced that a deputation in this connection from Lohdon and Windsor would wait upon >he committee. Mr. Miller (Haldimand, Liberal) in- troduced the expected amendment to the motion to go into supply. It sets forth "that this House regrets that ihe Government, notwitbatanding the incrtM.sc in revenues, has failed to af- .ford I'cHef to local munlcipalitie* by .assiaiiing the total cost of construc- -tion and maintenance of the Provin- cial I'iahwpys." ORGY OF EXPENDITURE. II. C. Nixon (Prog., Brant) spoke for an hour and twenty minut«3 be- fore th-- House rose at six, and con- rl'idtd .'l^ the cvei.fng sitting. The ex- mi)iister niet the Provinoiid Treaavr< cr'5 recoat allusions ti .tl(« flnftneiA'l turers' Association â€" -who were abso- lutely opposed to the principle of the bill. SUGGESTIONS FAVORED. A wide variety of amendments to the bill were suggested, and in two or three cases the committee received the suggestions favorably. Following tho presentation of the case of the bakers by Mark Bredin of the Canada Bread Co., Hon. William Finlayson, the chairman, said that some provision would probably be made in the bill whereby bakers, milkmen and similar merchants, who canvassed on delivery routes outside the municipality in .which they paid taxes, would pay a fixed amount for a blanket license and then pay a nominal fee of one or two dollars on each rig gent out. The com- mittee alao agresd to exempt from payment ot license fee those selling! Bibles, music and "high-class" educa- tional books. Toward the end of the sitting, Col. John A. Curric (Con, Toronto St. Patrick) canMod his opposition to the bill to the length of moving that it be thrown out, and although there was a choftu of approval, nis motion Was (bownod out and was ignored by the CMirmfm. Col. Currie allowed his mMv^ w /o tmeonaidertd, with thf warning, however, that Hfe^ would "shoot the bill down" at the next meet- ing of the committee. TWO-LEGGED WOLF DAY Attorney-General Wm. H. Price's widely heralded "Security Frauds Prevention Act" was revealed to the Legislature. Features of the act are as follows: 1. Brokers and salesmen must reg- ister with the Registrar of joint stock companies in the Provincial Secre- tary's Dept, and no person shall dis- pose of any security unless he is regis- tered. The registi-ation fee will be nominaL 2. Every broker must file a bond of $500- This is done to give the Attor- ney-General's Dept. an opportunity of controlling the assets of a defunct broker who has defrauded the public, otherwise the assets are frittered away. ' 3. The Registrar shall keep a book with tho name and address of every broker and salesman entitled to do business in the province. 4. Tho Registrar may refuse regis- tration within a' ten-day period after application if directed by the Attor- ney-General to do so. BOND IN SOME CASES. 5. The Registrar may, on the direc- tion of the Attorney-General, demand a substantial bond by a security com- pany as a condition precedent to doing business. This is intended to cover the case of foreign brokers and sales- men, and others who may not be re- putable, but who may be given a chance to do business under pix)per bonding. G. Investigations may be held by the Attorney-General. He is given full power to take such evidence and get such information as may be desirable, and may apply to the Supreme Court of Ontario for injunctions as condi- tions waiTant- 7. The Supreme Court of Ontario may enjoin any brokers or salesmen fi-om trading in securities if it is found that they have been acting in a fraudulent way. 8. The Attorney-Gonei'al may issue orders to banks to hold funds. 9. The Attorney-General may take bankruptcy prooeedmgs where a brok- er has become liable for fraudulent acts and is in an insolvent condition. LIST OF SECURITIES. 10. The Registrar may ask every bi-oloerage firm selling securities to file with him a statement of the se- curities being sold and what he is rep- resenting to the public. If a different representation is made to the public it will be evidence of a fraudulent act, and may lead to a cancellation of registration and an injunction. A contravention of the act will bring a penalty of not more than $1,000 for the first offense, nor $2,000 for the second or subsequent offense, and in either ease a first or subsequent offense to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months. The Martin Act in New York gives imprisonment up to two years, but this act will be administered keeping in mind the Criminal Code as well as the provi- sions of the act. EXCEPTIONS TO ACT. There are certain exceptions to the act, and in connection with the follow- ing no person need bo registered: (a) judicial sales; (b) isolated transic- tions by the owner provided they are not such continued and successive transactions as to make him a broker; (c) sale by pledgee for debt; (d) dis- tribution of stock dividends; (e) transactions where one party is a public official, or a bank, loan, trust or insurance company, or is register- ed; (f ) exchangie of stock on merger; (g) prospectors' grub-stake, or share of mining property staked by him; (h) trustee securities; (i) secured bonds or notes; (j) negotiable paper; (k) securities based upon conditional sales; (1) shares of educational, bene- volent, fraternal, or recreational ob- dies where there is no pecuniary pro- fit; (m) such other classes of secur- ities as may be exempted by regula- tion- Attorney-General Price also told 'the House: "In drafting this, there has been every effort to keep in mind the fact that there aro certain stabili^oed securities in which one should be able to trade without being registered, and certain classes of transactions not Arabs Move in Holy War They Capture Villages But Britain Moves Quickly King of Hedjaz Throws in Lot With Marauding Tribes LEAVE CANCELLED A Queen of Grace Souya Henle-. of Norway, as .she won tho women's figure skatint,- cham- pionship in the Olympic game:; at St. Moritz. open to fraud. There is also an ex- emption for the prospector who .deals in his own claim, or who is being grub- staked. As soon, however, as a mining claim becomes a stock flotation and its I shares ara being sold to the public,! the broker or salesmen dealing in the stock must l;e registered." All per&rms who sell ."securities, whether acting as officials or sales- men of companies, or not, are included in the act. Massey Boasts About Canada Telia New York Bond Club /^out Dominion's Pro- gress New Yorkâ€" Canada In the last 12 montlis "has made the most siriking advance on the widest front and with most permanent result ot any period' of the same length in Us history," de- clared Hun. Vincent Massey, Cana- dian Minister to the United States, luj addressing the New York Bond Club.' Every time he had visited Canada i In the last year or so. he had come | back conscious of the eutlmsiasni and I the energy which pervaded all activi- ties in the country Irom coast to coasl. "There are not. I am glad to say. the lurid features of the boom to be seen," Mr. Massey said. "Booms are transient things and leavo reactions. Our advance Is steady and sure and is taking place lu atmosphere of quiet confldeuce and reasoned optimism. "Canada has been no l.appy hunt- ing ground for the pessimist, his Inn-' lugs have always been .lUort. In fad,' some of the episodes in our past, tho j boldest stages lu national building, in | advancing our economic frontiers west and north have seemed simply common sense calculated wisdom to after generations." London is Watching New London.â€" A npark of war threatens to spurt into anw in Iraq, according to spurt into flame in Iraq, according the king of the lii-djaz, and Sultan of Nejd, has thrown in his lot with the marauding tribes which recently have besn raiding Iraq. Ilo has already supplied, it is reported, 400 rifles and a largo .stock of munitions, provisions and tents to 20,000 Wahabi tribc-smen marching from th? mid-Arabian des- erts for an attack on Iraq and Trans- jordaniii, each of wliich is under a British mandate. If this be true, it means that intermittent border fights l>etween the tribesnie:* and airplanes and armored cars of tiie Royal Air Force may develop into real warfare on an extended front. Besides the nativo Iraq levies. Great Britain has approximately i»0 bombing and combat 'planea aiul num- erous armored cars, while th^'cruiser Emerald and the sloops Cyclamen and Lupin are anchored in the bay near Koweit. The significance of the report lies in the power ihrougiiout Arabia of Ibn Saudfl who is known as the "Arab Napf>leon." During the world v.'ar Great Britain paid him S!300.000 a year to keep the peace. When the sub- sidy ceased he conquered and .anne.Ksd the Hedjaz, which includes the Holy Cit;«!<s of Mecca and Medina. COMMANDS WAHABI. Hp comma7ids the fanatical loyalty â- of the Wahabi tribesmen, who uphold ,tho teachings of the prophet Since the Royal Air Force last repulsed the raiding Arab tribes and followed them into the desert, inflicting losses esti- mated at several hundreds, it has been known tliat a large numl>er of the tribes were massing for an attack on Iraq. Last reports, liowever, are the first indication of Saud's real attitude and al-so that Transpcrdania wimld be attacked. Meanwhile the Colonial Office offi- cial denied persistent reports that the ( Government is rushing troops from; India to Iraq. In the House of Com- 1 mons Leoi>old Amery, tiie Secretary of : State for Dominion Atfairs, was ques- tioned as to the failure of the Royal j Air Force to prevent the recurrent ; raid on Iraq and as to whether or not \ the air force headquarters ought not | to lie niuveii nearer the southern bor- , der. Ho replied that all that was pos-, sible was being done and that the tech- 1 nical mano3Uvies must bs left to tho; air commaniier at Iraq. j Several factors in the situation lend special significance to the news of i Saud's action. The rulers of Iraq and ! Tranajordania are each sons of for- mer King Husttien, of the Hedjaz, who ; is an old and bitter enemy of -Saud. Crisis With Much Concern ft is reported from Basra that Saud has called the Wahabis to light against the "infidtols" in an attempt to start a holy war, but it is said that a serious religious quarrel obtains even among his followers. Iraq is on the road to India. Trans- Ijordania borders on Pale.'itine, which 1 in turn commands, together with Egypt, the Britis'h lines of communi- cation with the East PREPARATIONS ACTIVE. Ix)ndon.â€" Small detachments of Sul- tan Ibn Saud's tribesmen have crossed llie Transpordanian frontier and cap- tured villages, an E.xchange telegraph despatched from Basra reports. A British military detachment eqiuipi)ed with ten armored cars, te»| airplanes and a number of transport cars, was sent outsida the walls of' Koweit to a point near the Nejl fron- tier Marines and sailors from the Brit- ish cruiser Emerald were patrolling the streets, it was said. The overland motor route between Bagdad and Damascus was su3i>ende(l temporarily, it was said. A despatch to the Daily Mail from .Jaffa told of preparations being made by British authorities in Palestine. The frontier force was being mobil- ized. .411 officers and men were re- called from leave. An armored car company left Ramleh. Palestine, for Amman, Palestine. Several airplanes, each undarstooJ to be carrying 20 men, passed owr Jaflfa Tuesday enroute from Egypt to .\mnian. A Jewish elcgraphic agency des- patch from Jerusalem said 22 air- pianos and seven tanks were sent to the Tranajordania fix>ntier. The people of Palestine were stat- ed to be watching with somo aoxietr the extensive preparatiouii to utilize for the first time tl:e Royal Air Force stationed at Ramleh and Sara- fand. Observers commented that Ibn Saud bad chosen a propitious mo- ment for declaring a "holy war against the infidels," since airplane fightlug is difficult iu hot months. Armored trains patroled the Bag- dad-Basra Railway in Irak. A HOPEFUL VIEW. Loudon â€" London otllcialaoni, not- wltihatanUlng tho reports of active preparations to meet the arch menace emanating from Palestine and other near eastern polnta, is luullned to minimize the Arabian situation. They say a rejiort has been receved that Ibu Saud is making a pilgrimage to Mecca and tho view taken is that he would certainly not travel so far away from Ills capital, Rledlv, If tho position were at all critical. All Together 2,000 British Boys Scheduled To Reach Canada During Sununer I Montreal. â€" The movement of Bri- tish youth to Canada promises to be considerably heavier thuu usual, dne to new arrangements made with the British government. Ontario is taking 500 boys, Mani- toba fifty and the Maritime Provinces and Saskatchowan an indeterminate number, while some hundreds are to be moved by private organizations. In all It is estimated .some 2,000 boys probably will be brought out under the new scheme this summer. Newfoundland Ma>b Enter Dominion of Canada This Year Negotions Are Soon to be Under Way to Discuss the Pros and Cons A NEW CONFEDERATION YE.AR? Ottawa. â€" This year may prove the most eventful in the history ot Can- ada since Confederation. Pourparlers which have not yet the statua ot of- ficial n^gotlatlous are under way for the union ot Newfoundland with the Dominion. The date has been unolHclally set as March 22 for the dlscusBion. Both Liberal and Conserratlve mem- ber* of the Canadian Commons have been canTasaed on the general pro- position and their reaction thus tar baa been that, within any reasonable basis, Canada is prepared and anxious to welcome the Old Colony Into tho Dominion. Eftort in 1866 and 1867 proved abor- tive and again in 1896 a movement to secure union between Newfoundland and Canada was wrecked mainly on the wings ot a dirge about a Mr. Shea, then representing Newfoundland in %9 QefQtiallons. At this moment there Is no disposition to bicker. Can- ada is cognizant of the merits of union and such information as has preceded tho delegation indicates that Newfoundland also is. The basis ot admission admits ot grave argument. Representation, capital Indebtedness and many other factors must all be adjusted before any flnal agreement can be reached. Chance of Success. Similar negotiations have occurred before, it muat be recalled, and thex failed, but, at this moment It apvear^ that there is better chance ot success- ful compromise than there was either in 't>7 or in "95. At least, tho delegates from the Old j Colony are assured ot a sympathetic reception. Without regard to party, ' the two major parties are prepared to go more than half way. There will be llttlo or no criticism of any agreement , to be reached within the bounds of reason, [ GOING OVER IN GLORIOUS FASHION A remarkable |)ic!ure snapped ui .\ewbury. England. Real Uoyal (neareat corners ). ihe wiuner. and Soothing Cass, wiio was second in the Swindon Steeplecl ase. Royal Air Force To Aid Training Dominion Pilots Sir S. Hoare Announces Plan for Regular Interchange of Officers INCREASE SQUADRONS London.â€" Considerable progress baa been made In the mattor of co-opera- tion with the air forces of tho do- minions In order to secure itieuttity of methods in the training of the em- pire air forces. Sir Samuel Iloare, secretary ot stale for air, announced In connection with tho air force esti- mates. He stated that there would bo a re- gular scheme ot Interchange betW^M the royal air force and the Canadian and Australian air force». The tiylug power ot the royal air force would be Increased from 69 to S squadrons, the air minister stated. The coming , year's developmeota would be principally overseas. Two new squadrons would go to India. thus making a total ot eight thara. and the coat would come out of th* Indian exchequer. Provision in made in the estimate* tor two new flying boats ot great po- : tonlialltles in protecting Imparial { uommunlcatluns, One ot them will IM I stationed overseas. Tho Bubaidies to civil aviation bava been increased, the idea being to en- ( ourage further devolopment ot tha o&isting services Hits year with tb* ultimate objeot of establishing an In* portal air mail route to India. -♦- - - â€" Arilat â€" "Alter my «leaUi tho world ivlli realize all that I havu doQa," Frlen4 â€" "Vea, but you'll '>• out ot Uarm'» way by that tlma," ^ r