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CANADAS RACING CONTROVERSY. Toronto. Ont., August 20. "The Dominion authorities unquestionably had the technical legal right to grant the charter." said Hon. J. J. Foy. the attorney-general of Ontario, when interviewed as to the right of the Ontario government to refuse to issue a provincial license to the .Metroiiolitan Racing Association, promoted by the same interests whose Ontario charter the attorney-general canceled, and who have since obtained a federal charter from the Dominion authorities. "The Ontario government has always adopted the policy that when the Dominion grants a charter for which it has the legal right, the province issues the license on application. To refuse the license would be an ungracious act, and one of great seriousness, as it would precipitate a direct clash of authority. But." continued the attorney-general, "there are conditions when, to my mind, the provincial government would be justified in making exceptions in the course it has followed and this may be one of them." Xo application has yet been made for a provincial license under the charter, and until this is done the question will not come officially before the provincial government. Whether, in any event, the Ontario authorities could refuse to grant the association a license to do business in the province when the organization has been incorporated by the Dominion of Canada, involves a fine point of law. upon which local legal lights are apparently divided.
