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- — a- ONTARIO CASE STILL IN ARGUMENT f TORONTO, Out.. .January 25. Learned counsel again occupied the attention of feu,- judtes in the appellate division at Oeajaode Hall today in submit -tine arciuiieut- profoniid and complicated a- to the * powers of the Ontario legislature in regard to legislation on the -ubjoct of betting on race tracks. On behalf of tin Canadian Racing Association*. W. " Tilley, K. t.. submitted that the province I could no more take the place of the Doaaiaiea in respect to criminal law than it could in the matter of f bankruptcy or Insolvency. The province could, in II the absence of adequate criminal law. pa— law- far • police protection or for nutter* affecting mortility. but if ill. Dominion had passed a law. the province could not -ay. "if we had been tin- Dominion parliament we would have passed ■oaaethtag different." The Dominion government, bj legislation • pasaed in IR39, had drawn a dividing line in this - matter between what should i„- deemed as contrary 1 to the public interest, public good, or public morality, and what -liollld be permitted in tile interests ■ of agriculture, trade ami commerce, and possibly r militia. When the Dominion bad drawn that Mil" " the matte;- Which fell on either -ide of it were within tie- jurisdiction o tin- federal parliament. After coii-ideruhio more arguing chief Justice Meredith stated that In- will have to lake time to " ■ •insider tin- matter. — — , — _ « _
