Sherbrooke daily record, 24 juin 1936, mercredi 24 juin 1936

[" §terbrnnkf Irrorîi Established 1 897.SHERBROOKE, CANADA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1936.Fortieth Year.CONTROVERSY ENLIVENED CLOSING HOURS OF PARLIAMENTS SESSION Opposition Leader Bennett Renews Attack on Government Wheat Board Accounting Practices, Charging Statements \u201cWorse than Criminal\u201d\u2014International and Constitutional Affairs Assume First Place in Governmental Attention with Prorogation of Parliament Last Evening.Ottawa, June 24.\u2014International affairs and constitutional issues assume first place in governmental attention today now that Parliament has prorogued and debates and law-making are ended for the year.The first session of the Eighteenth Parliament came to an end yesterday, its last hours enlivened by a new controversy over governmental activity in marketing wheat.Today members of Parliament are on their way home, while a number of Cabinet ministers are packing their bags for official visits abroad or holiday trips.Some ministers will hie to France to attend the unveiling of the war memorial on Vimy Ridge, and others will visit London for trade talks with members of the British Government.In the international sphere attention of the Government will be directed to coming sessions of the League of Nations Assembly at Geneva, and Prime Minister Mackenzie King will head the Canadian delegation to the September meeting when a re-organization of the League structure may be discussed.Brief reference to this was made in the Speech from the Throne read by Justice Rinfret, deputy to the Governor-General, as he officially inclosed the session yesterday.It said the ministers had \u201cgiven continuous thought to the serious international situation\u201d and declared that at Geneva in September Canadian representatives would seek \u201cto further in the most effective way the aims and ideals of the league.\u201d Opinions of the Supreme Court of Canada on validity of various measures of social and economic reform must be studied by Hon.Ernest Lapointe, Minister of Justice, and law officers in the next few weeks.A decision must be reached regarding an appeal to the Privy Council and plans laid for repealing or revamping next session such measures as the Employment and Social Insurance Act and the Natural Products Marketing Act.Conservative leader Bennett thrust the wheat question back into parliamentary debates yesterday as he assailed an appropriation of $15,8\u201900,{XX) to cover losses on the Government guarantee given the Canadian Co-Operative Wheat Producers, Limited, for carrying stocks of wheat and stabilising the market.These stocks were taken over last December 2nd by the new Wheat Board and the loss was computed as the difference between their original cost and the market price on that day, 84% cents.The stocks, however, had not been and have not yet keen liquidated and Mr.Bennett claimed the profit-and-loss situation should not have been computed on that date as the loss would only be determined when the Wheat was sold.Action of the Government was \u201cworse than criminal,\u201d he said, for it was an attempt to show great losses under the old wheat board, headed by John I, McFarland, and smaller losses under the new board with James R- Murray at the head.He added that had the loss been computed a week later it would have been only $5,