Sherbrooke daily record, 2 juin 1926, mercredi 2 juin 1926

[" L.b.b I £ V L N S 2 I S t P T 2 fi ÎÏFF j CE L I ST\t* Sherbrooke Daily Record Established lÔQZ, SHERBROOKE, QUE., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1926.i nirtietn i car^ BRITISH LIBERAL PARTY FACING A CRISIS Gives Government\u2019s Position In Alberta School Case Government Will [fame A Minister At Washington Position ct Mackenzie King Government in Respect of Transfer of Natural Resources to Alberta and School Question Attaching Thereto Was Given in House of Commons Yesterday by Hon.Ernest Lapointe\u2014Mr.Lapointe Admitted that Government Had Refused to Accept the Attitude of Alberta\u2014He Held that Validity of Autonomy Act Could Not Be Questioned by Dominion Parliament\u2014\u201cWe Cannot Directly or Indirectly, Even in Tacit Manner, Acknowledge that It Might Be Subject to Question,\u201d Said Mr.Lapointe\u2014Mr.Lapointe Admitted, However, Right of Alberta to Lay Matter Before Court;.TEN CANADIAN GREETING SWEDISH ROYALTY PRIVY COUNCIL (Associated Press Despatch) OTTAWA, OXT., June 2.\u2014The members of the House of Commons today will consider amendments to the Immigration Act, bills standing for second reading on the order paper and possibly estimates.Yesterday in the Commons motions for adjournment over the King\u2019s birthday, and also for two o'clock and Wednesday evening sittings of the House were approved.Third reading was given a bill amending the Dominion Forest Reserves and Parks Act.also the Government\u2019s rural credits measure.This latter bill was given second reading without discussion, but in committee the criticism was gener^.Hon.Ernest Lapointe, Minister of Justice, announced in the House that the Department of Justice had in hand reference of the Alberta school question to the Supreme Court of Canada.\u201cI believe,\u201d said Mr.Lapointe, \u2018\u2018that this solution is fair to all parties and I earnestly hope that this delicate question will in this way be settled definitely and removed forever from the field of controversy.\u201d Mr.Lapointe said the amendment made by the Legislature of Alberta, \u2018without our consent,\u201d to the natural resources bill, suggested that the laws of the province might differ from, or be in conflict with, Section 17, of the Alberta Act.Otherwise, the amendment would be useless and futile.The Alberta Act had stood as the constitution of the province for twenty-one years.\u201cWe cannot directly or indirectly, even in a tacit manner, acknowledge that its validity might be subject to question,\u201d added Mr.Lapointe.However, the Dominion Government was prepared to take immediate steps for a reference to the Supreme Court.\u201cWe will submit the act and support its validity and give an opportunity to those who question it to present their views,\u201d Mr.Lapointe said.AMENDMENTS TO SOLDIER SETTLEMENT ACT OF 1919 fAssociated Press Despatch) OFT AW A, ONT., June 2.\t1 he Senate shortly after midnight gave second reading to the amendments to the Soldier Settlement Act of 1919 and considered the bill in committee.Progress was reported.Senator Oandurand explained to the committee that the bill was designated to create an arbitral tribunal to consider claims for revaluation of Soldier Settlers\u2019 land.Senator Dandurand.Government leader, stated the Government proposed to appoint a minister plenipotentiary at Washington.The Senate will sit this afternoon.ADOPT MOTION TO ADJOURN OVER KING\u2019S BIRTHDAY OTTAWA, June, 2.\u2014The motions introduced by Premier King, abolishing the Wednesday evening adjournments until the end Of the session, starting the afternoon sittings at two o\u2019clock instead of three beginning next Monday, and st0°d »_ farmer was one solely en that the House should not sit next Faged n agriculture.Under this Thursday, the\" King's Birthday, were :\t^farmers ^ who engaged reading was given to the rural credits bill without discussion, when the House had disposed of preliminaries yesterday afternoon.The House then went into committee on this bill.E.J.Garland (Prog., Bow River) asked that the definition in the bill of a \u201cfarmer\u201d be changed.As it carried when the House of Commons opened yesterday afternoon.The House of Commons could get its work \"done in four months, sitting from one until six in the attcr-noon, if it had proper rules, declared G.G.Coote (Progressive, MacLeod) in protesting against the Prime Minister\u2019s motion to abolish the Wednesday evening adjournments until the end of the present session.Mr.Coote said he could not hope to have the motion to sit on Wednesday evening defeated, but he felt obliged to protest against the un-\u2022\u2022easonablencss of the length of the session, \u201c1 know of no other body of men who have to work both day and night.There were five weeks of budget debate, which very few members listened to, and those who did, only to form a quorum \u2019.said Mr.Coote.Ho protested against the taking away of the one remaining night.He did not know why reasonable men could not adopt reasonable rules to facilitate the debate.Private members, said Mr.Coote, who were conscientious, worked from before nine in the morning until after midnight and were then expected to sometimes take part in divisions.What applied to private icmbers applied more so to the Prime Minister, members of the Government and the Leader of the Opposition.The page, hoys of the House\u2014\u201cthis factory of words and phrases\u201d\u2014were frequently compelled to stay all night, despite the fact that there were child labor laws in the province which would forbid it.All parties were equally guilty in the prolonging of the session.At the conclusion of Mr.Coote\u2019s remarks, the Prime Minister\u2019s motions were carried without further protest.SECOND READING GIVEN RURAL CREDITS MEASURE JTTAWA, June, 2.Second also in the threshing business would be excluded.H.B.Short (Cons., Digby-Anna-polis) asked if the bill applied only to farmers of the soil and not to farmers of the sea.\u201cIf my honorable friend can tell me how 1 can get a mortgage on fish I will be glad to consider it,\u201d replied Mr.Robb, Minister of Finance.R.B.Hanson (Cons., York-Sun-bury) said if there was to be any easy money in the country there should be no discrimination in favor of the western farmer.Ho demanded equal treatment for the.fishermen, as did O.B.Price (Cons., Westmoreland).T.L.Church (Cons., Northwest Toronto) described the bill as class legislation of the worst kind.' Mr.Robb said that the Government had not been unmindful of the fishermen.He moved that.the word \u201csolely\u201d be dropped from the definition of farmer in the bill.A.Do Witt Foster (Cons., Haiits-Kings) said that the fishing industry had \u201cdwindled $7,000,000 in the last five years.\u201d When it came to giving consideration to matters affecting the Maritime Provinces, there was an inclination to postpone such matters until \u2018tomorrow.\u2019 Fishermen should he included so as to benefit under the bill and the time for action was nowr.A.E.MacLean (Lib., Prince) said he would support \u201canything that would tend to benefit the fishing industry.\u201d Rt.Hon.Arthur Meighen, Conservative leader, said he was in favor of rural credits.Mr* Meighen believed that a farmer should be defined for the purpose of the act as one who \u201cowns and cultivates\u201d a farm, rather than as a person who \u201cowns and occupies\u201d a farm.Hon.\u20ac.A.Dunning, Minister of Railways and Canals, said it was not the intention to provide loans for persons who were only \u201cinci-(Continued on Page Nine) One of Cases Involves Decision as to Whether Profits from \u201cBootlegging\u201d Operations Are Assessable for Income Tax Purposes.(Associated Press Despatch^ LONDON, June 2.\u2014Ten Canadian appeals will come before the judicial committee of the privy council at \u2018the next session.The cases'will involve decisions on whether profits from \u201cbootlegging\u201d operations are assessable for income tax purposes; on the dispute over engagement of professional hockey players submitted by the Toronto hockey club, and on the appeal of the Luscar Collieries con-eermng the jurisdiction of the Board of Railway Commissioners over provincial railways.RULING GIYÊT BY SPEAKER WAS UPHELD Second Petition Made by J.A.Collins, Peace River Conservative Candidate, Is Rejected.OTTAWA, June 2.\u2014 That the petiton of James Arthur Collins, | Conservative candidate in Peace River constituency at the last general election, for an investigation by a Parliamentary committee into the vote cast in Peace River, should not be received, was the x-uling of Walter Todd, examiner of petitions, read in the House of Commons by Speaker Lemieux yesterday afternoon.The Speaker had already ruled some days ago that another petition could not be accepted, and his ruling wag sustained by the House.The opinion of the examiner of petitions read yesterday sustains the Speaker when the other petition was presented on behalf of Mr.Collins.Rt.Hon.Arthur Meighen, leader of the Opposition, declared that the examiner of petitions had taken upon himself more than had been assigned to him by the House.He took upon himself the duties of the Speaker and the House itself When the examiner was to tell the House whether or not it could receive a petition, parliamentary practice had come to a bad state.Mr.Meighen asked the Speaker to rule that the report was beyond the powers of the examiner, and to instruct him to make a report within his duties.Hon.Ernest Lapointe, Minister of Justice, said that Mr.Meighen was out of order, and that the petition was not debatable until it had appeared in votes and proceedings.Speaker Lemieux said he wished it understood that the report which he had just read was not inspired.He also thought that the question might more properly come up when the report of the examiner of petitions had been published in votes and proceedings.The prayer in the present petition was practically the same as in the one previously presented by Hon.R.B.Bennett (Conservative, Calgary West), the petitioner in each instance claiming the seat for himself.Speaker Lemieux thought that the prayer of the petition was \u201cabsolutely irregular and cannot be entertained.\u201d Mr.Meighen stated that he thought a ruling .should not^be made on the petition itself without.an opportunity to present argument.It was proposed to show Parliament that the present petition was not the same as the one previously presented, and that it differed in the very respect in Which the House, at the time of the ruling on the first petition said that it should differ.If the petition as not received by Parliament, the courts ware utterly incapacitated to deal with the subject matter of the petition; and rejection of the petition meant the \u201cshutting of the door\u201d of Parliament and the court \u201cto a man whose seat is usurped by another.\u201d Speaker Lemieux then postponed Ins decison until the report was printed in the votes and proceedings of the House.RELIEF FUND FÔFtHE WIVES AND CHILDREN OF STRIKING MINERS LONDON, June, 2.\u2014Lady Sles-ser, chairman of the women\u2019s committee for the relife of the wives and children of striking miners, already has received 10,000 pounds sterling.Donations are coming from all classes of society and political creeds.Lady Cynthia Moseley and her husband, the Socialists, who recently returned from a tour of the United States, have contributed 500 pounds.Lady Astor, besides contributing, is broadcasting an appeal for funds.ft Their Royal Highnesses Crown Prince Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and Crown Princess Louise\" were beleaguered by American newspaper reporters and photographers on their arrival in New York, and seemed to like it.The above photograph was taken on the deck of the motorship Gripsholm as it came up New York harbor.The Crown Prince and Princess, arriving for their two months\u2019 visit in the United States, complied with the photographers\u2019 plea for a smile.Announcement Tht Canada Will Revert To Gold Standard Pleases The U.S.Financial Circles Interested In Canadian Business Canadian Dollar Has Maintained Itself at Gold Parity for So Long that No Difficulty Is Expected from Actual Transition, According to New T'ork Herald-Tribune.(Associated Press Despatch) NEW YORK, June 2.\u2014The Her-ald-rTibune this morning says: \u201cBanking circles interested in Canadian business were pleased yesterday by the official announcement from Ottawa that Canada would revert to the gold standard on July 1st.The Canadian dollar has maintained itself at gold parity for so long that no difficulty is expected from the actual transition.\u201cExports of gold from Canada have been frequent in recent years, but they have always been under special license.Canadian currency notes, whether issued by the Dominion or by the chartered banks, have not been redeemable in gold.At the outbreak of the world war the chartered bank notes were made legal tender by a government order and this freed the banks from their obligation to redeem them in metal.\u201cIn recent years, when seasonal trade movements made gold flow to the Dominion, the importing banks have always insisted that the Dominion Government exempt that gold from its export restrictions.W;th- FAIL TO AGREE RE PEACE TIME ARMAMENTS Rock on Which Nations Split Was Whether Trained Reserves Should Be Included.(Amo da ted Pre*i Despatch) GENEVA, June, 2.\u2014 The disarmament discussions got into fresh difficulties yesterday when the military sub-committee separated without reaching an agreement on what constitutes peace time armaments.The rock on which nations split was whether trained reserves should be included.The countries where conscription prevails said \u201cno\u201d the others said \u201cyes\u201d.France out such exemption, the banks would\tled in the fight to exclude presumably have refused to accept \"\trT'1'\" T \u2019 the metal.Such ear-marked gold has been the chief supply concerned in the import and export movements.A similar arrangement existed with respect to new gold.\u201cAfter July 1, all Canadian paper currency will be redeemable in gold, the bank notes by the issuing insti- tfce reserves.The French argument was put forward rtius\u2014\u201cpeace time armaments _ are those which are available without measures of mobilization,\u201d thus eliminating trained reserves and reserves of material.The German spokesmen contended that peneo time armaments consisted in all means existing and all \u2014-\t, ., v- .\t,\t.measures taken in oeace time m tutions, and the Dominion notes I preparation for -war.* the goverment.All gold stocks will\tt\ti bo\tf.* «port, in response »\tWS^**»* trade requirements.\t.\t.until today, when a.vote will be taken.The New York Times says that except from the standpoint of stability, the change is not expected to , » Mrw TRFATMFNT FAD make any groat difference.Refer- .2L2L_\u201e\tTUK ring to the ups and downs of the Canadian dollar during the past year and the flux of gold to and from | p c Paldrnrlc Stafoc\tHoc the Dominion on that account, tlm r™r- râldrock Mates He Has Times suggests that the volume of shipments in the future may be re-, duced by the establishment of the ; gold standard in the Dominion.j\t.\t.D ~ _ The World looks for stabilization rfpiTv\tfespatc^ f Lpir, will\tft, sold\tLiïXlsl JZ dairi \"asIB-\t.\tin an article in the German Derma- LEPR0SY HAS BEEN DEVISED Succeeded in Killing Leprosy Germs by Means of Freezing.Yological Journal, announces that I after may years of experimentation, HIGHEST PAID ORCHESTRA CHICAGO.June 2.\u2014Highest prie-jaTlel I11!,y wajs ed on earth are the melodies of Chi- ho has succeeded m killing the lep-cago\u2019s Union Orchestra.A fifty cent ^ f rm by means of freezing, increase gives them $2 an hour, an Carbonic acid snow was applied 5___«ir.n \u201e ,vrt«i-\tto diseased tissue with the results