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OPENING OF DOMINION PARIJANENT BUILDINGS AN HISTORIC EVENT Inauguration of Parliament Carried Out With All the Cere- monial and Pomp of Pre- War Day* â€" Magnificent Interior of Stately Pile Lends Added Dignity to Brilliant Scene. ( A despatcli from Ottawa eaye: â€" tarllament Is setllod In Its now, al- though uncompleted, homo on the Hill. The opening on Thursday uftcriioon •waa accompanied by tho inobt bril- liant and mobt gorgeous display that t>erbap8 haa ever attended the in- auguration ot :i Purllatnent in Canada. The ceremonial and pomp, which tradition asaociatos with Buch an event, were carried out as in the days prior to the war. The splendor at- taching to tho opening waa more noUceablo because ot the almost to- tal suspension o( social display dur- ing the war. Then, too, tho limited facilities in the Victoria Museum, W-hero the law-makon were nccom- ZDodated slnoe the old building was destroyed by fire in 1916, did not lend tbemsclvca to any pretentious core- liionlaL Tho use for tho first time ot- the new building in itself was an histori- cal event which added to the dignity ot the occasion. And the magnificent Interior of the sately pile, which is a xuonument to this young country's ag- eresslvenesB, with its costly marble vralls, and the grandiose Commons Chamber, with high ceiliug and chaste appearance, provided a background for a great spectacle. With all this splendor and the great social display It was but natural that the attendance should be large. There were hundreds who could not obtain •Inrltatloa card.s because of tho groat demand, and even the fortunate tlc- Icet-boldcrs started to gather as early as 1 o'clock. While the floor of tho House was occupied by an assembly of the political, social and official life of the nation, with the women wearing bcuutlful gowns, und wlille the gal- lories were taxed with a crowd, most of the women of which wore after- noon dress, tlicre was an unusual democratic touch addad to the event by the prcBeiice of some uninvited guests. These were a number of the workmen employed on the building. Uuobservable from the floor of tUo ohambei*, they viewed tho proceedings (rem a position almost on top of tho celling, having located themselves be- tween the marble decorative Bchemo near the top ot the walls and the cell- ing. Tho Speech from tho Throne was short, and forcast nothing unexpected. The legislation it Inllmalod would be brought down iucluded a bill to pro- vide for tho amendment of the Patent Act, of the Loan & Trust Corhpanles' Acts, the Indian Act and tho Kxclicq- uer Court Act, and a bill to ratify the International Opium Convention. The scene on the floor of the House, which for the day was used as the Senate Chamber, was a brilliant one. The members' desks had not been placed la posltluu and all the avail- able space was filled with chairs. The striking uniform of the Duke of Devonshire, the costly evening dresses and Jewels of tho ladlcK, the crimson and ermine robes of tho Juk- tlees of tho Supreme Court, the Wind- sor uniforms of tho Privy Councillors, the scarlet gowns of the Papal dele- gates, Mgr. Dl Maris, Archbishop Gauthler and his assistant, Mgr. Uouthler, the khaki ot the military officers and the navy bluo of the naval officers accompanj-ing hla Excellency all added to the richness and pic- turesquenoss of the spectacle. Grain and Live Stock BreadtiufTs. Toronto, March 2. â€" Manitoba wheat â€"No. 1 Northern, $2.80; No. 2 North- cm, $2.77; No. 3 Northern, $2.73, in store Fort William. Manitoba oatsâ€" No. 2 C.W., 97%c; No. 3 C.W., 93Mic; extra No. 1 feed, 93V4c; No. 1 feed, 92c; No. 2 feed, 91 He, in store Fort William. Manitoba barleyâ€" No. 3 C.W., *1.71'/4; No. 4 C.W., $1.45%; re- jected, $1.31Vi; feed, $1.31V4, in Btore Fort William. American com â€" No. 3 yellow, $1.89; No. 4 yellow, $1.8G, track, Toronto; prompt shipment- Ontario oatsâ€" No. 3 white, $1.00 to fl.02, according to freights outside. Ontario wheat â€" No. 1 Winter, per car lot, $2.02 to 12.03; No. 2 do., $1.98 to $2.01; No. 3 do., $1.92 to $1.93, f.o.b. shipping points, accord- ing to freights. Ontario wheatâ€" No. 1 Spring, per car lot, $3.02 to $2.03; No. 2 do., $1 98 to $2.07; No. 3 <lo., $1.95 to $2.01, f.o.b. shipping poir.ts, accord- ing to freights. Peasâ€" No. 2. $3.00. Barleyâ€" Malting, $1.75 to $1.77, according to freight-; outside. Buckwheatâ€" $1.5.') to $1.60, accord- ing to freights outrMe. Rye-No. 3, $1.77 to $1.80, ac- cording to freights outside. Manitob.T flour â€" Government stan- dard, $13.25, Toronto. Ontario flour â€" Government stan- dard, $10.80 to $11, Montreal; $11 in Toronto, in jute bags. Prompt ship- ment- Millfee'l â€" Car lots â€" Delivered Mont- real frnight. bags Includedâ€" Bran, per ton, $45; shorts, per ton, $52; good feed flour, $3.00 to $3.75. Hay â€" No. 1, per ton. $27 to $28; mixed, per ton. $25, track, Toronto. Strawâ€" Car lots, per ton, $10 to $17 track, Toronto. bacon, 42 to 47c; backs, plain, 50 to 52c; boneless, 54 to 58c. Cured Meats â€" Long, clear bacon, 31 to 32c; clear bellies, 30 to 31c. Lard â€" Pure, tierces, 31 to 31Vic; tubs, 31V4 to 32c; pails, 31% to 82^4c; prints, 32 to 32V4c. Compound tierces, 28V4 to 29c; tuba, 29 to 29Vic; palls, 2914 to 29%c; prints, 30V^ to 31c. Montreal Markets. Montreal, March 2.â€" Oats, Cana- dian Western, No. 2, $1.16; do., No. 3, $1.11%. Flour, new standard, $13.25 to $13.55. Rolled oats, bag, 90 lbs., $5.26 to $5.35. Bran, $45-25. Shorts, $52.25. Hay, No. 2, per ton, carlots, $26 to $27. Cheese, finest easterns, 26 to 2G%c. Butter, choic- est creamery, 62 to C3c; seconds, 55 to 55V^c. Eggs, fre.*, 76 to 77c; selected, 60 to 62c. Potatoes, per bag, car lots, $3.50. Lard, pure, wood pails, 20 lbs. net, 81 to 31'/4c. Country Produce â€" Wholesale. Kggsâ€" New laid, cns<'s returnable, <)5c to C~c. Butter â€" Creamci-y solid^, CRc to 58c; do. prints, 57c to 59c. Honeyâ€" White, per lb., GO-lb., tins, net, 21c to 22c; 10-!i). tins gross, 21 %c to 22'/ic; 6-lb. tins, gross. 23c to 24c. Live Poultryâ€" Buying prices deliver- ed, Toronto:â€" Hens, over 5 lbs., live, 88c, dressed, 33c; hens, 4 and 5 lbs., live, 30o, dressed, 30c; hens, under 4 lbs., live, 25c, dresived. 2Rc; sprirg chickens, live, 28c, droseod, 30c to 32c; spring chickens, milkfed, live, 29c; dressed, 34c to 8fic; roostei-s, live, 25c; dressed, SOc; turkeys, live, 35c; dress- ed, 50c; geese, live, 22c, dressed, 24c. Provisions â€" ^Wholesale. Smoked meats â€" Hams, medium, 35 to 87c; do., heavy, 29 to SOc; cooked, 48 to 51c; rolls, 80 to 31c; breakfast Live Stock Markets. Toronto, March 2.â€" Choice, heavy steers, $13 to $13.5(1; good heavy steers, $12.25 to $12.50; butcher.^ rattle, choice, $1 1 .50 to $12; do., good, $10-7.''> to $11; do., medium, $10 to ?10..'')0; do., common, $7 to $8; bulls, choice, $10 to SlO.nO; do., medium, .$9 to $9.50; do., rough, $G.50 to $G.75; butcher cows, choice, $10 to $10.. 50; do., good, $9 to $9.25; do., medium, $8 to $8.50; do., common, $7 to $7.25; stockers, $7.50 to $10; feeders, $10 to $11; canners and cut- ters, $5 to $6; milkers, good to choice, $110 to $1C>5; do., common and med- ium, $65 to $75; springer.s, $90 to $165; sheep, $r>.50 to $13; lambs, per cwt., $18 to $2.3; calves, good to choice, $19 to $23; hogs, fed and watered, $19; do, wcklied off cars, $19.25; do., f.o.b.. $18; do., do., country points, $17.75. Montreal, March Z. â€" Butcher heif- ers, common, $7-50 to $0; butcher cowK, medium, $G..'>0 to $0; rannor.s, $5.50; cutters, $5.75 to .SG.SO; but- cher bulls, common, $7.50 to $9.50. Good veal, $18 to ,$20; medium, $1G to $17. Ewes, $9 to $12; lambp, (rood. $lG.-'-0 to $17; common, $15.50 to $16.50. Hogs, off car •weights, sel- ects, $19; sows, $15.50. â€" «>- An unusual view ot the Commona Chamber in Canada's new ten-mil- lion-dollar Parliament Buildings. The floor section was not flnlshed w:-C.. this photograph was taken a few days ago. Tho view was taken from the scaffolding near the ceUlng, looklug toward the Speaker's dais. ALLIES WILL PERMTT TURKS POSSESSION OF CONSTANTINOPLE Premier Lloyd George Defends Decision as Fulfilment of Pledge to Indian Moslems Who Fought in War â€" ^Hie Straits Will Be Free and Garrisoned by Entente. FALLS nVE MILES IN TWO MINUTES Airmim's Plunge From Clouds Witnessed by Thousands. A despatch from Dayton, O., says:~ An airplane carrying Major it. W. Schroeder, chief test pilot at McCook field, foil over five miles on Friday af- ' ter reaching an altitude of 36,020 leet. said to be 5,020 feet higher than the world's record. The officer is In hospital suffering from shock and temporary partial blindness. Instruments on the ma- chine Indicated that it fell more than five miles in two miiiule.s. While still 2,000 foci above tho earth the plane righted it.selt and glided to a graceful landing. The pilot was discovered Bitting erect and apparently lifeless. The plunge was witnessed by thousands of people, and for a brief time spectators thought a comet had j appeared in the sky. The trull of vapor i in the wake of the plane gave rise to this belief. Instruments on his machine told the story of the aviator's experience. The thermometer registered a tempera- ture of 55 degrees below zero centri- grade, or 67 degrees below zero Fah- renheit. Altitude figures from the barograph reading indicated a height of 37,000 feet, and showed an official altitude of 36,020 feet, a new world's record. Leaving the field at 10.45 Friday morning Major Schroeder battled for tv^'o hours and live minutes against changing air currents and bitter cold atmosphere. Finally he lost conscious- ness and the piano dropped. Oillcers of the Ik'ld said it must have fallen into a tall .spin, as otherwise it would have collapsed when ho regained con- sciousness and vlt;ht:d it, afior n des- I cent of more than live miles. Tho sudden change in air pressure j from lo.sb than three pounds at 36.000 feet to 17.7 pounds at so;i level crush- ed the gaaolino tanks on the plane and caused them to collapse, besides jolt- ing tho pilot to his senses. German Troops Need Another Whipping A despatch from Genev.i says: â€" German war prisoners returning home from France, of whom ;;00,000 have al- ready been vepntrlalod, go through Switzerland Binding "Die Waclif Am Rhein" and "Deutschland Uber Alle.s," and declaring that they are going home to prepare for the next war. The World Aloft. Britain is out to become king of the air as well as queen af the seas. Eng- lish statesmen have mapped out a pro- gram of singular scope and daring. The Department c£ Civil Aeronautics has an appropriation ot $15,000,000 for Us work. England has continued many of her wartime contracts ho as to pro- vide for the perpetuation of aircraft building plants. Salesmen are dc- monstrating machines in every coun- try in tho world. To stimulate in- terest In South America the govern- ment has presented fifty machines to the Chilean Government. France has taken the cue from Eng- land and is sending airplane missious to various parts ot the world. Sever- al ot tho best types of French planes were given to the Argentne, where rapid progress in aviation is being made. Peru adopted the French sys- tem as its own, has imported large numbers of planes, also some flying instructors from France. Japan has drawn largely upon French material for the flying arm of her service. iMore than 100 instruct- ors have been put under contract to work in aviation schools and flying fields ot tho island empire. Italy has sensed the importance of peace-time aviation and has sent to South America a fully equipped flying squadron, consisting of Home twcuty- slx officers and eishty-fivo enlisted men, and a varied lino of land and water plane.=i. from fiia)it Cupronis to tho small llugiitti si-out. Great thiuKs iiru being done in the world i)f tlylng by tbe.se nations. Fur (•.\ampU', Engliind has established mall and passi'.ngev-carrying roulop. u.slng llaudley Pago and Yicker.'* bon'.bing type.;, in .Spain, in China, and up and down t)ic coast of South Ameri- ca from I'ernambuco, Ilrazll, to Buenos Alre;^. This laiter system is to be only n part ot a proposed aerial lino connecting London and the capital of the Argentine via (iibraltar and Da- kar on the west coast of Africa. A despatch from London says: â€" The decision not to ouat Turkey from Con- stantinople was reached by the Allied Supreme Council only after long con- Blderati02i of the dlSlculties in the TurkLsh situation. Premier Lloyd George declared In the House of Com- mons on Thursday, when the question of the future of Turkey was brought up for debate. The decision, said the Premier, was a balance of advantages and disadvantages, and it was upon this balance and after welr;hlng care- fully all tho arguments pro and con, that the Council concluded that, on the whole, the better course for achiev- ing the common end was to retain the Turk In the capital of the Bosphorus. Referring to the agreement made early in the war under which Russia was to obtain Constantinople, Mr. Lloyd George said this agreement had ended, so far as Russia was concerned, by the revolution of 1917, and the peace of Brest-Lltovsk. He reiterated his pledge that there would be "a different porter at the gates," however. It would be the height ot folly again to trust the guardianship of these gates to a people who had betrayed their trust, he de- clared, and never again would those gates be closed by the Turks in the face of British ships. The Premier referred to the "per- fectly deliberate pledge" given by the British Government in January, 1918, In which It was asserted that Great Britain was not fighting to deprive the Turks of Constantinople subjecf to the Straits being internatiunalized and neutralized, and he renoarked parenthetically that this waa what would be done with the Straits. This pledge, he explained, waa not an offer to the Turks or the Ocrraans, but was made to reassure the English people and the Mohammedans of India. He pointed cut that Great BrlUin was the greatest Mohammedan power in the world, and that as a result of the Gov- ernment's statement of its war alma there had been an Increase In recruit-' Ing In India at a time when Great Brl- tain was raakSug a special effort to raise additional troops. The influence which had decoidedi the Peace Conference to retain the. Turks in Constantinople, tho Premier continued, had come from India. The two peace delegates of irdia at Paris, neither of whom was a Mohammedan,' had declared that unless the allies re- tained the Turks in Constantinople their action would be regarded as a gross breach of faith on the part of the British Empire, the Premier informed the House. » [ Without the aid of India, Mr. Lloyd : George pointed out, Tuikey could not I have been conquered, and nothing could be more dam.^ging to British prestige in Asia than the feeling that Great Eriluln did not keep her word. He promised, however, that when tlis I peace temis were disclosed, they I would be found drastic enough to 1 satisfy Turkey's bitterest foe. Points From Speech of British Premier A despatch from London says: â€" "When the treaty with Turkey Is published the greatest enemy of the Turk will realize that ho (tho Turk) has been abundantly punished for his follies, blundeis and crimes," said Premier Lloyd George in the Hou.?e nf Commons on Thursday in announcing that Turkey is to remain in Europe, retain- ing Constantinople. "The Dardanelles, however- will be kc;;t op*"!! by the constant presence of Allied warships." "Minorities will be prctecied, net by diplomatic notes, but by the Turk's knowledge that he is under the menace of l-tritish, French and Italian guns." "Turkey's forts will be dismantled and she is not to be permitted to have troops near the straits." "It has been decided to leave the Turks Constantinople, but it would bo the height of folly to trust the guardianship of the gates (Dardanelles) to the people who have Iictruyed tlieir truit." "The gates will never be closed by the Turks in tho face of a British ship again." Advance Guerd Reaches Holy Land A despatch from New York says: â€" A band of 6.34 Jews from Southern I Russia, who pooled fevery cent of their j life savings to charter a steamer at Odessa with the 3,000,000 roubles they ' raised, have landed at Jaffa, in Pales- I tine, ucoordlng to n despatch UKui.-i publK' here by the Zionist organization j of America. I The immigrants broke through the I Governmental and Zioni-^^t restrictiims holding them back until tho laud is opened to immigration by the signing of tho Treaty o£ rcato with Tuikey, tho despatch eaUI. The entire Jfwish community ot Jaf- j fa greeted this, the first large group of JevN-s reported to hav2 re:\ched Pales- tine, as the advance guard ot a "world mass migration of .lews to the Holy Land," it was stated. Cable From King to Parliament NATIONAL DAIRY COUNCIL IN CONVENTION AT WINNIPEG Top Rowâ€" Not members of Cou ncll. Second How, left to rightâ€" Sal mon, Sa.ik; G. Mead, Capt. II. A. Dickscn, N.S.; J. A. Ruddick, Dairy Commissioner; G. A. CiiUespIo, Pete ihoro. Third Uow-W. T. Westgato, Windsor; V. Scott, Ottawa; M. Prevey, W. Cummings. J. A. Carruthcrs. Front Row--K. T. Love, Edmonton; M. Kobtrtaon, Belleville; J. A.Calder, JIooso Jaw; A. McKay, u. Ligget, Donaldson, Attwood, Ont. A deapatcli from Ottav.a says:â€" The Speaker of the Commona read the fol-j lowing cablegram from the King on Thursday: "London, Feb. 23. 1920. "I desire you will convey to my' faithful Senate and House of Commons of Canada my warmest greetings on this the first occasion of thoir assemb- ling in the new buildings, with the erection of which my sou is proud to havo been associated. It is my firm as.jurance that tho deliberations of the Parliament of Canada will, as lu the past, redound to the happiness and prosperity of the great Dominion, whose well-being is eo vital to -the whole Empire. " Propose to Fly From Norwich to Montreali A despatch from Wiiuiipcg says:â€"-. G. Black Murray, pilot, and A. C. F. Lukes, aeronautical engineer for a; local aerial trauspcrt company, pro- pose to fly from Norwich, England, to Montreal. They leavn early in March, for Knglaud. Ic is planned to use t» POO-horsepower twin-engine tractoP blpiajio capable of making 150 miles an hour. The estimated time of the, flight is 18 hours for the 2,700 miles. First "Sea Bank" Established on the Liner Imperatoii\ A despatch from London says: â€" Tli9 former German liner, Imperator, now flying tho British flag, Is on the way to New York, wUh tho first "seabank"! on board. It is a branch of the Lon-' don City and Midland Bank, and has offices both In tho first and second- class cabin. The business done con- sists maiuly of foreign exchange transactions. BRINGING UP FATHER