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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS. COLBORNE, ONT., THL BSD AY, MARCH 22, 1928 3 THE LEGISLATURE WEEK BY .WEEK THURSDAY, MARCH 8TH-- Oratory on Debate drew nearer its close. T. J. Mahony, Conservative member for South Wentworth, dealt in some detail with Opposition criticisms, the matter of municipal payment toward highway costs, and a strong appeal to the Government on behalf of grapegrowers in the Niagara peninsula. He urged that native wine be made cheaper,, and said that Quebec consumed 800,000 gallons of Ontario wine, as compared with 400,000 gal-Ions used in this province. T. Legault, Liberal member for Sturgeon Falls, got into a protracted argument with Hon. Win. Finlayson as to the need of assistance for settlers in the Northern districts. Other speakers were Chris Gardiner (Prog., East Kent), Rev. A. C. Calder (Con., West Kent), A. A. Colquhoun (Lib., South Perth), F. G. Sandy (Prog., South iVctoria), H. H. Ball (Con.. Eglinton), and Blake Miller (Lib., East Elgin). Mr, Bail, who addressed the House for the first time in a debate, concluded with a word of commendation for the Securities Fraud Prevention Act now before the House. FRIDAY, MARCH 9TH-- Sanctity of the bench, freedom of magistrates from political control and the circumstances attending the resignation of Police Magistrate Jesse Bradipi-d, of Lindsay, comprised the Legislative menu at Fridi THURSDAY, MARCH 15TH-- With all the Progressives but three voting with the Government, the budget was carried by a vote of 67 to 16. The only division took place on the amendment by R. F. Miller, chief Liberal financial critic, favoring '.the payment of 100 per cent, of provincial highway costs by the Government. The main motion was carried on the sai division. The three Progressives who threw their lot with.the Opposition, voting for the amendment, were Christopher Gardiner (Kent East), F. G. Sandy (Viotorai South), and W- G. Medd (South Huron). The other Progressives, including the leaier, J. G. Leth-bridge, and the one U.F.O. member who was in his seat at the time, Far-Oliver, South Grey, voted with 3 Govei mt. WANTS DECLARATION. Mr. Sinclair declared that the Legislature and the people were waiting for some dafinite pronouncement from the Government this session on the St. Lawrence Waterways. Offering suggestions for future economies, Mr. Sinclair declared the Civil Service Commission should be abolished, the salaries of membei the Liquor Control Board should be reduced and a purchasing agent should be appointed for the province. .Looking forward to the year to come the Liberal leader could seen only one which the estimated surplus of Attorney-General W. H- Price got ( $177,000 could be reached-second reading for amendments to the said, was through increased revenue Juvenile Courts Act and to the Chil- from gasoline tax, estimated at $1,-dren of Unmarried Parents Act. 097,058.28, and $7,000,000 revenue Under the latter act a sum reach- j from liquor sales. In this way, he ing $90,000 has accumulated in the ' said, the Government proposed to make hands of the Public Trustee. Provision j the people prosperous by having them is made that the officers under the spend $60,000,000 more on luxuries, act are to have $5,000 on hand for j "This is a new doctrine," he de-payments under the legislation, the clared. "It never did work." rest to be invested. The Attorney-1--- SoS/Act gandSChnarIn^VnfotS Oriental Question "IwvBte^l^ohUtaing second read- , DisCUSSed in B.C. Ing included bills from Townships of j - d North York, town j>f Col- j Seriousness of Situation Peers Daughter and British Ace Probably Victims pf Ambition hon. elsie mackay ("poppy wyndham" on the stage) and capt. A beautiful English girl who hopped off Tuesday in a golden-winged monoplane with Captain W Hon. Elsie Mackay, daughter of Lord Inchcape. multi-millionaire shipping magnet. The peer's daug the stage and in motion pictures, is no" doubt lost and the two venturesome flyers are added to the 1: Miss Mackay in flying togs; (2) As an actress; (3) Capt.- Hiuchcliffe, who lost an eye in the war; ( made. lingwood a « the Church of England Trust Func»Act, New legislation included bills re Windsor-Essex and Lake Shore Rapid Railwav. St. Catharines Y.W.C.A. and Y.MC.A. MONDAY, MARCH, 12TH-- ' j bring th, Fourteen bills were given second question in British Columbia home to reading; 17 passed Committea of the the res<- of the Dominion without, at Whole House, and 16 others reached the same time, embarrassing either that state of advancement--third "le Federal or Provincial Government reading--where now only Royal assent ln thelr relations with Oriental Pow Stressed by Attorney-General Victoria, B.C.--An invitation to all rties and to all members to unite in awing up a resolution that would i of the Oriental Canada and Czecho-Slovakia | also sells agricultural machinery, rub-j ber goods, canned fish, etc., to CzecHo- Sign Treaty to Boost Business ' Imports from Czecho-Slovakia in _____ jthe fiscal year 1927 had a total value D . -r r> . ■ \i n/i i- j'of $1,726,922, the chief items of im- Between 1 wo Countries Now on Most Favored portance being tableware of glass and Nation Basis stands between them and actual law. AMENDMENT ALTERED. The Government, agreeing to a suggestion from Liberal Leader Sinclair, altered its amendment to the Public Service Act, so that a civil servant must be 25 years in the service and at least 60 years of age before being Columbia' was extended by Atttorney-Gen- mj : ntly. A resolution placed before the House by C. F. Davie, Conservative, Cowichan-Newcastle, urged the abrogation of the Anglo-Japanese treaty insofar as it interferred with British right to enact anti-Orient entitled to pension, instead of oo years ; al legislation. It also asked for „ „ of age, as stipulated in the original I claration of their civil rights. The redraft of the measure. solution would also -request the Do-TUESDAY, MARCH 13TH-- minion Government to grant no fur-The central feature was furnished, t!ler naturalization as Canadians to by Hydro, when Hon. J. R. Cooke in Orientals. a two-hour address replied to the at- Mr. Davie said he did not propose tacks which have been made by the I to have taken away from Orient Opposition members and reiterated , m the countrty any rightst in the _i r,---------„*.|ter of their land: or the future ment of 1 plan, he v started. Cooke < again the policy of th< that the water powers of the province belonged to the people of the province and' must be developed on their behalf. Support of the Minister's address came from the front ranks of the Liberal cohorts when J. A. Pinard (Lib., Ottawa East) in his first address in the House this year, declared that while he was a strong advocate of m-ivate ownership and the develop-waterpower on the Quebec fas not in favor of dropping mterprise when it had been He congratulated Hon. Mr-i his address and suggested that the Government might well have it printed and distributed to the farmers of the province. Other members who made their contributions to the debate were: E. Blake Miller (Liberal, Elgin East), T. Farquhar (U.F.O., Manitoulin), W. J. Bragg (Lib., Durham), A. D. Mac-Lean (Prog-, Middlesex North), T. A. Thompson (Con., Lanark North), D. M. Ross (Prog., Oxford North), E. C. Graves (Con., St. Catharines), and A. McWhinney (Lib., Bruce North). WEDNESDAY, MARCH WTH-- The Ontario Government is ready to provide additional relief to the townships and counties from taxation for Provincial and other highways proportion to the increase of traffic which is not of a local nature, but it will not assume the full financial responsibility of Provincial highways, since this would mean, in fairness to all, taking over the entire road system of the province, and entering upon new field in which highways would be constructed and maintained by means of direct taxation. This was in effect the reply given by the Minister of Highways to the budget amendment proposed on behalf of the Liberal party by R. F- Miller, Haldimand, "that this House regrets that the Government, notwithstanding the increased revenue, has failed to afford relief to local municipalities by assuming the total cost j of construction and maintenance of the Provincial high-Mr. Henry's address was the chief contribution to the Budget debate Wednesday aftei ed by William 1 Victoria) and A. North Ottawa). he would stop He declared that the province was bearing the burden of Oriental immigration. "Why i Brititsh Columbia Be left as the di ing ground of the Oriental?" Davie asked after going in detail the penetration of the Oriental, into nearly every phase of industrial life. R. W. Bruhn, Conservative, Salmon Arm, seconded Mr. Davie's resolu- Attorney-General Manson denied that Premier Mackenzie King had taken a stand against Oriental exclusion and quoted the Federal Premier's recent statement in the House of Commons to show that he was alive to the danger of Oriental competition in British Columbia. The greatest danger of all, said Mr. Manson, was of races, and he declared that it^t-as the probability of the inter-mixture inevitable from the present trend in British Columbia that the day would come when inter-marriage would become more and more frequent with "To my mind it is a situation that must be met as promptly as possible. The situation that is developing is not compatible with the development of our own race," said Mr. Manson. "I went out to America on one of the bigest liners in the world." "How did you like it?" "Wonderful! If I hadn't been bad all the way over, I shouldn't have known I was on the ocean at all." GOOD BUYERS tOtawa.--A convention of commerce Tha convention proviti, s for the mu-between Canada and Czecho-Slovakia i&al exchange of most-favored nation was signed Thursday by Hon. James j treatment. m'er^bonM»2nS«tier" St Trade and Com-j The principal ..exports .from Canada Monsieur Frantisek Kvetl, consul of the chief item being flour. It is esti-the Czecho-Slovak republic, in Mon-; mated that in the last fiscal year the treat, on behalf of Czecho-Slovakia.1 value was about 4,875,000. Canada ., glass and gli | The convention will be submitted to I Parliament at the present session. In '. the meantime, the present temporary trade agreement is continued. This „ temporary agreement was put into effect on the first January, 1927, and . was to remain in f°'ce for 15 months, J ruary of this'year & .UQtomJt^ that it should contint Hope Abandoned For Qcean Fliers Almost Certain Hinchliffe and Miss Mackay Have Perished New York, N.Y.--The monoplane Endeavor, which left England for the United States Tuesday, is still missing and it is generally feared that it has joined the two planes that at- fore* ;ould be put into 'gHope flared fitfully, fanned by re-:urrent rumors, and rose high when Bursting Dam Sweeps Santa Clara Valley Ostend to Celebrate Raid of Vindictive; British Warship Sunk at Harbor Mouth Brussels.--Ostend is preparing te for the tenth anniversary of the Vindictive raid, and American, French and other allied warships and their •ews are bing invitedto take part. The main feature of the fete will be a procession through the streets of Ostend, somewhat on the lines of last »ar's Rotary procession. The celebration does nott take place i St. Georges Day but on June 3, the follow- first Sunday after Whitsuntide. ,vman (Lib., North American, British, French, Belgian I. Honeywell (Con.,'and Italian warships are coming to The House finally j Ostend for the regatta, and are to be ).m. William E. N- Sin- ■ invited to fly flags by day and show Chieftain, moved the ad- I multi-colored lights at night for the I fete. Deputations from the crews will march in the procession. The keel of the Vindictive, lying now in a square at Ostend, and carefully painted to prevent rusting, will be placed on an immense car and drawn through the streets. Behind the car will march those of the survivors of the crew who can walk. In the course of naval operations off the Belgian coast ten years ago May the British Navy was able to sink the old battleship Vindictive, loaded with concrete, at the mouth of the harbor of Ostend, partly block-g egress from that port, which was ilng used by the Germans as a naval persons on the beach in Maine reported seeing a yellow object and two waving figures on an island two miles off shore. Investigation by the coastguard established, however, that no plane had landed on the island. Charles Nungesser and Francois Coli, Frenchment, were the first to try the western passage of the North Atlantic which never yet has been crossed by an airplane. They left France "leir White Bird and have never Next the Princess Lowenstein-Wert-heim set forth in the St. Raphael with two pilots and nothing more was ever heard of them- On Tuesday morning the Honorable Elsie Mackay, daughter of an English Viscount, and Captain Walter Hinchliffe flew off on their great adventure in the Endeavor, and disappeared. Rumors were so persistent that they raised false hopes in the breast of Mrs. Hinchliffe in London, and twice j she cabled John Gillespie, her husband's American representative, that she had. word he had news of the En-! deavor landing in Newfoundland. - ■ Both times Gillespie had to cable back denials that he had any good news for her and reassure her as best he could with promises that everything possible would be done to run down every clue. hundreds reported drowned below st. francis dam 50 Million of gallons of water broke loose and swept the Santa Clara valley, above, left, shortly before 1 a.m. Tuesday with a loss of life of about 1,000, and property loss as yet unestimated. Los Angeles light, power and water are gone as a result. Newhall, the town Just below the St. Francis dam, whose bursting.due to heavy floods in the Sierra mountains, led to the catastrophe, Is shown in the map above, as are Sangus, and other towns in the danger area. Below is a section of the famous Los Angeles aqueduct, which takes water from the Sierras and conveys it to the great Pacific coast city. The St. Francis dam is an integral part of the system. disorderly conduct A Coventry prisoner, brought up for disorderly conduct on Saturday, was said to have sung in the street this ditty at 2.30 a.m.: "Wheel the perambulator, John, •eful how you go, Tliei lip; ia ID- slip i ) and i wheel It slow "Long Friendship Ends in Marriage."---headline in New York paper. pity }t couldn't have <