«ull The Daily British Whin YEAR 79-NO. 204 TORIES DO NOT THINK LIBERALS WILL BLOCK The Naval Bill When it Reaches Sonate THE PRESENT DEBATE LOOKED UPON AS MERELY PRE. LIMINARY, The Conservative View of the Liber. al Tactics--It Looks as if the Borden Side Was Very Anxious Over the Conditions Existing. __Montreal, Dec. .. 17.~The Montreal Star's Ottawa corresponde nt writes ; That an aggressive element of the opposition is in favor of blocking the bill and forcing an election' on the naval isk is beyond (question is the conservative view here. The suggestion to block will hardly be earried out, as th general "estimates have nothing ing common with the naval appropria tion. There hax never been a sion for years in which some one hax not talked of blocking supply, but when this is started and all = public works and the pay of government employees are held up, the obstruc tion invariably bas heen abandoned as unpopular procedure. most effective way of forving an appeal to the country would be for the senate to reject the measure, but such a constitutional prerogative is nel exercised, in any respect, and particularly not in regard to a subject of such great imperial im- portance. Frequently in discussions in the commons the utility of the senate has been much questioned, and it is by no means the popular chamber. Should any drastio action he taken by it on the naval bill, it is thought there would be an aggressive reform movement somewhat similar to that which the u house of the moth. erland was forced to undergo. While, he stated, a number of east ern liberal members ave full of fight and desirous of forcing an election it possible, the westerners do not share that view with them: The tariff al ways is the eard, and they v in that issue ted supply S08 Ao any oth no elec is a redistribution bill, lh debate in house preliminary. The pedro, dues not know what it will eventually do. It will depend what the members report as to feeling of their constituents, on returning after New Year's Day. I the outlook were at all encouraging many wonld favor fordng disvolu- tion if such is possible, but, as pointed out, the' western wing, which is strong in the party councils, does not sympathize with that scheme. What will happen cqnnot be ac curately foreomsted by either side to-day, nor for a few weeks, but the older hoads kay there will be no elec tion " WHOLESALE PRICES ROSE One Point Higher in Labor Depart. ment Index--Some Retail Up Also. Ottawa, Dec. 17.-The Labor De ritment's index number of the La- Po Gazette, just issued, gives the information that wholesale prices rose approximately ome point in No vember, standing at 134.3, as com- pared with 133.1 in October and 120.4 in November, 1911. The ad- vance was due chiefly to higher prices for fish, textiles, hides and leathers, fuel and lighting, while Ontario grains, aie ucts; metals, lum. ber and m laneous building ma- terials wore; slightly upwards, with western grains, cattle and beef, paints and oils, downward, As compared with the same month last year, grains and fodders, fruits and vege tables wore lower, while animals, and ments, dairy ucts, fish hides, leathers, boots and shoes, metals, fuel, house furnishings, and juitoeliangoin Smucodition were higher th an in A011. In retail prices, coal, wood, an in eggs were up- wards; potatoes alee were higher in Ontario, while there was a downward movement in flour, sugar, prunes and J textiles, : PREMIER Ri ROBLA Is A VERY SICK MAN To Refrain rom Excitement---Is Afflicted With Heart Trouble. 17. --8ir Rodmond of Manitoba, who England, is a guest Laurier At Ridean 1 with the knight Duke - of Con- Ottawa, De Roblin, premier returning from at the Chateau Hall he was invested hood by H.R.TL. the naught Sir Rodmond. is is suffering from heart trouble, consulted specialists while abroad is and his he in bad health recurrence which 1 ol concerning read the papers Fund to Strengthen Navy. John, N.B., Dee 7.~Admiral Loval Ogpange a of Sus a reselution asking $1 from esch member to a fund design- ed to strengthen the British-Cana- dian pavv and calling on other Orange lodges to assist in augmenting the St. Nelson sex, passed He | {is ordered to keep quiet and not even | Jand, author KINGSTON, INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS, 114 Workmen Killed, 359 Injured During November, Dee. 17.--According to the record of industrial accidents main tained by the Department of Labor, 114 workmen were killed and 359 in- jured during the month of November. J ompared with the record for Octo ber, which was 105 killed and 415 in- jured, there were nine more killed and forty-seven fewer injured during No vember. The greatest number of fatal acei dents occurred in steam railway ser- vice, navigation and the building trades, the figures for which were 2%, 24 and 13 respectively. The largest number of nondatal accidents occur red also in the steam railway service, the record being 125, followed by the metal trades, with 79, and by the building trades with 33 BUDDHISM Is GROWING, Ottawa, pouse Eastern Religion. Chicago, Dec. 17.--Alarm at the growth of Buddhism on the Pacific coat i. expressed in the report of the Home Missions committee at the Fed- «ral Couneil of the Churches of Christ, submitted recently. "One of the most startling facts con- firmed by investigation is that Duddh- ism in Seattle, San Francisco and Los \ngeles is aggressively propagating itself fromi these centres,"' says the re- port. "Buddhist temples have been crected in which cultured priests ad- minister the rites and ceremonies of their religion, and through a: series of lectures are reaching large numbers of Americans, especially women." GIFT OF $25,000 GIVEN FOR MEMORIAL Large Sum to Tuberculosis Fund in Memory of Senator Fulford. Foronto, Dee. 17.--A letter has- been received from Mr. A. OC. Hardy, of Hrockville, written al Vevy, Switzer- izing W. J. Lage to sub scribe, on 'behalf of Mr. and Mrs. Hardy, the sum of $25,000 to the Ring Edward . Memorial Fund for Consump- tives. Out of this sum, 35.000 is to be devoted to the erection of a cottage, and (he balance 'of 30.000 is to form an endowment fund. The cottage will be a memorial to Mrs. Hardy's fath- er, the late Hon. George Taylor Ful- ford, Brockville, and will he erected at the Muskoka Free Hospital. fund. re SE ------ ens, DEAD AMBASSADOR AND LIKELY SUQUESSOR, It is stated that John Hays Ham- mond the millionaire mining engin. ees, may be appointed United States! ambassador to the Court of St James, England, in succession to the late Whitelaw Reid. CONFERENCE BROKE Up AND THERE IS GLOOM The Twkish Delegates Ghjzct to Presence of the Greek . Delegates. whondon, Dec. 17.-~Beécause of persist- ent protests of Hechid Pasha and oth: er turkish delegates to the presence of the Greek delegates, whose nation had not signed the armistice, and was continuing the war against the Otto- man empire, there was a stormy ses sion of the peace conference to-day, follower by its breaking up after three hours' deliberations. IL was i at the wo that while Turkey had not definitely withdrawn from the conference, its delegates had cabled their government finite instructions in the mat. «hig unexpected action of. Ter key had cast a rather iv % of getting®he peace | ugh for Chostmas. AMUNDSEN IN PARIS, Bliscoverer of South Pole Has Cordial Reception in Paris. Paris, Deo. 17.-Caplain Raoul Amundsen, discoverer of the = South Pole, arrived here yosterday and was [niet at the station by the Norwegian |* minister and the stall of the legation: M. Galli, president of the Municipal | Council; Prince Roland Bonaparte, | president of the French Geographical Seater; the explorers Charen aud Pelliot, and the members of \. the Norwegian colony in Paris Cordial speeches of welcome delivered sy Roland were Quate ana %_ Galli 'whe fondsn to attend via Bons} M (nvitet 2uus (a PID NOT KILL HIM. Arizona Man Declares Rattler's Bite Cured Long Insomnia. Dethart, Tex., Dec. 17.--The recent "rattlesnake season' has been unusu- ally productive of fatalities and un- usual stories. accurate records are obtainable of deaths due to rat- tlesnake bites. One of the strangest stories comes from Flagstaff. Ariz., where John Gus- tafson, a miner, has not only recov: ered from a rattlesnake bite in the | palm of his hand, but has been mate rially benefitted in health. For five vears G son had bheew a victim of insomnia, but since he was bitten by the usually deadly snake he has slept soundly from eight to ten hours a Ly: He ts for this on the theory that the snake poison acted as a se rum against the poison that was de ranging his nervous system, "TROD ON PETERS TAIL. No it Yelled "Nine"--On Exhibition as a Talking Cat. Berlin, Dec. 17.--<A woman dentist, named Sutorie, of Hamburg. is exhib- i 4 talking cat named Peter, Ww i* creating as great a sensation scientists and the public gen- erally' aa the [amon horse' Hams Pe- to yells "Hurrah," "hurrah." "hur wit te h unmisiakeable distinctness, the names "Anna" and and a ith. ; singing a LC . trom a popular song. Tran Sa torts says she discovered the cat's tal: sot when she trod on its tail and Pe ter yelled SNine.™ The Battlehelds Commission has de - ONTARIO, TU BSDAY Women of Pacific Coast Cities Es. PITH OF NEWS Despatches From Near And Distant Places. THE LATEST TIDINGS PRESENTED IN THE BRIEFESY POSSIPLE FORM. The Whig's Daily Condensation of the News of the World From Tele- graph Service and Newspaper Ex. changes. Lx-Mayor Haggart, Hienheim, at the age of hity-nine. Windsor ratepayers voted almost un- animously to grant usual exemptions |; to two big industries Mr. Asquith paid a tribute in the House of tommons to the fate United States Ambassador, Whitelaw Reid. The Methodists of loronto will seek to raise SI80.000 jor homie and for- eign missions. | Chester 1. Massey contributed $10.- 000 the hing Edward Memorial Fund for Consumptives . thomas Hummeil, New. Germany, died from inlirmities of old age, hav ing just passed his ninety-ninth birth- day. Six persons died i | to were killed when a Lake Shore & Michigan Southern train ran into a street car at Centre street, Ashtabula, C. C. Ballantyne of the Montreal Harbor Commission, addressing the Canadian Club, suggested the forma- tion of a Canadian Lloyds tc encour age tramp steamers, President Tait has tary Wilson to appoint berg, a chemist in the Deparement, chief of the Chemistry, Dr. Wiley. The supreme court of 'the United States on Monday, cancelled, as vio- lative of the Sherman anti-trust law, the contracts by whith railroad- owpad coal companies in the Pennsyvl: vania anthracite fields had purchas- ed for all time the output of "'inde- pendent" mines directed Secre Dr. Carl Als- Ahricultural Bureau of Harvey W to succeed TEN SHIPS OVERDUE, And Grave Uneasiness is Felt in New York. New York, Dee, 17.- uneasiness in shipping cireles for the safety of ten the large freight steainers, now overdue in Atlantic passages. In each case, very high rates are being asked for reinsurance. The list of overdue ships is the long- est posted since 1809, "All tem of the misging vessels left port toward the end of last month, and are known to have encountered violent weather. Each carries a crew of from thirty to forty men, and the value of ships and cargoes totals nearly £3,500,000, : Pardoned Many Convicts. Little Rock, Ark., Dec. 17.-Gov- ernor Qeorge W. Donaghey, to-day, pardoned 316 state and forty-four county convicts, and in a long state ment said his action was taken as a protest against the system of leasing convicts in vogue in Arkansas. Some of the men Jardoual were sentenced to terms of filteen years. == Daily = Christmas Hint A Dainty Gift For the Wee Tot . Most attractive for the wee tot a year or two old Is the pretty little cap pictured. A foundation cap of white silk has to be provided, and over this founda. DIES OF HER INSURIES, Woman Hurt in Railway Aecident Passes Away. Chatham, Dee. 17.--~Mrs. Henry Ter- , imjured in an secident at the P street GTM crossing in this city a few days ago. died yesterday at the hospital. Mrs. bad been unconscious since the accident. it is likely an mguest will be held. Men's. slippers, great varidiy, prices. Dutton's store. "MoConkey's DECEMBER 17, 'loss of $100,000, Phere is grave | 1912, MIKADO TAKES ACTION To Have a New Government Forme ed at Once. Tokio, Japan, Dec. 17.--Despairing of the present cabinet ministers being able to agree on a new premier the mikado to-day appointed Prince Taro Katsura to form a new gov ernment. The premiership has been vacant for a month when the last occupant resigned because of cabinet differences over the necessity of a larger army and' navy. The publication here of frid Laurier's policy for a squadron navy caused quite of excitement in naval circles and induced the mikado to take stant action Wil- Pacific lot here, in- Sir a BIG FIRE AT STRATFORD. The Stratford Mill Buildings Were Burned--Firemen Injured. Stratford, Dec. 17.--This city early this morning suffered the worst fire in many years when flames gutted the principal buildings of the Strat- ford Mill Building company, with a partly covered by The fire which started in {the boiler room, was fanned by a brisk east wind Fireman Schultz and Plaskett were badly hurt. I. SERV ICE insurance AM EMORI RIAL To the Late Whitelaw Reid in West. minster Abbey. London, Dec. 17.--In response the expressed - wishes of the George, the memorial service late Whitelaw Reid will be Westminster Abbey. THE EXPRESS MESSENGER FAKED THE ROBBERY Threw Money From From Train and Said | Him. Calif., Dee. 17. W. Hamby, the twenty-two express messenger, whose car on the Sunset western, train of the Santa Fe Railroad, was robbed of ¥2),145 in gold near here last week, has confes- sed that he had robbed the safe with the aid of his sixteen year old brother Melvin. I'he money, which had been by the boys in a brickvard at Junction, was recovered with the ception of $300, which was found Melvin's room. Both brothers are to King the in to held ~Marvin vear old Bakerstield, hidden Kern ex- in in jal. The robbery was committed last Monday night. After telling a- story of an attack by two bandits, who had laid him unconscious with a blow on the head, the young messenger wus taken to a hospital at Taft, Calif, where he shammed injury so success- fully that not until yesterday was he seriously suspected. Then he was brought here and sub- jected to a "third degree" for five hours by the railroad and express de- tectives, Breaking down finally, his hands over his head and out, "Uh, I did it myself." Hamby threw sobbed BRITAIN WILL ENDEAVOR Settle Differences Turks and Greeks. London, Dec. 17.--There was unoffi- cinl news to-day that the Turkish and! Greek fleets were again engaged at the entrance to the Dardenclles It was given out this afternoon that | Britain had offered to try to settle the differences in the peace over the Greek delegates with nest desire 10 ensure a being reached without further hfe. There is a feeling here that Turkish point of order regarding presence of the Creck delegation well taken. To the treaty lass of ! the is NO DISSENSION EXISTS IN THE ADMIRALTY ast in Many Years ~All is Dec. 17. There is no dissen- sion in the admiralty, nor has there] been any... Admiral Bridgeman the post of First Sea Lord solely be cause he is unable to stand the sirain of so responsible a position in these strenuous times. He has been able to do hardly one week's work since Aug- ust, when his doctors declared he'must winter abroad. He made no sugges- tion of resignation. Mr. Churchill was bound to take the step he did in the interests of the servies, but no difier- ences of opinion eXist among the Sea Locd®? particularly mn regard to the aspects of Britain's naval Prince Louis of Battenberg i re garded as the best admiral in the navy. He has been in the British navy since boyhood. He is a highly scientific officer who has won distinet- fan in every rank. Hoth in peace and war, and also during successive man- oeuvres he has distinguished himself above any other fighting admiral. Admiral Jellicoe, the new Second Sea lord, is a t administrator. He comes straight from the sea to Whitehall. With these changes the sd- miralty board becomes the sirongest for many years. London, Edmonton Civic Expenditure. Edmonton, Alta. Dec. 17.-Willism Shortt," K.O "on Dec. "9th, announces that the of civie i the | i i i | | we Hetween | | to-day conference | sty | pare, ed world | ue i {of $22,045,527. | leaves | | lieving of | weaknesses money commons last night by Clark, Red Deer, which for clear and convincing epigrammatic statement | power, frid | Graham the house constantly | admittedly aspects of the whole question, al and imperial + memorandum; that i # direct jance with the poliev enuw ciated [wet April by the first lord of jun-British; unnecessary criticism of the nationhood and permanent unity, | penditure .| LAST EDITION. WEAKNESS EXPOSED OF BORDEN NAVY PLAN A Great Speech by Dr. Michael Clark. LIBERALS' PROPOSALS FOR CANADIAN NAVAL SERVICE JUSTIFIED, Ft is the Only Uignified Policy, the y British-born Member for Red Deer Declared -- The Borden "Emergency" Fails to Exist. Ottawa, Dec. 17.---An complete, and finely-be ment, justifving the liberal prog for a Canadian paval for defence of our own coast and the Great Britain of that exposing the fundamental of the Borden plan contribubion, was given to the Dr Michael member for was speech logic, unanswerabl anced sals service the re den, and i ol the British-born Alberta. It a debating Wil P and of Sir Gearge ranked with those Laurier and Hon. It kept the liberal side applauding, and and appreciative hear ing even "from the ranks of Tus cany." It was welcome relief to house jaded and disappointed wi the sophistry that has marked weak attempts of the tributors on the government side the house to the debate. Once Pre mier Borden put forward the only serious attempt to justify his policy Dr. Clark, who followed J. A M Aikins (Brandon), touched the vital nation the be ad al it won a close a ! the con He contribution by anything urged that could not mn the licy of upported miral ® It was Church and of Hon. Winston was un-Uanadian that it was subversive the principle of responsible ment, and was both undignified and He followed up this government's position equally brilliant vindication Laurier policy as the only consonant with ny admiralty, that it the ill; govern with an of the possible one sre imperial the par united of na equal to all the needs of and consistent with first sans and general question situation liament's stand on the val defence, He concluded with claration of a staunch Uanadianism and a true Imperialism. "If only have a canoe to start said, "let it be a Uanadian We on this side of the man We a ringing de We nn with h cant house stand stand where stand where you did should be standing tor Canada a united as one did, and we where you We stand nation beneath within and n common the empire a nation responsibil policy and responsin nabion; flag; with spirit {Lies aprrat ties, a a nation a nation's rights, to discharge these We stand on that to hiseharge these We stand on tmat policy are confident have the of the people of Canada with us, i for this is the only policy that makes tfor the dignity of our nation, {gr the {harmony and progress of the em and for the peace of the and we we major iviliz in Federal 17 November, Big Increase Revenue. Mtawa, De statement for amounted to F429. | $2,702,108 over 1911. The month's ex penditure, which was $%,177,543, Sndfunss of $6U2, 193, eight months ended Nov shows the unexampled increase The figures being $110 against $57 556,545, 'Lhe on consolidated fund icount increased ¥11,664,227 during the Leight months, while the capital expen {diture was greater by $3374 953 Dominion finantial | ven Incrense shows res For revenue 435,375 ex a MINES OF NO PROMISE. Evidence for Prosecution Against Hawthorne, New York, Dee. 17.--Althgugh coun sel for the defence fought Hard to ex. clude his testimony, A. A. Hassel bring, a mining expert, testified for the government at the trial of Julian Hawthorne amd others, charged with fraudulently using the majls in pro moting mining stocks, that he had ex amined some of the defendant's iron ore properties in Ontario and bad "found nothing promising." Gives CHILD DIES OF BURNS, Sets Fire to Clothing During Ab sence of Mother. St. Catharines, Dee. 17 ~The three year-oll son of Bernard Turner, who lives near Merritton, was burned to death yesterday. He had been leit alone for a few minutes by his moth er, aod in some way set fire to his clothes, and was so badly burged be- fore assistance reached him that he | died a few hours afterwards i 1 a piotwer of Edmonton, {new stove thi: Christmas whe was chosen mayor st the elec (presents. We have ts de {ready with the best stock in the city Bibby's Store open evenings. It would pay vou w visit our wear pot quite eom bat are our improvements improvements spon for 1913 involves the eox- [to serve you. R. J. 's Christmas sweets" Store open eveningh. at an | bur- § REV ied re > WW. BAVARY . WATCHES HS WIFE BURNING TO DEATH Unable to Move as Woman Writhes in Agony, Enveloped in Flames. 8 Ont, Dee. 11.» Waddell, whose home non Dundas county, death, on Sunday. She at an early hour to fire, and in order to s» quickly she threw coal oil in the stove Im mediately there was an explosion and a flame burst forth, igniting her: halr She ran into the nexi room, where lay her husband, who helpless invalid, and by al- superhuman efforts he sues in extinguishing the blaze her head; Overcome by the the unfortunate woman sank floor and expired The sick unable to do anything for ber and she lay where she fell un tit an hour later, when her son came in from & nearby farth to do the morning work about is par ents' home He was horpifled to find his mother dead and the fire stil smouldering in her clothing. The deceased was terribly burned from her to her Bhe was sixty years of 1 James' church hs Fal Robert Ver ragie In } Smit Mrs {8 near met a had got rej sh start it some 1 ens u is a most ceded about shock, to the man was head feat ght age LAID OUT BY BURGLAR. Watchman of London Barrel Badly Injured, De Sr | tehian the in ve Night Factory Ont Ilan Lon London, Leitch for onditi night nt hatrel factor ¢ wh sel ous altempt unknown bender ye of an by was in o'clock wldonly got wl with uptHnsCIon 1. Another shot Lie n as a result to murder him an eitch three the thi : morn terrihe barrel the watchman through the ULpr ised ing when | hiow m the he ' and pct Stftaut ' slave antil factor named hand vecentd " robber ang, Gib Christmas sweets," and five-pound boxes . ety is none too good in his opinion the tor demand SOTV ire open "Huyler' four 5 two, son's The for the Mer i ale bes ci a} 1 suv hoo on hippers Put «'t Montre pilo pibby's cient age Store over DIED oth 1 Phone 147 for Ambulance. STOVES AND RANGES, The best lot we have Sr had; alse flint Dressers, Stands end line. Reasonable priced. At T Phone 705 Tom Smith's Christmas Stockings Be. 10 20¢, Be. Abe, fhe. 73¢ 8 0 5.2 ao at at at at at af Stockings Stockings Stocking Stockings Stockings Rtockings Stockings at Stocking at Mtockings at Niockings at JAS.REDDEN