"CAPITOL NOW SHOWING ZEEBRUGGE net. Britian YEAR 92; No. 70. Presbyterian he Daily Briti KINGSTON, ONTARIO, . a ---------- ------------------ a --. TUESDAY, MARCH 24, in 19253. Whig > Naval Film LAST EDITION sri -- on Unionists and Anti-Unionists Fail to Reach Atecmen ALL EFFORTS HAVE FAILED o Come to Anicable Settlement Over Church Property. - UP T0THE LEGISLATIRE To Now Deal With the Matter Attorney-General Makes + An Announcement. Toronto, March 34.--Bfforts of the Unjomists and non-concurring Presbyterians to reach some sort of an amicable settlement in Ontario have failed. Despite conferences held between Unionists and anti-Union- ists since Tuesday of last week the fact that the two sides again con- ferred in the attorney-general's rooms at the parliament buildings late yesterday afternoon in a last- minute endeavor to reach some sort of a basis of agreement, nothing - came of it. Hon. W. F. Nickle, attor- ney-general, who for the past week consistently expressed himself as optimistic regarding the outlook for a settlement, made the « brief an- nouncement: "All IT am able to say {s that the committee have been un- able to reach a common ground," when the conference broke up at 5.40 p.m. yesterday, ------ The Stumbling Block. Although no definite statement was forthcoming from either side as to why yesterday's joint confer- ence had failed, it was understood that the snti-unionists refused to yield enough ground to permit the 'conference = to proceed. That also feos that he anti-uniontsts found not accept the basis of greement drawn up at the confer- 'onde last Friday afternoon to be sub- mitted by both sides to their respect- ive groups. From the tangled skein of - the whole controversy some definite threads could be picked out last evening. In the first place, it was learned that controversy no longer centred over Knox College, but that the unionists were prepared 'to-cede this property to the continuing Pres- byterisn Church. With respect to the Knox library, however, a dif- ferent situation ex The union- ists were prepared bh régard to it to §0 no further thin agieement upon a dual board of control. The unionists were stated also to be not willlug to cede the endowments of $450,000,°also a prominent issue, ---- Private Bills Committee. Toronto, March 24.--A last ef- fort ia being made to settle the ques- tion of the disposal of the Presbyter- fan church property before the prive ate bil ttee of 7Tegislature a with it as a whole. A commit tee, after some discussion this morn- fag, and after hearing that the un- _ lonists and. _mon-concurring churches Man Drank Pint of Whiskey; Wins Bet, But fle's Dead Yonkers, N.Y., March 24. -- After winning a bet that he could drink a pint of whiskey without giopping, Barney Wil- liams was found dead in the yard of his home in Waring Place yesterday. Mrs. Willlams, the police sald, told them that when her husband came home she sup- posed he was only drunk, and she permitted him to remain outdoors. MRS. BELMONT ANNOUNCES. That Prince of Wales Will Visit Her Newport Summer Place. Boston, Mass., Marcn 24.--It was announced yesterday that the Prince of Wales is'to return to America next July. According to letters from Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont, he will be a guest at her Newport summer home, Marble Place. This gives the mid- summer a brilliant outlook for the cottage colony. It is recalled that the Prince was expected to spend some time with Mrs. Belmont last September; but as he was very anx- fous to witness the International polo matches, and was promised for a visit with the Bayard Tuckmans at Hamilton, he was obliged to change his plans and delay his Newport visit a year. The Prince's itinerary includes visits to the North Shore colonies and York Harbor and Bar Harbor, in Maine. It also carries provision for several Boston and Brookline social engagements. ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS WOMEN He Has Ever Seen--The Judge's Opinion of Mrs. Dennistoun. London March 24.--Mrs. Dorothy Muriel Dennistoun had her last in- nings with the jury yesterday when Sir Ellis Hume-Williams summed up her demand that her former hus- band, Col. Ian Onslow Dennostoun, repay sums she alleges she loaned him before their divorce and make some provision for hér maintenance in future. The judge in summoning up the Dennistoun case for the jury said it was recognized that Col. Dennis- toun's action in permitting his wife's liaison wih General Cowans to continue was conduct 'gravely to be condemned." Turning to Mrs. Dennistoun, the judge described her as one of the most "adroit, Jngenious witnesses I've seen In the box for thirty years. If she decided to invent a claim, she would be one of the most dangerous women I've ever seem in the witness box." Navigation Is Opened in Harbor of Toronto Toronto, March 24.--The Steam- ship Dalhousie City, Captain Mari- gold in charge, arrived from Port Dalhousie this morning, officially opening the navigation season at his port. The ancient harbor mast- er's hat, which for seventy-four years has been awarded the captain of the season's first arrival, was presented, with customary : cere- monies, to Captain Marigold as he stepped ashore. This is the third successive year that Captain Mari- gold has been first in the race to open local navigation. OVER TEN THOUSAND HONE BREW PERMITS Ea FISCAL YEAR UNDER REVIEW By Hon. J. A. Robb in Speech Belore Commons, DECREASE IN REVENUE The Budget to Provide For Re- imbursing the i of Qttawa, March 24. Before a crowded House of Commons today, Hon. J. A. Robb, acting minister of finance, presented his second bud- get. It was a statement in which Mr. Robb told of a heavy reduction 4 in public revenues, yet one which, he said, had finished up with a surplus of revenues over the expenditures of $1,823,000. "It was remarkable," sald Mr. Robb, "in which Canadians can feel a justifiable pride." The reduced expenditures Mr. Robb attributed largely to the gov- ernment's policy of last year in re ducing the burdens of taxation, and, on tariff changes, observed that "for the present, an opportunity of unob- structed pbservation of the effect of the extensive tariff changes made last year should be 'afforded." Points from Mr. Robb's speech are: 1. Revenues are down by $52,- 837,000, estimated as against the previous year. 2. Decrease in ordinary expendi- ture of $5,000,000. 3. Burplus in revenues over expen- ditures of $1,823,00, or of $5,823,- 1632, if $4,000,162 received from Greece and Rumania is added. 4. Ingrease of Canada's favorable trade balance with the world to $263,414,526. 5. Board of advisors, for which provision is made in the main esti- mates, to inquire into the tariff and other trade problems. Mr. Robb dealt at length with the question of rallway financing, stat ing that the national railway com-| pany had not yet -able to meet the cut of its earnings. "The arrears of interest on March 31, 1924," said Mr. Robb, "was about $13,000,000 but it is not treated in our public ac- counts 'as an asset. It is held in abeyance as an overdue account." The government has indicat- ed its intention of giving assistance to the transportation of Canadian coal and that provision will bé made for reimbursing the depositors of thd Home Bank along lines of the com- mittee report adopted by the house last year. Adjournment of the budget debate until Thursday will be moved by Sir Henry Drayton, when the acting minister of finance, Hon. J. A. Robb, has completed his budget announce- fore Tragically Exem« plified in Home. : Ottawa, March 24.--"How sud- denly, and with what little warning the great tragedies of life strike the en i of Com- T0 KEEP IMMIGRANT If He Cannot Obtain Employ= ment -- Adjournment Motion Ended Debate. Ottawa, March 24.---A private member's resolution calling upon the House to declare that "if at any time during the first two years af- ter his arrival in Canada any im- migrant is unable t6 obtain semploy- ment, the Federal Government should accept full responsibility for his maintenanch," aroused a lively discussion in the House of Commons yesterday. The resolution involv- ing as it did the two important ques- tions of immigration and unemploy- ment brought widely differing ex- pressions of opinion from all parts of the chamber. J. 8. Woodsworth, Labor member for the tonstituency of Centre Winnipeg, who moved the resolution, criticized the efforts to obtain more immigrants when re- ports of the Labor Department showed .that there was already an oyer-supply of labor on the market. An thé Federal Government was re- sponsible for the situation in which the unemployed immigrant found himself to-day, it should mot shirk that responsibility, he asserted. Hon. J. A. Robb, Minister of Im- migration, opposed the resolution on the ground that it offered =a premium 'to dole seekers. An amendment introduced by Wil- liam Irvine (Labor, Calgary East), calling on the Government to resign if it had no remedial policy on em- ployment, provoked some further dis- cussion. Just before midnight, W. F. Carroll (Liberal, Cape Breton South), moved adjournment of the debate. His motion was carried on division" in which half the Progres- sives present voted for the motion to adjourn, and the other half, the two Labor members, and all the Conservatives present voted against, The vote was 92 for adjournment and 41 against. The House then adjourned. HONORS CHAS. SAUNDERS. Royal Society Medal for Discoverer of Marquis Wheat. Ottawa, March 24.--The Royal Society of Canada, at its last meet- ing, was the recipient of an endow- ment for a gold medal, to be award- RANEY AGAIN [S A TARGET Challenged to Appear Before the Public Accounts Committee OVER BACKDS DEAL There Were Bitter Personalities Between Hon. J. R. Cooke And Hon. Mr. Raney. Toronto, March 24.---Before the Legislature got into the. budget de- bate yesterday afternoon, it passed second reading of several Govern- ment bills, including one cancelling the provincial taxés on pool and bil- liard rooms and bowling alleys, an- other creating a government post of deputy minister of health, and an- other providing that libraries may be established In any school sec- tions, and that library boards in cities of 50,000 or over may estab- lish a fund for the superannuation of library employees. In the budget debate Hon. J. R. Cooke, minister without portfolio, made an attack on the administra tion of the Drury Gdvernment, condemning it particularly for the Backus deal. M. M. McBride, Inde- pendent, Brantford, also attacked the late government, and W. E. Raney in particular. Mr. McBride declared that Mr. Raney was as responsible for the financial trouble this pfovince had got into as much as any other man. He challenged Mr. Raney to come before the public accounts commit- tee and give evidence. Answering the challenge, Mr. Raney sald: "I will go before the committee, when it is rganling, and so will Mr. Drury." "Better late than ve replied Mr. McBride, who stated that al- though Mr. Raney had been in a he had never volunteered to go before the committee before. Bitter Personalities. _ Hon. Mr. Cooke declared that since Mr. Raney had been in the House, every session had been mark- ed by bitter personalities, and that he had always sought to sow seeds of suspicion against public men. "He has made' life almost unbear- able for the men in public service," said Mr. Cooke, "and yet the public accounts show that the government of which he was a member kept add- ing to the public debt of this prov- ince at the rate of $100,000 a day. "Does that include Hydro?" ask- ed Mr. Raney. "You' cannot challenge my (fig- ures" responded Mr. Cooke, who stated that there was a suspicion abroad in Ontario that the late pro- vincial treasurér was not alone to blame for the financial messes which the late Government got itself into. He charged that the Drury Govern- ment had thrown up a smoke screen by making charges against the Hearst Government to cover its own actions! He declared the Backus deal to have been one of these, and stat- ed that Backus had got 3,000,000 acres of land at a price which would not produce a revenue of thrée vents an acre. The Drury Government, he said, had tried to rain the Nipigon power development, and yet last year that power plant had been so successful that it had paid to the Government $620,000 in back in- Sinclair withdrew a bill rinternationally known racing events British House of Commons Endorses the Singapore Pal | London, March 24.--The Gov- ernment last night received an- other parliamentary vote of ap- proval on its Singapore policy when the House of Commons by 280 to 129 rejected Ramsay MacDonald's motion to reduce the naval vote, as protest against building the naval base at Singapore. The debate was largely a repetition of that of last week, but the possibility of a "white versus yellow" con- flict between Japan and Austra- lia loomed rather large and the «possibilities of another war were frankly ventilated. MAY NOT VISIT PIRIE. Doors Closed to Mrs. Mollie Ransom Sutton, of Toronto. Ottawa, March 24.--The visiting privileges accorded to Mrs. Mollie Ransom Sutton, of Toronto, to see John Buchanan Pirie, under sen- tence of death at the county jalk aré to be cancelled, it is announced. The jail authorities feel, it is stated, that as Pirie nas been re- prieved until June: 19, and as Mrs. Sutton is not Pirie's spiritual ad- viser in the strict sense, they cannot see, where further visits from Mrs. Sutton will be of any benefit to Pirie. PRINCE IN MIDST OF A VERY BUSY WEEK Adding Speed to Social Whirl --S8alils for South Africa on Saturday. London, March 24.--This will be a very busy week for the Prince of Wales, who is leaving Saturday on his tour of South Africa and South America to be gone from England at least six months. The prince is adding speed to his social whirl and bidding as many friends farewell as possible, there being but ome pube lic engagement on his schedule this week as guest of honor at the South African luncheon club to-day. Om Friday he will make a semi-official visit to Wembley exhibition, which will be re-opened to the public in May. Much of the prince's time is be- ing spent in clearing up his business affairs before leaving England, and in making final arrangements for |- the journey, but he hopes to partici- pate in one short hunt with his Tav- orite fox hounds before he goes. The prince, however, has given up an idea 'of taking in any of this week's at which the heir to the throne, to- gether with the rest of royalty, are usually present. Although the prince's daylight hours are fully occupied he has not yet given up his evening pastimes of the theatre and dance. Nearly every evening he drops into at least ome west end dance club with a party of friends for an hour. RECOVER THE BODY OF JOSEPH CIRTWELL Who Was Drowned Near Rook "in Fifty Feet of Water. Word was: received from Rogk- port on Tuesday morning to the ef- fect that the body of Joseph Cirt- well, aged thirty-five years, who lost his life on Thursday afternoon when he was drowned on his way from Rockport to Alexandria Bay in a motor boat, was found on Monday afternoon The body was found by Henry Hunt, uncle of the aeceased, and Fred Ivey, ins fifty feet of water, ndred feet from Dark Island, a short distance from Rock- port. The body was taken to Alex- TAX RATE mi]l lower than last year. Decidéd to purchase = half mul plane traction Koehring paving mix: er at a price of $6,85v, Awarded contract for collection of garbage for the next tnree years William McKendry, of Glenburnfe, $7,600 per year. Referred petition of A. McCon and others, objecting to the issuli of a license to the Chinese laund at the corner of Brock and Di street, to the finance committee, held up license for this laund pending report of this committee. Received and accepted 0 regarding the handing over of & old milk trust building at the co of Bagot and Brock street, from estate of the late G. Y. Chowan, to ti city, for a public library. Referred {5 The city solicitor, law presented by Ald. Nash, to late the "'erection, establishment licensing of public laundries." Passed by-law fixing 11.30 p.m. closing time for billiard and po rooms and bowling alleys, and duced fee of $40 for first billian tablé and bowling alley and $20 each additional one in each ¢ $30 and $16. £4 Devided to withhold the issu all licenses for laundries, the consideration of the pro new by-law respecting the same. Petition Against Laundry. The city council was in session | Monday night and put through qu a grist of business. The session ed for two hours and = half. Thomas Angrove presided, and the members were present with tl exception of Alds. Kidd and Che who are overseas. When council opened the clerk read a petition from A. Me ville and others, objecting to #i issuing of a license for a Chines laundry at the corner of Brock Division street, and on motion Alds. Kent and Laturney, the was referred to the finance com: tee with instructions ror the treasurer not to grant license for said laundry, pending the report the committee. _-. Purchase of a Mixer. The recommendations of the be of works, "that a half multi traction Koehring paving mixer purchased at a cost of §6,850," ed a good deal of discussion, but th recommendation on going to a vol was carried by 17 to 1, Ald. Willi Holder alone voting nay. Ald. 0'Cos