Dy it {+ YO Ene iL MILTON. SILLS in _ "THE a KNomeo | YEAR 08; No. 43. 98; No. 42, KINGSTON, ONTARIO. FRIDAY, toh Whip FEBRUARY 19, LEATRICE JOY in "MADE FOR LOVE" LAST EDITION Wil the loa Be Used to End the Debate in House of Commons? «I 0- REMAIN IN OFFICE W "rr COMMANDS HOUSE MAJORITY Brouncenert Made in the Commons by Hon. Lucien Cannon, for the Government---Rou cussed During the Thursday Night Debate Speaking Ottawa, Feb, 19.--High temper entered the debate in the House of Mommons yesterday afternoon. For ga@veral minutes during the .course of the continuance of the speech of C. H. Cahan, K.C., of St. Lawrence- St. George, Government supporters prevented Mr. Cahan from speaking and the Opposition in turn forced Hon. Lucien Cannon from interject- a question, the method of sup- i being that of filling the chamber with the noise of desk- pounding. For some time the scené in the House was one of unusual disorder, members pounding their desks and uting remarks across the floof® , Cannon rose to his feet several es to interrupt Mr. Cahan but Sich time the Opposition members 'Would not allow him to be heard. In 'otaliation the Liberals drowned out the voice of the member from Mont- real. After he had ; made it plain that he wauld not be curtailed in his re- marks by interjections, Mr. Cahan was permitted to proceed. Although he had spoken for two and a half hours yesterday, he did not _con- clude until about a quarter to five. Mr. Cannon made the reply for Wp Goverment announcing that it nded to remain in office while it commanded a majority in the House, He denied that it 'had any intention of imposing a gag on the House pro- viding proceedings were conducted according to dignity and tradition and providing the Opposition "real- izes that we are the Government and will remain the Government." Mr. 'Cannon had no excuses to offer for the course of the ministry and stuck to the contention that thg Opposition was wasting time by such speeches 'that of Mr. Cahan. "Rouyn railway took 1 the stage 'night's House debate. There "been, more sharp 'tlaghes over NERCHANTS PLEASED © OVER THE BIG ORDER ver Locomotive Works Will rod Retall Trade and Boost al Business. The merchants of the tity are more than pleased with the news that the Canadian Locomotive Company has ved a large C.P.R. order and 3 begin work very soon. They are of the opinion that it will not only help the retail trade, but that it will a great boon to business of all nds, an ny that the aadlords will mefit The British a rn ¥ tsrviowed a number. of the merchants and the following are their opinions: | "Steacy of Steacy's Limited-- ust the difference between good: 'Afmes in Kingston. } 'Bros. --lt certainly ought stimulaté the retail trade. Roxat, of Lockett's Shoe d to Belp the retail 16. Store--1t's bob i will bring labor to the eity will eertainly help busi: ness. 1 R. Bruce of J. Laidlaw & Son--1 think it will be a great thing for Kingston. Charles Livingston' of Yivingston's ~=I would think it will help trade. Sampbel Bros---We are very can't give that 1 'aumber of men em unless they con- ume sometning. It i sure to stimu Soran Cullen of Cullen's Gre | tions that the Conservatives are ob- Ton Sagatin L Railway Dis- Ttomper | the pre previous question moved couple of days ago by T. W. Bird, | Progressive of Nelson. It was Sir Henry Drayton who "brought up the Rouyn line, which is to be construct- ed from O'Brien on the National Transcontinental into the Rouyn mining district of Quebec. Sir Henry quoted a statement by the Minister of Railways last ses- sion that the Rouyn line was to be built by capitalists, and leased by the Canadian National. He then charg- ed that the Rouyn mines railway company was a dummy company, of which the provisjonal directors were the Canadian National stenogra- phers. These provisional directors met, added Sir Henry, and decided to lease the line to the Government. Without any statutory authority from the House, proceeded Sir Heary the Government had in the guise of a lease guaranteed the bonds of this railway company. "This piece ' of twisting tricky conduct is absolute- ly wrong," declared Sir Henry, "and it would be a lawyer of the most tricky type who, would ever adopt it." al Challenged by Robb. Hon. J. A. Robb, Minister of Pin- ance, challenged Sir Henry's state- ment that the Rouyn mines railway company was a dummy company. Mr, Rohb was prepared to prove that thé line was being built by cap- italists. In orgénizing companies it was customary not to give among the provisional directors the names of those who were really behind the concern.. Mr. Robb = mentioned Ro- bert Adair of Montreal as a director. Henri Bourassa continued the de- bate with an intimation that he in- tended to vote against the Bird mo- ion for the previous question. Mr. Bourassa thought the motion did not lead anywhere, but he would be will-]" ing to vote for closure if the Gov- ernment moved it. = - that it will be many a long day be- fore the works are closed again. John McKay of John McKay Ltd. ~It's bound to help business. J AUSTRALIA WOULD OUT FARES. Contend Canada Already Is Enjoy- ing Advantage. London Feb. 19.--The Daily Tele graph's correspondent cabling from Melbourne says that it is considered there that if the overseas settlement commitiees will give a lead in the fures, the Commonwealth will un- doubtedly respond. The correspond- ent quotes the Melbourne Argus as saying: "It ought not to take long for the Federal and other Govern- ments interested to decide to reduce she fares of migrants to Australia. ne reason why the people are not coming in the numbers desired. is that steamer fares are too high. It is not so much a question of whether it is possible to reduce passage rates as of doing It immediately. Can- ada already enjoys considerable ad- vantage by her proximity and cheap- er fares will place her in an even more favorable position." NOT OBSTRUCTING Conservative Lead Leader Issues a Adjournment. Ottaws. Feb. 19.--Right Hon. Arthur Meighen, Conservative leader, last night issued the follow- ing statement: "There is evidence of an organiz- ed effort on the part of the Liberal party in the Houso to divert public attention from the feebleness of the | Government by spreading public business. Everyone 'knows there is no business to 'ob- struct, The Government has pre sented no legislation to parliament, 'obther in the Commons or the Sen- matter of the reduction of migrants' " DECLARES EIGEN Statement Regarding the -| Proposed PIRES ERIE ES + CHARGED WITH GIVING AN OBSCENE PLAY Los Angeles, Calif., Feb. 19. Seventeen members of the cast of "Desire Under the Elms," a play by Eugene O'Neil, were 'ar- rested here last night charged with giving an obscene play, and later posted bail of $50. r SEPP EPP er ee > * & * * * * * EX +* * 5 * & SEE PLP320 0090899 YOUTH STABS STEP-MOTHER Clarence Pearson, of Napanee, Taken Into Custody On Serious Charge. On a charge of having stabbed his stepmother with a pair of scissors, Clarence Pearson, aged eighteen years, was placed under arrest in Napanee, on Friday morning by Chief of Police Barrett. His stepmother, Mrs. Margaret Pearson, is confined to her home suffering from a wound inflicted by the scissors, but it is stated that her condition is not ser- ious. She was attended by Dr. Gal- braith. The stabbing occurred' on Thyres- day afternoon, at the family home, following a family squabble, so far as can be léarned. It is stated that at times the youth displayed a violent temper, The charge against Pearson was that of "assaulting and doing bodily harm," and when he was arraigned before Magistrate Ruttan at Napa- nee, on Friday morning, he was re- manded until Tuesday for medical examination. Floated Helpless For Whole Menth Japanese Steamer Disqovered "thos Likely Parana Starving Tokio, Feb. 19. 19.--The steam- er Java Arrow, bound from Yokohama to San Francisco, reported by wireless to-day that it had encountered 850 miles northwest of , Yokohama, the Japanese steamer Taishin Maru which had been floating help- less for a month following a storm which disabled it. The Java Arrow rescued = thirteen sailors who were found starv- ing on the Taishin Marts and who reported that nineteen members of the crew took to the lifeboats on February 8th and 9th and aré believed to have perished. The Taishin . Maru is a steamer 2,000 tons. KING'S THIRD SON REPORTED ENGAGED Prince.-Menry to Wed Lady Mary Scott, Daughter of Duke of Buccleuch. a of I NKS DEAD MAN MAY BE 'R NEPHEW Mrs. Mary Lloyd, First Street, Tells the Whig BODY FOUND. FROZEN May Be That of Clarence Clark, Who Worked for gue 1 Farm- ers Armd fg That the name me or 8 who was found froze refrigerator car, at Thursday, is not Rofert Allen but Clarence Clark, is tha belief of Mrs. Mary Lloyd, a widow, who resides at 28 First stréet, Kingston. Mrs. Lloyd states that Clarence Clark is her nep- hew, and that he arrived in the city about five weeks ago from a lumber camp north of New Liskeard, which he claimed to have left because his boss was killed. He remained in Kingston about three weeks, trying to procure employment but was un- able to get any, He tried several times to join one of the local mililt- ary units but was refused admission because he had no birth certificate. Finally giviig up 'In despair, he left here about two weeks ago with the intention of beating his way west riding the bunkers, trying at all the cities on the way to get work. He mentioned before' he left that he might go as far as Winnipeg. When the unfortunate young man left, he was wearing, as stated in press dispat ches, a lumberman's outfit with a dark mackinaw slightly checked, cor- duroy breeches, white rubber boots and a cap, practically the same Flothes with which he left the bush, Another mark sof indentification BETH to come to this conclusion is that Clarence Clark al- #0 had a finger off on his left hand, but she was not prepared to state just which finger it was. She was cer- tain that it was either the index or the second one young man, 0 death in a innipeg, on Worked For Farmers. For the last two or three years, the young man roved about the coun- try working here and there.' Last summer he worked for some farmers in the vicinity of Kingston and was pronounced by them to be a very re- liable young man. When he left he sald he would write to his aunt, but Mrs. Lloyd has had no word from him yet, which greatly tends to in- creas® her fears. Before he left, he burned all the papers in his pockets except a photo of his mother and his brother Albert, who was wearing a soldier's uniform. After the death of his mother about nine years ago, he has been an inmate of the Belleville Orphans Home, leaving that institution about three years ago. \ Mrs, Lloyd described her nephew as "kind of queer at times" and at- tributed the finding of another name on the body to a habit he. had of seribblhg on pieces of papér. Drury Fears The Apathy Of Prohibition People Toronto, Feb. :19.--Temperance people in Ontario #ke facing the crucial period in the history of their struggle against liquor; they will either gain in strength or they will lose permanéntly what they have won in the past 50 years. That was the pronouncement of Hon. E. C. Drury, speaking to a prohibition rally in Carlton Street United Church last evening, when he ex- pressed alarm at the present apathy among, 'only prohibitionists, but among groups of people who be- lieved in the democratic right of the majority. Mauss fled on the sallows at Bors deaux jail this morning for the murder of Donald Carragher dur- Dreamland by Magistrate The girl's counsel declared TTY RTT WILL NOT RECOVER BODIES TILL SPRING y -- Bingham, Utah, Feb. 19.-- Hope was abandoned yesterday afternoon of taking any one else out alive from Sap Gulch, near here, filled with debris by an avalanche of snow on Wed- nesday, Rescue workmen said the entombed would have frozen to death, as thirty six hours had elapsed since 'the slide. Thirty-six bodies have been recovered and it was believed the last would not be found until the warmth of spring had melted the mass of snow, CEPPLPPLPPPPE PPP tb oes P4200 2 2220S HOPE TO SHOW BOARD $7 RATE IS FEASIBLE Premier Tells House He Thinks Canada Soon Independent on Coal Question. Toronto, Feb. 19.--"The prov- inces of Alberta and Ontario hope to be able to show before the do- minion railway board that Alberta coal can be brought to Ontario for much less than at first thought, in fact at a freight rate of $7 a ton," Premier Ferguson told the legisla- ture yesterday, replying to a ques- tion of A. Belanger, Russell, as to the Alberta coal situation. "I think that within a few years Canada will be entirely independent of other countries as regards their coal supply," affirmed the premier. MAY 'CALL: PREMIER IN SMUGGLING PROBE Mr. Sparks Says King And Bolvin Gave Sympathetic Consideration. Ottawa, Feb. 19.--Premier King may be called as a witness In the smuggling enquiry, was intimat- ed at yesterday's ion. R. H. Sparks ofl the Commercial 'Protective Association was being asked ut a conversation he had with the prime minister. He said he believed Mr. King would prefer to regard this conversation as con- fidential., "We will call the premier then," said C. W. Bell, Conservative of Hamilton. The Prime Minister and the Min- isters of Finance and Customs Ex- cise have all co-operated and glven sympathetic consideration to the amendments in the customs act suggested hy the Commercial Pro- tective Association, according to Mr. Sparks' further evidence. J: C. Rlliott, Liberal, in examin- ing Mr. Sparks brought out a series of correspondence frofa 1923 to 1925 indicating the consideration given by the ministers and express- ing the appreciation of the Protee- tive Association, the Canafllian Manufscturers Association and the Toronto board of trade at what had [ been done by the government. One letter from the Toronto board of trade expressed the appreciation of that body for the statement made by the Government at the. opening of the Parliament that action 'would be taken on the smuggling matter. The customs act prior to the amendments made by the King gov- ernment had bgen practically un- changed since confederation and these amendments were the first drastic changes made to make the act more effective, said Mr, Sparks. They were in line with what his as- sociation tad suggested. The cabi- net had taken a firm stand in od | matter and had approved the viding 9f the most drastic legislation possible. NO ACTION NECESSARY. Girl's Conviction Quashed; At- torney«General | # Toronto, Feb. 19--Hon. W. F. Nickle, Attorney- General yester- Say guid that no action was neces- the decision of Judge | "Connell, who allowed the appeal], of Marjorie Allen from a conviction Patterson. that she had been wrongfully kept in custody for six months, and had been sént- ei ee A A SOMET Toronto, Feb. 19.--Premier Fer- guson discussed the liquor issue at length in a three-hour speefh in the legislature yesterday, following the introduction to an amendment to the address in the reply to the Speech from the Thone by Hon. W. BE. Raney, declaring for the continuance of the Ontario Temperance Act in- tact, but he did not disclose the future policy of the government on the liquor legislation. He did say, however, that when the time -came the government would be prepared to "announce something that would appeal to the sanity of the province, that will be for the well-being of the country." In his speech the premier said: "This government is prepared to accept the challenge from the pro- hibition organization. The Govern- ment is prepared to make up fits mind and znnowhce its views when the proper time comes and we have every confidence that the people will be prepared to accept the honest en- deavor of the government in trying to improve the moral condition - of the province rathet than the narrow prejudiced position of an organiza- tion: seeking to destroy the govern- ment." -- Premier's Amendment. The premier's sub-amendment read: "This house desires further- more to assure your honor that it is of the opinion that in enactment of important public legislation the principle of responsible parliamen- tary government on which our Brit- ish democratic institutions rest, should be observed in order that such legislation should have the un- doubted sanction and support of the peopls 'as expressed through their representatives in the legisla ture to' the end that all such legls- Tation should possess the authority and support necessary to command the due respect and observance by the community." ie, The sub-amendment "will matically replace Mr. amendmen: when carried. ---- auto- Raney's Legislated to Death. "We have been legislated to ueath, and what people need is more ex- ecution and less legislation. If we had: education for better obser- vance of laws, we might' be better off with fawer laws." Premier G. Howard Ferguson made these remarks in the after- noon, in the course of his address in the debate 'on the reply to the Speech fromi 'the Throne, after say- ing "ha was not. surprised that op- position "members had complained \ , BRITISH FARMERS ANGRY Protest Against State-Aided Emigra- tion to Canada. London, Feb. 19-- Warwickshire' farmers sent a communication to the Council of the National Farmers' Un- fon deprecating the action of the Canadian emigration authorities in: urging the agricultural workers of the United Kingdom, to take advant- age of the reduced fares to the Dom- inion and migrate there, and this communication was considered at a meeting of the council ay and ac- tion taken upon fit. A resolution was adopted by the council directing the attesition of the Minisher of Agrieulture.tqi the 'fact that state-alded emigration does no- 'thing to solve the unemployment problem, because the emigrants are | drawn mainly from a class who are' not Hable to be unemployed," and demanding that the Empire settle- mént policy be reconsidered immedi- ately and the taxpayers' money be not used 'to the detriment of British agricultural interests. -------------- Premier Denies Graham Rumor. engine apni Fong vg Hon. G. P. Graham, Minister of Rail- ways, is to be appointed to an execu- tive position on the Canadian Na- tional Railways. The Prime Minister further stated that there would be mo cabinot ap- pointments till after the present de- {bate in the House is concluded. NG THAT W T0 SANITY OF T Wil Be Antounced By Premier Fergusmn Regard to 0.T.A.~The Premier Declares That atarie + Is Legislated to Death. : IL, APPEAL PROVINCE at the Time about the meagreness of the Gove ernment's projected legislation. H opened his address with a trilate to A. H. Bydere, veteran clerk of the House, who is absent through ills ness. "You can't help the public by new legislation any more than you cas cure a sick man by putting him om crutches," the Premier added. Legislation, he said, should be the" crystallization of public sentiment and thought. If legislation was otherwise it would be too much in advance of public opinion. He whet proud that last year there had been' less legislation than for many yearks He said the function of Government was to encourage a healthy at sentiment on all questions, "It looks as if qne or other of the - y Progressive or Liberal leaders was going to swallow the other, I am quite sure that the Progressive lead er would be quite willing to lead ne. party," said the Premier. "Where to?" asked a Liberal. "To where it belongs, replied the Premier. ; "You can't draw me," sald Mro: Raney, "No, you're pretty well drawn and" quartered now,' replied the Premiery Reviews Government's Work, The Premier reviewed the work off his Government in improving condi tions in the province, The Governs ment had dealt with agriculture im a tangiole form. Ontario had reachs ed the point in butter' production when it must find an export markets In such competition Ontario must improve its butter quality. To this end. the Minister of Agriculture had appointed an expert dairyman to ses what could be done, and the expert suggested that the cream he id A bill to that end would be duced, and Ontarfo would better quality of butter to meet in com tion any buttef in the world. T Premier also, spoke of helping '4 market Ontario apples in Britain. He declared Ontario or Canada did not have enough publicity in Britatut He thought all Canadian products i it 4: should have a standardized brand them and & Government stamp approval. Speaking of immigration, the Pj mier said that good British bo; would be brought out under Govern ment supervision in groups of fifty. The boys would be given a couple months on a Government farm and then apprenticed to farmers un they were 21 years old. He looked ti the scheme being a splendid succeps. The boys on arrival would go to the = Vimy Ridge Farm near Guelph. RUSSIA TO a : IN GRAIN | And Canada Wil Will Feel Come~back of That Great Country. St. Paul, Minn., Feb. :- 15.----The competition which Canadian wheat producers will experience in the world markets at the hands of th Russian peasants almost immediate ly was graphically portrayed at th international wheat pool conferenes and Canadisn, Australian and' Units ed States wheat pool delegates he yesterday by Dr. D. P. Pavlov, tative in the United States the Central Union of Agriculturs Co-Operatives in Russia. Not only has Russian agricultm economy almost regained its wir status as a producer of gi t as an exporter of wheat arley. She is within apprecial distance of resuming her place the principal provider of : grains to the consuming countries the world, the delegates were by Dr. Paviov, speaking through, This year the total oats reach 200 million bushels and pe of half a billion bushels, to Dr. Pavlov.