|' MEIGHEN ANNOUNCES * 'The Customs Scandal and Polng Day Is September 14--Premier the People to Declare Upon Record Fi 4 e bl 'which he m Commons in-June, 1926. 0. DAY Marion Davies in Beverly of Graustark CVA Si YEAR 08; No. 169, KINGSTON, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1926. Chief Issues in Feder Stevens' lnvestigation---Patenaude Gives Meighen Credit for Rapprochement. Ottawa, July 21.---The lssues of the impending election and the grounds on which the new Conserva- tive Government of Right Hon. Ar- thur Mefghen appeals to the coun- Rry for a mandate were placed be- ors the people at the opening meet- 48g of the campaign in the Audi- 1orium here last night in keynote Speeches by the Prime Minister and French-Canadian associate. Hon. BH. L. Patenaade, Minister of Jus. ties and Conservative leader in Que- The questions which the electors will be called upon to de- wide by their ballots on September 14th--the election date announced ~=were®clearly defined by Mr. Mel. &hen and his French 'colleagus, Xenzie - 's , constitutional a8 beingy fio issue at all. Mr. Mel &hen wegt at once to the scandal of the inistration of the Cus toms Dppartment and put it to the people to declare upon the records of the Stevens investigation, the un animous report of the Customs come mittee the censure passéd by the House of 'Commons on the late Gov= ernment, whether they could vote to. condotie and forgive the malfeas- ance, dishonesty and incompetence that had been revealed and to call back to office the men who were re- sponsible. maladministration ad commenced wi Hon. J. L. of the last Robertson art McClenaghan and Chabot, both members House. Senator Gideon followed and declared that the pres- ° ent appeal of Mr. Mackenzie King was in line with the communist de- mand for complete independence. He recalled that William Lyon Mac- kenzie, when a refugee in the Unit- ed States, had confessed to' his de- sire to see Canada joined to that country, and he declared that the spirit of the graddfather of Mae- kenzle King still lived and that Can- ada was in jeopardy in consequence. Revelations Reviewed. The Prime Minister 'went at some length into a review of the customs Both leaders dismissed Mr. Mae- scandal revelations, asking whether or not it wo! be possible for such [conditions 'as disclosed to have pre- yailed under a government that was reasonably honest or reasonably competent. It has been thought a YOAr ago that the trouble of the country were due to the fickleness and instability of the Government's tariff policy, but, while that had Been true, it was mow found that the administration of the * Govern- MeN was such that it was an even greater evil. No matter how rich or vigorous the country might be, it could not sustain such loses as had been permitted through the cus- toms and excise service. Mr, Meighen 'declared that the of the department anal ast a8 {for evidence that the King Gov- ernment found the department in an unsatisfactory condition. "Do you believe a Government re- f {sponsible for the loss of 'millions service, "before the Platform of his party . the oved in the House of In that it was proposed that the markets of Canada should be : for Canadian producers, that the British preference should be Maintained only Insofar as {t did not do injustice to Canadians and that the natural products of the Domin- don should be manufactured and de- ¥eloped at home for the bemefit of Canada, and not exported in their aw form, for the profit of the pec- resolu ple of other countries. -------- Quebec In Active Cohesion, Mr. Patenaude went at the outset to the mutter of his present assocla- tion with Mr. Meighen, recalling his _ statement last autumn that he was 5 as free of control of Mr. Meighen as he was of Mr. King, and declaring that that statement was made in & then existing, in which the '/ Conservative party had to an extent lost contact with its Quebec section. 'That situation, he stated, was now ended "ip 'the rapprochement hich Mr. Meighen was mostly re sible. By his spirit of give and i the, Prime Minister had en- Mr. Patenaude's province to protection resolution for {ge of money of the Canadian people, > le for frauds unnumbered, 980! for the wrecking of the livelihood of thousands of our work- ers by the competition of smuggled 800ds, responsible in a word f6r the utter collapse of a great depart- ment of state--do you think such a Government should now get a cer- tificate of character and be declared by the electors of Canada to be the kind of ovampment the people want?" asked Mr. Meighen. The Prime Minister refuted the al- legation of Libérals that the customs inquiry was aimed at Quebec, claim- ing that as many had been affected by the committee's finding who were | English-speaking as who French-speaking. & Constitutional Issue, : Mr. King declared the Premier, Was seeking to escape from the cus- toms scandal by raising a "'congti- tutional fssue." Nothing, he said, could be worse for Canada than to impesch the conduct of the repre- sentative of the Throne and bring the great and revered link of Em- pire Into the turmoil of political fe. He Mr. King was now sorry he had challenged the conduct of the Governor-General, Answering the ajlegation that not for a hundred years had the Crown refused dissolution to a Prime Min- were 515 4q8 5 3 i 22 § hi] Totection | Winnipeg, July 21.-----Illegal ap- { propriation of money from the Do- | minion treasury by the present ad- {ministration is charged by the Mani- | |toba Free Press in its leading oditor- {1al yesterday. This "gross and arbi- | trary use of power," in the opiaion of $ | the Free Press, should be followed at RT. HON. ARTHUR 'MEIGHEN department will be roused to a sense of its stern duty to the Canadian people and its stern responsibility to account for every dollar commit- ted to its charge. We propose that departmental reform shall not stop at the Customs Department, but shall proceed in all branches of the service, wherever it may be found that the blight of degeneration has set in. 4 "We ask for a mandate from the Canadian people to end the weary years of fickleness and instability in financial and fiscal affairs, to re- store definitely and clearly the prin- ciple of protection in the tariff of Canada, a prideiple and practice upon which all can rely, upon which industry can depend, upon which workers can depend, but a principle and practice which none will be per- stability and mitted to abuse. propose that country will be éonserved for the development of our nation and not of amother, and for the multiplica- tion of the people and the retention of our own sons and daughters at home." The Government proposed to lay the basis of a practical immigration policy, which basis should be first of all employment. It proposed to carry out the resolution of last year in regard to extending the markets of central Canada to the producers of the Maritinies. It proposed also to assist agriculture to the greatest (Continued on Page 7.) MR. KING T0 OUTLINE LIBERAL CAMPAIGN In a Speech at the Ottawa Auditorium on Friday Evening. Ottawa, July 21.--Rt. Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King, the Liberal leader, accompanied by Hon. Ernest La pointe, former Liberal Minister of Justice, and by a number of other Liberal ex-ministers, will formally open the Liberal campaign by a speech in Otfawa at the Auditorium, Friday evening, July 23rd. The meeting will be held under the aus- pices of the newly organized Ottawa Liberal Association, of which P. D. Wilson is president. At this meeting M at the next session of parliament by impeachment of the individuals res- { ponsible. | The editor says, In part: "The governmental activities of Canada are being carried on today by A STEAMER SINKS AFTER A COLLISION The Crew Are Safe And At Present Remaining on the Vessel. Sault Ste Marie, July 21.--The steamer Harry Jones, of the Pick- ands Mather Line, was sunk last night when she collided with the steamer Francis House, of the Pitts- burgh Steamship «+ &t the mouth of the St. Mary's River. The House was bound and suffered little dam- age, and was able £0 proceed on her course to her destination.. The Har- ry Jones sank in twenty feet of wa- ter with her stem bent back and her forepeak full of water a short dis- tance above the Detour coal dock. A tug and lighter left for her last night. The crew of the steamer are safe and still remaining on the ves- sel. The Hottest Day ours, and the only relief the weather man promises is in the shape of thunder- storms tonight and tomorrow. Vari- ous unofficial temperatures of from 80 to 100 are reported betwees Windsor, Ont., and Quebec City, with the highest mercury marks re- corded in the peninsula of south western Ontario. Reports of from 90 to 95 were general this afternoon. Heat prostration was given as the cause of the death of a man in Brant ford this morning. ------ TORONTO MAYOR RESIGNS, From Board of Control to Protest Land Purchase. Toronto, July 21.--Stating that his action came as a protest against the land policy of the commissioners, and was brought about by their de- cision yesterday to purchase five acres of land from the Canadian Na? tional Railway at $39,000 per acre. Mayor Thomas Foster, chairman of the Toronto Harbor Commission, ten- dered his resignation as a member of that, body to the Board of Control this morning. The controllers re. fused to accept the mayor's resigna- tion. -------------- Fine Brick Residence Is Burned at Cardinal Prescott, July 21.--The handsome brick residence owned by James Leacy, at Cardinal, was totally 'de- stroyed By fire of unknown origin on Monday, together with the furnish ings, whieh include several 'valuable The house was unoccupied &t the time of the fire, as moneys illegally taken from the Do- minion treasury and illegally disiri- buted. raid It is explained that parliament at | its next session will be asked to ratl- | fy these illegal expenditures. There | will probably be no alternative to | this course; but parliament will per- | haps make the occasion a really not- able one and establish a salutary precedent by at the same time im- | peaching the individualy responsible | for this sweeping and Son smptuons/ invasion of the powers and privi- | leges of parliament." | Evangelist Wants To Be Indicted +f sional golf champion For the Slaying In Order to Have a' Full Trial ~Does Not Want Mere Freedom. \ Fort Worth, Texas, July 21---The county grand jury, investigating the slaying on Saturday of D. BE. Chipps, a wealthy lumberman, by Rev. J. Frank Norris, nationally-known Baptist evangelist, and fundamenta- list, will reconvene here today, faced with a demand from the pastor that he be indicted for the slaying to in- ] | | RIOT CABINET MAY RESIGN WITHOUT WAITING FOR V0 THE CONSERVATIVE ELECTION Would Impeach the Meighen Cabinet | For legal Appropriation of Money TE No Abutennt in Demand n Business nd Other Cis or Come mittee of Public, Safety With Full Powers to Relieve In- ~~ tolerable Situation Over Fall of the Franc. PARIS, July 21.--The semi- official Havas Agency under- stands that the Herriot cabinet Will resign immediately after the reading of the ministerial declaration in parliament this evening without awaiting a vote of the chamber. Paris, July 21.--Resolving not to wait until Thursday to learn what Is to be the fate of his ministry, Ed- ouard Herriot, new premier, has de- cided to bring it before the chamber of deputies to-night and have the ministerial declaration read. The new ministers of the cabinet, after examining the financial situation last night, conferred with President Dou- mergue and M. Moreau, president of the Bank of France, later deciding that no time was to be lost in obtain- ing authority from parliamefit to take remedial measures. Herriot's decision to summon both houses of parliament followed. What remedial measures are to be asked are not exactly known. 1t ap- pears, however, that the government favors the consolidation of floating debts and a moratorium to relieve the growing pressure upon the treas- ury. Meantime, there has been no abate- sure a trial in the near future. Charged with Chipps' murder in a complaint filed by the district at- torney, Dr. Nowris said he did not wish the grand jury to return "no bill," as it would leave the status of the case indefinite; with a possibility that a future grand jury might ia- diet him, Afte¥ hearing six witnesses yester- day, the grand: jury summoned ele- ment in the demand in business and other circles for a "Committees of Public Safety" with full powers to act to relieve the parlous situation ------ growing out of the fall of the fener Republican socialists, former! : staunch supporters of 'Herriot, are the prime movers for the committee, They declare the situation requires something stronger than the ministry just formed. Will Accept Discussion. Paris, July 21.-- After a cabinet meeting this afternoon, Premier Her- riot again announced he would ap. pear before the chamber bf deputies this evening and would accept imme- diate interpellation and discussion of his ministry's financial bill. This is in contradiction to reports that his © government would resign immediately after reading of the ministerial de claration, Franc Higher To-day. Parls, July 21.--The French frane reacted favorably to-day, closing offi~ clally at 46.95 to the dollar:as against 49.22 yestetday. The reason given i financial circles is that the bear move- ment has gone far beyond the point Justified by actual circumstances and that the recovery from violent fluctua~ tions is certain. They assert there is nothing behind the present ; ward movement but political appre- hension supported by speculation. The prospects of a national union cabinet to succeed Herriot ministry at early date have also had an infl- ence. : LADY BEAVERBROOK HOST TO TEACHERS Quests Invited to Meet Lord ven. new witnesses and adjourned TAT a a id 'Mickie, publ iatio tor of the First Baptist church, of which Dr. Norris has been pastor for several years, said that the church officials were ready to testify that Chippe' slaying was. the outgrowth of a plot against the pastor, L. H. Nutt, deaton in the church, and thought to be the only eye wit- ness to the shooting, declared Dr. Norris shot Chipps after the lumber- man bad threatened to kill him if he continued his attacks on Mayor H. C. Meacham and other city offi- clals. 4 MASONIC, GRAND LODGE Ontario Membership Increased by 8,000 Last Year. Fort William, July 21--Encourag- ing increases in membership and scope of activities and deeper inter- est in the craft were reported in the address of Grand Master, J. A. Row- land, Toronto, before the Masonic Grand Lodge of Ontario meeting here in annual session today. The membership, in the jurisdiction was now 110,000 as compared with 107,- 000 at May, 31st, 1925, and the prospects were bright for an increase in the current year. ' HAGEN WINS ANOTHER' Sensational Hitting. ware, Water Gap, Pa., July 21 ~--Walter Hagen, American profes. : and former open title holder, today won another Mr. and Mrs. first two rounds. He failed by one MAYOR OF RENPREW Birkenhead --. Ears Li forget the thrill with which I waited to hear my husband speak for the first time," 'Lady Beaverbrook sald {in the course of a merry speech Mon- day evening,.when 350 pérsons, in- cluding the forty New Brunswick school teachers who are her guests, Hon. Mr. Larkin,, Canadian High Commissioder, Mrs. and Miss: Larkin, and most of the other Canadians re- sident or visiting in London, met the Earl of Birkenhead at her invitation. Lady Beaverbrook was referring to Lord Beaverbrook's first election campaign in Ashton-Under-Lyne, in 1910, when he was elected and sat as Conservative member until 1917. F. BE. Smith was waiting with Lady Beaverbrook on that occasion, and she said she had straightaway christ- enéd him "my good looking youth." He is'now the Earl of Birkenhead. The Earl's speech ranged, to quote Yesterday's Express, "from the fe- Heitious to the humorous: from the histrionic to the historic." "I am no longer a youth; if I sver was I am no longer good looking: but I am, my Lady, still yours," was one of the Barl's earliest sentences. The New wick teachers with Lady Beaverbrook as host, are devot- Ing this week to London and neigh- boring centres. The Lord Mayor re- ceived them at Mansion House and they were also entertained at tea at Canada House by Mr, Larkin and his family. 4 London, Joly 21.--Jack Jones, ir- repressible Laborite M.P,, figured in another scene in the Commons to-day and had to withdraw from the House on the Speaker's orders. During the questions period, some grumbled because the min- acer ster of mines, Lieutenant-Colonel 4. R. Lane-Fox, g : sr] * Sm ------ 3 Halifax, N.8.,, July 21.---The eral outlook in Nova Scotia is promising, local Liberals state day. The Meighen government antagonized some of its supporters by its hasty namely the dismissal of. t customs officials, and the ment of twenty-eight Conserv to fill their places, and the d sal of the two secretaries of royal commission to enquire into case of the Maritimes. The ap] ment of W. A. Black, as minis railways has failed to have the sired effect locally, ab it is ree ed that his appointment'is a 1 porary move with a view to dating the vote fa the coming tion. What Nova. Scotia would fer is the portfolio of marine fisheries. Ottawa, July 21--With th ery of The campaign gives every evide of developing into one of the : os oragsd in Canadian political gy