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ec" ME Soe ei aoa THURSDAY, NOV. 24th, 1932 Parliamentary Sketches From The Capital City A Weekly Letter From an Independent Observer Covering the Sessions at Ottawa From All Angles Without Pre- tending to Hold With Party or Sect Some very illuminating discussions] bility in the present marketing situa- on various phases of the wheat situa-|tion. Hon. Mr. Bennett reviewed in tion have oceupied considerable time in! detail wheat marketing operations past the House this week and adjournment! and present, which are familiar to most is still indefinite. The question as to! westerners but are probably little un- whether shipping through United States| derstood in the east. The Prime Min- ports would invalidate Canadian wheat: jster explained to the House why the for the six-cent F ritish PYELERE REE Ee operation known as "hedging" or "deal- cipitated a discussion as to why sixty per cent. of Canadian export wheat : American} In marketing the Canadian wheat crop. ing in futures" is of vital importance should be routed through ports. The debate followed East and; It is necessitated by the rapid market- West rather than party lines, the Mari-|ing of enormous quantities of wheat time members being rather inclined to during the harvest season, and simply charge the western farmers with wil- means "taking up the slack" between} fully neglecting Canadian ports, while' jmmediate supply and demand, to avoid} western members explained that the disastrous breaks in the market. wheat producers were in no way re-' (Those who understand the purpose of | ble sponsible for the situation. The route the wheat pools, largely anathema in| of shipment is decided by the export- the east, know that this "dumping" vs.| ing grain companies who naturally "orderly marketing" was one of the choose the route most advantageous chief factors in their formation). This | from an economic standpoint. A glance | "hedging" operation is being carried on| at the map will reveal this as via But-|by Mr. J. I. McFarland, icting manag-| falo and New York, the much long-| er (without remuneration) of the cent- er rail haul to Halifax and St. John} ral selling agency of the Co-Operative| normally involves higher freight rates] Wheat Producers Limited, _ with the| --although these have been temporar-] sanction of the government. After ex- ily equalized during the present month.! plaining that the speculator, who had Also the fact that liners sailing from| heen useful in being willing to take a} i" i 2 | New York frequently carry wheat as|chance on temporarily-surplus wheat, | ballast at lower rates than regular] had practically disappeared from the} freighters is a contributing factor tal tiarieets and the Co-Operative Wheat the economic situation. It was jointed | Producers' selling agency was now the} out that the carrying charges on wheat only available hedging organization, | from the point of production to the|the Prime Minister said: "T need hard-| Liverpool market are borne by the pro- lysay to the House that the matter} ducer to whom the difference of even] gave us very grave anxiety and con-| me or two cents a bushel is of enor-|cern but it was quite apparent that,| | unless hedging operations could be| s importance. J. A. Bradette, whose constituency] carried on there could be no market-| lies in Northern Ontario, made a strong] ing of this year's crop. . . . Therefore, plea for the use of the transcontinental] not pegging the price and not inter- railway which was built, at a cost of| fering in any sense with the operation | $100,000,000, as a direct and easy route] of the law of supply and demand, be for heavy freight between Winnipeg|to secure the orderly and regulated and Quebec Mr. Bradette regretted] disposition of the crop the steps I have that the Duff Commission had found] indicated were taken, and the Canadian it impossible to inspect this section of] Co-Operative Wheat Pools Limited | railway which has the finest roadbed.| became the hedging agency in order a the easiest curvatures and the lowest] enable, with the assistance of the gov- grades of any road on this continent,] ernment, sales to take place and the} but is now entirely neglected in through| crop to be marketed." Mr. Bennett} freight shipments. You might as well]said that these hedging operations| take the rails away for all the atten-|could not bescarried on without the! tion the road is receiving, I will not] assistance of the banks and the gov-| say from Parliament, but from the|ernment had guaranteed the banks Canadian people as a whole," said Mr.| against loss. Any possible loss in these Bradette. Mr. Stitt, (Nelson, Man.),| operations--and there may be none-- made a vigorous protest against the| would be less than would be involved apparent anxiety of the prairie mem-|in paying a wheat bonus, while "we | will not cost the ratepayers anything? 7 supply the Canadifn market in future, without increasing prices. Mr. Stevens took the opportunity-at this point to rebuke the opposition for their suspicions of Canadian manufac- members in the House seemed' always every act of the manufacturers, when as a matter of fact, he had found them a fine body of business men. the agreements in detail seems to in- crease rather than diminish the oppos- ition's objections to the treaty, but the fall on the results, which can only be determined by trial. In the natural course of events at least: two years will elapse before an appeal to the country and much can happen in that time. Questions are asked from time to time regarding unemployment, but there has been no discussion on that subject yet. The Minister of Labor replying to a question as to the total number of people receiving government relief at present, said that the number s now 800,000, including men, women and children, but mitigated the state- ment somewhat by stating that in normal times there are approximately 140,000 persons who'have to be given about an equal number of transients. who do only seasonal work. With both goy- ernment and private resources of re- lief becoming more and more depleted the prospect is not very bright, and there is little doubt!the Labor mem- bers will have something to say on the subject before adjournment. more or less relief, with Hon. Mr. Rhodes advised the 'House that the new government loan of $80,- 000,000 had been subscribed before the time expected, which is particularly gratifying as it is the first time a goy- The Letter Box @see The-Editor of The Haileyburian, Dear Sir :-- Kindly allow me space in your paper to ask a few questions of the town s fathers and make a few remarks about the new water system from Constance, Lake. If this work was undertaken as a relief job, why all the hurry to have it completed by May or June last? Were | the council afraid the depression would be over before it could be completed ands*they would not then be in a posi- tion to get something from the' govern- |ment for nothing? Now that the depression appears no nearer being at an end than it ever was, what (if anything) have the coun- cil in view that they can ask govern- ment assistance for and pass along' t¢ the citizens as something more that That is, until they wake up and find turers. 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Wy BORDEN PLANTS et Truro, N.S., Ingersoll, Ont., Norwich, Ont. end Sumas, B.C. ST. CHARLES mcremerorme ", & FM bers over American shipping routes to the neglect of their own port of Chur- chill, which in its first season has amp- ly proved its feasibility. Mr. Stitt said that of the two and a half million bushels of wheat shipped via the Hud- son's Bay route this season, the Conti- netal Grain Company of New York had shipped two million at a saving of four cents a bushel, notwithstanding a pay- ment of marine insurance twenty times higher than on grain shipped from Montreal. The New York company have found this route so satisfactory storage at Churchill further shipments ready for next season. The iniquitous insurance that they have now in rate, Mr. Stitt declared, is entirely un- warranted "in spite of the fact that one boat was lost this year, a boat that looked around two days before it found an iceberg. . . tion about that. The boat was delib- erately sunk . .. . I think the evidence| of the tariff schedules to see just who will prove it." said Mr. Stitt. The|has asked for them and who gets the member for Nelson contended that 50 there is no ques-|to the tariffs quoted in the agreements. believe the steps taken will be more beneficial to the Dominion as a whole, and will secure for the country as a whole greater advantages than if we had paid the producer a bonus as we were requested to do this year." The Conference Agreements, having passed the second reading, are being taken up item by item in committee of the whole House. A large number of items pass without comment but when discussion does arise a "good time is had by all" including the galleries. Ordinary rules of the House do not obtain in committee and any member can argue the matter out to any rea- sonable extent. One of the most per- sistent fighters in the House is E. J. Young of Weyburn, Sask., who be- lieves in the greatest possible extent of free trade and consistently objects Mr. Young delves into the operation I believe there was something in a letter in The Haileyburian a short time| ago stating the manufacturers who supplied the pipe (for the pipe line from Constance Lake) had invited the council or a committee of same to pay a visit to their plant and see for themselves "just how perfectly it was manufactured", and I would like to ask if the members of council who ac- cepted the invitation are any wiser about it than they were before? Also to remark that on the face of it, the reverse of the invitation was that probably they had supplied pipe of an inferior quality td what they would show the town fathers. Why else the invitation? Then I understand there was ample assurance from the engineers in charge (James, Proctor & Redfern) that the water supply from Constance Lake would be adequate for the town's needs; later this assurance was quali- fied to_imply it would or might be adequate provided the householders put in meters and did not use too much water. benefit. The items afford an oppor- million bushels of wheat could be ship-|tunity to the various members to dis- ped via Churchill each year at a saving| cuss products or commodities peculiar); they do not see that they are represen- in freight of seven cents a bushel. Mr.| to their particular districts and the dis-| ted in council by someone with some Bowman (Cons., Dauphin, Man.) in| cussions are not always on party lines, ue Oy defending the wheat producers' stand] although the general principles of pro| said "Let us remind the hon. member | and con are observed. In items re-| from the Maritimes, on both sides of garding hog products and lumber, in| the House that after all the sale of! both of which the Conservative mem-| t#k¢ care of the needs of the Popula- wheat is purely a business proposition,|bers see great possibilities, the opposi- | and that the difference of a fraction of| tion claim the preferences are entirely a cent in the quoted price may mean! nullified by the exchange, a view which! from the government for some public the sale, or loss of sale, of millions of| is persistently stressed by : | the inde-| bushels. Consequently it is extremely pendents. important that the lowest possible cost| of transportation should rule in shipment of grain." » Representatives from wheat growing] cream separators. A duty of ten per constituencies, on both sides of the House, expressed the fear that any restriction in routes of shipping would inevitably result in increased carrying 'charges, which would absorb what was)The Prime Minister explained that the left of the six-cent preference aa the toll takeh by exchange. When the debate had been carried, on some considerable time, with the the} Two articles in the agreements which | ave developed particularly contentious debates so far are barbed wire and cent. on barbed wire brought a flood of protests from farm members in the opposition who could see an increased price for this necessary commodity. duty was the result of plans by Ger- man and Dutch manufacturers to dump large quantities of barbed wire onthe Canadian market in an' attempt to question still apparently beclouded in| destroy the industry in this country, many minds, the Minister of Trade and; and he does not anticipate any increase Commerce, usually the most patient of,in price of wire manufactured in Can- men, rose and emphatically reiterated! ada. The matter of 25 per cent. on what he debclared had been explained} cream separators, hitherto on the 1ree three times already in the House, that! list, occupied even more time, as prac- direct shipment of wheat through aj tically all imports of farm separators foreign country by consignment, or ESUINENG come from Sweden and the Unit- interrupted shipment accompanied by} ed States, the United Kingdom only the proper documents, would not be! making the machines used in creamer- invalidated for the British pereference.' ies. However, the Minister of Trade The second field day on wheat arose| and Commerce told the House that he out of the Prime Minister's statement, had been assured by U.K. manufactur- in regard to the government's responsi- ers that they expected to be able to. Well, Mr. Editor, it does not require an engineer to see that if the people of Haileybury do not stop demanding im- provements they cannot afford, and if e other than that of spending money faster than it can be provided by a reasonable tax rate, that pre- sently, the available water supply front Constance Lake will much more than tion which will be left in the town to use it, even though as in the past we may be able to get an occasional dole work that we are told will not cost us anything. This brings us up to the present-- the meters that have been purchased and their installation. I would like to enquire whether these are to remain the property of the town after being installed? And if so, how do they expect to keep track lof and control over them when they are left on private property? What is to prevent the: householder from claiming possession of them or removing them if_he so desires? Where do they get their authority to' place meters on private' property against the wishes of the owner? Or penalizing anyone refusing to allow them to be installed? i If, on the other hand, they are to be- come the property of the householder, where do they get their authority for] proposing to issue debentures to pur- chase an article which by the nature of its use, should be a private porte ; sions' better, even at this late date, to leave | they have to pay the major portion of OR $4.50 Each. Only 5.00 DOWN Balance in Easy Payments This Model "B" PLAYMAYD WASHER at only $9995 (Cash, 30 days) $f.00 DOWN--and 24 Monthly Payments of for it pills. bs. A fiye-dollar bill will put this North- such easy terms that you will hardly _ | notice the outlay--in fact you can pay y {om Electric A-B.C. Washer into your life-long in service. Beautifully enam- home today. You pay the balance on elled,. easy to clean--it does a big out of what you save on laundry Electric Company. 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